The First Warlord of the Republic of China

"25 billion! Why do you need so much money?" Song Jiaoren was taken aback, and said, "I didn't spend so much money when I fought against Japan!"

"President, 25 billion is only 5 million pounds. The British fought a war, but spent more than 130 billion pounds!"

Tang Hanmin explained: "When we first fought against Japan, our army and air force were not as powerful as they are now, and there were not so many tanks. In addition, the labor cost was relatively low at that time, and the pension was not as high as it is now. Moreover, the size of the army is not as large as it is now. Now the cost of labor is high, pensions and wartime military pay are also high, and there are more planes, tanks, and cannons, so naturally more medicines are consumed."

Song Jiaoren was an amateur in war, and asked, "Can we save some medicine?"

"But if the medicine is saved, the casualties of the soldiers will increase. According to the commander-in-chief, he would rather send out more medicine to minimize the casualties of our army." [

"Then, this money..." Song Jiaoren was embarrassed, and said, "The central government has just repaid the loan, and the finances have just turned around..."

"The commander-in-chief said, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can borrow from the bank first, the bank has plenty of money." Tang Hanmin said with a smile.

"The fiscal deficit?"

"Pay it slowly, it doesn't matter if you can't afford it, the bank won't press too hard."

"But..." Song Jiaoren still hesitated, and said, "Can you reduce military expenditure?"

Also reduced, this is already reported to the less.Anyway, when the war starts, the central government will have to increase military spending if it does not increase, otherwise it will be anticlimactic.Save face.

"It can't be less, the military factories are working at full capacity. This war has to be fought. If the red bear rises beside us, it will be a poor future. With their resources and population, they can completely become a A superpower. If you don’t pay now, you will pay more money in the future.” Tang Hanmin clarified the stakes and refused to budge on the issue of military expenditures.

"Hey...Okay! Let's borrow money then!" Song Jiaoren said depressedly. As a Chinese, the concept of financial management is obviously relatively conservative.

As the president of a country, Song Jiaoren was deeply concerned about the fiscal deficit.In the past few years, the fiscal deficit caused by the war has finally been filled.

The money has just been paid here, and there is another war over there.

But Song Jiaoren understood that his main task was to put on a political show.Since it was Jiang Yu's intention, the loan was affirmative.

The significance of the fiscal deficit is not to make the government pay back the money.

Instead, after a certain period of time, let the government increase taxation.So as to return the money to the consortium.

Money squandered by the government.In the end, it all depends on the common people.It is also equivalent to a means for the consortium to recover currency.

When can we increase taxes?

That is when the consumer market of the middle and high-income class is saturated. At this time, those middle- and high-income classes still have money every month.

Then it doesn't make any sense for the money to stay in their hands.

If the consumer market of the low-income class is also saturated, then the monthly salary of each worker will still be so much, which will also cause a large backlog of banknotes.

At this time, ordinary people don't consume anything, so raising taxes is a good way to recycle banknotes. [

The consortium recycles the banknotes through the government, and then uses them to build infrastructure, so the country will become more and more advanced.

Just like the United States in later generations, the national product value is as high as several trillion U.S. dollars.But its domestic US dollars are less than one trillion US dollars. On the contrary, there are more banknotes overseas.

This illustrates a problem.When the consortium is highly monopolized, funds circulate at an extremely fast speed. The faster the circulation, the more developed it is, and the higher the degree of monopoly it is.

At this time, the consortium of Chinese warlords and oligarchs is also developing in this direction, so it is inevitable that the government owes the consortium money.

After Tang Hanmin left, he immediately reported the problem of annexing the Caucasus to Jiang Yu. After thinking about it carefully, Jiang Yu really felt that if he stretched his hand too far, it would cause panic in Europe and the United States, which might lead to their alliance. The Croatian consortium, they are obviously unwilling to see China extend its influence to Europe.

Once China reaches out to Central Europe, Germany will bear the brunt.At that time, the cooperative relationship with the Juncker consortium may break down.

Furthermore, the resources of the Caucasus are mainly oil.

However, the reserves of oil in the Caucasus region are not too rich. When the later Soviet Union got it in the late 40s, the Baku oil field in the Caucasus was exhausted.

Of course, this is also related to the rough mining method of the red hairy bear. They don't calculate how many years the Baku oilfield can be mined, but continue to expand production.

In the 60s, the second Baku oil field was exploited again, and it ran to exploit the third Baku oil field in Tyumen.

"It is indeed possible to give the Caucasus to Tsarist Russia. As long as we export enough commodities and capital, we can continue to exploit the Russians." Jiang Yu thought for a while, and then said to Tang Hanmin on the phone: "Then revise the plan, After the war, the Caucasus region will be assigned to Tsarist Russia."

"Yes."

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On the other hand, Chen Guangfu also flew to Beijing by plane, and Song Jiaoren signed a loan contract of 50 billion yuan with the Huaxia Central Bank chaired by Chen Guangfu.

This money is used not only for war, but also for increasing government spending.

At this time of the bubble economy period, government expenditure naturally does not need to be too frugal, and if there is any place to spend money, just spend it, as long as it is not spent indiscriminately.

But where money is going to be spent, it can be made very well funded.

In this way, a large number of non-profit infrastructures in the country have been built, and national welfare has also been guaranteed.

After the contract was signed, Huaxia Central Bank quickly provided the government with 50 billion Yanhuang coins. Most of these were transferred by the military department as soon as they arrived.

The military department immediately transferred the money to the account of the consortium's arms company, and quickly realized a return of funds.

All military factories across the country began to increase production, first of all, the eight-hour working system was cancelled.And shorten the vacation to one day.

A large number of munitions were continuously produced and then stored in the arsenal. [

Among them, a large number of military factories that produce conventional arms such as medicine have been transferred to the Huaxia region, and many military factories have not only been built in the Central Asian administrative region.Industries such as large steel mills are also being built.

The large-scale development of the Central Asian administrative region is mainly based on the consortium. In addition to agricultural immigrants, the consortium is recruiting workers from all over the country to the Central Asian administrative region.

After a large number of workers arrived in the Central Asian administrative region, it also increased the population of the Central Asian administrative region.

At this time, the Republic of China is already vigorously developing the western economy, and the western economy is dominated by the military industry, which is due to the needs of the war.

The western region is very rich in resources and has a large number of mineral resources.

in times of non-war.Materials such as iron and steel produced in the west can be converted into infrastructure construction needs. During the war, industries in the west can be quickly converted into factories producing military supplies.

This time the western development.The speed is very fast.

Railways are being built everywhere in the entire Central Asian administrative region, because the terrain is flat and the cost of railway construction is relatively low. For the Republic of China at this time.The railways in the administrative regions of Central Asia do not cost much at all.Especially after those construction machinery started to be used.The construction cost is greatly reduced.

During the railway laying process in the administrative region of Central Asia, a record of 30 kilometers of railway was laid in a single day was created. This speed was firstly built in two ends, and the efficiency was greatly improved after the use of construction machinery.

The strategic transportation railway from Xi'an, Shaanxi to the administrative region of Central Asia is also being built. This strategic transportation railway is tentatively scheduled to have four tracks, so two more tracks will need to be repaired.

After the four-track railway appeared, the transportation efficiency was doubled compared with the current one.

Xi'an will serve as a transit hub.Military materials in East China, North China, and South China will all be gathered in this city from various railways, and then transported to the west by multi-track railways.

Because of the expansion of the territory.At this time, Shaanxi has become Central China.

From East China, North China, and South China, there are at least three double-track railways leading to Xi'an, which means that Xi'an must have at least six-track railways to transport them. In addition, military products produced in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang need to Transportation means that after the start of the all-out war, there must be an eight-track railway here to transport all the military supplies.

Of course, the military department also plans to build a highway, and the airport will have to be overhauled along the way. At that time, transport planes will also participate in the transportation.

The expressway has also entered the first phase of construction. This expressway will be divided into ten construction periods, one construction period per year, and it will be completed in ten years.

If the bubble economy bursts, a large amount of labor can be directly invested in repairing the project, which may only take seven or eight years to complete.

The emergence of expressways will mean that the efficiency of transportation will be further improved, and the construction of airports will increase air transportation. Air transportation will become the mode of transportation with the greatest development potential in the future, because the Republic of China has no shortage of oil, and the cost of air transportation can actually be reduced a lot , and the biggest advantage of air transportation is the fastest speed.

Due to the support of policies, many domestic airlines have been established, and many private funds have entered the aviation industry and established companies one after another.

Since the opening of the Shanghai Expo, the passenger aircraft produced by the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory has quickly become the first choice for the development of the world's aviation industry.

It's just that this aircraft is more expensive, but there are no competitors.

The planes that retreated from the European battlefield were all wooden planes.

The most shocking thing is that the passenger plane produced by Huadong Aircraft Manufacturing Factory this time is an all-metal aircraft, and it is a professional passenger plane, which can carry more passengers and has more comfortable interior facilities.

The commanding heights of passenger aircraft manufacturing have been controlled by China. At this time, the United States cannot manufacture all-metal aircraft, and there is simply no product that can compete with it.

European countries don't care whether the United States has it or not. Even if the United States has it, they still shop around and buy whichever is more affordable. Therefore, Chinese airliners have become the first choice of airlines in European countries.

American airlines have also purchased many Chinese passenger planes. The U.S. government urgently promulgated a support bill, that is, airlines that purchase U.S.-based aircraft can enjoy preferential tax rates and so on.

The American consortium is obviously unwilling to see Chinese aircraft raging in the United States, but it is a bit embarrassing after the enactment of this bill, because the US aircraft industry itself is not even comparable to European countries.

Of course, the American consortium now also has a lot of surplus capital on hand.It is impossible for European countries to impose a technological blockade on the United States, so under the United States' spending money and vigorous research and development.It won't take long for an all-metal aircraft to be manufactured, but it will take several years to mass-produce and form a production line.

What's more terrible is that the world's aviation market is basically monopolized by the Republic of China. If the US aviation manufacturing industry wants to develop, it can basically only look at the local market.The international market is nothing to them.

China's aviation manufacturing industry not only has an internal market several times larger than that of the United States, but also quickly seized the international market. Its scale is not comparable to that of the United States.

European countries.At this time, because of the war, the capital is basically weakened. The Rothschild consortium is a consortium without borders, so the Rothschild consortium will not really develop those technologies with heart.After all, which European country is investing in these industries on a large scale.Both may cause an imbalance of power among European countries, thereby threatening their status.

Then these industries are scattered in various countries. The same aircraft manufacturing industry, Britain, France, and Germany are all developing. Once the industries are scattered and there is not much money to invest, how can there be any bright future?

Therefore, the development of the world's aviation manufacturing industry is still a competition between the Republic of China and the United States.

Because the central government of the Republic of China has given airlines sufficient policy preferences.You can enjoy low-cost fuel supply and preferential tax rates.

The aviation industry has also attracted a large amount of private investment.For a time, airlines were flourishing all over China.At the same time, the consortium began to build a large number of civilian airports, which also provided an operating platform for private capital.

Since the platform is owned by a consortium, it can not only give benefits to private capital, but also a noose for private capital.

When the consortium needs private funds to stimulate the aircraft manufacturing industry, it can lower the airport fee level, but when the consortium needs to harvest those private funds, it can greatly increase the airport use fee, thereby strangling private aviation companies, and making the consortium Monopolize the aviation industry.

This is another big pit, but most of the private capital are not aware of the existence of this big pit, and they jumped into it one by one.

The influx of private capital and orders from the international market has enabled the civil aviation manufacturing industry of the Republic of China to flourish, and has already left the United States behind.

In terms of electrical manufacturing, the United States is obviously not doing very well.

The commanding heights of the electrical manufacturing industry were also seized by the Republic of China. The Republic of China produced all kinds of electrical appliances immediately after the war. In the international market, electrical equipment is basically imported from China.

The development of electrical equipment has driven the popularity of the electrical appliance market.

Wealthy people in Europe and around the world don't have much resistance to electrical appliances that can improve their living standards.

Refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and televisions, the commanding heights of these electrical appliances were also seized by the Republic of China, and the US electrical appliance manufacturing industry was also left behind.

This is mainly because the industrial system of the Republic of China has entered the level of the second industrial revolution as soon as it was established. At the same time, the Republic of China did not participate in the European war, so that the electrical appliance manufacturing industry of the Republic of China developed a few years earlier than European and American countries, a few years earlier to the market.

It is also because the Republic of China has advanced technology reserves, which other countries do not have.

There is technology, plus time to form a production line.

The current electrical appliance manufacturing technology in European and American countries is still relatively backward, and they have not yet formed a large-scale production line, so they basically have no ability to resist the swarm of Chinese electrical appliances unless they use tariffs.

However, it is obviously impossible for European countries to raise tariffs on Chinese goods, but it is possible for the United States.But as long as the European market and other countries' markets are kept, the US market can also be ignored.

The prosperity of the local market has made China's manufacturing industry in various fields invincible.

The export of a large number of advanced commodities has given the Republic of China the ability to exploit the world through commodity exports. At the same time, a large amount of capital has been exported to dependent countries, which has also made the dependent countries constantly exploited by the Republic of China.

The Republic of China is also getting richer and richer under this kind of exploitation.

In addition, communication is an important part of the development of science and technology, which is related to the transmission of information. The popularity of telephones in the Republic of China is very fast.

High-income groups have telephones, and the middle class has begun to use home phones.

Although low-income groups do not have telephones, all cities have begun to install public telephones, and the telephone equipment of the Republic of China is also being exported to the international market.

Telephone is a profiteering industry in this era, monopolized by consortiums.

The phone is the consortium recycling banknotes.One component of increasing consumption items, when a high-yield, middle-class family has consumed the house, car, and appliances, the telephone is an item that can be billed every month.And there is a fee when you open it.

Telephones are not a necessity for ordinary people. What the consortium needs to do is to continue to produce consumer items to expand the saturated market.

If the market is saturated, then the money of the upper class and the middle class has no place to spend, then something will go wrong.

The consortium will also expand the market through product upgrades, such as cars, and sell low-end cars first.And it's sold at a high price.

Low-end cars can no longer be sold, so sell them at a lower price, and at the same time produce higher-end cars.At this time, the high-income class will buy more advanced cars.The same goes for the middle class.The original low-end cars were sold to the lower class.Second-hand cars are the cheapest, and they are sold to the low-income class with relatively poor spending power.

Another example is TV.Now it's black and white TV first.And the size is relatively small.

Sell ​​it at a high price first, and then lower the price when it can no longer be sold, and then produce a larger black-and-white TV.

When large-size black-and-white TVs cannot be sold, large-size black-and-white TVs are sold at reduced prices to the low-income class, while color TVs are sold at high prices to the high-yield and middle-class people.

When the color TVs are all sold out, LCD TVs will be produced.

Through such means, the consortium keeps the money flowing back and investing it continuously.So that ordinary people who are willing to work can have jobs.

When the welfare system of ordinary people continues to improve, it will develop in the direction of communism.Ultimately achieve social harmony.

In the international market, this is the strategy of the consortium.

Especially in some backward countries, when the products of the Republic of China such as automobiles and electrical appliances cannot be sold to the low-income class, they are sold to those countries, so as to prolong the life of the products and generate higher profits.

This is basically the case in Japan at this time. The Japanese market has just been cultivated and there are not many consumers with consumption capacity. It is not cost-effective for the Republic of China to directly sell the current version of the car consumed by the public to Japan, so it sells the lowest-level cars. , and then let the Japanese slowly update, so as to grab the most profits.

It's like Japan and South Korea selling obsolete mobile phones to China in later generations.

A Shanghai World Expo fully opened up the overseas market for the Republic of China, and also enabled the consortium and private capital to obtain a large number of orders in the process.

This further stimulated the speed of economic development. A large number of private-funded factories bloomed all over the coastal provinces, and coastal cities began to exert their huge advantages in economic development.

The regions with the most economic prosperity began to lean further towards East China and South China, and because Jiangsu developed the earliest and is a coastal province, its economic aggregate has always been the first in the country.

Guangdong Province is developing very fast. Guangdong is connected to Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Hainan, and its economy can radiate to Vietnam. It has become one of the regions with the fastest development of light industry.

Central South Province has become the biggest dark horse. Not only is Central South Province rich in agricultural resources, but it can also radiate Vietnam, Siam, and Southeast Asia, so its industry has also developed greatly.

It's just that the light industry in the Republic of China is all that kind of advanced light industry.

The low-level light industry is basically subcontracted to the dependent countries, so the total light industry of those dependent countries will exceed that of the Republic of China.

In the provinces of East China and South China, industries such as export-oriented heavy industry are developing rapidly.

In the northwest region, the Central Asian administrative region has the fastest economic development. Not only are there abundant agricultural resources there, but also a large number of heavy industries have begun to tilt towards West China.

Heavy industry, military industry, and export-oriented industries can all be seen in the administrative regions of Central Asia.

In particular, the central Asian administrative region is more convenient to export to Europe, so this is the biggest dark horse in the whole country, because the economic development in the west is relatively strong, and a large number of industrial populations have begun to migrate to the west.

In the Beihai administrative region, the exploitation of raw materials has developed rapidly. At this time, the railway framework of the Beihai administrative region has been formed, and a large amount of timber has begun to supply the domestic market.

Iron ore and coal have also begun to be mined in large quantities.

The forest areas in the Beihai administrative region have been opened up one after another. These forest areas are cut down every year in a planned way. Under the planned cut down, these timber resources can realize continuous regeneration of resources.

Many of the paper-making woods were felled and shipped directly from Vladivostok to Japan, and the Japanese took these woods to make paper and then exported them to the Republic of China.

The labor cost of the Japanese is low, and the price of low-grade ordinary paper is very low. The consortium resells these papers and sells them at normal prices, thereby reaping huge profits.

The pollution caused by papermaking is borne by the Japanese themselves.

While importing Japanese low-grade paper, the Republic of China also exported high value-added specialty paper to Japan.

The Republic of China is very concerned about the export of renewable resources. To develop resources in areas with a large amount of timber like the Beihai Administrative Region, the ROC can produce enough timber every year, and this kind of exploitation is not extinct. felling.Cutting overmature forests is beneficial to the expansion of forest resources.

On the contrary, the Republic of China basically does not export those non-renewable resources, but continues to import them.

The deer industry, animal industry, and fishery industry in the Beihai administrative region have already reached a certain scale, and the fishery industry in particular has basically been developed.

The scale of deer and animal husbandry is constantly expanding, becoming an important part of Beihai Administrative Region's job creation.

During the development of the Beihai Administrative Region, the Central Asian Administrative Region, and the Nanyang Region, the population flow was very frequent, and the population in the traditional living areas of the Han people in the Republic of China began to migrate to other regions in large numbers.

At this time, the Republic of China has completed its second large-scale westward and northward expansion since the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The former nomads were basically wiped out, either slaughtered, or arranged to mine and transform into an industrial population.

Both Beihai and Central Asia are occupied by the Republic of China. As the population continues to increase, these two areas are basically the permanent territory of the Republic of China. (to be continued...)

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