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In mid-December, Li Guang was pulled out of the factory by Premier Yuan to attend a meeting. At the heart of the meeting was the government's military order. In the past four or three years, 80 million Tang Yuan was provided for military spending for the Naval Resistance Army every month, which is equivalent to 2 million US dollars.

Take a look at the total family background of Haitang Kingdom. Excluding land assets on Datang Island and other islands. More than $25 million has been spent on military industry, civilian industry, and agricultural investment, and about $5 million in working capital. The four-to-three-year plan for immigration funding would require $5 million. It would take more than $10 million to store food and supplies for migrants.

If you count the cost of immigration and the money used for immigration as all government assets. The government, for its part, has about $45 million in assets.

In addition, the military had about $3 million in liquidity at the end of the year. And the capture of the Battle of Ceylon can be exchanged for about 10 million dollars.

As for the large reward in the United States, by the end of the year, whether it has been spent or has been planned for use, it is already included in the above items.

If you count the private funds: the Haitang private businessmen have about 20 million US dollars in assets (including a considerable share of Su Zizi's. ）

Li Guang has some assets in Uruguay, in addition to the millions of dollars invested in the Tangcheng Development Zone, the main one is the shares of Oolong Bank. (Oolong Bank is now a joint-stock system and cannot be moved for the time being, except for the time being).

All of this adds up to about $80 million.

In other words, the entire Haitang government, plus private businessmen, took 80 million US dollars and made a net profit of 24 million US dollars a year.

Thirty percent of the net profit, a company with good profitability may not be able to reach this figure, and it is not easy for a national government to do so. In particular, almost half of them are not investments or assets. For example, immigration costs are unlikely to yield benefits in four or three years.

Although the profits from arms and commerce were high in war, the expenses were also high. As long as merchant ships go to sea, they will inevitably have to send additional warships to escort them. In addition, during the war, there are too many unknown factors, and there are many uncontrollable and unknowable factors.

It can be seen that Premier Yuan and several ministers have actually done their best to put forward such economic goals, and the government is definitely under pressure.

The Haitang Kingdom was a small country that had just been established. It simply cannot be compared with such countries as Britain and the United States. Not to mention the United States, even Britain's military spending in one day can be twice as much as the military expenditure of Haitang in a year. (Britain's military spending in '42 was more than 10 million pounds, equivalent to more than 40 million US dollars.) ）

But Haitang doesn't have to be arrogant. This number, even in the United States, is very good. To know. The Haitang Kingdom now has a population of only 1 million, and each person has to contribute an average of 24 US dollars in military spending.

And the United States has a population of 130 million. The actual military expenditure in 42 years was only more than $70 billion. The average military expenditure per person is only fifty or sixty dollars.

For Haitang Kingdom. The government can already say that it can do its best to provide so much military spending.

However, for Li Guang, this military expenditure is simply not enough. Not even enough for a slightly larger battle. For example, in the Battle of Ceylon, the military expenditure of the Naval Resistance Army was nearly 30 million US dollars. This figure, for the Naval Resistance Force. It's just barely sustaining.

It is obviously unwise to look at the huge pressure on the part of the government, and for the sake of long-term development, it is obviously unwise to do things that kill chickens and take eggs.

So, Li Guang pointed his finger in the direction of the African continent--- across the strait is Mozambique. Portuguese colony. Leave a noun - seigniorage, and float away.

That's the golden finger. As a result, the government's thinking was opened, and a group of people suddenly realized. yes, what's more lucrative than printing money? Chinese people have always lacked expansionist thinking, but in the face of money, there is still enthusiasm. The thinking of the Chinese people is too closed, and the businessmen are in a sense even more enterprising than the politicians. Li Guang is actually deliberately guiding the thoughts of all the people in Haitang Kingdom, whether it is enterprising or expanding, in short, Haitang in Li Guang's mind must not develop into the kind of country that can get by.

The Haitang Kingdom cannot be strong in the whole world, but it is a veritable power around Datang Island. In the face of the Portuguese colony, Li Guang was instigating the government to resort to all hooliganism.

In fact, it is to use strong, what can it be?

In the process of occupying Datang Island by the Naval Resistance Army, the Portuguese colony added a lot of trouble to the Naval Resistance Army. In fact, even in November, there were occasional whites smuggled to Datang Island, hoping for a counterattack. Therefore, the Haitang Kingdom did not have a good impression of the Portuguese colonists at all, and it was justified in robbing the Portuguese colonists.

For specific operations, the government will come up with a plan. To put it simply, as long as there is no large-scale war, despite the forced buying and selling, the Portuguese are forced to use Tang Yuan to settle settlements.

Li Guang estimates that this alone can increase the income of Haitang by 10 million US dollars. And this was the first step for the Tang Yuan to become the settlement currency in Africa.

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If it is said that the Haitang Kingdom has developed to the current level, it will be able to afford the military expenses of the Hai Resistance Army, and Li Guang actually does not have such expectations.

After all, although the Naval Resistance Army is small, it is a quasi-modern army. Such an army of 50,000 or 60,000 people (it will expand to 100,000 in the middle of '43) could not be supported by Chairman Chiang in the country.

There is another source of military spending for the Navy, that is, the profits of several military factories. Originally, relying on batteries and torpedoes, it could make a profit of 20 million US dollars a year.

However, Li Guang threw $10 million at a certain secret project that almost no one knew about at once, and this was only the budget for four or three years. Plan A has entered a more critical stage and needs to be invested more.

There are few people who know about this plan, but Yuan Ye is one of them. For Li Guang to spend such a price to develop a weapon that is said to be very powerful, he is quite unimpressed, thinking that the price is too high. How did he know that the US government directly spent two billion dollars in order to develop nuclear weapons. If Li Guang hadn't known the principles and structure of some nuclear weapons and reduced countless detours, the cost of preliminary research would have far exceeded $10 million. And Haitang Country Plan A. In the past three years, a lot of progress has been made, and the total investment is less than 10 million US dollars.

The United States repaired the Atlantic battleship, repaired the captured Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga on Statue Island, and commissioned the Oolong shipyard to renovate a "cruiser". These three major projects cost another 10 million US dollars.

In other words, the profits of the military-industrial complex of the Naval Resistance Army already have a place to go. Li Guang needs to think of some tricks to make money. Otherwise, the government will only be able to barely survive on the two million dollars a month. Neither combat nor development is beyond its reach.

On the funding of billions. Li Guang may not be able to get it. However, it is still difficult for Li Guang to raise the military expenses for a campaign.

Haitang Kingdom is also a little rich now, and it is really not difficult for Li Guang to get some money. At the beginning, Li Guang was busy working for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but now with the broadening of his horizons, he has more and more resources in his hands. It's really not hard to get a few million dollars.

For the next step of military action. Li Guang sold a few gadgets a little bit and scraped together a sum of military expenses. It's enough for the Naval Resistance Army to fight a battle.

In the Battle of Midway, the Naval Resistance Army obtained a batch of Japanese aviation torpedoes. Comparatively speaking, the Japanese aviation torpedoes were reliable and not bad. In short, it is N times smarter than American aviation torpedoes.

Under Li Guang's instructions, the businessmen attacked in all directions, picked out a few aviation torpedoes and sold them to the United States. United Kingdom. Got two million dollars.

And through the pirate Juan, who was a tycoon in Suriname in South America, he got a million dollars worth of gold from the Germans. And Li Guang's first friend who came to this world, Mr. Ramo, also got an aviation torpedo. As for Rameau, who was a naval officer in Spain, he would maximize the profit of this torpedo. Li Guang doesn't have to worry about it. In short, Li Guang is grateful to Mr. Rameau, and the conditions given to Rameau are also the most favorable. In the end, Li Guang and Mr. Rameau will share fifty-fifty.

As for the Japanese oxygen torpedo, Haitang's technicians found that the little devil's technology was quite unique, and the ingenuity of the concept was quite worthy of reference. Even Li Guang, a traverser, was quite surprised.

The Maritime Resistance Army did not consider manufacturing aviation torpedoes, so they chose to sell technology for money.

As for the oxygen torpedo, Li Guang originally planned to sell it, but when he found that one of the technologies had great potential, he did not consider selling it.

In addition, the military has another income, but this one is a bit of a loss of combat power - the Naval Resistance Army sold 24 American-made torpedo planes to Peru.

Peru and Bolivia have also been fighting with Chile for more than a year, and all three countries have suffered heavy losses. Peru and Bolivia are very important to the Haitang Kingdom. Non-ferrous metals and explosives - were purchased from these two countries. Moreover, it is now difficult for the Maritime Resistance Army to buy enough high-octane gasoline from the United States, and as the only country in South America that can produce high-octane gasoline, Haitang still has to have good relations with Peru. The refineries invested by Su Zizi and Su Maode have not produced some ordinary gasoline at most in a year and a half, and they want to produce high-octane gasoline at least until the end of four or three years.

Among the top three in South America, Brazil, Chile and Argentina all have the ability to manufacture fighter planes, but the engines are all purchased, and the fighters are all made of wood and canvas, which is very rubbish. However, even so, the few junk planes that Peru originally had have long been exhausted, and there is an urgent need for fighters.

But in the midst of the world war, the United States and Britain now have no intention of manipulating the war behind the scenes to make profits. Uncharacteristically, they are trying to prevent a major war from breaking out in South America, so neither side of the war can be replenished with fighters. Originally, Haitang secretly sold some guns and ammunition to Peru, which was not very eye-catching, and it was best to make a fortune in a muffled voice.

However, Peru is not entirely stupid, seeing that Haitang has bought almost all of Peru's high-octane gasoline and ordinary gasoline, and also knows how to use the resources in its hands.

Therefore, the parties reached an agreement. Haitang sold twenty-four fighter planes to Peru in exchange for the right to buy Peruvian high-octane gasoline.

From a commercial point of view, the sales price of Haitangguo's aircraft this time is very cost-effective, almost three times the profit. If it weren't for the fact that he could not get the fighters to replenish him at present, Li Guangdu would have been willing to sell all these backward torpedo planes to Peru.

To Li Guang's surprise, this kind of torpedo plane, which was extremely backward in the Pacific theater, was invincible in the South American theater, and its performance was better than that of Chile's fighters. This was something Li Guang never expected. (To be continued......)