The stock markets of the United States, Japan and South Korea have plummeted, which is essentially the result of a financial game, you must know! No matter how the war is fought, it is essentially one financial war after another, and if you lose financially, you will lose the actual war as well.
Take the late Qing Dynasty as an example! He lost financially, and his right to issue currency and exchange international currencies were monopolized by Western banks, "such as: Liru Bank and HSBC in United Kingdom, Bank of Korea in Japan, Citibank in United States, and so on!" They had a firm grip on the Qing economy."
You may not know it, but in fact, these banks are all private banks, and they actually represent the interests of one consortium after another, and they basically monopolized the finances of the late Qing government, so that the Qing government had to borrow money from them even in war. "For example, Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, that is, he borrowed money from HSBC, and borrowed a total of 18.99 million taels of silver, which was only borrowed by HSBC when the Qing government used the customs revenue of Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Shanghai, and Hankou as collateral."
In fact, the government of the late Qing Dynasty also saw its own financial problems and thought about changes, such as: the establishment of the China Commercial Bank, etc., but at that time, how could it be better than the West to play the bank! In the end, it still can't change the situation of being monopolized by foreign capital.
"Until the end, the entire tax system of the late Qing government could not support the operation of the country, and it would fail so badly."
We are watching the instructor deal with Lao Jiang, everyone may be watching the heat of the frontal battlefield, but it is estimated that few people know about the financial battlefield behind it, and this year's very popular TV series "Wind Chaser" is about the history of this aspect. "The predecessor of our current People's Bank of China was established by the merger of banks in border areas such as North China Bank, Beihai Bank, and Northwest Farmers Bank." He was founded in April 1938, a year after the "Lugou Bridge Incident", and in August of the same year, he issued the first version of the currency, "Beihai Bank Coin", in Laizhou City, Shandong Province.
"When Lao Chiang's entire monetary system collapsed, and a large bag of banknotes could only buy a box of matches, the faculty relied on the border banks to maintain the economic development of the base area stably." It laid a solid foundation for the later war of liberation, and if you look at the later war of liberation, you can understand how many of Lao Chiang's troops surrendered hungry.
Maybe you think that only our country will be like this, but in World War I Europe, the reason why the Entente (Britain, France, Russia, etc.) was able to defeat the Allies (Germany, Austria, etc.) was all dependent on their loans to buy equipment and materials from the United States consortium, and the Entente could win the victory, "but their price was that after the end of World War I, the Entente owed United States as much as $10 billion, of which United Kingdom owed $4 billion, and United States also relied on World War I to directly become the largest creditor in Europe." This wave also brought the United States manufacturing industry directly away, laying the foundation for the rise of United States. So! As soon as the cannon sounds, the economy has always been the most important core of a country, and if you want to blow up a country, "economic" means are the best way, and there is no one.