Chapter Seventy-Eight is all business

"I haven't finished yet, what are you anxious about?" Chen Cheng said in a good time: "For the current United States, it is almost invincible. No www.biquge.info any great power is willing to cross the ocean to attack the homeland of another power. But there are ways to make the United States uncomfortable. ”

"How long has this been nonsense?"

"Trade," Chen Cheng snapped his fingers and said, "Trade is the death hole of Americans now." We need to set off a wave of opposition to American goods across the country, not only to attack Americans, but also to squeeze market share by the way, killing two birds with one stone. ”

"Isn't it? The total amount of trade we have with the Americans is not very large, and it is nothing to lose our market, right? Lin Mengchu said: "And we can only control a few provinces in the north, and we can't control the territory in the south, so it's useless just if we refuse American goods." ”

"This depends on the guidance of public opinion, and now is the era when the tide of nationalism is rising, as long as the "Chinese Exclusion Act" is used as an excuse to raise the banner of opposing imperialism, it will always be effective." Chen Cheng said with a smile: "If we don't occupy such a thing as a propaganda position, we will be occupied by the enemy." ”

"Hmph, and those businessmen in China, as well as countries such as Britain and France, will also be happy to see it, right?" Miss Lin Mengchu snorted and said, "Forget it, I don't want to hear you say this." It's 1903 this year, and this time next year, Japan and Russia will have a big fight, right? ”

"By or as far as the Japanese were openly raising funds for the war in Europe and the United States, it was said that American and British foundations were very interested in it. In addition, the Japanese Hachiman Iron and Steel Plant was operating ahead of schedule, and maybe the war would break out sooner. ”

"The Yawata Steel Plant is operating ahead of schedule? All I know is that the Yawata Iron Works produces more than half of Japan's steel, so what's going on with this early operation? So Chen Cheng said that he helped the Japanese solve the problem of mismatched ore and production equipment.

"Oh, so after solving the problem, how much steel can the Japanese produce a year now?" Lin Mengchu asked, "How many troops can be armed?" ”

"The annual output is about 250,000 to 300,000 tons," Chen Cheng said, "but this figure does not fully represent the combat effectiveness of the Japanese." Historically, the steel production between Japan and Russia was about 1:10, but Britain and the United States gave Japan a lot of loans to buy arms from these two countries. ”

"Such a low steel production? Or after solving the production problems of Yawata Iron and Steel products? Lin Mengchu said in surprise: "Although I knew that the so-called Great Japanese Empire was a famous poor ghost, I didn't expect them to be poor like this." With such strength, can you be among the great powers? ”

"Originally, the British gave the Japanese a chance in order to curb the expansion of the United States in the Pacific direction," Chen Cheng said: "Although their strength is not strong, the Qing government is even weaker...... It's a worse world. ”

"With this kind of sparse strength, how did they beat the Russians?" Lin Mengchu frowned and said, "I think we have to recalculate the issue of standing in line in the war." ”

"Well, it's actually fine." Chen Cheng said: "There are only a few elements that directly play a role in the war, soldiers, officers, weapons, logistics, and means of delivery, although the Japanese are short of weapons and ammunition, they can directly purchase arms from Britain and the United States. The Trans-Siberian Railway of the Russians has not yet been built, and the balance of power between the two sides here in the Far East is almost equal. ”

"But the size of the Russians is there, and if they keep fighting, even if the Japanese have the help of Britain and the United States, they will not be able to hold out first."

"Well, in history, the Russians couldn't hold out first."

"That can only say that the Russians are scrap!" The Black Dragon King said unceremoniously: "The Russo-Japanese War is basically rookies pecking each other. A group of people from the era of rapid-fire guns and machine guns fought a long war of attrition with the tactics of the Napoleonic era. ”

Speaking of this, she turned her head to look at Shen Shen and said, "Since they are all such waste materials, should we simply take back the Northeast and the Outer Northeast while they are at war?" ”

"It's a good idea," Chen Cheng shook his head with a smile, "It seems that Japan and Russia are very waste, but we are not much better now." Now we have a little more steel production than the Japanese, and the number of troops is not as good as the Japanese, and we have to guard against other forces around us, so ......"

"Oh, I almost forgot, we're weak chickens now," the girl had no choice but to say, "Then it's better to build the industrial base here in Shanxi quickly, and then directly use steel to teach these guys how to behave." ”

"Well, it won't be completed until the year after next at the earliest, and the war is estimated to be over by then......"

"Can't you speed things up?" His Excellency the Black Dragon King was stunned, "Didn't you say that there are always more ways than difficulties?" Think of a way. ”

"It's already optimized, and it's not impossible to accelerate again, but ....."

"But there's a big price to pay, right?" Without waiting for Chen Cheng to finish speaking, the girl preemptively said his lines.

"That's what happened, the thing that fueled the seedlings........ By the way, have you ever seen the photo of Tianzun standing on top of the rice? ”

"Change the subject? I have also seen the photo of Tianzun, and at that time I thought that Tianzun was a master of light skills. ”

"Where in that world are there any light masters?" Chen Cheng smiled and said, "It's just that a lot of technical means have been used." The development of industrial power has its own natural law, although we have used a lot of new equipment, and more than 100 years of knowledge, but the growth rate can not be completely unreasonable. Unless we have now completed the technology of nanoscale robots, we don't need any workers, and we don't need to build factories first, and we can directly produce products, and that's pretty much the same. ”

"Hey, anyway, there's nothing you can do now but watch the Japanese prepare for war with the Russians?"

"It's not completely out of the question, didn't we start building a freighter in Qingdao? Now we can also build some fishing boats for fishing. ”

"Well, what does this have to do with war?"

"War consumes supplies, and the Japanese like to eat fish, so we catch more fish and shrimp and make canned food to sell to the Japanese. Of course, if the Russians give pounds or gold, it can be sold to the Russians, it's all business. (To be continued.) )