At seven o'clock in the morning, the city of Beijing gradually became noisy.

There is a steady stream of people going to work and school, and vehicles are constantly shuttling back and forth. The whole picture is similar to that of China in the late 70s, where the roads were crowded with an army of bicycles and more and more vehicles.

Yan Yuqiu is very good at putting the work plan on the table, this beautiful and delicate "Navy Secretary" has become Yang Qiu's most important assistant, and in the eyes of outsiders, she is as inseparable as the president's family members. As with thousands of days and nights in the past, the work is still full. At 8 o'clock, we had a regular morning meeting, at 9 o'clock we went to the National Assembly to attend the economic report meeting of the Fujian legislators, and at 12 o'clock we had lunch with the speaker and the parliamentarians. At one o'clock in the afternoon, he went to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce for a meeting, at two o'clock he attended the examination and approval meeting of 12 new universities of the Ministry of Education, at four o'clock he attended the regular meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, at five o'clock he went to Xidan Primary School to inspect and pick up his little daughter from school, and at seven o'clock in the evening he accompanied Miao Luo and Minister Zheng Yuxiu to attend the fundraising dinner held by the Ministry of Health.

The president was busy, and the ministers did not dare to get tired, and Premier Wang Zhengting's car arrived downstairs 20 minutes early. The government of the Republic of China strictly ordered that only the president, prime minister, and ministers could be allotted buses, and the rest of the officials did not have buses from top to bottom. However, in order to stimulate the automobile manufacturing industry, it is also stipulated that all government employees who buy their own cars can register a license plate per person, and a gasoline subsidy of no yuan is issued every month, so many government workers have bought cars. In order to adapt to the trend, the Presidential Palace has also deliberately set aside the garden on the right as a parking lot for everyone to use.

As soon as Wang Zhengting got out of the car, he saw Murong Han and Gu Weijun arriving in the same car. The former believed that an iron-fisted military and civilian system should be established so that the strength of the state and the people could be concentrated, while the latter believed that it was necessary to focus on relaxation and strive for the prosperity of a hundred schools of thought under the two-party system as much as possible. But what is strange is that under the completely opposite thoughts, the relationship between the two has been maintained very well.

"Prime Minister morning."

"When did Haoyu come back? I heard that you arrested Ho Chi Minh? ”

Murong Han nodded, he went to Yunnan a few days ago for Ho Chi Minh's business, because this person was advocating Vietnamese independence in Guangxi, so the French government had been pressuring the Republic of China to arrest and hand over to the French East Indies colonial government. In view of the concentration of contradictions between China and Britain, China and Japan, and China and the United States recently, the presidential office decided to temporarily arrest him in order to win over France.

"I'm going abroad tomorrow, so you have to be careful about this. The president meant to capture the country, but not to hand it over to France, and not to allow it to propagate independence, especially in the northern provinces of Vietnam. Wang Zhengting glanced at it and took care of it carefully. This is because after Murong Han became the Minister of Justice, because of his strict methods, over time, everyone called him "Muyanluo" behind his back, but due to the continuous reduction of domestic security and crime rate, his prestige in the eyes of the people has risen instead of falling. However, Ho Chi Minh had a lot of influence in Vietnam, and he also had contacts with Tran Quo Fu and others in the party, and he was afraid that he would be too strict and make difficult decisions in the future.

Before Murong Han could speak, Gu Weijun interjected first: "Prime Minister rest assured, Guofu has already met Ho Chi Minh and said that he is sick in clothing, so that we can send him to Guilin Hospital for temporary recuperation on the grounds of poor health, France can't force us to hand over seriously ill patients." ”

"That's a good idea." After Wang Zhengting took care of it a few more words, Murong Han opened his mouth and asked, "The prime minister is going to visit?" ”

"Hmm. This time, we will go to dozens of countries and canvass for the World Expo and the 40 Olympic Games. Speaking of the right to host the two grand events, Wang Zhengting was very excited. Although we haven't won it for 36 years, it would have been a glorious thing if the 1935 World's Expo and the 1940 Olympics had been held consecutively. Therefore, in addition to strengthening Sino-European relations, he should also win the support of other European countries during his trip, because after all, except for the United States and Japan, the other influential powers have not yet expressed their position.

"This visit will take half a year, and domestic affairs will depend on you. The president has made up his mind this time, especially since domestic construction cannot be stopped no matter what. Although the planned economy is no longer practiced, if the various indicators cannot be doubled, everyone will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

The two nodded. Although Yang Qiu abolished the planned economy after coming to power, the task of national construction increased several times, and the construction of roads alone required 1.7 million kilometers by 1940, which alone kept the cabinet from stopping for a long time. Fortunately, judging from the growth rate in the last three years, it should be possible, so Gu Weijun smiled and comforted: "Prime Minister rest assured, my country's population advantage is large, as long as the funds can be guaranteed, it seems to be difficult, but it is nothing." ”

"Or Shaochuan, you are open-minded."

Murong Han was not worried about the construction of the country, but was very concerned about the Japanese political situation in the past few days, and asked, "Prime Minister." Shaochuan said, "A few days ago, the Japanese Navy's Takuzo Kobayashi beat the army generals? ”

Wang Zhengting was one of the people who knew about Yang Qiu's plan, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth when he remembered the dispute between Japan and the sea and land: "This time it's a big trouble!" After the Japanese Navy got the information released by the president, it wanted to take a loan of 500 million yuan to itself, saying that it would build more warships to contend with us. The army has been suffering for 20 years, and it is also trying to fight for the huge amount of money.

Yesterday, a telegram was sent from Tokyo saying that dozens of young officers of the army had surrounded the Admiralty, and that if it had not been for the military police to resist, it is estimated that Kobayashi would have been beaten. It is said that these people have already set their sights on Keisuke Okada, and Shinzaburo Masaki has also publicly said that he wants Okada to resign and apologize. ”

"What's the matter with Sekiokada?"

"How did Haoyu forget that Okada is a member of the navy. After Tanaka Yoshiyoshi stepped down, the navy has always firmly held the power of the prime minister, and used this to monopolize military spending to expand the navy. There has long been dissatisfaction within the army and they have been scolded as British and American lackeys. In addition, the economy has been unfavorable in recent years, and we have suppressed it in many ways, and this time we have used the Sakhalin oil fields as an excuse. Gu Weijun smiled and said: "If it was possible to get along with each other before, but Roosevelt wanted to curb us from deliberately providing a loan of 500 million US dollars, and now all the contradictions have been provoked in order to fight for this money." ”

"Dog eats dog." Murong Han said a word and continued to ask: "By the way, why are Chen Shaokuan and the navy so honest this time, and they will agree to take out the naval guns as bait?" Isn't their navy always self-cherishing secret skills, only entering and not leaving? ”

"Haha, don't let the navy hear this, don't even say Bingwen, he's already in the same stream now." After Wang Zhengting made a few jokes, he said: "Chen Shaokuan is not a fool, and what he took out this time is not a drawing, and he can't imitate it with so much data." What's more, Japan itself secretly develops millimeter naval guns, and for them this is just an excuse for military spending. However, it is not easy to build a warship that can install 480 mm naval guns, at least more than 70,000 tons. Japan's largest slipway can only build 40,000 tons of warships, unlike the large hydraulic press that we jointly developed with Germany earlier. I counted the construction of four ships for them, including the purchase of raw materials, large forging equipment, and the expansion of the slipway, and I just had to spend all the loans! Do you think Kobayashi will be willing to share with the army? ”

Gu Weijun stood next to him and said meaningfully: "Although Keisuke Okada's group of people are incompetent, they at least have self-knowledge and know how to balance. But the War Department only knows how to expand armaments, and their minds are full of revenge. If the military overthrows Okada and comes to power, it will inevitably arm itself wildly. However, Japan's domestic market is small, and New Guinea and other places are deserted, so it can only rely on continuous military expansion to maintain economic growth. This kind of expansion beyond one's own ability is extremely harmful, and it will either blow itself up or it will only expand. This time, the president wants to overdraw Japan's national strength and force them to destroy the foundation of several generations with the madness of one generation! ”

Although Murong Han also has militaristic thoughts, he has not yet reached the point where Japan is so paranoid and knows that Gu Weijun is alerting himself, and said with a smile: "Shaochuan has a heart, but I still think that proper centralization of power is conducive to a developing country like ours, and it can concentrate on doing great things." ”

"Like the Soviet Union? The sacrifice of the interests of some people in exchange for the prosperity of industry, the souls of 3 million rich peasants, and the death of more than 400 people in the famine in Ukraine are too great. Gu Weijun did not give in on this issue. Seeing that the two of them rubbed out of Mars because of the concept again, Wang Zhengting hurriedly grabbed and said: "Okay, haven't you understood it after decades?" In these years, there is no flawless system, it still depends on whether our own heart can be corrected. ”

This sentence shocked the two of them slightly, and then looked at Wang Zhengting's eyes, which had changed a little, and some understood why the competition between the three of them would lose to him in the first place. Gu Weijun has always been free and easy, and he cleaned up his mood and quipped: "The prime minister is right, it's better to eat you than to argue with you, haha." ”

The laughter of the three soon drifted into the small living room.

In the living room, Zhang Wenjing, Yan Xishan and others arrived earlier than they had already begun to discuss Roosevelt's New Deal. Gu Yuwen was the only person outside the cabinet who attended the morning meeting today, and he was holding a thick pile of materials with his butt half next to the sofa, obviously because it was the first time he had participated in this kind of fireside morning meeting, so he looked very nervous. Let Pei Zuyi, who promoted him, pat his head and smile bitterly in his heart, but he forgot what he looked like when he first explained economic issues to the president and government ministers in Chongqing.

Due to factors such as the Sino-Japanese espionage case and the early release of the national debt, the famous Roosevelt New Deal was three months later than later generations, and the content also deviated greatly, but it did appear after all. Countries around the world are paying close attention to the new deal to see if the hard-hit U.S. economy can improve. Gu Yuwen took out the information for the president and ministers to analyze and introduce: "In this short period of time, the international gold price has fluctuated sharply, and since the end of last week, rumors have broken out in the US market that Japan and the Soviet Union are going to ship at high prices, so the gold price has fallen from $55 to $50 per ounce." This shows that Roosevelt has already made a secret move! Because he knew that he could not circumvent Congress to mobilize gold reserves, he borrowed a loan to get Japan and the Soviet Union to sell gold in the American market, and judging from the fact that he had asked us not to interfere before, he was determined to push the price of gold between $30 or $35 an ounce. ”

"Impossible!" Xu Xiujun looked at Gu Yuwen who was reporting and shook his head: "Even if we don't make a move, we can't lower the price of gold by a few hundred tons." ”

Gu Yuwen said: "The minister is right, it is impossible to rely on market means alone, so I think he is doing this completely under the guise of this!" His ultimate goal is to deliberately create market panic, and then forcibly suppress it by administrative means under the pretext of financial market instability! Only then will he be able to fix the gold at an extremely low price. ”

"Isn't this the silver one?" Yan Xishan just wanted to say that Roosevelt's gold policy was very similar to the silver crisis of the year, but in the middle of speaking, he suddenly remembered some things in that crisis, and quickly closed his mouth. Yang Qiu didn't seem to hear it, and motioned to Gu Yuwen: "Don't interrupt, everyone, listen to Yuwen." ”

Being able to get Yang Qiu's encouragement, Gu Yuwen made up his mind a little and continued: "Why did Roosevelt suppress the price of gold? It is because the dollar has not completely cut off the gold standard. The higher the price of gold, the higher the value of the US dollar. In a deflationary situation, the currency is too high not only to be bad for exports, but also to release much-needed bailout funds, so he needs a lower gold price, preferably around $5 an ounce. But at the moment this is impossible, and it is good enough to be able to overwhelm $30 to 35 an ounce, and if it is lower, there will be riots in the United States. When the price of gold is lowered, he can follow our example and forcibly prohibit the trading of gold and silver, and all gold and silver must be sold to the government to speed up the return.

But this is not enough, the gold in the market is not enough, according to my calculations, it will take at least 100 million US dollars to make the US market active, so after the gold price is fixed, he is bound to carry out a large currency depreciation! So what's the point of depreciating the currency, and who? To put it simply, at present, the money supply of various countries must also rely on national credit and reserves, otherwise there will be a crisis similar to the sharp depreciation of the German mark, but after the economic crisis, the loss of dollar assets is serious, and the US government does not have much reserves in its hands, and even the national bonds that were originally relied on are released a lot in advance at the inducement of the president, so to issue currency, we must first find reserves.

Reserves are not something that can be conjured out of thin air, and the only way in the current situation is to depreciate! Significant currency depreciation! Because currency depreciation is actually a doubling of the price of goods, you can turn the reserve of 1 yuan into 2 yuan, so the extra 1 yuan needs to be filled with 1 yuan banknotes. For example, the reserves that can be issued in the US market with money, including treasury bonds, gold and minerals, etc., add up to about $58 billion, which is almost a year's total value of workers and peasants! If the devaluation is 50 percent, it will become 116 billion, then the U.S. government will need to issue 58 billion currency to fill the hole after the devaluation.

In fact, this is a mathematical game, and the advantage is that the US government can conjure up 58 billion cash out of thin air, and after getting this money, it can learn from us, increase the purchase price of grain, and use government investment to promote the recovery of the market. But! In doing so, we are effectively overdrawing America's credit and economic development over the next decade. Judging from the fact that countries are currently strictly controlling trade and increasing trade barriers, unless all countries open their markets to the United States, they will not be able to make up for the overdraft by relying on their own normal development, and the only way is one. ”

Gu Yuwen suddenly stopped when he said this, and his bloodshot eyes swept over everyone and stopped on Yang Qiu's face: "Outside the United States, a war of a large enough scale has broken out!" I think a. Roosevelt provided loans to Japan and the Soviet Union, in fact, he wanted to instigate a war in Asia. However, because of the huge population and field of our country, the narrow market in Japan, and the ideological problems of the Soviet Union, once the three of us were exhausted, he came back to rescue us as a good man, and the price was to completely open the market to help him fill this hole.

So the New Deal! The fact is that the horn of the First World War was sounded! ”

This earth-shattering analysis stunned the prime minister and ministers sitting there, and if it weren't for the fact that this young man with messy hair, red eyes, and legs mixed together because of nervousness standing in front of him, it might have made people think that this was a dream. The United States, which prides itself on democracy, has become what he calls the source of war. It's ironic!

After the ministers were surprised, they all expressed the doubts in their hearts, and Gu Yuwen also patiently explained how he deduced it, only Yang Qiu was silent, watching the curvature of the corners of his mouth getting bigger and bigger, as if he thought of something.

Only he knows how accurate Gu Yuwen's inference is, no, even terrifying! Since he came back, there has been a lack of talents around him who really have a world vision and can work as a staff officer, even Cai Yi and Yue Peng are only the best executors, and the rising stars Wang Zhengting, Gu Weijun and Murong Han have been cultivated for many years but still lack a little spirituality, but it is this young man who was inadvertently discovered that makes his eyes light up.

After thinking about it, he used the excuse to test: "Yuwen, then how do you think it should be resolved?" ”

Gu Yuwen thought about it and said: "Drag! The overdraft of this new policy is too large, and as long as the trade barriers are not broken for a day, relying on the US domestic market alone, it will definitely go wrong for 10 to 15 years. ”

"What if it can't be delayed?"

"I can't drag it out." Gu Yuwen just wanted to answer, but found that he didn't seem to have a solution. To be honest, Roosevelt's New Deal this time was not as simple as interfering with Hoover's policies, and it was completely impossible to intervene, so even the drag-knife plan just now was improvised by him. If you can't drag the knife, I'm afraid there is only one way! He looked at Yang Qiu, and wanted to say it, but he didn't dare to say it, because this method was unrealistic no matter how he looked at it. But the president kept looking at himself, and finally had to bite the bullet and say: "Report to the president, I only think of one way." ”

"Say, let me hear your thoughts." Yang Qiu's faint words made the ministers look at each other again and again, and said in their hearts, this Gu Yuwen is probably about to soar into the sky.

"The way is, let's let. 1. The USSR ruled Europe! ”

The ministers were dumbfounded again, if it weren't for the familiarity, I am afraid that the guards would have arrested him and sent him to an insane asylum. Even Yang Qiu laughed, it was indeed a rotten idea, not to mention how difficult it was for the Soviet Union to rule Europe, even if Europe was destroyed, Stalin's character would definitely be to fight back against Asia and the Sino-Soviet war. It doesn't matter if the idea is bad, it doesn't matter if it's unrealistic, because the vision can be cultivated slowly, and it is good to be able to see this step from such a low position, at least recognize the irreconcilable ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. What surprised Yang Qiu the most was that this Gu Yuwen had already given birth to the signs of Cold War thinking, and this alone was worth cultivating!

"Yuqiu, give Chen Haohui a call, and say that I have appointed Gu Yuwen as . One of my economic secretaries. Yang Qiu stood up, smiled and glanced at Gu Yuwen and walked out.

Until the ministers got up and left, Gu Yuwen was still standing stupidly with the documents in his arms. Secretary to the President! Are you dreaming?

Tokyo, the station of the Japanese Guards Division.

The Guards Division is not very capable of being a standing division in Japan, but it is extremely famous. Because they claimed to be the Emperor's Guards and protected His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, this army was arrogant from top to bottom, and they regarded themselves as the emperor's descendants, and they were the emperor's army when they opened and closed. This kind of arrogance may be able to fight if you go to the battlefield, but after a long time of not fighting and even training has been curtailed due to lack of funds, it has gradually become brainless and bold.

In the officer's club stationed in the station, a young Nakazo with long hoop legs, a mustache, and an open placket to reveal the gray shirt inside held a newspaper in his hand and slapped the table fiercely: "Baga! This non-national actually sold the gold of the empire in the country of rice! He's damn it! This gold belongs to His Majesty the Emperor, not his private property! ”

The loud voice attracted all the officers around, and the more people there were, the more excited and excited Nakasa was this named Aizawa Saburo, and the Asahi Shimbun shouted: "Let's take a look, let's see how the Eimi lackeys betrayed the country!" ”

Although Japan and the Soviet Union reached a secret agreement with the United States, Japan was not as centralized and closed as the Soviet Union, so the Asahi Shimbun also published the so-called "rumors" that Japan and the Soviet Union were selling gold in the United States on a large scale. Although it was already said to be a rumor in the news, the radical officers of these Guards Divisions did not see it that way. In their eyes, Anglo-American faction politicians from the Navy are not born traitors!

"Aizawa-kun, what's the news?"

"Sell gold?! Yaga, you bastards! How could they do that, that's the gold of the Empire. ”

"Don't give us military money, but secretly sell gold, these traitors! You should learn from Aoki-kun back then and kill them all. ”

"No, it can't go on like this. Let's go to General Shinzaburo Masaki and call the shots. ”

"Qingjun's side, you must Qingjun's side!"

"For the sake of the Emperor, let's do it!"

"Wait, isn't it written, is this an unconfirmed rumor?" "! This is the fig leaf of the lackeys of the United States, used to deceive the emperor! "It's rare for someone to read the words clearly, and they are immediately suppressed.

An excited Shaozo grabbed Saburo Aizawa: "Aizawa-kun, don't you know General Mazaki?" Take us there! We are the elite of the empire, the army of the emperor, and we can't go down like this! When Shao Zuo said that he was excited, he took off his white shirt and tore it into strips of cloth, then pulled out a knife and cut his fingers and wrote the two big characters of hoe and rape on the strips of cloth, and tied them to his forehead: "Go and protest, even if you pay for your life!" ”

Elite!

The Guards Division was the elite of the Imperial Army.

The officers on the left and right were fevered by this hot blood in their nasal cavities, and they wrote blood letters and tied them to their foreheads. Aizawa Saburo was even bareless, and after writing blood-red words such as hoe rape and Qingjun side on his body, he pulled out a snowy bayonet again.

Very hot-blooded, very hot shouted: "If you can't get rid of the traitorous party, let me go to Kudansaka!" ”

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