Chapter 527 Epilogue - The end of the full text (Thank you for your support)

"Your Majesty, Right Prime 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, Bo Zhuge Baoshan of the Navy Ministry, Chief of Army Staff Li Jinwang, Naval Staff Officer

Chief Wang Xiushan, as well as counselors from the Prime Minister's Office Zeng Disheng, Li Shaoquan, Weng Shuping, and Luo Dayou, Hong Xiuquan, and Yang Xiuqing from the National Bureau of Investigation have all arrived at 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.

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Among them, Zheng Chaogong to the right is Chaoguo Duke Zheng Guoxian. Li Yuhou, the Minister of War, is Yulinhou Li Tieguan - the backbone of the Li Kui family. The Eighty-Eighth Master of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Zhuge Weixue. The Minister of the Navy is Zhuge Baoshan Boze.

He is the "little ancestor" of the Zhuge family. The famous Zhuge Youmo became the marshal of the navy and is now titled Baoshan Bo. Guo Deyun of the household department is Deyun Bo Guo Xiaobao. He has now retired from active service and followed Zhuge Weidao into politics. Army Army

, the two senior counselors of the Navy are respectively the patriarch of the Wang family of Li Jin 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 Gangyou,

Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others are all talents that Zhuge Weidao has collected over more than thirty years. They are really full of talents!

When Zhuge Weidao took Fu Shanxiang into his own small auditorium, this group of talents had already arrived. Everyone 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 a surplus of almost everything, and there is a lot of surplus. And because now

The currency is still "redeemable", so it is impossible to create demand by turning on the money printing press. In fact, the current global surplus crisis is largely due to the scarcity of "redeemable currency".

and its constraints on the fiscal and monetary policies of governments.

After all, the basis of "convertible 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 the "redeemable banknotes" have been multiplied by the gold and silver reserves of central banks of various countries. But no matter what, the "redeemable banknotes" are always anchored by precious metals. This multiplication cannot be too large, otherwise the people will hold on to them.

If there is a run on banknotes, the financial system will collapse.

As for decoupling currency from gold and silver and creating non-convertible paper money, 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 feels that paper money decoupled from gold and silver will sooner or later become

It's worthless and no one will agree. If Zhuge Weidao wants to do it, he himself must be removed from power first!

"No, the deficit is too high, and the government's finances can no longer be expanded! Even if public bonds can be issued, the government will not be able to repay them. If taxes are to be increased, I am afraid that private investment enthusiasm will further decline, and asset prices will continue to rise.

The 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. By then, more people will be unemployed! Not only will the economy be unstable, 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 opposition to the dictatorship of the Bonaparte family within the Roman Republic is getting louder and louder. Napoleon II originally wanted to be the emperor of Rome, 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 guys really don't know what's good or bad. When Irish potatoes were moldy and there was a famine, it was King Lu (Zhu Xiu) who used the money from the Indian Empire to buy American wheat.

, so that those Irish people at the bottom of the UK can live. But now they are the ones who are most active in opposing the king and the queen!"

"But the most chaotic situation is the United States and Mexico! Recently, an American National Party with militia forces 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.

All parties are nodding. This is an election year in the United States! If Adolph Shearer and Robert E. Lee of the American National Party are elected, who knows what will happen in the future?

Mexico has a bigger head. Agustin I was old and faint, and he died soon. His son was a playboy who only knew how to have fun. He also had bad relations with the Catholic Church. What was even more troublesome was that there was a Republican faction among the native white Mexicans.

, I want to imitate the United States and the Roman Republic in establishing a republic! I’m afraid that once Augustine 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. When the economy was good, everyone had money and growth, and all countries regarded each other as customers. The customers are the Father and the Emperor! Of course, everyone can get along well if they care. And

Nowadays, when there is no money, foreign countries are regarded as competitors. The hatred between competitors is real!

Moreover, countries are not stable internally. What year is it now? This is not an era of stability and peace. It is an era of turmoil and heroes are born in large numbers. All kinds of trouble-making characters have now grown up. This group

Peace in the world requires a lot of work, 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 trouble from outside. As for whether it will cause a greater crisis, that is beyond their control. So the current international situation is just a pile of firewood.

Hold on! And 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 without enough currencies, there will only be

It can reduce production capacity. And cutting production capacity means that a large number of factories will close down, a large number of bank bad debts, and a large number of workers will be unemployed!

The so-called New Deal only makes the drastic reduction of overcapacity more moderate, turning short-term pain into long-term pain.

But this method is of no use to the Ming Dynasty. Because Zhuge Weidao did not want to be "Zhuge Hoover", he did not let the people of the Ming Dynasty taste the "short-term pain". Therefore, in their view, the "long-term pain" is also very serious.

painful.

There seems to be only one way to solve this long-lasting 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 currency from gold and silver, and at the same time adopt strict wartime economic controls. In this way, there will be no capital flight and runs on gold and silver caused by the decoupling of currency from gold and silver. In fact, during the last war

China, the Ming Dynasty, Great Britain, Rakshasa, France, the United States, Prussia, Austria and other countries all entered a state of war for a long or short time and achieved temporary decoupling of currency and gold and silver. However, after the war, all countries invariably

I drove the car in reverse and reattached the hook 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 is actually a disguised (and false) system.

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 auditorium 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: "The current problem can no longer be solved with minor reforms. No matter what reforms or new policies we adopt, we can only barely maintain the situation."

It will not collapse and cannot prevent the economy from continuing to decline. If we want to completely solve the problem, we must try to decouple the currency, I mean the currencies of various countries, from gold and silver. In this way, the central banks of various countries will have the possibility to create money, and the governments of various countries will

You can also 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, but there was already opposition from below!

In everyone’s opinion, this is impossible!

Zhuge Weidao coughed again: "Don't be impatient, just 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 try to destroy a considerable part of the industrial production capacity of various countries, I mean foreign countries!"

destroy?

This is what is needed.

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

I am 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!"

"Your Majesty, are we going to start a world war?"

Someone raised a question.

"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 promoted by us and left to others.

Initiate. Let others fight each other first, while we sit on the mountain and watch the fight. When others are tired of fighting, we will join in!

Everyone, where do you think is most likely to trigger a world war?"

"Your Majesty, the United States is very likely to become 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. After the new emperor comes to power, he will also need to use tough foreign policy to divert the domestic crisis.

, so 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 recent years! It has threatened the stability of the German-speaking areas under the Roman Empire. Moreover, the German Empire returned Croatia to Hungary.

, has formed a strong alliance with Hungary, and the Kingdom of Hungary has territorial disputes with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Roman Empire also wants to completely dominate the Balkans, so it supports Yugoslavia."

Soon someone followed Zhuge Weidao's suggestion and suggested that the possible source of the world war was the dry firewood 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!

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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Okay, that’s it for now. Although the Second World War is very descriptive, the era that ends in the book is already modern times, and World War II. How can it be called World War II without red tide? If I try to write it down, it will be tasteless.

, there are risks, so it’s better to leave an open ending!

In addition, Luo Luo will prepare a new book next and prepare to write about the Dashun Dynasty. The protagonist will be "Shun Taizong" Li Laiheng, starting in Beijing and rescuing Dashun! I hope this will be a very exciting and interesting book.

So Luo Luo needs to prepare well and not be as hasty as this book. This book is not well written and I am sorry for everyone's support.

It is expected that Luo Luo's new book will be uploaded in late February. Let me advertise here first and ask for your support!

Finally, Luo Luo wishes everyone a happy New Year, all the best, and most importantly good health!
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