The information received from Churchill was of great concern to Lord Roberts, first of all, according to Churchill, the level of military training of the Boers was quite high. Moreover, the equipment is quite good, and the fortifications of some important strongholds are also very strong. This made Lord Roberts feel that the army in his hands was inadequate.

Since the advent of new methods of warfare in the American Civil War, the Army's tactics have changed rapidly over the years. The British Army, on the other hand, had not fought any decent battles for a long time, although it had learned something by sending observers to see it while others were fighting. For example, the army is no longer wearing a bright red uniform, but has adopted a gray-green military uniform that is more conducive to concealment, for example, it has begun to fully use cartridge rifles, and has begun to use the offensive tactics of the skirmish line and the defensive tactics of trenches, barbed wire, mines, and pillboxes, but after all, there has been no real actual combat, and everyone does not know what the effect of imitation is. Moreover, not long ago, the American attack on the position of the Spaniards and the attack on the position of the 10th Infantry Regiment by the Boers used artillery fire to cover the infantry and artillery tactics of directly breaking through to the distance close to the radius of the cannon kill, and then launching a surprise attack as soon as the shelling stopped. This tactic, which the British army began to practice only after the First World War between the United States and Spain, is still completely unproficient. And, more importantly, because of the reliance on mules and horses, the infantry's artillery was mainly of the 3-inch level. If such artillery is used against the 6-inch or even 8-inch artillery in the hands of the Boers, which uses the railroad to achieve high mobility, the picture is simply beautiful.

So, although the number of troops at his disposal was increasing, gradually reaching 180,000 men, Lord Roberts was still very cautious in his offensive movements, and he only advanced slowly outwards with Cape Town as the core, and always carefully maintained the distance between the various troops and the distance between them and the railway controlled by the Boers.

On the other hand, Lord Roberts kept sending telegrams to China, asking him to provide him with more troops, more horses, more supplies, and more large-caliber artillery.

Naturally, this led to a significant increase in the budget for this war. Fortunately, the British government and parliament understood that Britain could not afford to lose this war, and if the Boers were allowed to achieve independence in such a situation, then the colonies under the rule of the British Empire would probably follow the same example, and those other powers who had always hated Britain so much that they were about to wear out their teeth would fann the wind everywhere without scruples and light ghost fires. By that time, the losses of the British Empire would have been even greater. Therefore, the British Empire must take the posture of a lion and a rabbit, go all out, and completely defeat the Boers, just like Rome completely defeated Carthage, so that it is possible to suppress other colonies that want to eliminate France.

And in the British people, the common people also expressed general support for the war. This is very understandable, first of all, although the vast majority of the benefits obtained by foreign aggression will be eaten by those guys above, but, not to mention whether it can leak a little from the claws of those gluttons, it's just that those gluttons are busy eating colonies, and eat them less, even if they also enjoy the benefits. Therefore, those countries that are aggressive will inevitably have people who are accustomed to and support aggression. Just like the crazy Japan during World War II. In this sense, the Tokyo barbecue ah, the original. Child. Bullets or something, it really didn't kill many innocent people.

Of course, from another point of view, these people are also deceived by the media, after all, the media is in the hands of those gluttonous monsters who eat people, and it is not easy to deceive the ordinary people below? The power of information bombardment can be seen as long as the pyramid schemes or cults of later generations are examples, even if the so-called highly educated master's degree enters the team and is brainwashed for a few days, he will be convinced of those messy things, and if you try to persuade him, he will even despise you: "You have been brainwashed by **!" Go online and look it up. Comment*** There is a truth ......"

From this point of view, those who have been deceived are not only hateful, but also extremely pitiful. Just as Mr. Lu Xun said, at the human flesh banquet, that is, eating people and being eaten.

Now that there is unity of opinion in England, and there are good reasons for Lord Roberts' request, this should of course be satisfied. It's just that in this way, the British budget is overspent so much that new national debt needs to be issued.

It was the Rothschilds who underwrote this round of national debt, and although the overspending of war costs was not a good thing for the British government, it was really not necessarily for the financiers.

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Lord Roberts spent an entire winter training his army, which now numbered 250,000 men, and, because he had taken the most prudent way of advance, the Boers, though they had tried to attack from time to time, could not find much of an opportunity, and several battles were fought in wars of attrition. Although the Boers were still slightly smaller in terms of casualties, it was clear that this attrition was very disadvantageous for the Boers, because the British could afford it, but the Boers could not.

So the Boers simply gave up the temptation to take the initiative, and waited honestly for the British to come to the door.

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Off the coast of Manhattan, the cruise ship Corsair. Once again, Morgan's club held parties on this boat. However, in addition to Morgan's allies, the participants included representatives of the MacDonald consortium - John Rockefeller and Greystone MacDonald. This is also the first time that Greystone has appeared at a gathering of this level as a representative of the Macdonald Foundation, and in a sense, it also means that the second generation of the MacDonald family. began to appear on the stage of history.

This party was a little different from the previous feasts of the sea and sky, there were no groups of beautiful women on board, partly because Rockefeller among the guests did not like this tone very much, and secondly, because Morgan had just had a minor illness not long ago, and now he has just recovered. Of course, the main reason is that there are many and important things to deal with at the meeting.

"Greystone, is your dad okay?" When he saw Greystone, Morgan said to him.

"My dad is in good health, he has to run a 2,000 kilometre every morning." Gladstone replied.

"It's good to be young." Morgan lamented, "You've been doing a good job of dealing with the properties in the Philippines lately. ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Gladstone replied.

"Does your father have any opinion on the issuance of gold dollar coupons?" Morgan asked.

"My dad thinks that although in the end, the issuance of national credit currency is the most profitable method, but the Fed issued gold dollar bills for the first time, it is better to be conservative and continue to use one-to-one reserves, and wait until something serious happens, and then slowly adjust the ratio of reserves to the gold dollar bills issued."

Seeing the word gold dollar coupons, many people in later generations can't help but think of the strange fake that was made by thousands of people in the past. The coin guys have consciously and voluntarily stopped the criminal act of counterfeiting currency, and the face value is comparable to the banknotes issued by the Heaven and Earth Bank or the Bank of China Hades. Tickets, and the purchasing power is also equivalent to the Golden Won Coupon.

But the gold dollar coupon mentioned by Morgan is by no means such a cheat. Because this so-called "gold dollar bill" is actually a dollar bill under the gold standard. The name of the ticket. Speaking of which, the empty space is actually just a copycat of the name of the United States. According to U.S. law at the time, authentic U.S. dollars could only be gold, silver, and copper coins. However, if there is a large amount of trading, gold and silver coins are still too heavy to use. Therefore, some banks began to issue a kind of huàn voucher on their own, which indicated how much gold or something could be exchanged for huàn in such and such a bank. That's the dollar banknote. Ticketed. Because it can be exchanged for real dollars at any time, this thing is naturally called a gold dollar coupon. Of course, there are gold dollar coupons, and naturally there are silver dollar coupons. Therefore, the name of the silver dollar coupon was not invented in an empty space, but the great man of the ages made the name of this thing known to everyone.

According to the U.S. law at this time, as long as a certain standard was met, the corresponding amount of gold was surrendered to the treasury (now to the Federal Reserve, which is acting for the treasury) in a one-to-one ratio, and the right to issue the corresponding amount of gold dollar bills could be obtained. It also makes dollar bills within the United States. Tickets can be said to be varied and varied. This naturally brings up another problem, which is pseudo. The problem of too many banknotes. On the one hand, this is because the anti-counterfeiting technology of this era is still very immature, think about it, in the twenty-first century, so many anti-counterfeiting measures are used, and the crime of counterfeiting currency still exists, let alone in the nineteenth century? In that era, find a good artist, study carefully, modulate the ink, and create a fake. Don't make it too easy to get money. The second reason is the dollar banknote. There are too many styles of tickets, and the common people have to distinguish so many kinds of banknotes. The characteristics of the ticket are really not easy. So, the first important thing after the establishment of the Federal Reserve is to unify the dollar banknotes. Issuance of tickets.

The McDonald consortium will provide new anti-counterfeiting technology to the new, Fed version of the gold dollar bill, and all Fed member banks will use this new, hard-to-counterfeit new banknote. At the same time, the Federal Reserve will face the society to withdraw the gold dollar bills issued by the previous Federal Reserve's member banks. It didn't take long for the whole society to become popular banknotes. Bills will be dominated by Fed dollar bills that are more difficult to imitate and more creditable. The gold dollar bills of other banks will gradually be rejected by the market, and then they will de facto issue banknotes. The power of the vote will be monopolized by the Fed. And the benefits of this are really too many to mention. R1058