Back then, the Xinchou Treaty created a shocking amount of 450 million taels of silver as reparations. Until 2020, this treaty was the world's highest reparations treaty. Even the treaties that were created after the two world wars were not as terrifying as the Xinchou Treaty.
The Xinchou Treaty took a total of 39 years to repay. The people responsible for the repayment had changed from the Qing Dynasty to the Daguo Party.
Speaking of which, it was truly moving. During the 39 years of Hua Xia, even during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Daguo Party insisted on repaying the debt.
At that time, there were not many countries that still wanted to repay the debt. Only one country was left, and that was Fusang.
That's right, even in 1939, the War of Resistance Against Japan had been going on for 8 years. (Counting from 1931, the War of Resistance Against Japan had been going on for 14 years) However, the Daguo Party still insisted on repaying the debt to the Fusang. We handed over the taxes that our citizens had painstakingly handed over to the Fusang to repay the debt.
Regarding this, our chairman was very proud. He said that since ancient times, there were not many people who kept their promises like him.
What he said was indeed true. In the face of an enemy that wanted to destroy the country, to insist on repaying the debt to the enemy. This kind of attitude of keeping one's promise was not something that others could do.
In the end, including various interests, the 450 million taels of silver as reparations had been repaid for 980 million taels of silver. It was enough to buy a pair of Bilibili figurines.
Returning to the main topic, the 980 million taels of silver as reparations were sent to various countries through 6 banks. They were HSBC, Dehua, Daosheng, Huili, and Zhengjin. Citibank had joined last year as the reparations agent for the United States.
Citibank also used this opportunity to enter the Hua Xia market. It could be said that they were the first United States bank to enter the Hua Xia market. They quickly set up branches in various major cities in the country. Later, they even set up a separate Hua Xia Citibank. Their relationship with Hua Xia was indeed very deep.
If Citibank was only responsible for the reparations business, it wouldn't be that bad. After all, Citibank wasn't the one who started the war.
However, after Citibank entered Hua Xia, they began to think of ways to obtain various privileges, intervene in various Hua Xia internal affairs, and even provide loans to the warlords involved in the civil war in Hua Xia.
As a price, Citibank obtained the right to intervene in various domestic industries. Using the advantages of the banking industry, Citibank plundered a large amount of funds from Hua Xia.
At the same time, the banks also recruited a large number of comprador to work for them.
In addition, Citibank was also very interested in the cultural relics of Hua Xia. The famous Liujun Stone Carvings were sent to the United States through Citibank.
In addition, Citibank even obtained the right to mint coins and could issue legal tender in Hua Xia.
Of course, Citibank wasn't the only one who did such evil at that time. The HSBC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank did even more good deeds. Many people might not believe that if it weren't for these banks, the warlords in Hua Xia wouldn't have fought.
Because the warlords needed money, and with money, they also needed weapons. So where did the money and weapons come from?
Naturally, they came from the banks. If they didn't have money, they would borrow from these foreign banks. Then, they would turn around and buy all kinds of weapons from these foreign banks to arm themselves. It seemed that the borrowed money didn't stay in their hands. It all returned to the hands of the various banks.
But how did these warlords repay the money?
Those with rich territories would mortgage the various taxes on their territories to pay for the loans. Those without territories would simply sell all kinds of minerals to these banks.
You might not believe it, but at that time, more than 90% of the various minerals that had been discovered in China had been mortgaged to the banks of various countries. All the minerals in Hua Xia belonged to other countries. If Hua Xia wanted to use the minerals mined from their own land, they had to spend money to buy them.
Later, some people estimated that if there was no new Hua Xia, then Hua Xia would have no future.
Because all the minerals in Hua Xia had been sold by the Big Fruit Party, if there was no new Hua Xia, then the chairman who kept his promise would definitely bite the bullet and admit it. Then, all the domestic resources would be deprived by foreign enterprises. The people of Hua Xia wouldn't even have the qualifications to rely on such low-end production resources to build a low-end industrial chain. How could there be a modern Hua Xia?
After all, Citibank was the only foreign bank whose name was published in middle school history textbooks. This showed how great Citibank's reputation in Hua Xia was.
Now, suddenly, there was news that the Daqian had acquired Citibank. For the people of Hua Xia, how shocked and proud were they?
This shock and pride was no less than when the Fusangpeople bought the Empire State Building.
On the United States side, the people of United States generally did not have much affection and memory for Citibank. They only thought that it was a bank that was acquired. After the shock, industry insiders began to re-evaluate the situation of the Daqian. They were all guessing how much money the Daqian had.
After all, according to their previous estimates, the Daqian should only have a few hundred million USD in cash left. However, now that they had acquired Citibank in one go, then the Daqian's cash had to be estimated from scratch.
However, this incident made more people believe that the Daqian should not have much money left at this time. Otherwise, why would the Daqian repay it in installments?
Why would they use the acquisition of Citibank to solve the debt problem?
This just showed that the Daqian actually had no money left. At the very least, they did not have 100 billion dollars to repay the debt at the time, so they had to use this unorthodox method to get out of the crisis.
But now that the crisis was temporarily over, the Daqian's cash flow crisis became even more strained after paying a large amount of cash to acquire Citibank. At this time, as long as they found a way to give the Daqian a fierce blow from the cash flow, they would definitely be able to hit the Daqian hard.
This was the opinion of many people, and it was also the opinion of Rector Morgan.
Under his leadership, the Morgan Consortium had repeatedly suffered in the hands of the Daqian. This was something that Rector Morgan absolutely could not tolerate, and it also greatly shook the foundation of Rector Morgan.
After all, Citibank was such an honest dog, but it was directly tricked into the hands of Hua Xia and became a joke. This must be Rector Morgan's command error.
But where could he continue to attack the Daqian?
Rector Morgan fell into a state of anxiety. At this time, except for Tesla, Daqian Games, Daqian Network, and Daqian Pictures, the rest of the Daqian businesses had basically bypassed the United States. Even Jia Yapeng himself had never been close to the United States. The Daqian's defense against the United States was already very tight. For a while, Rector Morgan could not find a place to start.
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