The Rebirth of the Financial Hegemon

When Zhao Jiangchuan received the news from France, it was already half a month after He Tianya left.

Darkwater got off to a rocky start.

Language and race color make dark water’s development abroad many obstacles.

Fortunately, the personnel in Dark Water have received professional military training, and most of them eventually passed the recruitment screening of the French military.

Those who fail to pass will stay in mainland France and slowly expand the influence of Dark Water.

This is Darkwater’s preliminary plan.

Join the foreign corps first and let all personnel see blood on the battlefield to grow quickly.

The dark water grown in this way can be put to great use in the future.

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If Darkwater wants to gain a foothold abroad, it needs subsequent capital input.

It is not easy to develop power abroad. Whether it is weapons and equipment or attracting new members, a huge amount of funds is required.

Due to domestic capital controls, Darkwater International does not carry much capital with it when it goes out.

Subsequent capital input can only fall on Zhao Jiangchuan.

But this is not a difficult problem for people like Zhao Jiangchuan who play with capital.

Times have changed, but the essence of people's pursuit of interests remains unchanged.

Zhao Jiangchuan has too many ways to transfer funds out of the country, which are legal and safe.

The safest and fastest way is to ask a foreign bank for help.

Standard Chartered Bank.

It is a global bank.

The business is concentrated in emerging markets such as Asia, the subcontinent, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

The main business includes retail banking services such as mortgages, investment services, credit cards and personal loans, etc., and commercial banking services including cash management, trade financing, capital and custody services.

Standard Chartered Bank Group has 600 branches around the world, covering 56 countries around the world.

But what is interesting is that Standard Chartered Bank operates in many countries, but has very few customers in the UK.

More than 90% of Standard Chartered Bank's profits come from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

With the power of a global foreign bank like Standard Chartered, there are naturally many ways to safely transfer domestic funds abroad.

Standard Chartered Bank opened its first branch in Shanghai in 1858. It has been operating in China for nearly 150 years and has become the oldest foreign bank in China.

Robert Baden-Powell is the current top executive of the Standard Chartered branch in Shanghai.

After Zhao Jiangchuan brought Fang Zhongyuan to the door, as the highest-level VIP customer of Standard Chartered Bank, Robert came out to receive Zhao Jiangchuan in person.

Robert, the original Englishman.

He has a hooked nose, blue eye shadow, yellow hair, and a big beard.

After Zhao Jiangchuan explained his intention, the British banker looked embarrassed.

"Mr. Zhao, you are a senior VIP customer of our bank. Logically speaking, we should try our best to meet your requirements. However, this matter is very difficult to handle. You also know that your country is very strict in terms of foreign exchange control.

We also need to be regulated..."

"Really? In recent years, the amount of funds invested in the mainland from Hong Kong alone has been very large. Don't tell me you don't understand how to operate it."

Late eighties to nineties.

Far-sighted businessmen from all over the world have discovered the opportunity for China to take off.

In addition to China's huge population base, a large part of the reason for this opportunity is that China has been at peace for nearly two decades.

Twenty years is very important for a big country.

In addition, unlike other countries, China treats foreign investment very favorably in terms of policies.

With various policy benefits, many courageous funds have begun to invest in mainland China.

It was during that era that prices in Hong Kong soared.

The continuous surge in real estate prices has made the manufacturing industry with low technical content struggling to cope, and labor unions have repeatedly defended their rights, causing labor costs to surge.

A large amount of money began to be transferred to the mainland in order to save production costs.

Every year, the funds invested in the mainland alone exceed 10 billion Hong Kong dollars.

These funds were used to build factories in major coastal cities and recruit workers to develop enterprises. The Chinese people's hard work allowed them to receive huge rewards.

With the first person to eat crabs, more funds will be attracted to settle in.

From several billion per year in the early days to nearly 100 billion per year later, countless overseas funds began to pour into China, a country that was about to take off.

This was also the prototype of one of the earliest sweatshops.

Batteries, textile factories, electronics factories, and other factories with extremely low technical content or various hazards all flooded into the mainland during that era.

But for the Chinese people back then, it was undoubtedly very tempting to get an income of 300 yuan a month.

At that time, the per capita income in Hong Kong had already exceeded HK$20,000.

The Chinese people are the most hardworking human beings in the world.

Even if they need to work more than fourteen hours a day, even if many jobs contain highly toxic substances.

They always have no complaints.

But businessmen are always pursuing profits, and they choose to hide the dangers of their jobs.

Cadmium poisoning, lead poisoning, pneumoconiosis, and other mass occupational diseases that later broke out were all hidden dangers laid down at that time.

However, it was precisely because of the large amount of overseas funds stationed at that time that China truly took off and mastered trillions of dollars in foreign reserves.

We also have the capital to engage in international dialogue.

When large sums of overseas capital flow into the mainland, banks like Standard Chartered will inevitably be one of the channels through which overseas capital flows.

Zhao Jiangchuan knew very well that Robert's embarrassment was all fake, and his purpose was nothing more than wanting higher returns.

If it is as difficult as he said, black money from various channels will not flow from the mainland to overseas so easily.

After hearing Zhao Jiangchuan's last words, Robert looked unhappy.

"Mr. Zhao, I don't understand what you mean. Standard Chartered is a legal bank in the world. I don't understand the operation you are talking about."

legitimate?

Zhao Jiangchuan laughed endlessly.

It is a big joke in the world for banks to speak openly and openly about the law.

But Robert is right. Banks do abide by the laws, but this does not mean that bankers will abide by the laws.

"Luobotou, don't you want to hear how much money I want to spend?"

Carrot head?

Robert's face darkened.

He has been in China for so many years and can speak Chinese. How could he not know that Robert and Luobotou are completely different things?

On purpose, he must have done it on purpose.

The Chinese pronunciation of Robert and Luobotou are completely different.

Robert felt insulted.

For a British person of orthodox birth, it is a great insult to have one's surname made fun of.

Even though Britain today is no longer the British Empire of the past, for Robert, a pure-bred Englishman, he still cannot accept this kind of insult.

How much money can an authentic Chinese person have?

In Robert's view, Zhao Jiangchuan is nothing more than a creature called an upstart in China. With a little money, he doesn't take people seriously.

Robert has already estimated Zhao Jiangchuan's assets.

In Standard Chartered's account, Zhao Jiangchuan once had a record of recording a maximum of 420 million.

But he couldn't transfer all the money.

Besides, that 400 million was a long time ago. Whether Zhao Jiangchuan has that much money now is another matter.

I am afraid that in the eyes of the indigenous people in such extremely poor areas, they think that they can buy the earth with just a few hundred million yuan.

Zhao Jiangchuan's arrogant tone made Robert no longer want to maintain any gentlemanly demeanor.

"Zhao, how much money do you want to spend? One hundred million or two hundred million?"

Robert's words were quite polite, but his changed title and the sarcasm in his words could be heard by anyone who was not a fool.

Zhao Jiangchuan naturally heard it.

He raised his eyebrows and said calmly.

"One hundred million."

One hundred million?

A mere 100 million, but this guy is so arrogant.

As expected, he is a nouveau riche from a country bumpkin family and has never seen any money.

One hundred million yuan, based on the current exchange rate difference of one to eight, is just over ten million US dollars.

For a banker who came from an aristocratic background, this was nothing.

Having been called a carrot head by Zhao Jiangchuan before, Robert had already been holding back his anger.

He sarcastically said again.

"Just 100 million?"

"Yes, it's just 100 million. Well, I forgot to mention it. It's US dollars, 100 million US dollars."