Chapter 1702: 12. The other shore of good and evil (19)

People are more willing to believe in reality than possibility.
Compared to looking into the future, people are more inclined to pay attention to and calculate the immediate benefits.
There may be room for discussion, but it is definitely not a sin.
Roland sincerely thought so, but he couldn't deny it. It was precisely because of the above-mentioned human weaknesses that it caused unprecedented trouble to his plan.
"Everyone is afraid of the economic turmoil caused by new technologies."
"After all, all countries hold the imperial mark and the industrial products produced by the empire, and no one is willing to withstand asset shrinkage and inflation."
The exhausted Minerva said in a somewhat sad voice:
"The new order... we should think that the empire actually tied everyone to this car long ago."
Not only the nations, but also the Republic.
The republic does not trade with the empire, and its technical system is more independent than the other countries. As a matter of fact, the republic should be the least intersecting with the new order. However, the actual situation is that the nations firmly reject the trade method proposed by the Republic for settlement in barter and local currency, and insist on paying in Imperial Marks.
There are roughly three intentions of various countries to prevent the outflow of precious metals, prevent imperial protests, ensure the circulation of the imperial mark on hand, and prevent asset shrinkage.
The first two items are easy to understand, but the latter item needs to be explained.
The trade between countries usually uses precious metals or equivalent-value goods for settlement. After the old Charlemagne indiscriminately printed gold coupons caused hyperinflation, the distrust of the countries reached the peak. However, in the context of more and more commodities in circulation, especially the social side's increasing dependence on imperial industrial products, the imperial mark with imperial industrial products as the pricing anchor has also been more and more accepted. Empire's trade, and later even the countries began to accept the Empire Mark.
The influx of large amounts of paper money into the country does not mean that huge amounts of wealth are poured into the country. Strictly speaking, paper money is just paper with numbers printed on it, and it has no value in itself. Even hard currencies such as gold, silver, and gemstones are the same. These things that cannot be eaten or worn can only be used as a medium for pricing and trading. When they can be used to exchange commodities, hard currencies and banknotes have a function called "money". With meaning. The coins of the various countries are all based on the gold standard, that is, directly linked to gold, and the Imperial Mark is linked to the industrial product standard, that is, to the imperial industrial product. Therefore, in order to ensure that the assets of the Imperial Mark held in their hands will not depreciate, the Congresses have increased the circulation of the Imperial Mark, that is, the proportion of the Imperial Mark used in international trade, and through continuous consumption and reproduction, so that the Imperial Industrial Products And the empire mark maintains a cyclic flow, thereby ensuring the value of its own wealth.
This is not enough. The so-called economy is originally the circulation process of commodities and currencies. With the progress of the times, the form of economic activities will also change accordingly. But there is a problem that is hard to ignore.
Although the Imperial Mark is a recognized international trade settlement currency and foreign exchange reserve currency, it is the empire that determines its value first, and the market second.
"Empire has many tools that can be used to regulate the value of the imperial mark. Interest rate hikes and interest rate cuts are one of the most basic means. A more effective method is to control the output or output of industrial products, or regulate infrastructure, housing, loans, and consumer subsidies. Wait, in short, as long as the empire wants to artificially manipulate the exchange rate of the empire mark, they don't need to do brute force at all, there are ways to do it."
Means are not a problem, the focus is on purpose and results.
This is what Li Lin taught him. He also strictly followed this teaching when analyzing Li Lin's various behaviors.
"Create various crises, devalue the assets and currencies of the harvesting target, and then bargain out various high-quality assets and operating privileges at ultra-low prices, recover the massive imperial mark that was previously released, and prepare for the next round of harvesting."
Li Lin’s predictions were correct, and Roland did speculate on the economic operation of the new order.
It was an extremely large and complex system. Until the entire mechanism was run once, so that the world could see the terrible power of "shearing wool," no one could imagine and understand the use of capital to adjust the contrast of national power, or even manage the madness of the entire world. Idea. It is even more impossible to imagine that the so-called "peace of a generation" cannot shorten the gap with the empire as expected by various countries, but will be further weakened by the empire after harvesting wealth, talents, and markets. In the end, he didn't even have the confidence to lift the table, so he had to choose between being helpless and having a weak resistance.
Ordinary people would not think of it, but knowing Li Lin’s ultimate goal, Roland, who has been fighting with the empire, has finally been convinced of the economic order of the new order after most of the day’s contact with the diplomatic representatives of various countries.
It has always been difficult for Roland to understand why the empire has deliberately carried out an invisible security war, constantly consuming itself, or even accumulating a trade deficit? After contacting the representatives of various countries today, the last piece of the puzzle that constituted the answer has also been put back. The long-standing doubt was finally solved.
"It's a plan that is quite consistent with his usual style of action. It is huge beyond the boundaries of people's imagination. It is also highly feasible and operable. The most important thing is that once the whole plan is launched, it is difficult to reverse. Everyone knows I had to close my eyes and jump if I knew it was a trap."
Roland doesn't think that the Congresses are completely unaware of the empire's intentions. Even if they can't speculate on the whole picture and details, how much will they worry about more and more empire marks in their hands? Holding banknotes that others decide their value in their hands to act as their own wealth, it is no different from skating on a frozen lake that does not know when it will shatter, but anyone with a normal brain can’t take this kind of situation. No reaction. If you don't feel the crisis, you can only prove that all the high-level skulls of the countries are covered with soft cotton.
But even if they are aware of the problem, they are still unable to solve the problem, or even delay the problem.
"The current world can no longer lack imperial marks and imperial industrial products. No one wants to go back and live the inconvenient life in the past, and no country has the determination and ability to break away from this trading system, because that means it will suffer. International isolation and domestic turmoil ~ EbookFREE.me ~ No one dares to take this risk."
Roland sighed softly.
From his standpoint, he has every reason to blame the nations for "no guts". But he is also clear that this kind of thing cannot be solved by virtue and perseverance. To make and implement a decision to break away from the new order, it is literally "a consciousness of the country's death", and even if With consciousness, the likelihood of failure is far higher than success.
Unless there is a new technology tree that can replace the empire's technical system and fundamentally erode and correct this system that continuously supplies blood to the empire, no one is willing to throw his own life and country in such an almost betting game. Destiny, the fate of millions of people, served as bargaining chips.
The emergence of the "Alaya" system may be the answer to the problem, but this technology is not yet mature, let alone the formation of a completely new independent technical system. Even if it is mature, the national strength of the Republic is not enough to promote the new technology system. Popularized worldwide. It can be said that as long as the empire has enough patience, it can completely block the "Alaya" system from the door of the new order, and the Republic has no way to deal with it.
The biggest obstacle to the "Alaya" system and the entire new technology is time-the time required for the technology system to mature and spread. And time is the best ally of the empire. Even if the empire does not intervene arbitrarily, it will take more than ten years if all goes well. At that time, the empire's various preparations will be more adequate, whether it is to continue to maintain peace for a period of time, or choose to fight immediately, there is enough leeway.
The method that can cross the empire, the high wall of the new order, and time-
"existing."
Holding his hands tightly, Roland said firmly:
"And, it will appear soon."
"you are right……"
Minerva was about to ask questions, and suddenly the door was knocked.