Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 783 Industrial Giant
According to the gold strategy formulated by the Ministry of Finance of the Empire, the gold transactions of backward and developing countries are controlled first through capital export.To Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and other Nordic countries, as well as some African countries, because these countries are in a weak position in international trade, the loss of international currency settlement in gold is too great for them to bear.Therefore, after China's Dragon Coin became an international currency, these countries stored gold in China, so that they saved the huge loss caused by the loss of gold in international settlements and increased trade income.And China, by continuously gathering their gold reserves, slowly gathers gold from all over the world to its own country, increasing the overall gold reserves.

Of course, this situation is also very risky.Countries that store their gold in China must maintain good international relations with China, otherwise their gold will be detained by China and they will suffer heavy losses if they turn their backs.In this way, China is tantamount to controlling these countries indirectly, making them more biased towards China in international affairs.

After the underground royalists in the Soviet Union secretly transferred the treasury gold to China, they immediately became bold, because the gold was in China, and they no longer had to worry about it.At the same time, the Bolshevik Party has lost the actual support of China and has become a toothless tiger.

The post-war Soviet Union is achieving unprecedented development. Under the sweep of the red storm, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and other countries followed suit to reform their national systems and merged into the United Soviet Republic.In his hands, Stalin holds the territory of the country second only to China in the world, the largest standing army in the world, and the population size second only to China. He has become one of the most powerful figures in the world, even Britain and the United States In many ways, other countries had to follow Stalin's face and act.

The Soviet economy has been developing rapidly in the years before and after World War II.During World War II, Germany's aggression against the Soviet Union interrupted the normal development process of the Soviet economy.In the western part of the Soviet Union where the industry is the most developed, the Soviet military and civilians fought against most of Germany's war forces, including 70% of the army, 55% of combat aircraft, and many slave countries for more than three years. War on the ground and in the air, meanwhile, in the rest of Europe, including Germany, no country except Italy has engaged in large-scale coordinated land and air operations on its territory for more than a year, and the war on Italian territory Confined to the backward southern regions, industrial northern Italy was spared the devastation of large-scale wars.

The devastating war that lasted for several years caused unprecedented damage to the Soviet economy.The war destroyed 31850 industrial enterprises, 1710 cities, 7 villages, and more than 600 million buildings in the Soviet Union. 2500 million people were homeless, and more than 2 million Soviets lost their lives in the war. The total number of deaths in other European countries in World War II.The direct material loss suffered by the Soviet Union was estimated at about 3500 billion US dollars, accounting for one-third of the social wealth of the Soviet Union at that time.The war reduced the industrial output of the Soviet Union by a lot compared with that before the war, while the American industry increased by about double that of before the war.The gap between Soviet industry and the United States has widened again, let alone China.

After the war, the Soviet Union first implemented the fourth five-year plan to restore the economy.If the pre-war economy is 100 percent as the standard, by the tenth year after the war, the Soviet Union's industry is 166 percent, the United States is 233 percent, Italy is 60 percent, and the United Kingdom is 131 percent. 111% for France and 92% for Germany. It has to be mentioned here that since the post-war German economic lifeline was controlled by China, the German economy did not fall in a large area due to the stimulation of China's large-scale investment. After one or two years of adjustment, it is on the rise again. Of course, China has made much more profit from it.The rapid development in the first five years after the war enabled the Soviet Union to firmly establish its position as the world's industrial power.

From the second five years after the war, Soviet industry continued to develop at a relatively high speed. According to the world industrial index published by the United Nations Bureau of Statistics, the industrial production in 5 was 1910 per thousand. By 1000, the Soviet Union and Western countries The development of industrial production in China is as follows: 1915 percent in the Soviet Union, 1264 percent in Italy, 637 percent in Germany, 916 percent in France, 791 percent in the United States, and 2310 percent in the United Kingdom.This shows that from 1190 to 1910, the industrial growth of the Soviet Union was much higher than that of all western developed countries.

In terms of agriculture, the average annual growth rate of agricultural production in the Soviet Union was 3.2 percent, while that of the United States was 2 percent, that of Germany was 2 percent, that of France was 2.3 percent, that of the United Kingdom was 2.4 percent, and that of Italy was 2.2 percent. .The growth rate of agricultural production in the Soviet Union was faster than that of several major Western countries, and the grain output also reached 0.79 million tons.

Due to the rapid industrial development of the Soviet Union, its economic power is getting closer and closer to that of the United States.According to the calculations of the Soviet Union, the national income and industrial production of the Soviet Union in 1915 were 67 percent and 80 percent of the national income and industrial production of the United States respectively.

Before World War II, the industrial production of the Soviet Union was far lower than that of Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. At that time, the industrial production of the Soviet Union was only one-sixth of that of Germany, and only one-fifth of that of the United Kingdom. The production exceeds the sum of the industrial production of France and Germany, and even reaches the level of the United Kingdom.

Before the war, the Soviet Union only produced 19 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, ranking eighth in the world and sixth in Europe.After the war, the Soviet Union produced 8 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, accounting for 6 percent of the world's electricity output, ranking fourth in the world, and its electricity output exceeded the total electricity output of the Nordic countries.

Before the war, the steel output of the Soviet Union was 420 million tons, accounting for only 4% of the world's steel output, falling behind the United States, Germany, Britain and France.After the war, the steel production of the Soviet Union reached 1.48 million tons, accounting for 20 percent of the world's steel production, surpassing the steel production of Britain and France and ranking first in Europe.

Let's look at the Eastern European countries under the wings of the Soviet Union, and their economies are also booming.After the founding of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries successively embarked on the road of socialism, and their economies have developed rapidly since then.If the industrial production before the war was 100%, by this time, Hungary was 133, Czechoslovakia was 123, Poland was 343, Bulgaria was 688, Romania was 453, Austria was 740, and Ireland was 600.The industrial production of the socialist countries in Europe has more than doubled to seven times compared to before the war.

From the perspective of major industrial products.The per capita electricity consumption at this time was 4098 degrees in Bulgaria, 4674 degrees in Czechoslovakia, 2864 degrees in Hungary, 3324 degrees in Poland, 2882 degrees in Romania, and 4653 degrees in the Soviet Union.The per capita electricity consumption of all Eastern European socialist countries exceeded the world's per capita electricity consumption by 1849 degrees. Before the war, except for Czechoslovakia, which exceeded the world's per capita electricity consumption, other Eastern European countries were still far below the world's per capita electricity consumption. At this time The gap between the average and Western European countries has narrowed considerably.

Before World War II, the per capita steel output of Eastern European countries was much lower than that of any of Germany, Britain and France.The per capita steel output of Eastern European countries is now 452 kg, lower than Germany's 712 kg, but higher than France's 431 kg and Italy's 202 kg.

However, now Stalin has no time to be intoxicated by the bright prospects of economic prosperity. He is working day and night to eliminate all kinds of opposition forces inside and outside the Communist Party. Now the deputy of the Soviet Council of Ministers, Mikoyan, has brought him even worse news. .

"Comrade Stalin, I have to tell you a regrettable thing!" Stalin's confidant Mikoyan suddenly appeared in front of the head of state, interrupting Stalin's meditation.

"Is there anything more important than hitting Trotsky?" Stalin looked calm, but his heart was already tense. Judging from the other party's expression, it must be the damned Mikoyan who messed up everything.

Mikoyan looked at Stalin with innocent eyes, and said, "The gold in the treasury is gone!"

"What?" Stalin's hands trembled, and the big pipe he was holding fell to the ground with a thud. He stood up suddenly, his eyes seemed to burst into flames, and he looked at Mikoyan incredulously, and asked, "Why?" What? Where did the gold go?"

Mikoyan was taken aback by the other party's eyes, and looked down at the floor with an innocent face, as if he wanted to say that it was none of my business.

It took a long time before Stalin withdrew his murderous gaze and asked, "Check the officials and guards guarding the vault. I want to know where the gold is?"

Mikoyan really didn't want to use this matter to hit the head of state anymore, but since the other party asked about it, he had to bite the bullet and said: "The officials guarding the vault are all dead. I only know that a group of mysterious people transferred the gold, but I don't know Specific where to go!"

Veins popped up on Stalin's forehead, and he shouted loudly: "Then go and catch those so-called mysterious people, and ask them where they transported their gold?"

Mikoyan reminded in a low voice: "But the guards of the vault all died strangely! The outside world thinks that we embezzled the gold, and killed people to silence it!"

"Damn it!" Stalin jumped into the Volga River this time and couldn't clean it up: "Then go to the archives. Such a secret thing should be recorded in the secret archives."

"It's a pity that the archives were burned!" Stalin could barely hear what he said. From Mikoyan's aggrieved expression, it could be seen that all the clues were broken!
"This is a premeditated murder! This is covering up the truth! The murderers must know the truth, and they know where the gold is?" Stalin immediately analyzed it, and he also knew that things would not be that simple.After all, it is the gold in the treasury, more than 600 tons of gold, which is the entire property of the Soviet Union, and can make any country and individual forces take crazy risks.

"I think gold has flowed into China!" Mikoyan said suddenly.

"Is there any evidence?"

"No." Mikoyan shook his head and said, "I also guessed. Besides China, who else has the strength and courage to steal hundreds of tons of gold from under our noses?"

"Don't guess without evidence." Stalin reprimanded: "This huge sum of money is a huge astronomical figure for countries and individuals, enough for any country or force to take risks. Therefore, except for us, any country or individual in the world They could all be murderers."

(End of this chapter)