ps: Yesterday there was something at home, sorry.

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The submarine force did this vote in the Atlantic, and it really made a profit.

It must be said that the British kept their gold very well, all the gold bricks were packed in strong iron boxes, and the cargo holds of the two cruisers were also specially reinforced and very secure, even if they were torpedoed, they did not reach the cargo hold. The 1,400 tons of gold were fished out of the wreck by the miners. It is a little regrettable that there is some loss of those silver bricks, and the British did not keep the silver so carefully, and they were all placed directly in the hold, and about 21 tons of silver bricks were crushed under a large amount of rubble, which was really difficult to salvage and had to be abandoned.

In this vote, China caught 1,400 tons of gold and 2,778 tons of silver. According to China's system of distributing the spoils of war, Wen Deji deducted the operating expenses from the windfall and transferred the remaining one-fifth to the navy as special funds. At this time, the current price of gold was around 61 per tonne. $60,000, and the current price of silver was about $1 per tonne. 70,000 US dollars, the total value of this batch of gold and silver is 9. $100 million, or about 18. 200 million Chinese dollars, deducting the cost of action expenses and other expenses, a net profit of 1.8 billion.

And the account can't be calculated like this, this is real money, and it can maintain its value, but it is not a thing that can depreciate at any time like banknotes. According to the reserve system of the issuing currency, this gold and silver can become a guarantee for the issuance of at least 9 billion Chinese dollars, which is the most important thing for a country.

The Navy was divided into 3 this time. The special fund of 600 million yuan has suddenly become the broadest among the three armed forces. 3 of this time. 600 million yuan is terrible, for example, the Navy's main battleship Fuxi-class, each cost 24 million Chinese dollars (the first two were built in the United States, and the main guns were also made in Austria-Hungary, so they were more expensive, and the unit price was 28 million Chinese dollars, and the Suleiman Magnificent, which was later built for Ottoman, was 30 million Chinese dollars). The latest type of super-dreadnought-Sun Wu-class battleship currently under construction is costing 31 million Chinese yuan. In other words, this special fund can make 11. 6 Sunwu-class or 15 Fuxi-class.

made Wang Tiehammer and other navy bigwigs laugh badly. This kind of business is so lucrative that it makes both Wen Desi and the top brass of the Science and Technology Socialist Party a little uneasy.

"It's a big groove, it's still the fastest way to grab money this year! One vote is 1.8 billion, how much business do we have to do to earn this number?",

"No wonder imperialists like to be robbers, damn it, it's too easy to get money. We can't be left behind!"

"The **** Brit has been a pirate for hundreds of years and has robbed many good things. We are also robbing the rich to help the poor, well, it is robbing the rich of opium cattle, helping the poor of our China!"

Comrade Wang Tiezhu, commander-in-chief of the Navy, was even more excited and slapped the table and shouted: "Make another vote! Let's do it again! Grandma's ......."

At this meeting on the distribution of spoils, ahem, I mean special funds, the top brass of the CSD was exposed in a completely ugly and undignified manner, and turned a rising imperialist ...... Well, the socialist countries, the envy, jealousy and hatred from the depths of their souls for the old imperialist countries are vividly expressed. If people who don't know see it, they think that a group of bandit leaders are having a meeting.

"Uh, Xiaohong, don't record these conversations just now......" Wen Desi finally retained some sanity and whispered to Gu Xiaohong, who was taking minutes of the meeting.

"Okay......" Gu Xiaohong couldn't help but laugh and crossed out the record just now.

The final decision of the meeting was to continue to loot, uh, raid, attack the British fleet. The Chinese Navy has sent all 14 of its 14 Seaseal-class ocean-going attack submarines to the Atlantic Ocean on standby, while ramping up the construction of more SEAL-class, as well as an upgraded and enlarged version of the newly designed Sea Lion-class. Of course, the target of their attack will certainly not be limited to gold ships, and if they are successful, the capital ships of the Entente and all kinds of large ships will not be spared.

According to Wang Tiehammer, this is to help the Germans relieve some pressure, Niu Niu's navy is still too strong, and it is a good thing to weaken it a little more.

However, the subsequent attack was not so easy, and the British learned to be obedient after receiving this slap. Later, when they carried gold, they no longer concentrated the gold, but scattered it on multiple ships, and sent more escort ships at the same time. Later, they even transported it by submarine.

In this way, it will not be so easy to get hold of it the first time, but even then, the Entente has suffered a lot. According to post-mortem statistics, during the entire First World War, the Allies transported a total of 3,736 tons of gold and more than 62,800 tons of silver to the Americas. Among them, 2,822 tons of gold and 53,450 tons of silver were intercepted by Chinese submarines. The number of merchant ships sunk amounted to 670,000 tons, and more than 50 warships of various types were sunk.

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London, May 11, Republic 2756 (1915).

Beginning in August 1914, Germany had been carrying out strategic bombing and submarine blockade against Britain, which at first had no effect, but after several months of such bombardment, the British began to suffer.

In particular, the effect of strategic bombing was even more astonishing, and after Germany received the intelligence support of a mysterious organization called the "Decepticons", many factories, warehouses, military schools, barracks and other strategic targets in Britain were presented to the Luftwaffe. Countless factories, ports, warehouses and other important places were destroyed, countless materials were burned to ashes by napalm, and the casualties of personnel far exceeded the original time and space.

The British are not stupid either, and if they are bombed, of course they will be blown back. It's just that their equipment is inferior to Germany, and it is difficult for them to break through the Luftwaffe's interception, whether it is an airship or an airplane. Even if a few lucky planes, breaking through the German air defense network, they will still face the blow of ground anti-aircraft fire. Since the Germans have played strategic bombing, they will naturally guard against being manipulated in the same way, and their current anti-aircraft guns are already in the 90 mm and 105 mm classes.

Another very important point is that through the military exchanges between Guò and China, Erdezi learned very advanced camouflage techniques. They hide important targets under heavy camouflage and build a lot of fake targets. Under these measures, the effectiveness of the Allied air strikes was negligible.

As of May 1, more than 1.3 million tons of Allied merchant ships have been sunk, more than 400 ships, countless supplies and wealth, and even thousands of seafarers have accompanied these merchant ships to the bottom of the sea.

After being by Erdezi for more than half a year, the British really can't stand it. Everyone knows that Britain is an island country, and most of the materials are imported from outside, especially the world's first empire, Niu Niu, and most of the raw materials for production are supplied by the colonies. To put it mildly, Britain is now unable to provide itself with food, not because there is not enough arable land, but because most of the land is used to grow higher-value cash crops.

Compared with the present predicament of Britain, Russia and France are much better. Mao Xiong's family has a lot of land, and with the strength of Erdezi, he can't block it at all, and there is no way to block it. The territory of the rooster's house is also big enough, and there are so many neutral neighbors around it, and it can't be blocked. And Germany now understands that since it is impossible to solve the rooster in a short time, then drag down the cattle and cattle, as long as these two families collapse at will, the battle will be won.

This year, only a small part of the supplies from outside can come in due to the blockade of submarines, and a lot of supplies from the country have been destroyed by bombing. The original strategic reserves have bottomed out due to the depletion of the war, and the supply of materials can no longer be guaranteed in the market. Therefore, since April, Britain has begun to fully implement the material rationing system, and all daily necessities such as grain, cloth, and medicine are supplied by bills.

To be honest, although this method makes life less convenient, it is the most suitable policy for the current UK. It is said that this solution was conceived by the Earl of Glasgow, His Excellency Desmond, who has become famous in recent years.

For the middle and lower classes of Britain, this is a very depressing policy. The little stuff that the government allotted could only ensure that they were fed and clothed, and that they would not die of hunger or cold. It may not be a big problem to change countries like this, but Britain in this era is the overlord of the earth, and the vast majority of British people are used to living a good life of robbing the world to support themselves, and they can't stand it if they go back overnight to live that kind of undead life.

"Well, I've only heard about canned meat twice a week, I'm fed up!" Baker said as he ate the luncheon meat sandwich in front of him.

Baker was a small business owner, a veritable bourgeoisie, and had a good life before the war. But since the implementation of the rationing system, this day has been a night back to a hundred years ago. According to the regulations, the weekly meat supply for the family of five is only two canned meat or 200 grams of cured meat, and one canned fish or 100 grams of salted fish. For Baker, a meat worm, this kind of life is really sad. It's not that he has no money, but now he has money and nowhere to spend it, and all the food on the market has been charged, and there is nowhere to sell it.

Of course, there are privileged classes in any country, and the rationing system is equivalent to no existence for them, but the Baker family is obviously not a privileged class, so they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

In order to ensure that he has meat to eat every day, his wife can only control the amount of meat, and the amount of meat at each meal is only a little bit. For example, the sandwich he eats now only has a thin slice of almost transparent meat in it, and it is rare for his wife's knife work to be so good.

"Lisa, I've had enough of these days! This damn war! The politicians in Downing Street deserve hell! The Germans didn't mess with us in England, so why should they participate? Oh, this damn black bread is harder than Tom's stool, I haven't eaten it in more than ten years......" Baker complained as he ate his breakfast.

At this time, her wife suddenly thought of something, and said, "My dear, my neighbor's Mrs. Fantelei said that there is a black market nearby where you can buy enough food and all kinds of supplies, but the price is relatively expensive......"

"Is it true? Uh, it should be true, damn it, I saw Vantele carrying a ham yesterday, it turned out to be bought on the black market......" Baker suddenly became excited: "Lisa, you go to the black market in the afternoon, buy good things back, I'm really fed up with this ration......ing!

"Okay, dear. It just so happened that the kids were clamoring for pies, so I went to buy some flour and eggs......"

Baker rolled his eyes and said, "Well, bring more money, buy more, I'm worried that the price will go up." Anyway, now we have a freezer imported from China at home, and it will be no problem to put it for a few months. Oh, why don't I go with me, I want to see what's in the black market......" He now wants to see if there's any business opportunity in the black market.

However, when he went to the black market, he realized that things were not so simple.