Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

The main companies that control the industrial areas in the northeastern United States include the Boston Consortium, the Mellon Consortium, the DuPont Consortium, etc.

The losses caused by the bombing simply made the hearts of these consortiums bleed. Richard, the patriarch of the Mellon family, even suffered a sudden heart attack and was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

"Destroying people's wealth is like killing their parents." Just when these consortiums were filled with indignation and clamoring for revenge through gnashed teeth, terrible news came that the Germans were about to bomb the western industrial area and the southern industrial area.

This frightened the rest of the consortium. They were as anxious as ants on a hot pot and first asked whether the military had the ability to intercept the next German bombing. The answer they received was that they had not yet.

After cursing the consortium for raising a bunch of trash for a long time, they got another news. The Germans said that as long as the United States paid some money, they could postpone the bombing, and 500 tons of gold could be postponed for a month.

If all the major consortiums were combined, what else could they do? Although 500 tons of gold was not a small amount, it was nothing compared to the losses caused by the bombing.

Soon, the parliament agreed to the humiliating condition of "paying money to save your life."

That evening, Yannick came to Queen Elizabeth's ward to visit her, and Anne hurried in after a while. "Your Highness, the Americans have agreed to deliver gold. They have to hand over 1,500 tons of gold."

"..." Queen Elizabeth on the side was confused. Didn't the Americans return more than 1,800 tons of gold seized from France last time? Why pay another 1,500 tons?

Yannick raised an eyebrow. "Oh? 1,500 tons? That's three months. Are they sure they will intercept our high-altitude bombing in three months?" If the Americans still have a way to intercept it after three months, he will double the amount and increase it to one month. 1,000 tons! "How are they going to deliver it?"

Annie replied. "Sent via Spain."

After Anne left, Queen Elizabeth finally couldn't help being curious and asked. "Why did the Americans hand over another 1,500 tons of gold?" Isn't this crazy? Are you so willing to help your enemy?

Yannick explained casually. "Because the new weapons we invested this time can paralyze the power system in large areas, you also know how terrible it would be if the world lost power. We used this kind of weapon to bomb the northeastern United States a few days ago. In the industrial area, they were threatened by the bombing of the western industrial area and the southern industrial area. If they didn’t want to be bombed again, they would have to pay, 500 tons of gold a month. No, the Americans would have to pay three months’ worth.”

"..." After hearing these words, Queen Elizabeth frowned slightly. She couldn't figure it out. Just for a small profit, she let go of the opportunity to severely damage the United States? This doesn’t seem like the Crown Prince’s style!

Yannick seemed to see through her thoughts and smiled. "I also want to send the United States back to the Stone Age in one fell swoop, but the craftsmanship and production difficulty of this thing are second only to alchemy. What I dropped this time is the entire production of the past few months, and there is nothing left. So even if the Americans If I don’t pay, I won’t be able to bomb them again in a short time. Fortunately, the Americans are afraid.”

Yannick felt so happy that he got 1,500 tons of gold from the Americans for nothing. This time was different from the 1,800 tons of gold last time. Last time, it was originally the French gold, so it was understandable for the Americans to hand it over, and this Once upon a time is truly America’s own gold.

As for why he is so obsessed with gold, he completely learned it from the United States in the original time and space.

After World War II, as the world's largest economic power and the only country that was not devastated by the war, the Americans became a well-deserved economic and financial leader. The entire capitalist world, including the Soviet Union, had to look to the United States.

The Americans therefore established a monetary system in which gold was used as the method of international settlement, the U.S. dollar was pegged to gold, and the currencies of various countries were pegged to the U.S. dollar. This was the famous "Bretton Woods system."

Since then, the U.S. dollar has had the same value as gold and has become the world's currency. Of course, although the U.S. dollar seems to be equivalent to gold, it cannot replace gold, because gold is a hard currency and is necessary to maintain the stability of a country's currency and conduct transactions in emergencies. In other words, without the support of gold, the national currency is useless paper. In many cases, international transactions can only use gold.

Therefore, countries are constantly hoarding gold.

But after World War II, the United States monopolized the international gold market. The United States’ gold reserves accounted for 69% of the world’s gold reserves. Whether you were selling or buying gold, you had to go to the United States and could only transport gold to the United States.

At the same time, if you want to trade in U.S. dollars, you have to pay a "margin" to the United States. As a support and credit certificate for a country's currency and transactions, gold is the most important margin. Putting gold in a U.S. treasury is considered a kind of mortgage, so many countries It is also helpless to transport domestic gold to American treasury.

In addition, there are many small countries that are forced to ship gold to the United States due to political and other factors. In this way, the entire world's gold flows to the United States, and New York has become the world's largest gold trading center. Most of the world's gold transactions are completed in the U.S. trading market.

Since the transportation and storage of bulk gold is very inconvenient and unsafe, in order to save costs and convenience, various countries store gold in US vaults, and the United States performs delivery during transactions.

This kind of delivery is very simple. It can be transported directly from one country's treasury to another. Sometimes the room is not even changed, but only an account is recorded, thus eliminating the need for transactions and reserves. Trouble.

In this way, all countries are tied to the U.S. gold market by the United States.

In the 1970s, the Bretton Woods system in the United States collapsed and countries no longer had to fulfill their monetary obligations, so some countries wanted to ship gold back.

But the Americans have a monopoly on the world's gold market and are used to being domineering. If other countries want it, they won't give it. They use various excuses to shirk it. No one can afford to offend the United States, and gold transactions have to be carried out in the United States, so they can only Continue to watch gold lie in America's vaults. The United States used this gold to manipulate the price of gold in the international gold market and shorn other countries' wool through gold transactions. Countries knew they were suffering losses but could not say anything.

The euro, which is linked to gold, is also on this path. Now the German treasury has gathered gold from all EU countries. Together with the gold extorted from the United States this time, the storage volume exceeds an astonishing 10,000 tons, accounting for the current total of all gold in the world. More than half of the amount.

Yannick was not satisfied with this. He sent a large number of people to various parts of Africa to mine gold; especially in South Africa, almost predatory mining, this year's output reached nearly 1,000 tons.