The loan treaty given by the cabinet to the Roman Empire was not bad, the interest was not high, and it could be repaid in installments.
The treaty was quite a consideration for the Romans, how to get loans, how to use the loans to buy the ordnance and warships they needed, even merchant ships and locked goods of the Chinese Empire, a package.
The cabinet had all thought about them, and as long as Herac signed it, Rome would get a large loan, all kinds of armaments, and all kinds of extremely profitable goods.
They don't need to go to the bank to negotiate a loan.
There is no need to negotiate loan terms with banks, about guarantees, and about orders from various ordnance factories and shipyards.
Everything, the cabinet came forward and formed such a loan group, and then organized the banks, the military factories, and so on, and provided them with a packaging agreement.
Just sign it, and the rest is the best package.
Prince Herac took the agreement and looked at it carefully one by one, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
Dahua's cabinet is really efficient, how long has he been here, and he has proposed a loan for military purchases with His Majesty the Emperor, and Dahua has already come up with such a good agreement.
Worry-free, effort-free, and very affordable.
If they had gone to UOB and the comptoir themselves, they might have been able to negotiate, but it would have taken more time, and the price would not have been so favorable.
Herac is very envious of Zhang Chao, it is really easy to have such a strong cabinet.
"Your Highness Augustus, what do you think of the agreement?"
Chu Suiliang asked.
For this cooperation, Zhang Chao's instructions to the cabinet were clear, this cooperation was important for the Romans, but it was equally important for Dahua.
Not only politically, but also economically, it is also of great help to Dahua.
The Roman Empire has now become the largest export market for Dahua, accounting for about 70% of the total.
Therefore, the stability and survival of the Roman Empire was very important to Dahua.
After all, the cooperation between Dahua and the Romans was very pleasant, and it would be much more troublesome to replace them with more barbaric guys like Arabia and Persia.
In the past, the trade with the Persians was not very smooth, they relied on themselves stuck between the East and the West, so they wanted to monopolize this entrepot trade, not allowing the merchants of the East to ship the goods directly to the West, and also deliberately lower the price, and then sell it to the West at a high price after acquisition, so as to earn a huge trade difference.
They have made a lot of money from trade, and because they have monopolized, the amount of trade has also dropped greatly, which has caused huge losses to the Central Plains, a major exporter of foreign trade.
Especially now, Dahua not only masters the extremely popular goods such as silk, porcelain, tea, and sugar in the Western market, but also controls the export of spices.
Dahua needs this foreign trade market in the West, although Dahua itself is now a huge domestic demand market, but many things are shipped to the West to make more money.
For Dahua, foreign trade is not just as simple as the imperial court charging more tariffs.
Rather, it involves a huge trade economic system, such as navigation and transportation, overseas colonization, and the production and processing of foreign trade goods, which involves many people and occupies a huge share of the entire Dahua economic system.
If one day, it is said that trade with the West will be cut off, and Dahua's economy will not collapse, but it will also suffer a great blow.
This is also the key to the Tang Dynasty uniting Rome to deal with the Persians in the past, and now it wants to unite Rome to deal with the Arabs.
It's not because of different beliefs, or distant friendships, close attacks, territorial disputes.
Rather, they are really stuck between the East and the West, and they want to hinder the trade between the East and the West, and they want to monopolize the bulk of the profits of this trade.
In the past, the Romans fought wars with the Persians for hundreds of years, for silk and spices.
Now Datang is actively participating in the war in the West, fundamentally because of the economy.
Of course, there is a huge difference between the merchants themselves opening up trade routes and the imperial court dominating them.
For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, civil navigation was very popular, but the attitude of the imperial court was all kinds of prohibitions, and the result was that it not only hindered the navigation trade, but also made the imperial court not get real benefits.
For the Cabinet, it is actually very easy to organize such a loan arms purchase group.
"Your Excellency, I am very satisfied with all aspects of the agreement, that is, I hope that the loan amount will be larger, the repayment period will be longer, and the number of armaments will be larger, and all kinds of silk and other commodities will also need more, especially raw silk."
Chu Suiliang smiled and said, "It's not a problem that the loan figure should be increased.
We have four major banks in Dahua, all of which are strong, and if Your Highness wants to borrow more, there is no problem at all.
We can even help His Highness as a guarantee and get the same preferential interest. ” Chu Suiliang was not afraid of the Romans taking out more loans, nor was he afraid that they would not repay the loans, let alone that they would not repay the money.
Since you dare to borrow, of course you are sure.
Besides, the so-called loan is actually a name.
No matter how much money is borrowed, not a penny of money will flow out of the country, and all the money obtained from loans is actually strictly restricted from being used.
In fact, every loan is stipulated in the agreement, and it is to be used to pay for the arms procurement project.
To put it bluntly, it was the Romans who took out loans, which were then used to pay for armaments.
And the price of these armaments, in fact, is relatively expensive, far higher than the cost, and the profits are huge.
Military enterprises can make a lot of money when they get this order.
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Bank loans, installments to the Romans, and interest added up, in fact, were by no means cheap.
In short, the Romans were paid a sum of money for loans, and then they were made a lot of money for military purchases.
The money from the banks went to the munitions factories, which in turn bought materials from the steel mills and timber factories, which in turn bought materials from the coal factories and lumber yards.
This also involves transportation, as well as orders from many spare parts manufacturers.
A warship, the shipyard got an order, the workers started work, and his suppliers of canvas, iron nails, etc., also drank soup.
A large order from the Romans benefited not only banks and munitions manufacturers, but countless manufacturers in the industrial chain.
Manufacturers have orders, workers naturally have work, and even overtime, so the income is naturally higher.
The manufacturers make money, the taxes received by the imperial court are also high, and the workers make money and can also increase consumption, which is a virtuous circle.
Herac dared to borrow, and Dahua definitely dared to give.
Of course, Dahua was not purely for money, lending money to the Romans to sell armaments, but also to stabilize the general environment, curb the expansion of the Arabs to the east and north, and ensure the security of Dahua to the border territories bordering Xindu, Bactria and Hezhong.
An overly powerful Arab in Central Asia is certainly not in the interests of Dahua.
The additional conditions of Dahua's loan are the Suez Canal and the lease-leased Dahua of the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean.
The importance of the Suez Canal is self-evident, especially after Persia is now occupied by the Arabs, and the east-west trade route was blocked mainly through the Persian Gulf, and now it is completely dependent on the canal to enter and exit the Mediterranean Sea, which is simply the economic lifeblood of the Romans.
In particular, the Romans took advantage of the weakness of the Persians to counterattack and regain many lost territories.
As a result, the Arabs have sprung up in recent years, and almost all the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea have been taken away.
Now the Romans have lost Syria, Armenia is struggling, and even the peninsula of Asia Minor, opposite Constantinople, is in danger.
At this time, the Romans increasingly relied on the profits and taxes from the Oriental trade brought by the canal to support their dangerous warfare.
The island of Cyprus is located in the eastern Mediterranean, which is the key point from the Mediterranean to the west.
Especially since its proximity to Syria, which was lost to the Romans, became all the more important.
Legend has it that this island is the hometown of Venus, the goddess of love, and it is not too big to say that it is not small, but it is about a quarter the size of Ryuqiu Treasure Island, so it is not too small.
It has been occupied by Western Taiwan, Assyria, Ancient Egypt, Persia and others since ancient times, and is now controlled by the Romans, but the Arabs are planning to seize the island.
The Arabs have already raided the island several times and even occupied some of the island's areas, establishing some strongholds.
Dahua's proposal to lease Cyprus was Zhang Chao's proposal.
Concessions, rather than territories like the former Sinai, were a relatively novel proposal.
This is also considering that Cyprus is already in the Mediterranean, and the canal is relatively repurposed, so the Romans may not be willing to give it up easily.
It is also a means not to put forward sovereignty, but to get it first and then operate slowly in the name of the concession.
In the final analysis, whether it is a lease of the canal or a lease of Cyprus, the purpose is to ensure the safety of the canal and the stability of trade with the West.
If this route is lost, then Dahua's merchant ships will have to bypass Africa.
This is not a little far, but in this era, even the Romans only knew that Africa in the south of the Mediterranean Sea was a continent, but they didn't know how big this continent was.
Dahua has now sealed Chengqian to the southern tip of Africa, which has fully demonstrated that Dahua knows Africa better than Europeans.
But although I know better, it is still too far away to go around Africa.
The Horn of Africa, Djibouti, the Suez Canal, the Sinai Peninsula, and Cyprus, Dahua's power will become stronger and stronger.
"The lease term is signed for 100 years, and the annual rent is 1 million Chinese yuan copper coins."
Ma Zhou smiled and said to Herak, but this million is just good, and it will not really be given.
Because there was an additional clause behind this, Dahua leased the canals of Rome and the island of Cyprus, and paid Rome a million yuan a year.
Dahua garrisoned troops in these two places and assisted Rome in defense and security, so Rome needed to share 1 million military expenses with Dahua every year.
So, in fact, the rent of a million a year, the Romans could not get.
And the Romans gave Dahua an annual share of military expenses of one million yuan, but they did not really give money.
No one has to pay, and the two concessions are actually zero rent. t1706231537: