Chapter 898 Do you know the banker’s duty (the second update, please subscribe)

The relationship between countries is essentially mutual use, even the so-called allies.

Once one party has no value in use, then for the sake of the country's interests, the best choice is of course to abandon the other party.

In this regard, British Prime Minister Benjamin's speech to Congress in 1848, "There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests." is full of showing the essence of relations between countries.

Any country that tries to sing words like "friendship forever" will pay the price for its behavior. After all, betrayal is the eternal theme in the interactions between countries.

Just as Brazil's bonds plummeted, London's banking industry immediately stopped lending to Brazil. Although there was no evidence that London abandoned Brazil, financial bankers around the world saw a fact.

"Brazil is over!"

As President of Imperial Bank, Hu Xueyan, just said the same sentence lightly after learning that Brazil's bonds were sold and fell by 80%.

"They're done!"

"What?"

Standing in front of the president, Chen Dewen said in a little surprised.

"Brazil is over! From the moment they can't sell their bonds, this country no longer exists!"

After saying that, Hu Xueyan walked to the window and stared at the city outside the window.

"Without money, they would not be able to continue this war. Now they are just bombing. If nothing unexpected happens, the army should have begun to march towards Brazil. Taking advantage of his illness, Brazil..."

From then on, it no longer exists!

As a banker, Hu Xueyan often analyzes problems from an economic perspective. War itself makes money. There is no country in the world. Like the Ming Dynasty, he had already prepared hundreds of millions of dollars in funding before the war broke out. Most countries rely on borrowing money to fight.

"This air strike not only destroyed the market's confidence in Brazil, but also destroyed the confidence of whether Brazil can continue to fight. More importantly, the General Staff saw through Brazil's weak nature. According to the usual practices of the generals of the General Staff, they would never miss any opportunity to annex Brazil and destroy its country!"

At this time, Hu Xueyan seemed to have transformed into a staff officer, not just a banker, but he was still a banker.

"So, now is our chance!"

"What? What does the president mean?"

Chen Wen thought for a while and said.

"Is it Imperial Bank entering Brazil?"

"Yes, expansion has never been simply expansion in the military sense. The army conquers it, but it is not just the army that conquers that land in the end, but business. Why can we turn Chile and Argentina into the land of the empire? In essence, it is at the same time as military conquest, the financial industry and business are also conquering that land at the same time. Through appropriate financial policies, our immigrants will have a huge advantage in the short term, usurp local wealth, master local wealth, and form an overwhelming economic advantage for the local people. This is the real conquest!"

What is conquest?

In essence, conquest is plunder, not just plundering the land, but everything. Land is just a surface of wealth. What is behind it? There are plunders of other kinds of wealth, even the right to reproduction is within the scope of plunder. Why are there fewer Indians in South America and mixed-race children becoming the mainstream of the local population? Could it be that Indian men married white women? What kind of dreams of spring and autumn?

It was clear that the white Europeans who occupied the upper class of wealth married Indian women, but what about Indian men? Because of their poverty and low status, they could not marry their wives, and they could not be poor for three generations... They were directly extinct.

As a result, South America became Latin America, and European mixed-race men became the masters of this continent!

This is conquest!

As for the others, including colonies, they are not conquering, but occupying at all.

After a pause, Hu Xueyan said.

"Manager Chen, you prepare for it. If nothing unexpected happens, the army will advance to Brazil in the past few days. From now on, no matter which city the army conquers, the Imperial Bank will follow up at the same time. Not only the Imperial Bank, but also other Ming banks and commercial institutions will also enter at the same time, forcing local banks to close, and we have the financial power. Only in this way can we achieve true conquest."

"So how about foreign banks?"

Looking at the president, Chen Wen asked.

"Oh, are you talking about British banks? Just a policy squeeze, just like we did in Buenos Aires. Remember this sentence: without financial autonomy, there will be no national autonomy, and financial rights must be firmly grasped in our hands."

He picked up the tea cup and smeared the tea flavor with the tea lid. Hu Xueyan asked:

"This is also the original intention of the establishment of the Imperial Central Bank! It is also the reason why I asked me to go to Brazil!"

Chen Wen is half of Hu Xueyan's classmate. When Hu Xueyan went to the UK to inspect the bank, Chen Wen was both his translator, his classmate, and even his English teacher. After returning from studying abroad, Hu Xueyan invited him to enter the bank. From that day on, they were patrolling him, and now, Hu Xueyan chose him to go to Brazil to give him a step.

"Brazil is the biggest target of the Ming Dynasty in recent years. Brazil's economy is very backward. It is nothing more than slave plantations and slaves pick rubber. What do you do when you go there? In short, it is to use financial rights to dismantle the local economy and improve the economic status of Ming immigrants. In terms of implementation, it is to destroy the local economy and make the local plantations bankrupt. If they go out and the plantations collapse, the land can belong to us in a reasonable way. Of course, at that time, the government will definitely introduce some policies to implement them. In short, you will definitely have great potential to get there. With this step, you will be able to return to the headquarters in the future."

"In a word, I'm going to Brazil as a robber, right! It's not like we did."

Chen Wen said jokingly.

"A banker is essentially a robber, otherwise how can he get rich?"

Hu Xueyan grinned and laughed.

"Usually, if we want to become a qualified banker, we must have the character of a robber. Only in this way can we succeed. However, what we plunder is never our own people, but outsiders, such as Brazil... If we occupy there, but do not plunder them, can we deserve the blood of the soldiers?"

For bankers, everything is so naked that they can discuss plunder without any scruples, and even use beautiful words to make their behavior sound, but in essence it is just plunder!

"The British are very powerful there. I think it's not enough to just squeeze exclusively, and the British are very powerful there!"

Chen Wen said with concern. After all, the UK has been operating in Brazil for more than half a century.

"So what? After completing the military conquest, we are the ones with the greatest power. In short, the soldiers bleed and conquered with guns and cannons. We use money to conquer and possess!"

The driving force for expansion from ancient times to the present is profit-seeking in a nutshell. However, in the process of profit-seeking, some are to chase land, some are to pursue wealth, and their levels of violence are also different.

But one thing that is certain is that commercial conquest, accompanied by military offensives, looks more civilized, but in essence, its cruelty is not inferior to military conquest, and even the death it causes is far greater than military conquest, but it is even more hidden and less noticeable to people...

When an airship kills people, you can see blood when you use a bomb. However, when a money kills people, you often lose your form.

(End of this chapter)
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