Chapter 460: On International Finance
The business outlook that has been ingrained for more than a decade cannot be easily shaken.
At dusk, on Shengshan Island in the Shengsi (pronounced "Sheng Si") archipelago, Qian Cai was in front of a pile of decent bonfires, while driving away the flower mosquitoes that were a little impatient to break through all kinds of skin when he first woke up.
Everyone drank the fashionable Libo beer in Shanghai, and chatted over the campfire over the remote shared kebabs ordered from the island.
Facts have proved that as long as there are more than four men to initiate a chat, it is bound to talk about politics, which is not the patent of the old Beijing people, but about the ultimate dream of every man to "be ordered by the sky, that is, longevity and eternal prosperity".
The mountains were created from the ownership of the Shengsi Islands before the fifties and sixties.
Guo Guangzhuan, a native of Zhejiang Province, described the history of the exchange of ownership rights between Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province for Taihu Lake and Shengsi, thus talking about sea power and the economy of going to sea.
Most of the knowledge points mentioned are argued in the history of modern trade, and the main content is the decline of trade since the feudal dynasty and the current domestic and foreign trade gap.
Of course, in addition to talking about history, Qian Cai also consciously or unconsciously extends a little practical, that is, the hegemony of dollar settlement in trade and the fact that Midland C controls the lifeblood of loans, thus affecting the trade and financial landscape.
Traders and investors have to lend dollars, and all the banks that lend dollars are just a unit that earns interest rate differentials, and most of the money is borrowed from Midland C, and the entry and exit are controlled by Midland C's central interest rate.
Once the interest rate is raised, these banking units will not be able to make money by lending, and they will cut off loans to the lending units, and the rich people with a large amount of dollars in their hands will also recover their investments and deposit them in the bank, and the dollars will continue to return to the United States C, which is equivalent to the withdrawal of the dollar, and the world's imports and exports will be suppressed, and a large number of countries that rely on foreign investment will have an economic downturn.
At that time, if interest rates are cut again, the first batch of American capital that has re-obtained loans and re-withdrawn money from banks will take the money out and reinvest it, and buy the high-quality assets of the property market, stock market, and banks in these countries at low prices.
There have been examples of this in recent years.
After the Asian financial crisis in '97, South Korea, one of the four Asian tigers, was copied by a trick, and a large number of South Korean companies that borrowed dollars to expand were trapped in loans.
In order to borrow dollars to protect those enterprises with extremely high dollar foreign debts, South Korea was forced to accept the conditions to allow a large amount of American capital to enter South Korea, and to adjust the shares of Korean enterprises held by foreign capital to 100%, which is equivalent to giving up control over local enterprises.
In the financial defense war of the Hong Kong government that year, if the Hong Kong government did not get the full support of the country's foreign exchange, the 240-day decisive battle hit the short-selling capital led by Soros, and finally stabilized the Hang Seng Index at more than 7,800 points.
When Qian Cai talked about this, he was somewhat emotionally inflammatory, and everyone felt it, but they didn't understand this emotion.
Hegemony, don't talk about us, we can't even do an alliance between countries, what's the matter, you want to intervene?
Nowadays, the best businessmen are the ones who can understand and practice this economic system, and it is not easy to fully understand it, and those who can take advantage of the trend are even the mid-term leaders, such as Li Changjiang and others.
Revolt? How can it be!
Lao Ge's three cards shook his head with a wry smile, Guo Guangzhi patted Qian Cai's shoulder and spoke, to the effect that this is not something that we and other Diao people can participate in, Lao Ge is more optimistic, saying that it is a big deal to have the opportunity to play in the futures market in the future, and just earn the money of these eagle-headed people.
Lao Ge's later generations did it, and he went long through metal cobalt, and made more than a billion of Barclays Bank in the United Kingdom and JPMorgan Chase in the United States to return to China.
But this little money is just a drizzle, and the centrality of the dollar, if it is not supported by a set of decentralized monetary theories, it is difficult to earn back this little money.
The ultimate blueprint in Qian Cai's mind is virtual digital currency.
Laos and the United States control the transactions between many countries through the SWIFT settlement system, and can initiate US dollar sanctions through this system actually controlled by them, affecting the foreign exchange settlement of other countries and forming a centralized system.
The SWIFT international settlement system is managed by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which provides high-security financial information transmission services for banks and other financial institutions and enterprises around the world.
In addition to the exchange of messages with peers through the SWIFT international settlement system for cross-border financial transactions, financial institutions in different countries also sell software and services to financial institutions.
The public generally comes into contact with the SWIFT international settlement system when sending money abroad, and different regions and banks have their own unique codes.
Equivalent to an intermediary center.
For example, if a user in a certain country transfers a sum of funds to a local bank account in the United States through a bank in China, on the surface, the user has a missing amount of local currency in the domestic bank account and an extra dollar in the bank account in the United States, but there must be a "channel" to transmit this signal in the process of cross-border remittance and remittance between the two national banks.
This "channel" is the global payment system, and the most common payment system in the world is the SWIFT international settlement system.
Once the money arrives in SWIFT, everyone has the trust to make physical transactions first, and then wait for SWIFT settlement, which sounds like an international transaction version of Alipay?
The actual controller of this set of international Alipay is Lao Mei, once a country is blocked through this system, it is equivalent to cutting off all transactions that the country relies on the channel for foreign exchange.
This can be regarded as a manifestation of the hegemony of the dollar in the information age, also known as a financial nuclear bomb.
To bypass this settlement barrier, we must have our own settlement system, which is connected to the transaction track between countries and replaces SWIFT.
Of course, Qian Cai is not capable of making such an international system, but he can take the lead in making a domestic settlement system and strive to promote it to the international market, so as to set an example for leaders with decision-making power.
This is also the core reason why Qian Cai is optimistic about Alipay and wants to invest in Alibaba, perhaps because of some metaphysical thoughts, or maybe he is a little unconfident in his own ability, he feels that only Ma Yun, the domestic pioneer in his previous life, embarks on this road in advance under his promotion, and he has the greatest possibility to get an Alipay similar to his previous life in advance.
There are a lot of things to do with money, and it's easier to inspire others about Alipay than to do it yourself.
As for Taobao Tmall, it was not uncommon in the era of his rebirth, in his opinion, it was just a tool to realize the landing of Alipay users and leave it to Ma Yun.
All the leeway he left for Ali is an investment in Ma Yun's personal development ideas and a contribution to the time cost he saved.
But the people here couldn't understand all this, and couldn't imagine how much China had come in the next two decades, so he tried it and decided not to waste any more time inspiring them.
The result of this barbecue chat is only that Hu Wei and Luo Yu worship his thoughts more, which is embodied in the bright light in the eyes of the two girls when they see him talking, almost the same as the lesbians listening to men silently sing Gorky's "Haiyan" decades ago.
From this point of view, younger people are more likely to accept things that seem a little more outrageous.
Later, everyone was full of wine and food, some useless knowledge floated in from the ear, and the other ear slipped out, and everyone was satisfied to get back on Mr. Ge's "Varyag No. 2" yacht and ride the night, play mahjong, leave the beautiful Zhoushan Island area, and return to Shanghai.
In the first half of the night after returning to Yanlord Riverside Park, Hu Wei drank a little wine, his face was red, his mouth was slightly fragrant, he was enthusiastic and active, and he also unlocked some new postures... Phew, knowledge, tirelessly tossed Mr. Qian to lie in the ocean of knowledge for half an hour, and Hu Wei also calmed down the throbbing of the heart under the thick protective fat, and the two gradually fell asleep smoothly.
Damn, I'm going to go to the gym to exercise well, this physical fitness can't keep up with the thirty-year-old who has been trained by the army in the previous life, and if this little girl takes the initiative to unlock it, where is the dignity of a man?
Mr. Qian kept thinking about it before going to bed.
Be sure to let her drown and suffocate in the ocean of knowledge! Please let it go!
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April 25th.
It is hard work to live a complete vacation, especially this kind of five-day vacation, which can be called a luxury of a small long vacation.
After just two days off from returning from Shengsi Island, NIO finally suffered from too fast expansion and too long a front, and felt the pressure both online and offline.
Online, NetEase Weibo has had little effect after several promotions and has almost stopped struggling, but Sina has stabilized a group of users, and after seeing hope, it turned its tentacles to Sohu.
Sohu Zhang Chaoyang seemed to understand the truth that when it is broken, it should be broken, and talked with Sina about sharing accounts and selling them in packages.
With only 4.7 million registered users, a high price of 200 million yuan was offered, and Zhang Chaoyang also spread the news to Qian Cai through Ma Yun, probably because he had seen the situation clearly, and the competition was not enough, so he wanted to take advantage of the war between Weilai and Sina Weibo to sell at a good price, and it was best to let Weilai enter the bidding.
Of course, Qian Cai didn't care.
The sale of a website consists of three parts: domain name transfer, server transfer, and content transfer.
The three parts of Sohu, none of which can make money eye-catching, but for Sina, it is to grab a point and count a point, and now it is difficult to find new growth points in actual users, and social networking sites have a crowd effect, Sina is also in urgent need of a good to stimulate the board of directors that is gradually losing its ambitions, and at the same time remind netizens: Sina has a lot of people, come quickly.
The content can't be done, so you can make a gimmick.
Today's Sina portal is also doing mobile phone value-added services, advertising business, and Baidu did not provide search support, but also because of the common enemy of Weilai, talked about new conditions and re-cooperation, one of the three major portals Yu Wei is still there, the charm still exists, and now it is to sacrifice his life to let Weibo fight.
In this way, today Sina issued an announcement: on May 1, Sohu Weibo will be officially merged into Sina Weibo.
The Weibo campaign, which was originally planned to take at least three years to complete, was not entered by Teng Xun, an opponent who really had the strength to disrupt the situation, and after more than a month, it looked like the finals were about to start.
Baidu is also not to be outdone, and wants to take advantage of this opportunity to suppress Wenyu.com, and at the same time launched image search and flash search.
And some people spread some information on the Internet, searching for words such as "chow", "Japan and South Korea", "alternative" and other words on the Baidu photo page, you can see some things that parents don't let you see.
As soon as this kind of information appeared, Baidu's users could simply describe it in an economics term, called "Nima Boom".
The majority of netizens have said: How can this kind of thing be seen directly through search? Is there still morality? Is it human? No, I'm going to condemn it!
Offline, the atmosphere was obviously more serious, and when Ma Jialiang called, he explained the situation in one sentence, with simple content and rich information.
"The chairman, Wal-Mart, and Wumart Mall, which is known as China's Wal-Mart, have all come to East China."
And Mr. Qian was more concise and to the point, leaving only one word of policy.
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(Chapter 2 is a bit late, before 12 o'clock)
(End of chapter)