In today's world, no one understands the role of financial hegemony more deeply than Li Fushou, which is a more terrible weapon than airplanes, tanks and battleships, which can easily destroy a country's original social and economic order, plunder huge social wealth, bring down governments, paralyze social life, and wipe out decades of economic achievements.

At present, the imminent war, the currency value of the world's major countries will fluctuate greatly, which is the best opportunity to promote Jinyang.

In due course

The Ocean Empire will introduce the "Gold Ocean Purchase Act", for example, all the purchase of materials from the Ocean Empire or the Pacific Security Alliance countries will be paid by the Ocean Ocean, and it will be difficult to use any pounds, francs, marks, rubles, and yen.

The reason is ready-made, to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the merchants of the Ocean Empire, and to avoid the loss of foreign exchange caused by the drastic activity of the currency.

In this day and age

The British pound, the franc, the gold ocean and the US dollar are all pegged to gold, which is the so-called "gold standard", especially the British pound is the strongest, and it has been held for a period of time without inflation and its purchasing power is amazing.

The franc and the dollar are much inferior, and after losing the war, they will always face a certain degree of downward movement, judging by the ratio of gold to the dollar.

Before the Wool War, the exchange rate of 1 gold ocean to 2.5 US dollars has been maintained, but after the war, it was drawn to 1:3, and even to 1:3.2, many American banks closed the channel of exchanging dollars for gold, and had to declare bankruptcy under the surging residents' run, which further aggravated the weakness of the dollar and seriously hit the credibility of the dollar.

Say a thousand things and ten thousand

The government issued banknotes with credibility and gold as a guarantee, and in order to raise a large amount of money at the juncture of the war crisis, the easiest way was to overprint money, which was not only done by the United States, but also by the Ocean Empire.

It is easy to say that if the war is won, a large amount of war reparations will be credited to the account, and the government can slowly withdraw excess liquidity, and the crisis will naturally disappear under the jubilation of the whole country.

It would be miserable to lose the war, and the customs and finances were closely supervised, and not only had to pay huge war reparations, but also had to deal with the big problems of the loss of currency credibility and excess market liquidity, and the exchange rate naturally fell in response, as is the case in the United States.

Fortunately, as the world's largest economic power for many years, the United States has a profound heritage, strong economic resilience, and good industrial and agricultural strength.

In another backward agricultural country, the value of the currency would have fallen long ago, and it was not even as good as waste paper.

Is it possible for the country of rice to compensate the victor country with a pile of waste paper by overissuing currency?

This concern is completely unnecessary, because in any war reparations contract, there is a standard of purchasing power, both the franc and the dollar, and only silver is not necessary, because it is a precious metal and has strong monetary properties.

Vigorously promote "Jinyang" as a hard currency for international trade, the benefits will be 10 years, 20 years or even 30~40 years later, this is a long-term financial strategy, the need for persistent efforts.

According to the current volume of the Ocean Empire in international trade, ideally, if all the settlements are settled by the Golden Ocean, it can account for about 12~13% of the world's total trade, of which 2%~3% is contributed by the Pacific Security Alliance countries, and the Ocean Empire alone occupies about 10% of the share.

The second important task is expansion, targeting New Zealand and Sumatra.

Needless to say, New Zealand is a fruit that is almost ripe, and it can be taken and incorporated into the territory of the Ocean Empire when the right time comes.

Now is not a good time, we have to wait, but this does not prevent the work from being done in advance, such as further strengthening the infiltration and control of the upper echelons, immigrating in batches in a planned and purposeful manner, carrying out ideological warm-up propaganda, and so on.

Once Europe starts fighting, then the British Empire will inevitably move troops around the world, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and other places will not be able to run, in the arrogance of the British and distrust of the natives of the colonies, the conscription in the early stage of the war must be white soldiers.

With New Zealand's current small physique, the recruitment of 3~4 infantry divisions will basically wipe out all the young people, and it is unknown how many will come back after the war?

This place on Sumatra Island has been eyed by Li Fushou for decades, and during the first East Indies War, it was not able to digest such a huge territory because of its lack of strength, so it dragged on to this day.

According to the statistics at the end of last year, the total population has reached 88.97 million, an increase of more than 10 million compared with three years ago, of which 2/3 are newly born in the empire and 1/3 are immigrants.

The average age of the population throughout the empire was 26.1 years, and the age structure was very young.

The average annual natural birth population reached 3.267 million, the average annual natural death population was 635,500, and the average annual net population growth reached 2.6315 million.

The total population of the Ocean Empire is now almost the same as that of the rice country before the Wool War, and it almost broke through the 90 million population mark.

It's a pity that after the mismatch, the United States was dismembered into six countries, and the land area was reduced by 1/4 (Alaska is not included in the statistics, because this part of the territory was sold by the United States on its own initiative, and it did not belong to the forcible dismemberment of foreign forces.) The population size has been reduced by one-third, and the total economic output has been permanently reduced by one-third, which can be described as a heavy cost.

Looking back at Sumatra, the Strait of Malacca, which is the gateway to the Eurasian Corridor, is an important geographical barrier separating Southeast Asia from South Asia, and is also a strategically important location.

If it is placed in the hands of a small country, it is not obvious that there is nothing powerful.

In the hands of a regional power, it would be terrible, because the Ottoman Empire's geographical position guarded the Bosphorus Strait between the Eurasian passages, a gateway from the Black Sea to the warm Mediterranean, and an iron chain around the neck of the Russian Empire's navy.

Throughout its centuries-long history, the Tsarist Empire and its subsequent succession have not been able to break through this iron chain, and have always been firmly locked in the Black Sea, unable to become a role in the ocean, which is the power of the strait.

Some people say, didn't the Red Navy also once crisscross the world's oceans?

It was only in peacetime, out of reverence for the world powers, that the countries that held this sea communication artery did not block the strait.

If, in times of war, before occupying the territory of the Ottoman Empire around the Bosphorus, neither Tsarist Russia nor the Red Navy dared to risk their fleets, it would be pure death.

Even if it is as powerful as the British Empire, it will also be bloodied here in the First World War, and that's a story for later.

Sum up

If New Zealand is only fulfilling Li Fushou's private wish to monopolize Oceania, then Sumatra Island is a great power strategy related to the post-war pattern, which is of great significance.

As long as the island is occupied and the Strait of Malacca is controlled, a strong enemy from the Indian Ocean cannot threaten the empire mainland and surrounding territories, including Borneo, Luzon, Shangri-La and the Australian mainland, all of which are under the safe wing.

Strategically

Once the world powers occupy the island, they can embrace the entire Southeast Asian region, take what they want, and block all trade channels in minutes when things don't go their way, whether it is the Pacific shipping route to the east to North and South America, the Far Eastern shipping route to the north, and the Eurasian shipping route to the west, all of which are under control, which is equivalent to grasping the economic lifeline of Southeast Asian countries, which is very powerful.

Not long since

The big flat-topped boat of the rabbit country passed through the Bosphorus, and it was once pinched because of the safety of navigation, anyway, all kinds of eggs are picky, and they can't pass without permission, which can vividly illustrate this problem.

The Aceh War, which has lasted from 1873 to the present, has been intermittent for 41 years, and the Dutch colonists have spent a huge price to deal with the local natives, and it seems that they are a little discouraged.

Because of the impact of decades of war, all industries on the island withered, agricultural production fell into desolation, the Dutch burned crops on a large scale at every turn, implemented a cruel policy of killing, burning and encirclement, coupled with the poor living environment and medical conditions, the population of Sumatra Island has been drastically reduced from more than 6 million to more than 2.3 million, a decrease of more than half.

So, with a little more effort, you can reap.

At a time of international turmoil, Li Fushou's decision to set his important goals on finance and expansion was a prudent decision he made after thinking about it for a long time.

Here's a joke; When answering the emperor's question, a certain high-ranking person in Fuso once said that he would occupy the Shenzhou continent in three months, but in fact the war had been fought for more than ten years.

Today's Germans also have this kind of delusional confidence, and if the "Schlieffen Plan" is carried out smoothly, the war will end in three months.

The plan formulated by Schlieffen, the former chief of staff of the German Army, faced the two strong enemies of France and Russia, and to put it bluntly, it was a time difference.

The core concept of the plan is to take advantage of the shortcomings of the Russian army's poor mobilization and assembly ability after the outbreak of war, and it will take 6~8 weeks to form a more threatening heavy army group and fight a time difference.

The Germans were the first to concentrate on defeating the French on the Western Front, and then turned around and dealt with the Russians, which is probably what Qi meant.

Different from the original historical time and space, the German army is now equipped with up to 640 imported tanks and armored vehicles, as well as about the same number of self-made tank armored vehicles, and the armored attack capability is higher than that of the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Force during the "Wool War", which makes the Germans full of self-confidence.

The problem is that Britain and France are not good at stubble, while armored vehicles have exploded into great power in land wars, Britain and France have invested a lot of resources in research and development of their own armored tank technology, and have achieved considerable success.

Take France as an example only;

Drawing on the experience of the advanced armored tanks of the Ocean Empire, it has developed more than 10 models of tank armored vehicles, and has successively equipped with legal cruiser tanks, cavalry tanks and reconnaissance tanks, with a total number of more than 700 vehicles, and has a strong follow-up production capacity.

Britain lagged behind a lot in this regard, but it also came up with its own armored tank vehicles, but it was funded by the Royal Navy, and the Admiralty Churchill made great contributions to it, and it was he who advocated and funded the research and development of British tanks, and its representative models of Mark I, II and III were successively equipped with troops, and the total number of production has reached more than 220 units.

So, the French are not as weak as they think, and the British are no different.

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