Chapter Twenty-Nine: Each Harbors a Ghost
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The situation has been drastic and turbulent, and the undercurrent that has been hidden for decades has surfaced, which has also aroused great attention from the United States. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
All the outside world knows is that there was a major earthquake in the political arena, and the talented Naoto Kanno took the blame and resigned, and Toichiro Fukuhara failed to stabilize the situation. If the prime minister is changed again in the short term, the political situation will inevitably get out of control, and an early general election will become the only option.
Behind this, there are waves of more dangerous and long-term changes.
After the collapse of the Mitsubishi Foundation, the Fuji Foundation became the number one foundation in this book, and the scale was no less than that of the Mitsubishi Foundation in its heyday. In order to stabilize the domestic financial market, the authorities had no choice but to intervene. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Fuji Foundation, together with Dai-ichi Koye Bank and the Sanwa Foundation, proposed a financial restructuring plan based on the merger of the five major banks. Because there was no other choice, Naoto Kanno had to accept this plan. Subsequently, the five major consortia jointly pressured Congress to pass the Financial Politics Act, which was based on the plan, after just five deliberations.
With this as a sign, the financial industry has entered a period of monopoly.
Although the five major consortia did not merge the banking industry in order to avoid being hit by the Anti-Monopoly Law, they did achieve joint operations through the establishment of a "banking association".
Based on the banking sector, the five major conglomerates have almost monopolized the financial market.
In the modern industrial chain, the financial industry is the foundation of all industries. Not to mention small and medium-sized enterprises, even the world's top 500 large enterprises, if they do not have financial support, it is difficult to survive.
With the help of financial monopoly, the five major consortia will definitely be able to achieve industrial monopoly in the short term.
The day when the economy entered a period of monopoly in an all-round way was the day when the militarist clique was restored.
It must be admitted that almost everyone, including the leaders of the mainland, underestimated the strength of the militarist clique and underestimated the relationship between the five major conglomerates and the militarist clique.
In this round of struggle, the "Young Zhuang faction" in the "New Alliance" was beaten by the "conservatives" and was powerless.
There are only two people who saw this ending, one is Kotaro Hashimoto and the other is Liu Wei.
It was precisely because he knew that he could not pull Samoto back to the normal track that Kotaro Hashimoto asked Liu Wei to leave Samoto with Yumi Hashimoto when he was dying. Liu Wei also knew that sooner or later he would go astray, so he decided to leave as soon as possible and did not stay to drip into this muddy water.
It's a pity that most of them don't see the future clearly.
The five major consortia jointly bailed out the market, and the financial market quickly calmed down after half a month of turmoil, and the economic index returned to its pre-turbulent level a month later.
On the surface, the economy is coming out of its predicament.
It is undeniable that in the special period of global economic sluggishness, financial monopoly has brought many benefits to the company, such as many small and medium-sized enterprises relying on the five major consortia to obtain the loans needed for survival and development in a timely manner, and more than 1.5 million people have found job opportunities in the expansion of the surname monetary policy, and after the average wage level has increased, tens of millions of families have obtained substantial benefits.
It's just that in the long run, it's just drinking to quench your thirst.
It's like smoking a big cigarette, and after the addiction is uncontrollable, it will destroy the entire body and become the walking dead.
He said that he had just taken the first puff and naturally felt good.
Under the cover of rising incomes and easier employment, this sentiment of self-paralysis and self-deception is rapidly spreading in the country.
As a direct consequence, politicians in Congress and Cabinet have to pander to the appetites of their constituents.
The coming to power of Toichiro Fukuhara is a direct manifestation of this consequence.
Although Naoto Kanno made mistakes on the issue of increasing troops, objectively speaking, he is the most outstanding politician in the past decade.
In contrast, Toichiro Fukuhara is a politician through and through.
The Ming Cook Party failed to stop Yu Ben from going astray, not because he didn't do his best, but because he chose all of them. If the Meijo Party does not elect Toichiro Fukuhara, the coalition party will inevitably defect, and it is said that an early general election will be held. Driven by public opinion, whether the Meicho Party wins again or the LDP makes a comeback, the result will be the same: the new prime minister will inevitably give in to public opinion and compromise with the consortium on major policies such as finance.
US politicians are also very worried about the development trend of the domestic situation in their own country.
You must know that it was the global economic crisis at the end of the 20s of the last century that provided the soil and nutrients for the growth of the Nazi clique in Germany and the militarists in Japan, causing the most tragic war in human history, leading to the collapse of the world order with Britain at its core.
Although after nearly half a century of the Cold War, with the collapse of the Red Empire, the world dominance once again returned to the hands of the United States, which was established by British descendants, and Western civilization once again became dominant, no one can guarantee that after the next World War, Western civilization will still stand on the top of the mountain.
The threat posed by this undercurrent is well felt by the Americans.
The problem is that American politicians have different views on the issue of containment.
Ever since two atomic bombs exploded over the Emperor and the Emperor issued an edict of surrender, he has become the younger brother of the United States. During the Cold War, it was the frontier of the Red Empire. For decades, he has been following the path set by the United States and has become a staunch ally of money and effort.
The most representative surname is the Gulf War in the early 90s of the last century.
After more than 40 days of bombing and 100 hours of ground warfare, the US military liberated Kuwait and drew up a long list of wars. As a result, Ben, the second-largest oil importer after the United States, paid more than $40 billion for the war.
It can be said that it was the war funds provided by the United States that made the United States the hegemon of the Middle East.
Compared with the huge investment, the return received by Yuben was so small that even Kuwait did not thank Yuben because it was not Yuben's army that liberated Kuwait.
The more such a little brother, the more the better.
It is a pity that on the whole world, the United States has only one such little brother.
Europe has long been in a group, and the troika of France, Germany, and Italy will not easily be at the mercy of the United States, and even if Britain and Spain are secretly making trouble, the United States will not be able to prevent Europe from moving towards the path of reading development. Canada and Australia have limited national strength, and they are of the same ancestry as the United States, and following the United States is only going to a good place, and they will definitely retreat immediately in case of trouble. As for small countries such as Israel and Singapore, they are not qualified to be compared with the original country. South Korea, on the other hand, was unruly, and if it had not been for North Korea placing its million-strong army north of the ceasefire line, the United States would have parted ways long ago.
Is the United States willing to lose its capital? The answer is clear.
It is a pity that the global financial crisis, which was written and staged by the United States, is developing into an economic crisis, and the United States is still too busy to take care of itself, and it is simply unable to prevent the United States from falling into the abyss.
More importantly, the most stupid American politicians know that it is not the militarists who are pushing the abyss into the abyss, but the neighbors across the sea. The only way for the United States to stop the world from going astray is to unite the world's major economies to end the financial crisis that has lasted for several years and put the global economy on a normal track. As a result, the strategic plan to encircle the mainland will inevitably go bankrupt. When the mainland is on the right path, the mainland will be able to ease its breath and take the lead in the new round of growth. Another 20 years of rapid growth will allow the mainland to surpass the United States economically.
Will the threat from the mainland be smaller than that of the mainland? The answer is also clear.
Even if it can continue to dominate the country after the crisis, tame it into a watchdog, and encircle and suppress the rising continent like the Red Empire, the United States has little chance of winning. The reason is simple, the root cause of the collapse of the Red Empire was economic problems, and the cornerstone of the rise of the continent is the economy.
If the continent cannot be crushed economically, the United States has no chance of winning.
There is another problem that American politicians will never ignore: he is not a watchdog, but a pug. For more than 1,000 years, he has been learning from the mainland and once submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty. As long as the mainland catches up with the United States, it will reconsider the cost of following the United States.
From a strategic point of view, the United States still has to regard the mainland as its number one imaginary enemy.
The militarist clique has naturally become a tool in the eyes of American politicians.
If we can get Yuben to target the mainland, the US-China alliance can be maintained, and at most it will only make Yuben a pole of the alliance, not just a vassal of the United States.
In this regard, American politicians believe in history even more.
Historically, after Ben became strong, he would keep an eye on the mainland. You must know that for hundreds of years, even during the Warring States period, Yuben did not give up the idea of "landing". For this people, who live in an archipelago prone to natural disasters, the only way to solve the existential crisis is to get on the mainland.
This kind of thinking has long been seared into his blood, and no force can change it.
It is obviously easier to cross the East China Sea, which is only a few hundred kilometers away, than to cross the Pacific Ocean.
It is also easier to defeat a rising continent than the United States, which is like the middle of the sky.
Even from the actual situation, the threat posed by the mainland to the United States is much more serious than that of the United States.
It is an island country with extremely scarce resources and an unusually high population density, and almost all of its strategic resources depend on imports. Of the three important strategic routes, the most important southwest route must pass through the mainland-controlled seas. This route bears 80 percent of the imported oil, 60 percent of the copper ore, 40 percent of the iron ore, 70 percent of the rubber, and 65 percent of the grain!
It can be said that this is the lifeline of this book.
In order to protect this route, it is said that sooner or later it will be incompatible with the mainland.
Based on this, American politicians believe that even if the mainland is the first to be threatened by the normal track, it will be difficult to challenge the United States for decades. Because the mainland will be powerless to threaten the United States, and even compromise with the United States in order to contain it.
As long as we grasp the scale and let the two tigers contend, the United States will be able to kill two birds with one stone and eliminate two potential opponents.
(To be continued)