The difference between the UN Charter of this time and space and another time and space is not as great as imagined.

Most of the major UN charters are slogans, large and empty, so they are easy to formulate, and the similarity rate with another time and space is inexplicably high; But there is also a part of the UN Charter that has to do with the running procedures of the UN, and this part of the people is racking their brains to do something for the benefit of their country.

The United Nations in this time and space, like another time and space, has a "General Assembly" that is usually responsible for all kinds of resolutions that are actually useless, and then there is a "Security Council" that actually controls the real power of the United Nations.

Because the outcome of World War II was different, Russia's seat in this time and space was taken out by Germany and became China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany. The permanent members, like another time and space, have the right of veto.

After the promulgation of the Charter of the United Nations, the first formal United Nations General Assembly was convened to discuss the establishment of the United Nations. However, the focus of the first Security Council meeting was different from that of the General Assembly, and the Security Council's eyes were on the Middle East, a future black and gold land.

"I am opposed to the establishment of a Chinese state in the Persian Gulf," Charlotte said generously, "and there is no legal basis for the existence of the Chinese in the Middle East, and the Arabs are the legitimate rulers of the land." ”

"According to your logic, I have to oppose any state established by the English Saxons in North America," Lin argued, "de jure North America belongs to the Indians. Intelligence: North America was returned to the Indians, in which case we would be happy to return the Persian Gulf to the Arabs. ”

In fact, the scene at this time is quite magical, Lin Youde is not the official representative of Germany, Charlotte is not the head of the American delegation, both of them attended the meeting as entourage, but no one questioned the right of the two to speak in the debate of the conference.

Of course, there is not much point in a debate like this, this is all superficial work, and the actual contest is going on in secret, and the participating members are in frequent contact with great powers like the United States, and the main factor in determining who they support at the conference is these exchange of interests behind the scenes. There is no interest, no matter how invincible you are in the debate, it will not be you who will win in the end.

Therefore, Lin Youde is now very comfortable dealing with Charlotte's verbal attacks, enjoying the pleasure of the debate very easily, and not worrying about the subsequent vote - what can be done has already been done, and now it is just time to see the scenery on the road to the inevitable result.

In the end, the Security Council set a timetable for the peace process in the Middle East, according to which Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and other countries would be established by 1955, while at this time, the Chinese-controlled two river basins and the west coast of the Persian Gulf were given the power to set up a quasi-state government -- the region was not recognized internationally as a complete country, diplomatic relations with it at the level of ambassadors could not be established, and consulates could only be set up in Baghdad, except that this quasi-state organization was no different from a normal state.

In addition, this "defect" has no effect on the newly established Chinese quasi-state, after all, no one dictates how much power the consul of the consulate has, and no one will say anything even if the consul is given the power of the ambassadorial level, and the size of the consulate does not necessarily have to be smaller than the embassy.

To put it bluntly, the so-called inability to establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level is actually to give the Western powers a face, so that no one can say that the Western powers can only acquiesce in the establishment of the state of the Persian Gulf region by the irregulars of the armed forces in the Persian Gulf region -- now there is no statehood, you see that they can't even have embassies, right?

In exchange for allowing the Chinese to establish a state, Lin promised that 20 percent of the oil resources in the new Chinese state could be explored and exploited by Western Petroleum Corporation.

As an ally of Germany in World War II, Lin Youde fulfilled the benefits agreed with Xia Li and gave the French more extensive oil exploration rights.

Of course, Lin Youde hopes that oil will bring him as much direct profit as possible, but the most fundamental reason why he wants oil is to make the Deutsche Mark the settlement currency in world trade. There is a very simple but very effective way to make the currency you issue the dominant instrument of exchange in the market: you can trade in your own currency for something that everyone in the market has a hard need for.

Another important reason why the United States was able to establish the Bretton Woods system in another time and space was that the United States was the world's largest oil producer at that time, and more than half of the oil transactions were settled in US dollars. And every modern country needs oil, which makes these modern industrial countries have to hold dollars in their hands to meet the needs of oil transactions, and every country has dollars in their hands, making the dollar a very useful international settlement currency, and businessmen are pursuing high efficiency, the dollar in international trade shows both convenient and easy to use, and immediately was recognized by businessmen.

There is a very diligent student in the United States in another time and space, who follows the teacher almost step by step, trying to learn every trick of the teacher. After his wings hardened, this student also took up the idea of oil, like his teacher, and began to promote the settlement of oil transactions in their own currency, and persuaded the oil-producing countries to accept this one by one.

The United States was very panicked when it saw this, so it strengthened the siege of its own students. This shows how important oil is in the field of international finance.

However, oil is only one of many commodities that can determine the currency in which international trade is settled. There are many commodities that can also have the same function, such as the time and space before Lin Youde traveled, the production of electronic equipment needs rare earths, and the vast majority of the world's proven rare earth deposits are in China, so as long as the rare earths can only be traded in RMB, it can force many countries to keep the RMB - the reason why the government did not do this is because a round of research found that most of the electronic products in the world are produced in China, once the export of rare earths, This may in turn affect China's domestic economic operation.

Another example is daily necessities, before Lin Youde traveled, Western countries in that time and space no longer had the capacity to produce such daily necessities due to labor costs and other problems, so all supermarkets were made in China. If only RMB can be used to settle daily products, it will indeed allow RMB to quickly occupy a place in the international settlement market. The reason for not doing so is similar to the reason for not getting stuck in the rare earth - doing so could lead to turmoil in the domestic grocery manufacturing industry.

Therefore, the government of that time and space thought twice and thought that we should use other methods to make the renminbi an international settlement currency, so the delegation went out, and one country by one talked about the renminbi settlement of oil; In addition, it is all the way along the way, its own economic power radiation infiltration to neighboring countries, once China's economic power occupies a dominant position in a certain country, then this country will naturally be included in the ranks of RMB settlement, whether it wants to or not, it can only passively accept.

Anyone who has traveled to Southeast Asian countries such as Brunei, Malaysia knows that the locals accept RMB, and your red ticket can pass through the local area unimpeded, so you don't even need to exchange it for the local currency; This is because China's economic power is so deeply rooted in the local area, and many of the daily necessities purchased by the locals come from China, and tourists can directly use the renminbi to buy Chinese goods, without going through the exchange process, and without being levied by the state on exchange taxes and handling fees.

The same is true in many African countries, where locals wear Chinese-made clothes, use electricity from power stations built by Chinese, hold Chinese-made mobile phones, and drive Chinese-made Toyota pickups, in such countries, the yuan has very strong purchasing power, on the contrary, the currency issued by the local government is rarely used - African black uncles are not stupid, they know that those military governments built by force do not know when they will fall and get out, once they fall and get out, The currency they issue becomes waste paper. But if you have yuan, you can buy what you need from the Chinese at any time.

All in all, although Lin Youde wants to use oil directly to make money, he values more oil for the mark he issued. As long as Western oil companies can accept paper marks as the settlement currency for oil trade, Lin Youde does not mind giving them some oil fields.

Anyway, now Lin Youde has a lot of oil fields in his hands, and he is a real oil tycoon.

After the Security Council set a timetable for the peace process in the Middle East, the Security Council's resolution was submitted to the UN General Assembly for review -- but in fact it was just a formality, and no one dared to argue with the Big Five in the era when the war had just ended.

The United Nations seems to be an international organization that advocates the resolution of problems through consultation, but in fact, the establishment of the United Nations has not changed the face of the international community, power is truth. No matter what time and space it is, the seats of the permanent members of the United Nations are fought out of mountains of blood and corpses in the great war, and unless there is another great war, no permanent member of the permanent council agrees that other countries will become new permanent members.

So in another time and space, India, Germany, Japan, etc., are just doing day jobs.

Of course, after the establishment of the United Nations, direct conflicts between the major powers were greatly reduced, but this was not really the credit of the United Nations, but the credit of the atomic bomb. So in the final analysis, it is nuclear weapons that contribute the most to world peace.

The uselessness of the United Nations is also reflected in its ability to respond to regional conflicts.

In another time and space, since the establishment of the United Nations, it has had little success in mediating wars, but has been used several times as a pretext for aggression. Needless to say, the Korean War, and in the Middle East, the United Nations has been trying to resolve the contradictions between Israelis and Arabs, but until the 21 st century, Israel is still relying on force to contend with its Arab neighbors, and the entire Middle East region is still in constant turmoil.

On the eve of Lin Youde's crossing, the troublesome ISIS has emerged in the Middle East, and it seems that there will be no peace for more than a decade.

Just like the famous song written by Luo Dayou, it is sung that when you look up for the wings of the sky, the migratory bird appears in its shadow, bringing the news that the famine and the relentless war in the distance still exists......

Therefore, before Lin Youde crossed over, he had always believed that among all the organs of the United Nations, probably the most ineffective was the Security Council. If you think about it, it makes sense, if you think about it, the five permanent members of the Security Council have almost a monopoly on the global arms trade, so they don't bother to end the war -- who will buy weapons if there is no war?

For example, in a country that talks about the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and "peaceful rise" all day long, the Type 56 submachine guns it exports sell better than the famous AK47 because of its simple structure, reliable performance, and low cost -- in fact, many of the AK47s in Uncle Hei's hands are actually five or six punches. There are countless poor worms who died under the muzzle of the Type 5 or 6 submachine guns, and they can be called the most dedicated Grim Reaper in the history of mankind.

In addition to the five or six punches, the country also produces and exports other weapons in large quantities that are characterized by their reliability, durability and low cost. For example, a 107-mm rocket, which can be fired by manually connecting the electric and igniting it, almost never fails, and the explosion is frenzied, which is deeply loved by African warlords. You don't even need to bring an extra power supply to launch this thing with a pickup truck, just use the battery of the pickup truck......

Of course, these things are low-value-added products because of their low-tech content, so the seemingly innocent merchant of death makes less money than the other four permanent members, but its weapons cause far more deaths than those high-tech, high-value-added weapons.

Therefore, the Security Council is actually a "death merchant club", counting on it to maintain world peace or something...... That's so hard for it.

In fact, many of the peacekeeping operations decided by the Security Council have political overtones, ostensibly called peacekeeping operations, but in fact they are armed intervention by major powers in other countries. Not only that, but the Council has done some rather unconscionable things. In another time and space, there is an indie game called "This Is My War", and the creator struggles to survive in the war-torn city, and finally escapes. And as long as you understand the war that was used as a prototype by the people who made it, you will find that the reason why the residents in the city had to survive in the city in the war was because the joint **** blocked the perimeter of the city and did not let anyone enter or leave.

The Council has taken the safest approach for itself, confined the war to a relatively small scale, and has no regard for the lives and deaths of civilians who are locked in war zones. Although the United Nations provided humanitarian aid, it did not send anyone to supervise the distribution of the supplies, and the supplies were all in the hands of armed warlords.

Lin Youde sat in the chamber of the Security Council, looking at the representatives of the permanent members, he knew very well that the Security Council in this time and space was probably the same as in another time and space, and he would burn incense if he did not take the initiative to incite war.

The great powers sat around the table, each with their own ghosts, and as for world peace or something, it was just a slogan on everyone's lips, and it was good to shout it at ordinary times.

However, Lin Youde does not intend to become a real peacemaker, idealism may still be a little bit of Lin Youde before the crossing, but the current Lin Youde has long abandoned it.

The second item on the agenda of the Security Council, following its discussion of the timetable for the Middle East peace process, is the establishment of a United Nations peacekeeping force.

But there is a stalemate over the composition and command of the peacekeeping force.

The United States, of course, wanted to have the command of the joint ****, and the representative of Germany (not Lin Youde) insisted that the German commander who had the most brilliant results in the war was the best person to be the commander of the UN peacekeeping force. While the United States and Germany were arguing with each other, Britain and France also euphemistically expressed their desire to get involved.

Only the representative of Xinming looks like a peacemaker, and it is all ambiguous.

Lin Youde watched these people talk about it for more than an hour, and at first he still had the desire to go down to debate a few words, but in the end, the soreness of the buttocks of the long-term sitting guide made Lin Youde finally lose interest, and he decided to temporarily withdraw from the meeting when the meeting was adjourned.

As soon as Lin Youde left, Xia Li immediately followed.

"You're not listening?" Lin Youde asked curiously.

"It's strange for me to sit in the German delegation, a Frenchman," Charlie shrugged, "even to remind the French delegation of the friendly relations between France and Germany, it's a bit of a fuss." ”

"I suspect that my approach to putting you in the delegation is counterproductive." Lin Youde shrugged, "That goddess in the French delegation glared at you whenever she was free, and she seemed to be very wary of you. ”

"Of course, staying on your side should have weakened my influence in France, but I don't know why it's the opposite, as long as the French have any dissatisfaction with the current government, I will be dragged out......" Xia Li said and sighed, then turned her head to look at Lin Youde, "But I'm a little 'happy' in Potsdam now." ”

"Is that true?" Lin Youde raised his eyebrows and glanced at the French girl who used a Chinese idiom.

"Seriously." The Frenchman nodded.

"I didn't think my thing was so attractive......"

Xia Li smiled and patted Lin Youde's back hard: "What kind of stupid thing are you talking about!" It's really, it's an international conference, pay attention to the influence, and don't open the yellow tongue. ”

Lin Youde also smiled.

Xia Li continued: "I can't miss it because I love the atmosphere. You know, since I was a child, I thought that there was only competition between Shinhime and Shinhime, and even if it was an alliance, it would compete in secret, and this is the way I've always seen Shinhime and Shinhime get along. But in Potsdam, things are different. I could have felt this when I was on holiday in Potsdam before, but maybe people still treated me as an outsider and didn't fully open their hearts to me, so this feeling was not prominent.

"But when I came back from a cruise with you, I felt like I was finally part of the Potsdam community. The sense of trust between you and everyone makes me feel very new, and even Isabella, who talks to me all day, makes me feel trusted. ”

"I knew you, a Frenchman, would speak ill of me while I wasn't there." Isabella suddenly appeared beside Lin Youde and Xia Li, and said with her hands on her hips and a frown.

"I didn't say it, British, if you are too delusional about being killed, you will be hated by Lin." As she spoke, Xia Li reached out and hugged Lin Youde's arm.

"Hmph, you scheming." Isabella said something she had recently learned from Lin Youde, "Don't think that Lin will forget your past calculations. ”

"No, in fact, I'm very generous," Lin Youde corrected, "You see that the fox stabbed me, and at the beginning, he spied so much information and sent it to the Yingzhou Military Department, didn't I care about it." ”

Then Lin Youde was stared at.

"How can you turn your elbow out," Isabella complained, frowning, "of course I know you're generous, but can't you say a few words on your woman's side?" ”

"The problem is that now you are both my women......"

"I'm not going to admit that this guy is our companion!" Isabella pointed directly at Charlie's nose.

"Actually, compared to me, who was an ally from the beginning, Isabella, who used to be an enemy, you are even less trustworthy, right?"

"I have proven my loyalty with my actions."

"If you're referring to fighting for Lin on the battlefield, I've done the same thing. If you're referring to giving birth to a princess for Lin, as far as I know, we're still on the same page in this regard. ”

Isabella had an expression of being fed flies, she glared at Lin Youde, it seemed that she would not stop tonight if she didn't squeeze Lin Youde to her knees and beg for mercy.

This made Lin Youde smack his lips slightly.

Xia Li seemed to immediately understand what Lin Youde was thinking, so she immediately said: "I suddenly want to spend a good night with you, dear Lin, come on, fulfill my little wish." ”

"Come to me tonight! Don't cut the line! Isabella protested loudly.

Lin Youde sighed: "Hey, don't talk about it, I'm going to eat British and French sandwich tonight." ”

Isabella raised the corners of her eyes, pouted and glared at Lin Youde to express her dissatisfaction, while Xia Li leaned her head on Lin Youde's shoulder, hugged his arm tightly with both hands, and smiled happily.

Then Isabella suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, Winston Churchill just found me." ”

"How?"

Lin Youde asked curiously. Churchill lost his official hat as prime minister in the first year after the war, and he couldn't even keep his status as a member of the House of Commons, so he had no choice but to regain his status as a hereditary aristocracy and blend into the House of Lords, which was dominated by hereditary nobles and royal relatives.

Of course, as a political veteran, Churchill still has a very strong influence in British politics, and it is certainly not as simple as reminiscing about Isabella when he finds him.

"Churchill seems to want to get a glimpse of you," Isabella shrugged, "but I prevaricated that you are not involved in politics right now." ”

Lin Youde joined the delegation this time, and he wore the title of international economic adviser, and nominally speaking, he was indeed a guy who was outside the political community, and it was precisely for this reason that he only participated in the debate session of the Security Council, and he had no other part in his speeches and speeches -- the same is true at the UN General Assembly.

"What did he do with me?" Lin Youde asked.

Xia Li replied first: "It should be the Suez Canal." As a friend of mine in the French delegation revealed to me, Churchill had a secret conversation with the head of the French delegation for several hours yesterday, probably about Britain and France joining forces with Israel to recover the East Canal. ”

Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips.

Sure enough, just like another time and space, Britain was reluctant to give up the interests of the Suez Canal so directly. Uniting Israel to completely control the Suez Canal or something is quite similar to Churchill's usual style.

The Israeli side would probably be happy to eat up the half of the canal that had been allocated to Egypt in the previous Lisbon peace agreement.

Left alone, it is possible that the second Middle East war in this time and space would have broken out in the first years of the fifties.

Lin Youde looked at Xia Li: "With your understanding of the French goddess who is now in power, will the French cooperate with the British?" ”

"Yes," Xia Li said categorically, "that guy has great ambitions, and she won't let go of this opportunity to start a foreign war to strengthen her reputation at home." Especially now that I am close to you, she will certainly fear that I will make a comeback in the next election with your support, so Churchill's proposal is very tempting for her. ”

Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips.

"That's going to be a problem." Lin Youde turned to Isabella, "In this way, you have a good relationship with the British goddess Elena who came over this time, right, go to her for tea, and by the way, find out the views of all parties in Britain on the recovery of the Suez Canal." Although it can be left to the fox's agents to investigate, I want you to ask directly to the effect. ”

"Understood." Isabella nodded.

"Do the British need to care so much about this action," Xia Li asked puzzledly, "Even if they do start fighting, it won't affect your interests, dear, after all, the Israelis still occupy most of the Sinai Peninsula, even if the canal is re-controlled by the British, they can't completely cut off your crude oil transportation routes, right?" ”

"Yes, but I still don't want Suez to fall back into the hands of the Great Powers, and it is in my best interest for Egypt and Israel to co-govern it. After all, Israel is strong, Egypt is weak, and the control of the canal is not in a state of equilibrium as it seems. ”R1148