As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 392
Blue Star's 30s were turbulent 30s.

The combination of bio-photovoltaics with traditional wind-solar and hydropower technologies has caused traditional energy sources such as oil and natural gas to lose their supposed role.

Petroleum, as the mother of modern industry, naturally does not have only one use as fuel.

There is a whole petrochemical industry that revolves around oil and gas.

Even if the biggest use of oil is lost, the oil-producing countries headed by the big dogs in the Middle East will not be able to survive the previous days, and they can survive by scrambling.

In addition to the hardships of the big dogs, Russia, which relies heavily on natural gas and oil, is also suffering. The country's high-tech industries have not yet been developed, and the original economic pillars have been broken.

Not only is the economic pillar broken, but the plan to strangle Europa's throat through energy has also come to naught.

It is a double loss of economy and strategy.

New energy has achieved a penetration rate of more than 90.00%, while traditional fuel power stations are only left for strategic purposes.

In case of problems with wind and hydropower, the thermal power station can also be restarted.

But at least from the demand side, the demand for oil has disappeared inexplicably.

For energy-dependent countries, however, things are far from simple.

The birth of the virtual world has led to the shrinking of the demand side of the entire manufacturing industry.

A very simple example. When there was no virtual world, everyone changed their mobile phones every year at first, and then changed their mobile phones every three years.

After the birth of the virtual world, people stopped changing their mobile phones, and a mobile phone can be used for more than ten years.

The demand has shrunk inexplicably.

For a country like American that relies on the financial industry, they can rely on the virtual world to rebuild a financial system.

Make a lot of money in this financial system.

Before the substance was 1, American could play the capital as 100.
Now that there is a virtual world, after concepts are guided by external media and one’s own experience changes, there is no difference between the physical world and the virtual world.

There is also no difference between assets in the physical world and assets in the virtual world.

Then the virtual plus matter is 1+infinity in total, and American plays the financial game to the limitless.

Relying on this, American's capital market is even more prosperous than ten years ago.

But for Russia and the big dogs, they can't play.

Not to mention that they can't build a financial system to allow players from all over the world to participate, they can't even participate in it to make stable profits.

If we say that in the world capital market, American is the banker and Huaguo is the institution, then the big dogs and Russia are the leeks.

It is harvested by American on a regular basis using the tidal effect of the US dollar. Russia is better. The proportion of being harvested is not large, and more people are killed with borrowed knives.

In the 20s, it belonged to Xiangzhuang, and the sword dance was intended for Pei Gong.

At that time, Pei Gong was almost unable to support himself, and he relied on bio-photovoltaic and industrial intelligence to continue his life, which was also lucky.

In other words, any change at the macroeconomic level will affect every link in the entire chain.

Two seemingly unrelated things may actually be inextricably linked.

Until the end of the 30s, there were still voices within American who believed that it was a mistake to allow Hua Guo to join the WTO more than 30 years ago.

After Huaguo joined the WTO, it was completely unstoppable.

In fact, Huaguo's entry into the WTO was the most beneficial thing for American at that time.

Overheated investment in the early 90s caused the real estate bubbles in Qiongdao and Shenhai to burst, and at the same time led to the technical bankruptcy of the four major banks.

After these things, the rmb began to be directly bound to the US dollar by adopting a fixed exchange rate.This is the fundamental reason why American is willing to accept Hua Guo into the WTO system.

American exports to China: U.S. dollars, various high-tech products and services, medical care and finance.

And Huaguo exported textiles and low-end manufacturing products to American.

In this way, a perfect closed loop was formed in the early 21st century, which was perfect for American at that time.

In the new era, that is, in the 30s, American was able to use its own advantages to support itself by sucking the blood of other countries, but these resource countries could not do so.

Therefore, under some incentives, Blue Star broke out in a war that swept across most of the region.

Hua Guo also took this opportunity to completely solve some problems left over from history.

As for the direct inducement, at the same time, it caused irreversible losses to the interests of countless vested interests.

Lion City is naturally a thorn in the eyes of countless people.

What's more deadly is that Zheng Li disbanded all the original armed forces in the Lion City, and American's army also withdrew from the Lion City.

At least according to the traditional concept, Lion City is fat meat, who can eat it, it is impossible to catch Merlin, but this is equivalent to a means to control Merlin.

Just being able to find life-prolonging potions in Science City is enough to pay back the cost.

When the surrounding countries tried to attack the Lion City, the prices for life-prolonging potions on the dark web had reached as high as one billion US dollars.

In this era, the dollar is still an important part of the global currency.

"Mr Zheng, does Lion City need our assistance?

According to our intelligence, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Neon are all trying to take action against the Lion City.

In other words, it is already in their established plan to attack the Lion City. "

Before the outbreak of the war against the Lion City, Hua Guo specifically notified Zheng Li and expressed his willingness to assist in the defense.

"No, I have my means to deal with this."

Zheng Li refused decisively.

Originally, it was normal for mages to show off their muscles.

Not to mention that mages were originally used to wage large-scale wars in the early days.

After the war broke out, it was Malaysia that took the lead.

As a result, all of Malaysia's high-tech missiles using communication technology failed, not to mention hitting the target, and they couldn't even target the Lion City.

All turned around and hit the mainland directly.

Then they planned to end the battle by landing directly.

The same group of people lost consciousness one after another during the landing process, and there was no way to get close to the Lion City.

Subsequent attempts by other countries have the same result.

Lion City survived the war with little impact.

To some extent, it proves one thing, the mage has the highest authority in global network security.

If you want to use missiles to launch, you need to cooperate with satellite positioning.

Any modern warfare equipment cannot be separated from communication technology.

Mages can directly interfere with your communication facilities, or even take over your authority.

Small countries dare to gamble, but big countries dare not.

Even Neon just came up with the idea to let Malaysia and Indonesia test the water.

After the water test results came out, I chose to give up directly.

Because this technology is too incomprehensible.

If the mage chooses to fall to the country of Hua, he can even defeat all other countries with the power of one country.

American did not dare to push Merlin to China.

Even if American knew that Merlin would favor China in some respects.

In addition to the war, during this period of chaos, Li Miaomiao was assassinated many times by various means.

It's just that under Zheng Li's protection measures and Hua Guo's measures, these attack methods all failed.

The logic is that some forces believe that the fundamental reason why Huaguo can enjoy so many benefits is that Li Miaomiao can influence Zheng Li's decision-making to some extent.

Zheng Li doesn't care where to put the production base of virtual reality equipment, the management authority of the virtual world, and the development right of the virtual world.

But with Li Miaomiao, Li Miaomiao proposed to put these in Huaguo, and Zheng Li would follow the trend.

And if Li Miaomiao died, then everyone would return to the same level.

Do they also have the opportunity to fight for these industries that were originally in China?

By the way, the remaining two companies that successfully bid for the development rights of the virtual world are not giants, but two start-up companies with less than 20 employees. One is located in Iceland and the other is located in China.

After winning the bid, these two companies were tried to be acquired by large manufacturers with huge sums of money.

After the news was announced, investment institutions also flocked to it.

The founder of Huaguo Enterprise has a feeling of Fan Jinzhongju, as if everything has changed overnight.

Originally, I was the founder of a dying small and micro enterprise, not even a small and micro enterprise, just a studio.

Living by operating a VR office software.As a result, it became a unicorn company overnight, and these investors are willing to give a valuation of tens of billions of dollars.

In the end, the Icelandic company was invested by Europa's local investment institutions, and the Huaguo company was also controlled by Huaguo State-owned Capital Investment.

After the war ended, it was actually equivalent to solving the contradictions, or most of them.

Although American retired from the title of world leader through the war, he did not suffer any substantial losses.

Even relying on the war to cooperate with the financial war to harvest Huaguo severely.

Because he couldn't sit still in this position, the difference was only in who he would give it to.

Huaguo has become the actual controller of Southeast Asia, although there are still two enclaves, Neon and Lion City, without an absolute right to speak.

It's a pain in the ass, but totally worth it in a way.

The silent financial war has already begun

U.S. stocks, Chinese concept stocks fell, and the market was full of corpses, and there was no sound.

In one year, it lost nearly 20 trillion yuan in market value.
Although it is accompanied by the technical bear market of Nasdaq, and the disappearance of trillions of valuation bubbles.

However, many stocks in Chinese concept stocks fell by more than 80%, and fell by 98%, which still seems unusual.

In Xiangjiang’s China concept stocks, all the seats of foreign securities companies are selling, and it is obvious that the funds with the Chinese prefix are buying the bottom.

The trend of the market is towards clearing 0.

This is a bit like demonizing Japan in 1980, trade protectionism appeared in the auto industry, and using neon to threaten the security of the United States. At that time, neon was still an ally of American.

Or that Neon has always been an ally of American.

Then came the Plaza Accord, which forced the yen to appreciate.Then the real estate bubble continued to rise.American began to attack Neon's electronic chip industry.

At the same time, Neon opened the door to the financial market, allowing American brokers to enter.

Afterwards, American developed products to short the Nikkei Index and began to short the neon stock market.

Afterwards, the Neon central bank raised the discount rate, and the neon real estate bubble burst.

At first, the Neon Bank covered up the losses. Around 98, during the Asian financial crisis, the Neon Central Bank was unable to cover up the huge amount of bad debts, so large-scale bankruptcy began.

After that, American Capital quietly held 30% of the financial assets.

In 2020, American's domestic speeches promoting the China threat appeared on a large scale in academia, intelligence agencies, and extreme right media.

In the next few years, sporadic double-anti and three-anti policies appeared in almost all fields.

The voice of threatening China has become American's noisy stream of consciousness. American has started a new round of trade wars and financial wars, following the way it dealt with Japan back then, appearing exactly the same.

After the birth of the virtual world, the real estate bubble in first-tier cities with biological communication networks was further pushed up.

Along with the government's various accounting regulatory standards, American Capital strictly requires the release of accounting data for Chinese concept stocks, and has sold Chinese concept stocks on a large scale for two consecutive years.

There is no need to develop tools for shorting Huaguo's stock market, because the best companies in Huaguo are listed in American and Xiangjiang.

Among them, economic trends, such as the support of the trade surplus to the RMB, and the trillions of foreign capital entering the Chinese bond market for several years, have all promoted the rise of the RMB exchange rate.

The birth of the virtual world coincides with the decline of Chinese concept stocks.

Huaguo's stock market and property market were attacked by Huaguo and American at the same time.

American belongs to the smooth sailing.

Foreign capital has entered trillions in the short-term capital market.

Huaguo began counter-cyclical operations before the Fed's central bank tightened, and China implemented loose stimulus policies.

The plummet of Chinese concept stocks was accompanied by the plunge of Hang Seng.

American's hedge funds can not only sell Chinese concept stocks, but also sell the index.

In this wave of global valuation bubble collapse, there is also a sudden war, the global stock market plummeted, Hong Kong stock market and A shares have entered a bear market.

And the short sellers are just getting started.

In order to curb inflation, the Federal Reserve tightened forcefully and raised interest rates many times.

The U.S. dollar index and U.S. bond yields rose sharply, the spread between long-term and short-term bonds was inverted, and the spread between China and the United States disappeared.

Rmb continued to depreciate.

The central bank not only strongly controls capital outflows, but also tightens and raises interest rates.

The real estate bubble in first- and second-tier cities began to burst.

The stock market continues to be in a bear market.

The war level is victorious.

The Europa League completely resolved the threat from the north.

Of course, Europa did not escape the fate of being cut.

The world has returned to a relatively stable situation.

(End of this chapter)