readx; The economy of Siberia and the Far East is underdeveloped, and the mineral exploration is unknown, so the East China Group used the resource map provided by Xia Jun to buy a large amount of land in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

These lands were bought at very low prices, and in most places the price of an acre of land was less than one renaissance coin, which was basically the same as giving away for nothing.

Siberia is a vast and sparsely populated region, and the land is indeed very worthless.

The East China Group's purchase of land is not a large-scale purchase of land, but a piece of land here and a piece there, and all the places where there are minerals are bought.

Although it looks scattered, all that lies underneath is minerals and oil.

Unaware of this, Nicholas II was fooled into introducing a liberal policy of mineral exploitation, in which a mineral was found somewhere, the mineral was owned by the individual land, and no tax was charged.

In China, on the other hand, if you want to mine a mine, you have to pay a certain amount of money to the government to get a license, and the bigger and richer the mine, the more money you need to get a mining license.

However, in China, the East China Group is responsible for the mining of important minerals, and other companies are rarely involved in the mining of these important minerals.

While the East China Group was entrenching mines, China's agricultural reclamation companies were pouring into Kazakhstan to buy land on a large scale.

The lands of Kazakhstan belonged to those nomads, and with the mass entry of the Russians, Nicholas II pursued a policy of repression against them.

After joining forces with some nobles, the Chinese agricultural reclamation companies forced the nomads of the Kazakh region to transfer their land to the Chinese agricultural reclamation companies at low prices.

The land of Kazakhstan is very suitable for growing cotton, and the climate of this region is very similar to that of the Western Regions, so it is suitable for the growth of cotton.

At this time, China's cotton production area is no longer sufficient, although there are large areas of cotton cultivation in the Huanghuai region, but the climate in many areas is not too suitable, the yield is always affected, and the quality of cotton sometimes varies greatly.

Kazakhstan will be a new and important cotton producing area for the Chinese Empire.

As a result of Russia's oppressive policy to help the Chinese agricultural reclamation companies buy land, the price per mu of land was also less than a revival coin, which quickly provoked a popular uprising, but was immediately suppressed.

China's agricultural reclamation companies have relatively smoothly acquired a large amount of land in Kazakhstan and are stepping up preparations for next year's cotton planting.

The cotton grown in Kazakhstan is not only of good quality, but also extremely high in yield.

The development of this cotton-growing area means that cotton production in China's Huanghuai region can be diverted to other crops.

Helping Russia to mechanize agriculture is also underway, but the Chinese agricultural reclamation companies are not involved, but the East China Bank of China lends money to the Russians to carry out agricultural mechanization.

This kind of transformation is definitely a loss-making act, because after the economic integration of China and Russia, grain can be sold to Russia unimpeded, and Russian farms are prepared to suffer serious losses.

Because it is a low-interest loan, it means that these farms can borrow some money to pay off the loan when the loan is about to expire, and then get a loan from the bank and pay back the money borrowed elsewhere, so that they can survive.

However, as soon as the banks stop lending, they will collapse immediately.

What should I do if I can't pay off the loan? Then return it with the farm.

But the farm is insolvent, so what to do? Go ahead and pay it back! It's a lifetime! Of course, some debt relief can be given, and if they refuse to pay back, they will be arrested and imprisoned.

This is not the case in China, if a Chinese enterprise goes bankrupt and the assets are used to repay the bank debts, as long as it is not maliciously, the bank will simply confiscate the assets to pay off the debts, and the debts that cannot be paid will be written off from then on. The bankrupt will not lend to him in the next three to five years, and after this period, the credit can be rebuilt, and the bank will continue to lend to the bankrupt.

In other words, after a certain amount of work, the bank can turn these farmers into agricultural workers, that is, workers working on the farm.

And the farm's land, machinery, and everything else goes to the bank.

As a result, China took control of the Russian farms, and it had complete control over the grain.

If Russia provokes China and first cuts off grain exports, and then cuts off grain supplies from within Russia, the result will be terrible for Russia.

Due to the transformation of agricultural mechanization and the influx of grain from China, the supply of grain in New Russia was abundant at this time, and the price was low.

Outwardly, the economy of New Russia began to develop rapidly.

After the road was built, Chinese capital began to build various factories in the area where the road was built, as well as to mine the local minerals.

Many Russians found work, either as factory workers or as miners in the mines, and the country began to gradually stabilize.

Behind the stability is the reality that Russia's resources are gradually being completely controlled by China.

As long as Chinese capital withdraws, the Russian economy will fall into the freezing point, which is very similar to the situation of international capital in China in later generations, if China does not buy US Treasury bonds, international capital will withdraw, and it can be said that China in later generations has been pinched by international capital.

As the economic ties between China and Russia became closer, the Imperial Cabinet of China finally decided on a bill for long-term military support for New Russia.

In the motion, China will establish military districts in the north and south of the Ural Mountains of New Russia, one for the North Ural Military District and the other for the South Ural Military District.

The two military regions each garrisoned two armored divisions and eight infantry divisions, making a total of 20 military regions with a total strength of 300,000.

At the same time, the Imperial Air Force of China will establish two large airfields in the Urals to take off and land Chinese strategic bombers, as well as various tactical bombers.

Each of the two airfields is equipped with 100 Mosquito strategic bombers and 200 Hammer 4 bombers.

At the same time, the Imperial Cabinet of China opened restrictions on the export of aircraft to Russia, allowing New Russia to purchase mosquito bombers.

But the price is also expensive.

Russia will buy 500 Mosquito bombers and 300 Hammer 4 bombers, and order a number of bombs.

At the same time, the East China Group will build a military factory in Russia in the form of a joint stock to produce bullets, bombs, explosives, and other commonly used munitions.

After the merger, the Russian agitation accounted for only 5% of the shares, which can be said to be very small.

Moreover, this kind of joint stock is divided between one factory and one factory, for example, this factory is given to this Russian nobleman, and the same factory, which is also owned by the East China Group, is given to another Russian nobleman.

In this way, build a large network of contacts.

In the event of a war, the usual arms consumed by Russia will be ordered from these arms factories opened by Chinese capital.

And those arms that Russia cannot produce are ordered from China.

As China began to absorb Russian research talents, the number of scientific researchers in New Russia dropped sharply, and most of them went to China.

The rest of the people can't study much.

And they have researched Chinese arms and the like, and China can put these arms in Russia to produce them, and the same Chinese capital will open them, and then find a Russian shareholder to do the table work.

Nicholas II purchased 500 Mosquito bombers and trained pilots with the intention of bombing the Soviet-occupied parts of Europe.

In terms of the army, the Russian [***] team all used Chinese equipment, and Zhao Ming, a military adviser sent by Xia Jun, summed up the main reasons for Russia's defeat in the First Century War to Nicholas II.

That is, Russia did not follow the line of elite troops, and the result of not following the line of elite troops is that Russia has to mobilize a huge number of troops in order to form combat effectiveness.

However, if the transportation capacity is not enough to support the logistics of such a large corps operation, it leads to continuous losses on the front line.

And because too many people participated in the war, the people in the country became war-weary for the sake of their relatives. At the same time, a large number of young and strong people were dragged to fight, and production was affected, and the people's living standards also declined. When a number of factors were combined, the Russian revolution broke out.

"If you don't want the revolution to continue to break out in Russia, if you want to get the people to support the counteroffensive against the Soviets, you must take the line of elite troops, and Russia's traditional crowd tactics will lead to serious consequences, especially now that the population of New Russia is only 40 million, and more than 10 million are ethnic minorities, so it is even more dangerous to use crowd tactics." Zhao Ming said this to Nicholas II.

Nicholas II heard that it was indeed very reasonable, so he took the route of elite soldiers.

However, if you take the elite route, Russia will not be able to produce even ordinary firearms.

Russia's main industries are in Europe, but even those European industries are unable to produce China's advanced military weapons.

Therefore, all these arms had to be purchased from China, and the 500,000 troops recruited by New Russia were all equipped with the standard equipment of the Chinese Army, which required a lot of money.

Russia's debt to China has also been rising, and after ordering a large number of arms to equip the army of half a million and ordering a large number of aircraft, the amount owed to China has reached 3 billion revival dollars.

Combined with the 1 billion Fuxing coins that Russia had agreed to compensate China, it added up to 4 billion Fuxing coins, and the war with the Soviets had not yet officially begun.

Once the war with the USSR began, then the new Russia would owe China even more.

Anyway, Russia has so many gold reserves, and Xia Jun is not afraid that Russia will not be able to pay back the money.

The specific counteroffensive plan was delayed by China until the beginning of next spring, and then attacked Europe when the climate warmed, mainly to gain population.

Russia currently has a population of only 40 million, and the density is too low, and it needs to grab some people from the Soviet Union.

By the beginning of the spring of next year, China's troops in the South and North Ural Military Districts will also be roughly deployed on the Urals line.

When the time comes, it is still possible to test the surname for a counteroffensive.

Xia Jun knew that the result of the early counterattack was that either the Soviet Union was destroyed or the Sino-Russian coalition was destroyed.

Both scenarios are possible.

The first situation was because the USSR was not very strong at this time.

The second situation is that the communication lines for the logistics and supply of the Sino-Russian coalition forces have not yet been completely completed, and once they penetrate deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Union, they are extremely easy to be surrounded and then annihilated.

If it had dragged on for a longer period of time, then the Soviet Union might have been stronger, but the supply lines of the Sino-Russian coalition would have been better.

When the time comes, if we fight again, although it will not be so easy to destroy the Soviet Union, it is better to be safe. Because neither the first situation nor the second situation is what Xia Jun wants to see.

It is in China's interest to destroy the Soviet Union only when China has complete control over Russia.

…… Preparations for China's first Automobile and Aircraft Expo are now intensifying, and China has already extended invitations to countries around the world and civil society organizations.

After nearly two years of research, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company finally built the first all-metal passenger aircraft.

China is the country with the most passenger routes in the world, but at this time, most of the wooden planes used, that is, the heavy hammer 3, are insufficient in terms of ride comfort and safety. And in terms of speed and range, it is not enough.

The cost of air freight is too high, which needs to be subsidized by a political axe.

Next, China's political axe will subsidize airlines more, in order to keep China's aircraft manufacturing industry running.

At this time, the advent of the new all-metal passenger aircraft became the key to the development of air passenger transportation. Aircraft technology must evolve in the direction of large passenger capacity, high speed and greater comfort.

The all-metal airliner developed by East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company has an all-metal structure and streamlined appearance, the landing gear can be retracted, the lower wing structure is adopted, the seats on the plane are comfortable, there are toilets, and there is a flight attendant.

The aircraft was successfully tested in October 1918, with a cruising speed of 248 km/h, a range of 800 km, a passenger capacity of 10 people, and a capacity of 200 kg of mail.

It was a highly successful airliner that injected a functional hardware foundation into the civil aviation industry.

This kind of passenger aircraft is put into the market, not only has a very high safety surname, as well as a comfortable ride, but also the range is not short, 800 kilometers of range, enough to extend the route a lot.

In order to start the brand, this passenger aircraft was named East China 001 passenger aircraft, and later in terms of passenger aircraft, it was named 002, 003, 004, 005...... The airliner will be presented at the expo.

At the same time, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company also developed the most advanced transport aircraft, which was named the Huayun-2 transport aircraft.

The Aeron-2 transport aircraft uses the latest 5-engine design, with two more engines than the Gravity Hammer 4, which can carry 8000 kg of cargo and has a range of 760 kilometers.

Although the surname is not too high, it is already a big step ahead of the world level.

Leading means that there is a market and huge profits.

With profits, newer civil aircraft can be developed, and in terms of the profitability of the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company, all the profits from civil aircraft manufacturing will be invested in the research and development of civil aircraft and the expansion of production capacity.

In other words, the profits of the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company in civil aircraft are only used to maintain the leading position in civil aircraft technology and the continuous operation of the aircraft manufacturing industry. Profits will not be diverted for other purposes, and if the money is not enough, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company will also invest some of the profits from the manufacture of military aircraft into the research and development of civil aircraft.

In short, in the world, China's civil aircraft need to maintain the leading position.

There are many advantages to the continuous operation of the aircraft industry, one is that it can be directly converted into the production capacity of military aircraft in the war, and the other is that in the case of continuous operation, the aircraft manufacturing technology will continue to improve, accumulating rich experience and technology in aircraft manufacturing.

Other countries that have not achieved a leading position in the manufacture of civil airliners will have their aircraft manufacturing operations intermittently, not only will they not be able to expand their production capacity, but the aircraft manufacturing technology will not be able to find experience to improve in continuous operation.

It can be said that the acquisition of the world market for civil aircraft manufacturing is very important and is an issue related to the war potential of the country.

Therefore, the Chinese Imperial Government subsidized domestic airlines, so that they could afford to order aircraft, and were the first to keep the aircraft industry running from domestic demand.

The second is to rely on exports.

(To be continued)