After scratching his head and relieving some of the itchy position a little, Yan Shao got up from his seat and walked to the mirror not far away, and then looked at himself inside through the mirror, and after half a sound, Yan Shao couldn't help but sigh.

"I'm getting older again..."

Saying this, he gently stroked his face with his hand, and Yan Shao's expression was full of unwillingness.

Time flies, time flies, and a long time has passed in the blink of an eye.

Similarly, Yan Shao, who was originally in the prime of life, is also forty years old.

The so-called thirty and stand, forty is not confused...

Yan Shao has changed from the age of standing to not confused...

However, if he could, Yan Shao still hoped that he could be younger. It's a pity that even the greatest ruler can't defeat such a thing as time, and Yan Shao is the same. Facing the invasion of the years, watching himself in the mirror getting older day by day, Yan Shao had almost no way to speak.

In the face of the years, no matter how powerful Yan Shao's power is, what use can it be?

The only thing that makes Yan Shao feel fortunate is that because of the long-term maintenance, Yan Shao is actually no different from his early thirties on the surface―――――― which is not strange at all, after all, in later life, in his forties, there are many demons who look no different from those in their early twenties.

Generally speaking, this kind of person can be rated as a winner in life.

After all, the biggest way to do this is to keep yourself as far away from troubles as possible.

On the contrary, there are some people, although they are only in their early 20s. But in fact, he looks no different from his forties. Such people's words, although some are due to congenital reasons. However, there are still many people who have caused such results because of the pressure of life.

No way. In later life, the pressure of life is indeed too great...

Therefore, there is nothing strange about such a thing as aging before aging in Yan Shao's era. At least many of Yan Shao's classmates are that although they are only in their teens, their hair has begun to turn gray.

But what really made Yan Shao strange was that he had a junior high school classmate, and half of his hair had turned gray.

It stands to reason that this kind of person should study well. Because only by working too hard and working too hard, does it seem that such a situation will occur? But in fact, Yan Shao's classmate's academic performance is quite poor, but he may be slightly better than Yan Shao...

In this way, it seems strange that his hair is like this.

And after many speculations to no avail, Yan Shao and others can only think that he has become like this because he has masturbated too much...

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For Yan Shao, perhaps there is nothing more terrible than aging. After all, this kind of thing has nothing to do with rights or anything like that. Of course, maybe the power in Yan Shao's hands can delay the occurrence of this kind of thing, but something should happen in the end. It will still happen after all, Yan Shao knows this.

However, Yan Shao did not do it for this reason like those rulers who were about to die. I started looking for something like immortality.

Because Yan Shao knows very well that this kind of thing is almost impossible to accomplish―――――― at least in this era. Technology can't do that yet.

As for some of the other means? Just by looking at the appearance of other rulers, including Qin Shi Huang, you can see whether this thing is useful or not.

Emperor Qin and Han Wu. These emperors have all pursued immortality, but what is the final result?

The former died in the second, and the latter, also after the feat of expelling the Xiongnu, led to the inevitable weakening of the Han Empire―――――― there was no way, after all, it costs money to fight, and the money spent by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on this is inevitably too much...

So, after a long sigh, Yan Shao stood up again, tidied up his appearance a little, and after thinking that there should be no problem, he walked out of the room.

"The Great President..."

Seeing Yan Shao coming out of the room, those people outside hurriedly bowed their heads and said hello.

Yan Shao also nodded in return.

"How's it going, are all the people coming?"

"It's all here..."

Hearing Yan Shao's question, the others hurriedly replied.

"That's good..."

Taking a step, Yan Shao walked in the direction of the conference room, and those people continued to stay in their original positions, watching Yan Shao's back.

After arriving at the conference room, Yan Shao just pushed open the door and saw that almost all the high-level officials of the State and Social Government, including Fu Xiuming, Jiang Baili, Li Liang and others, were concentrated in the room.

Walking to his position and looking at a few of them, Yan Shao greeted him with emotion.

There is no way, some of these people are actually people stationed on one side at all, even Yan Shao has not met him for a long time, and now that he has finally met, he naturally wants to have a good greeting.

After some pleasantries, everyone in the conference room finally got to the point.

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After a long period of development, China has become an extremely powerful country.

This is true both in terms of overall strength and international influence.

In terms of influence, China, which can be said to straddle Europe and Asia, is second only to Britain in terms of territorial area, which has colonies all over the world. However, the continuity of its territory is far stronger than that of the United Kingdom, especially in the development of its own potential...

This is not surprising, after all, the British usually took predatory measures against those colonies, and hardly thought about strengthening the construction of these areas―――――― perhaps for them, those areas were just colonies, and there was no need to do so.

The only thing that has been strengthened is the transportation in those areas, after all, if you want to plunder the resources of those places. No good traffic is a no-no.

As a result, even China. It was not long ago that it caught up with such a colony as India on the railway.

But when it comes to overall strength, I'm afraid that even ten India will not be able to compare with China.

Who called China really wants to turn those newly occupied lands into its own territory. Rather than just trying to turn it into their colony, as the British did.

But...

Even if the British wanted to do this, I am afraid they would not be able to do it, because this is something that only China can do―――――― in this day and age, only China has such a large population, can carry out large-scale immigration, and replace the local ethnic groups with the Chinese, the main body of China, and even make the local ethnic groups become 'ethnic minorities'...

It can only be said. Such a means can only be done in China.

Of course, perhaps India can, after all, India's population is arguably the smallest gap between China and China―――――― although there is still a gap of hundreds of millions of people.

But the problem is that there are so many ethnic groups in India that there are almost too many Indians themselves to count. At the same time, there are so many languages in India that although we usually refer to them as Indians, it is difficult to think of them as a whole.

After all, India was originally divided in history, and it was entirely because of the British. That's why it's all put together...

It could even be argued that, if it weren't for the British, India would have been nothing more than a geographical term.

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However, it has also been confirmed that because of the ability to migrate on such a large scale, Yan Shao's ability to develop new territories is very strong.

Until now. Not just in the mainland, but also in other new territories that have already achieved very good results/.

"In addition to the traditional industrial zones in the country, industrial zones are being built in other new provinces. They have also had very gratifying results. Among them, the oil exploration program in Kuwait and Iraq has been very successful, in addition to the increasing oil production in Kuwait. A large number of oil wells have also been drilled in Iraq, which produce oil. It has provided an extremely large amount of money for our finances..."

Standing on one side of the room, the Minister of Energy spoke, and the joy on his face could be seen by almost everyone.

It is not surprising, after all, in today's national government, the Ministry of Energy is a very popular department.

After all, with the passage of time, the importance of oil resources in the world has become more and more important, no one can deny the importance of this energy, at this time the influence of the Ministry of Energy is naturally highlighted―――――― especially in the case of almost all the country's energy is under the control of the Ministry of Energy...

Energy nationalization...

Naturally, considering the interests and other issues, there are still many people in China who believe that energy should be privatized. However, not only Yan Shao opposed, but the Ministry of Energy was even more resolutely opposed, after all, no one would feel that they had more power in their hands, and the same was true for the Ministry of Energy, especially after considering the importance of oil―――――― these are all interests...

Although there is a Ministry of Integrity supervising above, I'm afraid that no one dares to play some tricks, but...

Who knows what will happen next?

And a department, only if the power in its own hands is large enough, can it be given enough attention, right?

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In fact, the development of China's domestic oil resources has reached a peak.

In the past period, Kuwait's oil resources have been greatly developed, which has made its production capacity increase by leaps and bounds compared to the past. In addition, the Iraqi region, which had been standing still, finally had some movement.

Although only a few oil wells have been developed, the production capacity of each oil well is very impressive, which can be regarded as indirect confirmation of the theory that Iraq has a large amount of oil resources.

It can be said that the achievements of the national government in the above-mentioned areas have attracted the attention of almost everyone, and I wonder how many people are jealous of the oil discovered by the national government in the Middle East, after all, it can almost be said that it can be said that it can flourish a country's resources.

In addition, in addition to Iraq and Kuwait, the work of the Ministry of Energy in other regions is also very smooth.

For example, in Tyumen, Russia. The Ministry of Energy has also developed a large number of oil resources, and many oil fields have been developed in the country. Although it is said that Daqing Oilfield. Because of the difficulty of development, it has not been found yet. But the other fields are no problem.

It is precisely because of this series of relationships, according to the comments of foreign media, that is, the benefits obtained from these oils alone are enough for the government to support its own military spending, and it is more than enough.

Of course, because of the discovery of so much oil, international oil prices have also been severely suppressed. Even now, there is still no intention of being restored.

But even so, China has surpassed the United States. It has become the world's largest oil producer, and then, just like those foreign media commented, although the current size of the national defense force has exceeded three million, it can even be said to be the largest army in the world, and its weapons and equipment are constantly being updated, and the annual military expenditure can be described as astronomical.

However, the revenues from the country's oil resources alone are enough to support these military expenditures, if not more than enough. It can allow the national government to do more other things at home.

For example, public welfare, etc., in the work of transforming the welfare state, etc...

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In addition to energy, the government has also made great achievements in other areas.

For example, the industrial aspect, for example, other aspects. Among them, steel is the most important for industry, especially crude steel. Although China's steel production is not yet comparable to that of the United States, there is even a large gap with the United States. This disparity is particularly stark when the demographic ratio between China and the United States is taken into account, and is even greater than the gap between China and the United States.

The problem is...

Although it is much worse than the United States. But compared to other countries, China's growth is very impressive.

In terms of steel production capacity. China has left Britain and France far behind, especially in the past years, China's crude steel production has almost reached about twice that of the United Kingdom, even if Britain and France are added together, I am afraid it cannot be compared with China.

No, not only Britain and France, but even Britain and Germany combined, can only barely hold on to China, and only when Britain, France, and Germany are added together can they surpass China.

The problem is that these are already the three most industrially powerful countries in Europe, and even Soviet Russia, which has begun to recover, has no way to compare with France, which has the weakest industry among them.

Considering that Britain, France, Germany and other countries cannot work together after all, although the whole of Europe will be more powerful than China's industry after being added together, but in terms of overall strength, China now seems to have a little strength comparable to the entire European continent―――――― of course, if you want to obtain this kind of Cheng Dù power, you also need to have enough strength...

After all, in many cases, the status of a country depends mainly on its military strength.

Otherwise, no matter how strong the economy or military strength is, I am afraid it will be useless.

This is just like the future of Japan, before and after the end of the Cold War, Japan's economic and industrial strength had reached an outrageous level, and it can even be said that it is a very amazing thing that an island nation can do that kind of thing.

Isn't there a saying that the Japanese can already buy the United States and are doing so?

But as a result, under the pressure of the Americans, the Japanese had to be sheared in the end, which is the very famous square agreement in history~~~

The so-called Plaza Accord was an agreement signed on September 22, 1985 after a secret meeting between the finance ministers and central bank governors of five industrialized developed countries, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The purpose is to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market to make the US dollar fall against major currencies such as the yen and the mark in an orderly manner, so as to solve the huge trade deficit of the United States, thereby leading to a sharp appreciation of the yen.

After the signing of the Plaza Accord, the above-mentioned five countries began to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market, selling a large number of dollars in the international foreign exchange market, and then forming a selling frenzy of market investors. The U.S. dollar continued to depreciate sharply. In September 1985, the U.S. dollar fluctuated against the Japanese yen around 1 U.S. dollar to 250 yen. In less than three months after the agreement was signed, the yen rapidly appreciated against the dollar to around 200 yen per dollar. Up 20%. In 1988 compared to 1985, the major currencies appreciated against the US dollar by approximately 86.1 per cent for the Japanese yen, 70.5 per cent for the Deutschmark, 50.8 per cent for the French franc, 46.7 per cent for the Italian lira, 37.2 per cent for the British pound and nearly 11 per cent for the Canadian dollar.

As the world's second-largest economy in the 1980s (surpassing the Soviet Union in 1978), Japan witnessed a rapid upturn that took off from the end of its economy to slow growth, stop growth, and even recession. In the mid-1990s, it experienced a rapid currency depreciation (then known as the 'sell-off of Japan'), and since then it has been in a slump, the bubble economy bursts, collapses, and has not recovered for more than ten years―――――― no, to be exact, more than 20 or even 30 years, and still has not recovered.

Even if the Japanese come up with some kind of Abenomics, the result is that Japan is almost going to die. Especially when Yan Shao was about to cross over, Japan's economy was already on the verge of collapse. There is even a situation where negative growth has occurred.

This is Japan's helplessness, no matter how powerful Japan's economy was at that time, but in the final analysis, it was just a dog leg of the United States. As long as the Americans were willing, they could easily overthrow the Japanese regime at that time.

Therefore, even though Japan knows that this is dangerous for Japan, Japan still has to do it.

But what if Japan had a military power comparable to that of the United States? I'm afraid the situation will be reversed...

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It should be clarified. The Plaza Accord was followed by a Louvre Accord. Italy was also invited, but eventually withdrew from signing. The goal of the agreement is to stabilize the international currency market. Halt the continued depreciation of the US dollar led by the Plaza Accord, whose goal is to bring about a depreciation of the US dollar against the yen and the Deutsche Mark through bilateral agreements at the G7 Finance Ministers' Meeting. Since the Plaza Accord, the yen rose to 150 yen per dollar in 1987, and ministers gathered at the Louvre in Paris to put the brakes on this continued depreciation.

But no matter what you do, it seems that you can't change the fate of the Japanese?

With the exception of the most common but most important steel industry, the growth in other sectors has been phenomenal.

After a period of development, the number of domestic machine tools has grown by leaps and bounds, and other basic industries such as cement have also made great progress. Especially in terms of cement, because the current domestic housing structure is mainly reinforced concrete, in addition to a large number of road construction needs cement, the result is that China's cement production has climbed to the world's first.

Of course, Yan Shao also knows that this kind of thing does not seem to have anything to boast about, after all, the cement industry is also very famous for environmental pollution, but one thing is certain, that is, if you want to build China into a modern country, then cement is indispensable.

At least, after constantly building one highway after another, Yan Shao's sense of accomplishment is still very good.

And in addition to the industrial achievements, the military development is also extraordinarily amazing.

More than half of the more than 3 million Wehrmacht, including the Army, have been equipped with the latest semi-automatic rifles, which can be described as surprising in a series of Wehrmacht and other conflicts. Especially when fighting with Soviet Russia or domestic rebels, it brought a great advantage to the Wehrmacht, which also made other countries pay attention to this new rifle.

However, out of confidence in their own weapons, countries such as Britain and the United States have not yet changed their equipment, and have only signaled some arsenals to conduct research.

At the same time, the speed of motorization and mechanization of the army has also begun to increase, and new motorized units or mechanized units have been formed. These will become the backbone of the army, and at the same time, the size of the air force and navy will continue to increase.

After a period of hard work, the four Jairus-class battleships launched have initially possessed a certain range of combat capability, and at the same time, a large number of treaty-type heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers have been launched, especially the submarine force of the National Defense Navy, the scale has expanded to an astonishing extent, according to some foreign commentators, even if the global underwater fleet is added together, I am afraid it may not be China's opponent...

As for the Air Force? Not to mention... (To be continued......)