Chapter 2094

Sasaki Keiko turned and walked out of the conference room, closed the door gently, and then waited outside.

The conference room suddenly fell silent, and everyone's eyes were on Yoshioka Kunihiko, all with questioning expressions in their eyes.

Yoshioka Kunihiko was silent for a while, and facing everyone's suspicious eyes, he opened his mouth and said: "Zhou Andong wants to meet me."

Watanabe Jingyuan's eyes flashed with suspicion and vigilance: "The shareholder meeting will be held tomorrow. He suddenly wants to meet you today. Will there be any intention?"

An old devil with a small mustache on the side snorted coldly, full of disdain: "The Chinese have always been cunning. He chose to meet you at this time, and he must have bad intentions."

The old devil who was fat like a ball shook his head: "There is a Chinese saying that is very good: 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.' I think we should go and see. No matter what purpose he has, we will know in advance, so we can make corresponding preparations."

Watanabe Jingyuan thought for a while and finally nodded, turning to look at Yoshioka Kunihiko: "Then go and see him. We will wait for your news in the conference room."

Yoshioka Kunihiko stood up, tidied his clothes, and walked out.

All the way, he was pondering Zhou Andong's intention to meet him before the board meeting.

Mainly, for so many days before, he had been accompanying Zhou Andong. If there was anything that needed to be communicated, it could be mentioned at any time. Why choose before the board meeting?

By the time he walked into the Hotel New Otani, he still didn't understand. He simply gave up and stopped thinking about it. Anyway, after seeing Zhou Andong, he would understand.

At this time, Zhou Andong was watching TV, playing financial news, and several companies went bankrupt.

He couldn't understand it, Chen Hua sat on the side and translated for him, and Yuan Wanqi poured him a cup of tea and put it on the coffee table.

"This stock market crash in Japan has caused the Japanese economy to be hit hard, coupled with the impact of the Plaza Accord, it will not recover for thirty years."

"Thirty years?" Zhou Andong shook his head: "Even if the Japanese economy recovers to its peak thirty years later, do you think the dog raised by the Americans will be fat again, and they will be able to resist not killing and eating meat?"

Yuan Wanqi was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "That's really hard to say."

"It's not hard to say, but certain," Zhou Andong said softly: "The Second World War was the largest war in human history with the most people involved. After the war, the warring countries turned into ruins, with corpses everywhere. The European financial order led by the UK completely failed.

And the United States, which relied on its unique geographical advantage and was completely isolated from the war, had accumulated huge gold reserves through arms trading and war looting at this time.

As the main warring country and victorious country, the United States gathered the right time, place, and people. In Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, it announced with twenty-two countries that the Bretton Woods system took effect, and the US dollar was directly linked to gold. Since then, the US dollar began to expand to the global market and opened a domineering journey aimed at the world.

The first is the Marshall Plan, helping Europe revive its economy, and the US dollar officially took the first step to conquer the world. In this way, the four-year revival plan completely hijacked Europe's fiscal and financial system.

It successfully forced London to hand over the status of financial hegemon, accelerated the circulation of the US dollar throughout Europe, won over a large number of European allies, and established the US dollar's monetary hegemony.

Then, the Truman Doctrine was born, the relationship between the United States and Western European countries heated up rapidly, and together with Canada and Western European eleven countries such as the UK and France, established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to prevent the Soviet Union from infiltrating Western Europe.

On the one hand, the United States relied on high investment in high-tech industries to promote technological development and reverse-drive economic improvement. On the other hand, in the competition with the Soviet Union, it proposed the Star Wars theory.

Large-scale investment in the space industry led to the rise of high-tech industries in the United States and led a new round of industrial revolution. During this period, the US dollar had entered all walks of life around the world, and the US dollar officially became the world's primary reserve currency, hijacking global economic development."

Zhou Andong picked up the teacup and took a sip, then told it slowly.

"History is like a wheel rolling forward. From the moment the rut of the Bretton Woods system taking effect was printed on the land, mankind could no longer change the trajectory of history.

Because the US dollar is linked to gold, the US dollar itself, as paper money without value, can be issued on a large scale regardless of market laws, but the commodity itself has value.

The trade between the United States and other countries in the world is essentially exchanging a large amount of worthless paper printed by itself for commodities of equal value in other countries.

The United States brings commodities back to the country, while the exporting country exchanges a pile of green paper. The value of this paper is also not affected by economic laws. In other words, how much this paper is worth is entirely up to the United States.

The United States loves to issue as much as it wants, and it can even be said that the United States can continuously possess wealth equivalent to global commodities. Countries around the world have also tried to transfer a large amount of gold reserves from the United States.

But such attempts were either aborted halfway or stopped by the United States halfway. Gold is in the hands of the United States, and gold is linked to the US dollar, which means that the US dollar will always have value, and the military strength of the United States makes any country trying to attack the United States flinch."

Yuan Wanqi studied finance. How could she not know the Bretton Woods system? But at this time, few people had a deep understanding of US dollar hegemony, or rather, in-depth research.

But after Zhou Andong said this, Yuan Wanqi immediately understood: "At that time, the United States seemed to be invincible, but a dark horse killed halfway, and that is Japan."

"Right!" Zhou Andong nodded with a smile: "Japan actually withstood the pressure of the US dollar, and relied on high-tech and export trade to make its per capita GDP exceed that of the United States, and occupied the initiative in Japan-US trade, with GDP temporarily ranking second in the world.

If Japan is not strictly sanctioned, it will sooner or later surpass the United States. By then, the credibility of the United States will decline, which will directly lower the status and value of the US dollar."

Yuan Wanqi watched Zhou Andong take out a cigarette, Chen Hua took a lighter to light it for him, and said thoughtfully.

"The rise of the US dollar is centered on being linked to gold, but once economic development is too rapid, it will cause the US's currency issuance to fail to keep up with demand to a certain extent. If it is issued in excess rapidly, it will cause the value ratio of gold to the US dollar to be out of balance, leading to a small-scale economic crisis.

But the yen is not linked to any physical objects with value, and the scope of use of the yen is extremely limited. That is to say, as long as the yen is in line with the scale of economic development, it can truly achieve large-scale issuance.

Especially with the vigorous development of the real estate industry, a large amount of currency demand has emerged. Japan only needs to start the printing press to create a continuous stream of wealth."

"Completely correct!" Zhou Andong took a puff of cigarette: "So, the United States absolutely does not allow the Japanese economy to exceed the United States, so the Bretton Woods system failed, the US dollar and gold were unbound, and linked to oil. This is just the beginning of destroying the Japanese economy, followed by reversing the Japan-US trade deficit and promoting import and export foreign trade in large quantities.

At the same time, a large amount of US dollars were printed to strengthen the status of the US dollar in the world. Constantly giving Japan promises, giving Japan the illusion that the American big brother is harmless, and finally signed the Plaza Accord."

Zhou Andong looked at Yuan Wanqi quietly: "Not only Japan, but the United States wants to maintain its world hegemony and US dollar hegemony, and will not tolerate the economic rise of any other country.

If one day, our Chinese economy rises and the people live a good life, the United States will definitely not sit idly by. It will definitely use unscrupulous means to suppress it, and will spare no cost, even launching trade wars, financial wars, and other means to destroy China's economy and loot the wealth we have accumulated."

Yuan Wanqi listened to Zhou Andong's words and couldn't help but be a little lost. She whispered: "If it really goes to that step, can we resist it?"

Zhou Andong looked at Yuan Wanqi and asked with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Do you really think that our country's economy is likely to rise and cause panic in the United States, and even trigger their infinite suppression of us?"

Yuan Wanqi shook her head in confusion: "I don't know... Of course, I hope our country can rise, and even surpass the United States, but is this really possible?"

Zhou Andong smoked silently, his eyes becoming a little deep: "We can definitely do it. For thousands of years, except for the humiliation of more than a hundred years in modern times, we have always been the boss."

Zhou Andong smoked silently, and in the smoke, his eyes became a little deep: "We can definitely do it!"

This sentence was said very lightly in Zhou Andong's mouth, but the tone was very firm, which made Yuan Wanqi very surprised.

Chen Hua's eyes flashed with brilliance, and she looked at the side face of the man in front of her quietly, feeling the powerful aura emanating from him.

She didn't know why, but the man's voice was not loud, but it made her heart incomparably shocked, as if what he said would definitely become a fact.

Zhou Andong looked at Yuan Wanqi and said: "For thousands of years, our Chinese nation has always been the hegemon of the world. Except for the humiliating history of more than a hundred years in modern times, we have always been the boss.

At this time, we are in a great era. As long as we stick to our own path and work hard, we will definitely be able to realize the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

"Snap snap snap..."

At this time, the room door was knocked. Zhou Andong moved his eyes away from the two women who were still in a daze, turned to look at the door, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Yoshioka Kunihiko is here."

The two women came back to their senses. Chen Hua stood up immediately and walked quickly to open the door.

"President Yoshioka, welcome!"

Then Yoshioka Kunihiko and his secretary walked in. Zhou Andong stood up and stretched out his hand with a smile.

"President Yoshioka, I'm really sorry to have you come here to meet me in your busy schedule."

Yoshioka Kunihiko bowed slightly and responded with a humble posture: "Mr. Zhou, you are too polite. You are not only a distinguished guest of Sony but also a shareholder of Sony. For your invitation, I will naturally rush over at the fastest speed."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "But I am not interested in the status of a Sony shareholder."

Yoshioka Kunihiko's body shook, the expression on his face changed sharply, and the eyes looking at Zhou Andong carried an inexplicable color.

"Mr. Zhou, you—what does this mean?"