Chapter 156: The First Five-Year Plan (6)
London, 25 November 2751 (191o).
Fall!Fall!Fall!!
As soon as the market opened today, the entire London stock market was in a panic, and all rubber stocks and futures fell across the board.
After the Chinese government announced the "Rubber Consumption Restriction Act" the day before yesterday, the market is still rising, and most investors are still holding a wait-and-see attitude. But it was only yesterday that a piece of information released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry was fatal.
“...... China's chemical industry has made a new breakthrough, has successfully realized the mass production of synthetic rubber, and has been patented in many countries such as Britain, the United States, France and Germany...... The world's first synthetic rubber plant has been built in Guangzhou and will be officially put into operation within this month......"
The next day, the U.S. Zenith, Morgan, Rockefeller, and DuPont also announced that they would cooperate with China to build synthetic rubber factories in the United States. At the same time, the U.S. government also announced that the U.S. has now imported too much rubber, far exceeding the demand, and will begin to restrict rubber trade from next month.
At this time, several "conscientious" media in Europe and the United States made another big news, claiming that many so-called rubber companies did not have their own plantations at all, and were fake leather bag companies. Moreover, there are some rubber companies that have just bought the land, and the rubber trees are still saplings, so they go public to make money. These media are not "heard", they all have detailed evidence in their hands, and they have made it public along with these news.
Then several "conscientious" well-known economists and financiers in the United States stood up, and they claimed: the current rubber market is completely overestimated, and now the world's largest rubber consumers are automobiles, and the largest automobile producers The United States and China, last year's combined output was only 3o thousands, and now there are so many rubbers circulating in the market that even 3oo cars can not be used. And natural rubber cannot be stored for a long time, that is, there is no real demand-led industrial buying, and it is the "international speculators" who suddenly push up the price of rubber.
On November 24, China's Southwest University of Technology announced that they had successfully trial-produced an additive that can extend the shelf life of rubber, which can increase the shelf life of raw rubber from the current 3 months to 12 months, but this additive must be added at the time of refining. If it is added in the process of making a product, such as a vehicle tire, the shelf life can be increased to 6 years. At the same time, they also announced that the first rubber additive plant is already under construction and will be ready for production by the end of the year.
This means that the rubber of the future will no longer last as long as it used to be, and the rubber of the past will soon expire and become scrap. This time the bottom of the kettle was withdrawn, but it was completely unexpected by speculators.
Hit several times in a row, the rubber market finally couldn't hold back, as soon as it opened today, there was a large amount of rubber thrown, but no one dared to pick it up. As a result, there was a panic sell-off, and the agents in white vests kept running in and out, and all the customers were the same order, throw it to me!
In that era, there was no limit and limit system, and it could rise and fall as much as it could. On the same day, the price of rubber futures fell from a peak of 24 shillings and 6 pence to 16 shillings and 2 pence at the end of the evening.
The rubber market collapsed.
Early the next day (November 26), some bookmakers who intended to save the market hurriedly began to buy, but compared to the panic selling, this little money is a drop in the bucket. Their efforts only managed to raise the price to 17 shillings, and then it lasted less than an hour before being overwhelmed by countless selling orders. At the end of the day, the futures price of rubber fell directly to the level of a year ago, less than 8 shillings.
It was even worse on the 27th, falling back to the level of 19o8 at 2 shillings per pound. On the 28th, it completely fell below par and reached 11p.
It wasn't until the last day of November that the decline stopped, and rubber prices had fallen to $6 a pound. 5pence, one night back to the last century. The rubber itself has fallen so badly, and the related stocks have naturally fallen in response, and the shares of all rubber companies have fallen below par.
At this moment, most of the investors, including many banks, have rushed to the end of the street......
From that day on, the whole of London and all of Europe, as well as Shanghai, were shrouded in gloom. Overnight, there were a lot of floating corpses on the Thames, and people were constantly performing freefall. For a time, the coffins in London were out of stock, and the church business was booming.
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December 2, Wall Street, New York.
Just when Europe and Asia were mourning, the predators on Wall Street in the United States were celebrating each other.
"Mr. Lando, the harvesting operation you coordinated this time is really wonderful, the assets of the Rothschild family have shrunk by at least a fifth in this operation, hahahaha......" Old Rockefeller said to Lando with a smile on his face, holding his wine glass.
Morgan also raised his glass and laughed: "God bless America! The Europeans don't have the strength to put their hands on the United States at this moment...... Come, cheers to our United States!"
The predators applauded and drank the cup to their heart's content.
After that, everyone went their separate ways. Banazal and Weiss Landau laughed under their breath.
Banazal chuckled, "Hehe, this is going to pit Europe into it." I heard that thousands of adventurers in Shanghai committed suicide and eight money banks went bankrupt......"
"But there are still some quick to shrink back, and they have already donated and ran. Lando said with some regret, he didn't think it was perfect.
Banazar said disapprerovingly: "Hehe, don't worry! You don't know Mr. Wen's methods, and besides, there is that guy Liu Yang, how can they take advantage of it." If I'm right, those guys have already emigrated to "Haiti" by now......"
"Mr. Sith and Mr. Lando, your plan is brilliant!" Mellon smiled and greeted the two.
Banazal said modestly: "Hehe, this is all under the command of Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Landu is in contact and coordination, and I just proposed a ......."
"This time our cooperation with the China Xingke Consortium and the British Godzilla Consortium is very successful, this is all your good construction, otherwise our harvest this time will not be so big, hahaha......" Mellon complimented a few words, and said: "I know that Xingke has a great demand for aluminum recently, and our Alcoa is very interested in cooperating with them." But I don't have any previous acquaintances with them, so if Mr. Sith is available, please introduce us to them......"
The predators all know that Banazar and Wen Desi are sworn friends, and Wen Desi and his Xingke now control the whole of China, and if they want to go to China to develop business, they must not bypass Lao Ba, otherwise, you know. That's why Mellon came to him and said it was a "recommendation", but in fact, it was just to say hello and ask for consent. Now that China imports a large number of aluminum ingots every year, Mellon's Alcoa has a monopoly on the aluminum industry in the United States, but it used to have to change hands through the Zenith, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment. Now Mellon is preparing to establish direct contact with Xingke, so he has to ask for the other party's consent.
Banazal thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Mr. Mellon, there is no problem with the introduction...... In fact, the Xingke consortium is also very thirsty for steel production capacity, doesn't your Pittsburgh group have a lot of spare capacity, if you use these things as the beginning of cooperation, I think they will be very happy to cooperate......"
Mellon immediately understood the other party's hint, and immediately agreed: "There is no problem with the steel production capacity, those equipment are old, and I will calculate the price of scrap iron plus the labor cost and freight of the demolition to Xingke ......."
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December 1o, Shanghai.
"Chairman Liu, the 14 key targets we monitor, including HSBC, Dehua, McQuarie, Sino-Russian Daosheng, Yokohama Zhengjin, Crédit Agricole, Holland, and Warby, have all been run, and if their headquarters cannot mobilize funds in time to rescue, they will have to declare bankruptcy......"
"Chairman Liu, Chen Yiqing, the owner of Zhengyuan Qianzhuang (the comprador of Maohe Foreign Bank, Xinqichang Foreign Bank and Lihua Bank, who has his own Qingyu foreign goods number, Zhengyuan Qianzhuang, and has a stake in Zhaokang Qianzhuang), Dai Jiabao, the owner of Zhaokang Qianzhuang (the comprador of Deshang Yuxing Foreign Bank), and 6 Dasheng, the owner of Qianyu Qianzhuang, has committed suicide......"
"Report Chairman Liu...... On December 4, Zhengyuan and Qianyu Qianzhuang went bankrupt; on the 6th, Zhaokang and Senyuan Qianzhuang went bankrupt; on the 7th, Yuanfeng Qianzhuang went bankrupt, and on the 8th, Huitai, Xiefeng, and Jinda Qianzhuang went bankrupt...... At this point, all the key targets have collapsed......"
Liu Yang listened to the report of his subordinates very calmly, nodded and said, "Well, the effect is not bad, and the predetermined goal has basically been achieved...... What about the guys who are quick to stop?"
One of the ministers said with a serious face: "Mai Bian, Becker and his son, who have been condemned by their conscience, have committed suicide by jumping into the sea on the ship, and before they die, they have pledged to donate all their property to the people of Chinese to atone for their previous wrongdoings......
"Oh, that's rare, too...... Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and good is great. Allow me to give me a sad expression......" Liu Yang said with a straight face.
Then he said: "Hmph, if it weren't for the fact that our strength was still a little worse this time, the results would have been better." Cheaper Yankees this time......"
That's right, the main purpose of this rubber scandal is that the big conglomerates of China and the United States will take advantage of the bubble boom created by international speculators to unite to trap Europe. In fact, the cause of the rubber turmoil in the original time and space is similar, except that there is no participation of China, and the United States itself is responsible for it. Their target is old Europe, and China's Shanghai stock market has only been attacked by splashing, and it is only because I have too two disposal methods in the Qing Dynasty that it has caused very strict consequences.
However, the nature of events is completely different from that of the original plane. Now China and the United States have joined forces to pit Europe, and China has not only made a lot of money from it, but also disposed of the disobedient old elites, and caused foreign banks to lose their old capital from China's turf, and their credibility has plummeted. We can also take the opportunity to improve the domestic financial system and tie up the fence. It's a number of birds with one stone.
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