Zhou Nan doesn't know much about the Bretton Woods system, and he has never been sensitive to finance, so he feels a headache when he sees such content.

However, he had studied the Triffin problem, so he knew the contradictions of the Bretton Woods system.

In 60 years, the American economist Robert Triffin proposed in his book "Gold and the Dollar Crisis - The Future of Free Convertibility": since the dollar is pegged to gold, the currencies of other countries are pegged to the dollar.

Although the U.S. dollar has achieved the status of the core currency of the world, in order to develop international trade, countries must use the U.S. dollar as a settlement and reserve currency.

As a result, the outflow of money out of the United States will continue to accumulate overseas, and there will be a long-term deficit in the US balance of payments.

The premise of the US dollar, as the core of the international currency, is that the value of the US dollar must be kept stable, which in turn requires that the United States must be a country with a long-term surplus in the international trade balance.

These two requirements contradict each other and are therefore a paradox.

If the United States needs to maintain the value of the dollar, it needs to hold a large amount of gold and sell it to stabilize the value of the currency in times of crisis.

But when their money is held by other countries as a currency for trade transactions, the United States will naturally run out of money. When the dollar was pegged to gold, they couldn't even print money.

Moreover, the trade surplus has also led to a decrease in the currency of the United States, and other countries can only buy gold when they have a large amount of dollars but do not need to buy American things.

Gold reserves are getting dwindling, and the value of the dollar is correspondingly unstable, and the United States needs to spend more money to maintain its value.

So, in this paradoxical economic system, there is no good solution for anyone.

In the sixties and seventies, the United States launched the Vietnam War, the war was stalemate, the deficit of the United States was getting higher and higher, and finally it was no longer able to maintain the value of the dollar.

Since then, the system has collapsed.

South China is now not allowed to join this system, because South China has nothing, and European and American countries only regard South China as a resource plundering place.

It is for this reason that Nanhua is free to adjust its exchange rate with the US dollar in order to increase its exports.

However, Nanhua definitely does not want to become just an exporter of resources, because then it will only earn a meager ration.

Taking oil as an example, the current international oil price is only between $1 and $1.5 per barrel. During World War II, a barrel of crude oil peaked at $1.5, but immediately after the war, the price fell to $1.1 per barrel.

At such a low price, how much money can you make by selling crude oil? It exports 10 million tons and more than 70 million barrels a year, and the output value is less than 100 million US dollars.

Therefore, even if Zhou Nan is cheated and deceived, he must attract a group of scientists to come out and develop his own industrial system.

Of course, Zhou Nan would not be greedy for perfection and vainly wanted to develop into a whole industrial country, which even the Soviet Union did not do.

There are only two countries in the world that have this possibility, and absolutely not including South China.

The road that Nanhua wants to take is the road that Japan will take in another life, integrating production, education and research, but only developing high-precision industrial products.

For example, Nanhua will also build steel plants, but it will definitely not be built everywhere. At most, only one steel group will be built, and on the basis of relying on ordinary steel for survival, it will specialize in synthetic steel and sheet profiles.

When investing in the automotive sector, not all companies invest on their own, but foreign investment.

There are other areas, and they are all about the same.

It was not included in their economic system, but Nanhua could not give up trade with other countries, and then use electronic technology, computers, and high-end processing to develop Nanhua into a financial center and trade center in Asia.

In this regard, South China will certainly have a certain competitive relationship with Hong Kong.

But Singapore, a small country, can develop rapidly, the population of Nanhua is ten times more, the land area is more than 100 times more, there are rich coal and oil resources, and the layout began 20 years ahead of schedule, Zhou Nan believes that the future of Nanhua is definitely much stronger than Singapore.

Therefore, in the face of these compatriots in Hong Kong, Zhou Nan only had full exchanges with them in the industrial field, and did not mention it at all in the financial field.

Hong Kong's labor is cheap, and if you hold the south gate, you can honestly be a second-class dealer and a low-level industrial auxiliary center.

After saving them, they thought they were great, and they whimsically wanted to split up.

But I never thought that even Britain in this era thought that this thing was impossible, and would it be possible in the future?

Others did not know Zhou Nan's little abacus, and when they heard that Zhou Nan was interested in cooperating with Hong Kong in the industrial field, the business people and the British management were still very happy.

At this time, Hong Kong was in ruins, and even the British could not have imagined that Hong Kong would become the world's third largest financial center in the future.

So they became more and more respectful towards Zhou Nan one by one, hoping that Zhou Nan could use his influence to carry out some industrial transfers.

Backed by the mainland, they never worry about having no workers, only worrying about having no work to do.

So it was a pleasant conversation on both sides.

And when Zhou Nan knew that Xu Aizhou was not only a shipping giant, but also ran a Futai grocery store, he directly offered to buy some dried vegetables to take home.

This request stunned everyone, because no one thought that Zhou Nan would have a penchant for such an ordinary dried dish.

They were worried that they would not have a chance to talk to Zhou Nan, and when they heard this request, Xu Aizhou smiled directly: "Dried vegetables are not a good thing, but the Chinese people in Southeast Asia also like to eat them." Whether it is soup or steamed meat, it is a good side dish. Futai operates several kinds of dried vegetables, both in Guangdong and Minzhou. Which one does Huayang like the most? ”

"As long as it's made from mustard leaves, I like to eat it, and I don't ask for the place of origin."

"This thing is easy to do, I immediately asked someone to send a hundred catties to the airport, send some of everything, and tell me after eating. However, this 100 catties of dried vegetables is also a matter of ten dollars, don't say buy it. ”

Zhou Nan could only be ashamed and said: "But it is ashamed to accept it, since the elder has a life, Huayang is ashamed." ”

Everyone felt a little funny, they didn't expect Zhou Nan to have a preference for an ordinary ingredient, so they took this opportunity to chat with Zhou Nan about Zhou Nan's hobbies for a while.

Zhou Nan knew that they wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about themselves, so that they could do what they liked in the future.

Because Zhou Nan is a person, he has hardly shown any hobbies. A lot of times he doesn't act like a young man, but more like an old man who has no desires.

To date, his only hobby known to the outside world is drinking tea. But in the past two years, all walks of life in Nanhua have been able to open tea shops......

It is true that Zhou Nan has no appetite for tongue, although he pays attention to eating, he is not picky.

Originally, I still liked cars, but now that I have been influenced by another life, this urge has dissipated a lot.

Although he has a lot of good clothes, they were all made for Audrey by the way when Givenchy designed his clothes.

Because he asked him and Audrey to wear clothes, they needed to have a sense of symmetry, that is, a design with a bit of couple clothes.

In terms of women, he doesn't have much desire, and now his internal strength has become small, and the pleasure when practicing is not much worse than the little thing between men and women.

Otherwise, how could Hughes turn back and break off with more than a hundred of his lovers.

Therefore, Zhou Nan is easy to contact, but it is a little difficult to have a deep friendship with him, because it is difficult for anyone to know what he is really pursuing.

Zhou Nan likes to eat dried vegetables, because when Yannick opened a store in Green Island, there was a grocery store opened by Minzhou people next to it. Every time they like to make soup with dried vegetables and big bones, they also like to use dried vegetables to steam meat, which Zhou Nan often ate when he was a child.

It can even be said that among all the ingredients, Zhou Nan's favorite is dried vegetables. And whether it is dried vegetables from Guangdong or Minzhou, as long as it is made of mustard leaves, he likes it very much and never gets tired of eating it.

So when he came to Hong Kong this time, he didn't care about what other people thought was weird, so he had to buy some back.

The night's conversation didn't end until dawn, when Mountbatten returned with a group of Brits who had been wandering around the ballroom of the hotel all night.

Now that he had returned, and the sky had dawned, it was time for them to leave.

The convoy back to the airport was increased by a few more vehicles, because there were more Chinese to see them off. There are still hundreds of soldiers, escorted in military vehicles, and no one dares to be careless.

When he got out of the car, the British gave Zhou Nan two boxes.

Only then did Zhou Nan realize that Mountbatten was still empty-handed when he got off the plane, but now he had several more boxes. His attachés also had an extra box in their hands.

Zhou Nan refused all the gifts that the Chinese wanted to give, so he was naturally embarrassed to ask for gifts from the British, so he simply cleared up once.

However, the volume of the gift he accepted was still the largest, because a hundred catties of dried vegetables was a lot. This kind of dry goods does not account for weight, and one hundred catties of dried vegetables are packed into two sacks.

A group of gringos thought that these were good things, and they opened them one after another to take a look, and when they saw this kind of dried vegetables that came out of the water and dried in the sun, they were all very surprised, and they didn't understand that Zhou Nan had traveled all the way to bring these things back to China.

But they didn't know that in Zhou Nan's heart, this was more precious than lobster and abalone.

Popler loaded their luggage onto the plane, opened them one by one and checked them, and then informed Zhou Nan that he could get on the plane.

Everyone said goodbye one by one on the side of the runway, as if they were reluctant to give up. But when they got on the plane, everyone really slackened.

I'm afraid that the people who saw them off are the same, Zhou Nan and their arrival in Hong Kong actually added a lot of trouble to these Brits.

However, the British hoped that Mountbatten's return to China would help them say some good things, and these Chinese also hoped that Zhou Nan could bring them some development opportunities, so they were still more happy than troubled.

Except for the two pilots who were resting, almost all of them did not sleep all night, and when they got on the plane, they were all sluggish.

Before the plane had taken off, Mountbatten was already lying on the couch in the resting place, and asked his entourage to find him a blanket, cover it and begin to sleep.

Zhou Nan was also lying on his bed, about to go to Nanhua, there were still many things waiting for him to deal with, and he needed to nourish his spirits.

(This episode was finally written, and the original arrangement included mediation, negotiations, conditions, and watching the battle of crossing the river.) After arriving in Hong Kong, there were assassinations, secret wars between the two parties, and so on, but they were not written. There will be assassinations later, but the rest, I won't write about it. ）