The Pope of 1889 no longer had the grandeur of being able to bestow titles to nobles. At this time, among the major countries in the world, England had a state religion, while China cut off all foreign religious interference in China's religious world. Apart from these two powers, France, as a republic, had a predictable attitude toward religion. Germany was dominated by Protestantism, while Russia and the Slavs believed in Eastern Orthodoxy. Even in Italy, when the Pope and the Vatican were banished from Rome to the Vatican, one could imagine the relationship between the Pope and the bishops and the Kingdom of Italy.
When the Diplomatic Relations Chart was drawn on the blackboard, the basic picture was very clear. The Min dynasty did not think that the Sino-American War would expand into a decisive battle between China and the white world. There was no doubt that Germany and France would not appear in the trenches opposite China at the same time.
"Is the old Pope simply coming out to make a statement, or does he have a backup plan?" Wang Mingshan did not want to discuss too much, and directly pushed the issue to a deeper level.
"Let's listen to his words and observe his actions," said Wei Wenrui, a member of the task force who came to Italy to meet up with Wang Mingshan.
Looking at the "Princess Royal," Wang Mingshan did not want to say anything. Based on the relationship between Wang Mingshan, Vézé, and Wei Changrong, Wei Changrong's eldest daughter, Wei Wenrui, had to at least ask Wang Mingshan to call her uncle. However, this did not mean that Wang Mingshan could really put on airs in front of the oldest direct female of the second generation of the Wei family. Although Wei Wenrui was a woman, she was one of the pioneers of China's financial industry in Europe. Being entrusted with the heavy responsibility of Military Governor Vaize, as a blood relative of the Wei family, the performance of the "Princess Royal" was not inferior to that of a man. Based on the tradition of the Restoration Party and the Min dynasty, the power of speech and actual performance were highly correlated. Even without mentioning the financial achievements of the thirty-year-old girl, just based on her five years of experience in Europe, Wang Mingshan could not refute the suggestion of "listen to her words and observe her actions."
Having reached a conclusion, the task force cast aside the Pope. Wang Mingshan continued to ask the next question. "Food prices in Europe are climbing. Do our comrades in Europe have any direct measures to deal with it?"
Before the outbreak of the Civil War, the southern part of the United States was a supplier of raw materials and a dumping ground for European goods. After the Civil War, the Southern United States became a raw material supplier and a dumping ground for goods from the North. The North, on the other hand, maintained its tradition of being the supplier of food to Europe.
Before the Sino-American War broke out, because of the large population in the eastern part of the United States and the rapid development of cities, food was mainly supplied to the eastern region. The commodity grain sold to Europe came mainly from the Midwest. After the Chinese Army invaded Minnesota and threatened the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes region's grain sales plummeted. After China conquered Duluth and wiped out nearly a hundred thousand American soldiers on the northern battlefront, America's food exports to Europe were immediately cut off.
Without cheap food from the United States, it was only natural that food prices in Europe began to rise. Some of the European leaders might be a little abnormal, but the businessmen who were able to survive until now were all sane. If they couldn't make a business judgment in line with the basic law, the food merchants in Europe would only be dead.
At the mention of this news, Princess Royal Wei Wenrui appeared quite proud. "Although the price of food has increased, the price of African meat we control has not increased. We also recently launched a summer promotion policy, buy five get one free. Even if the price of frozen meat in major European cities doesn't decrease, it won't increase either. "
After hearing such an answer, Wang Mingshan didn't know what to say for a moment. As a central bank official, Wang Mingshan was well aware of the results of this kind of operation against the market. This was no longer a simple competition problem, but a bidding problem of cutting one's neck.
The price of food increased, but it was impossible for the poor who couldn't afford to buy food to buy meat. The world was cruel. Why not eat minced meat was a question that only idiots would ask. But China lowered the price of meat, and consumers who couldn't afford a lot of meat could buy more than before. For these people, the increase in food prices could be compensated by a 20% drop in meat prices.
The problem was that China could supply meat at a reduced price, but the impact on European breeders with rising food prices was an increase in feeding costs. Under China's cut-throat competition, European breeders would probably have a miserable time.
When Wei Wenrui saw Wang Mingshan's expression, she immediately corrected, "Secretary Wang, don't get it wrong. We didn't propose the price reduction first."
"The Europeans lowered the price first?" Wang Mingshan felt a little puzzled.
"Yes!" Wei Wenrui nodded and replied, "Some profiteers saw that things were not right, so they began to reduce the number of adult livestock, leaving only those calves. We just followed the trend, we didn't lead. "
"Why did they do this?" Wang Mingshan was very puzzled.
"Because they know that a large number of small and medium-sized breeders are going to go out of business, and those people will inevitably lead to price cutting competition. For these experienced profiteers in Europe, rather than being attacked by others using the cut-throat battle method, it was better for them to take the lead and attack others with the cut-throat battle method. They kept the calves and killed the adult cattle in order to escape the cruel competition in this way. This group of people is cunning! "Wei Wenrui used a rather vicious tone to make an evaluation of the European meat traders at the end.
After thinking for a moment, Wang Mingshan also understood what happened. As long as one understood the simple principles of economics, one could understand the choice of a group of people to take the lead in delisting to avoid the economic crisis before the economic crisis. However, although Wang Mingshan knew about it, he did not have the slightest positive reaction. After all, he had been in China for so long. If it was in China, the country would come forward to help the breeders as much as possible through coordination and the development of the market. The China market was so big, and the city was developing so fast. As long as the price of meat was reasonable, there was no shortage of buyers. The most intuitive way for the country was to provide some guaranteed purchase through the purchase of cold storage, and then wait for the price to rise naturally.
However, in Europe, the country did not seem to have such plans at all. The entire market was frantically seeking the maximum profit on weekdays. Once there was any sign of trouble, they would immediately use all kinds of cruel means to ensure that they could survive first. Such a straightforward approach made Wang Mingshan feel quite uncomfortable.
From Wei Wenrui's answer, it could be seen that this problem did not put much pressure on China's meat suppliers to Europe. The cost of raising cattle in China's Sudan was very low, and almost all of the costs were on the transportation of frozen ships. It was said that there was a recent breakthrough in frozen ship technology, and the energy-saving effect had increased a lot, which reduced the cost of beef transportation. If there was no such foundation, Wei Wenrui would not dare to immediately launch a full-scale throat-cutting price war, and even put forward the competitive slogan of "throat-cutting".
Once this problem was solved, the next problem was the movement of the European financial industry in the United States. However, Wang Mingshan had direct information about Marquise G, so he was not too anxious to get this information from his team. Now Europe began to dump US railway stocks, and several previous financial crises started with the dumping of US railway stocks. This big sell-off was not because of the inflated US railway stocks, but because Europe generally believed that the United States would probably lose a considerable part of the railway ownership, at least for a long time without the profits of these railway companies. After China occupied US territory, there was no obligation to pay dividends to the US railway companies.
So in the past five months, first the railway stocks related to the West Coast, then the central and northern railway stocks, and Europe began to crazily dump US railway stocks. As the initiator, China ordered the European bank thugs to make a lot of money by short selling.
"Now there are people in Europe advocating to send volunteers or volunteers to the United States to participate in the war. Especially in France, "the representative in charge of the French financial industry said.
"What? Volunteers? "Wang Mingshan was very surprised.
Once this problem was solved, the next problem was the movement of the European financial industry in the United States. However, Wang Mingshan had direct information about Marquise G, so he was not too anxious to get this information from his team. Now Europe began to dump US railway stocks, and several previous financial crises started with the dumping of US railway stocks. This big sell-off was not because the US railway stocks were inflated, but because Europe generally believed that the United States would probably lose a considerable part of the railway ownership, at least for a long time without the profits of these railway companies. After China occupied US territory, there was no obligation to pay dividends to the US railway companies.
So in the past five months, first the railway stocks related to the West Coast, then the central and northern railway stocks, and Europe began to crazily dump US railway stocks. As the initiator, China ordered the European bank thugs to make a lot of money by short selling.
"Now there are people in Europe advocating to send volunteers or volunteers to the United States to participate in the war. Especially in France, "the representative in charge of the French financial industry said.
"What? Volunteers? "Wang Mingshan was very surprised.
Once this problem was solved, the next problem was the movement of the European financial industry in the United States. However, Wang Mingshan had direct information about Marquise G, so he was too anxious to get this information from his team. Now Europe began to dump US railway stocks, and several financial crises in the past started with the dumping of US railway stocks. This big sell-off was not because the US railway stocks were inflated, but because Europe generally believed that the United States would probably lose a considerable part of the railway ownership, at least for a long time without the profits of these railway companies. After China occupied US territory, there was no obligation to pay dividends to the US railway companies.
So in the past five months, first the railway stocks related to the West Coast, then the central and northern railway stocks, and Europe began to crazily dump US railway stocks. As the initiator, China ordered the European bank thugs to make a lot of money by short selling.
"Now there are people in Europe advocating to send volunteers or volunteers to the United States to participate in the war, especially in France." The representative in charge of the French financial industry said.
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