After two brutal quasi-world wars, the people of Western countries generally have a strong sense of war weariness, and if it is a war of self-defense, it is easier to mobilize, but now it is the West that wants to take the initiative to attack the Republic of China, a giant that has not tasted defeat since its establishment, and it is almost an impossible task to persuade the people to actively compete to be cannon fodder. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, even if the population resists, Western governments have a way to catch them into battle, but it will certainly be much more difficult and will require longer preparation time. The rhetoric of peaceful coexistence between the East and the West, which Chamberlain Sr. had been advocating during his administration, also caused the new government to spend several times more effort to rebuild the old image of demonized China, which will take time......

Another point is that the planners of the war - those financial oligarchs are still waiting, one is waiting for the general election of the United States, because of the distance between Central Europe, the main battlefield of this war is actually in the New World rather than the Old World, the United States needs a president with sufficient ability and prestige, former President Theodore Roosevelt is obviously more suitable than the current President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who has long been lost to the people; The second is to wait for Germany to attack the Soviet Union, if the Entente starts a war against China first, then there will be no strength to restrain Germany, in case the latter temporarily changes his mind, he can only be killed alive......

Well, even if there are a thousand reasons for this, the procrastination and inefficiency of the West's war readiness are there, and even those financial oligarchs who are anxious can only wait patiently. In the spring of 1916, the government of the Republic of China released the economic data of the previous year and made a comprehensive review and summary of the first five-year plan, and the whole world was deeply shocked......

In 1915, China's total industrial output value surpassed that of the British mainland and the colonies combined, and jumped to the first place in the world for the first time (accounting for more than 23%). No matter from which point of view, the current Huaxia Republic is definitely the world's first industrial country without dispute!

And even if the development focus of this five-year plan is light industry, the output of China's major industrial products is still generally the world's first, and further opened the gap with the chasing soldiers, among which the iron and steel industry due to the construction industry and emerging sectors such as automobiles strong pull effect, once again achieved explosive growth, in 1915 China's total crude steel output for the first time exceeded the 40 million tons mark, compared with 1910 a sharp increase of almost eighty, accounting for more than half of the world's total output, only from this data, It can be seen that China does have strong strength enough to single-handedly compete with the whole world.

The steel industry can once again achieve leapfrog development on the basis of a very high foundation, and the strong market demand has contributed greatly, especially the emerging automobile industry, which has played an almost decisive role. Because the plant has long been prepared, in order to hurry up and directly use the system to produce some of the latest machinery and equipment emergency, and the biochemical technician can automatically master the newly developed successful system technology and can quickly put into work as the backbone, so the new car soon formed a production capacity, in 1915 China's car not only fully upgraded, but also the total output also incredibly soared to more than 2 million, the growth rate is so large that the government report can not be expressed in the conventional percentage, Rather, it is a multiplier that is used directly......

The wheeled tractor, which was well received by farmers, developed rapidly from scratch, and if the small and flexible walk-behind tractor is included, the total production in 1915 had reached more than 4 million units, even more than automobiles, so that a large number of draft animals that had been accumulated with great difficulty were killed in large numbers because of the sharp decline in value.

Whether it is a car or a tractor, it is an oil tiger, and thanks to the great achievements of China's oil industry, it can meet the skyrocketing fuel consumption, and don't forget, it is not only cars and tractors that burn oil, but also airplanes and ships!

In 1915, the Chinese Republic produced more than 60 million tons of crude oil in China alone, and if you add the production of North America and the Southern United Emirates, it will exceed 100 million tons, accounting for more than half of the world. The improvement of refining capacity is even greater, catalytic cracking has begun to fully replace hot cracking, so that the production rate of light fuel oil such as gasoline and diesel has increased significantly, coupled with continuous large investment, China's refining capacity has increased much more than crude oil production, and even has to import a large number of Soviet and Russian raw materials to fill the appetite, the output of various fuel oil and other petroleum products can not only fully meet the needs, but even export in large quantities.

The rapid progress of oil refining technology, coupled with the research of gasoline antiknock agents far ahead of the West, the quality of China's fuel is also much higher than that of the West. With better quality fuel, China's aircraft, cars, ships, and tanks can undoubtedly be strengthened, and Western products cannot compete with them......

It is worth mentioning that at least half of the new production of automobiles and medium-sized tractors in the past five years has been produced by manufacturers in North America, and the road network here has been built faster than in China.

Obviously, such an industrial construction plan not only benefits the people's livelihood, but also is a preparation measure for the Chinese Republic, and the phrase "peacetime and wartime integration" has been implemented in all aspects of the Republic, and it is no longer an empty slogan.

Due to the rapid spread of road transportation, coupled with the fact that the original railway lines are already dense enough, and there are new air operations to supplement it (although the production of aircraft is not particularly large, it is enough to meet the military needs of the North American theater, after all, there is no need for a large number of fighters to seize air supremacy and escort. During the first five-year plan, no new railways were built in North America, which was mainly dependent on maritime transport on the west coast, and the additional 50,000 kilometers of railway mileage were basically concentrated in the mountainous areas of China and Southeast Asia. It has greatly facilitated China's immigration and development of this vast land......