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Situ Meitang pondered for a moment, and his complexion gradually improved: "Brother Fuwen, to tell you the truth, my brother invited you here today, just to ask about the situation of those Chinese companies that are currently busy going public in the United States. Like? Can you invest?" As soon as these words were uttered, the eyes of those overseas Chinese leaders who looked like businessmen all lit up, staring closely at Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo was taken aback when he heard the words, and suddenly didn't know how to answer.It turns out that the real purpose of Situ Meitang asking him to come to dinner is to talk about stocks!The current US capital market seems to be booming, as if everyone has made a fortune.These wealthy overseas Chinese businessmen who have quite a bit of savings have also moved their minds. I don't know if this "uncle" Situ wants to make a fortune too?It's just that this question is really hard to answer...

"'Uncle', this stock trading is speculation after all. Since it is a speculation, there is no such thing as a sure profit. And...the pricing in the stock market is probably not exactly the same as the company's situation? If you want to know The most important thing is whether the companies listed in the United States by the Ministry of Armaments are worth the price. My answer is worth it! But I can’t guarantee that you will make money if you buy them. I can only guarantee that these companies will make good profits every year and can Distribute certain dividends. In addition, I would like to give you some suggestions. In fact, investing in companies that have already been listed is better than investing in companies that have not yet been listed but have good development prospects. For example, there are many coal mines waiting in Henan Province Really powerful investors, there are many power plants in southern China waiting for you to invest, and these are all profitable. In addition, we have some joint venture projects when we come to the United States this time, for example, we will cooperate with Mr. Andrew Mellon tomorrow Among the projects being negotiated is the Guangxi Aluminum Company, which is a joint venture with Alcoa, which is controlled by their family. If you are interested, I can make the decision to let everyone take a share."

Chapter 0395 High Debt ([-])

"Okay!"

As soon as they heard that there were "primary shares" available for purchase, several patriotic overseas Chinese capitalists, including the old Mr. Situ Meitang, immediately felt their eyes brighten.Looking at the faces of Luo Yaoguo and Kong Xiangxi, they don't look like "traitors and traitors" anymore.No matter how you look at it, it's pleasing to the eye, the more you look at it, the more you like it, and those who have little lolita in their families are thinking about whether they should marry their daughters over?

Luo Yaoguo's gaze turned, and the drastic changes in facial expressions of everyone were fully seen.A thought of poaching Chen Jiongming's corner naturally appeared in his mind.

"Alas..." Luo Yaoguo frowned, lowered his head, and just sighed softly: "Now South China can come out of the troubled times and become a cornucopia of wealth for the big guys. This is the president who leads our Kuomintang It was made through hard work. It’s just that...some people just don’t understand us, and don’t know the bitterness and blood and tears involved!” After speaking, he raised the tall glass in his hand, took a sip of half a glass of wine, and his face turned pale The child became gloomy.

As soon as these words were said, the originally lively air in the room seemed to drop to freezing point all of a sudden, and everyone was speechless.Several capitalists secretly glanced at Situ Meitang's old face out of the corners of their eyes.Obviously they all knew the deep meaning of Luo Yaoguo's words.Situ Meitang is the director of the Overseas Chinese Department of the Zhi Gong Party and the behind-the-scenes funder of the Zhi Gong Party. He raised a lot of money for Chen Jiongming among the overseas Chinese in the United States.And Chen Jiongming and the Zhi Gong Dang are now political enemies of the Kuomintang...

When everyone bowed their heads in silence, Situ Meitang just smiled: "Hehe, brother Fuwen."

Luo Yaoguo hastily clasped his fists to salute: "The younger generation has no other intentions, just hope that 'uncle' can return to our party. It is best to make Jinggong change his mind, as long as he can admit his mistake to the president, with the president's magnanimity, he will surely It doesn't matter."

However, Situ Meitang glanced at the rich businessmen present with his old eyes, his eyes flashed brightly, and he said with a smile: "Jingcun and Mr. Zhongshan, who is right and who is wrong, we have already seen the outcome. It is impossible to just admit your mistakes." Brother Fuwen must be clear about the reason. As for the old man...the so-called good horse never turns back, it is impossible for me to return to the Kuomintang, but the old man can fade out of politics and only seek the interests of overseas Chinese in the United States .”

Luo Yaoguo touched his bare chin.This old man is quite loyal!Although he knew that Chen Jiongming was hopeless, he was unwilling to join the Kuomintang to oppose him.But after all, he is the "uncle" of the overseas Chinese in the United States, and he represents the interests of the overseas Chinese in the United States after all, so he has to make a little compromise.Just don't pull him into the Kuomintang, will he be...

While he was thinking about it, Kong Caishen, who was slightly drunk, was patted on his chest, promising: "Uncle's willingness to withdraw from the Zhigong Party is already the greatest support for our party. Besides, we and the Zhigong Party are still in a coalition government right now. , the President never thought of killing them all, or else relying on their strength... With your words, 'uncle', everyone's investment in aluminum companies and coal mines, of course our party welcomes them with both hands Yes, brother Fuwen, don’t you think so?”

Luo Yaoguo glanced at the "Haha Kong" whose cheeks were flushed from drinking, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Mr. Yongzhi's words are very true. Of course, we are too late to welcome everyone to invest in China. This time the aluminum industry The company will definitely leave shares for everyone, and it will earn a lot of money when it goes public for custody in the future. In addition, there are coal mines in Henan. Coal mining is now a very profitable business. It’s just that all the mines are now guarded by our military committee. If you want to invest, it is best to form a joint-stock company, and then invite mining engineers from the United States to design it well and buy all the machines that should be bought. Especially the investment in safety is tens of millions Don't worry...otherwise, if there is an accident, it will be very expensive to lose money!"

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Run on legal currency?Can it really work?As soon as Chen Jiongming's words came out of his mouth, everyone who attended the banquet in the main hall of Shuncheng County Prince's Mansion immediately made up their minds.

Speaking of running on this kind of thing, it is still common to see in China right now.In October of the fifth year of the Republic of China, there was a "Beijing banknote crisis". At that time, the two major banks of China and Communications had to issue banknotes indiscriminately in order to fill the deficit of the Beiyang government's finances, and the cash reserves were insufficient.As a result, there was a wave of bank runs. At the worst time, 4 people carrying bedding lined up at the gate of the payment point every day... At that time, the banknotes issued by China Communications and Banks were only tens of millions of yuan.Now the circulation of legal currency can be as high as 200 billion yuan!If a run occurs, perhaps the dictatorship of the Kuomintang reactionaries will be completely disintegrated.

The current total "circulation" of legal currency is 200 billion. According to the three and a half legal currency exchanged for one US dollar, nearly 60 billion US dollars are needed as a guarantee. Such a huge reserve is almost impossible to exist.Therefore, once the wave of redemption of legal currency rises, the central bank of the national government will definitely have nothing to do... But the question is how to make this wave happen?Running the fiat currency is also a technical task. It seems that only Pan Fu, who is from the "transportation department" at the banquet today, has financial experience.

Seeing that everyone's eyes turned to him, Pan Fu was covered in white sweat all of a sudden, and there was nothing but regret in his heart, but regret!He acted like a master, no more than those with guns in their waists. He was not afraid of anything. If he really offended the KMT...

"Actually... the foundation of legal currency...is not particularly insecure." Pan Fu's face was pale, his eyebrows were tightly knit together, as if he was thinking hard:

"The 200 billion legal currency issuance does not mean that the Kuomintang central bank has issued so many legal currency, but... what is the currency's 'multiplier effect'? This is a foreign economics term. The actual legal currency circulation is about About 60 billion, of which 20 billion are exchanged with silver dollars... There are 40 billion or more than a billion US dollars. The KMT's foreign exchange reserves are now about [-] billion. This time, they can borrow another [-] billion when they go back to the United States... I am afraid that this run will not be crushed."

After hearing this explanation, everyone's eyes returned to Chen Jiongming, and he was still smiling, as if he hadn't heard Pan Fu's words at all.Chen Jiongming waved his hands indifferently, and said with a smile: "Brother Xinhang is too honest, we can't run on the legal currency head-on? Besides, we don't have much legal currency, and most of them are controlled by the top ten banks in the south. In the hands of those pro-KMT consortiums and big companies controlled by the KMT government?"

"What does Mr. Jingcun mean?" Seeing Chen Jiongming's confident look, Zhang Zuolin asked hastily.

Chen Jiongming just smiled: "At present, the value of legal currency has been shaken, especially outside the KMT's political training area, the common people are no longer as informed about legal currency after public opinion propaganda. If there is a run on the currency in the Beijing-Tianjin area at this time The incident will definitely cause panic."

"Hey... How many French currency plates can there be in the Beijing-Tianjin area? It's only tens of millions." Pan Fu just shook his head aside.

Chen Jiongming waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay. We don't really want to use our strength to squeeze the legal currency, but to create an incident. Let's find a way to get the bank we control to transfer millions of legal currency cash to Beijing and Tianjin." regions, and then let our people go to major banks in Beijing and Tianjin to exchange cash and foreign exchange. At the same time, we are starting our own public opinion machines to spread the theory of the collapse of legal currency, trying to cause panic among the people, and then the market will be chaotic. We then announced that we would come forward to organize the currency system, establish a joint reserve bank, and order the banks on their respective territories to stop exchanging fiat currency, and to convert all fiat currency into the "joint currency" issued by us. Finally, we will prohibit the circulation of fiat currency on our territory, so that we can I have regained the 'right to issue money' in one fell swoop! Moreover, once the French currency loses its credibility in the north, its credibility in the southern market will also be shaken. Maybe the common people will rush to exchange the legal currency in their hands for foreign currency or silver dollars. National capitalists and Those imperialist enterprises may also follow suit. In this way, won’t we achieve the goal of stopping the Kuomintang reactionaries from using legal currency to exploit the working people? To take a step back, even if the Kuomintang maintains the southern plate, what is in their hands? Their foreign exchange reserves will definitely shrink greatly! In this way, their pace of military expansion and war preparations will have to slow down..."

"That is to say, using the legal currency run as an excuse to use the power of the regime to squeeze the legal currency out of the northern market?" Pan Fu finally understood Chen Jiongming's suggestion.He sighed and nodded: "I think this is feasible. Right now, the French currency has been a little shaken in the north. If there is another run, the reputation will almost be lost. At this time, let's come forward and organize the 'United Reserve Bank'." 'To maintain the market, we should be able to regain the northern market. It's just...will the Kuomintang use force against us?"

"Use force? Do you want to use guns to maintain the credibility of the currency? The eyes of ordinary people are sharp." Zhou Enlai tapped the table lightly, and said with a smile: "They don't use force. We can't enter the southern market for the time being. If they dare to use force Humph, this fiat currency is going to collapse soon, right?"

Chen Jiongming also smiled: "Sun Yat-sen will not use force for this matter, you can rest assured. Now that he has become the president, what he asks for is not power but fame. I know him well. Can I do it?" This kind of thing happened. Besides, right now we are engaging in "economic competition" with the Kuomintang. Whoever does a good job in the economy may own China in the future. However, if we want to engage in "economic competition", the currency is controlled by the opponent , Aren’t we sure to lose? Instead of doing that, we might as well give it a go and bet that Sun Yat-sen won’t use force!”

"Then what should we do with the 'United Reserve Bank' and the 'United Currency'?" I don't know who suddenly brought the topic back to the establishment of a joint note-issuing bank.

"The head office of the 'United Reserve Bank' should be located in Beijing, because Beijing is jointly managed by various factions, and everyone can rest assured that the head office and treasury are located in Beijing."

"Well, that's the way it should be done. But the banknotes issued shouldn't be called 'United Currency'. It sounds terrible. It should be called 'Silver Dollar Notes'. We Chinese believe in silver, and it's best to call them Silver Dollar Notes."

"Can people believe it when it is called 'silver dollar coupons'? In the final analysis, there must be sufficient reserves. How much of this reserve fund do you have in hand now?"

All the people in the house discussed happily, but when it came to the issue of reserves, everyone was speechless again.Right now, each faction doesn't have much money in their hands. If they had money, there would be no gathering today...

"No money...can't we borrow money?" It was Pan Fu who broke the silence. He slapped the table and said with a smile: "The Kuomintang is also relying on foreign debt to develop the economy? Why can't we follow suit? Instead of borrowing foreign debt, how about we borrow money from banks in the areas controlled by the Nationalist government and use mines and railways as collateral?"

Zhang Zuolin nodded with a smile at this time: "Let's give 1000 million silver dollars from Fengshi. We still have some money. Your CCP and Mr. Duan Zhi also gave 1000 million, and please ask democrats and national capitalists to give 1000 million." .In this way, there will be 3000 million silver dollars, and this reserve fund can’t be said to be short, right?”

"A lot, a lot." Zhou Enlai shook his hand, a trace of surprise flashed across his face: "Then how many silver dollar certificates are we going to issue? Of course it is impossible to issue a silver dollar certificate for one silver dollar reserve, right? That would be too bad." How about we triple the expansion? Issue 9000 million silver dollar certificates first?"

Zhang Zuolin gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou's opinion, we will issue 9000 million silver dollar certificates in the first step. In the second step, we will use the bank run event to exchange all the French currency on our respective sites into silver dollar certificates, and then use the redemption The legal currency that arrives is exchanged for silver at the Central Bank of the Kuomintang. In this way, we have more reserves in our hands and can issue more bills... But, how should these bills be distributed?"

Zhou Enlai frowned and thought for a while: "The three parties will each establish a branch of the United Reserve Bank, one in Yan'an, one in Jinan, and one in Fengtian. The first issue of silver dollar certificates leaves 3000 million in the head office, and then the remaining 6000 million , divided into three parts, Fengtian branch gets half of 3000 million, and Jinan and Yan'an branches each get 500 million. Yu Shuai, do you think it will work?"

Zhang Zuolin and Chen Jiongming looked at each other.Each carefully calculated Zhou Enlai's suggestion.According to this method, the CCP, the Feng faction, and the Anhui faction immediately gained 6000 million yuan in cash, even if they deducted the 2000 million yuan they used for the reserve, there was an increase of 4000 million yuan...and they can continue to use this joint printing machine in the future Money machine to provide a steady stream of funds for their respective systems, it can be said to be a good deal with no capital and huge profits!

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The night of February [-], [-] AD.

Inside the guest room of the Chinese Consulate General in New York.Luo Yaoguo, who had been busy all day outside, was reclining on the sofa in the bedroom, with the little beauty Qu Ying still in his arms.With half-closed eyes, Natalie, who was sitting on the bed, was listening to the urgent telegram that Natalie had just received from the Military Intelligence Bureau.

"...According to the information disclosed by the Youth Party, the leaders of the CCP, the Zhi Gong Party, and the Feng Faction held a secret meeting last night in Zhang Zuolin's official residence in Shuncheng County, Beijing. Banknote Bank, which issues new banknotes linked to silver dollars in the northern CCP, Zhigongdang, and Fengxi territories, trying to replace legal currency in the northern market. For details, there is no further news from the Youth Party. Military Intelligence Bureau Beijing The station has not received relevant information for the time being..."

After reading the telegram, Natalie smiled at Luo Yaoguo: "It looks like our fiat currency will soon have competitors."

"United note-issuing bank?" Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, "Euro" suddenly popped up in his mind, this note-issuing bank jointly formed by various factions is a condensed version of the central bank of the euro zone!It's quite a hassle.

"Let's...do we want to find a way to stop this?" the little girl Qu Ying asked tentatively with her mouth flattened and her eyes blinked.

"Stop it?" Luo Yaoguo smiled deeply, and thought, "What can we use to stop people from printing money? Heilongjiang, Jilin, Fengtian, Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan, Zhili, Shandong, as well as northern Shaanxi and Longdong." But under the control of others! The national government can’t reach out, unless it is a civil war and destroys them by force. It’s just... In this way, it will inevitably fall into the quagmire of protracted war. I’m afraid that the industrial construction in the south will finally start Is it going to be interrupted? It seems that we can only go with them... let's take a step and see."

"Brother Fuwen, what are you thinking?" The little girl's pretty face turned around.Xiumei frowned slightly, white teeth biting her cherry lips lightly, her facial features were delicate and delicate, her skin was like creamy fat, it looked really delicious and tight.

"I was wondering when I could eat you up!" Luo Yaoguo squinted at the little beauty, sticking out his tongue and licking his lips.

The little girl's pretty face flushed, her little mouth pouted, and she snorted softly: "You're bad! They won't give you food!" Although the words were perfect, her body was still leaning limply on Luo Yaoguo, There is no intention of moving.

Seeing the little girl's look of wanting to refuse and welcome, Luo Yaoguo couldn't help but want to speak.

"Uh huh!" Natalie came to Luo Yaoguo's side at some point, her face was full of spring, her big eyes looked at Luo Yaoguo affectionately, and said sweetly: "Fuwen, my little sister even said that she didn't want to give it to you." Eat it...or let her go this time...you might as well eat me tonight."

Looking at the two charming beauties, Luo Yaoguo smirked and said, "Then... can we eat together?"

"Well, you can do whatever you want." Natalie puffed out her plump and tall breasts, and glanced at Qu Ying: "Sister Xiaoying, what's your opinion?"

Three people together!The little girl suddenly jumped up from Luo Yaoguo's arms, shaking her little head desperately: "I'm so ashamed to death, I don't want it!" After finishing speaking, stomping her feet, she ran out of Luo Yaoguo's bedroom like a gust of wind.

Seeing that the delicious food that was almost in his mouth flew away like this, Luo Yaoguo glared at Natalie with a "smirking" face sullenly.

"You can punish him however you want..." Natalie was savvy, and immediately changed her posture, kneeling on the sofa, with a low eyebrow and a look of being willing to be beaten or punished.

"Oh! Really?" Luo Yaoguo frowned and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Then you are not allowed to take medicine tonight... No, you are not allowed to take it for a while, I will punish you to help me give birth to a baby. "