Chapter 140: Ransacking the Dutch Stock Market
Zhang Suan nodded, and said with added vinegar: "That's right! Our boss, Mr. Hu, now commands an army of 500,000 or 600,000 horses, and is sweeping through the Dutch East Indies colony! In addition, Mr. Hu also confessed that he wanted us to be here, unite the major companies we acquired, and give them to the Dutch government. The government is under heavy pressure, if it can't complete the negotiations with the Huaxia Army and restore the stock market and bond market as soon as possible, the prime minister will not be able to continue, even His Majesty King William III will have to move his position! ”
"That's great!" Frodo and Ou Lang almost jumped out of one sentence in unison, in their minds, they wished that Hu Zhen was now the king of the world, so that their wealth would rise, after all, they and Hu Zhen were tied to interests, as for how to put pressure on the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it was necessary in their eyes.
"Okay, let's cheers!"
"Haha, cheers!"
"Cheers!"
With the toasts of the three, they completed a concrete plan of action to control the economy of a second-rate European powerhouse.
The loss of the East Indies colonies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands caused a great sensation throughout Europe, and the media of various countries reported on this sudden and earth-shattering event.
The great powers of Europe. The government reacted strongly: the English Empire, the French Republic, and the German Empire immediately announced the dispatch of additional fleets and land forces to the colonies of the Far East, and even the Russian Empire, which had no colonies in the South Pacific, announced that it would send fleets to the Far East.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands was very tough at first, but it was unexpectedly robbed by the turmoil in the stock and bond markets, and at this time when the economy was very difficult, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was still very determined to send a fleet to the Far East.
The European powers sent their own fleets one after another, and had plans to intervene in the Dutch East Indies colonies to make a profit from them, and the situation was very unfavorable for the Chinese army.
Hu Zhen had long expected this, and he was determined to reach an agreement with the Dutch as soon as possible to determine the fruits of the victory of the Huaxia army.
In the place arranged by the Governor's Office of the Straits Settlements, Governor Walder personally acted as mediator, Niu Quyun, the plenipotentiary of the Huaxia Army, in the name of the plenipotentiary of the Huaxia Guild, and the governor of the Dutch East Indies colony, Diboer. Three days of negotiations were held.
Three days was a lightning-fast negotiation on the big issue of deciding the ownership of nearly 2 million square kilometers of territory.
This negotiation reached a draft agreement, which was actually arranged by Hu Zhen a long time ago. There was no bargaining at all.
The agreement stipulates that the Dutch East Indies Colonies will continue to retain more than 600,000 square kilometers of territory on the islands of Java and Sumatra, while the land territory of more than 1.3 million square kilometers of Borneo Islands, Sulawesi, Maguru Islands, Nusa Tenggara Islands (Lesser Sunda Islands), West Papua Ilian, Riau Islands, and Bangka Belitung Islands in the former Dutch East Indies Colonies will be owned by the Chinese Guild, which will pay 50 million pounds sterling to the Kingdom of the Netherlands to purchase the above territories.
However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was to redeem all the captured public officers and Dutch officers and soldiers to the Chinese Guild for a one-time price of 30 million pounds. The Huaxia Guild actually had to pay 20 million pounds to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the 20 million pounds was paid to the Kingdom of the Netherlands by a loan of 10 million pounds from Lloyd's Bank and 10 million pounds from Barclays Bank with more than 1.3 million square kilometers of territory as collateral.
On the face of it, this seems to be a happy agreement:
The banks of the English Empire used 1,300,000 square kilometers of territory as collateral to lend 20 million pounds of money, with a term of seven years and an annual interest rate of 15 percent.
Although the Kingdom of the Netherlands lost 1.3 million territories in the East Indies colonies. Only less than one-third of the territory of Java and Sumatra remains, but this one-third is the essence of the East Indies colonies, accounting for more than 60% of the East Indies colonies economically, as long as these two places are still there, the essence of the Dutch East Indies colonies will still be there, and they will be able to stabilize the stock market and bond market that have collapsed in the Netherlands at the moment, that is, stabilize the economy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and keep the jobs of millions of Dutch people.
In this agreement, the Huaxia Guild seems to be a fool, obviously using the force of the Huaxia Army to conquer the entire Dutch East Indies colony. A third of it was to be returned to the Dutch, but two-thirds of it had to be bought with loans from the four major banks in England.
But in fact, the Huaxia Guild headed by Hu Zhen is the biggest beneficiary, and Hu Zhen is the real soldier who surrenders without a fight:
First. The Huaxia Guild used a loan from the Imperial Bank of England to buy 1.3 million square kilometers of territory, which was clearly the sphere of influence of the British Empire, and with the strength of the British Empire, which was now the world's largest power, it directly cut off the possibility of French, German, and Russian intervention.
Second, the so-called Bank of England is actually a bank controlled by Hu Zhen in secret. The interest income of 21 million pounds in seven years only changed hands, and most of it finally fell into Hu Zhen's hands, but it pulled up the stock prices of Lloyds Bank and Barclays, so that the company controlled by Hu Zhen could still make a lot of money in the stock market.
Third, in the process of conquering the entire Dutch East Indies colony, the Huaxia Army wantonly plundered the local affairs of the Dutch colony. According to statistics, the property of the government has acquired more than 30 million pounds, and paid 20 million pounds to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and has earned 10 million pounds.
Fourth, the stock market of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has been suppressed by Hu Zhen's arrangement for Zhang Suan, Frodo, and Ou Lang to mobilize huge funds to short, and the stocks and bonds in the stock market and bond market have fallen to the floor price.
To sum up, if this agreement is signed, the British Empire seems to benefit a lot, but it is actually played by Hu Zhen.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands, whether it is the 600,000 square kilometers of East Indies colonial land recovered or the Kingdom of the Netherlands itself, has directly become a working boy of Greater China, and the better its economic development, the more profits it will bring to the enterprises under Great China. And Dahuaxia can turn the Dutch stock market and bond market into a waste paper dumping ground whenever it wants, and shear sheep whenever it wants, looting and harvesting the hard-earned money income of the Dutch. (To be continued.) )