The war is a fight for attrition, and Germany's steel torrent, the resurrection of the huge high seas fleet, and the domestic industrial production and construction all require huge supplies of various strategic materials such as steel, food, and medicine.

The Germans used the wealth they plundered from European countries, plus the slaughter of Jews to obtain gold, silver, jewelry, etc., which were smelted or exchanged for gold and silver, and used to pay huge import fees for strategic materials to the Tang Empire.

The same is true of Italy, compared to Germany, Italy plundered very little, but it was also a considerable wealth, which was also squandered by Mussolini, mainly used to improve the strength of Italy's military equipment, because the Italian army was too weak, and even Mussolini himself could not stand it, so he also squandered gold and silver on a large scale to purchase weapons and equipment from the Tang Empire.

If the alliance between the Tang Empire and Germany and Italy has gained great benefits, it has gained the entire Oceania, controls two-thirds of the Pacific region, occupies the Far East, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu archipelago, and the Taiwan archipelago, replaces the British control of most of the world's major sea lines of communication and adjacent strategic bases, absorbs the entire British Royal Navy and the French Navy, and sits on the world's most terrifying invincible fleet with a gross tonnage of 6.4 million tons.

Before the Tang Empire completed its thorough control of the occupied areas and the completion of economic data statistics, the total GDP of the Tang Empire had exceeded 300 billion Tang Yuan, which was 100 billion Tang Yuan more than before the outbreak of World War II, and the total GDP of the United States of 400 billion US dollars was only 100 billion US dollars. This speed is staggering, and it is all an effect of the victory in the war.

With the completion of the Tang Army's military occupation and administrative jurisdiction over two millions of square kilometers of Australia and the Far East, the total GDP of Australia and the Far East was also assigned to the Tang Empire. The total GDP of the Far East is not high. The Soviets focused on Europe, and although the Soviet Union's GDP exceeded $180 billion in recent years, the Far East did not share much, with a total GDP of less than $30 billion.

Australia is different, since the day the Tang Empire was founded, Australia has been included in the rear energy base, and the investment in Australia over the years has exceeded 12 billion Tang yuan. Focusing on large-scale exploration of Australia's iron ore, copper ore, gold ore, diamond ore, rare earth ore, investment in the construction of a large number of ore mining and smelting plants, the Tang Empire's fresh grain and meat are provided by the farms and ranches invested in Australia. After experiencing global avian influenza, Australia's ranches have expanded to more than 10,000, and almost every Australian rural family is serving the Tang Empire, one farm or ranch. Some of the grain and meat products produced were sent to the Tang Empire for processing and sale. Some of them are processed locally and sold to all shijie. The rise of the Tang Empire stimulated the rapid economic development of Australia, and the total GDP at this time has exceeded 65 billion Tang Yuan.

In this way, the GDP of Australia and the Far East has been added to the total GDP of the Tang Empire, so that the total GDP of the Tang Empire is actually close to more than 395 billion Tang Yuan, and if the GDP of Taiwan, the island of Ireland, Cyprus, and other original British colonial strongholds occupied by the Tang Empire are also included, the real GDP of the Tang Empire is already on par with the United States.

And in fact, because the Tang Empire was an ally of Germany and Italy. Most of the wealth plundered by Germany and Italy from Europe and Africa was used to buy steel, oil, weapons and equipment from the Tang Empire, and this war wealth was very huge. On the surface, the statistics are very large and complicated, and there are many Tang businessmen who take advantage of the legal loopholes of the Tang Empire to carry out black-box operations, and this invisible transaction is even more impossible to count, making the real GDP of the Tang Empire have already surpassed that of the United States.

For the Tang Empire, the only thing that cannot compete with the United States is actually back to population resources, because the population of the United States has reached 180 million, while the native population of the Tang Empire is only 15 million, and the population of Australia, the Far East and other overseas territories is only 22 million.

In addition to the competition between industry, agriculture and military industry, the war potential ultimately has to be controlled by people, and the loss of World War II by Germany and Japan in history, the lack of population leads to the inability to replenish the war attrition, which is also one of the key factors.

Therefore, one of the factors that Zhang Meng did not choose to compete with the United States was also because of the lack of population resources of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng realized that with the expansion of the territory of the Tang Empire, population resources once again became an obstacle to the development of economic and military strength, so under his orders, the ministers of the household department of the Tang Empire quickly formulated a new round of population introduction jihua.

This is the fourth large population introduction of Jihua in the Tang Empire, and the number of people required to be introduced this time is also the largest, the first stage requires 10 million people, but the Tang Empire has a perfect medical and social welfare security system, and the introduced population requires extremely high quality, or mainly intellectuals and middle and senior jishu talents, which greatly limits the population inflow, after all, the Tang Empire is mainly aimed at the Chinese ethnic group, and Chinese mainland has just ended the war, and talents are also scarce and scarce, The Nationalist government is also controlling the outflow of high-level talent, so the Tang Empire has fewer and fewer people who can easily obtain it.

According to the report to Zhang Meng from the Ministry of Households, the 10 million people that the Tang Empire needed to introduce in the first phase were difficult to rely on foreign aid, and it could take ten or even twenty years.

That is to say, the Tang Empire is now introducing a foreign aid population, and it is quite good to be able to obtain one million people every year, which is still too small for the future development of the Tang Empire, and Zhang Meng is not satisfied. But it can't be like before to introduce millions of people into the Tang Dynasty in a crazy year, because many places in the current Tang Empire have stabilized, with local inherent shili and interest groups, they don't want the foreign population to break their interest chain, which will affect the stability of the Tang Empire itself, after all, the Tang Empire was established not long ago, Zhang Meng has been trying to stabilize the entire empire, twist all the Tang people into a rope, and form a real Tang people's group, There was no way he could destroy the foundation that had just been solidified.

In this way, Zhang Meng had to issue an order for population recuperation, stipulating that families in the Tang Empire should give birth to children and contribute to the country as an honor, encourage childbearing, and for each additional child born to each family, the imperial government would reward 10,000 Tang yuan, which was enough for the child to complete high school, and the family had almost no special financial burden.

As soon as this regulation was issued, all families in the entire Tang Empire immediately cheered, and the Tang people, who had always regarded the tradition of having more children and more blessings, naturally supported this policy. Women of Chinese descent are naturally prone to pregnancy and childbirth, so once this policy is implemented, it is believed that in the next two decades, the demographic disadvantage of the Tang Empire will be greatly improved.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the new ethnic groups born in the territory of the Tang Empire will regard the Tang Empire as their motherland and hometown, and serve and serve the Tang Empire wholeheartedly. (To be continued......)