Chapter 498: The British's Tricks

Although Qiao Yu said that he believed in the wisdom of future generations, Qiao Yu also knew that it was difficult and involved a wide range of interests, and it was bound to be difficult to truly unlock the curse of the economic crisis!

The coming Great Depression gave rise to economic policies of state intervention, followed by the concept of the welfare state, which gave the people at the bottom basic benefits and dared them to spend ahead of time, but this was still a delaying measure, not a real solution.

Especially the welfare system, under the multi-party democratic system, welfare is a point of no return, can only increase, not decrease, everything is constrained by the so-called public opinion, and the country's financial capacity also has a limit, sooner or later there will be a collapse, and welfare is only a small country's thing, and it is basically impossible for a huge country like China to want too high welfare.

According to common sense, the path of the Soviet Union provides a new way of thinking for all countries, but Qiao Yu also knows the serious problems of this system, Qiao Yu has been thinking about this problem for a while, the Soviet system is not without reference value, China does not have to be as extreme as the Soviet Union, but it cannot be like Europe and the United States, kidnapped by consortiums and so-called democracy.

The government should have strong control and be able to carry out decisive change actions at critical moments, and more importantly, the Chinese should always maintain a high degree of competitiveness, so that even if there is a crisis in China, it can easily pass on the crisis and solve its own problems by grabbing the market of other countries.

Of course, these things are far in the future, and if a huge country like China wants to complete industrialization, it will not be possible to do it in a few decades, and now I am worried that these are a bit unfounded, and what China needs more now is to get enough benefits from this crisis.

The Chinese government has unified its view, and all that remains is how to carry out the overall layout, in fact, as early as a few years ago, China has secretly imported a large amount of money into the United States, and now it is all concentrated in the stock market, and in Germany. United Kingdom. France and other places have also arranged corresponding funds, in addition to which China has secretly absorbed a considerable amount of gold.

In fact, since 27 years, the Federal Reserve has implemented a low interest rate policy, which has caused a large outflow of American gold, judging from the actions of these international bankers, they have already foreseen the economic crisis in the United States, but these people are not thinking about how to resolve it. Rather, they want to make the crisis more intense, and then make huge profits from it.

The dominant force behind it is the Jewish consortium forces, and even later generations of conspiracy theorists believe that the Great Depression was completely manipulated by the Jews, in Qiao Yu's opinion, this statement has some truth, but it is more to add fuel to the fire, after all, the banker is not God.

These are making waves. Afraid that the world will not be chaotic, the bankers who have no sense of nationality are the group of people that Qiao Yu despises the most, as the saying goes, there must be something hateful about the poor, although the Jews have suffered a lot, but they are only the lower Jews, and the real upper Jewish bankers are a group of people who should be cut with a thousand knives.

However, if it weren't for these villains doing it secretly, they would not have given China such a good opportunity for development, Qiao Yu relied on his strong appeal to China's industrial and commercial circles. It brings together all the state and private capital in China.

After all, China is still poor. The amount of capital owned by both the government and the private sector is very limited. But fortunately, China's block is there, and once fully integrated, it is also a rather large force, comparable to a large consortium.

This time, China has gathered a total of $700 million, of which $400 million has been invested in the US market, $200 million has been invested in Germany, and Britain and France have a total of $100 million.

Historically, the United States and Germany were the hardest hit by the Great Depression, in other words, these two countries are the easiest areas to reap the benefits, and Britain and France will also be affected by the crisis.

China doesn't think much of these two old colonial empires, and it's definitely worth trying to take advantage of the opportunity to hit the economies of both countries and reap the benefits for China.

Qiao Yu this time can be regarded as betting all of China's old capital, once the failure is a huge harm to both the Chinese government and the people, especially the worst thing is that Qiao Yu's image of wisdom and martial arts will also be seriously questioned, and it will even become a heavy blow to China's industrialization road.

Even if Qiao Yu is familiar with the historical situation, he doesn't dare to be careless, after all, there are still a large number of Jewish consortia behind this, and if he is not careful, he will be crushed.

In order to better lead this operation, Qiao Yu established such an organization as the National Financial Security Committee, Qiao Yu served as the director, of course, this is just a declaration to the outside world, in fact, this is the supreme command of this financial war, the economic elite of the Chinese government, the private consortium represented by the Sichuan consortium, and even some patriotic Nanyang Chinese businessmen have also joined in, China's two major intelligence agencies, the National Bureau of Investigation and the Military Intelligence Bureau, have also joined in, and each has set up a financial intelligence team.

In addition, the Chinese government has convened a large number of experts and scholars to pay close attention to the economic situation in Europe and the United States, and is also investigating major Western enterprises to find out how many outstanding scientific researchers, high-level skilled workers, and important technologies there are in order to prepare for future purchases.

China's financial war this time is led by the government, and it is not the same as the consortium, the consortium forces may be staring at the projects that can bring the greatest benefits, while China is staring at those things that can really bring earth-shaking changes to China's national strength, money is not the most important, the latest technology, excellent workers, and outstanding talents who can improve China's military technology, these are what China is most interested in.

A large net has been quietly opened, and how many fish can be caught depends on the meaning of heaven.

During this period of time, the Chinese government has been very busy, the central bank, the Ministry of Finance are formulating plans for financial warfare, and Wang Yongjiang is to prepare the Second Five-Year Plan, in the new plan, China plans to push the steel output to 8 million tons, oil, coal, automobiles, shipbuilding and other industries will also be greatly increased. The main thing is that the development plan for the Tohoku will be advanced to the second stage. Northeast China will initially be built into China's granary and heavy industry base, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the Pearl River Delta will also embark on the fast track of development.

Strive to build China into four large urban circles, that is, the northern circle centered on Tianjin, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, plus the Sichuan-Bashu economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing, once these four major urban circles are fully completed. China's national strength will increase by leaps and bounds.

The city is the central link of industrial production, the more developed the city, the closer the cooperation, the stronger the production capacity, in addition to building urban circles, China should also vigorously build railways. Increasing the transport capacity of existing railways and linking the vast land together.

In fact, Wang Yongjiang was originally going to make the plan more daring, but in view of the imminent economic crisis, China wants to invest more financial resources to copy the West, so the plan is lowered a lot, China's purpose is to temporarily complete the accumulation, and wait until the third five-year plan to vigorously promote industrial development.

In terms of time, the Third Five-Year Plan is actually approaching World War II. Germany will also rearm. It's a godsend.

In addition to these things, the Chinese government has another very important matter. That is the negotiations between China and Britain over Hong Kong, which the two countries have been arguing about for a long time, and the strikes in Hong Kong have continued.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement after compromise, the British promised to return Hong Kong after five years, Qiao Yu knew very well that this was a trick of the United Kingdom, five years is not too long, not too short, but it will definitely allow Britain to make a lot of small moves, but Qiao Yu still chose to agree to this condition, which made Foreign Minister Gu Weijun a little depressed.

"President, we can be tougher, there are actually calls in Britain to give up Hong Kong, eight years is still too long, if there are any variables, I am worried that there will be trouble!"

"Minister Gu, if Britain is strong enough, it will naturally cause trouble to me, but the current British Empire has no other ability except to disgust us, in addition, we still hold the card Chandra in our hands, if Hong Kong returns, this card that leverages the pattern of South Asia will be invalid!"

For example, this time the British demanded that China and Britain reach an agreement to let China give up its support for Chandra, and also promised to give up support for all anti-British organizations!

China has long been unaccustomed to the British colonial order, Nanyang has been China's sphere of influence since the Tang and Song dynasties, and now it has become the world of Britain, Britain is unwilling to give up Hong Kong, and China is not willing to give up the good card of Chandra.

"No matter what Britain does in Hong Kong, it will only block us at best, and any action in South Asia will kill the British!"

Qiao Yu was still very clear about the priorities, so he finally reached an agreement to postpone the resumption of Hong Kong for five years.

"President, the British are not a good thing, they have already begun to act, just three days ago the governor of Hong Kong suddenly announced that he will benefit the people of Hong Kong in his final term, comprehensively improve the welfare of the people, provide medical care and pension insurance for the people of Hong Kong, improve housing, overhaul roads and ports, these are all money-burning projects!"

Gu Weijun said with a stern face: "President, the British government will definitely not put money into it, most of it is carried out by borrowing, and when China takes over, it will be a big mess, especially once the welfare is implemented, there is no way to reduce it, and when China takes back Hong Kong, it will encounter a huge trouble!" ”

Qiao Yu heard this, his mind was also constantly flipping, the British really did not change, on the previous historical trajectory, Britain played such a hand, let the Chinese government carry the black pot, but this time the British are afraid to miscalculate, China has more cards in its hand, and the most terrible thing is that the unprecedented Great Depression is coming, and the British want to rely on borrowing to maintain five years of prosperity Most of them can't do it, and they will bring big trouble to themselves.

"Minister Gu, let's wait and see a good show, the British are going to shoot themselves in the foot!" (To be continued.) )