. "Old Fu, let Xiao Huang think about these things by himself."

"It's okay, the investigation has not been found anyway." Fu Xiubo smiled and said to Lu Fenglie, "You have planned to let General Huang take over long ago. Don't you feel at ease if you don't explain the matter thoroughly?"

Lu Fenglie smiled and glanced at Huang Zhibo.

"You have been asking what Japan has to do with these things." Fu Xiubo also turned his attention, "In fact, Japan's relationship with these things is clear at a glance. As we rise and start to establish a separate economic and trade system, it will inevitably pose a fatal threat to the globalization system dominated by the United States. This is not a war, but it is more cruel than war. It can be said that whoever has the economy and trade system can win in a comprehensive confrontation will be able to laugh to the end and become the world hegemon. This kind of competition is not only the current thing, but is also common in history."

"history?"

"In modern history, economic and trade competition is the main theme of national competition, and war is just an extreme manifestation." Fu Xiubo paused for a moment and said, "The most representative one is World War I. Although in our middle school textbooks, World War I was called an imperialist war broke out between new and old empires in order to compete for world hegemony, what is the world hegemony they compete for? To put it bluntly, it is either Britain or Germany to dominate global trade. As an old empire, Britain has the largest colony, and as an emerging empire, Germany has the most powerful industrial strength in the world at that time.

.Relying on the vast colonies, Britain maintained global hegemony. If Germany wants to continue to develop, it must obtain new resource production and consumer markets, and strive to obtain more colonies. Unfortunately, Germany's colonies at that time were not only much less than Britain, but even Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal were not as good as Belgium, the Netherlands and the Portugal. The demand for resources and the market became an irreconcilable contradiction between Britain and Germany. To this day, this demand is actually the global economy and trade system. Under the global economy and trade system dominated by the United States, sooner or later, our demand for resources and the market will become an irreconcilable contradiction between us and the United States."

Huang Zhibo nodded, indicating that he understood what Fu Xiubo meant.

In fact, this contradiction between China and the United States has emerged, especially in the energy field. Because the United States controls the world's most important energy production areas and expands heavily in other regions, excluding Chinese companies. For example, in Nigeria, the United States has repeatedly used political, military and diplomatic means to cause Chinese companies to suffer major losses. For example, in international mergers and acquisitions, the United States has repeatedly used unfair means, causing Chinese companies to miss the opportunity to obtain resources. In terms of the market, the United States and other Western countries have mastered the most profitable part by controlling the terminals of the production chain, while Chinese companies can only engage in production and processing links with meager profit margins, so they cannot complete the accumulation of original capital like European and American companies, and cannot compete with European and American companies in high-end fields that require huge early investment.

"It is obvious that Japan belongs to the Western group, and it is the second largest economy among the group, after the United States." Fu Xiubo smiled reluctantly and said, "I mentioned earlier that Japan's dependence on globalization is far more than that of the United States. From the objective facts, even without globalization, the United States is a very wealthy, developed and powerful country, with its rich resources enough to ensure its hegemony. Japan is not so lucky. Without globalization, Japan will not only be able to be rich and powerful, but will also suffer a catastrophe. Not to mention anything else, Japan's land resources cannot be produced enough at all.

In order to feed the grain needed for 130 million people, without overseas agricultural reclamation groups and imported food, at least 40% of Japanese people will be hungry. In other fields, this problem not only exists, but is also more serious. Without the huge profits obtained from import and export processing trade, what can Japan use to make more than 100 million people live a prosperous life? In fact, exports are more important to Japan. The export dependence rate of Japanese companies is as high as 65%, which means that 65% of products need to be exported. Otherwise, whenever there is an economic problem, the Japanese government will not care so much about the value of the yen."

"Head of the People's Republic of China, this is an economic problem, I..."

"Although it is an economic problem, the same principle. What Japan is most afraid of now is that globalization led by the United States is destroyed. It can be said that as long as it can maintain globalization, Japan can do anything. It can even be said that Japan will willingly help the United States maintain globalization as the second child." Fu Xiubo paused for a moment and said, "Of course, Japan has no other choice. A few years ago, some Japanese proposed to establish a common market with us and engage in economic integration like the EU. This is a very visionary view, but it doesn't work. There is only one reason. We cannot change the world pattern overnight, and Japan cannot do without globalization led by the United States in one day. To put it vividly, Japan is like a dog with a chain tied around its neck, and can only desperately pull the owner behind to chase the flesh and bones in front. Perhaps, all efforts are in vain, but they cannot stop."

Huang Zhibo was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

"It's nothing funny, because it means that in order to catch up with flesh and bones, Japan will do anything to bite the chain on its neck." Fu Xiubo's expression was very serious, without any intention of joking. "I said earlier that the purpose of the United States is only to weaken us, after all, the United States needs the cheap goods we provide. For a long time in the future, the United States will need us to participate in globalization. According to my point of view, the biggest variable is not Japan, but India. If India can solve its own problems, such as national education, then it will replace us in twenty years, perhaps thirty years. When we become insignificant, the United States will take action against us."

"So, we have to curb India."

"We have to stop India. Before we gain the strength to challenge the United States, we have to keep an eye on India, causing trouble for India, so that India cannot replace our position in globalization." Fu Xiubo glanced at Huang Zhibo and said, "It's just the most urgent issue, not how to curb India. After all, we still have enough time, and we have a natural advantage on the South Asia issue. For us, the most urgent thing at the moment is to eliminate the threat from Japan. Japan is not the United States, and Japan's purpose is not to weaken us, but to completely eliminate us.

This will cause disaster to the global economic system, but it is much better than letting us destroy globalization. In fact, the United States is very clear about Japan's strategic intentions, so it has never relaxed its supervision of Japan before the Second Korean War. On some strategic issues, it even deliberately suppressed Japan, so that Japan could not directly threaten us. Now, the situation is different. Our rise is inevitable. The United States has realized that sooner or later we will establish a new economic and trade system to challenge the United States' global hegemony, so the United States has relaxed Japan and made Japan the vanguard."

"Since that's the case, we can't give in."

Fu Xiubo smiled and said, "As the saying goes, beating a dog depends on the owner. The struggle between countries is much more complicated than this. What can we do if we defeat Japan? The current situation is obvious. In the short term, the United States will not fight us face to face, so it needs a helper, and this helper is either Japan or India. At some point, war cannot solve problems, but will create problems."

"But……"

"We have always maintained a restrained attitude on the East China Sea issue because inappropriate times, war will make us more passive."

Huang Zhibo exclaimed and did not continue to sing a stage drama with Fu Xiubo.

"Last year, I visited Japan in a low position and invited the Japanese Prime Minister to visit again, hoping to stabilize Japan and avoid the seriousness of the dispute in the East China Sea. Obviously, my efforts have not received any reward." Fu Xiubo sighed and said, "This is not only the reason for Japan, but also our reasons. General Huang, don't think I don't know. Although you are a soldier, at some point, you have not spoken from the standpoint of a soldier."

Huang Zhibo was stunned, looking extremely surprised, and his heart was filled with anxiety.

"I'm not criticizing you, I'm just trying to pay attention. No matter what, you are the Deputy Chief of Staff, and after Lao Lu's semi-retirement, you are fully responsible for the General Staff. As a trust in you, I even helped you suppress the Ministry of National Defense. Don't help others when dealing with problems."

"First of the People, what you said..."

"The pension funds that Sheng Shiping has built will benefit you very much, right?"

Huang Zhibo was startled and immediately said, "First of the People's Republic of China, I didn't know about this before. If I had known it, I wouldn't have..."

Fu Xiubo smiled and said, "As the supreme commander of the army, it is my responsibility to seek benefits for the soldiers, but I can't do it."

Hearing this, Huang Zhibo breathed a little relieved.

After the Second Korean War, Sheng Shiping joined forces with several businessmen who invested in North Korea to create a "public welfare fund for casualties for soldiers". He himself invested 20 billion yuan, and other merchants raised 80 billion yuan to provide 7 billion yuan in pensions to the families of the fallen soldiers and disabled soldiers every year.

When Sheng Shiping did this, he did not communicate with the military.

His motive was also very simple. After all, it was the volunteer soldiers who bleed and sacrificed on the battlefield who helped them open up the North Korean market and let them make a lot of money in North Korea. Although seven billion yuan a year is not a small amount of money, it is nothing compared to the profits they made in North Korea later.

Of course, Sheng Shiping did more than that.

When Huang Zhibo was carrying out disarmament, he also used similar means to fund hundreds of thousands of retired officers and soldiers through public welfare funds to study and master living skills. In addition, in terms of unit employment, enterprises under Shengshiping's name give priority to recruiting qualified retired soldiers.

Huang Zhibo knew all these things and made great efforts.

Of course, Fu Xiubo also knew that he did not intervene. The reason is very simple. There are too many places that require money, and the country cannot take care of everything. The spontaneous power of the people has solved many problems for the government, and it has not allowed the government to spend a penny. Why not do it?
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