Chapter 203 The future belongs to us
"In other words, if oil prices don't fall, inflation will inevitably rise?" Xiao Bo's eyes flashed, as if he had found something.
Oil is the mother of inflation and the blood of modern industry.
From agriculture to industry to commerce, whether it is eating, drinking, living or traveling, we cannot do without it.
If this theory is correct, then is this round of inflation really going to last for several years, or even more than ten years, as Li Feng said?
Old Chen took a big sip of tea and swallowed it. He listened to the two people chatting, frowning and thinking. He could hardly keep up with their train of thought.
Li Feng took a sip of tea and said while thinking:
"From today on, my understanding tells me that the price of oil is not just a simple supply and demand issue, nor a simple currency issue, but more importantly a political issue."
"Oil is a weapon, a tool, and a commodity."
“Currency is a medium, a weapon, and a promise.”
"So, we can start with a few basic points and discuss the development of some things from the top down, rather than analyzing things from the bottom up, like blind men touching an elephant. This way, many things will become clear and understandable."
"In fact, it's a contest between two orders now. The US, Europe, and especially the Five Eyes Alliance, want to maintain their position in the food chain and re-establish a cycle that excludes China..."
"And we, Guo Jia, are also working hard to build our own ecological chain and circulation. The means of doing so is the Belt and Road Initiative. On the one hand, we are expanding railways and markets to Southeast Asia... On the other hand, we are bringing our products and influence to the Middle East through Central Asia. And more importantly, we are competing for African markets and resources..."
After a pause, Li Feng continued:
"As the saying goes, those who are righteous have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous have few. Only by uniting the majority through currency and commodities, and binding them together through economics and interests, can we defeat the minority."
"This is also the experience that led to the success of our united front construction back then."
"Now, our Guojia is the world's largest and only country with a complete industrial chain, the largest commodity trading nation, and a well-deserved world factory. It is very necessary to unite, or in other words, 'give back' to those countries at the bottom of the industrial chain, those that mainly export primary products... For example, Russia, the world's gas station, and the Middle East... South America, the land of grain and minerals, and the countries in Africa and Southeast Asia that have developed rapidly in recent years..."
"The means of feeding back is to provide oil, minerals, grain at appropriate prices... and some low-value-added products..."
"The United States, with its hollowed-out industry, now exports not only some high-tech products like chips and software, but also food and oil...but its largest export is the US dollar...Other European countries are even worse off...Besides inheriting historical colonies, they also export some so-called luxury goods...and the automotive industry...
"They have almost nothing to export, or rather, they have no concept of giving back. In their jungle competition mindset, winner takes all. There's no concept of win-win, let alone giving back. Therefore, plundering and cheating are instinctive, which is something many of us don't understand..."
"To put it bluntly, they only care about cutting and digging up leeks, not caring about their life or death, until there are no more leeks left to cut. As a farming nation, we consider win-win situations. Although we have to cut leeks, we still need to carefully care for them, fertilize and water them, and cultivate them for a long time..."
Li Feng spoke while thinking.
Every man loves to discuss this kind of international gossip. After listening for a while, Old Chen couldn't help but interrupt and ask, "So, our Guo Jia is sure to win?"
"I wasn't sure before, but now I can conclude," Li Feng said decisively, "We have simply returned to where we should have been for thousands of years. They should also return to where they should be. Their glory, like the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, was fleeting..."
"Are you so sure?" Xiao Bo couldn't help but ask.
No matter what, the United States is still the undisputed world leader. China and the United States have been competing for decades, and the head-on confrontation has only been less than six years since the trade war in 2018. How come Li Feng is so sure that the winner has been decided?
This is something that many experts and scholars dare not say.
This is also what many experts and scholars dare not believe.
Li Feng glanced at him and knew that he was a little unconvinced.
Indeed, I didn’t dare to believe it or say it a few days ago.
However, the knowledge he gained in the past two days has supported his statement above.
He thought for a moment and explained:
"The long river of history stretches over hundreds of thousands of years, even tens of thousands of years. If you place the Sino-US dispute on the stage of the Sino-Western dispute, and then on the historical stage of the dispute between the Central Plains and the barbarians, everything will suddenly become clear to you."
"They stole our technology, but not our culture."
"Many people say they are a maritime civilization. This is wrong, but perhaps also true. In essence, they are still nomadic, or the hegemonic culture and mindset of a fishing and hunting people. They belong to an uncivilized zero-sum game model... whereas our Guo Jia is an agricultural civilization that has been passed down for thousands, even tens of thousands of years. It is a culture of kingly rule..."
“You can conquer the world right away, but you can’t rule it right away.”
"Look at the British Empire's colonies around the world, the slave trade, pirate culture, and plundering traditions of Western European countries... and then look at the financial colonization of the United States today. Isn't this kind of financial plunder just another form of colonization?"
"Forcing a country to use the US dollar is also another form of tribute, isn't it?"
"In the clash between the culture of kingly and hegemonic rule... How can the United States, which relies on financial colonization to maintain its national system, control the greed of capital? Will it cut off its own roots?
"Which is faster, productive exchange or outright plunder?"
"I believe that history will make the choice and time will make the decision."
"In this world, unilateralism will not last long, only win-win cooperation can last forever."
"As the saying goes, solitary yin cannot produce life, solitary yang cannot grow. When yin and yang combine, all things come into being. This is the way of heaven, and the way of heaven is the way of man."
To their surprise, Li Feng actually brought up the content of the Book of Changes when talking about international relations.
Xiao Bo was getting a little impatient now and said, "Li Feng, don't talk so mysteriously. Just talk about international relations. Don't bring up Taoist metaphysics, the I Ching, or gossip."
Old Chen also said, "That's right. Fortune telling with the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams is enough. How can you even talk about international relations? That's getting off topic, really off topic..."
"Don't believe it?" Li Feng asked meaningfully.
"I don't believe it. I definitely don't believe it. Feudal superstitions have been broken for many years. How can I believe it? Especially if you want me to believe these, I might as well take the time to spend some money and buy a few research reports from our company." Old Chen shook his head.
Seeing Li Feng's serious tone, Xiao Bo hesitated and asked uncertainly, "Really?"
Li Feng gently put down the teacup, made a slight sound, and said:
"The end of mathematics lies in metaphysics. It's the symbols our Chinese ancestors invented to study astronomy... these symbols are tools used to describe and guide real society... and the guiding principle behind them is the Taoist concept of the unity of man and nature..."
"Thus, mathematics inherently contains yin and yang. You and I who think mathematically, as well as everything described by mathematics, inherently contain yin and yang... Because yin and yang are the essence, the guiding ideology, mathematics is the technique, the tool, and everything in the universe is the substance, the phenomenon..."
"It's like, for example, you want to use clay to create a modern world... Clay is the essence. No matter how beautiful or modern you make this world, it's still essentially clay... In other words, everything in this world is made of clay..."
"In our current world, what is 1? What is a point? What is a line? What is a person? These are actually names we created later in life to understand the world. In other words, they are just tools we use to understand the world..."
"We can replace 1 with an unfamiliar number, replace people with monkeys, and replace dots and lines with other names. It won't affect the operation of the world in the slightest..."
"This world still has four distinct seasons... The sun still rises in the east and sets in the west, and we still need to eat..."
"In the final analysis, these tools are just tools we use to describe the nature of the world."
"At its core, our culture, or rather, our cognitive expression—mathematics—underpins all of modern civilization. Whether it's production or daily life, the simple meals you and I eat, the lithography machines that produce chips, the space stations that reach the moon, or the submersibles that scour the oceans for catching turtles—all fall within this framework..."
"And the Western nations today are merely converts to the civilization we created."
"So, as the saying goes, things change over time. Our era is coming. Have more children when you have time, and enjoy more of the prosperity of the future!"
"The future belongs to us."
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