"Lord Wang, Zheng Chaogong, Right Prime Minister, Li Yuhou of the Ministry of War, Guo Deyun of the Ministry of Households, Eighty-eight Masters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zuo Jigao of the Ministry of Industry, Hu Xueyan of the Ministry of Commerce, Wang Zhennan of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhuge Baoshanbo of the Navy Department, Li Jinwang, Chief of Staff of the Army, Wang Xiushan, Chief of Staff of the Navy, Zeng Disheng, Li Shaoquan, Weng Shuping, and Senators of the Prime Minister's Office, as well as Luo Xuan, Hong Xiuquan, and Yang Xiuqing of the National Bureau of Investigation have all arrived at the small hall."

When Zhuge closed the curtain for Dao, his secretary Fu Shanxiang didn't know when, he had already arrived beside him, and whispered a list of names - all of them were important members or senior staff members of Zhuge Weidao's cabinet.

Among them, Zheng Chaogong on the right is Zheng Guoxian, the Chaoguo Gong. Li Yuhou, the secretary of the military department, is the backbone of Li Tieguan, the marquis of Yulin, the backbone of Li Kui's Wang family. The eighty-eight masters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are Zhuge for learning. Zhuge Baoshan Bo of the Admiralty is the "little ancestor" of the Zhuge family, and the late Admiral of Zhuge Youmo, who has a generation, is now named Baoshan Bo. Hubu Guo Deyun is Deyun Bo Guo Xiaobao, he has now retired from active service and followed Zhuge Weidao into politics together. The two great staff members of the army and navy are respectively the patriarch of the Li Jin royal family and the admiral of Xiushan Bo Wang Wen, another henchman of Zhuge Weidao. In addition to the above, there are also Zuo Jigao, Hu Xueyan, Zeng Disheng, Li Shaoquan, Weng Shuping, Luo Outline, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others, all of whom are talents collected by Zhuge Weidao in more than 30 years...... It's really talented!

When Zhuge Weidao took Fu Shanxiang into his special small hall, this group of talents had already arrived, and one looked solemn, either reading the briefing or exchanging opinions in a low voice.

It is also reasonable for the big guys to have a heavy heart, after all, the current economic situation is very difficult, it can be said that it is unprecedented in a hundred years - there is a surplus of almost everything except silver, and there is a surplus of quite a lot. And since money is still "redeemable", it is impossible to create demand by turning on the printing press...... In fact, the current global crisis of excess is largely due to the scarcity of "convertible money" and the constraints it has placed on the fiscal and monetary policies of governments.

After all, the basis of "convertible money" is gold and silver, and the amount of gold and silver is limited, compared with the industrial and agricultural production capacity of various countries after the second industrial revolution, the gold and silver in the hands of all mankind are too small. Although "convertible banknotes" have been multiplied on the basis of gold and silver reserves of central banks. But in any case, "redeemable banknotes" are always anchored by precious metals, and this multiplication cannot be done too much, otherwise the people will run on the banknotes, and it will be a financial collapse.

As for decoupling money from gold and silver to make non-convertible banknotes...... In the current Ming Dynasty, it will definitely not work, not that it will fail, but there is no way to promote it at all. Everyone from top to bottom feels that sooner or later paper money that is decoupled from gold and silver will become worthless, and no one will agree. If Zhuge wants to do it, then he himself must be removed from power first!

"No, the deficit is too high, and there is no way for the government to expand its finances! Even if public bonds can be issued, the government will not be able to pay for them...... If tax revenues are to be raised, I am afraid that the enthusiasm of the private sector for investment will further decline, and the prices of assets will have to continue to fall, and the banks will not be able to bear it. If taxes are not raised, then the government's debt must not be increased, otherwise it will be difficult to repay the interest! ”

"But if the government doesn't pay for it, the infrastructure projects run by the Ministry of Industry can't continue...... More people will be unemployed! When the time comes, not only will the economy not be stable, but I am afraid that the overall situation will not be stable. ”

"Yes, during this time, Europe and the Americas have been in turmoil due to economic crises, and the situation has become more and more chaotic, and there have been many assassinations against the royal family in the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia."

"There was also a growing opposition to the Bonaparte family within the Roman Republic...... Napoleon II originally wanted to be Roman emperor, and now it looks like his Roman consul for life will be able to do so. ”

"Now the Chartists in England are also making trouble every day against the King and Queen! These British veterans really don't know what to do, when the potatoes in Ireland were moldy and there was a famine, it was the old King Lu (Zhu Xiyou) who used the money of the Indian Empire to buy American wheat, so that those British low-level Irish people could live. But they are the ones who are most active in opposing the king and queen now! ”

"But it's the United States and Mexico that are the most chaotic! Recently, a militia-armed American National Party has emerged in the United States, which advocates anti-Semitic, anti-black, and anti-Indian, and has also declared that it will expand its armaments and tear up the "Havana Treaty," which has caused both the Democratic Party and the Whig Party in the United States to be a bit ...... It's an election year in the United States! If only Adolf of the American National Party. Shearer and Robert. Lee was elected, I really don't know what will happen in the future?

Mexico's head was bigger, Agustin I was old and faint and soon died, and his son was a playful man...... Moreover, it has a bad concern with the Catholic Church, and what is even more troublesome is that there are republicans among the native whites of Mexico, who want to follow the example of the United States and the Roman Republic to engage in republicanism! I'm afraid that as soon as Agustin I dies, Mexico will be in chaos! ”

In the small hall, the meeting on economic issues, I don't know what was going on, was quickly pulled into international issues!

In the past two years, of course, the international community has not been stable. Originally, when the economy was good, there was money and growth, and all countries treated each other as customers...... The customer is the Father and the Emperor! Of course, care can get along well. And now, as soon as they have no money, they all regard foreign countries as competitors...... The hatred between competitors is a red fruit!

And the internal instability of the countries is also unstable...... What year is it? This is not a stable and peaceful era, but now it is a turbulent and heroic year, and all kinds of characters who can be tossed have now grown strongly. This group of people has to toss a lot of things out of the world, not to mention that everyone's economy is on the verge of collapse now?

In order to divert the contradictions at home, the ruling classes of various countries will of course have to draw trouble from outside, and it is impossible to control whether it will cause a greater crisis if it is led out...... So the current international situation is just a pile of dry wood, just a little bit! And it is difficult for this firewood to get wet, even if Zhuge Weidao's "New Deal" plays a little role, that is, to ease the contradiction and treat the symptoms, it is difficult to cure the root cause.

Because the root cause of the current world economy is actually the contradiction between the rapid increase in production capacity and the inability to grow rapidly in precious metal-pegged currencies...... No matter how "New Deal" is, it will not be able to change enough precious metal-pegged currency, and without enough currency, it can only reduce production capacity. And cutting capacity means a lot of factory closures, a lot of bad bank debts, and a lot of workers losing their jobs!

The so-called New Deal is nothing more than turning the drastic capacity reduction into a mild one, and turning the short-term pain into a long-term pain.

But this method is of little use to the Ming Dynasty...... Because Zhuge Weidao was unwilling to be "Zhuge Hoover", he did not let the people of the Ming Dynasty taste the taste of "short pain", so in their opinion, "long pain" is also very painful.

And there seems to be only one way to solve this long-term pain...... That's the real pain, the pain of the whole world!

Because only the severe pain of the whole world can force and completely eliminate a part of the production capacity, and at the same time decouple the currencies of the major industrial countries from gold and silver - only when the whole world is in a state of war or quasi-war, facing the pressure of life and death, everyone will decouple their currencies from gold and silver, and at the same time adopt strict wartime economic control. In this way, there will be no capital flight and run on gold and silver caused by the decoupling of money from gold and silver. In fact, in the last war, the Ming Dynasty, Britain, Rakshasa , France, the United States, Prussia, Austria and other countries all entered a wartime state for a long or short time, realizing the temporary decoupling of currency and gold and silver. But after the end of the war, the countries invariably reversed the wheel and rehooked the hook that had been taken off.

After all, the superstition about precious metals that has been cultivated by human civilization for a long time cannot be eliminated overnight. In another timeline, the Brinton Woods system that emerged after World War II was actually a disguised (and at the same time false) convertible monetary system. It wasn't until the collapse of the Brinton Woods system that human money was completely decoupled from gold and silver.

Zhuge Weidao, who had already made up his mind, suddenly coughed, and the small hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned their eyes to the prime minister, waiting for his clever plan.

Zhuge Weidao's gaze gradually became cold, and he was silent for a while before he spoke: "The current problem is no longer something that can be solved by small repairs and small reforms...... No matter what reforms or new policies we take, we will only be able to barely keep the situation from collapsing, but we will not be able to stop the economy from declining. If you want to solve the problem once and for all, you must find a way to make the currency ...... I'm talking about decoupling currencies from gold and silver, so that central banks have the possibility to create money, and governments can borrow heavily to stimulate the economy! ”

"How is this possible?"

"Lord Wang, this is impossible!"

"Yes, don't say that all countries do it together, even our Ming Dynasty can't do it!"

"Lord Wang, you have to think twice......"

Zhuge Weidao's words have just been halfway through, and there is already opposition below!

In everyone's opinion, this is impossible!

Zhuge Weidao said again: "Shao'an's mother is irritable, and listen to the old man's words!" ”

The crowd fell silent again. Zhuge Weidao also said: "In addition to decoupling the currencies of all countries from gold and silver, we must also find ways to make countries ....... I'm talking about the destruction of a considerable part of the industrial capacities of foreign countries! ”

Destroy?

This is to ......

The atmosphere in the small hall suddenly became tense.

Zhuge Weidao continued to say: "If you don't have enough money, make money!" If there is too much industrial capacity, find a way to destroy other people's production capacity! Only in this way can we survive the crisis and become a leader in the world! I am not here today to discuss the general policy, because there is no other way out...... Today we are going to talk about how to decouple the currencies of various countries from gold and silver, and how to destroy foreign industrial capacity! ”

He glanced at everyone with burning eyes, and said in a deep voice: "We need a world war!" A world war on a larger scale than the last one! ”

"Lord, we want to ...... Is there going to be a world war? ”

Questions were raised.

"No, we don't launch!" Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "Now we don't have the need to expand, we have enough resources and land, and we don't need more...... Therefore, a world war should be driven by us and started by others...... Let others fight each other first, let's sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and when everyone else is tired, we will join in!

Guys, what do you think is the most likely place to start a world war? ”

"Lord Wang, the United States is very likely to become the source of a world war! If the American National Party is elected, they will definitely go to war with Mexico...... Moreover, the internal situation in Mexico is unstable, and the new emperor also needs to use external toughness to divert the domestic crisis after coming to power, so it is very easy to break out into conflict with the United States! ”

"My lord, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire in Europe are faintly showing signs of an alliance against the German Empire...... In recent years, the German Empire has developed very rapidly! It already threatened the stability of the German-speaking regions under the Roman Empire. Moreover, the German Empire, having returned Croatia to Hungary, had formed a strong alliance with Hungary, and the Kingdom of Hungary had a territorial dispute with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...... The Roman Empire also wanted to completely dominate the Balkans, so it supported Yugoslavia. ”

Soon, some people followed the meaning of Zhuge as the way to propose the possible source of the world war...... The dry wood is there, and although it will not be lit on a single spark, as long as you work hard to arch the fire, it can always be burned!

Zhuge Weidao sneered: "Very good...... From now on, promoting the outbreak of a war between North America and Europe is our secret and most important national policy!

I hope you will work hard with me! ”

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