Chapter 457: The Fourth Pillar of Hegemony: Infinite Energy

A unified global order has been smoothly established. Although there are many unfair and unreasonable phenomena inside, it seems to be very terrible and bad for the majority of the bottom population, plundering a lot of possibilities that belong to them.

But even this kind of bad order is much, much better than the original state of no order and chaos.

On the one hand, the frequency of wars has been greatly reduced, since they are all under the management of the same set of order, so many internal contradictions, just find Xujiazhuang for arbitration and mediation, Xujiazhuang can generally be objective and fair, resolve a large number of contradictions, thus avoiding countless wars, avoiding unimaginable destruction and destruction.

This benefit alone deserves great appreciation and heartfelt support. On the other hand, everyone's life has generally become better, which means that the cake is bigger and everyone can get a little more.

For example, in the Indian subcontinent, after being conquered by the expeditionary army, the land, property, houses, women, and most of the resources were divided among the soldiers of the expeditionary force, which made the local natives feel quite dissatisfied, so that the remnants of the nobles secretly continued to resist, but the good seeds brought by the expeditionary force were sown into the fields, and the fertilizers brought were sprinkled in the fields, and after more than three months, the rice was harvested, with an average yield of more than 600 catties per mu, and the yield more than tripled. Compared with before, it has increased by two percent, and the two aspects are combined, and the people at the bottom have received more than five times more than five times the amount of food they have received, and they can eat with their bellies open

The "old men" are full of gratitude, feeling that they are the real benevolent and benevolent brahmins, and the previous ones are all devils, and they must find a way to reincarnate in the bodies of these good brahmins.

There is also Europe, in fact, the thoughts of the local people are very stubborn, extremely dependent on religion, and their heads have long lost their normal thinking ability in thousands of years of brainwashing, and they are basically in a state of no help, so the underground tandem activities in Europe are very active, and they are plotting how to rebel everywhere, but the time has not yet come, and those foreign conquerors are still too strong, so they can only temporarily hibernate and pretend to be submissive and obedient.

It's just that the super long period of peace that lasts for more than half a year makes the local people in Europe feel wonderful and magical, and the days without war and destruction seem to be very good, if such a peaceful order can continue forever, they don't necessarily need the protection of the Holy See, and they can survive alone.

After the wheat in the field is ripe, the average yield per mu is 650 catties, which is four or five times the original yield, and the bread in the food basket has become extremely sufficient.

After the war disappeared, after a large increase in food, the economy also became active, roads, bridges, infrastructure construction projects, vigorously carried out, recruited a large number of workers to work, the unemployment rate began to drop significantly, it seems that everyone has a job, everyone lives quite full, very rewarding.

So when the remnants of the aristocracy, the remnants of religion, and the unemployed ruffians continued to gather together and incite the common people to riot, these people said some words that were difficult for them to accept: "I don't think there is anything wrong with the present life, at least the white bread can be eaten every day, and you can eat with an open stomach, if it was before, it would never be full." ”

"The war is gone, and the robbers have been cleaned up by the expeditionary legion, and now you can go outside for a walk at night, and the probability of encountering thieves in the field is not high, so it seems that such a safe day is not bad."

"I now have a stable job, and the salary I earn is enough for me to eat meat every day, and I can buy some wine, in the past, not to mention wine and meat, I tried my best not to be hungry, and even had to be a mercenary, licking blood at the knife's edge, I now earn more than mercenaries, not to mention, I don't have to bear any danger."

"I was shaken, those conquerors from the east, maybe not the devil, the devil could not destroy war and hunger, they may be angels from heaven, I suddenly felt that they should be good people, they bring good hope."

"That's right, I'm going to quit this riot, I don't want to go back to my old life."

"I don't want to go back to the bad past, compared to the present, the past is not beautiful at all, only endless suffering, only your life is good, so I will be unwilling to resist."

"Yes, we won't be deceived anymore, let's get out of here and go back to your sewers." These low-level people have given up their plans to riot one by one, feeling that going back to the past may not necessarily have a better life now.

And the remnants of the aristocracy, the remnants of religion and all kinds of scumbags are so angry that they want to kill these disobedient mud legs, but they don't have the guts, after all, the number of mud legs is too many more than them, and if they lose the hearts of these mud legs, they will be completely finished, and there is no hope in sight.

But in fact, under the report of some people, they were still surrounded by the expeditionary force and the innocent army militia that quickly tracked them down, and after finding their traces, they came to surround them, and finally in the thumping gunshots, their lives and their stubborn confrontational thoughts all disappeared at the physical level, and they could no longer set off any storms, became dust in history, and could not be remembered, but only spurned and despised.

Therefore, this set of global order has indeed brought very good changes, and has greatly stimulated the development of the economy, stimulated the demand of all aspects, and an unimaginable era of prosperity is coming.

It's just that if Xujiazhuang wants to maintain this set of order, it is not without any payment and price. The biggest cost is the skyrocketing increase in fiscal expenditures, with construction activities around the world consuming tens of billions of silver dollars of resources every year, and maintenance costs of more than 5 billion silver dollars, adding up to 15 billion.

Such a huge consumption, even if Xujiazhuang controls the money printing machine and countless resources, it is also a bit difficult and unbearable, and has to increase the deficit of the finances, that is, to start the money printing machine to print more money, dilute everyone's wealth, resulting in a significant rise in prices, more than 5%, many low-income people, life suddenly became difficult, had to complain, although most people do not know where the root of the problem is, but Xujiazhuang's currency release problem, sooner or later will be discovered by smart people, and then impression of the credibility of paper money, In fact, this is more than worth the loss, only to control inflation within 2%, let the price rise moderately, is it moisturizing things silently, and even have an economic promotion effect, inflation of 5%, which is really a bit high.

What to do? In such a situation, does the global construction activity need to be stopped, or slowed down a little, so that prices can return to stability?

This is obviously not possible, because the global order of Xujiazhuang has just been established, and it is the most unstable and the most active time for the rebels, if you reduce the spending, it will lead to the weakening of control, and even the loss of control over some areas, and then in order to strengthen control, you have to increase investment, repeatedly, which is actually the worst.

As long as the global order is stabilized, the people's hearts are subordinated, and the cost of governance will be significantly reduced, the fiscal deficit will also be reduced, and inflation will slowly become healthy, which is the most correct arrangement.

Therefore, grit your teeth and insist on three to five years, a huge foreign expenditure of 15 billion silver dollars per year, which lasts for three to five years, and then the sea and the sky, a new world, and a greater prosperity, and it is completely worth paying a little price.

However, in June of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, the arrival of good news made Xu Yuan fall into ecstasy and see the possibility of a more perfect global order.

Controlled nuclear fusion. The scientific research team brought from the modern society, after more than two years of busyness, finally built the first commercial controllable nuclear fusion reactor in Xujiazhuang, the first two days of formal grid-connected power generation, lasting six hours, the output of a maximum of 60,000 megawatts of power generation, enough for 60 million people in Daming to use the average electricity for a year, as long as there are five to six such fusion reactors, the entire Daming will not lack electricity, if there is a twenty or thirty, the world's power demand, can be satisfied.

And the cost of power generation is very low, including the construction cost of the transmission network, as well as the cost of manpower, etc., the cost of each kilowatt-hour of electricity will not exceed 0.5 cents/kWh - the purchasing power is about equal to two cents.

0.5 Wen/kWh, this cost is simply exaggerated low. At present, the average electricity cost of Xujiazhuang's power system is 1.5 per kilowatt-hour, and this price is still an unprofitable cost price, indicating that in the development process of Xujiazhuang, the cost of electricity is too high, which has always been a very prominent problem.

If the cost is higher, because the economic development of Xujiazhuang in recent years is too fast, the annual demand for electricity growth has exceeded 30%, but the actual increase in blessing is only 15%, the backwardness of power construction speed, obviously slowing down the pace of economic development, the cost of power generation is too high, but also leads to the price of Xujiazhuang, it is difficult to further decline, resulting in the attractiveness of the wage level, there has also been a decline, so that some low-end backward industries, transferred to some places with abundant hydropower resources, It may lead to the decline of Xujiazhuang's industrial strength, and then shake the hegemony of science and technology, you must know that the loss of scientific and technological leadership often starts from the loss of low-end industries, and must not be underestimated.

At this time, the commercial operation of controlled nuclear fusion was successful. The era of low electricity prices has arrived. This is simply great news, which is very helpful to consolidate Xujiazhuang's technological hegemony, military hegemony and financial hegemony.

Why? Because after the continuous generation of cheap electricity, the development of Xujiazhuang industrial industry, you can use cheap electricity to greatly reduce the cost of production, so that the competitiveness of the industry is greatly enhanced, there will be no more low-end industrial loss, and the perfect industrial system is firmly controlled, from high-end to low-end, whether it is high profit or low profit all eat, not only can keep a large number of jobs, but also greatly enhance the internal stability, which is the significance of scientific and technological hegemony.

In terms of military affairs, because it has mastered the most advanced and complete industrial system, Xujiazhuang can use the power of industry to project the military tentacles to every corner of the world, and can quickly solve any crisis, and even build 20 large aircraft carriers at a relatively low price. It will bring about a reduction in the cost of military hegemony.

Finally, in terms of financial hegemony, the banknotes issued by Tianxia Tong Bank are now experiencing a high inflation of 5%, and the wealth of the people has been diluted a lot, becoming a victim of financial hegemony. As long as the price of electricity is always anchored at 0.5 Wen/kWh, and then continuously and sufficiently provide this cheap electricity, then the banknotes of the Tianxia Tong Bank, no matter how much they are issued, will not lead to too serious inflation.

Because energy is the foundation of people's production and life, as long as the price of energy does not rise, the price of other commodities will rise tenfold and hundredfold, and it will soon come down, energy will drive the rapid increase of productivity, thereby playing a role in stabilizing inflation and making financial hegemony more problematic.

Above. The benefits of controlled nuclear fusion commercialization are simply too numerous to mention.

"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful."

"The original scientific and technological hegemony, military hegemony, and financial hegemony, these three pillars can play a role in stabilizing the global order of Xujiazhuang, but after a few years, once something goes wrong, there is a problem with the three pillars of hegemony, even if only one collapses, it will lead to a chain reaction, and then lose all hegemony and become nothing, just like a three-legged stool, if one is broken, you can't sit on."

"Well, the cheap energy brought by controllable nuclear fusion is like the fourth leg of the hegemonic chair, which can not only play a strong supporting role, but also increase the stability of the chair, so that when there is a problem with a certain pillar, the remaining three legs can still maintain the hegemony, which is equivalent to adding a redundant guarantee and greatly extending the vitality of the hegemon."

"Controllable nuclear fusion, perhaps it can be called the 'fourth hegemon', that is, energy hegemony, the importance of this hegemony, not weaker than any hegemony, must also be firmly controlled in the hands of Xujiazhuang, as long as these four hegemony in hand, this world, no force has the ability to challenge Xujiazhuang, the life of the hegemony, can definitely easily exceed three hundred years, five hundred years, will be more than the old ugly who has been strong for a while in modern society, and it will be much more bullish." Xu Yuan said excitedly.