At the same time, the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom were sitting at the same table at the Kaiserhof Hotel, enjoying a German-style French meal.

"I don't like our time, really, not at all, it's terrible that the Anglo-Saxons have come to dominate the world, and the future belongs to the Germans and East Asians......" Churchill sat in a well-made high-backed armchair, smoking his big cigar and babbling some grumbling words, clearly unhappy with the outcome of the world war. Mr. President, we Britons and you Americans are all descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, speak the same language, have the same beliefs, and have the same interests, so why can't we unite? The unity of Britain and the United States, the union of all the Anglo-Saxons, so that none of us is afraid, neither Germany nor China! ”

Roosevelt listened with a blank face, a Cuban cigar between the middle and forefinger of his left hand. Was Churchill trying to broker an Anglo-American alliance? Roosevelt thought it was unlikely. If the British Empire can barely be regarded as a world empire, there are now four such powers in the world, Germany, the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. In any respect, Britain is certainly the lowest among the four countries. Now Churchill can attend the Berlin Conference as the leader of the four great powers because Britain has nuclear weapons. Otherwise, Canada would have been seized by the United States, Australia might have been carved up between China, the United States and Germany, and the British Empire would certainly not exist. And the economic strength of the United States is relatively strong. But the military power, uh, still looks relatively weak. If you are in the top four, you should be in third place. How can a fourth-ranked power find an alliance with a third-ranked power against the top two powers? If Britain and the United States form an alliance, China and Germany will probably form an alliance immediately, right? Can Britain and the United States fight them like this? It is impossible for Churchill not to know such a simple truth, so his purpose in saying this is certainly not to want to form an alliance with the United States.

Thinking of this, Roosevelt smiled slightly and looked at Churchill: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I think the future world will be a multipolar world, and no major power has the ability to dominate. Britain and the United States cannot, and neither can China and Germany. ”

Churchill gulped in a big gulp of smoke and squinted at Roosevelt, "Mr. President." I don't agree with your statement, the future world may not produce a superpower that will dominate the world militarily, but there will still be a hegemon economically, and the future will be the era of nuclear fission weapons. Therefore, the cost of military hegemony will be higher and higher. The focus of competition between the great powers will shift from the military to the economy. The economic superiority of the two Anglo-Saxon powers, the United States and Great Britain, is still obvious, and if we can carry out the necessary cooperation, the future world will still belong to us. ”

Roosevelt smiled coldly in his heart, he didn't think that the British economy still had any advantages, in fact, long before the First World War, Britain had already lost its status as the world's number one economic power. Now Britain has lost the market and labor force in India, and the only remaining are the more advanced technology and the two large colonies of Australia and Canada. And maybe the gold mines of South Africa. However, the British Empire still has the title of one of the four great powers, if Britain can stand with the United States on the issue of free trade. I'm afraid China will have to develop their huge market, right?

Thinking of this, Roosevelt nodded lightly and asked with a smile: "Mr. Prime Minister, we think that the British Empire has always supported the open door policy, right?" A free environment for international trade and investment is good for both of us, isn't it? ”

Churchill nodded slightly at Roosevelt when he heard this, and then spoke: "Of course, the British Empire has always supported free trade, which has been implemented since the Victorian era. But the basis of international free trade is an instrument of international settlement that can be accepted by most countries in the world. ”

After talking for a long time, it turned out that it was still for the sake of "world currency", Roosevelt glanced at Churchill out of the corner of his eye, and then said: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I have already discussed the issue of world currency with President Hitler. In principle, we both supported the establishment of the World Bank to issue a world currency, and Mr. Hitler and I agreed on the discovery and distribution of world money, and we both agreed to use the average of the gross national product of each country in the two years after the war. Mr. Prime Minister, what do you think of this approach? ”

There was silence in the dining room, and the faces of Churchill and all the Englishmen were ugly. Now the country with the highest GDP in the world is either the United States or Germany, and as for the British Empire, well, I am afraid that it is much inferior to China, that is, it is much stronger than France and Italy. If the world's currency were to be distributed according to the gross national product, the British Empire would be a phoenix with no hair. And what surprised Churchill even more was that Roosevelt actually agreed with Hitler on the question of world currency! Virtue has joined forces, what else can Britain do? Can we only obediently give up the status of the world's financial hegemon?

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"Your Excellency, I know that the Reichsmark in Germany is now issued on the basis of German land, and this method is very good, and it can be used as a reference for the issuance of world currency."

In the dining room of the Wangcheng Residence, decorated with works of art, lavish teak furniture, and beautiful crystal glass chandeliers, Chang Ruiqing and Hitler were also discussing the question of world currency, which was probably the most important topic at the Berlin Peace Conference, and the world currency was money that could make the devil grind, the capital of all evil capitalism! Therefore, Chang Ruiqing can make concessions on the issue of trade, but he must not make concessions on the issue of world currency, and agree to use the gross national product as the basis for issuing the world currency.

Hitler secretly cursed in his heart that this greedy and cunning Oriental man actually wanted to use the land as the basis for the issuance of world currency! Who doesn't know that your Federation of Great China is the country with the largest territory in the world, which means that you can allocate the most "world currency". He barely squeezed out a smile and explained to Chang Ruiqing: "Germany's land is the best used in the world, and every inch is creating the greatest value, and it is not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is gold, not the wasteland of Siberia and the desert of Central Asia and the barren land of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!" ”

Chang Ruiqing shook his head to say that he did not accept this statement, and said: "Mr. President, Germany also has barren land, and the area is still very large, as large as 14 million square kilometers. ”

"14 million square kilometers ......" Hitler was stunned and stunned, not knowing what Chang Ruiqing meant by this. Instead, German Foreign Minister Rathenau, who was sitting to his left, reminded in a low voice: "Your Excellency, at the beginning of this year we claimed sovereignty over Antarctica, which covers an area of about 14 million square kilometers. ”

"Antarctica?" Hitler thought to himself that it was really a barren land, and Germany's claim to possess the South Pole was just nonsense to satisfy vanity, no country in the world (including Germany itself) took it seriously, and now it was actually taken out by Chang Ruiqing to talk about things, this guy is really slippery.

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said: "Regarding the sovereignty of Antarctica, we have no objection to the Great China Federation, that land belongs to the German Empire, there is no doubt about it, so the land area of the German Empire should be more than 25 million square kilometers. At this point, he glanced at Hitler again, saw the hesitant expression on the other party's face, and continued: "Of course, land is only one of the bases for the discovery of world money, and the gross national product is also the basis, perhaps we can make a compromise scheme, with half land and half of GDP." What do you think? ”

The territory of the Great China Federation after the war was certainly the largest, so the plan of issuing a world currency solely on the basis of territory would certainly not be agreed to by the United States and Germany, even if Antarctica was counted to Germany. But the arithmetic of half territory and half GDP is different, because the GDP of Germany (excluding the little brothers in Western Europe and Northern Europe) is not as large as that of the United States, about 60 to 70 percent of the United States, and if the GDP is used alone, the United States will have the most world currency, or the most money and capital, and they now have 75% of the world's gold reserves, and gold can also be converted into a world currency. Such an outcome was also something Hitler did not want to see, and the only way to make Germany the world's number one "capital power" was probably the calculation method of "land plus gross national product" proposed by Chang Ruiqing, and at the same time count Antarctica as German territory. In this way, Germany can not only get an Antarctica for nothing, but also become the world's richest man with the world currency issued by the land of Antarctica.

China and the United Kingdom, one owns more than 30 million square kilometers, and the other includes colonies (excluding protectorates) has more than 20 million square kilometers, so they can also make enough profits with half of the world currency issued on the basis of land, and the only one who suffers is probably the United States, the world's richest country with a land area of only 9.159 million square kilometers.

Of course, Hitler calculated this account clearly, and he laughed and said: "This plan has a certain feasibility, and Germany can support it, but it is not without conditions." We hope that there will be an environment of free investment and free trade in the post-war world. (To be continued......)