William W. Rockhill continued, "I wonder what your London financial market has gained?"
Zhao Dongyun has put away his gossip mood and entered the state of diplomatic negotiations. He knows that William W. Rockhill’s talk about sending someone to London’s financial market for private placement is just a topic, so he immediately said, "The situation is still gratifying!"
Although Zhao Dongyun’s face is indifferent, his heart is secretly sighing. Because foreign private equity achievements are really ugly, Zhao Dongyun is embarrassed to take them out.
The Soviet Union has been issuing’ patriotic bonds’ since last year. This patriotic bond is the first issue issued by the state, and it has successfully raised more than 16 million yuan. The second issue has also achieved fair results, and more than one million funds have been raised. It can be said that the funds raised by the first and second’ patriotic bonds’ issued by the Chinese financial market are the main sources of the Soviet Union’s war in the past six months, accounting for nearly half of the Soviet Union’s war history.
However, China’s financial market funds are also limited, and contemporary people are generally skeptical about the official issuance of various bonds. To put it bluntly, the government’s trust is too low, and major banks, banks and other financial institutions lack confidence in buying long-term bonds. The first and second phases of patriotic bonds issued by the Soviet Union are mainly tentative buyers, and the basic purchases are all short-term bonds of half a year and one year.
Before issuing patriotic bonds to pay off the smooth interest, it is not too much to expect those capitalists to buy patriotic bonds in large quantities.
The Ministry of Finance discovered several months ago that patriotic bond issuance was getting weaker and weaker, and further raised funds. The Ministry of Finance sent people to the financial markets in London and Paris for private placement.
However, there are four banks in the Soviet Union, and it is difficult for financial officials to find powerful banks to sell the bonds on their behalf. Without large-scale local banks to sell the bonds on their behalf, it is difficult to sell them on a large scale. Financial officials in the Soviet Union can find several small banks to jointly issue bonds, and then the results are really ugly. The scale of bonds issued in Europe in the past few months is less than 5 million
Not to mention that this mere five million yuan has met the huge financial gap of the Soviet Union. Zhao Dongyun was extremely dissatisfied with this. Originally, he wanted to bypass the four-nation banking group and issue bonds directly, not to mention raising several hundred million yuan, but 20 million to 30 million yuan should be raised, but he did not expect that the actual effect was so much worse than he expected. He has successively replaced two deputy directors of the Bond Department of the Ministry of Finance who are responsible for this matter.
However, if you are depressed in your heart, you will naturally not say it, but your face will remain dull.
William W. Rockhill didn’t know whether he didn’t see it or left a message for Zhao Dongyun, but he didn’t continue to talk about it. Instead, he turned his head and said, "Although Paris and London are still major international financial markets today, new york in China is also a financial center. I think those bankers in China will welcome your country to raise funds in the New York financial market!"
William W. Rockhill’s words are not wrong. Wall Street in New York has been rising for a long time, but it is not bad in terms of financial strength. However, the real position of new york’s contemporary international financial market is still very general. The most famous financial market in the contemporary world is Paris, France, and the financial strength of London and Britain, the empire that never sets, is also quite strong than that of new york, just like the United States in this era, but it is not famous.
It is really thanks to the Russo-Japanese War Day and the issuance of a large number of bonds by Russia, the United States and New Zealand to make Wall Street in New York a major financial market in the world.
However, William W. Rockhill said today that the purpose of Wall Street in New York is not only to let Zhao Dongyun send someone to new york to issue bonds to raise funds, but also to express an attitude to Zhao Dongyun that the United States has the strength to invest a lot of money in the Soviet Union!
Zhao Dongyun also heard the meaning of this statement, but he is more interested in what the United States needs to pay for itself.
"I have also heard about the famous Wall Street. If there is an opportunity, I would naturally like to raise funds in new york!" Zhao Dongyun’s words are no longer inscribed.
William W. Rockhill smiled and put up a slap in the face. "If the President needs to rely on the strength of our bankers, he can raise this amount for you!"
Zhao Dongyun took a look. He put up five fingers and asked tentatively, "Fifty million dollars?"
Fifty million dollars is equivalent to about 100 million won, and it is not a big problem for Americans to come up with 100 million won.
However, William W. Rockhill smiled and shook his head. "Pound!"
Fifty million pounds? Zhao Dongyun almost spit out a mouthful of water. This is at least a formal diplomatic negotiation. You brag and don’t make a draft. Your pound is your home dollar. Fifty million pounds is enough to be converted into nearly 260 million dollars according to the conversion ratio of contemporary dollars and pounds. It is converted into a contemporary Soviet-controlled’ Huayuan’ issued by the Bank of China, which is more than 500 million yuan issued by the whole Bank of China.
If the Yankees really have the strength to raise such a large-scale war for themselves, let alone betray the interests of a small country, they will do anything for these Yankees.
But the question is, will they be so kind as to give the money to themselves? Even if they borrow it, they will not borrow it easily.
Zhao Dongyun never believes in the so-called pie falling from the sky. Even if you have money to pick it up on the road, you have to bend down to pick it up before you can get it. No matter the benefits, you always have to pay the price!
The problem now is that Americans boast that a mouthful is 50 million pounds, regardless of whether they can come up with such a huge amount of money, even if they can come up with it, they are going to give it, but the price they need is definitely borne by Zhao Dongyun.
When Zhao Dongyun tentatively asked, "Oh, I don’t know if your country has requirements!"
William W. Rockhill still smiled. "We can raise 30 million pounds less to build the Longhai Railway and the Jinpu Railway. In the future, your country has already started the Guangdong-Han Railway."
Zhao Dongyun’s brow wrinkled when he heard this. He was almost scared by this William W. Rockhill. He said that when he said 50 million pounds, the Americans could give themselves 50 million pounds. I didn’t expect that it was the so-called road construction fund, and they said it was to invest in these railways, but in fact it was to ask for road construction.
Zhao Dongyun was dissatisfied but continued, "Oh, what about 20 million left?"
William W. Rockhill said, "We can borrow 20 million pounds from the president’s cabinet government!"
Zhao Dongyun continued with a straight face. "Oh, I don’t know what are the conditions for this after-care loan?"
William W. Rockhill said, "Naturally, it is necessary for your country’s salt revenue to be guaranteed by discounts and interest. We can discuss these in detail then!"
When I heard this, Zhao Dongyun finally showed impatience. "I will promise the Minister Pavilion?"
William W. Rockhill shook his head again. "No!"
If you hear William W. Rockhill’s words, it is estimated that you will be angry at once, but Zhao Dongyun, a politician, is barely home, and his face is black and then he is light.
William W. Rockhill continued, "Although what I said looks similar to what the banking group said, we don’t require financial supervision. If we build a railway, we won’t send troops along the road like the Japanese!"
Although William W. Rockhill said so, Zhao Dongyun still wouldn’t agree with him. Without saying anything, he said that the salt policy would never be mortgaged. Before and after the Qing Dynasty, he borrowed so many times, and even the hard conditions in Geng Dynasty didn’t mortgage the salt policy. You really didn’t want to mortgage the salt policy at present. They didn’t want to but didn’t dare to. In the late Qing Dynasty, the salt policy revenue was a big part of the fiscal revenue. I don’t know how many people stared at it with their eyes wide open. If the salt policy was taken out and mortgaged, the subsequent fiscal revenue would immediately fall by a large margin,
Even the empress dowager cixi, an outsider who refused to be a domestic slave, was too short to dare to fight with the ball and the old lady in the palace didn’t dare to mortgage the salt policy.
Now, if Zhao Dongyun dares to say this, the next day people will have to point at him and scold the traitor, and then several people will come to assassinate him, and the Soviet Union will probably fall out.
Although Zhao Dongyun doesn’t mind betraying the interests of the country, it can’t be too obvious, especially if the people don’t care about sensitive matters, such as salt mortgage, financial supervision and road construction. These three items are political mines in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, and whoever touches them will die more tragically than directly ceding territory and concessions!
In this era, if you pay hundreds of millions of compensation and cede hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, to tell the truth, there is really no Chinese attention, but if you engage in any betrayal, financial supervision and salt mortgage, these things will become immortal as many people refer to.
Zhao Dongyun never intended to build these two railways directly for foreign countries, but was prepared to borrow money to build roads to minimize political influence, despite throwing out the two lures, namely, the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway.
Seeing Zhao Dongyun’s face doesn’t seem so good, William W. Rockhill doesn’t intend to continue to pester this problem. Anyway, this loan can’t be negotiated in a short time, and the American business delegation hasn’t arrived yet. He came here today to sound out Zhao Dongyun’s tone and get ready for the real price.
After seeing William W. Rockhill off, Zhao Dong Yun called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lu Weixiang again and asked about the current attitudes of various countries.
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"Although all countries have not yet become the only government in China, it is also believed that our warring parties want us to feel victorious in the follow-up war, and it is inevitable that they will admit that we have the only government in China!" Liu Weixiang continued
"However, the four-nation banking group is still very tight-lipped about the aftermath of the loan, insisting on the preconditions of Japan. At present, our negotiations with them have reached an impasse. From what we know, the Japanese have given loans to Duan Qirui several times. It is conservatively estimated that Duan Qirui has obtained at least 10 million yuan worth of military supplies from the Japanese, and it is not easy to talk about the high interest from the Russians!"
Zhao Dong said, "Just now, American envoy William W. Rockhill came here. Although the requirements are still harsh, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that there have been cracks in this four-nation banking group. I don’t believe that we can’t break up this four-nation banking group. If we break them up, then all countries will compete for the best loan terms!"
Lu Weixiang said, "It’s not good for the president to say it’s too late. Although the Ministry can’t get through Xiaojun, we also know that our army continues to have a large number of troops, and other parties also need a lot of money. If this after-care loan has been delayed, I’m afraid it will be delayed!"
Zhao Dongyun shook his head. "Even though we have survived this half year, it’s not bad to spend a month or two on the loan. Although we can’t talk about it here, we are also solving the war problem through other channels. Although it is difficult, it is still possible to barely maintain it!"
The Soviet Union’s current war has been funded by patriotic bonds and foreign bonds. Although the deficit seems to be staggering in the past six months, the Soviet Union is still operating normally. Otherwise, it is difficult for the Soviet Union to continue to reunify China on a large scale, but the problem of maintaining the existing situation is not great