China and the UK are friendly and cooperative on the surface, but secretly they are deeply hostile because China wants to compete for world hegemony, while Britain wants to maintain world hegemony. The core interests of both sides are irreconcilable, so they are actively preparing for the next war.

In the past decade, Britain was seriously harmed by Li Weiguo's illegal banknotes, and the British pound depreciated significantly. The counterfeit currency seriously damaged Britain's finance and economy, resulting in a large-scale outflow of wealth such as gold and silver accumulated over the years in Britain and was plundered by Li Weiguo.

The British government has stepped up its crackdown on counterfeit currency, but the temptation of counterfeit currency is too great, because the pound forged by Li Weiguo can almost be faked and real, with a simulation degree of up to 90%. Ordinary British citizens cannot see through it, and the problem can only be discovered by obtaining the bank's verification and code.

This made the British government very troubled, and eventually forced the British government to reduce the circulation of paper money and instead minted gold and silver coins with large denominations, and replaced paper money that was easily forged. This greatly affected the British currency market. After all, many transactions require a large amount of currency. Holding coins weighing dozens of kilograms is obviously not as light as paper money, which caused complaints from British citizens.

In order to avoid the losses caused by violations, many British chambers of commerce had to give up the pound and switch to internationally trusted foreign currencies as transactions and reserve currencies. The strength of the RMB has always been linked to gold and is trustworthy. Therefore, many British chambers of commerce have gradually begun to use RMB for offshore transactions, which invisibly hit the pound, causing the RMB to continuously swallow up the international first currency, which was originally the pound, and become the world's common currency.

This is exactly the result that Li Weiguo wants to see. When one day the RMB becomes the only strong currency in the world, and when countries around the world are incorporating RMB into foreign exchange reserves, the RMB will dominate the world's currency market, and China will kidnap the world. Whenever there is a shortage of money, start the printing machine and let countries around the world pay.

This is the American practice in later generations. Now Li Weiguo is also following his example and is getting closer to success step by step.

The currency war between China and the UK was quietly going on. This time, Li Weiguo did not launch a currency war against other European and American countries. It was just targeting Britain, with the purpose of eased relations with other European and American countries. Even if he could not win over these European and American countries to deal with Britain with China, at least let these European and American countries understand. China only targets Britain, not other countries. Any rational country understands that it should not intervene in the game between China and the UK, otherwise it will cause trouble. Neutrality is the best choice.

The secret struggle between China and Britain is not only reflected in the level of currency war, but also the industrial warfare kicked off.

After the blast furnace steelmaking invented by China, Britain was not willing to lag behind, and replaced the steelmaking blast furnace on a large scale, increased steel production, lowered steel export prices, and competed internationally with China's steel.

However, the British found it sadly that when the end of the month approached, the British government happily announced that the British steel production this month increased by 10% year-on-year compared with last year, reaching 700,000 tons. As a result, the China Department of Audit (Auth Office) soon announced that China's steel production that month increased by 20% year-on-year compared with last year, reaching 1 million tons.

As early as 1869, China's total steel production actually exceeded that of Britain. It was just that Britain was vain at that time that it was a disaster and refused to admit it. It thought that Britain would definitely increase its steel production in a few years and get rid of China's several streets.

As a result, a few years have passed, and the UK has indeed greatly increased its steel production. However, it has failed to realize its desire to open several streets in China, but has been left behind by China several streets.

The island country in Britain is a bit too big, with limited resources, although it can be transported back to raw materials from overseas colonies for processing and production. Unfortunately, Britain has a small population and limited labor force, so its production capacity is naturally limited.

In contrast, China's land area has been expanding in recent years, reaching 15.76 million square kilometers, surpassing Tsarist Russia to become the largest country in the world. It has a large land area and abundant resources, and seven major industrial bases have been completed and put into production. Steel production and iron production are setting new records every month. In addition, it is not surprising that the explosion of production capacity has increased.

The British government was dissatisfied and repeatedly lowered steel export prices to compete with China for international steel market share. As a result, China was slapped in the face because China's sharply increased steel production capacity, on the one hand, met the consumption of domestic construction, and on the other hand, it invested a large amount of money in the international steel market.

China's steel is made of local materials, and the cost of mining and transportation is low, while Britain has to transport ore back from overseas colonies for processing, so the cost is naturally high. At the same time, China's steel mills use advanced steelmaking methods, and the steel quality exceeds that of the British carburized steel technology and Germany's Krupp steel technology. The steel produced is of the highest quality and has been recognized by countries around the world, making China's steel win market recognition for its good quality and low price and high cost performance.

Under such circumstances, Britain's steel competitiveness has deteriorated and after competing with China's steel price, it suffered a great loss.

When the Chinese government launched a price war against the UK, international steel prices dropped sharply, and British steel mills with high costs suffered heavy losses. In less than half a year, many private small and medium-sized British steel mills were forced to close down and even go bankrupt.

Of course, the steel price war between China and Britain also caused steel factories in other countries in the world to be very hurt. France, Italy, Russia and other countries, which are weaker than the British steel technology, also suffered heavy losses. However, the rise of steel in Germany and the United States emerged.

Because Germany formed a strategic alliance with China, some of China's advanced steel technology were transferred to Germany. In addition, Germany itself had Krupp steel technology, so it smelted good steel to survive the Sino-British steel price war.

In addition to being inferior to China in technology and without China's advanced steelmaking technology, the United States is comparable to China to some extent, because the United States itself is a resource-rich country, with centralized and easy-to-mine iron ore and coal mine divisions, and its production costs are even lower than those of China, so it survived this steel price war.

As a result, a Sino-British steel price war ultimately caused Britain to lose three liters of blood, and China won the victory, but it also gave Germany and the United States a chance to rise.

This made Li Weiguo unexpected, but he didn't take it seriously. He had some solutions.

Soon, the Chinese government, based on its status as the leader in the steel world, began a car price war.

At this time, all countries began to study internal combustion engines and manufacture various cars, but overall they were not as good as those made by China because some key technologies and resources could not be mastered.

For example, Chinese automobile cylinder engines, bearings and other materials use China's most advanced special steel materials, and even tungsten carbide, nickel-chromium alloy and other elements are added. This kind of steel cannot be produced abroad. The rubber used in automobile tires. Although there are many kinds of rubbers around the world, Western countries have also looked for many kinds of rubber trees, but they cannot meet the standards for automobile tires. They all think that China's rubber comes from the natural rubber trees in Luzon (Philippines), but they don't know that the real primitive rubber trees come from the Brazilian tropical rainforest. Li Weiguo deliberately made the whole world think that automobile tires can only use Luzon rubber trees, making various countries play around.

In this way, China lowered the steel prices on the one hand, but did not directly export steel, and instead supported the production of the national automobile industry. The cost of automobile production decreased, but the sales price of automobiles rose, making huge profits in the middle, which made foreign automobile peers envious and jealous, and had to import various engines, bearings, tires and other components from China.

At the same time, when China and the UK recognize patent rights, the British suddenly found that they suffered a great loss. They used to think that the Chinese would not create, but could only copy the inventions of the British. For this reason, the British government tried every means to sign a patent protection treaty with China. As a result, they found that they were just self-defeating, such as the invention and design patent rights of various parts of the automobile. Li Weiguo took out some classic automobile design plans in history to apply for patents first, which made the Chinese automobile industry shine, and the British could only envy but not copy it, which was so anxious that they felt so distressed.

Seeing that China's automobile industry monopolizes the world market, golden and white hard currency continues to flow into the Chinese pockets, countries around the world are envious and jealous. Except for Britain, no country seems to dare to confront China. Because China has strong military strength, it defeated Britain three times, France, the United States and Russia once each, this record has been recognized as a military power by the whole world. No country is willing to provoke a military power, so it can only cooperate with China.

Of course, Li Weiguo's tactics were very successful, with a big stick in one hand and a sweet date in the other. While oppressing other countries in the military, he did not forget to give them some benefits. For example, strengthening economic and trade and military cooperation. Through bilateral trade and mutual acquisition of needs, and through military cooperation, exporting weapons and equipment to these countries. China** has strong factual strength, and many world-class advanced weapons and equipment have undergone actual combat tests, so many countries recognize it. In addition, Germany imported weapons and equipment on a large scale from China, which played a very good leading role. Each country has its own national interests and has not stood the United Kingdom as the hegemon for many years. It has been engaged in military cooperation with China and improves its own national defense capabilities, which itself agrees with the core interests of various countries.

Therefore, China's bait for economic, trade and military trade quickly attracted the attention of many European and American countries, allowing them to not choose sides between China and the UK and remain neutral.

China has made a comprehensive attack in military, science and technology, politics, economy and other aspects, and has increased military export approvals to allow more Western countries to purchase China's weapons and equipment. Of course, the foreign trade version cannot be better than the ones used by the Chinese Shence Army, but it is enough to lure Western countries.

Some export restrictions have been lifted in science and technology. Some civilian technologies that do not affect China's world's technological hegemony are allowed to be exported, but they will sign technology agreements with Western countries and are not allowed to be transferred to the UK. For Western countries, each has their own national interests, so they will naturally not easily leak technology to the UK.

Politically, the Chinese government guaranteed Western countries that as long as they were not hostile to China, there would be no violations of money to attack the financial markets of these countries. This guarantee is very important for Western countries, because they personally experienced the huge impact of violations of money to their countries, so they all expressed that they would never be enemies with China.

In terms of economy, China will open up domestic markets with other countries and reduce import and export tariffs. China will open the onshore and maritime Silk Roads and strengthen economic and trade relations between countries along the route. With railway cooperation as the focus, China will build railways along the onshore Silk Road. China will provide wholly-owned, accounting for 60% of the shares and enjoy 99-year operating rights. Countries along the route are responsible for transferring ownership of land along the route and demolition work, enjoying 40% of the shares.

Through these means, China will maintain friendly relations with most countries in the world except the United Kingdom. Although these countries cannot turn to China in a short period of time, as long as they do not turn to Britain.

As a result, China and Britain began fierce competition and competition on the international stage. From economy to military, from technology to politics, China and Britain used diplomatic means to launch a war without gunpowder.

However, in the nineteenth century, other means were second. The final outcome depends on the military capabilities of both sides. Whoever has the biggest fist is the winner.

China and Britain, and even other countries, believe in this.

The whole world is focusing on the development direction and equipment of China and Britain. The naval arms race between China and Britain has been underway, and this cycle is shrinking. In the past, the navies of China and Britain were developing and designing, and the service cycle of shipbuilding was five years. But now, the navies of both sides are competing every year.

For example, last year, three battleships in the Chinese Navy began laying keels, so Britain quickly got news that it started construction of six battleships of the same level in a few months, almost twice or three times the number.

Britain is a powerful naval power with many shipyards, strong shipbuilding capabilities, and the ocean area controlled by it is far more than China. It is a global navy, so the number of warships needed is naturally much more than that of the Chinese navy. What's more, the British navy was defeated in the Battle of Huangyan Island, and was afraid of the Chinese navy and even more necessary to increase the number of warships.

Li Weiguo knew the thinking of the British Navy best, so when he learned that Britain had started construction of more warships, the Chinese Navy quickly started construction of warships in the second year following, forcing the British Navy to invest more funds and manpower to build more warships again, hoping to drag down Britain's finances and economy.

Fearing that the British Navy would not follow the film, Li Weiguo specifically instructed the Chinese Navy to hold a press conference to disclose some data, and at the same time deliberately allowed some British spies to obtain some so-called "confidential" intelligence to stimulate the British Navy to build more targeted warships.

Li Weiguo is not afraid of engaging in a comprehensive arms race with Britain, but is afraid that Britain will not follow it. As long as Britain takes the bait, there will be a chance to make Britain suffer a big loss.
Chapter completed!