Chapter 1376: America's Response
The huge harvest makes the United States very satisfied, which is a windfall for the United States since it entered the war, and it is a foreign wealth that has been less than the United States has been paid, and billions of dollars are not much compared to the total amount of the entire American market, but this additional fund has greatly buffered the deficit of the US government.
The operation method of the business society in the United States is often promoted by the government, so that some large-scale enterprises make profits, and large groups gain benefits, but for the government, sometimes it pays the policy, but more often it pays the deficit, and this deficit will grow or decrease according to the amount of money the government spends, but it is not infinite.
The United States participated in the European war to pick up the bargain and establish its influence, but it somewhat ignored the pressure brought about by the war, and the government's deficit was not infinitely larger, and on the premise that the major blocs had obtained huge benefits, the deficit of the US government was already so large that it could not be attached.
In the end, with the support of the major groups, they chose to find another way, because if they didn't find another way, they would have to take out their own earnings to make up for the government figures, which they absolutely did not want, and the promotion of the war was to make money, and the funds that had already arrived had to be taken out, which was absolutely not allowed.
If anyone knows, for this reason, the powerful China was drawn into the war, and even caused the collapse of the United States, I am afraid that he will be called a fool, but unfortunately, China is too well hidden, the whole world, only Germany knows a little, but not all, almost half-pushed, China joined the war, so that the First World War really became a world war, not a European war that was only fought in Europe.
Even now, when China joined the war group, it did not appear on the scene to fight, and even on the issue of Chinese Americans, it was only under the condition that it groveled to the United States and paid a huge price to obtain Chinese Americans in the United States.
The United States, which has obtained most of the British naval information, is very aware of the power of the Minotaur-class cruise, and before obtaining the British information, even if it is a Minotaur that has been eliminated, in the eyes of the Americans, it is also very difficult to deal with, and the United States has several previous dreadnoughts that may not lose to them, and it is not so smooth to win, and the seaworthiness and adaptability of the other party are more powerful than the American warships.
But now that these two ships have been sunk, in this sense, except for the new ships that are being built, the other battleships are probably not insured, and the British are worried, and the Americans are worried, and even the United States is more worried than the British.
The material supply of the entire Entente was provided by the United States, although the Lend-Lease Act was used, but some of it was purchased with real money, even if it was the Lend-Lease Act, it was also real money, but the repayment time was delayed a little, which was an extremely large-scale interest for the United States, and it was impossible to let go of this.
As the two largest manufacturing countries, Britain and the United States both have strong merchant ship production capacity, but under the premise that Germany is raging in Europe and airships occupy an absolute advantage, the British shipbuilding industry has been reduced by more than 3 percent, and even most of the shipyards have to undertake the repair task of warships, and the rest is not enough to recover, so 1.5 million tons of merchant ships, or even higher tonnage merchant ships, most of which are borne by the United States.
The United States has lived a very nourishing time during this time, where did China get the first batch of funds of 5 billion US dollars, and part of this money rushed into the previous war expenses, used to repay the consumption of the war, and promote military production, these are established, the United States has not been in the war for a long time, and under the situation of huge losses, 1.5 billion US dollars is enough to make up for a large part, after all, the deficit is generated, not all the consumption is included in it, the government is responsible, only a small part, and various fixed incomes and the like, These are enough to make the major American consortia 10 times, or even 20 times the profits.
In addition to the welfare of the merchant group, the other part of the capital, in and into the investment of fixed assets, the United States is a merchant society, profitable, of course, will be invested will greatly increase the United States war heritage, the United States has a huge territory, rich resources, after the completion of industrialization, easily surpassed Germany, became the world's highest industrial country, and with a large increase in the growth of continuous growth.
Now, when billions of dollars of additional funds are of great help to the United States, the United States fully uses this money, and can even drive 5 times, or even 10 times the capital, thinking that the stage of liberal capitalism, free development, some loopholes and weak industrial system, under the support of huge funds, gradually change, which is very obvious for the industrial strength of the United States, although this change continues, but Americans are a commercial society, they will not refuse to get the wealth.
Because of the huge gap, coupled with the growing demand, the price of merchant ships rose in response to the losses announced by the United States and the United Kingdom at the same time, and soon crossed the 3 million mark and approached the 4 million mark.
When the price of 10,000-ton merchant ships reached about 4 million, nothing could stop American businessmen from investing in ships, coupled with the guidance of the government and the investment of the businessmen themselves, at the end of 1915, at least 150 docks of more than 10,000 tons were built in major port cities in the United States, with the support of enough funds. The Americans even adopted a 24-hour shift situation, and the original dock, also began targeted research, reduce the construction time of a merchant ship in the dock, with a similar assembly line method to build, although not to reach the extent of China's sectional construction method, but under the premise of a large number of use of various high-tech technologies, the production efficiency of the Americans has also been greatly improved, the production efficiency of merchant ships has increased by more than 2 times, and 3 months later, most of the docks have been put into use, the production capacity of this merchant ship, It will reach more than 4 times the previous one, and completely solve the capacity of merchant ship production.
The explosion of production capacity by the Americans frightened the British, but at this moment, the Americans are their allies, and the strength of the Americans also represents the strength of the Entente, and they don't care about what will become of the Americans, they can only think about the current problems.
Under the premise of opening up the way for money, the production enthusiasm of American businessmen is expanding, and shipbuilding has become the most worthy development direction in the United States at present, not only the major shipyards have increased their investment and obtained investment, but the stock price of ships has also increased significantly, and a lot of the share of the entire manufacturing industry has begun to tilt towards the shipbuilding industry.
This inclination is very obvious, and very fast, the shipbuilding industry itself is a technology and capital advantage industry, for steelmaking production also has a huge role in promoting, the United States itself huge industry, is surplus, is shrinking, take steel production as an example, from the 20th century, after a certain growth, is gradually declining, the elimination of old production capacity is only one aspect, storage and reduction of new input is the key, this is the United States did not choose the establishment of a billionaire steelmaking plant, It is the fundamental reason for the experimentation and popularization of Yang Yuanzhao's technology in China.
Now, the war has begun, and the demand for steel in the military field is endless, but in order to let the steel manufacturing enterprises completely let go, the need is still the shipbuilding industry, a 10,000-ton merchant ship needs thousands of tons, tens of millions of tons, plus huge battleships and warships, this is the greatest promotion of steelmaking.
Many consortia in the United States are related to emerging fields such as petroleum and petrochemicals, but the Great Lakes region, which was once the foundation of the United States, is the heavy industrial region of the Great Lakes region, which has a huge influence on the political situation in the United States, and the expansion of these shipbuilding industries has also been promoted from the top down.
China's intelligence network in the United States, because the Americans have targeted ethnic Chinese, has already destroyed China's intelligence network in the United States, but Germany's network in the United States is still operating, and most of the information in the United States is relayed from the German side.
Germany did not care about the United States' efforts to expand the tonnage of merchant ships and build a large number of docks of 10,000 tons, or even more than 10,000 tons; in their view, the United States put its hard-won resources on merchant ships, which was a representative of merchants, and it was extremely unfavorable, but China did not see it that way.
The production capacity of merchant ships, you can see it as making money, but at a critical moment, merchant ships can not become the foundation of the navy, as far as the docks built by the United States are concerned, a considerable part of them are 20,000 tons, or even 30,000 tons.
A shipyard is a shipyard, first of all, there must be, the dock of a merchant ship is not impossible to be converted into a military dock, and even the difficulty of it is not as great as imagined, such an increase in shipbuilding volume, from a certain degree of the upper limit, is not the United States' shipbuilding heritage, once it operates for a certain period of time, the United States will certainly have a considerable increase in shipbuilding capacity. (To be continued.) )