Chapter 906: Industrial Ambition
The package of industrial exports to Germany was set before the outbreak of the European war, under the leadership of Yang Yuanzhao, European countries, most of them are relatively small, except for Russia, with a population of more than 100 million, do not consider the population problem, this is still because the level of urbanization is not high, most of them are farmers, and a large number of personnel are sent to serve as soldiers, which will not affect the industrial development of Russia, and others, including Britain, France and Germany, are all a key issue, how to deploy personnel has become the key, large-scale transfer of personnel, It will definitely affect the overall functioning of a country.
For Europe, in the past a well-trained, large army, enough to ignore the difference in national strength, in the past hundreds of years, the European continent has risen small countries numerous, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands These countries are relying on this, even in the era of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, as long as there is money and food, you can rely on money and food to pull up an army, and then attack the enemy, in a certain period of time, before the logistics have not deteriorated to the extent that it can not continue, kill the main army of the other side, the war is over.
However, with the development of thermal weapons, the advancement of artillery and machine guns, an excellent general may be able to change the local tactical situation, so that the local tactics have an advantage, but cannot change the entire situation of the war, just like the current situation in Europe. Under the state of modern warfare of a country, the two sides are competing not only for the country's military strength, but also for the overall strength, and the success in tactics will gradually promote the success of the strategy, but when the strength of the two sides is under a huge difference, this cannot be reversed, or it cannot be reversed in a short period of time.
It's like Japan and the United States during World War II. At the beginning of the Pacific War, Japan possessed a strong maritime power that was not inferior to that of the United States. With the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy was severely damaged. For at least a few months, Japan occupied the predominance of the entire Pacific region, successively conquered many islands, including Midway, and also went south to Southeast Asia, completely bringing the fertile land and huge resources of the entire Southeast Asia into Japan's rule. There is a rumor that Japan will cross the sea and attack the US mainland.
But this is just a statement, Japan and the United States in terms of economic aggregate and industrial production capacity, I don't know how much difference, when the United States state apparatus is completely turned on, aircraft carriers, aircraft, all kinds of escort warships. Just like the goods on the assembly line, they came in a steady stream, and the ratio between Japan and the United States before the war was 10:8, but in the middle and late stages. The United States actually has 34 aircraft carriers on the main voyage, while Japan has not increased much at all, and even decreased because of non-stop fighting. As for the escort aircraft carriers, they are even worse in the sky and on earth. After the start of the Pacific War, the United States planned to build 134 escort aircraft carriers. In the end, although not all of them were built, the more than 100 escort aircraft carriers can definitely be called the sea.
It can be said unceremoniously that the Americans have directly occupied an absolute strategic advantage in the sea of warships, and this advantage cannot be overcome, no matter how much the Japanese toss. Although the Pacific War was fought for four years, except for the first more than one year, after Japan occupied an absolute advantage, the rest of the time, basically the United States was fighting, Japan was defending, and even when the sea forces could not win, it strengthened the protection of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean, and was ready to use a large number of casualties to repel the United States, so that the Americans did not dare to continue the attack.
The U.S. military, which had the advantage, had a headache at the beginning, and the initial war to seize the islands took almost a long time, and suffered heavy losses, and the Japanese troops guarding these islands were almost not afraid of death, even if it was a suicidal impact, they would pull a cushion, in this case, the U.S. troops with heavy losses almost lost the ability to continue to advance.
After the island-hopping tactics, this problem was solved, over the well-defended islands, after skipping, choosing to attack the weak place, and finally cracking this tactic, but the U.S. army still suffered thoroughly, so in the final deal with the million Kwantung Army, chose to let the Soviet Union, a land power, take action, but did not expect that the Kwantung Army, which was strong in the past, had been mostly transferred to the islands at sea, fighting to the death with the United States, and the rest were basically weak chickens, after the Soviet Red Army entered the customs, in a short period of time, it solved the million Kwantung Army.
Germany's current situation is somewhat similar to Japan's, it looks majestic, pressing Britain, France and Russia to fight, but unfortunately this is only the early stage of the war, and what has been achieved is only a time difference, Britain, France and Russia are really so weak, not to mention that Russia has more than 10 million troop mobilization capabilities, let's just say Britain and France, it seems that the land area and population are not as large as Germany, but the land area of others is only their own, the strength of Britain and France, including the colonies, the huge colonies are the dumping ground for raw materials and commodities of Britain and France, Some of the ones that have been controlled for a long time can also become soldiers.
The soldiers of the colonies, the combat effectiveness is not much, but it is enough to assemble weapons as cannon fodder, in the current era of trench warfare, these soldiers are used for defense, or qualified, before Britain and France did not mobilize colonial troops, and now, with the front line is losing and retreating, the loss of almost 2.5 million troops under the premise, their domestic training can not keep up, their own people, even if they are cannon fodder, it is impossible not to complete the training, send out, simply, in the colonies of the world, a large number of conscripted troops, Blacks, Indians, and even South America, all had troops assembled, and then, after being equipped with weapons, with a little training, they were sent to Europe and became cannon fodder.
In just a few months, after losing 2.5 million skilled troops, Britain and France replenished almost the same number in just over a month, half of which were colonial legions, which was the fundamental reason why Britain and France dared to launch an offensive after winter.
Compared with Britain and France, Germany was not so lucky, the lack of overseas colonies, although Germany was not fortified everywhere, if Britain and France used submarine warfare against Germany, it would not be useful, Germany's overseas transportation in the European part has long been cut off, the only channel. It's in Asia, too far away from Europe. In addition, Britain and France have concerns and will not consider this aspect at all.
Germany is in a situation where there is a shortage of population and land. There is simply no real equilibrium, there are no overseas colonies, no constant supply of human resources and cannon fodder soldiers from the overseas colonies, and in this case there must be a choice, whether it is a worker, or a peasant, or a soldier, there is very little choice. The gap is huge.
At the beginning of the war, Germany strengthened its army to a terrible degree, and in this case, it was possible to quickly defeat the Entente led by Britain and France, and strive to achieve absolute superiority on the European continent, and then end the war, just like the Franco-Prussian War and the War of German Unification, to take advantage of enough and gradually absorb the population and land occupied. Then push for a new round of war, and Germany can rely on this to become one of the world's leading powers.
Germany thinks so, Britain and France do not cooperate. The Entente came together and fought an all-out war with Germany, which had just begun to gain the upper hand. The problem of insufficient foundation will be revealed, and it will end with the heart. But now, he is standing halfway up the hill. If you don't advance, you will retreat, and as long as you retreat slightly, you won't even be able to keep the current victory.
The package is to solve this problem, Germany may currently have 3 caps and 7 bottles, and now if the northwest takes out 4 caps and caps the bottles, this will not perfectly solve this problem.
Yang Yuanzhao's purpose, of course, is not for that little commission and wages, the total amount of industry in the northwest is very huge, these manpower can be digested in the northwest, not only can create wages, but also a large number of industrial products, this is the most direct benefit, the northwest relative to many countries in the world, there is no shortage of money, not to mention 5 million workers, even if it is 50 million workers, the money obtained, for the northwest, is not a large amount.
His purpose is very simple, in order to consolidate the industrial heritage of the northwest, from the later generations of him, he knows very well that some of the industrial heritage can not be transferred, which takes a long time to learn things, these are the same as advanced machinery and equipment, is the real industrial foundation. As a power engineer, a team engineer, before crossing the two factories that use the same equipment, one is located in Germany, the other is located in China, but there is a big difference between the yield and the quality of the product, and there are even rumors that the Germans hid their own and did not teach the most essential equipment.
That is, by chance, when I went to Germany to compete, with the advantage of knowing German, I heard a conversation in the bar, only to know that the Germans did not hide their secrets, to be exact, the German factories, the machines used, and the Chinese factories are the same, what really makes the quality of the products produced is not the same, a hundred years or even more than a hundred years of technical tradition, generations of technical know-how, so that these machines run better than China, there is assembly technology, excellent workers, It can make the parts below the average level be assembled into qualified and even excellent machines, which are things that cannot be introduced by the introduction of equipment and technology, and are the real heritage and the greatest advantage of a technological power.
Whether it is in later generations, because of the isolation relationship, the inheritance of industrial workers has been cut off, or in this era, China is poor and white, almost under the situation of the Northwest itself, the development of industry, this aspect, and later generations are almost the same, Yang Yuanzhao with the help of strong machines and almost systematically trained industrial workers, laid the foundation of a large industry for the Northwest, but those industrial countries in the bones, precipitation of things, but there is no way, it takes time to solve.
Later generations simply did not have this opportunity to learn this, now, the First World War made Germany lack enough workers, this is China's biggest opportunity, as long as a sufficient number of workers are sent to Germany, the possibility of learning these things is very large, the magic trick, sometimes, maybe it is someone else's casual point, for the recipient, it will be understood in an instant, but for the workers who start from a blank sheet of paper, it may be decades, or even a hundred years of exploration. (To be continued......)