The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 131: Huge profits from trade with Russia

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It is no exaggeration to say that the equipment level of the Chinese Army and Chinese Air Force at this time is already ahead of any country in the world.

At the same time, the combat concept has already exceeded a hundred and eight thousand miles. [

However, at this time, China still hides a lot of equipment from exposure. The army and air force have a large amount of military technology reserves, and the navy technology has also begun to vigorously research.

Especially in the study of aircraft carriers.

China, which has already recovered the Liaodong Peninsula, will build a secret shipyard in Dalian, where it will conduct research and development on aircraft carrier technology.

As spring was approaching, in order to speed up the industrial development, Jiang Yu personally went to the construction site this year and called on the workers to celebrate the Spring Festival on the construction site.

If you go home to celebrate the new year and then come back to start work, you will have to delay a lot of development time.

If it is a worker in the county, that's the so-called.

In order to let the workers who stayed on the construction site have a good year, Jiang Yu also asked each construction site to prepare a very rich New Year's Eve dinner, and spent New Year's Eve with the workers at the construction site.

"In order to make the country develop rapidly, Marshal Jiang personally went to the construction site to share weal and woe with the workers."

Major newspapers followed up with reports, and aroused widespread support. Under the call of Jiang Yu, the gentry from all over the country brought gifts to visit the workers who stayed on the construction site and continued to struggle on New Year's Eve.

Only in the north due to heavy snow weather, the construction site was suspended.

In the south, where there are more construction sites, construction is carried out as usual.

The workers also felt the warmth brought by the society. The human touch of this era is still very strong, and after the foreign war, there is no indifference among the Chinese people at this time.

The Air Force is also struggling at the close of the year.

Before the Spring Festival, [-] Mosquito bombers and [-] Longbow bombers bombarded Japanese ports indiscriminately.

Among them, the Longbow bombers were responsible for bombing the major ports in Kyushu and Shikoku, and the mosquito bombers bombed the ports in Japan's Honshu Island and Hokkaido.

The bombing was successful, and Japan's maritime traffic was basically completely paralyzed.

At this time, the Japanese can only travel between the islands in small boats, which is extremely inefficient, and there are no boats left to go to other countries.

On New Year's Eve, two hundred Mosquito bombers flew over Tokyo, Japan, and sent Japan a holiday gift—burn!

Japan also celebrates the Spring Festival, but during the period of Emperor Meiji, the lunar calendar should be regarded as the Gregorian calendar, but in fact the Japanese still celebrate the Spring Festival according to the lunar calendar. [

Two hundred mosquito bombers carried 320 tons of bombs and dropped them from low altitude into the wooden houses in Tokyo, Japan.

Combustion contains thermite, which has a very powerful combustion ability, and can even burn through steel.

Japanese houses are also made of wood, and as soon as they were burned, they immediately caught fire. Two hundred mosquito bombers were thrown in a line according to the direction of the wind.

The fire points are connected together, and with the help of the wind, they quickly spread in the direction of the wind.

People in Tokyo were unprepared, the fire quickly engulfed a large number of houses, and soon formed a flame storm under the action of the wind. Once this effect was formed, the change of air circulation made it almost difficult to extinguish the fire.

The only way is to set up a barrier.

But apparently the Japanese government's response was a bit slow on this day, and most of the Japanese firefighters went home for New Year's Eve.

When Japan organized personnel to demolish houses and set up isolation zones, the fire had been burning for six hours. About [-] Japanese people were engulfed by the fire, and more than [-] Japanese people returned home. The Japanese government also suffered. huge loss.

However, before Japan concentrated and transported those valuable things to the United States, the ships were sunk and captured, and most of Japan's wealth has been emptied.

Now that is some real estate.

And that night, the mosquito bombers that returned to Tokyo again dropped a large number of leaflets on Tokyo.

The leaflets are all about "Japan is immoral, pretends to be the emperor, and offends Tianwei."The Celestial Empire has awakened, and if it persists, Japan will be bombed into scorched earth' and other threats.

At the same time, there are some historical materials, which describe that Japan was only a slave society in the Tang Dynasty, and it was Chinese culture that made Japan jump directly to a feudal society.

The so-called emperor of Japan is a descendant of Amaterasu, itself is a lie fabricated by the Japanese rulers, and even Amaterasu is just a fiction.

After seeing these leaflets, many Japanese people are unwilling to believe, but some Japanese people choose to believe because they are really afraid.

Facing the rise of the Chinese Empire, the inferiority complex in their hearts was once again ignited, and many Japanese began to complain about the Japanese Emperor, why did they go to fight the Chinese.

But they did not reflect on it, the original war was precisely because of their support.

"From Genghis Khan to the wars against the Qing Dynasty and Russia, Japan has won. There is no war that Japan cannot win." The government waged war abroad.

In the scorched earth, fear and inferiority towards China arose in the hearts of the people of Tokyo.

Many Japanese people have begun to realize that it is very stupid to fight against China, which will ruin the future of the entire Japanese nation.

There are also differences among the Japanese, and not everyone is devoted to the emperor.

These Japanese began to carry out secret uprising activities one after another, trying to overthrow the Japanese emperor, and then surrender to China, so as to end the war that will last for a long time. [

However, many of them were suppressed by the Japanese government, and no big climate was achieved.

At this time, China's bombing of Japan was only the bombing of ports, and the bombing of cities was just the beginning, and Japanese society had not yet fallen into chaos.

It's just that as more and more Japanese are homeless, the contradictions will definitely continue to sharpen.

Soon in February, the number of Mosquito bombers that the Chinese Air Force bombed Japan increased to 350. Mosquito bombers use wood as raw materials, and the expansion of production capacity is easier and faster.

These Mosquito bombers began to frequently bomb Japanese cities.

Japan organized some anti-aircraft firepower, but it was useless for these agile, fast, and ultra-low-altitude mosquito bombers.

Years ago, China's land, sea and air forces also began operations to recover Penghu.

With the bombing of the air force and the artillery support of the navy, the Chinese army landed on the Penghu Islands. Although the battle was not very smooth, because the Japanese army dug many underground fortifications on the Penghu Islands, Penghu was still fighting for two consecutive days. taken back by China.

Those underground fortifications in Japan were also destroyed by Chinese fire fighters.

The Penghu Islands, which had been lost for 20 years, returned to the embrace of the motherland before the Spring Festival this year.

"The bombing of Japan will continue. Our next step is to destroy Japanese factories, especially the arsenal. We cannot let the Japanese make anti-aircraft guns. Otherwise, when our heavy bombers fly to Japan, they will probably be bombarded by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery." fall." Jiang Yu ordered the air force: "We will gradually disintegrate Japan like a surgical operation, and first break Japan into an agricultural society."

It's too exaggerated to call back the Stone Age.

But it is very easy to return Japan to an agricultural society. Just blow up Japan’s industrial facilities, factories, power stations, dams, railways, and bridges, so that Japan’s law can proceed normally. Produced to complete the dismemberment of Japan!

After Liu Jinglong received Jiang Yu's order, he immediately established a bombing headquarters in Busan, North Korea.

And Jiang Yu continued to issue orders to the navy to continue laying mines around Japanese ports to prevent the intervention of Britain, the United States and other countries in the situation in Japan after the war.

Cut off Japan's contact with the outside world as much as possible.

At this time, Japan already knew some of China's military secrets and could not be stolen by Britain, the United States and other countries.

After the establishment of the North Korean Busan Command, the bombing command conducted a comprehensive investigation and data collection of roads, bridges, power stations, dams, factories, and mines in Japan.

Then formulate daily bombing missions and select the most valuable targets for bombing.

Under such bombing, Japan's industrial operation was almost completely paralyzed, and it lost its imports. In addition, the only remaining mines were bombed and stopped working, and the raw materials needed for Japanese industry were almost completely cut off. , electricity, water conservancy, and factories were bombed, and there was nothing to produce.

It is precisely because of this bombing plan that Japan did not have anti-aircraft guns at all.

And the number of China's bombing planes against Japan is also increasing at a rate of 150 per month. Although some mosquito bombers will be shot down in every month's bombing, the number of shot down is not many. So five or six mosquito bombers were lost.

And the further back, the weaker Japan's air defense.

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The Spring Festival of the year Yimao came amid the atmosphere of constant bombing against Japan. This year's Spring Festival was not considered lively, because the whole country was busy with investment, construction, and production.

Due to the good economic situation, the gentry from all over the provinces took out their money and formed local investment companies to invest in various industries.

There are too many projects that can be invested. In this golden age, with the oppression of foreigners, the "warlord oligarch consortium" of Jiangyu to provide technical guidance to them, and the stability of the national situation, almost everything can be invested.

The iron and steel industry chain is the star industry in this investment boom. Investment companies from all over the country are looking for iron ore for mining, and some have their own steel factories.

In addition to steel, coastal investors have a lot of investment in shipbuilding.

Although private shipyards cannot build big boats, as long as they are about the same size and can be sold at a good price, even fishing boats can make higher profits.

Nowadays, agricultural production in countries such as Britain and France is deserted, food imports are increasing rapidly, and fishing profits are also huge.

Especially now that Japan is defeated, the Japanese sea area has become an area where Chinese fishermen can gallop, and the rich fishery resources there have become China's fat.

Further north is the Russian fishing ground, which has not been penetrated for the time being.

Historically, after the fall of Russia, the red bear sold the Far East fishery resources to Japan in exchange for [-] yen, and then directly supported Sun Dapao's Northern Expedition.

The Beiyang era, known as the most civilized in Chinese history, was ended by the red hairy bear and Sun Dapao.

History has changed and such a situation is no longer possible.

Moreover, Russia's Far East fishery resources will also be in China's pocket in the near future.

Fishing vessels in these waters are prohibited from using trawlers, because those fishery resources have been identified by the Chinese government as long-term occupation, so overfishing is prohibited.

However, the ocean-going fishery company under Jiangyu's "warlord oligarch consortium" drives a large number of trawlers to carry out "extinct fishing" in various high seas around the world.

Jiang Yu even started to invest in fishery companies in some countries with rich fishery resources, such as Newfoundland. There are a lot of cod in the Newfoundland fishing grounds, which seems to be endless.As well as the Peruvian fishing grounds, where there are a large number of fish, although they are not eaten by humans, they can be used to extract fish oil and fish meal, which is a good breeding feed.

The fishery industry has brought back a large amount of protein to China, making up for the insufficient supply of eggs, meat and milk as the development of the aquaculture industry cannot keep up with the economic development for a while.

With enough protein intake, people's appetite will drop significantly.

For a worker who purely eats to obtain protein, the amount of food in one meal will definitely make the eyes of the 21st century travellers drop, because in the 21st century, they have never seen such edible food.

In this era, if there is no intake of eggs, meat and milk, it is a common feature of laborers to eat a lot.

This is also the reason why people often do not have enough to eat, because agricultural and sideline activities other than food production are also very important.

Once there is no supply of agricultural and sideline products, the consumption of food by the whole society will be very large.

Therefore, in this investment boom, investing in the breeding industry is also popular, and most investment companies in various places will build one or two breeding farms locally.

In 14, China's grain output was indeed quite a lot, but due to the export of grain, grain was still distributed according to demand in 15.

Now exporting grain is very profitable, and the surplus grain is naturally exported.

At the same time, a large number of rural cooperatives have been set up in various places. Some of these rural cooperatives mechanized the land, that is, each farmer and landlord who owns the land merges the land together, and then distributes the equity according to the number of acres of land, and then borrows money to purchase agricultural machinery for mechanization. Production.

The liberated labor force can go to work in factories, or specialize in planting some cash crops such as fruit trees on the hills.

Some rural cooperatives specialize in the cultivation of cash crops, some fruit trees, some Chinese herbal medicines, some cotton, and some silkworms. The cooperatives provide technical assistance to farmers.

A lot of feed factories and fertilizer factories have also been built all over the country. Because of the war, these factories are not making money.

Due to rising prices, the central government also announced wage increases.

The wages of workers working on the construction site have also been raised to 35 yuan a month in Yanhuang coins, which is equivalent to 7 silver dollars.

This wage level is still quite low, which is true compared to the United States.

The monthly income of American workers is at least 30 US dollars, as low as nearly 20 US dollars. American soldiers receive 1 US dollar of military pay per day and 25 cents of pocket money.

In contrast, Chinese workers only receive a wage equivalent to US$35 a month, and soldiers' pay has been reduced due to the emergence of the veterans system.

This kind of demographic dividend is still very useful in the early construction, which has brought huge profits to Jiang Yu's consortium.

In the year of Jiayin, Jiangyu's consortium of warlords and oligarchs earned much more wealth than the national tax revenue, and in the year of Yimao, it was obvious that they would make even more money.

So many orders are in the hands of the consortium.

The cost of production is still very low despite rising prices, and the industrial productivity is not worse than that of the United States, but is more advanced than most factories in the United States. The profits are naturally ridiculously high.

However, this demographic dividend is not conducive to the generation of domestic demand. The real development of a country still depends on domestic demand.

Therefore, Jiang Yu began to adjust the salary level, and planned to raise the national salary level to the same level as that of Europe and the United States after the end of World War I.

Only then will there be sufficient domestic demand and demand for bulk commodities.

At that level of wages, the prices of food and other daily necessities will naturally rise, but the prices of industrial products will not.

Just like the soft sister coins in the 21st century are becoming less and less valuable, but the prices of electronic products are constantly falling.

After the wage level increased, after the workers got the money, some chose to save it, and some chose to invest it.

As the central government began tax reforms, the salt tax was completely abolished, and the personal income tax was increased at the same time. Workers had to pay taxes when they saved their money.

Therefore, more and more workers choose to invest their money, and the stock market is booming, and the assets of workers are also increasing, which also provides financial resources for these workers to buy bulk commodities in the future.

The rise of local investment has also led to an upsurge of local road construction at their own expense. Of course, there have also been a large number of upstarts who have made a fortune by investing in factories.

The demand for transportation vehicles and mechanical equipment has soared, which has made the mechanical equipment manufacturing plants and automobile manufacturing plants under the consortium somewhat overwhelmed.

Under such a large demand, the output of mechanical equipment and automobiles is also rising steadily.

The demand for technicians in China is also increasing, but obviously technicians have become a sought-after commodity, and the wage level of technicians has soared all the way to the same level as that of European and American countries.

Some laborers also began to develop in the direction of technicians, and almost all young people went to work as apprentices.

Even those workers in their 30s, many of them actively went to night schools to learn culture, hoping to become technicians in the future.

The lack of skilled workers has also become a bottleneck for the development of many industries.

At this time, the first batch of veterans left the army, and they received a retirement settlement fee, although it was not a lot, but they were able to invest.

Moreover, the military department arranged for them to enter technical schools to learn industrial manufacturing technology, and some were sent to learn how to drive agricultural machinery.

The income of agricultural machinery drivers is not lower than that of technicians. After all, one person has completed the workload of hundreds or thousands of people, and the wages are naturally not much lower.

These veterans came out of the military when the economic situation was good, and it was very simple to arrange work for them.

These soldiers also spontaneously organized investment companies. These soldiers learned culture in the army, and many soldiers quickly became wavers in this investment wave and became new upstarts.

However, after these soldiers broke out, they would generally be absorbed into the East China Chamber of Commerce, becoming new blood injected into the Chamber of Commerce, and becoming new ethnic businessmen.

Soldiers are highly disciplined and can abide by the disciplines and regulations of business associations. At the same time, they also have a strong sense of nationality. Naturally, they are the first choice for business associations to recruit.

As the number of veterans increases and the number of soldiers embarking on the business path increases, the proportion of national capitalists with military experience in the East China Business Association continues to rise.

Jiang Yu is equivalent to bringing another group of soldiers, and the characteristics of the 'warlord oligarch consortium' have begun to emerge.

Under such an investment boom, China's steel production has doubled in 15 to 500 million tons, but the demand for steel is still unsatisfactory. This year, China began to import [-] tons of steel from the United States.

However, it is also very strong in terms of exports. Chinese products are strongly inserted in the Indochina Peninsula, Southeast Asian islands, Australia, and India.

The British colonial market was completely defeated, and its market share was strongly occupied by Chinese products.

Most of the UK's exports are coal, steel, and textiles, which are three types of non-technical gadgets. Once the market is lost, it is difficult to recover.

And the UK is a free trade country, and it is difficult to regain the market without raising tariffs.

However, when the UK raised tariffs, it was the time of the Great Depression of the global economy, and all countries were crazy about dumping and raising their own tariffs.

For now, the main countries in the world for trade protection are the United States and China.

In terms of ship exports, China, which has been deployed in advance, is ahead of the United States. In 14, it manufactured 50 tons of ships. However, at that time, the British order did not arrive. Most of these ships were ocean-going fishing boats and merchant ships.

With the arrival of British orders and the increasing investment in shipbuilding, China's shipbuilding tonnage has increased to 15 tons in 80 years.

The United States only had a shipbuilding capacity of 14 tons in 13 years, but the United States has no shortage of steel and technology, and its growth rate is much faster than that of China. It has risen to 15 tons in 50 years, and a large number of shipbuilding platforms are already under construction. It will exceed China's total shipbuilding in two years.

China does not have the wealth of the United States, and shipbuilding is a monster that eats steel. In order to supply steel supply in other fields, China's shipbuilding capacity is actually limited by steel supply.

In terms of arms, China has continuously received orders for aircraft, artillery, and medicine, and trade with Russia has also begun.

Since Russia's import route in Europe is blocked by Turkey, the routes that can be imported are the Far East, the port of Vladivostok and the Northeast.

Since China is next to Russia, most of Russia's combat material orders are directly handed over to China for production, and some are also handed over to the United States, but the orders received by China are much less.

Because China began to build the Sino-Russian railway, and directly transported materials from Xinjiang to Russia by car, Russia soon stopped placing orders with the United States.

Because the railways can’t transport them, the Middle East Railway has to transport materials produced in China, and American materials can’t be transported in Vladivostok, so it doesn’t make any sense to import more.

The logistics of the Russians was very bad. The soldiers on the front line had nothing to eat and were hungry, but the grain and meat east of the Ural Mountains were moldy and rotten in the whole car.

"It's no wonder that Russia has been classified as a third-rate army. How can such logistics win the battle?" A young officer among the Wehrmacht officers escorting the convoy said with emotion.

"Indeed, but the Russians still have some capital. At least they can make up for some disadvantages through numbers. However...Compared with China, Russia has no advantage in this regard. Perhaps the only advantage is that they are more adaptable to cold climates. Another young officer said, and then asked: "Brother Jin Chen, who do you think this land will belong to in the future?"

"It must belong to us in China. At this time, Russia poses no threat to us, but the commander-in-chief has secretly gathered heavy troops in the northwest provinces. Although it seems to be scattered, it has a tendency to attack Russia at any time. And the commander-in-chief has always asked us to focus on training. The extreme cold battle obviously has other plans for Russia.

The area in Siberia is indeed too cold, but it is different in Central Asia on the Xinjiang side. The climate here is not too cold, and there is a flat river for armored divisions to gallop at will. How can Russia resist the torrent of steel from our National Defense Forces? "

This young officer is called Zhang Zizhong. In the year of Xinhai (11th year), Jiangyu and the Beiyang Army fought fiercely in Shandong, and then took control of the entire Shandong. Zhang Zizhong was admitted to the Huai'an Military Academy at that time. .

Not long ago, Zhang Zizhong received a transfer order and was transferred to the newly established 136th Battalion, responsible for escorting the convoy to Russia for trade.

The one who talked with Zhang Zizhong was Kong Yi, chief of staff of the 106th Battalion, and a young officer who graduated from the Huai'an Military Academy.

"Brother Chen Chen is right. If what I think is right, the commander must intend for Russia to attack Central Asia after being beaten bloody by Germany in Europe, so as to avoid fighting in the extremely cold climate of Siberia. , and from here you can fight all the way to the Black Sea, and at the same time deploy the air force here, it can hit almost the entire territory of Russia, whether it is Europe or Siberia." Kong Yi predicted that he had learned a lot of strategic courses in the military academy, and Kong Yi Also very talented in this area.

"The commander-in-chief reached an agreement with the Russians on the construction of the China-Russia railway this time, obviously to prepare for the war against Russia, but what I don't understand is how Russia's British and French allies will solve it." Zhang Zizhong said in confusion.

"Although soldiers don't care about politics, they really can't ignore politics. With the commander's grasp of the timing, it is obviously impossible to ignore this point. This is what I have always wondered about." Kong Yi shook his head, looking at the same Don't understand the problem.

Naturally, it is impossible for them to know that Russia is about to end.

It was replaced by a red furry bear that Britain and France dreaded. When the time came to fight the furry bear, Britain and France not only did not oppose it, but strongly supported it. There was no political problem.

"The heavy snow will probably melt in a few days, and then we will see the scenery of Russia. I heard from the military that the Russians have a lot of gems, gold, and furs, but they are in short supply of daily necessities. Maybe we Escorting the convoy to Russia this time, the convoy can get back a bunch of good things.” Zhang Zizhong couldn’t help feeling slightly excited, “I just don’t know if there will be any resistance.”

"Now the Russians are eager for us to trade with them. I heard that there are still several convoys going to Russia for trade, and most of them are transporting daily necessities that the Russians lack."

A few days later, the snow began to melt.

spring is coming!

The convoy entered the Kazakhstan region all the way, and made some transactions with local herdsmen and Russians along the way, but the final destination of the convoy was the Ural Mountains, where there were precious furs, gemstones, and gold in large quantities.

The non-governmental trade between Russia and China was obviously carried out through the railway law, because the railway was too late to transport the Russian army's military supplies, and it was naturally impossible for daily necessities to be transported into Russia by railway.

Therefore, the consortium organized convoys to enter Russia for trade, and these convoys were protected by the Northwest Defense Force, and Russia also agreed that the convoys entered Russia under the protection of the army.

The profits earned by the consortium from trade must first be distributed to the military in half, because the profits from trade with Russia are very high. After the spring of this year, the consortium continued to organize convoys into Russia... (To be continued. Please search, the novel will be more Good update faster!)

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