Whether in the 21st century or the 20th century, it is very difficult for China to rise peacefully, and China has been fighting an economic and trade war for nearly 30 years, and now China has begun to launch a new round of economic and trade war with the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, and the most violent of them is the Sino-US economic war.

The United States can legislate to defend against the sale of Chinese products in the United States, but it cannot stop South America and other countries from importing Chinese goods in the same way, especially in the South American market, and the two sides will inevitably need to contain South American countries through capital exports.

In the past few years, the United States has taken advantage of this special period and the vacuum period when US capital has withdrawn from the South American market on a large scale, and has taken advantage of the vacuum period when US capital has withdrawn from the South American market on a large scale, taking advantage of the world crisis of the Great Depression to enter the market at a low price, firmly controlling the economic and trade financial control in South America, and expanding the scale of capital and product exports to South America.

South America has become a focal issue in the current stage of Sino-US contradictions.

It was during this period that Song Biao also held a global visit to improve Sino-British relations and strengthen cooperation with Portugal, Spain, France and other countries with traditional influence in South America.

Militarily, the two sides have also signed a number of defense mutual assistance agreements to strengthen military cooperation between China and these countries, export military equipment and production equipment, provide training services for the army and air force, and send military advisory groups to advance the self-defense capabilities of these countries and counteract the military and diplomatic oppression of these countries by the United States.

In the United States, the empire also provided political cash to support the opposition parties through some special channels, and spent huge amounts of public relations funds in the United States to strengthen the propaganda of the contradictions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain, and the United States, and to strengthen the propaganda of public opinion against German and Italian fascism, so as to dilute and cover up the urgency of the contradictions between China and the United States, so that the United States could not unite and quickly elbow China.

In Asia, the empire strengthened its control over Asia by establishing the Asian Cooperation Alliance, and started in both the military and economic spheres.

This is different from the strategy used in the economic and trade war between China and China in the past, and the situation is also different, and now it is to hold on to its own base camp, try its best to seize the opponent's market, and first occupy an advantage in the Asian and South American markets.

Lushan.

Ouyang Geng is making every effort for the establishment of the Asian League, serving as prime minister for three consecutive terms, looking back on the past 14 years of prime ministership, he is more and more aware that the Asian League will be the most important political legacy he left to this huge empire.

As the most senior diplomat of the empire, Premier Ouyang Geng is also very aware of the benefits that the Asian League can bring to the empire, as long as the Asian League is established, it will be difficult for the United States to turn the tables in the Sino-US economic war, unless China and the United States directly start a war and end in China's defeat.

Otherwise it's really hard.

If the empire can maintain its superiority over the United States in the field of diplomacy, through the establishment of the Asian League, support the establishment of the South American Cooperation Organization by the South American countries, continue to use the European debt issue to separate the European and American camps, use the threat of the Soviet Union and fascist Germany to Europe to force Europe to be close to China, and then use all these advantages to expand the market and diplomatic influence in Asia, Africa, and South America. China will occupy more of a dominant position vis-à-vis the United States.

Of course, the education of the Empire must also be more outstanding than that of the United States.

Only education can increase the per capita output value of people to a higher level, and the population of the empire, combined with the world's first-class education, can become the world's number one economic power even without abundant resources.

In the past half a month, Ouyang Geng, Foreign Minister Gu Weijun, and Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff of the Central Military Department, have been holding different memories to coordinate the different positions and interests of the founding countries of the Asian League.

Unlike the United States, China must first lead Asia if it wants to lead the world, while the United States does not need absolute leadership over the Americas.

Ouyang Geng and Gu Weijun talked about this matter before, and both of them were very glad that the United States chose to cooperate with China and Britain to suppress this book out of long-term concerns about the Nagano incident, instead of supporting it, and if the United States chose to support the competition with China for leadership in Asia, things would really be more troublesome.

I'm glad to be.

Both of them were very happy about this.

It was a very good thing that there was no war with the Imperial Cabinet, which allowed the Imperial Cabinet to maintain its own almost constant export of capital to the outside world, using the bargaining chips of capital export to gain an advantage over the United States, and inducing South American and Asian countries to favor China in trade treaties.

In fact, in the case of equivalent tariffs, it is difficult for American goods to compete with Chinese goods, perhaps American products are only 10% or 20% more expensive on average, but the impact on the entire market is huge, not to mention that most of the gap is more than 20%.

It is also difficult for the United States to make a choice now, it is impossible to pressure China to raise the exchange rate, it does not have this strength, it is impossible to reduce the dollar exchange rate, it is impossible for European countries to make such concessions, if the United States must reduce the exchange rate, China will also reduce it year-on-year, Europe will not back down, and the whole world can only usher in a larger-scale world economic collapse.

Of course, the United States will reduce the gold content of the dollar by 1/10, that is, between 5% and 10%, which is still very likely, but this degree of depreciation is unlikely to have an effective driving effect, at most, it will cooperate with its own tariffs to resist some Chinese products from customs.

In order to avoid the United States from making such a choice, the Imperial Finance Minister Ouyang Xi has visited the United States and has had close discussions with the United States on this, if the United States lowers the exchange rate, China may also reduce it, but if the United States does not reduce the exchange rate, China promises to slowly increase the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan by about 15% in the next five years, with an average annual increase of 2.7%.

The economic war between China and the United States has officially begun, and it is impossible to stop it.

In that case, it's better to kill him.

The 30-year war with China has made the empire understand that competition is a good thing, and that only by overpowering its opponents through competition can the empire become a more powerful country, overpowering the United States and becoming the world's leading power.

This is the truth of all kinds.

On the afternoon of that day, Ouyang Geng, at the age of 75, attended two lengthy bilateral meetings in succession, and held the final round of negotiations with Saudi Arabia and Iraq on the treaty of friendship and alliance.

Although it was in the summer palace, after the whole meeting, Ouyang Geng was still sweating, and he was busy for two months in a row, in the past few days, he has become more and more physically exhausted, and I have to say that he is indeed too old.

If it weren't for the Great Depression crisis, he would have retired in the last term, because he was older, he didn't even plan to serve as the president of the Central Imperial University, but recommended the senior diplomat Lu Zhengxiang to be the president, and the result could only be a prime minister for another term, of course, he was also very happy in his heart.

Power, it's a good thing to hold it for an extra day.

If he could, he would rather die on the throne of the prime minister, leaving behind a good name for doing his best and dying.

In the past, such as the General Police Department, the Ministry of Patrol, the Army, the Air Force, and the Ministry of Land and Resources, these were actually not under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister, especially in this term, His Majesty the Emperor Hua made a very strong impetus to the constitutional monarchy, and the scope of the central government's discipline was significantly weakened, and more real power was handed over to the Prime Minister.

Ouyang Geng, who subconsciously supported the republican faction more, was sincerely happy about this, and he felt more and more that China was constantly making progress, and this great empire would prosper infinitely.

and King Ibn of Saudi Arabia. After Saudi Arabia reached a basic agreement on the bilateral treaty, Ouyang Geng returned to his office, wanting to rest alone for a while, and continued to read and ponder the provisions reached in the afternoon, before the two sides officially signed, if some problems could be found, he would have time to readjust.

It was with the covert support of the empire that Ibn . Saudi Arabia can lead the Saudi family to unify the entire Saudi Arabia, so when Saudi Arabia signed the alliance treaty with the empire, both sides were very polite and respectful.

Ouyang Geng re-read the draft of this treaty, and reconsidered some amendments proposed by the Saudi side, basically according to this treaty, the empire will lend 400 million Chinese yuan to Saudi Arabia for the joint establishment of a Saudi national oil company, responsible for the development of the entire Saudi Arabian oil resources, and at the same time establish a complete set of petrochemical industry, in addition, China will also borrow funds for the construction of Saudi infrastructure, as well as support Saudi Arabia's agriculture, fishery, industry and commerce, and invest funds to develop Saudi groundwater resources, and invested 200 million yuan for desalination engineering research and special energy research such as solar energy and wind energy to solve the problem of lack of coal in Saudi Arabia.

It is with this preferential support that the trade tariffs between Saudi Arabia and China have been reduced to almost zero, and the two sides have signed the highest level of free trade and investment agreement. On the surface, the alliance treaty was only beneficial to Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia accepted Chinese immigrants and set aside a large area of territory around Dammam for the construction of Seoul, allowing the Hui residents of the empire to work and emigrate to Seoul.

Because Saudi Arabia is rich in oil resources and sparsely populated, it is determined that the empire will likely transfer millions of laborers, and it is also conducive to the religious pressure of the empire to divide a part of the Hui population in the country.

There are definitely sequelae, and the overall benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Militarily, the empire will send troops to Saudi Arabia and assist Saudi Arabia in establishing its own modern military armament, its population is relatively small, the practical significance is not very large, the military strength of the empire is certainly no problem, and when Saudi Arabia is rich in the future, the expenses for the garrison in Saudi Arabia will be paid by Saudi Arabia.

After Ouyang Geng read the draft of the covenant, he was generally very satisfied, in fact, the competition between the United States and Britain in Saudi Arabia was also fierce, and in the end, the empire won a complete victory.

This particularly satisfied Ouyang Geng, it was during his fourteen years in office that the empire became a world power in the true sense of the word, with the ability and strength to compete with Britain and the United States at the same level.

It is precisely because the empire's garrison in Iraq is a little smaller, Britain and the United States are also quite helpless about this, Germany can not rebuild the army normally, the empire's throne of the world's first army is still unyielding, I want to fight the Soviet Union when the British and French forces were defeated all the way, only the imperial lion thousands of miles, swept the main force of the Soviet Red Army.

The Sino-Soviet War can be said to have played the true majesty of the empire.

Ouyang Geng not only witnessed that battle with his own eyes, but it was precisely because he did not hesitate to fight with the then Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi in the cabinet foreign minister, so that he supported the Central Military Department to complete this battle.

Looking back on the past, the cause and effect.

Ouyang Geng felt particularly satisfied.

Tired, satisfied, and filled with joy, he rested on the back of his broad, fluffy chair and waited for the state banquet in the evening.

However, Premier Ouyang Geng never woke up again.

His lifelong wish was to do his best for this great and vast empire, and he did so.

…… That night, Song Biao and Chen Guangfu talked about the future of the Far East consortium in Chengde, the world is not peaceful, fascism is spreading, the Soviet Union and Spain are also obviously ** rule, the world is under a kind of unspeakable haze of war, therefore, Song Biao is not very supportive of the expansion and capital export of the Far Eastern consortium in Europe, except for Sweden and Portugal, two special countries are exceptions.

Song Biao and the four of them talked until late at night, and then arranged for them to rest in Songhezhai in Chengde Summer Resort, after all, there is still a lot of time, and they can continue to talk tomorrow.

Song Biao had just left Songhezhai and was about to return to the main palace to rest, when Major General Chen Jiayou, a first-class chamberlain, walked over with a hurried and nervous look, and whispered beside Song Biao: "Back to Your Majesty, at about 7:30 p.m. today, His Excellency Prime Minister Ouyang Geng passed away without illness, and the people in the Cabinet Secretariat Office found out that it was already a step too late. ”

Song Biao was shocked.

He looked at Chen Jiayou in surprise, as if asking, "How is it possible?" ”

For a short time, Song Biao's mind was buzzing, and after a while, he eased up and asked Chen Jiayou, "What's going on?" ”

Chen Jiayou replied: "The prime minister has been working hard for a long time, and he has been unwell a few days ago, but today he held bilateral talks with Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and after negotiating the alliance with Saudi Arabia, he said that he wanted to recuperate for a while, and then call him when the state banquet was held, and he would rest in the office. The secretaries thought he was reading the newspaper, and no one went in to disturb him, and waited until 7:45 to invite him to the state banquet, only to find that he had fallen asleep on the back of the chair, and did not dare to alarm His Majesty at first, and the diagnosis confirmed that it was a cerebral hemorrhage, and there was no other possibility, so it was officially telegraphed to His Majesty. ”

Song Biao couldn't help but feel sad.

is also a minister and a friend, accompanied by 30 years, and it has been back in a flash.

State affairs are important.

With a long sigh, Song Biao and Chen Jiayou instructed: "Gu Weijun should also be in Lushan, let him be in charge of the talks first, the matter of Lushan is the fundamental cause of the empire, and there is no room for failure." Among the old ministers, only Tang Shaoyi was in good health, and sent a special plane to send Tang Shaoyi to Lushan, asking him to pick up people in Lushan, and the funeral was arranged in Yanjing...... Let's go tomorrow, and I'll go too. ”

"Yes!"

Chen Jiayou agreed, and then asked: "Your Majesty, Song Jiaoren, Minister of Justice of the Cabinet, called to inquire about the renewal of the Prime Minister, Premier Ouyang's term of office is still one year away, and he died of illness at this time, according to the Constitution, it should be temporarily held by Foreign Minister Gu Weijun, and please ask the emperor to make a holy ruling!" ”

Song Biao felt that this matter was not important, or that there was no doubt at all, so he waved his hand and said: "Everything should be handled in accordance with the Constitution, let Gu Weijun concurrently serve as the interim prime minister, is there anyone from the Ministry of Justice in Lushan, if not, the inner court will appoint someone to take the plane immediately." ”

Chen Jiayou replied: "Chen Yuchuan, vice minister of justice, is in the Lushan Summer Palace. ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and said: "Then let Vice Minister Chen preside over the succession ceremony, everything is simple, and the message will be sent to the whole country." ”

"Yes!"

Chen Jiayou agreed, and then went out to handle affairs.

Song Biao stood in front of the door of Songhezhai, looking up at the sky and the sky, as if he saw a meteor cutting through the dark and silent night sky, and he didn't know where to go.

After a long time, he gradually felt that he should not be too sad, if he was Ouyang Geng, he would definitely not feel sad and regretful, as the prime minister, he personally pushed this ancient empire to the ** of the Liberation Revolution, making it the most powerful modern empire in the world, such achievements and merits are enough to make anyone famous in history and immortal for ten thousand years.

After returning to the main palace, Song Biao couldn't sleep well that night, and took a special plane to Lushan in the early morning of the next day, and Tang Shaoyi, who was in Yanjing, also flew at the same time and arrived in Lushan for Ouyang Gengbing's funeral.

Song Biao originally didn't want to participate in this Lushan Conference, first, there was no need for this, and second, he didn't want to rob Ouyang Geng of the most worthwhile achievements in history, but now he can't go.

Even so, Song Biao, who flew to the Lushan Summer Palace, was only to support the newly appointed Premier Gu Weijun behind his back, he personally met with the heads of state and leaders of these Asian countries in the Lushan Summer Palace, and held meetings in batches, but basically only symbolic, because the things that really wanted to be discussed were handled properly during Ouyang Geng's tenure, and all that was left was to sign.

Shortly after Song Biao's arrival, on August 20, 1934, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Brunei, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Iraq reached the "Asian Treaty of Mutual Assistance and Alliance".

The Asian Free Trade Organization was established at the same time, and the "Asian Free Trade Area Agreement" will officially enter into force on October 1, 1934, and the Asian Trade Organization is headquartered in Shanghai.

The first truly free trade area in history, the Asian Trade Zone covers more than 70% of Asia, with internal tariffs reduced to a minimum, allowing all countries to enjoy a common market.

In exchange for the establishment of the Asian Trade Center, China promised to spend a total of 17 billion yuan in preferential credit support to the member countries in the next seven years to help the member countries develop minerals, agriculture and basic industries, and gradually form a stable Asian market.

Within the framework of the Asian Union, countries hold the Chinese yuan as the main foreign exchange reserve, while China holds gold to maintain the cap-to-exchange standard.

The establishment of the Asian League and the Asian Trade Organization (ATO) has announced that China has won an undefeated trump card in the Sino-US economic war, but in order to ensure the effectiveness of this trump card, China will also have to spend more military spending to ensure the security of the entire Asian Union.

During the Lushan Conference in 1934, especially at the founding meeting of the Asian League, the most discussed issue of military equipment and modern military construction was the issue of military equipment and modern military construction, which is one of the fundamentals for all countries to ensure security.

When Britain's military strength could not guarantee the security of the colonial powers, the British Empire would become the British Commonwealth.

The principle is the same.

According to the "Asian Alliance Military Treaty," the military equipment of all member countries of the Asian Union will be unified with China, so that the member countries can send troops to each other to support each other and reduce the logistical pressure.

On this basis, the imperial industry will also be fully operational, providing all countries with the military equipment and materials they need, and the empire's railways and oil and gas pipelines will also be built to Saudi Arabia.

After 1928, the Imperial Central Defense Force was reduced to 1.75 million men, and now it had to be expanded to 2.2 million to ensure that there were enough garrisons in the Allied countries, and in any case, cavalry could no longer be armed.

In the alliance treaty, the empire will first set up air bases in each member country to provide air force support for each country, and then will successively send the army and navy, the army is mainly fully mechanized troops, and the navy is relatively minimal, because the strength of the imperial navy is relatively weak, but the empire will sell warships at a more suitable price to help the coastal countries establish basic naval patrol forces.

From 1934 onwards, a vast new empire was born.

It was born in 1910, but its real rise came in 1934, the 24-year Reconquista Revolution, which finally made an ancient empire the king of Asia again.

It has once again risen from the Eastern Earth World, ruling Asia as the king of Asia, roaring the world.

(To be continued)