The 1930s in Blue Star were turbulent ones.
Biophotovoltaics combined with traditional wind, photovoltaic and hydropower technologies have caused traditional energy sources such as oil and natural gas to lose their intended role.
Petroleum, as the mother of modern industry, naturally has more than one use: fuel.
There is an entire petrochemical industry surrounding oil and natural gas.
Even if oil loses its greatest use, the oil-producing countries, led by the big players in the Middle East, cannot survive the past days and can still survive by picking at the ropes.
In addition to the difficulties faced by the big dogs, Russia, which relies heavily on natural gas and oil, is also having a hard time. Before the country's high-tech industries have been developed, the original economic pillar has been cut off.
Not only is the economic pillar broken, but the plan to choke Europa through energy is also in vain.
It is a double economic and strategic loss.
New energy has achieved a penetration rate of more than 90%. At the same time, only some of the traditional fuel power stations are preserved for strategic purposes.
In case there is a problem with wind, solar and hydropower, the thermal power station can also be restarted.
But at least from the demand side, a large chunk of oil demand has disappeared inexplicably.
For energy-dependent countries, things are far from simple.
The birth of the virtual world has led to the shrinking of the demand side of the entire manufacturing industry.
A very simple example. Before the virtual world, everyone initially changed their mobile phones every year, and later changed to every three years.
After the birth of the virtual world, people no longer change their mobile phones. A mobile phone can be used for more than ten years.
Demand has shrunk inexplicably.
For countries like America that rely on the financial industry, they can rely on the virtual world to rebuild a financial system.
Make huge profits in this financial system.
Before, the material was 1, but Amerikan could play the capital to 100.
Now that there is a virtual world, after concepts are guided by external media and one's own experience changes, there is no difference between the physical world and the virtual world.
There is also no difference between assets in the physical world and assets in the virtual world.
Then the total of virtual and material is 1+infinity, and Amerikan plays the financial game to no limit.
Thanks to this, Amerikan's capital market is even more prosperous than it was ten years ago.
But for the big dog owners in Russia, they can’t play.
Not to mention that they can't build a financial system to allow players from all over the world to participate. They can't even make a stable profit by participating.
If we talk about the world's capital market, America is the banker and China is the institution, then the big dogs and Russia are leeks.
It is regularly harvested by Amerikan using the tidal effect of the US dollar. Russia is a little better. Not much of it is harvested, but more of it is killed with a borrowed knife.
The 1920s belonged to Xiangzhuang, and the sword dance was intended for Peigong.
Peigong could no longer hold on at that time. He relied entirely on biophotovoltaics and industrial intelligence to survive, which was also bad luck.
In other words, any change at the macroeconomic level will affect every link in the entire chain.
Two things that seem unrelated may actually be inextricably linked.
Until the end of the 1930s, there were still voices within Amerika that believed that allowing China to join the WTO more than 30 years ago was a mistake.
After China joined the WTO, it was completely unstoppable.
In fact, China's entry into the WTO was the most beneficial thing for America at that time.
Overheating investment in the early 1990s led to the bursting of the real estate bubbles in Qiongdao and Shenhai, and also caused the four major banks to technically go bankrupt.
After these events, the RMB began to be directly tied to the US dollar in a fixed exchange rate manner. This is the fundamental reason why America is willing to admit China into the WTO system.
Americen exports to China: US dollars, various high-tech products and services, medical care and finance.
China exports textiles, mid-to-low-end manufacturing products, etc. to Amerikan.
This formed a perfect closed loop in the early 21st century, which was extremely perfect for Amerikan at that time.
In the new era, that is, the 1930s, Amerikan was able to take advantage of its own advantages and feed itself by sucking the blood of other countries, but these resource countries could not do that.
Therefore, under some inducements, a war broke out in Blue Star that swept most of the entire region.
China also took advantage of this opportunity to completely resolve certain issues left over from history.
As a direct inducement, it also caused irreversible losses to the interests of countless vested interests.
The Lion City is naturally a thorn in the eyes of countless people.
What's even more fatal is that Zheng Li disbanded all the original armed forces of the Lion City, and Amerikan's troops also withdrew from the Lion City.
At least according to the traditional concept, the Lion City is fat. Who can eat it? It is impossible to catch Merlin, but this is equivalent to a way to control Merlin.
Just being able to find the life-extending potion in Science City is enough to repay the investment.
When neighboring countries are trying to attack the Lion City, the prices offered for life-extending potions on the dark web have reached as high as one billion US dollars.
In this era, the U.S. dollar remains an important part of the global currency.
"Mr. Zheng, does the Lion City need our assistance?
According to our intelligence, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Neon are all trying to attack the Lion City.
In other words, attacking the Lion City is already part of their planned plan. "
Before the war against the Lion City broke out, China specifically notified Zheng Li and expressed its willingness to assist in defense.
"No, I have my own means to deal with this."
Zheng Li refused decisively.
It turns out that showing off muscles is also normal for mages.
Not to mention that mages were originally used to launch large-scale wars in the early days.
After the war started, Malaysia was the first to take action.
As a result, all Malaysia's sophisticated missiles using communication technology failed. Let alone hit the target, they could not even aim at the Lion City.
All of them turned around and hit the mainland.
Then they planned to end the battle by landing directly.
The same group of people lost consciousness one after another during the landing process and were unable to approach the Lion City.
Subsequent attempts by other countries had the same results.
The Lion City survived the war with little impact.
To some extent, it proves one thing that the Master has the highest authority over global network security.
If you want to launch a missile, you need to cooperate with satellite positioning.
No modern warfare equipment can be separated from communication technology.
Mages can directly interfere with your communication facilities and even take over your authority.
Small countries dare to gamble, but big countries dare not.
Even Neon just came up with this idea and let Malaysia and Indonesia test the waters.
After the test results came out, I chose to give up directly.
Because this technology is too incomprehensible.
If the mage chooses to side with China, he can even defeat all other countries with the power of one country.
Amerikan didn't dare to push Merlin to China.
Even though American knew that Merlin would favor China in some aspects.
In addition to the war, during this period of chaos, Li Miaomiao was assassinated many times by various means.
However, due to Zheng Li's protective measures and Hua's measures, these attack methods failed.
The logic is that some forces believe that the fundamental reason why China can enjoy so many benefits is that Li Miaomiao can influence Zheng Li's decision-making to some extent.
Zheng Li doesn't care where he puts the production base of the virtual reality equipment, the management rights of the virtual world, and the development rights of the virtual world.
But with Li Miaomiao, Li Miaomiao proposed to put these in China, and Zheng Li would take advantage of the situation.
And if Li Miaomiao dies, then everyone will return to the same level.
Do they also have the opportunity to compete for these industries that were originally in China?
By the way, the remaining two companies that successfully bid for the right to develop virtual worlds are not giants. They are two start-up companies with less than 20 people. One is located in Iceland and the other is located in China.
After winning the bid, these two companies were attempted to be acquired by major manufacturers with huge sums of money.
After the news was announced, investment institutions also swarmed in.
The founder of Huaguo Enterprise felt like Fan Jin had won the imperial examination, as if everything had changed overnight.
Originally, I was the founder of a small and micro enterprise that was struggling to survive. I couldn't even call it a small and micro enterprise, it was just a studio.
I make a living by operating a VR office software. As a result, it became a unicorn company overnight, and these investors were willing to give it a valuation of tens of billions of dollars.
In the end, the Icelandic company was invested by Europa's local investment institutions, and the Chinese company was also controlled by Chinese state-owned capital investment.
After the war ended, it was actually equivalent to resolving the contradictions, or most of them.
Through the war, Amerikan retreated from its reputation as the world's leader, but it did not suffer any substantial losses.
They even relied on war and financial war to ruthlessly conquer China.
Because he couldn't sit in this position originally, the only difference was who he wanted to give it to.
China has become the actual controller of Southeast Asia, although there are still two enclaves, Neon and Lion City, without absolute say.
Although it is painful, in a way it is completely worth it.
The silent financial war has already begun
The U.S. and Chinese concept stocks fell so hard that the market was littered with corpses and fell silent.
The market value has dropped by nearly 20 trillion yuan in one year.
Although it is accompanied by the technical bear market of Nasdaq and the disappearance of the multi-trillion valuation bubble.
However, many Chinese concept stocks have fallen by more than 80% and 98%, which is still unusual.
In the Chinese concept stocks in Xiangjiang, all foreign brokerage firms are selling their seats, and it is obviously the funds with Chinese prefixes that are buying the bottom.
The market trend is heading towards clearing 0.
This is a bit like the demonization of Japan that began in 1980. Trade protectionism appeared in the automobile industry and threatened the security of the United States with Neon. At that time, Neon was still an ally of America.
In other words, Neon has always been America's ally.
Then came the Plaza Accord, which forced the yen to appreciate. Then the real estate bubble continued to rise. Amerikan began to crack down on Neon's electronic chip industry.
At the same time, Neon opened the door to the financial market, allowing Amerikan Securities to enter.
Afterwards, Amerikan developed a product to short the Nikkei Index and began to short the Neon stock market.
Afterwards, the Neon Central Bank raised the discount rate, and the Neon real estate bubble exploded.
At first, Neon Bank covered up its losses. But around 1998, during the Asian financial crisis, Neon Central Bank was unable to cover up its huge bad debts, and large-scale bankruptcies began.
Afterwards, Americen Capital quietly held 30% of financial assets.
In 2020, America's domestic rhetoric promoting China's threat theory appeared on a large scale in academia, intelligence agencies, and far-right media.
In the following years, sporadic double-anti and three-anti policies appeared in almost all fields.
The call for threats against China has become Amerikan's noisy stream of consciousness. Amerikan has begun a new round of trade wars and financial wars, exactly the same as the way it dealt with Japan back then.
After the birth of the virtual world, the real estate bubble in first-tier cities with biological communication networks was further pushed up.
In compliance with the government's various accounting regulatory standards, Americen Capital has imposed strict requirements on the disclosure of accounting data for Chinese concept stocks, and has sold off Chinese concept stocks on a large scale for two consecutive years.
There is no need to even develop tools for shorting the Chinese stock market, because the best companies in China are listed on Amerikan and Xiangjiang.
Among them, economic trends, such as the support of the RMB from the trade surplus and the trillions of foreign investment entering the Chinese bond market over the past few years, have all promoted the rise of the RMB exchange rate.
The birth of the virtual world coincides with the decline of Chinese concept stocks.
China's stock market and property market were attacked by China and America at the same time.
Amerikan is a push-pull company.
Foreign capital has entered trillions of dollars in the short-term capital market.
China began countercyclical operations before the Fed and central bank tightened, and China implemented a loose stimulus policy.
The plunge in Chinese concept stocks was also accompanied by the plunge in Hang Seng.
Americen’s hedge funds can not only sell Chinese concept stocks, but also sell indices.
In this wave of global valuation bubble collapse, there was also a sudden war. Global stock markets plummeted, and both the Hong Kong stock market and A-shares entered a bear market.
And the short sellers are just getting started.
In order to curb inflation, the Federal Reserve tightened forcefully and raised interest rates multiple times.
The U.S. dollar index and U.S. bond yields rose sharply, the interest rate gap between long-term and short-term bonds inverted, and the interest rate gap between China and the United States disappeared.
RMB continues to depreciate.
The central bank not only vigorously controlled capital outflows, but also began to tighten and raise interest rates.
The real estate bubble in first- and second-tier cities is beginning to burst.
The stock market continues its bear market.
The war level is victorious.
The Europa League has completely eliminated the threat from the north.
Of course, Europa also did not escape the fate of being cut off.
The world has returned to a relatively stable situation.
