Chapter 59: I Need It
"I didn't say I needed a stake in Huisheng, did I?"
Bank shares?
Just kidding, Chen Moran has no interest in the bank with a registered capital of only 2 million pounds, but in fact assets of less than 500,000 pounds.
Distribution channels! For Chen Moran, nothing is more important than the distribution channel.
In later generations, counterfeit banknotes were printed only for the purpose of selling them for profit, and in this era, those banknotes that can be used as fake are printed in order to treat counterfeit banknotes as genuine.
As for the inflation caused by the flow of excess banknotes into the market, Chen Moran has also considered it, but as long as the number of printed money is controlled within a reasonable range, it will not cause much impact, in this era, although the dollar is not as large as the world, the issuance of trillions of dollars, but there are tens of billions, coins alone have more than a billion dollars, as long as the printing of even a fraction of that, it is enough to meet his needs.
After all, for Chen Moran, what he needs is not to flood the United States with counterfeit money, trigger inflation, and deal a fatal blow to the American economy, which is the world's largest economic power.
This is not what he needs, what he needs is to "exchange paper for money", like the Federal Reserve of later generations, use those worthless papers, in exchange for everything he needs, but ordinary purchase materials are far from meeting Chen Moran's needs, according to his ideas, these fake money is used to buy gold and silver, or exchange them into local currency abroad, and the most important thing is to turn fake money into real money.
In this process of "realization", what Chen Moran needs is a circulation channel, an "issuance channel" that distributes banknotes through the bank, and it is precisely because of this that Chen Moran will fall in love with this bank.
"Don't need bank shares?"
Chen Moran's answer made Catherine wary, and she even began to consider whether she should keep her sister away from this "greedy" Oriental.
"What I need is your bank!"
And so it was! At this moment, Catherine couldn't help but feel a fire in her heart, and unlike the flames of physical needs in the past, this time it was anger.
When indignation flashed in Catherine's blue eyes, Chen Moran smiled slightly.
"I don't want your bank, though! Just need! Instead of getting! ”
The contradictory words only made Catherine feel a little bigger, what did he mean, he needed a bank, but he didn't want a bank.
"We can skip the questions and get straight to the problem you're facing!"
When Catherine looked at Chen Moran in confusion, he changed the subject.
"I know, your bank needs a sum of money, and if I'm not mistaken, it should be a huge sum!"
"A million pounds!"
Catherine said without concealment, took a sip of coffee, and looked at the Oriental in front of her, which was a huge amount of money for any tycoon in Shanghai, and after a little contemplation, she added.
"Of course, if you can get between £500,000 and 600,000, the problem can be solved."
As Catherine spoke, Chen Moran kept observing her expression to get some information, as she had guessed before, she was at her end. But even if she is desperate, she still sticks to this bank, and the significance of this bank is absolutely extraordinary to her.
This discovery only made Chen Moran happy, he was exhausted and reluctant to give up, is there a better goal than her?
"A million pounds!"
As if moaning, Chen Moran's left hand cut off a cigar with a "click" of a cigar tong, held it between his lips, lit it and took a deep breath.
"It's not much, I can take it out!"
The cigar smoke lingered between Chen Moran and Catherine, and was soon caressed away by a breeze, Catherine looked at the man in front of her, listening to his words, I don't know why there was no joy in her heart, from what he said before, she always felt that this man seemed to have other plans, but what was he trying to do?
Is it that proof of stake?
No way! Subconsciously, Catherine rejected the idea that the Boer War would soon be over, and that proof of equity would turn into a fortune of tens of millions of pounds in the next few months, as long as she got through the current difficulties, even if he forced the debt, she would not need to worry.
I need your bank! Why does he need Huisheng?
"I think, Mr. Chen!"
Catherine looked at Chen Moran, with a flattering look in her eyes.
"You're probably not going to lend me such a huge sum of money for no reason, are you?"
"Of course!"
Chen Moran replied with great certainty.
"But I don't think it's borrowing, I'm more inclined to ...... Investment! ”
Investment? Catherine was wary again, looking at this Chinese with a fluent English mouth, he said that it was investment, I am afraid that only ghosts would believe it.
"Mr. Chen said with a smile, if you don't need Huisheng Bank shares, then I don't think my bank has anything worth investing in!"
Despite her vigilance, Catherine continued to inquire about the predicament the bank was facing.
"Since it's an investment, it needs a return, so, Mr. Chen, what do you need?"
Chen Moran, who was smoking a cigar, had been waiting for this sentence, and his body leaned forward slightly.
"I know that your banks, especially those like you, which have branches in other countries, have some channels."
Taking a puff of cigarette, Chen Moran looked very serious.
"Secret channel!"
The so-called secret channel between banks is when he was working in a political axe loan company, Chen Moran saw from the book, in this era of the gold standard, due to the restrictions of the laws of other countries, multinational banks will always establish some underground channels in order to secretly transport gold out of other countries, which is almost an open secret in the banking industry of various countries, but this channel ended with the end of the gold standard after World War I.
Chen Moran is not interested in this underground channel to bring gold out of the country, this channel can be established by anyone, in fact it is nothing more than smuggling, and what he really likes is the process of turning paper money into gold, how to turn millions or even tens of millions of dollars of paper money into gold, and at the same time not cause panic in the market, those professional bankers have spent hundreds of years to build a perfect underground financial exchange system, in this system, millions of dollars of gold flow underground every day, What Chen Moran needs is to use this system to help him turn dollars of different denominations into real money.
Huisheng may not be big, but its founder is a typical international financial speculator, and no one relies more on this channel than these speculators, and his channel is exactly what Chen Moran needs. Using this channel to turn banknotes into real money, and at the same time, this channel will help him bring a large number of counterfeit banknotes to the world, so to speak, the whole process is entirely with the help of the underground network that the bankers painstakingly managed, to achieve the circulation of counterfeit money.
But although this underground network has existed for hundreds of years, it is simply impossible for ordinary people to enter,
"Can you tell me why?"
Catherine obviously didn't expect that all he needed was that channel, and although she wasn't familiar with that channel, she was no stranger to it either.
"Business reasons!"
In the face of Chen Moran's "frankness", Catherine hesitated, it was an interbank channel, and the reason why the bank established this channel was out of fear that the withdrawal of gold from other countries would cause deep economic panic, what was the use of this channel for him?
"Of course, Miss Catherine!"
Chen Moran leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and at this time, eagerness would let him fall under.
"I'm not in a hurry!"
Leaning on the back of the chair, his eyes fell on the pedestrians on the side of the road, and when he occasionally saw a few women, he used his afterglow to skim the woman in front of him, and he had to admit that this woman was the real stunner he had seen in this era, and even Ji Li could not compare with it.
Catherine, who had always bowed her head and was silent, looked at the cooling coffee in her cup and raised her head.
"In ten days, I need a million pounds or 7,140,000 taels of silver!"