Chapter 64 The Silver War
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After the passion, the office returned to calm, and the air was filled with the smell of scent, but it was soon blown away by the air conditioning wind.
The temperature dropped, Zhang Meng and Mira each calmed down, and then they talked about the main business.
Mira couldn't wait to ask: "What are you going to do?"
Zhang Meng smiled slightly, but instead answered her, he rang the ringtone instead.
Soon, a beautiful secretary from the secretariat walked in quickly, and Zhang Meng ordered her to bring in a batch of relevant information.
Zhang Meng signaled that Mira picked up one of the information and looked at it, asking in confusion: "What is this?"
"You can finish reading these information first!"
Zhang Meng smiled slightly, ignored Mila, ordered the secretary to bring in the wine, and turned out the window to drink.
Mira then looked through the information and didn't care at first, but she became more and more frightened as she read it, and even screamed.
Since ancient times, gold and silver have been hard currency around the world. Unlike paper money, these two metals have real value. Therefore, whenever international financial turmoil, they become amulets for people to protect themselves.
The global economic crisis that broke out in 1929 has now spread from developed capitalist countries to poor and backward countries, and has spread all over the world. China under the rule of the National Government is also difficult to escape. In particular, the Hoover government's massive acquisition of silver has caused the global silver price to soar, causing a fatal blow to countries based on the silver standard. A large amount of silver was cashed out and flowed to the United States, and the silver dollars issued by the Chinese Civil Government were robbed wildly.
The reason why the Hoover administration implemented the silver policy was on the one hand because it supported a financial consortium of Hoover. In the US Congress, there was a silver group composed of state legislators who were dissatisfied with the low price of silver and put pressure on President Hoover to raise the silver price. On the other hand, it was because the US government believed that the fundamental reason for the world economic crisis was that gold production was insufficient to cope with the needs, and gold and silver should be used together. The use of silver to supplement the insufficient gold was advocated to adopt a replica system. Only by raising the silver price was adopted to stimulate the purchasing power of silver coin countries in order to promote excess products to these countries and pass on the crisis.
Of course, the reason that really stimulated the Hoover administration to implement the silver acquisition bill quickly was that it was forced by the Tang Empire, because the new international financial system formulated by Britain, the United States and the Tang Dynasty, most of the necessary reserves were provided by the Tang Empire. This was equivalent to being controlled by others. As the world overlord after the war, the United States was naturally not very comfortable, so it found a way to get rid of its dependence on the gold of the Tang Empire.
The impact of the US silver policy involves many countries, which has caused a fatal blow to China, which has been suffering from the low silver price, and has fallen into a disaster of rising silver prices, outflows of silver, and deflation. The outflow of silver and the increase in silver prices greatly increase the value of China's currency, seriously hindering the development of foreign trade. All of this ultimately leads to the collapse of the national economy, the national tax revenue is reduced, the national treasury is empty, and the expenditure is difficult. Fiscal panic and the social crisis deepens. This affects the ruling foundation of the Nanjing National Government.
In response to the above situation, the Nanjing National Government has taken a series of emergency measures, such as formulating silver export tax rules and imposing an export balance tax to curb the outflow of large-scale exports of silver, and striving to recover direct economic losses caused by silver exports.
However, the National Government could not control underground smuggling at all, and strictly prohibiting illegal vendors from smuggling silver for export was basically a piece of paper. In this way, the National Government had to ask the United States to "no longer buy world-based silver."
Mira can clearly see the negotiation content between the National Government and the US government from the intelligence. With her intelligence, she can naturally guess the transcript of the conversation that is basically intact. Such confidential content can be delivered to Zhang Meng quickly, which shows that Zhang Meng's intelligence is amazing.
Mira couldn't help but take a breath, and her beautiful eyes glanced at Zhang Meng, secretly asking how correct her decision was. If she was an enemy of this man, she would probably end up miserably.
Mira shivered and stopped thinking about those things. She knew that Zhang Meng would have a purpose to let her see these confidential information. The main reason she came to find Zhang Meng this time was that she had long learned that Datang Bank had been quietly hoarding silver. This was different from the Hoover government's hype acquisition of silver. It was not noticeable at the beginning.
Mira believes that Zhang Meng is a guy who can't get up early without profit. Since he is also hoarding silver, it must be profitable. She guessed this correctly. From the information, it can be seen that Zhang Meng does plan to deploy a large-scale robbery in the financial field, and this time the main force is silver, one of the hard currency.
Thinking of this, Mira did not dare to be careless and carefully looked through the remaining information one by one.
"Hey, the British and Japanese are actually involved?"
Mira was shocked by the information below again. Zhang Meng not only obtained confidential information from the US government, but even controlled the actions of the British and Japanese. This ability was so powerful.
Mira smiled bitterly and shook her head, and continued to watch.
Japan was the first to receive news that the National Government was preparing to reform the currency system, so it forced the Nanjing National Government to include fiat currency into the Japanese yen system using "China-Japan economic support" and "credit loans". The British appeared in the attitude of helping China carry out currency reform, trying to incorporate the Chinese currency system into the British pound group.
Kong Xiangxi, head of the financial department of the National Government, negotiated with the British and Japanese in accordance with the principle of "whoever can provide loans to China's currency reform will nail to whom China's currency." However, the Japanese have always regarded the National Government as the meat they said, so they wanted the British to intervene. Therefore, during the Sino-Japanese and Sino-British negotiations, the Japanese bravely assassinated the negotiator of the National Government and the UK, causing the Sino-British negotiations to be stranded.
Mira resisted the shock in her heart. The information was far beyond her cognition. It can be said that what she knew before was nothing more than the superficial. In fact, she found out from this information that in order to tie the fiat currency to her own chariot, the agents of the three countries even fought hard to destroy each other.
When she picked up the last piece of intelligence, her hands trembled as it was written that the US government planned to take revenge on the UK in a week in order to prevent the UK from using the London silver market to support the National Government's fiat currency reform.
"Hoover wants to revenge on Britain?"
"That's right!"
Zhang Meng smiled slightly, turned around, and looked at Mila calmly.
Mira was confused and asked, "British and the United States have always been ally, how could Hoover take revenge on his allies?"
Zhang Meng took a sip of wine and said indifferently: "There are no iron-clad allies between countries, only iron-clad interests. Whoever can gain the power of China's monetary reform can obtain immeasurable huge profits. In the face of this profit, allies will become enemies!"
Mira still disbelief and asked, "Since that's the case, how can Hoover be retaliated against Britain and how can he get China's right to reform the currency?"
Zhang Meng smiled mysteriously and said, "You will know naturally in a week, but now I need you to do a favor!"
Mira rolled her eyes immediately, knowing that Zhang Meng must have no intention of showing her confidential information. She started to make requests as soon as she finished reading it.
Looking at Zhang Meng's harmless expression, Mira smiled helplessly and said, "Tell me, just eat meat and drink some soup. As long as you don't have the idea of making me a little bit of family property, no matter what you want me to do."
Zhang Meng coughed dryly, smiled embarrassedly and said, "Don't worry, I don't like your little property."
Next, Zhang Meng told his plan, but only told Mira a small part. As for asking Mira to help, it was purely because the financial tycoons from various countries had already known about the special relationship between Zhang Meng and Mira, so Zhang Meng wanted Mira to take the lead in misleading the judgment of other financial tycoons, so that Zhang Meng would make huge profits at critical moments. Of course, Zhang Meng also gave Mira a generous return, otherwise Mira would definitely not be trapped with her shrewdness.
Even so, Mira was reluctant. After all, it was not very pleasant to be taken out as cannon fodder by Zhang Meng. Moreover, once Zhang Meng cheated, he could directly swallow up all of Mira's assets, which would inevitably be a great risk.
Seeing Mira's expression that she would be strange to believe you, Zhang Meng rolled his eyes and said, "Look at what your expression is, it won't be."
Mira and Zhang Meng looked at each other for a long time, and finally their momentum suddenly softened and they sighed: "Okay, I'll believe you once."
Mira knew that if she did not agree with Zhang Meng's request, Zhang Meng's huge strength would be enough to eliminate everything about Mira, so Mira had no choice but to hope that Zhang Meng would not be too sarcastic in her relationship with her.
Zhang Meng smiled, stood up and hugged Mira, kneading her, and said gently: "Hoover's method is nothing more than a method of suspending the purchase of silver in the London market to retaliate against the UK and then win over China. Therefore, the price of silver in London will inevitably fall sharply in a week. China's silver will not be sold, and it cannot be continued to be exchanged for pounds as foreign exchange reserves. The basis of the fiat currency will also be shaken. Before the Nanjing National Government negotiates with the United States, you can block it. I will do the rest. Don't worry, your benefits will be inevitable at that time."
"You-I hope!"
Mira was gasping for breath after being kneaded by Zhang Meng. The red tide that had just been pushed down climbed up all over again, and couldn't help but let out a seductive gasp.
Zhang Meng saw Mira look like she was picking her pretty, and he couldn't help but kiss her again.
Chapter completed!