Volume IV 1860 Rise of the Celestial Dynasty Chapter 90 Liquid Gold

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The Japanese Empire disappeared silently, although the world map can still see that small island, but on the nautical maps of various countries, a row of dense red crosses are marked in this position, and Japan has also been renamed the Devil's Islands, and the ships that come and go would rather make a detour to the Sakhalin Islands or the Philippine Islands than stop at the Devil's Islands, and no one dares to approach this terrible place even if it is freshwater.

The Japanese army that invaded Korea lost its support and planned to defend the city and divide Korea into two countries, but although the Korean army suffered heavy losses in the first few battles, the country's foundation was still there, and the troops could be continuously restored and replenished.

The remnants of the Japanese soldiers were killed by the angry populace, and the entire Yamato nation disappeared from history.

Losing the important ally of Japan on the eastern route, the combined Swedish and British forces were soon defeated by bombers and mortars, and the combined forces of the Celestial Empire and Russia swept through Sweden and the Kingdom of Norway.

At this time, 70% of the land of the whole world has been completely collected in the hands of the Celestial Empire, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy and other European countries announced the recognition of the status of the suzerainty of the Celestial Empire, and the United States, under the intervention of the Celestial Empire, was forced to suspend the civil war and was forcibly divided into two countries, South America and North America.

In order to consolidate the scientific and technological development of the Celestial Empire and its position as the world hegemon, Zhang Yuntian ordered talents with attainments in medicine, science, culture, and art from various countries to come to the Celestial Empire, and set up recruitment halls in many cities, separately allocated funds to reward scholars who have made outstanding contributions to scientific research, and at the same time established a number of awards and universities to encourage the cultivation of talents.

In the seventh year of the true god, it was Zhang Yuntian's thirtieth birthday, the whole country cheered and celebrated, and the believers who came to the heavenly pilgrimage were endless, and the passenger transportation work of railway transportation was much busier than the modern Spring Festival transportation in these days.

In front of the **, Zhang Yuntian stood in the attic with a comfortable face, surrounded by a huge harem group composed of beauties from all over the world, looking at the dense believers under the city, kneeling on the ground one by one and kowtowing, sincerely praising the true God for bringing eternal peace to the world and enabling people to live a rich and happy life!

When these devout believers saw Zhang Yuntian, who had been worshiping for a long time, standing in the attic, the crowd suddenly boiled, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people loudly expressed their wishes to the true God.

The following year, the Russian Empire announced that it was incorporated into the territory of the Celestial Empire and became a Russian province, and then European countries followed suit, announcing that they would renounce the title of the state and reduce themselves to provincial-level administrative units.

Under the indoctrination of the true god religion, the people of the whole world only worship Zhang Yuntian in their hearts, and religion has brought all ethnic groups together closely!

Soon, metal currencies were ordered to stop circulating, and instead of banknotes printed with Zhang Yuntian's portrait, no one knew where the metal currencies went, and no one cared about their whereabouts, because the whole world is just such a country, as long as paper money is not printed indiscriminately, the economy will not be in chaos!

Maintaining the market and the economy is the business of economists, Zhang Yuntian only needs to sign some important documents and stamp a seal, a thirty-year-old young king, has achieved the grand hegemony that all careerists in history have not been able to achieve! And this qiē only took a short nine years, this is a myth that will be passed on by future generations for all generations!

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Zhang Yuntian rubbed his forehead and returned to the main world, the position of the emperor is indeed not so easy to sit on, there are always all kinds of "national events" that need to be reviewed and stamped every day, although the best material resources in the world are concentrated in their own hands, but they don't have much time to enjoy, and work occupies most of their lives.

He sighed softly, no wonder the emperors in the prosperous era of the balance are very hardworking, and the emperors in the troubled times are very desolate, it seems that this is not unreasonable.

Learn from the past! Zhang Yuntian's mind suddenly came up with this strange word for some reason, if he can really become the richest and most powerful person in the world, he must be a relaxed and comfortable person, and never be entangled in these mundane things!

Zhang Yuntian has already stored almost all the gold in the late Qing Dynasty plane in the void warehouse, and the reserves of these gold can be comparable to the total holdings of all the top five countries with the largest international gold reserves!

The word rich and rival the country, it is really appropriate to describe Zhang Yuntian at this time, but Zhang Yuntian did not have the idea of realizing these gold, first, because the world's total gold reserves are almost constant, even if there is growth, it is also slow to be negligible, if a large amount of gold is suddenly thrown into the market, it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble, not to mention, the price of gold will also plummet, which is not a good thing!

Secondly, gold is a hard currency, it will not depreciate with inflation, exchange rate changes and other undesirable factors, gold is the currency itself, it is the value of the currency! Even if one day in the future, the soft sister coin falls to a bundle to buy a pound of eggs, tens of billions of wealth will evaporate in an instant, and with rich gold reserves, a financial crisis will not be worth mentioning in front of Zhang Yuntian!

Gold is just a resource that Zhang Yuntian brought from the late Qing plane, according to the rules, the wish of the late Qing plane has been achieved, then he can

Zhang Yuntian thought about it again and again, he couldn't appreciate the cultural relics, even if he got them back, it was an ornament, not to mention that the end of the Qing Dynasty and modern times were only a short period of more than 100 years, in case he made two cultural relics that were exactly the same, it would be embarrassing, so this is not the first choice; As for the gems, there is a large supply from the Doomsday Plane, which is not needed for the time being; In the end, he chose one of the most important resources: oil!

Oil is known as liquid gold in modern times, and in today's society, whether it is an airplane, a ship, or a car, it is all indispensable, and oil can also be refined from many raw materials for daily chemical products, and more importantly, uranium for making nuclear weapons, which is also refined from oil.

Countries in the world are extremely dependent on oil, the more developed countries, the more powerful the country, the more oil is needed, like the European Union, the United States, China, Japan, these are big oil eaters, who masters the oil vein, who is equivalent to mastering the world's economic lifeline, of course, at the same time, it is also listed as a key target of countries to win over or hit.

Oil is not like gemstones, the latter mainly take the high-end route, although the sales volume is small, but the texture and technology to win, the former is the opposite, is to win by quantity, if which company only sells a few hundred barrels or thousands of barrels of oil, such an output is better to keep it for its own use, the annual oil consumption of international countries is measured in millions of tons.

If you want to slowly occupy a place in the world oil market, oil wells for oil extraction are absolutely necessary, and regardless of whether there is oil underground, oil wells must be erected, otherwise hundreds of thousands, millions of tons of oil every year, can not be spewed out of the ground out of thin air!

As for the location of the oil well, Zhang Yuntian has already thought about it, and he must not think about it in China, if you dare to open an oil well somewhere without permission, it will definitely be handed over to the state, and you will inevitably have to suffer some lawsuits, so it is best to set it up in a small country abroad, if it can be at sea, it will be more perfect.

All of these conditions met only the group of islands that Zhang Yuntian had just bought in the South Pacific.

The islands belong to a small country transliterated as Maoqiu, which lives by fishing, and trades its rich marine resources for daily necessities and vegetables in the countries of the South Pacific, and the population of the whole country together is just over 30,000 people, which is equivalent to the number of students in a comprehensive university, and their ancestors migrated here from the surrounding continents, multiplied, and lived in isolation.

Later, the British colonists discovered it, taught them English, and brought with them some customs and objects of the civilized world, but the archipelago was so small that even the colonists did not want to live here for long.

To this day, in order to improve the lives of the people, their chiefs have decided to sell almost all of their country, and the money from the sale will be used for their children and grandchildren to study and live in civilized countries.

The whole sale and purchase agreement was signed in the cave where the chief lived, where there was no internet, no communication signal, only a few old-fashioned televisions with antennas, from which country they received three or four channels, and watched the show in front of the television every day, which was the only entertainment for the local aristocracy.

After the agreement was signed, Zhang Yuntian had no intention of leaving, sat on the stone chair that was rounded by sharp weapons, and asked with a smile: "Chief, 35 million US dollars, are you satisfied with such a small amount of money?" ”

The chief was a middle-aged man in his early forties, but he was often exposed to the wind and sun on the island, and he did not know how to maintain it, and with his dark skin, he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, and he looked at this magical oriental youth in front of him with a look of amazement.

For the chief, the whole country can only earn thousands of dollars after a year of hard fishing, and if he is unlucky, he will have to lose several years of harvest in the wind and waves that can capsize the fishing boat, and 35 million dollars is an astronomical amount for him and the entire Maoqiu country, and this money seems to be nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the young man in front of him.

Judging from his expression, buying this island was as sparse and ordinary as eating a meal in a restaurant, so at this time, the chief was not only curious about Zhang Yuntian, but also deeply in awe, seeing that he had something to say, he had just stood up, and hurriedly sat back again.

"What can Mr. Zhang say directly, our country is simple and straightforward people, and we don't like to beat around the bush! Of course, I say this with absolutely no disrespect, it's just a habit! ”

Zhang Yuntian nodded, "Since this is the case, it will be much easier to do, with all due respect, 35 million US dollars is enough for any person to live a chic life for a lifetime, but if it is enlarged to a big family of 30,000 people, the average is only more than 100 US dollars in each person's hands, I know that the people of Maoqiu Country have always been self-sufficient, and they usually have no expenses, but we have an old saying in China, called sit and eat empty!" There is also a saying that it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish! ”

His two old words were quite easy, but the translator was tired and explained a lot, so that the chief could understand it, and his face showed admiration, and then he was shrouded in melancholy, indeed, such a small country, if it were not cornered, would never have come to the step of selling most of the country.

"Mr. Zhang's words are indeed very reasonable, but we people in Maoqiu only know how to fish, and nothing else, and it is precisely because of this that I want future generations to enjoy excellent education in developed countries and make greater contributions to the country in the future!"

"Yes, it's a good idea, but it will take twenty or thirty years for this plan to work! And..."Zhang Yuntian looked into the chief's eyes and said slowly: "Not all people are willing to return to the poor and remote motherland to contribute after experiencing the fantastic life of a developed country!" ”

The chief didn't speak, just lowered his head silently, he knew that what Zhang Yuntian said was very likely to happen, this investment might only make the country poorer in the end, but other than that, was there any other choice?

Zhang Yuntian saw that his words spoke to the chief's heart, and hurriedly continued: "Actually, Maoqiu Country is not the only way to go! I can bring modern education to this archipelago, build schools, hospitals, supermarkets, and businesses here, so that Maoqiu people can go to school, have a job income, have a shopping mall where they can buy the goods they need, and build a house, so that Maoqiu people can enjoy the Internet, communications, electricity, 24-hour hot water and cool air conditioning! And all of the above is just a matter of signing another agreement! ”

"Another agreement?" The chief's face was full of suspicion, the land had been sold, the country was empty, and there were no more resources to use, I didn't know what Zhang Yuntian wanted, and he put forward so many tempting conditions at once!

"That's right!" The corners of Zhang Yuntian's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a hint of a smile, he knew that he could not refuse this condition! "I ask to be the prime minister of this country, and the two of us will discuss and decide everything in the future!"

He said that he was discussing the decision, but both of them knew that in fact, the chief was just a puppet, because the funds and resources were all brought by Zhang Yuntian, and if he wanted to withdraw the capital, Maoqiu Kingdom would be beaten back to its original form in an instant.

For the chief, this is definitely a win-win negotiation, because he is not a very ambitious person himself, and he can't wait to throw this mess out, not to mention this series of convenient measures, the biggest benefit, of course, is himself as the head of state, so he didn't think much about it at all, directly patted the table with his palm, nodded and said: "That's it, let's sign the agreement quickly!" ”