"Xiao Zhou, are you practicing martial arts?" Wu Chenxuan rarely got up early, and in the backyard of the "Wu Office", which is known as the office of the chief executive of Wu Chenxuan, he met Zhou Zhongfu, who was practicing martial arts in the woods.

"Good morning, Sosa!" Zhou Zhongfu has always been polite, although he is the youngest, and he is regarded as a member of the Chinese people with no family background in the secretariat, but he is a young man with a humble personality, quick thinking, and excellent communication and coordination skills, and soon promoted from the third secretary to the assistant to the chief of the national economic section (second secretary) status, recently engaged in the strategic planning of the second five-year plan of the national economy, and the chamber of commerce bigwigs, domestic and foreign financiers, economists have more dealings, broad vision, temperament is closer to a mature economic official.

When Zhou Zhongfu was studying in Nankai School, he worshipped Han Suxia, who opened a martial arts hall in Tianjin, as a teacher, and learned "Xingyi Bagua", and then he served as the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Han Suxia was hired as the chief national arts instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy.

After saying hello, Wu Chenxuan continued to walk forward, thinking that Meng Zhaoying, a sharp-toothed little girl, had become Zou Rong's apprentice, and now she is working in the Propaganda Department of the Xinhua Party, and maybe she will become a female propaganda minister in the future. The development process of later generations has changed too much. Zhou Zhongfu sounded a question, hurriedly put on his suit, and walked two steps quickly to catch up with Wu Chenxuan.

"The main seat." When Wu Chenxuan was secretly happy about his celebrity collecting habits, he heard Xiao Zhou's greeting, and he asked with a smile, "Xiao Zhou, is there something wrong?" ”

"The general seat is about the adjustment of the industrial structure." Zhou Zhongfu hurriedly sorted out his thoughts and continued: "At present, the export-oriented industry developed by China in World War I and the related heavy industry that provided products for the reconstruction of Europe have surpassed Europe and the United States, ranking first in the world, but I think there are certain risks in the development of the export-oriented economy in the future. From a statistical point of view, the cyclical economic crisis in Europe and the United States has become slow, which is inseparable from the huge market of war and post-war reconstruction, but when all this is over, the productive forces that have been developed will not naturally fade, and the surplus of products and the shrinking of the market will probably push the economic crisis to a high level, once Britain, France, the United States and other countries adopt economic protectionist policies, it will inevitably cut off the entire economic cycle, and I am afraid that there will be a very destructive economic crisis at that time, and it will also be a big earthquake for these industrial enterprises in our country. ”

"Well, what you say makes sense, so what do you suggest?" Wu Chenxuan also had to admit that Zhou Zhongfu's vision was indeed far-reaching, and he had already predicted the world economic crisis in the thirties ten years away, but Xiao Zhou still couldn't understand that he was actually contributing to the intensification of this crisis, which was not only a great looting of the economies of European and American powers, but also a knockout game against the national capital that was surging in China. He wants to use this shock to screen out the essence of the national capital that can adapt to the next World War II and the rise of China.

"Expand investment in welfare policies, increase people's incomes, and solve market problems by stimulating domestic demand. As for the capital market, it is necessary to retain the strong and eliminate the weak, and under the guidance of the government, a number of advantageous enterprises or enterprise groups should be formed to resist competition from foreign capital and foreign products. Before the emergence of general trade barriers, the Chinese market will be bigger and more stable, and it will become a big table for private capital. Zhou Zhongfu also has his own considerations about this, and his idea of loving the people and being close to the people is closer to Mencius, so this way of taking the welfare of the whole people to stimulate domestic demand is originally his style.

"yes, I see. In this way, you will also participate in the evening seminar, and discuss it with the chiefs of the four sections of national economics, foreign economics, basic affairs, and military affairs, and make friends in several other classes. After Wu Chenxuan finished speaking, he entered the elevator, leaving the stunned Zhou Zhongfu in the hall on the first floor. It took a long time to come back to my senses. Xiao Zhou, who was taking a shower in the bathroom on the ground, was so excited that he almost didn't need to play Guoti Bagua Boxing, and secretly decided that he must expound his thoughts at the meeting, and strive to make the Second Five-Year Plan reflect what he thinks is the best economic stimulus strategy. But thinking about other peers, Zhou Zhongfu also thinks that Yali Mountain is big.

At this time, the secretariat has been subdivided into ten sections: the National Economy Section, the Foreign Economic and Trade Section, the Infrastructure Section, the Judicial Affairs Section, the Party Affairs Investigation Section, the National Defense Affairs Section, the Culture and Education Section, the Science and Technology Affairs Section, the General Affairs Secretary Section, and the Security Section. There are many young people in these departments, most of them are the descendants of twenty-four confidants or good seedlings found by Wu Chenxuan, Xu Juren, Xiong Bingsan, Duan Zhiquan, Zhang Nanjiang and Cai Heqing, a few bigwigs, among which Zhou Zhongfu, a newcomer, and several other young people are the most outstanding. These young people get together to discuss national plans, policies and programs, and they all express their opinions and argue endlessly, but fortunately, they are all dragons and phoenixes among people, and there will be no lack of natural cultivation, so everyone can distinguish each other after arguments, and they have formed some tacit understanding with each other.

For example, the current eight major departments have their own representatives, such as Zhou Zhongfu of the National Economics Section, Miao Ruoxi of the Foreign Economics Section, Wu Yunzhang of the Basic Section, Wu Jingxiong of the Judicial Section, Mei Yiqi of the Culture and Education Section, Li Weichang of the Party Affairs Section, Zhu Yunjie of the Military Section, and Xu Fucheng of the Science and Technology Section. These eight young people are known as the "eight planets" of the secretariat, in which Miao Ruoxi, Wu Yunzhang, and Xu Fucheng are respectively the Miao family, the Wu family (Wu Ziyu), and the three sons (females) or grandsons of the Xu family. But their talent is not to be underestimated. This meeting was also the first time that they were able to get close to the real core of national policy planning, so several people were holding back their energy to shine at the meeting.

"This war has caused huge loss of life and property to the warring parties and the people of the world. The war wreaked havoc. During the war, about 10 million people died on the battlefield and about 20 million were wounded on both sides; The economic toll of the war amounted to $270 billion. The war also led to epidemics of disease and the spread of famine. led to the end of several empires. The Austro-Hungarian Empire completely disintegrated and was divided into Hungary, Austria and other countries. The Ottoman Empire ended, losing 4/5 of its territory, leaving only the core part of Turkey. The German Empire ended, Germany lost 1/8 of its territory, and its overseas colonies were divided among the Great Powers. There was a revolution in Russia that overthrew the Tsarist autocracy..."A brief introduction to the First World War that had just passed for more than a year was followed by the state of development in China. Although everyone knew about this well, Deng Xianxian of the General Affairs Section still took the trouble to introduce it, and when the introduction of this student studying in France was over, everyone began to discuss the group, and today's meeting is a preparatory meeting to provide discussion materials for tomorrow's chief minister's meeting.

The first five-year plan began in the middle of the First World War, with the help of the spring breeze of the First World War, China's economic base expanded rapidly, and the huge demand brought by the warring countries stimulated the rapid development of China's economy, China has become the largest producer of industrial products in the Far East and the second largest in the world.

The status of the great powers changed. The status of European powers has generally declined, and even the victorious Entente powers, Britain and France, have greatly weakened their national strength. Although China was the first to make efforts and was well prepared, and it made a lot of money in the early stage, it was not as rich as the Yankees. Eventually, the United States became the largest creditor and capital exporter, and the world's financial center of gravity began to shift to the United States. The United States became a military power, and its naval strength broke Britain's "double-power standard". Japan has greatly increased its strength in some respects, and is second only to Britain and the United States in naval power. Imperialist states re-divided their spheres of influence. Germany's colonies in Africa were occupied by Britain and France, and its colonies and spheres of influence in the Asia-Pacific region were occupied by Britain and Japan. Parts of the Ottoman Empire became "mandates" of Britain and France. But the market is always far from enough for the established powers struggling on the revival line, so Britain took the lead in a covert trade protection policy, picking and choosing industrial products from the United States, China and Japan, and occasionally using defaults to crack down on the business of these countries. In general, there will be no hot war in the world, but the contest between the old and new powers is more reflected in the competition for raw materials and markets, and the battle situation on the battlefield without gunpowder is still fierce. The cement that was originally sold for 70 yuan a ton has dropped again and again, and it is already less than 15 yuan a ton, and after deducting taxes and fees, the profit is already minimal. There are many such examples, when French women have to rely on picking berries in the field to fill the stomach of the family, German women go to the fields and factory floors, replacing men to feed the family, the European powers who have buried a whole generation can no longer control the whole world, and poverty has made demand shrink, and the contradictions encountered in the development of the world economy are developing more and more in the direction of excess.

The First World War also spurred the October Revolution in Russia, which transformed Tsarist Russia from an imperialist state into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Worldwide, the social contradictions caused by the shock of the Red Russian Revolution and the wave of unemployment were mixed with the anti-exploitation and struggle for national independence in the colonial countries after World War I. ‘

Although China became the main force in the north to contain the eastward advance of Red Russia and maintain the Provisional Government of Kolchak in White Russia, in Central Asia and Southeast Asia, the Intelligence Bureau and the Unified Investigation Bureau made many small moves to promote the development of local national liberation movements, which had a huge impact on the British and French colonial rule in Asia. The First World War weakened the colonial powers and strengthened the colonial and semi-colonial peoples. In the past two years, extensive anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles broke out in the colonies and semi-colonies, such as the Kazakh single-plank dragon movement, India's non-violent non-cooperation movement against British colonial rule, Afghanistan's victory in the anti-British struggle in the twelfth year of the Republic and its independence,1 Northeast Asia also woke up in the midst of the storm, and the great national uprising against Japanese rule broke out in March of the 11th year of the Republic, and so on. These struggles became the best cover for China's re-emergence in Asia, Britain and France had to accommodate China on many issues in order to maintain the security of their colonies, and even Japan had to settle the Kwantung Prefecture and other areas in order to quell the Korean and Xianmin uprisings, and China gained a rare two-year period of peaceful development after the war.