In the Downing Street Prime Minister's residence, Prime Minister Wilson had just sent away the envoy sent by the United States, and was beside him the Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins. The Labor Party won the election four years ago. Wilson became the Prime Minister of the British Empire and then faced this country with glorious history but is constantly declining.

The Labor Party has been cutting funds as soon as it won, so that it has the claim that the Royal Navy's biggest enemy has been said. Wilson has also heard such remarks and sneered at them in his heart. The British Empire has lost almost all of its colonies. This was not lost during the Labor Party's rule. Now only the native British are left. How can it maintain a huge army and continue to be on par with the United States and the Soviet Union?

But as the prime minister of an old empire, Wilson is far from being fooled easily. The US government sent a special envoy to hope that Britain would help fight the francs. Wilson has agreed to this matter. The relationship between Britain and France has always been bad, and it is still acceptable on the scene, but he hopes that the other party will have some problems...

This time France and the Soviet Union took the US dollar to run at the same time, and the Americans asked for the British. They hoped that Britain, which had a lot of voice in the European economy, would help the United States lower the value of the francs. This would be beneficial to the UK. The value of the pound is very strong, and even a pound can be exchanged for 2.4 US dollars after depreciation. London, as the largest financial center in Europe, also delayed its decline after losing its colony.

The United States asks Britain to attack its neighbor France, which is something the British are eager for. Even if Wilson is the leader of the Labor Party, he will not be confused about this matter. Isn’t there such a statement? Why did Britain develop nuclear weapons? Obviously, the Soviet Union will destroy Britain as soon as the nuclear war begins. Why didn’t Britain save the funds for the development of nuclear weapons? Anyway, Americans and Soviets are confronting each other. The British answer was, “Our nuclear weapons are used to target Paris…”

"We first suppress the francs and occupy the share of the francs, so that we can also gain friendship with Americans. This is definitely a great thing for us British people." Returning to the official residence, Chancellor Roy Jenkins looked at his prime minister and said.

In the view of Chancellor Roy Jenkins, the United States' share of international trade is almost impossible to shake, but Britain's advantage over other currencies still exists. France has exhausted its dollar reserves and cannot be regarded as a difficult opponent at this time.

"Of course we need to help the United States and occupy the Franc trading share, but we have our own position." Although Wilson was born in the Labor Party, he also had a keen insight. His knowledge in finance was not inferior to the leader of other parties at all. "The operation of France and the Soviet Union did not hit the key point of the US dollar at all. De Gaulle miscalculated France's influence, but it was indeed a surprise that the Soviet Union joined. Did the Soviet Union have a pro-French atmosphere?"

The pro-French atmosphere in Wilson's mouth refers to the fact that the Russian upper class was proud of speaking French during the imperial and Russian era. The aristocrats often used French in their daily communication. France, as the representative of westernization at that time, became the object of imitation by the Russian upper class, including language, learning, art, etc. Speaking French naturally became a fashion, and the status of English was gradually established in the Versailles Convention after World War I. Before that, the diplomatic talks of various countries also used French. It was the first time that the simultaneous interpretation of French and English was simultaneous. Due to the rise of the United States, English gradually established an irreplaceable status worldwide.

"But the Soviet Union can only run the American gold. While the French got the gold, the francs were also weakened. After all, the US dollar is the world's currency. The financial level of these two countries is really not very good." Chancellor Roy Jenkins commented on the actions of the Soviet Union and France in a frivolous tone.

In his opinion, the two countries have created such a big battle and have only focused on gold. They did not notice the real key point, the US dollar's international settlement share. As long as the US dollar always occupies the majority of the international settlement share, it can withstand the attacks of the Soviet Union and France through financing. This is the reason why the two countries returned in vain. Of course, this is not much loss for the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union itself is independent of the US rules.

Even if the francs are supported by gold, they still cannot have the status of the dollar. The francs are still too weak compared to the dollar. Roy Jenkins and Wilson both understand this.

"After we attacked the francs, we occupied the settlement share of the francs, and turned around to attack the dollar. This time the Americans were so embarrassed. This is the opportunity for our British Empire to return to the financial overlord. We will kill the French first. We are forcing the Americans to seek peace with us." Wilson thought for a while and whispered at Roy Jenkins, "First step on the French hard, so that the Americans can relax their vigilance. Also, the reason why the Soviet Union and France cannot win this time is that they have no choice in the international transaction share of the US dollar, so our goal is not to kill the US dollar, but the US dollar must be equal to the British pound. We share the dominance of this financial field."

"There is also the mistake made by the French and Soviets this time. They did not block the financing channels of the United States in the financial market. With the good credit and international transaction share of the US dollar, the United States can mobilize funds to stabilize the Braston Woods system, so a simple attack is useless. The preparation we need to make is to find a way to block the financing channels of the United States." Prime Minister Wilson stood up and turned around and whispered, "So while we run gold, we also have to throw US Treasury bonds and Federal Reserve notes. The huge selling makes it impossible for others to take orders and block American financing channels."

Wilson believes that when the goal is not to overthrow hegemony, but to share world hegemony with the United States, it seems that it will be easier to succeed. Once the establishment of the pound and the dollar is successful, the hegemony between Britain and the United States may be more stable, and it is much more stable than the hegemony maintained by the United States now.

For Lyndon Johnson, starting from the beginning of the year, it seems that the United States is welcomed with bad news. On the one hand, it is a large-scale offensive launched by North Vietnam, and on the other hand, it is a run of the Federal Reserve's gold reserves. Fortunately, he did not know the British's planning, otherwise he would have gone crazy. Even now, he is under tremendous pressure. The situation on the Vietnam battlefield occupies the pages of American newspapers, and almost all media are shocked by the fact that North Vietnam has such a great force to launch a full-scale attack. You must know that the US government has been saying that they are on the verge of victory. But through this offensive, the Americans found that they are still far from victory.

The entire South Vietnam was in war, even Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. In Saigon, nineteen Vietnamese commandos blew a big hole in the exterior wall of the US embassy and rushed in. The five military policemen on duty soon returned to the ground. Although they killed the two military police guarding the main gate of the embassy, ​​when the North Vietnamese assault team tried to blow up the door with anti-tank rockets, they were suppressed by the US Marines who were on guard, and the two sides started a fierce exchange of fire. But soon the US reinforcement 101 Airborne Division also rushed to the embassy in a helicopter.

The whole situation changed. All nineteen North Vietnamese commandos who participated in the battle were killed by the US military, and their bodies were scattered in the embassy courtyard. Five Americans and two Vietnamese civilians were also killed in the battle.

However, the North Vietnamese attack on the embassy attracted widespread attention from the US media, and the battle also became a symbol of the Spring Festival offensive. In addition, some regular North Vietnamese troops/Vietnam Communists squads attacked the presidential palace, radio station, and the headquarters of the South Vietnamese army's staff. There were 700 North Vietnamese troops launching an attack on an air base in Johor Bahru, and General Westmoreland's U.S. military aid command building in Vietnam was also attacked at the same time.

Since the Spring Festival offensive, the number of US troops killed 8,000 people has reached 8,000. Although the battles in various places have ended, the Xishan Base is still surrounded, and the lives of the remaining 4,000 American soldiers have become a concern for all Americans. Now even the US Congress is emphasizing the importance of Southeast Asia, it is useless and the people do not buy it.

Civil rights leaders came forward to demand that the government end the war, and large-scale protests began to rise and fell, becoming a problem facing Linden Johnson. Of course, many of these protesting leaders received rubles. Serov, who had just withdrawn the funds, spent the money on Americans in a blink of an eye to support Americans' peace.

In fact, of course he did not want the US Captain to evacuate, so while attacking the US dollar, Indonesian internal affairs crossed the border and attacked a town on the Malaysian border. The two sides exchanged fire for a week. The news was handed over by Selov to Goliov of the TASS, reporting on the huge results of Indonesia's operation to smash Malaysia. For a time, Eastern European countries followed up on the report.

Sukarno's dream of national unity, the development of the socialist movement in Southeast Asia, and other optimistic titles appeared in the newspapers of the Donggou country. For a time, the dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia became a concern for the people in the Soviet camp.

These newspapers are all arguing. Southeast Asian countries will soon turn red, there will be new members in the socialist camp, the third revolution has already appeared, etc. "Awesome, great, American comrades, you must persist for a few years." There is no way to support the anti-war forces in the United States. If you don't support others and fight against the war, it's better to gain some friendship. In fact, he doesn't want the United States to withdraw its troops at all, and it's better to fight in Southeast Asia for another ten years. (To be continued.)
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