Chapter 534 "Snow Wolf"

   During the Indian famine in 1776, the British colonies in the United States were also fighting for independence.

  Since the gunfire in Lexington in 1775, the food futures trade began to make a fortune.

  When doing agricultural product futures, we must always pay attention to changes in supply and demand, planting area and weather changes.

   Official revision of historical materials often start from a "revolutionary perspective" to exaggerate that the American Revolution was a progressive movement that "overwhelmed the strong with the weak" and "overthrew oppression," but the truth is not the case.

  The founding fathers who later signed the Declaration of Independence actually committed treason against the British Empire at that time. At the beginning of the United States' independence, there were 13 states, originating from the 13 colonies established by British immigrants on the Atlantic coast of North America, known as the "13 independent states", with a total area of ​​more than 800,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 2.5 million. Before the outbreak of the War of Independence, the North American colonies had established developed shipbuilding, wool spinning, wine making, glass, and metallurgy industries. Moreover, food and cotton were self-sufficient, and the fishing industry was also prosperous. In its heyday, one third of British merchant ships were built in North American colonies. Pig iron production even exceeds that of England and Wales, reaching 30,000 tons per year.

The North American colonies are different from the British mainland. The local people are strong and military. In order to open up the frontiers to defend their homes and resist Indians and beasts, the colonies not only developed a developed military industry, but also had a much higher rate of civilian firearms than the British mainland, forming a strong " Gun culture". During the War of Independence, the fascinating and precise marksmanship of the North American militia caused the British regular army to lose their helmets and armor, posing a huge threat to the enemy's logistics supply lines and squads.

  The total strength of the US Continental Army and armed militia is always no less than 40,000. 200,000 people have carried guns into battle, and the US Navy, which has always been described as "weak and small," also has about 160 ships. In addition, after the war entered a critical stage, France and Spain sent 63,000 ground troops and 146 warships to aid the US military.

  Looking at Britain, although it is known as the world’s number one colonial power, most of its forces, ammunition and other military materials have to be transported across the Atlantic from the mainland or Europe.

Britain just ended the "Seven Years War" with the French for hegemony in the global colonies, and its vitality was greatly injured. At that time, the British population was only 5 or 6 million. Even in the early stage of the war, Washington led the Continental Army to resist the British alone, the French and Spanish foreign aid had not yet rushed. The British army has already exposed the fatal weakness of its serious shortage of troops. It is also difficult for the tens of millions of human resources in the global colonies to be mobilized for war against the United States. If the local population is forcibly transferred, the planting area will be affected. The labor force was restricted before the popularization of agricultural machinery.

Slavery prevailed in the North American colonies at that time, and the founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson were big slave owners. However, Britain announced the abolition of slavery as early as 1807, and the "American revolutionaries" were not subjected to bloodshed until half a century later. The civil war promoted the reluctant abolition of slavery.

  The "separation of powers" regime established by the United States after its independence is far inferior to the British constitutional monarchy in terms of administrative efficiency and popular prestige. Originally, many senior people in the North American colonies did not intend to establish an independent country, and they also imagined that the British king could "grace the imperial grace" to grant colonial tolerance and exempt some exorbitant taxes and taxes. Who knows that Britain is also holding a arrogant airframe to suppress it, leading to the final company. The royalists also lost their confidence in Britain.

  I am used to centralized monarchy. It is not so easy to get used to "democracy" for a while. After independence, many people are still full of "romantic thoughts" and even rushed to persuade Washington to become "king of the United States".

At that time, Britain had no time to take care of them. The problem of insufficient military strength was obvious. The war lasted until 1783, when the Icelandic Laki volcano erupted, and the sulphur-containing poisonous gas it emitted poisoned a quarter of it. The poisonous gas even drifted across the ocean. Over Europe.

It first drifted to Bergen, Norway, spread to Prague on June 17th, Berlin on the 18th, Paris on the 20th, and Britain on the 23rd. At that time, British records stated that the fog was so thick that the ships anchored in the harbor were completely Unable to sail, the sun became "blood red".

  The death rate of Chartres in north-central France reached 5% in August and September. In the UK, between August and September, 23,000 people died of poisoning. A series of reactions gradually occurred in the haze, which triggered a storm of thunder and lightning, and then a cold winter. Unlike modern real estate, food futures during the War of Independence were the most profitable. In 1698, the East India Company bought Kolkata at the port of Ganges in the Bay of Bengal from the Mughal government of India. Although the village of Kolkata is small, it is very useful. The surrounding area is rich in rice and jute, rivers crisscross, and the plains are endless. The East India Company set up a trading headquarters here, and continuously transported Indian food and industrial raw materials back to the UK, and obtained huge profits from it.

  In the case of ensuring that the national interests are prioritized, the interests of the people in the colonies are ignored.

  Choose between the right choice and the easy choice, the "easy" one is easier, and it is enough to exterminate humanity.

  Relying on Indian food, the East India Company not only made a war fortune, but also a disaster fortune. The price of commodities fluctuates constantly. The wealth in the eyes of ordinary people is not the same as the wealth in the eyes of financiers.

  Many people think that real estate is a reservoir, and the analogy of a practical barrier lake is more appropriate.

  What ordinary people see is that housing prices have risen and fallen, just like many "leeks" throughout the ages.

You have a deposit of 1 million in the bank, you want to buy a house, a down payment of 1 million, a loan of 2 million, a total of 3 million, the developer got the 3 million, and then deposited it in the bank, the bank’s deposit was 2 million more out of thin air, at this moment The entire currency system has increased by 2 million.

  In the currency system, these 2 million are called derivative currencies, and together with the base currencies printed by central banks, they form the total currency. The total amount of money will affect deflation or inflation. The amount of base money printed is controllable. Derivative currencies are often several times the base currency and have a great impact on the total amount of money, but the central bank cannot control it because of lending. It's a bank.

  However, the Bank of Japan has a secret weapon, "window guidance," which is equivalent to sending people to teach the bank to whom and how much to lend, in order to control the total amount of money.

After World War II, the United States implemented the Marshall Plan and the Dodge Plan, and supported the recovery of Japan’s economy. In this process, Japan’s major large companies were basically supported by the Bank of Japan. At the same time, they also provided loans to the government for large-scale construction projects and recovered within a short period of time. .

  Before the Plaza Agreement was signed, Japan was also used by the United States in launching the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Of course, cheap and high-quality talents can create huge profits.

  If it continues to develop at this rate, Japan will definitely become the world’s largest economy.

However, the external conditions that once benefited Japan are gone. The trade volume between the two countries is increasing. This is a good thing. The premise is that the trade is balanced. Japan exports more goods than imports from the United States, just like the British imports from China back then. Tea and silk are one more thing than cotton products dumped to China.

  Especially Japanese cars, which seriously affected the domestic auto industry in the United States. The media could not stand it first. Under the propaganda of public opinion, the people began to anti-Japanese, and various car crashing scenes were staged all over the country.

  Hedging currency is also called hedging currency, which means that it is not easily affected by factors such as politics, wars, market fluctuations, etc., and avoids the above risks to the maximum. The accepted traditional safe-haven currency is the Swiss franc, and sometimes other currencies such as the US dollar are often used as safe-haven currencies.

  Japan is an island country, which is not easily affected by factors such as politics, wars, market fluctuations, etc., and can avoid the risk of depreciation to the greatest extent.

  As Japan’s economic power has grown stronger, the yen has begun to internationalize under the impetus of the United States. After internationalization, the yen can become the international settlement currency with the US dollar and the German mark, and enter the central bank of various countries to become the storage currency, but it is not a good thing for Japan because it will involve exchange rate issues.

The exchange rate is often used when foreign trade is involved. Currency and commodities have the same supply and demand relationship. After the internationalization of the yen, the demand in the international market will increase, and the yen will increase in consequence, so that Japanese goods will not sell well. This is also the Bank of Japan. One of the control tricks.

After internationalization, the yen can be freely exchanged. The "financial black ship" has come, the yen exchange restrictions have been lifted, and a large amount of foreign funds have entered Japan’s financial industry. As a result, the "window guidance" has been torn open. The total amount of money can no longer be perfectly controlled. Since 1987, Japanese people have not mainly spent money on consumption, but invested in real estate, stocks and other asset markets. The Japanese stock market has gone into a state of madness. In 1990, the yen, bonds, and stocks depreciated at the same time, and the bubble began to burst. Since then, the Japanese economy has been declining. During the period of crazy growth, banks desperately loaned money to civilians to obtain derivative currency.

On March 27, 1990, the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China issued the “Limits on the Total Real Estate Financing of Financial Institutions” and began to restrict real estate financing. Major Japanese banks began to substantially reduce the scale of loans issued for real estate, raise loan interest rates, and increase loan interest rates. Start to levy land price tax. These measures have had an effect on curbing the rise in housing prices, and the real estate bubble in Japan has burst. After 1991, land prices in several major metropolitan areas in Japan began to fall significantly. Now, housing prices in Japan are less than half of what they were during the bubble period. The remaining half of the housing prices were harvested by the banks that asked the "leeks" to borrow money. A house worth 3 million is only worth 1.5 million. If you can buy a house with a down payment of 1 million and a loan of 500,000, you have to pay 1.5 million more, which is equivalent to the income of ordinary people for many years.

The real estate bubble has also hit the real economy. Japan’s real economy has turned into a depression, the number of domestic unemployed people has increased, the value of stocks and houses held by the people has greatly shrunk, and the people’s hope for the real estate market has gradually become desperate. There have been big waves and turmoil, and the whole people have entered an era of low desire.

  Although the Japanese economy has stagnated or even regressed after the real estate bubble burst and the subprime mortgage crisis hit, and the fundamentals of the Japanese economy are far inferior to those of the United States, Japan’s huge economic volume still effectively supports the yen. Japan has a large scale of foreign exchange reserves and is one of the world's major creditor nations, which helps maintain the stability of the yen and makes it more difficult to short the yen.

  Japan is a country ruled by law, and it is also a trustworthy society. The citizens generally have a strong sense of contract. Children have been educated by the family and the school since they were young, and they must abide by the law and keep their promises.

  So in addition to silver, the yen is also a good safe-haven currency.

  Severus had always wanted to give the organization a name to distinguish them from the Death Eaters, Lucius Malfoy thought of one.

  The stupid husky dog ​​resembles a wolf. It often runs in the snow, but it pulls a sled, which is far less dangerous than the cold and hungry wolf in the ice and snow.

  Wolves are very dangerous, and lone wolves are also very dangerous, not to mention that they have a close relationship with Durmstrang.

  During World War II, the German Navy used wolf pack tactics to attack Allied frigates, supply ships, and merchant ships.

  She looked at the black wolf head badge on the file, but what appeared in her mind was a wolf with gray-blue eyes and a ferocious roar in the snowy field. It really resembled Lucius.

  The cruelty of Lucius lies not in magic, but in operating money. In the summer of 1994, Lucius proved that he could easily join the ranks of Ministry of Magic officials. He charitably donated a sum of money to St. Mungo’s Hospital, so the family was invited by the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, to enter the top box to watch the Quidditch World Cup.

  Money is just a tool for him, it is used to play games.

  The Malfoy family has a family motto: Doing the right thing is more important than doing the right thing.

  This is certainly the same as Hefpaff doing the right thing, because it is correct, but one thing is the same.

  It is not our ability, but our choice that determines who we become.

  It is not unreasonable for Lucius to escape two trials without falling.

   "Done reading?" Severus asked.

  Pomona nodded.

"Next time you want to read the file, you can tell me directly. You don't need to be so sneaky." He took the file, threw it on the table, and put his arms around her shoulders like Young Master Draco. Sitting on the sofa without sitting.

  "I need a break. This month, the Werewolf incident is over, how about we find a place for vacation?"

"where to?"

   "Anywhere you want to go." He said confidently.

  Pomona tilted her head and looked at him.

  "How about starting to rest now?" She leaned over and whispered in his ear, "I can give you an unforgettable ‘holiday’."

   "You are'naughty' again." He said in a low voice, and only the rustle of cloth rubbing in the quiet room was heard.

   sounds like the sound of a snake crawling.

  (End of this chapter)