Fox of France

To be honest, after the peace agreement was reached, at the request of the French, Britain began a comprehensive reform of the domestic political economy. The first is to rectify the domestic chaotic financial order.

Obviously, today's pound banknotes have completely lost their credit. They cannot be exchanged for gold. In this era of gold standard system, a currency cannot be exchanged for gold, then it is useless waste paper.

Therefore, the first major thing to rectify the financial order in the UK is to rectify the pound. According to the value of pound gold coins to exchange paper currency pound sterling one to one? How is that possible? Not to mention that the British do not have so much gold, even the French, and even the whole of Europe do not have so much gold. Besides, if they really want to exchange it like this, then who is the victor?

So the French proposed such a plan. According to this plan, the British government deposited all its gold reserves in the Bank of Rome and commissioned the Bank of Rome to issue new British pounds. The new pound sterling will be exchanged for pound notes at a ratio of one to one hundred thousand. At the same time, the old pound, including old pound gold coins, will gradually withdraw from circulation.

In order to ensure the value of the new pound sterling, the new pound sterling will be tied to francs instead of gold. The new British pound cannot be directly exchanged for gold, but it can be exchanged for francs at a fixed ratio (of course, there is a handling fee) and then they can take the franc and exchange the corresponding gold with the Bank of Rome.

Why not just exchange the new pound for gold, but make a turn through the franc? This is of course to avoid a large run on gold.

First of all, you have to know that Bank of Rome, it is not the same as ordinary banks. Its main customers are not ordinary people or even ordinary enterprises, but important commercial banks in various countries.

As a result, Bank of Rome actually has few branches in various countries. In addition, because of the limited number of outlets, to exchange French francs for gold, you need to make an appointment in advance and you have to queue up. In this way, the amount of exchange cannot be too large.

On the other hand, francs cannot be used directly in the United Kingdom. (Of course, many British companies are willing to directly accept franc banknotes.) Although francs have high credit, they are still not convenient to use. And there is a handling fee for exchange, and it's not low. (Of course, if you go to France to exchange it yourself, there is no handling fee, but doesn't it also require travel expenses?) Since the exchange can be made at any time, and it is all paper money to paper money, the willingness of ordinary people to exchange will also decrease.

The binding of the new pound sterling to the franc can also increase British confidence in the new pound.

Of course, the Bank of Roma is not doing charity, and obtaining the right to issue the new pound sterling has a lot of benefits. And the British gold reserves deposited in his vault, there are many benefits. Although after the war, Britain's gold reserves are actually not much, but the credit benefits only gained from this are not small.

After the issuance of the new pound sterling, the financial order in the UK began to recover. But the situation of the British has changed strangely.

First of all, because of the complete opening up of capital and markets, British companies have generally been hit hard. Especially for some small and medium-sized enterprises, they had difficulty operating in the war. After the war, they faced the impact of European industry directly, and large-scale enterprises began to go bankrupt.

Compared with small and medium-sized enterprises, large enterprises are also a bit stronger against shocks, but large enterprises are also the priority of the French, especially those heavy industrial enterprises, which are often closely related to the British army. Now the British army is downsized. The future of China is equally difficult. Fortunately, most of these companies still have value to be harvested, so they can also get a new life through capital restructuring. Of course, the result of recapitalization is often that although the company is still called that old name, the boss may have been replaced by a Frenchman. Or the company is still called that name, and the boss who manages the company is still the boss, but the major shareholder of the company has become French. The boss on the bright side may have only one percent of the company's share. It's too late. This is just like after the Southeast Asian financial crisis in later generations, the lighthouse countries used gadgets such as the IMF and the World Bank to harvest large companies in the universe.

According to general principles, such an impact will surely cause the workers at the bottom of the UK to starve and go bankrupt because of the bankruptcy of factories and other things, and they will suspend business for rectification. In economic life, the risks borne by workers and capitalists are not the same. Once the economic situation is not good, the risk that workers have to take is that they may starve to death; for capitalists, the risk they have to take is to lose money and capital. The stronger the capitalist, the smaller the loss in fact. It may not only have no losses but also made a lot. This is what Morgan said, "When a crisis comes, the truly valuable stocks will return to their real owners."

Of course, in contrast, capitalists naturally take greater risks. After all, workers lose only their lives, and capitalists lose their money.

But in Britain, the situation has changed a bit, because British workers have found another way to make money, which is to work for the French.

Nowadays, capital and personnel flow freely between Britain and France. Therefore, British workers can go to work in France. Compared with those Germans, British workers are more well-trained, more efficient, and require lower wages. So the French are also happy to hire these British workers. Not only French, but also business owners from other European countries generally like British workers. As a result of market optimization, those companies in the UK that are still struggling to support, suddenly discovered that there is a labor shortage in the UK, and they actually cannot recruit enough workers.

This situation is almost devastating for British industry. In fact, this is true for the whole of Europe. Workers are attracted away by France, which has more developed industries. Funds, no matter which country it is, automatically flow to France. So the two pillars used to support industrialization, labor and capital, began to move away from Britain.

In Britain, the ancient medieval life seems to be resurrecting, the hustle and bustle of capital and industry have begun to move away from them, and the cities and countryside have become simple and quiet again. Perhaps the lakeside poets will like this Britain more.

The only drawback is that in Britain, there are fewer young people, especially in those villages, you can hardly see a young man. There are only aging old people there, and sometimes there are underage children, but the parents of these children are not there. For these children, their parents are like Santa Claus, only appearing in front of them around Christmas and bringing them all kinds of small gifts. Then, as soon as Christmas passed, they disappeared.

Of course, maybe one day, their parents will suddenly appear in front of them and tell them: "We are going to move. We are moving to a far away place to live a good life." Then their family will leave the village and get on a boat. Left Europe.

Most British people go to places other than North America. The French do not want to send more British people to North America. Over the years, Napoleon has adopted a policy of encouraging childbirth in his country. One of the important purposes is to ensure that there are more French-speaking French than German-speaking French in Louisiana.

So most of the British emigration route is still India or Africa and South America.

"India is a good place. Especially the culture there is very good." When talking about India, Joseph said.

"Really?" Napoleon didn't know much about Indian culture.

"What a shit! You don't know what Joseph would say in that mouth?" Lucien said Napoleon was too young and naive.

"Indian culture naturally divides people into many levels, and they used a magical invention to explain all the inequalities in this world." Joseph continued, "Napoleon, facing the inequality in the world What did the Catholic Church do when it came to the question?"

Napoleon thought for a while and replied: "First of all, all people are equal in their souls. As long as they believe in piousness, they can go to heaven to appease people. Then they said that people have original sin, so suffering is right; Life in the world is not the purpose of life. Going to heaven is to make people no longer pay attention to the actual pain. Finally, let’s beautify the suffering and give the poor people the easier way to go to heaven, as long as they endure the pain religiously. I think The reason why Catholicism can replace Roman polytheism is because Roman polytheism is too concerned about the gains and losses of reality, which is not good for the people in the upper ranks."

"In this issue, the Indians are one step closer." Joseph smiled, "The Indians replaced heaven and original sin with reincarnation. They believe that after a person dies, the soul will be reincarnated as a newborn child or a newborn Animals. And how you will be treated in the new life cycle depends on your behavior in the previous cycle. Well, this is really a great invention. In this way, if someone complains, why do I go from morning to night They work hard, but don’t even have enough food? But those who don’t do anything can lead a luxurious and luxurious life?

Napoleon, you know, if you are in France, when someone asks such a question, the revolution is at hand. But it is different in India. If an Indian raises such a question, others will tell him that this is because you did too many bad things in your last life, so you have to pay the debts for the crimes of your last life in this life. So what happened in the last life cannot be verified or falsified, but with such a set of statements, it can be used to justify all inequalities and even all evils in the world.

Indians accept this kind of thinking, so they can endure all kinds of oppression and bullying that are incredible and intolerable to us. So I said, Indian culture is really great for those in the upper ranks.

But this kind of culture also brings a little trouble, that is, it is easy to make people not enterprising. Because in their opinion, no matter what kind of state it is, it is determined by the good or evil done in the previous life, so people in the lower position do not want to resist, naturally there is no intention to make progress. As for the people in the upper ranks, well, anyway, life is better and there is no threat, so naturally they will be lazy as they are. So India is always easy to conquer. "

"You said India is so good, I want to be the king of India." Napoleon said ironically.

"If there is no other country in the world, it would be a very good thing to be the king of India." Lucien said half-seriously.

"India is a place where people can be turned into waste. So although we can search in India now, I don't want the French to immigrate there in large numbers, it will create a lot of waste." Joseph said. .

"So you think that if you send all the British over there, you don't have to worry about them making a new England out there?" Napoleon said.

"In North America, if we don't intervene, the United States may indeed become a new Britain. But in India, they will soon discover the benefits of India, and then they will all become the new Kshatriya."

"So let all the British go to India and eventually become waste?"

"Yes, anyway, when they are preparing to immigrate, they will no longer work for us. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Joseph replied, "But for India, we still have to intervene. We It is necessary to urge all countries to respect the traditions of India, especially the traditions of the turbulent states, and avoid integrating them. Do not let it change from a geographical concept and cultural concept to the concept of a nation-state in the end."

"Well, then the British will completely pose no threat to us." Napoleon said, "Looking around, there is no power in Europe to challenge France. We can finally say that France is invincible! And, now The land under the control of France spreads all over the earth. When the sun sets from one of our spheres of influence, it also rises in another of our spheres of influence. A new, invincible, sunless millennial empire Has appeared on the horizon..."

Napoleon was sighing, but suddenly he couldn't help laughing when he saw Joseph.

"What's the matter, Joseph? Did I say something wrong?" Napoleon asked.

"Ah, Napoleon, I want to ask, what does the horizon mean?" Joseph replied, holding back a smile.

"You don't know what this word means? The horizon is a line that you will never walk no matter how you walk." Lucien also laughed.