Chapter 466: The Expansion of the Northwest Bank
The development of the Northwest, even every moment is accumulating strength, the mainland does not know, and even did not think that the Northwest will become stronger day by day, the strong changes brought about by the industry, are far beyond their imagination, and the Northwest has such a god-defying thing as an all-in-one machine, whether it is a machine tool or an automated production line, or even a steam engine internal combustion engine, it has been in the forefront of the world, such an excellent heritage, of course, the development is fast, 3 years of accumulated skilled workers, plus hundreds of millions of population base, These are all screws on the top of the huge machinery, and once they are put in the right place, the combined power is shocking, and the development snowballs bigger and bigger. {
The Northwest is like a running train, it is developing faster and faster, and the people outside the Northwest, especially the powerful and powerful people, they don't notice the Northwest at all, they are all attracted by the position that suddenly appeared, in their opinion, as long as they get the position of the president, they can control the whole of China, just like the emperor, when the emperor will be so simple, without fighting can be obtained.
Because of this position, at least nominally, it is a position that can be democratically chosen, everyone's eyes have gathered, the revolutionary party has begun to reorganize the league to prepare for the general election, and the Beiyang side, in the parliamentary election, but there is no clear understanding of democracy by the revolutionary party, Yuan Shikai thought that the revolutionary party promised him to be the president, he can become the president, and he began to expand the armament war, although the northwest is strictly guarded, but the arms that should be obtained from him are not less at all. A significant portion of the newly acquired funds were shared. It was used to purchase arms from the northwest, and the cumulative turnover reached a new high.
Huge munitions. In just 2 months, 65 million in the south, 35 million in the north, close to 100 million silver dollars, made the number of Beiyang and the revolutionary party's army begin to increase wildly, for this, both sides are well aware, even Yuan Shikai did not stop. The army of the revolutionary party, except for the three divisions that are not satisfactory, is really not good, and the expansion of the troops is not just about men and weapons, and it has taken him 20 years of accumulation, which is not so easy to surpass.
The expansion of the troops of the two sides has made the northwest profitable, you know. The cost of weapons produced in the Northwest, even at the price given to them, is several times the cost, and this money becomes a profit. It was used to expand the scale of the arsenal, and now, the arsenal recruits personnel. Qualified skilled workers have been found, but not every step. Every job must be carried out by professionals. Some hard work or simple work can be handed over to ordinary people to do.
The arsenal has obtained a large number of orders, smooth trade routes, but also brought greater funds, huge China, with the help of history, with the help of a huge population generated dividends, these money for everyone, is very little, but gathered sand into a tower, no one has been able to get them completely before, now the northwest with natural advantages and quality advantages, it is not difficult to achieve these.
In addition to arms and commerce, the northwest in the north-south peace talks, the abdication of the Qing Emperor in the process, the northwest also began in the Central Plains, in the south, the layout, and the brunt of the Northwest Bank, the bank as the first batch of outward expansion of influence, this is the usual method in later generations, a bank can be involved in politics, economy, industry and agriculture, and even ordinary consumer goods and many other aspects, the effect is self-evident.
Even in order for the Northwest Bank to be able to go smoothly, this Northwest specially sent personnel to communicate with Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen. Whether it is Yuan Shikai or Sun Yat-sen, there is no concept of finance and national currency security in their consciousness, because they have a request for the northwest, they almost hesitate a little, and then they get through.
Recognized by Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen, the Northwest Bank began to go out of the northwest, through the country, on the basis of the original Jin merchant ticket number, unified image and decoration, so the investment is very huge, but this money, Yang Yuanzhao is willing to take out, and even for the bank, but also made some special decoration materials, after intense construction, when the Northwest Bank officially opened for business, the wide and clean business department, as well as professionally trained personnel, and the old ticket number, formed a huge contrast, And the banknotes and silver dollars in the northwest also went to the Northwest Bank and began to go out of the northwest.
Except for some businessmen who have seen it in the Northwest or have certain business contacts with the Northwest, they will choose to use it, and the circulation is not large, and ordinary people cannot afford to use large amounts of paper money, but the circulation of silver dollars is large.
Itself, because of the inflow of a large number of eagles, a large number of dù, the silver dollar has become a currency in the world, the emergence of the Northwest dollar, with exquisite handicrafts, sufficient content and solid credit, all of a sudden recognized, a large number of people choose to exchange huàn and use the Northwest dollar, the eagle began to be crowded, and even the value of the currency began to decline slowly, from the beginning of one to one, gradually became 1.1:1, a full drop of 10%, you know, in the silver coins, the value of the currency is relatively strong, Because the material itself is valuable.
For the first time, the influence of the northwest appeared in the whole country, and the people also changed from many foreign products in the northwest to the new thing of the bank, a large number of depositors came to save money, and some targeted investment and development were also carried out, which stimulated the economy of the whole China, and gathered under the sand into a tower, and a huge amount of money gathered.
The Northwest Yuan began to be popular, from the very beginning of 10 million, to 20 million, even more than 100 million yuan, only about 3% of the seigniorage income, is a huge number, not to mention because of the bank, investment, interest and many other income, the bank's package, not only let the Northwest Bank compete for a large number of customers, began to vaguely control the Chinese economy, one field after another began to have a long-term construction.
Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen did not see that the Northwest Bank was potentially terrible, but it does not mean that the great powers did not see it, most of the great powers have built a large number of banks in the Northwest, some of them are to plunder wealth, such as Russia's Daosheng Bank, which is purely to make wealth in China, and by the time of World War I, it has stopped paying, and after the establishment of the Soviet Union after World War I, it does not recognize all savings, and China's savings in Daosheng Bank have suffered great losses.
Other banks, although there is no blatant money, but also suck the Chinese body of the vampire, some loans are extremely high interest, or simply with unequal treaties or political purposes, now there is a northwest, because of the local advantages and service advantages, and even launched the deposit to interest, regularly give more methods, all of a sudden attracted the vast majority of depositors, the banking industry is closely related to colonial rule, when the five countries jointly formed a banking group, It can even affect the signing of some treaties and concessions.
As soon as the Northwest Bank came out, it directly grabbed the jobs of other banks, although the customs surplus, import and export, including some other large transactions, are the channels of these banks, but unfortunately the customs can control zhì is a small aspect, the most important thing is that the Northwest began to have more and more power, once he has access to the sea, has the right to export freely, waiting for the bank group, is a catastrophe.
Things that stand in the way of people's money are always unpleasant, especially the privileged powers, under the impetus of the banking syndicate, a conspiracy against the northwest has begun.
Zhu Erdian was very irritable, received the notice of the banking group, he knew that the original northwest has begun to expand the bank to the whole country, what does the bank mean to a country, especially an industrial country, he is very Qinchu, in many countries, the bank almost determines the lifeblood of the economy, China may not have realized before, but the northwest is along this road, continue to move forward, this feeling, extremely uncomfortable.
Itself, all in the control of China, suddenly there is such an unstable factor in Baotou, even if the bank group does not come to urge, he is also considering the solution of the northwest, at that time to promote the Beiyang army to attack, but unfortunately Beiyang is not angry, but it also makes Zhu Erdian vigilant, the northwest is not simple, and now, with the bank as the guide, gather China's national strength, this is not a simple matter.
More than 20 years ago, before the Sino-Japanese naval war in the First Sino-Japanese War, Britain actually supported the Qing court, and he wanted to support the Qing government against Russia, otherwise, the Beiyang Fleet was definitely not so easy to build, but the changes and development of China disappointed Britain and turned to support Japan, and Japan also seized this opportunity and began to rise.
At that time, one of the most critical criteria for judging was that even if China was a huge power, it also had rich resources and wealth, but its ability to mobilize on the battlefield was not strong, in fact, it was exactly like this, Japan's fiscal revenue and gross domestic product were only a fraction of that of the Qing State, or even a few tenths of it, but most of the wealth of the Qing State did not come in handy, and the key to this was the bank, which was not controlled by a state, a modern bank, for the mobilization of funds and the arrangement of investment, no matter how huge the national strength, And just a landowner.
Now, the Northwest has not only given birth to more than imagined industries and railways, and even began to appear banks, and the Northwest Bank has even begun to want to expand the pace, which is definitely not a small matter, even the United Kingdom, must pay enough attention, so Zhu Erdian took the lead, and the bank group seconded a meeting for China, and the official bank was completed. (To be continued......) R527