"What are these Chinese thinking? Print some paper and try to compare it with the gold standard currency? ”

The biggest outcome of the meeting between the British banking community and the Chinese foreign ministers was that the two sides opened a channel for negotiations, and the British did not want to close the door to negotiations given the opportunity for financial cooperation with China. It's just that there must always be a basis for any negotiation, and China and the UK have obviously failed to find this foundation, and have failed to find a pinnacle for financial cooperation between China and the UK. At least the British believe that this needle should be the gold standard, while the Chinese believe that money represents the purchase of labor.

"I think it's better to change the name of China's renminbi to the poor man's currency, which is simply based on giving the poor money to buy food and eat. What the foreign minister said was really interesting, and he actually said that in a sense, the basis of the Chinese people's currency is grain. As long as you have RMB, you can buy food! Hey! This is truly defining the financial industry. Someone made a big mockery of this.

Based on such ridicule, some financiers also said a wittic, "I hope they don't pay the band and singers in RMB!" ”

"Huh!" "Hey, hey!" "Haha!" The financiers burst into laughter.

But ironically, financiers are not the only people who use vitriolic rhetoric as a symbol of their abilities. One financier, who had not participated in the ridicule, calmly said after the others laughed: "But everyone in the Chinese shipyard seems to be paid in RMB." ”

These words poured over the cheerful atmosphere like a basin of ice water, and the euphoria brought by the vicious mockery dissipated in a short time. There may have been a lot of negative emotions in the meeting, but the trip itself was a very pleasant one. British financiers were very pleased with the thrill of travel brought by the 15,000-ton large cruise ship, the splendid halls, the exquisite rooms, the heating, electric lights, the flush toilets, and the huge swimming pool on board. Such a ship is expensive, and the Chinese workers and technicians who built it are paid in renminbi every month.

If this idea is further expanded, the British build warships with the gold standard currency, and the Chinese build warships with the national credit-based renminbi. Until the naval war between the two countries, the national credit-based renminbi seems to have been significantly better than the gold-based pound.

The gentleman who poured cold water saw that his words had such a noticeable effect that the smiles of some financiers simply stiffened strangely on their faces. In other words, purely from the point of view of expression, his facial muscles are probably located in the position of "laughing", and other emotions, eyes, have nothing to do with laughter.

A sense of rejoicing brought by a viciousness made the gentleman unable to help but continue, "Gentlemen, whether it is a peasant or a worker in China, a rich man or a poor man, an ordinary person or a soldier, they all use the renminbi. I think there is a very good saying from the Chinese representative......"

At this point, the gentleman tapped his fingers on the final minutes of the meeting, and he studied the summary document after the meeting more deeply, and many sentences were marked with a pen. The gentleman glanced at it, then read the statement of one of the Chinese delegates, "China's renminbi represents China's powerful productive forces, which, unlike Britain, do not need to be forcibly valued in gold. ”

After reading this paragraph, the financier said seriously: "Judging from the current situation, the level of China's productivity is indeed higher than that of the British Empire. ”

This passage completely eliminated the cheerful atmosphere that the British financiers had created in the first place, and that the level of China's productive forces was indeed much higher than that of the United Kingdom, and that the Chinese government had so far performed significantly more effectively than Britain in directing this powerful productive force in the direction that the Chinese government wanted. Faced with such a reality, British financiers are feeling enormous pressure. It is completely possible to describe their mood at this moment as stressful.

Not far from the meeting of the financiers is the large flat-roofed duplex mansion under Uncle Ma's name. Uncle Ma's wife, Yanni, walked into the room where the two scholars were talking, carrying a tray. On the tray is a tea set made of bone china. This set of tea sets is one of the many entertainment programs on this trip, China opened a small auction, the bone china tea set at the meeting is basically based on the factory price as the starting price, Uncle En felt that the price is really cheap and excessive, so he bought a few sets. One of them was given to Uncle Ma.

Uncle Ma originally had four sets of these expensive tea sets on the British market, all of which were gifts from Uncle Ma from Wei Ze, the Great Emperor of the East, and in order to raise funds for the revolution, Uncle Ma sold these four sets of tea sets that he and his family liked very much. The luxury goods given to Uncle Ma by the Eastern Emperor Wei Ze were basically the same fate, such as cars, watches, pocket watches, leather goods, gold pens, and even white fox coats and silk clothes given to Mrs. Yanni, and several sets of beaded jewelry made of large grains, only the minimum pieces that must be used on formal occasions were left, and the rest were used to fund revolutionary activities. The only luxury that Uncle Ma left for himself was probably a small cigarette cabinet made of teak and a pipe with an amber cigarette holder. If it were not for the Chinese's far-sighted stipulations in the document that Uncle Ma's flat-roofed duplex mansion next to the big library must be agreed by China if it were to be sold, the house would have become revolutionary funds long ago.

Madame Yanni has a good complexion, and no luxury does not make people unhealthy. With nearly 30 years of funding from China, Uncle Ma and Mrs. Yanni live a stable life, with no worries about food and clothing. Moreover, Mrs. deliberately kept the fitness equipment sent by the Chinese, and often chatted with female officials in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mrs. Yanni herself maintained the habit of fitness by example, and forced Uncle Ma to exercise every day in the fitness room of the flat-roofed duplex mansion. Even though she is seventy-one years old, her wife is still slender and charming.

Just as she was bringing in Chinese black tea, Chinese rum, British refreshments, and dried meat, Mrs. Yanni heard her husband say to Uncle En: "Moore beard, do you think it is impossible for China to adopt the gold standard?" ”

Uncle En replied, "Karl, it is not gold that maintains the true status of the pound, but the Great Fleet of Great Britain. Gold was merely a layer of gold gilding on top of the pound advantage maintained by the Grand Fleet, and the thickness of this gilt was only proportional to the superiority of the British Grand Fleet over other countries. The greater the advantage, the thicker the thickness of the gold plating. But gold plating is gold plating, and no amount of gold plating can turn the pound into gold. At least until now, I don't see that Weeser himself agrees with such a gilding policy. ”

After finishing speaking, Uncle En looked at Uncle Ma who was groaning, and he couldn't help but ask, "Carl, do you still think that Wei Ze will become an unprecedented reactionary?" ”

Lady Yanni frowned slightly, she had heard such a conversation many times. If the Great Emperor of the East was a high-ranking patron who appeared in Uncle Ma and Yanni's lives, Lady Yanni might have a positive or negative opinion of Wei Ze. And Wei Ze, the biggest patron of Uncle Ma's life, seems to be a cloud in the distant sky, which can be seen faintly, but can only be seen extremely far away. And apart from a very simple funding, Wei Ze has no impact on Uncle Ma's life. So for decades, Madame's evaluation of Weeser belongs to a fairly positive category. Mrs. Yanni sometimes felt that her husband, Uncle Ma, was too harsh on the young man.

Uncle Ma did not change his opinion, he said calmly: "As the supreme power of the republic in the garb of the emperor, I can say that he is very progressive. I would even go so far as to say that there has never been a person in power in history who has made social progress his life's work as he did. However, I still think that as the supreme power of the republic in the garb of the emperor, if he fails to promote the progress of the social revolution, he will surely become a reactionary. No matter how outstanding and powerful Wei Ze's personal ability is. If he only turned these abilities into decorating his own feathers, it would be the same as gilding the British Pound with the Great Fleet of Great Britain, no matter how thickly painted, it would not change the essence of his private owner. ”

Lady Yanni listened to her husband's straightforward statement, and her face changed slightly.

Uncle Ma continued, "The current European politicians, no matter how strong they are as strong as Bismarck, no matter what extent their personal ability has reached, if they only use their strength to benefit the country, the emperor, the aristocracy, and the capitalists, this is only to whitewash these things that already exist. Of course, they can be true to their own position, to the class to which they belong. No matter what kind of progressive face Weeser appears in this world, if he still follows this path. Objectively speaking, they will definitely become reactionaries. The stronger his strength, the greater his ability, and the higher his achievements. The greater the reactionary he will become. ”

Uncle En couldn't help but nod slightly, he understood what Uncle Ma meant very well. Uncle Ma never thought that a certain person or group of people could achieve communism. The communist system is the inevitable result of the development of the productive forces of society, which is a completely materialist concept. In other words, the realization of communism is by no means idealistic, and it does not refer to something that can be achieved by hiding the ears of the horse and stealing the bell.

No matter how powerful or even great Weeser himself is. Weeser only established merits for future generations to inherit, instead of creating a new revolutionary line in line with the current development, and could not put forward a theory that promoted the emancipation and self-emancipation of the whole society and even mankind. Then all of Weese's achievements will not be more than Erer at the moment when they are inherited. And the existence of Weese can only be regarded as a myth by the "owners and successors", to prove how they should and how natural they should inherit power from Weese.

Regardless of Weeser's intentions, as long as such a result occurs. He himself was destined to be a reactionary.

Lady Yanny left the living room. As a woman, she loves her husband deeply and supports him in whatever he wants to do. She didn't really feel anything about Weese's personal evaluation. What touched Yanni was Wei Ze's influence on her husband, Uncle Ma. She had never seen Uncle Ma attach so much importance to a person.

If Weser himself can really become the revolutionary that Uncle Ma thinks, it will be like the story in the Bible. The patriarch was instructed by God to offer his child as a sacrifice to the altar. Before killing the child whom he loved more than himself, God confirmed the patriarch's piety and sent an angel to seize the Grim Reaper's wings and prevent the patriarch's final fatal blow.

However, it is impossible for such a thing to happen in reality, if Wei Ze is really as Uncle Ma hopes, he will first have to sacrifice everything he cherishes more than himself to the altar.

Mrs. Yanni didn't quite understand Uncle Ma's theory, and she felt this way because she was a woman. So she knows that when a person has all the hopes to look forward to, a person becomes the party of hope. When hope is faced with reality, there is basically nothing but disappointment and disappointment. This is something that only parents will understand.