Chapter 532

The US Self-Defense Force breaks through the shackles

When Roosevelt first came to power, he first planned to rectify the US currency market, save the US economy, prevent the great powers of various countries from shorting the US and plundering US wealth...

The Roosevelt administration abandoned the US gold standard system, banned "exchange freedom", and implemented a new standard for measuring currency issuance and circulation based on national credit. The Roosevelt's new policy was recognized by the vast majority of middle class and lower-class civilians in the United States and was considered the only way to save the US economic crisis.

However, Roosevelt's coming to power seriously touched the core interests of financial giants in various countries, including the Chinese Empire. If gold is not used as the basis for money supply, then countries holding gold reserves will no longer have gold to control the US economy and will no longer absorb the US foreign exchange reserves as they used to. At the same time, for domestic financial giants in the United States, if the national credit is used to protect the person's property, the government will not feel safe because the government can issue money arbitrarily to squeeze the hard-earned money of the working people. Obviously, compared with the wealth of civilians, the wealth of American financial giants has shrunk even more.

To this end, the five major American chaebols immediately formed a group to put pressure on the Roosevelt government, demanding that they give up the plan in the new policy to abandon the gold standard. However, if the Roosevelt administration fails to step down, it must unite the middle class and the lower-class civilians in the United States. Therefore, the Roosevelt's Nazi government immediately rejected the request of the five major chaebols.

However, the Roosevelt government did not have much money in hand. If we want to implement the new policy, we must first stabilize the economic crisis, prevent the US dollar from falling and the international financial giants from continuing to short the United States, which requires the help of the five major chaebols. Therefore, Roosevelt weighed the pros and cons and finally reached a compromise with the five major chaebols. The Federal Reserve changed from state-owned to public-private joint ventures. The US government held 40%, and the remaining 60% of the shares were distributed by the five major chaebols according to the ratio of their respective assets. In this way, the Zellingen Consortium obtained the largest shares with a total assets of US$5.5 billion, accounting for 20% of the Fed. Morgan second, holding 15%, and the Rockefeller Consortium suffered a lot of losses because the main oil-producing areas of the United States were occupied by Mexico, with a total asset ranking third, holding 10%. Citigroup ranked fourth, holding 9%, Cleveland Consortium fifth, holding 6%.

Overall, the US government is the largest shareholder, but if the US government wants to manipulate the Federal Reserve to issue money, it must reach an agreement with one or two of the five major chaebols, otherwise it will not be passed. Conversely, in order to safeguard their own interests, the five major consortiums unite to have 60% of the shares, which can prevent the US government from interfering in currency. In this way, the US currency is actually manipulated in the hands of the five major consortiums.

After the five major consortiums reached an agreement with the Roosevelt administration, they immediately agreed to the implementation plan of Roosevelt's new policy, and soon the US Congress passed the implementation measures of the Roosevelt's new policy.

In April 1930, the Federal Reserve announced that the United States abandoned the gold standard, banned "exchange freedom", and implemented a new standard for measuring the issuance and circulation of currencies based on national credit. This reform stopped the US dollar from falling, and the people could no longer exchange the US dollar directly with gold, which stabilized the gold reserves that the US treasury had warned. The international community expressed regret for the US dollar's suspension of exchange for gold. Subsequently, the currencies of various countries gave up pegging to the US dollar and terminated the exchange, just like the Soviet rubles to all countries.

At the same time, the Roosevelt administration temporarily terminated US stock market trading, causing international financial tycoons to plan to buy bottom when the US dollar depreciates to the lowest point, and prepare to return funds to speculate the US dollar. However, with the closure of the US stock market, the main channels for financial tycoons to buy bottom trading were closed, and the plan to make a big profit suddenly went bankrupt.

Moreover, with the support of the five major consortiums, the Federal Reserve did not rush to recover the excess US dollar banknotes in the market, but further devalued the US dollar, allowing domestic and foreign financial merchants who were preparing to continue to speculate on the US dollar market to fail, and the bottom-buying plan went bankrupt, and some financial merchants even lost money in turn.

It was not until September that the Federal Reserve officially introduced plans and relevant laws to stabilize the currency, stabilizing the US dollar at the base exchange rate of 100 US dollars to 1 dragon currency, and adjusting it through the Federal Reserve, maintaining this ratio, neither appreciating nor depreciating, and the maximum floating range is only 2 cents, which makes it impossible for international financial tycoons to short or buy the US dollar to make profits.

Although Roosevelt stabilized the US monetary and financial system, the heavy blow to the US economy by international short selling last year was huge and it was impossible to recover in an instant. Faced with the large-scale unemployment of domestic personnel, economic downturn, and social security turmoil, the Roosevelt administration has to introduce more solutions.

Of course, Roosevelt's temporary cooperation with the five major consortiums was only a temporary measure. According to Roosevelt's idea, his current rights are very unstable. With the continuous intervention of the Chinese Empire outside, the Chinese Empire was the least willing to see Roosevelt take office. During Roosevelt's political career over the years, the Chinese Empire has been constantly putting pressure on the US government and attacking Roosevelt and his Nazi party everywhere. If the Chinese Empire had not been the Chinese Empire who joined forces with European and American countries to short the United States, causing a large-scale economic crisis in the United States, Roosevelt would have no chance to take office. The original two major political parties in the United States shared the same situation.

Because neither the Party nor the Democratic Party can clean up the mess in front of us, they turn a blind eye to let the Nazi Party come to power and let Roosevelt be elected president. The Republican and the Democratic Party are very clear about the fact that Roosevelt is the scapegoat. If Roosevelt did not handle this crisis well, then the Republican and the Democratic Party will attack Roosevelt and the Nazi Party to vent public anger and transfer the political crisis. Similarly, if Roosevelt handles this crisis well, the Republican and the Democratic Party will not let Roosevelt continue to rule, and will find a way to drive him out of office.

Roosevelt saw it very clearly, so on the one hand, he is now working hard to save the crisis, and on the other hand, he has stepped up control over various departments of the US government. The Nazi Party infiltrated various departments of the US government, excluding the original Republican and Democratic members, and controlling the entire American state machine. At the same time, Roosevelt was most concerned about the command of the army.

Since Roosevelt's book "My Struggle" written in prison was praised by German head of state Hitler and Italian Prime Minister Mussolini, Hitler and Mussolini have always been in contact with Roosevelt. After long-term exchanges, their experience of Hitler and Mussolini coming to power to control the state regime was also taught to Roosevelt without reservation. In this way, Roosevelt admired their two national fascist methods very much, so the American fascist, directed by Roosevelt, was quickly introduced and put into action.

Faced with complex American social problems, Roosevelt learned the tactics of Hitler and Mussolini. On the one hand, he vilified the Jews led by the Rothschild family in China, claiming that they were the culprit of the economic crisis in the United States, leading to the outbreak of the United States, and led domestic conflicts to the Jews. As a result, Jews in the United States became more difficult, and Jewish companies, factories, and shops were robbed and smashed, and millions of Jews were soon homeless and became beggars. Therefore, by persecuting Jews, millions of Americans quickly solved employment and life problems, greatly alleviating the pressure of the Roosevelt administration.

However, there are still six or seven million people who have been unemployed due to the economic crisis, and few Jewish stores can rob and occupy them. In a short period of time, Roosevelt's new economic policy will not be effective. Therefore, in order to solve the work and life problems of these people, the Roosevelt government decided to take risks.

The fastest way to solve the problem of unemployment is to restore the US industrial system, so that a large number of unemployed people can be resettled in a short period of time. However, the United States faces military sanctions from the Chinese Empire and faces huge difficulties in developing the military industry.

Therefore, the Roosevelt administration decided to provoke the US-Mexico dispute. In the past, Roosevelt and his Nazi party did not attack the Mexicans very much, and basically mainly dealt with Jews without backstage. The strength of the Mexican army was not afforded by Roosevelt's Nazi party. But now it is different. Roosevelt came to power and mastered the power of the US Self-Defense Force. Although the Self-Defense Force was not very powerful, he always had bargaining chips in his hands.

An anti-Mexican storm quickly broke out. Roosevelt called on the Americans not to buy Mexican goods, not to serve the Mexicans, and to drive the Mexicans out of American territory on the grounds that Mexico illegally occupied Louisiana, the state of America by force. Soon, under the organization of the Nazi Party, a large number of unemployed Americans joined the anti-Mexican action. They smashed and looted Mexican shops, companies, and residences in the United States, causing a large number of casualties and heavy losses.

Mexican troops were garrisoned in places like Philadelphia, Chicago, and soon the riots were suppressed by the Mexican troops.

On October 7, 1930, the Mexican garrison in Chicago opened fire on the American march, killing thousands of Americans and creating a horrific 10.7 tragedy. The atrocities of the Mexican army aroused unanimous hostility between the United States, and Western international public opinion was also on the side of the United States, especially Germany and Italy. Hitler and Mussolini both hoped to establish good relations with Roosevelt. If the United States could be brought into the camp of the allies, the power of the Allies would be greatly weakened. If the war broke out again, the allies would have a greater chance of winning. For this purpose, Germany and Italy also strongly supported the American people. Allies such as Britain and France were also ashamed of not helping the United States during the Sino-US war, so they also strongly supported the United States.

In this way, the United States received political support from the Western world. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the United States once again submitted the atrocities of the Mexican army in the United States to the League of Nations and demanded that the Mexican army withdraw from Louisiana. The five permanent members of the Security Council, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, all supported the United States. The Chinese Empire wanted to support Mexico, but the Mexican army massacred civilians caused accusation from international public opinion. Roosevelt even sent people to send the video to major mainstream media in the Chinese Empire overnight.

Even the people in the Chinese Empire were disgusted and did not agree with the Mexican army doing this. Although the Americans were the first to anti-Mexico, it was a public act after all. The governments of both sides should negotiate politically. The party that used force first would never occupy the moral commanding heights, let alone the massacre of civilians. Because even the Chinese Empire's citizens criticized Mexico for being inhumane, it put huge pressure on the imperial government. Therefore, during the voting of the Security Council, the Chinese Empire chose to abstain.

In this way, the Security Council voted 4 in favor and one abstention, and the League of Nations adopted a statement requiring the Mexican army to withdraw from U.S. territory.

The Mexican government protested, and Mexican Ambassador to China Sanchez immediately met with the imperial foreign minister Cao Rulin and asked the Chinese Empire for help.

In response, Cao Rulin conveyed the opinions of Tang Shaoyi, the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire, and asked Mexico to temporarily avoid the limelight and come up with a timetable for withdrawal. As long as it is delayed for a period of time, when international public opinion calms down, people of all countries will gradually forget it.

Sanchez then conveyed Tang Shaoyi's suggestion to Mexican President Emilio Portes Kiel. Kiel decided to follow the advice of the Chinese Empire and actively submit a timetable to the League of Nations for withdrawal from the United States, saying that the Mexican troops would withdraw from the United States from now on, but asked the League of Nations to stop the anti-Mexican march in the United States, saying that the Americans were mobs and bandits.

The League of Nations also agreed to this, but Britain, France, Germany and Italy were both on the side of the United States and did not take practical actions.

Roosevelt's ultimate goal was to get Mexico to withdraw troops from the United States. What Roosevelt wanted was an excuse to rebuild the US team.

So, Roosevelt instructed his ace men to personally deploy the actions, General Douglas MacArthur, the leader of the US SS organization modeled after Hitler's SS organization, and commander-in-chief of the US Ground Self-Defense Force, to lead the backbone of the Nazi Party to create unrest in the occupied areas of Mexican troops such as Louisiana, California, and New Mexico, and to organize multiple guerrillas to attack the Mexican garrison everywhere.

In less than a month, the Mexican army lost thousands of people, which immediately angered the Mexican government. Soon, the Mexican government announced that the Mexican army was attacked by American guerrillas, terminated the withdrawal plan, and added troops to Louisiana for fierce battles in the local US guerrillas.

Since the Chinese Empire left huge territorial disputes between Mexico and the United States after the Sino-US War, the Third War between the United States and Mexico finally broke out.

On December 3, 1930, 30,000 Mexican reinforcements entered Louisiana to suppress the local American guerrillas. The US government used this as a reason to demand that the League of Nations stop the actions of the Mexican army, otherwise the United States would start a war with Mexico in order to defend US territory.

Since most Western countries such as Britain, France, Germany and Italy support the United States, the Chinese Empire wants to support Mexico, but the Mexican government and military are too uncooperative and get into the trap set by the Americans from the beginning, so that the Chinese Empire cannot help Mexico in violation of the international public opinion environment.

The Chinese Empire sent a special envoy to visit Mexico and met with Mexican President Kiel. Kiel received the acquiescence of the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire promised it that it would not allow the United Nations** to intervene in the US-Mexico war. Kiel believed that with Mexico's strong military strength, it was enough to defeat the US Self-Defense Force. Therefore, Mexico decided to ignore the criticism of the League of Nations and decided to give the Americans a little color.

On December 9, Mexico's most elite First Army, 100,000 people entered Louisiana and launched a large-scale campaign to eliminate US guerrillas in the local area. More than 700 US guerrillas were killed in less than half a month.

At the same time, Roosevelt also summoned the main officers of the US Self-Defense Force to discuss countermeasures. After unanimous decisions, Roosevelt prepared to start war against Mexico. However, before the war began, Roosevelt needed to arm the US Self-Defense Force on a large scale. At the same time, Roosevelt also wanted to test the bottom line of the Chinese Empire and put forward the fact that if Mexico declares war on the United States, the US Self-Defense Force's strength could not resist Mexico's millions of troops, and demanded the abolition of the Chinese Empire's military sanctions on the United States.

The Chinese Empire cabinet is busy dealing with Roosevelt's financial reforms. Tang Shaoyi said in his report to Wang Chenhao: "If the United States is dragged into the war with Mexico, the US economic recovery can stagnate. With Mexico's military and economic strength, it is enough to defeat the United States!" Therefore, Tang Shaoyi suggested that the imperial government neither recognize nor oppose the expansion of the US Self-Defense Force, and make a decision depending on the development of the situation. Wang Chenhao then approved Tang Shaoyi's proposal, and the Chinese Empire did not respond to the requests of the United States.

For Roosevelt, his temptation was successful. He knew very well that as long as the development of the US military power did not threaten the national defense security of the Chinese Empire, it would not provoke a strong backlash from the Chinese Empire. What the Chinese Empire feared the most was that the United States had a strong navy, so Roosevelt took the initiative to show goodwill to the Chinese Empire, saying that the US Self-Defense Force would not develop a long-distance navy and would never threaten or challenge the Chinese Empire.

Regarding Roosevelt's assurance, the Chinese Empire responded that it would look at the performance of the United States. So, Roosevelt understood that the Chinese Empire had let go of this issue and the US Self-Defense Force ushered in an excellent development opportunity.

Since Roosevelt came to power, he has stepped up his pace of expanding his armaments by believing in Hitler's fascist tactics. In 1929, the total military expenditure of the US Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Ground Self-Defense Force was only 93 million dragon coins. In order to prepare for the war against Mexico, the Roosevelt government's latest military expenditure soared to 1 billion dragon coins, while the Chinese Emperor's expenses during the same period were 3.85 billion dragon coins, Germany's military expenditure was 2.12 billion dragon coins, Britain's military expenditure was 1.67 billion dragon coins, and France's military expenditure was only 720 million US dollars.

Of course, the US military expenditure is opaque. The official announcement is only 260 million dragon coins, while the other 740 million dragon coins are protected by various names and will not be discovered by the international community.

The United States, which had just experienced a huge economic crisis, naturally could not afford a billion dragon coins in military spending at once. But Roosevelt had a way. He followed Hitler's strategy and raised funds by issuing a securities of the Metallurgical Institute. This securities were generally not cashed out. By 1931, the United States' tax revenue was 232 billion US dollars (2.32 billion dragon coins), while the metallurgical securities revenue reached 420 million dragon coins, and military spending exceeded half. This military spending stimulated the prosperity of the US industry. On the one hand, it quickly absorbed the unemployed American people into the military production industry, solved the unemployment problem in the United States and improved the overall purchasing power of society. At the same time, the United States required the people to seek food and clothing but not a well-off life, and any luxury consumption was promoted as a degenerate act. In the critical survival of the country and nation, Roosevelt's coming to power made the American nation unite again.

Wang Chenhao always felt something was wrong about Tang Shaoyi's proposal, but he couldn't say it. After the Sino-US war, the United States cedes land for compensation and was greatly damaged. After more than ten years of recovery, the United States was once again hit by the Chinese Empire's "short the United States" currency war. The United States broke out with a huge economic crisis. Now, the United States should not cause any storm in Wang Chenhao's eyes. However, Wang Chenhao was always worried about Roosevelt, the guy. He instructed the Empire's CIA to send people to assassinate Roosevelt many times, but they all failed. He originally continued to put pressure on the US authorities.

Come and attack Roosevelt, but Roosevelt struggled to become the president of the United States like an "Xiaoqiang" who could not be killed. Moreover, Roosevelt's talent made Wang Chenhao nervous. His new policy made the world's largest gold reserve country, the Chinese Empire, ugly. If the United States does not implement the gold standard, then the gold of the Chinese Empire will not be able to make money from the United States. If Western countries follow the example of the United States, then the strategic purpose of the Chinese Empire to use gold to control the economy and finance of Western countries will be ruined, and in turn will create a certain impact on the gold standard of the Chinese Empire.

Although Wang Chenhao had various uncertain and uneasy factors in his heart, after this currency war against the United States, the Chinese Empire took away a huge profit of 30 billion dragon coins from the United States and successfully prevented the recovery of the US economy. Strategically, the Chinese Empire won the game again in this Sino-US game.

"I hope Mexico can drag the United States down!"

Wang Chenhao couldn't think of the future at this time, because the future is no longer referenced by "history". For Wang Chenhao, he could only take one step at a time. At present, Wang Chenhao only hopes that the US-Mexico war can continue endlessly, and at the same time drag down the United States and the emerging Mexico, which has brought down the rise of Mexico.

The reason why Wang Chenhao was also worried about Mexico was because at this time Mexico was no longer the cowardly Mexico in history. The Chinese Empire included Mexico in the Greater China Co-prosperity Circle and made it a member of the federal member states because it was because it attracted the importance of Mexico in the American continent and repressed the United States to curb the rise of the United States. It can be said that in the eyes of the Chinese Empire, Mexico was a fierce watchdog at this time, staring at the United States.

However, after the Sino-US War, Mexico followed the Chinese Empire to fight against the United States and gained huge benefits after the war. Not only did it obtain 2.2 million square kilometers of rich land, which had one-quarter of the United States' industrial infrastructure, which suddenly turned Mexico, a backward agricultural country, into an industrial country. Moreover, the Chinese Empire gave Mexico the main oil-producing area of ​​the United States, Texas, to Mexico. Over the past decade, international oil consumption has surged, and Mexico has made a lot of money by selling oil alone.

Since 1925, Mexico's steel production has jumped to seventh in the world, second only to the Soviet Union's 4.22 million tons, reaching 3.34 million tons, higher than the eighth-ranked Italy's 2.26 million tons. Oil production ranks second in the world, reaching 13 million barrels, which is only 7 million barrels less than the first-ranked Chinese Empire's oil production, and was suddenly valued by the international community. At the same time, as a member of the Greater China Co-Prosperity Circle, Mexico has no restrictions on science and technology. Basically, most of the scientific and technological achievements of the Chinese Empire can be introduced to Mexico, which allows Mexico to quickly follow the Chinese Empire, bypass the first industrial revolution, and directly start the second industrial revolution, and achieve great achievements.

In addition, in terms of military affairs, Mexico was protected by the Chinese Empire, and after receiving huge compensation from the United States, its military strength grew strongly. By 1930, Mexico had 1.2 million permanent army, of which 400,000 units had mechanized. Mexico's army, navy and air force participated in joint military exercises of member states of the Greater China Federation organized by the Chinese Empire for many years, and could communicate and learn from the elite troops of the Chinese Empire. In more than ten years, Mexico sent more than 100,000 soldiers to the Chinese Empire's ** Academy to study and study. After these soldiers returned to China, they quickly became the main force of the Mexican army. In the Pacific Rim military exercise in early 1929, the Mexican Navy and Army performed excellently and were recognized by international media as the third military power in the world. Its combat power exceeded Britain, France and Italy, and they pursued China and Germany closely.

Therefore, in total, Mexico has a significant influence on the international stage. But this is exactly what Wang Chenhao is worried about, because he does not want Mexico to become too powerful, so powerful that he has no power to balance Mexico on the American continent, which is not conducive to the strategic layout of the Chinese Empire in the American continent. Therefore, Wang Chenhao acquiesced to the US Self-Defense Force to expand its strength this time, and a large reason is that he does not want Mexico to grow. Only when the United States and Mexico are in a delicate balance state is in line with the national interests of the Chinese Empire.

In February 1931, Roosevelt announced that the United States was facing the threat of national destruction under the pretext of Mexican troops invading the United States, so he publicly announced the abolition of the Chinese Empire's military sanctions on the United States, expanded the US Ground Self-Defense Force's 100,000 troops to 300,000, and the Maritime Self-Defense Force's 5,000 personnel to 1, and purchased 200 main battle tanks, 300 fighter jets, 5,000 artillery, 12,000 light and heavy machine guns, 600,000 rifles, as well as 20,000 military vehicles and 3 million tons of ammunition.

International public opinion gave strong support to the expansion of the US Self-Defense Force. The Chinese Empire did not expect that Roosevelt would publicly announce the expansion. The Chinese Empire was very dissatisfied with this and strongly opposed it, but did not take practical actions. This move was undoubtedly guessed by Roosevelt, and the Chinese Empire was not at ease with Mexico, so it acknowledged the fact that the US Self-Defense Force expanded.

Although the Chinese Empire accused the expansion of its strength by the US Self-Defense Force, it does not mean that the US Self-Defense Force can obtain advanced weapons and equipment from Europe. The Chinese Empire put pressure on European countries to prohibit export of arms to the United States and prevent wars from breaking out in the Americas.

Of course, this is just an excuse for the Chinese Empire. There is nothing more profitable than arms transactions. In fact, the major arms dealers of the Chinese Empire have received the acquiescence of the government and exported weapons and equipment to the United States. However, in terms of quality and performance, they are not as good as the weapons and equipment exported to the Mexican military earlier by the Chinese Empire, which is also to appease the Mexican military.

However, a considerable number of arms dealers in the Chinese Empire were not so honest. They had no profits to get up early. Soon after the US side smashed a lot of money, many arms dealers were knocked out and sold some advanced weapons and equipment and technologies to the US side, which greatly improved the weapons and equipment of the US Self-Defense Force.

The US Self-Defense Forces expanded its military strength on a large scale, purchased advanced weapons and equipment, and prepared to start a war against Mexico. Similarly, the Mexican side quickly learned about the US Self-Defense Forces' intentions, so they also followed the war mobilization order. For Mexico, they were confident that they would defeat the United States and avenge their previous shame.

The Chinese Empire was not worried about the Third American-Mexico War. Since the Huangdi Emperor Chen Hao, the imperial officials all believed that the American-Mexico War was within the control of the Chinese Empire and there was no need to worry about accidents. Therefore, the Chinese Empire was worried for a long time after Roosevelt came to power, but now he is relieved.

While waiting for Mexico and the United States to consume both sides, both sides suffered losses, and after the major financial groups of the Chinese Empire lost the US currency market, they once again set their sights on the European currency market.

Short selling has always existed in any country's monetary system, but the scale of short selling is different. Small-scale short selling does not affect a country's overall monetary system, including the Dragon Coin of the Chinese Empire, sometimes hyped by some international financial tycoons. However, the Chinese Empire implemented a free market economic system with state intervention, and the Dragon Coin has a strong huge gold reserves as a backing. Although the Central Bank of the Chinese Empire occasionally issues more banknotes, it remains stable overall. The Dragon Coin is affected by the market supply and demand relationship, and occasionally fluctuates less than a few cents. At this time, some financial investors will speculate on the Dragon Coin, but they make little profits, which will not affect the overall monetary system of the Chinese Empire.

But it is different in Europe. The major countries participating in the war in the World War, such as Britain, France, Germany and Italy, their monetary system after the war was stabilized by the Chinese Empire's capital intake. The major banks of the Chinese Empire held huge foreign exchange reserves from these countries. All countries were working hard to restore the gold standard, but most of the gold was controlled by the Chinese Empire. Their treasury gold reserves were very small, which was actually not enough to directly exchange with the currency circulating on the market.

When the major banks of the Chinese Empire helped European countries acquire excessive banknotes on the market, causing the currencies of various countries to stop depreciating and continue to rebound, and eventually to the pre-war level. During this period, the foreign exchange reserves of major banks of the Chinese Empire undoubtedly appreciated. Therefore, during these years, major bankers of the empire often sold out the foreign exchange reserves of European countries they held when the price was high. As a result, a large number of banknotes entered the markets of European countries, causing their currencies to depreciate and their stock prices to fall. When the stock price fell to the bottom, major bankers of the Chinese Empire repurchased the national bonds of European countries at low prices again, which is short selling.

In this way, every year, the financial tycoons of the Chinese Empire use their huge foreign exchange reserves to manipulate the exchange rates and stock prices of currencies in various European countries. They sell and cash out when they are high, and buy back when they are low, and keep shorting the currency markets of European countries. The scale is different. The most harmful is naturally France, because the Chinese Empire holds 200 million francs of French government bonds, and every year, more than 30 billion francs have become the price difference flowing into the Chinese Empire because they are deliberately shorted by financial groups. Every year, European countries have huge profits of more than 20 billion dragon coins in the currency war alone, and they are cashed out by the Chinese Empire.

Thomson, a famous European economist, said: "The Chinese Empire is a huge vampire. It is filled with straws in every country in the world. The average GDP growth rate of the world is only 2.5%, while the Chinese Empire has a GDP growth rate of up to 20% every year, far exceeding the international average. Among them, 10% of the GDP growth rate is actually contributed by the people of Europe and the United States to the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire holds huge gold reserves and wants to absorb the foreign exchange reserves of all countries around the world."

Just as the Chinese Empire was busy squeezing hard-earned money from various countries, on the land of Spain, the Spanish government and ** army also entered a decisive battle.

At the end of March 1930, under the leadership of General Mola, the ** army launched a large-scale attack on the provinces of the Basque region. 6,000 people (including two Italian divisions) fought against the 45,000 Basques led by General Giano de Scom Anda. The Basques were by no means the **, but they were conservatives and Catholics. But in the summer of 1929, the Basque leaders took advantage of the Spanish political crisis and finally obtained the consent of Madrid to establish a ** republic. They knew that if Franco won, they would inevitably return to the Spanish rule and decided to resist alone because they did not get help from Valencia, the government's location.

The ** army first bombarded Guernica, a city in the Basque. Guernica is a holy city, an ancient religious holy place in the Basque region. The kings swore to respect freedom under a large oak tree. The German Condo Legion carried out the first carpet bombing on April 26, 1930. It was Monday, a day of market rush, and the streets were crowded. Suddenly, the German Air Force Henkel bombers and Messmit fighters launched a tide of attacks on the crowd and houses without warning, once every 20 minutes. This fear lasted for three hours, killing 1,700 people and injuring 900 people, leaving no intact house.

Li Na, a reporter from the Chinese Empire Daily News in Berlin, asked the German Ministry of Defense about the German bombing of civilians. The Luftwaffe Commander Hermann Gorene happily answered her question.

“We want to experiment with what impact carpet bombing will have on civilian fighting spirit.”

This sentence was immediately published by the Daily News on the front page of the international news page the next day, and immediately aroused unanimous condemnation from the whole world, but the German government did not respond to this and argued that they were not wrong.

At this moment, the contradictions within the Spanish Republic reached its peak. Catalonian anarchists and Trotsky Poum (Marxist Unified Labor Party) launched a rebellion in Barcelona in May to oppose the measures taken by the government to strengthen discipline and rectify order. The government quelled the rebellion after three days of fighting. The Soviet Union demanded the dissolution of the Poum Party. Lalgo Cavalero firmly opposed it, so two Soviet advisers resigned.

?Calvalero formed another government without the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but failed. On May 17, Socialist Party leader Juan Negrin formed a new government with two ministers with Communist International identity, dissolved the Poum Party, severely punished the rebel leaders, and the "unsupervised" elements were disarmed. The anarchist order was eliminated, Aragon's industry began to get on track, domestic weapons were produced and distributed to troops, and land reforms were also implemented in rural areas.

Germany and Italy were impatient with the unpromising war and finally tear off their masks and went into battle with bare shirt. On May 31, the German battleship "Admiral Spee" ('admi

schee

) bombarded Almeria. The Germans fired a total of 200 shells, killing 19 people, injuring 55 and destroying 150 houses. German and Italian warships began to block the coastline of the Republic in a bold manner. Italian submarines sank ships towards the port of the Republic. As British and French ships were sunk, European countries held a meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, forcing Italian submarines to stop taking open actions against the Spanish Republic in the Mediterranean.

The special combat brigades gathered in the Mediterranean of the Chinese Empire have not participated in the war for a long time because the Spanish civil war was in a mess. Both the government forces and the ** army basically have no strict position. Today, the government forces are infighting, tomorrow the ** army is infighting, a group of government forces voluntarily surrender to the ** army, and the day after tomorrow the ** army voluntarily surrenders to the government forces. In short, the Spanish civil war is like playing house, which makes the Chinese Emperor feel that it is unsafe to participate in the war. Moreover, the German and Italian troops have participated in the war, and they are also disappointed. Military operation information is often betrayed, which makes the General Staff of the Chinese Empire suspend the idea of ​​directly participating in the war, and instead sends military observation groups to watch the war in various places, collecting battlefield data back to China for reference.

On August 26, the Italian Litorio Division, the 23rd Division and the Fiami-Nerrei Division occupied Santander under continuous shelling, and 60,000 Republican and Basque soldiers were captured. Then, 25,000 Basque soldiers and more than 3,000 officials disarmed the Italians in the harbor east of Santander to obtain permission to board the British ships anchored in the bay to leave. In September, the ** army attacked the last fortress in the north of the Republic, the province of Asturias. The ** army mobilized 150 battalions, 400 cannons, 150 tanks and more than 200 aircraft, and the ** army's navy also blocked the Port of Gijon. The Republican army had only 80 cannons, a few tanks and aircraft, and there was also a serious shortage of ammunition and medicine.

In order to rescue the north, the Republican Army launched the Battle of Brunette on July 6. General Lister prepared to concentrate 50,000 Republican Army, including four international brigades, 100 Soviet tanks and 100 Soviet aircraft (accounting for half of the Republic Air Force) to attack the rebels of Brunette in northern Madrid, in order to surround Wei and rescue Zhao. However, the troops were poorly equipped, and the machine guns and cannons in the hands of the soldiers were products of World War I. In order to fight against this offensive, Franco concentrated 31 infantry battalions, 7 artillery battalions and the German Condo Legion. The German army quickly gained air supremacy and violently suppressed the Republican attack from the air. The artillery of the ** army also had a clear advantage. After a arduous battle, on July 19, the Republican Army, which suffered great losses, was forced to retreat.


Chapter completed!