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Text Chapter 635 Lamb to the Slaughter

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    The same is true for the amount of compensation. In fact, Yang Feng's psychological price for compensation is that of Germany's original compensation in history. A hundred thousand tons of gold is completely enough. Anyway, they will definitely not be able to get out more than 10 billion pounds. In this way  If so, you can only seek a loan from the People's Bank of China.  Borrowing requires various mortgages and various additional political conditions. In short, it means giving them everything they have asked for when borrowing money from China in history, and then printing a bunch of Chinese dollar bills to them and asking them to use this to repay compensation.  What is returned to China will naturally be used for infrastructure construction, scientific research, and people's welfare. What is returned to other countries, such as Germany and Austria-Hungary, will definitely be used to rebuild their own countries. The money will be used to rebuild their own countries.  China buys all the necessary reconstruction supplies, from machines to raw materials, and the result is that the Chinese economy continues to outperform.  And after the war, everyone will return to the gold standard, but what will we do without gold?  So at this time, Huayuan became the only reserve option. Although China prohibited the outflow of gold, Huayuan was on the gold standard after all. Even if the gold stayed in China, it would still be on the gold standard.  Then all countries use Chinese dollars as reserves. If there is no or insufficient reserves, then they can only ask the People's Bank for loans. When all major countries in the world use Chinese dollars as reserves, then we have to sit down and discuss a future  A currency system with the Hua Yuan as its core, for example, simply replace gold with the Hua Yuan as the international trade settlement currency.  Don't you agree?  Then go ahead and play with the gold standard yourself. China is definitely going to cancel the gold standard anyway. The pile of Chinese dollar bills in your treasury no longer represents gold. You can go find a place to dig for gold yourself!  ??Obviously, in this case, unless someone has the ability to send the army to Beijing and force Emperor Yang to spit out the gold, otherwise he can only agree to a Yang Feng version of Bretton Woods.  Historically, there was a Soviet Union watching over the United States. No one here in Emperor Yang could restrain him. If he wanted to play rogue, others would only recognize him. Once the world currency was controlled by the People's Bank of China, it would be very difficult for others to stand up.  It's difficult.  His first target was Italy.  "What? You can't even come up with fifty million pounds of gold?" This guy looked at the Italian negotiator in shock.  said their Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency.  "Your Majesty, our country's finances are completely bankrupt. Not to mention 50 million pounds of gold and silver coins, even 5 million pounds cannot be obtained. And even if national bonds are issued, it is impossible to raise so much. So the first tranche of 5 million pounds  Tens of millions of pounds in compensation are simply unavailable," the Foreign Minister said with a face full of shame. In fact, he was indeed telling no lies. At this time, the Italian government was already bankrupt, let alone fifty million pounds.  , they can't even get out 50 million Chinese dollars.  As for the latter, he has no nerve to say that the current Italian government's credit is also bankrupt, and issuing national debt is definitely self-defeating.  "Then this won't work. The compensation of 500 million pounds is the minimum. The first batch of 50 million is also the minimum. I don't care what you take out, whether it is gold lira coins, silver coins, gold nuggets or silver nuggets.  Well, even our Chinese dollar banknotes. All in all, you must come up with the first batch worth 50 million pounds. If converted into gold, the weight should be 360 ??tons of gold or silver according to the current gold and silver price ratio.  "Emperor Yang said very dissatisfied.  "Your Majesty, can we get a loan from the People's Bank of China?" The Italian Foreign Minister very wisely proposed it himself.  "Loan? This is not impossible. Personally, I very much want to help you, but loans must be secured. Without collateral, as a private bank, the People's Bank of China will definitely not be able to give you a loan.  ." Yang Feng said lightly.  You still call that a private bank?  How many countries have the right to issue currency in your hands?  The Italian Foreign Minister murmured in his heart and then said with a smile on his face: "Then what does your Majesty think we should use as collateral?" "I don't know much about this specific business. You can just talk to the manager of the People's Bank of China. In short,  As long as the collateral is suitable, then the loan is very simple." Yang Feng said casually.  What else is there as collateral?  What else does the Italian government have to pledge at this time?  It¡¯s nothing more than various taxes, especially customs duties.  Then the People's Bank of China supervised Italian customs and deducted the money and interest from the customs duties.  When will the supervision end? There are many things that can be done.  However, given Italy's economic situation, it is difficult for their tariffs to be used as collateral, not to mention that they will have to pay compensation every year in the future. At that time, they will definitely borrow new debts to repay old debts. Tariffs alone will definitely not be enough, so then  Something else must be added.  For example, some economic privileges are given to the People's Bank of China. These are all operable. As the country borrows more and more, the country gives more and more economic privileges to the People's Bank of China, and the country is basically controlled by the People's Bank of China.    Of course there must be a Chinese Navy aircraft carrier behind the People's Bank, otherwise it would be a joke.  Italy has no other choice at the moment. Although they must all understand this set of things, there is only a dead end if they do not betray the national interests. Selling the national interests can protect their own interests. This is not a difficult choice at all.  In this way, before the Italian government had reached an agreement with the Allied Council on the surrender issue, it first started loan negotiations with the People's Bank of China. Yang Feng's managers were all veterans at this game, and they probably wouldn't use the Italians' money.  They will not stop until they are squeezed dry, so Emperor Yang does not need to care about these.  Lagos, the largest port in West Africa, the number one deep-water port, and the last major stronghold of the British Empire on the African continent.  There are more than 20,000 regular troops and militiamen in this city, and a large amount of ammunition has been stockpiled. There is even a fleet of more than a dozen gunboats and torpedo boats in the lagoon. In addition, the main channel is blocked with mines and sunken ships.  In the opinion of the British guarding the city, they could hold on for at least a month.  The terrain here is very special. It is impossible for a landing ship to land on the beach. The outside is all small sandbanks formed by seawater. Even if it lands, it can only look at the crisscrossing waterways and lament.  "A good place, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially for landing operations, but it is a pity that they don't know that there is another thing in this world called an amphibious tank." Fu Cixiang, commander of the 1st Marine Division, held up the telescope and looked at Lagos  Si said proudly.  Just below his feet, at the open hatch on the bow of the landing ship, buffalo amphibious personnel carriers were slowly driving out, and then paddling from the sea on tracks to cross the sea less than one kilometer wide like a ship.  These buffaloes and the landing ships that transport them are the reason why the First Marine Division has not started attacking Lagos until now. They have to wait in Cape Town for these things to arrive. This batch has a total of one hundred buffaloes, which can transport one regiment at a time.  Soldiers, the buffaloes that washed up on the sandbank from the sea continued to travel on land. When they encountered waterway obstructions, they directly floated again. In this way, it took less than fifteen minutes to send a regiment directly to the beach outside Lagos city.  The British troops opposite them were dumbfounded. No one thought that the Chinese actually had such a thing that could travel on land and float in the water. And this was a tank. Those lying in the trenches were bombarded by naval guns and ships.  The British army, which suffered so much from the bombing of the carrier aircraft, was about to collapse. Of course, they had to continue to fight even if they collapsed.  Fortunately, these Chinese soldiers who landed did not launch a charge. Instead, under the cover of carrier-based aircraft, they found hiding places to lie down and shoot at the British soldiers. In other words, they tortured the British soldiers. Those stationed here were all  Naturally, the equipment of the second-line troops and militiamen is not very good. When encountering opponents armed with recoilless rifles, mortars, grenade launchers, salinia shells, and white phosphorus shells, it can only be said to be a mess.  The buffalo convoy turned around and returned, and then sent another regiment over. During this period, all the heavy firepower continued to bombard the British defense line. By the time the buffalo sent the soldiers of the third regiment to the beach, it was estimated that  Suddenly there were not many British troops left alive on the opposite side, so the three regiments launched an attack at the same time, while the buffaloes stopped directly on the beach to use vehicle-mounted machine guns to provide fire support for the infantry.  This kind of battle is already very simple. More than half of the British army has been bombarded to death. How can they still stop these wolf-like soldiers? What's more, even if there are still those who can fight, there are carrier-based aircraft circling overhead.  , as soon as the machine gun here fires, the radio over there calls for air support, followed by large-caliber bullets or heavy bombs, it depends on the pilot's style. When encountering a relatively solid fortress, you can even call in large-caliber naval guns.  Not to mention the 380 main gun of the super battleship, the 152 gun of the light cruiser is enough to defeat the British fortress.  This landing battle can be said to be as easy and simple as a sand table deduction. Within a morning, the British army had to abandon the beach defense and instead ran to the streets of Lagos for street fighting. But they were willing to fight in the streets, but those niggas were not.  They were buried with them. Before the 1st Marine Division started to attack the city, the Negroes in Lagos rebelled first. They used cold weapons and hot weapons to forcefully drive out the remaining less than 10,000 British troops.  out.  Looking at the Chinese soldiers who were waiting for them with machine guns and cannons outside, the leading British commander sighed helplessly, and then simply raised the white flag. In this way, the most important port on the African coast easily fell into the hands of China.  From here heading north to Europe, the only remaining obstacle is the French army in Dakar.  (To be continued)
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