Chapter 648: The Sea of Stars (Finale)
After the end of World War II, the whole world faced a comprehensive reshuffle, and the United States, the Soviet Union and China became the most influential countries in the world. Although Britain was also one of the four great powers during World War II, after the end of the war, Britain faced the fate of the collapse of all its overseas colonies.
With the help of these Middle East wars, Britain's power was completely driven out of the Middle East, and other Commonwealth countries gradually distanced themselves from Britain.
However, Britain is not bad, after all, it still retains its seat as a major power in the UN Security Council and has the vital right of veto, while the French are more miserable, although they are also permanent members, but the right of veto has been deprived, and without this power, they don't even fart in the world.
Britain and France, the former powers, have all fallen and have to rely on the United States to survive, and have become thugs and younger brothers. And the defeated Germany and Ben ended up even worse.
Germany was divided into two parts, the Federal Republic of Germany and ** Germany, in fact, the Soviet Union was not willing to let Germany split, because once Germany split, Germany's reparations to the Soviet Union will be affected, the Soviet Union is the country that paid the most in World War II, so it also received the most reparations, these reparations were originally borne by all the German people, once divided, it can only be borne by East Germany, which is not a good thing for the Soviet Union.
However, under Truman's planning, Germany was divided into two parts, and Berlin became the forefront of the confrontation between the two camps of the East and the West. However, the industrious Germany still stood up tenaciously on the ruins, and after entering the fifties and sixties, the German economy began to develop rapidly and became the leader of European economic growth, but the pain of division still made the Germans suffer.
As for the Far East, although it was not divided, it also lost a large amount of territory, and the islands of Tsushima and Kyushu were placed under the control of Korea according to regulations, and of course there were Chinese military bases in both places.
In addition, Emperor Hirohito was sent to the gallows, and the emperor system was declared illegal, and like the Nazi Party in Germany, it was cleaned up. The emperor, who is known as the one of all generations, has come to an end, and the spiritual world of the person has been devastated, and the whole country has lost its common pursuit.
At the place where the emperor was judged, a large number of people even fought by disembowelment, and the momentum was amazing, and the whole book was shrouded in a sense of pathos. It is conceivable that the emperor has a high status in his heart, but both Qiao Yu and the new President of the United States, Truman, advocate [***], and in the end, Hirohito will inevitably be hanged.
After the emperor was executed, he suddenly fell silent, and all the people themselves became extremely honest and did not dare to resist any longer. In this way, all the people who were skeptical relaxed, saying that they were indeed a strange people, and they admired the strong from the bottom of their bones and despised the weak.
Even the Holy Emperor is the same, once he is trampled under his feet, or even sent to the guillotine, the sacredness in his heart disappears.
According to the Allied rules, the new version adopted a federal system, and the remaining three large islands were divided into twelve states, each with considerable reading rights, much like the American system. However, without the support of a strong consortium behind the political axe, the federal political axe still has considerable power, and after the implementation of this system, the whole country has lost its unified surname, and there is no strong central government.
After this treatment, the economy began to take off in the fifties and sixties, but their focus became tourism, sandwiched between China and the United States, which attracted huge groups of tourists from both countries, and millions of people visited them every year.
With the development of tourism, the financial industry, entrepot trade, and light industry have developed greatly, and the maid has become a loud sign in the world, especially the wealthy groups in China are proud to hire the maid.
In the past 60 years, the finances began to improve, and in addition to paying war reparations, the finances began to have a surplus, so they began to invest in the film industry again. After years of development, he still lives a rich life, but this way of living is very similar to Greece in Europe, and the typical parasitic economy has completely lost its threat to China.
Britain, France, Germany, and others were all among the great powers before World War II, and now these countries have been completely reduced to vassals and have lost their status as great powers. At present, the only countries in the world that can be called powerful countries are China, the United States and the Soviet Union, and each of them has embarked on different paths.
In the early post-war period, the United States was economically dominant and had a rather self-respecting posture, and the Americans formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and pointed the finger at the Soviet Union. In addition, the United States has vigorously supported India and Australia in an attempt to influence China's development. Moreover, the Americans support Israel, frequently provoke wars, and beat Arab countries to the ground.
However, since ancient times, it has been prosperous and declining, although the United States has not yet reached this point, but troublesome things have followed, Latin America has always been the backyard of the United States, but this backyard has also caught fire, a man named Che Guevara set off a revolutionary storm in Latin America, and a large number of guerrillas have appeared in various countries to violently impact the pro-American regime.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the Pahlavi regime in Iran, which was originally pro-American, was also pushed, and Iran is an important power in the Middle East, and it borders the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union to the north. Turkey has already fallen to the Soviet Union, and if Iran falls to the Soviet Union again, the United States will completely lose its voice in the Middle East.
Faced with this situation, Eisenhower, who had just commanded the Allied forces to defeat Germany, began to take tough measures, first ordering American special operations forces to rescue the Pahlavi Shah from Iran, and then sending troops to Iran in the name of helping Pahlavi put down the rebellion.
In addition, Eisenhower sent troops to Latin America to strangle the leftist regime, and the Americans were so vigorous that the whole world was in a commotion for a while, and the overall post-war peace situation was completely broken, and many countries were trembling, not knowing when the third world war would occur.
But what happened next surprised everyone, everyone thought that the United States, with its strong military power, could easily solve these small troubles, but the facts made everyone shut up.
First of all, the more the guerrillas in Latin America are exterminated, the more they are numerous, and these guerrillas are becoming more and more cunning, relying on the forest as a cover to easily deal with the US military. The United States sent bombers to carpet bomb the guerrillas' hideouts countless times, but the guerrillas did not kill a few, but they demanded the lives of many civilians.
And Iran has become a huge quagmire, the Americans easily defeated the army of the Iranian New Deal axe at the beginning, but then the Americans have to face an endless stream of guerrillas, who use all the means at their disposal to launch a frenzied retaliation against the Americans.
The Americans were mired in the quagmire, while the Soviet Union took the opportunity to expand its power on a large scale, and more and more countries in Africa and the Middle East turned to the Soviet Union, and leftist pro-Soviet forces in Cuba, Venezuela, Grenada, and other countries in Latin America came to power one after another, and the United States was disgraced for a while.
These troubles are not enough to shake the foundation of the United States, the most important problem is that with the rapid development of China, a large amount of capital has poured into China, such as many royal families in the Middle East, because they are dissatisfied with the attitude of the United States blindly supporting Israel, so they have invested huge oil profits in China.
Moreover, American capital has also been attracted by China's abundant labor capital, and has been transferred to China. The situation is almost irreversible, and no capitalist will let go of a huge market of nearly a billion people.
A large amount of capital has poured into China, China has sufficient funds for infrastructure construction, the transportation is becoming more and more convenient, the city is becoming more and more perfect, a huge urban circle has been formed, and all entrepreneurs enjoy China's convenient transportation and smooth connection.
More and more enterprises are settling in China, and all kinds of supporting factories are very complete, which can effectively reduce costs, which is a temptation that all capitalists cannot decide.
China has absorbed huge amounts of capital, and at the same time, Chinese goods have also rapidly impacted American manufacturing, first light industrial products, then shipbuilding, automobiles, and airplanes, one after another.
Moreover, because China took the lead in developing computers, Chinese has become the most important programming language, but Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn, and the huge language barrier makes Americans seriously lag behind China in computers.
With computer technology as the foundation, China's heavy machinery manufacturing and machine tool industry have achieved unprecedented development, which further squeezes the industrial space of the United States.
If this momentum continues, the United States will not only lose its title as the world's factory, but will also face the danger of a complete industrial collapse.
In fact, some people in the United States have long been aware of China's economic advantages, but they did not expect it to come so quickly, and it was when the United States was in a deep quagmire, and the Americans never imagined that the global trading system they designed at the beginning would allow China to gain a lot of benefits.
China has accumulated a large amount of dollars through trade, and at the same time, according to the original agreement between China and the United States, China can exchange dollars for gold at any time, and in fact China has done the same, and the gold reserves of the United States have been declining, which is a huge threat to the economic hegemony of the United States.
Of course, there are also those in the United States who advocate the abolition of the GATT and the Bretton Woods system, which will completely change the post-war economic structure. However, at this time, the United States simply could not afford to fall out with China, and the Soviet Union was eyeing the United States, so the United States was in a dilemma.
In fact, China has long seen the mind of the United States, but China does not take the United States too seriously, China has experienced many ups and downs in the past 5,000 years, and has always been the largest economic power, and the West's overtaking of China is not a historical inevitability, but just an accident, and China will rule the world sooner or later.
China is more keen on exploring the unknown than expanding into the United States, and has formulated a huge Chang'e lunar exploration program, preparing to set foot on the moon in 15 years.
Our journey is a sea of stars......
(End of book)