When the Tang-Japan armistice agreement was signed, the news immediately spread throughout Shijie, and there was an uproar.

"Is the compensation of more than 10 billion US dollars really given to Datang?"

"Is that still fake? If you don't give money, Tang Jun will definitely not give up, and he will inevitably make little Japan cry and call his mother. ”

"Datang has made a windfall this time, I'm really envious."

"That's it, the money is probably piled up."

"Now the little devil is not dead, but he is also skinned alive."

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Shijie everywhere, men, women and children, there are many discussions, and the word Datang has become an international term, which has dramatically expanded the influence of the Tang Empire.

Japan was bleak, and Minoru Saito was scolded by the Japanese as a traitor, and everyone shouted and beat him like a rat crossing the street.

Fortunately, Minoru Saito was a soldier, and at this time Japan had already embarked on the road of militarism, and the protest crowd was quickly suppressed by the military when military control became more and more strict.

After the Tang Empire received a huge amount of compensation from Japan, it naturally had to take care of the faces of Britain, France, and the United States, and stopped the large-scale air raids on Japan, so that the Japanese people did not have to worry about it all day long, and they could finally take a breath.

It's just that the huge war reparations have deprived Japan of its autonomy in customs duties, and Minoru Saito's cabinet can't even pay the salaries of civil servants, let alone allocate funds to the Japanese Navy to rebuild the Combined Fleet.

One of the purposes of the Tang Empire's huge indemnity demands from Japan was to make it impossible for the Japanese government to afford to rebuild the Combined Fleet. But the Japanese were also a little clever, and soon Minoru Saito followed the example of post-war Germany and devalued the yen on a massive scale. In order to obtain financial funds and funds for building ships.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng had long expected that the Japanese would adopt the method of yen depreciation, so he only demanded that the principal be repaid at the actual price of the US dollar and the actual price of gold in the current year, which ensured that the compensation would not be affected by the depreciation of the yen. ensured its own interests.

However, the Japanese people were miserable, the yen depreciated wildly, and the money of the Japanese people was almost squeezed out by the government. The yen is depreciating every hour, and I can buy a bag of noodles with a month's salary, but at the end of the month, I can only buy a pound of noodles. Later, the workers demanded that the pay day be paid. After receiving my salary every day, I went to buy all the things as soon as I received them, for fear that I would not be able to afford them the next day.

In just a few months, millions of Japanese died of starvation. The cabinet of Minoru Saito had to adopt the Soviet Jihua economy, food and subsistence rationing.

The Japanese are living in dire straits, but the Tang Empire, thousands of miles away, has ushered in unprecedented wealth, with a population of less than 10 million. However, it accounts for 30% of the world's gold reserves. The Tang people live in buildings, drive cars, have the highest wages in the world, are extremely rich in all kinds of living materials, have no worries about food and clothing, and have advanced education, medical care and social security, which is simply a paradise on earth.

Datang is so rich, and the countries that are really envious of it are drooling. Especially the fifteen thousand tons of gold reserves. It has made Chang'an a financial center of the whole country, and the international gold settlement transactions of various countries have to be carried out in Datang Chang'an. As a result, Chang'an's international status has increased dramatically, and it is on a par with New York and London.

Among Hoover's reforms was financial reform, in which he devalued the dollar by 50% and restored the credit of U.S. banks because more than 20,000 U.S. banks were closed at this time, leaving U.S. finance in a frozen period and the economy impossible.

At the same time, shijie countries have adopted competitive currency devaluation, which has led to more and more depreciation of national currencies, unhealthy commercial competition, intensifying international trade disputes, and trade frictions in various countries have caused diplomatic wars, and the whole shijie has become a miasma.

Britain and the United States, both the largest trading nations, had to sit down and negotiate in order to resolve trade disputes. But if you want to restore bank credit, you have to rebuild the financial system, and the U.S. government can't do it on its own, and it was going to pull Britain along, but Britain has also suffered heavy losses in the French financial crisis, and a huge amount of gold has flowed out to Datang, and it can't support Hoover's financial reforms, so Hoover had to turn to Zhang Meng for help.

The fact that Britain and the United States invited the Tang Empire to participate in the monetary and financial negotiations was a shock for the whole Shijie, because it represented the importance of the Tang Empire in the financial field, and that its international status could already be on a par with Britain and the United States, and that traditional powers such as France and Italy could not match it.

Participating in the new international financial and monetary system established by the United States, Britain and Tang was a great joy for the Tang Empire, which was really proud of the Tang people and the envy of all Shijie Chinese.

Zhang Meng was happier than anyone else, because he found that he could deal with the British again.

Previously, Zhang Meng used the huge amount of money in his hands to sweep the French finance, causing heavy losses to the British, and the relationship between Tang and Britain suddenly fell to the freezing point, which is also a direct reason why the British intervened in the Tang-Japanese War, which was caused by the strong dissatisfaction of the MacDonald government with Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng has always been worried about the British colonies in the Central and South Pacific, such as Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu, Barbados, Solomon Islands, etc., these islands are all within the absolute defense circle of the Tang Empire, and controlling these places will greatly enhance the strategic depth and war warning time of the Tang Army.

At the same time, with the Tang Empire's seizure of Japan's Caroline and other islands, it is very close to Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and other resource-rich countries, and the maritime strategic transportation channel has been opened.

Zhang Meng hoped to use the opportunity of the United States and Britain's desire to establish a new international financial order to negotiate with Britain and let the British transfer these islands in the Central Pacific to the Tang Empire.

"No! Resolutely do not sell! ”

MacDonald's roar could be heard throughout Downing Street, and he was furious when he heard that Zhang Meng had taken advantage of the fire to buy a number of British colonies in the Central Pacific.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you should be well aware that the islands that Zhang Meng wants to buy are not actually important to the British Empire. For Datang, that is the depth of their strategic defense, and we will definitely ask for a good price. ”

Chamberlain was a matter-of-fact matter, not mixed with personal likes and dislikes, and he thought that those islands could be very good to ask Zhang Meng for a good price.

MacDonald shook his head and said, "You don't understand, Zhang Meng is a guy who never suffers, and he took advantage of the fire to rob this time, thinking that we would give in." Remember when he bought the Fiji Islands with us last year? He spent 100 million pounds, but he borrowed a billion pounds from us, and as a result, he used this money to sweep away tens of billions of dollars from France, and as a result, the pound was forced to depreciate along with the franc, and the billion pounds lent to Zhang Meng were depreciated by more than half, which means that he actually only paid back a few hundred million pounds, which is equivalent to taking six or seven billion pounds from us for nothing, damn it, I can't wait to pull his skin when I think about it. ”

Every time MacDonald thought about it, his forehead suddenly overflowed, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.

Chamberlain was also involved in this matter, and it was precisely because he and Stanley gave Zhang Meng the green light that Zhang Meng easily borrowed a billion pounds from the Bank of England, and as a result, Britain suffered heavy losses on the French financial battlefield, and Chamberlain had an unshirkable responsibility.

However, Chamberlain had no choice, and their Jihua was seamless at first, but unfortunately Carney was too arrogant in the end, and as a result, Mila's affairs affected his judgment, which eventually led to a heavy defeat in France.

Strictly speaking, Chamberlain and Stanley were not wrong, so their emotions were not as agitated as MacDonald's.

Stanley, who had been silent, said at this time: "I don't want to fight with you this time, you can decide for yourself." However, I would like to remind you that this time it was the US government that came forward, and Hoover asked us to agree to Zhang Meng's conditions, because both the United States and the United Kingdom must rebuild the financial and monetary system and stabilize the bank credit at the moment, otherwise the trade friction and dispute caused by the continuous competitive currency depreciation between Britain and the United States will affect the relations between the United States and Britain. ”

"You-you're not going to fight with me like that?"

MacDonald rolled his eyes in anger, this Stanley actually said something nice, this time he directly threw the hot hand mountain to MacDonald, if MacDonald disagreed, then the Americans would naturally attack him.

"It's up to you!" Stanley turned his head to the side, not looking into MacDonald's eyes, but laughing secretly in his heart, see how you get off the stage.

Macdonald stared fiercely at Stanley and then at the rest of the Coalition Cabinet, all silent, all waiting for MacDonald to make a decision.

It's rare for MacDonald to have an absolute say, but he understands that this group of guys doesn't want to offend the Americans, and it's clear that MacDonald is the bad guy.

MacDonald is not stupid, if this matter is not handled well, then his political career will be over.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, these islands are very important to Datang, and if we don't sell them to them, there will inevitably be friction in the Pacific region in the future. Since you are this Zhang Meng is very cunning, then it cannot be ruled out that he will create a civil war on these islands again, just like the Fiji Civil War back then, at that time, I am afraid that the military Liliang of the British Empire will not be able to prevent the inhabitants of these islands from becoming independent, and Zhang Meng will not have to negotiate with us to buy, he will directly send troops to invade and occupy it. ”

This is indeed a tricky problem, everyone knows that others may not be able to do it, but Zhang Meng is a habitual offender, and he will definitely do it.

MacDonald suddenly sighed, and finally said helplessly: "Let's talk about it first." (To be continued......)