Chapter 460: The Rothschilds!
As long as the Civil War breaks out, no matter who wins the war in the end, the huge government debt caused by the huge war spending will force the U.S. federal government to borrow money and eventually follow the path they have planned.
According to the accurate information obtained by Chen Mo, it is the Rothschilds, the richest man in Europe and the largest banker force, who is behind the scenes.
During the war, they provided loans and sold major goods to the nobles of the belligerent countries, and handled international remittances and currency exchanges between European countries, and after the war, they became involved in government securities, insurance, and corporate stocks, and invested in railways, coal, and steel, and firmly grasped the lifeblood of the country economically.
After spreading their influence across Europe, the Rothschilds set their sights on the United States.
In the autumn of 1859, the European banker Solomon Rothschild traveled to the southern United States, which at that time was full of agents of British financiers, and Solomon skillfully used these agents to create momentum, constantly highlighting and reinforcing the conflict of economic interests between the North and the South on the issue of slavery, and successfully catalyzing the issue of slavery into an irreconcilable contradiction between the North and the South.
In talks with local people, Solomon Rothschild publicly stated that he would strongly support the South economically and that he would help the independent South gain recognition from the European powers.
At this time, there was also a powerful supporter in the north, and he was the Jewish banker August Belmont, known as the king of New York's Fifth Avenue.
August came to New York in 1837 and soon became a leading figure in New York's financial circles because of the purchase of a large number of government bonds.
In fact, the two bankers, August and Solomon, who supported the North and the South respectively, actually belonged to the Rothschilds.
Auguste Belmont was the agent of the Rothschild Bank in the United States, and was also the main supporter of Henry Clay and the Whigs, but he worked secretly in the United States for more than 20 years, but there was no great progress, and the Rothschilds sent the core members of the family to deal with the American problem.
Solomon Rothschild is the second son of Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild family, and one of the "Roche Five Tigers".
Mayer Rothschild sent his five sons, namely the "Roche Five Tigers", to London in England, Paris in France, Vienna in Austria, Frankfurt in Germany, Naples in Italy and other famous European cities to open banks and control European finance.
In fact, the outbreak of the Civil War was a matter of time and time, if they had not killed Zachary Taylor, who resolutely resisted slavery and had a very tough attitude, the Civil War might have broken out long ago, and after these years of brewing and continuous fermentation, the contradictions between the North and the South have become more and more acute.
With their full push, the American Civil War broke out as these bankers had hoped, and in the early stages of the war, the military offensive of the South was victorious, because the Lincoln government in the North had empty treasury, and the army was defeated, and if there was no money, the war would soon be over, and it would be the South that won.
At this time, it was the turn of the "kind" bankers, who proposed a financing plan to Lincoln and made conditions: the interest on the bond was 24%~36%!
At this time, Lincoln knew that the bankers were playing a game that would bankrupt the U.S. government completely.
The bankers succeeded in putting Lincoln in a dilemma: without money, they had to sit back and wait for the South to blow the horn of victory; And if the bankers' rules of the game are accepted, then even if the war is won, the government will be controlled by the bankers.
Lincoln visited Chen Mo again for this reason, hoping that Chen Mo could provide financial support to the Northern Federation, but Chen Mo rejected him again.
Now is not the time for a private central bank, and if he had not experienced several financial crises and realized the potential threat of laissez-faire liberal financial policies and the enormous damage to the economy, even if he succeeded in creating a central bank by taking advantage of the war, he would have been closed after the government weathered the crisis after the war, like the short-lived First Bank of the United States and the Second Bank of the United States.
However, Chen Mo did not let it go, but suggested that Lincoln let the government issue its own currency!
This was a bolt from the blue for European bankers, and the Times of London, which represented the bankers' position, immediately issued a statement:
"If this disgusting new coin policy (Lincoln Green) that originated in the United States is perpetuated, then the government can issue its own currency at no cost. It will be able to pay off all its debts and no longer owe debts, it will receive all the necessary currency to develop commerce, this country must be destroyed, otherwise it will destroy every monarchy in the world! ”
Lincoln could not give up on the bankers who had been providing huge financial support to the South, and smashed the family's conspiracy!
With all these years of infiltration in Congress, they had a clear grasp of Lincoln's whereabouts and chose John Booth as their "gunman"!
Under some careful planning and arrangement, a series of coincidences caused Abraham Lincoln to die in such an unknown way.
After Lincoln's death, under the manipulation of international financial forces, the U.S. Congress announced the abolition of Lincoln's new currency policy, stipulating that the issuance of Lincoln's new currency could not exceed $400 million.
For these things, Chen Mo did not intervene, these important historical events Chen Mo does not intend to change, because it is likely to change the direction of future history, Lincoln's "death" did not weaken his control over the Republican Party and Congress, including the abolition of the new currency policy was also carried out with Chen Mo's acquiescence.
European bankers think they are in control of everything, but they don't know that their every move is watched by Chen Mo, involving major historical events such as "Lincoln's assassination" Chen Mo does not want to intervene in the change, but several small financial families Chen Mo can still deal with it at will.
In World War I, under the control of an invisible force, the Rothschilds and other famous European financial families suffered a catastrophe in the war, most of the industries were seized and confiscated, and family members suffered heavy casualties.