Chapter 361: Elephants
The Entente countries have been in the aircraft research and development, the Internet to make efforts to innovate independently, they also recently discovered a terrifying fact, Windsor financial empire in the monopoly of the world's financial market, the current Bank of Zurich for the Bank of Japan to provide a platform, the British Empire and the United States and other more developed countries more than 80% of the citizens have electronic payment accounts, and are active users.
France has also been ruled by Windsor, and the central banking system is facing a painful transformation, not only does it not cost money, but also its efficiency and security will be greatly reduced.
Even 50% of Prussia's citizens use payment bracelets for convenience. This figure is almost the median in the entire Entente countries, which means that half of the entire electronic payment market in the Entente countries has fallen into the clutches of the Windsor financial empire.
Electronic payments have a tendency to replace cash, which is not only more convenient, but also more secure, with no possibility of receiving counterfeit money, and illegal money flows can be traced. The fact that "the Bank of Zurich became the world's note-issuing bank" was so terrible that the Entente intended to act.
They formed the Allied Banking Union, or UnionPay for short. They will use the technology of the newly developed Americans to build their own electronic payment systems, and perhaps in the future, they will use state actions to force companies to adopt self-developed systems.
This caused an uproar within the United Kingdom, where a free economy was their symbol, how could they make such a move to stand up to the United Nations? This will disrupt the market, not to mention that Windsor is the largest shareholder of the Bank of England, even if it is just looking and not talking, it has a lot of influence, and in the end, the helpless British government could not get enough support, and the headquarters of UnionPay was arranged to New York, which was considered a big loss by the British government.
Ironically, UnionPay's core security technology still relies on chips provided by IBM. This technology is still a black technology in the Entente countries and cannot be mass-produced. Even if they succeed, they will still be charged a "chip tax" by Windsor, and a considerable amount of profit will still be earned by the Windsor Empire.
The most advanced chip technology will naturally not be given to competitors, and the Bank of Zurich is launching a bracelet suitable for large payments, which will have a light emitter that uses the characteristics of human blood vessels to absorb specific wavelengths to form a special wrist vein map, which can be completed without the user being aware of biometrics, and only the correct owner can complete the authentication by wearing the bracelet.
Vein recognition technology avoids the security problem of "borrowing the bracelet" and being stolen, as long as it leaves the wrist, the bracelet immediately closes the identity information, and not a second is wasted, and the thieves who want to steal the bracelet will stop eating. With this biometrics, the Bank of Zurich can now make large-value electronic payments with impunity.
Relying on the strength of their empire, the Bank of Zurich also began to launch a global joint insurance plan that can only be carried out by the Windsor financial empire, as long as you pay normally through the electronic payment system of the Bank of Zurich, in case of economic fraud, don't worry, my empire guarantees your basic life without problems, and you can get food for free in more than 1,000 cities around the world through the guò bracelet, even if you are deceived and penniless.
During the cracking of the case, users are guaranteed to have food, and if it is an obvious fraud, the empire will also provide a small subsidy to ensure that you live a decent life like a normal person during this period. This policy has been very effective for the inhabitants of some politically unstable countries.
For example, in the Qing Dynasty, the master of fraud is so that the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and he will be hit by the immortal jump one day, so it is still necessary to get a bracelet from the Bank of Zurich to "defend himself".
The Windsor Empire also provides bankruptcy protection for citizens, if you really lose money because of business, you can file for bankruptcy with the Bank of Zurich, as long as you pass guò, you can live in the Empire's "bankrupt apartment", protected by security personnel, those who collect debts, neither the state nor the underworld can no longer persecute you.
As soon as this service came out, a large number of underworld began to hate the Windsor Empire, damn, obviously I can use personal threats to force debts, and even if I sell my sons and daughters and wives, I have to pay it back, but I was actually protected, and I am angry with your uncle and me.
This service is not available in the United Nations countries, but, of course, the intensity is not so great, and the security personnel of the bankrupt apartments in the United Nations countries can be very powerful, not to mention the underworld to make trouble, and the national army does not dare to come casually, and in the Entente countries it is more sloppy. In Japan, there was also a public incident in which a certain group of people stormed the apartments of bankrupts, causing heavy casualties.
The bankrupt's apartment is obviously limited in budget, and the priority is to protect people who have always been loyal users of the Bank of Zurich, and many loan sharks in the business of the first thing is to see if you are a user of the Bank of Zurich, if so, sorry, don't borrow, because you can go to the bankrupt's apartment to settle down, Lao Tzu still can't take you, this business is not easy to do.
Although our usury sounds very lofty and powerful, it is in the face of Windsor imperialism...... Anyway, killing an underworld in the Windsor Empire is as simple as an elephant trampling an ant.
Some people say that it seems that it is not easy for an elephant to step on ants, and that is also true, but it is not uncommon to step on one, and simply step on an ant nest.
For example, in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, the Great Qing Dynasty, there was an incident in which the underworld harassed the apartments of bankrupts, and the Fujian branch of the Bank of Zurich sent a newly graduated intern to protest against the government.
The friends in the bankrupt's apartment were stunned when they read the newspapers in Fujian every day. What have we done in the Fujian underworld? It made Futai people so aggressive, and they did not hesitate to sacrifice the profiteering pornography, gambling and drug industry.
How did they know that Fujian was the base camp of the Pacific Fleet, and Lord Futai was afraid that Windsor would find an excuse to take Fujian away, so he was like a frightened bird, and he must do everything he could, so that the other party could not find a single excuse. So even the big brothers who are playing the side ball in the legal business have suffered a big loss.
Fujian relies on Lingnan and belongs to high-risk areas, and there are several provinces that consider themselves to be high-risk provinces, one is Shandong, which is already a no-fly zone, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which are not only "borders", but also the land of Jiangnan and the south of the Yangtze River.
As the saying goes, brothers are united, and their profits are golden, and the underworld of the Great Qing Kingdom has decided to unite to deal with the hegemonic empire. They convened the first meeting of the National Central Committee of the Gaming Industry in the French Concession in Shanghai.
Of course, they can't say that it is the Great Qing Dynasty Social Big Brother Conference, which is too ugly, so they use a kind of industry that many big brothers have as a name, in fact, there are pornography, gambling and drugs.
It is difficult to ban pornography, gambling and drugs in a democratic society, because there are always a small number of people whose moral standards are not so noble, and there will always be some stakeholders who will make trouble.
And the Windsor Great, the world's unparalleled **oss, does not talk about high morals at all, and even has a slavery system under his rule, not to mention the legitimacy of pornography, gambling and drugs. These big brothers in society are not afraid of being served in a pot in Shanghai.
The big brothers discussed and discussed, and came up with a clever idea to set up a gambling industry association, and at the same time openly operate in the Qing Dynasty and Greater China, striving to be recognized by the government. This guild was actually recognized by the shameless Greater China Industry Public Labor Committee.
However, every qiē gambling in China must use the financial system of the Bank of China, which is heavily taxed, and there are various restrictions, age, upper limit of the amount, how much will be notified to the family, if it is a married person, it cannot exceed half of the property at most, and the spouse can also use the spouse gambling as a reason for divorce, and can reduce the limit to a very low level, so that the society is more harmonious.
The result of this social big brother conference is that a large number of big brothers found that it seems good to go to Hualian to do legal business, so a large number of casinos have moved to Hualian.
Beijing's Bada Hutong is even more lively. The Beijing municipal government's policy is to let the old city die, but it's so hard to do so in a culturally rich place like Bada Hutong, and no matter how dangerous it is, guests still come to this place in search of pleasure.
Before the democratization of the Qing Dynasty, prostitutes were forbidden in the imperial court, however...... Unexpected things happen, human ** is really irrepressible, the eight alleys are still hot, the opera troupe is the core, and the handsome Xianggong has actually become the main prostitute in the eight alleys.
The court came to check, and the father-in-law, who looked as beautiful as a girl, took off his pants, yes, pure masters, will you be punished? As a result, the hutongs still survived tenaciously.
When Li Hongzhang gained power, Hu Xueyan, who often mingled with the years of time, was the Minister of Finance, and he liberated the sex industry casually. Where's the reasoning?
After Hu Xueyan and Li Hongzhang went into the wilderness together, many businesses couldn't go on, but the business in Bada Hutong was getting bigger and bigger, because it was really profitable, and it was very hidden to invest all the time, and others didn't know that this was the Hu family's industry, and there was nothing else to do, so they had to concentrate on running Fengyue Place, but it became bigger