Chapter 377: Stealing Fun

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The answer given by the Chinese Empire to the question of naval limitations raised by Britain was very clear and there was no possibility, on the grounds that the Imperial Chinese Navy was still in its infancy and had not undergone any actual combat tests, and that the Chinese Empire had to maintain numerical superiority in the navy in order to ensure the security of the country's coastal defense.

This excuse made Britain and the United States scoff, after all, the Chinese Imperial Air Force was strong, and the navies of other countries simply could not get close to the China Sea.

Once it gets close to the China Sea, it may end up with the same fate as the original Combined Fleet.

In the face of China's rise in military technology, Britain is very jealous. The so-called lack of experience is simply a very shameless reason.

Who does not know that after the war in Europe, the Chinese Empire has absorbed a large number of German naval soldiers and officers.

Although the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany could not send military personnel to other countries, the problem was that these military personnel went to China on their own.

The treaty did not explicitly state that German naval personnel were not allowed to leave the country.

The attitude of the Chinese Empire in terms of the navy was very tough, and the naval combat tonnage of the Chinese Empire at this time had reached nearly 130,000 tons.

If it is restricted, won't it be necessary to pull the newly built warships back to the scrap site?

Moreover, the Chinese Empire made it clear that the tonnage of merchant ships in the Chinese Empire was already in the first position in the world, and it must have a strong enough navy to escort merchant ships.

This is a naked challenge to Britain's maritime supremacy.

However, Britain did not have any initiative, and this time the three countries negotiated the world situation, and the initiative was actually in the hands of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire had hinted several times that if Britain and the United States could offer sufficiently tempting conditions, the Chinese Empire would agree to a ceasefire with Soviet Russia.

What the Chinese Empire did not want to accept, Britain and the United States had no right to impose on the Chinese Empire.

The issue of the three parties began to return to trade tariffs, and the US delegation said that the Chinese Empire has never been a commodity importing country, and it is unfair to ask the United States to impose low tariffs. In order to create a level playing field, the United States and Britain could fully open the markets of the international colonies to the Chinese Empire and formally recognize China's status as a world power.

"The tariffs are all fair, although our Chinese Empire rarely imports goods, but the main reason is that your American goods are too low-level." Zhu Xiaocheng said at the meeting.

"You are the ones who have built the national tariff barriers." The Delegation of the United States accused.

With the awakening of nationalism in the Chinese Empire, supporting domestic products has become one of the most common commodity purchasing principles in the daily life of the people.

Even those old rural farmers who have never seen the world know that when buying things, they have to look at the trademark, and they can't buy anything that is not made in China.

In terms of luxury goods, China's big-capital businessmen all choose domestic products, and if any businessman buys foreign luxury goods, he will be boycotted by these big-capital businessmen.

Therefore, at this time, the Chinese Empire basically did not import any commodities except for a large number of imported raw materials, except for those things that the Chinese Empire could not produce, but very few.

"The world needs free trade, and anything that blocks free trade is an unfair form of competition." Zhu continued, "The Chinese Empire has always been a country that respects freedom of trade, and it has never relied on unequal tariffs to export goods to other countries. ”

At this time, the Chinese empire made the United States feel that there was nowhere to start, and the trade was superior to China, and under the same tariff background, American goods could not be sold in the Chinese empire.

And the United States capital can not enter China, although it can enter a small part, but there are many restrictions, basically there are no valuable industries that American capital can be involved in, especially the American banks can not enter China, since the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the banks of other countries have been liquidated by the Chinese Empire.

The amount of banknotes printed was taken back, and a certain fine was imposed, on the grounds that the banknotes issued in the Chinese Empire without permission and the amount of Chinese money stored in the banks could not be relied upon.

At the same time, these banks were ordered to withdraw from China, and the Chinese Empire did not allow other countries to open banks in China.

Banks are actually the main way in which the United States plunders other countries, such as post-war Germany, that is, American banks lend money to Germany to restore the economy.

When the German economy recovers, the United States will come out of an economic depression, and the wealth created by the Germans will have to be plundered by the American bank capitalists.

In a country like China, where U.S. bank capital can't come in, no matter how depressed the U.S. is, it is unlikely to affect China on a large scale.

In particular, China has its own monetary system, and China can print more bills on its own at any time, but the bank capitalists in the United States can see from all signs that China is actually very wary of a bubble economy.

So this also creates a false impression for the bank capitalists in the United States, that is, the Chinese empire does not know the benefits of playing bubble economy, and China is afraid of economic pain.

China and the United States are at loggerheads over tariffs, and both sides have their own opinions.

But the Chinese Empire was more dominant in this respect.

After discussing for more than half a month, the two sides did not come up with a clear result.

The tariff issue alone is stuck.

Behind the tariffs, there are many problems.

The US political axe is now facing a very embarrassing problem, that is, if the US tariffs are opened, then the current overdraft consumption market of the United States will greatly increase the export volume of the Chinese Empire, especially to the US market.

The U.S. government wants to tighten tariffs and then compete with China in the international trade market, even if the United States and China compete in the same international trade market, it doesn't matter much.

It was clear that the Chinese empire wanted not only the world trade market, but also the United States to open the trade market.

As for the capital market, the Chinese Empire is currently only actively developing in some small countries, and basically no longer develops capital investment within those large countries.

Those great powers may have a war with the Chinese Empire in the future, and their investment will definitely be lost.

There is no problem with those small countries, even if the world war starts, those small countries do not dare to clearly stand on the side of the enemies of the Chinese Empire, unless the situation is very obvious, those small countries will stand up and fall into the ground, and then wait for the end of the war to appear as the victorious country.

At present, the most active thing in the Chinese Empire is the opening of the trade market, the United States advocates the freedom of capital, and the Chinese Empire advocates the freedom of trade.

Due to the urgency of time, the Chinese Empire has an attitude of indifference to this negotiation, but the United States cannot afford to wait, and if it waits until the beginning of spring next year, then the Soviet Union will definitely be in danger.

Therefore, after a month of negotiations and no clear results, the United States decided to make some concessions on the tariff issue, and the main area of concessions was in the field of light industry.

The United States learned this time, knowing that it does not necessarily have a competitive advantage in the face of China in those emerging industries, so it decided to make concessions on tariffs on light industry.

Although light industry has nothing to do with the enhancement of war potential, there is a problem that light industry can bring a large number of jobs.

However, at this time, the United States was determined to develop heavy industry and many new industries related to the war, but it generally made some concessions in tariffs, so it decided to reduce import tariffs on light industry.

However, even if the tariff on light industry is reduced, it is still relatively high to a certain extent, generally at 15%, in terms of such light industry tariffs, if you count the freight and so on, there will be no competitive advantage in the United States, although the light industry of the Chinese Empire is very developed, but then it is a part of the light industry goods can enter the American market.

And most of those emerging areas are related to war potential, and the United States still maintains high tariffs, which has proved that China's competitiveness in these emerging fields is very strong, and the United States is not an opponent at all for the time being.

The Chinese Empire demanded that the United States reduce tariffs on goods in emerging fields, especially electrical appliances and automobiles, which are much higher than those of the United States at the current level of development in emerging fields.

At this time, the United States produced only more than one million cars a year, while the Chinese Empire had exceeded five million in 1921, and the Chinese Empire basically monopolized the global market in the electrical appliance manufacturing industry.

The manufacturing industry of the Chinese Empire has begun to develop into high-end emerging fields, and although light industry is also developing, it is already secondary.

As the cost of labor rose in the Chinese Empire, these light industries faced the problem that the cost would be higher in the words of coastal workers. After all, the Chinese Empire now has a population of 500 million, and the internal market has gradually become prosperous.

If the part of light industrial production that is exported continues to be placed in the coastal areas, then the labor cost will lead to an increase in the price of light industrial products, which is not conducive to exports.

Therefore, the foreign export of light industry of the Chinese Empire began to move to those high-ranking members of the Third World Alliance, and to those countries to find OEM.

Looking for an OEM in this era is indeed extremely advanced.

Since the share of light industry exports in output value is not too high, the transfer to those member countries of the Union will not have much impact on the economy.

For example, like Cochin and North Korea, although these two countries are currently high-level members, there are taxes on them.

Therefore, these OEM goods are not easy to hit the Chinese market, and they cannot cross the national barriers of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, these light industries can develop a certain economy for the member countries, and it is necessary to develop the economies of the member countries of the alliance.

The Chinese Empire had to set several examples of development in order to attract more countries to this alliance.

The light industry within the Chinese Empire was produced and sold internally, and the countries of Cochin, Korea, and Siam could be used for modern work, so it was indeed a good choice for them to develop light industry.

As for the economy of the Chinese Empire, it will develop to high-end fields in the future, after all, as the Chinese Empire achieves world hegemony in the future, the labor costs of the people will continue to rise, so it is necessary to develop those industries with high added value and high technological content. And then through these industries, to exploit other countries.

It may be that a machine tool can enslave an effect for several years.

At the same time, by playing with the means of capital, it is also possible to plunder the economies of other countries.

The demands of the Chinese empire in the negotiations for the resumption of the agreement were difficult for the United States to accept.

At this time, the United States played the bubble economy, and its main development goal was to catch up with the Chinese empire in these emerging fields, so as to expand its war potential.

Negotiations between the two sides have once again reached an impasse.

This made the United States realize a problem, that is, in order to protect the Soviet Union, it must really pay something.

However, this kind of effort is obviously difficult for the United States to accept to a certain extent.

At this time, the Chinese Empire raised the question of Soviet reform, and as long as the Soviet Union could stop promoting the hatred of New Russia, and at the same time allow Russian television stations to be broadcast in the Soviet Union, etc., the Chinese Empire could consider accepting the tariffs currently proposed by the United States.

The tariffs of the United States and Britain at this time have actually made the Chinese empire snicker, according to the plan proposed by the United States, presumably that China and the United States will each implement tariff protection policies, and at the same time export goods to other countries, and the tariffs of other countries will be the same for the Chinese empire and the United States.

At the same time, the United States has made some concessions on import tariffs on light industry.

At present, the Chinese Empire has taken the issue of exports very lightly, and the fundamental purpose of exports is not to obtain more gold, and now the Chinese Empire is no longer short of gold.

The purpose of exports is only to suppress the economies of other countries and increase the scale of production of the relevant industries of their own war potential, nothing more.

As for imports, the Chinese Empire did not need to import anything at this time.

As long as the United States can make it, the Chinese Empire can make it at this time. At this time, the focus of the Chinese Empire was to grab the jobs of the Germans, and the Germans had a great advantage in the machinery manufacturing industry, which was also the field that the Chinese Empire would seize in the future.

The population of the Chinese Empire was so large that it could not move towards the national division of labor like the Westerners.

In later Western countries, except for the United States, which was relatively comprehensive, other countries had their own specialized industries, and the United States also relied on the specialized industries of these countries to a certain extent, which was equivalent to a division of labor.

In addition to the light industry that can be distributed to other alliance member countries, the Chinese Empire must also grasp other high-end manufacturing industries, after all, the Chinese Empire has a large population.

The division of labor in Western countries in later generations is, to put it bluntly, the layout of international capital, and for international capital, capital has no borders.

For Chinese capital, capital exists at national borders.

Of course, at this time, exports are also profitable, at least they can increase national jobs and increase national income.

Exports were not the main purpose of these negotiations, the main purpose of these negotiations was to pave the way for the next attack on the Soviet Union.

The problem of attacking the USSR was the problem of the partisans, so first of all, it was necessary to improve the image of New Russia in the eyes of the Soviet people.

The image has changed, and after the attack on the Soviet Union, the Soviet people will not put up strong resistance.

Therefore, it is necessary to publicize how rich the life of the Russian people is, how much material sufficiency they have. This needs to rely on things like movies, television, etc.

If the Soviet Union is unified and reformed, then the armistice between Soviet and Russian is completely possible.

After all, the Chinese Empire did not want to destroy the Soviet Union at this time, and it was too early.

The United States began to communicate with the Soviet Union, and the Chinese Empire communicated with New Russia.

Xia Jun fooled Nicholas II and said that the Imperial Chinese Cabinet was already very dissatisfied with maintaining huge military spending, and at the same time, the rear supply lines could not afford the logistics of so many soldiers. Therefore, for the time being, it is impossible to attack the Soviet Union.

Nicholas II was super depressed, but Xia Jun invited him to visit the core military technology of the Chinese Empire, showed Nicholas II some of the advanced military technology, and promised Nicholas II that within twenty years, the Chinese Empire would inevitably destroy the Soviet Union together with Russia, so that Russia could completely regain its lost territory.

Under a variety of means, Nicholas II was finally appeased by Xia Jun.

Nicholas II was shocked by the advanced military technology displayed by the Chinese Empire, but he was also puzzled by the fact that the current military technology of the Chinese Empire was fully capable of destroying the Soviet Union.

Xia Jun moved Britain and the United States out as a shield.

He claimed that if China and Russia wanted to completely eliminate the Soviet Union, they would face very heavy losses in the international arena, and Britain and the United States would not sit idly by.

China was not ready for a full-scale war at this time, but once it did, the Chinese Empire would be victorious.

For this, Nicholas II had to accept this result and wait for another ten or twenty years.

However, he also looked forward to the victory of the Third World Alliance represented by China and Russia and Britain and the United States after the start of the war, and the military technology displayed by the Chinese Empire gave him strong confidence.

Of course, Britain and the United States once again jumped out to hinder the reunification of Russia, which also made Nicholas II grit his teeth with hatred.

Speaking from the heart, the Chinese Empire did a very generous job in the past, not only providing Russia with loans, but also giving Russia a large amount of aid, and even bearing part of the military expenses for the war against the Soviet Union.

The Cabinet of the Chinese Empire had an opinion, and Nicholas II believed it.

In fact, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire had no opinion, and although the Chinese Empire bore part of the military expenses for Russia, in fact the Chinese Empire did not make a loss-making transaction.

The Chinese Empire had expanded its influence into Europe, and although it was nominally Russian, it was not much different from the Chinese Empire.

First, there were no tariffs on both sides, and secondly, the national capital of the Chinese Empire controlled the resources of Russia.

Although Russia is very large, most of them are not suitable for habitation, and the Chinese Empire is interested in those rich resources, and the rest does not matter.

At the same time, Xia Jun explained to Nicholas II that the conditions for the reform of the Soviet Union proposed by the Chinese Empire were also for the sake of Russia!

Russia should be grateful to the Chinese Empire.

Of course, whether it succeeds or not depends on how the United States does its work for the Soviet Union.

Stalin was very reluctant to receive the reform request from the Sino-Russian alliance submitted by the United States.

But the United States has already put the ugly words ahead.

If the Soviet Union does not accept it, the United States will have no way to prevent the Sino-Russian alliance from launching an offensive next year that will completely destroy the Soviet Union.

At this time, the Soviet Union was tantamount to being put on the neck by China and Russia.

Although the American father has some ability, the Soviet Union can't do nothing after all! You can't just rely on your father, right? That's going to cheat you. If the Soviet Union does not cooperate, the United States can do nothing.

(To be continued)