The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Lao Jiang understood one thing, the rectification of Zhu Bin is no longer what he wants alone, the money offensive is too strong, so strong that his brother-in-law has fallen to the point of *book*(

From the beginning of the establishment of Global Shipping, after the investment under the control of the four major families took over the shares, the total capital has increased by no less than four or five times in the past two years, which is more profitable than any monopoly business they do. Industrial and mining trading companies have made large-scale profits one after another. When the Chong Qing base is put into use, and when Wuhan, Nanjing, or Ma'anshan is put into construction, the four major families are expected to surpass the traditional chaebols and become second only to Zhu Bin and control the entire country's industry and even economic lifeline entity

This is actually the result that Lao Jiang himself hoped for, although it is not perfect. The perfect state is that the four major families control the four major banks, and then control finance, industry and commerce, and import and export industries through the banks, plus some strategic resource projects directly managed by the state. It will form a stable wealth and economic rear, no longer controlled by others, but will allow him to sweep the world with millions of troops and dominate the world with peace of mind

It’s just that Zhu Bin’s appearance made this matter go wrong. Now the consortium headed by Zhu Bin is leading the basic industry and export business, as well as the industrial and commercial groups that have formed investment, cooperation, and close ties with them. Although the four major families control With the four major banks, the capital can only come second, but if you add the national legal status, you can overwhelm the opponent. After all, the right to formulate policies and regulations is on your side, so overall, you have a slight advantage

But the U.S. Silver Purchase Act directly broke this balance of power, and Lao Jiang had no choice. Although the four major families and the four major banks control the lifeline of the country's economy, they also have to take responsibility for the country's economic regulation and maintenance of development. Cash flow and gold and silver The demand for reserves is much greater than what Zhu Bin and the others demanded. The Americans are so nonsense that they immediately screwed up their old foundation. Zhu Bin and the others can ignore it as long as their subordinates can pay wages, but the country can’t do it. Deflation and high prices , the rapid decline in exports, large-scale shutdowns and unemployment... a series of chain reactions will bring down the economy that has just begun to recover in a straight line

If this is postponed for one year, then the issuance of national legal currency has come to an end, and it is completely possible to replace silver with legal currency because it can legally require the national silver to be nationalized and not privately traded, and it may be possible to sell the reserve silver to the United States to earn money It's only a year away from one sum, and it almost caused financial collapse

At such a critical time, Zhu Bin made a request to exchange silver spot for future currency printing rights of their joint-stock commercial bank, which is not a pure issuance right, but the right to issue banknotes based on hard currency, just like the National Bank. I mean, but Song Ziwen wants to agree

It's not just Uncle Song Guo's greed. That's the last trivial reason. As the Minister of Finance, he must first consider the interests of the country. He didn't run away because the fall of Generalissimo Jiang would not benefit him at all. What he considered more was that the current four The practice of big banks controlling cao in their own hands is very hateful and dangerous

Don't be afraid to attract people's hatred. With Lao Jiang's guns, he can't make big waves, but the danger is that he alone can't control the ups and downs and misconduct of so many families and people under his banner. Don't talk about others. The first line, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium, etc., are all like the big feudal family. Everyone wants to get more benefits from the public to their own small treasury. Mass issuance and even inflation and currency depreciation will happen

Lack of supervisory power, lack of balance power, is very dangerous

If someone asked to do this, Song Ziwen would definitely not agree, but Zhu Bin, this guy has technology, industry, banks, and military power. If he worked seven or eight years earlier, he would definitely be able to form a school of his own. It’s a bit too much, so I can only take the second place. The advantage is that this guy has the ability and capital to pay for the country’s issuance of banknotes

In other words, when necessary, the four major banks quietly printed more banknotes as an emergency response, and the small-scale short-term inflation caused by it can be completely balanced by the huge financial resources of this guy, and will not cause large fluctuations. It would not even attract attention to such a delicate balance of power, and it can only be achieved under the special circumstances that the current overall national product value is too low and the wealth of the Zhu Bin system is too high. This point, even Japan's Mitsui can't do it, and America's Rockefeller and Morgan can't do it, and the legendary Rothschild probably can't do it either.

Various conditions converged to cause today's special event

It's just that this matter is not for outsiders, even Lao Jiang, it may not make sense to tell him like this. And then urged him to send someone to sign the secret agreement as soon as possible.

When he received the call, Zhu Bin was receiving special guests from the United States in Shanghai, and at the same time preparing for the opening ceremony of the GD Far East branch building. Jumped up: "ohmygod dear boss, did I hear you right? You actually obtained the right to issue currency in China?"

Zhu Bin quickly corrected: "It's wrong. The currency printing right is mortgaged by our silver. You can print a considerable amount of legal currency yourself. The circulation is subject to supervision and control, and the majority is still with the National Bank."

Steven laughed disregarding his decency: "What does that matter? As long as we have our own currency printing factory, supported by your huge industrial and commercial empire, sooner or later we will be able to kill all the so-called legal currency and become the only recognized unified currency." Such a thing can be done, boss, you are simply too great."

What is the lifelong ideal of a Wall Street elite?It is not just the establishment of a wealthy consortium or the luxurious life of the upper class, but a lofty ideal passed down from the Jewish ancestors, and it is also the right to control a country's currency issuance that they have realized in all countries in the world.

Their highest ideal is to control the right to issue currency around the world, so what does it matter who will be the emperor in this world?They're all working for their family. It's the same in the UK, and it's the same in the US.

Here in China, the whole country is about to form a form of working for the four major families. Zhu Bin's big stick has been inserted so that he has the right to print legal currency. Will time be far behind?

The legal currency of a country is not something you can print as much as you want behind closed doors. It will collapse sooner or later. The safest way is to link it with the strong currency circulating in the world. In this regard, China’s silver dollar is linked to the pound I don’t know what to do after linking to the printing of legal currency, but Zhu Bin must be in the US dollar zone. With his cooperative relationship with the United States and Germany, the guaranteed currency is not just a little bit of hard currency for himself. The circulation will definitely make everyone Surprisingly, this is a huge business.

Having the opportunity to manipulate such a large business in person means that Mr. Steven Seagal has officially entered the threshold of the world's top banker, and more than half of his lifelong dream has come true.

"Things are not that simple. Chinese banks' currency issuance does not follow international practice. If you are not careful, you may suffer big losses."

The person who poured cold water was Zhang Jiaao, former general manager and executive director of the Bank of China, who had just been squeezed out of the board of directors of the Bank of China and was actually deprived of his life wealth.

When mentioning Zhang Jiaao, everyone in China's industrial and financial circles knows that it is a serious and respectable local family in Shanghai. Counting with their fingers, there are at least a few hundred people who can be related to their family. The Bank of China is also the largest bank in China and is not state-owned, so it is definitely an important figure

But it is such a big man who was half-dead by a warlord like Lao Jiang, until now he has completely taken away his family business, and there is an interesting story about the fact that he was swept out of the house.

In 1927, when the Northern Expeditionary Army was actively advancing northward, Song Ziwen was in charge of raising funds for the Northern Expeditionary Army. He had first borrowed 50 yuan from the Bank of China in Hong Kong, and Lao Jiang asked Zhang Jiaao to help Zhang Jiaao through Huang Yu in Tianjin. He used to work in the Beiyang Zhengfu, and he knew everything that was rotten inside. After he judged that the Northern Expeditionary Army would definitely win, he decided to give economic support. This is actually the helplessness of Chinese businessmen since ancient times. Becoming a fat pig in the eyes of the rich and powerful, he could only find a way to exchange wealth for political protection Zhang Jiaao decided to bet his "treasure" on Lao Jiang

When the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Jiangxi, he arranged to send money to the Northern Expeditionary Army, and sent 30 at a time. Unexpectedly, Lao Jiang's appetite was very large, far more than that of the Beiyang Zhengfu. Zhang Jiaao said: "This is the first time that the Nanjing government oppressed the Bank of China" and wrote in his diary Said: "Soldiers don't know about finances, but they interfere with finances everywhere, and the future is pessimistic." Later, Zhang Jingjiang and Chen Guangfu came out to mediate, saying that the government is about to issue public bonds, and they are indeed capable of repaying the money. solve

During this period, Zhang Jia's mother passed away. In order to win over Zhang Jiaao, Lao Jiang had never met Zhang before, so he suddenly appeared in the mourning hall of Zhang's family. Well, Lao Jiang, who came from a mixed gang, is too familiar with this method, and he is sneaky about the face-loving and etiquette of a big family like theirs.

Sure enough, when the Northern Expedition was over, in October 1928, the Bank of China was forced to reorganize, added 10 million yuan in government shares, and restored Feng Gengguang, Song Hanzhang, Li Ming, Chen Guangfu, and Zhang Jiaao as executive directors when the government and business were jointly organized. Elected Zhang as General Manager

Zhang Jia'ao himself is willing to get involved in politics, but he doesn't have the ruthless insidious methods of politicians. At this time, he still doesn't know that the conspiracy hidden behind the government-business cooperation is still steadily developing the Bank of China into a quasi-modern bank. At the end of last year, the Bank of China had deposits of 5.2 million yuan and loans of 4.1 million yuan. It also vigorously developed foreign exchange business, and successively established more than 60 foreign direct remittance offices and more than 90 special agencies, gradually making international remittance the main business of Bank of China.

When Kong Xiangxi became the Minister of Finance, he set up a Financial Advisory Committee and appointed him as the vice chairman, so as to contact the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols. Money, the endless civil war consumes him, and he is very disgusted in his heart. He proposed to Kong Xiangxi that the country should reduce the requirement for bank advances and oppose the use of banks as the treasury. This offended Chiang Kai-shek.

Lao Jiang began to turn his face and deny anyone. In February of this year, taking advantage of the turning point in the fifth siege and the country's finances turned good, he decisively used the pretext of improving finance, nationalizing the right to issue currency, and preparing to issue legal currency. Seized the Bank of China, changed the general manager system to the chairman system, appointed Song Ziwen as the chairman, and Song Hanzhang as the general manager. At the same time, he forcibly added 2 million yuan in official shares, so that the official shares reached 3000 million yuan. Zhang Jiaao was transferred to the vice president of Zhongyang Bank. The above is to seize Zhang's power and only give him an empty title.

Zhang Jiaao didn't know anything about such an important matter beforehand. In anger, he refused to take up the post.

The Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium was too deeply involved with Lao Jiang. When something like this happened, he knew that he was at a disadvantage, but he couldn't fight against Lao Jiang who had a gun in his hand, so others couldn't help. Besides, it was too late when he found out, and he didn't have the capital to start a full-scale war with Lao Jiang, so he could only comfort Lao Zhang and encourage him to simply withdraw his shares from the Bank of China and join his camp to help Lao Jiang

Zhang Jiaao is an elite educated by a traditional big family. He never puts all eggs in one basket. He didn't listen to his bewitching to withdraw shares, but he agreed to serve as the general manager of gd bank. Originally, he also had a lot of connections with gd venture capital He and Steven presided over the signing of the secret contract

For this guy, Steven has been famous for a long time, but when it comes to professional issues, he has to compete for the limelight. After all, we are also the top elites on Wall Street, and we cannot be compared to a rich Chinese tycoon no?

Steven put away his exaggerated and out-of-shape expression, coughed dryly and said solemnly: "Mr. Zhang is worried about the other party's mass issuance to create inflation, and then let us pay for it?"

Zhang Jiaao was taken aback for a moment, this guy actually guessed the crux of the problem all at once, but after thinking about it, he understood that this kind of method was left over by foreign devils. Steven's background is there, so it is impossible not to know, so he nodded : "That's right, this is a kind of inferiority hidden deep in their bones. Once they hold power, they will lose supervision and control. It's okay not to have a large-scale war. Once China goes to war with Japan or someone else, the military expenditure will skyrocket by far In addition to borrowing money, they will issue more banknotes. They don’t care about inflation, but we are supported by a large amount of industry, commerce and hard currency. It is not as good as the country’s scale. Suffer"

Over the years, during the melee of warlords, there were not a thousand or five hundred kinds of banknotes issued by various places. Which one did not do this? Going further, five or six hundred years ago, after the Mongols invaded the Central Plains, they saw that the Song people Actually printing banknotes is just fine, and decisively let the financial managers issue banknotes without a bottom line, which directly caused the collapse of the banknote "Jiaozi" system that had been in operation for more than 600 years. Civil servants who understand finance are messing around, and paper money has completely lost their credibility

Steven bared his shiny white teeth and said with a reserved smile: "You are talking about what can only happen under the condition that we fully abide by the law, obey the law, and do what they ask. In fact, given the current complicated situation in China, There are too many loopholes that can be exploited. I will only say one way. The banknotes printed by ourselves are slightly differentiated in color, material or coding method. They are issued through the industrial and commercial systems controlled by us and partner banks, and incorporated into the banknotes. In the international settlement, there is no difference at first, but once the war you mentioned occurs, our banknotes will maintain their value, and their banknotes will depreciate without a limit. As long as we survive the first wave of shocks, who do you think will be the winner?"

Do you even need to ask, it must be the one that preserves value.

Zhang Jiaao's heart skipped a beat, and he was stunned for a while. It's really possible. If Zhu Bin's strength is too far behind Zhong Yang's finances, he can't hold hands. At the critical moment, Lao Jiang only needs to ask Song Ziwen to devalue the French currency by [-] to [-] percent , it may directly cause Zhu Bin's wealth to shrink by half or even collapse

But conversely, what if Zhu Bin's wealth support is big enough?Lao Jiang's devaluation method can't be played, but it made the legal currency lose its credibility. Then Zhu Bin's legal currency will become a credit unit, and it can directly become a recognized legal currency... But with the strength of a group and a country Arm wrestling?Okay ah

Zhang Jiaao suddenly felt like he was on a pirate ship, but when he thought of the life-long painstaking efforts that Lao Jiang had cheated, he couldn't help clenching his teeth and said bitterly: "Well, as long as we keep controlling the country's industry, commerce and import and export, we can control the economy." Development is in our hands, and one day, we will truly live up to what they have done.”

But I was thinking in my heart that one day, they would overturn their stall and regain everything that was lost today (to be continued)

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