China's biggest adversary is not Japan, but the United States.

Although Japan seems to be strong, if China is truly reunified, there will not be much difference between the two, and even China's overall strength will be slightly stronger than Japan's. This world war was the prelude to China's true reunification. The warlords who have caused great disasters and countless troubles to China will not survive this world war, and even if they do, they will eventually collapse in the face of the central government, which has become stronger after strong winds and rains. And Japan's congenital deficiencies also can't survive this world war. So, in East Asia, the ultimate winner will only be China.

If Japan was defeated, European countries were even more defeated, and the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses due to various calculations, and even lost important territories in Asia, then only the United States could eventually become an opponent with China.

Qin Wei was glad that he had written historical essays before. Because he writes history, he will have an understanding of history and gain some insights from history.

He knew that although the rise of the United States was not as full of thorns as other countries, it was also not smooth sailing. At one time, it suffered from the free trade led by the British government. It learned from the pain and resolved to transform, only to encounter an unexpectedly powerful obstacle and suffer an even greater pain: the Civil War!

What was the cause of the war that had a huge impact on the United States? Many might say it was to emancipate the black slaves on the slave-owner's plantations in the American South. In fact, this is bullshit at all, but it's just a Yankee smearing gold on his face. At that time, there may have been a few abolitionists in the United States who were sympathetic to blacks, but these people were not mainstream at all, and they were not even the last. Otherwise, after the Civil War, blacks would not have been discriminated against and bullied by whites until the sixties of the twentieth century. It was more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the Civil War. It is too unreasonable for the efficiency-oriented Americans to be unable to truly "emancipate the black slaves".

Therefore, the Civil War actually had little to do with the blacks, and the real reason for the outbreak of the war was actually the war between the free trade, agriculture, and serfdom South, and the trade protection, industrial North. The war was caused by the demand for free trade in the serfdom of the South, which promoted and guaranteed their exports of tobacco and cotton to Europe. And the central and northern states, in order to protect their industries, demanded high tariffs. Because in 1812, after the Second War against Britain, British industrial goods poured into the American market. Seriously threatening the fledgling industry of the United States, the United States set off a wave of demands on Congress to protect the domestic economy, and in 1816 the United States Congress passed the first protectionist tariff law, and since then, protectionism has been on the rise. Protectionist legislation continues. By 1828, the U.S. Tariff Act was even more prescriptive. Tariffs on imported goods are raised to an average of fifty to sixty percent of the price of goods. As a result, this provoked fierce opposition from the South. Because such high tariffs will inevitably provoke retaliation from European countries in terms of import tariffs, the prices of goods exported from the South to Europe will rise, and the exports of the South will inevitably be hit. South Carolina declared the law invalid in the state and prohibited the federal government from collecting taxes at the state's ports. This was the trigger for the American Civil War.

Lincoln's original intention in finally deciding to go to war was not at all the so-called "abolition of slavery". Rather, it is for the development of the country's industry. The reason for this slogan of "abolishing slavery" was nothing more than to attract as many black slaves as possible to join the Northern army and thus win the war. In fact, the black slaves served as cannon fodder for the industrial capitalists of the American North. It was they who cleared the way for the industrialization of the United States, it was they who liberated the industrial capitalists of the American North, and it was they who maintained the unity of the United States. And by no means an American "...... who ever waged a huge civil war for the freedom and rights of a few blacks", this is putting the cart before the horse!

If you don't believe me, then just look at the post-war arrangements in the United States: ostensibly the slave estate economy was abolished, but after the war, the federal government in the United States returned a large amount of land and property to the original slave owners! Those "liberated" black slaves who shed their blood and died in the war did not receive land, and if they wanted to get it, they had to spend money to buy it. However, before the war they were slaves and had no savings, where did they get the money to buy land?! In the end, they returned to the land of their original slave owners, still enslaved and exploited by those slave owners! The emancipation proclamation did not address the issue of southern lands, in other words, the way out for blacks after this war was not at all in the minds of the government that put the interests of the white people first and the president of Lincoln.

Of course, Americans also have a reason: is private property sacrosanct! When a state goes to war, it does not mean that it will embezzle private property, which is not in accordance with the rules.

Qin Wei actually didn't care about the Civil War, let alone what kind of living environment the black people in the United States were, even if he paid attention to it occasionally, that is, he was watching it lively. He is concerned that the time has finally come for the United States to move from a local power to a global hegemon...... At this time, the United States, relying on high nationalism and long-term trade protectionism, already possessed the strength and capital of imperialism. And after becoming the "only victorious country" in the Second World War and gaining the status of global hegemon, it will soon find that the "free trade" that once caused great harm to it will in turn become the sharpest spear in its hands; Then, it will throw the spear at everyone......

The famous "Marshall Plan" was actually a product of free trade, and in the name of reviving Europe, it eventually allowed the United States to control the European economy, and this control lasted for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that the strength of the European countries is still quite good, and if it weren't for the fact that the leaders of the European countries also understood the Americans' intentions and worked hard to get rid of this control after the economy recovered, I am afraid that the European countries would still be the little brothers of the United States and the storehouses of money for the future. And this can be seen just by looking at Japan's performance. At the beginning, the Japanese shouted the slogan of "Japan first" and vigorously challenged the American boss economically, but the Americans only ran their own definition of "free trade" in Japan, and Japan was reduced from a challenger to a second-rate follower. In addition to Europe and Japan, the Latin American economy, which once created a "miracle", also quickly fell under the banner of "free trade" in the United States.

China is not Europe, it has more than 100 years of capitalist heritage; Nor is it Japan in the post-war 80s, which had no economy but no military strength, and would not arouse the vigilance of the American boss until the last moment; Not a group of scattered Latin American countries. China will be the target of "free trade" by the United States from the very beginning, and the fragile economic system will not be able to withstand the Yankees' free trade axe.

No American who really has the vision and ambition to keep the United States firmly in the grip of global hegemony will sit idly by and watch China's rise.

Roosevelt was one such person.

Qin Wei can be sure that once the Second World War is over, this guy will hack China. Even if he may not live to 1945, his successor will do so.

Of course, China will not be tricked. Because after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation will break out. The American-backed Lao Chiang would be defeated and would withdraw from Chinese mainland. But Americans don't know about it. So Qin Wei sees this as an opportunity, and he intends to use this information advantage to obtain sufficient benefits for China first.

The "most-favored-nation trade treatment" was just a bait he gave to Roosevelt, and many of the conditions he asked Gu Changjun to help him work out...... Fortunately, the other self left that guy up to 100 billion antique calligraphy, paintings and literary works, and made Gu Changjun the only director of a high-grade history museum in Hong Kong. Otherwise, as a former Internet writer, how could this guy get the secondary detonation technique of the cloud burst bomb, and it would be even more impossible to find those economic scholars to formulate such a detailed plan for him. This draft plan for the so-called "most-favored-nation trade treatment" cannot be drawn up by scholars during the Republic of China, because those guys are very likely to misunderstand him because of this...... Even if those people know that the "most-favored-nation trade" draft he made is a special limitation on the name of the national government, and a special period of application, which is only effective in 1950, it is only a draft, and at best it can only be regarded as an intention, not a real agreement.

But Qin Wei believed that Roosevelt would definitely bite this bait!

Although Roosevelt and his wise men could see the "obstacles" he had set at a glance, they could not escape the temptation of such a huge market of 500 million people. If the market can be swallowed in one gulp, the United States will gain the cornerstone of another economic take-off, just like the United Kingdom, which controls India. And this take-off will not just be an ordinary leap, but a qualitative change from "climbing clouds" to "soaring clouds" just like Sun Wukong learned a somersault cloud.

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"So, Roosevelt and his men will certainly agree to give us Japan's industry, at least most of it, and even China will go a little further and directly annex the British colonies in Southeast Asia, which they will accept silently at the very least...... As long as we can cope with the retaliation of Britain in the future. But I don't think everyone cares too much about the 'empire on which the sun never sets', right? ”

Chongqing, Huangshan Villa, Qin Wei said to Lao Jiang and others.

"It's really exciting to listen to. But would the Americans take the bait so easily? Unlike the declining powers of Britain, they were intact. ”

Opposite Qin Wei, beside Kong Xiangxi, Kong Lingkan, who had just been released by the Japanese, raised his question with a serious face. (To be continued......)