Chapter 319: Expansion and Expansion
readx; The huge disparity in agricultural productivity is a problem that can never be avoided, and under such a huge disparity, countries can only use tariffs to protect the agricultural products they can produce. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The development of all-round agriculture in China is tantamount to cutting off the agricultural exports of most countries, and China's agricultural products monopolize the international market.
Countries around the world have always wanted to obtain China's advanced agricultural technology, and various means have been used.
Unfortunately, no matter what the means are used, no high-yield crop technology has been obtained.
When many countries steal the seeds of some of China's high-yielding crops, they initially think that their country's agriculture is about to take off, as they did at the beginning, but the reality is extremely cruel.
Many of the post-war problems were a headache for the Entente, and the most troublesome was how to contain the development of China, a country that was constantly recovering and becoming stronger.
Preparations are also underway for the Paris Peace Conference, and the question of how to deal with Russia's spoils is also a headache.
It stands to reason that Russia's losses were even worse than France's.
Russia's participation in this war not only did not lead to the expansion of its influence into Europe, but on the contrary, it lost its territory in Europe, and a large part of the Far East of Asia was also returned to China.
But Russia has turned to China, which makes it impossible for the Paris Peace Conference to give Russia too many benefits, especially in the naval aspect.
The Chinese Navy has begun to develop and build the most advanced battleships in the world.
Obviously, German warships could not be given to Russia, and to give them to Russia was to give China in disguise.
It is also very simple not to give the German warships to Russia, after all, Russia has lost its access to the sea, and the only place that can be like the sea is the North Pole.
Therefore, the reason that there is no access to the sea is feasible.
But without the benefit of the Russian navy, the German military weapons, and the colonial side are obviously not easy to give, and the only thing that can be given is reparations.
But the French apparently wanted most of the reparations.
Even Britain suffered heavy losses, and Britain had already hit the point of a serious decline in national power.
As a result, Britain and the United States came up with a solution, which was to deduct a part of the loan owed by Russia as a share of the spoils of the victory in the war against the Central Powers.
In this way, there is no need to give money to Russia.
It is tantamount to excluding Russia from the distribution of spoils.
Britain and France were deeply divided, with France wanting to dominate Europe and therefore occupying the industrial regions of West Germany.
As long as this industrial area is occupied by France, France's power will soar.
But Britain did not want this, and it wanted to continue to balance the power of the European continent, so it was impossible for France to achieve European hegemony.
The United States, on the other hand, wants to gain the freedom of capital operation in this spoils, a kind of capital operation that is even freer than it is now.
However, how these countries divide the spoils has little to do with China.
At this time, the Chinese Empire continued to expand its armaments, and this year the Chinese Army has expanded to two million troops.
Nearly half of the Northwest Military District was transferred to the two major Urals Military District, but the strength of the Northwest Military District rose again to 300,000.
There are a total of fifteen A divisions, and two mountain divisions.
The establishment of the two mountain divisions meant that the Chinese Empire was going to use force against Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Both countries had established Soviet power, but they had no connection with the Russian Soviet, since the Soviet Union had not yet been formed.
However, the location of these two countries is the territory ceded by China to Russia. From the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, both countries were Chinese territories.
In the Qing Dynasty, it became Chinese territory again.
At this time, Russia defected to China, not only did it get all the territories that it had gone out of, but the Chinese Empire directly drew a diagonal line 50 kilometers west of Balk Stone Lake, and in addition to the recovered territory, it also gained nearly 800,000 square kilometers of additional territory, on the grounds that China expanded here during the Tang Dynasty.
This diagonal line is drawn directly to the border with Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan also had their own Soviet regimes, and both countries had oil and gas underground.
Since it is a Soviet power, it is not to fight for nothing.
Conquering Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, China would expand into the Caspian Sea region and connect with the British colonies of Afghanistan and Iran.
Across Iran is the Arab Kingdom of Rashid, and the Arab Kingdom of Rashid will not be threatened by Western countries, but China will further threaten the British colonies.
If it is said that there is still a natural risk from Tibet Province to India, then if you fight from Afghanistan to India, then the natural risk will be greatly reduced.
By taking Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan at the same time, he took control of the railways in the Middle East and blocked one of the future Soviet lines of communication.
The main thing is to contain New Russia on the mainland, cut off their external communication channels, and make it easier for China to control.
Russia expressed support for China's impending military action, and although Nicholas II was keen to expand southward, confidence in China's restoration of the Tang dynasty was strong.
As for whether the Tang Dynasty expanded into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Nicholas II is not very clear, but China has turned out a bunch of classics.
In fact, these classics are fake, and Xia Jun made people forge them.
Did the Tang Dynasty expand to that region, as long as China fought it, it would not hurt if it was exposed at that time, anyway, the meat was eaten in the stomach, and it was useful to tell me that this piece of meat did not belong to me?
The strength of the Northeast Military Region has been expanded to 500,000, while the strength of the North China Military Region has remained unchanged at 200,000.
The strength of each of the two military districts in the north and south of the Ural Mountains is 150,000, which is equivalent to the total strength of the five northern military regions, including the two Russian military districts, reaching 1.3 million.
There are also 700,000 troops, which are 200,000 troops in the East China Military Region, 100,000 troops each in the Southwest, South China, and Southeast Military Regions, 100,000 troops in the Nanyang Military Region, and 100,000 troops in the Kokang Military Region in Burma.
According to the plan, China's military strength will increase to 2.3 million next year.
However, China is now such a large country, and it has to send troops to Russia to fight the Russian Soviets, and it has to conquer the four stan countries, and it is obvious that the plan cannot keep up with the changes.
Therefore, China will expand the strength of its army to 2.6 million next year to meet the troop needs of the northern region.
If the southern region does not expand its armed forces for the time being, there will generally be no war in the south, and if a war does, the 500,000 troops of the five southern military regions will be very sufficient.
As for transferring the south to the north to fight, and the north to fight in the south, it is obviously impossible.
The main test of the Northern Military Region is the severe cold climate, while the test of the Southern Military Region is the tropical rainforest climate.
The 500,000 troops of the Northeast Military Region are specially designed to deal with Yuben.
At this time, the pressure on the Russian side had been pushed to the front line of the Ural Mountains, and the North China Military District still had 20 troops, and these 200,000 troops could at any time support the operation against the Soviet state in the east and the Soviet state in the west.
Among them, the battlefield on the western front in the north is a rotational theater, and the three major military districts in the north will successively send their divisions to the two military districts of the north and south of the Urals to fight against the Russian Soviets, so as to achieve the effect of military training.
The Navy has launched a number of new battleships this year, including the Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Anhui, and the Pangu aircraft carrier is about to be born.
This is the first aircraft carrier in the true sense of the word, with a displacement of 40,000 tons, a behemoth with a flat and lengthened all-pass deck, which is a completely new design.
It is also the world's first real aircraft carrier.
…… As the end of 1918 arrived, it was time for China to budget.
In 1918, China's GDP had exceeded 130 billion yuan, and the economic growth had reached 30 percent.
Because the economic growth rate was dragged down by foreign arms exports, with the end of World War I, China received fewer orders in the last year, so the profits from the war became less.
In terms of internal economy, China grew by almost 40% in 1918......
The reason why the growth is so rapid is that the inland provinces and the northern provinces have begun to develop, and with the opening of the roads, more and more people have used the advanced productive forces, and when the 450 million people of China gradually join this efficient production, the economic growth rate will be very terrifying.
The reason why it is so fast is, in general, the reason for productivity, because China's productivity at this time can be said to be the highest in the world, so it has a strong core.
Just like an engine that spins faster and faster, some engines have poor technology and can't turn to a certain extent, while good engines can turn faster.
However, there is a certain period of time for such rapid growth, and after the popularization of the productive forces in China as a whole, the growth rate will not be as fast as it is now, and it may be 5% to 10% per year at that time, which is very high for developed countries.
In developing countries, as long as productivity increases, economic growth tends to be exaggerated compared to developed countries.
China's economic growth rate is even more advanced than that of developed countries, so its economic growth is exaggerated to the extreme.
With a GDP of 130 billion yuan, the average personal output value is 288.8 yuan, which shows that a large part of the people have not joined in this efficient productive force.
Due to the high level of productivity, the per capita output value of China's coastal population is already even higher than that of the United States, far exceeding the level of 288 yuan.
The wages of the workers in the coastal areas are constantly rising, after all, the First World War entered a period of windfall profits in various industries, and it was not only the capitalists who made money, but also the workers.
Therefore, in the coastal provinces, the minimum wage of workers has risen to 10 yuan, and this is the wage of the 8-hour work system, during the First World War, workers generally worked 10 hours, and some reached 12 hours, and the overtime pay was doubled, and in some more tiring and hard work, there were additional allowances.
(To be continued)