The aftertaste of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was still between his teeth, Li Mo hid in the study, gave the outside to his wife and noisy children, and now counting the fourth son just given birth to Xianqi above, the royal family already has four emperors and three princesses, the eldest Li Zhen is seventeen years old, and the younger one month. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The reason why he came here "is not because he doesn't like to be busy", but because he has maintained this habit for nearly 20 years, and he will always unconsciously hide in his personal world after dinner.

The two walls are occupied by high bookshelves, and there are thousands of books of all kinds, although it is not as exaggerated as in the movie where the emperor has to take a ladder to find a book, but the number is quite a lot.

The only empty wall on the front is a large world map that has just been printed, and even Li Mo himself can't remember how many times this is the first time he has changed the map, from the first British-like world map to the current super-large world map specially made by the General Staff, this huge country that he has built up has been constantly changing in this frequent change of maps.

In addition to marking China's current territory, the map in front of me also indicated for the first time the location of the garrison, including the important Greater Kuwait region.

Seeing this area with blue notes, Li Mo was also very proud, except for the black gold under the desert, which accounts for 13% of the world's total reserves, because this is the first time that China has stationed troops outside the mainland, just like the United States in later generations, the world is full of military bases.

But it's not easy to get white people to like all this.

If it weren't for Britain and France being trapped in Europe, if it weren't for Germany's eagerness to prove itself, if it weren't for the fact that the United States acted too late and lost the first opportunity, none of the white European countries would have allowed China to station troops overseas.

This is the ideological estrangement, which is something that cannot be made up for at present, to paraphrase the words of "Japan" himself, "foreigners and ghosts!"

In his previous life, he still felt that this was the words scolded by the United States at that time, but today he finally understands that although he has received large orders from Britain and Germany one after another, compared with the United States at this moment, China is still far behind.

China has the advantage of low cost: "The United States has the advantage of convenient transportation, and the price of the two books is the same, which seems to compete with each other, but in fact, it is not easy for China to sell goods to Europe at this moment.

Whites have white rules of conduct, whether it is Britain, France, or Germany and Austria, "the first choice of procurement is still the United States"; in addition to oil and rubber, China exports mostly cotton spinning and daily necessities, and as for complete sets of machinery, weapons and ammunition with huge profits, there are basically very few.

Why?

It's very simple, "Everyone in later generations knew that the First World War had been fought for four years, and they also knew that it had spread to most of the world, but no one expected it at this time, so except for Britain, France and Germany, which were hoarding supplies, other countries were basically still watching" is more to strengthen military spending.

And this war has been a war for white Europeans in the minds of Europe from the very beginning, no matter how stupid the white people are, no matter how much strife there is, they don't want the yellow race to get involved, the Asian-European confrontation did not start from this era, the Mongols made Europe suffer enough, so at this moment none of them dare to put the so-called "yellow peril" and enter.

So now you just want to sell the materials, others will think that you have ulterior motives, but once the war breaks out, because of the existence of the maritime hegemon Britain, "the passage from Asia to Europe is all closed", at that time you can only sell to the Entente, otherwise it is a hostile act, and the relationship between the Entente and the United States Needless to say, so only the United States, a country on the other side of the Atlantic, can use the white man's skin to cross the left and right, but even then he still had to stop providing supplies to the Allies.

At this moment, "he has a thick data in his hand, which is a comparison between various economic indicators in the country and data from major countries last year.

In recent years, the growth rate of more than 10 percent has been continued "as of last year, the gross national product has reached 39 billion blue coins," or about 28 billion US dollars, of which agriculture accounts for 30 percent, and industry has risen from 10 percent to 40 percent 10 years ago, while resource exports have dropped by 10 percent. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Compared with the United States last year, it was $39 billion, the United Kingdom $11 billion, and Germany $10.5 billion.

But the second place in the world did not make Li Mo too excited, a few decades ago the Qing Dynasty was still the first in the world! What's more, from a per capita point of view, China is only 58 US dollars, while compared with the United States is 412 US dollars!

According to last year's statistics, the country has a total registered population of 4.8 billion, not counting the colonies, the whole of Europe and the United States combined are not as many as their own, leaving aside the loose colonial political structure, directly using the means of expansion and province rule, can concentrate on doing a lot of things, plus a large amount of government investment "after more than ten consecutive years of equity replacement, government guarantees through banks to provide small entrepreneurial loans, the establishment of technology support funds and other economic stimulus policies, not only created a large number of millionaires, but also a considerable number of middle classAfter the implementation of free education and public hospitals, many people began to have spare money in their hands, even if they were reluctant to buy cars, at least bicycles and sewing machines would add a few things.

So this speed is not, but too slow!

Historically, after the start of World War I, there will be an explosion period in the US economy, which will soar from nearly 40 billion to about 80 billion, which cannot be changed, even if there is its own competition, because many people have forgotten that China was able to establish an industry in this way, itself because it imported a large number of machinery from the United States, X, to help others pull the economy.

Even now, the United States has shown its advantage, and last year the total amount of exports and loans to Europe exceeded $10 billion, while China only had 3 billion, of which Germany's introduction B, Russia's, 100 million, and Britain and Ottomans, which they forcibly dug out by force, totaled 800 million, that is to say, only 1.7 billion goods were exported, most of which were low value-added and resource.

The first three industrial exports are still automobiles, complete sets of large alternators and electrical products, and shipbuilding has improved slightly, receiving orders for 200,000 tons of freighters, five of which are ordered by European shipowners, which is also a big breakthrough.

In addition to the economy, other figures made him a lot happier, first of all, steel production, the United States is still the world's leader, reaching 30 million tons, Germany 18 million tons, followed by the Great Northwest Iron and Steel Plant, China successfully surpassed the United Kingdom, and soared to 15 million tons in one fell swoop.

As for the dominant reserves of rare resources such as oil and copper, as well as the early development of aluminum, the pigeon is far ahead of the United States, and of course, the early start of electricity grass life has also made China's total power generation reach 15 times that of the United States!

This thick data statistics, is their own 20 years of hard work, including good places, "there are also bad places, exports have always been not very satisfied, but this is not because of the lack of production capacity and technology, but because of their own restrictions on the export of certain technologies, such as ship engines, "if you sell openly, at least 2 billion more exports per year."

In addition, the economic growth is not as good as expected, and one of the important reasons is that the private exploitation of resources is very tightly controlled, whether it is a private person or a state, and the discovery of mineral deposits in the interior, including anywhere in Siberia, needs to be filed with the Ministry of Land and Resources, and even the local government and parliament do not have any rights.

This ban was very strict, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, at least 5,000 miners who were unwilling to file a record and quietly mined for this matter were arrested, and 2,000 of them were sentenced to death and all their family property confiscated.

Even last year, there were still a few people who wanted to take risks were found out, although they dare not say that they were completely eliminated, "but the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the "Police" and other ministries cooperated, and strictly controlled the channels for important resources to flow into the market, "and the indiscriminate mining and excavation were reduced to a low point, but this also made the domestic resource exploitation industry has not been very prosperous."

Li Enfu and others also suggested whether to relax more, but Li Mo still insisted on his own approach and insisted on domestic protection, but in order to develop the private mining industry, he later adopted the liberalization of the ten provinces of Nanyang and parts of Siberia, and at the same time helped enterprises to go abroad, to North Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Australia and Canada to start a business.

Although the effect of this is slow, after all, the local complex of the Chinese people is very heavy, and Nanyang is willing to go because it already belongs to China, and there are dozens of ships coming and going with the mainland every day, but there are still relatively few foreign countries, so there are not many large enterprises that have broken out at present.

After putting down the annoying numbers, Li Mo picked up the information summary he had just sorted out and looked at it, and the information on it made him laugh involuntarily.

The Balkan war continues to begin, and its own greed and manipulation by great powers have made that place a real powder keg, if he was worried about whether there would be no World War I because of his appearance, but now it seems that as long as the Balkans are uneven, then Europe is a **bag.

This scene reminded him of the words of the late German Chancellor Bismarck, "The European powers will one day fight a big European war for a few Balkan fools." Yes, this sentence bears witness to Bismarck's far-sighted political vision, and if it were not for the traverser, he would not have been able to give him a ladder to the sky compared to the old man who died.

The chaos in the Balkans is the result of the intervention of the great powers, and this game ultimately makes them have to face a big threat.

In order to ensure the quality, Germany even did not hesitate to borrow the formula in exchange for the reason of the loan, "requiring production according to their standards", which also gave the Materials Department of the Academy of Sciences a great opportunity to further improve China's VH steel, making its hardness and toughness surpass Krupp technology, and also greatly saving time.

For Germany, it was also profitable, not only did the technology get money, but it was also possible to hand over the time-consuming armor to China for production, and they could go all out to build the next six Bavaria-class battleships.

But this news is undoubtedly bad news for Britain, because there are only five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships of the same caliber and class, so not long ago the British Parliament once again approved a plan to purchase eight battleships and six battlecruisers.

According to the intelligence, "in order to save time", Britain vetoed the possibility of designing battleships, "but chose to continue to build an improved version of the Queen Elizabeth class, that is, the famous King class (also called the Avenger class in China), and the battle cruiser only improved the fourth Lion-class Tiger" and then reclassified it as the Tiger class, which is basically similar in appearance and tonnage to the Lion class.

At the same time, the intelligence department also spied on Fisher that Fisher was currently working with several Armstrong designers to develop a type of warship, but because of the tight cover, "there is no way to know what it is for the time being."

In addition to the Anglo-German shipbuilding frenzy, "France, Italy and Austria-Hungary also accelerated the construction of battleships, and even Nicholas I had the ambition to build eight more super battleships on the basis of the current four Gangut-class and the next four Queen Maria-class."

The United States, which was provoked, did not show weakness, and after seeing the frenzy of shipbuilding in Europe and the launching of the first four Hebei-class ships one after another, it "was so anxious that it announced that it would build four more improved New York-class ships" and named them Nevada-class.

In addition to the battleships, "the United States has again begun construction of a second batch of eight Northampton-class heavy cruisers, and in a front-to-rear knapsack layout, four twin 356 mm/L45 naval guns currently used on the New York class are directly installed."

If the first batch of American heavy patrols was unexpected, then he is not in a hurry at the moment, because the first batch of sixteen F4 fighters is already in full test flights, "according to the report of Adel and the Institute of Aeronautical Studies, they can come up with the Air Force version within a year late, and complete the Navy version and the torpedo aircraft improved from it within a year and a half."

In this case, "it is no longer worth continuing to build battleships with the United States and Europe, so not long ago he sent a telegram to McKinson, asking him to start the design of the second batch of aircraft carriers."

The shipbuilding frenzy in Europe was much higher than in history, and according to current calculations, by 1915 "Britain would have 50 battleships and battlecruisers (including those rebuilt at that time), and it would certainly have left behind the Turkish and Brazilian BB Relic Seven Turrets, so it was equal to 52."

Germany is a little worse, mainly because the gap in the battle patrol is too big, so it only has 31 ships, and Uncle Sam is not weak, "It has 36 ships!"

Although it seems that Germany is weak, it is impossible for Britain to concentrate all its forces, and at present, it seems that six Nelson-class and two Invincible-class battle cruisers have been dragged in the Far East and dare not go back, and the construction of six additional battle cruisers this time must also be for the security of the Pacific Ocean, so the disadvantage will not be very great.

"Huh."

Seeing this" Li Mo laughed, this round of competition is really too tragic, whether it is an entente or an alliance, if there is no war. Then there is only one way left to go bankrupt.

Just as Li Mo was about to flip through the next few pages, a knock on the door sounded, "Then I saw Li Zhen actually standing at the door wearing a brand-new naval uniform, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, why do you still want to go out for activities?" "No, father. Li Zhen looked up at his military uniform and said, "I just passed by the outside of the study, and I heard that my father was laughing, so I wanted to come in to see you, my father." ”

"Look at me?" , Li Mo touched his forehead, "I secretly laughed in my heart, this little girl has been a lot more profitable since he mixed with the daughter of Long Guo, it seems that he wants to find an opportunity to talk to Xiaoxiao, and settle down for the two."

Li Mo smiled slightly, "After walking over and closing the door, he pointed to the chair opposite the desk" and said with a smile: "Okay, don't say anything nice" Now the two of us will say. ”

Looking at his father, Li Zhen thought about it and suddenly mustered up the courage to say: "Father, I have already applied for the Naval Academy, and I will report there after the New Year." ”

"What!" Li Mo jumped up and "looked at Da'er's straight military uniform in surprise" and finally knew why he was wearing this for the New Year, and he dared to be ready for a surprise attack!

"Does your mother know?"

"I just told her, but ......."

Looking at Da'er, who wanted to speak and stopped, Li Mo knew why he came to find him, it must be that Xiaoxiao was not prepared for his sudden attack, although he was also in favor of going to the army to exercise, but this way was not right, so he snorted with a frightened face: "Hmph, everyone is bold, isn't it?" For such a big thing, if you don't discuss it with your parents, are you when we don't exist?! ”

"The child doesn't dare, but he's afraid to tell you and his mother in advance." Li Zhen was so frightened that he lowered his head, "But after seeing the military uniform, he immediately lifted it up again, but he learned the stubborn appearance of the soldier who did not bow his head."

Looking at his immature face, but still putting on a posture of vowing not to bow his head, Li Mo was also secretly amused, but at this moment, as a father, he still scolded with a cold face: "How did you know that we would oppose it if you didn't say it?" The emperor has been in the army since ancient times, and besides, the navy is also a good place to train people, why should we oppose you?! ”

"Really! So, father, you agreed! Hearing this, before Li Mo could finish speaking, Li Zhen jumped up.

Mo hurriedly shouted to stop" stopped this little pride, and said solemnly: "Remember, if you don't take it as an example, you are not allowed to hide anything from us in the future!" "Yes, Father! After Li Zhen saluted a military salute, he suddenly thought of his mother, who was still worried, and suddenly the corners of his mouth fell again: "Father, that mother, that turtle." ”

"Alright, I'll go tell you." Li Mo waved his hand, and after driving Li Zhen away, he looked at the table full of documents and sighed, the children finally grew up and had their own thoughts, although this is a good thing, but it is really difficult for Xiaoxiao.

This girl has been with her for decades, and her temper and personality have long been very clear, although she is weak on the outside, but she is very assertive in her heart, this time Li Zhen's sudden attack, it must be very unhappy. Besides, there is no mother in this world who wants to see her son born and die, so this is really a big problem.

Thinking of this, Li Mo couldn't help but feel a little worried, the table full of documents could no longer be read, so he had to walk out of the study, and when he got outside, he found that the sky was already full of stars.

The year has come.