"I donate 10 million. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info My factory has found a seller, I will sell the factory, and when the factory is sold, I will go back to join the army and do my part for my country. My father has died in battle, my two older brothers have also gone to the battlefield, and I have no reason to live alone, which is a shame! ”

Young people do have reasons to be impassioned.

Yang Chao couldn't help but look at this young man, this is the heir of a large gear factory, their father and son are the best skilled workers, mortgaged the ancestral industry in Germany, and then came to Qingdao together to start a business, with a loan to open a gear factory, the business is not bad, even the supplier of the airship company, proving that the quality is still very good.

They also made a lot of money during the war, but the patriotic sentiment of the family was obviously too enthusiastic, and his father at the age of forty went first, leaving the factory to his three sons, the youngest son, who was now sixteen years old, and when his two elder brothers also returned to China one after another and handed over the factory to him, he actually wanted to sell the factory, and then also returned to China to participate in the war.

Waddell stood up at this time, walked past Yang Chao, walked to the child, shook hands with the child, and then invited him to the auction table and invited him to give a speech.

The young man gave a speech emotionally, nothing more than being willing to sacrifice everything for the motherland, and at the same time he didn't want Yang Chao's beautiful diamond necklace, he finally donated it and let another German rich man buy it for 500,000 taels.

However, the situation of the Germans selling assets made Yang Chao begin to pay attention, because this is not the first case, and several German-funded companies have sold their assets.

At this time, the Northeast is icy and snowy.

After the Chinese National Defense Forces eliminated all the Japanese troops from Hailanpao to Haisenwei, they stopped military operations and recuperated.

The Russians drove all the Japanese around Chita away, and then they turned westward and captured Tomsk and other cities in the Urals controlled by the Bushvik Red Guards, who were still a rabble, all of them workers who wanted to raise wages, peasants who wanted to divide the land, deserters who did not want to fight, and elite divisions armed with Chinese weapons by Kornilov's heavy-handed methods.

The Russian army only left tens of thousands of people to defend in Chita, and the forward has advanced to Omsk and is advancing towards Tyumen, and they plan to wipe out all the Red Guards in the area east of the Urals before the heavy snow in the middle of winter this year, and enter Europe next year to fight.

The Entente had great confidence in the Stolypin government's assessment of the internal rebellion, because the current Vladimir government was in turmoil, and Denikin on the Black Sea, Krasnov, the Cossack chief on the Volga, and Yudenich on the Baltic coast were attacking Russia from four directions, south, south, north, and west, and they believed that Vladimir's Red Guards would be defeated within a few months.

As for the German army that was eyeing the German army after the Battle of the Somme, the Allies did not welcome them, and they hoped that before Germany mobilized troops to attack Russia, they could eliminate the Russian rebel forces, and it was a good idea to introduce the German army into the Russian hinterland.

But everything will have to wait for next year, because a heavy snowfall in early December brought the attack in the Siberian direction to an abrupt end, and the main forces of the Russian army retreated to Omsk.

Compared with the ice and snow in the north, the temperature in Shandong, to be precise, Qingdao, continues to rise, not in temperature, of course, but in the patriotic enthusiasm of the Germans.

After the German teenager named Lenz sold factories to support the country, the Germans set off a wave of asset sales, the Germans sold a large number of their assets to buy bonds issued privately by Germany in Qingdao, and the Germans used the money raised to purchase supplies, especially grain and penicillin.

The reduction in grain production in Germany is indeed very serious, and without foreign aid, hundreds of thousands of people would have died of hunger this winter.

In order to feed the Germans, or at least not starve, it was not easy to transport 1 million tons of grain every month.

Yang Chao's large airships, airships with a carrying capacity of more than 300 tons, the total number is only more than 2,000, and a trip to and from Germany by an airship is basically half a month, and an airship can transport more than 600 tons of materials in a month, and at least 1,600 large airships are required to transport 1 million tons of materials.

Of course, it was impossible for Yang Chao to put more than 1,000 large airships into the transportation to Germany, he only mobilized 1,000 large airships, which flew at low altitude with an average load of 300 tons, and could not fly high, and could not carry so many things when they flew high, and flew to Europe almost with saturated loads.

Moreover, he could not go to Germany, and unloaded directly at the German-occupied Warsaw railway station, which shortened the distance, so that an airship could fly more than half a month to increase the transportation capacity by 30 percent, so as long as the sky did not snow, Yang Chao would do his best to transport, barely ensuring the food supply of the Germans.

Rice, flour and corn from China make this winter no longer a turnip winter for the Germans, they eat bread, rice and wowotou baked from Chinese wheat flour, and they eat kohlrabi, which should be the winter of kohlrabi.

Such a large-scale export of grain to Germany made the British protest strongly, but Yang Chao showed that this was not military supplies, this was just to keep the Germans from starving to death, it was humanitarian relief, and the British protest was very unreasonable and inhumane, and even launched a newspaper crusade against the British.

The Germans added fuel to the fire and brought the bad deeds of the British blockade to the international community, and a large number of German malnourished children and children who died of hunger were posted in the newspapers, and they still received a lot of sympathy.

Even the American consortiums, which have been agitating for a declaration of war against Germany, have been somewhat passive by this countercurrent of public opinion.

At the same time, it also stimulated a round of Qingdao people to sell factories to raise funds, of course, the main ones who sell factories are those who have no background, single-handedly family businesses, it is impossible for giants like Krupp to sell money-making factories, their morality is different from ordinary people, these businessmen have evolved to the stage of selling death, as long as they can make a profit, they don't care about anything else, after the war, Krupp even filed a lawsuit against the British arms dealer Vickers who infringed on their grenade safety device patent, In the end, he was compensated by a factory.

However, the enthusiasm of ordinary German factory owners to sell factories made Yang Chao more and more worried, although the Chinese capitalists also participated in the acquisition of a considerable part of the factories, but more than one-third of them were bought by the American capitalists in Yantai who also made war money.

It is not easy for Americans to leave China, and Yang Chao finds it tricky, because if these Americans buy too many German factories, they will have too much control over China's industry.

After dealing with the Germans for so many years, Yang Chao is still very aware of the harm of controlling industrial power in the hands of outsiders, and the Germans do not cooperate at every turn, passively sabotage, BA workers, etc., if they are controlled by the Americans, who dares to guarantee that in the future, if China and the United States have a conflict, the American-funded factories will not make trouble?

Of course, the Americans are less likely to make trouble, but no one can guarantee that it will not.

So Yang Chao decided that this was a threat, and it had come to this point, and Yang Chao didn't want to be controlled by others anymore.

So he found Waddell, the de facto leader of what is now German society.

"I don't think it's appropriate to sell factories to the Americans, and then let the Americans make weapons and sell them to the British."

Yang Chao told Waddell.

Wadell scoffed: "Sell to the Chinese, the Chinese do not make weapons and sell them to the Russians." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "But the current appearance of the Russians, I'm afraid there is no threat to Germany." ”

Waddell sighed, "And what about your proposal?" ”

He also didn't want to see those well-functioning German factories sold to the Americans one by one, but what can be done, the situation is stronger than people, if you don't sell these assets, will you wait for the people in the country to starve to death one by one?

Yang Chao smiled: "Listing!" Listed in Shanghai. This would eliminate the need to sell the factory entirely, and I would encourage the German factory owners to retain at least 10 percent of the shares. In this way, they can still continue to operate and manage the factory, and even 10 percent may make them the largest shareholder and continue to have control. ”

Waddell nodded, this is a good idea, not to sell the ownership of the factory at once, but to split it into shares and sell a part, once Germany sells all the industries in Qingdao, how to have a say in Qingdao in the future, although the German government is still making plans to take back Qingdao in the future, but Waddell is less and less optimistic about this prospect, after this European war, I am afraid that the Chinese will completely stand up, and the Europeans will have to marvel at the Chinese threat in the future.

In Waddell's eyes, China's industrial development has been too rapid in recent years, not only the light and heavy industries here in Shandong, but also the industries in Shanghai, which have also doubled during the war. In Waddell's view, Shandong is already a completely industrial society, and Shanghai has basically completed industrialization everywhere.

Faced with such a country, the Germans still want to come back?

Therefore, if Germany wants to continue to maintain influence on China in the future, I am afraid that it can only rely on these German expatriates who operate enterprises in Qingdao, and in the future, it can only influence the country through economic power like the Americans.

"If you go public, how do you guarantee the price? I don't want to see German assets sold cheaply! ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Don't worry, in China, my credit is gold, you can completely trust it." The people who do business with me have no regrets, and the Shanghai Bank Group will naturally guarantee the price of the stock and will maintain the stock price to a reasonable extent. ”

Waddell nodded, Yang Chao's business credit is outstanding, and he still has a certain reputation in the American and German economic circles.

"How can I make sure that I can make a move as soon as possible?"

One of the reasons why the Americans were able to buy a large number of German factories was that the Americans had made war money, and they could easily raise money from the financial markets in New York, and then swallow the German factories whole, so that the Germans could get a large sum of cash at once.

"Led by Yangzi Bank, an underwriting syndicate will be formed in Shanghai to sell shares of German-funded companies in Shandong to all Chinese capitalists through China's financial network."

"And I guarantee that the Shanghai bank syndicate will set aside 10 to 20 percent of the underwritten shares for its own ownership, and these shares will be repurchased by German companies at the original price."

This is a very favorable condition, once these factories are sold, it is obvious that they will be controlled by the Chinese, and then they will join the industrial management of the Chinese, begin to produce arms and make war money, and the stock price will also rise vigorously, if it rises too much after the war, that is, let the German enterprises buy back, they do not have enough capital, this original price repurchase right is equivalent to giving them a considerable proportion of the right to repurchase enterprises.

Waddell would never have imagined that the reason why Yang Chao asked the bank group to reserve more than 10% of the shares was actually to balance the German factory owners, because if these factory owners basically only kept 10%, their shares would not exceed that of the Shanghai bank group, and they would not be able to really control the factory's right to speak.

But now the Germans still can't understand the reason, because they don't think they will lose the war, what they don't know is that when they are defeated, how badly they will be tossed by the French, how the economy will collapse, when the Germans can't even eat the chaff that the Chinese use to feed pigs, you just let them buy back the enterprise, and they can't pay for it.

Even if they could figure out why, the Germans were not in a position to refuse at this time, after all, this was the most favorable condition for them.

As a result, under the behind-the-scenes organization of Waddell, German factory owners who wanted to sell their factories signed listing agreements with the Shanghai banking group organized by Yangzi Bank, and these companies jointly acted as underwriters for their shares, and have been helping them sell their shares to the secondary market.

And because everyone is encouraged to go public, and after retaining a part of the equity, more factory owners began to sell their shares, many people actually want to contribute to the country, but they don't want to lose their careers all of a sudden, but if they only buy a part of the shares and continue to run the industry themselves, then the psychological barrier is much smaller, which causes more factory owners to sell companies on the market, even Siemens, Diesel These people have sold some shares, and even Zeppelin is ready to move, but he did not go public, but sold half of the shares to Yang Chao, Yang Chao's control of the airship company's stock reached 75 percent.

The listing of a large number of German-funded factories has fattened Shanghai's stock exchange, which has controlled Shanghai's banking industry more closely after Yangzi Bank's bank bills obtained legal tender status last year, and then began to rectify the financial bond market, united with hundreds of banks, and opened this exchange, which basically crowded other exchanges, HSBC's stock window, into no business.

In just three months, according to the statistics of the Bank, a total of 2,000 German factories were listed in Shanghai, making the Shanghai stock market one of the largest stock markets in the world in an instant, second only to London and New York, and surpassing Paris and Berlin, which were greatly affected by the war. (To be continued.) )