Chapter 43: The Sacking of France (1)

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At the same time that the Tang Army crushed the Japanese army all the way and made the Japanese soldiers cry and cry for their mothers, a violent financial storm was also set off on the land of France far away in Europe.

Friend or foe, all international financial structures together to short France and loot French wealth for the same purpose.

The prelude to shorting is shorting, and almost all the international banking groups are working very hard to hype up the collapse of the French economy.

Against the backdrop of the economic crisis, the French gradually became convinced, and when they saw that the French economy had stopped growing rapidly since the end of the war, they thought that the economic crisis was really going to affect France.

In fact, the economic crisis has had a limited impact on France, because the French economy is not dependent on the prosperity of the United States and is relatively stable. It's just that in the case of an economic crisis that has broken out in the whole country, international trade will inevitably shrink, and the impact on France's foreign trade exports is certain, but it is definitely not as serious as imagined.

It is precisely because of this that the French government's high-level think tanks will strengthen the French economy, and if there is no external influence, the French economy itself can withstand the impact of the economic crisis on France.

But the economic crisis has broken out in the whole country, and France wants to be left alone, which obviously will make other countries envious and jealous. Like ordinary people, I can't see others being rich and handsome, and I can't see others being less injured than myself, so I will be jealous to some extent. The same is true for countries, France wants to refuse the economic crisis, and all shijie countries will draw circles and curse.

It is this invisible liliang that has led international banking groups to inject capital into France on a large scale. Governments have also turned a blind eye and waited to see what happened in France.

With the formation of short calls in France, the international banking syndicate quickly moved into the next move to short.

The short-selling movement soon spread massively in France. As a large number of French people have agreed with the hype of the international banking syndicate. First, Datang Bank sold tens of billions of dollars of French stocks, bonds, and various assets, and then international banking groups also began to sell off one after another, and even deliberately created a number of bank "runs" incidents, and through large-scale publicity and speculation in the media, a large number of French businessmen could not sit still, and followed the trend to sell all kinds of French stocks, bonds, and assets, and as a result, the assets of all walks of life in France were quickly undervalued and transferred at low prices. The goal of the international banking syndicate to short France was achieved.

The French, fearing that something would go wrong with the franc, cashed out all their foreign currency, which is exactly the structure that the international banking syndicate would like to see. When various French stocks fell sharply and their assets were seriously undervalued, international banking syndicates took out their cash to buy the assets of the French at low prices.

The fastest way to make a fortune on Shijie is to go short, and the international banking syndicate shorted France. They went back and bought a lot of cheap French assets. The profit from the price difference is huge, which is tantamount to robbing a bank.

Tens of billions of funds from international banking groups have made huge profits from France.

If the French government had devalued the franc in time, it might have been able to prevent international banking groups from looting French wealth to a certain extent, but the French government was still too insistent, insisting on the franc gold standard and refusing to devalue the franc.

The financial predators of the international banking syndicate were very happy. As long as the French government does not devalue the franc, then they can quickly buy French assets and wait until the high prices are restored.

France is the country least affected by the Shijie economic crisis. When the French gradually understood that the French economy would not be hit hard, they had to pay a higher price to get back the assets and stocks that were sold.

Zhang Meng originally planned to make a big profit in France, but was blocked by the Ross family led by Carney, Zhang Meng is not a loser, he took the initiative to give up shorting the French Jihua, but he is planning a larger operation, he wants to pit the entire international banking group.

The Blue Fox Special Service Team has not robbed a bank for a long time, and in front of the soldiers of the special forces, the veterans of the Blue Fox Special Service Team boast very much on weekdays, but they have never led their subordinates to take actual action, because they are all following Zhang Meng's special order - low-key.

Now that I have kept a low profile for several years, it is time to recharge my energy, and it is time to do a big job.

Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in the United States, social turmoil, all kinds of crimes have emerged in an endless stream, especially the increasing number of bank robbers, Americans began to upgrade the bank security system, and soon became popular everywhere.

Banks in European countries have strengthened their defenses, but the road is one foot higher and the magic is higher, Zhang Meng deliberately embarrassed the French If he wants him to give up shorting France, he will convert more than 10 billion US dollars into gold and ship it out of France without charging taxes and international gold exchange fees, the French agreed, but they did not know Zhang Meng's real intentions.

Because more than 10 billion US dollars can be converted into gold, but it is measured in 1,000 tons, and more than 8,000 tons of gold, even if France is the second largest gold reserve, it will take some time to mobilize gold from banks in various places. The Banque de France had to negotiate with the Datang Bank, so that the Datang Bank's personnel took the opportunity to find out the location and quantity of the Banque de France's gold reserves.

Two months later, the Banque de France finally raised more than 8,000 tons of gold and handed it over to the Datang Bank.

At the same time, the Blue Fox Special Service also launched an operation.

In order to exchange more than 10 billion US dollars of gold for the Datang Bank, the Central Bank of France has also prepared hundreds of tons of gold for emergency purposes.

The security measures of the Central Bank of France are extremely strong, and even the Blue Foxes special service team can no longer use the previous tricks to rob them. Of course, Zhang Meng didn't want to really offend the French, so the Blue Fox special service team did not directly rob Jihua of the Bank of France, but secretly interacted with a thin layer of phosphide on the banknotes of more than 10 billion US dollars in the Central Bank of France through the vent, causing the entire vault to ignite that night, and more than 10 billion US dollars and hundreds of billions of francs were burned, and even hundreds of tons of gold were burned and condensed with the steel plates of the vault.

It turned out that Zhang Meng had already done tricks on more than 10 billion US dollars in banknotes, and his purpose was not to destroy the French treasury, so that France would lack capital circulation in a short period of time, and eventually cause the collapse of the French monetary system.

On the same night, the Blue Fox Secret Service team worked together at all the major banks in major French cities, not really for the purpose of robbery, but for the main purpose of destroying the banknotes and precious metals in the counterparts' vaults. Of course, if you can take it away, you have to take it away, and you can't cheap those bankers.

This night shocked Shijie, hundreds of large and medium-sized French banks were robbed by armed forces, the vaults were either burned or blown up, and the funds inside were either burned or taken away, and hundreds of billions of francs were lost.

The next day, the whole French went crazy and ran to the bank with their passbooks to ask for withdrawals. Zhang Meng had already arranged for Madoff to prepare a large number of media reports, advocating that the Bank of France had no gold to exchange and no paper money for the French to withdraw.

For banks, depositors rarely have a centralized withdrawal time on weekdays, so most banks invest their money in other medium and long-term market appreciation. When their coffers were destroyed, there was no money to exchange, and depositors were afraid of the centralized rush to withdraw or cash out, leaving these banks with no money to redeem. (To be continued......)