Volume VIII 1381 Jiangnan Shearing Sheep

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During this time, all telegraph planes in the Ryukyu Kingdom have been officially blocked, ships on the sea are not allowed to approach the docks, ships in the port are not allowed to go to sea, and personnel exchanges and information transmission have been cut off by Xiao Letian.

This was the harbinger of the beginning of the Great War, and in the concessions of the countries along the Huangpu River, almost all the foreign newspapers were discussing this war, and countless critics were drawing around on the map, speculating about where the Russian fleet was, how strong the combat power was, and what Xiao Letian's ability to counter was.

The attention of the foreigners had been drawn to the war, and during this time no one went to the theater, danced, socialized, and even their favorite bars did not frequent.

Not only foreigners are paying attention to this war, but all China's enlightened gentry are also paying attention to this war, if you don't pay attention to it, this war between the Chinese and Tsarist Russia is related to the economic security of the entire Jiangnan.

If Xiao Lotian wins, the credit of the southern ticket will skyrocket, the people's confidence in this paper will increase several times, and the issuance of paper money will be more and more, and the economy of Jiangnan will become more and more prosperous due to the increase in money supply.

If Xiao Lotian is defeated, Nanpiao will become waste paper, all the economic layout of the Chinese in Jiangnan will be finished, the foreigners and Manchu forces will begin to fight back, and all enterprises that have lost blood because of the Nanpiao crisis will be looted.

Not only that, but the failure of the southern bill will also doom the credit bankruptcy of the banknotes, and the Chinese people will not believe in the banknotes at that time, and it will be impossible to issue new banknotes.

At that time, Gangnam will return to the slow deflation of the past.

These economic common senses are not only understood by foreigners, in fact, many Chinese businessmen such as Hu Xueyan and the like also understand them, but they are expressed in different ways.

On the bank of the Huangpu River, Hu Xueyan sat anxiously by the window of the western restaurant on the second floor of the Licha Hotel, looking at the rolling Huangpu River, and his mood was extremely heavy.

He is thinking about the impact of the outcome of this currency war on the economy of Jiangnan, if Xiao Lotian fails, nearly 2 billion banknotes will become waste paper, not to mention that the economy of Jiangnan will be sheared, and it will fall into a very big money shortage.

The current economic prosperity in Jiangnan is the result of the post-war economic recovery on the one hand, and the full circulation of money in the market on the other hand.

If in the past, there were 10 billion taels of silver floating on the market in Jiangnan, which is the total amount of blood in the blood vessels of Jiangnan's economy, then the economic development of a qiē must rely on this 10 billion currency to carry out the target, that is to say, as long as there is not much outflow and inflow of silver, then the total economic volume on Jiangnan's books will always be 10 billion.

No matter how much your commodity volume increases, because there is only so much money, then the total amount of the economy that is the subject of money will always be 10 billion.

Now there are nearly 2 billion extra banknotes out of thin air, which means that Xiao Letian alone has increased the volume of Jiangnan's economy by 20%, and now many small businesses and small traders have become much easier to borrow money for financing, and many new workshops, shops and even factories have also sprung up.

The ultra-long development of Jiangnan's economy in recent years is actually very related to Xiao Letian's banknotes. If the 2 billion banknotes become waste paper, then Jiangnan's economy will be irrepressibly tightened.

Merchants who have lost their sense of security will turn the silver into land, or simply bury it in the back garden, and the 10 billion yuan of circulating currency will drop like an avalanche, and when the time comes, if there are four or five billion yuan of circulating currency left in the Jiangnan market, it will be regarded as burning incense.

There is still so much land, there are still so many factories, there are still so many goods, the economy of Jiangnan is still so big, whether there is a war or not, and no one is going to burn this wealth.

There are still so many physical amounts, but the total amount of money on the market has suddenly disappeared by more than half, and what evil consequences will this cause? Naturally, prices have plummeted, but no one wants to buy them, or they can't afford them.

The reason is very simple, isn't it, the economic aggregate that was originally worth 10 billion yuan, but you only invested 5 billion in the target currency, then the economic aggregate of 10 billion yuan on the book can only be based on 5 billion.

Money is actually the object of human wealth, money cannot be eaten or worn, it has only one target role, so as to ensure the smooth circulation of human goods.

If the Great Qing State is still the Great Qing State of the Kang Yongqian Dynasty, it doesn't matter, it will be resolved little by little behind closed doors, the market price of goods will be expensive, and the people's income will increase, and the price of goods on the market will be cheaper and the people's income will be reduced.

But now is not that closed era, now is the era of the great powers knocking on the door of the Qing Dynasty, this is the era of semi-colonies, the circulating currency silver in the south of your Jiangnan has been silted, and the cheap silver in the hands of foreigners is there!

Taking advantage of the shortage of money in your market and the low price of all materials, these foreigners will frantically enter the market to grab funds. Your tea mountain is good, make a price, Lord Yang bought it.

Your brewing workshop is good, but you are short of money to spend? Come on, sign an agreement with our bank, I will ask you for 60% of the shares, okay, and you can work hard for me in the future.

Land, Factories, Goods, Shops, Farmland...... Countless tangible and intangible wealth will be swept away by foreigners in this storm, and many of the transactions are still time-honored on the surface, but the internal equity distribution has already changed greatly.

Hu Xueyan thought of the scene of the collapse that day, and the three ripe steaks on the snow-white dinner cloth in front of him were the meat of all living beings in the south of the Yangtze River!

Sitting opposite Hu Xueyan was Heng Liwen, the president of Citibank in Asia, who stared at his Chinese opponent with a smile and was as unfazed as an old cat playing with rats.

"Doesn't the steak taste the same? I remember you once said that you like Western food very much? Licha Hotel is the earliest European hotel in Shanghai, and the meals here are all famous chefs from Paris, so you can't help but try it!"

Hu Xueyan still couldn't eat, he put down his knife and fork, "Let's open the skylight and say something bright! It is absolutely impossible for you to let me betray the Qing Dynasty, and my Hu family has never had a traitor!"

"No, no, no...... Mr. Hu is mistaken, right? What I have to deal with is only Xiao Letian, as far as I know, isn't your Beijing Imperial Court also fighting with Xiao Letian for the Southern Ticket? They are doing the same thing as us, and they are all waiting for the collapse of the Southern Ticket's credit!"

"Think about it, who will take advantage of Xiao Letian's power if he has squeezed out Xiao Letian's power? Of course, it is still the imperial court in Beijing!"

"Therefore, cooperating with us is equivalent to cooperating with the Beijing Imperial Court, and our interests are the same!"