Chapter 48, be a black hand
The Moroccan crisis is coming, the French have moved, can the Germans still endure it?
Ferdinand knew that if he could endure this, it would not be William II, but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
You must know that Germany also has great interests in Morocco, and can the German monopolies and colonial groups tolerate the loss of their own interests?
Apparently the actions of the Germans are not far off!
But will the French give in now?
There is no doubt that if the French government dares to make concessions on the Moroccan issue now, the French people will not mind changing their cabinet!
Of course, the full-scale outbreak of the Moroccan crisis has not been so fast, and under normal circumstances, Germany and France will have to fight for several months, and finally find that they cannot reach each other, and the conflict will break out.
Then pull the Entente and the Central Powers into it together, and the two alliances will play a game together!
Well, the Moroccan crisis has appeared, and Ferdinand's hanging heart can be retracted, at least he doesn't have to worry about Germany and France really compromised!
As an emerging country, there is no one who does not want to break the current world pattern, and Bulgaria is naturally no exception, but the Germans are a little too strong, otherwise Ferdinand really doesn't mind joining forces with them to carve up the world!
However, there were no ifs in the world, and Ferdinand's strength was threatened. Once the Germans defeated France again, then the European continent would be theirs, so how could Bulgaria be mixed?
In contrast, the cooperation with Britain and France, which were now in decline, was much better, and even if the Allies were killed, they would be greatly weakened and would no longer be able to suppress Bulgaria's expansion!
And in order to suppress the rising Americans, Britain and France had to win over Bulgaria!
After all, after World War I, even if Britain and France joined forces, they could only barely suppress the Americans militarily, and this advantage continued to weaken over time!
Britain and France want to maintain the huge colonial empire, and the Americans want to break this system and establish a new hegemony, the two sides did not fight in history, or the Soviet Union and Germany rose too fast, otherwise it is likely that the Americans will challenge the world hegemony!
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"Your Majesty, according to your orders, the rubber stocks in our hands have been sold, and from the current point of view, this crisis will not break out in a short time?" Little Carl said suspiciously
Affected by Ferdinand's butterfly effect, Bulgaria became the largest automobile producer in Eastern Europe, and the cheap cars and pickup trucks he created were popular on the European continent.
The development of the automobile industry naturally stimulated the rubber market, and now that the market has expanded, the demand for rubber has also increased, and the crisis that should have erupted in 1910 has been postponed to the present.
On the international market, rubber soared from 2 shillings per pound in 1902 to 14 shillings per pound in 1910. By the end of 1910, London's rubber stock had also risen. A company issued shares that initially amounted to 10 pounds per share rose to £260 per share shortly after its launch.
Now that he knew this, how could Ferdinand let it go? So another bookmaker has been added to the international market, after all, Ferdinand can now manipulate the Bulgarian market?
For such a powerful speculator to enter the market, how could the London bankers refuse to enter? Otherwise, Ferdinand will make some ghosts and let the market collapse early, and they will not be trapped!
Ferdinand was not under any pressure for such financial speculation, anyway, Bulgaria has not yet opened its financial market, and even if a financial crisis breaks out all over the world, the impact on Bulgaria will be minimal.
Oh, for the sake of insurance, Ferdinand naturally would not be stupid to buy rubber stocks, at most he would use financial means to act as an agent for stock issuance and earn the difference in price!
Of course, it is also a good choice to open a few rubber companies by himself and use them to go public, and now he has asked Carl Jr. to sell most of the stocks his own.
To put it simply, Ferdinand took advantage of the lax regulation of the current financial market and directly sold most of his shares.
Under normal circumstances, this cannot happen, and the stock exchange is not stupid, how can it not be discovered? But now it's the beginning of the 20th century, and many of London's biggest names are participants, so how can they tear each other down?
Although he still controls the company, in fact, Ferdinand's shares are no longer the majority shareholder, and if anyone wants to swallow his company, they only need to buy shares in the market.
However, the price on the market now exceeds the actual value of the company by dozens of times, and if any idiot wants to buy it, Ferdinand will not mind selling his last shares!
Ferdinand smiled and said, "Little Karl, you are not as good as your father!" If it were, he would never ask such a stupid question, when did the crisis break out, and why did he have to follow the laws of the market?
Isn't it possible to manipulate it humanly? Think about it, if someone announces a new breakthrough in synthetic rubber technology, or if the growth rate of global rubber demand slows down in the future, can rubber still maintain its current price?
If the price can't be maintained, the stock will naturally be worthless, and of course a new crisis will break out! ”
Ferdinand's words made the younger Calmouth stunned, and his worldview was changing, mainly because his previous work had nothing to do with finance, and he had no experience in these operations.
Oh, and now there are not many talents in this area in all of Bulgaria! In order to encourage industry and avoid a situation in which a large amount of capital was concentrated in the financial industry, such as Britain and France, Ferdinand had long taken measures to suppress the financial industry.
Bulgaria now has no securities exchange in the country, domestic enterprises are also prohibited from listing abroad, and even a wide range of stock issuance is illegal financing, naturally not many people are interested in this!
Even if it is difficult to raise funds illegally, Bulgarian law stipulates that any fundraising must be completed under the supervision of the government, otherwise it is illegal fundraising, and the government will directly confiscate it and hold the parties responsible.
In this context, who would be stupid enough to raise money for you privately? If you catch it, it will be confiscated, this retrospective period is still forever, even if the income is high, it is useless?
Without the cash cow of the financial market, domestic capitalists can only honestly invest in industry, and of course, the dream of getting rich overnight has also been cut off.
After all, in the financial market, it is possible to increase assets several times, dozens of times in a year!
But investing in industry, no matter how profitable it is, it is impossible to have hundreds or even thousands of profits? Under normal circumstances, it is only a dozen points, or dozens of points of annual profit!
Therefore, compared with international capital, the family background of the Bulgarian capitalists is really nothing! Of course, the gap between the rich and the poor in Bulgarian society is far less than that of the capitalist world!
I have to say, habit is a good thing! Bulgarian capitalists have always been engaged in industrial investment, and everyone is dismissive of the soaring stock market abroad!
Ferdinand's slogan has always been "work hard to prosper the country, empty talk to mislead the country". In the eyes of many Bulgarians, the stock market is empty because it does not create value!
Oh, and therefore the capitalists who were born and raised in Bulgaria are often looked down upon by the international capitalists, who think that they are all dirt buns and have not seen much of the market.
But it doesn't matter, you don't like me, and I don't like you! How can you vampires in the financial markets compare to us socially responsible industrialists?
Now the Bulgarian capitalists have their own system, firmly continue on the road of industry, and everyone disdains speculation!
In a way, Ferdinand's purpose was also achieved. Capital is profit-seeking, and they involuntarily flow to the place where the profit is the highest.
But when the Bulgarian capitalists appeared as industrial capitalists, they were cut off from the international financial capitalists, and they also attracted capitalists of the same view.
This is very beneficial to the economic development of Bulgaria, after all, the jobs created by investment in industry are far from being comparable to those in the financial industry!
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Time flew by, and shortly after Ferdinand withdrew from the rubber market, German scientists announced a new breakthrough in synthetic rubber technology and also showed car tires made of synthetic rubber to the outside world.
This is undoubtedly a blow to the hot rubber stock market, and the rubber stocks on the London stock market fell on the same day, but slowly began to recover a few days later!
Well, back in 1880, Wilhelm II was like the outside world flaunting car tires made of synthetic rubber, but they couldn't be mass-produced!
This time it's actually about the same, of course, there is still progress, this synthetic rubber can already be mass-produced, but the cost is not to mention, anyway, they can't afford it!
However, it is still possible to fool the stockholders!
Immediately after that, Bulgaria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and other major rubber importers in the world have announced to the outside world that the purchase of rubber will remain unchanged in the coming year.
This news is really fatal, more serious than the emergence of synthetic rubber, which means that the market is saturated and the golden age of the rubber industry is over.
The previous synthetic rubber, everyone knows that it can not be introduced to the market in a moment and a half, and it will not affect everyone's interests in the short term!
Under the blow of a series of bad news, the stock market could no longer hold back, and the market value of rubber stocks on the London stock market was evaporated by one-fifth that day, and it continued to fall, and the rubber crisis broke out in full swing!
In less than a month, rubber stocks on the London stock market fell by 95 percent, and many stocks fell below the issue price!
At the same time, Shanghai, a financial market far away in the East, cannot be left alone! Since the Manchu government had almost zero regulation, the impact was even worse in Shanghai than in London!
Not only has the stock market been hit hard, but more importantly, it has also affected the money bank, and the private financial industry has been hit hard! In less than a year, the number of money banks in Shanghai has been reduced by more than half.
Ferdinand pretended not to see all this, anyway, it was all caused by greed, no one could care, the real poor would not play stocks, they didn't even have the principal!
Oh, Ferdinand still had a conscience, and after the crash of rubber stocks, his company also made a high-profile announcement to buy back the stock market.
Of course, this price is naturally the price of cabbage! It's good for someone to buy it now, don't you see that most of the stocks have become a pile of waste paper?
Of course, as one of the masterminds behind the scenes, it is naturally impossible to make profits in the stock market just to earn profits! Didn't you see it, Ferdinand didn't even bother to go short?
Oh, it's not that Ferdinand has a conscience, it's mainly that the tree is a big trick, this kind of hateful thing, it's better to leave it to the consortium to show off, he just hides behind and makes a fortune.
After making a lot of money from the hype, he just waited for the final bottom. In any case, the capitalist world has always been involved in the whole body, and other industries are inevitably implicated.
Instead of grabbing food with the consortium on the rubber stocks that everyone is looking at, why not expand other industries?
Oh, these are also discussed by everyone in advance, and each of them will divide a piece of meat, and they can't cross the line. If there is competition, can this still be called a bottom-buying?
Well, taking this opportunity, before the crisis broke out, Ferdinand also took the opportunity to sell a lot of properties in Europe, especially in the site of the main historical wars, and gave priority to the withdrawal!
This is also a big trouble, and if you want to withdraw your capital, you must be careful. Otherwise, if it is discovered, the capitalists of this age are not easy to talk to, and it is not enough to rob while the fire is hot, but don't think about selling it at a high price!
Fortunately, it is only 1911, the contradictions between the two sides are not too deep, and there are no signs of world war.
As for the fiefdom, to be honest, Ferdinand really wanted to break it up and sell it! Oh, and no one can afford to buy it without demolition!
Unfortunately, this is not possible! Selling one's ancestral business was not a glorious thing in either the East or the West, and would have tarnished Ferdinand's reputation for flawlessness.
If you don't have money, you can make it again, but if your reputation is gone, you really don't have it! Ferdinand could only endure the pain as his ancestral inheritance, worth tens of millions of pounds, gradually left him!
No, it's just a temporary departure. After the end of the world war, the small country that had just become independent probably did not have the courage to attack his ancestral industry, right?
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