Chapter 919: Global Economic Crisis
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However, for the Western world, it was the beginning of a catastrophe.
From the end of 1901, the economy of Tsarist Russia was in a difficult situation, a large number of products were overstocked, overseas markets were saturated, domestic peasants and workers were impoverished and had no ability to consume, a large number of enterprises began to fall into difficulties, and capitalists from European countries such as France and Germany, who held the lifeblood of Tsarist Russia's economy, began to withdraw their capital from Tsarist Russia one after another.
The 'pumping' of a large amount of capital led to the complete paralysis of the Tsarist economy.
Soon, the economic crisis of Tsarist Russia began to spread to European countries, first France, Germany, then Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States, and the entire Western world fell into panic, trouble, big trouble!
What to do?
In the face of the sudden global 'sexual' economic crisis, all capitalist countries have no way, and the serious supply exceeds demand, and it is difficult to get a fundamental 'sex' solution, especially the four countries of Britain, France, the United States and Germany, which have collapsed for a while, and bankrupt capitalists are everywhere who jump off buildings, hang themselves and even commit suicide with silver bullets!
The economies of Western countries have been hit hard, and they have begun to spread rapidly to Asia and the Americas!
Just when countries are trying their best to get out of the economic crisis, Zhang Yi's eyes are on Europe and the United States!
Zhang Yi sent a telegram to summon all the business leaders of the Republic of China, including Qiao Zhiyong, Yu Qiaqing, and Zhang Jian, Minister of Industry and Commerce, to Beijing.
In the presidential palace.
All the 'fine' heroes of the Republic of China gathered.
At this time, Qiao Zhiyong, Yu Qiaqing and others are a little worried, although the impact of the economic crisis on the Republic of China is very limited, but the foreign trade export of the national industry of the Republic of China has formed a great inconvenience, the Western countries that are deep in the economic crisis have begun to adopt policies, implement trade barriers, and protect their own domestic national industries, but the products produced by the Republic of China have also fallen into unsalable to a certain extent.
Especially Yu Qiaqing's shipbuilding group, for a while, orders have dropped sharply, if it were not for the procurement of warships from the Republic of China government and the navy, the shipbuilding group would be in trouble immediately!
Other industries such as flour and textiles have been hit even more seriously, these industries are private capital, insufficient funds, and are most likely to fall into difficulties.
Even so, some small businesses have begun to close their doors to escape the impact of the economic crisis. Zhang Jian has also repeatedly suggested that Tang Shaoyi take more active measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises through banks, and Tang Shaoyi has already held a political meeting on economic issues within two months to discuss how to rescue these enterprises!
Zhang Yi looked at the people present, looked at their sad faces, smiled faintly, and said, "Old man Qiao, are you still worried about the current economy?" ”
Qiao Zhiyong sighed and said: "Jianzhi, the current economic situation is very bad, all the owners of Jinshang Group are a little tight this year, and our sales abroad are greatly affected. ”
Zhang Yi said with a smile: "Old man, don't worry, our economy is tight, but compared with the Western powers, it is still far behind, look at the current Western powers, they are already red-eyed, as long as our domestic infrastructure is fully paved, we can hold on, although the following factories and mines will be affected by some impact, but can not be on the vitality, as long as we can survive this time, our Republic of China will be the first to recover, in this economic crisis, who can take the lead in recovery, who will completely take the lead, We just want to take advantage of this economic crisis to make the greatest benefit for our Republic of China! ”
When everyone heard this, they all said, Zhang Jian asked: "President, I heard Premier Shaochuan say that he said that you have already planned for this crisis, don't worry too much about us, I don't know, what are your plans?" ”
Zhang Yi smiled and said, "Ji Zhi, I invited you over today to tell you about my plan!" ”
Everyone looked at Zhang Yi one after another.
Zhang Yi replied: "Ladies and gentlemen, this economic crisis is indeed a disaster for the West, but for us, it is indeed not necessarily! First of all, our country's market is large enough, we have at least 20,000 people, and the market of 20,000,000 people, once we develop it, is enough to feed our factories and mines; Second, we have just won the battle, and the indemnity of tens of millions of taels of gold in Tsarist Russia is enough to provide us with sufficient capital support, and most of this money is still in the bank, and it is time for them to play their role. Third, Western enterprises have closed down, our companies are indeed alive, taking advantage of their economic difficulties, eager to sell assets to recover funds, we raise funds to enter the European and American markets in a big way, purchase their machinery and equipment and technology, and bring back engineering technicians from various countries as much as possible, with these things, in the future, even if they recover the economy, we will be invincible in the future development! ”
Zhang Jian raised his eyebrows and asked, "You mean to rob while the fire is hot?" Do we have that much money? ”
Zhang Yi smiled and said, "Funds? For the time being, our funds are certainly not so abundant, our funds are only enough for us to stabilize our own development, and the rest can definitely not support our procurement, but we have no funds, there will naturally be funds pouring in, and we will not lack money to 'spend'! ”
Qiao Zhiyong smiled on the side: "Jianzhi, you won't be fighting our Jin Shang's calculations again, right?" This time, we can't 'pump' excess funds, the market is tight, so that our funds are not very abundant, small-scale acquisitions, and possibly, if it is a large-scale large-scale purchase, we will definitely not be able to support, don't think about it! ”
Zhang Yi smiled indifferently and said, "Old man, are you also scared?" Do you also have times when you shout poor? That's a rarity! ”
Qiao Zhiyong said helplessly: "Jianzhi, over the years, although the Jin merchants have developed extremely fast, their wealth has increased exponentially, and the increase is not one or two times, but our current investment is also very huge, a large amount of money has been invested in the construction of the railway and the coal and steel complex in Kailuan, and the liquidity is too little!" ”
Zhang Yi smiled and said: "Old man, don't worry, this time, we won't fight your idea again, don't worry, I will solve the problem of funds for you, it won't take long for a large amount of capital to enter China, when the time comes, I will try to provide you with loans, or inject into the bank, to provide you with abundant capital, so that you can buy unscrupulously!" ”