Chapter 213 The Value of Grades

Since the rubber stock boom has passed, the weakened domestic opposition has almost disappeared from the top, and it is natural that after crossing the monopoly of power, it is natural that it will be more unscrupulous to engage in a dual-track economic system. In China, except for the logistics and wholesale and retail industries, all manufacturing and raw material industries have adopted a highly centralized planned economic system with the Conzen Consortium as the core of the organization. The high concentration of resources and capital has allowed Traversal to overcome the difficulties of materializing technology and process processes one after another, while also rooting shareholding and option incentives in the hearts of employees and their family members within each organization.

Within three years of the pandemic, all agro-industrial production figures in the empire had grown by more than 50 percent, and the fastest growing electrolytic aluminum had exceeded 20,000% (almost only laboratory capacity of electrolytic aluminum began to grow at an astonishing rate). More than 10 million kWh of electricity is generated, accounting for 100% of the world's total production, and fossil energy (mainly coal) is more than 5 million tons of standard coal, accounting for 98% of the world's total production.

Targets such as pig iron, steel and finished steel, cement, refined copper, fertilizers, glass and timber have all met the expected targets, and some are still available for export to meet strong domestic demand.

As for the total tonnage of ships and the total length of roads, they exceeded expectations, reaching the cross-century level of 6 million tons and 10,000 kilometers. The total tonnage of one ship alone is enough to destroy all other countries, and this figure is equivalent to eight times the total tonnage of all ships of all countries in the Empire. Cotton yarn output: 200,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 17. 5%, 70% of the world share; Cloth output: 800 million meters, a year-on-year increase of 46. 2%。 Gold production: 30 tonnes, up 8% year-on-year. 57%, the first in the world;

40 million tons of grain, 3 million tons of meat, 800,000 tons of poultry eggs, and 5.12 million tons of aquatic products; 38 million tons of vegetables, 10 million tons of fruits, 3.1 million tons of oilseeds, 120,000 tons of sugar, and only 2,000 tons of tobacco, cocoa and coffee and other hobbies, were only supplied to the army and the upper echelons in small quantities.

These pure numbers don't say anything, but the overall strength of the Chinese Empire is undoubtedly enough to crush all other civilizations on Earth at the same time.

Looking at the details, within the most basic social structure - the family, the extremely high productivity has also created a living standard and a healthy physical state that is far higher than the world.

An illiterate coolie who worked as a porter at the wharf earned a year could feed 100 tenant farmers in the mountainous areas of Fujian Province in the late Song Dynasty. Although the rapid decline in grain prices has affected many landlords and classes living on taxes in kind, the harvest of one acre of land has increased even more rapidly.

Although after thousands of years of careful breeding, it is only 200 to 300 catties of rice harvest, but after using the purchased fragrant rice seeds with better taste and chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the yield can not help but increase by 2 or 3 times, and the output value has also increased several times. Although the compost made of self-kept seeds and a limited amount of human and animal manure and plant ash is cheap, what about the cost of the dead energy that can be regenerated when it is used up, its products are not suitable for commercialization, and it is not enough to eat and pay rent; However, the cost of replacing small agricultural machinery with the use of modern fertilizers, pesticides, and management techniques has increased by only 50%, and disposable income has increased dozens of times. (You can make a fortune by signing an agreement with the cooperatives on technical cooperation in purchasing and selling, and the original rent and rations are deducted, and the remaining harvest can be ignored, but now several times more surplus grain is underwritten to the cooperatives to consume the industrial and financial products of the cooperatives)

Not to mention the farmers who grow commercialized vegetables and fruits, these lands are the same capital as Baiyinhai (Note 1). The per capita income of those fleets that go to sea for fishing and whaling is even more impressive.

In this way, the agriculture of the empire provided the raw materials, capital, purchasing power, and markets for industrialization, so to speak, and all the costs of industrialization were distributed among everyone who could share them by very high means, thus avoiding the mutilation of the domestic peasants by the planned economy and the oppression of the domestic workers by the market economy. Maintain domestic demand by raising the prices of agricultural and sideline products, create purchasing power and absorb excess money through the virtual economic market, maintain the prices of industrial products through exports and investment, and maintain capitalist profits through efficient management and low taxes.

Before the electrification revolution, the empire entered the era of standard imperialism, jumping through the stage of market and commodity export, and directly entering the stage of monopoly market and capital export. It will not take 20 years to use the authority of the political axe to create a group of monopoly capitalists. However, it is not technically difficult to use the means of macro-control to turn partners into monopoly families.

Before the advent of the oil age, the richest people in the world, without exception, were masters of accumulating wealth by power. In the East, it is mainly the emperor and the imperial merchants who monopolize a certain industry (Wu Bingjian of the Thirteen Lines, Hu Xueyan, a red-top merchant, Sheng Xuanhuai who embezzles state-owned assets, Shen Wansan, who monopolizes foreign trade, the salt merchant class in Yangzhou, and the Jin merchant class in Shanxi are all from this background) or officials who control the finances (all the official eunuchs with a net worth of more than 10 million are, for example, Lü Buwei, He Shen, Yan Song, Deng Tong, Liu Jin, and Cai Jing). And the West is about the same, the Medici, the Rothschilds, the successive popes, the Habsburgs, the Lancasters, the Romanovs, and so on.

In order to put an end to this mode of power over wealth, the public has created a capitalist era in which wealth dominates power, and the power of capital and the market has been continuously strengthened. The legislative power and personnel power were handed over to the Senate, which was full of capitalists, and the army and the army were firmly grasped, and the social status and image of capitalists and businessmen were constantly improved through legislation, propaganda, education, knighthood, etc., and the official standard was constantly removed.

Of course, the results are also gratifying, just like the innovation in Xiaogang Village changed China, after the heavy agriculture and suppression of business changed to mercantilism and imperialism, the businessmen who emancipated their minds and potentials burst out with tremendous energy, and the growth rate of new enterprises registered every year exceeded 10%. There are many families who find business opportunities in newspapers and media with open information and become rich overnight, and Li Hao, who canonizes new business aristocrats and explorers every month, has the best experience.

Well-educated and well-honed nouveau riche and many nouveau riche formed the upper echelons of the new empire, and the landlord class and the nobles of the former dynasty of the old era either changed their courts or disappeared in the rolling tide.

The vigorous new empire has no natural disasters [***], no internal and external troubles, and no direction mistakes and hotbeds of internal instability, it can be said that it is the best era in all dynasties, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people live happily, but the maintenance of raw material prices requires a lot of money, in order to establish a global economic circulation network and a stable trade network, under the premise of a serious shortage of talents, the crossing has done everything possible to maintain a comprehensive three-dimensional surname at the time of rapid expansion. From the import and export structure to the export of religion and other ideologies, every effort has been made to ensure the simultaneous development and expansion of culture, politics, military, population and economy.

It is very difficult to reduce the shortcomings as much as possible, and it is very difficult to cross the minds of the people who have grown up in the environment of late-developing countries accustomed to asymmetrical development, and this all-round greed for perfection is resisted at the psychological level by the habit of being educated by the failure of the chairman since childhood.

However, a few people such as Zhao Shouzhong and Li Ji, who have a very good grasp of reality, still have a good understanding of the late Song Guoli and have launched many unrealistic projects in the eyes of Liu Jiao and others, such as a natural gas chemical base with a capacity of 100,000 tons, a million-ton coal and steel complex, and a 10,000-ton electrolytic aluminum plant. The Longyangxia Hydropower Station in the upper reaches of the Yellow River was built to supply electricity to Lanzhou, a high-tech central city.

In Lanzhou, the hinterland of East Asia, the surrounding land is vast and sparsely populated, rich in resources, convenient in transportation, mild in climate, and few disasters, which is most suitable for the development of many black technologies that cannot be seen. All R&D facilities in electronic technology and modern high-precision manufacturing have been relocated to this city to concentrate resources and improve efficiency. Everything here is basically no different from the modern city before crossing the crowd, there is a common ditch network and a reserved subway planning area underground, the roads on the ground are eight-lane avenues, there are many reserved viaducts and underground pedestrian passages, and each residential area corresponds to the staff residential area and family area of a large industrial scientific research institution. The consumption and recreational facilities for the personnel of the various institutions are also arranged according to the equal distribution of each community.

The total population of this almost fantastic urban plan is 1 million, but in reality there are only 20,000 permanent residents, and 50,000 soldiers who maintain a military blockade around them are not counted. With the continuous addition of foreign population, each newly built community has gradually established a perfect monitoring and lockdown system.

Even when other travelers thought that Li Ji was crazy when they saw the centrifugal plant in Lanzhou that enriched uranium, Zhao Shouzhong supported him. Lanzhou concentrates the essence of almost all imperial science and engineering talents, and only the elite who have passed the political examination can join this prison-style scientific research center that cannot be left once inside.

Li Ji spent ten years of cash dividends distributed by the entire Chenji Group to the public in this cross-era scientific research center, all of which were top-notch building materials and construction technology. Such as prefabricated panels, all-steel structural frames, aluminum alloy doors and windows, security doors, toilets and bathtubs distributed to each household, central air conditioning and boilers for central cooling and heating in each building, state-of-the-art parcel logistics system, etc.

The residents living in this city built through a lot of money are either scientific researchers or family members, and each research institute and its community and supporting water, electricity, gas, supplies, cultural and entertainment consumption and other industries are enough to accommodate all school-age people, the small ones have nurseries and schools, and the old ones have nursing homes and chess and card rooms. Elderly people who have exerted their spare energy are also welcome to teach in schools.

This almost closed city can be almost absolutely self-sufficient, all consumer goods are transported in according to the population plan under the premise of secrecy, and the various precision instruments and electrified products produced by this city are secretly distributed to the various secret departments of the Lichenji system.

This kind of undisclosed cycle and black technology research and development can only be carried out in obscurity, and it is inaccessible to idlers within a radius of 200 kilometers of Lanzhou, which is classified as a military ** and a closed no man's land. Barbed wire and a large number of patrolling sergeants have turned the city into what outsiders call an arms base, when in fact the Lanzhou munitions factory is just a research and development facility.

By 1954, Lanzhou had become the core of the empire's science and technology center, and became the legal capital (Western capital) along with the metropolises of Shenjing (central capital), Xinjing (eastern capital), Guangzhou (southern capital), and Yanjing (northern capital).

After the investment and concentration of resources against the sky, this gold-swallowing giant finally produced results, such as large-scale transistor computers, ultra-large generator sets with an installed capacity of 1 million watts, thruster systems equivalent to V2 rockets and supersonic aircraft, hybrid rice, cloned sheep, bottom-blowing converter steelmaking process, synthetic dyes, synthetic rubber, 10,000-ton ethylene industrial base, and coal tar technology tree were lit up......

This achievement is comparable to the construction of aerospace warships in the 21st century, and it is also one of the ultimate pursuits to earn countless money through the crowd. (To be continued.) )