Taking the lead with penicillin, Yang Chao finally opened the war account, and the plan to make a fortune was at the beginning, before providing military equipment to the Russians, which can only be described as a small fight, and now it is the main meal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

From China to the United States, Yang Chao used a hundred airships to sail across the ocean, loaded with expensive penicillin.

When they get to the U.S., they will continue to fly west, to Europe, because European customers have placed large orders.

It is strange that tiny Switzerland needs 100,000 bottles of penicillin every month, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries have also ordered quite a lot of medicines, the most outrageous is Portugal, they only have a population of about 2 million, and they have ordered 200,000 penicillin, and every ten people in the country share a bottle.

But business is business, Yang Chao didn't ask, if the guests have needs, they have to be satisfied.

On this point, he has a very common agreement with the Americans, because among the businesses represented by the Morgan Company during this time, there is more grain to Portugal, which meets the daily needs of 10 million people, and Morgan does not care how the Portuguese will eat this grain.

Well, both of them are playing tricks, because China and the United States have declared their neutrality in the European war, so the export of military supplies to Europe is a violation of international law.

Therefore, the Americans set off from American ports under the guise of exporting to Norway, Denmark and other neutral countries close to Britain, and as for why the destination was Britain, it was probably because the captain was lost, and this has nothing to do with the US government.

The only trouble is to export to Germany and Austria, because these two countries are blocked by Britain and France, and the ships can't reach the ports of the two countries at all, so there is no more suitable than re-exporting through Switzerland, only the problem of the port, fly directly by airship, who still needs your ID card?

The war has been fought until now, but not only China has opened the war remittance account, the Americans' account is even larger, and Morgan, who has not made a fortune, has come to China, in the name of wanting to build a private luxury airship, bidding 3 million US dollars, private custom!

But is the real purpose, in fact, he came to talk to Yang Chao about business, as for the airship, there is no matter.

"I'm happy to work with my American friends. All arms trade to Europe can be transferred through New York. But I have one request! ”

"Mr. Yang, please speak."

Jack Morgan was wearing a crisp suit and sat on the chair next to Yang Chao with a little restraint.

Yang Chao thought that Morgan would have a Cuban cigar in his mouth, his fat body nestled in a bearskin sofa, a large gold chain hanging from his chest, and three huge rings on his hands, a large diamond of 50 carats, and a ruby the size of a cat's eye.

Well, this image is the typical image of a financier, but to Yang Chao's disappointment, this Morgan does not seem to have the demeanor of a corrupt banker at all.

Because this Morgan is not the same Morgan when Yang Chao went to the United States to invest before the war, the elder Morgan died in 1913, leaving his son Jack with $60 million in funds after his death, but leaving behind a more valuable financial network, and a newly established Federal Reserve.

Morgan's establishment of the Federal Reserve, later generations believed that it was to facilitate the control of the U.S. financial industry, which has a certain amount of truth, but in terms of the Fed's procedures, the executive members must all be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress before they can take office, which can be said to be monitored by the U.S. Congress, which is a very strange phenomenon.

Of course, if the old Morgan is here, he can indeed control the Federal Reserve, because he can even control Congress, and controlling the members sent by Congress is not a piece of cake, but unfortunately Morgan died before he could control it.

Morgan Jr. did not have his father's ability, and after he took over the Morgan consortium, he relied on his father's financial network to receive the power to raise funds for the British government during the war, but he began to sell off the inheritance that Morgan Sr. left him: a large number of works of art.

The reason is simple, Morgan Jr. ran out of money, and although $60 million was not a small amount, it was far from enough for war financing, so he began to sell his father's inheritance.

Old Morgan is a wonder, he spends money like water very luxuriously, but for a character like him, it is not easy to spend money, how much can a house, a car, and a woman spend?

Morgan has two hobbies, the first is building yachts, and the famous Titanic is Morgan's asset, but it sank.

Another of Morgan's hobbies is collecting art.

Like the Medici family of medieval Italian bankers, Morgan was fond of investing in art, scavenging all over the world for art, and spending money on everything he saw.

Morgan's collection includes Chinese porcelain, jade, various bronzes, Egyptian statues, Greek sculptures, famous oil paintings, meaningful prints, writers' manuscripts, etc., totaling more than 100,000 pieces, many of which are famous and priceless, such as the Bible printed by Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type printing in Europe, the papyrus manuscripts of the Egyptians, the manuscripts of poets and philosophers in the civilized world such as Keats and Shelley, and the oil painting "Our Lady of Colonna" by Raphael, one of the three masters of the Renaissance. Many treasures are millions or tens of millions of dollars worth of treasures, and they are treasures in any museum.

However, after Morgan Sr. bought the art, he did not keep it in his own home, but donated a large amount, and he had the idea of searching for the most perfect art for his country, and thanks to his donation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art became the largest museum.

A few years before his death, Morgan had planned to donate all of his art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but he asked the New York government to build a special gallery for his collection, to bring all the exhibits together, and to appoint him director.

This demand made the people in the United States, who hated bankers, very dissatisfied, and shouted that Morgan could not spend all his money, and that the government would pay him to collect art.

As a result, the elder Morgan got angry, did not donate, and left it all to his son, of course, what he left to his son was a problem, and his will still had to be donated, but according to American law, if the heir does not deal with the inheritance within two years, he will have to pay high inheritance taxes.

And the value of this work of art is estimated to be more than half of the entire American art stock, because after all, the United States is only a young country of more than 100 years, except for the old Morgan who frantically buys from foreign countries, there are really few medical treasures produced in his own country.

According to the market valuation, this batch of artworks is worth more than a billion dollars, of course, it is not certain how much money the old Morgan spent to buy it, after all, the purchase regardless of the price is easy to be regarded as Kai Zizai, and when others see the old Morgan to buy, they will probably increase the price a little wisely.

So the elder Morgan can rule the financial market in the United States, but he only left his son $60 million, and he can't even rank in the top ten in the United States, and here's why.

But the old Morgan is different from the little Morgan, even if the old Morgan doesn't have a penny, just relying on that face, it is worth a billion dollars, he doesn't spend a penny, it is not a problem to mobilize hundreds of millions of dollars, but his son does not have as much face as him, his son has not yet established his own reform in the New York financial circle, don't think that the group of crazy people on Wall Street will recognize the account of a little-known rich second generation.

So little Morgan was really short of money, so he sold Morgan's collection in a low-key manner, but his behavior did not arouse anyone's suspicion, and no one would believe that the Morgan family sold art because of lack of money. When Morgan Jr. had raised enough money, he stopped selling and donated 40% of the last 40% of the artwork.

However, little Morgan is not as good as his father, when his father is there, he can suppress the US government, and the US government can break up the Rockefeller's oil company, but it has never dared to touch the Morgan consortium, but in the hands of little Morgan, the US president, who is more powerful than the other, finally broke up the Morgan consortium.

"I need Mr. Morgan's assurance that all arms orders will be handed over to our War Industry Bureau! I'm sure it's not that difficult, because it seems that the Americans don't have a decent arms industry either. ”

For the little Morgan, who is far from being domineering as the old Morgan, Yang Chao was completely unkind, and confidently said his request, and with an attitude that could not be refused, he almost shouted: If you don't agree, get out.

"No, no, no, our DuPont is the largest arms factory."

Morgan retorted that he was not stupid and knew that in war, arms were the most lucrative business.

Therefore, the arms business is what Yang Chao values, and the financial business can be put aside first and let the Morgan consortium make money.

But what Yang Chao said is very reasonable, the United States has indeed not started their arms production, the reason is very simple, the United States does not have a large arsenal, so when the United States entered the war, the equipment of the US military was basically provided by Britain and France.

Of course, it is also true that the Americans made war money, but they did not provide direct munitions, but steel and other raw materials for the production of munitions.

DuPont is not an arms factory to be precise, because they produce gunpowder, which is only a semi-finished product. Historically, DuPont provided 40% of the entire Allied gunpowder supply, and its production capacity was huge.

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, DuPont is an exception. But DuPont also has a factory in Shandong, and I myself own a 40% stake. I'm sure DuPont is willing to leave me a bite to eat. So let DuPont produce in China, they must have also seen that China's raw materials and labor costs are lower. As for DuPont's factories in the United States, they still produce fertilizers, but DuPont factories in China have switched to TNT, and Chinese farmers have no fertilizer to use, which is a huge market. ”

"If DuPont agrees, I promise that all arms production in China will use DuPont's gunpowder during the war. If they don't agree, then I will build a new gunpowder factory. ”

Yang Chao didn't want to let go of the 40% share of the ammunition of the entire Entente countries.

Morgan frowned slightly, the Chinese this move is too ruthless, DuPont's development in the Chinese market has been fruitful in recent years, before the war DuPont basically monopolized China's fertilizer supply, the profit is very considerable, these Morgans are clear, because he himself is also one of DuPont's shareholders, he himself and DuPont are close friends, it is with his support, DuPont has the ability to eat such a huge market share, you must know that the United States is staring at the war, not only DuPont, Atlas Gunpowder's eyes were red, and Dupont's eyes were on the verge of fire.

But now the Chinese want DuPont to produce fertilizer in the United States, and put gunpowder production in China, DuPont has a huge fertilizer factory in China, and now they are switching to gunpowder, which is enough to meet the needs of Europe, but in this way, DuPont has no business, although through the dividends of DuPont in China, Morgan can also make a profit, but there is comparable to the stimulation of the rise in the stock of DuPont in the United States.

Historically, DuPont's stock has skyrocketed from $20 before the war to $1,000, a 50-fold increase.

"DuPont may agree, but Colt Automatic Arms, Winchester Arms, and Remington Arms may not."

"Then they can compete in the market, I only need the orders that Morgan has in hand, I believe you understand what I mean."

Yang Chao secretly sighed in his heart, this Yankee is now too powerful, so big that Yang Chao must cooperate with him in order to cut the biggest piece of cake in the war.

After the war lasted for half a year and the British ran out of supplies, the first reaction was that it was a long-term war.

The British government immediately began preparations for a protracted war, and they appointed Morgan & Co., a private bank in New York, as the sole financial agent for the British government to collect war loans from private American banks, and at the same time appointed the Morgan Consensus as the sole purchasing agent for Britain to purchase all war materials from the United States.

Morgan helped the British borrow money from the United States, and on the other hand, he controlled all the procurement of American munitions and war materials, and the supply of food and food and other necessities for Britain, France and other European allies was handled by Morgan Bank. Morgan completed the supply and financial settlement of the entire Entente countries through Morgan Greenfeld, a branch in London, and Morgan Hayes, a branch in Paris.

With one hand in charge of financial financing and the other in control of industrial production, not only did he get the underwriting business of huge bonds of Britain, France and Russia, but also Morgan had to take 2% of the agency commission for every piece of material sold to the Entente countries, and Morgan made huge profits on both ends.

In addition, the Morgan consortium already controlled many large monopoly companies in the United States, such as American Steel Corporation and General Motors, and these companies became the biggest beneficiaries of the war with the help of Morgan.

On the one hand, the gold of the British fell into Morgan's pockets, and on the other hand, it became the bank bills of the Federal Reserve and handed over to Morgan's controlled companies such as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and in this war, Morgan's control over the United States reached its peak.

The industrial productivity controlled by Morgan accounts for half of the entire industrial production in the United States!

If he snatches the order in Morgan's hand, in fact, it will cut off the hand of Colt's American arms companies reaching out to the war, Yang Chao does not want to fatten the American military industry and create a trouble for himself in the future, these military industries are now completely surviving, because the United States does not have a huge army, they mainly develop civilian guns, fortunately the United States does not ban guns, otherwise they really have no room to live at all.

As long as the United States' developed arms industry cannot develop, the United States' threat to China's future will be much smaller.

"To make amends, I am asking for the penicillin agency in your hands. Exclusive agent of Morgan & Co. for penicillin supply to Europe? ”

Morgan pondered for a moment and made a new request.

"Including Deau?"

Yang Chao asked with a smile, he knew that the Americans had not actually interrupted the trade with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but the British had checked more strictly, and the British even controlled the ports of Denmark, and Denmark had to provide the British Minister of Labor Lloyd with a list of their import and export goods, and accepted the British to send inspectors to all their ports to inspect every incoming and outgoing cargo ship, and once contraband was found, it would be seized immediately.

This is the confidence of the hegemon, which controls international transportation, and therefore trade.

"We are a neutral country, we do not supply supplies to both sides of the war, we trade with Switzerland!"

Morgan said righteously.

Yang Chao understood that ordinary goods could not impress the Americans to quarrel with Britain, but penicillin, which is a high-priced and necessary thing, the Americans did not mind making their British friends unhappy, and if the benefits were sufficient, they had the ability to expand their trade with Switzerland, and all the blockades would be of no avail.

"Deal!"

Yang Chao stood up happily and shook Morgan's hand, and the two warmongers reached an alliance. (To be continued.) )