Crossover in the Anime World

The Four Emperors' exercise was very effective, but the game has just begun.

The focus of the game is to seize the ownership of the islands, the economic rights of trade, the right to speak on ideas, and the right to select talents. The competition for trade rights is the most direct, and everyone's feelings are the most obvious.

Trade rights include trade routes, tariffs, settlement currencies, etc.

For trade routes, Ace relies on the high speed of ocean currents. As for tariffs, his goal is to establish a global market, but at present, the pirates and the navy are still in opposition and block each other. For settlement currency, Ace is promoting new currencies.

The navy's Bailey has always been strong, but the things that can be bought are getting less and less. Even now, the Five Elders have not printed money to solve the problem.

After all, they also know that printing money is fun for a while, but it will have to be repaid in the future. Money is an IOU. The more you print, the more you have to pay back. If you don't want to pay it back, there are two ways, one is to kill the creditor, and the other is to disintegrate and default.

Another way is to seize tariff advantages, such as the Empire's preferential system. The requirement of this clause is that importing goods from the Empire is low tariffs, while importing goods from other countries, such as the United States, is high tariffs. This is a way for the British Empire to resist the United States. Through the imperial preferential system, it protects its own products and prevents American products from competing with itself. Because most of the colonies are controlled by the British Empire, the imperial preferential system can ensure that most of the market is controlled by itself.

After World War I, the United States invested crazily in Germany and Japan. One aspect was that because of the imperial preferential system, the British Empire did not give it a market, so it could only invest in the defeated countries, which indirectly promoted the outbreak of World War II.

After World War II, the British Empire could not support it anymore, and finally signed the Atlantic Charter, recognizing that all countries have the qualifications for equal trade in exchange for the support of the United States. As soon as the Atlantic Charter was signed, the United States immediately cut off its support for Japan and Germany, followed by Pearl Harbor, and the United States stood in the same trench with the British Empire.

After the Atlantic Charter, all countries traded equally. To put it bluntly, the market tariffs for the British Empire and the United States were the same, so the advantages of American products were reflected, and the British Empire was not an opponent at all, and it was finally going to sunset.

After the end of World War II, the sun never sets and the Iron Curtain speech began again, ushering in the era of nuclear blackmail and requiring all small countries to take sides. Choosing the capital camp means nuclear protection, and choosing others means accepting the threat of nuclear bombs.

Accepting protection naturally comes at a price, that is, accepting the trade rules of the big countries and doing whatever they are told to do. The market is divided by the two camps, with ideology as the boundary and confronting each other.

Overall, the old empire is definitely more advantageous, whether it is higher education level, development level, industrial level, and faster development speed during the Cold War.

The younger brothers of the former Soviet Union are more backward and need a lot of resource output. Each younger brother wants money, energy, technology, and fertilizer. There are very few things that can feed back to the big brother. At most, they can shout slogans and strengthen their momentum. There are very few things that can feed back economically.

Unlike the old empire, the United States can rely on its younger brothers to produce cheap cars and cheap goods to support its own rules of the game. Although it is also very painful, it can at least support it.

None of the younger brothers of the former Soviet Union have the ability to produce cheap cars. Many of them are poor and white. At most, they can produce raw materials, and they have no ability to produce cheap goods at all. On the contrary, the younger brothers need the fertilizer support from the big brother to produce raw materials. In the long run, the big brother can't hold on and is unwilling to support it all the time.

The United States can use its own technology and market to exchange for cheap goods produced by the younger brothers. However, the former Soviet Union produced its own goods to exchange for the raw materials of the younger brothers. The raw materials of the younger brothers could not suddenly increase production, making it impossible for the big brother's goods to increase in value, and it has always maintained an awkward exchange level.

The United States can replace a younger brother to continue production after the price of the younger brother's goods increases, and even reap a wave of development dividends from the younger brother to maintain cheap goods. Of course, the industry given to the younger brother will not be taken away, and the United States will not starve the younger brother to death, but the younger brother will not want to go further. The younger brother will always be a younger brother.

So some people say that the development of a certain big country in the East is riding on the wind of the United States. It is completely wrong. The United States needs a place to produce cheap goods, otherwise it will not be able to hold on. The opportunities given to the younger brothers by the United States are the same. In the end, the East is the only country that firmly grasps the opportunity and completes the full set of industrialization in one go. The other brothers of the United States are only responsible for part of the production and cannot develop other industries. They are all controlled by the United States.

The United States needs Dongda, because with a stable world factory, the rules of the game of the United States have been extended and the economy can be stable.

Therefore, the United States relies on constantly changing the origin of cheap goods, upgrading domestic technology, and plundering more cheap goods with less cost, and its life is thriving.

The former Soviet Union could not increase its value, so it was stuck here. The younger brother cannot produce cheap goods, and his internal economy remains unchanged. The living standard can still be improved after the war, but there will be no change after a long time. Even if he wants to develop light industry, he can't do anything. Because this game is that heavy industry supports the younger brother, and the younger brother continues to produce heavy industry with raw materials, and no one is responsible for producing cheap goods.

Only when the goods are abundant can there be the blessing of the people of Qi. In those days, Guan Zhong was an official in the mountains and seas, unified tariffs, built roads, provided convenience for merchants, and opened women's houses to encourage consumption. The world's goods were concentrated in Qi, and everyone could buy what they wanted cheaply, so there was the idiom of the blessing of the people of Qi.

The United States continues to produce cheap goods through its minions and, through technological upgrades, it continuously exchanges lower costs for more cheap goods, which is why it has become a beacon of the world.

The former Soviet Union obviously had no choice. Big Brother couldn't produce cheap goods by itself. Producing cheap goods requires a large population, and Big Brother didn't have the population. And even if the population was large enough, producing cheap goods could only exchange for a little bit of raw materials, which was not cost-effective at all. The younger brother wanted to produce but had no ability, and had no infrastructure or education. As a result, Big Brother didn't want the younger brother, not the younger brother didn't want Big Brother.

In the final analysis, it was still a poor foundation. No matter how much support Big Brother gave, it was impossible to develop a full set of education for the younger brother, and it was impossible to turn the younger brother into an industrial worker immediately.

The old empire completed education before the war, and after the war, as long as it was given technology and funds, it could immediately resume production.

The only one who wanted to tighten its belt for industrialization, the University of Tokyo, was unwilling to be a younger brother all the time, and had a conflict with Big Brother.

Of course, the island country didn't want to be a younger brother all the time, so there was "The island country can say no", but unfortunately the island country's market and technology belonged to the United States, and the island country was not irreplaceable. The United States could still find other younger brothers to replace the island country's production status, and the island country said no and failed.

Therefore, it is difficult to recruit younger brothers. If the younger brothers are not capable enough, they will only drag down the elder brother. If the younger brothers are capable enough, how can they be depressed and inferior to others for a long time? They will definitely have conflicts with the elder brother.

In short, it is the production arrangement of high value-added goods, cheap goods, and raw materials.

The elder brother must master high value-added goods, so that he can make a profit and sit firmly in the position of the elder brother. High value-added things can be exchanged for more cheap goods and raw materials, and the lives of the people can get better and better.

However, the system for producing raw materials is different from that for producing cheap goods. Even cheap goods are part of the industry, and workers need enough education. This requires the younger brothers to tighten their belts and promote it.

Who will produce cheap goods? It must be the younger brothers. This requires the younger brothers to have production capabilities, and the younger brothers with this ability are not easy to control.

On the sea, the navy and pirates also have to face this arrangement. The navy has no problem because the division of labor of the world's member countries has been arranged.

Ace needs to make new arrangements. If the arrangement is not good, it will also make people dissatisfied. It makes people feel that the fate of joining Ace is the same as joining the navy, so why don't you join the navy? So Ace has to make careful arrangements.

Without cheap goods, life is not happy. But the question is who produces cheap goods? Who is willing to produce countless socks a year and finally can't even exchange for a car?

Everyone likes to produce cars. A car can be exchanged for clothes, shoes, socks, and various small commodities, so that everyone's life can be prosperous.

But cheap goods must be produced by someone. Without cheap goods, although you won't starve to death, you will be dead.