Poison has become the killer weapon of the United States, and it is not necessary to destroy the country and kill people
In the 7th century BC, the Duke of Qi Huan wanted to dominate the princes. At the suggestion of Bao Shuya, he took the initiative to invite Guan Zhong to go out of the mountain to assist him in governing the country. Based on the theory that the economic base determines the superstructure, Guan Zhong proposed that only by making the country rich can the country have enough strong troops to achieve the goal of hegemony.
Duke Huan of Qi listened to his advice and finally succeeded in dominating the princes. Guan Zhong's wisdom and theories had a profound impact on the history of the Qi State and even the entire Warring States Period.
In order to promote economic development, Guan Zhong adopted a series of strategies to attract businessmen to invest, and at the same time he summed up a commodity law: "If there are more goods, it is cheap, if there are few goods, it will be expensive, if it is expensive, if it is expensive, if it is cheap, if it is cheap, if it is cheap, it will be gathered."
Relying on this law, Guan Zhong successfully launched a ** war against the surrounding countries, and defeated the Lu and Chu states without moving a single soldier. History is always strikingly similar, many years later, when the United States wanted to weaken Chile's Allende's influence in the world, it borrowed from Guan Zhong's clever plan and launched a war against Chile.
So, how does Guan Zhong skillfully use this rule? What kind of economic sanctions did the United States impose on other countries after learning from it?
Guan Zhong, a famous politician of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period, was highly praised by Bao Shuya for his talents. Guan Zhong came from a prominent background, his ancestors were the descendants of King Mu of Zhou, and it stands to reason that he should live a rich life, but due to his family's middle down, his life in his youth was very poor.
In order to make a living, he partnered with Bao Shuya to do business, traveled all over the world, and accumulated rich social experience. After Duke Qi Huan ascended the throne, he urgently needed to find a talented person to assist him, and Uncle Bao recommended Guan Zhong, saying that he was the only one who could help Qi dominate.
At present, Qi has insufficient troops and cannot solve it by force, and should adopt a commercial strategy to win. ”
Qi Huan Gong was quite interested in Guan Zhong's proposal and asked the reason. Guan Zhong explained that the people of Lu and Liang were good at weaving silk, and if the king could order his courtiers to wear silk clothes, then the people would follow suit, which eventually led to silk clothes
Qi Huan Gong followed his advice, and the whole country began to wear silk clothes. As a result, as Guan Zhong expected, there was soon a situation where supply exceeded demand, and **also substantially**.
Although Qi Huan Gong didn't know Guan Zhong's plan, he still chose to believe in him out of trust in him. After reaching a certain level, Guan Zhong also arranged for businessmen to trade with Lu and Liang.
The way of managing the middle, the way of doing business. As long as the merchant is willing to send the goods to the Qi State, the Qi State will give a good return. When the merchants of Luliang and Liang heard this, they were all overjoyed and sent their domestic goods to Qi.
In order to make huge profits, the people of Luliang and Liang gave up planting grain and devoted themselves to the weaving industry. Over time, the agriculture of the two countries was deserted, and they needed to rely on imports from other countries.
Food is a necessity of life, and when it is scarce, life is threatened. However, silk is only a silk fabric, and without this fabric, the Qi people can still wear other clothes.
At a time when Qi was vigorously planting grain and Lu and Liang were weaving silk with all their might, Guan Zhong had already achieved victory.
Guan Zhong waited for the time to be ripe, approached the Duke of Qi Huan, and suggested that he issue a new order to the people of Qi State, prohibiting them from wearing silk clothes anymore and changing them to clothes made of other fabrics.
At the same time, Guan Zhong also ordered his subordinates to stop importing silk to Luliang and Liang, and to export grain. Soon after, there was a famine in the two countries, and because the grain had a growing season, even if they realized that it was someone else's trick, they could not do anything about it.
In order to survive, they had to flee to other countries. At this time, the country of Qi, which is full of food, lowers the grain ** and attracts the people. As a result, the state of Qi absorbed about 60% of the people of the two countries in Lu and Liang in a war-free manner.
After a few years of ancient agriculture, the national strength of Qi became stronger and stronger, but the two countries of Lu and Liang were declining day by day, and Qi successfully eliminated the great trouble of these two countries. After establishing its hegemony, the southern power of Chu did not approve of this, and the military attache of Qi Huan suggested using force to deter, but Guan Zhong believed that direct war was not conducive to Qi.
Qi and Chu are both big countries, and if they really fight, the outcome is unpredictable, and they may even exhaust the strength of Qi and lose the hegemony of the Central Plains. In order to convince the kings of various countries, Guan Zhong formulated a plan to "buy deer and make Chu".
Guan Zi records that Guan Zhong once ordered people to mint a large number of copper coins, and then sent more than 100 merchants to secretly go to Chu to buy a large number of deer. Due to the abundant deer resources of Chu at that time, buyers could buy a deer with only two copper coins, so after learning the news that King Qi did not hesitate to buy deer, the people of Chu also grabbed deer and sold them to Chu merchants.
With the decrease of deer resources in Chu State, the ** of deer has gradually reached the ** of 40 copper coins. Seeing the high profits from selling deer, the people of Chu began to raise deer, but the king of Chu did not care about this, and even proudly thought that it was his luck to exchange the rich deer resources of Chu for the gold coins that Qi relied on for survival.
During the Warring States Period, Chu's sword-coin economy lasted only a year, and then fell into a shortage of grain and copper coins. At this time, the state of Chu was embattled and isolated.
In order to change this situation, the king of Chu decided to submit to Qi and signed the "Zhaoling Alliance", recognizing the supremacy of Qi, promising to obey Qi's orders and no longer conflict with Qi.
Although there was no bloodshed in this war, the economic foundation of the Chu state was completely destroyed by a clever merchant and became his defeated men.
Guan Zhong, a miracle of business talent, applied economic concepts to politics and military, expanded the influence of Qi State, and realized his promise to Qi Huan Gong. The economic sanctions strategy is simple and effective, and it remains the same even after thousands of years.
Americans appreciate this very much. In the 80s, Japan's manufacturing industry developed rapidly, with excellent product quality and low exchange rate, which was welcomed by the whole world.
The United States used a cunning ploy against Japan, and this was the Plaza Accord. In 1985, the United States more than tripled Japan's exchange rate, leading to a rapid increase in the purchasing power of the Japanese.
The Japanese began to buy real estate and other valuables in large quantities, and the manufacturing industry gradually faded into obscurity and was replaced by a boom in the real estate market. At its peak, housing prices in Japan were even comparable to those in North America.
While the Japanese were basking in the joy of buying a home, the development of the manufacturing industry came to a standstill. The United States used this method of price gouging to eventually burst the bubble of false prosperity in Japan, causing the collapse of the Japanese economy.
This strategy is the same as the strategy used by Guan Zhong against Lu and Liang, which is to cause the economic collapse of the enemy country by raising prices. When a country's economy collapses, failure is not far away.
Both the United States and Japan have historically used similar tactics to successfully contain the economic lifelines of other countries. In the 70s of the last century, Chile repeatedly contradicted the United States in foreign policy, causing dissatisfaction with the United States.
In order to prevent further losses, the United States resorted to economic means to hit Chile. They spent a lot of money on Chile's copper mines and increased their investment when copper prices went crazy.
After the copper price increase, the United States quickly shorted the copper market and successfully controlled Chile's economic lifeline by economic means.
Chilean copper minesChileans thought that copper prices** could bring prosperity, but they did not expect that behind this was a US conspiracy. The economy has been hit by inflation and unemployment has risen, and the United States has taken advantage of Chile's economic crisis to cut off Chile's international loans**.
The real goal of the United States is to strike at Allende Chile and make him abandon his hostile policy towards the United States. The United States issued unfavorable remarks against Allende in Chile, which made the people dissatisfied with him and took to the streets** to demand Allende**.
Soon Allende lost his political capital and fell into the trap of the United States.
America's killer strategy doesn't work all the time. With the improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, the amount of China and the United States has increased year by year, and the United States has begun to exert pressure on China, implement double standards, and launch a war.
There is constant friction between China and the United States, and the relationship between the two countries is becoming increasingly tense. It is impossible to try to use China's ancient tactics against the Chinese and let China fall into a trap like Japan and Chile.
As the world's second-largest economy, China is far more resilient than Americans expected.
The pursuit of China and the United States in the first war is fundamentally different. China has always appeared on the international stage as a peaceful and courteous image, and our goal is to achieve peaceful development and common prosperity, while the development policy of the United States is obviously exclusive, and they want to establish global hegemony at the expense of the interests of other countries.
In the face of US repression and threats, we must remain vigilant and improve our competitiveness and innovation capabilities. We believe that with the correct guidance of the country and the United States, as well as the joint efforts of all the people, China's economic prospects will certainly be brighter, and the dream of US hegemony will eventually be broken.
In the face of challenges, we need to have Allende's courage and wisdom, not the false prosperity of Japan's bubble economy.