Chapter 464: Naval Blockade

Qiao Yu, like most people of his time, believed that the country would be completely independent if all unequal treaties were abolished, but the implementation was far from as simple as imagined, and the great powers had been rampant on the land of China for seventy or eighty years since 1840.

During this time, the great powers seized China's wealth and dragged China into the world market, but in order to develop China's resources, it was necessary to make upfront investment, including railways, ports, and other facilities, most of which were built by the great powers in the form of government funds.

When Qiao Yu abolished the unequal treaties, most of them had been recovered, but there were still a large number of private investments from foreign powers that could not be recovered, including land, mines, real estate, etc., especially in the most open cities like Shanghai, in addition to leased land, a large number of commercial areas and prime locations were controlled by Western consortium capital, even if China became independent, it could still rely on these facilities to grab wealth.

Cities are the symbol of modern civilization, but also the wealth of the area, and the central business area is the most dazzling diamond, these are the core assets of a country, for the development of a country has extraordinary significance, these areas are controlled by foreign capital, the harm to the development of the country can be imagined.

"President, we have also made some statistics on this issue earlier, just to calculate an approximate figure, we have at least more than 10 trillion yuan of state property controlled in the hands of foreigners, including real estate, real estate, factories, schools, libraries, parks, zoos, etc. in various open cities, and more than 60% of the known mines are also in the hands of foreigners, most of these properties are controlled in the name of private individuals or companies, but according to our analysis, only a few of them are purely private investments. More than eighty percent of them are controlled by Western conglomerates. They can obtain endless profits by virtue of their control over these assets, while the Chinese develop their own resources on their own land, but they also have to hand over the bulk of profits to the consortium, which is simply a lie to the extreme! ”

Wei Ruolan briefly introduced the situation to Qiao Yu, as the governor of China's central bank, his main mission is to maintain China's financial security. To escort China's development, such a huge core asset is controlled by foreign powers, how can he not be anxious and angry!

Zhang Taiyan on the side also had his hair open, and slapped the table hard, "President." If it had not been for the Japanese bombardment of Shanghai, which destroyed most of Shanghai, we might not have noticed this problem, because most of the ten-mile foreign fields in Shanghai were the property of foreigners, and we recovered the concessions, but did not recover the wealth, and I suggest that the government immediately pass a decree to nationalize all this wealth. Or sell it to the Chinese. We must not allow foreigners to take advantage! ”

"Mr. Taiyan, it's not just a matter of taking advantage. There are even more sinister intentions, Western Jewish conglomerates can use this wealth to manipulate China's economy, not only to use China's development for profit, but also to prevent China from going beyond their control, and how to use it is entirely up to them! ”

Wei Ruolan pointed out the greater harm, Qiao Yu gradually straightened things out, and also understood the mystery, many developing countries in the future will encounter something called the middle-income trap, and there is a more familiar name, that is, sheep shearing!

Since World War II, many developing countries have been planted on this, even a country as big as Brazil is difficult to escape, later economists have summarized countless reasons, but in Qiao Yu's view, the essential problem is one, that is, the huge core assets of the country are controlled in the hands of the consortium.

When a country is developing economically, business is booming, real estate prices are rising, and the demand for raw materials continues to increase, the wealth in the hands of the consortium will swell exponentially, and when the country develops to a certain point, it will exceed the control ability of the consortium, and the situation will be reversed.

These conglomerates can manipulate the prices of some raw materials and hinder economic development, and they control the real estate of major cities, and when a country wants to improve its infrastructure and push the economy to a higher level, they will use proxies to jump out and drag economic construction under the banner of democracy and human rights and the sanctity of private property.

However, after World War II, many independent countries are democratic systems, and everything must be arranged according to the votes, so many issues will be delayed for a long time, such as India in the later generations is a typical representative!

Now these consortium forces have not been launched, the reason is that China is not fat enough, and after a certain extent, they will not hesitate to shear the sheep, Zhang Taiyan has been thinking about this problem all the way, he knows the great harm of this situation, but he has not thought of a good way to solve it.

Regarding Zhang Taiyan's proposal for confiscation, Qiao Yu and Wei Ruolan both shook their heads, and Wei Ruolan said: "Mr. Taiyan, forcibly confiscating private property is a matter that violates the principles of the Constitution, and the amount is so huge, Western conglomerates will definitely not sit idly by, if we blindly do it, we will become the public enemy of the world like the Soviet Union!" ”

The reason why the Soviet Union was hated by all the great powers from the day of its founding, in addition to those superficial reasons, was also because the Soviet Union carried out a very fatal policy, that is, public ownership, and the confiscation of all foreign property, which naturally offended the Jewish consortium that really owned such property.

Moreover, the Soviet Union also provided a good example and idea for other colonial countries, playing finance with the consortium forces, playing with capital may not be able to play with them, but it can rely on administrative power to deal with them, and power is the sworn enemy of capital!

In fact, more than 40 percent of the officials in the Soviet Union were Jews in the early days of the founding of the Soviet Union, and perhaps it was precisely because they were all Jews that they knew where the fate of the Jews was! As long as private ownership is practiced, the ownership of property must be respected, and it is impossible to deal with these properties!

Because these properties do not fall into the hands of the state, they can only be given to private individuals, and anyone who dares to accept them will be in danger of being arrested and prosecuted if they leave the country, because they have violated the private property of others, and the state is the only one who will not be prosecuted.

The so-called democratic freedom preached by the West is in essence the freedom of capital, the freedom of consortia, and the respect for so-called private property, but most of the huge wealth of these consortia is ill-gotten gains, and how can it be sacrosanct, it is just an excuse for ruthless deprivation!

Later generations followed the path of the Soviet Union and resolutely implemented the public ownership system, judging from the current situation. There is no doubt that the pros outweigh the cons. It effectively ensured that the country's core assets were not deprived, and also laid a solid foundation for the subsequent economic take-off.

After thinking about it, Qiao Yu was also undecided in his heart, "President Wei, how do you think you can recover these core assets?" ”

Wei Ruolan smiled bitterly and said: "President, if you want me to say that the most direct way is to implement a comprehensive public ownership system, just like the Soviet Union's practice. However, there is also a great hidden danger in doing so, not only do we have to confiscate foreign assets, but we also have to confiscate our own assets, and we also have to face the situation of being isolated and hostile by all countries in the world, which is very detrimental to economic development! ”

Long after the Washington conference, there was a consensus to impose restrictions on latecomers. However, the great powers are all interest animals, the blockade is not tight, and with such a reliable partner as Germany, China can also get advanced technology.

However, once China offends the corporate forces, and these predators push for sanctions against China behind the scenes, things will become very troublesome, after all, the power of the government in the Western world is secondary, and it is the corporate forces that really die.

Qiao Yu thought twice. Then he said: "Our situation is not the same as that of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to emulate them completely, but this matter must be on the agenda. The core property of the country must not be left behind, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you find a breakthrough, things will become much easier, President Wei, this task will be handed over to you, organize a group of excellent experts, give me a feasible plan, this problem must be solved within three or five years, if you have no way, I can only choose the lesser of two evils! ”

When Qiao Yu said this, Wei Ruolan and Zhang Taiyan also knew Qiao Yu's plan, if there was really no way, they could only take the road of public ownership, even if there would be drawbacks, they couldn't take care of it for the time being!

Although the Chinese government has set its sights on how to seize the benefits of the post-war period, in fact the war has not really ended, and Japan has not accepted any words.

However, now Japan is just a dead duck with a hard mouth, the sea and land have all failed, the domestic strategic resources have been exhausted, even if they still want to fight, the treasury has long been empty, and with Japan's defeat, the war bonds have become worthless, and the Japanese government has lost the possibility of obtaining funds from the financial market.

Perhaps the only reason why Japan chose to support it was a matter of face, especially since Emperor Hirohito simply could not accept the reality that he had just ascended the throne and fought a big defeat, of course, this was just a hard work.

And Qiao Yu didn't want to delay the war, China began to attack Japan from three aspects, Zhang Zuolin commanded the Sixth Army to storm the line of the Outer Khing'an Mountains, and China and Japan basically followed the boundaries of the watershed of the mountain range.

This time, Lao Zhang was given the order to take several important high ground in the hands of Japan, firmly control the commanding heights, and form an advantage over the pressure. Lao Zhang is not very satisfied with this task, he has been waiting for many months, and he got such a task, which is a little discouraged, but he can't shirk it, so he sprinkled all his grievances on the Japanese, and commanded the troops to storm the Japanese defense line!

In addition, on the Korean front, Shi Yi and Long Yun jointly commanded the army and began to carry out large-scale air raids and artillery bombardments on Japanese positions, depleting Japan's strength.

However, the most fatal thing was the blockade at sea, and then the Akagi and Fengxiang were destroyed, and although the Japanese combined fleet still had a few battleships, these warships were live targets without air power, and they did not dare to go to sea to fight.

Japan did not dare to go to sea, just because it was an opportunity for the Chinese Navy to show its talents, and China had already chosen the next target for attack, which was Tanegashima Island in the southern part of Japan's Kyushu Island, from which the first European rifle flowed to Japan, and later it was also an important Japanese space base.

However, at this time, this place became the first target of the Chinese Navy, and it was also used as a sea base to further hang Japan, and the Chinese aircraft carrier task force with the starting point as the core appeared in the outer waters of Tanegashima, and the first wave of more than 40 planes overwhelmingly killed Tanegashima. (To be continued.) )