Section 1478 Mexican Silver Mine
"I don't think this matter is so easy to handle. You guys get the news that I will share the money if I make money, so can I do the same? You seem to have won dozens of government projects, don't tell me Those have nothing to do with your Skull and Bones Society. I also know that you will have hundreds of billions of dollars in income in the next ten years. Would you like to share some with us? Of course you will say that it is on your territory, So what about on my site? You have contracted a huge urban planning project in Malaysia, and I think you can make a lot of money. I wonder if this will be distributed to me? Such things are unreasonable, I You have to share the money if you make money, and I have nothing to do with you if you make money, so will you ask me to buy milk powder for your wife after giving birth?" Li Cong didn't give this guy any face at all. If all of you came out from the direct descendants of several big families, then no matter how I say it, I have a certain relationship with your ancestors, and the relationship with the person in my family. No matter what, I will give you face, but now it is different from before. Well, the current Skull and Bones forces are too complicated. Except for the fact that they are consistent in dealing with energy groups, everything else is fundamentally different. m
The guy on the opposite side was choked by Li Cong and was speechless. He never thought that Li Cong would do such a thing. In his impression, Li Cong should never be such a person. , Why is it so difficult to talk this time? They were still very clear about the diamonds in Great Russia last time. At that time, Li Cong gave hundreds of billions of dollars directly, without any hesitation. But what he didn't know was that at that time Li Cong needed the forces of the old and the United States to help them oppress Great Russia, but now it is completely different from that time, and now the two are facing each other. And this time it's not any minerals, those minerals are long-term transactions, these are all assets, and it's a matter of one hammer.
"What does Mr. Li mean is that he won't give us any face at Skull and Bones? This doesn't seem very good. If it weren't for our Skull and Bones investigation of the power of the Three-D Party, I don't think Mr. Li would have gotten so much." Assets." This guy almost didn't say that he had paid for some hard work, and the majestic Skull and Bones has reached this point, which really made Li Cong look down on them a bit. Thinking about how the Skull and Bones was like what it is now, in fact, Li Cong looked at the problem from his own standpoint. It is good to have backbone, but the losses of the current Skull and Bones in all aspects are too great. Especially the giant octopus, the big hole has not been filled up to now, and the strength of the local navy is still waiting to be improved. How can these things become an army if there is no money, and Lao Mei’s salary And tall. This is also a heavy burden. In the past, it was possible to print a large amount of US dollars, but now the financial department of the energy group is staring at them, if they increase printing. Immediately, the tens of trillions of dollars in the hands of the energy group will be thrown out directly, and the hat of the Jinyuan Empire, which has been run by the Americans for two hundred years, may directly become waste. That would be a fatal disaster for the Skull and Bones Society.
"Mr. Michael, I still say the same thing. The problem of face is that we give you each other. You didn't give me face when you did this. I don't need to give you face. These assets are indeed in your United States. Yes, although we have an agreement, I can't interrupt your energy supply, but if you do too much, don't blame me for being rude. I know very well that if I announce that you will cut off your energy supply, the entire America is going to be in chaos.
You should think about it carefully, I still have something to do here, so I won't accompany you. "After Li Cong finished speaking, he asked his subordinates to turn off the video. It was the first time in so many years that he threatened others by cutting off the energy supply. He could not use that unless it was absolutely necessary. He had a lot of assets in various places. , energy supply is the best talisman, but this thing can’t be used all the time, it should be fine to use it once in a while, but if you use it a lot, people won’t be so afraid, and if you threaten too much, they will die. Yes, everyone is not stupid.
When Michael saw Li Cong hang up the video, he immediately stood up and smashed the precious Chinese Ming Dynasty vase in front of him. Millions of RMB were just gone. Li Cong is bullying, this is power, they are old The United States started to talk about this at this time. In the past, they often used this to bully others. In the 1990s of the last world, although the United States was not an oil-producing country, most of the Middle East oil-producing countries were under their control. Here, they used this to threaten this and that at every turn. At that time, most people in the world were not less angry with them. Uncomfortable taste.
A few days later, the energy group handed over the deeds of the two commercial centers located on Fifth Avenue in New York to Skull and Bones. On Jin’s Fifth Avenue, the price per square meter here is as high as 150,000 RMB. This is still a price without a market. Basically, it will only be rented out, and no one will sell it. Satisfied, but it's better than nothing, if Li Cong continues to be tough, they have nothing to do.
Li Cong also asked people to sell all the low-yielding assets of the Three-D Party, and finally obtained 500 billion U.S. dollars in cash and trillions of U.S. dollars in fixed assets. Some of the original energy groups also found him People continue to operate, and companies that have fallen into business difficulties seem to continue to use them if they can be used. If they are useless, they will basically close their doors. The 3D Party itself is reluctant to close so many companies. But the energy group is different. They don't care about this at all. For the energy group, it is the most important thing to be able to quickly convert these robbed assets into money. As for running it for him? If the benefits are good, there is no problem, but if the benefits are not good, I am sorry.
But this matter also has a bad point, it is the family of Miss Bahrain and others. In the past, Li Cong hoped that they could replace the Three-D Party and help him continue to serve as his eyes in the United States, but now it seems that Skull and Bones has also paid attention to them. Now that the matter has just ended, they may not take a fancy to Miss Bahrain Theirs, but they'll come after them soon after. So Li Cong needs to find a place for them to stay. Li Cong himself said that he is a bit like the captain of the transport brigade. Last time, he directly transported the Qin family out. This time, he will help Miss Bahrain and the others move. But what is different this time from the last time is that Li Cong plans to buy these assets in the United States, so as not to let them suffer losses because of their eagerness to sell them, such a formal transaction. The Skull and Bones knew that there was no way for them to transfer their property, but they quickly passed a law to collect a large amount of tax money, which was impossible. They control the state machine, and if they want to charge you a little more, they can charge a little more, but Miss Baring's Morgan family still retains the best asset, Morgan Stanley, and his influence in the United States is also very high. The U.S. government is not easy to deal with them. As for their future destination, Li Cong was not asked to help them choose. They chose a place by themselves, where the power of the Morgan consortium is also very strong. And it is relatively close to this place, which is Mexico, the southern neighbor of the United States. Although it is more chaotic there now, there are enough interests in chaotic places. Everyone is very clear about this.
The United Mexican States (Spanish: s) is located in North America, bordering the United States to the north, Guatemala and Belize to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east. The capital is Mexico City. Mexico is a free market economy with modern industry and agriculture, and the proportion of private economy has also increased significantly. After the formal establishment of the North American Free Trade Area in 1994, the trade and investment exchanges between Mexico and the United States increased rapidly, which greatly promoted economic development and national income. However, the internal security in Mexico continues to deteriorate. Although the drug cartels have been hit hard, the frequent violence has endangered foreign investment in the area. Finance Minister Carstens said that the deterioration of security alone will reduce the country's annual GDP by 1%. .
With an area of 1,964,375 square kilometers, it is the third largest country in Latin America and the thirteenth largest in the world. It is located in the southern part of North America and the northwest tip of Latin America. ". It borders the United States to the north, Guatemala and Belize to the south, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California to the west. The coastline is 11,122 kilometers long. Among them, the Pacific coast is 7,828 kilometers, and the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean coast are 3,294 kilometers. There are 3.02 million square kilometers of exclusive economic zone and 358,000 square kilometers of continental shelf. The famous Tehuantepec Isthmus connects North and Central America. About 56% of the country's area is plateaus and mountains. The Mexican plateau is in the middle, flanked by the Sierra Madre Mountains on both sides, the New Volcano Mountains and the Sierra Madre del Sur to the south, and the flat Yucatan Peninsula to the southeast, with long and narrow plains along the coast. Orizaba Volcano, the highest peak in the country, is 5,702 meters above sea level. The main rivers are Bravo, Balsas and Yaqui Mexico. Lakes are mostly distributed in the intermountain basins of the Central Plateau, the largest being Lake Chapala with an area of 1,109 square kilometers. Mexico has a complex and diverse climate. The coastal and southeastern plains have a tropical climate, with an average annual temperature of 25°C to 27.7°C; the Mexican plateau has a mild climate all year round, with a temperature of 24°C in the intermountain basin and about 17°C in the higher-lying areas; the northwest inland has a continental climate. Most areas are divided into two seasons, dry and rainy, and the rainy season concentrates 75% of the annual precipitation. The average annual precipitation is less than 250 mm in the northwest, 750-1,020 mm in the interior, and 1,020-2,020 mm in the central Gulf Coast and southern Pacific Coast. Because most of the territory of Mexico is a plateau terrain, there is no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, and thousands of trees are evergreen in all seasons. The natural conditions are extremely superior, and it has the reputation of "Pearl of the Plateau".
Rich in mining resources, the reserves of 15 kinds of mineral products including gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc rank among the top in the world, mainly including gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, arsenic, bismuth, mercury, cadmium, antimony and phosphor ash Stone, lapis lazuli, graphite, sulfur, fluorite, barite, fluorspar, etc. Among them, the output of silver has ranked first in the world for many years, and it is known as the "Kingdom of Silver". The output of bismuth, cadmium and mercury ranks second in the world, the output of barite and antimony ranks third in the world, and the output of iodine and mercury ranks fourth. The forest coverage area is 45.02 million hectares. About 14% of the total area of the territory. The hydropower resources are about 10.2 million kilowatts. Seafood mainly includes prawns, tuna, sardines, and abalone, among which prawns and abalone are traditional export products. The Morgan consortium has a lot of assets in Mexico, whether it is on the surface or secretly, at least hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. This time the Morgan family wanted to move to Mexico because of the mineral resources here. Although the mineral resources here were already owned, Miss Baring believed that it would not be difficult for the Morgan family to seize them by force.
The efficiency of the Morgan family is still very fast. In the second month after that incident, everything to go to Mexico was completed. During this period of time, Li Cong also had some conversations with the current Mr. Morgan. The energy group will Publicly announced cooperation with the Morgan consortium to develop some large silver mines in Mexico.
To be honest, Li Cong didn't think much about buying and selling silver, but he had a lot of silver, and now the silver mineral in the world is at a very low level. Each gram of silver is only worth ten yuan RMB, which is one-fortieth of gold. One kilogram of platinum is only 10,202 yuan, and a meal of silver is only 10 million yuan. He didn't know what the Morgan family thought, but since they brought it up, maybe what they wanted was a superficial article, and he had to cooperate well. The Energy Group's Commerce Department quickly released this statement. It is said that they discovered a large silver mine with a reserve of over 100 million tons in Mexico. If this matter was not announced, the price of silver would still be around 10 yuan. After the announcement, it would immediately become 9 yuan. Li Congzheng I don't know what the Morgan consortium wants to do. But it's not easy for me to say no to what I promised others, just see what they want to do. Anyway, it's just a few hundred million dollars of investment, and it's not just the money to throw a few at will. Besides, the Morgan family is not that unreliable.
Mexico and Peru are established silver producers and have been among the top 5 producers for decades, if not centuries. Only in 1935, the silver production of these two countries did not squeeze into the top 5 positions in the world. Now Peru and Mexico still occupy a dominant position with their silver production accounting for 13% of the world. In fact, Li Cong knew from some historical materials that even the domestic market has undergone major changes in history because of the silver here.
Since Columbus discovered the New World, colonists have exploited a large amount of South American silver mines, and most of the world's silver is produced in this area. When the old colonialists did business with China before the Opium War, China's porcelain, silk and tea became the most sought-after goods. They did not have suitable products to open the China market, so they had to ship silver from South America to trade with China. This led to a major change in the Ming Dynasty in the traditionally self-contained currency system. Huaxia made a lot of money from overseas trade, and replaced the relatively simple standard of copper coins and paper currency in the past with a silver-copper standard. This had a great impact on the society and economy of China at that time.
First of all, China’s traditional single currency system that combines copper coins and banknotes has undergone fundamental changes. Although silver has long been a currency in the past, its attributes are mostly limited to storage, and the role of copper as a medium has not been applied. After a large amount of silver dollars from the Spanish colonies flowed into China in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the important status of silver in the Chinese monetary system was greatly improved, and the government's policy of collecting silver in taxation further enhanced the important role of silver in the social economy, resulting in silver being used in the Chinese economy. Paper money and copper coins play an irreplaceable role in transactions and government finances.
Secondly, it triggered China's self-minted silver dollar. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese currency began to change, and the imitation silver dollar was one of the changes. Silver cake is the earliest silver dollar in China, which should be imitated from foreign silver dollars.
Since the silver dollars in the Spanish colonies began to circulate in China in the late Ming Dynasty, the advantages of capitalist currencies have emerged. They conform to the laws of currency circulation, so their influence in the coast and south is expanding day by day. The Opium War brought China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and coin culture was deeply integrated into this tragedy. Since then, the Eastern Chinese monetary culture, which is comparable to the Western ancient Greek currency culture, has gradually lost its luster.
Li Cong thought that they would make a fuss about currency, but now the mainstream of the world does not use silver anymore, and countries in the world basically do not have a hard link to precious metals and currencies, let alone silver, it is gold If this thing wants to stir up the world's economy, it must be Li Cong's wealth. It is useless if it is missing. Three thousand tons of gold can stir up the world's capital market. How about replacing it with silver? 300,000 tons may not be able to do much, mainly because people in the world do not pay much attention to silver. Although industrial silver is important, there are too many silver-producing countries in the world, and they cannot They didn't even export it, Li Cong really couldn't understand what they wanted to do. (To be continued..)
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