Chapter 392: Rubber Crisis

In fact, Zhao Yongfeng was already discovered by the Ministry of Security when he first made airplanes, but at this time, people from all over the world were researching flying machines, and Zhao Yongfeng was not bad, and it would be better if Zhao Yongfeng could achieve some results, proving that the Chinese are no worse than the aliens???

Now that Zhao Yongfeng's achievements are in front of Yan Xueyi, Yan Xueyi also has a lot of emotion, the empire's aircraft plan cannot be violent. Exposed, with this achievement, Zhao Yongfeng is enough to become a member of the aristocratic class.

Yan Xueyi left Zhao Yongfeng's matter behind and turned his attention to another thing that would affect the world, which was the "Rubber Plan" that the Ministry of Intelligence had been planning.

Since the founding of the Chinese Empire, there have been two industries in the world, one is the airship industry and the other is the automobile industry, and the two industries have a lot in common, one of which is that both need to use rubber.

At present, rubber is mainly divided into natural rubber and synthetic rubber, synthetic rubber technology only has the Chinese Empire, the scale is general, the cost of temporary synthetic rubber is higher, so in the absence of necessity, the Chinese Empire is also mainly using natural rubber, and natural rubber is made from rubber trees, rubber grass and other plants after extracting gum, mainly rubber trees, there are large rubber plantations in Southeast Asia, is the world's most important rubber supplier.

With the airship industry and the automobile industry told the exhibition, the demand for rubber is also increasing, this is a hungry place worth paying attention to, Yan Xueyi instructed the Ministry of Intelligence to start on the rubber industry, hoping to create a scale comparable to the silver crisis of the rubber crisis, causing huge trauma to the economies of various countries, the Ministry of Intelligence set up a special team, has been working hard for the "Rubber Plan".

Both the airship industry and the automotive industry are industries with great potential.

The airship industry in various countries rose because of the airship deterrence of the Chinese Empire, and governments invested huge sums of money in the development of airships, and businessmen also followed the trend and poured into the airship industry, making the airship industry develop quickly.

Britain, France, Germany, and the United States have all established an air fleet composed of dozens of large airships, and the rest of the airships are mostly for the service of the country, and only the United States is a little more open to the civilian industry.

The Chinese Empire's airship industry has been fully exhibited to the civilian sector, opening a number of domestic and international airship routes, people travel, but the number of airships owned by the Chinese Imperial Air Force has exceeded 15o, which is almost the sum of the number of large airships of the three countries behind the Chinese Empire, not to mention that the Chinese Empire's airships and foreign airships are not a heavyweight, the Chinese Empire has Kunpeng-8 heavy airships, Kunpeng-9 airships, and other countries can build Kunpeng-7 medium-sized airships at most, The gap is not ordinarily large.

Britain is obviously unwilling to accept that the Chinese Empire has been sitting in the position of air supremacy, and has been frantically building large airships, wanting to catch up with the Chinese Empire, so that Germany and the United States, the two new powers, are also crazy to build large airships to counteract the air pressure of Britain, France also has to follow the rhythm, and also build large airships together, the air force arms race has continued, and the demand for rubber in the airship industry is increasing every year.

The demand for rubber in the automobile industry is no less than that of airships, and the automobile industry is full of flowers, and the Beidou automobile of the Chinese Empire is sold to the world, and hundreds of thousands of cars are sold to the world every year.

The secret of the assembly line in the automobile industry was unraveled by an automobile manufacturer in the United States, and the automobile manufacturers in various countries have greatly increased the output of automobiles after using the assembly line, but this has not threatened the status of Beidou Automobile in the slightest.

Beidou automobile has many advantages, Beidou automobile is the world's earliest practical car manufacturer, the most famous, the most advanced technology, and Beidou automobile is the first to use the assembly line, can make the cost of production of cars reach a very low price, Beidou automobile completely occupies the world's high-end car market, mid-end car and low-end car market also occupies more than half, Guangxinghua thirteen years, Beidou automobile domestic and foreign sales have exceeded 500,000 units, but most of them are low-end cars, low-end car prices have been reduced to less than 1,000 US dollars.

The airship industry and the automobile industry are so high, in the 12 years of Xinghua, the value of rubber imports in the United States is about 43000000 US dollars, the United Kingdom is 350000000 US dollars, Germany is 32000000000 US dollars, France is 1900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 By the thirteenth year of Xinghua, the value of rubber imports in the United States was about $580,000, the United Kingdom $4.69o, Germany $4.29o, France $2.55o, and the Chinese Empire $1.69oo dollars.

You must know that the current production cost of natural rubber per kilogram is only O.76 US dollars, and the price is generally 1.1 US dollars ~ 1.3 US dollars, and now the price of rubber is rising every day, Xinghua has exceeded 3.5 US dollars in August of the 14th year, and it is still rising rapidly.

The rapid increase in the annual value of rubber imports in various countries around the world is not only because of the increase in rubber demand, but also because of the rapid rise in rubber prices.

The rapid rise in rubber prices has promoted the stock prices of related companies to rise, and banks in various countries have been very loose in response to the securities lending of rubber companies, and some large banks have relaxed the mortgage discount to about 5o%-8o%, and other banks have followed up, and the financing to buy shares has played a role in fueling the share price of rubber to a certain extent.

There are no banks in the Chinese Empire, which has always been semi-closed, and many things in the country are not open to the outside world.

In the second half of the 14th year of Xinghua, there are more than a dozen or even dozens of new rubber stocks listed in major cities in various countries every month, and these stocks go with the high premium of the market, and in newspapers and other media to publish large advertisements to promote the company's image and good relations with famous financial institutions, and declare that social celebrities participate in the board of directors.

In the face of such a rubber stock market, people have rushed to buy rubber stocks, as long as the stocks in their hands for a period of time, they can obtain rich returns, such a simple way to make money, attracting all levels of society to join, and even in the Chinese Empire has a certain influence, but the impact is not deep.

The soaring rise of rubber stocks was initially due to the fact that the Ministry of Intelligence of the Chinese Empire was behind the scenes, and later some large conglomerates in Western countries such as Rothschild, Rockefeller and Morgan Consortium also took action and decided to make a fortune here, making the price of rubber stocks and rubber rise rapidly.

In January of the 15th year of Xinghua, the price of rubber per kilogram has reached as high as 6 US dollars.

At this time, the Chinese Empire announced to the outside world: the Chinese Empire has been able to industrialize synthetic rubber on a large scale, the price of synthetic rubber is lower than that of natural rubber, and synthetic rubber can replace the status of natural rubber.

The rubber crisis is exploding! 8