African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 339 Increase investment

  New York, North American Branch of Hechingen Bank.

   "Mr. Jonathan! This is an important letter from the headquarters, please read it."

   "Well, bring it to me!"

  Jonathan took the letter and looked at the envelope.

   "You go out first, and then no one is allowed to come in without my order."

   "Yes, President."

   After the subordinate left, Jonathan began to carefully dismantle the envelope and read it.

   Soon, Jonathan's expression was a little surprised, even a little unbelievable. Is this a decision made by the headquarters? They are crazy! How much money will you lose if you do this?

As for the assessment risk of the headquarters, Jonathan does not believe it. According to the current situation in the United States, Jonathan feels that its economy has just started. Although the social security in the United States is somewhat chaotic, is black and red also red? Chaos can also promote economic vitality, at least It shows that the local policy is very loose, just like those Italians engaged in the black industry in the United States, they can create value for American society.

  For example, the drug addicts in the United States in the previous life produced a market that has fed at least one million Mexicans and made a huge contribution to the balance of US-Mexico trade. Although drugs are a huge hazard, it does not prevent it from being an industry at all. The gray industry is also an industry, and it is equally valuable. This is inevitable under the capitalist market values.

Although most of the wealth is taken away by a few people, as long as it can stay in the United States, it belongs to the United States. They are not stupid. In the United States, money can solve 99% of the problems. At the same time, it symbolizes social status, comparable to the nobles everywhere. The Old Continent stays comfortable.

  However, even though Jonathan didn't understand it, he was still going to do it. Who made himself just a part-time worker!

   After destroying the letter, Jonathan started the meeting.

  Jonathan: "From now on, we will further relax restrictions. We are going to do a big job in the United States and make our own contribution to the prosperity of American society!"

  The situation in the United States is very good, making money in everything, but the audit mechanism of Hexingen Bank is very unfriendly to some traditional industries.

   Now, Jonathan is going to release restrictions in this area according to the instructions of the headquarters, which means that a large amount of new capital is about to be injected into the US market.

   "As long as we are sure that we can make a lot of money, it doesn't matter if the risk is higher. We will carry out our business with this goal before the end of this year!"

  The North American branch of Hehingen Bank, the largest investment in the United States is the technology sector, mainly the power industry, and now it is going to enter all industries.

   Like all banks in the United States, don’t care what it is, as long as it makes money, I voted for this project!

However, this investment will only last for half a year. The goal of the activities of the North American branch starting next year is to sell these temporarily hyped-up projects at a high price. When will the high price be? , just sell it.

   Jonathan did not disclose this matter to his subordinates, which is what Jonathan least understands. What if the prices of these assets are still rising after they are sold? Wouldn't that be a big loss!

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Not only in the United States, but also in the Far East, the Heixingen Consortium is also increasing its investment, but the industries anchored are mainly aimed at the domestic market in the Far East, not the export industry. The common people in the Far East also have huge needs. , Anhui merchants cooperate to develop the Far North market together.

  It is undeniable that the investment of the Heixingen consortium will cause many traditional handicraft industries to go bankrupt, and the leader of Shanxi merchants, Qiao Zhiyong, intends to learn from the Western bank model to transform the bank accounts of Shanxi merchants, which will accelerate this situation.

  When they learn the Western banking model, they will inevitably come into contact with new international things, and this is exactly what they lack for Shanxi merchants. The essence of Shanxi merchants from the peak to the sudden decline is the lack of international vision.

Historically, in the glorious period of the development of Shanxi merchants, Western capitalism was also flourishing. When Shanxi merchants were dealing with Russia, they were not interested in their large-scale machine production. Shanxi merchants seem to be unable to catch the eyes of Shanxi merchants. They are eager for success and rest on their laurels. They don’t realize that they are out of touch with the world environment. They are too lazy to learn new technologies, and they are reluctant to invest their hard-earned money. In terms of new machinery, equipment and technology, we only care about the immediate interests of buying houses and land.

  However, the emergence of the competitor Hexinggen Bank directly snatched the Shanxi merchants' territory in the eastern part of North China in a very short period of time, allowing Qiao Zhiyong to see the huge crisis facing the Shanxi merchants.

   Even normal business practices cannot compete with Westerners. If Shanxi merchants continue to stand still, the northern market will be swallowed up by Hexinggen Bank sooner or later.

  As for the Qing government, which had a close relationship with Shanxi merchants, it could not save Shanxi merchants. In the face of Westerners, the Qing government also tried to close the country and protect its own market, but it was obvious that it failed under the powerful guns of the Westerners.

The rapid expansion of the Heixingen Consortium in the north is proof. After all, there are two world powers behind the Heixingen Consortium, and there is also a "big country" that is not well known to the world. The might of Germany alone is enough for the Qing government to fear. However, he defeated the existence of France on his own.

   Coupled with the drive of the Hexingen Consortium, German businessmen have really formed the potential to compete with Britain, France and the United States in the Far North.

  At present, other countries in the Far East are still only staying in the coastal and convenient transportation areas, but the Hexingen Consortium forcibly overcomes the inland transportation inconvenience and enters its hinterland.

The reason why the Heixingen Consortium was able to do this is also very simple. One is that the transportation in the Yimeng mountainous area in the south of Shandong is inconvenient. During the Xianfeng period, the Yellow River was greatly diverted, which ended the thousands of years of flooding in northern Jiangsu.

  However, when the great diversion of the Yellow River occurred in Xianfeng, it happened to coincide with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the Nian Army Uprising. The military affairs were tense and there was no time to manage the Yellow River. Yang Yizeng, the governor of Nanhe River, made a petition to the Qing court and suggested "suspending the blockade".

   That is to say, it was broken, which led to more frequent and severe floods of the Yellow River in Shandong, and the decline of towns on both sides of Jishui River in Shandong, represented by Qidong County.

  The source of the rich immigration sources in East Africa has also been found, which means that the sphere of influence of the Hexingen Consortium in North China was originally an economic depression in the Qing Dynasty.

  Even in the 21st century, the northern Jiangsu area is still a fault zone in the eastern coastal area, and its development is far inferior to that of the north and south. There is only one large port, Lianyungang, and the development is not ideal (compared to southern Jiangsu and eastern Shandong).

Today, the city with the best economy within the economic sphere of influence of the Heixingen Consortium is Kaifeng, and it is also the only provincial capital. However, from the east of Kaifeng to the coast, there are basically devastated areas where natural and man-made disasters coexist. Naturally, this kind of place cannot attract anyone except Western forces other than the Hexingen Consortium, after all, are much stronger than here in other regions.

  (end of this chapter)