"Mr. Lopez, can you always be good?" Qiang Quansheng said as he looked at the president of the La Plata Bank who had no trouble climbing to the Three Treasures Hall.

Mr. Lopez is the helm of this joint venture bank, and it has been four or five years since then. He was born in Venice Rialto Plaza Bank and is a qualified bank manager. In the past few years, his performance has been "excellent", thanks to the hot situation of Saint George's Trading Company representing various East Coast goods in Europe.

Qiang Quansheng knew in his heart why the other party came from this time and was mentally prepared, but he still wanted to hear what this smart banker would say.

"Yes, I am in good health. God doesn't want to serve him so early." Mr. Lopez said with great momentum. "But my career has encountered great setbacks now. The unparalleled bank La Plata is in trouble in its operation. Many merchants have cancelled their accounts in our bank, then took the money away and deposited them into the new account of the commercial clearing bank next door, because Nantie Company currently only accepts commercial paper from this bank."

"Haha, but the dilemma of the Bank of La Plata is only temporary after all. As far as I know, her business volume has actually increased day by day in recent years, because the development of the Greater Spanish market is getting deeper and Morocco's business development has also emerged. Of course, the efforts made by San Giorgio in Italy and Austria cannot be ignored. You see, such a prosperous trade has brought huge cash flow to your bank's branches in Florence, Barcelona, ​​Palermo and Innsbruck, which means a lot of benefits, right?" Qiang Quansheng asked in response to Lopez's words.

"But the growth rate has been greatly reduced." Lopez said with his big turbid eyes, "Okay. Actually, you know. My implication is not that of the bank's performance itself. I am from Genoa and also the manager of St. George's/Bank. While I manage the Bank of La Plata, I also have to take responsibility for the sharp decline in the performance of St. George's Qingdao Branch. You know what this means."

Qiang Quansheng certainly knows what this means. The main function of the Qingdao Branch of St. George's Trading Company is to import a large number of various commodities from the east coast and then export them to various markets for sale. One of the most important of these markets is the Peru market. Obviously, due to the emergence of Nantec Corporation in recent years, the smuggling trade volume of Maolin City has become larger and larger every year. The scale of the Spanish "comprador" who came to sign a purchase and sales contract with Nantec has also been better than that of day. This undoubtedly caused the income of other merchants targeting this vast market to decline year by year.

In the past, due to policy restrictions, the vast New Spain and Peru governors could only purchase various commodities from the old continent when the treasure fleet arrived every year, and were mainly concentrated in the areas of Panama and Villacross for transactions. Of course, unlike the "regular trade" represented by the treasure fleet, the "smuggling trade" in the Caribbean, which was promoted by the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Genoa, Denmark and even Spain, was larger in scale. The trade volume was even more

Ten times the "regular trade" of the treasure fleet is a great irony. This huge smuggling network is composed of foreign captains, local merchants and colonial officials. The transaction locations are concentrated in remote small ports in Panama and New Granada (Venezuela). Local merchants (many of them are Genoa merchants who have invested in plantations in the local area for many years) trade directly with foreign captains. Colonial officials turn a blind eye, and the three parties take their needs, and their business is ready.

But everything changed after the East Coast people intervened. First, the "immoral" privateer in the Caribbean, severely hit the smuggling merchants' supply of goods, and then the South Railway Company reached a smuggling trade agreement with the Spaniards in northern central Chile and Lima (of which Genoa merchants were few) and began to supply them in large quantities. Not surprisingly, these goods quickly filled the entire Chilean market and then slowly spread to the surrounding areas. After the considerable number of ships ordered by the Spaniards from the East Coast arrived (they built some of them themselves), the "Spanish Compradors" who had greatly increased transportation efficiency quickly exported the smuggled goods to a further place, which led to the rapid growth of the trade volume of Maolin City.

In other words, it may not be obvious at the beginning, but after such trade lasted for more than four years, the entire Peruvian Governor's trade center has gradually begun to shift from Panama and New Granada to Maurin City, and is showing an increasingly accelerated trend. If we look at the transportation line, it is the Peruvian Governor's trade line from the Atlantic Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the mainland. The largest ocean in the world now seems to be the back garden of the East Coast and the Spaniards. There is no violent and bad weather in the Atlantic, there are no pirates as many as ox-haired, and there are no intertwined forces of various countries. It is definitely a very good place.

With the efforts of the East Coast people, comprador groups, mainly Chile and some Lima merchants, have gradually matured and have gradually become a huge force. I believe that in time, the influence of this comprador group, mainly native whites, will become stronger and stronger, until they control the business of the entire Peru Governor's District and expel the peninsula merchants, Jewish merchants and Genoese merchants that they had long been disliked.

Now Lopez - more accurately, Saint George's Trading Company - has seen this sign because the goods they exported to Peru through the Caribbean Sea have decreased. The reason is not difficult to find out. They have been on the East Coast for so many years and still have some understanding of the almost semi-public smuggling trade carried out by the Southern Railway Company, so they quickly commissioned Lopez to come to the door.

In the face of Genoese complaints or questions, Qiang Quansheng had already thought about how to answer, because the Executive Committee had already said this. Therefore, he pretended to be pondered for a while and said, "We also see your difficulties, and are not completely indifferent. Given the good relationship between you and our country, we can consider allowing St. George's Trading Company to obtain some other compensation."

"Other compensation? For example?" Lopez rolled his eyes and asked immediately. In fact, he was very clear now that it was unlikely that the East Coast people would let the Genoese merchants, led by Saint George's business, join the ranks of the Southern Railway Company and conduct smuggling trades to Peru. Because I heard that the strong company controlled the Strait of Magellan and regarded the Southern Cone region as its own sphere of influence, and did not allow others to intervene. In the past, I could have heard that pirate ships from France, Britain and the Netherlands crossed the Strait of Magellan and entered the Southeast Pacific to rob, but since the East Coast people came here, these pirates suddenly disappeared. Isn't this enough to explain the problem?

"Your side has invested a lot in our country, and of course you know the consistent policies of our government. So I suggest you can invest in New Huaxia Island. This is also a rich tropical island with a large area, rich products, gentle people, and a good environment. You can choose to release your investment to this place. I believe that you will have great returns in the future." Qiang Quansheng threw out his plan to invest in New Huaxia Island to the Genoa people.

This plan was just agreed by the Executive Committee recently. They may be very dissatisfied with the development progress of this tropical island, or they may be guilty of the Genoese, or they may be attracted by the Genoese's strong resource allocation ability, so they are now starting to encourage the Genoese to invest in New China. As for the investment method, it is naturally a model of the Southwest Railway, that is, the Genoese people produce people, produce goods and a small amount of funds, and then develop them at New China Island with the cooperation of the East Coast people. The benefits obtained are distributed to the East Coast people in a pre-arranged ratio. This benefit is one that increases the output of this tropical island, the other that enriches the local population (the pioneers brought by Genoa capital are basically equivalent to being given to the East Coast people), and the third that it provides sufficient raw materials for the industrial development of the East Coast. In short, the benefits are extremely numerous.

Lopez was unexpectedly proud of Qiang Quansheng and actually gave such a suggestion. He was speechless for a moment, and was obviously quickly judging the gains and losses.

Qiang Quansheng smiled slightly when he saw this, and then continued, "In addition, you can fully develop 'self-rescue'. As far as I know, Genoa Capital represented by the Saint-George's business, whether in Havana, Villacruz, Bello or Lima, has abundant capital and a large number of professional business personnel. You can completely transfer your focus to Chile in the south. I can hereby promise that as long as you set up a store in Maolin City, we can give the other party a certain degree of priority to the purchase of goods. You can import a large amount of supplies from here and then transport it to the New Spain Governor's District, which has not yet been occupied in large quantities. I know that you have deep connections and a commercial network that has been operating for hundreds of years. This is not difficult for you, and others cannot compete with you in this matter at all, so why not do it?"

To be honest, Qiang Quansheng's suggestion was quite pertinent. From the day when the Genoese sponsored Columbus' voyage (the money that Isabella of Aragon sponsored Columbus was paid by the Genoese bankers), they followed the Navigator to trade in the New World, and it has been hundreds of years since then.
Chapter completed!