Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Back in Berlin, Yannick learned that President Wilkie was critically ill and had submitted his resignation. At the same time, the Vice President also resigned.

"Tsk, poor guy." This unfortunate guy had been on the presidential throne for less than nine months.

Of course, there is no worst in this world, only worse. Wilkie's reign was not the shortest. William Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, encountered extremely cold weather at the inauguration ceremony on March 4, 1841, but still insisted on delivering his inaugural speech. As a result, he caught wind chill and officially took office. He passed away in just one month and became the president with the shortest term in office in the history of the United States.

There is also the 20th President James Garfield. This president, who was born as a mathematician, does not know whether it is to be close to the people or because he finds it troublesome. He does not like to bring bodyguards every time he goes out. Four months after taking office, I went to the train station one day with only the Secretary of State beside me. An assassin named Guiteo shot him. Originally, the injury was not serious, just a hit on the back. However, when he was sent to the hospital, he met a quack doctor and the president was put to death.

Moreover, even if President Wilkie did not take the initiative to resign, he would not be able to survive his term. He died of a heart attack in 1944 in the original time and space.

Now that both the president and vice president have resigned, the United States has to hold a new election. Holding elections during wars is nothing new. Presidents were changed during World War I, World War II, and the Cold War in the original time and space. Elections were held even during the American Civil War.

I don’t know which unlucky guy will take over this mess this time.

"How's the airport in St. Pierre and Miquelon going?"

Marshal Kesselring said respectfully. "It has been completely completed, and our bombers are gradually moving in. The ME-264D bomber can cover the entire United States, and other bombers can also bomb most of the northeastern industrial area."

"Not bad." There is no need to think about landing in the United States for the time being. Then we will continue the bombing and first blow the American industrial areas into rubble. "What about South America?"

This time it was Marshal Redel who spoke. "Our fleet is about to arrive in French Guyana."

In fact, the destination of the fleet is Venezuela, and French Guyana is just a way to go. As mentioned earlier, de Gaulle occupied French Guyana and became the emperor of the country. Although Yannick asked Vichy France to issue a wanted order and even offered a reward of 1 million euros, there is no news so far; it is said that de Gaulle lives in seclusion and dare not show his face all year round.

Although de Gaulle cannot make any big waves today, he always makes comments about counterattacking France and shows his presence; it feels like a toad crawling on the instep, but it is disgusting if it does not bite. Therefore, Yannick ordered the fleet to solve this problem.

Soon, the German fleet arrived in the waters of French Guyana. A shrill siren had just sounded at Cayenne Port, and the attack aircraft taken off by the German fleet had already flown over the port. They bombarded the aircraft carrier "Béarn" and several other old-fashioned warships parked in the port, and then the Marines began to land.

In Venezuela, which is adjacent to Guyana, the German Ambassador came to the Venezuelan Presidential Palace to visit the current President Isaias Medina Angarita. "His Excellency President Angarita, what are your thoughts?"

Speaking of countries that made huge war fortunes during World War II, many people will think of the United States. But besides the United States, there was another country that also made a fortune during World War II. It is Venezuela, an inconspicuous small country in South America.

Because the main battlefields of World War II were Asia and Europe, life in America was relatively stable at that time. For the people of the Americas, it has nothing to do with them no matter how fierce the outside world is. They only need to defend their own territory and develop the economy well. Venezuela is particularly smart and has found a way to make money.

That is oil, an essential item for every country participating in the war.

In 1939 alone, Venezuela's oil production reached nearly 30 million tons, and almost all of this oil was exported. Throughout World War II, Venezuela made an absolute fortune.

The endless supply of oil symbolizes endless wealth, and the country's cash reserves are so large that it can almost implement communism. Venezuela once became the country with the "highest happiness index in the world."

There was too much money, and then it began to float away, and high-level government officials began a series of suicide attempts.

Especially after Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias took office later, he simply stepped on the accelerator and led Venezuela to hell.

After he took office, the first thing he set fire to was the private economy, which was the most economically dynamic and innovative at the time. He expanded state-owned enterprises aggressively, used state money to acquire private companies and then integrated them into the state-owned enterprise system, including banking, steel, communications, and energy. More and more industries are completely monopolized by state-owned enterprises. Not only that, he has also issued dozens of difficult laws targeting private companies and private business owners. As a result, private companies are in mourning.

The second fire is to vigorously promote the planned economy. The most typical one is oil. In this country, gasoline is cheaper than mineral water. The logic behind the price of oil being lower than that of water is the sky-high government subsidies every year. The price of rice, flour, grains and oils and more and more commodities are restricted by the government. Similarly, the logic behind price control is huge financial subsidies every year. Every year, the financial subsidies for food alone reach more than 600 million US dollars.

The third fire is the launch of a number of welfare and security projects that the country's finances cannot support for a long time: for example, free medical care for all, which was once envied by people in many countries, and free houses for the poor to live in, and one million units are built!

With the continuous development of large-scale oil fields in the Middle East and other places, world crude oil prices have been falling, and Venezuela's national fiscal revenue has been declining, making it difficult to maintain such a high welfare policy. Coupled with the sharp drop in government revenue, in order to make up for the fiscal deficit, the Venezuelan central bank had to start printing money. The proliferation of banknotes will naturally cause inflation to soar.

At its worst, the inflation rate reached over 740%. People carrying 100,000 yuan went out not to buy a car, but just to buy a small bag of flour; there was even a strange phenomenon of using brand-new banknotes as paper towels, because this A piece of paper money can't buy a tissue. Even if you have enough money, it's hard to buy anything in this country. The entire country is short of everything except paper money. From necessities such as flour, cooking oil, cornmeal, and medicines to daily necessities such as soap, toilet paper, razors, and batteries, everything you can think of is missing.

Not only for daily necessities, because domestic printing plants lack paper and metal, this country cannot even print its own currency. It has no choice but to outsource the job of printing money to other countries. Then... when dozens of heavily armed Boeing 747 passenger planes delivered dozens of tons of the country's banknotes, the printing plants responsible for printing the country's banknotes sadly discovered that the country had no money at all to pay for the printing money. of orders. This country is so ridiculous that it “can’t even afford to print money.”

In this way, in just a dozen years, Venezuela has gone from being the country with the "highest happiness index in the world" to being the country with the "highest weirdness index in the world."