Chapter 225 Eleventh Task Ah Q wants to be surnamed Zhao 17
Well, Lu Renbing is the largest black village in the world, and he is full of food and drink, and he is not completely without a trace of sympathy. Watching those ticket number friends cry.
Well, at this time, Lu Renbing can't get off the field, otherwise he will expose himself. He still has to wait for the divine operation of those high-ranking officials in my Qing Dynasty.
In September 1910, the Qing government, in accordance with the usual practice, asked Shanghai to withdraw 1.9 million taels of "Shanghai customs treasury" from Yuanfengrun, Yishanyuan and other Zhuang to pay the "Gengzi indemnity" due that year.
The "Shanghai Customs Treasury" is the tax collected by the Shanghai Customs, which is in the nature of the state treasury, and has always been handled by the Shanghai Daotai and stored in the reputable source of abundance and righteousness, in case of the needs of the central government from time to time.
In September, the branch (Ministry of Finance) wanted to raise the "Shanghai Customs Treasury Money", only 2 months after the collapse of Zhengyuan and other money banks, Shanghai Daotai Cai Naihuang played the imperial court, requesting that this huge amount of money not be withdrawn from Yuan Fengrun and other money houses for the time being, and that the Daqing Bank allocate 2 million taels of silver to pay the "Gengzi indemnity" instead.
At that time, the market was not stable, and although Yuanfengrun and Yishanyuan were strong, they could not stand alone in the fierce financial turmoil, and in a sense, the pressure on large financial institutions was also greater. However, all the Qing government was concerned about was whether it could pay the "Gengzi indemnity" on time, believing that it was a matter of national credibility and that the financial turmoil was only a matter of Shanghai.
Because of this, the Military Aircraft Department was very dissatisfied with Cai Naihuang's reluctance to withdraw Yuanfengrun's deposits. According to the nature of the folds, Cai Naihuang's folds are handled by the branch. Chen Bangrui, the deputy minister of the Du branch, had a suspicion of Cai Naihuang, and instructed the governor of Jiangsu (Shanghai was under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu at that time) to participate in Cai Naihuang, saying that he falsely claimed that the market was panicking, intimidated the government, and disregarded the face of the imperial court and delayed the payment of "Geng money". The crime was so serious that Cai Naihuang was immediately dismissed.
Cai Naihuang once pleaded after his dismissal, but was reprimanded by the Military Aircraft Department, and in shame, he withdrew more than 2 million taels from Yuan Fengrun and other money banks in one fell swoop to return it to the government, and Yuan Fengrun immediately went bankrupt.
The collapse of Yuanfengrun brought down 9 banks and banks, causing 30 banks to close down, and financial panic broke out.
Following the abundance of the source, the source of righteousness and goodness could not exist alone and went out of business. Yuanfengrun, Yishanyuan branch all over the country, to and from the village number is innumerable, their collapse, resulting in the north to Yingkou, Beijing, south to Guangzhou, west to Chongqing, the country's major commercial and industrial cities into a panic, the ensuing national economic depression is inevitable.
Well, not only did Qianzhuang go bankrupt, but the most important thing was that the general office of the Sichuan-Han Railway, even the road repair money raised by the officials and people of Sichuan Province was also sent to Shanghai for stock speculation, resulting in a huge loss of 3.5 million taels. Then the gang threw the blame at the governor Xiliang, saying that he was greedy. Poor governor, who wanted to do something practical, was pitted by profiteers from top to bottom of Sichuan Province.
This incident eventually evolved into the Baolu Movement, which directly shook the foundation of my Qing Dynasty, and Xiliang, who was behind the blame, cried to death in the toilet.
Therefore, do not overestimate the moral bottom line of those shopkeepers who dare to speculate in stocks. Although they are natives of China, they also have the black heart of the capitalists in this world.
It is not worthy of sympathy, historically, it is precisely because of their crazy operation that the shortage of domestic silver has seriously dragged down the development of industry. Pull them out and cut them for a day or two, and they won't be able to resolve their hatred.
Lu Renbing's Huaxia Bank, although it has a huge influence in China, has a very shallow foundation after all. It has little to do with the government, and does not participate in official business such as Gengzi indemnity, Jiawu indemnity, tax transfer, etc. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty can't control him. I just want him to come out and clean up the situation, and there is no excuse. Lu Renbing has already published in the Financial Times that Huaxia Bank has lost more than 10 million taels this time, and its self-insurance is still insufficient, and it is unable to save the market.
The newly established UnionPay, because of seniority, Lu Renbing is just a powerless vice chairman among them, and he has no real power, so he doesn't need to care.
Lu Renbing began to shift his focus to dealing with overseas assets, and Lu Renbing's operation has gained a huge wealth of about 120 million pounds around the world. It is an absolute curse to keep this money in your hands, and it is not safe to exchange it for gold, and it must be spent. Swapping for real assets is the best policy.
Well, South Africa is a good place to start. Just a few years after the end of the Boer War, South Africa has just become a Dominion this year, and all kinds of investment and immigration are absolutely welcome. Here the land is fertile, rich in minerals, far from Europe, and the next two world wars have nothing to do with him. Definitely the best place to stand in the coming decades.
South Africa has a special significance in the West, the establishment of banks here, enterprises can access Europe and the United States without barriers, and can also introduce Western production technology without scruples, which is not too cool.
In the following years, Lu Renbing's investment focus was in South Africa. Here he merged with a local bank he had acquired, plus banks he had previously acquired in Nanyang, India and other places, to form the South African Investment Bank.
He invested heavily in South Africa, bought a huge amount of land in South Africa, hired Chinese to run farms, set up automobile factories, tractor manufacturing products, gun companies, shipyards, and then set up shipping companies. A branch was established in Shanghai, and the branch gradually linked foreign and domestic institutions.
Prepare for troubled times to come.
Well, things in South Africa are very cumbersome, and Lu Renbing has to go to the market himself.
So Lu Renbing started a rescue journey after the domestic money bank almost collapsed. He acquired all the assets left by the bank's ticket number, accepted them by personnel, and began to integrate them into the Huaxia banking system, all of whom are rare financial talents in China. It would be a shame to let them disperse.
With the acceptance of these personnel, Lu Renbing established insurance companies, trust companies, pawn shops, and auction houses with a network covering the whole country, and completely became a financial oligarchy in China. The shareholder composition of these companies is copied from Huaxia Bank.
It can be said that it is deeply rooted in the land of China, ensuring that no matter how the court changes, no one dares to touch these companies. In order to make sure that no one dares to come up and pick up the tiger's whiskers.
Lu Renbing equipped these industries with tens of thousands of well-trained guards, all of whom were in reserve of officers trained by German military instructors. Once attacked, Lu Renbing can guarantee that he can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops in an instant to attack any force that dares to challenge.
Lu Renbing also enclosed a large area of land in Pudong, built a heavy factory, manufactured firearms, and even built a modern steel mill in 1916.
These industries look huge, but because of the national conditions, Lu Renbing can only take them all into shares and socialize, he is a tycoon in these enterprises, but he will never be able to say anything.
Therefore, it is not impossible for him to use these powers to change the direction of history, but it is certainly not so easy. The development of the times has its inevitability.
Lu Renbing doesn't have this ambition either, he just wants to make a living.