Chapter 513: Lao Huang's Policy
By the beginning of 1644, the course of world history had changed dramatically, and the Thirty Years' War, which was about to end, had recently entered an unlimited cycle of warfare again because of the new weapons invested by both sides.
The rapid preparation of the 26-pounder cannon has become an important factor in whether the armies of European countries can win a war on the battlefield, and it is foreseeable that because the export volume of weapons brought about by the war theory is increasing, the workers of the military factories work three shifts 24 hours a day, and the people rest, but the machines do not rest.
A large number of arms exports have become the biggest political highlight since the radicals came to power, as the leader of the radical party Huang Fu, Huang Da Fat naturally will not miss this propaganda caliber, you must know that the conservatives have been in power during the country's economic development has been sustained and stable.
However, the market has shrunk for almost a year, resulting in a decline in the number of orders for export trade, and it is also untrue that the factory has been shut down for recuperation.
It is true that the Circum-Australia Railway has driven the domestic infrastructure and solved a large number of surplus workers, but for the Australian government, which relies on export trade for most of its tax burden, this is completely insufficient.
As Secretary of State, Huang Fu introduced a number of preferential export policies as soon as he took office, encouraging enterprises to open up more overseas markets and continue to expand their original customer base.
Among them, the arms export industry has always been a key pillar industry in Australia, and it is also one of the most important sources of tax burden for the country.
Located in an area ten kilometers away from Manchester City, this is the industrial park of the munitions processing factory, and the land of thousands of acres is the land of the Manchester National Military Factory, and the weapons produced here are mainly exported to Europe and the Ming Dynasty.
With the outbreak of the war in Daming and the increase in orders, the workers of the military factory have not enjoyed the sunshine on weekends and outings with children for three consecutive months, but the high overtime pay still makes everyone very happy, and they can change to a big house with money. You can also buy a lot of delicious food for your children.
That's what the simple workers think, but for others it's not what they want.
The larger the arms export, the greater the threat to Australia, and Brown, who has become more and more discordant recently, has already had a conflict with Australia, and war may happen at any time, and they can rely on these weapons to attack the Australian mainland.
People who worry about the country and the people are always doing nothing, these people have no other ideas, they just want to spend their old age quietly in Australia, they do not object to who becomes the ruler, but arms exports must be controlled. This is a serious question.
Take the Manchu Qing as an example, the more artillery the Manchu Qing acquired, the greater the chance of victory on the battlefield, and even recently it was rumored that Australia would join forces with the Manchus to destroy the Ming.
These sub-capitalists can't do anything, they can do anything for the sake of profit, and people who are worried about the country and the people always love to take the country as the first object of their thinking, completely ignoring whether they are really for the country and the people.
Naturally, their opposition is not supported by the majority, given the economic downturn in Australia. It's no secret that by doing so, you're putting Australia's economy at risk.
The economic downturn will affect a series of national decisions, and not only may a lot of equipment not be copied, but even the most basic maintenance of national defense and military spending may not be available.
At that time, Zhou Aiguo did not dare to easily talk about cutting arms exports. The arms trade and exports have a direct impact on whether the military can be upgraded with new weapons.
Therefore, Huang Fu has taken this point to the extreme as the secretary of state, of course, relying solely on arms exports cannot fully drive the development of the overall industry, and Australia needs to diversify its operations and develop multiple projects to support the future development of a country.
To this end, Huang Fu once again proposed to stimulate domestic demand. The slogan of developing the deep processing industry, as well as expanding the share of foreign trade exports, all know that the current global economic recession. It is not easy to expand the share of foreign trade exports, and it can even be said that it is a little difficult.
In the Ming market and the European market, the main consumption power of the common people weakened, which is one of the main reasons for the obvious decline in share, in addition, the long-term war has made many small and medium-sized aristocratic groups have no extra money to consume luxury goods.
This has led to the market of Australian fine goods into a state of unsalable, if you want to reverse this situation, you have to learn from the old United States, foreign debt, to these small and medium-sized nobles.
Lending foreign debt is indeed a good way to make money, but the key is that Australia has no money, so Huang Fu issued the first treasury bond since taking office, using private capital to lend usury.
In the past, the government issued treasury bonds to raise funds for development, Huang Fu's starting point has to be said to be a bit bold, but this is also supported by many bankers in China He dared to do so, after all, he is a layman.
People naturally don't know where to use this money, and those who have experience in buying treasury bonds know that the interest on treasury bonds is higher than that of ordinary time deposits, and the risk is much lower than that of other investments, so treasury bonds have always been an area in which Australian people are most eager to invest.
In addition to investing in national bonds, the people are also the most eager to invest in land and real estate, and if they have land, they will not starve to death, which is the idea of most people.
Compared with Australia's relaxed investment environment and the credibility of the government, people believe that they will not lose money when they invest it, and they don't even need to do anything themselves, which is not available in their home country.
On the day of the issuance of treasury bonds, the bank raised nearly 70,000 yuan of private capital, which shows that the Australian people still have some money in their pockets, and it is unknown how many investors are in it.
There are always some conservative and reluctant people to move forward, and their share dividends have never been invested in other factories, and the main inflow of this capital has gone to two places, one is the government's investment project, and the other is to buy land and houses, as well as national bonds.
In their eyes, these are the safest investments, so it is foreseeable that in the next few days, the number of government bonds will be more subscribed, and the funds raised every day will also increase considerably.
The introduction of the first favorable policy at the beginning of the year since Lao Huang came to power is indeed a big blessing for many people, and everyone is secretly praising the new government's leadership team for being good. (To be continued.) )