What exactly is money? In fact, money is a human being's target for various survival resources. The amount of money proves how much social resources you are qualified to use.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are basic resources. Social services such as education, law, military, etc. are also a type of resources. Human beings are naturally possessive of various resources. After all, human nature has been inherent in primitive society. Imprinted in genes.
Everyone wants to get more resources, and everyone wants to eat and occupy more, so there must be a distribution method that is generally acceptable to the whole world and the entire nation.
This is the root of the birth of money, which can basically solve the problem of the distribution of the earth's resources among humans of different ethnic groups, different countries, different cultures, different languages, and different regions.
No matter how many reasons and explanations you have, money is needed as the final resource target. This is a very cold-blooded and emotionless distribution model, but it is very fair!
Human beings need money, and gold is the most suitable precious metal that can be found on earth as the object of money!
The physical properties are very stable, and the number on the earth is still very rare. The most important thing is that basically all nations of mankind recognize this preciousness.
This is the origin of the gold standard. Whoever can control the supply of gold in this world can also control the throat of the world's currency.
Let alone the current era when the gold standard has not been abolished, even after the 21st century, the US dollar will be freed from the constraints of the gold standard, and the United States will still hoard a large amount of gold.
After World War II, countries around the world deposited their own gold in the United States in order to exchange for U.S. dollars. However, when they finally wanted to withdraw it back to their countries, they were obstructed by the United States in every possible way.
I admit that this gold belongs to you, but I just won’t let you take it back to your country. Do you have any objections?
If you don’t give, you won’t give. There is a way to go, but there is no way to die!
Don't say that gold has declined. Even if gold seems to be less useful in peacetime, once the world situation changes, gold will always be gold and will always be the last currency that mankind trusts most.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! How could I be so careless!"
After Xiao Letian listened to the analysis of Big Beard and the Second Fiddler, combined with the memories from his previous life, he immediately found the crux of the problem!
In the final analysis, I overestimated Britain's endurance. I always thought that based on Britain's current strong financial resources, it would not care about this small sum of 1.2 billion francs!
But they forgot to consider the problem from the perspective of monetary hegemony!
After all, the Chinese are an emerging country. Although they exchanged credentials with the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom recognized the Chinese as an independent country!
However, it is impossible for wary people to be exposed so easily. How could those old foxes of the British Empire be deceived by their superficial obedience and sweet words!
More importantly, Xiao Letian behaved too tactfully in France. For various reasons, the attitude between Xiao Letian and those in the Paris Commune was very ambiguous!
This has aroused the alarm of European capitalist forces, and aren't the top representatives of capitalists bankers and giant plutocrats? These people are playing with gold in this era!
"Xiao, my friend, I must remind you very pessimistically that the British will do anything to maintain their golden dominance... If you cannot show obedience, then the British will not let you operate in Asia with confidence. of!"
The second fiddler also said, "Führer, I don't understand. Your monetary policy was obviously very good before. You worked hard to mint silver dollars and issue silver-standard currency... This is what the UK is happy to see!"
"Why do you want to get involved in the gold business when you are still very weak? Gold franc, gold franc... The French franc can be exchanged for gold like the pound sterling, and they are both gold standard currencies!"
"You can put these currencies in European banks as foreign exchange reserves, but you absolutely cannot take them away... and you cannot transport them back to Asia!"
"If you still insist on going your own way, I'm afraid you won't be able to return to the country. The British will put you under house arrest..."
Xiao Letian was really scared now. The Franco-Prussian War made him a little arrogant and lax. He actually ignored such a serious problem. How could he forget about the gold standard!
The reminder from the bearded man and the second fiddler is very important, because the British have already taken action at this moment. A Dutch merchant ship set out from the port of Rotterdam this afternoon. In addition to a large number of European antiques, there were also many important scientific documents on the ship. As well as important technical documents 'produced' from French universities.
Among them are ten million gold francs!
The ship was seized by the British Royal Fleet as soon as it entered the Pas de Calais. So far, the Chinese Embassy does not know the news.
Britain finally showed the ugly pirate face it had in the early days of the Great Navigation. As long as it harmed their interests, the so-called Royal Navy would immediately tear off its disguise and turn into a privateer on the ocean.
The proud British captain looked at the ship full of seizures and sneered, "Seizure them to the Isle of Wight. If the Chinese are willing to bow their heads, maybe these treasures can be handed over to them. If not..."
"Then these precious cultural relics must be in the collection of the Imperial Museum!"
Xiao Letian smoked his cigar again and again. He paced back and forth in the study room and thought. It took a full quarter of an hour before he opened the window and let the cold night breeze blow in.
"I understand, thank you two gentlemen for reminding me, it is really important...I was dazzled by the victory before, and fell into a very low-level situation of being dark under the light..."
"Now that I have found the root cause of the disease, I have a prescription to solve it. Please rest assured that the Philippines issue and the gold issue will be properly resolved!"
The bearded man and his companion looked at each other and smiled, "Of course we believe in the head of state's ability to solve problems... But we have another problem that we want to ask the head of state for advice today!"
"The failure of the Paris Commune dealt a fatal blow to our proletarian revolutionary movement. There is now a pessimistic tone in the world..."
"As a witness to the civil war in Paris, you are also a great scholar and politician who has learned both Chinese and Western knowledge! We need you to give us some analysis from a different perspective!"
Xiao Letian was stunned after hearing this. "Ask me? Shall I give you my opinion? This... this is not good, right?"
He smiled wryly and spread his hands, "You should know very well that although I sympathize with the labor movement, I understand the difficult life of the people at the bottom...but..."
"But, after all, I am also a member of what you call the ruling class! I am also a capitalist, and I am actually constantly exploiting the surplus value of employees!"
"I am essentially no different from those exploiters!"
Just as he was talking, the bearded man interrupted Xiao Letian, "No! I don't think so. You are different from ordinary capitalists, because you are not a slave to money, and you are not a puppet controlled by capital!"
"We have seen too many big capitalists in Europe. Many of them are much richer than you! But when we look at those people, they are actually very sad!"
"Those rich people have long been drained of their flesh and blood by capital. Their values are to do everything they can to make capital increase in value, and they have lost all their humanity!"
"Actually, if you look carefully, those people are actually slaves raised by the capital monster, contributing to the operation of capital!"
"The body of this capital monster secretes a little bit of pus, which gives these parasites endless enjoyment!"
"But you are different... Will a person who can even kick aside the throne of the emperor and king be controlled by the monster of capital?"
"Führer, even if you are risking your life to repay us for your kindness, please open your mind and talk openly and honestly!"
