Can the Chinese Empire use that much oil? (Oil production is a bit exaggerated, don't take it seriously, embarrassment)

In the same way, the scale of the imperial steel industry has reached an annual output of 5.7 million tons of steel, while this year's steel production in the United States is only a little more than 4 million tons, Britain and Germany are both about 3 million tons, as for France only 800,000 tons, and Russia, which is at war with the empire, also has an output of 600,000 tons, and the steel output of the island country is still less than 10,000 tons. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The scale of steel in the Chinese Empire is also the largest in the world, can the empire use so much steel?

The answer is just one word: yes!

Let's talk about oil first, oil has many uses, gasoline, diesel, synthetic rubber, plastics, etc. can be derived from petroleum and widely used in people's lives.

In terms of fuel alone, the empire needs a lot of oil, and there are currently more than 100,000 cars on the roads of the empire, and another 20,000 tractors for various purposes are distributed all over the place, and hundreds of airships are floating in the sky, all three of which are increasing rapidly every year, especially cars, cars have become a symbol of the status of the rich, and the rich have paid for cars, and as there are more and more rich people, the sales of cars will also increase rapidly.

And the Yaoguang of Beidou Automobile is about to launch a new model, and the old model will also be sold at a reduced price, and it is expected that the sales will further increase, and even the empire is still developing a "diesel train", "Diesel train" will be more stable and faster than a steam train.

The importance of steel is more than oil, the development of industry needs to use steel, military industry, shipbuilding industry, automobile industry, even the oil industry also uses a lot of steel, in addition to these, there is also a place that needs to use a lot of steel, that is, railways.

On the railway, a standard track is 25 meters long, the weight reaches 0.75 tons, the "First Five-Year Plan" in the empire built a total of more than 80,000 kilometers of railways, connecting important cities in the country, the most ordinary railway is also composed of four rails to and from the double line, 80,000 kilometers of railways with a total mass of more than 9 million tons.

In the early days of the empire's railway construction, the railway construction was relatively "slow", not because of the lack of labor to build roads, but the lack of railroad tracks, and when the empire's steel production came up, the railway construction began to explode, and the length of the railway built by Xinghua in five years has reached 23,000 kilometers.

With so much steel used on the railroad alone, the Empire's annual steel supply was a little tight, but fortunately, everything was on track, and as the steel industry continued to expand, the Empire would no longer have to worry about steel.

In the five years of the "First Five-Year Plan", the Chinese Empire has built more than 1,000 large-scale industrial enterprises with modern technology and equipment, and industrial enterprises such as tractors, automobiles, heavy machinery, machine tool manufacturing, chemical synthesis industry, and precision instrument manufacturing have appeared one after another, and the industrial output value has skyrocketed several times, and the proportion of industrial output value in the total output value of industry and agriculture has risen from 27% in the first year of Xinghua to 58% of that of Xinghua in the fifth year; The proportion of light and heavy industries in the industry has also changed from 68 to 32 in the first year of Xinghua to 43 to 57.

National income has also increased greatly as a result of the rapid development of industry.

Agriculture, industry, and commerce have always been complementary, and the majority of the population of the Chinese Empire lived on farming, even if they had their own land and planted high-yield crops, the income was still not too much, but the peasant base was too large, which formed an incomparably large market.

During the Manchu Dynasty, Western countries wanted to turn the Manchu Dynasty into their colonies, because they saw that China was a vast land and a large enough population to form a huge market for dumping all kinds of industrial products produced in their own countries.

The basis of the old industrial and commercial development of agriculture, if the industrial development of Western countries does not squeeze their own colonies, it is to squeeze their own peasants, and the best way to develop industry is to increase the output value of their own agriculture and let the peasants earn more money.

Nowadays in the Chinese Empire, the peasants who had surplus money began to buy the products produced in the factories, and the merchants made money, and began to build new factories, recruit workers, and increase the income of some families.

In the five years of Xinghua, the GDP of the United States was US$15.417 billion, the GDP of the United Kingdom was US$6.833 billion (excluding colonies), and the GDP of the Chinese Empire was US$48.6 billion, or about US$7.3 billion, nearly half of that of the United States.

Just looking at the gross national product, if you calculate the per capita income, according to the Chinese Empire's more than 400 million people, the per capita income is really pitiful, only 105 Chinese dollars, about 15.75 US dollars, while the per capita income of the United States reached 229 US dollars, and the per capita income of the United Kingdom was 178 US dollars, which is a gap of more than ten times, I don't know how many years it will take for the Chinese Empire to catch up.

The only thing that deserves to make the members of the Imperial Cabinet happy is that this year's state fiscal revenue has reached 6.72 billion Chinese dollars, although the fiscal expenditure will exceed this figure by a lot, but it still gives the members some hope that the national budget will be able to reach a balance in a few years.

On the other hand, Yan Xueyi has received a document on the five-year income of the Royal Commercial Bank Xinghua, detailing the income and expenditure of the major enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Royal Commercial Bank, and what is shocking is that the total income of the Royal Commercial Bank actually exceeds the national finance, reaching 8.514 billion Chinese dollars, it is worth noting that the Royal Commercial Bank does not need to pay taxes to the state, and in another sense, the Royal Commercial Bank and the Imperial Cabinet exist side by side.

The royal comptoir has huge benefits, but every year its expenditure items are also very large, the biggest expenditure is the military aspect, the empire's millions of armed forces need to be supported by the royal family, but also need to develop a variety of advanced weapons and equipment, its expenses are not ordinarily large.

The second place that needs huge expenditures is the development of the heavy industry of the empire, and the other is the development of the education of the empire, both of which are the top priorities of the military, and sufficient funds must be provided, as for other small and medium-sized projects, there are countless others, and when the empire is in deficit, the royal merchant houses need to come up with funds to maintain the development of the empire.

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In five years, with the efforts of a large number of coolies, hundreds of thousands of kilometers of roads and 80,000 kilometers of railways were built, and cement roads at all levels were all over the country, even in remote areas. The construction of the railway was a little more cumbersome, but 80,000 kilometers of railways have connected the country's major cities, making transportation much faster.

When the empire first began its major road repair program, it encountered a lot of trouble, and there were many coolie storms. The bigger trouble was that the Imperial industry could not provide enough cement and railroad tracks, so that the road repair plan almost came to a standstill, but fortunately, the Empire's industrial development finally caught up with the progress and provided enough cement and rails to make the road repair plan go smoothly.

For this reason, I don't know how many coolies died, but no one would pity the coolies, these coolies were either sinners of the empire or captives of foreign countries, and it was great luck to be able to avoid being directly executed.