Let the Chinese Empire replace Britain as the new world hegemon, what a magnificent and powerful ideal is this? This is a situation that every subject of the empire wants to see, so that the world's number one power, which has disappeared for hundreds of years, can stand up again and restore the status of the Han people in the world. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And at the moment when Wang Sirui said this, almost everyone instantly felt their blood boiling, and even faintly couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts.

But after a while, when the excitement has passed, I realized that an ideal is an ideal after all, and it is not so easy to achieve it. After several years of development, the Chinese Empire is certainly much stronger than before, and even has been able to stand in the position of a great power to look at other countries, but after all, the Chinese Empire is a new country that has just been established for a few years, and its foundation is unstable.

"Your Majesty, if the scale of this war is really so large, I am afraid that there will be problems with the funds in our hands, and in a few months we will have to return to normal tax revenue, unless the tax amount is increased, otherwise, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain the consumption of such a war." Wang Shizhen frowned bitterly and said, war is about money, how can you fight without money?

Although the constraints of the Chinese Empire in this regard are not heavy, because many resource industries are owned by the government, and they only need to pay the wages of workers and some necessary funds, but such a huge consumption, this is also a large amount. The increase in taxes as soon as the normal tax collection has just been restored is undoubtedly shaking the foundation of the empire, and it is not in line with the original intention of the empire to serve the people.

"This is also the purpose of stimulating consumption, everyone has difficulties, but if you miss this opportunity, you don't know that the next time you will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey." Wang Sirui said softly: "But fortunately, we don't have any advantages, at least in terms of geographical location, this is our biggest advantage, in Asia, Russia has been defeated, and we only have the only enemy left, Japan." The rest are all useless guys, so in the early stage of the war, we were not under much pressure, and I only had one request for the Prime Minister's Office, from now on, to develop industry and commerce, build infrastructure, and continue to increase the implementation of policies to stimulate consumption. As for the tax increase, there is no need to think about this, maybe in a year or two, we will have to implement the tax reduction policy. ”

War is a manifestation of plundering wealth, and in World War I and World War II, countries around the world have increased war taxes to meet the needs of war, but doing so will lead to inflation and domestic economic collapse. However, Germany did the opposite during the war, and instead of raising war taxes, it reduced taxes on domestic companies and individuals in order to maintain domestic stability, and this approach was also effective.

In addition, Wang Sirui's positioning of the Chinese Empire is not to fight with the great powers on the battlefield from the beginning, so their consumption will not be as great as that of other powers.

In the same way, the Chinese Empire has a large territory, plus the recently occupied Russian territory, it can be said that the resources of the mainland are inexhaustible, in terms of resources, they will not be affected in any way, as long as the transportation capacity is sufficient, the productivity is enough, they are capable of producing more war materials.

But this will squeeze out a large number of civilian materials production quantity, this is inevitable, and the reduction of civilian materials, it means that the price of goods soars, scarce is expensive, the truth everyone understands, the only way to solve this situation, is to increase investment in industry, so that the total output continues to increase, in order to ensure the demand for private goods.

From this point of view, opening up the entry of private capital has helped them solve part of this problem, but for the time being, the problem is still not solved thoroughly enough, and if the scale of the war continues to expand, the current industrial output value is still far from enough.

The solution is to continue to increase the introduction of private capital, and at the same time let more businessmen who make money continue to invest, or expand factories and expand the scale of production.

"The only way to scale up in a short period of time is to introduce a series of stimulus policies." Wang Shizhen also heard the firm attitude in Wang Sirui's words, and was a little helpless, so he could only just forget it, in two years, he would step down, and now Wang Shizhen also felt more and more that he seemed to be a little more than capable of strength, but even so, he didn't want to drag down the empire.

"Policies can give, for example, let the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau reduce the price of equipment, only to ensure the normal operation of the factory's profits, in order to stimulate the entry of private capital, land can allow the people to sell land independently, and exchange the land for factory shares at a discount, so as to reduce the shortage of funds for investors and other problems. No matter how poor it is, each village can also find a way to raise funds to build a factory, and each household can use land and head as a shareholder, and pay interest on time. There are always ways to do it, but it is necessary to grasp the degree well, and we must not let some moths benefit from it. Wang Sirui nodded and said.

At present, there are three machinery manufacturing bureaus in China, namely Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Kaifeng Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, Nanjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, these three are state-owned enterprises, and domestic machinery and equipment, more than 90% are from these three manufacturing bureaus, and over the years the profits generated by the three machinery manufacturing bureaus have all been invested in expanding the factory area, expanding production capacity, and now even if a large number of orders come, they can also digest it.

Wang Shizhen nodded, he had nothing to say, and there was nothing to say, the next thing to do was to formulate a set of policies, and then use them for the emperor to sign, and then they could be distributed. Oh, by the way, and immediately notify the three machine building bureaus to immediately produce machinery and equipment at full capacity.

In the next three years, the total number of troops in the army should be increased to 10 million, including 8 million front-line troops and 2 million reserve troops that can be replenished at any time. Among them, at least a million Marines will be available for landing operations. Wang Sirui then continued to instruct, it is very difficult, but it is not great, because the current troops in the barracks have reached 5.7 million, and if you exclude the time of eight months, it will take two years and four months to train 4.3 million troops.

Well, the pressure may be a little great, because if we want to ensure that these troops can be put into battle after three years, then that is to say, at least before next summer, these 4.3 million new recruits will be recruited into the barracks, and then it will take two years to train them to fight, in this way, the Chinese empire will follow the old path of the United States, and it may lose a lot of money in the early stage of the war, but as the war progresses, these troops put into the battlefield will become more and more experienced, and the losses will become smaller and smaller, so as to transform into an elite army.

The biggest pressure is to recruit 4.3 million recruits in the next year, which is the hardest part.

"In the early stage, the Marine Corps can be selected from the existing units, and the main condition is to assess their water nature, first form a unit, and then select suitable people from the recruits to enter the training, so as to speed up the formation of the Marine Corps." Xu Shichang followed closely.

The pressure is indeed there, but since the emperor has given the order, they, who are courtiers, can only try their best to solve this problem, of course, the most important thing is that everyone present thinks that they are capable of fighting, if they don't have that ability, there will always be people in this group who stand up against it.

Although 4.3 million people are a lot, the expenses required are also a lot, and the 3 billion funds have also been arranged, but it doesn't matter, they will always come up with a way. Moreover, the formation of a reserve does not actually cost much money, as long as you do not go to the battlefield, it is enough to deduct a little from the funds.

"Let's first form two divisions of marines, and within a year, the marines will be expanded to five divisions." Wang Sirui nodded, because of the relationship between the navy and the Russian battlefield, he was not in a hurry to form a marine corps, and Wang Sirui did not want to enter the war too early, so the plan to form a marine corps was repeatedly delayed.

But now that the Russian battlefield has basically come to an end, they also have the energy to form a marine corps, and based on veterans, they can almost become an army in a year, and the navy at this time, after several years of development, has also been able to fight.

"The Navy immediately made a plan to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy when the Marines were formed, and completely annihilate the Japanese Navy, and once the Japanese Navy was destroyed, it was the time for the Imperial Officers to set foot on the Japanese mainland. Japan, on the other hand, was the first rival of the empire. Wang Sirui said ruthlessly again, Japan must definitely solve it as soon as possible.

And the strength of the navy Wang Sirui is not worried at all, because in three years, the empire has built four battleships, of which the first two took a year and ten months, and the last two because of experience, so the construction time was greatly shortened, it took less than a year, and at present, the naval shipyard is building a completely new ship, aircraft carriers.

It may not be called an aircraft carrier in the real sense, in fact, it is based on a battleship, expanding its volume, and changing the upper deck to a flight deck, but it is still the era of battleships, and the requirements for take-off conditions are not high, so this simple aircraft carrier can also meet the needs.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Air Force Research Institute has created bombers and fighters that can take off for short distances, although there are still great shortcomings in terms of range, but they can still be used as naval aviation.

At present, the Air Force Academy in Luliang is also stepping up the training of pilots, and the current Air Force Academy is no longer the Air Force Academy at the beginning of its establishment, and now they have a total of nearly 100 instructors, and they can train 500 to 1,000 pilots at one time, although everyone is a rookie, and there is still a long way to go before the operation, but it doesn't matter, they still have a year to train. (To be continued.) )