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Volume 3 The Road to Rise Chapter 602 America¡¯s Ambition

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    By the end of the last ten thousand years, the world's gold mining volume, stimulated by the war, reached 40,000 tons.  Among them, official gold reserves were subject to wartime gold control regulations.  It surged to 10,000 tons.  Among them, China's gold reserves account for the largest share of the total gold reserves of all countries. Beijing and Shanghai have become veritable world financial centers.  Although London, England, has ceded its status as a financial center to China, the British are not worried about failure because China's annual gold mining volume is much lower than that of the United Kingdom.  The UK only needs to control South Africa, an important gold-producing region, and it will catch up with China in less than ten years and regain its share of global gold production in Switzerland within twenty years.  The Chinese imperial government has long wanted to seize South Africa, because there is so much gold and diamonds there that all the countries in the world are jealous.  However, the imperial government ultimately refrained from taking action, because the imperial government knew that once it did, the British would definitely use all their strength to fight against China.  Although China is not afraid of Britain.  However, a fight with the British is obviously not in the current interest. It will lead to losses for both sides and give other countries an opportunity to take advantage of it.  Only by sowing the seeds of hatred again in Europe will Europe experience another unprecedented world war.  Only then can China truly distance itself from the great powers.  Become a unique super power.  Zhang Yunfei understood deeply that he could not eat hot tofu in a hurry.  At this time, the foundation of the great power of the Chinese Empire was not yet stable, and it still had a long way to go.  After the end of the world war, affected by the economic recession of European and American countries, China's export trade dropped significantly.  Fortunately, the Imperial Ministry of Commerce has already ordered domestic companies to clear their respective goods.  After the war.  Companies in the empire were unaffected by the fall in exports.  Of course, there are also some merchants who are hoarding goods and fail to clear their warehouses in time, resulting in a large backlog of goods and losing money.  The decline in foreign trade is normal.  After all, the war is over, and all countries are busy restoring their national economies and post-war reconstruction.  The demand for China's exports of goods has decreased, and at the same time, due to the decline in economic capacity, it is no longer able to purchase.  Therefore, the Chinese Empire must continue to maintain the high development of the national economy by expanding domestic demand and stimulating national consumption.  The Chinese Empire had a huge war windfall in World War I, so it was rich in funds.  In the same year, the Central Bank of the Empire of China issued a decree that all major banks in the empire would be interest-free in the country. After the major banks adopted the interest-free policy, the imperial finance would provide subsidies.  The empire implemented interest-free banks, which allowed domestic companies to obtain interest-free loans from banks. As a result, the cost of industrial production further dropped and the purchasing power of the people increased, thus stimulating domestic consumption and maintaining the momentum of high growth of the national economy.  At the same time, the Chinese Empire then introduced policies to open up northern, western, and southern Xinjiang to further expand domestic demand.  In terms of policy, the imperial government not only provided interest-free loans to companies building industry, agriculture, and commerce in these areas with small populations and backward economies, but also directly provided financial subsidies to them.  The greater the company's contribution to the region, the greater the financial subsidy from the empire. In short, the imperial government pays the bill entirely, and the major companies do not need to bear any economic risks.     and.  For imperial citizens to settle down, purchase real estate, develop land, etc. in the above-mentioned areas, the imperial government also provides relevant financial subsidies.  Moreover, the local government in the area also cooperated with local banks to develop land and build houses on a large scale to attract citizens to settle here at the lowest price.  Ordinary people can obtain houses and land in the region by paying only a small amount of money. Therefore, as soon as the policy was promulgated, a large number of enterprises and citizens in the eastern and central plains of the empire began to invest, set up factories, and build factories in northern Xinjiang, western Xinjiang, and southern Xinjiang.  settle down.  For a time, the empire launched a vigorous movement to open up backward areas.  The empire's policies have overall expanded domestic demand; at the same time, the empire's urbanization process has also accelerated.  Because of interest-free loans from banks, urban real estate prices have dropped very quickly. The empire has favored policies for citizens who move to cities, allowing them to live in housing first and pay back slowly later.  As a result, the citizens' already high enthusiasm for the city has further expanded.  They moved to cities one after another.  As the Slavs were driven back to the Soviet-Russian European territories from Western Siberia by the Chinese Imperial Army in various ways, nearly 40,000 square kilometers of land in the entire western part of Northern Xinjiang became a no-man¡¯s land.  To this end, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Transportation of the Chinese Empire once again carried out the fourth large-scale national infrastructure construction.  Large-scale construction of railways, roads, and oil pipelines from Baku to the Beiping Fortress began from eastern Northern Xinjiang and northwest Western Xinjiang to western Northern Xinjiang.  At the same time, construction of an oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to Ili in western Xinjiang has also begun.  Five years later, the Chinese Empire will transport oil from the world's two largest oil-producing regions to the Empire through the 6 oil pipelines.  According to the encouragement policy of the Chinese Empire, Chinese people began to move to the Siberian steppes in the western part of northern Xinjiang.  At the same time, the imperial government vigorously promoted the new situation in northern Xinjiang through domestic media.The expanding western region contains large amounts of gold, diamond, and oil.  The media publicity excited the citizens and businessmen of the empire, and they started a gold rush to the Siberian steppes in northern Xinjiang.  The population pressure in the southeastern part of the empire and the Central Plains suddenly dropped sharply.  It has solved many social problems of middle and lower class citizens.  The imperial government implemented the Great Opening Policy.  The post-war Chinese capitalists used the surplus capital and commodities generated by the development of capital.  The imperial government's efforts were only to support the middle class and improve the lives of the proletariat. After the World War, China created a large number of bourgeois-level rich people, but it also cultivated a huge middle class that is close to the second generation.  After the war, the world economy has shrunk. If it is not regulated, the capitalist class will turn its targets to the huge middle class and peasant class in the country.  Zhang Yunfei knows very well that the newly developed huge middle class is the foundation of the empire's long-term stability and prosperity, so it will never be allowed to be suppressed and eroded by the capitalist class.  Therefore, the imperial government stabilized the interests of the middle class through interest-free loans.  Help them survive their early childhood and grow up quickly.  Because interest-free loans prevent the big bourgeoisie from making profits on the middle class.  It will not have any impact on the development of the middle class.  According to the policies of the imperial government, the vast middle class is the foundation of the empire¡¯s national economy, and the super-capitalists of the bourgeoisie should be the main force in the empire¡¯s foreign economic aggression.  Only by guiding the two major economies separately can we prevent huge social conflicts in the country.  at the same time.  The rapid development of the electric power revolution in China has widened the gap between farmers and capitalists in China, but this is because the people are generally wealthy.  Although the farmers at the bottom are not as good as those rich people.  However, they lived a prosperous life and had sufficient food and clothing. The empire's compulsory education system and medical security system made their expenses very high. Especially the farmers who moved to northern Xinjiang, one by one became farmers and ranchers, although they were not as good as those in the mainland.  Life in the city is convenient, but it is enjoyable.  Although the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, the improvement of the overall living standards of the people has made this issue, which has caused fierce conflicts in Europe and the United States, not a major conflict in China.  Chinese people's traditional educational thinking makes people easily satisfied with life.  Everyone has dreams of a rich life, but it is just envy and jealousy.  For the vast majority of Chinese people, a stable life is the most important thing.  After safeguarding the interests of the middle class.  The imperial government also has to serve the interests of the huge bourgeoisie.  To this end, the imperial government proposed an economic plan to aid Europe.  Under the protection of the imperial European policy, the imperial big bourgeoisie exported capital to Europe and plundered European wealth.  At the same time, the empire began a massive modernization of its military.  The surge in military spending stimulates the development of the national economy.  At this time, China¡¯s social structure is already very close to modern social standards.  Seventy percent of the population lives in cities and towns, and the remaining population is scattered over a land area of ??10,000 square kilometers. The land and food issues that have plagued China's history are no longer problems, so Chinese society has been able to develop stably.  After the war, China provided economic assistance to European countries and helped them rebuild after the war, and gradually politically influenced the foreign policies of various governments.  The United States did not join the League of Nations, so in international affairs, the United States was gradually isolated.  but.  After Ouyuan was severely weakened, the US government believed that the United States was China's only competitor at this time, so the conflict between China and the United States began to rise to become the main conflict in the world.  China made a huge fortune from the war in World War I, while the United States paid a huge price for the war but received no benefits.  After the Sino-Soviet War, China's territory expanded again.  The total area reaches 10,000 square kilometers, making it a unique super power in the world.  Including China¡¯s vassal states, China controls the entire Asia and Pacific region except India.  The extent of its expansion caused panic among American politicians and Chiang Kai-shek.  At the same time, as countries around the world increase their demand for new energy sources such as oil, China controls the two major oil-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and Baku.  Supplying oil to Europe not only controls Europe's energy supply, but also makes a fortune.  American capitalists are jealous and naturally begin to be hostile to China.  In this year, in order to stimulate the U.S. economy and respond to China's military threat, the U.S. Congress approved the new "Sea, 6, Air, and Military Arms Act."  Among them, the Navy Bill is still the main military bill. Since China has obtained the most advanced four-class battleships and five battlecruisers of the German Navy, the number of China's advanced warships has increased.  A new threat posed to the U.S. Navy.  At this time, the U.S. Navy has completed construction of five South Dakota-class battleships and five Olympia-class battlecruisers.  It was originally thought that after the completion of these ten-class warships, they would be able to deal with the threat of the Chinese navy.  However, unexpectedly, within a year of being happy, China would directly take back nine of the latest main battleships from the German High Seas Fleet in World War I.  The U.S. Navy worked hard for several years to build it.There were ten battleships, but the Chinese Navy easily took back the female-class battleships, which made the U.S. Navy very depressed.  Fortunately, Britain did not obtain the main battleships of the German High Seas Fleet, otherwise the United States' goal of catching up with the British Navy would be shattered.  As the U.S. Navy becomes more and more powerful, the ambition of the U.S. Navy at this time is no longer just to compete with China, but also to target the British Navy, the world's number one naval power.  According to the requirements of the new bill, the U.S. government believes that after World War I, Europe was severely damaged and the economy could not keep up with the pace of military affairs, which would inevitably lead to various countries reducing their armaments.  This is also inevitable. After the First World War, the consumption of the huge naval, naval and air forces of various countries was huge. With the current economic capabilities of European countries, they simply cannot sustain it anymore.  Because the U.S. government believes that the crisis is the best opportunity for the United States to rise to power.  The United States Seaweed Department directly aims to suppress the Chinese Navy, surpass the British Navy, and build the world's strongest navy.  According to the new bill, the U.S. Department of the Navy decided to build a new U.S. Navy main battleship, the Washington-class battleship, based on the South Dakota class.  For the Shanghai-class battleship, the most powerful battleship of the Royal Navy of China, the Washington-class battleship of the U.S. Navy also has a displacement of 50,000 tons.  However, when the United States launched a triple-mounted sharp mm main gun system, due to immature technology and the fact that China's Shanghai-class battleships were already in service, the U.S. Navy forced the U.S. Navy to abandon the triple-mounted layout and adopt four twin-mounted sharp mm main guns.  Layout method.  As a result, the Washington-class battleship has four fewer 6mm main guns than China's Shanghai-class battleship in terms of firepower, and its firepower is much weaker.  With the reduced number of main guns, the Washington-class battleships had to strengthen the number of secondary artillery and installed twelve twin-mounted 3.5-millimeter guns to make up for the lack of main guns.  But.  The U.S. Navy did not consider the actual combat performance of the warships at all.  At this time, the battleship's engagement distance has increased to kilometers. Especially since Chinese battleships have installed fire control radar systems on their main guns, the effective strike range has increased to 10,000 kilometers.  Therefore, once there is a fight with a Chinese warship, the dual-mounted, 2-mm secondary main guns on the Washington-class battleships will not be able to hit the opponent at this distance.  Therefore, it loses its practical significance.  Regarding the air defense system, the U.S. Navy developed the first model of the Phalanx in the United States by copying the Vulcan Phalanx purchased from the Chinese destroyer.  The Y1 is a complete imitation of the Vulcan Phalanx, using four parallel millimeter machine-guns, but with more ammunition.  However, the air defense effect is far inferior to the Boron 2 Vulcan Phalanx installed on Shanghai-class battleships.  and.  The Americans did not pay attention to air defense and only installed 6 air defense systems.  Compared with the Vulcan Phalanx installed at the Shanghai level, the air defense capabilities of the two are clearly superior.  Washington-class battleships have added secondary main guns.  As a result, its speed dropped sharply. Although it adopted a combustion power system, the technology was far behind China's, resulting in the battleship's sailing speed being only 8 knots, which was worse than the Shanghai-class battleship.  Moreover, the material technology of the rotating shaft of the American warship is not up to standard, and after long-term use, the speed will decrease again.  The special steel-reinforced drive shafts used in Chinese warships have much higher service life and wear resistance than those of Americans.  therefore.  Battleships have been in service for a long time.  The advantages of Chinese warships will become more obvious.  Five Washington-class battleships were built in the same class.  The U.S. Navy named them USS Washington, USS Seattle, USS Everett, USS Spokane, and USS Bellevue.  Similarly, the U.S. Navy is very happy with the construction of battlecruisers.  Since China occupies almost the entire Pacific Ocean, plus Southeast Asia, there are countless islands and long coastlines.  Therefore, the battlecruiser fleet that has always been organized will have an advantage in William's possible Sino-American military conflict.  Germany¡¯s attack on Britain made the U.S. Navy think of a way to deal with China. However, it seems that the Americans have forgotten that in addition to China¡¯s huge maritime territory, it also has a huge mainland as its backing.  In addition to the construction of five Washington-class battleships, the U.S. Navy also approved the construction of five Chattanooga-class battlecruisers.  The Chattanooga-class battlecruiser further enhances its performance based on the Olympia-class battlecruiser. It uses the artillery layout of the Washington-class battleship in the artillery system, mainly targeting the German York-class battlecruiser that the Chinese Navy has just acquired.  The Chattanooga-class battle cruiser has a design displacement of 10,000 tons.  Equipped with four twin-mounted 1mm main guns, old 1mm secondary artillery, 8 10mm inch double-diameter guns, high and flat dual-purpose cannons, single-mounted cannons, the torpedo tubes are guided 1mm torpedo tubes, underwater  Installation, one at the bottom and one under the turrets on both sides.  The design is capable of operating at 4 knots and has an endurance of several kilometers per knot.  It can be said that the Chattanooga-class battlecruiser surpasses the York-class battlecruiser in terms of performance and combat power.  Of course, the battle cruisers built by the Americans surpassed those built by the Germans, but they could not compete with China's Taiwanese battle cruisers.?Battleships are comparable.  Because the Imperial Chinese Royal Navy has been deliberately concealing the Taiwan-class fast battleships, the outside world believes that they are just first-class battlecruisers.  I had no idea it was a brand new concept of fast battleship.  Therefore, the U.S. Navy despises this class of warships and does not regard them as real opponents.  The U.S. Navy built five Chattanooga-class battle cruisers.  Named USS Chattanooga, USS Gordon Stun, USS Tankama, USS Cleveland, and USS St. Louis, the construction time is expected to be two years.  Officially entered service three years later.  Thank you to book friends "Love Yourself" and "Da Qin Tian Wang" for their valuable monthly votes. 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