New York, Hashingen Bank, North American Branch.

"Mr. Jonathan! This is an important letter from headquarters, please take a look. ”

"Well, bring it to me!"

Jonathan took the letter and looked at the envelope.

"You go out first, and then no one is allowed to come in without my order."

"Yes, President."

It wasn't until his subordinates had left that Jonathan began to carefully unpack the envelope and read it.

Soon, Jonathan's expression was a little surprised, and even a little incredulous, this is the decision of the headquarters? They're crazy! How much money do you have to lose?

As for the assessment of the risk of the headquarters, Jonathan is not very convinced, according to the current situation in the United States, Jonathan feels that its economy has just started, although the United States social security is a little chaotic, but black and red are also red, chaos can also promote economic vitality, at least it shows that the local policy is very loose, just like those Italians in the United States to engage in black industry, can create value for American society.

For example, in the past life, the addicts in the United States generated a market that fed at least millions of Mexicans and made a huge contribution to balancing the trade between the United States and Mexico. Although drugs are very harmful, it does not prevent it from being an industry at all, and the gray industry is also an industry, which is equally valuable, which is inevitable under the values of the capitalist market.

Although most of the wealth is taken away by a small number of people, as long as they can stay in the United States, it is American, and they are not stupid, in the United States, money can solve 99% of the problems, and at the same time symbolize social status, which is more comfortable than staying in the old continent full of aristocrats.

However, although Jonathan didn't understand, he was still ready to do it, who made himself just a part-time worker!

After destroying the letters, Jonathan began to hold a meeting.

Jonathan: "From now on, we are ready to do a big job in the United States and make our own contribution to the prosperity of American society!" ”

The situation in the United States is very good, everything is profitable, but the review mechanism of Hexingen Bank is very unfriendly to some traditional industries.

Now, Jonathan has been instructed by his headquarters to loosen this restriction, which means that a large amount of new capital is about to be injected into the US market.

"As long as we are sure that we can make a lot of money, it doesn't matter if the risk is higher, we will all carry out our business with this goal before the end of this year!"

The North American branch of Hexingen Bank, the largest investment in the United States is in the technology sector, mainly in the power industry, and now it is going to enter all industries.

Like all banks in the United States, it doesn't matter what he is, as long as he makes money, this project, I voted!

However, this investment will only last for half a year, and the goal of the North American branch will be to sell these temporarily hyped projects at a high price, and when is the high price, this question is difficult to figure out, but as soon as the time given by the headquarters comes, the sale will be right.

Jonathan didn't reveal this matter to his subordinates, and Jonathan didn't understand the most, what if the price of these assets was still rising after the sale? Wouldn't that be a big loss!

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Not only the United States, but also in the Far East, the Heixingen consortium is also increasing investment, but the anchored industry is mainly aimed at the domestic market in the Far East, rather than the export industry, and the people in the Far East also have huge demand.

It is undeniable that the investment of the Heixingen consortium will cause the bankruptcy of many traditional handicraft industries, and the leader of the Jin merchants, Qiao Zhiyong, intends to learn from the Western banking model to transform the ticket numbers of the Jin merchants, which will accelerate this situation.

When they learn the Western banking model, they will inevitably come into contact with new things in the world, and this is exactly what they lack for the Jin merchants, who from their heyday to their sudden decline, are essentially a lack of international vision.

In the glorious period of the development of the Jin merchants in history, Western capitalism was also flourishing, and the Jin merchants were not interested in their large-scale machine production when dealing with Russia, and when they traded with European ships, except for the goods they needed, everything seemed to be difficult to enter the eyes of the Jin merchants, they were in a hurry, resting on their laurels, not realizing that they were out of touch with the world environment, they were too lazy to learn new technologies, and they were reluctant to invest their hard-earned money in new machinery and equipment. Only take care of the immediate interests to buy a house and buy a land.

However, the emergence of Heixingen Bank, a competitor, directly snatched the territory of the Jin Merchants in the eastern part of North China in a very short period of time, allowing Qiao Zhiyong to see the huge crisis faced by the Jin Merchants.

Even normal business practices cannot compete with Westerners, and if the Jin merchants continue to rest on their laurels, then sooner or later the northern market will be swallowed up by the Black Xingen Bank.

As for the Qing government, which had a close relationship with the Jin merchants, it could not save the Jin merchants, and in the face of the Westerners, the Qing government also tried to close the country and protect its own market, but it was obvious that it failed under the strong guns of the Westerners.

The rapid expansion of the Heixingen consortium in the north is proof, after all, there are two world powers behind the Heixingen consortium, and there is also a "big country" that is not well known to the world.

Coupled with the promotion of the Hexingen consortium, German businessmen in the Far Northeast really formed the potential to compete with Britain, France and the United States.

At present, other countries in the Far East are still only staying in the coastal and convenient transportation areas, but the Heixingen consortium has forced itself to overcome the inconvenience of inland transportation and enter its hinterland.

The reason why the Heixinggen consortium can do this is also very simple, one is that the transportation in the Yimeng Mountains in southern Shandong is inconvenient, and the economy here has not been good since ancient times, and although northern Jiangsu is a flat river, it also suffers from the flooding of the Yellow River, and it was not until the Xianfeng period that the Yellow River was diverted, which ended the flooding in northern Jiangsu for thousands of years.

However, when the Xianfeng Yellow River diversion occurred, it was just during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the Twist Army Uprising, and the military affairs were tense and there was no time to control the Yellow River.

That is, it was rotten, causing the floods of the Yellow River in Shandong to become more frequent and severe, and the towns on both sides of the Jishui River in Shandong were in decline, represented by the county seat of Qidong.

The source of the rich source of immigrants in East Africa has also been found, that is to say, the sphere of influence of the Heixingen consortium in North China was originally the economic depression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Even in the 21st century, northern Jiangsu is also a fault zone in the eastern coastal region, and the development is far less than that of the north and south, and there is only one large port, Lianyungang, and the development is not ideal (compared to southern Jiangsu and eastern Ludong).

Nowadays, the city with the best economy within the economic sphere of influence of the Heixinggen Consortium is Kaifeng, which is also the only provincial capital, but the east of Kaifeng to the coast is basically an area full of devastation and natural and man-made disasters.

(End of chapter)