Chapter 362: Operation Appetizer
Absurdity is simply not reflective of the actual situation; Plausible because it's really real data.
The reason for this result, in fact, is very simple, to put it bluntly.
In Tianjin, the first two yuan is cut, while in Yanjing, it is two thousand yuan, of which 1,998 yuan is the extra GDP.
Yanjing has developed this kind of industry to the point where it is unprecedented, proud of the world, and has reached the peak, so it is normal for GDP to account for half of the entire north, or half of the entire China.
GDP is not a proxy for strength, at least of little significance to China, but it can be seen from this data to what extent the northern economy outside of Yanjing has been suppressed.
Why the top management did this, businessmen do not know, but no one can deny one thing, that is, the economy of the north is extremely healthy, absolutely the first in the world, completely according to the model.
The economy of the north, how to say it, is like a two-meter-tall man squatting next to a large wooden basin and placing paper boats in the large wooden basin.
The paper boat is the economy of the north, and the central political axe is the two-meter-tall man.
This kind of north is a paradise for the common people, but it is not for the merchants, so the merchants are eager for change.
The merchants were really sharp enough, and a month later, the inside story broke out, and it turned out that the North and the South had once again reached an agreement.
This agreement is extremely important, but few people really realize its significance.
The agreement is divided into two main parts.
The first part is the basic industry policy.
The autonomous provinces in the south agreed with the proposal of the north to develop high-speed railways, supplemented by expressways; Vigorously develop public transportation such as subways and natural gas-powered buses to curb the consumption of cars.
The southern autonomous provinces happily agreed.
More than 60 percent of the oil in the United States is fed to the wheels of automobiles, and if China learns from the United States, even if the United States is brought down and China becomes the world hegemon, it will be unbearable in the long run.
If China follows the example of the United States, the first thing it will face is the inevitable fierce confrontation with the West in order to compete for oil.
That's the big truth.
The small reason is that there is no real automobile industry in the south, and it is not the south that is harmed by suppressing the automobile industry, but the north.
Moreover, the North not only sacrifices its own automobile industry, but also subsidizes high-speed rail in the South.
The role of the high-speed railway network in promoting the economy of the south is also known to fools, and the construction itself is a big piece of fat, and the land appreciation that the high-speed railway network will inevitably drive is a huge benefit, not to mention that there are people who give subsidies...... In this way, if the south does not agree, it will be unreasonable, and it will be even more shameless.
Therefore, even if those American-bred Han annihilation dogs try in every possible way to stop it, it must be in vain.
The second part is social policy.
Social policy is divided into three parts, one is education policy, one is welfare policy, and one is the minimum wage system.
The education policy is that the south is compared with the north, adopting elite university education, supplemented by three major systems: junior college, technical school, and apprenticeship.
Elite university education means that you don't learn from the West, no matter how good or bad it is, you can go to university as long as you want to, and only 20 percent of China's young people can go to university.
The remaining 20 percent went to junior colleges, 50 percent to various technical schools, and the last 10 percent to apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships are actually a type of technical school, but there are certain industries where apprentices are much more advanced than technical schools, such as those in the luxury industry.
There are many skills in the luxury industry that no school can teach, and apprenticeships are the only way to pass them on.
The welfare system also does not follow the West, there is pension insurance, but there is no unemployment insurance, and in terms of medical care, there is only compulsory universal health care for serious illnesses and a subsidy system for a small number of families with special difficulties.
In short, the core of China's welfare system is to never support lazy people, and at the same time ensure that no citizen will be caught in a predicament that he cannot bear because of irresistible external forces.
These two policies are equally acceptable to the autonomous provinces of the South, and in fact, if the North does not do so, the South, specifically the largest interest groups in the South, are under greater and greater pressure in this regard.
The pressure comes from two sides, on the one hand, the welfare policies of the West, and on the other hand, the stable life in the North.
The implementation of the policy of the north is the least resource-intensive, and the autonomous provinces in the south naturally cannot ask for it, but without the help of the north, they themselves cannot do what they want to.
The biggest resistance is the minimum wage system, because once it is implemented, it will hit the basis of the South's economy - exports.
In this regard, the North has committed itself to opening up its economy, such as the real estate sector.
By doing so, the North not only gives the capital of the South the opportunity to make money, but also absorbs some of the products of the South and offsets some of the losses of exports.
For the rest, the benefits of industrial upgrading can be completely offset.
Moreover, the North has made a commitment to accept some of the unemployed from the South if its economy deteriorates.
This kind of good thing is more pie in the sky than pie in the sky, so except for those Han Zheng dogs raised in the United States, everyone in the south happily accepted it.
In addition to these, there are many other side agreements. The signing of these agreements has greatly promoted the further integration of the North and the South.
The agreement signed this time does not include Taiwan, which is the only exception.
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The big names on Wall Street and Washington hate, they simply hate it.
What the Chinese want to do is already clear, the Chinese want to accelerate the reunification of China, and the reason why the Chinese have the ability to do so is because the Chinese have sucked too much blood.
The Chinese suck so much blood, in the final analysis, it is all theirs.
If there were no Chinese, the money of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya and other Middle Eastern oil-producing countries should be deposited in American banks.
Without this money, the Chinese would not be able to suck their own blood.
Without this money, the Chinese would not be able to do many things.
Without the Chinese, the United States would not have been blackmailed again and again.
If there were no Chinese, then my own blood would be sucked by us Americans.
If......
Also, the Chinese are demonstrating to expand the domestic demand market to show that they do not care more about the United States.
The anger of the big guys is building, piling up, accumulating......
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In this era, in addition to the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, there is another one that is sad, that is, Iraq.
Iraq is sad for a relatively simple reason, that is, there is a stupid President Saddam.
During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq owed Kuwait a debt of $14 billion, and Iraq hoped that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries would reduce oil production and raise the price of oil so that it could repay the debt.
Kuwait did so in the hope that it would compel Iraq to resolve its border dispute.
From Iraq's point of view, Kuwait's actions are indeed hateful, and the relationship between the two countries is constantly cut and disordered, and Iraq feels justified in taking Kuwait down.
But war, whether there is a reason or not is often not so important, the most important thing is ability.
Iraq has the ability to conquer Kuwait, but, internationally, or, more precisely, the United States and European countries allowed them to encroach on Kuwait?
If the United States and European countries do not allow it, is it possible for them to resist the pressure and continue to occupy Kuwait?
On this issue, Saddam's political IQ has no lower limit.
If Iraq succeeds in occupying Kuwait, and if Saudi Arabia is taken up again in high spirits, Iraq will control half of the world's oil resources.
In this way, Saddam Hussein has the ability to use the oil weapons in his hands to manipulate the economic development of the Western industrial countries, and can then dictate to them.
Is it possible for the Western industrial countries, represented by the United States, to allow such a scenario?
It is impossible to think about it with chrysanthemums, there is no possibility.
In addition to this, looking at the general international situation, we cannot leave the Soviet Union and China behind.
At this time, the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Gorbachev, was unprecedentedly friendly to the West, that is, the West farted, and the Soviet elites, represented by Secretary Gorbachev, would also hurriedly take a deep breath and suck the "fart" into the internal organs.
The Soviet Union had such a very good relationship with Saudi Arabia, had clear security guarantees with Saudi Arabia, and had an extraordinary relationship with Iran, so it was absolutely impossible for them to support Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
This is a very simple truth, but Saddam Hussein did not see it, or he did not believe it when he saw it.
This is the faintness of Li Lingzhi.
After preparations for the use of force against Kuwait were completed, Saddam summoned US Ambassador April? Graspie wants to finalize the attitude of the United States.
During this conversation, Saddam Hussein expressed his anger at Kuwait, but said he would not use force against Kuwait until further negotiations were underway.
Glaspi said the United States was concerned about the concentration of Iraqi armed forces on the Iraq-Kuwait border, but added that it was neutral to intra-Arab disputes, such as the border dispute between Iraq and Kuwait.
And, to emphasize this, Glasspie also said that US Secretary of State James? Baker instructed our spokesmen to emphasize this.
Whether Graspi intended it or not, in short, Saddam Hussein believed that the United States would not interfere with their occupation of Kuwait.
As a result, Iraq was miserable and was beaten by the Western coalition led by the United States.
After the end of the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations imposed severe economic sanctions on Iraq and established no-fly zones in the south and north controlled by the United States and the United Kingdom.
At this time, Saddam Hussein looked around blankly and found that in this world, if there was anything else that could help him, there was no other place except China.
China did not promise to help Iraq, but it did not gain nothing, and China promised to guarantee the safety of the property of Iraqis, including the Saddam family.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, their property is quickly deposited in the Black God Bank.
In this regard, the bigwigs on Wall Street and Washington are jumping to their feet in anger, but they still have no temper with China.
At this time, no matter what happened in the world, the spirit of the big people was highly focused on the Soviet Union, and it was really impossible to be distracted.
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On 25 December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, announced his resignation, marking the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which had been founded for 69 years.
Tang Jihai is like in a dream.
The changes in the situation in the Soviet Union gave Tang Jihai two feelings, one was dreamlike and too unreal, and the other was weird.
In Tang Jihai's view, the Soviet Union is naturally not without problems, but if it rises to the point of whether it endangers the country's fundamentals, his answer is "no" without hesitation.
The life of ordinary people in the Soviet Union was somewhat difficult, but this difficulty should be put in quotation marks.
In the Soviet Union, there was no problem of lack of basic living materials, vodka was drunk, potatoes and beef stew were eaten, and the common people felt that life was difficult and their opinions were great to the extent that they were to the point where they were made.
The common people have a big opinion on the powerful, but in fact, the life of the powerful has nothing to do with the common people, how many ordinary people really know how the powerful are "powerful"?
Besides, where in the world is there no powerful people? Whether the powerful are a problem or not, in modern society, is more artificial.
Only when the magnates seriously intrude on the lives of the common people will the magnates become a problem, and at that time, the emergence of revolution is justified.
Now, in the USSR, the elite should not have developed into such a serious problem, but the revolution appeared, and besides, this "revolution" was so weird.
Of course, the Soviet Union collapsed with a bang, and as a Chinese, Tang Jihai's eyes were naturally red with excitement, and he originally thought that this was a once-in-a-lifetime good opportunity, a good opportunity to take the Soviet Far East, but the top level did not seem to have this meaning at all.
Tang Jihai didn't understand this, he didn't understand it very much, but this had no effect on him in the slightest, he had absolute confidence in his political axe and his country: it didn't matter if he didn't understand it, the important thing was that the decision above must be correct.
Tang Jihai is by no means a blind follower, but a thoughtful, rigorous and extremely pragmatic person, otherwise, he would not have been sent to the Soviet Union.
Such beliefs require a myriad of facts to pile up.
Facts are recorded in books and experienced by themselves. Tang Jihai has experienced a lot of things personally, and there is one just now.
** At the beginning of the year, the chaos in the Soviet Union was already very early, and at this time, the political axe began to do one thing: borrow money, borrow rubles, by all means, in almost all the Soviet republics, from banks, from enterprises......
Of course, all these actions were carried out by the Soviets themselves and had nothing to do with the Chinese.
I borrowed rubles, and then for a fee, I exchanged them for dollars in the bank.
In these operations, the money, whether in rubles or dollars, is always in the bank, so it will not attract attention, let alone trouble.
Tang Jihai didn't do it himself, but he knew.
The results soon came out, and at the end of the first year, the Soviet Union announced the reform of the exchange rate system, changing from the original fixed exchange rate system to the implementation of a double exchange rate system.
On 1 November 1991, one year after the reform of the exchange rate system was implemented, the ratio of the US dollar to the ruble jumped from 1:0.6 to 1:1.8 in the foreign exchange market.
After that, the work began again, a part of the dollars was exchanged for rubles, and both loans and borrowings were repaid.
This is a typical empty glove white wolf, with all the expenses removed, and in just one year, the net profit is 200 percent.
Tang Jihai only provided some information about the Soviets, and he did not know how big the scale of the operation was, but he had no doubt that the profits would have to be calculated in billions of dollars at least.
Moreover, although no one told him, Tang Jihai now has no doubt that this billion dollars is just an appetizer, and the real feast has not yet begun.
Tang Jihai came out of Han Yuan, and knew a lot of secrets that the outside world didn't know, and he knew that the adults in the family didn't seem to be very interested in the land, and the adults' biggest interest was to hold money.
It turns out that the effect of holding money is really good, but it is not so good.
Originally, if we did not use force, almost everyone would think that reunification would be difficult to reach the sky, and this generation would not see it, and the next generation still did not hope to see it, but what is the truth?
The fact is that the process of reunification is firmly grasped in their hands, and they have the final say on the degree and speed of the reunification, and this is all due to money.
Adults will never be polite to Lao Maozi.
Lao Maozi has just inherited the rich family foundation of the former Soviet Union, and it is when it is a mess, when the family is eloquent, shrewd and capable, they also have to be full of money, not to mention that Lao Maozi is now in charge of some stupid and indescribable guys.
This kind of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is something that no one will let go, let alone the adults in the family who have brought money out of tradition.
Tang Jihai felt that the appetizer action was more of a rehearsal, preparing for the big meal later.
Operation Appetizer made a fortune for the Soviets involved, and in the feast that followed, it is conceivable that these Soviets would be better used.
Toxville is a living example of this.
Toxville was one of the Soviets who participated in Operation Appetizer under the introduction of Tang Jihai, and Toxville made a net profit of half a million dollars.
Half a million dollars not only provoked the unquenchable greed of Toxville, but also the greed of Toxville's network.
Tang Jihai's vision is very long-term.
The USSR collapsed, and Soviets like Toxville didn't care, they only had money in their eyes, and besides money, it was money.
Cooperation with these people is by no means temporary, nor should it be.
For other weak countries, Tang Jihai agrees with the foreign policy of the political axe, sincerely makes friends, does not support agents, and interacts with the political axe of his country, not with the political leaders of that country.
However, for the Soviet Union, this principle in no way applied, and the political axe seemed to think so.
The Soviet Union, no, the Soviet Union no longer exists, now it is Russia, in the eyes of Tang Jihai, Russia is going crazy, this madness now seems to be far from stopping, it is just beginning.
How else will Russia go crazy? How mentally retarded will those old hairy people go? Tang Jihai was very curious.
(To be continued)