Chapter 178: Military Empire
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86_86661Chen Zhong gave great affirmation to General David's analysis, and he believed that the political development of Germany's radical gambling method was a manifestation of immaturity, and Germany would inevitably pay a heavy price for it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Chen Zhong also said that it is precisely because several old industrial powers in Western Europe have devoted their whole country to engaging in an arms race that their traditional private machinery industry has stopped exporting.
This has brought huge profits to Japan, which has been suffering from lack of money. First, European countries ordered large quantities of military supplies from Japan, and second, European countries were busy with the arms race and almost stopped importing goods, thus creating opportunities for Japanese goods to expand their markets in Asia and Africa.
The cessation of machinery exports from various countries has made the enterprises of the Great Qing Dynasty can only import Japanese machinery in order to expand their production capacity, and the current shortage of domestic commodity production capacity has prompted the country to give up the "boycott of Japanese goods" caused by the 21st Article, so that Japanese goods occupy the market of the Great Qing Dynasty, and it can be said that it is the Japanese industry nourished by the market of the Great Qing Dynasty.
On the other hand, the current Qing Dynasty, although the European powers reduced their exports to the Qing Dynasty due to their concentration on wartime production and the shortage of transport vessels, thus providing an opportunity for the expansion of Chinese-funded industry.
However, our Great Qing Dynasty has almost no machinery manufacturing industry, so it is basically unable to provide machinery and equipment to domestic enterprises, and the West is busy with armaments and has no energy to produce machinery and equipment for export, which gives Japan an opportunity for manufacturing development.
Before the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan basically did not have any machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, and the industrial level at that time was not much better than the pitiful industrial level developed by the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty.
It was the huge reparations from the First Sino-Japanese War that gave Japan a lot of money to develop heavy industry, while the West did not severely restrict the export of heavy industry technology, which was basically something that could be bought with money. It is against this historical background that Japan's machinery and equipment industry has developed and is still developing.
General David said: "If your Qing Dynasty could fight Japan to the end, use these huge indemnities to continue to resist, and not give Japan a source of funds for the development of machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, or even develop its own machinery and equipment manufacturing industry." ”
What General David said is very reasonable, but our Qing Dynasty is weak. Even if the Qing Dynasty did not develop any heavy industry, China was able to produce some light industry, and the impact of the domestic boycott of Japanese goods at that time made it impossible for Japan's industrial economy to expand dramatically during the war.
Therefore, on the surface, the arms race in the West has led to the rise of Japanese industry, which has led to the further expansion of the strength of China and Japan.
Japan's domestic resources are inherently insufficient, and the resources plundered from abroad are used for capital accumulation, technology introduction, education development, and other industries that cost a lot of money and are difficult to achieve results in the short term, which has led to a further decline in profit margins.
In order to make the economy run normally, Japan must constantly plunder from abroad, and Japanese goods, except that under the rule of the Qing court at that time, China had the privilege and occupied a certain market with cheapness, there was not much competitiveness in the international market at all, and it itself also needed to import machinery and import capital from abroad.
Therefore, at present, Japan is already stretched thin at home in the contest with Russia.
Long before the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to develop armaments to counter the Beiyang Army of the Qing court, Japan vigorously developed its military strength, to the point where its finances were insufficient, and even the Emperor Wako reduced food and clothing to support the development of armaments -- in sharp contrast to the extravagance of the Manchu court.
In the First Sino-Japanese War, the weapons of the Japanese army were obviously worse than those of the Manchu Beiyang Army, so the Japanese advance continued to fight by capturing them, and the Japanese could not support them financially, and the Manchu Qing only needed to drag on for half a year to drag down the Japanese invaders. It's a pity that you threw in the towel early in the morning.
The war reparations in the First Sino-Japanese War really boosted Japan's economic progress, especially the establishment of industries throughout the country, and promoted the development of Japan's backward capitalist economy.
However, Japan was not a Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was not so stupid, although the First Sino-Japanese indemnity was mainly used to develop the military, but the development of the military was not just the import of foreign finished products like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Japanese were to develop the military industry and industries related to the military industry, and the large part of the military expenditure was offset by the indemnity, so that the Japanese could use more of their finances to develop various industries, and they would not have to cut the financial expenditure for the development of industry because of military expenditures.
The war reparations in the First Sino-Japanese War really boosted Japan's economic progress, especially the establishment of industries throughout the country, and promoted the development of Japan's backward capitalist economy.
Let me tell you about the reason for Japan's economic development after the First Sino-Japanese War, which is the improvement of national self-confidence and international prestige, so that Japan can use national credit as a basis to obtain funds from the international financial market. Go down in flames!
After that, not only other countries looked down on it, but even the common people in China looked down on it, and if they couldn't borrow money from Chinese people, they would borrow from foreign devils, and the interest rate was super high, and they lost a lot of silver, and the more they borrowed, the poorer they became.
However, even if the Manchu Qing gave him powerful weapons, it was in vain, and the land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War proved that the weapons and artillery of the Manchu army were much stronger than the Japanese Kou, and as a result, after the guns were put indiscriminately, the Japanese came up, and the Manchu pigtailed soldiers basically fled.
Forget about running away or fleeing with your weapons discarded - you don't even know that the weapons of destruction are not left to the enemy. As a result, the Japanese vanguard basically did not need ammunition supply, and only needed to rely on the weapons captured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The so-called national self-confidence is nothing in front of machine guns and artillery without the development of the military industry. In the Russo-Japanese War, Japan relied on artillery to force Tsarist Russia to retreat one step, and Bushido and the sharply increased national self-confidence, if so, would have been slaughtered by Tsarist Russia long ago.
Of course, having weapons without national self-confidence and national concept is also in vain, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the weapons of the First Sino-Japanese War were stronger than the Japanese Invaders, and as a result, the weapons were directly discarded to the Japanese Invaders after the guns were released, which was equivalent to the captain of the transportation brigade.
Therefore, the development of Japanese militarism was developed through the struggle of oneself and through the gnashing of teeth.
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