Chapter 459: Economic Worries

The adjutant's face flushed and he said urgently: "No, marshal. It has a relationship with us, a lot of it. This is the newspaper of the Chinese Empire, and it clearly states that the Allied fleet has won a complete naval victory by inflicting heavy damage on the Allied fleet at sea. They put the greatest credit on us, and these people of the Chinese Empire are really strange. ”

Marshal Scheer smiled slightly, poured another sip of wine into his mouth and said: "How come the people of the Chinese Empire have also learned to brag, and besides, they have not participated in the war, how can they know the detailed battle situation." ”

The adjutant explained: "The newspaper said that after the Allied fleet disengaged from us, the Chinese Empire attacked them with naval aviation, and after verification of the photographs taken on the plane, the Entente ships survived no more than 200, and most of them were wounded, and it is conservatively estimated that the casualties of the opposing sailors exceeded 150,000. ”

"What?" Listening to the adjutant's words, Marshal Scheer jumped up violently, and his wine immediately woke up: "Quick, bring me the newspaper." Scheer almost snatched the newspaper from the adjutant's hand and opened it with trembling hands.

The newspaper was the Aberdean edition of the China Daily, the branch of the Chung Hwa Newspaper in the Western Continent, and its content was almost as contemporary as within the Chinese Empire.

At this moment, Marshal Scheer's eyes widened as he looked at the news in the newspaper, and he saw that the front page of the newspaper had the headline "Victory of the Allied Powers" written in bold letters, which listed the huge losses of the Allied Powers, and at the same time praised Marshal Scheer's excellent command of naval warfare, claiming that the reason why the planes of the Chinese Navy were able to achieve results was due to the fact that the Allied Navy had severely damaged the Allied fleet in advance, leaving most of its warships in a state of serious damage.

Seeing this report, Marshal Scheer breathed a sigh of relief, the Zhonghua Newspaper is the mouthpiece of the imperial family of the Chinese Empire, which is clear to everyone, and their report is basically equivalent to the meaning of the Chinese Imperial Government. Since the Chinese government had given him the credit, Marshal Scheer was naturally very pleased, so that he would not only not go to court-martial, but would be rewarded.

Fang Xiaoyu's arrangement was intentional, he just wanted to elevate the status of the battleship and downplay the power of the aircraft carrier in order to achieve the purpose of misleading the development direction of the navies of various countries. The propaganda was very successful, and Field Marshal Jellico, who had been disgraced by the defeat in the naval battle, and his successor, Admiral Betty, were fanatical adherents of the doctrine of cannons and ships, and they also subconsciously concealed the truth of the naval battle.

Marshal Scheer, who was cordially received by Wilhelm II at the Imperial Palace of the Yaman Empire, would not reveal his true thoughts for the sake of his own life. Only Admiral Godal, commander of the Boston Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, mentioned his doubts in the report, but he did not see the scene of the air raid of the Chinese Imperial Carrier-based Air Group, and the report only expressed doubts without any evidence. And he caused the loss of a large number of the main ships of the Boston Navy in this war, and his report naturally made the Boston Imperial Admiralty sneer, and it did not receive much attention to it.

At a time when governments were being blinded by the media of the Chinese Empire for various reasons, Fang Xiaoyu was dancing in his own residence in Canberra City, a wild continent, to escalate the small wind. With the 80,000 tons of gold looted from the Sahr Empire, he was finally able to upgrade Xiaofeng without having to use the national gold reserves.

It's really not easy, it took a lot of hard work to collect a lot of wealth to raise Xiao Feng to level six, looking at the geometric increase in research points and scanning radius, as well as the space equipment library that has just opened, Fang Xiaoyu's heart is full of excitement.

"Master, this upgrade adds new features." Xiao Feng's words rang out at the right time, Xiao Feng, who was getting higher and higher, no longer needed to communicate with Fang Xiaoyu in his sleeping state, and now they could have brainwave conversations anytime and anywhere.

Fang Xiaoyu said with anticipation: "What new features?" ”

Xiao Feng said: "The fixed-point teleportation function will be able to teleport living bodies." ”

"Teleporting a living body? So I can teleport people over? Fang Xiaoyu was extremely excited when he heard this, which showed that he could teleport the human body, which was simply a skill against the sky.

"Okay, great, with this technology, I can go back and forth between Beijing and the Wild Continent, so I don't have to be that damn ship, I have to wander around the sea for a week every time, and I'm annoyed to death."

Xiaofeng reminded again: "Master, the aerospace equipment library has been opened, whether to start researching and manufacturing aerospace equipment." ”

"Of course." Fang Xiaoyu replied without hesitation: "Start researching and manufacturing immediately, I want to march into the universe as soon as possible." ”

Xiaofeng replied: "Okay, the research on aerospace technology will start immediately, and the heavy industry equipment library will start manufacturing the necessary equipment for the aerospace equipment library. ”

Fang Xiaoyu's heavy industry equipment library after so many years of self-equipment upgrades, its processing accuracy and modernization have already reached the extent that anyone is jaw-dropping, now as long as Fang Xiaoyu will have enough ore into Xiaofeng's equipment library, the equipment used for aerospace equipment manufacturing can be built quickly, and its advanced degree will not be lower than the level of the United States when the moon landing, as for the ore, Xiaofeng has a huge number of various ores in the warehouses set up in various places, which can be said to be demanded, and there is no possibility of shortage.

With the addition of Xiaofeng, the research of aerospace science and technology is definitely a rapid progress. Thinking that the day of going home was getting closer and closer, Fang Xiaoyu, who was relaxed, immediately began to experiment with the new features, and he teleported directly back to the imperial palace in Beijing, and a few minutes later, Fang Xiaoyu walked out of his dormitory humming a small song.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu walking out of the dormitory, the guards were stunned, they knew that Fang Xiaoyu had secretly gone to the Savage Continent, how could he appear so suddenly, not to mention that they didn't see Fang Xiaoyu enter at all. However, the emperor's privacy is not something that anyone can ask about, and they can only be regarded as invisible.

"Young Master, where are you from?" It's not that no one dares to ask, at least Fang Xiaoyu's old brothers have nothing to talk about with him, and at this time, Lin Feng, who was stunned, was looking at Fang Xiaoyu who came over in a daze. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "I just came back from the Savage Continent, so I came to see how your work is doing here." ”

Lin Feng didn't really believe Fang Xiaoyu's words, after all, such a fact was too incredible, so Lin Feng didn't answer, just smiled and quipped: "It's very rare for a young master to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion building, is there anything wrong?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "You kid don't have to hurt me, I know that I rarely come, but I'm not idle, this time I'm here to ask you how the domestic economy is?" Are there any questions? ”

Lin Feng said: "Since the start of the world war, the scale of our domestic industry has nearly doubled, and the sales of various products are quite strong. After our Chinese Empire entered the war, we did not excessively recruit reservists into the army, and our labor force did not decrease much, and naturally it did not affect industrial production. ”

Fang Xiaoyu waved his hand: "Okay, don't tell me something nice, what's the problem with the domestic economy now." ”

Lin Feng's face was slightly stunned and said, "The problem is no, but I think there are some hidden worries." ”

Fang Xiaoyu's brows also furrowed slightly: "Are you worried?" I have some worries as well, so let's hear about them first. ”

Lin Feng said: "After several years of development, as of last year, the empire's gross national product has reached 617 billion yuan, due to the stimulation of military production, the fastest growth is the iron and steel industry, at present the empire can produce 11.69 million tons of steel and 21.97 million tons of pig iron every year. ”

"In addition to the Chinese consortium, many big businessmen have also begun to get involved in heavy industry, so that the heavy industry of the whole country has improved rapidly. But this kind of improvement is a bit too fast, in today's wartime is fine, weapons and ammunition need to be manufactured in large quantities, there is a strong demand for steel, no matter how much production can find a market, but once the war is over, our production capacity will be excessive, how to find a way out of this excess capacity is a big problem. Lin Feng is not without worries about the rapid development of the economy, once the sales are blocked, the economy is easy to hit the wall, then the loss will be great.

Fang Xiaoyu touched his chin and said, "Indeed, I'm also worried about this problem. I'm going to talk to the Wu brothers about slowly reducing the production capacity of the heavy industry companies under the Chung Hwa Consortium from now on. ”

Lin Feng said: "But in this way, the Chinese consortium will suffer." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "As long as the country does not cause economic turmoil because of this, there is nothing for my Chinese consortium to suffer a little loss." ”

Lin Feng said: "Now that the war is still going on, we can continue to produce for a period of time, and we can expand the navy if there is a surplus of steel, and now the treasury is sufficient to support us to build a large number of warships." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Recently, the Entente naval battle was defeated, the fleet suffered heavy losses, and their land is not optimistic, I estimate that the war will end within a year, and it will be too late to adjust it when the time comes." But your idea is very good, our main surplus now is steel, if we can find a way out of this steel, I don't have to hurt myself. ”

A lot of money has been made, and all the countries participating in the war are almost crippled, what Fang Xiaoyu wants now is to end the war as soon as possible, and strive to return to the earth as soon as possible by developing science and technology, so he proposed to the joint command to send the army to attack the western continent from the south to fight and open up a second battlefield. After receiving Fang Xiaoyu's instructions, the joint command headquarters immediately became busy, and the staff officers in the general staff headquarters under it began to design various operational plans for the Western Continent, and various intelligence about the Western Continent also began to be collected intensively.

On October 7, 907, the main force of the Southern Subcontinent Front, led by Su Zhizhen, had quietly assembled near the port of Ceuta.