"Your Majesty, right minister Zheng Chaogong, Li Yuhou of the Ministry of War, Guo Deyun of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Eighty-eighth Master 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, Uncle Zhuge Baoshan of the Navy, Chief of Army Staff Li Jinwang, Naval Staff Chief Wang Xiushan, as well as counselors from the Prime Minister’s Office Zeng Disheng, Li Shaoquan, and Weng Shuping, as well as Luo Dayou, Hong Xiuquan, and Yang Xiuqing from the National Bureau of Investigation have all arrived in the small hall."
When Zhuge Weidao closed the curtains, his secretary Fu Shanxiang had arrived beside him at some point and whispered a list of names - they were all important members of Zhuge Weidao's cabinet or senior officials. ginseng.
Among them, Zheng Chaogong on the right is Zheng Guoxian, Chaoguogong. Li Yuhou, Minister of the Ministry of War, is Li Tieguan, the Marquis of Yulin - the backbone of the iron generation of the Wang family of Li Kui. The Eighty-eighth Master of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a student of Zhuge. Zhuge Baoshanbo of the Navy Department is the "little ancestor" of the Zhuge family. Zhuge Youmo, the late marshal of the navy, is now titled Baoshanbo. Guo Deyun of the household department is Deyun Bo Guo Xiaobao. He has now retired from active service and joined Zhuge Weidao in politics. The two chief counselors of the army and navy were respectively the patriarch of the Li Jin family and another confidant of Zhuge Weidao, Xiushanbo Wangwen. In addition to the above, there are also Zuo Jigao, Hu Xueyan, Zeng Disheng, Li Shaoquan, Weng Shuping, Luo Dangdao, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others, all of whom Zhuge Weidao has collected over the past thirty years...it's really There are so many talents!
When Zhuge Weidao took Fu Shanxiang into his own small auditorium, this group of talents had already arrived. One of them had a solemn expression, either reading the briefing or exchanging opinions in a low voice.
It makes sense that everyone is feeling heavy. After all, the current economic situation is very difficult. It can be said that it is unprecedented in a hundred years - except for silver, there is an excess of almost everything, and there is quite a lot of excess. And since the current currency is still "redeemable", it is impossible to create demand by turning on the money printing press... In fact, the current global surplus crisis is largely due to " This is caused by the scarcity of “convertible currency” and its restrictions on the fiscal and monetary policies of governments.
After all, the basis of "redeemable currency" is gold and silver, and the quantity 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 little. Although "redeemable banknotes" have been multiplied by the gold and silver reserves of various central banks. But no matter what, "redeemable banknotes" are always anchored by precious metals. This multiplication cannot be too large, otherwise the general public will run on banknotes and the financial system will collapse.
As for decoupling currency from gold and silver and creating non-convertible banknotes... it is definitely not possible in the current Ming Dynasty. It does not mean that it will definitely fail, but there is simply no way to promote it. Everyone thinks that paper money that is decoupled from gold and silver will become worthless sooner or later, and no one will agree. If Zhuge Weidao wants to do something, then he himself must be removed from power first!
"No, the deficit is too high, and the government's finances can no longer expand! Even if public bonds can be issued, the government will not be able to repay... If taxes are to be increased, I am afraid that private investment enthusiasm will further decline, and assets will The prices have to continue to fall, and banks can’t bear it. If taxes are not raised, the government’s debt must not increase any more, otherwise it will be difficult to pay back the interest!”
"But if the finance does not provide money, the infrastructure projects run by the Ministry of Industry will not be able to continue... and more people will be unemployed by then! Not only will the economy not be stable, but the overall situation may not be stable either."
"Yes, during this period, Europe and America were in turmoil due to the economic crisis, and the situation became more and more chaotic. There have been many assassinations against the royal family in the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia."
"The voices within the Roman Republic against the dictatorship of the Bonaparte family are getting louder and louder... Napoleon II originally wanted to be the Roman emperor, but now it seems that he can be the lifelong consul of Rome."
"Now the Chartists in the UK are making trouble every day against the King and Queen! These British bosses really don't know what is good. When Irish potatoes were moldy and famine started, it was King Lu (Zhu Xiu) who used the money from the Indian Empire to buy American wheat. , so that the Irish people at the bottom of the UK can live. But now they are the ones who are most actively opposing the king and queen!"
"But the most chaotic situation is the United States and Mexico! Recently, an American National Party with armed militias appeared in the United States. It advocates anti-Semitism, anti-Blackness, and anti-Indianism. It also declares that it will expand arms and prepare for war and tear up the "Havana Treaty." This has caused confusion between the American Democratic Party and the Whigs. The party is all nodding... This is an election year in the United States! If Adolph Shearer and Robert E. Lee of the American National Party are elected, I really don’t know what will happen in the future?
Mexico has a bigger head. Agustín I is old and dim and passed away soon. His son is a playboy who only knows how to have fun... and has bad relations with the Catholic Church. What's even more troublesome is that there are still many white people born in Mexico. The republicans are making a fuss and want to imitate the United States and the Roman Republic in establishing a republic! I'm afraid that once Agustin I dies, Mexico will be in chaos! "
In the small auditorium, the meeting on economic issues was quickly turned into international issues!
Of course, the world has not been stable in the past two years. Originally, when the economy was good, everyone had money and growth, and all countries regarded each other as customers...the customers were the Heavenly Father and the Emperor! Of course you can get along well if you care. But now when there is no money, foreign countries are regarded as competitors... The hatred between competitors is real!
And countries are also internally unstable... What year is it now? This is not an era of stability and peace. It is now an era of turmoil and heroes. All kinds of troublesome characters have now thrived. This group of people will have to do a lot of things if the world is peaceful, not to mention that everyone's economy is on the verge of collapse now?
In order to divert domestic conflicts, the ruling classes of various countries will of course have to divert troubles from abroad. As for whether it will cause a greater crisis after being drawn out, that is out of control... So the current international situation is one Pile dry firewood and it will be on fire at a moment’s notice! Moreover, this firewood is difficult to get wet. Even if Zhuge Weidao's "New Deal" has some effect, that is, it can alleviate the contradiction and treat the symptoms, it will be difficult to cure the root cause.
Because the root cause of the current world economy is actually the contradiction between rapidly increasing production capacity and precious metal-linked currencies that cannot grow rapidly... No matter how "New Deal" is adopted, there will not be enough precious metal-linked currencies, and there is no If you have enough money, you can only reduce production capacity. And cutting production capacity means a large number of factory closures, a large number of bank bad debts, and a large number of unemployed workers!
The so-called New Deal is nothing more than turning the drastic overcapacity reduction into a more moderate one, turning short-term pain into long-term pain.
But this method is of no 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 "short-term pain". Therefore, in their view, " "Long-term pain" is also very painful.
And there seems to be only one way to solve this long-term pain...that is real severe pain, severe pain all over the world!
Because only severe pain all over the world can force and completely eliminate part of the production capacity, and at the same time decouple the currencies of major industrial countries from gold and silver. Only when countries around the world are in a state of war or quasi-war, facing the pressure of life and death, Only then will everyone work together to decouple their currencies from gold and silver, and at the same time adopt strict wartime economic controls. In this way, there will be no capital flight and run on gold and silver caused by the decoupling of currency and gold and silver. In fact, during the last war, countries such as the Ming Dynasty, Great Britain, Rakshasa, France, the United States, Prussia, and Austria all entered a state of war for a longer or shorter period, and achieved a temporary decoupling of currency from gold and silver. But after the war, all countries invariably reversed course and reattached the hooks that had been taken off.
After all, the superstition of precious metals that human civilization has cultivated for a long time cannot be eliminated overnight. On another timeline, the Brinton Woods system that emerged after World War II was actually a disguised (and false) redeemable currency system. It was not until the collapse of the Bollington Woods system that human currency was completely decoupled from gold and silver.
Zhuge Weidao, who had already made up his mind, suddenly coughed, and the small hall suddenly became quiet. Everyone turned their attention to the Prime Minister, waiting for his brilliant plan.
Zhuge Weidao's eyes gradually turned cold, and he was silent for a while before he said: "Today's problems can no longer be solved with minor reforms... No matter what kind of reforms or new policies we adopt, They can only barely maintain the situation from collapsing, but cannot prevent the economic decline. If we want to completely solve the problem, we must find ways to decouple the currency...I am talking about decoupling the currencies of various countries from gold and silver, so that the central banks of various countries It is now possible to create money, and governments can borrow heavily to stimulate the economy!"
"How can this be?"
"My lord, this is impossible!"
"Yeah, let alone all countries working together, even our Ming Dynasty can't do it!"
"My lord, you should think twice..."
Zhuge Weidao was just halfway through what he said, and there was already opposition from below!
In everyone’s opinion, this is impossible!
Zhuge Weidao coughed again: "Young mother is impatient, please listen to what I have to say!"
Everyone fell silent again. Zhuge Weidao added: "In addition to decoupling the currencies of various countries from gold and silver, we must also find ways to destroy various countries...I am talking about the destruction of a considerable part of foreign industrial production capacity!"
destroy?
This is to...
The atmosphere in the small hall suddenly became tense.
Zhuge Weidao continued: "If you don't have enough money, make money! If there is too much industrial production capacity, try to destroy other people's production capacity! Only in this way can we survive the crisis safely and become a leader in the world! Today We are not here to discuss big policies, because there is no other way out... What we are going to discuss today is how to decouple each country's currency from gold and silver, and how to destroy foreign industrial production capacity!"
He glanced at everyone with stern eyes and said in a deep voice: "We need a world war! A world war that is bigger than the last war!"
"My lord, are we going to... start a world war?"
Someone asked.
"No, we won't launch it!" Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "Now we have no need for expansion. We have enough resources and land, and we don't need more... Therefore, the world war should be initiated by us. Pushing is initiated by others... let others fight each other first, while we sit back and watch the fight, and then we join in when others are tired of fighting!
Everyone, where do you think the world war is most likely to start? "
"Your Majesty, the United States is very likely to be the source of 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 will also need to be tough on the outside after taking office. To divert the domestic crisis, it is very easy for a conflict to break out with the United States!"
"Your Majesty, there are vague signs of an alliance between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire in Europe to fight against the German Empire... The German Empire has developed very rapidly in the past few years! It has threatened the stability of the German-speaking areas under the Roman Empire. And the German Empire After returning Croatia to Hungary, it had formed a strong alliance with Hungary, and the Kingdom of Hungary had territorial disputes with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia...The Roman Empire also wanted to completely dominate the Balkans, so it supported Yugoslavia."
Soon someone followed Zhuge Weidao's suggestion and proposed the possible origin of the world war... The dry firewood was there. Although it would not be ignited by a spark, it could always be burned as long as you worked hard to raise the fire. of!
Zhuge Weidao sneered: "Very good... From now on, promoting the outbreak of war in North America and Europe is our Ming Dynasty's secret and most important national policy!
I hope you will work hard with me! "
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