Chapter 283: Project Flame (Part II)
The atomic bomb is a product of nuclear fission, when the uranium nucleus fissions, it will emit neutrons, which in turn will hit other uranium nuclei, so a series of reactions will occur until all the atoms are split, which is the famous chain reaction theory. According to this theory, when the fission continues, a huge amount of energy will explode.
The gun-type atomic bomb that the United States airdropped on Nagasaki was codenamed Fat Man, and it used an implosion-type structure with plutonium-239 as a nuclear charge! The bomb weighed about 4,500 kilograms and exploded with a power of 20,000 tons of TNT explosives.
The fission pattern of the so-called financial nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb is almost identical, and the collapse of the US stock market that began on Wall Street in 1929 was described as a massacre of millionaires and a swallowing of the future.
In the four years following the crisis, the US GDP fell by 30 percent, domestic investment fell by 80 percent, more than 15 million people lost their jobs, severe deflation threatened the existence of the US economic system, and the gold standard became precarious.
Zhang Xuewu played a very disgraceful role in this crisis, that is, through Shen Hanze's capital operation model, the capital secretly injected by Zhou Ying was deeply rooted and transplanted in the United States, and took advantage of the opportunity of large-scale enterprise bankruptcy in the United States to frantically buy machinery and equipment and skilled technical industry technicians.
It can be said that after a short period of false economic prosperity in the capitalist world, in 1929, due to the bursting of the overall economic and industrial bubble, the United States blindly increased the issuance of money before the political axe, resulting in a high inflation rate, and the so-called domestic demand was carried out on a large scale, and finally the American economy could not bear its huge industrial and agricultural base, so the economic crisis first broke out in the United States, and then swept the entire capitalist world, forming an unprecedented and longest-lasting world economic crisis!
In the United States and Europe, a large number of banks have collapsed, a large backlog of products has been overstocked, enterprises have gone bankrupt one after another, the market has been depressed, production has dropped sharply, the number of unemployed has increased sharply, credit relations have been seriously damaged, the people's living standards have plummeted, peasants' incomes have plummeted, many people are on the verge of bankruptcy, and the entire social and economic life has fallen into chaos and paralysis.
The Great Depression, which followed the worst crisis of all times, caused the entire capitalist world industrial output to fall by 40 per cent, the industrial output of all countries to the level of the end of the nineteenth century, and the total value of capitalist world trade by more than two-thirds.
The United States, France, Britain, Germany, and other European countries have gone bankrupt with more than 500,000 enterprises, and more than 40 million unemployed workers have been displaced, of which more than 17 million are unemployed in the United States, millions of farmers have rapidly gone bankrupt, and the unemployed population has been displaced one after another.
In fact, Zhang Xuewu believes that the collapse of Wall Street is nothing more than a catastrophe for the rich! But the Great Depression was different, during the decade of the Great Depression, half of the labor force in the United States was idle, about 17 million people were unemployed, the vast majority of these people were the only working population in the family, which meant that tens of millions of families lost their income, so much so that Roosevelt mentioned in his congressional report in 1937 that one-third of the people were poor, homeless, and malnourished for many years. In a word, hunger and cold, and social unrest have become a common phenomenon in American society.
Even Roosevelt's meditative New Deal failed to get the United States out of the shadow of the Great Depression, and the Americans tightened their belts and struggled for another seven or eight years, in fact, the real savior of the Americans was the Second World War, and only the huge military supplies during the war could fully absorb the excess productive forces of the United States, so who was looking forward to the war was undoubtedly the Americans who were far away from the European theater and had a huge industrial base, and were so poor that they could not eat.
Once the war broke out, with a large number of U.S. troops marching, the United States went from half of the labor force to a serious labor shortage, and even women who stayed at home were encouraged to come out to work, of course, in Zhang Xuewu's view, if you want to solve the crisis, it is nothing more than the need for a political axe to enjoy enough power, which seems to be a common sense, and the people in distress usually welcome such power! However, once power is freed from constraints, it tends to be abused.
The political axe of the United States is composed of three departments, the Congress, the executive branch of the president's representatives, and the judicial branch with the Supreme Court of the United States in the highest position.
In China, if you want to implement this three-in-one political system, Zhang Xuewu estimates that the parliament will become a battlefield, just like this, South Korea, and Taiwan. In particular, China still has a long tradition and origin of martial arts, and I am afraid that the parliament will become a place of competition between the disciples of various sects.
The only major country that has not been affected by the economic crisis that has affected the world is China, because China's backward industry and self-sufficient agricultural system, as well as the silver standard monetary system and imperfect financial system have saved China, but he is not so lucky, and now he relies on loans from the United States to buy a large number of strategic materials needed to wage war from the United States, and uses the precious metals plundered from China to repay the high-interest loans of the Americans. Nearly ninety percent of the country's craftsmen and enterprises went bankrupt, and the surplus value of these bankrupt enterprises was consolidated in the name of loyalty to the emperor.
In fact, it is a means and excuse for the unscrupulous disguised plundering of wealth from the people, and the people have always been accustomed to being submissive, so they can barely maintain their own economy.
Zhang Xuewu's plan is to take advantage of the aftermath of the economic crisis and the Great Depression in the United States, artificially use the principle of hedge funds in later generations, and borrow the east wind of the Silver Bill, which has brought great harm to China's political axe, to create a false prosperity, artificially inflating the prices of crude oil, scrap steel, and all the strategic materials it needs, so that he himself will fall into the trap of a credit crisis.
This is a surprise prepared by Zhang Xuewu for himself, a financial nuclear bomb! However, how to do it specifically, Zhang Xuewu is not an expert after all, so he invited Shen Hanze and Zhou Ying, and Zhou Ying, who has always been lovesick, is also willing to return to China to see Zhang Xuewu and the Baotou industrial base built with her strong support.
Shen Hanze chose to help Zhang Xuewu at the beginning because of his daughter's relationship, and now it seems that he has bet on this treasure, Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater is now impressive, even the Supreme Military Commission has nothing to do with it, 70% of the weapons and ammunition in the country are produced from the Baotou Industrial Base, and according to Zhang Xuewu, the 20 oil wells in the Yumen Oilfield have been extracted, the Yumen Oil Refinery and the Baotou Oil Refinery are working almost 24 hours a day, and Shanxi's coal is also imported in large quantities along the Suiyuan railway, the army was defeated in two attacks outside Rehe, and the situation in the 10th theater was very good!
Zhou Ying's main purpose in coming to Baotou is to meet Zhang Xuewu, who misses him all night, when Zhang Xuewu is defending Nanjing, Zhou Ying and Shen Yilan, who accompanied him in the United States, can hardly sleep at night, they can't figure it out. But Zhang Xuewu is handsome! The commander of the side, but like a centurion, he always likes to be on the front line?
Zhou Ying looked at the black and thin Zhang Xuewu, gently brushed the dust off his body and said: "Originally, I only had power and ** in my heart, but when I sat in the position of the leader, I knew that everything was just a game and a dream, and life was just a few decades of time, and the meaning and purpose of life was to be worthy of myself!" What are you trying so hard for? Are you men really inseparable from power all the time? ”
Zhang Xuewu gently smelled the fragrance emitted by Zhou Ying's sideburns, took a deep breath and said, "It's so fragrant!" In Rehe and even Baotou, although the people's living standards have improved a lot, and there are many rich people, there are not many fashionable girls like you, and the girls here may have been affected by the wind and sand, and their faces are like red apples. ”
Zhou Ying slapped Zhang Xuewu helplessly and said: "When people tell you serious things, you always treat them seriously!" ”
Zhang Xuewu also smiled and said: "I haven't seen you for a long time, people say that Xiao Bie is newlywed, we haven't seen each other for almost a year, can I stand it up?" ”
Zhou Ying pouted dissatisfiedly and said: "You are an international figure, the cover character of this issue of Time Magazine, General Zhang Xuewu!" Your Excellency Commander of the 10th Theater of Operations, countless women at home and abroad do not want to be your confidantes! The little woman is also bent over for the hero! ”
Zhang Xuewu was teasing Zhou Ying, and the adjutant outside the door said cleverly: "Mr. Shen Hanze has arrived!" ”
Zhang Xuewu hurriedly returned to normal, Zhou Ying also sat on the sofa dignified and picked up the coffee cup, after Shen Hanze entered the study, Zhang Xuewu and Zhou Ying hurriedly got up to say hello, Zhou Ying was very enthusiastic to hand over Shen Yilan's family members who stayed in the United States to Shen Hanze and Zhang Xuewu respectively, Shen Hanze nodded with satisfaction, Zhou Ying and himself, the two important giants in the Chinese world, I am afraid that only Zhang Xuewu can gather them.
His daughter chose such a man? Shen Hanze also felt more and more at this moment that he couldn't see through Zhang Xuewu, after contacting Zhang Xuewu and his person, he would feel that this person was the opposite of many people!
(To be continued)