Chapter 1043: Black Thursday

On November 18, 4626 of the Yellow Emperor Era, the Prime Minister of the Fuso Kingdom, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, released the obituary of King Yongren to all the people of the Fuso Kingdom with a heavy heart. Suddenly, the entire Fuso Kingdom was shocked. Why did the king die just two days after the Fuso Kingdom was founded? There must be some conspiracy in this.

Of course, the vast majority of Japanese people just muttered a few words in their hearts, and then they were still busy for their daily livelihoods. The current conditions of the Fuso Kingdom are much better than when the war just ended. At the very least, with the help of the Chinese Empire, the Fuso Kingdom established several major industries based on building materials, chemicals, printing and dyeing, and steel. Although, these industries are slightly more polluted. However, in order to be able to mix and eat a bite of rice, the Japanese don't care about it at all. In addition, the large-scale export of labor services to the Chinese Empire earned a large amount of foreign exchange for Japan, which made Japan's economic conditions much better. Under such circumstances, it is natural that the Japanese people will not care about the former Japanese Empire. I don't care too much about Yongren's death, at most I feel that something is wrong.

As for the small number of people who still cherished the Japanese Empire, they did not stir up any storms. Of course, they were very dissatisfied with Yongren's death. However, after the Imperial Army stationed in the Kingdom of Fuso, the Fuso Army, and the police of Fuso were put on maximum alert, those Japanese who wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble were just asking for trouble for themselves. In particular, after the police in Fuso arrested some Japanese who tried to start a riot, the rest of the Japanese were honest one by one. They knew that if they hit the muzzle of the gun, nothing would end well.

Under the influence of these factors, Yongren's death did not stir up any storms in the Fusang Kingdom at all, and it passed quickly. Those Japanese people don't seem to care about Yongren's life or death at all. It doesn't matter who will be their king, as long as their days can get better and better. In addition, these Japanese also know that neither Yongren nor the king who will come to power next is just a puppet of the Chinese. In that case, what does it matter who will be the king?

Only three days after Yongren's death, even on November 21, the emperor Wu Haoxuan canonized Mingren, and even if Wu Peng was promoted to the new king of the Fusang Kingdom. Prime Minister Saionji Konobu and other ministers of the Fuso Kingdom, as well as the army and police forces of the Fuso Kingdom, immediately swore allegiance to the new king. This allowed the power of the Fuso Kingdom to be smoothly handed over without any twists and turns.

Wu Pengsheng is just a three-year-old child at the moment, and he doesn't know anything about national affairs and the like, and all affairs are in charge of Masako Xiyuan Temple, who has become the queen mother. Of course, Masako Saionji is not here. After Wu Pengsheng succeeded to the throne, she immediately took Wu Pengsheng to live in the Chinese Empire on the grounds that the king was still young and needed to go to the Chinese Empire to study. As for the affairs of the Fuso Kingdom, they were left to the cabinet. In any case, the cabinet was to be supervised by the Imperial Chinese Governor-General in Japan. The prime minister of the cabinet is her grandfather, so naturally nothing will happen. Even if something happens, with the Empire as its backing, all troubles can be easily resolved.

The kingdom of Fuso did not have any storms for the change of kings. However, it is not the same outside of the Kingdom of Fuso. The Japanese government-in-exile in the United States jumped out at the time of the establishment of the Fuso Kingdom and accused it of stealing the Japanese Empire by accusing the Fuso Kingdom of not being supposed to exist. Hirohito, as the emperor of the Japanese Empire, would never allow such a thing to happen.

It's just that when his master, the United States of America, does not support him, he can only bark like a wild dog a few times. He has been in exile in the United States for several years, but he still hasn't seen a war between China and the United States, which makes Hirohito very dissatisfied. Even he regretted it a little, if he had adopted the advice of the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang and surrendered to China and became a vassal state of China, perhaps the situation would have been much better than it is now. When Hirohito fled Japan, he didn't have much money left, which made their lives very embarrassing, and if the Americans hadn't seen their usefulness and provided them with some assistance from time to time, they might not have survived. However, as the rule of the Chinese Empire in Japan became more and more entrenched, the U.S. government also believed that the role of the Japanese government-in-exile was becoming smaller and smaller. Therefore, their support for Japan is also declining.

Yongren's death was a huge blow to Hirohito. Upon learning of Yongren's death, Hirohito immediately jumped up and down in the United States, insulting the Chinese Empire everywhere, claiming that Yongren must have been killed by the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire killed Yongren and then put a small bastard of unknown origin on the throne of Japan, which was clearly a usurpation of the Japanese throne.

Hirohito once again asked US President Calvin Coolidge to get help from the United States. However, Calvin Coolidge's term of office was approaching at this time. For Hirohito's requirements, it is no longer so important. President Calvin Coolidge sent Hirohito away after a few casual remarks, much to Hirohito's disappointment.

It was at this time that the situation of the Japanese government-in-exile in the United States became more difficult. If it weren't for the help and support provided by the Japanese diaspora, they might have begged for help.

After the Fusang Kingdom became a vassal state of the Chinese Empire, the countries of the world paid little attention to the Fusang Kingdom anymore. Therefore, even if the king of the Fuso Kingdom is replaced, few people will care. Yongren's death passed like this, and there was no more turmoil.

The energy of the Chinese empire was entirely focused on dealing with the great world economic crisis that was about to erupt. The Imperial Cabinet issued a series of policies in the hope of stimulating the domestic market and increasing the purchasing power of the Imperial populace. In this way, the empire will be able to successfully cope with the impending economic crisis.

Chinese people have always had the habit of saving money, and the money they earn is saved to be used at critical moments. Such a habit is not bad. However, for a country's economy, this has no small disadvantages. Only when the people spend their money can the empire's economy be more active and develop faster.

At the same time, the empire also began to consciously raise the bar and restrict foreign goods from entering the markets of the Chinese empire and vassal states. In this way, it can play a role in protecting the local industry and commerce of the empire. The population of the Chinese Empire now exceeds 500 million and is approaching the 600 million mark. Together with the 100 million people of the vassal states, this is a large market with a total population of more than 600 million people. Such a large market is enough to consume the industrial capacity of the empire. In this way, when the economic crisis breaks out in the future, the empire will be able to survive without danger.

In Wu Haoxuan's memory, several years of economic crisis have dealt a heavy blow to industrial production in the capitalist world. Among them, the industrial production of the United States has fallen by 40.6 percent, and even if the empire maintains zero growth in industrial production in the next few years, it will be able to surpass the United States in one fell swoop and become the world's largest industrial power.

Of course, the Chinese Empire began to protect local industry, which also made the capitalist powers such as Britain, France, and the United States very dissatisfied. The United States, in particular, does not have many colonies overseas, unlike Britain and France, which were able to transfer their own disasters to their colonies, which made the situation of the United States even more difficult. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge openly accused the Chinese Empire of protectionism, claiming that such actions of the Chinese Empire were undermining the freedom of the world economy.

However, in response to such accusations from everyone, the Chinese empire was indifferent. The Americans are in danger of protecting themselves, so who cares about their accusations? Moreover, the future economic crisis will be a catastrophe for all countries in the world. In this catastrophe, whoever can keep himself as much as possible will be able to occupy a greater advantage in the future world.

Therefore, after the Chinese Empire took the lead in protecting local industries, other countries also implemented similar policies, beginning to restrict the entry of foreign goods into their own markets in order to protect their own industries. It is precisely because of this reason that the world economic situation has deteriorated even more.

In March 4627, the new president of the United States came to power. Herbert Hoover, the former Secretary of Commerce, won the election and became the 31st President of the United States. However, President Herbert Hoover undoubtedly had a mess in front of him. The U.S. economy is deteriorating, and at some point, the U.S. economy will collapse.

Although the Herbert Hoover administration tried many ways to stop the deterioration of the American economy, there was no way to do so. The current US economy is completely based on the point of being terminally ill. There is an old Chinese saying that if you don't break it, you can't stand it, and in the case of accumulation, the only way to break everything is to break it first, and then look for an opportunity to re-establish it.

Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, it was October 24th, and today was Thursday. After the New York stock market opened, it began to plummet in an instant, which made countless shareholders and investors dumbfounded. They desperately want to sell their stocks so that they don't become a pile of waste paper. However, at this time, there are people everywhere who want to sell stocks, which makes it impossible for them to sell their stocks at all. I can only watch the stocks in my hands turn into waste paper.

It was a completely black day for Americans. The U.S. stock market has evaporated a lot of wealth, and many people have suddenly become poor from rich. (To be continued.) )