The rubber stock incident, which broke out a year in advance, dealt a heavy blow to China!

Crazy people have to bear the bitter consequences of their own making, a large number of Chinese have lost their money, money houses have collapsed, and the foreign banks that have invested in it have not run away, because the Huntelaar Bank timely public information, so that they and the Chinese have suffered heavy losses. Even those companies that have carved up a piece www.biquge.info of land in Malaysia and have not even planted the seedlings of rubber trees in the market, trying to make a fortune in this wave, have not escaped the fate of bankruptcy.

For a time, Shanghai Beach was full of mourning.

At the end of the dream was a nightmare, when more than a dozen Chinese banks collapsed in Shanghai, and six foreign banks went bankrupt due to investment losses and bad debts, and they were faced with the opportunity to buy the Far East branch of the Huntelaar Bank at a low price. What is more serious is that the crisis has almost wiped out all the funds in Shanghai, and the domestic economy, which is already breathless due to reparations, has been exacerbated. In order to help stabilize the market, these banks have also actively taken out cash, and even the interest rate is equivalent to aid.

The only bank that benefited greatly from the crisis, and was even held up, in addition to acting cautiously and keeping a low profile, began to exert its might in the subsequent bailout operation, and one bank took out 1.5 million taels of silver, which, together with the 3.5 million taels of silver taken out by other banks, became a lifesaver for the local government -- a typical advantage and a good reputation.

And......

Within three months of the crash, Huntelaar Bank bought a large number of factories whose bosses had gone bankrupt, both Chinese and foreigners. In the past year, these people have not been able to resist the temptation and put their net worth into the hot stock market, and the result is naturally nothing, and they have no choice but to sell their factories. After a group of managers from the United States came to Shanghai, these advanced or backward factories were quickly integrated, and together with the factories that Huntelaar Bank had previously built, they were integrated into one large-scale factory after another, which were handed over to the personnel who had returned from studying in the United States to manage. And a large number of machinery and equipment were once again loaded from the United States and began to be shipped to Shanghai, where they were handed over for upgrading......

Everything went smoothly like a simulated exercise.

Of course, such a big move could not be avoided by people, and soon most discerning people knew who benefited from this trend, and guessed that Huntelaar Bank was probably the biggest black man behind the scenes. But the cowardly Qing Dynasty did not dare to speak up, nor did the current overlords, the British, and the French, Germans and Japanese, because they now deeply realized the great strength of the Huntelaar Bank and even the Huntelaar consortium!

Both financially and networkedly!

Because of the investment in countless schools, coupled with the sponsorship of thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese to study in the United States and Germany, the prestige of Huntelaar Bank in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places has gradually increased. Especially against the backdrop of those vampire-like foreign banks, Huntelaar Bank's reputation can be described as excellent! And in any case, no one left any evidence, who can say more?

It was just a rubber stock storm that made the Qing government stormy for a while.

As with the historical trajectory, the Sichuan Railway was in short supply, so the next road protection movement did not escape, and broke out two years ahead of schedule. The money in Shanghai was swept away, a large number of money banks closed down, factories lost liquidity, and tens of thousands of workers fell into trouble for a while. You know, there are only a few hundred thousand workers in China today, and there are about 200,000 in Shanghai, which is a huge number.

So after this storm, which hollowed out the last vestiges of the Qing Dynasty, the head of the Far East branch of the Huntelaar Bank sent a secret telegram to John, saying that the revolutionaries had begun to buy arms on a frenzy, and Yuan Datou in Beijing had also come to the door, trying to seek more secret loans and more artillery arms......

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At the end of 1908, the United States completed its presidential election.

Roosevelt, whose prestige was at its peak, recommended Taft, and with the strong support of the Huntelaar consortium, Taft was successfully elected as the new president of the United States. Roosevelt could never have imagined that he would soon part ways with this old friend whom he had favored, and John, who had known this for a long time, remained silent and simply shifted the focus from Roosevelt to Taft.

At the same time, John began to strengthen his bond with another old friend.

The old friend is a professor of law and political economy at Princeton University, and after serving as president of Princeton University, he is now actively preparing to enter politics. A long time ago, when John was preparing to establish the Ivy League, he met the professor on a "chance encounter", and the two became good friends who corresponded regularly, and this friendship has continued to this day.

This man, called Woodrow? Wilson......

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In Europe in 1909, the sound of rivets banging resounded in the sky!

No one wants war except the arms dealers. Inevitably, however, when the gentlemen of England resisted the advance of the Germans, they vowed to kick out the way. So whether they wanted it or not, the Germans had to start preparing for war. And the English, who are unwilling to give up any interests, can only rise up and chase after them.

At the end of 1908, the Germans' first Nassau-class battleship was commissioned a year earlier than in history, setting off a race frenzy for dreadnought-class battleships. The Germans desperately began to build dreadnought-class battleships, the British began to design super-dreadnought-class battleships while rushing to build them, and on the other side of the Atlantic, at the Newport News shipyard, a battleship with a full load displacement of more than 25,000 tons and armed with a 13.5-inch cannon has already begun construction!

This time, the parliament did not put in any obstacles.

The first American dreadnought in history was a typical castrated version, and later the tonnage limit was lifted for the first time because of the impact of British dreadnoughts, which contributed to the emergence of a real dreadnought. And the world, because of the efforts of the Newport News shipyard, the Americans almost followed the British to create dreadnoughts, bringing them great honor and benefits of unknown values. So when the Newport News shipyard offered to build larger warships with larger guns, the Admiralty did not hesitate to agree.

The keel of the world's first super-dreadnought, laid at the Newport News shipyard.

Although because of the obvious difference in shipbuilding capabilities, the Newport News shipyard did not dare to guarantee that it would be ahead of the British, after all, the British design was almost formed. But John is sure that even if the launch time is a little worse, it won't be too far off, enough for Newport News Shipyard to take advantage of this race.

The biggest benefit, of course, is the Admiralty's crazy orders!

From 1900 to 1910, the total tonnage of the US Navy increased by an insane half a million tons, and from 1910 to 1912, this figure was two hundred thousand tons! Because of the Michigan's exemplary role, more than half of these orders went to the Newport News shipyard. With the help of the frantic technological progress of the Newport News shipyard, several major shipyards acquired during the economic crisis also completed the final consolidation, and began to build freighters and a small number of cruise ships.

The next ten years will be a golden decade for shipping.

No one knew this better than John, so after acquiring three American shipping companies in 1908, he and his staff devised a huge plan of construction and acquisition to build America's number one shipping company within the next three years! Although Morgan's shipping company is strong, they can't make such a desperate investment as the Huntelaar consortium, so it will be a matter of time before the name changes hands......

Everything about the Huntelaar consortium began to prepare for the war in a few years.

With the exception of oil and steel, the Huntelaar consortium began to enter almost all war-related industries - minerals, manufacturing, aircraft, chemicals, automobiles, shipping, ships, and so on. Within the safety line, Huntelaar Bank provides ample financial guarantees to the other companies of the consortium. For example, the chemical conglomerate, which is building a larger ammonia plant, and the super-fast development of Huntelaar Automobile Company, in addition to starting to build a new car production line, has produced larger trucks. Trucks, which include the transport of goods and people, are beginning to become the focus of Huntelaar Motors' future development.

And in a secret factory, a new gadget is slowly starting to take shape......

At the same time as its own large-scale development, the Huntelaar Group also began to transfer some patents to Germany. For example, for ammonia technology, BASF in Germany has obtained the authorization of Huntelaar Chemical to build a gigafactory with a daily output of 300 tons of synthetic ammonia in Germany; Even Bayer, which was unfamiliar with Hailuoyin and Johan's actions, admitted its mistake under the mediation of the German government and reached an agreement with Huntelaar Chemical to introduce their most advanced gunpowder production technology.

Agreements with the British, the French and the Russians were never reached.

The reason for the Huntelaar chemical industry was the price problem, and in fact the British and French, who controlled more people and resources, were really reluctant to pay a lot of money than the generosity of the Germans. For example, for a patent for synthetic ammonia, the Germans would have to pay Huntelaar Chemical a huge sum of 40 million marks, and another 10 marks for each meal produced in five years. But the conditions given by the British were only one million pounds, which was far from reaching John's psychological bottom line.

So John "liked" the generous Germans more than the British.

In addition to the cooperation in chemicals, shipbuilding and minerals, the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company and the Aircraft Manufacturing Company also began to secretly communicate with their German counterparts, harvesting a large amount of money while silently improving the technology of the Germans, or making up for their shortcomings. It's just that in the most critical places, the Huntelaar consortium has left such a hand, such as the machine gun fire coordinator on the plane, and the most advanced high-power engine, etc.

These state-of-the-art things, John is silently waiting for the best time. (To be continued.) )