Chapter 486: Boston Expands

Among the major belligerent countries, apart from the Chinese Empire, the Boston Empire had the best conditions. Although they suffered an indiscriminate bombardment of coastal cities by the Thal Navy during the war, fortunately, half of the heavy industry system of the Boston Empire was inland, and the biggest losses were the financial industry, the shipbuilding industry, and a large number of materials waiting to be shipped to various countries for sale. Combined with the large profits from the sale of materials during the war, although those war bonds were lost, it did not affect their economic development.

As a result, the gross national product of the Boston Empire increased a lot during the war, from 211.9 billion Chinese dollars in 900 to 461.7 billion Chinese dollars, an increase of more than double, leaving the countries of the Western Continent far behind.

Although the Boston Empire was growing rapidly, their government was still depressed because the Chinese Empire was growing much faster than they did. Since the Chinese Empire had always sold supplies to both sides of the war and did not buy war bonds, the Chinese Empire sold much more than the Boston Empire, and naturally made much more profits.

With the support of Fang Xiaoyu's unremitting efforts to build infrastructure and low-interest bank loans, the economy of the Chinese Empire grew faster than that of Boston, and the empire's GDP grew directly from 174.1 billion Chinese dollars in 900 to 511.9 billion Chinese dollars in 909, surpassing the Boston Empire for the first time and becoming the world's largest economy.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire gained more new land and colonies, and had a wider space for investment. It is foreseeable that the economic level and industrial capacity of the Chinese Empire will continue to improve at a higher rate, which makes the previous major powers feel a little uncomfortable.

NATO's allies have naturally gained varying degrees of development under the economic radiation of the Chinese Empire, and the only thing that has some losses is the Cossack Empire that is still fighting a civil war, but with the secret support of Princess Daria, Fang Xiaoyu promised to give the Cossack Empire some preferential policies, and Alexander III is absolutely confident that the country will become rich and strong again.

Even the Kingdom of Sero and the Grand Duchy of Rees, which showed great goodwill to the Chinese Empire after surrendering, also gained a lot of benefits, Fang Xiaoyu took the initiative to withdraw from the Western Continent because he didn't want the powerful countries in the Western Continent to have psychological scruples, but he was still very willing to nail a nail of the Chinese Empire in the Western Continent, but the influence of the Chinese Empire on the Western Continent was less after all, and to what extent it could control these two countries, Fang Xiaoyu did not have a bottom in his heart.

Therefore, after the two countries showed great goodwill to the Chinese Empire, he only gave an appropriate amount of care to these two countries, in addition to helping the two countries say good things during the peace conference, and lightened a lot of sanctions, Fang Xiaoyu only moved the headquarters of the Chinese consortium in the Western Continent to the Kingdom of Sailuo, relying on the ports of the two countries for material transshipment, so that the two countries have gained great benefits, but such help can only provide them with funds, and they can only rely on themselves to improve their national strength and industrial manufacturing capacity.

With the influx of money, the two countries' already weak industrial systems have been rapidly strengthened, and although they are still far from the major powers, they have largely restored their pre-war economies, and the two governments have been in contact with the Boston Imperial Bank to return the symbolic reparations early.

Of course, the Chinese Empire will not have much investment in this uncertain ally, Fang Xiaoyu secretly signed an order that all the projects invested by the Chinese Empire overseas can only include catering services, wholesale and retail, import and export trade, etc., and all industries that can increase the industrial and war capabilities of other countries shall not be allowed to operate overseas, otherwise its domestic industry will be hit hard, and as for the outflow of technology, it is a capital crime.

If Soviet Russia suffered the greatest losses during the war, and suffered the most damage after the war, it was Soviet Russia. The economy of Soviet Russia was on the verge of collapse due to the fact that the territory under the control of Soviet Russia was the main battlefield of the Eastern Front during the war, which caused serious damage to the industrial system, coupled with the fact that the Cossack Empire was unwilling to accept defeat and never stopped the war, and the domestic pro-imperial faction sabotaged and instigated it from time to time.

At this time, the total economic output of Russia was only a pitiful 4.3 billion Chinese dollars, and the same was true of grain production, and the people of the whole country were in a state of semi-starvation, if it were not for the Boston Empire, in order to contain the Chinese Empire, it has been supporting Russia in the form of international humanitarian aid and smuggling, I am afraid that their regime would have collapsed long ago.

In view of the dire economic situation in the country, Soviet Russia first issued a five-year plan for economic reconstruction. As a result of the recent receipt of a lot of aid and loans from the Boston Empire, their economy has hope of getting out of the quagmire, and the western continent of the former Cossack Empire has been a key development place for many years, and the transportation and economic foundation are relatively good, which gives Soviet Russia favorable space for development.

There are all kinds of old facilities and roads that are barely available, and the first thing they have to do is to take advantage of these favorable conditions and vigorously develop the economy, because Ulyanov knows very well that only when the economy is developed will the people support the government and the country will be strong.

Soviet Russia has no scientific and technological strength, and second, it does not have a sufficient industrial base, and all they can rely on is resources, and more than ninety percent of the resources of the original Cossack Empire are in the territory of the Eastern and Central Continents, and at this time these places have become the territory of the Chinese Empire, and the few three semi-industrial areas are still occupied by the restored Cossack Empire, and half of them are occupied by the Chinese Empire, so Ulyanov set his sights on the oil of the Baku region.

Due to the massive application of trucks, combat vehicles, and airplanes since the beginning of the world war, the demand for oil in various countries has become higher and higher, and oil has increasingly become an important strategic resource, and its importance even exceeds that of coal before. At present, the most abundant area known in the world is Baku (Fang Xiaoyu is a secret production in the Aberdeen Peninsula and has not been announced, and the crude oil extracted is also directly transmitted to the wild continent and transported to the outside world in the name of the wild continent), which is why the Iranian Empire always wants to attack Russia and occupy Baku, and now Baku's status has risen to the height of Russia's national strategy, and its defense is more tight.

Russia began a five-year economic reconstruction plan, and the Cossack Empire also put forward its own five-year economic reconstruction plan-for-tat, of course, due to the poor infrastructure of the Ufa and Tsaritsyn industrial regions, and the lack of resources like Baku to supplement, economic construction is naturally more difficult.

For the predicament of the Cossack Empire, Fang Xiaoyu had already planned, he had already decided to disperse his domestic polluting primary chemical industry, primary smelting industry and other high-energy-consumption and high-polluting industries to various allies, and the Cossack Empire was naturally the first pilot, which could also allow the Cossack Empire's economy to recover rapidly and form an economic advantage over Soviet Russia.

After Soviet Russia began its economic recovery, the great powers of the Western Continent also announced their own economic recovery plans one after another, and even the governments of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire, which were burdened with huge reparations, gritted their teeth and once again brought a sum of money to the Boston Imperial Bank to support the economic construction of the country.

While all countries began their economic recovery plans, the Boston Empire and the Chinese Empire did not make much of a move. The Chinese Empire only issued plans and schedules for the development and resettlement of new regions, and even though the scale of its economic construction plans was much larger than that of the countries of the Western Continent, most of them were infrastructure construction and had no direct connection to economic development. Fang Xiaoyu still plans to rely on the investment and construction of several major domestic consortia, with the preferential policies given by the government, I believe that everyone is not stupid, even if they are stupid, Fang Xiaoyu's China consortium will not be stupid.

The Boston Empire did not gain too many colonies in the war (at least it is not worth mentioning compared with the Chinese Empire), and they did not have the consciousness of economic construction in the colonies, after all, the domestic population was congenitally insufficient, and they even had a vast and sparsely populated land, so naturally there were not so many people to immigrate to change the local population structure, and they would not give them many opportunities for development.

They still treat the colonies mainly by plundering resources and dumping goods, and the countries of the Western Continent are also in the same consideration, only Fang Xiaoyu has already prepared, under the huge population base, the population structure of all the occupied areas is changing, and when the Chinese occupy the majority, the colony will become a national territory.

The Boston Empire does not have enough room for investment, and the rich funds have no investment direction, which is why they are willing to provide loans to the defeated countries, but it is a drop in the bucket to use these loans to transfer the rich capital in the country, not to mention that with the end of the war, there is also a large surplus of domestic industrial production, and a new economic crisis is not far off in the long run, so the clear-headed Prime Minister Wiedman announced a huge national defense plan.

Although the navy was limited by the Rome Convention, Wiedmann wanted the navy to maximize its combat power within the framework of the convention, because they had been under strong maritime pressure from the Chinese Empire.

In addition, they also planned to build a large number of small warships such as torpedo boats and gunboats, so that when the large fleet was dispatched, they would take advantage of the numerical advantage of these small warships as a coastal defense force.