Chapter 183 of the main text volume

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Chapter 183

Zhang Lie personally met with the heroic pilot Zhou Yanliang in the Royal Air Force auditorium, and personally brought a gold medal of "Freedom and Glory" to Zhou Yanliang.

The whole process was recorded by local Ryukyu reporters.

When the news was broadcast on the night's news, the whole Ryukyus were excited. Especially this time, the target is actually the United States. You must know that in the past, the Ryukyuan people were considered third-class citizens in Japan. And the Americans are undoubtedly the whole people, and Japan has a transcendent status.

The whole of Japan, when facing the United States, has a natural soft leg.

But now, the Ryukyus are just now. In the face of US military provocations, the Ryukyus were undaunted and took a resolute and resolute attitude to directly shoot down the US fighters.

Zhou Yanliang became a hero in the eyes of the entire Ryukyuan people for a while, and Zhou Yanliang's deeds were reported back to China, which immediately attracted widespread attention. In particular, many people know that Zhou Yanliang was a glorious first-class pilot of the Air Force half a year ago.

Unexpectedly, half a year later, Zhou Yanliang actually fought on behalf of the Ryukyus and successfully destroyed a US F16 fighter.

On the contrary, the Americans are disgraced and embarrassed.

Washington is still arguing about whether or not to retaliate against the Ryukyus, and what kind of retaliation should be taken.

The Ryukyu side has already sued the wicked first, and directly buckled the basin on the head of the United States.

The Americans shouted that they were wronged, and then turned against the Ryukyus, which was a naked provocation, and the Ryukyus were bound to pay a heavy price for it.

The American people are also filled with righteous indignation, and in their opinion, the little Ryukyu is impatient. He actually dared to destroy a US fighter plane for no reason, resulting in the death of one of their Americans. The United States must retaliate, and the Ryukyus will pay the price.

The local media in the United States also cited a large number of facts to defend the Ryukyus for their in the United States.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that it was inhumane for the Ryukyus to directly launch missiles to destroy the fighters without first expelling and guiding the Trek fighters away. In the face of such an inhumane country, the United States should impose sanctions.

The eyes of the world are once again focused on the Far East, and all countries are watching the conflict between the Ryukyus and the United States. As for the shooting down of a U.S. fighter plane in the Ryukyus, over the years, only two countries have done it in a non-war state. One is the former Red Soviet Union, and the other is the Chinese State when it was first founded.

After so many years, a country that dares to destroy American fighters has once again appeared. Moreover, the international environment at this time is more complex than it was then, and the United States is more powerful. In the eyes of the whole world, Ryukyu is small and cannot be smaller. Even many foreigners look at the map and find it difficult to find out where the Ryukyu Kingdom is.

It is such a small country that dares to provoke the United States. Not afraid of US retaliation, openly destroy the opponent's fighter plane.

In response to possible troubles, the Ryukyu Cabinet Finance Minister announced the establishment of the Royal Bank of the Ryukyus, which was responsible for styling a new version of the Ryukyu currency.

Everyone knows that at the beginning of the founding of the Ryukyu Kingdom, their currency was only over-currency. The main currencies in circulation in China are the US dollar and the renminbi. Now the Kingdom of the Ryukyus wants to establish a royal bank and issue its own currency, and everyone knows that this is a measure taken by the Ryukyus in response to the retaliation of the United States.

Before the establishment of the Royal Bank of the Ryukyus, Zhang Lie had secretly transferred more than 2,000 tons of gold into the Royal Bank. At the same time, because of more than 2,000 tons of gold, the royal family became the largest shareholder of the Royal Bank, and at the same time was responsible for formulating the corresponding currency policy.

The Ryukyus are small countries, and many times it is Zhang Lie's words.

On the Ryukyu side, in order to deal with possible U.S. measures, many defensive tactics have been resorted.

The United States has finally determined the means to retaliate against the Ryukyus.

First, the U.S. Treasury Department declared the Ryukyus a dangerous country and severed economic ties with the Ryukyus.

This was the usual method of economic warfare of the United States, and it was also at this time that the Ryukyus realized the power of the United States in waging economic warfare.

The dollars in the hands of the Ryukyus, because of the means of the Ministry of Finance, could not be spent even if they had money.

At the same time, not a single drop of oil entered the Ryukyu Kingdom internationally.

The United States has also kept an eye on China and Russia to prevent these two countries from interfering in this matter.

As a result, a plan of the United States was ruined, but after staring at it for a while, I found that the relationship between them did not seem to be so harmonious. At the very least, China and Russia have not yet decided whether to fully support them.

The Ryukyu Kingdom has not been thrown into chaos due to the economic sanctions imposed by the United States, and the economic model of the Ryukyus region is relatively simple, and the population is small.

It can be said that as long as the Ryukyuan people are well fed and clothed, they don't care about anything else.

Ryukyu does not have a huge army to support, and Ryukyu does not have a huge internal market to support.

A few days later, there was still no reaction from the Ryukyus, and it seemed that the U.S. sanctions could not affect them at all.

In addition, the establishment of the Royal Bank of the Ryukyus was also announced at this time.

At the same time, an exciting news was announced to the world at this time, and the Zhang family, the king of the Ryukyus, invested 2,000 tons of gold in the Royal Bank of the Ryukyus, becoming the largest individual shareholders of the Royal Bank of the Ryukyus. At the same time, the Ryukyu government announced that the Ryukyu Kingdom would revert to the gold standard and that the new currency would be pegged to gold.

This behavior of the Ryukyu government suddenly caused a storm in the international gold market, and the market was extremely strange.

The United States wanted to destroy the currency of the Ryukyus, but it was only in preparation. And if the Ryukyu Kingdom really has these two thousand tons of gold, the United States will need more money if it wants to destroy the financial system of the Ryukyus. For a small country with a population of less than two million, which is simply invisible on the map. It is obviously not cost-effective to spend huge national resources to do this.

They wanted to take their time and let the Ryukyus start to crack from the inside little by little.

It's just that they don't know that the king of the Ryukyus, Zhang Lie, in the face of the blockade of the United States, the Ryukyu Kingdom doesn't care at all after getting Zhang Lie's assurance.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Lie didn't know where to get 500,000 tons of grain, as well as all kinds of fresh vegetables, meat, eggs and poultry.

Soon after, hundreds of thousands more barrels of crude oil entered the Ryukyu Kingdom. Using the oil refining equipment that Japan had left in the Ryukyus, the Ryukyu Kingdom was at least self-sufficient in crude oil.

The blockade of the United States was broken little by little, and Zhang Lie was also annoyed with the United States.

This United States is kicking its nose in the face and giving shame to the face.

It was also at this time that German Chancellor Bellman announced that Germany would hold a referendum on its full name to amend the constitution.

Germany hopes to use this to amend the constitution so that it can play a greater role in European and international affairs. At the same time, the Teutonic Knights began to travel across the country to proclaim the greatness of the Kaiser during the Holy Roman Empire. And thanks to the support of the new Chancellor Bellman, the Teutonic knights controlled almost 80% of Germany's industry, and a third of them worked directly or indirectly for them.

For a time, the whole of Germany was filled with a tense atmosphere of welcoming back the Kaiser and restoring the glory of Germany.