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Volume 2: Managing Beiyang Chapter 705: War without gunpowder

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    ww.x.om After the end of World War II, the Chinese Empire was in an absolute position of military and economic hegemony.  Although the Chinese Empire has the ability to completely destroy the German League and NATO, people all over the world long for peace. In this environment, the Chinese Empire, which has always claimed to be civilized, democratic, and peaceful, simply does not dare to risk the disapproval of the world and ignite the fire again.  The flames of world war.

    At the same time, Hitler promoted economic integration in Europe and exaggerated the Eastern Threat Theory, which made Westerners full of hostility towards the Chinese Empire and made the Chinese Empire extra cautious in military operations.  Being an enemy of the entire Western world is a taboo for military strategists and does not conform to the national interests of the Chinese Empire.

    Relying on the strong economic strength of the Chinese Empire, launching a smokeless economic war against the German Federation became the first large-scale attack launched by the Chinese Empire in the Cold War era.

    The economic revitalization of the European Community led by the German Federation must first carry out post-war economic reconstruction of European countries.  For people's livelihood, the German League must be given top priority. Otherwise, if it loses public support, Hitler's Western unity will collapse.  For this reason, the first project of the German League's post-war economic reconstruction was to restore people's livelihood and solve the basic living problems of the European people, namely the four basic problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

    However, Europe was the main battlefield of World War II, and basically all the infrastructure of various countries was severely damaged in the war.  The light industry used for people's livelihood has disappeared. On the one hand, it was destroyed by the war. On the other hand, the long-term war has depleted the military resources of various countries, and they have to recruit strong men to supplement them, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of people engaged in agriculture and light industry.  Countries only focus on the development of heavy industry for the sake of war, which is one of the reasons why light industry is abandoned.

    ? Among them, the German light industry is the worst.  Basically, nine out of ten will disappear.  During the war it could be replenished from other countries, and after the war millions of Germans lived on the streets.  Not enough clothes to cover your body and not enough food to satisfy your hunger.

    To this end, Germany had to exchange materials within the member states of the German League.  Exchange German heavy industrial products for food and other light industrial products from other countries.  But other countries are not rich either, which makes Germany's heavy industrial products very cheap, basically at a discount.

    Even so, light industrial products are extremely scarce in the entire German Commonwealth countries.

    And the only one that can provide the German Commonwealth countries with rich light industrial products is naturally the Chinese Empire.  As the only super economic power in the world after the war, the Chinese Empire was not damaged by the war, so it was very rich in various materials.

    When the Chinese Imperial Cabinet formulated a plan for economic retaliation against the German Commonwealth countries, using cheap light industrial products to plunder the heavy industrial raw materials and products of the German Commonwealth countries became an important part of the economic war.

    For example, a ton of rice only sold for 300 dragon coins in the Chinese Empire.  The price sold to the German Commonwealth countries doubled to 600 dragon coins.  The original price of a piece of ordinary cloth was 50 dragon coins, but when sold to Delian, the price doubled to 120 dragon coins.  The same is true for various other light industrial products, which are generally sold to German Commonwealth countries at more than twice the price.  In order to ensure that the Warsaw Pact countries were united, the Chinese Empire formulated a unified price list for the export materials of the countries in the Warsaw Pact system, so that the German Commonwealth countries could not find a second low-price seller.

    The Warsaw Pact monopolized prices, forcing NATO countries to endure exploitation.  It is clear that the NATO countries simply do not have that kind of money to pay.  Therefore, they can only sell their heavy industrial products and raw materials such as coal, iron, and copper at low prices.  High-quality copper ore with an original market value of 200 dragon coins.  The price was reduced to 90 dragon coins by the Warsaw Pact countries, causing NATO countries to suffer huge losses.

    Although they knew they were being exploited, the German states had no choice but to endure the pain and get through the most difficult period until their country's light industry could recover.

    In the three years from 1944 to 1946, the Warsaw Pact countries plundered a total of 2.3 trillion dragon coins from NATO countries.  Throwing out the costs, the direct economic losses of NATO countries amounted to more than 730 billion dragon coins.  The Chinese Empire made a profit of 650 billion dragon coins.

    Starting from the second half of 1946, the light industrial system of the German Commonwealth countries gradually recovered.  Reliance on Warsaw Pact light industrial supplies dropped significantly.

    But soon, the Warsaw Pact countries headed by the Chinese Empire began to dump goods on a large scale against the German Commonwealth countries.  Warsaw Pact goods impacted the European Community market at prices that were nearly 10% lower than the average production cost of goods in NATO countries, severely damaging the light industry of the Commonwealth countries.  This led to large-scale bankruptcies of light industry factories in various countries on the European continent.

    In response to the economic aggression of the Warsaw Pact countries, NATO took rapid action.  Trade barriers were erected across the European continent, and 200% tariffs were levied on goods from Warsaw Pact countries, thus protecting the light industries of European countries to a certain extent.

    The economic war waged by the Chinese Empire against the German Federation included all aspects.  In addition to light industry, heavy industry is also one of the focuses.

    In post-war Europe, although there were more heavy industries than light industries, they also suffered serious damage.  Europe's post-war reconstruction requires a large amount of steel, cement, petrochemical products, etc.Heavy industrial products.  Although Europe itself has met most of its needs, it cannot support petrochemical products.

    During World War II, Germany established a series of coal-to-chemical plants in the country in order to break the oil monopoly of the Chinese Empire.  Although these coalified oils solved a large amount of Germany's fuel needs during the war, the cost was huge, several times the price of crude oil.  During the war, Germany had no choice, but during the postwar economic reconstruction, coal-fired oil seriously hindered the economic recovery process because of its high cost.

    Although the German Commonwealth restored the Romanian oil area and Tsarist Russia also produced oil, it was unable to meet the oil consumption of the entire Europe.  Therefore, this gave the Chinese Empire the opportunity to once again manipulate oil to invade Europe.

    The Chinese Empire first controlled global oil production and transported it to Europe at low prices.  For a time, the cost of imported oil in Europe was less than half of local oil and less than two-thirds of the price of German coal chemical oil. This led many countries to abandon coal chemical oil projects and even stopped importing oil from Romania and the former Soviet Union, resulting in European coal chemical oil factories.  Large-scale collapse, Romanian crude oil companies are losing millions of dragon coins every day.

    By 1946, 90% of Europe¡¯s oil needs depended on international imports.  As a result, the Chinese Empire once again controlled international oil production, raised oil prices, and continued to exploit European countries.

    After several years of post-war reconstruction, the economies of the German League countries have recovered somewhat despite being severely exploited by the Warsaw Pact countries headed by the Chinese Empire.  German firefighting was based on the former Soviet Union's economic model, which developed rapidly.

    In 1947, Germany's gross national product reached 61.5 billion yuan, returning to pre-war levels.  Although it is still more than seven times lower than the huge gross national product of 455 billion dragon coins of the Chinese Empire, the world's largest, the speed of Germany's economic development is obvious to all.

    Faced with the rapid rise of the German economy, the Chinese Empire naturally increased its vigilance.

    wxs.o
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