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Little Rockefeller shrugged and raised his eyebrows: "There shouldn't be any problem, right? This shipbuilding company currently has four battleships, ten armored ships, eight cruisers, and a bunch of destroyers, shallow-water heavy artillery ships, and submarines. Right? Well, almost a whole navy!"

"It should be half of the business of the above-mentioned warships, and the other half belongs to the Germania Shipyard and Blom Voss Shipyard. However, apart from these military ships, there are also many orders for civilian ships." Luo Yaoguo explained in detail This newly released "China Shipbuilding Co., Ltd." introduced the general situation, then hesitated, and said with a smile: "This time we plan to release 50.00% of the shares, and we hope that before June 50 Complete the stock offering. The remaining 15% of the shares will be mortgaged to a fair trust company at a discount of [-]% based on the stock offering price, and a [-]-year loan will be borrowed with a fixed interest rate, interest paid every year, and the principal will be repaid once due. What do you think?"

Little Rockefeller appraised the value of this shipbuilding company as quickly as possible in his heart. Considering the large number of military ship orders it already holds in its hands, the potential of China to expand its navy, and the unrestricted warship trade and other factors, The total price of this shipbuilding joint-stock company in the current Wall Street stock market should not be less than 500 million to 5000 million US dollars.That is to say, the other party will raise 7000 million to 500 million US dollars, and then borrow 300 million to [-] million US dollars, which is really a big deal.Fair Trust earns at least $[-] million in commissions and $[-] million in interest every year!

"Very good! Fair Trust can do this business." Little Rockefeller paused, and then said, "I can guarantee that you will get at least 2000 million US dollars in cash by June next year."

Hearing Little Rockefeller's promise, Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi were almost dumbfounded.That's $2000 million!Almost 2000 million French currency!It was settled by Luo Yaoguo in a few minutes?The two looked at each other with admiration in their eyes...or will they mess with him in the future?

"China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. is currently the largest iron and steel complex in China. It owns Shaoguan Special Iron and Steel Works, Daye Iron and Steel Works, and a 50.00% stake in Hainan Krupp Iron and Steel Works. It is estimated that the total steel output in 100 will With a steel output of 500 million tons, the net profit will reach more than 150 million US dollars, and with the second phase of Hainan Krupp, the second phase of Shaoguan Special Steel, and the Daye Iron and Steel Plant fully reaching production capacity, in 2000 China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The total output of the joint stock company will exceed 40 million tons, and the net profit is expected to be more than [-] million US dollars...This time, [-]% of the shares will be listed in the United States, and the official shares held by the National Government also hope to be mortgaged to Fair Trust Company ..."

At this moment, Luo Yaoguo was like a professional investment banker, and he started to sell the second project, China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., without end.Little Rockefeller's interest in this steel company is obviously not as high as that of the shipyard. After all, the steel company does not have such a selling point as the "Karl Marx" class battleship.It was not easy to attract the attention of investors, but he still promised to raise at least $[-] million in cash by June [-].That's largely because U.S. stocks are expensive right now...

"...Mr. Rockefeller, among the projects listed in the United States this time, the most profitable one is actually the China Arms Industry Co., Ltd. This company is currently the largest arms manufacturer in Asia, and its main products are The rifles, cannons, ammunition, etc. that the army needs to equip. The ammunition produced by this company currently has a market share of more than 90.00% in the Chinese market. And now China has begun to implement the total warfare system. For this reason, in the next ten years Reserve a large amount of weapons and ammunition for emergencies, so there is no need to worry about the company's orders... However, the shares released by this arms company this time are relatively small, accounting for about 30% of the company's total share capital after the listing. In addition, among the remaining 70%, about 50% of the shares held by the national government, we also hope to pledge to Fair Trust Company or other American banks to obtain a relatively long-term loan.”

Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi, the two Gods of Wealth, heard Luo Yaoguo eloquently introducing the fundamentals of the arms company, and they all had strange expressions on their faces.Although the two of them are now "traitors and traitors", it is still unacceptable to sell them for this reason.No matter how you look at this arms company, it is directly related to the future and destiny of the country. How can it be listed in a foreign country?This is very rare even internationally, right?If this news spreads back to China...the newspapers don't refer to Luo Yaoguo's Armament Department as the "Department of Traitors"?And it seems that I can't spend so many loans. Isn't this paying interest for nothing?I don't know what kind of plan Luo Yaoguo is playing?

Rockefeller Jr. looked calm, but his thoughts were also turning in his heart.Of course he knows that China is currently realizing industrialization at an unbelievable speed, and it seems that within ten years it will complete the road that Western countries have taken decades, or even hundreds of years.And he could vaguely sense China's real intention to complete industrialization... It's not difficult to guess, just look at what the industrialized countries that developed first have done.

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Negotiations with John D. Rockefeller Jr. lasted throughout the day, and even lunch was in that museum-like office, where they casually ate some bread with coffee.By the way, these American capitalists don't seem to have the habit of treating guests to dinner.When Luo Yaoguo, Song Ziwen, and Kong Xiangxi were dragging their weary steps on the empty Wall Street, their briefcases were already full of agreements initialed with Rockefeller Jr.

According to the preliminary agreement reached by the two parties, FAIR Trust Company controlled by the Rockefeller family will jointly underwrite the stocks of four large enterprises including China Iron and Steel, China Military Industry, China Nonferrous Metals, and China Shipbuilding in conjunction with several other large American banks. The IPO will be completed before June 5000, and a total of about [-] million to [-] million US dollars can be raised.Of course, the above four companies will also have executives sent by the Rockefeller family serve as directors in the future.

In addition, there is a syndicated loan. The national government will use the shares of the above four companies, the coal mines in Henan Province, and part of the equity in the "Xinhai Railway" as collateral to lend a total of 15 million to 5.5 million to the American syndicate led by Fair Trust Company. (It depends on the listing price of the stock) US dollars, the term is 15 years, the interest rate is a fixed annual interest rate of [-]%, the interest is paid every year, and the principal is repaid once due.In other words, the deal reached with Rockefeller Jr. can raise up to [-] million U.S. dollars for several Chinese heavy industry companies and the national government!The bubble economy is really amazing.Of course, the premise must have a good story, such as the world's third largest country in terms of territory (the United Kingdom is the first, the Soviet Union is the second), and the most populous country has ended its [-]-year civil war and has begun to rise rapidly!If it were replaced by the historically disintegrated China with constant civil wars, those American investors would not pay a dime.

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Back at the Chinese Consulate General in New York, as soon as I walked into the living room, I saw the little girl Qu Ying sitting on the sofa alone, playing with a red Chinese invitation card.Seeing Luo Yaoguo coming in, the little girl jumped over, held the invitation in both hands and handed it in front of him, smiling sweetly: "Brother Fuwen, this is an invitation from Prime Minister Situ of Hongmen Anliang Headquarters in New York. The Prime Minister invites you to eat at An Liang Tang Tang in New York's Chinatown tomorrow."

"Prime Minister Situ? This name is so strange..." Luo Yaoguo muttered, reached out to take the invitation card and flipped through it, and it was indeed sent by a society called "An Liang General Hall"... It looks like a gangster!The name of that Situ boss is not the Prime Minister, but "Situ Xianyi".It sounds literary, like he came from a family of intellectuals, but why did he go astray?

"The Anliang General Hall is a powerful group in the Zhigongtang. When our president led the anti-Qing revolution, he also relied on the power of the Hongmen Zhigongtang! This Situ Xianyi, also known as Situ Meitang, is now the most famous in the United States. One of the leaders of overseas Chinese is also one of the leaders of Chen Jingcun’s (Chen Jiongming) Zhi Gong Party, responsible for the overseas Chinese affairs of the Zhi Gong Party.” Kong Xiangxi seemed to be quite familiar with this Situ Meitang, and he said it logically, and then added a sentence : "We went to meet him two days ago. They are local snakes here. It's better not to provoke them. You can go to the pier tomorrow."

"Oh, that's how it is." Luo Yaoguo suddenly realized, of course he had heard of Situ Meitang, Zhi Gong Dang is also one of the most powerful factions in China, Wu Peifu and Duan Qirui were tricked into joining by Chen Jiongming.However, the relationship between their party and the Kuomintang is not so harmonious.I am getting closer to the Communist Party again. I wonder if Situ has any special purpose for meeting me this time?

"Brother Fuwen, is the negotiation with Rockefeller going well today? They didn't make any excessive demands, right?" At this time, Qu Ying took Luo Yaoguo's arm and began to ask questions in a sweet voice.

"Well, it went quite smoothly, and the Americans didn't make any excessive demands." Luo Yaoguo answered casually, looking at Qu Ying's pretty face.Although the little girl looked younger, she was already 23 years old.It is the most golden age for a woman, and those who should develop are well developed. Although the pretty breasts can't be compared with Natalie, they are still good. It's time to eat her, right?If you keep raising it, you will be old... Uh, eat it when you return to the country!

Chapter 0394 High Debt ([-])

In the center of New York's Chinatown stands a purely Chinese-style building with blue bricks and green tiles, flying eaves and Dougong, painted beams and carved buildings.Under the majestic gate tower, four golden lacquered characters of "Anliang General Hall" are engraved on the wooden plaque with a black background. The handwriting seems to be written by Chen Jiongming.

Standing at the gate of the Anliang main hall were two rows of men wearing Chinese bunts, each of them was full of energy, with stern faces, and they seemed to be very difficult to mess with.An old Chinese man about 60 years old, tall, wearing a well-fitting suit, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and smiling kindly, was standing in the middle of the open door with his hands behind his back.He is the leader of the Chinese community in North America, Situ Meitang, the Prime Minister of Anliang General Church.

Accompanying Luo Yaoguo to visit the pier was Kong Xiangxi, he and Song Ziwen had already been here once before, and they also knew Situ Meitang.As soon as he got out of the car, Kong Caishen gently pulled Luo Yaoguo beside him, and said in a low voice: "That old man wearing glasses is Situ Meitang, and the American Chinese call him uncle. Oh, he is the same as the President He's from the same generation, has a big temper, and can't speak... In short, don't offend him."

Hearing this, Luo Yaoguo's face flashed a hint of helplessness, this KMT is too concerned about the superiority of the young and old, right?You are already a political enemy, why are you being so polite?But even though he thought so in his heart, he could only smile like a spring breeze on his face, stepped forward two steps, bowed his hands and said: "Young junior, Luo Yaoguo, Meixian County, Guangdong, met uncle."

"Well, young man, not bad, not bad." Situ Meitang also bowed his hands with a busy smile to return the salute. Although he can't understand the dictatorship of the right wing of the Kuomintang, since he is the one who posted a post to invite people to come to the door, it is natural to talk about etiquette .After exchanging a few words of greeting, Situ Meitang made a gesture of invitation from the inside, and said with a smile: "Brothers Fu Wen and Yong Zhi, please come in, brother, today I have prepared a table of drinks for the two of you. "

In the spacious living room, a table of drinks has been set up, and the table is full of various exquisite Cantonese-style braised cold dishes.After another round of polite words, the host and guest sat down separately. Luo Yaoguo sat on the left side of Situ Meitang, Kong Xiangxi sat on the right side, and there were several overseas Chinese leaders who looked like fat businessmen as companions.Everyone chatted while eating, but they also had a good time talking.

Although Situ Meitang is in the United States, he has been paying attention to the changes in the domestic situation. Naturally, he also knows a lot about the situation of the young Marshal of the National Revolutionary Army in front of him.Knowing the great feats he made in the civil war and the Middle East Road War, and knowing the huge power of the Luo family's uncle and nephew in the Kuomintang.I also know that many policies adopted by the Kuomintang are related to this person's promotion.However, these policies are currently receiving a lot of controversy, with mixed reputations, and even more reputations than reputations!As for the purpose of Luo Yaoguo's coming to the United States this time, he has already grasped a general idea through his eyeliner in the consulate general, and it seems that it is the foreign debt that the Chinese people hate the most.

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At the same time Luo Yaoguo and Situ Meitang were chatting happily, it was already late at night in Beijing, China thousands of miles away.From a distance, this glorious ancient capital is already quiet under the cover of night, except for a few houses that occasionally flicker with faint lights, among which is the official residence of Vice President Zhang Zuolin - Shuncheng County Prince's Mansion.

Located in the Xicheng District of Beijing, Zuowangfu was originally the Shuncheng County Wangfu that belonged to Leke Dehun, the eight iron hat kings who founded the Qing Dynasty.Tonight, the lights here are brilliant, and in the main hall, there is a night banquet, and it is just the time for the guests and hosts to enjoy themselves.

"Marshal Zhang, judging from what has happened so far, it seems that the KMT's power has reached its limit and there is no longer any power to expand. Moreover, they are obviously in financial crisis right now, and can only rely on large-scale borrowing from foreign powers. Overcome the difficulties. Besides, I am afraid that paper money is being issued indiscriminately! According to the information of the leftist comrades of the Kuomintang, the current issuance of legal currency of the Kuomintang has soared from the initial 10 billion yuan to the current 200 billion yuan! In just three years The time has soared by twenty times, so I'm afraid it won't be too far away from the time when legal currency becomes waste paper, right? And on the territory of our three families, there are still circulation of these soon-to-be Currency that has become waste paper! Once the legal currency collapses... our economy will also be dragged down, I wonder if the commander-in-chief, the young commander, Mr. Pan, and Jinggong (Chen Jiongming) have any way to deal with it?"

It was Zhou Enlai, the leader of the Communist Party of China who spoke!The history of this space-time is really interesting.Now that the civil war is over, the original enemies sat down and chatted happily, discussing how to use economic competition to squeeze the Kuomintang reactionaries down.After several months of competition, the great gods of the CCP finally discovered that the right to issue currency is also an important item of economic competition.If their currency is controlled by the Kuomintang, they only need to print a few banknotes to plunder all the wealth created by the hard work of the people in the Soviet area... This is so reactionary!

"Xinhang, what do you think?" Zhang Zuolin took a sip of his wine, and looked at a fat middle-aged man beside him with a smile, wearing a Chinese-style robe and round glasses.This person's name is Pan Fu, a Juren in the late Qing Dynasty, known as "Jiangbei Talent".At present, he is the head of the Fengtian economy. In the 15th year of the Republic of China, he replaced Wang Yongjiang, who retired due to illness, as the general office of the Fengtian official bank, and now he is the prime minister of the Fengjun military government (the local government that rules the Fengjun territory).

Pan Fu laughed quickly and said, "Commander back, the Kuomintang is currently negotiating with the United States to delink the French currency from the silver dollar and link it to the US dollar. I am afraid that this will have a greater impact on our northern economy, so The military government has also been looking for countermeasures."

At this time, Zhang Xueliang who was on the side suddenly interjected: "The U.S. economy is prosperous and powerful, so pegging to the U.S. dollar shouldn't have any impact on the economy, right?"

Pan Fu sighed lightly: "Young Marshal doesn't know that our Chinese currency is now on the 'silver standard'. Whether it's the Kuomintang's legal currency, or our banknotes, or the banknotes of the Soviet government, they are all Linked to the silver dollar, the silver dollar is also a legal currency in circulation. But now, once the Kuomintang’s legal currency is decoupled from the silver dollar and pegged to the U.S. dollar, the price comparisons between various currencies will all be messed up! This U.S. dollar exchange rate But it’s not as stable as the silver dollar, which has been jumping up and down all the time, so wouldn’t the exchange rate of fiat currency to silver dollar also fluctuate greatly?”

Zhang Xueliang nodded with a smile, as if he understood, glanced at Zhou Enlai, and said with a smile: "Brother Enlai, since the value of legal currency is unstable, we naturally can't let it circulate in the north, but... what should we use?" Do you have any good proposals from your party to replace legal currency with currency?" This seems to be a bit of a "currency war".

Zhou Enlai shook his head with a smile on the other hand: "The current economic aggregate of our Soviet area cannot be compared with that of your Fengxi territory, even compared with Shandong led by the Zhigong Party. The idea of ​​currency reform should be decided by You come to the department to get it, and our party is only participating."

"Xin Hang, do you have any ideas for the official bank?" Zhang Zuolin smiled, and then asked Pan Fu beside him, "Right now, we have almost finished sorting out the receipts, right?"

"Back to Marshal, it has been completed." Pan Fu replied with a humble face: "The official bank has already recovered all the outstanding coupons at the price of 60 yuan for one silver dollar or French currency. Next, we have plans to issue new ocean coupons.”

Zhang Zuolin took a sip of his wine and his smile remained on his face: "Well, well, new banknotes should be issued to promote economic development. It's just...do the common people still trust our official bank account?"

"This..." Pan Fu smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's quite difficult, but fortunately, the fiat currency is starting to become unstable now, and it's depegged from the silver dollar to peg it to the U.S. dollar... This is the United States, our eastern province ( Ordinary people in Northeast China don’t know much about it, and it’s even more difficult to deal with the yen.”

Zhou Enlai saw that the fire was almost ready, coughed lightly, and slowly expressed the CCP's proposal: "It is understandable that the common people don't trust the Fengtian official bank account very much now. After all, this Fengtian has hurt them. In fact, it is not only the Fengtian Official Bank, as long as it is any banknote issued by a "central bank" that is controlled by our various factions, the common people are suspicious. What my party means is that the currency issuance in our north should be issued by the northern factions Join together to organize a 'money-issuing bank', and then accept the supervision of democrats and national capitalists. The board of directors of the banknote-issuing bank adopts a three-thirds system, that is, Fengshi controls one-third, and we and the Zhigong Party may also have the Youth Party Control one-third, and the democratic parties, non-partisan people, and national capitalists control one-third. In this case, the "note-issuing bank" will naturally not issue banknotes indiscriminately, and there is no possibility of excessively issuing banknotes. The common people will naturally Feel free to use the banknotes we issued, and their legal currency will withdraw from the northern market."

As soon as Zhou Enlai's suggestion came out, everyone at the banquet suddenly felt their eyes light up.In the final analysis, this banknote is a reputation. As long as the reputation can be established, waste paper can also be used as real money.To establish credibility, it is necessary to first ensure that the banknotes are not issued indiscriminately, or to convince the people who use the banknotes that the banknotes will not be issued indiscriminately... and the establishment of a "banknote issuing bank" jointly controlled by all parties seems to be the right way. It is the best way to ensure that banknotes are not issued indiscriminately!

Seeing the wonderful expressions on everyone's faces, Zhou Enlai knew that the matter was half done!In fact, this idea was not conceived by the CCP, but was proposed by Zhang Naiqi, general manager of Shaanxi North Energy Co., Ltd.The core idea of ​​the "joint banknote issuing bank" proposed by Zhang Naiqi is: independent operation fundamentally prevents excessive banknote issuance.The initial idea is to gather various factions in the north to form a "joint note-issuing bank" to issue a strong and non-depreciating banknote linked to silver to compete with the unstable legal currency.Try to expel legal currency from the northern market in a few years, and even compete with legal currency for the southern market...

"The U.S. dollar may not be very famous in Northeast China, but it is as strong as gold in Beijing and Tianjin! In fact, the U.S. dollar is on the gold standard, and the gold standard is much more reliable than the silver standard." At this moment, Chen Jiongming suddenly spoke. , listening to his words, it seems to be pouring cold water.Just when Zhou Enlai was about to explain, Chen Jiongming suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile: "However...the current circulation of fiat currency is so large, I don't believe they have enough US dollar reserves in their hands!"

"Jing Gong means..." Zhou Enlai frowned slightly, and looked at Chen Jiongming suspiciously.

"Run on legal currency!" Chen Jiongming smiled coldly, a gloomy look flashed across his face.

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"I don't know how much foreign debt my brother Fuwen plans to borrow when he comes to the United States this time, and what will he use as collateral?" On the other side of the earth, the banquet in the Anliang main hall has already had three rounds of wine and five flavors, and it is also beginning to enter That's it.

Luo Yaoguo gently turned the wine glass, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, 'uncle', my nephew just negotiated with Rockefeller Jr. of the Rockefeller family on the listing of the four major companies in arms, shipbuilding, steel, and non-ferrous metals in the United States. In addition, the official shares of these four companies, the coal mines in Henan, and half of the shares of the "Xinhai Railway" under construction can be used as collateral loans, which can raise a total of [-] million US dollars! Among them, the listing can raise at least [-] million US dollars. 'Uncle' thinks Is this business a loss or not?"

"Of course it's not a loss! Not only is it not a loss, but it's also made a lot of money!" Kong Xiangxi who was on the side seemed to be a little drunk, and now he interjected, waving his arms:

"'Uncle', do the math, 7 million U.S. dollars is 5000 million French currency! A total of 3 million! The total expenditure of their Armament Department for three years is only [-] million yuan. And the funds invested in these four companies Money, including commercial stocks, is only [-] million! Right now, the shipyard has sold half of the shares, and the steel factory, arms company, and non-ferrous metal company have each sold [-]% of the shares. There are [-] million US dollars. And it is the lowest It is estimated that if the issuance is better, it may be [-] million U.S. dollars! That is to say, we exchanged the cost of at most [-] million French currency for at least [-] million U.S. dollars! One listing made [-] million legal currency! It is almost [-] million An extra tael of silver... This is just the beginning. In addition, there are a lot of big companies such as railway companies, power companies, banks, etc. who want to come to the United States to collect money. I guess when these companies are all issued, the Qing Dynasty will lose about the same amount of silver. Brother Fuwen tricked them all back... Hahaha..."

Situ Meitang was stunned again and again, his sharp eyes swept the faces of the two "traitors" over and over again.No matter how I look at it, I feel that these two people in front of me don't look like good people... Either traitors or liars who cheated American investors of money!It's just that little Rockefeller is so easy to deceive?Situ Meitang shook his head: "Brother Fuwen, as far as I know, that little Rockefeller is no less astute in business than his father, will you make a deal with him..."

Luo Yaoguo smiled and waved his hands: "Uncle doesn't know something, this little Rockefeller is not stupid! The U.S. stock market is currently skyrocketing, the stock price is high, and our companies have really good assets. So when it is issued, it will definitely Being sought after by investors, their fair trust company has no risk at all. Moreover, their profit is probably more than 1000 million US dollars for the underwriting of [-] million US dollars of stock."

"Oh, I knew Little Rockefeller wouldn't do business at a loss... It's just that you can collect [-] million yuan. Why do you need to borrow money from the Americans? Is their money easy to borrow? What if you can't pay it back? ..." Situ Meitang shook his head and said again.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and looked at the Hongmen boss in front of him: "What will the Americans do to us if we can't pay it back? If we owe Americans 400 million dollars and can't pay it back...that's our problem. But if we owe the US If the US$40 million, or even US$[-] billion, cannot be repaid, that is the problem of the Americans! And if Japan and the Soviet Union want to bully us, the United States may have to find a way to help us in order to recover their loans. ?”

Is there such a thing?Situ Meitang's eyes widened, not knowing what to say?But when he thought about it carefully, it made sense.It seems that the usury business of their Anliang Headquarters is also like this. If the owner who owes a lot of debts is hunted down by his enemies outside... I really have to send brothers and guys to protect them, otherwise the money will not be collected. up.