Beiyang reactionaries

"Prime Minister, there is actually a way to greatly reduce the current debt."

"Oh?"

Duan Xun immediately looked at Wang Yongjiang.

"any solution?"

"Japan issued a large amount of war bonds for this war. We don't know the exact amount, but preliminary statistics should have issued about 3 million pounds of bonds. About three-quarters of them were issued in Europe, while Shanghai and Tianjin issued bonds. About [-] million silver dollars in war bonds. Foreign banks and foreign businessmen in Shanghai and Tianjin, including many of our own, have bought a large amount of Japanese war bonds.”

Japan was going to fight this time.

Just look at the size of the war bonds they issued, about £3 million in bonds.What is the scale? 3 million pounds is nearly four times the current fiscal revenue of China.The gold content of the current British pound is very high, and [-] million pounds can be exchanged for more than one billion silver dollars.The fact that Japan has issued so many war bonds shows their ambitions.

Japan's goal in this war is to completely defeat the Chinese army, and even the Ministry of the Army has made plans to invade Beijing, the capital of China.In this war, Japan wants to take China down completely and take away all the achievements of China's development over the years.But things didn't go as they expected.

The money was borrowed.

But Japan has not used up so much money, not even one-third of it.Even before some of the money returned to Japan, it was hit by a major earthquake.The current situation is that Japan does not want these war bonds, because the war is no longer needed.Especially these war bonds have such high interest rates, they don't even want them.But those who bought the war bonds would not agree either.

why.

Do they still want to charge interest?

Especially those bankers in Europe, what they want is high interest rates, how can they let Japan want it if they want it, and don't want it if they don't want it.

"You mean we have those war bonds? Offsetting those loans?"

"Yes."

"But where do we get those bonds?"

Duan Xun frowned.

This idea is not bad.

But those who can buy those Japanese war bonds are all banks and rich people.The Chinese government does not have these things in its hands.

But Wang Yongjiang didn't speak, because he had finished what he had to say.What happened next was not what he should say.At this time, Dong Kang said: "Prime Minister, we are currently clearing the assets of the Kailuan Coal Mine. Nathan has also purchased war bonds issued by Japan. The amount is huge. It is a full 1000 million pounds."

"Fifty million pounds?"

"Yes."

rich.

That's all I can say.

Relying on the Kailuan Coal Mine, Nathan became a world-class rich man.It is estimated that the Nathan family may even have a chance to enter the top ten richest people in the world.It has the ability to buy a huge sum of 1000 million pounds of Japanese war bonds.Duan Xun suddenly looked at Wang Yongjiang, and somewhat understood what Wang Yongjiang meant.

Yes.

Japan has issued so many bonds in Tianjin and Shanghai, someone must have bought them.Except for the merchants and banks of those great powers, the rest were bought by Chinese merchants.

They are all jealous of Japan's high-interest war bonds.

They all think the same.Thinking that Japan will surely win, there will be no problems with war bonds.That's why so many war bonds were bought.

It is estimated that these people have a lot of war bonds issued by Japan.

"Mr. You, send someone to investigate and find out who bought Japan's war bonds."

"Yes."

Duan Xun has not had the energy to investigate these so far.

But now that the situation is stable, Duan Xun also wants to know what to do.Who actually dared to buy Japanese war bonds during the Sino-Japanese War?

This is no small thing.

Those were war bonds.You buy Japanese war bonds, in other words you support Japan's war.They are all betting that Japan can win.

An act of blatant treason.

Duan Xun needs to know who it is.The war bonds issued by Duan Xun were sold for about 700 million silver dollars in the end, but the bonds issued by the Japanese sold 40 million pounds, more than [-] times that of the bonds issued by Duan Xun.Now Duan Xun needs these war bonds issued by Japan, and Duan Xun needs these to offset the debt to Japan.

So put your eyes on those people.

"Premier Wang (Wang Yongjiang), the interest on these war bonds is higher. If we offset each other, will we lose more."

"It is true in terms of interest. However, one is a war bond and the other is a normal commercial loan. The risks are different. Now Japan is considered defeated and a major earthquake has occurred. Therefore, it is more difficult for them to cash out the war bond. , I don’t know what year and month. Even if Japan cashes out the war bonds, it will take a long time. Maybe one day in the future, Japan will lose the money. Therefore, it is better to use the money directly to offset the loan, so that we owe Japan The loan amount will be greatly reduced.”

"Well. You're right, use these war bonds to offset the loan."

Duan Xun made the final decision.

As for how to collect these war bonds, there are many ways.Duan Xun, a European and American businessman, can't move, but Duan Xun has plenty of ways to deal with those domestic rich.

Even if no other bonds were obtained, the 1000 million pounds of bonds in Nathan's hands alone could offset the loan of hundreds of millions of silver dollars.

Not bad.

After talking about Japan's debts, Duan Xuncai returned to the question of lifting the ban.Said: "The ban? It can be lifted. The ban was issued at the beginning because the two sides were at war. Now that the two sides have ended the war, of course the ban must be lifted. But they must use gold, silver, British pounds, and US dollars, or use what we need We don’t accept other machines and equipment. We don’t accept Japanese yen in particular.”

"Yes."

"Control things like coal, iron ore, and pig iron for me. If Japan wants to restore their industry, they will need a lot of resources. In the future, don't give Japan those cheap resources, as much as it should be."

How much money has China lost over the years.

Coal, iron ore, pig iron, and other resources are provided at cheap prices, and China provides them at cheap prices.Japan relied on these cheap resources to develop their industries.

But not now.

Duan Xun will not provide them with cheap resources.Japan is a resource-poor country, and all the resources it needs must be imported.The import of so many resources costs a lot of money every year.

In the future, if China wants to make money, it still depends on the resources imported from Japan.

"Prime Minister Wang, after the lifting of the ban, you should discuss the issue of tariffs on both sides and the price of materials with several departments. Then negotiate with Japan and come up with a result."

"Yes."

"Tomorrow's Concession Recovery Ceremony I will personally attend. When I am not in Beijing, Premier Dai, you will be in charge of the work of the cabinet."

"Yes."

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"Minister Pan, please sign."