At the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street, Prime Minister Wilson had just sent off an envoy from the United States, and by his side was Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy? Jenkins, the Labor Party won the election four years ago. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWilson became Prime Minister of the British Empire, and then faced a country with a glorious history, but in decline.

Labour had just won and was cutting funding so much that it was said to be the Royal Navy's worst enemy. Wilson also heard this kind of remarks, and scoffed at this kind of remarks in his heart, the British Empire has lost almost all of its colonies, and this was not lost during the Labour Party administration, and now only Britain is left at home, how can it maintain a huge army and continue to sit on an equal footing with the United States and the Soviet Union?

But as the prime minister of an established empire, Wilson is far from being fooled easily. The U.S. government sent an envoy to Britain to help fight the franc, which Wilson had agreed. The relationship between Britain and France has always been bad, and it is okay to be on the scene, but I wish there was something wrong with the other party.

This time France and the USSR simultaneously squeezed the dollar, and the Americans begged the British. It is hoped that the United Kingdom, which has a strong voice in the European economy, will help the United States depress the value of the franc. This is good for the UK, the value of the pound is very strong, even after depreciation, one pound can be exchanged for 2.4 dollars. London, as the largest financial center in Europe, also allowed Britain to slow down its decline after losing its colonies.

The United States begged Britain to strike at its neighbor France, and this was something that the British could not ask for. Even if Wilson is the leader of the Labour Party, he will not be confused in this matter, isn't there such a saying? Why did Britain develop nuclear weapons? It is clear that as long as a nuclear war starts, the Soviet Union will destroy Britain, why doesn't Britain save money for the development of nuclear weapons, anyway, there are Americans and Soviets to confront them. The British replied, "Our nuclear weapons are aimed at the ...... of Paris"

"We first suppressed the franc and took a share of the franc's trade, so that we could gain the friendship of the Americans. This is definitely a great thing for us Brits. "Back in the residence, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy? Jenkins looked at his prime minister and said.

In Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy? In Jenkins' view, the United States' share of international trade is almost impossible to shake, but Britain's advantage over other currencies remains, and France has depleted its dollar reserves and cannot be considered a difficult opponent at this time.

"Of course we want to help the United States, to take the share of the franc trade, but we have our own position." Although Wilson was born in the Labor Party, he also has a keen insight, and his knowledge of finance is not inferior to the leaders of other parties, "The actions of France and the Soviet Union did not hit the key point of the dollar at all, and de Gaulle miscalculated the influence of France, but the Soviet Union was indeed surprised to join in, did the Soviet Union also have a pro-French atmosphere?" ”

Wilson's pro-French atmosphere refers to the fact that the Russian upper class took pride in speaking French during the imperial era. The aristocracy often used French in their daily interactions, and France, as the representative of Western culture at the time, became the object of imitation by the Russian upper class, including language, literature, art, and so on. Speaking French naturally became fashionable, and the status of English was only slowly beginning to be established during the Convention of Versailles after World War I. Until then, diplomatic talks had been conducted in French. It was only during the negotiation of the Convention of Versailles that simultaneous interpretation in French and English was available for the first time. Thanks to the rise of the United States, English has gradually established itself as irreplaceable in the world.

"But the Soviet Union was only able to squeeze the gold of the Americans, and while the French got the gold, the franc was also weakened, and the dollar was the world currency after all. The financial level of these two countries is really not very good. "Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy? Jenkins commented on the Soviet and French actions in a frivolous tone.

In his opinion, the two countries made such a big battle, and it turned out that they only focused on gold. And not paying attention to the real key point, the share of the dollar in international settlements. As long as the dollar has always accounted for the majority of international settlements, it will be able to withstand the attacks of the Soviet Union and France through financing, which is the reason why the two countries have not succeeded. Of course, this was nothing to lose for the Soviet Union, which itself was independent of the rules of the United States.

And even if the franc is supported by gold, it cannot have the status of the dollar, and the franc is still too weak compared to the dollar. Roy? Jenkins and Wilson both understand this.

"After we finished attacking the franc, we occupied the settlement share of the franc, and turned around to attack the dollar, this time the Americans are so embarrassed, this is our chance for the British Empire to return to the financial hegemony, kill the French first, we are forcing the Americans to sue for peace with us." Wilson thought for a moment and looked at Roy? Jenkins whispered, "First of all, we will stomp on the French hard to make the Americans let their guard down, and the reason why the Soviet Union and France cannot win this time is that they have no way to share the international trade of the dollar, so our goal is not to kill the dollar, but the dollar must be equal to the pound, and we share the dominance of this financial field." ”

"And then there is the mistake that the French and Soviets made this time, they did not block the financing channels of the United States in the financial market, with the good credit of the dollar and the share of international transactions, the United States can mobilize funds to stabilize the Breston Woods system, so a simple attack will not work, and the preparation we need to do is to find a way to block the financing channels of the United States." Prime Minister Wilson stood up and spun around, emphasizing in a low voice, "So we are running on gold at the same time as we have to sell US Treasury bonds and Federal Reserve bills, and the huge sell-off makes others unable to take orders, blocking the financing channels of Americans." ”

Wilson believes that it seems much easier to succeed when the goal is not to overthrow hegemony, but to share world hegemony with the United States. If the British pound and the dollar are successfully linked, perhaps the combined hegemony of Britain and the United States will be much more stable, much more stable than the hegemony that the United States now maintains independently.

For Lyndon Johnson, it seems that since the beginning of the year, the United States has received bad news. On the one hand, there was a large-scale offensive by North Vietnam, and on the other hand, a run on the Fed's gold reserves. Fortunately, he didn't know what the British were going on, otherwise he would have gone mad. Even now he was under tremendous pressure, with the situation on the battlefield in Vietnam dominating the pages of American newspapers, and almost all the media shocked that North Vietnam had such a large force to launch an all-out attack, knowing that the American government had been stating that they were on the brink of victory. Through this offensive, the Americans found that they were far from victory.

The whole of South Vietnam was under fire, even in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, where 19 Viet Cong commandos blew a hole in the exterior wall of the U.S. Embassy and rushed in. Although they killed two gendarmes guarding the main entrance of the embassy, when the North Vietnamese assault team tried to blow it up with anti-tank rockets, they were suppressed by the U.S. Marines on guard, and a fierce exchange of fire ensued. But soon the 101st Airborne Division, a reinforcement of the American army, also arrived at the embassy by helicopter.

The whole situation has changed. All 19 North Vietnamese commandos who participated in the battle were killed by the U.S. military, and their bodies were scattered in the embassy compound. Five other Americans and two Vietnamese civilians were also killed in the fighting.

But the North Vietnamese attack on the embassy attracted widespread attention in the American media, and the battle became a symbol of the Tet Offensive. Other North Vietnamese regular/Viet Cong squads attacked the presidential palace, radio stations, and the South Vietnamese army staff headquarters in Saigon. Seven hundred North Vietnamese troops also launched an attack on Tan Son Nhat Air Base, as was General Westmoreland's U.S. Reinforcement Headquarters building in Vietnam.

Since the beginning of the Spring Festival offensive, the number of American casualties has reached 8,000, although the fighting in various places has ended. However, the Xishan base is still under siege, and the lives of the remaining 4,000 American soldiers inside have become a concern for all Americans. Now, even if the US Congress is emphasizing the importance of Southeast Asia, it is useless, and the people do not buy it.

Civil rights leaders came forward to demand that the government end the war, and large-scale protests one after another, which became a problem for Lyndon Johnson, of course, many of these protest leaders received rubles, and Serov, who had just withdrawn the funds, used the money on the Americans in a blink of an eye to support the Americans' cause of peace.

In fact, of course, he did not want the US troops to withdraw, so while attacking the dollar, the Indonesian internal affairs forces crossed the border and attacked a town on the border with Malaysia, and the two sides exchanged fire for a week.

Sukarno's dream of national unity, the development of the socialist movement in Southeast Asia, and other optimistic headlines appeared in the newspapers of the Donggou countries, and for a time the dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia became a matter of concern to the people of the Soviet camp.

These newspapers are all about the idea that the countries of Southeast Asia will soon become popular, that there will soon be new members of the socialist camp, that the tide of the third revolution has emerged, and so on, "Great, great, American comrades, you must hold out for a few years." "There is no way to support the anti-war forces in the United States, and it is better to brush up on friendliness if you don't support others and oppose the war. In fact, he didn't want the United States to withdraw its troops and fight in Southeast Asia for another 10 years. (To be continued.) )