At the end of 1928, New York in the cold winter.

Situ Nan laid out the financial market and cashed out through the sale of shares in his hands by Robles Securities, at a time when the U.S. stock market was in a bull market, and most of the stocks sold by William's consortium were companies with good ratings on Moody's Fitch Appraisal and the S&P 500, and Situ Nan's shareholding reduction plan was very smooth.

Cashing out $20 million in cash in the first month, after all, the Great Depression is still a year away, and even the most pessimistic economist does not expect the stock market to go wrong anytime soon.

The U.S.-China consortium also began to make similar moves in the financial markets of Shanghai and New Tangshan, and the Wuhan and South China governments also sold off some of Haiwa's assets, secretly buying gold from the international market and shipping it back to China.

After the currency reform, the position of the South Chinese dollar and fiat currency was stable, and precious metals such as gold and silver were basically withdrawn from circulation, and the gold hoarding of the two headquarters of the American Chinese Bank in New Tangshan and Wuhan reached 250 tons by the end of 1929.

Hudson Riverside Villa, Situ Nan took out a document and said to Kuzdova: "You sign this document, I have built a trust fund for your mother and daughter, which contains many company stocks, and the broker can cash out about 10 million US dollars after selling the shares." ”

After Kuzdova signed the document, she raised her head to look at Situ Nan, with some sadness in her eyes, and asked Situ Nan: "You, are you leaving again?" ”

"There are still some things that have not been dealt with, and it is only these days!"

Situ Nan nodded, he was also reluctant in his heart, especially in the parting season, no amount of money could make up for the guilt in his heart.

Gently took Rakuzdova's hand and spoke with her.

"How's Sikorsky doing?" Situ Nan asked casually.

Sikorsky is not based in California. Situ Nan did not know anything about Sikorsky. He also does not have a personal stake in Sikorsky. The company is the property of the Kuzdova brothers and sisters, and Situ Nan should be concerned.

"The company should be pretty good, the main business is to help other aircraft companies make propellers, and recently there seems to be research on aircraft that can hover in the air, and I don't know too much about the specifics."

Kuzdova said.

The company was mainly owned by his brother Igor. Sikorsky manages, and if it weren't for her brother mentioning the company's affairs when her brother and sister contacted her on the phone, she wouldn't take the initiative to care about the company's affairs.

Situ Nan knew that Kuzdova was talking about helicopters, and Sikorsky had little name in the aviation industry in recent years. Situ Nan's interest in the company was far less intense than it had been at the beginning.

If his cheap brother-in-law is in front of him, Situ Nan doesn't mind mentioning his "experience" about helicopters, but no one else is there, and Situ Nan doesn't interfere with Sikorsky.

Even if you know that this company will be very good in the future, it will be twenty or thirty years later! It's so far away!

The two can't help but talk about their daughter Sharapova, maybe the name Sharapova has a magical effect, Situ Nan and Kuzdova's daughter actually has a bit of athletic talent, coincidentally she likes to play tennis very much, and she plays well, when Situ Nan played against her. Unfortunately, he became a defeated subordinate of his daughter. (It can be seen that Situ Nan's tennis level is bad, comparable to the national football team.) ）

"Wipe your sweat. Don't catch a cold! After playing, Situ Nan handed the towel to Sharapova.

"No, I want you to wipe it for me!" Sharapova pursed her lips and said coquettishly.

Situ Nan smiled and helped her daughter wipe her sweat, and it was the first time she helped her wipe her sweat, and her movements were very gentle, after all, I don't know when I could help her wipe her sweat next time.

At lunchtime, Sharapova seemed to sense something and asked Situ Nan if she was leaving.

Situ Nan didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only say that the child was beginning to be sensible.

In the afternoon, with the warm sunshine of the winter afternoon and no wind, Situ Nan met Chu Fu who had come to New York from South America on the banks of the white Hudson River.

Chu Fu is one of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy, and ran a fruit company in South America in the past few years, and later transferred back to the South China headquarters to be responsible for the overseas investment of the American Chinese consortium.

The fruit company is part of Situ Nan's strategic contraction, and in order to deal with its assets in South America, Chu Fu had to go out in person and make a trip to South America.

Coming from the warm South America to the icy and snowy New York, it was really two days of ice and fire, and when he met Situ Nan, Chu Fu deliberately wrapped himself in a thick coat.

"BP Fruit made a profit of $740,000 last year, mainly from plantations, mines and oil fields. In addition to land and minerals, the roads, docks and other public facilities built by the company are also a huge asset, adding up to $30 million. I really don't want to sell these assets if you hadn't ordered it. Although it can make more than 10 million dollars from it. ”

Chu Fu said regretfully.

The U.S. and China and Situ Nan successively invested five or six million dollars in fruit companies, established several large plantations in Cuba and Venezuela, and later expanded to minerals, oil fields, and public utilities such as road transportation.

At the beginning, mainly for the abundant resources of South America, by the way, the wealthy Chinese labor force was arranged to develop in South America, forming several large-scale Chinese settlements with a scale of tens of thousands of people.

"There is no pity, selling the company's assets to Chinese workers can not only get several times the return, but also allow them to really settle down and reduce the burden on the company. Isn't the country of South China evolving from the American Chinese Company? ”

South Szeto Road.

After all, the fruit company is a country within a country, a special existence, even if those countries in South America do not give strength, the fruit company, which is similar to the East India Company, will be dissolved sooner or later.

Since it is going to be disbanded, why not turn it into a Chinese ghetto?

If the population is larger and the scale is larger, it may not be able to become an autonomous region in the future.

"Cheaper United Fruit Company, now they are dominant!" Chu Fu said stupidly.

"After fighting for several years, let them be refreshed, but the economy is not as prosperous as it has been in recent years, and their good days are not long."

Situ Nan smiled.

BP Fruit and United Fruit are competitors, both backed by U.S. funds, the main market is in the U.S., and the U.S. economy is about to collapse. Fruit companies will also be hit hard.

Also cooperating with Chufu in handling the fruit company's business is Situ Nan's optimistic American young Dulles. Chu Fu returned to South China from South America. He was replaced by Dulles, who did a good job.

Stuart Nan intended to sell the assets of the South American Fruit Company, from which Dulles made hundreds of thousands of dollars, and by the way, ended his career as a businessman and returned to the Coolidge government to engage in the intelligence work he was passionate about.

Chu Fu was also full of praise for Dulles, although he was a little jealous of Dulles, the guy who was very deep in the city.

The perception of Dulles is not the point, Chu Fu is more concerned about the strategic contraction of the US-China consortium. He couldn't help but ask Situ Nan again: "Is there really going to be a problem with the US economy?" If something goes wrong with the United States. South China will also be affected, and the export of rubber, tin ore, coffee and other commodities will be very unfavorable! ”

After speaking, his face was furrowed, and his face was grim, it was really hard to imagine what kind of predicament the South China economy would face with American capital investment in the United States.

"It's been ten years! The U.S. economy has been booming for a whole decade, and if it doesn't collapse, it at least has to adjust, doesn't it? ”

Situ Nan put his hands in his pockets, and the wind on the Hudson River was a little strong. The temperature seemed to have dropped a lot, and seeing Chu Fu was still thinking. There was some unconvincing on his face, this kind of expression Situ Nan has seen a lot, there are a lot of them within the William Consortium, Situ Nan is used to it, he glanced at Chu Fu lightly and turned his head to look at the slanting sun in the west.

Chu Fu's heart moved when he heard this, he didn't know why Situ Nan was so pessimistic, he wanted to say something, but his mouth moved and he retracted.

Neither of them spoke, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be quiet all of a sudden, each immersed in their own thoughts.

After a while, Situ Nan sighed with emotion: "This is the residual temperature before nightfall, don't be deceived by the warmth in front of you, forget the fact that the cold night is coming."

See, many people are intoxicated by the warmth of the moment, jazz, champagne, wanton early consumption, and flashy dreams, and when they wake up, they will find themselves in the ice and snow, clothed in thin clothes. ”

For Situ Nan, dealing with fruit companies is only a small part of the strategy, and it is gratifying that Chufu and the Meihua consortium are still obedient to their words, and their efficiency is much higher than those under the William consortium.

Chu Fu looked at Situ Nan's back and was slightly stunned, he heard a chill from Situ Nan's words, in view of Situ Nan's almost god-like transcendent status in the US-China Consortium, Chu Fu chose to believe Situ Nan like those people in the US-China Bank headquarters.

"If, as you estimated, there are big problems in the U.S. economy, South China will be able to get better development opportunities if it prepares early."

Chu Fu seemed to have something to say, "When I was in New Tangshan, everyone was discussing the development of Shanghai's automobile industry, and they all thought that New Tangshan should also develop the automobile industry, and Shanghai should not be surpassed. ”

"If you look at it, just do it!" Situ Nan said with a smile, the consortium is so big, he can't meddle in everything. On the contrary, if it weren't for this strategic contraction, Situ Nan would have been reluctant to dictate the companies under the consortium.

It's not that there is no automobile manufacturing industry in New Tangshan, but the scale is too small, and the development time is still short, which is nothing, but seeing that Dasheng Automobile Company and Shanghai Automobile Company have settled in Shanghai one after another, and the domestic automobile industry has made so much progress at once, those people in Nanhua have been stimulated, and they are not to be outdone, and they want to make a difference.

Chu Fu briefed Situ Nan on the development of the highway industry and the automobile industry in Nanhua, and he stressed that Nanhua has an advantage in developing the automobile industry compared with China, with low oil prices and sufficient fuel, and a considerable proportion of steam locomotives are still retained in the domestic railway.

Due to the abundance of cheap asphalt, the construction cost of the South China Highway is also relatively low.

After nearly two five-year plans, Nanhua has the cheekiness to say that it is an industrial country, and its industrial level is not much lower than that of Japan. Since both China and Japan are developing the automobile industry, there is no reason for South China to lag behind them.

Situ Nan was noncommittal about the optimism of Chufu and the Nanhua leadership about the domestic industrial development of Nanhua, but smiled, he invested so much in China and Nanhua, the standard for testing the results is Japan, Japan's shipbuilding industry and military industry are the strongest in Asia, especially in the training and reserve of industrial talents, Japan has trained millions of industrial workers, and the Chinese have to go a more difficult journey.

The two walked along the river and talked a lot, and Chu Fu also inadvertently talked about the sinking of a freighter of the Southern Star Steamship Company in the South China Sea.

"Speaking of shipwrecks, I recently sold all the shares of the White Star Steamship Company to Citibank, and compared to the White Star Steamship Company, the Southern Star Steamship Company is relatively lucky, and I hope that the sinking of a freighter will allow them to learn a lesson."

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"The White Star Steamship Company has been doing very well in recent years, but I have a bad impression of my former employee. Fortunately, we have established our own country and established a shipping company for Chinese, so that Chinese seafarers no longer have to be bullied by foreigners.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we established navigation schools in New Tangshan, Palembang, Surabaya and other places, and now we have trained tens of thousands of sailors. It barely relieved us of the embarrassing situation of having to hire pirates to serve in shipping companies and even to the navy. ”

Chu Fu said with a smile, he understood and welcomed Situ Nan's practice of selling the White Star Steamship Company, which was also in line with Situ Nan's prediction of the economic downturn, and as far as he knew, the controlling shareholder of the White Star Steamship Company was Morgan Firm, and Situ Nan himself could not dominate the White Star Steamship Company.

He glanced at Situ Nan with some regret, "Nanhua shipbuilding industry is still short of funds, if you withdraw the funds from the White Star Steamship Company and invest them in the Meihua Shipyard, they will have enough funds to launch a 20,000-ton shipbuilding project."

In addition, the navy plans to learn from Japan and convert an old coal carrier into an aircraft carrier, which has been verified and seems to affirm the Navy's future development route to aircraft carriers.

They are planning to build a real aircraft carrier within three years, but the government will not give money, and the two sides are making trouble, and it is estimated that it has not stopped now. ”

Situ Nan did not refuse Chu Fu Huayuan and agreed to increase investment in the Meihua shipyard.

However, the South China Navy is not very successful, and it does not have the ability to fight in the open sea, and compared with Japan's 88th Fleet, it is very small. As Nanhua vigorously develops the shipbuilding industry, the situation will gradually improve.

As for aircraft carriers, Situ Nan did not have much hope for aircraft carriers in the twenties, not because the tonnage of the ships was small, but because the level of aircraft engines did not come up.

As far as South China is concerned, as long as the aviation industry does not lag behind, maintaining a crack air force is enough to defend homeland security.

Even if the Japanese go south like in history, won't the Philippines stand in the way to give South China a warning time?

On the contrary, if too much is invested in naval ship building, Britain and the United States will be the first to be stimulated, and that will not be beautiful.

"We think the same way, but the Germans seem to be very ambitious, and Krupp's joint venture shipyard in South China has been encouraging us to build bigger warships.

The Germans are severely restricted in their local military industry, and they have moved a lot of military technology to Asia over the years, which can be regarded as using our conditions to experiment for them. ”

Chu Fu said with a smile. Thanks to the cooperation of the two sides, the keel of the first cruiser on the slipway of the US-China shipyard was laid a month ago, and in another year or two, the first cruiser made in South China will be launched.

Although the tonnage is only 7000 tons, it is significant.

It seems that when I was not in South China, the development of that country was much better than I expected.

Situ Nan thought to himself.

This kind of weather seems to make them the night the Titanic sank more than ten years ago, the funny thing is that the two didn't know each other at that time, Situ Nan didn't know that there was a crew member like Chu Fu in the turbine crew who "didn't see the light of day", but fate finally let them go together.

I don't know if it was the experience of fleeing together, or Situ Nan's different view of Chu Fu, Chu Fu felt that he had gained a lot from coming to the United States to meet Situ Nan, because Situ Nan said that he would support Chu Fu to bear a heavier burden in the US-China consortium. (To be continued.) )