Chapter 581: The Purpose of the Four Nations Bank
As soon as the meeting ended, everyone discussed the future personnel arrangements, and when Wang Yongan left the Jiangbei War Department by car, Li Yao followed and said: "Marshal, I can't do this thing of leading troops, you arrange for me to be in the army division, isn't this a ...... Catch the ducks on the shelves. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoI'd rather go with you to the War Department to mix the water. β
Wang Yongan patted Li Yao on the shoulder and said, "Big brother, you have real power, and it is too risky to go to the War Department with me." β
Li Yao smiled bitterly: "My own ability, I still don't know?" β
Wang Yongan said: "Brother, you have to believe in yourself, you are more capable than you think, people are forced out, I believe you can complete the task in the army." β
Li Yao said: "Okay, I'll listen to you for the time being." The two walked for a while, and Li Yao asked again: "Are you so willing to give up Jiangbei?" β
Wang Yongan sighed and said, "Yu Qiaqing sent me a telegram that the Industrial Bank of China is suffering and is going to be empty. β
Li Yao was shocked and said, "What's the matter?" β
Wang Yongan said: "The battle of the Northern Expedition in Jiangbei and the battle of Jiangdu between China and Japan, the two battles cost us tens of millions of silver, not counting, when we were focusing on the war, the Bank of the Four Nations secretly acquired our Zhonghua Industrial Bank, and has obtained 11% of the shares from the small shareholders. "The shareholders of the China Industrial Bank are very complex, there are rich businessmen in Jiangbei, there are also rich businessmen in Jiangnan, there are officers in Jiangbei Army, and there are also some revolutionaries in Jiangnan, so the gradual success of China Industrial Bank in Liangjiang is not enough for the country, but it is precisely because its composition is too complex that the Four Nations Bank can secretly buy shares from them, and it also caught Wang Yongan off guard.
Wang Yongan said: "More importantly, the banks of the four countries have hoarded enough Chinese dollars, and once they exchange it, we can't provide silver for exchange. Moreover, if the banks of the four countries launch a run, the Industrial Bank of China will face the risk of closing its doors. β
Li Yao was shocked and said, "I have never heard you say these words. β
Wang Yongan smiled bitterly: "How can I say this, I can't say it, the war is all about silver, and now there is a problem with my money bag, and the bank is not a place to print money, so I am under a lot of pressure now, and the Jiangbei Army is about to face the risk of running out of cooking." The reason why the banks of the four countries have not exchanged money is because they do not want the Bank of China to collapse at all. β
Li Yao thought for a moment, and suddenly shouted, "Could it be that they want to annex the Industrial Bank of China?" β
"Yes." Wang Yongan said, "Everyone in the world knows that the China Industrial Bank is the Chinese's own bank, and the Four Nations Bank is a foreign United Bank, so the Chinese people are unwilling to deposit money in foreign banks such as the Four Nations Bank in national feelings, so the Four Nations Bank has acquired the China Industrial Bank to achieve the purpose of secretly controlling China's finances and making the Chinese people think that the China Industrial Bank is their own bank." The brand of the Four Nations Bank is too smelly, and the Chinese know that they are the foreign joint bank that colonized our country, so they need a reputable Chinese bank to act as an agent for them. And we are their goal, which is why they keep us crumbling but not breaking us. (Similar to Harbin Beer being acquired by an American company, it is still sold under the brand name of Harbin Beer)
"Shikoku Bank on Dog Day!" Li Yao was furious.
Wang Yongan waved his hand and said: "It's not their fault, any capital has the nature of devouring, just like every businessman wants to become bigger and stronger, and every warlord wants a bigger territory and more troops." The development of the Four Nations Bank is bound to have a fierce conflict with the Industrial Bank of China, and either we die or they die. I very much suspect that this time Japan's aggression against China was actually a covert clamor by the Shikoku Bank to make a move against Japan, so as to achieve the goal of annexing the China Industrial Bank. β
Li Yao said: "This ...... It's unlikely, in order to make money, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese soldiers and displacing millions of people, the Bank of the Four Nations shouldn't be so lacking in morality, right? β
Wang Yongan said: "White people have never treated Asians as a thing, so how many Asians die has no effect on them. β
Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, the two had just returned to Wuthering Heights to finish dinner together, and Bai Dequan reported that Mr. Rashid, the representative of the Four Nations Bank, hoped to negotiate with Wang Yongan, chairman of the Industrial Bank of China. Wang Yongan and Li Yao glanced at each other, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes, these gringos really did not achieve their goal and vowed not to give up.
"Tell them I only have free time between seven and nine tonight." Wang Yongan replied.
Bai Dequan nodded and turned to leave, Li Yao said, "Jingyun, what are you going to do?" β
"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, see what they plan, Brother Chenguang, you can accompany me to talk later."
"Okay, I'm willing to go." Li Yao drank it all, "I want to see how ugly the foreign devil's face is." β
Rashid, a Britishman born in Newcastle, England, who started as an apprentice in the bank and gradually became the manager of China project negotiations at Four Nations Bank, did not directly talk about the purpose of the acquisition of the Industrial Bank of China, but to test Wang's bottom line and see Wang's attitude towards the sale of the bank. But obviously, Wang Yongan confused Rashid in the form of tai chi, and no information was tested. For two hours, Wang Yongan had been talking to him about the financial attacks of Citibank, JPMorgan Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and other major banks on Wall Street, and asserted that in the future, the dollar would replace the British pound as the world's trading currency.
And as an Englishman, Rashid naturally did not allow anyone to denigrate the position of the pound in the world so much, and the two launched a fierce coup d'Γ©tat over the financial war between the pound and the dollar.
Wang Yongan pointed out that the US dollar has many natural advantages in competing for the hegemony of the world's financial currency, first of all, the United States is a huge market, and the US dollar is extremely stable on the American continent and has a very solid rear, so even if the US dollar goes out of the world and faces failure, it will not break its head, after all, their rear is very strong. Secondly, although Britain is now the world hegemon, and the pound is the strongest currency in the world, but now that the European continent is strong, and the outbreak of war is imminent, once Europe breaks out, Britain will inevitably spend a lot of gold, and the pound sterling with the gold standard as the currency will depreciate. Third, world hegemony is determined by financial strength, not just military strength, and Britain only pays attention to its military rival Germany, but does not know about its financial rival, the United States, and is completely unprepared for the United States' conspiracy to dismember Britain's world financial hegemon.
Rashid and Wang Yongan discussed until twelve o'clock, and was finally interrupted by Yuxiu, and Rashid realized that he and Wang Yongan had only been discussing the Anglo-American financial hegemony for four hours, and completely forgot the task assigned to him by the Four Nations Bank. However, Rashid feels that he has not gained nothing today, at least he has begun to pay more attention to the competition between the dollar and the pound, and the world financial hegemony is no better than the military hegemony.