Just as the Far Eastern Games were being prepared, the Spring Festival had arrived.

In the past year, China has won a stage victory in the war against China, and it has also gotten rid of the Gengzi indemnity. The most important thing is that the people's life is better.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, people happily eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The Chinese New Year's Eve meals of the people in various provinces are getting better and better year by year, and ordinary people did not even have meat to eat during the New Year, and at this time the tables of the people in various provinces were full of various meat products.

After a busy year, I got a lot of wages, and there was nothing to spend, plus the price of meat was not expensive, and the table of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was naturally enough meat.

Many people had an early Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and rushed to see the Spring Festival Gala.

Every Chinese New Year, film projectionists will screen the video of the Spring Festival Gala in cities and towns, and the coverage is getting wider and wider year by year.

The video will be shown from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth year, and will be shown frequently throughout the year.

Without exception, the screening site was all full, and it was simply empty.

"Look, look, it's time to start releasing it."

...... "Rise up, great country, fight to the death, destroy the bandits of the East, destroy the bandits against humanity, let the anger of justice roll and boil to the great waves, and carry out a war of revival, a sacred war, let the anger of justice roll and boil to the great waves, and carry out a war of revival, a sacred war, our glorious ideals, not allow the enemy to destroy, and resolutely fight against the bandits against humanity...... Rise up, great country ......"

The first program at the beginning of the Spring Festival Gala was "Holy War" sung by the current most popular male singer Zhao Zhongqi, composer: Xia Jun, lyrics: Xia Jun.

Xia Jun plagiarized another song, and the lyrics were changed beyond recognition by him.

Above all, the song prominently celebrates the crimes against humanity in the song.

Against humanity, this is a weapon of war. Western countries, led by the United States, like to put such a hat on their enemies, and at this time in World War I, Germany was also promoted by the Entente and the United States as bandits, and their propaganda was extremely successful.

In this era, Xia Jun is not too interested in crimes against humanity, and this era will be blood for blood, tooth for tooth. This must be the case in China. Because the enemy committed many crimes in China, Xia Jun's ideal was that one day China would carve up China to the great powers, and divide China and Europe and the United States.

When Britain carved up China, it asked if China became strong one day, would it in turn carve up Europe?

According to the original history, that would never have been possible.

…… This time, the program of the Spring Festival Gala has increased again, and in terms of donations, charities have been added, and they can no longer only donate to the political axe department.

Those capitalists donated very much this year, after all, this year's profits have skyrocketed, the amount of donations is three times that of last year, and the East China Group donated 600 million Fuxing coins this year, but the news has already been revealed and included in the budget.

In addition to the donations of the East China Group, the amount donated by other capitalists reached 800 million yuan, and there was no fraudulent donation on this occasion, and they were all received in advance.

Due to the large number of donations during the Spring Festival, next year's budget is even more sufficient.

At present, the East China Autonomous Axe has money, not only donations, but also large orders that have flown in, so that the East China Autonomous Axe has enough financial resources to carry out gold reserves.

"At present, our foreign exchange reserves are increasing every year, it is better to use these foreign exchange to buy gold, and then carry out gold reserves, in order to establish our reading power of the financial system, and now that precious metals continue to flow into our China, we already have the ability to build gold reserves." Li Shengguo made a report at the meeting.

Li Shengguo's identity in the system of East China's political axe is very special, that is, he does not belong to the staff of the political axe, but he is the actual controller of the financial aspect of the East China political axe, Xia Jun just grasps the general direction.

Present sat all the financial experts of East China's political axe, including Chen Guangfu, president of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and several international students who returned from abroad.

The people sitting here are all young.

Not only is Xia Jun young, but these financial experts are also very young, the oldest is only in his early thirties, and he belongs to the ranks of those who have just gotten a glimpse of the way in the West.

"The need to build up gold reserves will allow us to avoid seigniorage in other countries, and storing foreign exchange may be in danger of devaluation." Chen Guangfu also said.

Xia Jun looked at everyone and said, "You come up with a plan." Now the international financial system is now centered on London, England, but after the war, it is very likely to be transferred to New York, the United States, we have to find a way to disperse the center to Hangzhou, but we must not be too hasty, we are still in a relatively layman sequence in this regard, and there are still many places to explore. ”

"If we can have more gold reserves than the United States, then the financial center will most likely move to Hangzhou."

"Ridiculous, how can we have more gold reserves than the United States, and besides, the financial center is not all determined by gold reserves."

"It's just an idea, there's no need to be so excited! And if we don't have it now, it doesn't mean we won't have it in the future. ”

These young experts at the meeting have their own opinions, and Xia Jun doesn't know much about these things, but what he knows is that the financial center is not something that gold reserves can achieve, but it will definitely not work without gold reserves.

Soon Xia Jun left the venue, let them discuss it!

Go home and pick up the baby first.

The two little ones are already two years old and can already babble.

Back home, feeding the two little ones milk, Xia Jun made an ocean call to Tana.

Tana's Abrot Group has been making a lot of money lately, and with the start of the First World War, the arms company of the Ablot Group has also received a number of orders, and by February, it had received orders of 200 million pounds, and the Allies had placed large orders in the United States.

After completing these orders, the Abrot Group can have a profit of nearly 1.5 billion renaissance coins, and the arms are really profitable!

"With so much money, what are we going to do?" Tana asked Xia Jun, "Do you want to continue to expand the scale of arms production?" ”

"Scaling up is definitely going to be needed, but we can't throw all the money on it." Xia Jun said to Tana that he would not be stupid enough to blindly expand arms production.

After all, after the end of the First World War, these arms companies will also face the problem of survival, except for another war, there is no way out, relying on the military's orders simply cannot maintain such a large scale of production.

"And where do we put the rest of the money into it?" Tana now consults Xia Jun before investing, and his opinion has proved to be very correct.

"The purchase of land, as well as the expansion of the non-military side." Xia Jun said, "Now that workers' incomes have increased, there will inevitably be a period of prosperity after the war, and this period is a good time to absorb capital." ”

The Yankees will soon start selling war bonds, as long as the United States enters the war.

These bonds led to the post-war boom in the United States, although bonds were not the main cause, but the main cause was the increase in the income of workers during the war.

The interest rate on war bonds is very good, and when the Yankees participated in World War I, they forced the people to buy bonds, and if they did not buy bonds, they could be arrested by the intelligence agencies if they did not buy bonds and did not support the war.

The United States is not actually a free country.

In order to achieve its goals, the political axe of the United States has always used dark methods.

Just like the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the US political axe obviously knew the information for a long time, but did not avoid it, and this is so that the United States can enter the war.

Just like 911 in later generations, although it is not sure whether it was planned by the United States, the United States definitely had information before 911 happened, but it also did not stop it, this is to fight Afghanistan.

At this time, in order to participate in the First World War, the United States adopted suppressive measures against the voices of the opposition, and the purchase of war bonds was even more semi-coercive.

The political axe of the United States is to play a trump card of freedom, open cooking, human rights, etc., but their behavior is largely inconsistent with these things, so it is necessary to use some shady means to get the people to support the war.

The American boom of the twenties and thirties was a kind of cartel monopoly boom, which was the golden age of monopoly capital at its peak in the twentieth century.

The worker is like a cow that has milk when the world war starts. The post-war period was naturally the golden age of milking, but the less milk was milked, which eventually led to the Great Depression, because workers could not afford to consume those goods, large quantities of food were burned as fuel, and large quantities of milk were poured into the river, which directly contributed to the outbreak of World War II.

The post-war period will be a frantic milking age, a golden age for non-military-industrial complex.

"Alright! We need a detailed plan. Tana said, she naturally knew that the expansion of the military industry would not be supported by Xia Jun.

Because the United States and China are competitors at this time, the group can only use conventional means to expand the scale of the military industry, and will definitely not get any advanced technology and equipment.

And in the future, the United States and China are likely to clash, Tana does not know what the future holds, but he already has some premonitions about the future of the group.

The most dangerous thing is actually Xia Jun's 49% stake, once it conflicts with the United States, it is very likely to be frozen, or hit by the new policies introduced by the US political axe.

Xia Jun naturally has this hunch, but he is very calm, and when it comes to that point, that is, when the war comes, whoever has a hard fist will decide.

…… The resource distribution map of the United States, the second-level one, is sold for 800 million points.

Xia Jun didn't have so many points to buy for the time being, so he still bought a resource distribution map of 100 million, and after this resource distribution map came out, Xia Jun began to sift through this information.

The land where gold, silver and copper are precious metals and minerals must be bought, tungsten ore and aluminum ore must be occupied, and iron ore, manganese ore and oil must not be left behind...... Many of the minerals in the United States are still unexplored, especially in New Mexico, which has been monopolized by gangsters for generations.

All the Abrot Group has to do is buy the minerals in the wilderness and dig them up like crazy, or sit back and wait for the value to rise.

Xia Jun and Tana were cautious when they called, and did not disclose their specific plans on the phone, and the US intelligence agencies often tapped the phone.

However, there is no eavesdropping technology now, but that doesn't mean there won't be one in the future.

Not all of these resource maps were handed over to the Abrot Group, but half and half to the East China Mining Company, which entered the United States in a blatant way, just low-key, and did not want to shoot.

In terms of civilian industries, in the future, the Abrot Group will mainly develop automobile manufacturing, electrical manufacturing, and the production of those daily necessities.

The technology used in these industries is a model that is ahead of other U.S. companies, but somewhat behind Chinese companies, and specifically bypasses trade tariff barriers from within the United States.

…… The Panama Expo entered the evaluation period after the year, and many Chinese companies won the gold medal and the excellence award.

The major newspapers soon turned their attention to the Panama Fair, and the imperial war of words finally subsided a little.

The biggest winner of the Panama Expo was undoubtedly China, whose sudden rise in industry made many countries feel incredible.

After this expo, China's international status will definitely rise, which makes many media very excited, but Xia Jun clearly knows that this rise is not large, and everything still has to rely on force to speak.

This year's Spring Festival Gala was held very successfully, and there were many donations gathered from all over the country, which has reached 400 million Fuxing coins.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Xie Baozhang and Chen Xuanyu went to Xia Jun's house for dinner, and Xie Baozhang also brought two major colons of the navy, one was Zhou Xiulong, a veteran of the East China Navy, and the other was Shi Yaoyun.

Zhou Xiulong is currently in charge of the water system, and Shi Yaoyun is in charge of the underwater submarine. The current Navy does not have too many ships, so the preparation is simple.

Chen Xuanyu brought Liu Wenhong and another chief of staff, Zhang Bolan, over, and it can be said that the three major staff officers of the army have arrived.

On the Air Force side, only Deputy Commander Zheng Chengtao arrived.

Xie Baozhang hugged Xiao Pingqi, but the little guy was so scared that he cried, laughed embarrassedly, and had to hand over the little guy to Xiao Mengmeng to clean up.

Li Shijing and Mei'er were cooking in the kitchen, and a series of home-cooked dishes with full color and aroma were served on the table.

"Chairman, I heard that there is an extra budget of 1.2 billion this year!" Xie Baozhang asked when he was chatting with Xia Jun, and Chen Xuanyu said, "I also heard, 1.2 billion!" Now we are really rich in East China. ”

"Huh! You've got a good nose. Xia Jun smiled and said: "But this is a donation, the people's money has to be used on the people, don't think about it, all the money has to be invested in the infrastructure." ”

"It seems that Lao Tao will laugh in his dreams this time." Xie Baozhang said with a smile, under normal circumstances, there is a budget, and the Ministry of Education is the first consideration.

"I'm afraid it won't be Lao Tao's turn this time, now that the urbanization process is accelerating, a large number of people have entered the city, we have to increase the construction of infrastructure, and we are seriously lagging behind in urban construction." Xia Jun shook his head and said, this time he didn't think much about the Ministry of Education, this year's budget of 800 million yuan of the Ministry of Education is high enough, and a lot of investment has been made in education, and now it is no longer a question of how much money is spent, but a matter of time accumulation.

"But in terms of military spending, you don't have to worry, when it comes to the war, money is indispensable, and this year's income has not touched a dime!" Xia Jun said to them, Xia Jun's words reassured them a lot.

Now the political axe is no longer short of money, at least it has passed the point where one dime was used as two cents, maybe it is still a little insufficient compared with those powers, but it is much more abundant.

Before eating, everyone opened the map and began to plan military strategic issues, and the first thing to discuss was the Shandong battlefield.

"As soon as the war broke out at the end of the year, we first stabilized the defense line with the army, and then controlled the coastal areas with the air force and submarines to cut off the sea communication of the army. Subsequently, the navy mobilized gunboats to the Bohai Bay to provide artillery support on land. Xia Jun pointed to the map and said: "Then it is the coordination of all arms, with the army armored division as the main force, to quickly dismember the Shandong army." ”

"By the end of the year, the army will be equipped with nearly 2,000 combat vehicles, and there will be no problem in dismembering the army." Chen Xuanyu said.

"The Air Force can have more than 3,000 aircraft by the end of the year, and blocking the coast is not a problem."

"Our navy will basically be able to put aircraft carriers into combat by the end of the year, but it seems that there is nothing to do with our aircraft carriers along the coast. In terms of gunboats, we were able to use five Sea Shield 1 light cruisers, as well as the battleships Fuso and Hiei. ”

"Hmmm! There is no need to discuss the feasibility of this plan, and the only thing that needs to be done now is the plan after the Shandong battlefield is resolved. Xia Jun said to everyone, and everyone nodded, but what is the next step?

"Our next step is to regain the lost ground and recover Taiwan." Xia Jun pointed to Taiwan and said, "The Air Force must first build a large airfield in Fujian, the Navy must prepare landing ships in advance, and the Army must first secretly conduct some landing training, and in addition, it is necessary to let the Military Intelligence Bureau choose a place where it can land, preferably to defend the emptiness." ”

"Regain Taiwan!"

The top brass of the three armed forces were all in high spirits, and Xia Jun continued: "As long as we recover Taiwan, then the Taiwan island chain blocking us can be eliminated, and the navy will rush to the second island chain." Then the Navy will be preparing for ocean-going operations with two aircraft carriers as the core, and we will attack the German colonies of the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands. All three archipelago are now occupied by the Japanese army. As long as these three islands are captured, the navy will also be able to obtain a base in Taiping. ”

"Does the Navy have confidence?" Xia Jun asked Xie Baozhang.

"Yes." Xie Baozhang nodded and said, he did not doubt the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier at all, even if it was a light bomber, it could completely sink a battleship of nearly 20,000 tons in ten minutes, not to mention that the bombers and fish planes of the two aircraft carriers were not light, and they could barely be regarded as medium-sized.

"Okay." Xia Jun nodded, "If we can successfully defeat these three islands, then we will break out of the second island chain and officially enter the Pacific Ocean." ”

The three islands are located north and south of Guam, with the Mariana Islands to the north and the Caroline Islands to the south, the Marshall Islands deeper into the Pacific Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands to the northeast.

These three islands were originally German colonies, and they were quickly occupied after Ben entered the war, and the main motive for Ben's participation in the war was to expand his territory and gain the status of a great power.

(To be continued)