Chapter 238: Heidi was an accident

For Feng Tian, Hedy Lamarr was an accident, and the purpose of looking for this European beauty was just to block Americans from obtaining frequency hopping technology. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThere is no shortage of women in Fengtian, there is no need to go to Europe for this purpose to kidnap Heidi and deceive her.

In later generations, Heidi's glamorous name was known all over the world, and the world's first beauty was by no means in vain.

Feng Tian is not a saint, and he will also covet Hedy Lamarr, and more importantly, the celebrity effect.

However, compared to Feng Tian's career, a Hedy Rama is nothing, and Feng Tian doesn't need to spend effort on her.

It's a different story for Sophie, who is deliberately bringing Hedy Rama into the warband.

Since Sophie married Feng Tian, she realized that she couldn't satisfy Feng Tian's toughness, she was just an ordinary little woman, and she had already learned Feng Tian's strength from the first time.

At the same time, she noticed that when Bian Yuer and Feng Tian were together, they were always accompanied by Dr. Xiao Fan, which inspired Sophie.

I can't do it alone, but it seems that I can also find a girl to help me and share the firepower.

Of course, the girl must be beautiful enough to be accepted by the heavens.

However, who are you looking for, I am not familiar with the people here, and there is no place to look for them.

Hey, don't I have Miss Hedy Lamarr by my side?

Hedy Lamarr is also a European beauty, and her beauty is not below herself, so Feng Tian probably won't object, right?

So, Sophie moved Hedy Lamarr, and the two girls planned this scene for the night.

After Sophie said her idea, Hedy Lamarr pretended to be reserved, but eventually agreed.

It's no wonder if you don't agree, Hedy Lamarr originally came for the sealing of the sky.

During this time, Heidi Rama's main task was to tutor Chinese culture, and as for the offensive against Fengtian, it had not been taken into account for the time being, Sophie's suggestion undoubtedly created an opportunity for Heidi Rama.

It was really effortless to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to go, making Hedy Lamarr feel like God was helping her.

Under the careful planning of the two girls, the relationship between Hedy Lamarr and Feng Tian passively fait accompli.

What can Feng Tian do, accidentally polluted other European girls, can't he admit it? ,

For Feng Tian, it seems that one more Hedy Rama is nothing, and it is not that he can't cope with it, so before Sophie and Heidi Rama leave for Europe, Feng Tian finally agreed to Heidy Lamarr.

"Heidi, after you go back this time, let your father come here, the family has the right to know."

The implication couldn't be clearer, Hedy Lamarr felt that happiness had come too quickly.

"Well, when I come back, I'll have my father with me, thank you, God."

This matter was revealed, and Sophie and Hedy Lamarr followed the news of Von. Together, Manstein returned to Europe to take over the shipyard.

Feng Tian, on the other hand, began to pay attention to the price changes in the silver market and implement his plan to make a fortune.

Since the beginning of Fengtian's implementation of the silver collection plan, it is the low tide period of silver, and Fengtian has obtained a large amount of silver and silver dollars at an extremely cheap cost, whether it is in the domestic or foreign markets, almost at the same time.

Feng Tian began to absorb silver and silver dollars in 1932, and today it has a huge number of machines. At the end of 1932, the price of silver in New York was 25 cents an ounce, which was absolutely low.

Due to the capital of Fengtian making waves in the international market, the price has risen slightly.

Of course, for the scale of the international market, Fengtian's capital is nothing, and it doesn't seem to be able to set off any big waves.

However, Feng Tian didn't have many scruples in his heart, he knew that the price of silver would only rise and would not fall in a short period of time, so the tricks he showed would naturally not be hidden, or even attract goods with great fanfare.

There are always some investors in the market who follow the trend, which causes the price of silver to rise slightly.

By the end of the year, the price of silver on the international market was close to 30 cents per ounce.

Feng Tian remembers that by the beginning of 1935, the price of silver in New York had risen to 55 cents, and in April of that year it had reached a high of 81 cents, an increase of more than two and a half times.

From August 1934 to June 1935, the United States purchased as many as 437 million ounces (about 13,590 tons) of silver and returned it to the U.S. treasury.

From April 1931, Britain, Canada, Japan, Austria and other major capitalist countries successively abandoned the gold standard system and implemented currency devaluation, in an attempt to open up the markets of other countries with exchange rate depreciation.

In order to get out of the economic crisis, President Roosevelt began to implement the "New Deal" in 1933, which increased government spending to stimulate domestic economic growth, which required the government to increase currency.

Under the gold standard, the issuance of currency was limited by the government's gold reserves.

In the balance, the United States had no choice but to adopt the gold and silver standard system.

The U.S. government believes that buying silver in the market and increasing reserves can drive up the price of silver and increase the purchasing power of countries on the silver standard such as China in order to market surplus goods to these countries.

On the other hand, silver is used as a currency reserve, which can inflate the currency.

To this end, in 1933 and 1934, the United States promulgated a series of bills such as the "Silver Act", the main contents of which included measures such as raising the price of silver, purchasing silver, prohibiting the export of silver, issuing silver bills, and nationalizing silver, with the goal of achieving a "gold and silver" ratio in reserves.

At that time, the United States had only $1.45 billion in domestic silver reserves, which was only half of the target.

As a result, the U.S. government began to buy silver in large quantities in the New York and London markets. The price of silver on the world market immediately soared.

The purpose of the United States is clear, they want to revitalize the American economy, and the victim is China.

Historically, the London silver price was 19.96 pence per ounce in June 1934, and in June 1935 the silver price rose rapidly to 36.25 pence per ounce, an 81% increase in the price of silver within a year; During the same period, silver rose in New York from 45.4 cents per ounce to 81 cents per ounce, an increase of 78%.

According to statistics, the price of silver in London on April 26, 1935 was 3 times higher than in 1931, and the price of silver in the New York market was 3.3 times higher than in 1931.

Correspondingly, the high price of silver in the world market has dealt a heavy blow to China, which is on the silver standard.

As the price of silver in the international market is much higher than the price of domestic silver dollars, foreign banks in China have purchased silver dollars in China and shipped them to New York and London for arbitrage, resulting in a large outflow of Chinese silver.

Originally, since 1926, China has always had more inflows than outflows, and the money supply was abundant.

Beginning in 1932, the outflow of silver from China gradually began.

In 1934, under the influence of the U.S. silver policy, the outflow of Chinese currency was as high as 227 million silver dollars.

Reuters reported that from the end of June 1934 to January 1935, the circulation of Chinese silver dollars in Shanghai decreased by 230 million yuan, and all but a small part went to the mainland, and all but a small part went to London or the United States.

In this life, Feng Tian started in advance, and through the cheap labor of Beidi Industry with almost no labor costs, he wantonly dumped goods into the interior in exchange for a large amount of silver dollars, the purpose of which was nothing more than to prevent foreign capital from making profits from it.

Of course, the profit space of foreign capital is small, but the benefits are obtained.

And as the government of the Republic of China is ultimately a victim.

I'm afraid this is a helpless move, no one can help the government of the Republic of China, only they can help.

It's a pity that they are ordinary people after all, and they can't see the future clearly.

Instead of allowing Western capital to make huge profits from China, it is better to cut off the sky in advance, and the wealth is still left to the Chinese anyway.

It's just that this wealth is transferred from the south to the north, isn't there such a saying, fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, it is more appropriate.

Isn't it a bit shameless for this guy to comfort himself like this?

At this time, Feng Tian was listening to his little secret, the original female agent of the Republic of China, and secretly reported to Wu Huamei, the third lady of Feng Tian.

Wu Huamei was wearing a tight-fitting uniform on her upper body, which was a little tight, her small waist was very thin, and some parts seemed to be a little full, and there were tears and even an accidental incident that came out of anger was not ruled out.

The hip position is a uniform skirt, a little short, wrapping the round buttocks, which has a suggestive effect.

That day, his straight and slender legs were actually wearing stockings, and his feet were wearing high heels to make him look more and more slender.

Your sister, this is an office space, is it okay to pay attention to the impact?

Don't look at Wu Huamei's inability to cope with Feng Tian, this dress seems to be looking for trouble, but Wu Huamei still has to show her beauty in front of Feng Tian to increase her attractiveness.

Wu Huamei is a beauty, she can't affect her beauty because of outdated clothing, everyone has a love for beauty, not to mention beauty for those who please themselves.

Wu Huamei's delicate face turned her small lips up and down, and she uttered a slightly beautiful Jiangnan Nong language: "According to the statistics of the financial department of the Beidi Volunteer Army, the property brought back from Mukden, as well as the property collected from the surrounding areas, including all kinds of oceans, gold bars, silver, as well as seized Japanese-funded property and various banknotes, is equivalent to a total of 23 billion silver dollars.

Among them, the banknotes of various countries have been exchanged for silver dollars.

At present, the government only keeps gold, a precious metal.

In addition, the issuance of new currency by the Northland Bank has been widely advertised, and from January next year, the silver dollar will stop circulating in the jurisdiction of the Northland, and the people of the Northland have begun to exchange the new currency with the Northland Bank.

From the analysis of the current situation, there are some wealthy people among some people who have entered the north from Hebei and other provinces, and the amount of exchange they have exchanged is still relatively large.

Data analysis from banks may add billions of silver dollars by the end of the year. ”

Feng Tian listened to Wu Huamei's report, his eyes stared at the abrupt figure, and the expression on his face seemed to be very satisfied.

"Well, the numbers are still pretty good. By the way, the income of enterprises under the jurisdiction of the North Underground is not a small amount, are there any statistics? ”

Feng Tian's eyes stared at Wu Huamei's abruptness for a while, moved downward for a while, and finally landed on her legs in stockings.

Wu Huamei obviously felt Feng Tian's fiery eyes, and felt a little proud in her heart. I thought to myself, that is, it is not good to go too far in the office space, otherwise, I will definitely wear more revealing and irritating clothes, so that my dear you can see enough.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, I haven't turned to that position yet. Well, there is, the income of the Northland enterprises, as well as the income from the proportion of dividends from equity participation, totals 1.6 billion silver dollars. The financial department of the Northland Volunteers estimates that by the end of this year, counting its own assets and the silver dollars exchanged by the Northland Bank, the Northland Volunteers may be able to control nearly 30 billion silver dollars. ”

Three tens of billions, the amount is indeed not small, converted into dollars or Northland Chinese dollars, about 10 billion.

Ten billion dollars is a lot of money.

This is still a rough calculation based on the US dollar against the silver dollar 1:3, in fact, it is now above 1:2.5, and as the price of the silver dollar rises, the assets of the northern defense area will continue to expand.

This does not include Feng Tian's personal assets, and Feng Tian is impossible to announce his assets to the outside world, and it is estimated that the number of his assets is not much less than that of the Northern Defense Zone, which is quite huge.

Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

In fact, it is not an exaggeration at all, the projects at Fengtian's disposal are all gold absorbers, stockings products and clothing lines that frantically suck wealth from the Western world, coupled with domestic arms sales, especially the new weapons equipped by Wilhelm for the German army, which are quite large.

The huge assets make Feng Tian full of confidence, and provide sufficient ammunition for the next step to face the silver dollar storm.

"Hua Mei, inform the special operations team to increase the purchase of silver dollars, and make sure that the price of silver dollars will rise by another 30 percent by the end of the year."

"Yes, Commander, increase the price of the silver dollar by thirty percent."

Raising the price of domestic silver and silver dollars shows that the second step of Fengtian's plan has been carried out, and he wants to cut off the black hands of Western investors.

At the very least, by the end of the year, the domestic price of silver will be the same as the price in the international market, and it is not ruled out that it will be higher.

Without the spread, Western investors would not have bought silver dollars from China and resold them to the international market.

At this time, most investors have not yet taken action, and even if they want to do it now, it may be a little too late.

In the first 30 years of the 20th century, China used silver yuan as its base currency (1 gold bar was 10 taels, 1 tael of gold was equivalent to about 100 silver yuan, and 1 silver yuan was about 0.7 taels of silver). During the 24 years from 1912 to 1936, prices in China were basically stable, rising and falling smoothly and not fluctuating too much.

During these 24 years, the main currency circulating in the Chinese market was the silver yuan, not the later paper money.

Therefore, we call this period the "Silver Circle Age".

From 1911 to 1920, the price of rice in Shanghai was constant at 6 silver yuan per old stone (178 catties), that is, 3.4 cents per catty of rice; 1 silver yuan could buy 30 catties of rice; pork could buy 1 jiao 2 cents - 1 jiao 3 cents per catty; 1 silver yuan could buy 8 catties of pork; at this time, "one yuan" was equivalent to about 45-50 yuan in the mid-90s of the 20th century; This is equivalent to 60-70 yuan in 2007.

From 1920 to 1926, the price of rice in Shanghai was 9.5 silver yuan per stone (160 jin of rice), that is, more than 5 cents per catty of rice; 1 silver yuan can buy 18 catties of rice; Pork is 1 jiao 4 cents - 1 jiao 5 cents per catty, and 1 silver yuan can buy 7 catties of pork; During this period, "one dollar" was equivalent to about 40 yuan in the mid-90s of the 20th century; This is equivalent to 48-55 yuan in 2007.

From 1927 to 1936, the average amount of rice in Shanghai was 10.2 silver yuan per city stone (160 city catties), that is, more than 6 cents per catty of rice; 1 silver yuan can buy 16 catties of rice; pork 2 jiao - 2 jiao 3 cents per catty; 1 silver yuan can buy 4-5 catties of pork; During this period, "one dollar" was equivalent to about 30 yuan in the mid-90s of the 20th century; It is equivalent to 36-40 yuan in 2007.

In the 20s and 30s in Beijing, a silver dollar could be used for a meal of "shabu mutton"; In Shanghai, one silver dollar can be used for two Western food sets. To visit the park, you can buy 20 tickets for one dollar; To see a show (play or movie), you can buy 2-3 tickets for one dollar.

As for food for thought, a newspaper retails for 3 cents, and one dollar can subscribe to a whole month's newspaper; A "Scream" costs 7 jiao (5 jiao at a discounted price), and one silver dollar can buy a thicker book, or two thinner books.

Of course, price increases and falls are not synchronized.

The income of developed areas such as Shanghai and Beijing is higher than that of other regions, and the purchasing power of silver dollars is relatively low, but in the inland backward areas, 3-4 silver dollars can buy a piece of land, which is equivalent to 3 acres.

This also reflects the huge gap between urban and rural areas, with the more remote the poorer.

If we take the new renminbi in 1955-1956 as the "benchmark renminbi," the renminbi is also a silver dollar, and the value of one yuan was determined according to the purchasing power of the silver dollar at that time.

Since the birth of the renminbi until the 80s, the value of the currency has been very stable, except for a few years when there have been no major fluctuations.

The stability of the currency value represents a kind of responsibility, and it also means that the wealth of the people is not exploited.

For example, from 50 to 80 years, if a person wants to accumulate 1,000 yuan in his life, he is simply a rich man.

However, I am afraid that it is difficult to say what has changed since then.

Since the nineties, there has been a great change, prices have been rising, and the value of the currency has become less and less valuable, which is what we call depreciation. In a few years, you may be paid a salary of 1,000 yuan a month, which is equivalent to all the savings you have accumulated in the early stage.

It is conceivable that you spend a lifetime and accumulate wealth that is only equivalent to a month's salary, so where is the original wealth?

So, when a ruler has no money in his hands, he thinks of the wealth in the hands of his people. But how can this wealth be transferred into the hands of the rulers?

Undoubtedly, creating violent fluctuations in the value of the currency is the best way and the quickest way.

The specific means is nothing more than invoices, and if more money is issued, it will be inflation, and prices will skyrocket, and the money in the hands of the people will naturally be worthless.

For another example, the dollar in later generations always appreciated for a while, depreciated sharply for a while, and fluctuated violently, which was also a kind of looting, but in addition to looting Americans, the dollar also had to loot people all over the world, because the dollar is the world's currency in circulation. (To be continued.) )