The second industrial revolution is a change in energy, transportation, and communications, in which the alternating current of Truss and the application of internal combustion engines allow factories to obtain cheap energy, thus moving towards heavy industry.

The application of the internal combustion engine has led to the development of new means of transportation, and the emergence of automobiles and airplanes has made great changes in the mode of transportation.

The invention of the telegraph and the telephone made human communication more convenient.

At the same time, the difference between the second industrial revolution and the first industrial revolution is that the first industrial revolution is not closely linked to the development of science, while the development of the second industrial revolution is closely linked to the development of science.

At this time, China was a country where the first industrial revolution had not yet been popularized, but it was at the intersection of the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution, that is, it could absorb the fruits of the first industrial revolution and apply the new technologies of the second industrial revolution, so the economy developed rapidly, and the same is true of the capital.

The only difference is that the existence of Xia Jun's exchange platform has made China's second industrial revolution at the forefront of the world in many places.

The most obvious is energy, at this time China's industry has been large-scale use of hydropower, coal power, oil, due to the increase in oil and coal extraction, China's energy prices have become the lowest in the world.

The reason why it can be achieved is that the application of advanced electrical technology, such as power generation equipment and power transmission equipment, makes electricity cheap.

In terms of coal mining and oil exploitation, advanced mining equipment and methods are used to reduce the cost of coal and oil exploitation.

Therefore, at this time, China was very cheap in terms of energy, so heavy industry gained a good living environment, and in terms of workers, with the development of trade with Germany, China got a lot of skilled workers and engineers from Germany, and this problem was largely solved.

On the one hand, the East China political axe went inland to build infrastructure, constantly building railways and highways to solve the transportation problem, and on the other hand, it began to overhaul hydropower stations to continuously transport cheap oil and coal inland, and on the other hand, it began to develop industry inland.

In terms of transportation, at this time, the annual production of cars in East China Group has increased to 800,000 units, although it is still not much, but it has surpassed the United States, you must know that before the First World War, the total production of cars in other countries outside China only skyrocketed to 500,000 units.

But 800,000 cars can't even meet domestic demand, let alone export. There is a real need for cars at present, and relying solely on railways, things cannot be transported in many places. At present, the railway line is not very perfect, and in the golden age of the First World War, there are so many goods that sometimes cannot be transported.

East China Group is rapidly expanding its automobile production line, and is expected to increase its annual production of automobiles to 2 million units this year, which will initially meet the transportation needs.

The East China Group was the first enterprise to move inland, and basically all the new factories that could be opened in the inland were opened inland, becoming a pioneer in the development of the economy in the central and western regions.

The existence of East China Group is used to cooperate with political policies, and to provide jobs and scientific research.

Due to the development of science and technology, the economic development mode of China at this time was very different from that of China in later generations, although China in later generations seemed to be very advanced, but in fact it was still relatively backward.

At this time, due to the improvement of productive forces, China is very competitive in the world, so some enterprises are developing rapidly, and they have the ability to ban those enterprises or workshops that use backward productive forces, so as to enter a state of concentration of productive forces.

This kind of concentration of productive forces is not a monopoly to say, but monopoly also has the advantage of monopoly, that is, it can use advanced productive forces.

The route taken by Xia Jun is to let several enterprises in a certain industry centralize their productive forces, and then let these enterprises compete, taking the route of appropriate monopoly and appropriate competition.

In this case, the backward productive forces have the ability to survive without dying or living, so that there are many low-tech duplicate productions, and resources are wasted.

At this time, China uses a lot of energy at will, so it often invests in a new technology, and immediately gains a huge competitive advantage that destroys the decay, and eliminates or swallows up those companies that use outdated technologies.

The manufacturing of engineering vehicles has become a new key project of East China Group, and East China Group has been able to manufacture some engineering vehicles, but it is the kind with low technical content.

There are many types of engineering vehicles, but the main ones are excavators, bulldozers, rollers, cranes, and heavy trucks, which are more commonly used, among which the demand for small excavators is the most vigorous, because small excavators can be competent for many projects, and the economic benefits are better than those of medium-sized ones. However, there are many projects at present, and medium-sized excavators can also find a lot to do, so the economic benefits are larger than those of small ones.

The investment of engineering vehicles can speed up the progress of the project, and at the same time can greatly reduce the input of manpower, which is a necessity for the current project.

If a project is not put into engineering vehicles, then the manpower used will be more, and the cost will rise exponentially, then the project will fail.

Huadong Group first handed over the parts of the engineering vehicle to other factories for production, while the Huadong Group was responsible for manufacturing the main parts, that is, hydraulics and other aspects, and the engine was exchanged by Xia Jun from the exchange platform, and then assembled, so that an engineering vehicle came out.

After solving the engineering vehicle, Xia Jun can get rid of a heavy burden, which has become heavier and heavier, to the point where he can't get rid of it.

It is expected that the initial production capacity will be formed within one year and the basic demand will be met within three years.

Xia Jun still has to carry this burden!

It is possible to export engineering vehicles, but the export is some engineering vehicles with weak technical surnames, and those advanced engineering vehicles are still kept for their own use! This falls under the category of technological blockade.

Westerners are engaged in technological blockade, and China is also engaged in technological blockade at this time.

The reason why technology has huge profits is because it can seize the opportunity, and everything is the first to eat crabs to be abundant, and the latter to see basically nothing has to eat.

Just as China can now sell penicillin and thus make huge profits internationally, China can invest the profits obtained from penicillin in new drug research, so as to seize the next opportunity again. And even if other countries make penicillin, the result is that the price of penicillin is lower, they don't have a way to make huge profits, and they don't have as much money for their research.

Technology is not about how high it is, but only whether it is advanced.

It's like the joke, walking in the forest and encountering a tiger, you don't need to run faster than the tiger, just run faster than everyone else.

At this time, the political axe of East China began to run faster than the great powers in many places, but the foundation was not good, the infrastructure was still being vigorously built, and the quality of the people was also being improved.

The problem of engineering vehicles was temporarily implemented, and Xia Jun began to develop in medicine.

It takes time for Chinese medicine to be mass-produced, while Western medicine is more suitable for mass production and is suitable for grabbing profits from the world.

The first thing to build a brand is to leave the impression of the world's people with the highest level of development of Chinese medicine, which takes time.

At the same time, it will also take time to establish the impression that Chinese hospitals have the highest medical means and the most thoughtful services.

It is also time to establish the impression that Chinese drugs have the best effect.

The brand is said to accumulate over time, and the specific way to accumulate is done by the following people, Xia Jun is only responsible for advanced medical technology.

In terms of antibiotics, China has achieved a good reputation and reputation, that is, after sulfonamides, East China Group began to sell penicillin and enzyme chain to the world, so that many incurable diseases have become no longer fatal, especially the First World War, which saved the lives of countless soldiers.

Xia Jun's next target is insulin, which was discovered in 1922 and can be used to treat diabetes, and there are many diabetic patients, so insulin also has a large market.

Insulin is very cheap, as long as 50 million points can get the production method, Xia Jun bought the insulin production method, and then handed it over to the East China Group Pharmaceutical Factory for production.

In terms of diagnostic technology, Xia Jun exchanged it again - cardiac catheterization (1929) and electroencephalogram (1929), which were much cheaper, only five million points each, and Xia Jun exchanged them with his eyes closed.

Then Xia Jun continued to buy medical technology and nutrition. Before the 20th century, nutrition as a disciplinary term rarely appeared in the literature. In the 20th century, nutrition has developed considerably. First of all, the importance of protein in nutrition is becoming clearer. British biochemists F.G. Hopkins (1861~1947) and E. Wilcock in 1906 at Cambridge University, and American biochemists T. Osborne and L. B. Mendel in 1916 at Yale University, proved that some proteins have high nutritional value, and some have incomplete nutritional value. 30s, www.xstxt.org. Davis, 1913); vitamin D (O. Rosenheim, and T. Webster et al., 1926); vitamin C (A. St. Gyelgi, 1928); vitamin B2 (R. Kuhn et al., 1933); vitamin E (H. Evans et al., 1936); vitamin B6 (S. Lepkovsky et al., 1938); Vitamin K (P. H. Damm and D. Fox, 1948), etc. Third, in the second half of the 20th century, the important role of trace elements such as zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, and iodine was recognized. Due to the advancement of nutritional knowledge, human beings have figured out the causes of various nutrient deficiency diseases, and it is possible to take measures such as "fortified food" to prevent and treat them; I enable "complete parenteral nutrition". This treatment, first reported by S. Duderick et al. in 1968, can effectively save the lives of patients with severe malnutrition due to gastrointestinal dysfunction and other reasons.

Vitamin C, vitamin B2, vitamin E, vitamin B6, vitamin K, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, iodine and other trace elements are all bought.

Nutrition is a profitable thing, the production of these vitamin tablets, vitamin capsules and so on, can continue to make profits, and can get good honors, when these things are discovered in China, people will feel that the level of medical development in China is very high, so they believe in Chinese hospitals.

Organ transplantation and artificial organs, which is a relatively late development of medicine, began in 1913, but it was unsuccessful, in 1933 the allogeneic cornea transplant was successful, and in 1954 the kidney transplant between twin brothers was the first successful.

This one too!

Xia Jun also bought these medical technologies.

Before 1930, there were few effective psychiatric treatments. For example, in 1918, malaria parasite inoculation was used to treat paralysis and dementia. In the 30s, insulin therapy for shock and electroconvulsive therapy were used in clinical practice, which became the two major treatments for psychiatric disorders before the application of chemotherapy.

I bought this too!

Soon, Xia Jun purchased nearly 100 medical technologies in a row, and 39 kinds of various diseases, all of which were packaged by Xia Jun and sent to the School of Medicine of East China University.

These techniques cost Xia Jun nearly a billion points, but he still has 500 million points in his hand, and now it's time to exchange for new crop varieties and improved varieties of economic animals.

Xia Jun first exchanged for a good breed of sable, which is the most valuable of mink skins, which can be processed into precious furs, which are soft gold.

Luxury goods are very profitable, and Xia Jun naturally does not let them go.

At the same time, there are foxes and lambs, which are the pillars of the world fur market, and they are naturally developing well in China.

Xia Jun has all exchanged for a second-level breeding base, and a cultivation base requires 50 million points, but there is a breeding technology attached.

The completion of these bases means that China will enter the precious fur market.

At the same time, Xia Jun feels that the grade of beef cattle and dairy cows should be improved, because the leather quality of the current first-class beef cattle and first-class dairy cows is very poor.

Therefore, Xia Jun directly upgraded the cultivation base of beef cattle and dairy cows to the second level, which is a cultivation base with 50 million points.

When beef cattle and dairy cows are upgraded to the second level, the quality of leather can be equal to that of ordinary cattle, and at the same time, the meat and milk production capacity will be increased by 15%, and the economic benefits will be increased by at least 20%, and a large number of cowhides can be produced, which is an industrial raw material.

Soon Xia Jun squandered his points to only 300 million points, which is the bottom line! I can't squander it anymore and have to wait for next month's points to arrive.

…… After the military parade on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, China's chariot became famous overnight, and all countries suddenly felt that they had caught something, chariots! It's a chariot!

The Chinese must have used this new weapon to bring the war to a swift end, and for a time all countries wanted to buy this kind of combat weapon.

Among them, the Germans saw the chariots displayed by the East China Army during the military parade, and their intestines were blue, and as early as the beginning of the war, the East China Political Axe peddled this weapon to them, but it did not attract the attention of the army.

The Army is skeptical of this weapon, and they are reluctant to invest in it because they are unfamiliar with it, but also because they are subconsciously repulsed because they will not use it.

Immediately, the German Army went to the East China Tank Factory to lie down, and the East China Tank Factory (German Branch) had built nearly 300 Crusher 1.

The German Army bought them at a high price of 200,000 Fuxing dollars each, and hired several instructors from the East China Tank Factory.

The Germans knew that such a chariot would inevitably appear in the hands of the Entente later, so they intended to go into battle as soon as possible. This is not speculation, but the East China political axe is neutral at this time, not only doing business with Germany, but also doing business with the Entente, Germany can buy it, and the Entente will inevitably be able to buy it, just like the current Allied planes, 80% of which are made in China.

The Entente were also on the move, and they saw that the East China Army had quickly defeated the Yue army that had dug up a well-established trench on the Shandong battlefield, and soon pressed the winning chips of the war on the chariot.

The British and French ambassadors quickly approached the East China Political Axe and bought 100 Shredders1 for 300,000 Fuxing coins each, preparing to put them on the battlefield to test the combat effect.

The number of Crusher 1 in the hands of the East China Political Axe reached nearly three hundred and fifty, which was ready to be exported to the Entente countries, and as soon as the Entente countries placed an order, they were immediately loaded on ships and shipped to Europe the next day.

At the same time, the Entente also ordered fifty hammer 4, which is expensive, and one will cost 3 million yuan. At the same time, the Entente also purchased almost three hundred hammers3.

After the parade, a total of nearly 200 million pounds of orders were received, which can be described as a lot of money.

In contrast, the Yankees have an advantage that they are willing to lend, while the East China political axe is unwilling to lend to the Entente countries, that is, on credit, so the American political axe still gets more orders than China.

The reason why the Yankees participated in World War I was because if the Allies lost, their money would not be recovered, so after entering the war, two million American soldiers were directly mobilized to fight in Europe.

However, at this time, the situation has changed, and Xia Jun can still give credit to the Entente, but it is limited to France and Britain, and Russia is not allowed.

The Russians are about to be revolutionized, and giving them credit is equivalent to beating a dog with meat buns, and there is no return.

There are also certain risks in giving credit to Britain and France, but there are also opportunities when risks exist.

If the Entente does not pay back, then go to war!

Although China will not be able to attack Europe for a while and a half, the colonies of Britain and France in Asia can be attacked by China, and then it will directly find an excuse.

And now the loan is also profitable, when Zhu Erdian came to the door, he asked Xia Jun to borrow one billion Fuxing coins from China.

Xia Jun said to Zhu Erdian: "It is no problem for us in China to lend money to the British, but you must return the concession to China, and at the same time give the Chinese railway to China as interest, and the same is true for France." ”

"I guess that's fine." Zhu Erdian saw Xia Jun loosen his mouth and said happily that the railway is nothing anymore, and the concession is not a problem.

At this time, China had become the largest power in Asia, and it was basically impossible for Britain to continue to retain the concession.

The fist is hard, and the British can only be cautious.

However, the specific method of borrowing money still needs to be discussed in detail.

(To be continued)