Chapter 388: The Empire's Economic Transformation, Steel Behemoth
readx; Xia Jun held an economic transformation meeting in Beijing, at which Xia Jun elaborated on the next economic development route. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"If the economy wants to develop rapidly, overdraft consumption is the route that must be taken, which is a proven truth. Today, the central government of the empire can no longer afford to sustain such overdraft spending. According to the original plan, next year the Imperial Axe will reduce the number of official construction projects. Instead, private capital will be used to carry out construction activities, but how to ensure that the succession process does not fluctuate, which is the goal of our meeting. Xia Jun made an opening speech and clarified the content of the meeting.
"If the government suddenly stops investing in new projects, then private capital will not be able to react for a while, which will cause very serious economic fluctuations, or a fault in the capital chain. Nowadays, the capital chain for the construction of the empire mainly depends on official supply,......" You Zhengbin added at the meeting, "Therefore, the focus of our meeting is to come up with a reliable alternative plan." ”
Wu Yanzhang, deputy assistant to the cabinet, said at this time: "I think that the fundamental surname problem is actually in the construction industry, before the imperial government through continuous engineering construction, crazy to drive the development of the construction industry, plus private capital is also large-scale construction, so once there is a problem in the capital chain, it will also make steel, cement can not be sold, thus affecting the jobs brought by the construction industry." ”
Saying that, Wu Yanzhang paused and continued: "Then, while reducing the investment in the project, the main thing for the imperial government should be to increase the scale of construction of private capital, and the best way is to reduce the mortgage interest rate and down payment funds, so as to stimulate the development of the real estate industry, and first use the real estate industry as the main force to drive the economy during the transition period." At the same time, we will increase the lending of car loans by lowering interest rates, but considering the limited growth rate of automobile production capacity, it cannot be reduced to the end. Through real estate and automobile manufacturing, the number of construction projects reduced by the central government of the empire was compensated. ”
"In general, the mortgage interest rate will be lowered to the bottom at the initial stage for emergency purposes. Car loans, on the other hand, have been reduced slightly to the extent that they can insanely stimulate car production capacity. In the medium term, it will start to raise mortgage interest rates to reduce the scale of real estate, and at the same time reduce car loan interest rates to increase the economic volume driven by the automobile manufacturing industry, and at the same time issue credit cards on a large scale to increase consumption. It is equivalent to playing leverage, through the increase or decrease of the scale of housing loans and car loans, to complete the industrial transformation. In the later stage, when the housing construction is almost complete, the mortgage interest rate will be raised by a large margin, so as to completely restrict the real estate sector and completely put economic growth on automobile manufacturing, electrical appliance manufacturing and other industries......"
"Increasing housing loans will inevitably cause a certain bubble in the real estate industry, but the efficiency of the real estate industry not being transformed into war potential is extremely low." Tao Chengzhang raised the question, he did not study economic development in depth, but he also had a certain understanding, according to general reasoning, this is indeed true.
"There is nothing wrong with the extremely low efficiency of translating into war potential, but at present, in the context of our Chinese Empire, the problem of national housing has not yet been solved. Under the premise that the housing problem has not been solved, it is impossible for people to take out loans to buy cars, so this also leads to the lack of survival soil for car loans. Wu Yanzhang replied.
For ordinary citizens, home is primary. If you choose between a house and a car, then definitely choose a house, not a car.
Therefore, it is completely unrealistic for the Chinese Empire to let the people buy loans to buy cars before the national housing problem is completely solved.
The current infrastructure of the Chinese Empire is not perfect enough, which is also a basic national condition and an unavoidable problem.
However, the Chinese Empire is a country with a population of 500 million, and the population is still growing, and the productivity is not lower than that of the United States, and even higher than the United States in many fields.
In later generations, China was able to achieve such results in more than 20 years of development when its productivity was lower than that of Westerners, and most of its industrial profits were made by Westerners, and in the process, it also caused a lot of waste of resources due to lack of experience and bureaucratic style.
In this era, the productivity of the Chinese Empire was higher than that of later China in some fields.
At the same time, the industry is completely built with its own technology, not by the technology of Westerners, so the profits are not deprived by Westerners. In addition, the political axe of the Chinese Empire has always taken the route of refined management, and the central government is highly centralized, which has reduced the internal resource consumption.
This is also the main reason why the Chinese Empire laid 150,000 kilometers of railways in 13 years.
For those lagging countries, there are two opportunities for capital development.
The first was World War I, the second was World War II, and the Chinese Empire seized the opportunity of the First World War.
In later generations, China failed to seize the two opportunities, but the book seized the two opportunities.
However, in this era, he was hit hard in the First World War and was traumatized by the Chinese Empire, so he missed this opportunity for capital development to a certain extent.
In later generations, China was not clear enough in the surname of the purpose of development, but at this time, the Chinese Empire was very clear in the surname of the purpose of development, that is, to develop the economy for the sake of war.
The development model of the early Chinese Empire was to use the central government and local government axes to build to achieve economic drive, and it was a model in which people revolved around construction.
Next, it is necessary to change the construction around the people, that is, to stimulate national consumption and drive the economy. When overdraft consumption reaches a certain level, it will also reach the point where things must be reversed, and it will evolve from construction around people to people around construction.
When people revolve around construction to a certain extent, it comes to a period when things are bound to turn against each other, and the model of construction revolving around people begins to be implemented again.
And so on and so forth.
This is indeed a perfect model.
This is also why capital can dominate the main core competitiveness of the world, and it is capital that has the strongest competitiveness during this period, so it has gained mainstream status.
The greatest original sin of the United States is not to adopt this model, but to indulge it with private individuals. Thus making the people of the whole world slaves of that small group of private individuals.
In the future, the Chinese Empire will take a completely different route, that is, the nationalization of the East China Group, and the use of the state to indulge the operation of this model, so as to achieve the goal of socialism to a certain extent, and when science and technology develop to a certain extent, it can transform society into [***].
The transformation of capitalism into [***] is an inevitable trend that leads to an increase in productivity. Just as the law of human beings moving from a slave society to a feudal society, and from a feudal society to a capitalist society, these changes are accompanied by an increase in productivity.
If the development is carried out according to the model of the United States, then mankind will inevitably be suppressed by that small group of people when it enters the period of [***].
And if the Chinese Empire nationalized the East China Group, it would also pave the way to enter the [***] society, and when the productive forces were raised to a certain extent, it would be natural to enter the [***] mode.
In 1924, the alliance of Western countries led by the United States had been overdraft for five years, and according to the original history, it was half the way.
After five years of frantic construction, the U.S. economy is exceptionally prosperous.
The Chinese Empire is not bad, and when the United States is carrying out overdraft consumption, the Chinese Empire is also officially overdraft construction, so the development of the two sides can only be said to be half a catty.
After all, the Chinese Empire has a population advantage, and although its per capita growth rate is not as fast as that of the United States, its total economic growth has always pressed the United States.
By 1924, the gross national product of the United States had reached a high of $150 billion, while the gross national product of the Chinese Empire in 1924 had reached a high of 360 billion Asian dollars, which was $30 billion higher than the gross national product of the United States.
In the official data, the Chinese Empire still kept the data down, and in the official data, the GDP in 1924 was only 260 billion Asian dollars, which was 20 billion US dollars less than the total output value of the United States, which was equivalent to literally erasing the output value of 50 billion US dollars.
It is tantamount to ignoring 27% of the total economy, but the United States does not have access to specific data, so it does not have any awareness.
The Chinese Empire has far surpassed the United States in terms of steel production during this period, and the quality of life of the people is actually higher than that of the United States.
The only thing that the Chinese Empire lacked was to allow all the citizens of the Chinese Empire to produce with advanced productive forces.
However, the overdraft consumption pattern in the United States has been in place for five years, so the whole society is extraordinarily prosperous, and the national personal income is nearly three times that of the Chinese Empire.
In reality, this is just an illusion.
Because the Federal Reserve printed a large number of bills, and because the United States has gold, the exchange rate is still 1:2 with the Asian dollar.
But in reality, the purchasing power of the dollar within the United States is far less than that of the Asian dollar within the Chinese empire.
…… In 1924, the naval arms race between the two alliances entered a state of white-hot state, and the Chinese Empire built all the shell ships, and once appeared in front of some naval officers and men, which made the British and American spies get the news.
Not to be outdone, the British and American alliances accelerated the pace of construction, and finally launched all 14 battleships in 1924.
At the end of 1924, the Chinese Empire officially launched the construction program of the Mengjiang-class battleships, and after a long period of design, the first built Qi Jiguang was so advanced that it was painful.
The Qi Jiguang was designed to have a maximum speed of 32 knots, and was equipped with nine 450mm caliber main guns with a maximum range of 35 kilometers, as well as 12 165mm secondary guns, 60 anti-aircraft guns of various calibers, and 20 machine guns. The armor was even thicker than 350mm, and the armor in some parts was up to 400mm.
As for the tonnage, it reached the level of 60,000 tons.
With the current science and technology, there is simply no way to create such a perverted battleship.
But Xia Jun was able to purchase equipment beyond this era through the exchange platform, and many parts of this Qi Jiguang would be purchased from the exchange platform.
The power system with a speed of 32 knots, a range of 35 kilometers, a super naval gun with a diameter of 80 times, and 12 165mm secondary guns with an extremely high rate of fire.
The point, again, is those anti-aircraft guns.
In the future, naval warfare will be dominated by aircraft carriers, and battleships can only take a back seat, and if battleships do not have a sufficiently powerful air defense system, it will be difficult to move an inch.
Those anti-aircraft guns are military products equivalent to the later 70s.
And those secondary guns are mainly used against approaching small ships and submarines, and machine guns are designed to deal with dive-bombarding torpedo machines.
The machine gun is also the same as the Gatling gun, but the Gatling gun is hand-cranked, while the machine gun is electric, which is much faster than the machine gun. As soon as the fire was fired, the bullet hit as if it was pouring lava.
Of course, the surname of these cannons is not the most important, the most important thing is that the core of Qi Jiguang is very powerful.
The Qi Jiguang will be equipped not only with advanced radar, but also with a powerful anti-aircraft fire control system, as well as an advanced artillery fire control system.
Advanced radar enables Qi Jiguang to detect targets and threats from the air, sea, and seabed, and the fire control system directs fire to eliminate these threats.
The ultra-thick armor made Qi Jiguang survive tenaciously even if it was hit by bombs and torpedoes. After all, the bombs and torpedoes of this era were not too fierce, after all, the bomb load of the aircraft was limited. As for the caliber of the submarine's torpedoes, it is very large, but the submarine is basically unable to get close to Qi Jiguang under the powerful radar scanning of Qi Jiguang.
After all, Qi Jiguang's speed reached 32 knots, and if it encountered a large group of submarines, it could be completely avoided, and as for a few submarines, it would be to rush over and sink them directly.
In order to build this Qi Jiguang, Xia Jun invested nearly three billion points to buy these equipment, which is too advanced.
Because it is too advanced, the price is naturally so high that it hurts.
But the result is that the real surname of the Qi Jiguang, which has been planned to be built, can be so powerful that it makes people's teeth ache, and the real surname of Qi Jiguang has been listed as a top secret, and within the navy, only Xie Baozhang and others know the real surname of Qi Jiguang.
It's nothing for Xie Baozhang and the others to know, after all, even if they knew, it would be impossible for them to leak it out, and Xia Jun asked them all to sign a confidentiality agreement.
But even Xie Baozhang doesn't know all his real surnames.
Because these advanced equipment were not immediately installed on the Qi Jiguang.
The design is designed that way, but for the time being, it only installs worse equipment and artillery and power systems, for example, the turret is designed according to the 450mm caliber, but for the time being, it is a 400mm caliber naval gun.
Those radars and fire control systems are not installed for the time being.
Before the upgrade, the displacement of 60,000 tons can be reduced to 50,000 tons.
After all, it's still early before the real all-out war, and if you install these things so early, there will still be wear and tear, and Xia Jun doesn't have so many points to maintain these expensive parts.
It is equivalent to saying that Qi Jiguang was made according to the upgraded standards, and although the surname before the upgrade was also relatively good, it had nothing to do with the perverted toughness.
If those shell ships are pig-nosed onion elephants, then this Qi Jiguang is actually a shell, as long as the parts are replaced, it can become a steel giant pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
(To be continued)