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After eight years of suffering, China has finally come to peace, and in addition to the northeast and northwest, the whole country has begun to look forward to a better era. However, the world's capital predators have obviously been attracted by the rapid development of Chinese capital, and they have been deeply stimulated by the frenzied purchase of trains, machine tools, and complete sets of equipment at the Paris Peace Conference, the brutal Russian robbery, and the purchase of $200 million worth of seized equipment from France during the finance minister's visit to Europe and the United States, and the successive orders placed in Britain and the United States, which is equivalent to moving back to dozens of large factories.

This is a white man's world, and even Yang Qiu has no choice but to express to the world in the spirit of contract in the US Congress that he will abide by the rules of the game established by the white man. To put it mildly, when you can't resist, it's better to be in the dirt or lie down and enjoy. Even with a population of 600 million, the world's third economy, the strongest army in Asia, and the world's fifth largest manufacturing industry, China and the yellow race are far from being able to challenge this rule.

The capital predators waited for a good opportunity, and when the Chinese thought that the good era had begun, they rolled up their arms and drew blueprints on a blank piece of paper, marched to glory with the confidence of defeating Japan twice, fighting the Western Front, and defeating Russia, and began to carry out monetary reform, trying to establish a Chinese economic circle with the Minyuan as the settlement unit, they took action!

There are risks associated with any financial reform, especially in the early stages of reform, when brief moments of conflict between old and new rules often reveal huge flaws. During the era of President Cleveland, Morgan and others seized the opportunity to take away the right to issue dollars in one fell swoop because of economic reforms, making the US government embarrassed to become a rubber stamp. Old Roosevelt gritted his teeth and raised his machete to attack the family trust. However, the flaws in credit were exposed, and hundreds of credit companies were born in the United States within a year, and the capital predators used their shells to do whatever they wanted.

This frenzied financial plundering culminated in the European War, when the power of capital was at work in bonds, gold, silver, and loans. This hand can't be seen or touched, but Chapter 544 is really affecting every corner of the world. But to everyone's surprise, the capital predators have recently encountered a trouble, that is, the sudden outbreak of the national credit crisis!

Someone even chanted. The era of debt defaults began.

First of all, Lenin announced his refusal to recognize the total debt of 25 billion francs owed by Tsarist Russia during the period, and made France full of chrysanthemums in the pre-war economic field, and the steel output of the dignified European industrial power is still inferior to that of China. The French roosters, who have long regarded themselves as the bosses of Europe, are naturally unwilling to sit idly by. While chanting "Whoever promises to pay back the money, we will support whom" actively promoted the Russian civil war, and then encouraged Britain and Italy and other countries to join hands to repay the debt! As a result, the European war loans amounting to $10 billion were fragmented by various triangular debts, and there was even a possibility that they could not be recovered, and even the $2.5 billion lent by Britain and France to China had changed hands several times. Even parody that when the Ministry of Finance was ready to repay the first money last year, he was told by the Bank of England to remit it to a bank in the Virgin Islands...... Ten billion dollars! Even a country like the United States would immediately fall from the throne of the world economy if it lost so much money in one go. Therefore, they actively advocated the theory of the new threat, first demonizing Lenin and Russia, and then actively supporting Germany under the pretext of attacking the poor party, and encouraging Britain and France to forgive their reparations debts. Then he instigated the US government to lay the keels of 13 super warships in one fell swoop under the pretext that the United States needs to ensure the security of capital and the security of the two oceans.

Since the end of the European war, in fact, the whole of Europe has been in a strong atmosphere of another major war. The British Empire, the world's leader, had to gather everyone to discuss the reduction of the navy and armaments to ease the atmosphere. The capital predators secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and when they rubbed their eyes and thought about how to recover their losses as soon as possible, they suddenly found that a country that didn't pay much attention to it actually came to Europe to throw money wildly, and all kinds of jealousy and greed were aroused.

The generation of Chinese elites led by Yang Qiu is not unaware of the world situation, but also aware of the horror of capital. However, because of their strength, experience, etc., they were unable to participate in this competition, so they turned back to focus on the internal construction of the country, dreaming of spending 10 years to make China reach a higher level and truly become a major country competing for world capital.

Against this backdrop and mentality, in the last few days of the Chongqing Economic Conference, the Economic Development and Social Reform Committee led by Cai Gongshi came up with the second five-year plan for the development of workers and peasants. This was drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission. In the final plan of Yang Qiu and others to make the decision on the review of various parts, the high-level leaders of the Republic of China decided not to comprehensively study the free economy of Europe and the United States for the time being, and continued to adopt the current semi-free and semi-state-owned national socialization model to implement a new round of industrial and peasant development plans.

First of all, the plan calls for strengthening the construction of 10 major projects in education, aviation, iron and steel, metal processing, electronics, engines, electric power, basic materials research, chemical industry, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy. By 1925, the total output value of industry and agriculture in the country should reach 70 billion US dollars, the annual self-produced steel production should reach 5 million tons, the annual power generation capacity should reach 4 billion kilowatt hours, the coal output should reach 300 million tons, the cement should be 100 million tons, the oil should be 3 million tons, the chemical fertilizer should be 10 million tons, and the railways should be 60,000 kilometers. In order to ensure the realization of these goals, the state and local governments will invest at least 3 billion yuan (including local finance) every year in infrastructure investment such as railways and roads, and build four large-scale petrochemical bases in Beihai (Irkutsk), Yumenguan, Heilongjiang (dealing with Sakhalin oil) and Sanduao (purchasing oil for processing). We will build 12 thermal power plants and 49 provincial-level small and medium-sized hydropower stations (large hydropower stations were not strong enough to build and upgrade too early), ensure that all countries except Qinghai and Tibet have power plants, support 1,000 private enterprises with technological development capabilities, and financially support the development of light industry. In agriculture, it is necessary to increase the proportion of tractors and other machinery and equipment for cultivation, build seed research institutes, increase the speed of water conservancy construction, implement stricter policies for the protection of forestry pastures and farmland, adopt fallow plans in areas where conditions permit, introduce new animal husbandry such as Australian sheep and dairy cows, develop the food processing industry, and develop valuable wasteland as state or private farms to supplement the growing food shortage.

The equipment manufacturing industry has gradually shifted from focusing on state-owned enterprises to supporting private enterprises, and has made use of the results of the research Rhineland plan to achieve a plan of 6% of the self-production rate of complete sets of machinery and equipment. Each factory must establish its own R & D institutions, and ensure that no less than 15% of the annual investment in the development of new products, the establishment of a national science and technology bonus system, expand the promotion of welding, precision casting, abrasive stamping and other manufacturing processes at the same time, the country has drilling, grinding, planing, milling, boring and other dozens of traditional basic machine tools The number and output should be increased by 3 times, and the overall scale should be doubled. It began to imitate and develop the extra-large core equipment urgently needed by the country, imitated the German technician training methods to strengthen the training of workers, and the total industrial output value rose from the current 5% of the world's total industrial output to 8%.

Education is also the most important part of the five-year plan. Yang Qiu first put forward the idea of building a national academy of sciences, and the government should subsidize at least 20,000 students to study in Europe and the United States every year, and the construction of institutions of higher learning should continue to be strengthened. We should bring in foreign professors and experts to teach in China, increase the number of urgently needed normal schools and teachers of physics and chemistry, and continue to popularize compulsory education in rural areas, so as to cover four-fifths of the population by 25 years.

In terms of socialization, Yang Qiu for the first time raised the issue of acute contradictions in population, land, and total grain output, and for the first time demanded that ways be found to limit the rate of population growth, that the protection of women's interests be immediately strengthened, that the proportion of women in work be increased, that their social status be enhanced, and that the age of marriage for women should be set at 19 years old. It also requires the departments of finance and civil affairs to begin to establish a socialized welfare system and establish a social security system with reference to the experience of Europe and the United States. To ensure that workers have something to rely on for their old age after a lifetime of hard work, local governments should provide annual subsidies to the elderly over 60 years old across the country.

In the small conference room, before the ministers who had worked hard for a day had come out of the 1925 outlook, they were blocked at the door by Zhan Tianyou, who came in with a scroll of maps. "Hehe, everybody's here." He, the Minister of Railways, travels all over the country and rarely appears a few times a year. Although Yang Qiu sent someone to take care of his life, he also strictly ordered to limit his working hours and check his body regularly. But I'm still a lot thinner. But the spirit is getting better and better, and he interrupted everyone's rest by talking to himself, spread out the new map and said, "It's just right." The president, the vice president, and the prime minister are all here, so let's take a look at this. ”

"Cheng Cheng must have come to cheat the money again. At that time, he boasted to the vice president that he would build railways in every county. Hey, it is. Tang Shaoyi walked to the map with a smile, and when he got closer, he found that it was actually the first mate of the new China map that had not been reviewed by the state, and immediately laughed: "I said sincerely, you won't just let us see this, right?" In a few months, it will be all over the streets. ”

"How so?" Zhan Tianyou waved his hand, and his fingers slowly circled along the border of the country. Under the guidance of this action, the sharp-eyed Yang Qiu was the first to see a thin black line circling around the whole of China, and immediately asked in surprise: "Mr. Cheng, is this ...... My dream, the China Railway! ”

"Circling the country?"

"Hey, it's 30,000 kilometers, right?"

"30,000 km? The cost of a single line is also 3.5 billion. ”

"There are so many." One by one, Zhan Tianyou shook his hand again and again, and his eyes lit up and he introduced: "From Vladivostok to Irkutsk, the Siberian Railway is under reconstruction and double-track construction, and only a few branches need to be added. The Irkutsk-Tajik Circum-North-West Railway is also under construction, and the single line will be completed in two more years. Tibet and Qinghai are not suitable for building railways, so they need to return to Gansu from Kashgar to Chengdu, Sichuan, and then enter Xikang from Chengdu to Kunming, Yunnan. Kunming to Guangxi has also been repaired, and now it is mainly the southern and eastern sections from Wusheng Pass in Guangxi along the coastline to Vladivostok, as well as the southwestern section of Kashgar connecting Kunming to the south. I have calculated that about 30,000 kilometers, counting the inflation factor during the construction period, the cost of a single line is about 2.5 billion, and if the double line is added, it will add 2 billion. ”

4.5 billion?!

Zhang Wenjing has two big heads, and the second five-year plan is still in his ears, and the Ministry of Finance is still worried about going there to get so much money to invest. You must know that the dividends of the European war have been used up, and he is waiting for about 2 billion cash to be released after the currency reform, and then use gold and silver to issue bonds, and finally come back from the Nanyang circle. Otherwise, relying on the current fiscal revenues alone, it will be impossible to complete the second national construction plan on an unprecedented scale, even if the local finances are included.

So his head shook like a rattle, and he didn't agree: "No, no, the plan is too big!" No money. ”

The Ring China Railway is a great project developed by imitating the idea of the Ring American Railway, and it is also the biggest dream of Zhan Tianyou and all railway people. How could he be willing to be rejected at the beginning, and said excitedly: "The scale is large but the cycle is long, and the average annual investment is not much." According to the 10-year construction period, 40,000 kilometers per kilometer, and 2,000 kilometers per year, the average annual construction of a single line is less than 100 million. Moreover, when the rich provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang can imitate the southwest, the local government and private individuals will raise funds to build a double line, and the poor provinces of Fujian and Guangxi can build a single line first, so that the total will be up to 200 million yuan per year. ”

He was afraid that Zhang Wenjing would continue to shake his head, and he walked up to Yang Qiu and sold: "Vice President, don't you always say that you want to develop the coastal areas and let the economy of the rich coastal areas flow first!" By what flows? China's coastal areas are not as flat as the United States, especially in the south, which is mountainous, so we still have to rely on trains. I have calculated that if it is built 40 kilometers along the coast, it can connect hundreds of counties and 200 million people! Imitating the example of the Southwest Railway Network, it can drive the output value of industry and agriculture in the country to rise by at least 20 billion!

If we can open up the private sector to build railways, hand over the railways in the coastal provinces to the private sector, and then connect them to this main line, the economic promotion will be several times greater!

"20 billion? Open the province to the private branch? Yang Qiu's eyes lit up, and he was really attracted by this plan. He didn't count on the Chengkun line, but there was really hope that the others would be built. What's more, because it is close to the coastline, it is indeed possible to link all the three coastal lines in the south and northeast, but it is not very ideal militarily. However, if it can really drive an output value of 20 billion yuan, this military disadvantage is not a cause for concern. The most important thing is that it is very cost-effective to build railways now, the price of steel is low, and labor is cheap, so the domestic demand for railways is extremely strong.

A circle, supported by four vertical and four horizontal Tianzi grids in the middle, auxiliary inter-provincial trunk lines, and then a large number of private branch lines in the province as the vein, is not the most perfect large railway network structure?

But before he could make a statement, Kuang Xukun slammed the door open and rushed into the conference room, ignoring the surprised eyes around him, panting and shouting: "President, vice president!" Oh no, something big happened, Shanghai called, foreigners manipulated the price of silver, and the price of silver has been pushed to the price of 1 yuan to 17 grams, and it is still rising...... rv！！！