1928: The rise of giant merchants

The leaders of the large consortium clung to Ye Luo's side as if they were grasping at life-saving straws, each relying on their connections and financial resources to get more loans from Ye Luo.

This dinner was very successful. Hamaguchi Yuyuki could even feel that these consortium leaders had a new understanding of their ability to govern, and maybe they would continue to support him in the next election!

And all of this was brought about by this young Chinese businessman who fell from the sky.

Therefore, Hamaguchi Yuyuki also began to work hard to facilitate transactions between Ye's investment and many local chaebols. With the official intervention, each business was quickly concluded.

the next day.

Ye Luo and a group of smiling consortium leaders took a train to Tokyo to prepare for the delivery ceremony of gold and commodities.

All the goods he brought this time were sold to the Japanese, making a triple profit. The total principal and profit was 15 million oceans, which gave domestic Ye's investment a good source of fresh blood, and this money will also be transferred directly from the Bank of Japan. Go to YB Bank, and then transfer the money from YB Bank to domestic well-known foreign banks such as Citigroup and HSBC.

The losses caused by the recent vigorous crackdown on internal corruption and various reasons were immediately filled.

But with Ye Luo's financial resources at this time, a mere 15 million yuan would not be able to enter his eyes at all. He brought so many best-selling products invested by Ye Luo to Japan, focusing on a soft power invasion, so that the Japanese people who were still in poverty could see it first. Ye's investment in various products is good. This feeling will be stronger when they are compared with the products of domestic consortiums.

Human nature is often like this. Once they have seen good things, it is difficult for them to accept bad things.

This is actually what foreign companies did to the Republic of China and Chinese businessmen, and Ye Luo is just following the same pattern now.

Although Yuyuki Hamaguchi and others finally rejected Ye's request to invest in the Japanese business community, because of the US$100 million, they still acquiesced in the circulation of Ye's investment products and Ye Luo's investment in many core enterprises of the consortium.

Of course, it is impossible for Ye Luo to take away 300 tons of gold from the treasury. It is also very dangerous to transport it back by sea. Moreover, Ye Luo has no place to store the gold. Could it be put in the principal's pocket?

After many negotiations between Tokyo and Zang Xiang (Minister of Finance of Japan) and the President of the Bank of Japan, Yello agreed to transport about 100 tons of gold and ship the gold all the way from Japan to New York, the United States. Some of it was deposited in YB Bank. In the treasury, part of it is converted into U.S. dollars and reserved.

As for the remaining 200 tons of gold, under the witness of Franklin, Hamaguchi Yuyuki and a group of cabinet ministers signed and pressed their fingerprints, in the form of a loan contract, acknowledging that at any time, the gold stored in the Japanese treasury belonged to Yello privately. all.

Finally, there is the issue of Ye Luo investing in the core companies of the consortium.

No consortium is really willing to let outside capital invest in its core enterprise, because that means dilution of equity, and it means that in the future there will be an unknown guy who can sit on their head and shit -

Even if Ye Luo owns not many shares, it is enough to be fatal.

But that $100 million is just too good.

If he is not allowed to take shares now, those companies will eventually become someone else's meal.

Therefore, after returning to Tokyo, the consortium leaders just pretended to be in trouble for a few days, and soon began to get involved with each other. Everyone wanted to get more loans from Ye Luo, so after the involvement, the sale price became lower and lower. Some people are even willing to let Ye Luo acquire certain companies in full for about 40% of the price.

Ye Luo readily agreed.

They thought that Ye Luo's appetite was not big, and they felt that after spending 100 million US dollars, he would have very limited liquidity and would be unable to annex their companies and industries unscrupulously.

But in fact, Ye Luo slapped them in the face with a lot of dollars.

Ever since the leaders of these consortiums started to relax and lower the limit in various ways, Ye Luo accepted it completely. As long as you dare to sell, I dare to buy.

If you dare to ask me to buy shares, no matter how many shares or how much it costs, I will give it to you!

In just one week, Ye Luo spent another US$100 million to complete a series of acquisitions and equity investments in Japanese consortiums led by the four major consortiums.

Of course, compared with their real size, Yeluo's US$100 million is just a drop in the bucket, and it is far from complete acquisition and manipulation.

After all, it is an Asian consortium that is as famous as American super consortiums such as Rockefeller and Morgan. Ye Luo estimates that the total value of the Mitsubishi consortium alone exceeds 10 billion US dollars.

Moreover, the reason why they can control this country relies on the military industry and monopoly industries in their hands. These are industries that Chinese people like Ye Luo cannot really get involved in.

It is impossible to really bring down these consortiums without shaking their foundations.

Of course, Ye Luo didn't want to completely defeat them.

This is so unrealistic.

If he were reborn hundreds of years ago, before the first generation of these consortiums was born, he might be able to accomplish this ambitious goal.

Now, it's too late.

The fate of these consortiums has long been tied to Japan's national destiny.

But that's enough.

Ye Luo estimated the shares of the consortium he held at this time, which was enough for him to become one of the important shareholders. If he continues to operate from generation to generation, after 2000, it is possible that his descendants will slowly erode and control these Japanese consortiums. .

It was already the end of May when all these things were done.

Ye Luo made these devils realize what it means to be rich for the first time in Japan.

He casually allocated 200 million in working capital. The true background of YB Bank is obviously deeper than this.

No wonder he can be recommended by American leaders. Hamaguchi Yuyuki thought so while working at the Prime Minister's residence.

At first, when Franklin called and said that a businessman could swallow up the gold that they could not circulate, Hamaguchi thought it was a consortium such as Morgan or Rockefeller who was about to take action.

In fact, he is very resistant to these overseas consortiums entering his country, because that is soft colonization, enslaving their citizens with money.

But there is nothing to be done.

Because if things continue like this, the collapse of the monetary system due to the collapse of the gold standard may not take place until next year, and his term as prime minister will come to an end.

Unexpectedly, the person who came to take over was not a well-known consortium, or even an American, but an unknown young Chinese.

"He once turned Wall Street upside down. His story is still circulating on Wall Street!"

Franklin said this on the phone, and his tone was very excited at the time, not like he was pretending.

Early June.

After rejecting the invitation from Tokyo Imperial University and many political banquets hosted by Yuyuki Hamaguchi, Ye Luo just walked around Tokyo to see if the department stores had already put the products invested by Ye on the shelves, and then observed the public. After seeing their reaction to these new goods, they took the people to sea and prepared to return to the Republic of China.

"The business seems to be going very fast this time." Shi Jianqiao said on the deck.

Ye Luo smiled faintly: "Business has just begun." (End of Chapter)