Chapter 532: The U.S. Self-Defense Forces Breaking the Shackles
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At the beginning of Roosevelt's presidency, the first thing was to rectify the US currency market, save the US economy, and stop the conspiracy of the great powers to short the US and plunder the wealth of the US. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗.
The Roosevelt administration abandoned the American gold standard, banned "free exchange," and implemented a new standard based on national credit, using the amount of production as a measure of the amount of money issued and in circulation. Roosevelt's New Deal was endorsed by the vast majority of the American middle class and the lower classes, and was seen as the only way to save the United States from its economic crisis.
However, Roosevelt's rise to power seriously touched the core interests of financial magnates in various countries, including the Chinese Empire. If gold is not used as the basis of the money supply, then the countries that hold gold reserves will no longer have gold to influence the US economy, and they will no longer be able to suck up US foreign exchange reserves as wantonly as before. At the same time, for the financial giants in the United States, if the national credit is guaranteed alone, that person's property will not be secured, because the government can arbitrarily issue money to squeeze the hard-earned money of working people. Clearly, the wealth of America's financial giants has shrunk more than the wealth of ordinary people.
For this reason, the five major plutocratic plutocracy in the United States immediately organized a group to put pressure on the Roosevelt administration, demanding that it abandon the plan of the New Deal to abandon the gold standard, but if the Roosevelt administration wants not to step down, it must unite the middle class and the lower level of the common people in the United States. As a result, Roosevelt's Nazi administration immediately rejected the demands of the five plutocracy.
However, the Roosevelt administration did not have much money in its hands, and if it wanted to implement the New Deal, it must first stabilize the economic crisis and prevent the dollar from falling and the international financial predators from continuing to short the United States. You need the help of the five chaebols. Therefore. Roosevelt weighed the pros and cons and finally reached a compromise with the five major chaebols, the Federal Reserve changed from a state-run to a public-private partnership, with the US government holding 40 percent of the shares, and the remaining 60 percent of the shares being distributed by the five major chaebols according to the ratio of their respective assets. In this way, the Zeringen consortium received the largest stake with total assets of $5.5 billion, accounting for 20% of the Fed. Morgan second, with a 15% stake, and the Rockefeller consortium suffered a lot of losses because the main oil-producing areas of the United States were occupied by Mexico. It ranks third in terms of total assets, holding 10% of the shares. Citigroup is fourth, with a 9% stake, and Cleveland is fifth. 6% of the shares.
Overall, the U.S. government is the largest shareholder, but if the U.S. government wants to manipulate the Fed to print money, it must reach an agreement with one or both of the five major chaebols, or it will not pass. Conversely, the five major consortia, united to have a 60% stake in order to protect their own interests, can prevent the US government from intervening in the currency. In this way, the currency of the United States is effectively manipulated in the hands of the five major conglomerates.
After reaching an agreement with the Roosevelt administration, the five major consortia immediately agreed to the implementation plan of Roosevelt's New Deal. Soon the U.S. Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal implementation measures.
In April 1930, the Federal Reserve announced that the United States would abandon the gold standard, prohibit "free exchange", and implement a new standard based on national credit, based on the amount of production as a measure of the issuance and circulation of money. This reform stopped the decline of the dollar, and people could no longer exchange dollars directly with gold, so that the gold reserves that the US treasury had warned about were stabilized. The international community deplored the cessation of the exchange of the dollar for gold, and then the currencies of all countries abandoned their peg to the dollar and terminated their exchange for the ruble of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, the Roosevelt administration temporarily terminated trading in the U.S. stock market. As a result, the international financial predators originally planned to carry out a bottom-buying operation when the dollar depreciated to the lowest point, and were ready to inject back funds to speculate on the dollar. But with the closure of the U.S. stock market, the main channel for financial predators to buy the bottom was closed, and the plan to make a big profit suddenly went bankrupt.
Moreover, the Fed is supported by five major consortia. There was no rush to recycle the excess dollar banknotes on the market, but to further devalue the dollar. Let the domestic and foreign financiers who are ready to continue to speculate in the dollar market go short, and the bottom-buying plan goes bankrupt, and some of the financiers even lose money in turn. ╔╗
It was not until September that the Federal Reserve officially introduced the plan to stabilize the currency and related laws, stabilizing the US dollar at the base exchange rate of 100 US dollars to 1 dragon coin, and adjusted it by the Federal Reserve to maintain this ratio, neither appreciating nor depreciating, and the maximum floating range was only 2 cents, so that the international financial predators had no way to short or buy the bottom of the US dollar to make a profit.
Although Roosevelt stabilized the US monetary and financial system, the heavy damage inflicted on the US economy by last year's international shorting of the US was enormous, and it is impossible to recover all at once. Faced with widespread job losses, economic downturn, and social unrest in the country, the Roosevelt administration had to come up with more solutions.
Of course, Roosevelt's temporary cooperation with the five major consortia was only a stopgap measure. According to Roosevelt's thinking, his current power is very precarious. Externally, there was constant intervention from the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire was the least willing to see Roosevelt come to power, and during Roosevelt's political career, the Chinese Empire constantly put pressure on the U.S. government and attacked Roosevelt and his Nazi Party at every turn. If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese Empire, together with European and American countries, shorted the United States, resulting in a large-scale economic crisis in the United States, Roosevelt would not have had a chance to come to power. Originally, the two major political parties in the United States, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, were unable to clean up the mess in front of them, so they turned a blind eye to the Nazi Party to come to power and let Roosevelt be elected president. The Republicans and the Democrats knew very well that Roosevelt would make Roosevelt the scapegoat. If Roosevelt did not handle the crisis well, then the Republicans and Democrats would have used Roosevelt and the Nazi Party to vent public anger and deflice the political crisis. Similarly, if Roosevelt had handled the crisis well, the Republicans and Democrats would not have allowed Roosevelt to remain in power and would have found a way to remove him from office.
Roosevelt saw it very clearly, so he is now trying to save the crisis on the one hand, and on the other hand, tightening his control over the various branches of the American government, the Nazi Party infiltrated the various branches of the American government, squeezed out the former Republican and Democratic members, and controlled the entire American state apparatus. At the same time, Roosevelt's primary concern was the command of the army.
Because Roosevelt wrote the book "Mein Kampf" while in prison, he was deeply praised by the German Führer Hitler and the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. So Hitler and Mussolini were always in contact with Roosevelt. They have been in communication for a long time. The experience of Hitler and Mussolini in coming to power and controlling state power was also unreservedly passed on to Roosevelt, so Roosevelt admired the national fascist methods of the two of them very much, so the American fascism directed by Roosevelt was quickly introduced and put into action.
Faced with complex social problems in the United States, Roosevelt learned from the tactics of Hitler and Mussolini, and on the one hand, he vilified the Jews led by the Rothschilds at home, claiming that they were the main culprits who shorted the American currency and led to the economic crisis in the United States, leading domestic contradictions to the Jews. As a result, the life of Jews in the United States became even more difficult, and Jewish companies, factories, and shops were looted and smashed. Millions of Jews were soon homeless and reduced to beggars. Thus, through the persecution of Jews, millions of Americans quickly settled their employment and living problems. Greatly relieved the pressure on the Roosevelt administration.
However, there are still six or seven million people who have lost their jobs as a result of the economic crisis, and there are few Jewish shops left to loot and occupy. Roosevelt's New Economic Policy was unlikely to be effective in the short term, so in order to solve the problems of these people's work and life, the Roosevelt administration decided to take a risk.
The quickest way to solve the problem of unemployment is to restore the industrial system of the United States, so that a large number of unemployed people can be resettled in a short period of time. But the United States faced military sanctions from the Chinese Empire and faced great difficulties in developing the military industry.
As a result, the Roosevelt administration decided to provoke the US-Mexico dispute. In the past, Roosevelt and his Nazi Party did not fight the Mexicans very much, basically mainly against Jews who did not have a backstage, and the strength of the Mexican army was not something that Roosevelt's Nazi Party could afford to provoke. ╔╗ But it's different now. Roosevelt came to power and mastered the power of the US Self-Defense Forces. Although the Self-Defense Forces are not very powerful, they always have chips in their hands.
Roosevelt called on Americans not to buy Mexican goods, not to serve Mexicans, and to drive Mexicans out of American territory, citing Mexico's illegal occupation of Louisiana by force. Soon, under the organization of the Nazi Party, a large number of unemployed Americans joined the anti-Mexican movement. They smashed and looted Mexican shops, companies, and homes in the United States, causing a large number of Mexican casualties. Heavy losses.
There were Mexican troops stationed in places like Philadelphia and Chicago, and soon the rioting Americans were suppressed by force by the Mexican garrison.
On October 7, 1930, the Mexican garrison in Chicago opened fire on an American marcher, killing thousands of Americans and creating the horrific 10.7 massacre. The atrocities of the Mexican army provoked unanimous hostility throughout the United States. International public opinion in the West is also on the side of the United States, especially Germany and Italy. Both Hitler and Mussolini wanted to have good relations with Roosevelt, and if they could draw the United States into the camp of the Allies, the power of the Allies would be greatly weakened, and if war broke out again, the Allies would have a better chance of victory. For this purpose, Germany and Italy also strongly support the American people. And U.S. allies such as Britain and France were also ashamed that they did not help the United States during the Sino-American war, so they also strongly supported the United States.
In this way, the United States has the political support of the Western world. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the United States again submitted to the League of Nations the atrocities committed by the Mexican army in the United States and demanded that the Mexican army withdraw from Louisiana. The five permanent members of the Security Council, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy all support the United States, and the Chinese Empire wants to support Mexico, but the massacre of civilians by the Mexican army has caused international public opinion to criticize, and even Roosevelt specially sent people to send the video to the major mainstream media of the Chinese Empire overnight for broadcast, so that even the people in the Chinese Empire are greatly disgusted and do not approve of the Mexican army's actions. Although the Americans were the first to oppose Mexico, after all, it was a popular act, and it should be a political consultation between the two governments, and the side that used force first would never occupy the moral high ground, let alone massacre civilians. Even the citizens of the Chinese Empire denounced Mexico's inhumanity and put tremendous pressure on the Imperial Government. Therefore, during the Security Council vote, the Chinese Empire chose to abstain.
Thus, the Council voted 4 in favor and 1 abstention, and the League of Nations adopted a statement demanding the withdrawal of Mexican troops from United States territory.
The Mexican government protested, and the Mexican ambassador to China, Sánchez, immediately met with Imperial Foreign Minister Cao Rulin to ask for help from the Chinese Empire.
In this regard, Cao Rulin conveyed the opinion of Tang Shaoyi, prime minister of the Chinese Imperial Cabinet. Let Mexico take refuge for the time being. Come up with a timetable for the withdrawal of troops, as long as it is delayed for a period of time, and wait until international public opinion calms down and the people of all countries gradually forget about it.
Sanchez then conveyed Tang Shaoyi's suggestion to Mexican President Emilio? Porters? Kiel, Kiel decided to follow the advice of the Chinese Empire and took the initiative to submit a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from the United States to the League of Nations, saying that Mexican troops would withdraw from the United States one after another from now on, but asked the League of Nations to stop the anti-Mexican demonstrations in the United States, calling the Americans mobs and bandits.
In this regard, the League of Nations also agreed. However, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy all sided with the United States and did not take real action.
Getting Mexico to withdraw its troops from the United States was not Roosevelt's ultimate goal, what Roosevelt wanted was to get an excuse to rebuild the American team.
So, Roosevelt instructed his ace men. The leader of the US SS, modeled after Hitler's SS organization, and the commander-in-chief of the US Ground Self-Defense Force, Douglas Murphy. General MacArthur personally deployed operations and led the backbone of the Nazi Party to cause unrest in the Mexican army-occupied areas such as Louisiana, California, and New Mexico, and organized multiple guerrilla units to attack the Mexican garrison in all directions. ╔╗
In less than a month, the Mexican army lost thousands of men, which immediately angered the Mexican government. Soon after, the Mexican government announced that the Mexican army had been attacked by American guerrillas, terminated the withdrawal plan, and sent additional troops to the state of Louisiana. For the local American guerrillas to fight fiercely.
Because the Chinese Empire left Mexico and the United States with huge territorial disputes after the Sino-American War, the Third American-Mexican War finally broke out at this time.
On December 3, 1930, 30,000 Mexican reinforcements marched into Louisiana to suppress the local American guerrillas. On this ground, the U.S. government demanded that the League of Nations stop the Mexican army's behavior, otherwise the U.S. would go to war with Mexico in order to defend U.S. territory.
Since most of the Western countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Italy supported the United States, the Chinese Empire wanted to support Mexico, but the Mexican government and army were too uncooperative and fell into the trap set by the Americans from the beginning. So much so that the Chinese Empire could not go against the international public opinion environment to help Mexico.
The Chinese Empire sent a special envoy to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Kiel. Kiel received the tacit approval of the Chinese Empire, which assured him that it would not allow the United States to intervene in the Mexican-American War, believing that Mexico's strong military might would be enough to defeat the U.S. Self-Defense Forces. So Mexico decided to ignore the League of Nations' criticism and decided to give the Americans a little color.
December 9th. The 100,000-strong First Army, Mexico's most elite First Army, marched into Louisiana and launched a large-scale operation to wipe out the US guerrillas, killing more than 700 US guerrillas in less than half a month.
At the same time, Roosevelt also convened key officers of the U.S. Self-Defense Forces to discuss countermeasures. After a unanimous decision, Roosevelt prepared for war against Mexico. Before the war, however, Roosevelt needed to arm the U.S. Self-Defense Forces on a large scale. At the same time, Roosevelt also wanted to test the bottom line of the Chinese Empire, throwing out that if Mexico declared war on the United States, the strength of the American Self-Defense Forces would not be able to resist Mexico's millions of troops, and demanded the abolition of the military sanctions imposed by the Chinese Empire on the United States.
As the imperial Chinese cabinet struggled with how to deal with Roosevelt's financial reforms, Tang Shaoyi reported to Wang Chenhao: "If the United States is dragged into a war with Mexico, the economic recovery of the United States can be stalled." With Mexico's military and economic strength, it is enough to crush the United States! Therefore, Tang Shaoyi suggested that the imperial government neither recognize nor oppose the expansion of the US Self-Defense Forces, and make a decision according to the development of the situation. Wang Chenhao then approved Tang Shaoyi's proposal, and the Chinese Empire did not respond to the request of the American side.
For Roosevelt, his temptation was successful. He knew very well that as long as the development of US military strength did not threaten the national defense and security of the Chinese Empire, it would not provoke a strong backlash from the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire feared the most was that the United States had a powerful navy, so Roosevelt took the initiative to show goodwill to the Chinese Empire, saying that the US Self-Defense Forces would not develop an ocean-going navy, and there would be absolutely no behavior that threatened and challenged the Chinese Empire.
In response to Roosevelt's assurances, the Chinese empire responded that it would look at the performance of the United States. As a result, Roosevelt understood that the Chinese Empire had relented on this issue, and the U.S. Self-Defense Forces had ushered in an excellent opportunity for development.
Since Roosevelt came to power, he has believed in Hitler's fascist tactics and stepped up the pace of military expansion. In 1929, the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Ground Self-Defense Force's total military expenditure was only 93 million dragon dollars. And the Roosevelt administration in order to prepare for war against Mexico. The newly approved military spending of the Self-Defense Forces soared to 1 billion dragon dollars, while the Chinese emperor's spending in the same period was 3.85 billion dragon dollars, Germany's military expenditure was 2.12 billion dragon dollars, Britain's military expenditure was 1.67 billion dragon dollars, and France's military expenditure was only 720 million dollars. ╔╗
Of course, the US military spending is not transparent, and the official announcement is only 260 million dragon dollars, while the other 740 million dragon dollars of military spending are covered by various names and are not discovered by the international community.
Naturally, the United States, which has just experienced a huge economic crisis, will not be able to spend a billion dragon dollars on its military at once. But Roosevelt had the means, and he emulated Hitler's tactics. Funds were raised through the issuance of a metallurgical institute securities, which were generally not cashed, and by 1931 the United States had tax revenues of $232 billion (R$2.32 billion). The income from metallurgical securities alone amounted to 420 million dragon dollars, and military spending exceeded half. On the one hand, it has rapidly absorbed the unemployed people in the United States into the military production industry, solved the problem of unemployment in the United States, and increased the overall purchasing power of society. At the same time, the United States demands that the people seek food and clothing rather than a well-off life, and any extravagant consumption is promoted as a depraved behavior. At a time when the nation's survival was at stake, Roosevelt's rise to power reunited the American nation.
Regarding Tang Shaoyi's proposal, Wang Chenhao always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it. After the Sino-American war, the United States ceded land and paid reparations, and its vitality was greatly damaged. After a period of more than ten years of recovery. The United States was once again hit by the currency war of the Chinese Empire's "short America", and a large-scale economic crisis broke out in the United States. But Wang Chenhao was always not at ease with Roosevelt, and he instructed the Imperial CIA to send people to assassinate Roosevelt many times, but they all failed. Originally, he continued to put pressure on the US authorities to attack Roosevelt, but Roosevelt struggled to become the president of the United States like a "little strong" who could not be killed. Moreover, Roosevelt's talent made Wang Chenhao nervous, and his new policy made the Chinese Empire, the world's largest gold reserve country, unsightly. If the United States does not enforce the gold standard, then the gold of the Chinese empire will not be able to make money in the United States. If Western countries follow the example of the United States, then the strategic purpose of the Chinese Empire to try to control the economy and finance of Western countries with gold will be in vain, and even create a certain degree of impact on the gold standard of the Chinese Empire.
Although there are various uncertain and uneasy factors in Wang Chenhao's heart, after this currency war against the United States. The Chinese Empire took a huge profit of 30 billion dragon coins from the United States and successfully prevented the recovery of the American economy. Strategically speaking, the Chinese empire has won another victory in this Sino-American game.
"Let's hope Mexico can drag the United States down!"
Wang Chenhao couldn't think of the future situation at this time, because the future is no longer based on "history", and for Wang Chenhao, he can only take one step at a time. At present, Wang Chenhao only hopes that the US-Mexico war can be fought endlessly, and at the same time drag down the United States and the newly rising Mexico.
The reason why Wang Chenhao is also worried about Mexico is because Mexico at this time is no longer the Mexico of history. The Chinese Empire included Mexico in the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere and made it a member of the Federation, because it saw the importance of Mexico on the American continent, and it was up to Mexico to contain the United States and contain the rise of the United States. It can be said that Mexico is a fierce watchdog in the eyes of the Chinese Empire, staring at the United States at this time.
However, after the Sino-American War, Mexico followed the Chinese Empire in fighting against the United States and gained great benefits after the war. Not only did it acquire 2.2 million square kilometers of fertile land, which houses a quarter of the industrial infrastructure of the United States, but Mexico suddenly turned a backward agricultural country into an industrial country. Moreover, the Chinese Empire gave Mexico Texas, the main oil-producing region of the United States, and for more than a decade, international oil consumption has surged, and Mexico has made a lot of money just by selling oil.
Since 1925, Mexico's steel production has jumped to the seventh highest in the world, behind the Soviet Union's 4.22 million tons, reaching 3.34 million tons, and higher than Italy's 2.26 million tons in eighth place. ╔╗Oil production ranks second in the world, reaching 13 million barrels, which is only 7 million barrels less than the oil production of the Chinese Empire, which is the first place, and has been taken seriously by the international community at once. At the same time, Mexico, as a member of the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere, does not have too many restrictions on science and technology, and basically most of the scientific and technological achievements of the Chinese Empire can be introduced into Mexico. This allowed Mexico to soon follow after the Chinese Empire. Bypassing the first industrial revolution and starting the second industrial revolution directly, and with great achievements.
Also, on the military side. Mexico was surrounded by the Chinese Empire, and after receiving huge indemnities from the United States, its military power grew strongly. By 1930, Mexico had a standing army of 1.2 million men, 400,000 of whom were mechanized. Mexico's army, navy, and air force have participated in joint military exercises organized by the Chinese Empire all year round in the member states of the Great China Federation, and can communicate and learn from the elite troops of the Chinese Empire for more than ten years. Mexico sent more than 100,000 soldiers to study at the Chinese Imperial Academy, and after returning home, these soldiers quickly became the main force of the Mexican army. In the early 1929 RIMPAC exercises, the Mexican Navy and Army performed well. Recognized by the international media as the world's third military power, its combat power surpasses that of Britain, France and Italy, and closely follows China and Germany.
So, taken together, Mexico has a significant influence on the international stage. But this is exactly what Wang Chenhao is worried about, because he doesn't want Mexico to become too powerful, so strong that there is no power to balance Mexico on the American continent, which is not conducive to the strategic layout of the Chinese Empire on the American continent. Therefore, this time, Wang Chenhao acquiesced to the expansion of the strength of the US Self-Defense Forces, and a large part of the reason was that he did not want Mexico to grow. Only a delicate balance between the United States and Mexico served the national interests of the Chinese Empire.
In February 1931, under the pretext of the Mexican army's invasion of the United States, Roosevelt announced that the United States was facing the threat of national extinction, so he publicly announced the abolition of the military sanctions imposed by the Chinese Empire on the United States, expanding the 100,000 troops of the United States Ground Self-Defense Force to 300,000, the Maritime Self-Defense Force from 5,000 to 10,000 people, and purchasing 200 main battle tanks, 300 fighters, 5,000 artillery pieces, and 12,000 light and heavy machine guns. 600,000 rifles, as well as 20,000 military vehicles and 3 million tons of ammunition.
International public opinion has given strong support to the expansion of the US Self-Defense Forces. The Chinese Empire did not expect Roosevelt to publicly announce the expansion, and the Chinese Empire was very dissatisfied with this and raised strong opposition. But it has not been put into practice. This move was undoubtedly guessed by Roosevelt, and the Chinese empire was not at ease with Mexico. Therefore, the fact of the expansion of the US Self-Defense Forces was acquiesced.
Although the Chinese Empire acquiesced in the expansion of the U.S. Self-Defense Forces, it did not mean that the U.S. Self-Defense Forces could obtain advanced weapons and equipment from Europe. The Chinese Empire pressured European countries to ban arms exports to the United States and prevent war from breaking out in the Americas.
Of course, this is just an excuse for the Chinese Empire. There is nothing more lucrative than the arms deal, and in fact, the major arms dealers of the Chinese Empire have received the government's tacit approval to export weapons and equipment to the United States. It's just that in terms of quality and performance, it is inferior to the weapons and equipment that the Chinese Empire exported to the Mexican military earlier, which is also to appease the Mexican military.
However, a considerable part of the arms dealers of the Chinese Empire were not so honest. Soon after the US side smashed down a large amount of money, many arms dealers were stunned and sold some advanced weapons and equipment and technology to the US side, so that the weapons and equipment of the US Self-Defense Forces were greatly improved.
The U.S. Self-Defense Forces massively expanded their military capabilities, purchased advanced weapons and equipment, and prepared for war against Mexico. Similarly, Mexico was quick to learn of the intentions of the U.S. Self-Defense Forces and ordered to mobilize for war. For Mexico alone, they are confident that they will defeat the United States.
The Chinese Empire was not worried about the Third Mexican-American War, and the Imperial Officials from the Yellow Emperor Chen Hao believed that the Mexican-American War was within the control of the Chinese Empire and that there was no need to worry about accidents, so the Chinese Empire had been worried for a while after Roosevelt came to power, and now they are relieved.
While waiting for Mexico and the United States to lose both, the major financial groups of the Chinese Empire once again set their sights on the European currency market after losing the American currency market.
In fact, shorting has always existed in the monetary system of any country, but the scale of shorting is different. Small-scale short-selling does not affect a country's overall monetary system, including the Chinese Empire's Dragon Coin, which is sometimes hyped up by some international financial predators, but the Chinese Empire implements a state-intervened free-market economic system, and the Dragon Dollar is backed by strong huge gold reserves, although the Central Bank of the Chinese Empire occasionally issues more banknotes. But it has remained stable overall. Dragon coins are affected by market supply and demand. Occasionally, there will be fluctuations of less than a few cents, and at this time, some financiers will speculate on dragon coins, but the profits will not be much, and it will not affect the overall monetary system of the Chinese Empire.
But it was different in Europe, where Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other major World War I countries participated in the war, and their post-war monetary system was stabilized by the capital injection of the Chinese Empire, and the major banks of the Chinese Empire held huge foreign exchange reserves in these countries. While countries were trying to restore the gold standard, most of the gold was held by the Chinese Empire, whose treasury reserves were so small that they could not be directly exchanged for currency in circulation.
At that time, the major banks of the Chinese Empire helped European countries to buy excess banknotes on the market. As a result, the currencies of various countries stopped depreciating and continued to recover, eventually returning to pre-war levels. During this period, the foreign exchange reserves of various countries held by the major banks of the Chinese Empire undoubtedly appreciated. Thereupon. Over the years, the major bankers of the empire would often sell away their foreign exchange reserves in European countries when the price was high, and as a result, a large number of paper money entered the European markets, causing their currencies to depreciate in fact and stock prices to fall. When the stock price fell to near the bottom, the major bankers of the Chinese empire once again bought back the government bonds of European countries at low prices, which is shorting.
In this way, every year, the financial predators of the Chinese Empire use the huge foreign exchange reserves in their hands to manipulate the exchange rates and stock prices of European currencies, and sell them out when they are high. When it is low, it will be repurchased back, earn the difference in the middle, and continue to short the currency markets of European countries, the scale is different, and the most affected is naturally France, because the Chinese Empire holds France's national bonds of up to 2,000 billion francs, and more than 30 billion francs flow into the Chinese Empire every year because of the deliberate shorting by financial groups. And every year in the currency wars alone, European countries have a huge profit of more than 20 billion dragon coins that are cashed out and withdrawn by the Chinese Empire.
Thomson, a famous European economist, said: "The Chinese Empire is a giant vampire, it has a straw full of straws in every country in the world, and the average GDP growth rate in the world is only 2.5%. The annual GDP growth rate of the Chinese Empire is as high as 20%, far exceeding the international average, and 10% of the GDP growth rate is actually contributed to the Chinese Empire by the people of Europe and the United States. The Chinese Empire holds huge gold reserves and is eager to drain the foreign exchange reserves of all countries in the world. ”
At a time when the Chinese Empire was busy squeezing out the hard-earned money of various countries, on Spanish soil. The Spanish government army and the ** army have also entered the moment of decisive battle.
At the end of March 1930, the ** Army was under the leadership of General Mola. A large-scale offensive was launched in the provinces of the Basque Country. 60,000 people (including two Italian divisions) with Liano? Morality? 45,000 Basques led by General Skom Anda went into battle. The Basques are by no means **, on the contrary, they are conservatives and Catholics. But in the summer of 1929, Basque leaders took advantage of the political crisis in Spain and finally obtained Madrid's consent to establish an independent republic. Knowing that if Franco won they would inevitably return to Spanish rule, they decided to resist alone, since they did not receive help from Valencia, the seat of government.
The army first shelled Guernica, a city in the Basque Country. Guernica is a holy city, an ancient religious shrine in the Basque Country, where kings once swore an oath of respect for liberty under a large oak tree. The German Condo Regiment carried out its first-ever carpet bombing on April 26, 1930. It's Monday, it's a market day, and the streets are packed. Suddenly, Luftwaffe Heinkel bombers and Messersmit fighters launched a flood of attacks on people and houses without warning, every 20 minutes. The horror lasted for three hours, killing 1,700 people and injuring 900, leaving not a single house intact.
Li Na, a reporter for the Imperial Chinese Daily News in Berlin, asked the German Ministry of Defense about the German bombing of civilians. Göring happily answered her question.
"We wanted to test what kind of effect carpet bombing can have on the morale of civilians."
This sentence was immediately published on the front page of the international news page of the day by the Mainichi Shimbun, and immediately provoked unanimous condemnation from the whole world, but the German government did not react to it, arguing that they were not wrong.
It was at this time that the contradictions within the Spanish Republic reached their zeniest, when the Catalan anarchists and the Trotskyist Boum Party (Marxist United Labour) rebelled in Barcelona in May against the measures taken by the government to strengthen discipline and order. After three days of fighting, the government put down the rebellion. The USSR demanded the dissolution of the Poum party on this basis, Largo? Caballero was adamantly opposed, so two Soviet advisers resigned. Caballero formed another government without the CPSU, but without success. On May 17, the leader of the Socialist Party, Juan ? Negrin formed a new government of two ministers with Comintern status, dissolved the Pou Party, severely punished the rebel leaders, and disarmed the "unsupervised" elements. The anarchist order was eliminated, industry in Aragon began to get on track, domestic weapons were produced and distributed to troops, and land reform was carried out in the countryside.
Germany and Italy, frustrated with the prospect of war, finally tore off their masks and went into battle shirtless. On 31 May, the German battleship 'Admiralscheer' bombarded Almeria. The Germans fired a total of 200 shells, killing 19 people, wounding 55 and destroying 150 houses. German and Italian warships began to blockade the coastline of the republic in a grand manner. One after another, Italian submarines sank ships bound for the ports of the Republic. As a result of the sinking of British and French ships, European countries convened a meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, to force Italian submarines to stop their public actions against the Spanish Republic in the Mediterranean.
The special operations brigade assembled by the Chinese Empire in the Mediterranean Sea has not participated in the war for a long time, because the Spanish Civil War was a mess, and both the government army and the ** army basically have no strict position, today the government army is infighting, tomorrow the ** army is infighting, the day after tomorrow a group of government troops took the initiative to surrender to the ** army, and the day after tomorrow another group of ** army took the initiative to surrender to the government army. In short, the Spanish Civil War was like a family, which made the Chinese Emperor ** feel very unsafe to participate in the war, and the German army and the Italian army participated in the war, they also touched the dust, and the military operation intelligence was often betrayed, which made the Chinese Imperial General Staff suspend the idea of directly participating in the war, and instead sent military observation groups to watch the war in various places and collect battlefield data to return to China for reference.
On 26 August, the Italian Litorio, XXIII and Fiami-Nere divisions occupied Santander under continuous shelling, and 60,000 Republican and Basque soldiers were captured. Then, 25,000 Basque soldiers and more than 3,000 officers disarmed the Italians in the harbor east of Santander to be allowed to board British ships anchored in the bay and leave. In September, the ** army stormed the last fortress in the north of the republic - the province of Asturias. The army mobilized 150 battalions, 400 artillery pieces, 150 tanks and more than 200 aircraft, and the navy of the army also blockaded the port of Gijón. The republican army had only 80 artillery pieces, a handful of tanks and aircraft, and was severely short of ammunition and medicine.
In order to rescue the north, the IRA launched the Battle of Brunette on July 6, and General Lister prepared to concentrate 50,000 Republican troops, including four international brigades, 100 Soviet-made tanks and 100 Soviet-made aircraft (half of the Republic's air force) to attack the rebels in Brunette, north of Madrid, to achieve the goal of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao. But the equipment of the troops was too poor, and the machine guns and cannons in the hands of the soldiers were all products of the First World War. And Franco, in order to counter this offensive, concentrated 31 infantry battalions, 7 artillery battalions and the German Condo Corps. The Germans quickly gained air supremacy and fiercely suppressed the Republican offensive from the air, and the artillery of the ** army also had a clear advantage. After hard fighting, on 19 July, the Republican Army, which had suffered heavy losses, was forced to retreat. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )