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China's attitude is ambiguous, the United States' attitude is not clear, Germany clearly supports Austria-Hungary's occupation of the Balkans, Russia is powerless, and the British are running around, but the results are not as good as not mentioning, this is the first serious challenge that Britain has encountered since becoming the world hegemon.

China, on the other hand, is racking its brains to figure out how to make the world more chaotic.

With the entry of private capital and the gradual withdrawal of imperial capital, the financial situation of the empire has been much better, except for a very few important industries that have not yet been opened to private capital, the others have basically brought a lot of tax revenue to the empire.

However, as the war dragged on and the infrastructure was heavily invested, the empire's finances were still in an embarrassing situation, and before the war bonds were issued, funding became the only problem that limited the Chinese empire.

Fortunately, the resources needed for some wars are basically under the control of the state, and all the country needs to spend is labor costs and transportation costs, and the cost of materials is zero, but such a huge industrial base is still difficult for them to support.

Nowadays, the Luoyang Tank Factory has expanded its scale again, with an annual output of 3,000 tanks, including 2,000 wild boar tanks and 1,000 butcher tanks, and with the passage of time, the production line of these wild boar tanks will gradually be changed to the butcher tank production line.

In other places, all kinds of arsenals are also blooming everywhere, the larger arsenals mainly have Gongxian Arsenal, Beiping Arsenal, Nanjing Arsenal and Luliang Arsenal four, these four arsenals only Beiping Arsenal and Gongxian Arsenal are all-round arsenals, the equipment is relatively complete, can manufacture all weapons and equipment, Nanjing Arsenal is mainly rifles, Lvliang Arsenal is mainly machine guns and artillery.

In addition, there are more than 20 but to be arsenals scattered throughout the country, the investment in the military industry, these years has been reduced a lot compared with before, but with the expansion of the number of troops, the production capacity of the arsenal has been faintly unable to keep up, is currently planning to expand several arsenals, so, this is another amount of money.

In terms of industry, except for a few state-controlled leading enterprises, all the others are private capital, and under the leadership of the government, some small workshop-type factories were strictly controlled from the beginning, and most of them adopted the method of joint stock to directly establish medium-sized factories or above.

On the other hand, it is also the infrastructure project that Wang Sirui attaches the most importance to, and there are currently two infrastructure projects carried out by the state, one is a vertical and horizontal national highway network project, and the other is a horizontal railway project.

One vertical and one horizontal, that is, Harbin to Guangzhou, passing through Harbin, Changchun, Fengtian, Beiping, Shijiazhuang, Zhongjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou. This is a vertical.

Xi'an to Qingdao, through Xi'an, Zhongjing, Xuzhou, Haicheng (Lianyungang) and then north to Qingdao, this is a horizontal.

A horizontal railway for Taiyuan to Urumqi, this is mainly by the construction corps in charge, after the completion of the construction, can be linked to the Shitai railway, and will be in the Pingguang railway in Shijiazhuang rendezvous.

It can be said that both are extremely cost-intensive projects, and it stands to reason that the railway is the most expensive, but because the railway is built by the army, the rails are pulled directly from the Lvliang Iron and Steel Plant, for this reason, even a railway is built directly from Lvliang, and the materials can be transported directly by train, although it is more than a distance, but the overall time is still saved.

The national highway network is the most expensive project, which is not the army is responsible for building, and the army does not have so many people to invest in, so it adopts the plan of sectional construction, that is, the national planning of the overall route, and the local government organizes the local people to build the road under the guidance of the instructor.

This is mandatory, with only a small amount of wages per person, but three meals a day, and young adults are required to work on the site for ten days a month.

The advantage of this distribution scheme is that it can greatly reduce the construction time, and if all parties coordinate in place and the materials are in place, it only takes a year at most to be able to repair the whole line. The disadvantage lies in the lack of experience in road construction, and this vertical and horizontal highway is a national highway, or even a war-ready highway, so the requirements are naturally not the previous road construction that directly compacts the soil.

In order to prevent the roadbed from rotting, the road surface needs to be dug up first, then manually tamped, sprinkled with a layer of quicklime, then filled with soil tamped, then sprinkled with a layer of quicklime, and so on three times, and after thorough tamping, then began to water the cement pavement.

Although there are already construction machinery, the main production task of the factory is to ensure the needs of the army, so there is only one set of construction machinery in a city, that is, a truck forklift and a road roller. The roller is not the kind that later generations have seen, with the current technology, it is still difficult to do, and there is no time to study this, so it is just an ordinary truck for the transformation, that is, the kind of installation of three solid iron rollers under the chassis of the truck, manual installation when you need to use, manual removal when you don't need it, if you feel that the weight is not enough, you can counterweight yourself on the truck.

This mechanical effect is not too good, so under normal circumstances, you can only use manual tamping first, and when the road surface is almost smooth, the roller is on it to level the operation, but even so, there are many places that can not wait for the roller, and the roller will generally only appear in the soft soil.

"Tsk, this road is really beautiful!" Wang Lao Wu let go of the small cart in his hand, lit a cigarette, looked at the road behind him that had just been repaired, and couldn't help but sigh.

Not far in front of him, a group of people were in full swing, most of them were working in groups of two, three, or four, according to the size of the wood, and the rope passed through the hole in the middle, and several people pulled it up together, and then smashed it heavily on the ground to tamp the roadbed.

Wang Lao Wu's cart is full of quicklime, it is said that this thing can prevent the roadbed from rotting, the rot here is not the kind of rot of food, but to prevent the roadbed from being hollowed out by insects, or weeds from growing, although I don't know whether it is true or false, but it is indeed much easier than building roads before.

In the past, cooked soil or clay was used, which was time-consuming and laborious, and the progress was still very slow. Now, in less than half a year, the road is basically two-thirds complete, and the section of the road that was first built is now passable. The hard cement pavement makes people like it when they look at it.

"I heard Liu Gong say that this road is actually nothing, there is a road that is more beautiful than this, but now we don't have the technology to build that kind of road. This kind of road surface is too hard, inelastic, once cracked, then it will be very difficult to repair, and the wear and tear of the truck tires is also more serious, and it is easy to slip when it rains, and the water seepage is relatively poor. Another villager next to him snatched the cigarette from Wang Laowu's mouth, then lit the cigarette on his mouth, stuffed it back into Wang Laowu's mouth, and kept talking.

"What? If you say that, isn't it useless for us to build this road? Wang Lao Wu was a little dissatisfied in his heart, such a beautiful road was said to be useless, who could be happy in his heart?

"That's not it, Liu Gong said that this road also walks the common people on weekdays, the heaviest is the carriage and ox cart or something, the weight is not large, the damage to the road surface is not serious, and the number of military vehicles will not be too much, so it is no problem to use it for decades." The villager said.

"Oh, so?" Wang Lao Wu smiled and said, this road is so beautiful, how can it be so unbearable? But after thinking about it, it didn't seem right: "I said earth dog, why did you come?" ”

"Isn't this my son-in-law back, stay at home for a while, it's a big deal to get off work late for a while." The old man known as the earth dog smiled proudly, immediately looked around, and then said in a low voice: "Let me tell you, my son-in-law said, this time our salary, what war bonds are planned to be used to issue it, saying that it is the same as the imperial currency, and it will be spent according to the face value, if you don't want to spend it, you can do it, and there will be different interest after the deadline is up." ”

"Cut, you thought it was a big deal, so mysterious? What bonds are not bonds, and now the money is not silver, and the empire can print as much as it wants, and it is all the same flower anyway, what's the difference? Wang Lao Wu said with some disdain.

"It's the same fart, let your turtle son learn more on weekdays, you're still too troublesome, let me tell you, this money can't be printed if you want to, this will depreciate if you print more, and the consequences are very serious." The earth dog looked at Wang Lao Wu with a look like a primary school student, and taught him a lesson.

"What is depreciation?" Wang Lao Wu was a little depressed, who let the family have a good son-in-law? As for saying that the earth dog can learn, forget it, this is definitely what his son-in-law told him, and he still learns the virtues of the earth dog......

That is to say, if the state only has 100 yuan in its hand, then if it prints another 100 yuan, it will have 200 yuan, but after the money is spent, 200 yuan can only buy 100 yuan, and this is depreciation. So, this money can't be printed, but war bonds are different, although they can be circulated and used, but these will be recovered sooner or later, and will not affect the price of goods. ”

"You just fart, how can the state have a hundred dollars in its hands? I'm afraid you have dozens of dollars in your hand, right? Besides, it's printed, and the state doesn't say it, who knows? Wang Lao Wu looked disdainful.

"I'm just making an analogy, do you really think the state has a hundred dollars in its hands? Anyway, I don't know the specifics, but my son-in-law told me that he wants me to collect these bonds well, and try to pick a long time, if there is a hundred yuan, I can get almost one hundred and fifty yuan in ten years, and if there is an urgent matter in the middle, it can be directly spent as money, that is, the interest will be given to others. ”

"What? And this good thing? (To be continued.) )