Chapter 524: Means [2]
For the poker organization, the focus of the next major work is still to clean the money of all the bosses in the Western world who need to launder their money, and at the same time, it cannot give up the huge benefits extended by Dürin's plan. When the Anthem Consortium intends to find its own channels to launder money, it means that the relationship between Poker and the Anthem Consortium is substantially broken.
This point is actually very simple, once the Song Foundation has found a way to launder money, and takes this channel into their own hands, it means that many partners who have a good relationship with them will consider handing over the money that may not see the light of day in their hands to the Song Foundation to operate. The Anthem Consortium is safer, at least everyone knows about it, and they also know where they work and who the main members are.
There is also a layer of meaning that through the money laundering of the Anthem Consortium, you will be able to catch this line, which is important for the future of some people.
When a customer ends their relationship and intends to set up such a channel to steal their own business, Poker is definitely not going to be happy, and this is still a capable opponent. So in response to Doolin's request to buy information, Mr. Jack himself made the decision to sell the information to Doolin and charge a nominal fee of one dollar.
An hour later, Durin was found out of his whereabouts over the phone, which is what Poker is most proud of. Not only do they have the most sophisticated and secure money laundering channels in the world, but they also have the most powerful intelligence network.
As for how they obtained information about Solo, Durin was more or less clear - the bank.
The last meeting had already shown that Poker, an underground money laundering dealer, had a good working relationship with the Imperial Central Bank, so it was naturally a trivial matter for them to ask someone about the scope of their cheque use. Members of the aristocracy with a background like Solo rarely carry large amounts of cash with them, which does not fit their image of brushing their faces. They tend to bring some change and then a checkbook with two limits.
A small cheque book of twenty dollars, and a large cheque book of one thousand or two thousand, as long as they used the cheque, the information was quickly collected at the head office and then transmitted to all the branches.
In the first half of the year, the Imperial Central Bank caught a criminal who used the loophole of information asymmetry to swipe the checks, this criminal was only sixteen years old, he used his forged checks and accounts, and took a large amount of money in the Imperial Central Bank without restrictions, and finally alarmed the Imperial Police Investigation Bureau, so he caught this guy - he finally wanted to print money himself, so he was caught, otherwise it would be very difficult to catch him.
Since then, the Imperial Bank has changed the mechanism of using cheques, and they have strictly limited the scope of application of cheques, to put it simply, cheques can be exchanged anywhere in the empire where there is an Imperial Central Bank, but now the cheques issued by each state bank can only be used in the state. After use, the entire state bank will update the information within a few minutes, and then the information will be collected to the headquarters as soon as possible to update it again, so as to avoid the phenomenon of illegal access to the greatest extent.
If you need to use a check across state lines, you need to go to the appropriate state a day in advance to apply for a temporary signature, and Mr. Jack was able to find out where Solo was because this guy had applied for a temporary signature two days earlier.
He was in Woolland, the southernmost state of the empire and the most economically developed state. Cabinet members revealed that Maggs appears interested in creating a new special district in Woolland to deepen cooperation with the Federation in last month's talks on economic cooperation, and the impact of the news was enough to tempt Solo and the Fatimid family because it involves import and export trade.
It is well known that there are still eight years before the first withdrawal of the right to tariffs, which means that during these eight years the tariffs are still in the hands of the Federation. The Federation's large-scale dumping of federal goods into the empire's territory through tax exemptions and subsidies to hit the empire's light industry market, and in turn imposed high tariffs on the empire's exports to the federation, which has made many traditional small handicraft workshops disappear from people's sight.
The most common thing is matches, and now there are no large-scale match factories in the empire except for the north, because the federal matches are cheaper, and the number of matches in a box is twelve more than the imperial standard, which makes many small factories unable to sustain and finally go out of business.
However, in last month's talks between the two countries, the issue of rationalization and normalization of bilateral trade was discussed, and Maggs spoke at the meeting, arguing that friendly and inclusive bilateral trade between the two sides can play a more positive role in promoting the economic construction of the empire and the federation, and that rationality, legality, and normalcy are the core ideas of this content. The Confederation, which is aware that the tariff power is still eight years away, is also interested in promoting this friendly trade atmosphere.
Obviously, once the empire has regained the right to tariffs, if the two sides do not reach any intention before then, the retaliatory high tariffs will trigger a new round of financial war, which will not have any positive effect on the status of the two Western powers, and will only make other countries laugh.
After such friendly consultations, the two sides agreed that it was necessary to establish a special zone and try to implement a normal and rational tariff system in the region.
In other words, it is very likely that some export goods that are subject to high tariffs will be subject to normal tariffs when they are exported from this special zone to the federation. This means an unimaginably large profit, as well as power-metrics.
The Confederation is not unconditional on acceding to this request, and in the appendix to the Memorandum of Understanding on Currencies between the two sides specifies that twenty-three goods can be subject to reduced tariffs, but there is a question of a limit. There is a ceiling on the number of exports per commodity per month and per year, after which it returns to the high tariff range. This was a decision to avoid too quickly and over-stimulating chaos in the federal domestic financial system, and it was also a psychological preparation for the capitalists who had been dumping at home and were not yet retaliated by the trade war.
If they can get the actual power of the district, the old grandfathers of the Capetian family think that the Fatimas are very likely to join the plan.
Then Solo, who is in charge of contacting the Fatimid family, must take care of this matter, otherwise he will be kicked out of the heir's battle for inheritance.
Secretly tricked Du Lin Solo himself forgot about this matter in his busyness, he is most concerned about which place or city the Special Administrative Region will be established now, he must make a precise judgment and then lay out in advance, before the cabinet officially releases the announcement, everything will be done!
Solo, who had just returned to the villa, was lying on the couch a little tired, thinking about the conversation he had just had with the governor with his eyes closed, and the governor of Woolland didn't say a word of honesty and kept going around in circles, which made Solo sure that this guy knew Mags's thoughts. After all, the demarcation of a special zone must first communicate with the local governor, and the cabinet is not really invincible.
But how to get the other party to say it, this is a difficult point.
Solo frowned and pondered for a moment, and asked, "Does he have any hobbies, does his family have any hobbies?" Find a way to find this person's shortcomings, we need his help!"
Ernes nodded, this is what he had to do. Once Solo makes it to the top and becomes the head of the Capetian family, then he will be the Grand Butler, and possibly the Grand Secretary of the Anthem Consortium. The practical benefits of either of these two titles are beyond imagination, and he has to do it well, both for Solo and for himself.
Solo pulled the checkbook out of his pocket and wanted to tear ten of them, but then simply threw them to Ernes. This is a check book with a limit of 2,000 yuan, a total of 50 pieces, and you can withdraw 100,000 yuan in cash.
"I have a bit of a headache, you can help me get it as soon as possible, spend where the money should be spent, and if the money is not enough, I will ask the family for it, don't save money for me, understand?", Solo glanced at Ernes, who believed that Ernes could understand what he meant.
He was ordered to do things this time, and all the expenses and expenses will be borne by the family, so there is no need to spend money at this time, but only to see how much the money can be done in the end. If it is successful, all the money can be reimbursed, and if it is not successful, the family will only reimburse 70%. In fact, there is water in this, after all, how much money was spent, the family doesn't know, and it is impossible to verify that a certain interested person asked him to tell the truth, whether Solo gave him 100,000 yuan.
Of course, everyone has a limit, and it is impossible to go too far.
Ernes picked up the checkbook from the table and put it in his lined pocket, turned and left the villa.
There is no doubt that the governor of Woolland is from the New Party, and at present the governors of almost all developed regions are from the New Party, while in the economically backward or relatively closed areas, the officials are members of the old party, such as the north or the southwest. It is not difficult to buy off the members of a new party, and the capitalists have long had a wealth of experience in this matter, but on the contrary, it is the rotten old party that is really difficult to buy, because they look down on the capitalists and think that spending money to buy themselves is a humiliation to themselves and a damage to the family's reputation, a very strange phenomenon.
Ernes first withdrew 10,000 yuan in cash from the Imperial Bank, of which 100 yuan were change. He followed the information he had gotten to the door of a private high school called Zhisheng Middle School, where he waited for the students to leave school in the evening. If you can't get through it from the governor, then you can try to start with his family first. Although it is very shameless and despicable, sometimes it is these shameless and despicable tricks that work the most!