The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

() "Zhu Bin?"

Roosevelt didn't react at first, but then he suddenly came back to his senses under the reminder of his staff and advisers, and almost jumped out of the wheelchair, suddenly realized: "That's right! How did I forget this guy?!"

More than just forgetting, he never thought that this series of changes would have anything to do with Zhu Bin!

Speaking of which, His Excellency the President did not take Zhu Bin and the Chinese people too seriously.In his view, Zhu Bin is just a prodigal son who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and has some ancestral property to squander. With a little cleverness, or the accumulation of family background, he has a place in the chaotic land of China.As for the partnerships established with major consortiums and companies in the United States, they are nothing more than money exchanges, and everyone gets what they need.

What about Lao Jiang, the nominal leader of China?He was also regarded by Roosevelt as an insatiable idiot who only knows how to ask for support but does nothing. That is to say, it is only in China's environment that such an ambitious person can be allowed to come to power. In the United States, hehe, his personal virtue alone is enough. pot! ..

Think about it, in order to gain the support of the United States and the Western society, a Confucian child actually believes in Christianity against his will. What kind of style is this?Can something like religious belief be changed indiscriminately?It is simply unseemly for a leader of a country to do this!

Sooner or later, the chaos in China will lead to a great war that will kill and injure tens of millions of people, and finally a real winner will be determined to rule the world. This has been proved long ago by history. It happens once in hundreds of years, and it is not new at all.

Obviously, the two people who were so labeled by Roosevelt in his heart would naturally not be placed on his primary list of suspects.It was still the Rockefeller family who kept their secrets, and had been secretly paying attention to and staring at the vicissitudes of the world. With their own intelligence system, they found some clues, and because of their position as an American consortium, they reminded him.

Roosevelt suddenly remembered.If this series of actions were planned and implemented by Zhu Bin, it would be very reasonable!

Think about it, there are only a handful of people in the world capable of doing this kind of thing. Martians have never appeared in science fiction movies. Crazy scientists such as Tesla work under his hands. The mysterious " "City of Light" brings infinite shock to everyone who has ever been there.However, the other party is strictly guarded and can't bring out any real things at all, and the people who are qualified to go are often scientists with problematic brains... The information they provide can easily cause confusion.

Um.Aside from those reasons, Zhu Bin is really capable of planning and executing such an action. Even if he didn't grab the gold, he must be among the people making waves in the London financial market!Moreover, the intensity of tossing is not small.Otherwise, apart from Germany, who else in the world can hold so many dollars in their hands?

The trade between China and the United States has doubled for six consecutive years. Up to now, the import and export trade between each other is worth billions, especially the large-scale close amount of WorldCom Group centered in Shanghai in these years, which is tens of billions , These are all in US dollars as the main settlement unit!There are billions of dollars in Shanghai, Citibank and GD Bank alone!

Not to mention, the gd bank, which is equivalent to the central yang bank of China, already provides transaction agency services for the import and export of countless domestic enterprises.Talk about the total number of imports and exports.China has even ranked among the top five in the world in just a few years, second only to the few countries in the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany!

Then he hit the plate.It's not surprising that the US dollar was attacked from gold. Who let the American consortia who cooperated well a few days ago sell him unceremoniously?If it were Roosevelt himself, he would never swallow his anger!

However, Roosevelt did not like to compromise with others in his life.In order to save the US economy, he even unceremoniously persecuted Morgan, his backer supporter.It can be said that the United States was able to recover quickly after the Great Depression, and its great strength came from forcing consortia to take money out of their pockets.

Just imagine, with his personality, how could he bend down to actively communicate with Zhu Bin?dream!

Roosevelt immediately ordered his aides to quickly draw up means of attacking the economy around the financial turmoil and possible continuation, with Zhu Bin as the imaginary enemy.Formulate a response and countermeasure plan, and then directly order the Federal Reserve: "I don't care what method you use, you must stabilize the exchange rate of the dollar. We will not appreciate or depreciate! Just stay there and not go anywhere!"

In order to save the U.S. economy after the Great Depression, Roosevelt Zheng Fu took the initiative to depreciate the U.S. dollar by 40.00%, stimulating exports and starting production, which brought about great improvements, but things always have to be done in moderation. The international trade situation these days is very unstable. The operating rate in the United States has also recovered, but the things that can be imported are technical products that have not changed after their depreciation. This has done no good other than raising domestic prices and causing consumption contraction.

appreciation?What's more, there is already a trade deficit, so how can it be messed up if it appreciates again?For the present plan, the only way to stabilize the exchange rate between the US dollar and gold!

The aides felt very embarrassed about this. They were more or less supported by the shadow of a consortium, and they knew the truth about the Federal Reserve heist. Therefore, they felt that Mr. President's request could not be implemented, and they stated it very euphemistically: "If you want to achieve the goal, you must provide sufficient gold and dollar repurchase capabilities, otherwise you may fall short!"

Gold... Roosevelt felt a pain in his head.Yes, gold!The other party understood that the gold from the United Kingdom and the United States was stolen, and the quantity in circulation on the market was wiped out at will. There has been no sale order, and the price of gold will be easily raised by them.

If they want to sell it down, they have no choice but to toss about because there is no selling order, but the other party must know that they only need to make a false appearance of the gold in their hands in the market to create the illusion of a transaction, and the price will naturally rise.

Or you can get real gold and silver to fill the hole, and you can pay as much as the other party buys, and they have been depleting their dollar reserves, and then the price of the smash has fallen back to the ideal position, showing the firmness and strength of the dollar.Logically, this is the best way, even if it is for the reputation and credit of the United States, it must be done.

But the problem is that a lot of gold is needed!It is conservatively estimated that at least several thousand tons of gold must be prepared to support the joint attack of those who made waves and the Germans who mixed in!

Roosevelt was even more annoyed when he thought that silver was involved in it!The other party obviously targeted the weakness of the United States, and the silver turmoil that had just subsided, immediately set off a bigger wave, and the viciousness of the attacks was outrageous!Forty thousand tons of silver were thrown out in one day.What do they want!

Frowning vigorously, Roosevelt ordered decisively: "Tell the shareholders of the Federal Reserve that this is related to the overall interests of the United States. If we fail, they will lose the most! So, no matter what method you think of, you must win this battle!"

The implication is that I am fighting for you, and you have to come up with gold and dollars to save the market!

This is the viciousness of the opponent.With the monetary policy of the United States, the U.S. dollar is paper money. As long as it is needed, the Federal Reserve can print a lot without worrying about the sharp depreciation of the assembly, as long as the United States lasts for a whole day.The other party has seen this point, so they forcefully let the dollar bills flow back and rob gold at the same time, just to force out this secret of the United States to create even greater chaos!Once successful, the consequences will be disastrous!

The aides are still in a dilemma.What is the attitude of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve.They are so clear!Rockefeller proposed to ask Roosevelt to talk to Zhu Bin, which was the most gentle. Morgan simply proposed: "Either the United States directly sends troops to deal with that damned yellow-skinned monkey, or at least supports Japan to deal with him through war!"

pay?Bankers can do it, but they won't do it if there is no profit!The United States still has gold reserves, and only half of it is lost, not to mention whether it can be recovered.Is the remaining [-] tons enough to support it?Anyway, I don’t rely on that thing to issue currency, more or less is just temporary.them.Not Brits.

In essence, bankers are all warmongers, and consortiums have profited from the war and developed. What they like to see is a world where wars are constantly happening. They are actually not interested in the isolationist approach of the United States, but The issue is.On the surface, more than [-]% of the people in the seemingly minzhu United States are unwilling to get involved in the war. Life is a little easier, and they prefer to watch the excitement behind closed doors.

Another big problem!Although the United States no longer implements the gold standard, it requires the Federal Reserve to issue a total amount of money.There must be 40.00% gold as the benchmark.After Roosevelt came to power, he raised the price of gold per ounce from more than $20 to $35, which was to force the appreciation of gold and bring convenience to the issuance of U.S. dollars. When the United States has more than 8000 tons of gold reserves, the total number can already support the operation of the entire country. .This is also an alternative gold standard.

Now, the entire stable ratio will be broken within a few years. If it gets out of control, the United States does not know what will happen!

Roosevelt is distraught, aren't these problems all caused by you greedy bankers?If you do business with Zhu Bin properly, you won't be able to achieve this virtue!Now you are being counterattacked by the other party, but you want to find Zheng Fu to solve the problem?It's outrageous!

Things still have to be done. He didn't talk to Zhu Bin, but let someone send a message to Lao Jiang through Kong Xiangxi. The United States can increase its support for him, on the condition that he must try to contain or even resist Zhu Bin on the spot. Don't let this guy Make trouble for the whole world!

At the same time, Morgan's proposal also won his acquiescence.It is very difficult to directly send troops to attack Zhu Bin through the parliament, but simply increasing loans to Japan and the export of certain weapons is what many financial groups are willing to see.That would not only boost the American economy, but also indirectly intervene in the robbing of the interests that Japan had already robbed.Today, the three affiliated northeastern provinces and Sakhalin Island, which has a steady stream of oil, are becoming the coveted objects of American consortiums!In the whole world, there are not many fat and oily places waiting to be shared!

Then, the unofficial commander of the South Pacific Fleet came forward to threaten and protest against the Chinese navy headed by Zhu Bin, at least to cut off its shipping route and block Zhu Bin's action space by sea.

This series of actions basically does not require congressional approval, and a considerable number of congressmen are also angry at the fact that Zhu Bin may be the murderer behind the scenes, and explicitly support Roosevelt's sanctions.

The British joined this action almost without thinking, clearly proposing that they would cut off the passage between the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal, and not allow Chinese ships to pass through.

In this way, it is tantamount to chasing and intercepting Zhu Bin from the national level, which is simply an upgraded version of the action of dismembering the WorldCom Group!Come fast enough!Hard enough!Direct enough!

Gold mobilized from the United States brazenly entered the market!Under the repeated insistence of the tough Churchill, the British government also joined the battle group and provided 300 tons of gold reserves to participate in the battle. As soon as the London Gold Exchange opened the next day, all gold buying was blocked. More than [-] tons of gold completed paper transactions!

"Thirteen hundred tons! Tsk tsk! Unexpectedly, the foreign devils are really rich!"

Looked at the market closing report in the morning.Zhu Bin couldn't help admiring.The reaction speed of these guys is really fast enough. He blocked the hole before he could make a move. He really is a veteran imperialist and a veteran in finance!

Serena didn't care about his fuss: "Western powers have robbed the world since the 400th century until now. For 10,000 years, almost half of the 1+ tons of gold accumulated by humans in the world over tens of thousands of years! Even these One-third is missing, one-third is privately held, and one-third is in their national reserves, with a total of [-] to [-] tons! You just robbed [-] tons, at most It’s a pain in the ass, but it’s far from enough to knock them down!”

"So many?" Zhu Bin stared, this number is a bit deceptive!At the current exchange rate, a ton of gold is about 125 million US dollars.Ten thousand tons is 125 billion!He doesn't have so many US dollars in foreign exchange in his hand now!

But anyway, there are several billions that can be mobilized. Unless the foreign devils shamelessly stop the transaction, there is no problem in buying thousands of tons and forcing the price of gold to soar!The point is that Zhu Bin has greater ambitions, he wants to control the price of gold, indirectly control the exchange rate of currencies, and become the world's financial hegemony in one fell swoop!

Serena gave this a beautiful white eye: "Don't dream! It took the British 200 years to establish the hegemony of the pound. The Americans relied on the Civil War and the decades before and after the First World War to seize half of the country. The current strength wants to seize power? Unless you win them on the battlefield first!"

Zhu Bin scratched his head annoyedly: "If the spaceship is alright, we can go directly to the edge of the solar system and drag an asteroid back, pick out the gold core inside, and the world's gold price will collapse in one fell swoop!"

In the interstellar era, gold has long been worthless, not even precious metals, if you like.It's no problem to build a spaceship out of gold.It is extremely laborious to extract gold on the earth, but those asteroid cores that have existed for billions of years in space have already gathered a large number of heavy metal cores. Which one does not have hundreds of millions of tons?

Serena knocked on the table: "Face the reality! They have teamed up to contain the world, what should we do?"

Zhu Bin sneered: "It's easy! They are playing with Lao Tzu to break the world. If we cut off our shipping, then we all don't want to ship it! Help them and block a few canals and straits directly. I can see who can't handle it." live!"

With the powerful calculation ability of Serena's biochemical brain core, she was taken aback by Zhu Bin's shattering coping strategy!Good guy, just slapped and stared twice, everyone can't be better off, it's cruel enough!

In today's world shipping, there are several most critical traffic arteries, the longest and largest Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal that connects the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean, and the Panama Canal that shortens the American route by [-] kilometers!

These three major throats have assumed the functions of most of the world's ocean shipping hubs. It can be said that ocean shipping in the entire world cannot do without the convenience of these three places.

Today, the United Kingdom controls Suez and Malacca, and the United States controls Panama. It is not a fluke that the two giants have become the world's leading powers. This is a testimony of strength!Zhu Bin's mere eight years of accumulation is obviously not enough to challenge them, but it doesn't matter, I can't beat you, I will toss you to death!

Serena couldn't help thinking, if the British and Yankees knew that Zhu Bin would react like this, would they go crazy?

Just a few hours later, a group of 20-ton freighters returning from Germany were intercepted in the Panama Canal.These are more than 5 standard Panamax cargo ships, with a maximum full-load displacement of 32 tons and a slender hull of 33.53 meters, barely able to pass slowly by the side of the [-]-meter lock chamber.

When the order arrived, two ships had already entered the lock chamber at one end of the Caribbean Sea. The Governor of the Canal impatiently commanded his subordinates: "Bring those damn Chinese ships aside! Don't let them pass for now! Ah, inside the zheng fu What are those bastards doing! Don't they know that it is difficult to distinguish ships with random nationalities?"

That is to say, they have been stationed here all year round, and they have already figured out the situation of the ships passing by. Otherwise, it would be basically impossible to find Chinese nationals from thousands of giant ships!Besides, how can there be any boat with Chinese nationality running around these days?

Ignoring the fleet's protests, Mr. Governor lazily returned to his villa to enjoy afternoon tea. Unexpectedly, before arriving at the place, a panting man caught up and told him angrily: "General! Something is wrong! It's over! The Chinese freighter that entered the lock suddenly exploded and caught fire!"

"What?! What happened?!"

The Governor (also the American General) was on the spot!What the hell is going on? !He has seen it with his own eyes, those damn Chinese ships are huge, just enough to fill the locks to the brim, and if there is any problem, it will take a lot of trouble to get it out!

But this is not the first time this kind of thing happened, he waved his hand helplessly: "Ah! Damn idiot! Hurry up and ask someone to drag it out, don't delay the normal operation!"

Before that man ran away, the second bad news came one after another. Another ship lock happened to be in trouble. Another freighter suddenly sank and got stuck in the roadway. Now, it was on fire. It seemed that it was A tanker….

"Tanker?!" Your Excellency the Governor's face changed drastically, he knew that there was a big trouble now! (To be continued.)