When any country in history transitions from an agricultural society to an industrial society, it is inevitable that it will first plunder agriculture, rely on this wealth to accumulate and develop industry, which is almost an unbreakable truth, but Qiao Yu feels that China's situation is still too complicated, and it is not necessary to take this road, even if it is to go, it does not have to be as cruel as the powers, you must know that Britain is playing the trick of sheep eating people, the United States has killed Indians for hundreds of years in a row, and the Soviet Union starved to death tens of millions of people when it was industrialized!

Obviously, China has also reached this time, although Qiao Yu knows that some sacrifices are inevitable, but he still hopes to reduce the pain as much as possible and avoid social polarization, otherwise China is such a huge country, it is really divided into two classes with a huge gap, I am afraid that there will be endless disasters and social turmoil, so Qiao Yu advocates reducing agricultural taxes, and finally canceling agricultural taxes is from this point!

Of course, the abolition of the agricultural tax does not mean that the political axe has given up the deprivation of the peasants, in fact, it is still possible to rely on the scissors gap between industry and agriculture to flow profits to industry, but the means are more hidden, while Jiang Yonggui and others advocate more blatant plundering of the peasants!

After all, now the farmers have recovered some vitality, and they are much richer than at the end of the Qing Dynasty, especially the overhaul of water conservancy facilities in various places, and the grain output is also steadily increasing, and the farmers have begun to have a little money in their pockets, but seeing Qiao Yu's opposition, they are not good to insist anymore, but Wei Ruolan is very interested in Qiao Yu's proposal.

"Prime Minister, it is a good idea to make money through the financial market, but the financial risks are also very high, I don't know where we start?"

"Naturally, it is Europe, and now France is leading the issue of reparations to Germany, France has suffered heavy losses in the war and urgently needs reparations to restore the economy, so the French have opened their mouths and asked for 150 billion gold marks! Counting the interest, Germany will have to return more than 2.2 billion yuan a year, which is already much more than Germany can afford, President Wei, what do you think will happen next? ”

In fact, the heaviest losses in World War I were France, with millions of dead and wounded, an entire generation was emptied, the most elite industrial areas in the northeast were repeatedly ravaged by the war, and the output value of industry and agriculture fell sharply, even worse than the defeated Germany, in fact, what is even worse is that France's courage has been completely defeated, and it can be said that from this moment on, France has been removed from the world's first-line powers.

The most obvious sign is that at the Washington Conference, the share of the French navy is actually the same as that of Italy, what an irony, now the French are desperate to plunder the Germans, but this plunder is also limited, 2.2 billion gold marks a year has exceeded the limit of Germany's bearing, if the compensation is made according to this amount, the German political axe will soon cease to operate.

Wei Ruolan, who has been paying attention to the financial market, is very clear about this situation, and now when she heard Qiao Yu ask, she immediately returned: "Prime Minister, I think the Germans will not be willing to pay compensation, and they will definitely find ways to default, and it is best to completely rely on this reparation, and the French are also very likely to take compulsory action to make the Germans pay compensation!" ”

Qiao Yu nodded with a smile and continued: "President Wei, since you have seen this step, what do you say will happen next, and whether France and Germany can achieve their respective goals?" ”

Wei Ruolan thought carefully for a moment and shook her head, "Prime Minister, although France is the victorious country, but now that the control of the world has been in the hands of the United States, the Americans will definitely not watch Germany collapse, the United States will definitely intervene, and the conflict between France and Germany should be a lose-lose result!" ”

Speaking of this, Wei Ruolan's eyes also lit up, Qiao Yu did point out a clear way, once France and Germany conflicted, the mark and the franc will have a serious depreciation, and now the German mark has depreciated very seriously, I am afraid that after the conflict, the depreciation will be more serious, if China finds a way to short the franc and the mark at this time, it can indeed bring a lot of income!

As the saying goes, people must not be rich, and horses will not eat night grass and fertilizer. Since he didn't want to plunder the people in the country, he could only start from the great powers and make their money, China didn't have a little burden in his heart, Wei Ruolan immediately agreed with Qiao Yu's method.

"Thank you Prime Minister for your advice, I will arrange funds now, I am ready to hide the funds of the political axe behind some financial investment groups, through private capital as a cover, although it will be a little costly, but it can also avoid the attention of the great powers, I estimate that this time China will not have a problem earning tens of millions, and the fiscal deficit will be able to make up for a lot!"

"Governor Wei, don't worry, we can also pay attention to the situation of our neighbor Yueben, I think the economy of Yueben is not very healthy, the proportion of the military industry is too high, and the people are very dissatisfied, maybe there will be conflicts in the near future, I think I might as well pay attention to it!"

As a person of later generations, Qiao Yu of course knows that in 1923 there will be a great earthquake in Kanto that shocked the world, which seriously dampened the economy of Yueben, which is also an important opportunity for China to make a fortune, Qiao Yu is also ready to short the Yuan and Yueben bonds, and make a lot of money in one fell swoop, Qiao Yu does not have any mental burden to make money on himself, anyway, he owes China too much, and it is very good to let them repay a little interest first!

Of course, Qiao Yu couldn't tell Wei Ruolan that he knew that there would be a big earthquake that shocked the world a year later, and China had to prepare as soon as possible, so he could only find an excuse, Wei Ruolan was also skeptical, but Qiao Yu gave the order, and he had to carry it out.

Now the capital mobilization is far less easy than in later generations, Wei Ruolan has gathered a large number of financial experts to work together, fortunately, Qiao Yu has a very close connection with the industrial and commercial consortium, and now that the prime minister has assigned the task, they naturally have to send the most capable subordinates, especially they can also take this opportunity to make a lot of money, so countless funds began to converge to France and Germany in Europe!

And the Chinese do not know that before they act, the capital forces of the United States and Britain have long begun to act, this is an excellent opportunity to shear sheep, they will definitely not let go of this opportunity, China's capital is actually at most following behind to drink a sip of soup, but there is also a lot of oil and water in the soup!

In fact, this kind of capital game is often more cruel than the real war, the lifelong accumulation of countless people may come to naught overnight, how many small countries in later generations have collapsed because of this sheep shearing action, but for Europe China is still beyond the reach of the whip, but Qiao Yu still has a very good card in his hand!

That is the Vietnam National Liberation League led by Nguyen Aiguo, and now Nguyen Aiguo has officially hired Lu Rong Dinh as a military adviser, and the Vietnamese soldiers trained in China have been organized into three brigades, with a total number of more than 17,000 people, these people are completely trained according to the standards of the Chinese [***] team, and the equipment is also very advanced, and they have the possibility of confronting the French colonial army!

Now it's time to let this dog out, as long as the French colonies are shaken, it is definitely an important impact on the French economy, China can rely on controlling the war situation in Vietnam, exert influence on France according to its own ideas, and if it wants to make the franc appreciate, it will deliberately create a few defeats, if you want to suppress the franc, you will win a few battles, so that the French economy will be played with applause!

Thinking of this, Qiao Yu was also amused for a while, didn't the American consortium in later generations rely on this method to affect the world oil price, and then control the world economy, and now China has also embarked on the road of great powers.

Of course, Nguyen Aiguo, who is still in Guangxi, does not know that his chess piece still has this kind of wonderful use, he can't wait for a long time, how many times he has dreamed that he led a large army to completely drive the French colonists out of the country, Vietnam has finally become a country with independent reading power under his leadership, what a beautiful dream, but the reality is still very cruel, Vietnam must rely on the power of China to be able to read power!

In fact, Nguyen Aiguo also saw through that China was just trying to use his own purposes, but now he had no choice but to hope that China would loosen the noose and allow him to attack the French colonists, and at this time Qiao Yu's secret telegram had arrived, Qiao Yu expressed his firm support for the Vietnamese Reading Movement in the telegram, and allowed the Vietnam National Liberation Union to take decisive action!

Qiao Yu's telegram undoubtedly sent a holy decree to Ruan Aiguo and the others, they were already able to act at will, Ruan Aiguo was immediately overjoyed, and he hurriedly found his subordinates and Lu Rongting.

"Advisor, this is our first military operation, we must only succeed, not fail, and everything depends on your strategy!"

Lu Rongting's eyelids twitched slightly, "Mr. Ruan, the first battle is very crucial, I have two plans, the first is to start from the north of Vietnam, attack the area of Pro Lok and Cao Binh, establish a solid base here first, and then gradually develop to the south!" ”

Ruan Aiguo stared at the map at this time, and when he heard Lu Rongting's suggestion, he shook his head slightly, "Your Excellency Advisor, Baole, the area around Gaoping is mountainous and sparsely populated, so there is no point in capturing it!" ”

Lu Rongting secretly thought in his heart that Ruan Aiguo was still too anxious, he was about the same age as Qiao Yu, but this calm momentum was too bad, it was precisely because it was a mountainous area that it was easy to gain a foothold, but since Ruan Aiguo disagreed, there was only another plan!

"Since Mr. Nguyen does not agree, then we have to use the second plan, I think we can attack Lang Son first, this is 18 kilometers away from the Sino-Vietnamese border, and only 130 kilometers away from Hanoi, this is the northern gateway of Vietnam, as long as this gate is taken down, then Hanoi is far away, but although there are many advantages to capturing here, but we must also be prepared to face the crazy revenge of France!"

Ruan Aiguo was completely fascinated by the benefits at this time, where could he still take care of the danger!

"Advisor, I think attacking Lang Son is the best option!"

After the decision was made, all the soldiers of the Vietnam National Liberation Union were mobilized, and Nguyen Ai Ao appointed the most elite 1st Brigade with mountain artillery as a sharp knife unit to take the lead in the attack!

The Vietnamese ignited the war in Southeast Asia, and the Chinese political axe at this time has focused on the European financial market, with the outbreak of war in Southeast Asia, the franc began to fall, and before the conflict between France and Germany appeared, the franc began to depreciate sharply, this sudden change even the capital of the United States and Britain did not expect, their capital is still pushing up the franc, absorbing more capital into the French financial market, and then going all out to short, but the war in Southeast Asia disrupted their deployment, only Chinese capital took the lead, took the first bite of meat!

(To be continued)