"We can return the occupied territories, including Minsk," Lin Youde said with a gesture, and his entourage quickly unfolded the map on the negotiating table, "Field Marshal von Bock's troops will retreat to the traditional dividing line between Poland and Russia, and Marshal Kruger's troops will also retreat from the vicinity of St. Petersburg, and we can guarantee the ownership of these traditional Russian territories." ”

"I must remind you," Natalia crossed her fingers and looked at Lin Youde with a calm gaze, "the principality of Kievan Rus is one of the first Rus' states, so Kiev should be our traditional territory of Russia. ”

"Now Ukrainians don't think so." Lin Youde said-for-tat, "Ukraine is a member of the Alliance for Human Innovation, and the alliance will guarantee Ukraine's independence and territorial sovereignty, and if we let Ukraine be annexed by Russia again, the foundation of the alliance will no longer exist." Miss Natalia, I think the basis of the negotiation is that neither side makes it difficult for the other, and if that can't be done, then there is no need for the negotiation to continue, Miss Natalia. ”

"If the Russian Empire loses too much, it will be very difficult for me to do it, so please think about my difficulties a little as well."

"Of course, of course, that's why we generously returned almost all the land occupied by our army in northern Ukraine." Lin Youde said with a smile, "I think this is enough to show our sincerity." ”

Anyway, Lin Youde didn't mention the matter of the southern Kuban steppe and the oil-producing area of Baku, although he had already decided to return these places to Russia, but the specific requirements had to be put forward by the Russians themselves, and Lin Youde took the initiative to mention the Russians and could take the opportunity to increase the weight - you took the initiative to return it to me, I didn't take the opportunity to make a little more, this is not reasonable at all, right?

Natalia stared at Lin Youde for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "In our country, the current forces opposing the peace talks are mainly Cossacks, and the troops composed of Cossacks are dissatisfied with the occupation of their hometowns, so I must advocate the retreat of the German army from the Kuban steppe and the Don River valley. In addition, Catherine Nadar was the traditional cultural center of the Kuban Cossacks, and the Germans also had to return the city to our country and not destroy it in the city. ”

"What a lion's mouth," said the fox, clapping his hands vigorously, and exclaimed strangely, "Miss Natalia is so bold that she dares to shout such a price, admiration and admiration." ”

"Chihiro!" Lin Youde pretended to warn the fox, and then continued to say to Natalia, "Our army has paid considerable casualties when seizing these lands, and if we withdraw from these lands so simply, I am afraid that it will be difficult for our soldiers to accept it." Therefore, if Russia wants to get back these places, it has to pay pensions to the families of our soldiers who died in battle, and I don't think this is too much, right? ”

"At the moment our country does not have the financial resources to pay for these payments."

"In that case, it will have to be compensated with the oil fields in Baku." Lin Youde said seriously, just looking at his current style and tone, it doesn't look like he has decided to return Baku to Russia.

"I'm afraid that's unacceptable," Natalia replied bluntly, "The oil produced in the Baku oil field is vital to the whole of Russia, without oil, we even have a problem with the supply of fuel for heating in winter, and if Mr. Lin insists on freezing the Russians to death in the winter snow, then we will have to fight back." ”

"We can sign an oil supply agreement with Russia, and we will supply 50 percent of the production from the Baku oil field to Russia every year, and of course, Russia will have to pay for the production and transportation costs of these oils."

Lin Youde looked at Natalia with an expression of "I'm so conscientious" on his face.

Natalia was silent for a while, and then changed her resolute tone: "Mr. Lin, I don't want to waste any more time, Baku, Kuban and the Don River must be returned to Russia, and if you insist on supporting Ukrainian independence, then these places must be returned to Russia." ”

"Of course I can hand it back to you." Lin Youde raised his right hand as he spoke, rubbing the fingers of the other four fingers with his thumb - this is a gesture that is common all over the world, and the meaning is very straightforward: "Take the little money."

"We can't pay any money right now, and if you want us to pay money, then we can only pay in rubles."

"No kidding, what's the difference between the ruble and waste paper now." The fox finished with an exaggerated sneer.

"I heard that the Russian Empire still has gold reserves in Kazan." Lin Youde leaned forward, "We don't mind accepting this gold. In addition, His Majesty the Tsar has a lot of jewels and paintings, and if Russia pays for these, we will gladly accept them. Of course, we will accept something like famous paintings, which cannot be used as a hard currency reserve, because of my personal hobby. Personally, I really like Ilya in the collection of His Majesty the Tsar in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg? Yefimovich? Repin's famous painting "Satekow in the Underwater Kingdom", in addition to Valentine? Aleksandrovich? I also admire Mr. Serov's paintings, and if they could be given to me, I would be more than happy to reduce part of the war reparations. ”

Natalia's lips trembled slightly.

"You're a naked robbery."

"Oh, what's this, the British looted the treasures of Egypt to the British Museum, the Spaniards looted the treasures of the Aztecs, you Russians, there is no less looting of genuine Polish and Lithuanian art, how many of the Tsar's treasury were looted from the Polish royal family back then? I'm afraid you're the prime minister and you're too late, right? ”

Natalia looked desperately trying to suppress her anger while the fox tapped Lin Youde's knee under the table, reminding him that he had gone too far.

"Okay," so Lin Youde said loosely, "I just need gold and jewelry, and I will give up for the time being, such things as famous paintings that represent Russian culture, but as an alternative, I need Russia to completely withdraw its troops from the territory of the Far Eastern Ming Kingdom that I control." ”

"That's fine."

Natalia's expression looked a little softened, but Lin Youde said again: "This is not just a withdrawal, the Russian army must be stationed in place to prevent the US military from entering and occupying these territories that originally belonged to China." ”

"It shouldn't be too much of a problem."

Charlotte probably wouldn't want Russia to join the Alliance for Human Renewal in turn, so the Russian army would not leave, and the Americans probably wouldn't dare to forcibly occupy it.

"In addition, I have a mention," Lin continued, "that we can use paper marks to buy weapons and equipment for the Russian army in the Far East, and representatives of the Chinese branch of the NERV will receive these weapons and equipment before the Russian army retreats." ”

"Oh?" Natalia raised an eyebrow, "Interesting, it looks like you plan to directly use the equipment of the Russian army to form a new armed force." I don't mind......"

"How can you mind," the fox waved his hand, "Originally, the troops in the Far East were the unreliable troops that Xiaogang had distributed in the past, and you would be happy to let these troops lose their weapons and return home." ”

"Ms. Lin Qianxun, please stop insulting the heroes of our country in that way."

"Okay, no insult, no insult." The fox shrugged.

"Mr. Lin, I still have a few doubts about this mention just now. One," Natalia stared at Lin Youde, "why pay for paper marks?" You can say that these weapons are used to pay for our war reparations, don't you? ”

"Quite simply, I need to ship the gold and jewelry back to show the German people as a way to tell them that we have not lost this agreement." Lin Youde spread his hands, "I have to have something to convince the people, don't I?" Although I can use my prestige to force the people to support this armistice, prestige is a thing that will not work if it is overdrawn. ”

"But I always feel that you are planning to infiltrate our economy with paper marks."

"Miss Natalia, if Russia ceases the war, it is destined to not be able to get investment from the United States, what will you use to revive the Russian economy at that time?" Lin Youde said and grinned at Natalia, "I'm mentioning this for your own good, after getting the paper mark paid by my country, you can use the paper mark as the anchor currency to reissue the paper ruble, and solve the dilemma that the current Russian domestic ruble is not as good as paper in one fell swoop, so that you can score another point after the armistice, so as to strengthen your lead, think about the expressions of your opponents at that time." Immediately after that, I will give orders to Russia, the Allies are still at war, we need to buy many, many products, and you can use these orders to reorganize Russian industrial production. ”

The value of banknotes is often related to the "power" of the institution that issued the banknotes, which includes a series of contents such as "reputation" and "hard power". Most of the banknotes are issued by the government, so the value of the banknotes is closely related to the "power" of the government, when a government's power is weak, the banknotes it issues are naturally not recognized by the people, which is often one of the causes of inflation.

At this time, the government can choose a currency issued by a strong institution as the "anchor currency", issue new banknotes, and link the purchasing power of the banknotes to the anchor currency - the embodiment of this linkage is that the new banknotes and the anchor currency will be exchanged at a fixed exchange rate, and in this way, the people will recognize the new currency, because even if the actual purchasing power of the currency depreciates, the people can exchange the new banknotes into a strong, guaranteed anchor currency at a fixed exchange rate.

This is done on the premise that the government issuing the new currency has sufficient reserves of anchor currency to guarantee that it can be exchanged at any time.

In another time and space, there was an unfortunate country called Argentina, which used the dollar as its anchor currency, and it mixed well at first, but in the second half of the twentieth century, its own economy failed, the import and export trade plummeted, and the government's dollar reserves shrank so rapidly that it could not maintain the fixed exchange rate between the Argentine peso and the dollar, and then the Argentine leadership, carried away by neoliberalism, decided to sell the state-owned assets to guarantee the reserves - and then there was no more, and the country was suddenly crippled by the foreign powers.

By the way, among the powers that rushed to Argentina to swallow Argentina's state-owned assets, there was a mud leg who had just turned over not long ago, and the mud leg didn't have much money at that time (it was only in the 90s at that time, the mud leg had just been freed from the bleak situation of supplying meal tickets), and he ruthlessly smashed the pot and sold iron to make up the money to enter the field, and almost burped one of his largest state-owned enterprises. Because of this, this thing is ugly compared to the great powers, and whatever it catches, it eats whatever it eats, and it doesn't spit out the bones......

Of course, these Lin Youde will not sue Sù Natalia.

Hehe.

Lin Youde put on a pure expression, waiting for Natalia's counterattack.

"My industry is in Ukraine," Natalia countered, "if you don't give me back Ukraine, then I will only have grain to sell, and our own domestic consumption of other industrial products will not be satisfied." ”

"Oh no, you still have magic guide products to sell, my magic guide industry is going to switch to new things, and the parts of the magic guide armor used by the war queen are now all commissioned to the alliance countries, but the production is not particularly enough. In addition, we need a lot of cereals, because we have no more labor in our country to produce our products, and the lack of labor is destroying agriculture in Germany. ”

Natalia stared at Lin Youde, and after a long silence, she said, "Looks like games are about to enter your field again, right?" ”

"Yes, but do you still think I'm not good at war?"

"In my opinion, your table on the battlefield is indeed not as eye-catching as your table in the economic field."

Lin Youde shrugged.

"Maybe, although I think I've been playing back and forth against Barton."

"George Patton? You have a very high opinion of that American general. Natalia's eyes narrowed slightly, and it seemed strange that she thought it was strange.

"Heroes cherish heroes, but I fought with him in North Africa for almost a year." Lin Youde prevaricated.

"Hmph, that's how it should be, right?" As she spoke, Natalia looked down at her notebook, "I generally understand your prices, let me go back and discuss it with my subordinates." ”

"Very well, then we'll wait for good news." Lin Youde was the first to stand up and stretched out his hand to Natalia.