Chapter 378 This Opponent is Different
Hydson nodded and said, "That's what I told Stepan, too."
"But now there is a problem."
"In order to purchase that batch of chips, the broadcasting cost a huge amount of money."
The Eagle King said casually: "Isn't it just some green paper?"
"If it's wasted, it's wasted."
"The subsidies that broadcasters receive are much more than that."
"But they didn't buy the chips on green paper," Heiderson said.
"It's the RMB I got from the black market."
"Besides, the exchange rate of green paper for RMB in the black market is much lower than that in the regular market."
Green paper is depreciating rapidly.
Now it’s basically different every day.
曾经在70年代末到80年代初，软妹币官面上兑绿纸是1:1左右。但黑市上差不多已经飙涨到了10:1左右。
This fully shows that during that period, the dragon needed the giant eagle more. Green paper was more popular in the eyes of the dragon people.
Moreover, many of the elites of the Dragon at that time were proud to be able to study abroad, travel, and even buy Giant Eagle products in Giant Eagle.
Many people go to their place.
Then you need to exchange it for green paper.
This caused the exchange rate of green paper on the black market to soar to an outrageous level.
But what now?
Now the offense and defense have basically changed.
The dragon's economic development is booming.
The Giant Eagle, on the other hand, is in a downward spiral.
In this situation, the dragon's money is naturally becoming more and more popular.
Because you can buy almost all the goods from Julong with RMB.
The wares of the dragon are not only better than those of the lizard, but also much cheaper.
Why do most countries in the world still work so hard to earn green paper?
Isn’t it great to earn RMB?
As one thing grows while the other shrinks, won't green paper become obsolete?
The Eagle King frowned and said, "Do we have to use the dragon's chip to develop advanced weapons?"
"Wasn't our chip industry doing well before?"
"How come it suddenly became like this?"
Hydeson said: "Your Majesty, our previous chip companies have basically closed down."
"Because, under the strong competition from Julong products, they basically have no profit to make."
"There are basically no orders for flower-sprinkling girls in China."
“They just can’t hold up.
Eventually, they fell away.”
The Eagle King frowned and said, "Just tell me, do we have our own chip manufacturing company now?"
Hyderson shook his head: "No more."
"From what I understand, none of them are left."
“It’s all gone.”
The Eagle King said angrily: "Why is this happening?"
"Don't we say that we have been subsidizing chip companies?"
"We gave them so many subsidies, and they still collapsed?"
“Who on earth did the huge subsidy go to?”
Hydeson was a little panicked: "I don't know about this either."
“Everything was done according to the original regulations.”
The Eagle King was so angry that his liver was shaking: "These capitalists, how could they do this?"
In fact, in a world dominated by capital, the continued existence of a company that cannot make a profit is an original sin!
This is why we can see that once problems arise for companies in Europe and the United States, they often put the products up for sale.
Sell it a few times and if there is no improvement.
In the end, most of the time, they will close down.
This is completely different from a country like Dragon.
The key industries of the dragon are basically controlled by the state.
For many key enterprises, even if you make a loss, the state will still support you because you are vital.
The Giant Eagle is the opposite.
After the Giant Eagle was dominated by financial tycoons, deindustrialization was accelerated.
They will even eliminate companies that build warships.
Even though a few warship-building companies were retained, many supporting companies had completely gone bankrupt and disappeared in the dust of history.
If the production chain collapses, can you still build ships quickly?
It's impossible, okay!
This is also the main reason why the naval development of the Giant Eagle in the previous life was weak.
"Your Majesty, this is also a normal phenomenon, right?"
“When you work hard on research but can’t make a breakthrough or make a profit in the market.”
"Then the company can only get rid of the burden."
Hyderson said.
The Eagle King smiled bitterly: "But once they get rid of their burden, what should we do now?"
"We have essentially emasculated our entire chip manufacturing industry."
"What's ridiculous is that under these circumstances, we have to work with our friends to blockade Julong's products."
“In the end, we shot ourselves in the foot.”
"Haidson, we are too short-sighted."
Hudson thought, wasn't it you who unleashed the beast of neoliberalism?
Are you complaining now?
But what's the point of complaining?
"Your Majesty, if we want to change the status quo, we must change our own policies."
“We have to tighten controls.”
“We have to have state-owned enterprises.”
"We have to learn from the dragon."
Hedson offered his own solution.
The Eagle King began to hesitate again.
"Oh, so, this doesn't seem so good, right?"
"After all, only liberalism can make our economy more active."
"After all, our situation is not too bad now."
Hydeson: "..."
He didn't know what to say.
What the hell, what do you mean the situation is not that bad?
In the field of high-tech, we are completely behind, okay?
Moreover, we allowed liberalism to allow the financial district to reap the world.
Things are better now. We can no longer reap the world’s profits. Those big sharks have started to reap profits domestically.
Hydson knew that the main reason why Eagle King said this was that he served the Squid Cartel.
The big tycoons supported the actor Eagle King.
Well, of course the Eagle King has to return the favor.
The Eagle King was mad at the Giant Eagle's downfall.
However, in comparison, if it can protect the interests of the financial sponsor, the Eagle King will choose the latter without hesitation.
The Eagle King is nothing more than a running dog of the chaebol.
In fact, no one loves the Giant Eagle or protects the so-called overall interests of the Giant Eagle.
Even if the giant eagle is dead, what does it have to do with me?
As long as my own interests are not seriously harmed, isn’t that fine?
"Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
"We are now in urgent need of completely cutting off trade and cooperation with the dragon. It seems that there is no point anymore."
"And, it seems that we are the only ones who get hurt in the end."
"What do you think we should do?"
The Eagle King said: "Well, then, what do you think we should do?"
Hydeson said: "I'm afraid you will have to make the final decision yourself."
The Eagle King said: "If we can't kill the dragon by blocking it."
"Then I think we can take the approach of engagement."
"Human nature is always prone to depravity." "I think we should use various seed oil-based lifestyles to wear down their will."
“We will continue to buy off their writers and artists.”
“Because these people have a huge influence within them.”
"As long as these people are on our side, then we can change their entire society."
"Finally, overthrow them!"
The Eagle King waved his hand fiercely and said.
Hydson nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise! I also think this method seems to be better."
In fact, Hydeson thought in his heart that this trick might not work.
Because, trying to change the dragon through cultural and public opinion seems to be unrealistic nowadays.
This is mainly because: Julong now has advanced technology, a prosperous economy, and people's self-confidence has been greatly improved.
Julong is a country with a 5,000-year history of civilization!
They have a rich national culture.
This is enough for them to establish strong cultural confidence.
You are a backward giant eagle, why do you think you can change the other party?
Of course, it is easy to bribe a few writers and artists.
However, when the country is strong and the people are happy, the people are highly confident, and the country is highly responsible, what can a few traitors do?
But Hydeson naturally would not object to the idea proposed by the Eagle King.
What's there to object to?
He, Hydeson, couldn't offer any decent suggestions himself.
Then whatever the Eagle King says is the truth.
The Eagle King said: "So, we need to ease the relationship with the dragon!"
"It would be best if both sides could return to the previous state of mutual trust."
"Mr. Hydeson, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you with this matter."
"Yes! I need to call the person in charge of the dragons myself!"
"I want to have a chat about friendship with him! Invite him to come over to Giant Eagle to discuss cooperation."
"I'm going to make some important concessions to him."
"For example, if their companies come here to invest, they can enjoy national treatment."
"Following up, I will send a delegation to talk to them."
"Stop fighting each other, cooperate and do business well, okay?"
Hydeson smiled and said, "Your Majesty, if we take the initiative to show our goodwill, they will definitely agree."
"But what I want to say is: I'm afraid we should be prepared..."
Hydeson still couldn't help but want to tell a few truths.
The Eagle King looked at Hydeson and asked, "What are you preparing for?"
"Be prepared to be second," Hudson said.
The Eagle King shook his head decisively and said, "That's absolutely not possible!"
"Only the overlord can reap the most benefits!"
"If we lose our position as the overlord, we will become even poorer and more destitute! We will lose our future!"
Hydeson said: "Even if we lose our dominant position, we are still a powerful country!"
“We still have a wealth of resources.”
"We can also maintain a strong military capability."
"Now, our business is too big."
"We have troops everywhere, and our forces are very dispersed."
"To be honest, our bases have no deterrent effect at all now that we have declined."
"Instead, they will become hostages of the other side."
"Your Majesty, we should retract."
"If we don't shrink, we won't gather strength."
"I'm afraid we will suffer repeated defeats around the world in the future."
"Our partners will also become increasingly disloyal and will leave us under the pressure and inducement of the other side."
“We’re just going to become more and more reactive.”
"It's much better to take the initiative to shrink early than to be beaten back by others."
Hydeson's words are actually mature and prudent.
It also makes a lot of sense.
When the Giant Eagle was more powerful than ever.
When the opponent is relatively weak.
They can indeed intimidate a region with a small number of troops.
But when they become weaker, their military projection can no longer cover the globe.
Their deterrent power will be lost.
They will become weak.
Those small bases with only a few hundred or a few thousand people will gradually be isolated and driven away.
They will eventually lose face in the face of defeat.
But the problem that the Eagle King is considering now is that the dividends brought by hegemony are too huge.
Under global hegemony, they can plunder other people's resources unscrupulously and even use agents to control other countries.
Their tycoons can reap the wealth of other countries anytime and anywhere.
There are too many such huge unearned benefits.
This made the Giant Eagle's tycoons very fat and prosperous.
To the extent that, they don't want to lose those benefits at all.
How could the Eagle King be willing to retreat on his own initiative?
The chaebol families behind him probably don't want him to shrink either.
Those greedy guys are so crazy and desperate to defend their rights to harvest.
After all, the Eagle King is just an agent they put forward.
The agent must carry out the wishes of the financial backer.
The Eagle King shook his head and said, "It's a bit too early to say that now."
“We’ve been through tougher times before.”
"At that time, the giant bear was extremely powerful and we were at a disadvantage."
“But didn’t we survive?”
In fact, Eagle King had said something similar before.
He was just using these words to cheer himself up, that's all.
Hyderson gave a bitter smile and said, "Your Majesty! The situation is completely different."
"I told you before that even though the giant bear has a certain advantage, its industrial technology is still behind ours."
"It is only slightly stronger than us in terms of military power."
“However, its development is seriously unbalanced.”
"The giant bear doesn't even have any light industry. It can't be self-sufficient in many ways."
"For an opponent like this, it is certainly easier for us to gradually recover by using some means."
"But the dragon is really completely different!"
“Its industry is very comprehensive.”
“It is also ahead of us in scientific research.”
"In this case, as long as it doesn't make any mistakes, we will be left further and further behind them in terms of industrial technology."
"We will also be quickly overtaken by them in the military field!"
"In fact, we are now completely behind them in electronic reconnaissance and electronic jamming."
"Our missiles have also fallen behind theirs."
"We are also lagging behind in fighter planes!"
"In this case, our conventional combat power will be crushed by them."
The Eagle King said viciously: "But we are definitely ahead of them in nuclear weapons!"
"So, they definitely don't dare to start a war with us lightly!"
"If they dare to fight us, we will destroy them with a rain of nuclear bombs!"
Hydson gave a bitter smile and said, "Your Majesty, if that were the case, we would also be destroyed!"
"There are no winners in a nuclear war!"
"Your Majesty, please think twice!"
The Eagle King was stunned.
He just felt that he was ahead of the other side in terms of the number of nuclear weapons, and he thought he could deter the other side. However, if the other side could counterattack and destroy him, then he would not dare to fight back... (End of this chapter)