In the seventh year of the Republic, the United States also emerged from a year-and-a-half-long post-war depression and began to prosper. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The whole world is in a good situation.

On the European continent, Britain is still lifeless, their economy has come to an end, the colonial economy is like this, there is no rapid development, there is no rapid fall, it has become a pure importer, relying on financial profits to smooth out the deficit, this is already an economy of the nature of financial capital, just like the former sea coachman Holland, and later the Wall Street empire of the United States.

However, with 5,000 tons of gold borrowed from China, the pound has become strong again, the status of the world's currency is unshakable, and London is still the world's financial center, so that the desperate attempt of American financiers to turn New York into the world's financial center has failed.

After obtaining so much gold, the British did not increase their domestic investment, but they had sufficient capital to invest abroad, especially in the colonies, and began to lend money on a large scale to India, South Africa, Australia and other colonies.

The return on investment in these colonies was much greater than the return in England.

France is not the same as the United Kingdom, they are in a much better situation, the ten northern provinces have been destroyed, reconstruction is a big market, and China's gold has boosted their finances, allowing them to issue more currency to finance reconstruction.

Historically, France's post-war economic development has been relatively smooth, they defeated Germany, the biggest economic rival on the European road, and established alliances with a large number of newly established countries, such as Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, etc., to contain Germany, and the markets of these countries were also opened to France.

Recovering Alsace and Lorraine, which were occupied by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, the coal reserves here account for more than 76% of France's total coal reserves, and the iron ore resources also account for more than half, Germany has left a strong industrial base for half a century, and the transportation conditions here are the throat of the European continent.

With resources, capital, and markets, the French economy cannot develop rapidly.

So with the support of these strong conditions, France's automobile industry broke out, Renault, which made a fortune in the war, could produce cars on a larger scale, Alstom's power industry, Schneider's electrical industry, and after the loss of labor resources, the countryside demanded a large number of agricultural machinery, and France almost ushered in a wave of comprehensive growth.

While the situation in Britain and France was revival, the situation in Germany and Austria in the past was not very good.

The Treaty of Versailles cost Germany 13.5% of its territory, 12.5% of its population and 17% of its industrial strength, and Germany lost many of its traditional markets, such as China and the colonial market, and the markets in the hinterland of Central and Eastern Europe also faced fierce competition from the French.

In the past, the traditional Austro-Hungarian market was crowded out by France, and it had to pay a large amount of reparations to France, which could only be met by continuing to print paper money, which continued to deteriorate through expansion, and the ratio of the mark to the dollar had reached 320:1.

It's just that there is a lot of short-term financing from the American banking community to support it, and when it is about to collapse, there is always an emergency loan, like a dying man who suddenly smokes a big cigarette and survives.

In the process, France received reparations, the United States received handsome interest on short-term loans, and German industrial giants were able to profit from exports, but the loss was nothing more than the evaporation of a large number of middle-class property and bank deposits in inflation, and the entire middle class was rapidly degrading towards abject poverty.

Austria-Hungary was even more useless, it was directly turned into Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary, and part of its territory was ceded to Serbia and Italy.

Not to mention Russia, another big country, which was divided into Siberia ruled by the tsar, the European zone ruled by Soviet Russia, small countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, etc., and also ceded parts of Ukraine and Belarus to Poland.

Naturally, Russia's lost agricultural market was also squeezed out by France, which was agriculturally developed, and American agriculture also shared a piece of the pie.

It can be said that except for Britain and France, the whole of Western Europe is struggling in the ruins after the war, and it is not happy to die or live, and the rise of Central Europe before the war and the decline of Western Europe have been completely reversed, and the hope of Central and Eastern Europe can no longer be found.

The rest of the world, under the influence of China, is very different from its original history.

Yang Chao contributed the large oil field under the Ghawar Oasis, the largest oil field in Saudi Arabia, and cooperated with the British, this large oil field has reserves of more than 10 billion tons, accounting for 30% of the entire Persian Gulf region, and is the world's largest oil in the world.

In half a year, more than a dozen super oil wells were drilled, increasing oil production to 200,000 barrels per day, and immediately nearly doubling the oil production they controlled.

Yang Chao also gave the British information on the five large oil fields in Persia, including Malen, Gachisaran, Agjali, Bibi Hakimai and Paris, in addition to Ahvaz, where the British had already drilled oil.

The British were also ecstatic at these five new oil fields, which later accounted for two-thirds of Iran's oil production, and the British can now confirm that they control far more oil reserves than the United States, and that the world's oil pricing power belongs to the British Empire.

It's just that Britain doesn't plan to develop these oil resources immediately, because they still have to control production, so as not to impact the oil market too much, after all, China promised to digest 100 million barrels of it, and the Arab oil fields, plus Ahvaz's oil field production, can be satisfied, they plan to see the market make decisions, anyway, the oil power in Persia is firmly controlled by the British, and no one can threaten it.

In addition to continuing to stabilize the international currency status of the pound sterling, a large number of oil profits share the oil resources of the entire Middle East, and also let China's gold dollar bills begin to move towards a broader market, which has formed a huge threat to the US dollar. When handing over world hegemony to China would better protect their interests, the British would have no choice.

Chinese capital continues to penetrate Brazil, iron ore, aluminum ore export growth is effective and unstable, although there is no explosive growth, but the income is extremely stable, a large number of profits into Brazil, so that the Brazilian economy in South America flourishing, infrastructure construction, education system construction, Yang Chao Holdings' Standard Chartered Mining has contributed a lot, in Brazil has an excellent reputation.

With the entry of capital, the number of immigrants continued to increase, and the farm development group led by Zhang Jian worked closely with the Brazilian agricultural oligarchs in Minas State, and has established more than 100 large-scale farms in the interior, with a total area of more than 200 million mu, 20,000 families, a total population of more than 100,000, and more than 100 Chinese-style villages and towns.

The railroad also moved closer to the interior of Brazil with the establishment of the farm.

Carajas in the rainforest of Pará has also been opened up, after the hard work of Chinese engineers, the initial opening of traffic here, the railway has been under close construction, a team of engineers, began to build a town in Caragas, within ten years, it will become a small China in the rainforest.

With the development of these industries, the number of Chinese immigrants in Brazil has reached 400,000, but because immigrants from Germany, Italy and Japan are also continuing to pour in, Brazil has not yet risen nationalist movements, so there are no calls for a ban on immigration, and this kind of quiet immigration can continue for a few years, and it is not a problem to immigrate two or three million people.

With the signing of the treaty with the Dutch on the Nanyang, it did affect the Chinese workers here at first, and a large number of deceived coolies began to return to China, so that for a time the economy of the Dutch colony was affected.

But after the year, the situation began to improve, because the goods in the Dutch colonies were exempted from taxes, which led to the development of the overseas Chinese industry, the mainstay of the local economy, and the sugar, canned fruit and tobacco operated by the Chinese all got a huge market, and then the overseas Chinese began to expand the industry.

Sugar plantations, fruit plantations, new processing plants were expanded, and these overseas Chinese began to cooperate with the State Administration of Labor Export of China, under strict supervision to bring in Chinese workers from China, higher wages, better working conditions, and higher social status, so that the Chinese in the south were more willing to work in Nanyang.

Of course, the sugar industry and other industries controlled by the Dutch also benefited a lot, but they did not have overseas Chinese relations, and they always lagged behind in the issue of introducing Chinese workers, after all, a large number of Chinese workers actually entered Nanyang through kinship, hometown relations and suzerainty relations, and the Dutch could not have this relationship.

It's just that the taxes of the colonial government have indeed increased, and the Dutch have turned a blind eye to this, and can only acquiesce in the fact that their own capitalists have been encroached upon and annexed by overseas Chinese step by step in the competition, and slowly withdraw from the economic system of the colony, and can only stick to some areas of political power protection, such as the oil industry, mining industry, etc.

Compared with the vitality of the Dutch colony because of the reshaping of the management system, the development of the British colony is not bad, but there are always many constraints, and the overseas Chinese in Singapore, Malaya and other places have even begun to consider the Dutch colony to invest and develop.

Under these circumstances, the Chinese government felt that it could talk to the British about the Chinese in the Malayan colonies. (To be continued.) )