The contradictions between China and the United States in economic, political, military, scientific and technological competition are increasing, which has seriously threatened China's development and the interests of Chinese capital in the United States. American society is also clearly inclined to national conservatism, and the second anti-China movement is rising.

The living environment of Chinese people in the United States has begun to deteriorate again, and his friend Conns Vanderbilt is already dying. Song Biao has been visiting the United States for a long time. After the Singapore meeting, he stayed in California until the

Conns Vanderbilt died of illness and was buried.

Conns Vanderbilt is a legend in the United States. As the third-generation heir to the Vanderbilt family, he gradually led the family through large-scale investments in China and investments in the fields of automobiles, machine tools, steel and electrical in the United States.

He became the richest man in the United States again and established the largest bank in the United States - Bank of America.

After attending the funeral of Conns Vanderbilt, Song Biao continued to visit some of the more important states and universities in the United States, and only visited Mexico in early November 1933, and then visited Colombia along the route to South America.

Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina visited Australia until March 1934, and then visited Brunei for two days, continuing to take a boat to Thailand and Cambodia, reaching a final consensus agreement on Thailand and Cambodia's participation in the Asian League.

Song Biao's global visit this year has a very important impact on expanding China's influence around the world and expanding economic and trade cooperation. When China gradually revives itself as a world hegemony competing country with the British and American levels, China needs this.

A large-scale diplomatic activity was used to attract the attention of the world, let the world realize China's strength, and let the global media report on China's strength on a large scale.

Even if the Chinese threat theory and the misfortune theory are spread more widely in such an environment, it is better to have news than not to have news, and it is always much better to get the world's attention than to have no attention.

However, this global visit is largely like Emperor Song’s farewell performance on the international political stage.

In July 1934, the Lushan Summer Palace held the Asian Cooperation Forum, and China was officially led by China to establish the Asian Cooperation Alliance, China, Cambodia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Thailand, Brunei, Saudi Arabia

Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have become ten founding countries. The Asian League adopts the rotating chairperson setting, with the prime ministers of each member state taking turns as the rotating chairperson, and the headquarters is located in Shanghai.

Even such an important meeting was not attended in person, but the central cabinet government was responsible for it. In the two years when Ouyang Geng was about to officially step down, this would be the most important international conference in the modern history of the empire.

Emperor Song believed that the cabinet should be responsible for the opportunity, not the emperor.

This year was also the first time that Song Biao went to Chengde Summer Resort to spend the hot summer.

After the establishment of the inner court, Chengde Summer Resort was included in the scope of the imperial court assets. Although the emperor had never been here, the General Administration of the inner court continued to invest in repairs every year. One of the important things was to repair the legacy of the previous dynasties, especially

In terms of color use, all the colors with Manchuria and Shamanic characteristics and decorations are erased.

Because I have been surviving the summer heat in a natural and beautiful place like Lushan, Song Biao was still a little uncomfortable in the past two days when I first arrived in Chengde, but his children were very novel and had been traveling around the past two days.

Song Biao accompanied his family to visit various attractions in the Summer Resort.

This year was the year when he gradually faded out of imperial politics. The Central Training Council changed from once a month to once a quarter. He only needed to report to him if there were major events. He didn't care much about many things in the military.

, spend more time with your family and consider how to deal with the royal family.

China is complex.

Since the royal family has been established, it should establish long-term prestige and foundation for the royal family, and at least it should leave enough way out.

The royal family's private affairs are also a matter.

Everyone is human, and the emperor is no exception.

Everyone has many goals, and Song Biao hopes to make the imperial royal family the truly richest royal family in the world, not by collecting people's wealth.

To achieve this goal, in addition to relying on the management of talents and the improvement of the overall strength of the country, sometimes we also rely on some of the great ideas of Emperor Song himself.

The Asian Cooperation Forum in Lushan is in full swing. Although Britain and the United States have known some information about this area for a long time, when things really happen, the reaction between Britain and the United States is still very nervous.

Just as Africa and India are from the United Kingdom and America are from the United States, each company has a stable back garden. China's back garden naturally comes from Asia. With its strength developing to this point, China must first become the leader of Asia.

Only by establishing a foothold in Asia and dominating the world.

What really makes Britain and the United States worry is that China adopts the leadership method of the Asian alliance is too special. Once China succeeds, the entire Asia will be a solid piece, and the vast majority of the interests of the entire Asia will be occupied by China, but if we want to oppose it

In other words, it is difficult for both the United Kingdom and the United States to find reasons, especially China is just right in grasping the timing. At the end of the Great Depression, Britain and the United States lack sufficient energy and financial resources to interfere in this matter.

Because the planning cycle of this matter is very long and it is difficult to stop so far, Song Biao does not have much to pay attention to. Ouyang Geng is a very qualified and experienced senior prime minister, so he naturally knows that

What should be done and what should not be done.

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The temperature in Chengde is not much lower than that in Beijing, but it is built on the mountains and above the mountains, which is cool and pleasant. The surrounding mountains also block the heat from the north.

Chengde Songhezhai.

During the day, he accompanied his family in Chengde Villa for a day. At night, it was time for meals, and Song Biao went to Songhezhai to meet the new directors of the Far East Consortium.

Song Biao is about to know the destiny of heaven. The old ministers who founded the Far East Consortium in the past have retired. The new generation is mainly Chen Guangfu, Zhang Naiqi, Yan Qingling and Hu Yongtao. The times are different. The empire has many technical talents and technical types.

Industrialists are no longer common in the Far East Consortium. Most of them are born proficient in management. However, Yan Qingling and Hu Yongtao are both from science. Both of them graduated from the University of Berlin, Germany. The former studies mechanical engineering and the latter.

I am studying chemical engineering.

Chen Guangfu is the president of China Far East Holdings Corporation, the helm of the Far East ship. He personally controls the banking pillars of the Far East Financial Consortium. The other three are the general directors of each sub-consortium, and are responsible for the three sub-consortiums in the Far East.

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During this period, Chen Guangfu had completed a major change in the Far East Consortium. The Far East Consortium itself only retains stable investment industries such as finance, shipping, aviation, real estate, department stores, hotels, ports, power grids, infrastructure, railways, petrochemicals, etc.

, The financial industry has also been reorganized on a large scale, and Far East Bank has been reorganized into a non-listed private banking company, retaining its core position in the consortium, so that there is no need to publish financial reports to the public, etc., which is conducive to the consortium's strength, China Merchants Bank and

Oriental Huili Bank was reorganized, and its banking business was concentrated in China Merchants Bank, while Oriental Huili Company concentrated the insurance business of the consortium to be reorganized into Oriental Huili Insurance Company.

The entire consortium revolves around Far East Bank and China Commercial Bank, Bank of America, Bank of America, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Jinshang Bank, Credit Bank of France, Commercial Bank of Sweden, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Nanyang Bank, Bank of Korea, City Bank of Mexico, Philippine Business

More than 40 banking companies including Banks and New York Bank have implemented equity participation, controlling operations, and built a global financial network.

In the industrial field, China, Northeast Heavy Industry, Great Wall Motor, United Electronics, Changjiang Industrial and other companies are distributed in different industries, and behind it is China United Industrial Holding Corporation as the center, which also jointly holds China United Bank Company.

Through this series of changes and reorganizations, the Far East Consortium was gradually divided into two parts by Chen Guangfu over the years. One is the Far East Consortium's direct enterprise group, and the other is Zhonglian. Its characteristics are that the direct subsidiaries of the Far East Group jointly hold each other and Zhonglian Holdings.

, and Zhonglian Holdings is responsible for controlling each subsidiary, and each subsidiary then cross-holding to control Zhonglian Bank.

Between the Far East and China Connections, the two parties continue to cross-hold shares through their subsidiaries, making the entire consortium very stable and difficult to be affected by external shareholders.

During the entire Great Depression, the Far East Consortium took the opportunity to expand rapidly through large-scale mergers and shares abroad. The main business strategy was to establish new sub-consortiums in the European and American markets, and the Asian market was to expand with the Far East and China-related cross-border development in the Asian market.

Mainly, the Nanyang Consortium, European and American Consortiums and large enterprises maintain close cooperation, mergers and shares.

After thirty years of development, the two generations of general directors have made unremitting efforts.

Today, the total assets of the richest Vanderbilt consortium in the United States are only US$2.7 billion-2.8 billion, while the total assets of the Far East consortium have exceeded 40 billion yuan, which is 7 times the former.

, also equivalent to 30% of the annual GDP of the Chinese Empire.

It is still a trough period in the world economy. As the world economy gradually recovers from 1934, before World War II, the total market value of the Far East Consortium will definitely reach an astonishing level.

Wealth is a snowball. As long as you have a clear direction and principal, you will always get better and better when you roll.

For the royal family, the wealth of the Far East system is always an indispensable special force, and these wealth needs to be managed and managed by people like Chen Guangfu and Zhang Naiqi. Without their operations, wealth can only be in the bank

Just a pile of paper.

Therefore, Song Biao will personally invite these four most important general directors today.

From this day on, Song Biao also hopes that the Far East Group will begin to expand abroad on a larger scale and no longer be limited to the domestic market, so as to avoid unnecessary doubts in the future, such as making the people suspect that the royal family's wealth comes from the monopoly in China

If the royal family wants to operate an industry, it must be a more international multinational enterprise that can represent the overseas interests of the empire.

After meeting the four general directors at Songhezhai, Song Biao asked them to sit down, chatted and asked about their family matters, and waited for the imperial dining room in the inner court to prepare the dinner.

The state banquets and imperial banquets of the Song royal family are generally light and pleasant, and there are few big meat dishes, such as roasted suckling pigs and roasted whole lambs, and there are basically no such dishes as shark fins and bear's paws.

This was still the case that night.

There were only five people who had a meal, four colds and eight heats and two soups. The wine was Xinjiang dry red, Xifeng wine and Ningxia wolfberry wine, the tea was Qimen black tea, and the only precious banquet was Malayan bird's nest and Fujian abalone.

After the banquet was fully prepared, Song Biao invited the four of them to the table and have two drinks together, which was also a celebration. The Far East Consortium still suffered no losses after the Great Depression, which was a gratifying miracle in itself.

These are real royal retainers, and they are well-known to all over the country outside, and in the royal family, they are the stewards who handle property for the royal court. In fact, they do have titles such as general managers and directors of the inner court.

The royal family will also give special titles to show glory.

Chen Guangfu is a first-class baron, and the other three are Lords.

Unless it is specially granted by the emperor, the titles of the empire are generally not hereditary, and it is even rarer to obtain titles during his lifetime. The army is usually easier. Any general can be awarded a viscount at the level of the general, and the others must be for the country.

People who have made significant contributions to the nation and society, such as the education, science and technology, business, and cabinet governments, have relatively few.

Song Biao doesn't like to talk about important things during meals. Chen Guangfu and others have a lot of contact with each other and know this rule, so they only talk about some well-known interesting things in the business and business circles in the past two years. Some of them are also heard by Song Biao.

Said.

Song Biao and you all talked about some interesting things, and they had a few rounds of drinking while chatting and laughing.

Enjoying an imperial banquet in the royal family is just a very respectful honor. It is rare to have this body a few times. It would be a bit of a luxury to expect to eat enough. No one has the courage to eat at the emperor's house to take full care, let alone in front of the emperor.

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The inner court also knew that before the imperial banquet, some snacks would be arranged to provide to the banquet guests, so that they would eat roughly half full, so as not to lose their etiquette when the emperor was in the banquet.

When the emperor stopped eating more vegetables, Chen Guangfu and the others claimed that they were full, so thank you.

Anyway, this is just a courtesy. It was not a banquet that was full of money, and Song Biao would do whatever he wanted, so he ended the banquet and invited them to sit in the living room next door.

When Chen Guangfu and the others sat down again, Song Biao said to Chen Guangfu: "You have made great contributions to being able to survive this Great Depression in the past two years. Now that the economy is gradually recovering, how do you plan to operate the next step?"

Chen Guangfu replied without thinking: "This department is still mainly based on the financial industry. In previous years, it has been too concentrated on banking business. After concentrating insurance business on Oriental Huili Company in the near future, we expect the main development direction of the insurance industry in the next ten years, especially

The domestic insurance industry is not in-depth enough, and the domestic insurance industry is also in its infancy and requires more powerful consortium intervention. In terms of banking business, one of our plans is that Far East Bank focuses more on professional financial management and credit, focusing on some

Credit issuance in areas with high professionalism, while China Merchants Bank focuses on savings, credit and international trade and exchange businesses. In the international market, Far East Bank has its own system layout, and China Merchants Bank expands its business network through holding regional banks.

The main business is still concentrated in the domestic, West Asia and Southeast Asian markets.”
To be continued...