China's biggest opponent is not Japan, but the United States.

Although Japan seems to be strong, if China is truly unified, the two will not be much different, and even China's overall strength is slightly stronger than Japan. This world war is the prelude to China's true unity. The warlords who once caused great disasters and countless troubles to China could not stand this world war. Even if they survived, they would eventually collapse in front of the increasingly stronger central government after experiencing strong winds and heavy rains. Japan's inherent shortcomings can also not stand this world war. Therefore, in East Asia, the ultimate winner will only be China.

Japan was defeated, and European countries were even more defeated. The Soviet Union suffered heavy losses due to various calculations and even lost important territory in Asia. Then, the United States was the only one who could become an opponent of China in the end.

Qin Wei was very glad that he wrote historical articles before. Because he wrote history, he had some understanding of history and gained some insights in history.

He knew that although the rise of the United States was not as full of thorns as other countries, it did not develop smoothly. Once, it suffered from the pain of free trade led by the British government. It learned from the pain and decided to transform, but it encountered unexpectedly powerful obstacles and endured a greater pain: the Civil War!

What was the cause of that war that had a huge impact on the United States? Many people might say it was to liberate the black slaves on the plantation of slave owners in the southern United States. In fact, this was simply bullshit, it was just that the Americans gave themselves gold. At that time, there might be a few abolitionists in the United States who sympathized with black people, but these people were not mainstream at all, and they were not even considered the last. Otherwise, after experiencing the Civil War, it would be impossible for black people to still be discriminated against and bullied by whites until the 1960s. At that time, it had been more than a hundred years since the outbreak of the Civil War. Americans who focused on efficiency could not really "liberate black slaves", which was unreasonable.

Therefore, the Civil War had little to do with the blacks. The real reason for the outbreak of the war was actually the war between free trade, agricultural, serf-like south, and trade protection, and industrial north. The cause of the war was that the serf-like south demanded free trade to promote and ensure their exports of tobacco and cotton to Europe. The central and northern states required high tariffs in order to protect their industry. Because in 1812, after the Second War to Britain, British industrial products poured into the US market, seriously threatening the just-in-come industry in the United States, so the United States set off a wave of demanding Congress to protect the domestic economy, and in 1816

The first protectionist tariff law was passed by the US Congress. Since then, protectionism has risen and protectionist legislation has continued. By 1828, the US tariff law even stipulated that the tariffs on imported goods increased to an average of 50 to 60% of the commodity prices. As a result, this aroused fierce opposition from the South, because such high tariffs would inevitably lead to retaliation from European countries on import tariffs, causing the prices of goods exported from the South to Europe to rise, and the exports from the South of the United States will inevitably be hit. South Carolina declared that the law was invalid in the state and prohibited the federal government from collecting taxes at the ports of the state. This was the fuse of the American Civil War.

Lincoln's original intention of finally deciding to launch a war was not the so-called "abolition of slavery", but to develop its own industry. The reason for putting forward the slogan of "abolition of slavery" was nothing more than to attract as many black slaves as possible to join the northern army and win the war. In fact, black slaves acted as cannon fodder for the industrial capitalists in the northern United States, they cleared the way for the industrialization of the United States, they liberated the industrial capitalists in the northern United States, and they maintained the unity of the United States. It was by no means some Americans who "had launched a huge civil war for the freedom and rights of a few black people..." This is putting the cart before the horse!

If you don't believe it, then look at the arrangements of the United States after the war: the slavery manor economy was abolished on the surface, but after the war, the federal government of the United States returned a large amount of land and property to the original slave owners! Those black slaves who died in the war and who were "liberated" did not obtain land. If they want to obtain land, they had to spend money to buy it. However, before the war they were slaves and had no savings. Where did they get the money to buy land? In the end, they returned to the original slave owner's land and were still enslaved and exploited by those slave owners! The dignified "Proclamation on Liberation of Slaves" did not involve the issue of land in the southern United States. In other words, the way out for blacks after this war was not at all under the considerations of the white government that puts priority in interests and President Lincoln.

Of course, Americans also have reasons: Is private property sacred and inviolable? The war in a country does not mean that private property is embezzled, which is not in accordance with the rules.

Qin Wei actually didn't care about the Civil War, nor did he care about the living environment of the black Americans. Even if he paid attention to it occasionally, he was just watching it. What he cared about was that the time for the United States to go from a local power to a global hegemon... At this time, the United States relied on high nationalism and long-term trade protectionism, had already possessed the power and capital of imperialism. After becoming the "only victorious country" of World War II and gaining the status of global hegemony, it would soon find that the "free trade" that once caused great harm to it would in turn become the sharpest spear in its hand; then, it would throw the spear to everyone...

The famous "Marshall Plan" is actually the product of free trade. In the name of reviving Europe, it finally allowed the United States to control the European economy and continue this control for a long time. If it weren't for the strength of European countries, or if the leaders of European countries also knew the Americans' purpose and tried to get rid of this control after the economy recovered, European countries might have been the younger brothers of the United States and the warehouse of money they sought after in the future. And just look at Japan's performance, you can tell this. Thinking back to the slogan of "Japan No. 1" while roaring the slogan of "Japan No. 1", the Japanese launched a strong economic challenge to the American boss. However, the Americans just slightly ran the "free trade" he defined in Japan, which made Japan become a second-rate follower from a challenger. In addition to Europe and Japan, the Latin American economy, which once created a "miracle", also quickly fell under the banner of "free trade" in the United States.

China is not Europe, with more than a hundred years of capitalist heritage; it is not Japan in the post-80s, which has only economy but no military strength, and will not arouse the vigilance of the American boss until the last moment; it is not a group of scattered Latin American countries. China will become the target of the United States' "free trade" from the beginning, and its fragile economic system will not withstand the Americans' tricks of free trade.

Any American who has truly vision and is determined to make the United States firmly grasp global hegemony will not sit idly by and watch China's rise.

Roosevelt is such a person.

Qin Wei was sure that once World War II ended, this guy would attack China. Even if he might not survive in 1945, his successor would still do that.

Of course, China will not be caught. Because after the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation will break out. Chiang Kai-shek, who was supported by the Americans, will be defeated and withdraw from mainland China from then on. But the Americans will not know about this. So Qin Wei thought this was an opportunity. He planned to use this information advantage to gain enough benefits for China first.

"Most-favored-nation treatment for trade" is just a bait he gave Roosevelt. Many of the conditions he asked Gu Changjun to help find someone to develop... Fortunately, another person left the guy with a hundred billion antique calligraphy and paintings and literary works, and made Gu Changjun the director of the only high-end history museum in Hong Kong. Otherwise, as this guy was a past internet writer, he would not have been able to get the secondary detonation technology of the cloud explosion bomb, and it would be even more impossible to find those economic scholars for him.

Such a detailed plan was formulated. The so-called "Most-Fast-National Treatment of Trade" could not be formulated by scholars from the Republic of China period, because those guys may misunderstand him because of this... Even if those people knew that the "Most-Fast-National Trade" draft he had specially limited the name of the National Government and specifically stipulated the application period, which was only valid in 1950. In addition, this was just a draft, which could only be considered an intention, not a real agreement at most.

But Qin Wei believed that Roosevelt would definitely bite the bait!

Although Roosevelt and his think tanks can definitely see the "obstacles" he set at a glance, they cannot get rid of the temptation of a huge market such as a population of 500 million. If they can swallow this market in one bite, the United States will gain the cornerstone of the economic take-off again like Britain that controls India. Moreover, this take-off will not be just an ordinary leap, but will undergo a qualitative transformation from "climbing the cloud" to "climbing the cloud" just like Sun Wukong learned somersault clouds.

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"So, Roosevelt and his subordinates will definitely agree to hand over Japan's industry to us, at least most of it, and even China is a little too much, and directly annexed the British colonies in Southeast Asia. They will also silently accept it in the end... As long as we can cope with the revenge of Britain in the future. But I think everyone shouldn't care too much about the 'Sun-Don't Set Empire'?"

Chongqing, Huangshan Villa, Qin Wei said to Lao Jiang and others like this.

"It sounds really exciting. But the Americans will take the bait so easily? They are different from the declining powers in Britain, and they are intact."

Opposite Qin Wei, beside Kong Xiangxi, Kong Lingkan, who had just been released by the Japanese, raised his own question with a serious look on his face.
Chapter completed!