On the morning of April 30, 1936, in the English Channel, the battlecruiser USS Hood.

In the officer's room, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill looked at the telegram sent by the British Embassy in China with a cigar in his mouth and frowned slightly, spit out two puffs of smoke, and sneered at Foreign Secretary Anthony on the other side. Aiden: "The Chinese prime minister's position on Australia seems to be in line with ours, and it seems that he doesn't want a new and powerful Russia to appear in the south of the Great China Federation. ”

"But Roosevelt's real position on this issue is probably the same as Hitler's." Aiden's brow furrowed tightly, as if he feared that he would not be able to defend the interests of the British Empire at the Berlin Peace Conference.

"No, no, Anthony," Churchill said, shaking his head, "you don't have to worry about Roosevelt's defection at the Berlin Peace Conference, the defection of the United States is not costless, and what Hitler can give is very limited." ”

Aiden thought for a moment, then nodded, the shape of the Berlin Peace Conference is very complicated, the four great powers (of course he thinks Britain can still be on an equal footing with China, the United States and Germany) do not have a fixed camp, for their own national interests, the four countries may be divided into different factions on different issues, and at the same time carry out explicit or implicit interest exchanges. If the Germans want to gain American support over Australia, they will likely have to sacrifice other interests, such as making larger concessions to the United States on the postwar world trade, investment, and monetary system. And this is simply unrealistic, in the minds of Hitler and Germany, Europe is still the center of the world, as the leader of Europe. Germany is, of course, the master of the world. If there is any currency in the world that can become a reserve currency recognized by all countries in the world, it is the mark, of course! If a "world currency" system is to be created, Germany must also have the lion's share! As for the issue of trade. There is less room for compromise between the United States and Germany, because Germany is itself a manufacturing powerhouse, and the European continent under German rule has even less manufacturing capacity than the United States, and the United States and Germany are simply competitors in this regard.

"And we're not completely rejecting refugees from Russia, and I think about 30 million Russian immigrants will be good for us to develop Australia and Canada." Churchill's face was filled with a look of longing. "These two colonies are the hope for the future revival of the British Empire."

After losing India, a colony of 350 million people, the biggest problem facing the British Empire was actually a lack of labor, if you count the colonies. The entire empire also had more than 20 million square kilometers of land, which was extremely rich in various resources, and science and technology were no less than virtue. However, with a population of just over 50 million, an average of only two and a half square kilometers per square kilometer, there is simply no way to develop that much territory. However, Britain does not dare to open its doors to immigrants, and they are very worried that Australia and Canada will become the backyard of Chinese. They don't have the confidence to assimilate these yellow-skinned, black-haired Chinese who don't believe in God. It would have been more acceptable if it had been replaced by Russian immigrants. But not too much, otherwise the British Empire would have become the Great Russian Empire. If there are 30 million hard-working Russians, or if they are mainly women (men are all killed in battle), it is relatively easy to digest. Well, at least the gentlemen of England won't have much of an opinion......

"Tell our ambassador to Germany, and ask him to convey to the Permanent Chancellor that he would like to invite him to dinner at the British Embassy this evening, and that I would like to discuss with him at the dinner table the question of the new post-war world economic order."

Anthony. Aiden smiled very gentlemanly. Churchilla's balancing act was unparalleled, and he was much better than his predecessor Chamberlain. First, it used the deterrent power of nuclear fission bombs and the export of nuclear technology to draw the United States back to Britain. Saving the British Empire from the danger of falling apart, and now trying to use the formulation of a new post-war world economic order to win over China, the Germans would not be able to turn Australia into a second Russia as long as China openly sided with Britain -- an outcome that was in China's interest. In this way, Britain found a common interest with the United States and China, while Germany was isolated.

Before Aiden could get up and leave to arrange a telegram, the door to the officer's office was pushed open, and in came Dudley, the First Sea Lord, who accompanied Churchill on his visit to Germany. Pound, he held a copy of a yellow telegram with a code strip in his hand: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I just received a telegram from our delegation to Germany, just 30 minutes ago, the Germans dropped another nuclear fission bomb in Belarus, about 35 kilometers southwest of the city of Borisov!" ”

"What!? Another nuclear fission bomb? Churchill stood up and walked to the bulkhead where a large Soviet-German battlefield map was hung, and asked without looking back: "Where were the nuclear fission bombs dropped yesterday?" Is it Borisov Northwest? ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Prime Minister, our military delegation reports that the Germans are massing a large number of armored clusters in Minsk, which seems to be preparing for a breakthrough from Borisov."

"Can the Russians withstand it?" Churchill asked, taking a drag on his cigarette.

Dudley. Pound shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say, our military delegation estimates that the two nuclear explosions will cause a maximum of 60,000 casualties to the Soviet army, which is nothing compared to their tens of millions of troops on the front line of the Western Front." ”

"Only 60,000 killed? It's not much, which means that the Russians can give Hitler a little bitterness? Churchill smiled gloatingly.

"Perhaps." Dudley. Pound, after all, was an admiral, and he didn't know what land warfare was all about, and he hadn't seen the terrible scene of a nuclear fission bomb exploding with his own eyes.

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"Aim! Fire! ”

"Click......"

Solzhenitsyn, the security officer of the 16th Army of the Soviet Red Army, heard the loud order of Stuchenko, the head of the counterintelligence department of the army, and did not hesitate to pull the trigger of the M1910 heavy machine gun and swept a series of tongues of fire towards the enemy more than ten meters away...... Certainly not German anymore, as a security officer with a blue hat. In general, there is no chance to shoot at the Germans, unless they are former German GCDs. Standing in front of Solzhenitsyn, a young blue hat who was only 18 years old, today for him to shoot are more than a dozen counter-revolutionaries captured from various units under the 16th Army!

The young man was lucky enough to survive and was exiled to Canada. He went to university there and later became a writer, and in his famous book "Living by Lies", he described some of the events he personally experienced during the Battle of Borisov: "...... Their crime is to tell the truth and think that two nuclear bombs fell on the heads of our fraternal units near us yesterday morning and this morning, so they are going to be shot! But all men have seen and heard, except that he is deaf and blind. And these two types of artificial peasants were not wanted by the conscription department of the Red Army. The Trotsky Military Academy and the Viet Fei Specialist School (under the NKVD) certainly did not accept them, and therefore did not go to the 16th Army as soldiers or cadres. But whoever dares to tell the truth that everyone knows must be put to death. Because of spreading rumors to confuse the public and disturb the morale of the army! As for us, we can only continue to play the role of minions and murderers, and if we don't, we will have to die immediately.

Things are just terrible. A general mental breakdown has befallen all of us, and the destruction of the ** is about to come with the nuclear fission bombs that continue to fall. Swallow all of us. And we're still the same. Always obedient and mechanically to carry out one absurd command after another, to kill everyone who dares to point out the most basic facts, and then say over and over again what they don't believe:

'There are no super-bombs, no big explosions, Leningrad and Smolensk are still intact, the red flag is still flying over the Krasnoyarsk fortress......

We have lost our humanity in despair, for the sake of poor food, for the sake of being able to live a little longer. Willing to give up all principles, to give up our souls. Just to live even a little longer. We are not afraid of the nuclear fission bombs of the Germans and the Chinese, and we are not afraid of the world war that has already been lost. We have long since hid in the cracks, and we are afraid that death will come sooner because we are brave enough to tell the truth......"

In fact, not all of them want to live a little longer, like Solzhenitsyn, and the cowardly suicide of the Party and the people is spreading. The company commander, Zadov, snatched the rifle from Bilyutsov's hands at once, because he saw the sentry, who had been blinded by witnessing the explosion of a nuclear fission bomb (the military doctor said it was temporary, so he was not allowed to leave the line of fire), aimed the muzzle of the rifle at his head.

"You're crazy! Do you know what you're doing? Zadov swung his fist and slammed it twice on Biluzov's head.

"It's horrible! It's horrible! The end of the world is coming, the end of the world is coming, and we are all going to hell......" Biluzov muttered, tears of despair streaming down his cheeks onto his dirty uniform. Zadov breathed a sigh of relief, because he heard this young man say "the end of the world", and now he is mainly looking for rumors of "nuclear fission bombs" or "super bombs", and some people have made rumors that the positions of the 17th Army and the 19th Army have been bombed by the Germans with "nuclear fission bombs" or "super bombs"! Whoever dares to say more will be arrested by the counter-espionage organs of the group army! Yan zhòng's will also be shot! But there is no time to grasp the rumors of the end of the world now, and in the future, well, there will be no future, maybe the next nuclear fission bomb of the Germans will fall on their heads, and then there will be nothing to be freed. Even if the nuclear fission bombs had not fallen, the armored forces of the Germans would have ended all their suffering......

Thinking of this, Zadov pulled the bolt a few times, returned all the bullets, and threw the empty gun back to Bilyutsov, a blind man with an empty gun, which is a good combination.

"The 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th armies have all sent telegrams that rumors have been curbed and the morale of the troops is still high." The chief of staff of the Western Front, who had not closed his eyes for two days, walked into a small war room with a stub beard, which was located in the office building of a coal mine on the outskirts of Smolensk, and the entrance to the mine was not far away, and as soon as the air defense alarm sounded, the personnel in the war room could be immediately transferred to the bottom of the mine. Now the war room was filled with the smell of people staying up late and the smell of strong vodka, and Marshal Yegorov was sitting in the corner with a bottle in his hand and making a drowsy, and there were several empty bottles lying on the ground. Tukhachevsky and a dozen officers were whispering around the map, and the chief of the General Staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had not given up until now.

Hear the report of the ** husband. Tukhachevsky nodded with satisfaction, and just wanted to say a few words of encouragement, but Yegorov, who had drunk a few more glasses next to him, suddenly opened his mouth and said nonsense: "Liar." It's all a lie, at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people witnessed the explosion of a nuclear bomb...... How can morale still be high? You've all seen it, and you know how scary that scene is, but now everyone can turn a lie into truth by opening their eyes and telling nonsense together? It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous! ”

"You, you." Tukhachevsky pointed to the two staff officers beside him: "Comrade commander is drunk, you guys take him to rest!" ”

"Yes!" When the two staff officers heard this, they helped Yegorov out of the war room, one left and one right.

The husband sighed. Stepping over several empty wine bottles on the ground, he walked up to Tukhachevsky and reported in a low voice: "Report of the 7th Guards Tank Army, 9th Guards Tank Army." One of their assembly points was discovered by the Luftwaffe and was heavily bombed, and the two tank brigades suffered heavy losses, losing a total of 102 Su-76s. Comrade Chief of the General Staff. I fear that our intentions will be perceived by the Germans......"

"No problem." Tukhachevsky waved his hand: "Even if Germany detects it, it will use armored clusters to fight us, and the key now is to maintain the morale of the Red Army on the Borisov front line as much as possible, the longer they hold on, the greater the chance of winning the decisive battle." ”

** Fu nodded, hesitated for a while and then said: "Comrade Chief of the General Staff, if the enemy drops a few more nuclear fission bombs on the area around Borisov, I am afraid it will cause ...... to the troops there"

"Don't think about it so much." Tukhachevsky shook his head and interrupted: "That's it, go and send a telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council." Let's just say that I am ready to personally command the general reserve cluster to fight a decisive battle with the German panzer group! His expression suddenly became extremely solemn: "If I can't win, I will die in the battle to defend Russia!" ”

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"The currency of the world? Your Excellency the Prime Minister. What do you mean ......"

Just when the Soviet Red Army was preparing to fight for the German invaders in the face of the falling atomic bombs, Chang Ruiqing, who had long understood what the world currency was, was looking at Churchill and Anthony with a look of surprise in the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Aiden.

Liao Zhongkai, who was sitting next to him, also shook his head again and again, puzzled: "How to issue the world's currency?" And by whom? What is preparation? After the issuance of the world's currency, should the currencies of various countries be retained? If the currencies of all countries are still preserved, then what is the significance of the world's currencies? If you don't keep ...... Wouldn't it deprive all countries of the right to issue their currencies? ”

Hearing this series of questions, Churchill smiled unhurriedly and replied slowly: "Your Excellency, Minister Liao, the reason why our government is proposing to issue a world currency is entirely based on the needs of the post-war world economy. The two of them must be very familiar with the big issue of currency, which is related to the lifeblood of the country's economy, and they must also know that the current monetary system in the world is very chaotic. For a long time, the basis of money has been precious metals, such as gold and silver. Before the outbreak of the world war, the gold-based world monetary system had collapsed and was replaced by unsecured paper money based on government credit, which gave the government the opportunity for excessive currency issuance and hyperinflation, and in fact gave the government the power to issue money and tax it in disguise. ”

Speaking of this, he winked at Chang Ruiqing and said with a smile: "Of course, this kind of power is also two-sided, in fact, the wartime finances of China, the United States, Britain and Germany are inseparable from the money printing machine. But there is such a thing as international trade and international capital flows in this world, and these two things involve international settlement, in the past for a long time, the instrument of international settlement is precious metals, gold or silver, but with the continuous expansion of the world economy and the total volume of world trade, the era of using precious metals as a tool for international settlement is obviously gone. So we need a new instrument of international settlement, which is the world currency, a currency that is subject to the joint supervision of the world's governments and therefore has no possibility of indiscriminate issuance. To make an inappropriate analogy, the world's currency is gold and silver from before! And the power to issue the world's currency is undoubtedly the equivalent of the power to turn stones into gold, and I don't think any major government wants to see such power fall into the hands of any foreign country, right? Therefore, after precious metals cannot assume the heavy responsibility of international clearing tools, a world currency that jointly holds the right to issue notes will be the most ideal choice. ”

"Joint monitoring by all countries? Is it the creation of a world central bank? ”

"The world's central bank? Yes, it may be called the International Union for Settlements or the World Bank. The function of this bank is equivalent to that of the central banks of various countries now, holding the power to issue banknotes! The control of the banks is held by the major powers of the world, and is not subject to the dictates of any one country's government...... Although the central banks of many countries in the world claim to be independent, His Excellency the Prime Minister and Mr. Finance must know what is going on, right? (To be continued......)