1855 United States Tycoon

The information obtained from Churchill worries Lord Roberts. First of all, according to Churchill, the level of military training of the Boers is quite high. Moreover, the equipment is quite good, and the fortifications of some important strongholds are also very well repaired. This made Lord Roberts feel that his army was insufficient.

Since the emergence of new methods of warfare in the United States Civil War, the Army’s tactics have changed rapidly over the years. The British Army hasn't fought any decent battles for a long time, although it was relying on others to send observers to watch and learn something. For example, the Army is no longer a bright red uniform, but adopts a gray-green uniform that is more conducive to concealment. For example, it has begun to use clip-on rifles in full, and has begun to use offensive tactics and skirmish lines. Trenches, barbed wire, mines, and bunkers are a combination of defensive tactics, but after all, there is no real combat, and everyone has no idea how effective the imitation is. And not long ago, the U.S. Army attacked the Spanish positions, and the Boers used cannon firepower to cover the soldiers in their attacks on the 10th Infantry Regiment’s positions. They directly broke through to a distance close to the cannon’s damage radius, and then launched an assault as soon as the shelling stopped. Cooperate with tactics. This tactic, the British army only began to practice after the United States and Spain, and is still completely unskilled. And, more importantly, because relying on mule and horse transportation, infantry artillery is mainly of the 3-inch level. Such artillery, if used against the 6-inch or even 8-inch artillery in the hands of the Boers, which uses railways to achieve high mobility, the picture is simply beautiful.

Therefore, although the number of troops on hand is increasing, gradually reaching 180,000 people, Lord Roberts is still very cautious in his offensive actions. He only uses Cape Town as the core, slowly advancing towards the outside, and has been Carefully maintain the distance between the various troops and the distance between them and the railway controlled by the Boers.

On the other hand, Lord Roberts kept telegraphing to the country, demanding that the country provide him with more troops, more war horses, more supplies, and more large-caliber artillery.

This naturally makes the budget for this war ascending substantially. Fortunately, the British government and parliament understand that Britain cannot afford to lose in this war. If the Boers are allowed to achieve independence in such a situation, the colonies under the British Empire will probably follow suit. And those other powers who have always been so jealous of Britain that they almost grind their gums out, even more unscrupulously fan the wind and light wild fires everywhere. By that time, the loss of the British Empire will be even greater. Therefore, the British Empire must take the posture of a lion and a rabbit, go all out, and completely defeat the Boers, just like Rome completely defeated Carthage, so that it is possible to suppress other colonies that want to eliminate it.

In the British people, the common people also expressed general support for the war. This is easy to understand. First of all, although most of the benefits of foreign aggression will be eaten by the guys above, don’t say whether it can leak out from the gaps in the paws of those gluttons, just those gluttons. Because they are busy eating the colonies, and eating them less, even if it allows them to enjoy the benefits. Therefore, those aggressive countries will certainly have people who are accustomed to and support the aggression. Just like the crazy Japan during World War II. In this sense, the Tokyo Great Barbecue, the original bullets and so on, really didn't blow up many innocent people. .

Of course, from another point of view, these people are all deceived by the media. After all, the media is in the hands of the cannibal gluttonous monsters. Isn't it easy to deceive the people below? The power of information bombardment can be seen as long as the future generations of pyramid schemes or cults are used as examples. Even so-called highly educated masters who join the team and brainwash them for a few days will be convinced of those messy things. If you go Persuade him, he will even despise you: "You have been brainwashed by **! Go to the Internet to check nine. Comment on the truth..."

From this perspective, in addition to being hateful, those who are deceived are extremely pitiful. Just like what Mr. Lu Xun said at a human flesh banquet, people were eaten and eaten.

Now that the opinions of the United Kingdom are unified, and Lord Roberts' request has sufficient reasons, this should of course be satisfied. Only in this way, the British budget overspend so much that they need to issue new national debt.

It is the Rothschild family that underwrites this round of national debt. Although war cost overruns are not a good thing for the British government, it is really not necessarily for financiers.

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Lord Roberts spent a whole winter training his army, and now his army has as many as 250,000 people, and because he has adopted the safest way of advancing, although the Boers often try to attack, There was never a good opportunity, and several battles were fought into a war of attrition. Although the number of casualties is still slightly smaller for the Boers, it is obvious that this kind of consumption is very unfavorable for the Boers, because the British can afford it, but the Boers can't afford it.

So the Boers simply gave up the temptation to attack, and honestly waited for the British to hit the door.

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Off Manhattan, the Viking cruise ship. Morgan's club once again held a party on this boat. However, in addition to Morgan's allies, the participants this time include representatives from the McDonald Consortium-John Rockefeller and Greystone McDonald. This is also the first time Greystone has appeared at a gathering of this level as a representative of the McDonald Consortium. In a sense, it also means that the second generation of the McDonald family has begun to appear in history. stage.

This party is a bit different from the previous sea and sky feasts. There are no groups of beautiful women on the boat. This is because Rockefeller among the guests dislikes this tune very much. Secondly, it is also because Morgan had just had a banquet not long ago. I have only just recovered from a major illness. Of course, the main reason is that the party has to deal with many and very important things.

"Grey Stone, how is your father?" Morgan said to him when he saw Grey Stone.

"My father is in good health. He has to run two kilometers every morning." Grey Stone replied.

"You are so young." Morgan exclaimed, "You have done a good job dealing with those industries in the Philippines recently."

"Thank you for your compliment," Grey Stone replied.

"Does your dad have any comments on the issue of gold dollar coupons?" Morgan asked.

"My dad thinks that although in the end, the issuance of national credit currency is the most profitable method, but the Fed's first issuance of gold dollar bills, it is best to be conservative and continue to adopt a one-to-one reserve. After the incident, slowly adjust the ratio of the reserve fund to the issued gold coupons."

Seeing the word gold dollar coupons, many people in later generations will involuntarily think of the weird and counterfeit thing that thousands of people made out of the ages. The guys of the currency consciously and voluntarily stopped the criminal act of forging currency, and the face value is comparable to the world. Banks or banknotes issued by China Mingguo Bank, the purchasing power of which is also equivalent to the gold dollar bills.

But the gold dollar coupon that Morgan mentioned is definitely not such a cheating. Because this so-called "golden dollar bill" is actually the name of the dollar bill under the gold standard. Speaking of it, the empty space is actually just a copy of the name of the United States. Because according to the laws of the United States at the time, authentic U.S. dollars can only be coins such as gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins. However, if there is a large transaction, gold coins and silver coins are still too heavy and not convenient to use. So some banks have started to issue a kind of exchange voucher on their own, indicating how much gold can be exchanged with this thing at a certain bank. This is the dollar bill. Ticket. Because it can be exchanged for real U.S. dollars for gold at any time, this thing is naturally called a gold dollar coupon. Of course there are gold vouchers, and naturally there are silver vouchers. Therefore, the name of the silver dollar coupon was not invented in an empty case, it is just that the name of this thing is known to everyone by the great eternal perfect man.

According to the United States law at this time, as long as a certain standard is reached and the corresponding amount of gold is handed over to the national treasury (now to the Federal Reserve acting for the national treasury) in a one-to-one ratio, the right to issue a corresponding amount of gold dollar notes can be obtained. This also makes the U.S. dollar bills. Tickets in United States can be said to be varied and varied. This naturally brings another problem, which is the problem of too many counterfeit banknotes. This is because the anti-counterfeiting technology of this era is still immature. Think about it. In the 21st century, so many anti-counterfeiting measures are used, and criminal acts of counterfeiting currency still exist, let alone in the 19th century? In that era, it was not too easy to find a good art artist, study carefully, make inks, and create counterfeit banknotes. The second reason is that there are too many styles of U.S. dollar bills, and it is not easy for ordinary people to distinguish the characteristics of so many kinds of bills. Therefore, the first important thing after the establishment of the Federal Reserve is to unify the issuance of US dollar bills.

The Macdonald Consortium will provide new anti-counterfeiting technology to the new, Fed version of the gold dollar bills. All the Fed’s franchised banks will use this brand new and difficult to counterfeit new banknotes. At the same time, the Fed will face the society withdrawing the previous Gold dollar notes issued by the participating banks of the Federal Reserve. In this way, the popular banknotes and bills in the whole society will be more difficult to imitate, and the Fed gold dollar bills will dominate the world in a short time. The gold dollar bills of other banks will gradually be rejected by the market, and then in fact, the power to issue banknotes and bills will be monopolized by the Federal Reserve. And the benefits it can bring are really endless.

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