The land of Sanqin began to change dramatically.

Two-fifths of the peasants emigrated to the Far East, and the remaining peasants were no longer just peasants, they had another identity: tree people.

The rest of the farmers, who spend more than half of their energy planting trees, will they plant in the fields surrounded by trees only when the trees are planted.

Planting trees is about money.

By planting trees and planting land, it is conservatively estimated that peasants' incomes can be doubled that year.

Dyeing the green loess plateau and thoroughly controlling the Yellow River so that it would not cause major floods was one of the important reasons why Han Lihong decided to take Shaanxi.

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With a bang, the door of the study opened, and a milky voice said, "Grandma, grandpa called you to eat!" ”

Lu Xiaoya opened her eyes, stood up, walked over, squatted down, hugged her little granddaughter, and said, "Grandpa Tai called grandma to eat, didn't Xiao Nan call grandma to eat?" ”

The pink little hand grabbed Lu Xiaoya's nose, and Xiao Nan said, "Xiao Nan also shouted." ”

The years urge people to get old, and in a blink of an eye, Lu Xiaoya is also in her early sixties and has become a personable old lady.

Lu Wenzhao is still alive, the old man is eighty-six, but he is healthy, his ears are not deaf, his eyes are not dazzled, and he is still the spirit of Ryoma.

Lu Wenzhao retired ten years ago, and the power in his hands was handed over to his daughter. Of course, this naturally requires Han Lihong's approval.

Lu Xiaoya has two sons and a daughter.

Like Lu Wenzhao, among the three children, the youngest daughter Han Wenting is the most prominent, and Xiao Nan is Han Wenting's youngest daughter.

Lu Xiaoya trained her youngest daughter as a successor, so in the small courtyard of this core land, Han Wenting lived with them, while her two sons and the rest of the Lu family lived in other courtyards.

This courtyard, even Lu Xiaoya's two sons can't enter.

It was noon, and there were only Lu Wenzhao, Lu Xiaoya and Xiao Nan at the table.

After sitting down, looking at her father, Lu Xiaoya couldn't help but smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Wenzhao asked.

Lu Xiaoya said: "Dad, do you remember when you bought a house in Yanjing for three or seven years? ”

Lu Wenzhao smiled and said, "Are you better than blue?" ”

Lu Xiaoya nodded.

The economic crisis is good!

These days, Lu Xiaoya sighs like this from time to time.

After the outbreak of the economic crisis, all kinds of contracts and documents flew like snowflakes, and these things were not about documents, but about boxes, and they were still quite big boxes.

This economic crisis has brought a gloria to the world dominated by the United States, but it has given Lu Xiaoya a huge opportunity, mines, enterprises, factories, copper, steel...... It's crazy to buy.

And even better, it's not their own money that buys these things.

In fact, if it weren't for the gold, they wouldn't have that much money.

All this money belongs to the Arab oil-producing countries in the Middle East.

Middle Eastern countries already have a very good impression of China, especially the help to Egypt, which has made the Arabs breathe a sigh of relief and made the Arabs realize China's strength.

When the Chinese showed a little bit of interest and wanted to expand cooperation with Middle Eastern countries, especially in the financial field, the Saudi king immediately agreed.

Saudi Arabia agreed, of course, not only because of a good impression of China, but because of a good impression of China, it also has a willingness to cooperate, and after having the willingness to cooperate, it will study China in depth.

This in-depth study naturally leads to the conclusion that it is safe to keep money in China.

In fact, the most eye-catching people in the Middle East are the United States, Britain, France, and other Western European countries.

But because of Israel's relations, the countries of the Middle East are reluctant to put their oil wealth there, and in addition a little less reassured.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, that's a truth that everyone knows.

Cooperation is inevitable when China's options arise, and when China's conditions are better than those of the West, expanding cooperation is inevitable.

Before the Fourth Middle East War, the Middle Eastern countries had less than $500 million in China, but since then, three or four billion dollars have been transferred every month, and Middle Eastern countries have put a large part of their oil revenues in Chinese banks.

This money, in the hands of the Arabs, can only be kept in the bank, and they just want to spend it, and there is no such possibility.

In fact, if it weren't for the huge network that has been deployed around the world over the years, this money would not have been spent in Lu Xiaoya's hands.

The United States and Europe will not let you spend it at all.

It's a great deal, and Ms. Lu has no doubt that in two or three years, when the economic crisis is over, those investments will at least double.

What's more, making money is one thing, and those strategic investments are more important.

In this matter, Lu Xiaoya naturally did not realize how much benefit her current investment would produce in the future.

In fact, except for Han Lihong, no one is aware of it.

If Lu Xiaoya knew that in just a dozen years, her current unexplained investment, Tokyo real estate, would have multiplied hundreds of times, and in an extreme, such as Ginza, Tokyo, when one square meter was $1.5 million, she would have fainted.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Han Wenting and her husband Liu Chengren returned.

The couple is actually Lu Xiaoya's special assistant, and they are qualified to know most of the secrets, but there are pros and cons to everything, so the couple almost loses their personal space.

As soon as the couple stepped out of this small courtyard, they were closely protected, or rather, closely monitored.

After archiving the secret document she had just retrieved, Han Wenting held a document in her hand and asked, "Mom, the prices of gold and oil are scary, why do you still buy them?" ”

The document in Han Wenting's hand is the purchase list for the second quarter, the purchase list of oil and gold. In the second quarter, oil and gold were still bought as much as possible.

According to Han Wenting's meaning, it should start selling now, or at least stop buying first.

In recent months, the price of oil has remained unchanged, always between eleven and twelve dollars.

The power of the United States and Western Europe in the Middle East is entrenched and deep-rooted, and the oil-producing countries cannot withstand the United States and Western European countries, and they will not be able to hold out for long, and once they lift the oil embargo, the price of oil will have to fall.

What about gold, good fellow, it went up to $163 in May, and now it's starting to fall back, it's back to $140.

Lu Xiaoya didn't answer her daughter's question, because in fact, she didn't understand it very well, and there was no answer to this kind of question, even for Lu Xiaoya.

All orders were issued from Han Yuan's staff committee, but the staff committee's orders could only be issued after Han Lihong's approval.

When Han Lihong needed to make some modifications and adjustments to these instructions, no one knew that Han Lihong had done anything about them, and no one would ever know.

The system that issues the order and the system that executes the instruction are absolutely isolated, and because they are both top secrets, whether it is the one who gives the order or the one who executes the order, the matter will disappear after the incident, as if it never happened.

Moreover, the instructions issued by the staff committee were not backed up, and the final backup was the instructions approved by Han Lihong.

Therefore, even if these secrets are disclosed in the future, it is impossible to find out that Han Lihong has done anything from them.

Although Lu Xiaoya does not understand very well, she knows more secrets than her daughter, she knows that China is not only not short of oil, but also rich in reserves, in Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin, Xinjiang Province, Mongolia, and the Far East have explored large oil fields.

Therefore, Lu Xiaoya knows that this is the country's grand strategy, and sometimes it cannot be measured by making money and losing money.

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John Perkins stood on the streets of Riyadh on April 14, 1974, the day after the oil embargo ended.

The oil embargo lasted six months and ended on 13 April 1974.

Six months is really not a long time, but its impact is very, very, extremely far-reaching, and the most far-reaching impact naturally occurs in the embargoed United States.

The memory of the oil embargo on Americans is too deep, and this has brought about a major change in US policy, and the tycoons on Wall Street and the bigwigs in Washington have strengthened their determination to prevent the embargo from happening again, and ensuring the supply of oil to the United States has become a major premise for their decision-making, and after 1973, ensuring oil supply has become an unshakable premise for their decision-making.

The oil embargo has raised Saudi Arabia's position on the world political stage, and Washington has to agree that Saudi Arabia is strategically important to the US economy.

In addition, Wall Street tycoons have had to resort to all their skills to get the petrodollar back into their pockets, and they are beginning to think about the growing wealth of Saudi Arabia, which they know is lacking in the proper administrative and institutional mechanisms to manage this huge amount of oil.

Anything driven by huge interests has never been the most efficient, and the big guys are ready for everything and are waiting for the embargo to end.

So, as soon as the embargo ended, John Perkins stood on the streets of Riyadh.

John Perkins, ostensibly as Main's chief economic adviser, is really an economic killer.

The concept of an economic killer emerged with the shaping of the US national strategy.

After the Second World War, due to the rise of nationalist movements and changes in the world pattern, armed colonial plunder was no longer realistic, but the American people did not agree to it without plunder, so economic colonial plunder came into being.

The economic killer emerged with the economic colonial plunder.

The so-called economic killers are those professionals who are dressed up as economists, bankers, international financial advisers, and so on, but in fact shoulder the strategic task of establishing US global hegemony.

In order to achieve the goal of indulging other countries by economic means, economic killers do everything, such as using bribery, pornography, threats and extortion, and even assassination to win over and control the political and economic elites of other countries, deliberately make erroneous macroeconomic analysis and industrial investment proposals, lure developing countries into preset economic traps, control the economic lifelines and natural resources of these countries, and let trillions of funds flow into the United States through deceptive means, so as to consolidate and expand US economic, political, and military hegemony in the world.

John Perkins is such an economic killer, and his mission in Saudi Arabia this time is to make false macroeconomic analysis and industrial investment recommendations, lure Saudi Arabia into a preset economic trap, and control Saudi Arabia's economic lifeline and natural resources.

In fact, John Perkins is only one part of the overall U.S. oil strategy.

The crisis is also a turning point, and this time, this sentence has been completely fulfilled in the United States, and the United States has found unimaginable opportunities from this crisis.

John Perkins looked calm, strolled through the streets of Riyadh, and finally, he stopped in front of the building of Riyadh Municipal Axe.

Municipal Axe Building, which is where Perkins most wants to see.

Coming here, Perkins didn't want to see the Municipal Axe Building, he wanted to see the sheep rummaging through the garbage heap in front of the Municipal Axe Building.

Two months ago, after accepting the assignment from the political axe, Perkins began to meditate.

A month ago, he came across a photograph from a Saudi diplomat of a flock of sheep rummaging through a garbage heap in front of the Municipal Axe building in Riyadh for food.

From that diplomat, Perkins learned something that he couldn't believe: the sheep were responsible for cleaning up the garbage in Riyadh.

Why use the flock to do the work of disposing of garbage? The diplomat told Perkins the answer: "Saudi Arabians have a lot of self-esteem, no one wants to collect garbage, this kind of work is left to the animals." ”

It was here that Perkins was inspired, and he suddenly knew how to proceed with his work.

Perkins could not work alone, and his task was a follow-up task that could only be carried out after the successful negotiations between the American and Saudi political axes.

Perkins is coming here now to prepare for his work.

Five days after Perkins' arrival in Riyadh, a delegation of U.S. political axes, led by Secretary of State Dr. Kissingki, arrived in Riyadh.

The negotiations were quickly successful, and the Saudi government accepted the U.S. offer to provide technical support, military equipment and military training.

Of course, there is a price to be paid for accepting the benefits.

In fact, the fact that the negotiations went so well had little to do with Dr. Kissinger's ability and more to do with two things: one was the strength of the United States, and the other was the predicament of the Arab world itself.

The power of the United States is reflected in its control of Israel, Iran, and Turkey, and this has led the United States to form a three-pinch posture in the Middle East, controlling the scattered and disunited Arabs.

Scattered and disunited Arabs, this is the dilemma of the Arab world.

When everyone is united in hatred, oil has become a powerful weapon of political blackmail, which has terrified the Western world, but once this momentum has passed, the Arab world has become a plate of scattered sand.

The Arab world's predicament is caused by two contradictions: the contradictions between Sunnis and Shiites; The contradiction between the Arabs and the Persians.

Saudi Arabia, the core of the Arab world, is the core embodiment of these two contradictions, and it is for this reason that Saudi Arabia has to succumb to the pressure of the United States.

Iran, both a Persian and a Shia, is the biggest external threat to Sunni Saudi Arabia, and it has naturally become a killer weapon for the United States to threaten Saudi Arabia.

If it were just this, Saudi Arabia would not give in easily, but Saudi Arabia is not only a Sunni Saudi Arabia, but more importantly, the Saudi Arabia of the Saudi royal family.

In Saudi Arabia, there are not many forces that covet the Saudi royal family, and one or three is enough for the United States to exert itself. What's more, in addition to Saudi Arabia, there are also many Sunnis outside Saudi Arabia who covet Saudi Arabia's wealth.

All this, it is not the turn of Saudi Arabia not to give in.

Once the basic principles are in place, it's time for economic killers like Perkins to put their talents to work. After the formation of the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Economic Commission, Perkins came into the picture.

The U.S.-Saudi Arabia Joint Economic Commission embodies a new model of foreign aid that is completely out of the norm: hiring American companies to build Saudi Arabia with Saudi Arabian money.

Perkins' job is to exaggerate the prospects for Saudi Arabia's economy: what will happen if Saudi Arabia is invested in infrastructure development, and at the same time, Perkins will need to work out a specific plan for the allocation of funds.

In short, Perkins wants to be as creative as he can, and to exaggerate the rationale for pouring money into Saudi Arabia's economy.

Of course, there is a premise for this to allow American engineering and construction companies to get these contracts.

Perkins's work embodied Wall Street and Washington's attempt to saddle Saudi Arabia with a debt that it would never pay off, and find a way to ensure that the vast petrodollars would return to America's pockets.

In the process, Saudi Arabia will be pulled into the water, and its economic development will be forever dependent on the United States.

The more Westernized Saudi Arabia's economy becomes, the more the country will be able to resonate with the U.S. system, or even fully integrate into the U.S. system.

In fact, part of this strategic concept of the United States is borrowed from China's approach in Africa.

On the surface, China's assistance to Africa seems to be how generous and kind the Chinese really are, but in fact, the Chinese are very shrewd and have long-term interests.

For example, the China-aided construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway.

The Tanzan Railway is a major transportation artery connecting East Africa and Central and South Africa, and is the transportation artery of East Africa. It stretches from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in the east to Kapiri Mposhi in central Zambia in the west, with a total length of 1,860.5 kilometers.

After the completion of this railway, China's ostensible interest is to obtain scarce copper mines, but in fact, China's biggest interest is not here, but after the completion of the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia railway, almost all railways in Africa will have to be built by Chinese in the future.

This is so because of the standards of the railway system.

Railways are an extremely complex and huge system, and countries with this system cannot build railways with other systems.

The cost of changing the system is too great.

The United States sees China's intentions, but in the United States, no one has such a long-term interest in Africa, not at all.

(To be continued)