Subtitle of this chapter: Without a major earthquake, how could there be Godzilla?

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Compared to the trip to China, Thomas Lamont's trip to Japan was always a peaceful and pleasant atmosphere.

In 1921, Japan was still in the era of "Taisho Democracio", when liberalism was the mainstream of politics, militarism had not yet become a climate, and the general social atmosphere was quite friendly to Westerners.

Moreover, the vision of the Japanese Chinese and chaebols is much higher than that of the Chinese warlords, and the arrival of Lao La has been sought after by all walks of life.

Mitsui and Mitsubishi and other wealthy businessmen vied to meet him, and Lao La paid a special visit to the general secretary of the Mitsui Foundation...... The supreme leader - Tuan Takuma (1858-1932).

In terms of the strength of both sides, although the Mitsui consortium is also very powerful, controlling one-third of Japan's foreign trade, it is completely unsightly compared to Morgan.

But from the point of view of the history of capitalist development, Mitsui is even more "advanced" than Morgan.

The Morgan consortium is nothing more than controlling the country...... In fact, because of the checks and balances of other consortia and the political system of separation of powers, it should be said that it affects the country. And the Mitsui Foundation is the state at all.

In any case, the two big conglomerates have had their first contact.

Lamont also became acquainted with Junnosuke Inoue, the governor of the Bank of Japan at the time, and became good friends with him.

Inoue is known as the "little giant" of Japan's financial circles, and will serve as the Minister of Finance for three terms. In the thirties, he was a clear opponent of militarism, so in 1932 he was condemned by members of the "Blood Alliance", a right-wing foundation organization in Japan.

Lamont had a good time in Japan, but unfortunately there was a huge barrier between the Morgan consortium and the Japanese government.

This obstacle was the famous Jacob Henry Schiff (1847~1920) and his Kuhn, and Loeb Co.

If you don't know this old fellow, let alone read modern history.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Morgan consortium had a triumvirate, "Jupiter" JP Morgan, "Railway King" James Hill, and "Wall Street Miracle" George Baker.

can be compared with the "Morgan Triumvirate" is the "Rockefeller Four Heavenly Kings", the "Oil Emperor" Rockefeller father and son, the "Hand of Citigroup" James Stillman, and one is Schiff, who is known as the "Napoleon of the financial world".

There was both confrontation and cooperation between them, and the seven big names behind the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1911 were the seven big names, and of course, the Rothschilds were indispensable.

The friendship between the Schiffs and the Rothschilds dates back to 1785, when the old Rothschild moved his family to a five-story house in Frankfurt and lived with the Schiff family for many years.

As German Jewish bankers, the two families had a century-long friendship.

So, like the Rothschilds, the Schiffs became the protagonists of conspiracy theories. The most famous member of this group was the "Napoleon".

This "Napoleon" avenged the original Napoleon with a victory over Russia. His weapons were not platoon shots, cuirassiers and Napoleonic cannons, but money.

During the Russo-Japanese War, he borrowed a large sum of money to the Japanese, and this money was used to avenge Tsar Nicholas II on behalf of the Jews.

In 1903, a pogrom of Jews took place in Kishinev, the capital of what would become Moldov (a southeastern European country bordering Ukraine and Romania), where Pushkin had been exiled.

With the acquiescence and even instigation of the Tsarist government, the local peasants raped, looted, and killed a large number of Jews, and at least tens of thousands of Jewish civilians died. It is known in history as the "Kishinev Massacre".

In fact, Nicholas II had been persecuting the Jews since he ascended the throne, because he believed that the Jews had not only formed revolutionary organizations this year, but had also provoked numerous strikes against the factories.

Schiff used money to drive the Japanese to avenge his compatriots, and also added a strong touch to the legend of Freemasonry, becoming a big black hand manipulating history behind the scenes.

In short, because of this historical connection, although Schiff passed away last year, Kuhn-Repo still had a very close relationship with the Japanese government and was the largest underwriter of government bonds at the time.

Kuhn-Repo is actually Mobil's financial agent, and is also known as "one of the two most important investment banks in the Western Hemisphere", and the other is naturally "Root Chase Demon".

The Fed's chief architect, Paul Warburg, came out of this company.

According to the unwritten rules of the U.S. banking industry at that time, peers could not steal each other's customers.

Ironically, this is indeed a gentleman's time. At least to their own people, these gentlemen are really gentlemen.

So, even if the Morgan consortium is willing, they can't skip the Kuhn-Repo and Neon Gold partnership for a while.

But it doesn't matter, because ......

"I'm sure the turnaround will come soon."

Our Master Yuan forced himself to make a cheerful appearance and said, "I am a Chinese, but I am also an economist......"

"From the standpoint of an economist, I strongly agree with Mr. Lamont that Japan is a better partner to work with than my home country......

You must work together to make Neon Gold stronger, strong enough to give you America a good blood in the Pacific!

"Of course, I think there are more opportunities in Europe. As I said with the Secretary of State, Mr. Charles Evans-Hughes, it is imperative that the United States shoulder the heavy responsibility of rebuilding the European economy. I'm talking about Germany and Italy, and Austria......"

In addition to Japan, you have to feed an even more terrifying monster, a monster that can turn this timeline into Stranger in the High Castle!

"Well, gentlemen...... There are some things that may cause you to misunderstand that I am a red element, but who calls me an economist? In fact, I think that Soviet Russia is also a good investment target today. They started implementing the NEP in March, and this is definitely an opportunity! ”

Lenin once confidently said to everyone in one of his speeches: "Davarisher, do not panic, when the situation is not against us, we simply throw the rope at the capitalists, and they themselves will put the rope around their necks".

One of the Bolsheviks asked aloud: "Excellent, Vladimir." But where can we get so many ropes to hang all the capitalists? ”

Lenin replied lightly: "Don't worry, they will sell us!" ”

Thomas Lamont asked, "Dr. Yuan, when will the turnaround you said happen?" ”

"Two years ......" our Master Yuan silently calculated in his heart, and then said confidently, "Sir, in two years, four months and three days, a turnaround will appear!" ”

Two years, four months and three days later, September 1, 1923, the day of the Great Kanto Earthquake.

The Japanese government issued up to $150 million in long-term bonds in the United States for disaster relief, which is the largest long-term bond in the history of the United States.

Because of the decline of the Rothschilds, the Kuhn-Repo company is already sunset at this time, and it is powerless to eat it all.

So Mr. Lamont played a little trick and communicated with Junnosuke Inoue, so that the Japanese envoy offered to cooperate with the Morgan consortium. Easily bypassing the unwritten agreement between that "gentleman".

As a result, the Morgan consortium became the largest underwriter of the bonds.

Since then, the relationship between the Morgan consortium and Japan has been unbreakable and indestructible.