Chapter 1391: Bombarding Wall Street
Ross's heart tightened, what he was most afraid of was this, even if the coastal defense battery was breached, he was more worried about the loss of people, rather than the safety of New York, even if the range of the coastal defense artillery fire was only 7 kilometers, it would put a lot of pressure on the battleship, he was unlikely to get close to the coast within 10 kilometers, even if the opponent's range was huge, most of New York could be saved, but the opponent's high-speed driving, not only crossed the 10-kilometer limit, but also got closer and closer, and with the approach, the salvo was sent out again and again, The artillery fire was much more powerful than the civilian buildings, and the most important thing was that the position he was paying attention to, the other party seemed to have eyes.
In just five minutes, the opposing warships attacked more than a dozen targets such as the Navy Building, the Arsenal, the Arsenal, the Large Steam Engine Factory, and the Shipyard, each of which was the most important and the most valuable on the New York side, but it was some slums and less important shops, which were not attacked.
Does the other party have the same eyes? In the hands of Cheng Biguang, there is a complete map of New York, including not only the important financial center of New York, but also some manufacturing enterprises and military centers, which is the most complete military map finally formed by Chinese intelligence personnel on the basis of the German providence, after confirmation and efforts, to help them attack all targets.
Now the United States, not like the future, is the financial center of the whole world, but has become the financial center of the whole United States, the whole of New York has not been deindustrialized, is a complete commercial and financial city, now, New York is still one of the most important manufacturing bases in the United States, and even from the Great Lakes region of raw materials, part of it will be processed into military weapons, compulsion, bullets, New York, just on the shore of the Atlantic, the advantage of shipping is very obvious.
These are the first series of targets, with the help of the computer, the accuracy of the fixed target is quite amazing, the accuracy rate will be as high as 9 percent, such an attack, even if it is a huge area, a large scale of military factories, up to 5 rounds of salvo, can solve the military factory, other civilian and quasi-military targets such as naval buildings, telegraph offices, may be a round of artillery salvo, can be solved.
At this time, New York was really in a panic, the previous attack on the port had already stunned the Americans, and the poor people, who were not ready for war, fell into the war, which seemed to them as if in a dream, until the shells and explosions, beside them, sounded at hand, they understood that the war had come, and they had suffered the blows of warships.
In the New York command, the staff officers were counting the attack areas, a large number of people appeared, and the attack areas that were constantly reported were connected into a line, and a staff officer seemed to suddenly think of something, his eyes were full of fear, and he said with some uncertainty: "Your Excellency, commander, will they attack Wall Street?"
Ross was stunned for a moment, his face changed greatly, if there is anything more important in New York than the harbor, than the Statue of Liberty, and even more than most of the civilians in New York, then there is only one, Wall Street, the financial center of the United States, Wall Street is just a boundary less than a mile long in New York, and the unique environment and geographical location, especially the construction of Rockefeller Center and Morgan Building, have made him the financial center of the United States, and it is currently the most densely populated place for skyscrapers in the United States.
Ross took the map that had been drawn, and on it, the area under attack was circled, although it was east and west, but the final direction was unwavering in the direction of Wall Street, he yelled badly, and then asked if Wall Street had begun to retreat.
At the same time that Ross said this, he knew that this was impossible, where the banks were dense, there were places where there were at six o'clock in the morning, how many people were where, the war broke out relatively suddenly, from the outbreak to the present, it was only half an hour, this time, it was not enough for Wall Street, the financial center, to evacuate, according to the previous calculation of the range of the opponent's warship, in front of a fixed target, a distance of 20 kilometers, can also be easily hit, what does this mean, Wall Street has been incomparable to the people have been attacked.
Wall Street was attacked faster than Ross imagined, the speed of the battleship was fast, the artillery fire extended faster, and after attacking most of the key military and civilian targets in New York City, when most of New York City was in flames, the artillery finally arrived on Wall Street.
Wall Street, the Wall Street of this era, has not become the financial center of the whole world, has not yet reached the future generations, a slight shock, will affect the extent of the financial situation of the whole world, the financial center of this era is London, England, but the United States is the world's largest industrial country, the vigorous United States, the financial is quite active, Wall Street is already the most important financial center in the United States, has the basis to replace London, the reason why there is no influence of London, is because the United States is not the world hegemon.
From the beginning of the capitalist society, modern finance to a large extent, that is, the hegemon has the dominant power, Britain in the total industrial volume was surpassed by Germany and the United States, and even with the United States can not be compared with the extent, but still controls the world's financial rights, the reason is the influence in the world, the pound is the necessary currency for international settlement, whether you want to or not, when trading, most of them also need to use the pound, which increases the wealth of the British, Britain has not been like the United States in later generations, crazy printing dollars, because of the relationship between the gold standard, The pound is the real gold list, and he has the gold value, not the paper of posterity.
Mint rights and some credit role, which allows Britain to easily mobilize funds, as long as the credit is still there, Britain can easily use the depreciation of the pound sterling, to offset the consumption of the war, which is also the fundamental reason why Britain has been able to persist under the premise of huge cost to this day, their capital mobilization ability is far above Germany, and even so far, they have not used rogue means, but only in the normal scope of the discount of funds. At this time, Germany, which consumed far less than Britain, was a little unable to hold on, its total industrial volume was higher than that of Britain, and so was wartime production, but if it were not for China's intervention, China's huge financial supporter Germany, I am afraid that Germany would not be able to hold on.
The financial impact is huge, China is also building a large-scale Shanghai financial center, which will become the economic capital of China in the future, he refers more to the model of New York, rather than the British model, and adds some experience of later generations to make this center more perfect. At the same time of building a financial center, Yang Yuanzhao did not study Britain and the United States in a comprehensive way, Yang Yuanzhao, who was deeply aware of the dangers of capitalism, did not let go of control for the time being, and the organization headed by the Baotou Chamber of Commerce and the Northwest Business Group, after Yang Yuanzhao handed over to the government, gradually became a state-owned enterprise with supervision, using state capitalism and macroeconomic regulation and control methods to reduce some economic overheating, which can effectively deal with the financial crisis, even if it cannot be avoided, it will not appear, similar to the European financial crisis, put a lot of milk, Raw materials, dumped into the sea, are not willing to be supplied to the ordinary poor.
The Great China system, which Yang Yuanzhao had worked so hard to build, could not be defeated by the economic crisis, which was almost inevitable that capitalism would be destroyed, and state capitalism would inevitably be established, which was similar to the state-owned enterprises after the reform and opening up in later generations. Of course, it must also be flexible and changeable, the big pot of planned economy in later generations, the rigidity and inefficiency after losing the pursuit, he must also avoid, there are some changes temporarily, and the real decision on the future development is to adapt to changes.
For the blow to the Statue of Liberty, it seems to be more of a blow to the spirit, although the Statue of Liberty has not become an American symbol as in later generations, is the core of the American dream, but it also has an important significance, hit him, on behalf of the war burned to the United States, there is no more suitable than him, but Wall Street is the strength, only a direct attack on Wall Street, as much as possible to destroy Wall Street, in order to maximize the impact on the United States, not only huge direct losses, indirect losses will even affect the United States for a whole year, several years.
From the very beginning, Yang Yuanzhao established the United States as the biggest goal, in the face of a large country with a complete industrial chain and superior industrial capacity, even if China has a considerable advantage over the United States in industry, it is impossible to defeat the United States in a short time, and there will be a protracted war and long-term war between China and the United States, then fundamental weakening has become an inevitable choice, while the United States has not yet set its sights on the Chinese, use the greatest ability to give the United States a profound lesson, and even shake the foundation of the United States, this is what China needs to do, This is also the reason why Cheng Biguang took the plunge to come.
In a short, mile or so block, the world's major banks, stock institutions, insurance companies, if we say, four battleships, attack the whole of New York, the huge New York will dilute this, no matter how small New York is, there are dozens of square kilometers, battleships may be behemoths to ordinary people, but New York is not a behemoth to battleships.
But for Wall Street, it is difficult to dilute, there is an area of one or two square kilometers on the left and right, and a large number of financial institutions are concentrated, starting from the preparation of the attack on New York, here is the focus, is the ultimate goal, now everything is going well, Cheng Biguang began the attack on Wall Street, the battleships have been fully supplied, there are at least 30 base shells, enough to make this more than 1 mile of land, into a hell These bank headquarters, the greatest wealth, maybe gold, such an attack, it is impossible to make this gold disappearBut personnel, files, transactions, and many other things will be devastated, and the final loss will be staggering. (To be continued.) )