In this war to protect the country, the strict neutrality of the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the dispatch of troops to supervise the battle between the two armies undoubtedly installed a regulating valve for this war.

Xia Jun can stop the war at any time in Hangzhou, or he can let either side win the war at any time.

However, Xia Jun has no intention of participating in this war, recently he is busy meeting with the leaders of some countries, Ibn Rashid ran to East China to enjoy the world of flowers, recently this guy said that he had a good time, found two white girls, and said that he was living very [***].

Ibn doesn't need to deal with it too much, this guy is also familiar with Xia Jun, the main purpose of this visit is to enjoy, and Xia Jun doesn't need to spend too much time with him.

Xia Jun began to have extensive contacts with South American countries, and now South American countries are obviously not having a good time, because South America is a country dominated by agriculture.

At this time, the agriculture developed by the autonomous government of East China was no longer something that any country's agriculture could resist, and for this reason, the agricultural exports of various countries were becoming more and more sluggish year by year.

These South American countries are in frequent contact with the East China Autonomous Government, mainly on cooperation issues.

The premise of cooperation is that these countries will open up their minerals and commercial investment to the East China Autonomous Government, and the East China Autonomous Government can help these countries build up their military.

However, in terms of technical assistance in agriculture, the East China Autonomous Government is only willing to sell agricultural machinery to these countries, but does not provide special high-yield crops.

At this time, the speed of agricultural development of the East China Autonomous Axe has exceeded the imagination of any country, especially in the development of cash crops and food crops.

This year's summer harvest has begun again, and this year's summer harvest of the East China Autonomous Government has harvested a large amount of winter wheat, and the sown area of winter wheat last year was 300 million mu, and the output has been as high as 180 million tons, and the average yield per mu is only 600 kilograms because of the use of machine farming.

This year's wheat export prospects are good, the British now have no wheat to eat, they eat potatoes instead, flour is selling well in the UK, France because of the outbreak of the war, and the war is going on on French soil, so French agriculture has also been destroyed, so France also needs to import wheat.

Coupled with the impact of the East China Autonomous Axe on the agriculture of other countries for many years, the wheat production in Australia, Canada, the United States and other countries has been greatly reduced.

Wheat in these countries has lost its export value, and the only reason for its survival is the protection of agriculture by their political axe, which they have imposed.

As a result, some agricultural products from the East China Autonomous Government could not get in, and they could not get out.

As far as the current price of grain is concerned, the price of wheat has been reduced to $0.8 per bushel, which is about 30 kilograms per bushel, and some grains are heavier, and the bushel is a bucket-like container.

Thirty kilograms of 0.8 US dollars, which is already a very high price in China, equivalent to 1.6 yuan Fuxing coin, at this time the price of grain in China is only worth 1.5 yuan Fuxing currency for one quintal (50 kilograms).

In the past, the price of food in countries like the United States was generally about $1.5 per bushel, and the price of $0.8 was definitely a jump price.

For example, the United States has raised grain import tariffs at this time, but it still cannot completely block the impact of East China's agriculture on their agriculture.

This is naturally a good thing for those countries that need to import food, but for those that are supposed to export, it has caused an agricultural slump.

In fact, there is not much money to be made in grain planting, but the impact on the agriculture of other countries is too great.

At this time, the focus of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is still on the planting of cash crops, but some cash crops need a lot of money and manpower, and some need some time, and the scale is not large, so the grain planting industry that is relatively easy to develop is the first choice, and the grain planting has advanced machinery, and the competitiveness is extremely strong.

However, those countries that need to import grain buy all the grain from the East China Autonomous Axe, but the food aid provided by the East China Autonomous Government to some poor countries in the world is increasing, such as food aid to Africa and South America.

The raw silk industry developed by the East China Autonomous Political Axe is said to be huge, and the low production cost makes the raw silk industry unable to compete, and it soon withdrew from the market.

In the past, the peasants usually relied on textile and homespun cloth to sell to the Northeast, and then exchanged for soybean cakes and other agricultural products from the Northeast, but now the Northeast trade has been hit by the East China Autonomous Political Axe since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, and the homespun cloth market in the Northeast has also collapsed with the shrinkage of the textile industry.

The people from these South American countries that Xia Jun met with were mainly to hold talks on business cooperation, because Xia Jun was interested in South American minerals.

As far as iron ore is concerned, the highest recoverable reserves are in Tsarist Russia, because Tsarist Russia occupies Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but with the occupation of Ukraine by Germany, Tsarist Russia's mineable iron ore reserves began to decline, and the second place is Brazil, in the pattern of later generations, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Kazakhstan went out of the Soviet Union, and Brazil's mineable iron ore reserves became the first in the world.

In third place went to Australia, in fourth place went to Ukraine, in fifth place was China, in sixth place was India, in seventh place was Kazakhstan, in eighth place was Venezuela, in ninth place was Sweden, in tenth place was in the United States, and in eleventh place was Canada.

Among them, although China's iron ore mineable reserves are the seventh, the quality of iron ore is not high, the economic value is not good, most of them are poor ores, and there are few rich ores.

In South America, Brazil and Venezuela were the countries that the East China Mining Company intended to enter, and the president of the United Brazilian States at this time was Gómez, a military party.

Venezuela is also in the midst of instability and infighting, both of which appear to be unstable, but in terms of the investment climate.

However, the contact with these countries has not been too smooth, and these countries still do not believe in the military power of the East China Autonomous Axe.

They believe that it is the weapon of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, but they do not believe in the military quality of the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

However, some results have been reached on bilateral trade, and some policy agreements have been reached with these countries on agriculture.

The agricultural cooperation with these South American countries is mainly to go to their domestic contracted plantations to grow coffee, cocoa and other cash crops.

These cash crops are relatively lacking in climatic conditions in China, although they are planted in the southern provinces, but the area is not large, and the climate is not completely suitable.

The fact that East China's autonomous government has stepped up its investment in South America has aroused the vigilance of the United States, which has always regarded South America as its backyard and will not allow others to get involved.

It was Germany before, but now it has become the East China Autonomous Political Axe, the United States drove out Germany in South America, and now the East China Autonomous Political Axe has jumped out again.

In Asia, the goods of the East China Autonomous Axe have penetrated into the three traditional markets of the United Kingdom: Indonesia, India, and Australia.

The same is true in other regions, where the markets of the entire Indochina Peninsula, Nanyang, New Zealand and other places are mostly occupied by the goods of the autonomous government of East China.

At the same time, the goods of the East China Autonomous Government began to pour into the Middle East and Africa, which are still very financially poor, not to mention Africa, where oil has not yet been discovered on a large scale, so the market is not very large.

However, the East China Petroleum Company was not idle, but circled oil fields everywhere in the Middle East, and many oil fields in the Middle East were circled by the East China Petroleum Company.

At this time, oil consumption in East China was rising, and because the development of hydropower took time, energy methods based on coal and oil began to appear.

The industrial growth rate is too fast, hydropower simply cannot keep up with the speed, but there is no limit to coal and oil, especially oil, which is now as much as it wants, and the demand for oil by-products is rising, and the East China Petroleum Company has to drill for oil in the Middle East again.

Since the world's largest oil field is currently exploited to produce light oil, there are not too many oil by-products, and the refining aspect is relatively simple, and the pollution is not large, so it is shipped back to China for refining.

In order to increase the production of oil by-products, Huadong Petroleum Company began refining oil directly in the Middle East and then shipping refined oil products and by-products back to China.

As a result, the economy of Rashid Arabia began to develop initially, and the level of development was still very low, and it was a factory opened in East China, which can only be said to have given Rashid Arabia an additional group of workers, and the labor cost was lower than that in China.

Internal combustion engines and gas engines began to be used in industry on a large scale, and the consumption of oil in the seven autonomous provinces of East China increased day by day, while the tonnage and number of oil tankers continued to increase, providing cheap energy for industries in East China.

The cheapness of energy has reduced freight and production costs, and although there is no need for hydropower, the business is doing well.

The amount of oil extracted is fully sufficient to meet China's demand, and there are still a lot of exports, and Xia Jun is also constantly stockpiling fuel.

So far, the East China Autonomous Government has stockpiled 30 million tons of fuel, although it is not too much, but it is a lot in this era.

With the current reserves, the East China Autonomous Political Axe can meet the domestic industrial and military supply for five months, but such a reserve is still far from enough for the East China Political Axe.

At the same time, the East China Autonomous Political Axe began to reserve coal, iron ore and other resources at this time, and the reserve of these resources was mainly to reduce its dependence on imports, so as not to cause economic fluctuations due to the sudden interruption of imports, so that the East China Political Axe had enough time to respond.

It's like coal reserves, although there is coal in the north, what if it can't be transported to the south in the event of a snowstorm?

What if the Strait of Malacca is cut off by other countries and oil cannot be brought in?

What if any country imposes restrictions on iron ore exports?

These are all issues that Xia Jun needs to consider, if these issues are not considered, he will become very passive in the future.

There are three main ways to deal with these problems, the first is to form its own production capacity, but the formed production capacity belongs to the reserve, and it is generally not mined.

The second is to establish a reserve system that will allow the country to sustain at least one year in the event of a disruption of imports.

The third is to put the eggs in different baskets, one country invests a little, that country invests a little, this country restricts exports, and then imports more from another country.

With the use of these three means, China does not have to worry about being grabbed by others.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Political Axe already had good financial resources, and the conditions for the reserve of these resources were already in place, and at the same time, the main thought of the reserve resources still fell on the East China Group. Huadong Group is directly engaged in production, so the reserve cost is low, and Huadong Group also has money to reserve.

East China Group's future profits will mainly be spent on scientific research, expansion of production capacity, and reserve of raw materials, and will no longer provide financial support to the political axe.

The future mission of the East China Group is to compete with other countries in the international market, and to create enough jobs for the country and engage in scientific research activities.

At this time, there were still many scientific research activities in East China, mainly in schools, but those private enterprises also began to develop in scientific research.

Various laboratories have been opened one after another, and these laboratories are mainly for enterprises, but the results of scientific research cannot be leaked abroad.

Like what Truss, Einstein! These scientists have been in contact with the East China Autonomous Government, but none of them are willing to come to China.

Einstein is a Jew who hates war, China is not his ideal country, Xia Jun also does not like Jews, so he also has no idea of Einstein, as for Truss, at this time he is poor, the Ministry of Trade is doing work for him and funding him, but he still did not agree to come to China.

Xia Jun feels that it is more appropriate to train his own scientists, and it is better to count on himself than to count on gringos, so he has been increasing the funding of colleges and universities in scientific research this year, and there are no big achievements for the time being, but there are many small achievements.

The future war will be a war of large factories, large corps, and large laboratories, and the construction of the East China political axe in the corps is still a little worse, after all, the foundation is weak, there are few officers, and it is already very reluctant to form a group army in Shandong.

The situation is the best on the factory side, which is developing rapidly.

Laboratories are lacking and need to be invested more.

Due to the arrival of the summer harvest, East China's political axe wants to increase foreign exports, so the demand for ships has also increased, but Xia Jun is becoming more and more unrestrained, directly using the exchange platform to add 500,000 tons of merchant ships to the East China Ocean Shipping Company.

With the 300,000 tons launched last month, the tonnage of the East China Ocean Shipping Company's cargo ships has reached 4.6 million tons, leaving behind the 3.5 million tons of the United States.

The increase in cargo capacity greatly reduced the pressure on export transport, and now the British merchant ships were becoming less and less at work, and the activity of German submarines was becoming more and more rampant.

The most feared thing for the Allied sailors was the German submarines, there were so many submarines in Germany that the Germans knew how the Germans suddenly built so many submarines.

Every day in the newspapers, you can see the news that a certain ship was sunk in a certain sea area, which not only caused problems in Britain's transportation, but also caused serious economic losses, although many merchant ships are private, and do not need British political axes to admit the account, but there is a loss of Britain's national strength.

Since Germany had not yet invented the wolf pack tactic, there was not much that could be done against the merchant fleets that were in groups under the protection of warships, so the British losses were still under control.

Due to the large number of merchant ships and private ships in Britain and the United States, the two countries lacked a mature command system, but the East China Ocean Company formed a centralized command system, and the merchant ships heading for the Atlantic Ocean were basically not left alone, and so far not a single merchant ship had been sunk by a German submarine, and of course this had a lot to do with the fact that German submarines did not attack.

Trade with Germany intensified, and Xia Jun sent 200 submarines to Germany every month, each time bringing back large quantities of precious metals and technicians.

When there were still enough precious metals in Germany, Xia Jun was happy to trade with Germany.

At the same time, Xia Jun is also very happy to trade with Tsarist Russia, and this year Tsarist Russia has imported a lot of grain from East China, because with the warming of the temperature before, the rotten food in the east of Tsarist Russia has reached 80,000 trains, plus the previous rotten 10,000 carriages, it has reached 90,000.

The food was rotten, and Tsarist Russia had to import it from China, but in fact it was still difficult to transport it to the west, but Tsarist Russia chose to buy grain that was not easy to rot this time.

The Germans had already fought all the way to Tsarist Russia, and anti-war sentiment in Tsarist Russia began to grow.

However, Tsar Nicholas II did not stop preparing for war, but like a gambler, he poured more and more money into the war.

Russia has learned the lessons of the past and intends to improve the transportation situation, and the method is twofold, one is to gradually put elite troops into the battlefield, reduce the number of people invested on the battlefield, so as to reduce the pressure on supplies, and replace the crude troop superiority with a crack army strategy.

The second is to purchase motorized equipment such as automobiles from the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and use automobiles to transport supplies for the front line.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff, two German generals, have commanded the German army to kill all sides on the Eastern Front since they got the advanced weapons gifted by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, but although the Russian army was annihilated by more than 1.7 million, it did not annihilate the main force of the Russian army, and 1.7 million people is not too much for the Russian army.

The reason why the railways of Tsarist Russia could not afford the transportation task was really because there were too many people on the front line.

The traffic jam caused the Russian soldiers to get food, and the wounded Russian soldiers had to die in agony without medicine, and anti-war sentiment began to heat up.

Tsarist Russia's plan is very good, but the intensity of its implementation has to be embarrassing.

However, the orders were real, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe got a huge amount of orders from Tsarist Russia.

In Turkey, the Battle of Gallipoli had turned into a land war, and the Entente had intended to end the war with a naval battle, but their plan failed.

The Battle of Gallipoli was fought by the Anzac Corps, along with the Anglo-French forces, and was the first time Australia and New Zealand had fought under the flag.

But it was destined to be a big defeat.

In the past, the Entente definitely had a hope of victory, but because Britain sent a navy to attack the Turkish fortress before the initial plan was formulated, the Turks detected their intentions.

Later, when Turkey was almost exhausted in the Dardanelles, the Allies retreated.

And when the Entente reorganized the offensive, it was more than two months later, which gave the Turks enough time to prepare, and the Turks placed their troops on the beaches where the Entente could land.

The war soon began, and the Turks were unable to resist at first, and retreated a little, and a steady stream of troops allowed them to withstand the Entente's attack.

The two sides soon fell into a stalemate trench warfare, which was clearly another fruitless war of attrition.

The continuation of all these wars has allowed the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the American Political Axe to seek huge profits in it.

(To be continued)