Beiyang reactionaries

"Elder Chen."

"Elder Lin."

"Elder Chen."

"Lin Sheng."

Cars one after another came to a light red building in the northeast of Sembawang.This building is not a high-rise building, but a small three-story building.But don't look at this building as so ordinary, but this building is the headquarters of the Nanyang Branch of the Overseas Chinese Federation.

Several people stood in front of the building to greet them.

After many people got out of the car, they greeted the people in front of the building very politely, especially the two people standing at the front.Then I entered the building. At about nine o'clock in the morning, there were already cars in front of the building.Because there is no place to park, many cars are parked more than 200 meters away.Such a grand event is rare in the Sembawang area.

Because at present, those who can take a car are all the wealthy class.It is of course very surprising that there are so many rich people suddenly pouring into such a small place.

Everyone came to the third floor of the building, because there is a conference room on the third floor that can accommodate more than 100 people.Although it doesn't look small, it still looks crowded because of the many people coming.

"Everyone is here, let's get started."

A man in his fifties, wearing a plain gray long coat, presided over the parliament.This person is Tan Kah Kee, the minister of the Nanyang Branch of the Overseas Chinese Federation.

Tan Kah Kee's reputation is not small.

He is the richest man in Nanyang, with amazing financial strength.At present, how many rich people in the Nanyang region used to work in Tan Kah Kee's company.Later, when they came out to start a business, they all got the support of Tan Kah Kee.Therefore, Tan Kah Kee is definitely the overlord in the Nanyang economic circle.

Not to mention that Tan Kah Kee's relationship with the domestic government is also quite good.Although the people here are all Nanyang tycoons, many of them have a lot of connections with China.But there are not many people who can meet and talk alone with Duan Xun, a political strongman, and Tan Kah Kee is one of them.

Every time Tan Kah Kee returns to China, as long as he goes to Beijing once, Duan Xun will find time to meet with Tan Kah Kee.Few Nanyang businessmen can obtain this kind of treatment.

Most of the current Nanyang Chinese and overseas Chinese came from China. They all accepted Chinese culture and have a strong idea of ​​official standard.Therefore, people like Tan Kah Kee naturally have political advantages in front of Nanyang businessmen.

"I think everyone is clear. Since the U.S. stock market plummeted, the U.S. economy has fallen into chaos, which has caused major problems in the world economy. I think everyone has felt this. It is difficult to do business this year, orders have decreased rapidly, and prices have also dropped rapidly .According to the current situation, it is impossible for this situation to end in a short period of time. Today’s meeting is to discuss how we should deal with the current situation.”

The economic crisis has come.

These Chinese businessmen in Nanyang suddenly became difficult to do business.Needless to say, orders have decreased, and prices have fallen too fast.Because the Nanyang region mainly provides raw materials, the price of raw materials is the first to be affected by economic problems.Just two years ago, the price of natural rubber in Nanyang was 200 Latcoins per load (2 catties), which means that a catty of natural rubber was 0.2 Latcoins, worth about [-] pounds.Nanyang's annual natural rubber turnover exceeds [-] million pounds.

This is the reason why Nanyang merchants have become the richest people in the world.

Most of the natural rubber in Nanyang is controlled by Chinese businessmen in Nanyang, and the market worth hundreds of millions of pounds every year is controlled by Chinese businessmen.Of course these Chinese businessmen are rich.Top tycoons like Tan Kah Kee, who had assets of tens of millions of pounds at their peak, were able to enter the top of the world's richest list.

Unfortunately, the economic crisis hit the rubber industry hard.At present, the price of natural rubber in the world has dropped rapidly, and it has dropped to 60 lak coins per load, which means that the price of natural rubber has plummeted by [-]% within half a year.And this is not over, the world's natural rubber prices continue to fall, almost one price a day.

The all-time lows are yet to come.

Historically, the price of natural rubber has been falling. At the lowest point, the price of a load of rubber reached 10 lakhs, which was one-twentieth of the peak.Such sluggish natural rubber prices have caused numerous Nanyang Chinese merchants to go bankrupt.Many bigwigs known as "rubber kings" also went bankrupt in the process.Because their rubber industry is too large, they will lose more than those small rubber merchants.Even a tycoon like Tan Kah Kee spun off his rubber industry because of this economic crisis in history.

Although it has not yet reached the worst time, these people have felt the coming of winter.

"Before that, let me introduce a few people to you."

There is a rostrum above Tan Kah Kee, and the people sitting on it are all heavyweights.Some people you know, some people you don't.The few people I know are rich in Nanyang.

For example, Lin Yishun, the vice chairman of the Overseas Chinese Federation, a famous revolutionary party among the Nanyang Chinese businessmen, and known as the "Pineapple King" of Sun Yat-sen's pocketbook; Huang Yizhu, the former sugar king of Indonesia; Chen Liushi, the Nanyang rubber king.These people are all world-class rich men, and they are the leading figures among the Nanyang Chinese businessmen.

Just like Huang Yizhu, the Indonesian sugar king, his assets were nearly 3000 million US dollars as early as ten years ago.In the past ten years, Huang Yizhu's main investment has been in China, and his domestic investment has exceeded 2000 million US dollars.In the past ten years, China's cities have developed rapidly, and Huang Yizhu has also made a lot of money in the middle.Up to now, no one can guess how much Huang Yizhu's assets are.

But the few people next to them are not familiar to everyone.

"This is Minister Lu Zuofu of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Republic of China. This is Mr. Bei Zuyi, Vice President of Bank of China and Director of the Administration of Foreign Exchange.

The new Congress, the new cabinet, and the national government affairs system have also undergone many adjustments.For example, Yan Huiqing was transferred from Shanghai to Beijing as the deputy prime minister, and Li Zhanyang, the former director of the State Administration of Taxation, went south to Shanghai to serve as the mayor of Shanghai.Lu Zuofu, the former governor of Yunnan, was transferred to Beijing to serve as the minister of the newly established Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade in the cabinet.

This trip to the south was led by Lu Zuofu.

Many Nanyang Chinese businessmen below were greatly surprised.Although Nanyang Chinese businessmen have a deep relationship with China, many people invest in China.But those who can really get in touch with high-level domestic government or financial bosses are a minority after all.Everyone is not familiar with the few domestic political and financial industry leaders who came today.

But just by listening to the introduction, you can tell that these people are very powerful.Everyone has heard the news that senior government officials from China have come to Singapore.After all, if senior Chinese government officials want to go south, they must notify the British government. With their consent, the news cannot be concealed.

It's just that I didn't expect the strength of the people who came here to be so good.

Lu Zuofu and the others are not familiar with them. After all, they have been in the government affairs system, and they lived in Yunnan a few years ago.That is, some businessmen in French Indochina had heard of Lu Zuofu, the young governor of Yunnan.

But the rest of the people are completely different.

Bei Zuyi is in charge of China's foreign exchange reserves. How could these Chinese businessmen have never heard of his name.After all, the foreign exchange they use to enter and exit China must go through the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.As for Xi Demao, let alone.

Not to mention the great reputation of their Xi family in China's financial field, the China Commercial Bank developed by Xi Demao alone has dealt with a lot of Chinese businessmen.At present, there are not a few banks in China that have obtained the foreign exchange exchange business license of the Bank of China, but the current leaders in the field of foreign exchange exchange in China are China Commercial Bank and HSBC.

Compared with HSBC, which has a long history and strong strength, China Commercial Bank has not been involved in the foreign exchange business for a long time, but it is currently the leader in China's foreign exchange business, overwhelming the established bank HSBC.Therefore, Shidmao is a well-known role in China's financial industry.

Then came Chen Guangfu.

After Chen Guangfu's Shanghai Savings Bank was annexed by the Savings Bank of China, he began to serve as the vice president of the Savings Bank of China and the general manager of the Shanghai Branch.After he joined the Savings Bank of China, his strategy of attracting small customers allowed the Shanghai Branch of the Savings Bank of China to develop rapidly in a short period of time, quickly tearing a crack in the Shanghai financial market and gaining a firm foothold in Shanghai.At present, the savings of the Shanghai Branch of the China Savings Bank exceeds 20 billion, which is no worse than the Gyeonggi region, the home of the China Savings Bank.

Not only that, Chen Guangfu opened up a new business for China Savings Bank, which is the insurance business.He established the Sihang Insurance Company under the Savings Bank of China, which was named after the predecessor of the Savings Bank of China, "Northern Sihang".

With his excellent skills, Sixing Insurance Company developed rapidly.In order to raise funds for China's industrial investment and infrastructure investment, the Bank of China has great restrictions on the loans of its subordinate banks and stipulates the whereabouts of bank loans.90% of the loan must be subject to state orders.Most of them have to go into national industrial investment and infrastructure investment.

So Chen Guangfu found another way.

Insurance is still a new thing in China. The Bank of China lacks supervision on the insurance industry, and there is no policy in this regard.Therefore, Chen Guangfu seized this opportunity.He started with the insurance industry, so that the insurance company's funds can be invested according to his own ideas.The funds of the Four Bank Insurance Company came in large amounts to support the urban expansion of Shanghai.In the end, amazing profits were obtained, which made the Savings Bank of China develop rapidly.

It was also because of Chen Guangfu's achievements that Chen Guangfu was transferred to OCBC Bank.

Although OCBC Bank was initiated by the sugar king Huang Yizhu, it later received financial support from the Chinese government, as well as a large number of domestic tycoons and Nanyang Chinese businessmen.At present, the Chinese government and China's major banks have a high shareholding ratio, so they can appoint new bank presidents.

"These are the people that the government has traveled south to help us deal with the current situation."

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"Everyone, the economic crisis is coming so fiercely that everyone is caught off guard. Not only you are caught off guard, but even our government is also caught off guard. Everyone has never thought that such a thing will happen, so everyone is not prepared. Recently, the natural rubber in the international market Prices and sugar prices have plummeted, and orders are also falling, and the government has received feedback on these situations."

Lu Zuofu, as Minister of Foreign Trade, served as the head of the southward delegation.

Therefore, after Tan Kah Kee briefly said the opening remarks, he listened to everyone's opinions, and finally walked up.In fact, it is more difficult for everyone to communicate at the implementation stage.

Because the current national language popularity is not high.

In China, even the national language is not fully popularized in the government affairs system, let alone the Nanyang region.At present, Nanyang merchants are mainly descendants of Fujian and Guangdong.Therefore, most of them speak Hokkien, followed by Hakka, Cantonese and so on.

Many people do not speak Mandarin.

Therefore, when the meeting is held, there is also an interpreter here.For what Lu Zuofu said, some people need to translate for them.Tell them what Lu Zuofu meant.Lu Zuofu also took care of these people, and he didn't speak fast, and would stay for a few seconds after a sentence was finished, so that those people had enough time to "translate".

"Received the report that the Chinese businessmen in Nanyang were impacted by the economic crisis. Premier Duan personally held the Prime Minister's Office Meeting to discuss the solution. After the Prime Minister's Office Meeting, the government believed that overseas Chinese and the motherland are compatriots connected by blood. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, overseas Chinese It has made great contributions to the development of the country. Now the overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese have something to do. The government cannot ignore it. The government should become the strongest backing for overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese. After the prime minister's office meeting, the cabinet passed a series of decisions to support the overseas Chinese. I hope to help overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese to tide over the difficulties. President Bei, please start talking."

"it is good."