The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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Spn this year, China's industry has not been able to expand at the fastest speed due to raw materials.However, with the completion of the steel mills, mines, and mine railways invested in 14, it will be resolved in 16.

However, compared with the steel production of the United States, the 3000 million tons of steel in the United States at this time is 6 times that of China's steel production. This gap can be described as huge.

But if it comes to 17, the situation will be different. At that time, large iron mines and large steel plants in various provinces in China will start production one after another, and steel production will also undergo a process of skyrocketing.

And the United States can only grow to more than 4000 million tons of steel production if it is dead.

The first is the problem of market demand, and the second is the technical problem of American steel smelting. [

At this time, China's iron and steel smelting technology is leading the world, and the smelting speed is faster. The quality of converter steel is not inferior to that of open hearth steel. China can smelt more steel with less labor force, which is impossible for the current smelting technology of the United States. .

The only thing that China has an advantage over the United States is the shipbuilding industry. However, by 1916, the number of shipbuilding in the United States will exceed that of China, but it will not be known in 17.

In April 1915, amidst the roar of industrial machinery, the governments of Australia and Canada announced the withdrawal of the Chinese exclusion policy.

And the Australian and Canadian governments made a simple apology. Although there was no sincerity, the two British Dominions dared to blatantly exclude China.

At this time, China has indeed risen, and continuing to exclude China will cause great diplomatic disputes.

Only the United States is unmoved by this. At this time, the United States and China can be described as competitors. Both countries are busy exporting. Obviously, the United States now has a certain upper hand, and the total export volume is much larger than that of China.

Also because of the relatively convenient transportation conditions in the United States, China has to cross a long distance to export to Europe, while the United States only needs to cross the Atlantic Ocean to export goods to Europe.

But in many fields, China has the upper hand. Many Chinese products are not available in the United States, or the quality is completely better than that of the United States.

The easiest is the plane.

It is also a simple wooden structure aircraft, but the performance of Chinese aircraft is superior, and the United States cannot manufacture them at all. The biggest problem is that the United States cannot manufacture such advanced engines.

Moreover, the industrial equipment in the United States is still at the level of the first industrial leader. Now that it is busy with production, there is no time to replace the equipment.

If it is an aircraft with poor performance, China also has it, and the price is much lower than that of the United States.

The aircraft manufacturing industry in the United States has been depressed. The first pot of gold in the aircraft manufacturing industry has been earned by China. Now the United States must invest more money if it wants to develop the aircraft manufacturing industry.

When money is put into it, the same aircraft as the Chinese are built, and the Chinese may start to sell them at a reduced price. In the end, the US aircraft manufacturing industry still does not make much money.

And China has already used the money it earned before to develop more advanced aircraft, and then continue to use advanced aircraft to earn huge profits.

That's the huge benefit of being one step ahead.

Under such circumstances, the United States can only ensure that its domestic market uses its own aircraft, so as to catch up with China's aircraft manufacturing industry.

At this time, the United States should not count on European aircraft orders. Britain and France simply look down on American aircraft. American aircraft will only be beaten into roast turkeys by German fighter jets on the battlefield. Money for a plane.

In terms of exports of non-steel products, China still exports more. [

At this time, although China's cotton production is not much different from that of the United States, after all, it needs to supply [-] million people to wear, and there are not many textiles that can be exported.

However, due to the high price of textiles, Chinese people this year chose not to buy new clothes, except for winter clothes and quilts to keep out the cold in winter.

The textiles saved are exported.

It's too cheap to export now.

The money earned from exporting one coat now can buy two or three coats in the future.

In addition, the textile market occupied by the United Kingdom itself, but because of the stagnation of British exports, cotton from the cotton producing areas of the world began to be exported to other countries, and China took the opportunity to import.

From this year onwards, China was able to import a large amount of cotton.

Even in Russia, a large amount of cotton can be imported. Russia's textile production has dropped sharply, and no one even wants cotton after it is produced.

This is different from buying cotton at high prices from other places. Russian cotton is of high quality and cheap, and it is located in Kazakhstan.

Therefore, China's textile exports are no less than those of the United States.

As for other commodity exports, as long as they are non-steel, most of China's exports to Europe are higher than those of the United States.

There is also a factor, that is, Germany is constantly attacking British merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean, but there is no such concern in Asia.

German submarines are not operating in Asia because of strong opposition from China.

If China does not cooperate, German submarines will not be able to sail to Asia, after all, it is relatively far away.

The United Kingdom has organized an escort fleet in the Mediterranean, so importing goods from China has become the safest route. Although importing from the United States is relatively close, it is more dangerous.

With the continuous increase of German submarines, the loss of British merchant ships increased sharply compared with the initial period of the war in history, and Bibi was twice as high as the loss of merchant ships in the early stages of the war in history.

Large quantities of supplies imported from the United States sank into the Atlantic Ocean.

This is all to be paid by the UK.

In order to ensure the normal development of trade with Europe, the United States had to form an escort fleet a year in advance, and directly recruited more than 200 private shipyards to manufacture a large number of frigates.

In 1915, Congress approved a plan to build 250 destroyers and 400 submarine hunters, a plan that directly hindered the construction of American merchant ships.

As a result, in 1915, the United States' merchant ship manufacturing capacity only rose to 50 tons, and China was still far ahead of the United States in terms of merchant ship manufacturing capacity.

But in terms of ship manufacturing capabilities, the United States has completely outflanked China. [

The U.S. ship manufacturing capacity rose from 1914 tons in 13 to 30 tons, while China's ship manufacturing capacity was only 10 tons at that time, and most of them were used to manufacture submarines.

But China does not need to build a large number of destroyers and submarine hunting submarines at all.

"It seems that history has changed because China helped Germany manufacture a large number of submarines. Indeed, the United States can no longer sit back and watch German submarines run rampant in the Atlantic Ocean. Once all British merchant ships are sunk by Germany, and the United States does not have enough merchant ships, It is bound to bring U.S. exports to a standstill."

After Jiang Yu heard the news, he immediately wrote an article in German, "Wolf Tactics, Effective Combat Methods for Breaking Through the Escort Formation", and then immediately handed it over to the German Navy.

At the same time, Chinese began to re-enter Australia and Canada due to the abolition of anti-Chinese policies in Australia and Canada.

Jiang Yu also began to increase investment in Australia, and Canada also invested, but relatively less. After World War I, the United States called America the America of Americans, and Canada was gradually controlled by the United States.

The investment in Australia and Canada is mainly to enclose land, then explore underground minerals and carry out preliminary construction.

It is true that China wants to import raw materials from outside, but it does not mean that it has to hold them.

After World War I, because people had been suppressed for too long, the consumerism only supported two years of economic prosperity, and then quickly fell into depression.

This ex must definitely sell all overseas assets, so as to avoid losses.

At that time, if you want to import raw materials, you just need to import from those new mine owners. If you really want to regain control, you can buy more minerals with the money you sell.

Therefore, Jiang Yu's call for business associations to invest in Indochina, Southeast Asia, India, and Australia at this time is only speculative.

Of course, there are also factors of demand for raw materials in recent years, but once this demand passes, it can be sold.

It is precisely for this purpose that in 1915, the capital of the consortium and the East China Chamber of Commerce invested more and more money abroad. By the end of 1915, the total foreign investment had risen to 30 billion Yanhuang coins.

These investments paid off handsomely for China in the following years, and the mining of raw materials during the war was very profitable.

After World War I, the national capitalists of consortiums and business associations sold those overseas assets to Americans with deep pockets, and made a lot of money with interest.

The ensuing Great Depression of the world economy made the Yankees who bought minerals complain endlessly.

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Europe, Germany!

The senior German navy is carefully reading the "Wolf Pack Tactics" written by Jiang Yu. If the Americans knew about this, they would definitely shout "sinister intentions" and "bad to the point of pus".

But in order to enable China to snatch the meat exported to Europe from the United States, when Jiang Yu saw the United States building an escort fleet, he naturally said, "You have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder."

At the same time, Jiang Yu pointed out in the latter part of "Wolf Pack Tactics": "As the United States continues to borrow money from the Allied Powers, it must not want to see the Allied Powers lose the war. The United States has built their large number of destroyers and submarine hunting submarines, which will inevitably make the Allies miss this great opportunity. Instead of this, it is better to let go of the courage to attack ships in the Atlantic Ocean. The United States must not be willing to participate in order to benefit from the fisherman Into the war. And if the US industrial product law is transported abroad, it can also greatly hinder the industrial development of the United States. Even if the United States participates in the war, the allied countries will have to face enormous pressure brought about by their huge industrial capabilities.”

Jiang Yu's suggestion is so bad that it oozes pus!

Once Germany really follows his thinking, the United States will inevitably be more entangled. If Germany adopts restrictions on submarine warfare, will the United States declare war or not?

Declaring war is tantamount to falling into war.

Without declaring war, German submarines hinder its exports to Europe.

When the German navy saw this episode in "Wolf Pack Tactics", its eyes lit up immediately, and the top navy officials hurried to meet Wilhelm II. (To be continued. Please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)