Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1202

As a member of the Matilda family, it is very interesting that Rock can support Ade for so long.

Adelaide is not a person who is greedy for power, otherwise he would not have tried his best to promote the autonomy of southern Africa. Now that southern Africa is booming, Adelaide can indeed take a break and let Philip become the prime minister and taste the taste of being prime minister.

Roque really wanted to see if Philip became prime minister, would it bring about some changes in southern Africa.

How should I put it, Ade is very good, leading Southern Africa through the most difficult stage at the beginning of self-government.

But with the passage of time, Ade is becoming more and more conservative now, and he is less and less able to keep up with the development of southern Africa.

If Roque is the prime minister, during the period of the World War, Roque will try his best to promote the establishment of a state-based economic entity by the federal government, increase the state's intervention in the economy, and at least adjust the completely laissez-faire free trade to A partially controllable economic model, so that the federal government can have more advantages in future international competition.

It's a pity that Roque is not yet the prime minister. If Philip doesn't taste the taste of being prime minister, he will probably regret it for the rest of his life. Roque will not compete with Philip for the sake of family harmony. Anyway, no matter who becomes the prime minister, he will probably live in Roque. in the shadows.

Or rather, living in the shadows of these big corporations in southern Africa.

Stoudemire returned to southern Africa after staying in Europe for less than three months. The work of the Relief and Rehabilitation Agency has not made any progress. Stoudemire will not be satisfied with providing food to the poor in Europe. Investing in order to seek long-term benefits is Stoudemire's goal.

"You think too much. The leaders of European countries don't even consider the long-term interests of their own countries. What's the use of thinking?" Rock said bluntly. It is hopeless to expect to invest in European countries to make money, even if Europe recovers from the post-war trauma , In another 20 years, it will be smashed again.

Also in October, the protracted Paris Peace Conference finally reached an agreement that Germany needs to compensate the Allies with a total of 2260 billion gold marks, which is equivalent to 113 billion pounds as war reparations, and the reparations need to be paid in gold.

In order to facilitate the signing of the Paris Peace Conference, the United States voluntarily gave up claiming compensation from Germany, so France will receive 52% of the total compensation, Britain will receive 22%, Italy will receive 10%, Belgium will receive 8%, and the rest will be divided among other countries.

Southern Africa, as part of the United Kingdom, was included in the United Kingdom's 22%.

This is not the final result. Next, Germany and the Allied Powers will conduct a series of negotiations on reparations. The final reparation amount is determined to be 1320 billion German marks, which is about 49.9 pounds.

In addition to reparations, all of Germany's overseas colonies were divided up by the Allied Powers. Southwest Africa and Tanganyika were authorized by the League of Nations to be managed by Britain; Germany's islands in the Pacific Ocean were authorized by the League of Nations to be managed by the East India; North Schleswig passed a referendum Return to Denmark; Germany recognizes the independence of Poland, and gives Poland the coastline, and returns the territory that originally belonged to Poland to Poland, including West Prussia, Posen Province, part of East Prussia and part of Upper Silesia; Eastern Upper Silesia belongs to Czechoslovakia.

In addition to the above areas, Germany must also cede Eupen and Salmedi to Belgium; cede the Klaipeda area to Lithuania; hand over the Danzig area to the League of Nations; and recognize the independence of Austria and Luxembourg.

In terms of compensation to France, Germany ceded Alsace and Lorraine to France as early as the day of the armistice, restoring France's borders before the Franco-Prussian War.

France was very dissatisfied with this and strongly demanded the Saarland region of Germany. The Saarland region is the most important industrial area in Germany. Vote to determine its attribution.

The purpose of France is to completely suppress Germany so that Germany is no longer a threat.

This goal seems to have been achieved, but how Germany will pay reparations has become the main problem.

Not to mention indemnities in Germany now, food and clothing in the country cannot be guaranteed. The United Kingdom and the United States are already discussing how to ensure that Germany can pay indemnities.

The French don't care, for France, it's best if Germany never pays reparations, then France can occupy the Saarland forever.

As the biggest beneficiary of the World War, Stoudemire returned to southern Africa this time. One of the purposes is to hope that southern African capital will also intervene in the relief of Germany, so that it can continue to generate long-term benefits after the war.

"No, the Rand Bank will not lend money to the Germans. Los Angeles is establishing a stock exchange. The Rand Bank does not lack investment channels." Rock resolutely refused, just like he refused to provide loans to the Russian Empire.

"Why?" Stoudemire was surprised, Rock has always been very active in helping Germany.

"The purpose of the relief is to win the goodwill of the Germans, win immigrants from Germany, and buy German assets at a low price. This is completely different from loans." Rock does not do loss-making business, and lending money to Germans is the same as lending money to Russians. It's for naught.

In another time and space, Britain and the United States mainly rely on the "Dawes Plan" and "Younger Plan" to provide economic assistance to Germany. Pounds and dollars flow into Germany in the form of loans, then flow into the Allies in the form of indemnities, and finally come from the Allies in the form of debt repayments. Flow into Britain and the United States, thus forming a perfect closed loop.

In the process, both Germany and the Entente received much-needed funds to revive their economies, prompting production to resume in Europe.

This model seems to be good, but because of the emergence of the Great Depression, it was unsustainable. During the Great Depression, the reparations that Germany should pay and the foreign debts owed by various countries during the World War could not be paid, and Germany's debt payments were therefore suspended.

Then came the larger and more costly World War II.

Now that Rock knows this result, it is impossible to repeat the same mistakes. Now that southern Africa has got everything it wants, it is time to withdraw from Europe and focus on the construction of southern Africa.

Of course, not lending to Germany now does not mean not lending in the future.

The benefits of economic aid to Europe are not only the interest generated by the loan, but more importantly, the increase in currency value. The United States in another time and space, through investment in Europe, objectively improves the international status of the US dollar and promotes the US dollar. become an international currency.

Of course, Southern Africa also has this demand. Rock also hopes that the rand can replace the pound as an international currency, so that in the future, southern Africa can also live a life of landlords who use the rand to shear sheep all over the world.

It’s too early to think about this now. During the World War, loans from southern Africa to Britain and France were settled in rand. Now the rand’s international status has been greatly improved compared with before the world war, but it has not replaced the status of the British pound.

Rock is not in a hurry. Southern Africa has not yet reached the stage of replacing the United Kingdom. After the end of World War II, there will be a better opportunity. At that time, Southern Africa will be able to lend money to the Germans without worrying about the Germans. Repudiation.

"Will Germany be the same as Russia?" Stoudemire didn't know what would happen next.

In fact, Roque is not sure whether the Second World War will break out as scheduled, because the rise of southern Africa and the direction of the First World War are completely different from those in another time and space. On stage as scheduled.

Most likely, France is now trying to contain Germany, but the harsh conditions set by the Paris Peace Conference not only did not make the Germans succumb, but instead stimulated the expansion of national radical consciousness in Germany, planting the seeds for the growth of communism. It also paved the way for some people to come to power.

Even without mustaches, there will be other bearded people on stage.

Of course, this is not what Stoudemire was referring to.

"It's hard to say, but there is such a possibility." Rock can't say too much in detail, leaking the secret will shorten his life.

Stoudemire has a complicated expression. Southern Africa is now more than just Rand Bank. The Bank of Rhodesia, led by a South African company, has begun to invest in Germany.

Out of trust in Rock, Stoudemire has now felt that most of the Rhodesian Bank's investment in Germany has lost everything.

"Don't worry, it's not enough to lose all your money. At most, the income is less." Rock comforted Stoudemire. Germany is not reckless. After the Second World War, it has to continue to pay the unpaid indemnity of the First World War. It's just that it lasted for almost 100 years before it was paid out.

"What happened to the financial market you mentioned just now?" Stoudemire followed closely with Rock, and it was still too late to adjust.

"It's too early to talk about the market, it's just an exchange." Rock tried to play down the influence of the exchange, and didn't want London to feel the threat of southern Africa too directly.

The financial market needs to be cultivated slowly. The early securities transactions in New York were held in cafes and auction houses. Until May 1792, 5, 17 securities brokers were in a sycamore tree outside 24 Wall Street in New York. The sycamore agreement was signed by the next day, and this day also became the birth day of the New York Stock Exchange.

Southern Africa actually had securities transactions before this, but the transactions were only carried out within large companies, and there were no public sales.

For example, the national bonds issued by the federal government during the World Wars were digested internally by large companies in southern Africa without any outflow, and there was no room for securities trading at all.

Now as the economy in southern Africa is getting better and better, social idle funds need a relatively healthy investment channel, and securities trading has emerged as the times require.

Of course, the securities trading in southern Africa will definitely not be laissez-faire. In his previous life, Rock also speculated in stocks, bought funds, invested in financial management, and was cheated out of money. He was trapped and did not escape when he was reborn. Now Rock I want to try the feeling of cheating people. I can’t let the money saved by Europeans be cheated by the Americans. Southern Africa should also share a share.

ps: sorry, just came back from the hospital, trying to type——

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