() Chapter 178: Gold and Investment

"Xiaoshan, if we rely on Germany alone for so many things, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet our needs!" Huang Sheng, who was sitting next to him, asked with a puzzled face. Although he doesn't know the specific industrial data in Germany, Huo Jiajun has too many infrastructure materials such as steel, coal, and cement, which is no longer something that a country can satisfy!

Actually, my plan is that the factories behind us will cooperate with heavy industries such as Krupp, Rheinmetall, and Volzon shipyards in Germany! The two sides will jointly set up factories, and we will be responsible for the funds and venues, and they will provide technical support and train enough workers for us! And most of the steel, coal, cement, and grain we need in front of us will be purchased from Britain!"

After listening to his words, Huang Sheng nodded slowly, under the premise that his internal output could not meet the development needs, Huo Shan's method may be the best way to solve the problem!

"Do we have so much money?" Except for the navy, Huo Feng was not too sensitive to economic matters! However, the huge figure at the end of the document, which had predicted that the financial expenditure had exceeded two billion silver dollars, still made him feel a little incredulous!

"I'll tell you about this!" As the prime minister, he is very familiar with his internal financial situation!" "So far, the silver in our hands has exceeded 1.2 billion taels, equivalent to 1.6 billion silver dollars, and 5,240 tons of gold! Of course, our current financial revenue is still growing rapidly, and the various seizures of the army within the Qing Dynasty when expanding the base areas are still being transported to Taiwan in a steady stream, so this scale of investment can be guaranteed in our first five-year plan!"

Huo Shan frowned, it was a bit unexpected for him to have so little gold! He clearly remembered that a detailed investigation by the United States in the United States about the gold harvest in Southeast Asia during World War II was carried out in the United States! Not to mention cultural relics and antiques, gems and jade, gold alone exceeded 60,000 tons! Now Huo Jiajun has occupied half of the Indochina Peninsula, all the islands in the South China Sea except Luzon, plus most of the Pacific islands! There have been more than a few hundred indigenous tribes that have robbed and killed, and in addition to the domestic gold harvest, there are actually less than 6,000 tons of gold so far! It is really too little! Even if there is a difference of several decades in time, and Huo Jiajun has not dug graves like Rì himself, and he has not even spared the gold teeth on the dead man! But in his mind, Huo Jiajun's gold reserves should at least exceed 10,000 tons!

However, Huo Shan also knew that now was not the time to talk about this!

"So, with our current financial situation, we can support the completion of this investment plan!" Huo Longshen, who was sitting on the side, asked with some joy.

After listening to his words, Huang Shengshen shook his head with some solemnity, "It's hard to say! From the formulation of the first five-year plan to the present, because our territory has been increasing continuously, it has already changed its draft three times! In addition to our large amount of money this time, as well as the various construction funds that have been invested nearly 500 million silver dollars in the past year or so! The total investment in our first five-year plan has increased from 900 million silver dollars at the beginning to 3 billion silver dollars now! The fiscal expenditure has been tripled, which is quite a lot! So, I don't know how fast our finances will grow, and you can keep up with the pace of our fiscal spending!"

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Huo Long and Huo Feng couldn't help but gasp, it turned out that unconsciously, Huo Jiajun was already so rich, and the speed of spending money was unprecedentedly fast!

However, compared with the three of them, Huo Shan seems to be a bit of an old god, and he understands very well that the thirteenth economic crisis in the capitalist world is about to come! At that time, the collapsed industries and the declining economies of various countries will completely reduce the price of heavy industrial equipment such as steel, machinery, shipbuilding, and mining! And now the three billion silver dollars that Huo Jiajun has invested and the industrial equipment and raw materials he has bought are enough to support the full development of Huo Jiajun's two five-year plans! Moreover, after four years of economic crisis, he could also recruit a large number of skilled technicians from Europe and the United States to come to the Far East to support the development of Huo Jiajun's various light and heavy industries! I believe that as long as the first five-year plan has passed, Huo Jiajun has become a powerful Far East with a complete range of industries and a primary industrial system established after six years of development!

Moreover, making money in the financial crisis, this kind of speculative activity is too dangerous, and he is not ready to let the Government Council participate too much!

"Don't worry, if the money in the Government Council is not enough, let's take out a loan from the Bank of China! I believe that after the end of our first five-year economic plan, our annual fiscal revenue will exceed 200 million silver dollars! Take your time, and we will always smooth out the fiscal deficit!" Huo Shan said to a few people with relief beside him.

Hearing his words, Huang Sheng nodded, although he didn't know how much gold and silver property the Bank of China under the control of the Huo family was now, but judging from the huge scale of the bank under the control of the Huo family, it was already spread throughout the entire military area and base area of the Huo family! I am afraid that there were at least three or four hundred million taels of silver dollars! Moreover, it was still developing outward! The first foreign branch bank was established last month in San Francisco, on the west coast of the United States! In addition, the operating income of large enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Huo family, such as Pacific Shipping and Mogang Shipbuilding, as well as the wealth accumulated by the Huo family in the past! Huo Shan's bold statement that he wants to support the five-year economic plan of the Government Council with his own strength is not unfounded!

"Young Master, Huo Xuan is here!" At this moment, after receiving the report from the doorman, Huo Lei walked behind Huo Shan and said softly.

Huo Shan looked stunned, and then said, "Let him come in!"

"Young Master, Prime Minister, Hey, you two guys are also there?" Huo Xuan, who had just walked in, looked at the three people sitting in the young master's study and couldn't help but smile and said.

"Hehe, we are looking for the young master to report the battle situation!" The eighteen iron guards of the Huo family grew up together since they were children, and they have a good relationship with each other! What made Huo Shan happiest when he first arrived was that his group of most loyal subordinates did not become estranged from each other because of the change of status!

Looking at the large volume of newspaper in his right hand, Huo Shan couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "It's already been made?"

"Yes, young master! We have printed the first edition of "**" according to your instructions, with a total of eight sheets and 16 pages, including information on politics, economy, military, culture, science and education, and so on! Now I show you the first copy that has been printed, and if you think there is no problem, the Information Department of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will start printing it in large quantities and publish it in our territory throughout the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean!"

After taking the first newspaper inside Huo Jiajun, Huo Shan smelled the faint smell of ink and put it on the coffee table in front of him! At this time, the three curious people also gathered around!

The content of the newspaper is very clear, and the font is also the simplified Chinese characters that Huo Shan is familiar with, plus the use of punctuation marks, and the order of writing from left to right! Except for the difference between Yan sè and paper, it is already very similar to the newspapers of later generations!

Under the influence of Huo Shan, the entire Huo Jiajun is now popular in simplified Chinese and vernacular! Therefore, Huang Sheng and Huo Long are not difficult to see!

Looking at the seriously damaged battleship on the illustration at the beginning! Although the camera in this era was limited to the xìng ability, the photo was not too clear, but Huo Shan still recognized that this was the flagship of the Dutch escort fleet, the 'Seven Provinces Alliance' ironclad battleship with a displacement of more than 6,000 tons! Look at the large headline on it! Huo Shan couldn't help but smile and said: "It seems that the comrades of your Information Agency are very smart, and this first issue of ** will definitely be a big hit!"

"Hehe, what the young master said is true! But this is also the light of the army!"

After Huo Shan finished reading the first article about the great naval victory of the Huo Jiajun in the naval battles with the Netherlands and Portugal, he flipped through the newspapers behind him! He picked a few articles and read them! The contents were very detailed, and the writing was also good.

"How many are you going to trigger in the first batch?" After reading it for a while, and handing the newspaper to the teacher Huang Sheng, Huo Shan raised his head and asked!

"We're going to print a million copies in the first batch! If the results are good, we're going to print more!"

Hearing his words, Huo Shan nodded, the current means of communication are backward, and the Huo Jiajun Nanyang is basically poor peasants who have just immigrated! Basically, they are all illiterate, and they will not buy newspapers that they can't read if they don't have much money in their pockets! Therefore, one million is quite a lot for the current population base in Huojiajun! After all, the 'New York Times' in the United States in this era is only a few hundred thousand copies sold!

Thinking of this, Huo Shan couldn't help frowning slightly, no matter when, universal education is a prerequisite for the development and growth of a nation!