The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

() "This is a conspiracy! It is a shameless threat and blackmail to the British Empire! It must be resolutely, thoroughly, and relentlessly dealt a head-on blow! Never bow to terrorists! Never!"

Churchill's roar reverberated in the hall of Congress, and it could spread to every corner without a loudspeaker, and it made the echoes echo in the ears of people nearby, which was as thrilling as the roar of a lion!

Many of his political opponents surrendered under such rants, but today, he is not facing any political opponents, but bank robbers hiding somewhere, whoever they are, and the Hateful terrorists who looted the treasures of the British Museum and Her Majesty the Queen!

Yes, it can no longer be described as a robber. There is really no better adjective for being able to commit such an unforgivable and shocking crime in the capital of the United Kingdom except terrorists!

Simple treasure and museum robberies don’t need to alert Congress, Scotland Yard and the police can handle them, but the Bank of England vault is stolen, and the gold that represents the rights and status of the British Empire is gone, the nature of that is completely different. !To put it bluntly, if it is not handled properly, the whole country may be in chaos! ..

Although all countries have got rid of the gold standard and rely on national credit to support their currencies, the existence of gold is an undoubted stable equivalent, and at critical moments, it can play an extraordinary role in overwhelming the situation.You may not feel it when you are there, but once you lose it, the consequences will be disastrous!

The news cannot be blocked. Whether it is a bank shareholder, a consortium magnate, or the senior officials and lords of the House of Lords, they are all in the same group in essence. This directly touches their interests, and they use extremely rough methods to cover their faces. A blow like a slap in the face, if you don't find a way to get back on the field as soon as possible. The everlasting empire will slide from the peak of the world to the abyss of unknown distance.And this is unacceptable in any case!

Someone as smart as Churchill would naturally think that such a thing would not happen casually.To be able to plan such a crazy plan and finally execute it successfully, the countries and organizations in the world with this ability can only be slapped in the face.

here.Most of them can be ruled out casually, the most likely ones are Germans, Americans and Chinese Zhu Bin!

Yes, this order of arrangement is not random.After intense and rapid analysis and statistics by the intelligence and governance department, this is the conclusion drawn.These three countries have sufficient reasons and conditions to do so.

Needless to say, the Germans have already declared war, and the two sides already have unresolvable enmity, and it is impossible to reduce it without killing and injuring tens of thousands of people.Hitler, of course, was happy to see Britain lose its strength to fight.Moreover, this guy has been searching for various mythical items all over the world in recent years, trying to obtain superhuman power to help him rule the world, so it may not be impossible for his secret operations department to come out to grab gold.

When it comes to familiarity with the UK, the Germans must have the upper hand. They have been tossing each other for hundreds of years, and they understand each other too deeply!

But only one point.It is a bit unreasonable that British intelligence agencies did not receive even a little bit of similar information in advance.And if Germany can secretly transport [-] tons of gold.So it would be easy to blow up London directly to the sky?They didn't do that. Could it be that the time is not ripe?But the behavior of robbing cultural relics and treasures is completely in line with the collection of Germans!

The Americans are ranked second, and many people will be surprised when they say it, but in fact, the United Kingdom knows best that the United States has been coveting its status as the world's number one power.Not quietly planning.

For example, in this war, the Americans have been exporting strategic materials such as petroleum and rubber to Germany until this year, while the other side supported the British confrontation.They naturally climbed to the top, which can be described as shameless!If there is an opportunity now, of course, the opportunity to weaken the United Kingdom will not be missed. The United Kingdom, which has lost its gold, wants to support it. It can only rely on the economic strength of the United States. It really is a good calculation!

So as long as it is proved that the theft of gold in the United States is fake, and it was their act of spreading the wind to cover up their conspiracy, everything will make sense.

But this is the last thing the British want to see. The economic strength of the United States is already the number one in the world. Its navy and air force can easily overwhelm the United Kingdom. It is just that the domestic people advocate isolationism, and the consortiums do not see the benefits, so they stand still .If Britain confronts them, there is absolutely no chance of winning.This may be the worst!

Zhu Bin is ranked third, not because the British look down on him. In fact, the British look down on all non-Westerners.The reason why he is listed in the third place is that he has enough motivation to do this. After all, Britain has just planned to cut off Zhu Bin's hard-working business. For ordinary people, they would have already been beaten down!

Another one, Zhu Bin has enough technical ability to do it.With the participation of tens of thousands of the world's top scientists, his City of Light is like a patent assembly line, producing scientific research results equivalent to the total amount of the world every day. The pages are all occupied, it is very hateful!

Moreover, Zhu Bin has never minded using all kinds of unconventional force to achieve his goals. Ri himself has suffered a lot in this regard, and is still suffering.The United Kingdom, on the other hand, kept a close eye on its development speed. As the Minister of the Navy, Churchill had been following its expansion and found that Zhu Bin's armed forces, especially the construction speed of the fleet, were inhumanly fast!

Not to mention anything else, a battleship with a standard platoon of more than 4 tons, even if it is built by the British in three shifts, will take at least a year and a half to launch, and it will take at least eight months to one year for installation, adjustment, sea trials, etc. Years, and it will take two and a half years at the fastest to serve, which is already considered extremely fast.

But how did Zhu Bin play?A year and a half!Four of his "Taishan-class" battleships were launched, and they directly participated in the battle. Various links such as sea trials and exercises seemed to have been skipped, and no accidents were heard in the middle. , dissatisfied with the details of their warships, from hull design, stability, internal space and pipeline planning, comfort and weapon performance, etc., the overall backwardness makes Britain, the most powerful navy, very embarrassing!

Therefore, Zhu Bin is very honored to be listed in No.3, others, such as Soviet Russians.It is very unwise to do so.If Britain loses its fighting ability and surrenders without a fight, then Germany will sweep across Western Europe, and then concentrate its forces on the eastward march and kill them.Therefore, Stalin is crazy, and he will not play such tricks.

The goal is set.Churchill yelled in Congress, but when it came to the details of implementation, he couldn't explain why.In the final analysis, the game between countries depends on strength to speak. The current UK is not capable of fighting on two fronts!

The soft-tempered Prime Minister Chamberlain has nothing to do about it. He has worked hard to appease Germany, but the result is still leaning in the direction he least wants to see, and he is out of control.today.The London gold transaction was smashed with a huge order of [-] million U.S. dollars, followed by the exposure of the theft of the vault, which suddenly pushed the price of gold to an unstoppable level. The market is in complete chaos!

This is not over yet. The London Metal Exchange, which is not far from them, also received a large order when the market was about to close in the morning, also in the amount of [-] million US dollars.Almost wiped out all kinds of strategic metals released on the market!

What is more strange is that this fund is specifically targeted at several metal resources such as tin, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel.As much as you want, comers are not rejected, there is no bottom line of demand at all.Only silver is not needed, not only not, but there is another group of people who use unprecedented pens.Ten thousand tons of silver were released in one go!

silver!Ten thousand, tons!

It is equivalent to the amount of 5 billion yuan of silver dollars before the Republic of China, which is equivalent to the amount of 1934 million U.S. dollars. It has been smashed down all at once, even after the establishment of the London Stock Exchange for so many years.Also an extremely rare big list!Compared with the time when the Americans bought silver in a big way in [-], it is not much worse!

As a result, the price of silver was smashed to a low level all of a sudden!

It's not over yet!Half of the silver in the morning was split and digested after several hardships, and just after the second trading time arrived, another order for [-] tons of silver crashed down!Now, no one can resist it!The price of silver plummeted, and the Wall Street Market in New York across the sea was devastated!

It's not just a matter of falling silver prices, rising strategic metals, and runaway gold prices.The point is that these large transactions are all selling dollars, and what they get back is either physical metal or pounds!The transaction amount of billions inside and outside is a huge order in the London market, which invisibly caused the credibility of the US dollar to be damaged a lot at once, while the pound sterling was strangely stronger!

How is this going?

Everyone realizes that something is wrong!No matter who is behind the operation, it is obvious that his purpose is to instigate the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. While both countries have lost their gold, deliberately suppressing the dollar and raising the pound is tantamount to helping the United States openly. Sterling regains the share of world influence robbed by the US dollar, which is of great benefit to the UK.But the problem is, if the British have no gold reserves, this alone will be a drop in the bucket!

Churchill is only one step away from the prime minister, so he knows more than the average person. This financial turmoil was so fierce at the beginning, and there was no sign at all. If it was not a conspiracy, who would believe it!

It's a pity that no one can answer the questions he raised, and no one can come up with solutions. In the past, the British Empire waved its hands casually, and the world trembled. Now, it has been greatly weakened!

Even if you choose one of the three goals, it depends on whether you have strength.Fight on both sides?America was ruled out first, Zhu Bin?It seems that we are in the midst of a world siege, and it would be great to add insult to injury, but the problem is that Britain can't take care of it. If he annoys that guy and is caught by him as an excuse to kill the Far East Fleet, Britain will die if it loses its Asian colonies. This risk, Who dares to take the risk?

Then there is Germany!Anyway, war has already been declared, and adding another crime is nothing. It seems feasible?

Members of Congress were noisy and unable to reach a conclusion for a long time.In fact, most people don't want to make a conclusion, because once they are sure, they have to prepare their troops to go to the European continent and officially fight Germany!

In the afternoon, Germany, Hitler's office.Admiral William Fleitz Canaris, the spy chief, stood opposite the desk of His Excellency the Head of State, waiting for questioning with a blank expression.

Hitler's little head was still naked, looked down and read the short report, took off his glasses, stared at William with a trace of enthusiasm in his eyes, and asked in his unique cracked voice: "William, what did you say about the two gold robberies?" Is it all true? Someone is indeed attacking the UK?"

"Yes! Head of State! Based on our intelligence analysis, this is definitely not a smoke bomb they released! The British have lost control of their gold market, which is the best proof!"

William Canaris' sonorous and forceful answer seemed to be stating iron-clad facts, which was convincing.

Hitler nodded slowly.He raised his hand to gather up a strand of hair that had been thrown down, stood up and paced back and forth behind the chair with his hands behind his back, the Nazi flag inserted diagonally, and the large oil painting of Zheng Zhongyang himself became the supreme leader of him, when he was meditating The moving background, if photographed.It is definitely a masterpiece that can make the youths of the empire crazily praise it!

"Four hundred tons of gold is indeed not a small number! If it weren't for the empire's need for reserves, I'd like to sell some to confuse them!"

Hitler talked to himself nervously, his voice was so low that he could hardly hear him.Fortunately, this time was not too long, so he then turned around and returned to the table, re-looked at the numbers and analysis results listed above, slightly twitched the corner of his mouth, suddenly slapped the table hard, and said loudly: "Very good! We Don't miss out on a good chance to hit the Brits!"

William Canaris lifted his spirits.Did the head of state make up his mind so quickly?Good thing, that means they have better jobs to do!

Hitler suddenly returned to his usual long-winded expression towards everyone, raised his right hand and pointed to the void, and raised his tone: "Although they deliberately raised the price of gold while suppressing the dollar, they also helped the British pound stabilize its position, which is not in the interests of the empire. , but that's fine, we'll do the rest ourselves! Dear William, I'll have our dollar reserves released as well. The other silver is useless, it's all released. I want to see Yankees and Brits How should I deal with it! Haha!"

His hearty laughter echoed in the spacious office, which made William feel a sense of respect.

In his years of getting along, it is rare to see Hitler having such a happy time.It has been so long since the last war, and the former army corporal has climbed to the peak of the empire, but deep down, he has a grudge against the British who look down on him.I am even more angry at the deeds of the Americans who fell into trouble back then.

This time, someone finally took the lead and gave these two hooligans a head-on blow. He, Mr. Adolf, would never mind throwing a wall and knocking everyone down!

After laughing, Hitler stared at William again and said: "You must closely monitor the reaction of the British! If this forces them to act faster and send troops as soon as possible, I will not be surprised!"

William Canaris nodded at attention: "Yes! Please rest assured, the head of state! We will not let go of any clues!"

Hitler waved him back in satisfaction, then sat back in the chair, bowed his head and meditated.

His actions were indeed resolute. In the afternoon, before the second transaction on the London Gold Exchange and the third transaction on the Metal Exchange were not over, Germany's punching action came with a bang!

The first wave was a purchase of 2 million U.S. dollars, aimed at gold and strategic metals, causing the already unstable market to fluctuate again, and the price was out of control; the second wave was to release [-] tons of silver at once. Settling in sterling or gold brought the already loose sterling exchange rate to the forefront again, and the price of silver plummeted out of control!

crazy!They're all fucking crazy!

The public actions of the Germans seemed to have opened a Pandora's box. Representatives from various countries, consortiums and banks with trading qualifications, even people from the United States, France, and Italy, all scrambled to participate. Before the market closed in the afternoon, seven hands The eight-legged pounding smashed the stable ratio of the US dollar to gold on the spot. Silver is hopeless!

It must be said that the nature of the bankers has brought huge troubles to this storm!They are completely ungrateful, they only have profits in their eyes, and they don't care about countries and nations. As long as the promising market is profitable, no matter where the disaster occurs, they will rush to it without hesitation.As for the country that suffers?who cares!

The response speed of the US stock market is almost at the same time. The British side is in chaos. They don’t even have anyone to protect the market. If the dollar exchange rate is empty, it is the United States' own company, its own brokerage!

Roosevelt never expected that things would turn out so badly. On the one hand, he questioned Rockefeller and Morgan, the bosses of Wall Street, asking them to try to stabilize the stock market and not to crash. In addition, he urgently summoned consultants and think tanks to find a solution. !Just one or two financial organizations dealing with the US economy is not terrible, but it will be completely different if the Germans join in!With their world's second largest economy, terrible gold reserves, and crazy action momentum, if one is not good, the United States will suffer a lot!

good idea?No.Economic problems must first be solved with economic means. Unless the United States adopts an isolationist approach and takes the initiative to participate in a world war, otherwise, the issue of sending troops cannot be considered, so it is necessary to defeat these in the financial market without using force. Speculators, with the strong economic strength of the United States, it seems that it is not difficult to do so.

But the question is, is it really easy to deal with greedy bankers and financiers all over the world?In particular, what if the U.S. gold reserves were actually stolen?

Everyone knows that once the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and gold gets out of control, the stable forces that the U.S. has worked so hard to build up for decades will inevitably undergo a major fluctuation. If they want to earn back, they must participate in the war. But right now, it is not a good time for the team ah!

Roosevelt asked around and did not get a clear answer. In the end, it was someone from the Rockefeller family who said: "Go and talk to Zhu Bin!" (To be continued.)