Chapter 498: Cooperation
While preparing lunch, Mrs. Jiang was entangled by the Americans again, Jiang Haoran motioned for Jiang Haotian to come out, he had too many doubts in his heart that needed to be explained, since Jiang Haotian came with them, he must know the reason, even if there are any unfavorable factors for himself, he can prepare early.
Pulling Jiang Haotian into the command headquarters, the brothers asked for warmth, and the situation of their families was inevitable, and it took a long time to get to the point.
It turned out that as early as the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Jiang Haotian met the American reporter Kelly by chance, and the two quickly fell in love, when Jiang Haotian was stationed in Nanjing with the troops, Kelly also went as a reporter, who knew that Jiang Haotian was seriously injured in the war, and when Kelly found him in the rear hospital, he was already in a deep coma, and the doctor told Kelly that a piece of shrapnel was embedded in Jiang Haotian's head, just in the nerve center, and he might become a vegetative person if he took it out rashly, and there was no chance to wake up. And there is no medical technology in this area in China, and this person is almost like dead.
But Kelly did not give up, used all her connections to get an American identity for Jiang Haotian, and brought Jiang Haotian to the United States with the ship, and after a period of treatment, she finally took out the shrapnel in her head and saved a small life. Subsequently, Jiang Haotian and Kelly held a wedding in the United States and became a legal American citizen, although he has always been concerned about the war of the motherland and the safety of his family, but he feels that he owes Kelly too much, and he does not dare to mention the matter of returning to China. It just so happens that Kelly's classmate Anna has always known the bizarre love story between them, and also knows that he is the younger brother of the "Haoran Righteousness" general who is popular in the United States, this time I don't know what the reason is, I must come to China to find Jiang Haoran, and warmly invite them to go with their husband and wife, Jiang Haotian of course can't ask for it, although Kelly is unwilling to intervene in the war anymore, but she can't stand Anna's hard work, so she has to agree.
Who knew that after arriving in China, there was actually a chairman among the people who came to pick up the chairman, and the high standard can be said to be unprecedented, and it was also at this time that Jiang Haotian knew his relationship with the chairman, but he never knew what the purpose of Anna's trip was? But it is certain that she did not come to admire Jiang Haoran, because Anna is the heir of the Morgan consortium in the United States, and there are also American politicians in her entourage.
"The Morgan consortium?" Jiang Haoran was taken aback, this is one of the eight major conglomerates in the United States. Formed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a monopoly capital consortium that dominates the American economy. In 1871, he co-founded the Drexel-Morgan Company, which engaged in investment and credit banking. After the death of the partner in 1894, he was the sole proprietor of the Morgan Company, and with the company as its base base, it expanded its influence in the financial and economic sectors (such as steel, railroads, and public utilities), and began to form a monopoly consortium. In 1912, the Morgan consortium controlled 13 financial institutions, with a total asset of 3.04 billion US dollars, of which Morgan was the most powerful and dominated the American financial circles. In the First World War, the Morgan consortium made a windfall, and after the war, with its abundant financial capital, it infiltrated into all sectors of the national economy, and in the 30s, the total assets of the large banks and large enterprises controlled by the Morgan consortium accounted for more than 50% of the eight major consortia in the United States at that time.
The heir of such a business giant, what is he doing in China at this time? There are also politicians, could it be that Mrs. still has some kind of political purpose in this trip? Jiang Haoran's head suddenly became bigger.
At lunchtime, Mrs. Jiang found Jiang Haoran while everyone was still pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and did not explain too much about the military action of the chairman, only saying that she was killed by a traitor, and it was almost a big thing, and the chairman also regretted this matter, but the chairman of the committee definitely considered the national interest, and hoped that Jiang Haoran would not be angry about it.
He immediately told Chiang Haoran that the Nationalist Government was in the process of making a loan with the United States, and that things were going well, and that as long as the Nationalist Government could prove that it had sufficient strength to deal with the Japanese invasion in the near future, the United States would agree to lend money to the Nationalist Government. At this point, the chairman of the committee has already made a guarantee, ** definitely has this strength, so there is also the battle of Xue Yue and the Japanese army in the Fengxin area.
Although the United States agreed to borrow, it was still constrained by many parties. The Nationalist Government drafted a method for borrowing tung oil. The Nationalist Government provided tung oil of the same value to the United States at an annual interest rate of 4.5 percent, to be repaid within five years. The United States was quite interested in borrowing tung oil, but due to isolationism and internal differences, it could not take political loans, and could not sign an agreement directly with the national government, so the national government proposed to register and establish a "world trading company" in the United States, with the Chinese as its chairman, and the Chinese government would sell tung oil to the world trading company, and then the world trading company would sell tung oil to the United States.
But instead of lending cash to China, the United States will exchange it for supplies and ship it back to China, so that the World Trade Corporation will have to take on the heavy responsibility of procurement. Although the borrowing method has been resolved, the United States is not generous and can only lend $1.5 billion in the first place. Unless China achieves a decisive advantage in the War of Resistance Against Japan, then talk about follow-up borrowing. Moreover, the United States believes that the tung oil loan is "almost purely political" and will lead the United States "to war eventually", and does not agree with the Chinese government to appear on any documents. To this end, the Chinese government decided to set up a completely independent commercial company in China, purchase tung oil, and sell it to the World Trade Corporation, so that the World Trade Company could enter into a loan contract with the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which would be guaranteed by the Bank of China. In this way, a loan agreement was finally reached.
Anna, who is a reporter for the New York World Times in China, is actually the niece of the US Treasury Secretary and the heir of the Morgan consortium. So, as soon as they got off the plane, they had to fly directly to Zhuzhou again.
As for Chen Chen, Bai Chongxi and the four major consortia, it was purely to show that the Nationalist Government attached great importance to this matter and sent them to accompany them.
Jiang Haoran suddenly realized that his deep fall and Xue Yue's bitterness turned out to be the fault of the 300 million US dollars, and the chairman of the committee seemed to be driven crazy by money, not to mention his righteous killing of relatives, and also gambled the lives of nearly 200,000 soldiers. It just made Jiang Haoran wonder why the chairman of the committee thought that Xue Yue would be able to win this battle.