Chapter 898 Do you know the duties of a banker (Second update, please subscribe)
The essence of relations between countries is to use each other, even so-called allies.
Once one party has no use value, then for the benefit of the country, the best choice is of course to abandon the other party.
At this point, British Prime Minister Benjamin's words in his speech to Parliament in 1848, "There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests." fully demonstrate the nature of the relationship between countries.
Any country that tries to sing something like "friendship is forever" will pay the price for its actions. After all, betrayal is the eternal theme in interactions between countries.
Just as Brazilian bonds plummeted, London's banking industry immediately stopped lending to Brazil. Although there is no evidence to prove that London abandoned Brazil, financial bankers around the world have seen this fact.
"Brazil is finished!"
When Imperial Bank President Hu Xueyan learned that Brazil's bonds had been sold off and fell by a full 80%, he just said the same sentence lightly.
"They're finished!"
"What?"
Standing in front of the president, Chen Dewen said a little surprised.
"Brazil is finished! Since they couldn't sell their bonds, this country has ceased to exist!"
After that, Hu Xueyan walked to the window and stared at the city outside the window.
"Without money, it is impossible for them to continue this war. Now it is just bombing. If nothing else happens, the army should have already begun to march towards Brazil. They will kill him while he is sick. Brazil..."
It will cease to exist from now on!
As a banker, Hu Xueyan often analyzes problems from an economic perspective. War itself is about making money. There is no other country in the world that, like the Ming Dynasty, had prepared hundreds of millions of dollars in funds before the war broke out. Most countries
It relies on borrowing money to fight the war.
"This air strike not only destroyed the market's confidence in Brazil, but also destroyed Brazil's confidence in whether it could continue to fight. More importantly, it allowed the staff to see through the nature of Brazil's weakness. With the staff
The usual practice of those generals, they will never miss any opportunity to annex Brazil and destroy the country!"
At this time, Hu Xueyan seemed to have transformed into a staff officer, not just a banker, but he was still a banker after all.
"So, now is our chance too!"
"What? What does the president mean?"
Chen Wen thought for a while and said.
“Is it the Reichsbank entering Brazil?”
"Yes, expansion is never expansion in a purely military sense. The army conquers, but in the end it is not just the army that conquers that land, but business. Why can we turn Chile and Argentina into the homeland of the empire?
Essentially, at the same time as military conquest, the financial industry and commerce are also conquering that land. Through appropriate financial policies, we can give our immigrants a huge advantage in a short period of time, usurp local wealth, and control local wealth.
, forming an overwhelming economic advantage over the local people, this is conquest in the true sense!"
What is conquest?
In essence, conquest is plunder, not just plundering land, but everything. Land is just a surface of wealth, but what is behind it? There are also plunders of other kinds of wealth, and even reproductive rights are being plundered.
Within the scope, why are there fewer and fewer Indians in various countries in South America, and mixed-race people have become the mainstream of the local population? Is it because Indian men married white women? What are you dreaming about?
It is clear that the white Europeans who occupy the upper class of wealth married Indian women, but what about the Indian men? Because of poverty and low status, they could not marry a wife, they could not be poor for more than three generations... they simply became extinct.
As a result, South America became Latin America, and European mixed-race people became the masters of this continent!
This is conquest!
As for other things, including colonies, it was not conquest at all, but occupation.
After a pause, Hu Xueyan said.
"Manager Chen, please prepare. If nothing else happens, the army will march towards Brazil in the next few days. From now on, no matter which city the army conquers, the Imperial Bank will follow suit at the same time. Not only the Imperial Bank
, and other Ming banks and commercial institutions will also enter at the same time, forcing local banks to close their doors and let us take control of financial power. Only in this way can we achieve conquest in the true sense."
“What about foreign banks?”
Looking at the CEO, Chen Wen asked.
"Oh, are you talking about the Bank of England? Just a policy squeeze, just like what we did in Buenos Aires. Remember this sentence, without financial autonomy, there is no country.
Our autonomy and financial rights must be firmly in our hands."
Picking up the tea cup and using the tea lid to skim off the tea flavor, Hu Xueyan asked:
"This is also the original intention of the establishment of the Imperial Central Bank! This is also the reason why I asked you to go to Brazil!"
Chen Wen is half of Hu Xueyan's classmate. When Hu Xueyan went to England to inspect banks, Chen Wen was his translator, his classmate, and even his English teacher. After he returned from studying abroad, Hu Xueyan invited him to join the bank.
From that day on, they were partners, and now, Hu Xueyan chose him to go to Brazil just to give him a step forward.
"Brazil is the biggest target occupied by the Ming Dynasty in recent years. Brazil's economy is very backward. It is nothing more than slave plantations and slaves mining rubber. What are you going to do there? To put it simply, it is to use financial power to disrupt the local economy.
Improving the economic status of the Ming immigrants, in terms of implementation, means destroying the local economy and bankrupting the local plantations. When they go bankrupt and the plantations disintegrate, the land can be attributed to us in a reasonable way.
Of course, when the time comes, the government will definitely introduce some policies to implement it. In short, once you get there, you will definitely have a lot to do. Once you have reached this level, you will be able to return to the head office in the future."
"In a word, I just went to Brazil as a bandit, right? It's not like we did it."
Chen Wen said jokingly.
"Bankers are essentially robbers. How else would they make a fortune?"
Hu Xueyan grinned and laughed.
"Usually, if you want to become a qualified banker, you must have the character of a robber. Only in this way can you succeed. However, what we plunder is never our own people, but outsiders, such as Brazil... We occupied it but did not go there.
Is plundering them worthy of the blood of the soldiers?"
For bankers, everything is so naked. They can discuss plundering without any scruples, and even use beautiful words to make their behavior sound high-sounding, but in essence it is just plundering!
"The British are very powerful there. I think exclusive squeezing is not enough, and the British are also very powerful there!"
Chen Wen said with concern. After all, Britain has been operating in Brazil for more than half a century.
"So what? After completing the military conquest, we are the most powerful. In short, the soldiers shed blood and conquered with guns, and we used money to conquer and possess!"
In a nutshell, the driving force for expansion from ancient times to the present is the pursuit of profit. However, in the process of pursuing profit, some are pursuing land, and some are pursuing wealth, and their degrees of violence are also different.
But one thing that is certain is that commercial conquest, which is accompanied by military attacks, looks more civilized, but in essence, it is as cruel as military conquest, and even the deaths it causes are far greater than military conquest.
, but it is more hidden and less noticed by people...
When airships kill people, they use bombs, so you can see the blood. However, when money kills people, you often can't see it.
(End of chapter)
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