December 2nd.

Treasury.

The secretary looked at his minister's office and fell into deep thought.

Since returning from the White House, the minister has been depressed, sullen, complaining from time to time that he can't do his job, and he heard it yesterday, as if his own minister is planning to resign?

What's going on?

The secretary raised interest.

As the secretary to the Minister of Finance, frankly speaking, there are very few things directly obtained from this status, although the salary is good, it is far from high, and the accumulated political influence is not large.

What about a mere secretary to a minister, even if it's a direct secretary? It's just a person who does it, a pure microphone and an auxiliary executor, with no decision-making ability at all, anyone can do it.

Unless it's the secretary of the president.

But the competition for this identity is still fierce.

Because the secretary of the finance minister knows a lot of things, these 'things' are very popular with the outside world, especially the middle level of businessmen, and they can often be sold at a good price.

And the situation that can make the finance minister say that he can't do it, or even want to resign.

The secretary came interested.

His secretary's position was estimated to be coming to an end, so he decided to inquire and make a good profit, although he couldn't get the full news, but even the slightest clue could buy a good price.

But.

Although he is the secretary of the Minister of Finance, he cannot access some information when it still needs to be kept secret, and the information that flows into his hands does not need to be kept too secret.

Therefore, to get the news, he needs to use some brains, combine what he sees, hear, analyze, and finally simply verify.

It wasn't hard for him.

He already knew.

On the Western Front, with General MacArthur in office, the Allies seemed to be about to renew their offensive, and it was quite large, large sums of money were allocated, and many factories in the country received requests to increase production.

And then

Combined with what he knew about Cherbourg, a battle that cost nearly 100 billion dollars, it can be concluded that ...

Jingle bells,

At this time, the phone rang on the side, and the secretary interrupted his thoughts and took the phone casually:

"Have the Treasury Secretary come to the White House right away, as quickly as possible."

Inside was the voice of the president's chief secretary, with a cold, condescending tone.

"Yes."

The secretary immediately went to inform the minister after responding with envy.

Ten minutes later, the Treasury secretary rushed into the limousine in a frenzy and then raced towards the White House.

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Same.

A world-class copper mining port in South America.

Morning.

Worker Dirkman looked at the long and almost endless line in front of him, his expression was not impatient or impatient, and he followed the team step by step, with a slight smile on his calm face.

It can be seen from his expression that he is full of anticipation and patience at this time.

Because today is the day of paycheck.

Dirkman's family was poor, and he had to come out at the age of twelve to find a livelihood, and for more than 20 years, he had met many companies and bosses, and he was full of blood and tears along the way, full of grievances and helplessness.

But this new company has a new owner, and it is completely different from the previous ones.

He had never met such an incredible company, an incredible boss.

He never deducted wages, did not discriminate against workers, gave bonuses for hard work, and gave them as he said, never returned and defaulted on any reason, did all kinds of things, said he would give them to the dormitory, and he still had a wooden structure for eight people, which was much better than the dilapidated house in his hometown.

Of course, there were some problems in between.

In the face of money and interests, there are always people who have other ideas, and the company system is implemented by people, but the problems are solved in the end, and even the workers who have been deducted from their wages have been compensated.

Over the past few months, Deckman has become full of confidence in the company and full of curiosity about the boss.

The team advanced slowly, and finally an hour later, it was Deckman's turn.

"All dollars?"

Looking at the stack of wages in his hand, Deckerman was a little surprised.

In the past, wages or bonuses, especially for their workers, were mainly in their own currency, and some materials could be purchased directly at a discount from the market price, and a limited amount of them were purchased.

Because of the instability of the national currency, almost everyone buys supplies directly.

He looked left and right, and not only him, but all the workers' wages had turned into dollars.

"Yes, it's all dollars, and they will all be issued in the future."

The payroll replied with a smile in the still small number of local languages:

"Of course, you can also buy some supplies at a 10% discount, and the rest of the goods can be purchased directly in dollars."

"No need..."

Looking at the dollar in his hand, Deckerman hesitated for a moment and left directly.

If it's dollars, then there's no need to buy supplies.

Save it.

As a skilled mine machinery and equipment operator, coupled with hard work, his salary is a lot, and the bonus is even more popular with the surrounding workers.

The dollar is a hard pass, compared to the domestic money has been rising, in short, it is more and more valuable.

It's good to save a little more dollars.

Anyway, where the dollar can be used in the store.

It is also possible to go abroad.

When you save enough money, you may be able to immigrate to the United States!

Born and raised in South America, Deckman had a dream of American 'freedom' and believed in where to find his ideal life.

But...

Now, another thought came to him, albeit small.

When he went to the country where the boss of the current company was located, he wanted to see what kind of place could cultivate such an incredibly good company and good boss.

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It was also the same day.

"You can really buy it..."

In a port on the southeast coast, a Mili traitor merchant couldn't help muttering as he looked at the huge ship in front of him that was handing over the formalities.

It was a 15,000-ton ro-ro wheel with a dump deck, a high-horsepower high-speed crane, steam turbine power, a top cruising speed of 22 knots, and a 500-horsepower diesel engine.

It is said to be as technologically advanced as an Iowa-class warship, especially in terms of its power system.

Because of the huge transportation demand in the United States and the extremely convenient transportation of various vehicles, the ro-ro wheels are priceless in the market, and a large number of transportation companies want to buy, and even pay directly with gold, but they still can't buy the goods.

And now, he bought it.

Although the price is a bit high, requiring fifteen million dollars, in today's dollar chatter, it is still lower than the market, even if he sells it, he can...

"That's not right!"

Thinking of this, the Mili traitor suddenly realized.

He can buy it, and others can buy it.

The commercial announcement three days ago announced that many of the goods that could be purchased, including the ro-ro wheels coveted by American shipping merchants, were sold open and could be paid for in dollars.

He paid immediately, and then only three days later, he got the goods.

To be precise, he got the goods a day after payment, fifteen million dollars, which is not a small amount, he only completed the payment yesterday afternoon, and he got the goods this morning.

That is, they have a sufficient amount of inventory.

Although he didn't know exactly how much inventory the gang had, and he didn't know why they could buy dollars directly, or even pay for Treasury bonds, he was sure that there would be a lot of these roll-on/roll-off wheels on the market.

Quantity sufficient to meet market demand.

Otherwise, the other party will not let the dollar be used.

Because of the war, the military needs, the American market needs a large number of such large roll-on-ro wheels that can load hundreds of tanks at a time and complete high-speed unloading.

"It's a pity."

The American businessman sighed.

It is very profitable to transport for the military, but where there is a resale difference to make money quickly.

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It was also the same day.

"Can you pay with Treasury bonds?"

In a port on the southeast coast, an American drug merchant stared at the seller in front of him in surprise, very surprised.

Since ancient times, in the business world, there has been a saying that the seller is the uncle.

But it also depends.

Nowadays, this kind of high-tech and advanced drugs are only available to the other party, and among the thousands of drugs, many of them are epoch-making and necessities, forming an absolute monopoly.

Otherwise, the other party will not directly bid $10,000 a bottle for some medicines.

At this price, those who can afford it are the top rich.

But apparently, the cost of this medicine is very low.

Because in their country, there are domestic and international patients, even a bottle of 10,000 US dollars of top-notch drugs, which are supplied for free, but unfortunately there are strict institutional restrictions, plus it is illegal to resell, otherwise he would want to buy from those patients.

And now, this top monopoly necessities are actually accepting the purchase of US dollar bonds.

Ordinary people may not know, but can they not know?

With the rise of the U.S. dollar and the snowballing of U.S. Treasury bonds due to the demands of the war, the future of the United States is also clouded.

Naturally, bond prices have also fallen.

Today, the only thing that is strong in the market is gold, which has risen again and again.

Now, this kind of absolutely monopolistic business actually requires payment in dollars, and it is acceptable to pay for government bonds.

Isn't this tantamount to taking over America's huge debt? It's just a hardcore ally, the kind of liver and brain.

Is something wrong?

He thought to himself.

There is no doubt that the war in the Pacific Ocean, and the latest Atlantic situation, are very obvious, so what is going on?

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At the same time.

White House.

"What are they?"

The Minister of Finance and Lao Du also fell into deep thought.

Not only the businessman couldn't understand it, but even the two of them couldn't understand why the other party would operate like this, which was simply a great favor to the United States, and it was the kind that didn't pay for it.

"Is it..."

The Minister of Finance's eyes gradually lit up:

"They have a big financial problem, their own currency is unstable, and they need a large amount of US dollar foreign exchange, so they are allowed to use US dollars to pay? Even foreign transactions are directly in dollars? ”

"It's very likely."

The economic consultant on the side immediately agreed:

"It would also explain why the other side has suddenly shown an aggressive attitude militarily."

"Their crazy and unplanned construction has led to big problems in the internal economy, which need external forces to solve, but they are afraid that we will take advantage of the opportunity, so they threaten us militarily."

For a long time, the famous American and world-class economic expert was somewhat difficult to understand.

Why is there a huge construction project on the other side of the strait?

The vast majority of them are absolutely loss-making and unnecessary projects.

For example, in order to build roads, the mountains were directly bulldozed, large reservoirs were excavated in the mountainous areas to irrigate farmland, and the drought that occurred once in a hundred years was used as the standard construction, and the most outrageous ones, hundreds of acres of collective farmland suitable for mechanized operations were leveled in the mountainous areas.

They even claim that the road is being built to the doorstep of any resident.

And it did.

In addition to making the locals live a better life, no matter how you look at it, these are all unprofitable and completely bloody.

If it's not inhabitable, why bother spending so much effort just letting people move out? To this end, he published several papers on the matter, but there were many people in the academic community who opposed it.

The arguments are all people, and cultural objections.

Now there are 'economic problems' on the other side, which makes this economic boss feel a lot more comfortable, and he is really right, which also says that the people are very idiots on the other side of the economy.

"It's good for us."

Lao Du suddenly smiled.

The massive inflow of dollar bonds into the world is a great thing for the United States, which means that the possibility of uncontrolled depreciation of the dollar is greatly reduced, and the degree of danger to the American economy is also greatly reduced.

"Let MacArthur go on the offensive according to his battle plan."

Old Du was in high spirits.

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December 3rd.

D-Day in MacArthur's mouth.

The so-called D-day is a term used by the U.S. military to be an important date for military operations.

This day was hailed by later generations as the most important day in the world.

Because on this day, Lao Maitou took more than 500 divisions under his command, gathered more than 10,000 planes, and more than 30,000 tanks to attack the old fox's Siegfeiler line.

Also on the same day.

Eastern Front.

The impatient mustache finally changed his previous battle plan and ordered his troops to launch a general attack on Mosco, and more than 70 divisions of troops rushed towards Mosco to compress the encirclement.

At the same time, 10,000 tanks on both flanks, including more than 4,000 No. 5 tanks, also launched a surprise attack on Ulral.