Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 826 Planning for a New World Order
In fact, the birth of some kind of world currency in later generations was after World War II.

After several years of tragic wars, the heads of the main allied countries such as the Soviet Union, Britain, and France gathered together to discuss, and felt that if such a war happened again in the future, it would bring huge wealth to the wealth of each country. Loss, now the gold of each country should be sent to a safe place for storage, and then a gold certificate should be issued according to the amount of gold stored in each country, and the value of this gold certificate should be specified, such as how much an ounce of gold is equal to, How many materials can be bought with this money, so as to promote the purpose of this gold coupon becoming a currency in circulation in the world.

During the meeting, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries engaged in a game on issues such as fund quotas, gold quota reductions, and bank quotas. In the end, the conference was a success under the compromise of both parties.With the support of the United States, the Soviet Union officially became one of the top four in the international financial system. At the same time, the Soviet Union recognized the leadership of the United States in the post-war world financial order.

The U.S. dollar won a big victory in this meeting. The participating countries agreed that the U.S. dollar is linked to gold and has become the most important currency in the world financial market. This is why the U.S. dollar is called the U.S. dollar.

This meeting was the famous Bretton Woods Conference. Until the dollar was announced to be decoupled from gold, the world financial order followed the basic principles of the Bretton Woods system.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this meeting is nothing more than a spoils conference for the great powers to carve up the world, and the Chinese country with a long and splendid civilization has unfortunately become one of the countries to be carve up.

In other words, if Ming wants to make its own currency dominate the world economy, there must be a super-large-scale war involving more than half of the earth, and every major country in the world actively or passively participates in it. At the time of the extinction, Da Ming, who had been watching the fire from the other side, stepped forward to launch a devastating attack on the party defined as evil and won the final victory, thus becoming the world leader and the embodiment of justice, and completely established the status of the world leader.

Judging from the current world situation, the Axis powers that provoked the world war in later generations are either in the dormant development period, or are being dismembered and castrated by the Ming Dynasty. The wars between the Ottoman Empire and Spain, Portugal, and France are not tragic. , It has not spread to more countries, and it has not yet reached the point of life and death, so the conditions for creating a new world order have not yet matured, and Zhu Youjian's big financial plan still needs a long brewing process.

Regardless of whether he can establish a new world financial order dominated by Ming Dynasty in his own lifetime, but more than 100 years later, this set of ghost tricks played by the West must be recorded, and Ming Dynasty must choose the opportunity to implement it first.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian spent several days writing down the financial plan he had conceived, and then ordered someone to call Zhu Cihong and the cabinet ministers to teach him all the relevant financial knowledge he knew.

Although the entire teaching process was not too long, it took a long time for Zhu Cihong and others to fully digest and absorb this new knowledge. After all, these brand-new concepts and theories have a huge impact on the thinking of everyone living in the old economic circle.

Since we do not have the conditions to occupy the financial commanding heights, what we need to do under the current situation is how to move towards the established goal step by step.

Currency swap with European powers is the first step of the whole plan. The hidden trick in this step is actually that Ming products can occupy as much of its domestic consumer market as possible. However, with the implementation of this dumping plan, it will trigger What the consequences will be is still unknown.

Zhu Youjian also has little knowledge of social economics, and many things are just done with the idea of ​​walking and watching.

However, in line with the idea of ​​planning for a rainy day, under his instruction, the talents introduced from Europe in recent years are no longer limited to physics and mathematics, and some talents with unique knowledge and insights in economic development trends have also been recruited. Ming dynasty.

Under the influence of thousands of years of pragmatism, these talents are obviously stronger in logical thinking than the local elites of Ming Dynasty. After declaring their lifelong allegiance to Ming Dynasty and obtaining Ming nationality, Zhu Youjian has already handed over the topic of economic development trend to I gave it to a few of them, and I believe that in the not-too-distant future, these talents will come up with a set of advanced theories that conform to the law of economic development through mutual argumentation.

As long as you have real talents and real learning, you can go to the far east and live a more luxurious and comfortable life than the royal family in the rich and civilized Ming Empire. You can also use the high-quality resources provided by the Ming government to work in the fields you are good at. Do your best in the field, and once you have good results, you will get extremely generous material rewards.

These remarks have gradually spread among the elites of European countries.

With the letters sent to relatives and friends by Descartes and other first batch of people who settled in Daming, and the money and goods that arrived with the letters, these are enough to prove that the rumors are true, coupled with the secret propaganda of the Dutch government. Talented people from all walks of life in various countries have the idea of ​​coming to Daming to live. Some people are more embarrassed, or those who are not valued in their own country can't wait to ask around, hoping to get on the merchant ship of the East India Company and come to Daming as soon as possible. Upload the legendary happy life.

The fact that the people who arrived were not disappointed, even far exceeded their imagination.

The material benefits enjoyed by those pioneers in terms of basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation, were absolutely beyond their original dreams or could not have imagined in their native land.

Garden-style courtyard houses, silk and satin cloths that are expensive in Europe, a wide variety of delicacies, four-wheeled carriages for travel, clean and tidy urban environments, etc., all of which are unseen in Europe. arrived.

It's just that these latecomers also learned through various channels that all these good things need to be exchanged by everyone's ability.

The newcomers will be arranged to live in ordinary houses with simple decorations. The Ming court will give them living allowances to ensure their basic living. The five-member expert group in the hospital will conduct a strict assessment, and those who pass will be hired as teachers of the Royal Institute of Technology, and then they will enjoy material treatment equivalent to their level, which represents Daming's recognition of his own knowledge.

As for those who did not meet the standard, I'm sorry, because you are not the talent that Daming needs, so this place is not suitable for you to live in. Honglu Temple will arrange for them to return to their home country by merchant ship at a suitable time, and will give them a rather generous travel expenses.

Don't think it's a waste, this travel expenses can spread Daming's good reputation, which is also one of the ways to spread soft power.

(End of this chapter)