The same is true for the amount of compensation. In fact, Yang Feng's psychological price for compensation is that of Germany's original compensation in history. A hundred thousand tons of gold is completely enough. Anyway, they will definitely not be able to get out more than 10 billion pounds. In this way
If they do, they can only get a loan from the People's Bank of China. Borrowing requires various mortgages and various additional political conditions. In short, it means paying them everything they originally asked for when borrowing money from China, and then printing a bunch of Chinese dollar bills to them.
, let them use this to repay reparations. What is returned to China will naturally be used for infrastructure construction, scientific research, people's welfare and other things. What is returned to other countries, such as Germany and Austria-Hungary, they will definitely use it.
Rebuild your own country and use this money to buy all the necessary reconstruction materials from China, from machines to raw materials. The result is that the Chinese economy will continue to be unparalleled.
Moreover, everyone will return to the gold standard after the war, but what if there is no gold? So at this time, the Hua Yuan became the only reserve option. Although China banned the outflow of gold, after all, the Hua Yuan was on the gold standard, even if the gold remained
China is also on the gold standard. Then all countries use Hua Yuan as reserves. If they don’t have or don’t have enough, they can only seek loans from the People’s Bank of China. When all major countries in the world use Hua Yuan as reserves, then we
We have to sit down and discuss a currency system with the Hua Yuan as the core. For example, simply use the Hua Yuan to replace gold as the international trade settlement currency. Do you disagree? Then go ahead and play the gold standard yourself. Anyway, China is definitely going to cancel the gold standard.
Yes, the pile of Chinese dollar bills in your treasury no longer represents gold. You can find a place to dig for gold yourself!
Obviously in this case, unless someone has the ability to send the army to Beijing and force Emperor Yang to spit out the gold, otherwise he can only agree to a Yang Feng version of Bretton Woods. Originally, there was a Soviet Union next to the United States in history.
Look, no one here can restrain Emperor Yang. If he wants to play rogue, others will only recognize him. Once the world currency is controlled by the People's Bank of China, it will be very difficult for others to stand up.
His first target was Italy.
"What? You can't even get 50 million pounds of gold?" This guy looked at the Italian negotiator and their foreign minister in astonishment and said.
"Your Majesty, our country's finances are completely bankrupt. Let alone 50 million pounds of gold and silver coins, even 5 million pounds cannot be obtained. And even if national bonds are issued, it is impossible to raise so much. So the first tranche of 5 million pounds
Tens of millions of pounds in compensation cannot be paid at all." The Foreign Minister said with a face of shame. In fact, he was not telling lies. At this time, the Italian government was already bankrupt, let alone fifty million pounds.
, they couldn't even come up with 50 million Chinese dollars. As for the latter, he had no nerve to say that the current Italian government's credit was also bankrupt, and issuing national debt would definitely bring shame on itself.
"Then this won't work. The compensation of 500 million pounds is the minimum. The first batch of 50 million is also the minimum. I don't care what you take out, whether it is gold lira coins, silver coins, gold nuggets or silver nuggets.
Well, even our Chinese dollar banknotes. In short, you must come up with the first batch worth 50 million pounds. If converted into gold, the weight should be 360 tons of gold or silver according to the current gold and silver price ratio.
"Emperor Yang said very dissatisfied.
"Your Majesty, can we get a loan from the People's Bank of China?" the Italian Foreign Minister very wisely proposed it himself.
"Loan? This is not impossible. Personally, I very much want to help you, but loans must be secured. Without collateral, as a private bank, the People's Bank of China will definitely not be able to give you a loan.
." Yang Feng said lightly.
You still call it a private bank? How many countries have the right to issue banknotes in your hands? The Italian Foreign Minister cursed in his heart and then said with a smile on his face: "Then what does your Majesty think we should use as collateral?"
"I don't know much about this specific business. You can just talk to the manager of the People's Bank of China. In short, as long as the collateral is suitable, then the loan is very simple." Yang Feng said casually.
What else can be used as collateral? What else can the Italian government use as collateral at this time? It is nothing more than various taxes, especially customs duties. Then the People's Bank of China supervises Italian customs. When will the money and interest be collected from the duties?
It has been deducted. When will the supervision be ended? There will be a lot of things that can be done. However, given Italy's economic situation, it is difficult for their tariffs to be mortgaged, not to mention that they will have to pay another compensation every year in the future.
There will definitely be borrowing of new debt to repay old debts. Tariffs alone are definitely not enough, so other things must be added. For example, giving the People's Bank of China some economic privileges. These are all feasible. As the amount of borrowing increases,
The more economic privileges this country gives to the People's Bank of China, the more the country is basically controlled by the People's Bank of China.
Of course there must be a Chinese Navy aircraft carrier behind the People's Bank, otherwise it would be a joke.
Italy currently has no other choice. Although they must understand this set of things, there is only a dead end if they do not betray the national interests. Selling the national interests can protect their own interests. This is not a difficult choice at all.
In this way, before the Italian government had reached an agreement with the Allied Council on the surrender issue, it first started loan negotiations with the People's Bank of China. Yang Feng's managers were all veterans at this game, and they probably wouldn't use the Italians' money.
They would not stop until they were squeezed dry, so Emperor Yang did not need to care about these.
Lagos, the largest port in West Africa, the number one deep-water port, and the last major stronghold of the British Empire on the African continent.
There are more than 20,000 regular troops and militiamen in this city, and a large amount of ammunition has been stockpiled. There is even a fleet of more than a dozen gunboats and torpedo boats in the lagoon. In addition, the main channel is blocked with mines and sunken ships.
In the opinion of the British guarding this city, they can hold on for at least a month. The terrain here is very special, and it is impossible for a landing ship to land on the beach. The outside is covered with small sandbanks formed by seawater.
Even if I land, I can only look at the crisscrossing waterways and lament.
"It's a good place. It's indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack, especially for landing operations. But it's a pity that they don't know that there is another thing in this world called an amphibious tank." Fu Cixiang, commander of the 1st Marine Division, looked at Lagos with his telescope.
Si said proudly.
At his feet, at the open hatch on the bow of the landing ship, buffalo amphibious personnel carriers were slowly driving out, and then paddling from the sea on tracks to cross the sea less than one kilometer wide like a ship. These
The buffaloes and the landing ships that transport them are the reason why the 1st Marine Division has not started attacking Lagos until now. They have to wait in Cape Town for these things to arrive. There are a hundred buffaloes in this batch, which can transport a regiment of soldiers at a time.
, the buffaloes that washed up on the sandbank from the sea continued to travel on land, and when they encountered waterway obstructions, they directly floated again. In this way, it took less than fifteen minutes to send a group directly to the beach outside the city of Lagos.
The British troops opposite them were dumbfounded. No one thought that the Chinese actually had such a thing that could travel on land and float in the water. And this was a tank. Those lying in the trenches were bombarded by naval guns and ships.
The British army, which had suffered so much from the bombing of the carrier-based aircraft, almost collapsed. Of course, they still had to keep fighting. Fortunately, the Chinese soldiers who landed did not launch a charge. Instead, under the cover of the carrier-based aircraft, they looked for hiding places to lie there.
Shooting against the British army, or it can be said to be brutalizing the British soldiers. The people stationed here are second-line troops and militiamen. Naturally, the equipment is not very good. When encountering recoilless rifles, mortars, and grenade launchers, Nasha
Lin cannonballs and white phosphorus cannonballs hitting opponents on the head with all their heart can only be said to be rotten.
The buffalo convoy turned around and returned, and then sent another regiment over. During this period, all the heavy firepower continued to bombard the British defense line. By the time the buffalo sent the soldiers of the third regiment to the beach, it was estimated that
Suddenly there were not many British troops left alive on the opposite side, so the three regiments launched an attack at the same time, while the buffaloes stopped directly on the beach to use vehicle-mounted machine guns to provide fire support for the infantry.
This kind of battle is already very simple. More than half of the British army has been bombarded to death. How can they still stop these wolf-like soldiers? What's more, even if there are still those who can fight, there are carrier-based aircraft circling overhead.
, as soon as the machine gun here fires, the radio over there calls for air support, followed by large-caliber bullets or heavy bombs, it depends on the pilot's style. When encountering a relatively solid fortress, you can even call in large-caliber naval guns.
Not to mention the 380-gun main gun of the super battleship, the 152-gun gun of the light cruiser is enough to defeat the British fortress.
It can be said that this landing battle was as easy and simple as a sand table deduction. Within one morning, the British army had to abandon the beach defense and instead ran to the urban area of Lagos for street fighting. But they were willing to fight in the streets, but those niggas were not.
They were buried with them. Before the 1st Marine Division started to attack the city, the Negroes in Lagos rebelled first. They used cold weapons and hot weapons to forcefully drive out the remaining less than 10,000 British troops.
came out.
Looking at the Chinese soldiers who were waiting for them with machine guns and cannons outside, the leading British commander sighed helplessly, and then simply raised the white flag. In this way, the most important port on the African coast easily fell into the hands of China.
From here heading north to Europe, the only remaining obstacle is the French army in Dakar. (To be continued)