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Volume 12 The Iron Curtain of the Cold War Chapter 18 The German-American War

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Master, think about it, what did Your Majesty do the other day?" Qin walked away and whispered.

"You all go down!" Jin Longhua coughed and drove everyone away before saying, his voice also low. "Madam, you mean, your Majesty is building a foundation!"

"Master, you are right. What does Your Majesty mean? Do you understand?"

"Is this a thing that I want to add more middle class? I think the foundation of Your Majesty is very clear?" Jin Longhua pondered for a while before answering. Seeing Qin's smile, he patted Qin's plump buttocks and said, "Madam, don't keep it a secret, hurry up and say it!"

Qin smiled, grabbed Jin Longhua and succeeded, and said angrily, "You are so unreasonable, you are talking about serious business. The foundation looks good, but one thing is missing, that is economic rights. Zhao Kuangyin released the military power with a cup of wine and gained the power of the Song Dynasty for three hundred years. Now that military power is owned by the state, war disasters are no longer the biggest threat. Instead, we businessmen have become a political threat, so His Majesty's mind has moved here. It's really easy to plot!"

After hearing Qin's words, Jin Longhua's heart was cold. That afternoon, Jin Longhua began to sell his shares and became a happy rich man. After the first rich man took the lead, China immediately set off a fund craze. Most of the rich man gave up his shares and focused on being the chairman of the foundation, which became a feature of China.

In fact, deep down in Zhao Gang, he didn't want to do this. No matter how powerful the coercive method was, it was not as good as going with the flow. However, the situation now was a bit different. Wars between Germany and the United States would break out at any time. If China does not handle domestic affairs well, it would probably be too late.

In 1921, under the attention of people from all over the world, Germany finally brazenly started war with the United States. The ostensibly reason was that the United States violated trade freedom. But the fact was obvious. Germany wanted to replace the United States and become the master of South America! In this way, it could crazily plunder the resources and consumer markets of South America.

Germany has long had an important impact on the economic relations of Central and South America. Before 1904, Germany had large-scale commercial exchanges with Central and South America countries, and Germany also invested a lot there, and continued to work hard to develop political and cultural power there. In 1903, the country absorbed 12% of the total output of the 20 republics in Central and South America, and Germany supplied goods, accounting for 16.5% of their total inputs (the total value of 1326640,000 gold in 1903.20 was 1547989,000 gold in total).

Germany ranked third in Latin America, the United States ranked first, and the United Kingdom second in the United Kingdom. During World War I, Germany's relations with Latin America were completely cut off and gradually recovered from 1902. During the so-called prosperity period from 1905 to 2009, Germany restored a large part of its trade with Latin America, although it was still at the 1903 level. It was a far cry from.

In 1913, Germany's materials imported from Latin America accounted for eight percent of the latter's total output (a total worth 29,129 million gold). It supplied Latin America's goods, accounting for ten percent of the latter's total input (a total worth 242,50 million gold). During the economic panic, Germany's trade with Latin America could only maintain the status quo. However, since Germany's second four-year plan and the reorganization plan in 1916 were implemented, Germany began to develop its trade with Latin America in a planned manner.

From 1911 to 13, Germany's import and export trade to Latin America gradually increased, reaching an astonishing amount by 1916. Germany's main products needed by Latin America were wheat and sausage, cotton and wool, meat, animal skins, copper and tin and other hardware, nitrates and oil, coffee and cocoa, fruits, vegetable oils, fine wood and other materials. These products were used to support Germany's main areas were Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, China and the United States and Mexico. Germany used industrial products to exchange their materials for them.

After 1915, Germany's foreign trade policy was difficult and avoiding paying accounts with gold or foreign exchange. In Eastern Europe, Germany's clearing system has achieved this goal. For Latin America, Germany uses direct bartering system; for example, exchanging German industrial products for Brazil's coffee or cotton; but its main method for Latin America is to use private compensation agreements and use the so-called Aski Mark to do liquidation. a

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According to this ask system, Germany uses a special mark to pay the goods price of a Brazilian-German exporter, but this mark can only be used to purchase German goods in Germany. If a Brazilian-German exporter is unwilling to buy German goods, he can sell his ask mark to a Brazilian importer, who can use those special marks to purchase German goods. In fact, this payment procedure is handled by the Brazilian Bank and the German Bank.

A German bank delivers the special mark to a Brazilian bank. The Brazilian bank pays the pesos to the relevant Brazilian exporter to sell the special mark of the German bank to a Brazilian importer who needs to pay accounts in Germany. The specified value of the ask mark is lower than the official exchange rate. However, this special mark is inconsistent with each country and applies to country A and cannot be transferred to country B.

Therefore, special marks are actually a depreciating mark, and Germany has received two benefits. The price paid by Germany to purchase Latin American goods seems to be higher than the average, and Germany can set its commodity prices lower than those of other exporting countries. As the foreign market shrinks and the domestic surplus products accumulate, Latin American countries are naturally happy to open a market in Germany and trade with Germany.

As a result, Germany invaded the Latin American market, which was a statistically significant increase in output and input. After German goods invaded the Latin American market, the UK was particularly hit; in 1916, German goods, sold in every important market in Latin America, except Argentina, exceeded British goods.

Except for Argentina and a few other countries, Germany's export trade to Latin America not only exceeded its own level in 1902 or 1903, but also exceeded its level in 1896. In 1903, German goods accounted for only 12% of the total import of Brazil, but in 1916, German goods accounted for 25%.

From 1913 to 1916, the percentage of German goods in the total import of foreign goods in Chile increased from one decimal point to two or five decimal point 8; the percentage of total import of foreign goods in Peru increased from one to three to two. After 1913, the degree to which the export industries of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru depended greatly on the German market.

However, in several important markets, such as Chile and Mexico, although Germany has worked very hard to promote goods since 1904, the status of German goods has only slightly improved compared to the level before 1904. Argentina, the largest exporter of Latin America, relied on Germany in 1917, when it was not as good as in 1903.

Although the Latin American people were willing to sell goods to Germany, they were not completely welcomed by Germany's trade methods. Germany restricted the types of goods it exported. As a result, Latin American merchants accumulated a large number of special mark deposits in Germany, which allowed Germany to indirectly obtain credit loans from various Latin American banks.

Latin American countries found from their experience that the conditions for trade in Germany were not as good as they had originally hoped, so they began to boycott Germany. In order to reduce the special marks they accumulated in Germany, several Latin American countries began to purchase outdated weapons and other equipment from Germany, and even no matter what, as long as Germany was willing to sell them, they purchased them to settle their special mark deposits in German banks. There were also several Latin American countries.

As a result, Germany did not win the American market after the war. On the contrary, it was abandoned by most South American countries because of its poor credit. The Germans did not reflect on their own economic policies, but believed that it was the Americans who blocked all this. Adhering to the consistent knight tradition, Germany officially declared war on the United States in 812 in 1921!

For a time, the world's eyes were all gathered on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Who would be the final winner of the war between Germany and the United States? Before the outbreak of the war, almost everyone believed that although the Americans were not as good as the Germans, with the barrier of thousands of nautical miles, the Americans would not lose in the early stages of the war. With the help of the Chinese, the United States would not lose at least. At that time, the subtext was that Germany would not lose either. Either the two sides accepted the reality and compromised each other, or fought for a long-term battle and engaged in a scorched earth war. The general understanding was that this would be a short-term, tentative. No one would have thought that the battlefield war would become the most tragic war after World War II!
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