Technological Hegemony

In the dark starry sky, a fleet that looks quite old and is composed of old-style starships is sailing slowly.

Located in the flagship command center, Fleet Commander Mel, with a look of surprise and greed on his face, was stunned at a blue planet full of vitality.

"It's such a good place, the temperature is right, there is plenty of water, and there are lush green plants like a garden."

"The mineral deposits seem to be less, but it doesn't matter. It can be obtained from nearby asteroids. It also has a satellite with good quality, which can just be used as a base."

Captain Mel kept muttering, full of praise for this planet called Earth, it seemed that he liked everything on Earth, mountains, rivers, trees, but he did not mention the human beings living here, as if in his eyes , the earthlings who lived here for generations, they are not important, and they are not worth mentioning at all.

"In this world, high-quality resources are always scarce. A habitable planet with A-level quality is like a peerless beauty. Any man with normal physiological functions will want her."

"How far are we from this place called Earth?" Mel asked Kent, his deputy.

"About nine months' voyage."

After carefully calculating the optimal route for the voyage, Kent answered in the affirmative. He graduated from the Imperial Expeditionary Academy with impressive graduation results.

"It's too slow." Mel waved his hand dissatisfied, "The main fleet can't arrive in a while, so let the scouting teams scattered around go to Earth first to plant the flag of the empire."

Kent frowned deeply after listening to the captain's words, with worry on his face.

Mel's fleet is actually very similar to the Black Sword, representing their respective strengths, searching and expanding overseas.

Some searches are purposeful. For example, Black Sword went to Shimmering Star County to find quantum civilization or their remnants. As the brightest existence among the stars, if the energy civilization where Black Sword is located can obtain some technological essence of quantum civilization, Undoubtedly, it will greatly improve its own strength.

With all civilizations in decline, if the energy civilization revives first, it may become the next overlord of the stars similar to the mechanical civilization. Of course, the energy civilization will never be as stupid as the mechanical civilization. world.

In short, after the ruin and decline of civilization, all the remaining civilizations, countries, forces, pirates, and free people's bases are trying to expand.

"The closest to the earth is the patrol ship Worker Ant led by Captain Nidro,

If he was ordered to turn now, the Worker Ant could reach Earth in three months. "Kent said very hesitantly.

"Why this expression? Is there any problem?" Mel looked at Kent puzzled.

Kent pondered for a moment and said: "The Worker Ant has only one patrol ship and a crew of 128, and Nidero is very aggressive, and his reputation in the fleet is not very good, so..."

Hahahaha~

Mel laughed out loud after hearing what Kent said.

"According to the information we have, the civilization of the earth is still at a very low stage. The people on earth are like a group of ants, and it is impossible to cause any harm to us. I am a little worried about this guy Nedro. After occupying the earth, will he Wanton massacre, killing a large number of earthlings..."

"After all, in today's absence of robots, labor is a very precious existence, and the value of billions of slaves is equally astonishing."

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"Arise, you who will not be slaves..."

After Luo Jia got up, he just opened the window of the bedroom when he heard the national anthem being played not far away from the flag raising of Binjiang Elementary School.

Strange to say, Luo Jia’s feelings towards the national anthem have always changed as he grew older. For a while, when he was young, he would refuse to sing the national anthem loudly when the national flag was hoisted to show his rebellion. Later, when he grew up, The more he understands the truth, the song is also in his heart, and it gradually becomes thicker, so that he often has the urge to burst into tears.

Breakfast is dumplings again, soaked in hot water to heat up, served with milk and a few refreshing side dishes, the daily necessities of the richest man in the world seem to be no different from ordinary people.

Every weekend when he came home, his mother always took out two packs of dumplings made by himself and asked Luo Jia to take them back to the meditation center, so he often used dumplings as his breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper, which seemed a little monotonous, but Since it was wrapped by her mother herself, Luo Jia couldn't bear to waste it anyway, so she had no choice but to do so.

Log in to the secret website as usual, check to see if my two little brothers have posted a post asking for help, if so, make an appointment for the next meeting, and start today's work and study without changing.

Everything seems to be going well. Heijian is still searching in the Shimmer Star County. It will take a long time to complete this task. Even if he cannot find the quantum civilization, he will have to re-explore the star map. Interstellar travel is always like this. Long journeys of months or even years have long been commonplace.

And Lan Yu has returned from the water-shaped civilization, and the repaired frigate Bafang Feiyu has greatly boosted Lan Yu's confidence. He continues to live alone in the territory, and plans to travel next time to visit the nearby free people's planet.

I heard that although there is a lack of order, there is another kind of chaotic beauty. For the plant civilization that has always followed the rules, adjectives such as chaos, restlessness, and barbarism can always arouse their great curiosity.

No new messages, everything was as usual. After Luo Jia returned from the secret network, he went to the front yard to attend the regular meeting of the management authority. After the regular meeting was over, he began to study and think for today. After reading books related to finance for a while, he took out the whiteboard and wrote on it. Write two big Chinese characters, US Dollar, with an ink pen.

As we all know, one of the five global hegemonies is called financial hegemony, and financial hegemony can be subdivided into many small hegemonies, such as bank hegemony, insurance hegemony, gold hegemony, stock hegemony, etc., the most important of which is undoubtedly the dollar hegemony .

According to the data provided by the official website of the Federal Reserve, the production cost of the $1 banknote is the lowest at 5.5 cents, the production cost of the $100 banknote is the highest at 14.3 cents, and the cost of the other denominations is in the middle.

It can be seen that printing U.S. dollars is really profitable, not to mention that with the development of technology, most U.S. dollars in the world no longer need to be printed and have become electronic currencies. The Fed only needs to fill in a number in the computer. up.

In fact, the fact that the Federal Reserve randomly fills in a number in the computer is not terrible in itself. What is terrible is that seven billion people in the world are willing to pay for the hegemony of the dollar.

Money is different from money. Zimbabwe once issued a currency with a denomination of one trillion yuan, but it became the laughing stock of the whole world. If the US dollar was issued one hundred trillion more, the world economy would be ruined in an instant.

For several days in a row, although Luo Jia called it a vacation, he actually studied until late at night every day. According to his straightforward personality, he never thought that finance was more important than tri-titanium alloy, but the financial problem was so complicated. It can't be solved.

Mercantilism, liberalism, classicism, Keynesianism, countless economic schools and financialism, put forward countless opinions and opinions, it is really a very frustrating thing.

And most people don't know the fact that finance and economics are actually different.

Economics is a social science. The tax rate, how to allocate resources, which commodities need to be controlled and which can be released, all belong to the category of economics research.

Finance is a business subject, which focuses on analyzing and researching the financial market, how to price financial products, develop new financial products in order to obtain benefits, and so on.

After a period of research, Luo Jia came up with an absurd and bold idea. Perhaps what he was facing was not a question of fighting for financial hegemony, but a question of whether or not finance was needed in this world.