In the capital, Xishan Songpo Villa, Mr. Liu and Vice Premier Wu Yongtai met with Eric of the old Li family almost at the same time Cai Siqiang met Eric of the old Li family.

But compared to Eric's casualness, the meeting between these two bigwigs is much more serious.

After meeting with Mr. Liu, Vice Premier Wu exchanged a few greetings. Vice Premier Wu drove away both of their personal secretaries, cooked a pot of mountain spring water and soaked the Tieguanyin he brought.

Seeing Vice Premier Wu's attitude, Mr. Liu knew that what the two of them talked about today would not only involve SAL, but a major event.

So Mr. Liu was not in a hurry and quietly waited for Vice Premier Wu to complete the full set of procedures for a pot of good tea. "Yongtai, the tea is brewed well." Mr. Liu picked up the blue and white porcelain tea cup and took a sip, and exclaimed from the heart. As soon as the tea was in his mouth, he felt that the aroma was as fragrant as a sweet orchid, and the taste was mellow and sweet. He could still retain the fragrance after drinking it. It is worthy of being the top-quality Tieguanyin produced in Anxi.

Mr. Liu is seven or eight years older than Vice Premier Wu. In terms of how qi cultivation skills are weaker than this junior who is just over 60 years old. Today, the two met, and Vice Premier Wu was in the mood to make good tea, which means that the meeting time was not short. Moreover, Vice Premier Wu must have something to say to him, so Mr. Liu was not in a hurry to tell his own affairs at all.

Sure enough, after drinking the first tea, Vice Premier Wu was leisurely briefly revealing a shocking economic plan to Mr. Liu. Although Mr. Liu didn't understand economic things very well, he realized that the core part of Vice Premier Wu's plan was actually two things. The first thing was to internationalize the RMB and become a new international currency, which was side by side with the US dollar, the euro, etc. In order to complete this huge financial project, Vice Premier Wu and others had already completed the bilateral currency swap plan and the first step of negotiations on RMB trade settlement with Asia, Africa and Latin America in the early stage. However, in this matter, the United States has been eyeing it and has suppressed China's actions many times, including provoking a confrontation between China and Japan, making this process difficult.

The second thing is that Vice Premier Wu and his team formulated an ambitious African resource development plan. During the rise of China, they suffered a lot of losses from the surge in raw material resources. Now, the only rich resource production place in the world that can allow China to intervene is Black Africa, which is still in frequent wars and dire straits. Although due to the frequent unrest, these resources in Black Africa have not completely fallen into the hands of European and American forces, the chaotic Africa also made the future of the large-scale development activities planned by Vice Premier Wu unpredictable. In the past, due to the lack of strong military support to deal with local unrest and the threat of the great powers, Vice Premier Wu's plan was not very feasible at all.

However, now as the People's Liberation Army showed off its muscles that could compete with the US military in the battle of Diaoyutai, Vice Premier Wu's plan is no longer a fantasy. Mr. Liu did not expect that the third-ranked government figure, who has not been very prominent since taking over the domestic economy, has far surpassed his previous positions.

"Yongtai, the plan you mentioned has not been discussed in the bureau. It involves so extensively and has such a far-reaching impact. Do No. 1 and No. 2 know this plan?" asked Mr. Liu. Before he could tell his question, Wu Yongtai threw out such a major thing, naturally to find his support. However, on the one hand, Mr. Liu was not good at it or not, and on the other hand, it was difficult for him to judge whether it was possible. On the other hand, this matter was due to the government. It was okay for him to beat the edge. If he really wanted to jump out and support, he would inevitably give people a feeling of being overwhelmed and his hands were too long.

"Old Liu, this matter is now No. 1 and Director Zhou. Director Wang understands the overall strategy because this strategy has too great influence and involves a lot of benefits in all aspects. In order to avoid being too many people and leaking rumors in advance, I will only know about this matter for the time being. The other participants are only responsible for planning one of the links and are unaware of the entire plan now." Wu Yongtai knew Mr. Liu's concerns.

"No. 1 and No. 2 support this plan. They both believe that our country has now gotten rid of the passive beating in the military and has become a new force in the world that can compete with the US military in some areas. From the trend, our military strength will be less and less different from the US military. Therefore, in this case, economically, we must be able to keep up and further expand our economic development space internationally. The first thing to bear is to solve our biggest shortcoming in finance and make the RMB an international currency. The second is to solve our resource supply problem. Only by solving these two things can our international living space be truly opened and we will not always rely on others."

Mr. Liu knew that after more than 40 years of development, the domestic economy has reached a new bottleneck stage. Now the entire international economic order has formed a very important constraint on the domestic economy. Resources, markets, capital, intellectual property rights, etc. are all tightening the ropes for the further development of China's economy. Through these things, Europe and the United States have firmly controlled the upper end of the industrial chain's profitable industries, allowing domestic enterprises to save small profits like third world countries, because the RMB is not internationalized, and the pricing power of raw material resources and products is firmly in the hands of others;

In the middle and low-end product chain, we have to accept the so-called exploitation of intellectual property rights by others. A product worth hundreds of dollars can only be completed in China but can only achieve a small part of it.

If all this is not made a big change, China's economy will never have the chance to develop to the same day as developed countries in Europe and the United States. They will only regard us as a market for dumping products, cheap manufacturing factories, and use our blood and sweat to achieve their abundance.

Before Duke emerged, domestic independent intellectual property rights and brand electronic products could hardly enter the high-end market. Because of this, Mr. Liu looked at Duke differently. In his opinion, being able to enter the international high-end market is much better than winning the Nobel Prize. Not to mention that many of Duke's things have become a very important part of the military industry.

After listening to Vice Premier Wu’s explanation, Mr. Liu felt relieved, “You have a good grasp of this matter.” Mr. Liu did not hide his appreciation and support for Vice Premier Wu Yongtai. Since there is no problem with No. 1 and No. 2, there is no problem with him.

"But we have to do a lot of things in this plan, and before doing all this, we need an opportunity to take the lead in solving the huge US debt problem," said Vice Premier Wu. "The huge amount of bonds we have in the US are all the blood and sweat we have accumulated over the years, but it is quite difficult to use them now. Americans have been using this as a hostage for so many years, which has made many economic decisions have to give way to it and lost a lot of national interests."

"This is a huge strategic mistake we made in dealing with foreign reserves. For decades, we have been paying for this mistake. Not only do we have to sacrifice some of the interests in international economic and trade exchanges, but we have to endure the pain of constant depreciation, which makes us difficult." When we said this, Vice Premier Wu was a little sad.

"But now that SAL's matter is happening, we can use this as an excuse to make a fuss." Wu Yongtai finally said what Mr. Liu cares about, "The reason why we have not taken the initiative to intervene in the US's rough suppression of SAL's company is to make them do this more excessively, so that SAL can constantly expose the US's hegemony and arrogance in international economic and trade in the fight against the US, tear apart the disguise of their so-called fair transactions, let the world see their hypocrisy, and at the same time, some domestic fenceists have a living lesson and dispel their fantasies. The more unfair treatment SAL encounters, the more we will take the initiative to deal with US debts in the future. It can naturally deal with a large part of US debts, and the US can't make any excuses."

Although Mr. Liu didn't know how Vice Premier Wu's plan would be implemented, he knew that SAL was used as a gun this time, even though they just followed the trend, "Yongtai, according to you, you are not going to care about SAL's losses this time?" Mr. Liu couldn't help asking when he remembered his purpose today.

"It's not that it doesn't matter, but now the country needs SAL to make certain sacrifices, and of course they won't sacrifice in vain." Vice Premier Wu said, "If we can take advantage of the situation to solve most of the US debt problem this time, these huge capital will flow into the resource field and become the source of funds for our South China Sea, East China Sea and Africa's development. In this huge economic development strategy, we will consider giving SAL a very reasonable compensation."

"This is a big game of chess. SAL is a very critical piece. Not only now they have to assume the role of the key teacher, but they will also be one of the protagonists in the future development. Of course, in this process, we hope that SAL can become a public company first."

Mr. Liu deeply agrees with Vice Premier Wu's concern. If SAL is always in control and secretly declared in private hands, it will be a double-edged sword for the country. However, once SAL is publicly listed, the disclosure of most information and the transparency of power structure will be achieved. Although Duke may still continue to control the company because of his majority shares, the many regulatory measures received by a listed company can make SAL's income and expenditure transparent. Only bigwigs like Mr. Liu and Vice Premier Wu are relieved that Duke will not use these huge resources to do anything else.

Just like the secret overseas investment funds under Duke disclosed this time, the amount revealed by Time magazine moved the senior leaders and other bigwigs. No wonder Duke was able to make his own decision to build a so-called universe exploration center with a cost of up to tens of billions of dollars.

Therefore, from the overall perspective, the top leaders also need to force SAL from the dark to the light this time, so it just happened to use the US to kill two birds with one stone.

If Snyder knew that his actions would have triggered so many variables, Snyder would not have done this. Unfortunately, he has no turning back now, and everything is irreversible.
Chapter completed!