Chapter 236: Inflation

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Even the audio-on-demand technology has been developed, and it is conceivable that the telephone technology has long been mature. The first mass-produced telephone of this era did not appear alone, it was an ancillary function of the new generation of telegraphs, and did not require a new telephone system, just use the original telegram address and then select "call". When the per-minute call was acceptable to the public, the cost of sending a telegram was quite cheap, so cheap that there were already "discerning" merchants who used the telegraph to advertise, which was the most prominent symbol of whether the means of communication were cheap or not.

Due to the advent of telegraph technology with direct access to wires, the cost of telegraphy was so low that the telegraph companies went bankrupt one after another, and the best result was that they were bought by the military, and there was no other way out.

In order to combat telegram ads, Telegram UK updated the user contract to make it mandatory for customers who send ads to attach a style at the beginning so that users can reject all ads. And set up a convenient report button, strict zhòng defaulting customers will be shut down.

In addition to refusing to accept all ads, of course, users also have the need to watch ads, for example, the ads are different, they may have some new programs, which is something that users are quite concerned about, so it is more considerate that customers can choose to "block all advertising features of this agency", and easily set up blacklists and whitelists.

In stark contrast, the White House in the United States of America uses its own wireless telegraphy technology, so they are still using percussive Morse code, and the White House was ridiculed around the world after the Washington Night Star exposed the hilarious news. Is this the White House trying to save money? Because the paper tape telegraph consumes a lot of paper tape and paper, and the patent is also held by the British telegraph company, it does not sell a series of technologies such as typewriters and newspaper tapes, and the Americans have no strength to build a telegraph with liquid crystal display.

The White House is more conservative in not approving the construction of the Wind Bird Express network, let alone the upcoming era of hanging balloons. Cities such as New York and Boston, which are relatively free, have begun to quickly catch up with European cities in terms of advanced logistics.

The Southern states also became conservative in the aftermath of the war, especially when a large number of Christian fundamentalists began to rise in the air, and despite the friendly relations between the Confederates and the Windsor consortium, there was a powerful movement against evolution in public schools. They ridiculed the theory of evolution as "apeism", arguing that if we believed that man evolved from apes, we would lose our human dignity and therefore morality.

The Southerners were so strong that knowing that the Emperor of Windsor could crush any force in the world, the state of Tennessee in the Deep South was the first to "prohibit the teaching of any theory that denies the creation story taught in the Bible, and that man evolved from a lower animal." "Act, violators will be fined between $50 and $300.

Convinced that Downing was still pro-North in essence and far south, reporters such as the New York Times hurriedly asked, "Great God, what do you think about this?" ”

Downing replied in a light-hearted and mocking tone: "I thought the Confederate States of America were a country of free speech. "But there seems to be no intention of intervening.

At present, the confrontation between the North and the South has just been realized, and it is still mainly based on an alliance with the South, and Downing has no way to fight these fundamentalists without harming his friendship with the South.

The German Confederation is still in the initial stage of integration, the Brazilian war is in full swing, it is not a good thing to start disputes without permission, and it is better to develop the economy and people's livelihood and slowly realize other ambitions.

In order to alleviate the contradiction with the American people, Downing even decided to split the British Telegraph Company on its own, separate its North American business, and form the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, abbreviated as AT&T, the British Telegraph Company holds 40% of its shares, and the remaining 40% is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which is only sold to citizens of the United States, and 20% is the future employee stock ownership, raising as much as 50 million US dollars, becoming the largest in history.

In view of the concerns of the governments of the North and South of the United States about information security, their headquarters in New York and New Orleans are supervised by the local governments, and with the permission of the Department of Justice, they have access to all communications related to the countries concerned, with the exception of classified channels leased to governments for military purposes, which do not hold information and the companies themselves cannot view their confidential information (theoretically).

The Morse code was so that White House technology officials were evaluating whether it was safe to use the AT&T classified channel. In fact, the so-called friendly countries also have doubts about the security of their communications, and after the British telegraph company split up AT&T, governments strongly demanded that we have a copy. As a result, the trend of splitting suddenly set off.

What Belgium Telekom, Deutsche Telekom, Italian Telecom, Daqing Royal Telecom, and Japan Confederate Telecom have come out, among which Deutsche Telekom and Daqing Royal Telecom's financing scale is about the same as AT&T, at this time, people all over the world feel that the wealth of Windsor's wealth empire is simply appalling. It is no wonder that it is possible to do the ****** act of not paying war reparations after defeating the enemy.

Windsor imperialism is finally playing, and Downing is said to be mulling to abolish the gold standard. What will happen? The hearts of people all over the world are in their throats. Before that, there was basically no concept of gold price, gold was hard currency, but here in Windsor imperialism, the rules will be changed in the future, although the gold reserve Zurich Bank is quite large, but in the future, more attention will be paid to really useful things, and the stocks of telecommunications companies, oil companies, Panama Canal, Suez Canal and other quite hard companies will be used as mainstream reserves.

If you don't understand any of this, you can only say that everyone understands that Windsor imperialism has the strongest military power in the world, enough to guarantee that its financial credibility is the largest in the world. A little more popular: If you can't do it, you can grab it.

Brazilians felt this very deeply, the empire of 11 million people was hit by the "small force" of Windsor imperialism's expeditionary force, the Brazilian emperor tragically took the old and the young to hide in the forest area to fight guerrillas, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were captured in response to the fall of Downing's "abolition of the gold standard". The sound of gunfire and cannons wrote a resounding footnote to the hegemony of the Windsor Empire.

The Imperial Expeditionary Force had a good tradition of being very friendly to the civilian population, and after the end of the war, only a few of them were reduced to slavery by the die-hards who looked down on them, and almost no crimes were committed. The armies of the Southern and Northern Theaters met at Belo Horizonte, north of Rio, and the Brazilian war of aggression in the world was basically over. Governments around the world are intimidated by the intimidation of Windsor's imperialism and do not squeak.

Takamori Saigo, an outstanding representative of the Japanese samurai, sighed sadly at this time: "There should be no war in the future......

Although it was defeated, the days would go on, and the Brazilian traitors slowly emerged and became compradors and thugs of the Qing Imperial Army. The Brazilian Empire was a slave-based backward agrarian country, and as long as the rich and powerful traitors were dealt with, the rest was not to be worried.

The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but saw that the BRIC countries seemed to have fallen under the iron hooves of the Windsor Empire. It is true that the Emperor of Brazil is still hiding in the forest, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. To this end, the Provisional Government of Brazil issued a wanted criminal card with photographs of the criminals from the emperor onwards, but any Brazilian citizen who provided clues to the Provisional Government would be given the opportunity to work at Vale. I don't know if His Majesty the Emperor will vomit blood after hearing the news.

With the interim government taking control of Brazil's major ports and cities, and the silent sanctions on Brazil were lifted, Brazil's economy was instantly ablaze.

In the face of a large country of 11 million people, the best way to respect them is to learn Portuguese, but Downing is no longer motivated to learn a new language, and only a few words of Japanese can be spoken. As a result, the colonial government adopted a policy of pro-English language like the East India Company's rule in India. It is too impossible to learn Chinese in Brazil, think about it, the twenty or so letters of English and the fifty syllables of Japanese are all difficult to learn, how difficult is the strange symbol of Chinese characters?

Chinese is a very good language with a unique charm, but it is easy to get started with the alphabet. The modern alphabet was first derived from the Qiglyph script of the Lianghe Valley, and at that time it was also hieroglyphic like the source of Chinese, with about 1,000 characters in the early Bronze Age, and was reduced to 400 characters in the late Bronze Age. Later, it evolved into a style of writing words composed of very simple letters.

It stands to reason that Chinese characters should also follow the law of development from complex to simple, but it is possible that the Chinese nation worships its ancestors more than any other nation, and cherishes the legacy left by its ancestors, so it does not develop in the direction of simplification, but wants to use the most complex writing system "Lishu" to unify Chinese characters in the era of Qin Shi Huang. Of course, Qin Shi Huang also failed, and no matter how strong the Qin Empire was, it could not make the complexity of Chinese characters go to the next level, which had reached the point of ******.

Chinese characters are equivalent to words with thousands of letters, and after learning to continue to use these "roots", practice makes perfect, and it is not easy to forget, and the real alphabet is easy to expand and difficult, and some words that are not commonly used are easy to get wrong, so it is easy to branch out in the process of historical development over the years, and the problem of fragmentation is very strict, the same is English, and Tang Ning spent a lot of effort to learn it when he first came to this era. This problem will be solved by standardization in the era of globalization, and it is simply impossible for simple-minded Brazilians to learn complex Chinese characters.

The Qing Imperial Army, which had come to colonize Brazil, was disappointed by the Provisional Government's policy of anglicization, but this was to be expected. The specific measure was the old rule of the "Freedom Path", in which slaves were able to regain their free status after learning English and mathematics at the elementary level. This costs a lot of money, and the government can only pay for the slaves to redeem themselves, otherwise they will be ostracized by the slave owners, and once the slave owners do not let the slaves learn, it will be difficult to implement the policy.

Tang would rather not be the culprit of this injustice, so he will introduce a financial system that is out of the gold standard. The non-gold standard system guaranteed that the Brazilian currency would be inflationary, and the currency was issued through interest on loans issued by the central bank. For example, when the currency was first issued, its value was 100%, and after a year, the loan had spread to all corners of society through the guò commercial banks, the bank's users, and the extra currency issued made Brazil's inflation 7%, so the central bank earned 7% of the value in that year. With this invisible form of plunder, Brazil's central bank can plunder 7% of the country's wealth.

Brazil's central bank's non-gold standard system could ensure that Downing quietly snatched back the subsidies given to slave owners without spending a penny, and also had a good reputation for helping slaves to freedom. This may be more effective than spending $80 million directly on the ransom of slaves in the American South, because it is sustainable.

After this crooked trick was conceived, Downing simply turned the West Coast of the United States into a non-gold standard financial system, and the entire United States had to accept the plunder of inflation if it wanted to import advanced industrial products from the West Coast. (http://.)。 In this way, the $80 million will make a lot of money, hehe.

Now, there are three currencies in the United States, one is the United States dollar, the Union dollar, and the California dollar. Brazil's currency, called the real, will soon be replaced by the new real.

Downing established the European Central Bank in Luxembourg to issue euros, and the German Confederation, Luxembourg, Israel, Poland, Lithuania and other countries joined the euro union in the first wave. For diplomatic reasons, only Windsor companies in the UK have not been delivered in euros.

Downing has no plans to make the euro inflationary for the time being, but this could be a potential strategic weapon. The California dollar is the foreign exchange that the United States has to reserve, while the Brazilian new real has achieved a similar status by providing raw materials for California companies.

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