George will take Archduchess Tatyana back to Greece after Christmas to get married. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He exchanged greetings with Yang Chao a few times, expressing his hope that Yang Chao and the female tsar would be able to attend their wedding.

Yang Chao said he would definitely go.

Chatting casually, we soon talked about economic exchanges, Greece's hope to start a war with China, transportation and trade, mutual trade treaties, and so on.

A small country like Greece had no dealings with China in the past, they had no privileges or interests in China, and China had no interests in Greece.

But that was in the past, and now the whole world knows that China is the big financier, not to mention anything else, just the 10,000 tons of gold donated by Yang Chao to the national treasury shocked the whole world.

Many people are speculating about the source of Yang Chao's wealth, in the past, Leonie's report in the German media made everyone think that Yang Chao was born in an ancient pirate family, and his wealth came from family inheritance, but this 10,000 tons of gold is too terrifying, it is almost impossible to accumulate by robbery, Britain and France have robbed the world for so many years, Spain has robbed the Americas for hundreds of years, and there are no 10,000 tons of gold, obviously this road is different.

So Westerners began to move towards Yang Chao to have a huge gold mine, at least the kind of super gold mine in South Africa, maybe not even one, and it is much easier to mine than South Africa's gold, you must know that South Africa's current mining capacity is only more than 200 tons a year.

Now the outside world speculates that Yang Chao's gold mine has an annual output of at least 1,000 tons of gold, as for the location of the gold mine, everyone thinks that it must be in the northeast, sparsely populated so no one knows where, and there are even rumors that the reason why Yang Chao is desperately fighting with Russia for the northeast is for the gold mines in the northeast.

It's just that to this day, no one has figured out where Yang Chao's gold mine is, and no one has found it.

But no one doubts that Yang Chao is one of the largest financiers in the world, even bigger than the Rothschilds and Morgan, so there are more people who want to do business with Yang Chao.

It's just that Greece wants to trade with China, what are they going to sell? Olive oil is still fine wool.

However, Yang Chao is also interested in cooperating with Greece, and later China has spent a lot of time for the Greek port, I wonder if the current Greeks are a little easier to talk to?

Therefore, Yang Chao immediately expressed great optimism about the trade prospects between China and Greece, and also greatly praised the geographical location of Greece, saying that Greece is the southern gate of Europe.

George is very satisfied with this statement, Greece is only a peripheral country in southern Europe in this era, the ********** world close to the Middle East, has been occupied by Turkey for a long time in history, and has not fought with Turkey since freedom, and it is also quite marginal in economic development, even Italy in the north is much stronger than them, it is a second-rate country on the edge of Europe, and can only live with countries like Serbia and Albania.

However, due to this war, although Greece began to stand on the wrong side, it failed to open up the situation and expand its territory with the help of Britain and France, and after the war, it was in a hurry to cut off a few Greek settlements from the Turkish coast, and was beaten by Kemal.

However, the more disobedient Turkey is, the closer it is with Soviet Russia, the more Britain and France will support Greece, this is not a ********, but a ********, and it is the grand strategy of Britain and France not to let Russia penetrate into the Mediterranean, so whether it is Soviet Russia or Tsarist Russia, Britain and France want to block the Turkish Strait.

But now that Turkey is fighting fiercely with Soviet Russia, then it can only support Greece, and Greece has become the only Soviet Russia at the forefront of entering the Mediterranean.

The attention of Britain and France has greatly improved the status of Greece, but I did not expect the Chinese to be so optimistic about Greece, and George is more and more confident in the prospects of Greece.

"Greece's geographical location determines that Greece can become an outlet to the sea in southern Europe, and your railways are connected to countries such as Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia that lack good ports, or lack access to the Mediterranean, so naturally you can control the export trade of these countries, and if you can improve the port facilities, there is still a lot to be done. At that time, the whole of southern Europe could even affect Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and even Poland and other Baltic states. ”

Yang Chao continued to blow bubbles.

George couldn't stop nodding.

But Greece's infrastructure is still relatively backward, after all, it is only a backward agricultural country, exports are mainly primary products, olive oil is the leading export commodity, such a country does not need a large port.

It was not until after World War II that the Americans wanted to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding westward and regarded Greece as a bridgehead in southwest Europe.

And now, just like their geographical location, the wave of industrialization began in England and does not seem to have extended to Greece.

This kind of country, which does nothing and is poisoned by British liberalism, will not develop at all if it does not take the initiative to promote it.

So now, there is not even a decent port in the whole country, even the port of Athens to the sea, Piraeus, is still only a small port.

"Can we raise money in China?"

King George is obviously a little tempted, but Greece lacks the funds to improve the infrastructure, and Britain and France can support them to fight the war, but they are afraid that they have no interest in supporting them to build ports, because there is no possibility of recovering the investment at all.

Yang Chao smiled: "I think this is not easy, my country is very cautious about Western loans, because the European world is too chaotic." I am not very optimistic about the future of Europe until you have learned to live in peace. ”

Greece just ended the war with Turkey, and there is no argument about it, and Europe is also in turmoil now, the First World War is over, but the countries have not relaxed, France is still encircling Germany, Britain and the United States are quietly supporting Germany, and at the same time they want to control Germany.

Even the horizontal vertical continues, that is, Greece has to be prepared to start another war with Turkey, so it is indeed too chaotic, and it is not to blame the Chinese for making fun of it.

"That's a shame, but I'm hopeful about the future of Europe, and I think peace in Europe is fully guaranteed."

Yang Chao nodded: "I wish you to stay away from war, only peace is the most important foundation for development." Nationalism, territorial disputes, historical hatred between European countries, these issues are intractable. But I'm confident in your future, so if it's an investment, we should be interested. ”

"Investment?"

As a free country, he is still very welcome to investment, Britain still has a few oil fields in the United States, but Greece is now attracting investment, that is, a few oil mills, woolen mills and other backward industries.

"If Greece wants to, we can work with the Greek government to build the port, and of course we run it ourselves, and the Greek government can share the profits. As for the proportion of shares held by each party, this will be discounted to your land according to the proportion of capital contribution. I would suggest the introduction of a third engine, such as the Dutch Harbor Company, which has been operating well for so many years in our port in Yantai, and their experience is trustworthy. ”

George nodded: "My country is very willing to cooperate with your country and the Netherlands. ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "This is not intergovernmental cooperation, it is not about politics, it is pure commercial cooperation." ”

At the end of the conversation, the two naturally won't talk about trivial matters here, and the details are discussed by professionals.

The Dutch are also very active, and the cooperation with China has allowed them to obtain huge benefits, Yantai Port is the earliest project, the Nanyang issue is also mutually beneficial to both sides, China, especially Yang Chao wants to cooperate with Greece, invite them to participate, they can't wait for it, the Dutch have a very good investment vision of Yang Chao, and in their records, there is no failed investment.

So they soon sent people to Greece, inspected a large number of existing ports in Greece, the Greeks recommended the port of Piraeus near Athens, the development of this port will definitely drive the development of the capital Athens, but according to Yang Chao's requirements, the Dutch are planning to build a port to serve Central and Eastern Europe, the Dutch think that Piraeus in the south of Greece is not suitable, they value Thessaloniki in the north of Greece, which has always been very closely connected with Central and Eastern Europe.

The Dutch were relatively neutral, and the Greeks had no choice at this time, so they could only agree, and then the assessment of their port, mainly the evaluation of intangible assets such as land prices and management rights, was carried out by the British Rothschilds, and they also tried to take care of the Greek government, so they referred to the more developed Italian ports.

Taking the 30 years of revenue of the port of Naples in Italy as an average, as the value of the right to operate the port company granted by Greece, as for the discount of land, this is even simpler, according to the local land price in Greece, it has risen by 30%, but it is only levied by the Greek government.

The size of the port was also carried out with reference to Naples, and the final budget was 20 million gold dollars, which was equal to 20 tons of gold, and the Greeks simply could not raise such a huge amount of money.

The Greek government wanted to increase its equity ratio to 49%, but they really couldn't take out the money, and no one was optimistic about the port project if they wanted to take out a loan, so they refused to borrow, and finally the Greek government only used the port operation right to get 30% of the equity, and the Dutch invested 8.5 million gold yuan, accounting for 30% of the equity, and Yang Chao contributed the remaining funds, occupying 40% of the equity, and no one had a controlling stake.

After the completion of this port, it will become the largest port in the whole of southern Europe, which can berth 50,000-ton giant ships and reach an annual throughput of 30 million tons.

As for whether it can be profitable, Yang Chao actually doesn't care too much, if southern Europe can't develop, it can't develop here, and it can't be supported by the Greek economy, but the industrialization of southern Europe is afraid that it will be 30 years later, either Soviet Russia will help them develop, or the United States will help them develop.

But as a port in which Yang Chao is a shareholder, it can be counted as an asset of Chinese businessmen, and if the mustache wanted to move here during World War II, China would have a reason to intervene.

Therefore, under the banner of commerce, Yang Chao is actually looking for a military base.

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The 120th vote was added. (To be continued.) )