Volume 12, The Iron Curtain of the Cold War, Chapter 10, Direct Remonstrance
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Your Majesty, since the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the New China, China has been a pig and dog, and regarded the people as their people. Therefore, the country is booming, and it is the prosperous era of defeating the European and American powers in World War II and spreading thousands of miles. However, some practices are now hurting the harmony of the world. Although the overseas provinces have not been naturalized for a long time, they still respect our heavenly dynasty. If they can be compared with a gentle heart, in just twenty years, the people of these places will be our good people in China. This is the foundation of all ages. Your Majesty must not be impatient, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!"
After Liang Shixing said that, he didn't dare to look up at Zhao Gang for a long time. He felt that all the eyes in the study were focused on him, and sweat suddenly appeared. Although Zhao Gang had never gotten angry with the minister, where was Zhao Gang's majesty? Just one look can make the general and the Prime Minister change color, let alone a new official like Liang Shixing who has just become a minister!
Zhao Gang was not feeling well at this time. Why did Confucian good teachings become like this after thousands of years? They were all nerds! However, there were many people at this time, and it was hard to get angry and could only explain with a suppressed attitude:
"Liang Shing, do you know what the indigenous people in these provinces looked like before?"
Liang Zhixing pondered for a moment and replied, "I heard that before entering our territory, I had some conflicts with the refugees of my previous dynasty. However, after submitting to our dynasty, these natives have restrained a lot. The current treatment is only slightly higher than that of the residents of my previous dynasty."
"Stop!" Zhao Gang was really angry now. He remembered that he had ordered the indigenous people of various provinces not to be polite, and just treat it as a blind street traffic. If he was unwilling to comply, he could apply to join the Siberian road construction team. If he could spend five years in the local area, he would be able to resolve the railway trunk lines in South Asia and the oil mining bases in the Middle East, which were all large households who needed manpower and would not worry about not being able to digest it. Why is it more favorable to Liang Shixing now in the mouth of the Chinese?
"I remember saying once. The treatment of natives in each province should not be too sluggish. At least you have to have a meal. How to implement it becomes like this? Are the minds of each province full of pigs' brains? Do such ridiculous actions?"
"Your Majesty, during the war, all provinces had high-pressure policies for indigenous people. Your Majesty ordered them to do so. The supervisors of all provinces believed that they wanted to educate indigenous people, so they all began to embrace the policies. Now it seems that they are a little wrong."
"Don't say it here at this time. It's better to be kind, so that you will be impressed in comparison. Sooner or later, let those people know how powerful I am. Shi Xing, continue to talk about the Germans' affairs. Only when we know ourselves and the enemy, we will know what they are going to do?" Zhao Gang smiled, clearly with seventy-sixth of murderous aura in it. Liang Shi Xing broke out in a cold sweat and continued to explain the current trends of the Germans.
"At present, Germany's European economy, as mentioned above, requires large-scale commodity exchanges between the Great German will and its vassal states, so Germany must plan some methods to achieve trade exchange relations within the European economy. Germany's trade policy is closely linked to their political concepts.
They excluded the European Federalism theory, and of course they would not adopt the European Customs Union approach or the European unified currency approach. Because unified European currency would allow all European countries to receive equal treatment, and Germany's purpose was to economically dominate the entire European continent and make Germany benefit its own. Therefore, it is not surprising that Germany rejected the European Customs Union or the European common currency with a contemptuous attitude.
Germany is unwilling to turn the entire Europe into a free trade region, but advocates the synthesis of European trade into a complex system that uses various systems. The region that Germany annexed and its protectors must join Germany's tariff system. Nominally independent countries, Germany allows them to preserve their original tariffs, taxes and fiscal systems, but the trade negotiations between these countries with other countries are supervised by Germany. Germany also uses forced exports, exchange manipulation and one-sided tariff concessions to make these countries supplement the needs of Germany. Germany can adjust the exchange rates of nominally independent currencies at any time to reduce the exchange rate of the mark to increase the purchasing power of the mark, purchase more goods from other countries and reduce Germany's exports.
The French decree of September 19, 1920 can represent an example of one-sided reduction of tariffs. The decree stipulates that the minimum import tax rate imposed in France and French colonies with the same tariff system as France's own country should apply to German goods. However, French goods exported to Germany do not enjoy the reciprocal treatment of reduced tax rates.
The most important way for Germany to organize European trade is to promote the customs of liquidation agreements (the exchange system), thereby expanding Germany's export trade and exchange fewer items for more items from other countries. However, in fact, the liquidation agreement is not a new invention by Schacht or any Germany, but
+:.Wimar Germany then began negotiating liquidation agreements with Southeast European countries to help German exporters recover their frozen commercial accounts.
Germany is just implementing this method on a large scale in order to seek selfishness. There are two main characteristics of the customization of clearing agreements: it does not require foreign exchange, which relieves the difficulty of importers not being able to pay accounts without obtaining foreign exchange. When Country A and Country B establish a liquidation agreement, importers of Country A can use their own currency to pay the purchases from Country B; importers of Country B can also use their own currency to pay the accounts purchased from Country A. This payment is handed over to the clearing accounts of the central bank of the contracted country, and the central banks of each contracted country pay the currency to their exporters in their own currency.
Simply put, the importer of each contracting country handes the payment to the central bank of the country, and the central bank uses this payment to pay the exporter of the country. If the imports and exports of the two contracting countries are not equal, one of the countries reserves a "account receivable" in the other country, which can be cleared by gold or foreign exchange. However, if gold or foreign exchange is prohibited from transferring (such as Germany and Germany), the method of clearing the accounts is either to reduce the exports to the debtor country by the creditor country, or to decide to increase the imports from the debtor country by the creditor country. Another feature of the liquidation agreement is the trade balance between the two countries, that is, the total value of the goods purchased by the contracting country by the contracting country must be equal to the goods it sells to the other party, in order to achieve a trade balance between the two parties and do not need to pay each other.
Germany itself praised the valuable single-trade trade method implemented between Germany and Southeast European countries. They believed that this liquidation system allowed the Balkans to formulate long-term sales plans and thus stabilize their economies. On the other hand, it is often pointed out that Germany used this method to make the Balkans completely dominated by Germany's economy. Germany imported a large amount of raw materials from Southeast Europe, but the industrial products it exported were not enough to pay a large amount of imports. Since the delivery of goods to Germany was early and fast, and the delivery of goods imported from Germany was late and slow, they accumulated a large amount of receivables, and the only way to liquidate was to purchase German goods.
Before 1919, Germany had discovered that the liquidation agreement turned it into the basis of "post-war Europe" trade and expanded it into a multilateral trade clearing agreement system. "After the war", European countries would establish a central clearing bank to concentrate on solving the trade accounts of various countries. Germany intends to set up this liquidation headquarters in Berlin. Concentrating all liquidation accounts in Berlin can gradually turn the single liquidation between the two countries into multi-faceted liquidation between various countries.
This development can also enable countries to use a Berlin central clearing house to solve the clearing accounts between each other. Germany's technical work to promote the clearing system with Berlin as the payment center has long been completed. It has set up a "German Clearing House" in Berlin, which is actually the "Deutsche Bank Clearing House" since 1914. The director of the clearing house is Emilhl. Dr. Puer believes that it is not difficult to expand the business of the Deutsche Clearing House into a multi-faceted clearing system. The German Mark deposit in the Berlin clearing house has the same function as the gold and pounds deposited by central banks in the Bank of England in the past. Using this method, Germany can have the right to decide the amount and direction of exports and imports from European countries.
Why did the Germans feel a little familiar? After listening to Liang Zhixing explaining the European trading norms designated by the Germans, Zhao Gang felt that it seemed that in the air, some countries used this method, as if it was the Soviet Union! Thinking of this, Zhao Gang's mind suddenly became cheerful, not just trade, but even industry and agriculture were similar to those of the Soviets. The economic reform of the Germans, which seemed very powerful, was just a set of doomed plans and ideas for the economy. This system that completely restricts economic freedom was very attractive in the early stage, but as long as people's inertia exceeds the development of the economy, the shortcomings of this economic system will be completely exposed, just like whales on the sea, although extremely large, they cannot withstand the attack of sharks. The truth is the same. The rigid things are still fresh when they first appeared, so they can confuse a considerable number of people's attention.
But now Zhao Gang's problem is reversed. How can the Germans firmly make great strides on this doomed road? Well, maybe at some point, a vote of internal reference was issued to strongly attack the Germans' new economic policy, and then let the German spies get this internal reference, and finally let the German emperor see that William III will continue to implement it!
Chapter completed!