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After Germany's military technology became stronger, Hitler began to suppress his ambitions for expansion, and at the end of 1936, with the help of Austrian pro-Germans, he occupied Austria without bloodshed.

Britain and France were clearly unwilling to take the risk of war for Austria, so Britain and France remained only at the level of protest.

After the beginning of the German military operation, the army of the Chinese Empire was significantly faster in terms of reequipment, and all the combat vehicles stored in the warehouses were transferred out of the warehouses and transported to the troops.

The Type 13 vehicles that were replaced were handed over to the members of the Third World Alliance, and the Empire also sent a special team of instructors to help the Third World member states build and train armored divisions.

In the future, more and more countries will join the Third World Alliance, and these obsolete equipment of the Chinese Empire will also be useful.

In addition, a number of combat vehicles removed from the regular army were equipped to the second-line troops.

…… In 1937, it was destined to be an extraordinary year, with the capture of Czechoslovakia by Germany and several border clashes on the Polish border.

Relations between Germany and the Third World Alliance suddenly became very strained.

The Third World Alliance immediately responded, and the West China Field Army of the Chinese Empire transferred ten armored divisions to the Polish border and signed a long-term garrison agreement with Poland.

The reaction of the Chinese Empire gave Germany a reason to expand its army.

Germany expanded its army from 300,000 to 800,000 in 1937, for which Britain and France remained silent, and the United States did the same, apparently encouraging Germany to be emboldened.

For this reason, Germany has also gained a lot of benefits from the United States, and international capital has also continuously transferred advanced military technology to Germany, greatly strengthening Germany's military strength.

Historically, the United States has done the same.

Before the outbreak of World War II, the United States obviously wanted to support Germany, and then let Germany and the Soviet Union fight to the death first, and then destroy the Soviet Union first, and then stir up the contradictions between Britain and France and Germany, and then support Britain and France, so as to make a lot of war money from it. However, Hitler apparently did not do what the United States intended, and the United States had to adopt the second plan, which was to support the Soviet Union against Germany.

The United States did not help the Germans at all in the original history, because the Germans were too difficult to deal with, just as the United States was hostile to the Chinese Empire at that time.

The Soviet Union had a completely different system, and the United States naturally would not allow it.

At this time, the primary enemy of the United States became the Chinese Empire, so Germany and the Soviet Union became the objects of the United States to unite with each other in order to contend with the Chinese Empire.

However, what the United States, Britain and France did not realize was that Germany was rapidly accumulating military strength, and Hitler was naturally not stupid enough to attack Poland, but aimed the butcher's knife at France.

The tension on the Polish border is just a cover-up.

However, Hitler was still a little sensible and knew that he could not go too far, otherwise if he angered the Third World Alliance, Germany would most likely be beaten by the Third World Alliance.

At this time, the United States was constantly cheering Germany up, so as to give Germany enough courage to fight hard with the Third World Alliance.

The American political axe even sent a lot of industrial raw materials to Germany.

Hitler was cool, and at this time, Germany was in a mess, and it also gave him the illusion that Germany was very important to the two major military alliances in the world and had a decisive role.

In 1937, the growth rate of the economic aggregate of the Chinese Empire remained the same as before, and the growth rate entered a very rapid stage, with an annual growth rate of 20%, and the total economic output recovered to 790 billion Asian yuan.

It seems that it is almost back to the level of the boom and exceeds the level of 40 billion Asian dollars, but in reality it is not, although wages have begun to rise and rise, prices have also risen.

During the boom period, it was mainly the development and prosperity of civil use, so the output of civilian products was large, and the price was naturally cheaper. At this time, the Chinese Empire used the printed tickets for construction projects and military expenses, and mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources.

Although the price increase level is the fastest year since the establishment of the East China Political Axe, the people's living standards are still good.

Because at this time, the level of productivity of the Chinese Empire had developed to a very good level, and in fact, tens of millions of people were used to produce agriculture and light industry, which was enough to produce enough daily necessities for 600 million people.

As a result, prices for agricultural and light industrial products have risen modestly, with the price level of light industrial products rising to the smallest extent.

Industries that can't rely on machinery to boost their workforce have seen the fastest price increases.

Although the Chinese Empire is no longer as prosperous as the market economy it was at the beginning, the quality of life of the people is still good, and it is much better than that of the Americans.

In order to compete with the Chinese Empire, the United States has increased the degree of oppression of workers, and is also learning from the crazy construction projects of the Chinese Empire.

I can't wait to use one person as if it were two people. But this also caused great dissatisfaction among American workers with the political axe, and protests often broke out.

In 1937, the U.S. economy had recovered to 140 billion Asian dollars, and the U.S. dollar was also depreciating sharply.

But if the Fed can issue an additional $1, the Chinese Empire will be able to issue at least $4, because the population of the Chinese Empire is four times that of the United States, and Russia uses the Asian dollar.

The level of economic recovery of the Chinese Empire was much faster than that of the United States, because the Chinese Empire printed at least four times more votes than the United States, or even nearly five times as much.

There are more tickets, the cost of national labor is rising, in fact, the quality of life of the people is not bad, only those who do not go to work will feel bad.

It is precisely this rate of depreciation, combined with the sluggish investment environment, that has caused the assets of investors who made a lot of money during the boom period to shrink, thereby reducing the gap between rich and poor.

During this period, many private enterprises felt that business was not good because the market economy was not prosperous. However, production and construction are no less than in the prosperous period, and this kind of construction is a state act, and what is built is also a national asset.

Workers are also paid, and they are paid more than they were during the boom, so as long as they are employed, their quality of life will not decline.

The political axe was very wealthy during this period.

Personal income tax plus taxes on enterprises, as well as seigniorage, and a high degree of monopoly by the East China Group, a large state-owned group.

At the same time, during this period, the Chinese Empire began to consciously improve the efficiency of national production.

For example, the small traders and vendors in those prosperous areas will be cut down. The personal labor output value of these small traders and hawkers is too low, although they can create a lot of jobs, but what is not lacking now is employment, and with so many projects under construction in the country, will there be no jobs?

Huadong Group, Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group have established a joint venture 'Imperial Retail Company', with Huadong Group accounting for 75% of the total shares, Zhongsheng Group accounting for 10%, and Huasheng Group also accounting for 10%.

Since this is not a heavy industry sector, it will be mainly managed by the management teams of Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group, with the group responsible for management having an additional 5% of the unfixed shares. As for whether Zhongsheng or Huasheng will manage the company, it mainly depends on their respective operational capabilities, and the decision-making level adopts a rotation system in advance. East China Group has the right to decide when selecting the decision-making level, East China Group does not intervene in management, but also depends on the results, the same only looks at the results, high efficiency, good results do not change, bad results must be changed.

Imperial Retail will open supermarkets in cities across the country, which will be closer to the daily life of ordinary people than shopping malls.

These supermarkets are more than 10 times more efficient than individual retail stores, which means that more people can be invested in construction and maximize the value of individual labor.

At the same time, the Empire's policy towards the Imperial Retail Company is more favorable.

In general, this kind of behavior is to further increase the degree of monopoly, monopoly is not completely bad in many cases, at least in terms of increasing productivity, the monopoly model has an absolute advantage. Because in order to achieve a monopoly position without policy restrictions, it must be based on a higher level of productivity and organizational efficiency.

Since it is a monopoly of state capital, this monopoly increases the state's fiscal revenue, and at the same time improves the overall production efficiency.

This state monopoly model of the Chinese Empire is not something that ordinary countries can learn, because it is too difficult. This is not a monopoly model based on policy restrictions, but a monopoly model that allows private capital to enter, and in order to obtain a monopoly, it is necessary to rely on the means of market competition to eliminate competitors. Therefore, other countries cannot learn from it, and only the Chinese Empire has such strength.

At the same time, at the time of the economic depression, a large number of factories went bankrupt, so the Chinese Empire controlled a large number of commercial resources, and the East China Group used these resources to unite Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group to carry out a series of industrial deep integration, and formed a number of monopoly enterprises in the fields of light industry, sales, and service industries.

In contrast to the Chinese Empire, which was largely restored and consolidated, the American bank capitalists had much more time to integrate, and therefore consolidated their industries earlier than the Chinese Empire.

While strengthening the monopoly, the Chinese Empire also introduced many policies to support entrepreneurship, and at the same time, there were many entrepreneurial funds.

Because of the existence of venture capital, once the entrepreneur is successful, then he will make money immediately.

Entrepreneurship can succeed, in the case of capital is already very strong, it must rely on creativity and higher organizational efficiency, if it can be successful in entrepreneurship, it is a good business.

And after these companies are born, they prove that they have enough value, and the banks will pay to buy them from the entrepreneurs, and even throw a lot of money at them to continue to maintain the monopoly.

That's the benefit of being well capitalized.

At the same time, these monopoly groups have certain preferential policies and have strengthened their competitive strength.

The model of the Chinese Empire was to cut down those who were too wealthy to work, and at the same time unite a part of the national capital merchants, so that the majority of the whole country would work.

It is tantamount to uniting a part of the proletariat to attack the position of the proletariat and to seize the interests of the proletariat by retaining part of the proletariat.

Those national capital businessmen who serve the political axe are equivalent to the eagle dogs of the imperial court.

After strengthening the monopoly of capital, the overall labor productivity has increased, and at the same time, the political axe has more money to invest in construction, and it can also mobilize more labor force to invest in the crazy armament construction.

…… At the end of 1937, the Chinese Imperial Navy began to be formally reorganized, and nearly 20 aircraft carriers hidden in the waters of the Nanyang Republic were officially incorporated into the East China Fleet of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, it is equipped with three Fierce General-class battleships, and nearly 200 Reaper-class ocean-going combat submarines have been incorporated into the navy.

The United States and Britain quickly obtained relevant information, and they planted many spies in the Chinese navy.

What puzzled them was where the seven East China-class battleships built by the Chinese Empire before go? Where did the other five Admiral-class battleships go?

Also, how did such a large number of aircraft carriers suddenly come out...... When were these aircraft carriers built?

At the end of 1937, in the port of Xiamen, a group of tall warships sailed into the port, and after these warships arrived at the port, they were dismantled and returned to the furnace as scrap steel.

These warships added up one after another, and they were exactly seven East China-class battleships and five Mengjiang-class battleships.

What is surprising is that these battleships are all empty, there is nothing inside, and they are completely empty shell ships.

As soon as Britain and the United States received the exact information, they accused the Chinese Empire of using despicable means to provoke a naval arms race, which greatly increased the instability of the international situation.

In response, the Chinese Empire said that it was its own right to build test ships, and that other countries' naval arms race was entirely the result of its own pursuit of wind and shadows.

Britain and the United States suddenly realized that they had been tricked, and at this time, Britain and the United States built 30 battleships of the same class as the East China-class battleships, and also built 14 Haipower-class battleships.

These battleships alone took up a considerable amount of resources, and at the same time, the annual training and maintenance was a lot of money.

But after all the construction has been made, can it still be dragged back to the shipyard to be used as scrap steel?

As for the Chinese Empire, it doesn't matter, it's a bunch of empty shell ships anyway, and there is no loss if it is refined.

However, Britain and the United States said that at this time, they still believed in the combat effectiveness of battleships, so naturally they would not disassemble these battleships and put them back in the furnace.

But it is an indisputable fact that these battleships took up a lot of resources. But Britain and the United States feel that the naval strength of their alliance has greatly exceeded that of the Chinese navy.

The Chinese Navy is no longer able to compete with them.

…… In autumn, it's time for marine fishing again.

Every year, the fishing boats of the Chinese Empire would start fishing in the autumn and stop fishing in the spring.

Among them, the fishery resources in the waters of Yongning Province (Sakhalin) have always been the focus of fishing in the Chinese Empire, and the East China Navy, as in previous years, sent frigates to the Hokkaido fishing grounds.

Every year, the fishing boats of the Chinese Empire entered Hokkaido to catch the autumn breeze, and 1937 was no exception.

However, in 1937, the navy suddenly hardened, and the navy sent two warships to the waters of Hokkaido to expel the fishing boats of the Chinese Empire.

A naval standoff immediately sparked.

The two frigates of the Chinese Empire were not afraid of the two Fuso-class battleships and fired a warning at the battleships, and the two battleships were forced to retreat one nautical mile.

The navy is obviously prepared, but the political axe is not ready, and once the navy misfires, it is very likely to cause war.

The Navy sent additional warships to Hokkaido and contacted Britain and the United States.

Britain and the United States reacted quickly, sending a note to the Chinese Empire, claiming that the Chinese Empire had invaded the Metropolitan Strait.

The Chinese Empire was quick to respond, claiming that Ezo had paid tribute to China many times since ancient times and was a vassal state of China, but it was forcibly occupied by the Shogun in the 19th century. The Chinese Empire does not recognize the sovereignty of Hokkaido, especially the territorial waters of Hokkaido, which should be included in China's territorial waters.

This answer of the Chinese Empire made the country angry, but there was also a deep sense of fear in the hearts of the people.

Two days later, the Chinese Empire announced that it would hold joint naval exercises off the coast of Vinh Ninh province, which immediately pushed this fear to a high point.

The issue of sovereignty over Hokkaido's waters has become highly concerned in the international community, and the mainstream media of the Western alliance have said that the Chinese empire is unreasonable.

But so what?

In order to vigorously support the three countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the three countries decided to conduct a joint military exercise of the navies of the three countries in the waters of Hokkaido.

The two major leagues are pitting each other against each other.

The main forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy began to move towards Vladivostok, and the main naval forces of Britain and the United States in Asia also began to sail towards the waters of Hokkaido.

The long-term accumulation of contradictions between the two alliances suddenly focused on the waters of Hokkaido.

After nearly half a month of mobilization, the navies of the two major alliances began to face off at the Hokkaido sea border, and the so-called joint exercise eventually turned into a larger-scale naval confrontation.

Britain and the United States dispatched 28 super-useless ships, 15 super-battleships, 25 heavy battlecruisers, and 10 aircraft carriers, and at the same time both sides dispatched huge groups of aircraft, all of which took off from land.

In comparison, the power of the Imperial Chinese Navy looked very thin, with only 8 super pointless ships, 3 super battleships, and 8 heavy battlecruisers.

In terms of large warships, the United States and Britain said that the joint navy of the three countries has 48 more ships than the imperial navy of China, and this is true not counting aircraft carriers.

On large warships alone, Britain and the United States said that the navy was 3.5 times the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and at the beginning Britain and the United States said that they built warships according to the 2:1 model, but the Chinese Empire built a bunch of empty shell ships, which led to a serious imbalance in power.

The only thing that worried Britain and the United States was the air force of the Chinese Empire, but the United States sent a large number of planes to the city to strengthen its air defense capability, and the total number of fighters alone exceeded 1,000, which seemed to be a lot.

However, the Chinese Empire has more fighters, and the total number of fighters deployed throughout the country exceeds 3,000, although many of them are old fighters, but the number of new fighters is increasing, and the East China Aircraft Factory can produce nearly 50 fighters every day, as well as 30 large bombers, and the war potential has reached a frightening level.

However, Britain and the United States did not know much about the situation of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, and the fact that the planes and the anti-aircraft guns on so many battleships made Britain and the United States very confident in naval confrontation.

Diplomatically, the two alliances are constantly at odds, with each side demanding that the other withdraw from the area, and in general, to keep the other side away.

He analyzed the current situation and suggested that the British and American navies and the Chinese navy should go to war against the Imperial Chinese Navy, so as to wipe out the Imperial Chinese Navy, so that the Third World Alliance would completely lose the opportunity to compete for sea power.

At this time, both Ben and the Soviet Union were ready for war.

(To be continued)