Opening game, American Tycoon

never fail!

Emperor Zhu had no doubts about this, as long as the entire country was turned into a powerful war machine, the war would surely be won.

Of course, the premise is that there is not much difference in strength between the two sides.

How to launch a "general war" is not just mobilization of manpower. This is an extremely complex system engineering that involves all aspects of a country. From manpower mobilization to industrial mobilization, what needs to be mobilized is not just manpower. , and industrial production.It is an extremely important test of the country's government's ability to lead and organize.

It can even be said that only the country that wins this test can win the war.

As a new country, it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to establish a highly organized society capable of general warfare in just 33 years, but Ming Dynasty is different from other countries in that it originated from companies.

In the Nanhua era, almost all industrial and commercial enterprises in Nanhua were built and developed by Nanhua Company. Even now, many "imperial properties" including Nanhua Company still hold the industrial lifeline of the empire.

Even after years of deliberate division, the reality of almost controlling the empire's economy has not changed. The leaders of all walks of life must be subsidiaries of Nanhua Company, or companies that have been separated from it.

How big is the company related to Nanhua Company?

Accounted for more than 50% of the gross national product of the Ming Empire!

For a country, is it good or bad to have such a plutocrat who almost controls the imperial economy?

It's hard to say, but what is certain is that during the war, having such a consortium is definitely a good thing for the country.

"Your Majesty, after the outbreak of the war, the base camp established the "Wartime Industry Committee" and the "Wartime Raw Material Management Office". industrial raw materials, and give priority to the supply of important raw materials and materials to key enterprises..."

During Fang Zhanbo's report, Emperor Zhu just nodded slightly. The establishment of these two institutions was carried out under his behest. In fact, long before the war broke out, there was a shadow institution in the empire - the National Defense Mobilization Committee. This committee is responsible for investigating the mobilization potential of the empire and formulating corresponding mobilization plans.

After the war broke out, the Ming Dynasty used the National Defense Mobilization Committee to carry out mobilization in all aspects. At the same time, the National Defense Mobilization Committee also moved from a shadow organization to an open one. Its responsibility was to supervise and control all economic sectors, and it became an important regulator of the empire’s military economy. The "Wartime Industrial Committee" and the "Wartime Raw Materials Management Office" are both subordinate to the mobilization committee.

Now Fang Zhanbo is the director of the committee, who is responsible for the mobilization work. To a certain extent, his power even exceeds that of the prime minister.

"That's not enough!"

Emperor Zhu shook his head, and then said.

"As the war continues for a long time, in terms of allocating scarce raw materials, we need to study a set of systematic standards for ordering, well, we must have a certain degree of practical thinking, that is, we must Make some kind of planned arrangement for the consumption structure.”

"I understand that the current Wartime Industry Committee has asked the military to propose next year's material demand, and on this basis, expand by 50%, and then contract production to various mobilized enterprises according to production capacity. This planned arrangement can guarantee the production of military supplies. proceed as normal."

In fact, Fang Zhanbo is no stranger to planned production. To a certain extent, this is order production, but it is more complicated.Moreover, the "planned industrial planning" implemented by the empire over the years is also closely related to this planned production to a certain extent.

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.

"This planned arrangement is not just about the production of military products, we also consider other aspects, such as large-scale recruitment, which will inevitably affect the agricultural production of the empire, and this will inevitably cause food and meat in the market. And the shortage of dairy products. Of course, the textile industry must be affected. The military's demand for clothing will affect the supply of civilians. In this case, we need to consider including people's basic consumption into the government's planned management track, to form a relatively sound and complete plan, that is, to investigate consumption in an accurate, precise and rigorous way."

In fact, it is a comprehensive planned economy. The planned economy is essentially a wartime economy. Everything is based on the plan. What it plans is not just industrial production and people's consumption. All industrial production must obey Under the premise of military needs, in addition to planned industrial production and ordinary people's daily consumption, there is also the control of enterprises and labor force, which also to a certain extent makes economic development deviate from the orientation of market profits and instead follows the government's Request for production.

What is this model of state control of the economy?It is to establish the government's dominant role in the economy and make the economy obey the specific political will of the country.

"Planning living expenses for all?"

Fang Zhanbo couldn't help being surprised, and then said.

"Can this be planned?"

The reason why he was so surprised was because in his opinion, it was almost impossible. After all, everyone's living expenses were different, so how could it be possible to plan?
"Of course we can plan, we can plan, we can set a standard, such as how much food, how much tobacco, how much cloth, how much alcohol, how much meat, how much oil, and how much oil will be supplied to adults every month. Of course, this plan is not for nothing. It is determined based on the basic consumption of the people last year, and then the industrial production plan is formulated based on this consumption. This industrial production is determined according to the amount of remaining production capacity after meeting the military requirements..."

Although he has not experienced the era of the planned economy, Emperor Zhu has heard a lot about the life of the people under this economic model. In fact, during World War II, even in the United States, a certain degree of "Rationing system", as for countries such as Britain and Germany, it is naturally nothing more than a normal thing.

Then Emperor Zhu naturally introduced food stamps, such as cloth tickets, meat tickets, industrial vouchers, and the like.

"Tickets will be issued to everyone according to the allocation of customers every month. This ticket is the qualification to buy it. If you have money and don't have a ticket, you can't buy it. You can't buy a ticket without money. You can only get money and a ticket at the same time." Buy desired consumer goods from the market..."

Listening to the "planned consumption" described by His Majesty, Fang Zhanbo said after a moment of thought.

"Your Majesty, the lives of many people will be affected..."

"influences……"

Emperor Zhu took a newspaper from the table, pointed to the news on it and said.

"It has been affected now. If it is not affected, how can there be a rise in prices, and how can there be a black market? Under the premise of the quota system, the lives of ordinary people may be affected, but at least for the vast majority of people , is fair..."

Pursing his lips, Emperor Zhu said.

"Fairness... maybe in this war that is destined to make the people suffer, the only thing we can do!"

After all, after sighing, Emperor Zhu directly decided.

"Just do it!"