Chapter 1858 Sharing Wealth

Although this event organized by Haihan Bank was already a sensational event in post-war Seoul, it was still a bit crude in the eyes of Haihan. If it were operated according to Haihan’s standard celebration content, then Haihan Bank Seoul

The opening of Semicolon probably won't end so hastily. At least there will be a dragon and lion dance parade that goes around Seoul.

However, North Korea does not want Haihan to be too high-profile in publicizing this matter. After all, several bank accounts in Seoul have official or even royal backgrounds. Not everyone is happy to see Haihan.

The bank opened in Seoul. If Kim Sang-hyun and Choi Ming-gil hadn't both appeared, the scene might not have been completed so smoothly today.

For ordinary North Koreans, the country's banks are naturally more reliable, but Haihan has very rich experience in banking operations. His preferred customers are not ordinary people, but businessmen and merchants who have a large amount of funds.

The powerful and powerful use these upper-class people in society to drive the bank's business.

The way Haihan Bank proved its strength was also very simple and rude. It invited the distinguished guests present today to the vault located in the second entrance yard and showed them the gold and silver that had just arrived here a few days ago.

Any language modification is not as effective as the visual impact brought by the gold bars and silver ingots piled up on the entire wall here. Even for high-ranking officials like Kim Sang-hyun and Cui Ming-gil, who do not put money in their eyes, but

It was the first time in my life to face so much gold and silver property, and my heartbeat could not help but speed up. As for the businessmen standing in the back row, their eyes were shining and their saliva was about to flow out.

"Everyone, seeing is believing. Real money cannot be deceived. I wonder if there is any other bank in Seoul that can compete with us in terms of funds? Strong funds mean safety. This is the truth to me.

I believe that all the distinguished guests present understand that whether it is depositing or lending, we welcome you to open an account with our bank. As for the specific procedures, you can consult the staff here later. If you find it inconvenient and need special services

For guests, we can also handle it at their doorstep.”

After the public ceremony, Mei Baiji felt much more relaxed, and he felt much more relaxed when he introduced the advantages of the bank to the guests. For the potential customers present, they had not yet experienced the operation of Haihan Bank.

Before the advancement of methods, the most intuitive comparison item is the amount of funds. However, private banks and banks are at a disadvantage in all aspects, even those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are backed by salt merchants, grain merchants, and maritime merchants with strong funds.

Qianzhuang still cannot compare with Haihan in this project.

However, North Korean officials, who lack professional financial knowledge, did not realize what the massive funds held by Haihan Bank meant, nor did they think that such an institution might affect the direction of North Korea's domestic funds in the long run. Even those who have always been scheming

Kim Sang-hyun could not imagine that the various functions performed by Haihan Bank could even achieve goals that could not be achieved in war.

It is difficult for North Korean officials who have not been to the territory of Haihan to have a first-hand experience of how rich Haihan is. However, after visiting the vault of Haihan Bank here today, they can confirm that the rumors are indeed true. Some people have already

I started to think about it, maybe depositing money in an institution opened by Haihan people to earn interest is also a good way to manage money. After all, the deposit interest rate announced by Haihan Bank is far higher than that of domestic banks.

However, although the financial management method of saving money and earning interest is stable, it is not very profitable. The information sent by Haihan Bank to these large customers also has other methods with higher returns, such as the bonds that will be issued for industrial cooperation projects, and the interest rate is

It is much higher than the deposit. If even this cannot meet the investment needs of some customers, you can also ask Haihan Bank to provide a tailor-made investment plan, and it is not a problem to invest funds overseas.

Since the North Korean officials present do not belong to the same camp, some topics regarding the transfer of benefits cannot be discussed too deeply and can only be touched upon. Those who are truly interested can naturally consult the bank for detailed information later.

Mei Baiji booked a restaurant in the city in advance to host a luncheon for the distinguished guests present today. The heavyweight guests at this banquet were two opinion leaders in North Korean official circles.

It’s interesting to say that although the two men had very different opinions on the matter of confronting the Qing Dynasty, their political opinions on how to cooperate with Haehan after the war were similar. Kim Sang-heon had been dragging his feet in the negotiations, but in fact he was only cooperating with King Li Jie

intention, and did not raise any objections. Although Cui Mingji participated in the negotiations under the banner of opposition, everyone soon realized that he was not here to oppose this cooperation plan, but to defend himself in the future.

To gain a seat in the negotiations and subsequent implementation, Kim Sang-heon and his faction will not be allowed to monopolize the many benefits that this cooperation plan will bring.

Because Kim Sang-hyun had previously led the introduction of Hae-Han reinforcements to fight against the Qing Dynasty, he had won unprecedented prestige in North Korea's domestic political arena, as well as the full trust of King Li Jie. Coupled with Hae-Han's support, he was already in competition with Cui Mingji.

had a clear upper hand. However, Cui Mingji seized the opportunity given by King Li Zhu and used his research results on the cooperation plan as the content of the negotiation. He won the favor of the Haihan people in a very short period of time and regained his position.

Arrive in the middle of the stage.

But for Haihan, since the interest groups represented by these two people are willing to promote the industrial cooperation plan, the best situation is for them to temporarily stop their internal fighting and first convince the king to sign the cooperation agreement so that the plan can be implemented as soon as possible.

to the implementation stage.

As for the struggle between the two factions, Haihan believes that it is not impossible to resolve. If the two parties have common interests, perhaps the political situation will change in the future. As for where these common interests lie, the opening of Haihan Bank may be

The situation will gradually become clearer.

Perhaps due to the impact of the opening of the Seoul branch, the negotiation process between the two parties became smoother, and some originally controversial content was reached with the concessions made by the North Korean side. By late August, the two sides had reached agreement.

Preliminary agreements have been reached for the cooperative development of several major projects.

According to the agreement, Haihan will build a large-scale shipyard at the Datong River base to accept the construction tasks of civilian, commercial, and military ships. As part of the military assistance, in the future, Haihan will be contracted by North Korea to contract materials and labor.

Exploration-class and expedition-class warships of export models are built here, and then equipped to the North Korean Navy fleet to enrich the maritime armed forces.

In addition, Haihan will build a vast salt field on the coastal tidal flat north of the mouth of the Datong River. Its production scale is even expected to be comparable to the Yinggehai salt field with the largest output under Haihan's rule - of course, North Korea

It may take several years of construction for this salt farm to reach the same production scale. The salt produced here will mainly be supplied to North Korean officials at low prices. Although it has not been explicitly mentioned in the agreement, it actually exists

It is possible to use part of it as official salt.

The first mine selected by Haihan in North Korea was also very close to the Datong River base. It was on the south bank of the estuary. The straight-line distance between the two places was only fifty miles. In later generations, this place was a place that was greatly

Large-scale open-pit mining of iron ore is also very suitable for the mining technology of this era. In addition, there is a phosphate mine not far to the north of the Taedong River base, which can also be mined. As for coal, which has a wide range of uses, it is convenient near Pyongyang.

There are many mines that are already being mined. It is cheaper to purchase them directly from North Korea than to mine them yourself. In addition, Haihan's own professional and technical personnel are limited, so we will no longer consider them for the time being.

For these three industries alone, Haihan is expected to gradually employ more than 30,000 people from North Korea as the development progresses. This number may increase after the production is put into operation. By then, if we also count the number of employees for Haihan inside and outside the Datong River base,

If there are working Koreans, there may be 40,000 to 50,000 Koreans working for Haihan in the Taedong River Basin alone.

This is only the population engaged in front-line labor. If we take into account that the output of these industries is almost all sold in North Korea, then the number of North Koreans who rely on Haihan for their livelihood is far more than this. As for obtaining benefits from it

How many officials and dignitaries there are, it is even more difficult to calculate a more accurate figure now.

The benefits that North Korea has gained from this are also obvious. In addition to providing long-term jobs for tens of thousands of war refugees, more importantly, the industries provided by Haihan will help maintain the stability of North Korea. As one of the exchange conditions, Wang Tom has already

He agreed to Li Zhu, and after the iron ore on the south bank began to be mined, an arsenal was built near the Datong River base. Haihan transferred part of the gun manufacturing technology to North Korea and guided North Korea to produce advanced weapons on its own.

This condition is completely unacceptable to the North Koreans. Although the manufacturing technology transferred by Haihan is not the most advanced weapons and equipment, it is enough for North Korea. Wang Tom claimed that as long as the North Korean army has enough guns and cannons,

Coupled with sufficient training intensity and correct use of tactics, it will be easy for North Korea to defeat the Qing army in the north alone in the future.

Being able to make guns and warships on his own is an advanced skill that even the Qing Dynasty does not possess. Li Jie, who wanted to use this to bring his country's military strength to a higher level, did not hesitate to do so after receiving Haihan's affirmative answer.

The industrial cooperation agreement was signed, allowing the Haihan people to build related industries within the agreed area.

For North Korean politics, this is probably the only time since the Ding Mao Rebellion in 1627 that various factions in the officialdom have unified their opinions, which can be regarded as a very rare phenomenon.

Behind this spectacle, of course, the coordination made by Haehan is indispensable. Leading figures such as Kim Sang-heon and Cui Mingji have privately subscribed for shares in these properties through Haehan Bank. In the next few years, they can just lie down.

You can receive generous dividends.

However, the people with the largest subscription share in North Korea are not these two high-profile ministers in the court, but the royal family represented by Li Jian. In the several properties written into the agreement, the Li family enjoys 10% of the shares.

And it is exclusively used by the reigning king. However, the national treasury and Li Zhu's private treasury were squeezed clean by huge military expenditures during the Anti-Qing War, and Li Zhu could not spend so much money to operate this matter, so

In fact, he only paid some symbolic money to get the shares that Haihan handed over to him almost as a gift.

Haihan did not propose such a straightforward "cooperation plan" at the beginning of the negotiation, mainly because there was a lack of a financial institution like a bank that could facilitate the operation of large amounts of funds. If a large amount of gold and silver were to be directly dispatched to supply these special shareholders, it would be difficult for them to do so.

It is actually extremely inconvenient for Haihan. After the bank opens its branch in Seoul, it only needs to open accounts for these special shareholders. Most of the time, their income is just a number on the ledger.

There is no need to allocate large amounts of gold and silver for one-time payments.

After the bank debuts, all parties have confirmed its safety and convenience features, so that special methods of transferring benefits can be implemented.

The other agreement that Haehan had been thinking about finally took shape after that. Park Buk-soo spent nearly a month persuading Kim Sang-heon to relax restrictions on immigration and changing nationality. At this time, in fact

Kim Sang-heon has also obtained shares in several major industries through Haihan Bank. It seems that he is also a member of the vested interests, and his position is naturally no longer as tough as before.

According to the revised immigration management regulations, North Koreans can apply to change their nationality on their own after working in various industrial institutions owned by Haihan for one year. However, they still need to pay a tax to the North Korean official before denaturalization. However, there are official positions

North Koreans who are still in this category are not included in this list and are not allowed to apply to change their nationality. In addition, those who have committed crimes or are fugitives will still have to be returned to North Korea for processing even if they have changed their nationality.

Perhaps because they feel that working years and denaturalization fees are sufficient restrictions, North Korea has not set any specific restrictions on the upper limit of the number of people who can apply to change their nationality each year.

Although Haihan is still not satisfied with this immigration management method, it is almost the best condition that can be obtained, and it can only be implemented accordingly. Haihan wants to obtain a large number of immigrants from North Korea.

It will be difficult to achieve at least within a year.

At the end of August 1637, as the industrial cooperation agreement between the two countries was reached, construction began on several industries in the Taedong River Basin. The nearly 10,000 Korean refugees who stayed near the Taedong River base and Pyongyang and had not yet returned home finally got what they had hoped for.

The long-term livelihood was transported to the construction site in batches to start working.
Chapter completed!