The First Warlord of the Republic of China

After the false intelligence of the Republic of China was passed on, the U.S. Navy was almost scared to pee.

"My God! My God! The Chinese actually want to attack our continental United States, and they already have the ability to build thirty battleships!"

"This is not surprising. The Chinese have mastered the battleship manufacturing technology. Their technology is obtained from Germany and Japan. It means that they can build German-style battleships and British-style battleships. And The Chinese are very good at technology, supported by their huge industrial base and huge population, there is obviously no problem in building [-] battleships."

"Thirty battleships will cost at least one billion yuan, but this is obviously not difficult for the Chinese people's financial income."

The U.S. Navy obviously agrees with China's ability to build [-] advanced battleships. Battleships may be difficult for small countries to build.But in the eyes of a big country with an industrial foundation, it is not a difficult thing.As long as you have enough money, you can make a lot of these things. [

In contrast, after the Rothschild consortium and the American consortium received the news, they began to scold their mothers.

"Damn it, really damned Eastern monkeys, don't they know that what is needed after a war is construction? Has their internal conflict developed to the point where it must be resolved by launching a war?"

"Their internal conflicts are very small. Every labor force has a job, and there is a perfect welfare system. There are no violent internal conflicts at all. These oriental monkeys obviously want to take advantage of the European and American countries in the previous war. Beat us before we recover."

"What should I do?"

"If the Chinese really want to launch a war, then Europe is obviously unstoppable. We can only withdraw to the United States, and we must also strengthen our military strength to prevent the Chinese from attacking."

Just a piece of fake news has plunged European and American countries into panic.

At the same time, those spies in China also sent back some of their discoveries one after another. For example, many shipyards did start to manufacture some large merchant ships, but the Republic of China deliberately covered them up.This has instead become the biggest doubt, and it also confirmed from the side that the news that the Republic of China will secretly build [-] battleships may be true.

In order to prevent possible invasion by China.The Rothschild consortium and the American consortium, Britain, France and the United States, and countries and consortia have conducted frequent consultations, and they are all trying to deal with it.

The best way.It is also the worst plan.That is to defend the American continent, and if you want to defend the American continent, the navy is obviously the most critical existence.

Since the Chinese want to build thirty battleships, they should build more battleships.

The Chinese want to build [-] ships, so they should build [-] ships.However, this amount is too much!Thirty ships!

And it's a brand new battleship. This is not the kind of battleship used in the war with the Germans before. As the tonnage of battleships is getting bigger and bigger.Costs are also rising.

A battleship is estimated to cost 2000 million US dollars!Thirty ships.That is the cost of [-] million U.S. dollars!And it's just an upfront investment.

Then it needs to be shot, maintained, and the navy has to pay wages. This is the real big head!

But [-] million US dollars is really affordable.In terms of later expenses, it is a bit larger, but it is also affordable for the Rothschild consortium and the American consortium.

At most, it is to slow down the construction speed, but the Chinese have also built [-] ships, at least the money spent by both sides is similar.

The issue of naval construction was really supported by Britain and France, so American loans became the next mode of operation.

The United States once again undertook the construction and equipment of twenty battleships, Britain added five more, and France added five more, for a total of thirty ships.

The United States, Britain, and France, the three major powers once again increased the number of battleships manufactured, and the Republic of China also seemed to be secretly building battleships. [

The vigorous naval possession race started again.

It's just that this time the protagonist is no longer Britain or Germany, but a naval arms race between the Republic of China and the United States. Britain and France can only be regarded as the second and third lines.

At this time, the Republic of China really planned to build battleships, but it didn't mean to build [-] battleships, it just wanted to build one or two ships.

The battleship manufactured this time has a designed tonnage exceeding 406 tons, a main gun with a caliber of 28mm, a designed maximum speed of [-] knots, and thick armor.

This is the concept of a super battleship.

This kind of battleship was named 'Famous General Class', and the first one was 'Huo Qubing', which was the first super battleship named after the future in the Han Dynasty.

The purpose of building this super battleship is to increase the atmosphere of this world naval arms race and make it look more real, so as not to let Europe and the United States know that they have been tricked too early, so that Europe and the United States can build enough battleships. At that time, the navies of European and American countries were very embarrassed. Battleships were built, but if the steelmaking was dismantled, money was wasted.But if you continue to equip it, it is still a waste of money.

In fact, among the battleships built by the Republic of China, only one is a real battleship, and the others are all merchant ships, all of which are large merchant ships of 5 tons, which are used to transport bulk commodities such as ore and grain.When merchant ships are large enough to have a displacement of 5 tons, they can carry a lot of goods at one time.According to the design, these 47500-ton merchant ships can have a load capacity of 88 tons and a draft of [-] meters. They are usually moored in small ports.

This is a very large merchant ship that Huadong Shipyard decided to build after several years of research and technological progress in many fields.

At this time, after the First World War, the merchant ships of all countries in the world were generally only about [-] tons, and the large ones were [-] tons, and the [-] tons were very few.

However, most of the merchant ships used by the Republic of China to transport bulk cargo are 5-ton ships.The 5-ton class is in the world, except for the [-]-ton tanker built by the Republic of China.There is no ship with a tonnage of [-] tons, not even warships.

The [-]-ton merchant ship is not the largest, and many merchant ships in later generations have reached [-] tons.However, it is obvious that such a large merchant ship cannot be built with the technology of this era.

In 1922, the iron and steel output of the Republic of China had exceeded 18 billion tons, and a large amount of iron ore was needed every year. Due to the limitation of external iron ore production, the mining of internal iron ore had not yet been stopped. Therefore, Iron and steel production is mainly concentrated in North China, West China, and coastal areas.

With the increase of external iron ore mining, the iron ore that can be imported is also increasing.Therefore, more and more large merchant ships are needed.

end of the year.In the Guangdong area of ​​the Republic of China, a top-blown converter with a daily output of 5000 tons of molten steel was successfully built, and steel production entered a large-scale stage.

The world at this time.For example, the United States, a major steel-producing country, still uses open-hearth furnace technology to produce steel.The largest open hearth furnace in the United States produces only 600 tons of steel per day.

Moreover, not all iron ores can be smelted in open hearth furnace steelmaking, and iron ores with stronger acidity cannot be smelted.Because compared with the two, oxygen converter steelmaking has the following advantages. 1: Less land occupation and low infrastructure costs.It is about 60-70% of the open hearth furnace; 2: The smelting time is short, and a furnace of steel can be smelted in about 40 minutes, so the production efficiency is high and the operating cost is low; 3: The furnace life is long, 1-5 times that of the open hearth furnace. Less consumption; 4: Strong adaptability, many types of smelted steel, good quality and low cost.

Moreover, converter steel is very convenient in the follow-up treatment of molten steel.The cost of steel rolling and other links has also been reduced.

The iron and steel smelting technology of the Republic of China has already shocked the world.The United States and other countries have also begun to vigorously study converter steel, but they are obviously one step behind.

The steel-making furnaces of the Republic of China have reached the level of 5000 tons per day, while the United States still has 600 tons. The gap is more than eight times, and the cost cannot be compared at all.

Steel is bigger and cheaper.

The metallurgical technology of the Republic of China creates a lot of benefits every year.Because mining uses advanced open-pit mining technology, and metallurgy uses top-blown converters, the cost is reduced again. In terms of transportation, large ships and containers are used for transportation, and the cost of steel is very low. [

Therefore, this year's military intervention in Russia did not have much impact on the Chinese economy.

In the blink of an eye, it was 1923. This year, the Spring Festival of the Republic of China was passed in a dull manner, but it was the most comfortable Spring Festival since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

After a year of productive labor, the common people's income has generally increased.The central government of the Republic of China, as usual, raised the ordinary salary level after the year by 50 yuan during the Spring Festival!

According to this level, ordinary workers can earn 700 yuan a year with incentives, while the more tired workers on the construction site can earn about 800-900 yuan a year.Skilled workers can earn thousands of yuan.And those smugglers can get a salary of 30 yuan a month.And those whites and blacks with green cards have a salary of 40 yuan a month.

"After raising the wage level this year, people's ability to consume cars has increased, and with the end of the intervention in Russia and the increase in steel production, we should vigorously promote the consumption of cars." Jiang Yu began to discuss.

The consortium is getting better and better, and the initiative in the world is gradually being controlled by the Republic of China. This year's Spring Festival is also a very comfortable one for Jiang Yu, Zhou Ziyue and others.

"Huh! It's time to vigorously promote automobile consumption." Jiang Yu nodded and said, a large amount of steel has been produced, so now it has to be consumed by automobile consumption.

Engineering construction cannot consume so much steel.

"Next year, our steel output will increase again by 4000 million tons to 22 billion tons. Therefore, while opening up car consumption, we can also increase car driving training in schools, so that students can have more interest in car consumption after they leave school. In addition, we need to reduce the number of buses so that people have to buy cars.” Zhou Ziyue said that next year, 25 top-blown converters with a daily output of 5000 tons of molten steel will be built. The steel production in the Republic of China has entered a completely large-scale stage. At the same time, some steelmaking furnaces with backward production capacity will be eliminated to form a high output of 22 billion tons.

At this time, it is very simple for the Republic of China to increase steel production, because since the top-blown converter technology appeared ten years ago, a large number of steelmaking talents have been trained in the past ten years.Technology has been thoroughly understood.Coupled with the improvement of the industrial system, productivity, if only the blind pursuit of steel production.The speed will also increase.

However, when steel is produced, it must be able to be used.So people need to consume, a lot of consumption.

"Not only do we need to sell cars domestically, but we also need to vigorously sell cars in dependent countries. We need to engage in large-scale installment payments, and at the same time, we need to strengthen public opinion propaganda so that ordinary people can spend their money with confidence." Jiang Yu added, Chinese Love to save money.This is not a good habit for the consortium, and the currency cannot generate value without circulation.

If the people don't spend their money, the country can only increase taxes.In order to build more industries.

Therefore, public opinion still needs to promote consumption.

Given the current employment situation and welfare system in the Republic of China, citizens don't need any deposits at all.After the money is spent, there is no need to worry. Anyway, the country will be guaranteed if you are unemployed.As for those who are not ROC citizens.If you are a moonlight clan.I'm afraid it won't end well.

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Years later, public opinion in the Republic of China immediately began to advocate automobile consumption.Huadong Automobile Factory produced several luxury cars one after another.

The cars consumed by ordinary people have become the luxury cars before.

The price is higher, but the car is also more advanced.It is no longer a four-wheeled thing like a Ford car, which is no different from a tractor.Rather, it's a decent average family car with a streamlined body.Such a car also consumes more steel.

The lowest level of cars can be sold to those low-income groups.

ordinary income level.Now it is fully capable of consuming the new ordinary family cars produced by the East China Automobile Factory. This ordinary family car is the luxury car style driven by the rich before.

The latest luxury cars have improved performance and appearance, but the price is also higher. There are models for the rich and for the middle class.

The release of new high-end family cars has enabled the emergence of cars that can be consumed by the rich, middle class, and ordinary income classes in the auto market of the Republic of China.

Among them, there is no special production of consumer cars for the low-income class, and they are mainly used in the second-hand market.The market is not yet saturated, so low-class cars are naturally impossible to produce.

When the markets of the high-income class, the middle class, and the ordinary-income class are all saturated, then is the time to cut prices crazily and let the low-income class consume cars.

You know, even if the company has no profits, the country has taxes.When the time comes, the consortium will still be able to produce cars, and it will still be profitable and continue to drive employment.

However, the consumer market is not yet saturated, and the average income class generally does not own a car.

For the people of the Republic of China, the most exciting thing this year was that Song Jiaoren proposed that within three years, most of the people would be able to buy family cars.

At the same time, Song Jiaoren called on the citizens, who have the ability to consume cars, not to be stingy with the money in their hands, and make their own contributions to support the nation.

In public opinion, the benefits of car consumption are also being publicized.

"Buy a car, and you can drive it to any place far away, as long as there is a road there. Buying a car, whether it is day or night, or wind and rain, can give you a comfortable travel environment ..."

Family cars are being assembled continuously from production lines all over the country. The car production lines in the Republic of China are mainly distributed in North China and the coastal areas. Among them, the coastal car manufacturing industry is the most developed, because export is also very convenient.

In West China, the consortium is building a new automobile industry base to facilitate supply to West China, Central Asia, and European markets.

Under such publicity, many people have chosen to buy a family car under the influence of gas engines. Because they can pay in installments, it is not stressful to buy a family car.

The driving school is full, and new driving schools are constantly appearing.

Highway investment has also become a good choice for investors due to the surge in family cars.

In just one quarter, the Republic of China has sold a total of 1500 million family cars, and the price is relatively high, successfully allowing the consortium to recover a large amount of banknotes.

In just three months, the automobile manufacturing industry in the Republic of China produced 1500 million vehicles. It can be said that the explosion of the automobile manufacturing industry is the result of long-term accumulation.

The strong demand for market consumption is the result of accumulation.

The fields of military, administration, education, medical care, business management, scientific research, technical workers, private businessmen, and farmers in the Republic of China have created a large number of middle classes.

With the development of the country's economy and the improvement of productivity, the income level of the relatively large ordinary income class created by the consortium has become the highest in the world this year.

The wages of the ordinary income class in the United States have been surpassed by the Republic of China.

The low-income class is also a large group in the Republic of China. This is mainly a legacy of the old era. In China under the rule of the Manchu Qing in the past, many people lost their ability to work due to opium smoking, disease, and disability. High cultural level, so become a low-income class.

However, such a low-income class will continue to decrease in the Republic of China.In the country of the Republic of China, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can live well. Houses and cars are not a problem.

It is equivalent to the stage where the Republic of China is beginning to use the fate of the country to affect the fate of individuals. If a country is not strict in the distribution of wealth, the difference in the fate of personal names will quickly widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

In the Republic of China at this time, the degree of monopoly of consortiums is increasing, which means that most people are ordinary workers. As long as there is work, the income is similar, but some are more tired and some are much more relaxed.

It is not a whimsical promise to let most families have a family car within three years, because the payment can be made in installments, and the production capacity has fully reached the supply capacity.

It is equivalent to that after people buy a car, they will spend five or six years to repay the money. They only need to pay ten yuan a month to own an ordinary family car.

At this time, the consortium uses credit to allow most families to own family cars, and at the same time, it can continue to collect banknotes in the future, plus mortgages, electrical appliances purchase loans, and a labor force's monthly income can guarantee a relatively comfortable life. At the same time, the surplus money will be returned to the bank.

This is equivalent to the fact that the consortium has obtained a large group of laborers who can pay very little money and can continue to produce and build every month.

Why is this so?

Because the cost of houses, cars, and electrical appliances is relatively low under advanced productivity.But when it is sold to the common people, it is relatively high, but they can afford it. As for the difference between the prices, it is the profit of each enterprise.

With these profits, it is equivalent to giving the consortium a few years of 'white work' after purchasing those commodities.

As a result, the consortium also used these to build a large number of industries for house slaves and car slaves who met the basic needs of life.

This is also known as spending tomorrow's money today.

But while enjoying the house, car, and electrical appliances, they still have money to live a good material life. At least the car fuel costs, the whole family has no worries about food and drink, and they can go out for a trip occasionally. For ordinary people, this is a very good life.

Within three years, the Republic of China will be able to allow most families to buy family cars. Based on the current population of 5 million in the Republic of China, that is to say, nearly 1 million family cars will be produced within three years.Family cars these days are not as complicated as later generations, and 1 million cars is not a big problem. (To be continued..)