ACT224: A busy new year
1938 is destined to be a very busy year for mankind!
The unstoppable catastrophe has triggered an inevitable flight, and if humans want to continue to survive, they can only leave the earth where their own race was born. But this chance to escape is not available to everyone!
At the beginning of the Great Migration, many countries were worried about their own lack of transportation capacity. After all, the number and size of spaceships are limited by the divine core, and you can't build as many as you want. Even Datang, which has the largest number of divine cores, uses all the more than 15,000 divine cores, which is only a total tonnage of more than 80 million.
For this reason, in the early stage of secretly immigration, in addition to promulgating a large number of preferential laws to attract people to colonies, the Datang government also paid for private consortia to rent foreign passenger liners to attract people, taking advantage of many foreign devils. But even so, the capacity is still not enough to meet its own needs.
For this reason, the late Lingzong thought of a very feasible solution, that is, to transfer the population of the earth's native population to the moon first, and use it as a transit point to transfer to Jupiter. The distance between the earth and the moon is very close, and even if it is an ordinary freighter, it only takes about half a day to run a round trip.
However, although the Moon is also a habitable planet, the local environment can be said to be the worst known star field!
More than 70% of the area belongs to the white Gobi, and only on the back there is some land with a reasonable environment, which currently belongs to Germany, and is the only "face" left by the other side in space after World War I.
Before the disaster was officially established, the total population of the Tang Dynasty was 920 million, of which about 500 million were in the mainland, and the rest were in the colonies. After all, the main continent of Jupiter's colony, which is 6 times that of Asia, is too big, and if you want to effectively control this land, you need to send people to occupy it. But even with 400 million people, the population density per square kilometer is less than 2.
During the implementation of the old colonial law, the central government tried to tighten control. It mainly restricted the development of agriculture and heavy industry in the colonies, and used it as a source of industrial raw materials, mainly to support mining and light industry. Each colony must limit its agricultural output to within 60 per cent of its own needs, with the remaining 40 per cent supplied by the mainland.
At that time, stockpiling a large amount of grain in the colony was tantamount to the great crime of "rebellion"!
At the end of 1937, the new emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Mengzong, succeeded to the throne, and at the banquet to receive foreign guests, the auxiliary political king Li Ti found the German ambassador and asked the other party to lease land in an official capacity. They want to lease 100,000 square kilometers in the eastern suburbs of the Lunar Dark Colony to temporarily resettle the Tang people who have been evacuated from Earth but have not had time to transfer to Jupiter.
At first, the German ambassador wanted to refuse this request. After all, the total population of Germany is only more than 100 million (more than in another time and space), and Datang alone has nearly 400 million in its own country, which is more than three times that of Germany! As long as Hitler was not a fool, he could not have allowed so many foreigners to come to his doorstep. But when Li Ti offered his own price, the German ambassador's festival was like a wine glass in his hand, which directly slipped to the ground and shattered.
"10, 1 billion Tang coins!?"
"That's right! 1 billion Tang dollars, or 4.3 billion German marks, for a lease of 30 months. We will pay for the people's daily necessities, and we will also open up a duty-free trade area for German merchants. You can return this price to the head of your country. If he's not satisfied, we can talk about it again. ”
What is the concept of 4.3 billion marks? At this time, the annual financial revenue of the German government was only 15 billion yuan, and Hitler was in a hurry to expand armaments, and this huge amount of money could definitely solve Germany's current urgent needs. Coupled with that duty-free trade zone and 400 million Datang immigrants who lack daily necessities. The German ambassador, who studied economics, seemed to have seen the banknotes flying in the sky.
Sure enough! As soon as the news reached Berlin, Hitler agreed in ecstasy, and even took the initiative to extend the lease from two and a half years to five years. It also promised to send German engineers and construction workers to assist Datang in building the concession's infrastructure. It is said that when Hitler heard the news, he couldn't help but say a foul word!
"These Orientals are so rich!"
The ambitious mustache has always wanted to win over Datang. Naturally, it is impossible to let go of this opportunity to show goodwill. Even if the other side had just been defeated, the German side believed that this was just an abnormal performance of the Tang Army, and its military strength was still the first in the world. As for Japan, which is in the limelight, those nouveau riche have the potential to be "spare tires" in Hitler's eyes.
After securing the concession on the moon, Datang can finally free up more capacity to transport important industrial equipment and resources to Jupiter. With Datang taking the lead, other countries have followed their lead and leased land from Germany.
It's just that the Western scoundrel group headed by the two old hooligans of Britain and France did not want to pay, so under the pretext of Germany's "World War I criminals", they used public opinion and military power to force Germany to provide them with a large number of high-quality leased land for free. The German government, which was still in the stage of "rioting", could only swallow its anger and then take the opportunity to increase the German people's hatred of Britain and France.
On February 15, 1938, when Zhao Jian finished the Lantern Festival that could be celebrated on the earth, he hurriedly led his convoy to pull a ship full of grain and set sail off the earth. However, they did not go straight to Jupiter, but first made a detour to Venus, picked up a group of "foreign passengers", and then went to the alien rings.
Two and a half months ago, at the beginning of the New Year, Franco, the leader of the Spanish National Army, finally agreed to accept the surrender of the republican government after several days of deliberation, so most of the republican army laid down their arms, and the anarchists simply dispersed in a hurry, disappearing as if they had never existed in the first place, and only a few unwilling Spanish Communist Party and international columns remained in Marta to resist.
For these diehards, Franco wanted to test the power of his new naval flagship, the "Francisco (formerly Shaoxing-class)", but the "Guernica Incident" that occurred in April last year, the German vulture regiment's arbitrary bombing campaign, once greatly implicated the international image of the Nationalist Army.
In order to save some face and image, and to prove that he was different from the barbaric German Nazis, Franco did not rush to attack the recalcitrant Marta, but conveyed it to the Soviet government and the Comintern through the League of Nations.
New Spain, led by the Falangists, was a civilized government with a humanitarian spirit. They mercifully gave these foreign armed men who interfered in Spain's internal affairs a way out, and allowed them to leave Spain "decently" before the end of March, otherwise they would not be blamed for the extermination of their national army!
Faced with this situation, which was powerless, the Soviet side could only reluctantly admit this defeat and agreed to withdraw its support troops, but the evacuated spaceship only came with a destroyer, and some high-ranking officers and technical personnel were picked up and left in a hurry, and all the ordinary soldiers were abandoned.
In the end, Franco couldn't look past it, so he took the initiative to contact Zhao Jian and asked him if he would like to help these "poor" Soviet soldiers (in fact, most of them were international columns). The new dictator of Spain did not make this decision out of good intentions, but wanted to use these resentful outcasts to disgust Da Linzi.
Franco even joked with his cronies that if they returned to the Soviet Union and planned to launch a rebellion to overthrow Stalin, he would also set up a "pike" to support their great cause!
For this matter, Zhao Jian didn't plan to pick it up at first, and if he wanted to pick him up, he would only pick up Mao Mei! However, Dai Li, after learning about it, persuaded him to help with this, and then took the opportunity to establish a relationship with the Soviets to lay the groundwork for possible future operations in the Saturn region in advance.
So Zhao's fleet loaded it with grain and went on the road after reserving a part of the space. Franco only promised to let non-Spanish foreigners leave, that is, the remnants of the international column, most of whom only needed to leave some space on the deck and send them directly to France next door, and the Mao Zi soldiers who needed to be transported to Saturn were estimated to be no more than 500.
Because throughout the war, the Soviets provided only military advisers, armored pilots and pilots, and the cumulative number did not exceed 700. If Zhao Jian is not wrong, the Soviet Union itself should only take over military advisers and pilots, as for the armored pilots whose status is only a little stronger than the infantry, the lives of those "iron clay legs" may not be as expensive as gas in the eyes of Maozi's high-level leaders! (To be continued......)
PS: I'm going to get a codeword software called "Little Black House......