Chapter 816: Prisoner of War Export
At this time, the German military was full of talents, and they followed Moltke's train of thought, and thought of a lot of things with a big brain, and more and more methods and possibilities were thought of, and some radicals even felt that they could make a huge amount of money by emptying the personnel of the French occupation zone, leaving only the necessary personnel and Germans, and letting tens of millions of French people go to work.
Looking more and more off topic, Wilhelm II was a little helpless, he really sent the French in the occupied area out, the French border is empty, it will not affect them, but there must be such a large capacity, plus some uncertainty, vetoed this resolution, but also agreed to the plan of large-scale dispatch of workers, as long as the northwest can eat, it can be sent over in batches.
Originally, it was just to solve the problem of manpower shortage in some mines and dangerous industries in China, but after a circle with Wilhelm II, it became a problem of large-scale expatriate labor, and even Germany could send special personnel to manage labor and reduce the pressure on the northwest side, but this number is very huge, the more the merrier, millions can be, tens of millions can also be.
Tens of millions of people migration, I am afraid that only the colonial era, the era of black slave trafficking can be compared, such a big stroke, so that Yang Yuanzhao was shocked at the same time, but also began to consider the question of whether the northwest can be accommodated, the more people the better, the northwest with the help of Yang Yuanzhao, has the world's largest heavy industry, the population of industrial workers is also the world's best, whether so many people are really needed, this is a question.
Since the establishment of the government in the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao has been more in control of the overall situation, and rarely does some minor work. These are all in charge of Liu Shu and others, and Yang Yuanzhao asked Liu Shu to count the dangerous labor gap. Now another sum has been added, fortunately, it was established from the northwest. When the statistics of the entire industry came out, Yang Yuanzhao found that although the northwest has developed to today's process, it can be said that it has achieved brilliant results, and the gap in specific and more professional fields is very large. Even to the point where it has to be added.
No matter how strong the northwest is, with the help of Yang Yuanzhao's anti-sky traverser vision and the role of the all-in-one machine, a huge industry has been established in a short period of time, focusing on the increase in the overall number of heavy industry and industry, especially the in-depth development of military science and technology, the northwest has ignored many less important places and embarked on a road similar to that of the Soviet Union in later generations. Those subtle places may not have many problems in a short period of time, but they are precisely the most important places to develop a country's overall strength, and Yang Yuanzhao brings vision and foresight from later generations. There will always be an end of time, and once a fault appears, it will be made up with more energy in the future, and maybe it will be more troublesome in the future.
This. Yang Yuanzhao didn't know that the seal of the Soviet Union was ahead, but in order to seize the key opportunity. In order to make the time of crossing no longer waste, he can only choose this way. The bet is on the speed at which he develops, faster than the time wasted. As long as it jumps to the first place in the world before the United States, and after suppressing the United States, it will slowly adjust.
But now, it seems that there is an opportunity to adjust in advance, Liu Shu's statistics, coupled with Yang Yuanzhao's enlightenment, this is a good opportunity to make up for this, military science and technology, the northwest has been strong to the extreme, no need to supplement, but civilian, ordinary science and technology, and even some trivial things in production and life, is the lack of the northwest, just through guò this time, to make up and improve, maybe can make China's future development better.
Whether this is a major event related to China's future, or a major event that no one has ever understood and decided, Yang Yuanzhao has no way to make his own decision, so he has to extrapolate and summarize it according to some vague cognitions of later generations. In just 7 days, for the lack of important areas in the northwest, a large-scale survey and statistics were carried out, and more than 300 disciplines, thousands of categories and tens of thousands of branches of positions were counted, and these special positions were as few as seven or eight people, as many as dozens of people, a total of 1.5 million jobs, because it was to make up for and promote the northwest, this part of the northwest also generously gave more than 50% of the average salary in Europe.
According to the previous plan for Germany, ordinary prisoners of war, that is, those sent to the mines to work as coolies, are about 8-12 US dollars per month, but these professionals, the lowest, is about 55 yuan, and the high can even reach 250 US dollars, of which Germany can take 30% of it, this part is directly monthly, according to the personnel, directly from the northwest to Germany, you can choose cash, with the world's mainstream money, or deduct from the purchased materials, which is equivalent to offsetting in kind.
1.5 million personnel, even if calculated according to the average salary, the total monthly salary will reach more than 200 million, and if Germany extracts 30%, it is close to 60 million US dollars in monthly income, which is a big pie falling from the sky for Germany, plus more than 10 million ordinary personnel, they are not all prisoners of war, but the full amount of prisoners of war, they take a part, and the calculation is almost 100 million US dollars per month.
100 million US dollars, in the era when the US dollar can also be called US dollars, this is a huge cost, equivalent to the construction cost of 10 capital ships, if converted to the national level, in the whole year of 1913, after the mobilization of Germany, the military expenditure of the army, is only about 430 million, plus the navy, it does not exceed 1 billion, that is the cost of a million troops and many capital ships combined.
Such a huge expense, as long as 1.5 million professionals and tens of millions of laborers are excluded, can be exchanged for 100 million US dollars a year, which is almost equivalent to the result of doubling Germany's military spending, and Germany can use more funds for the war, which is nothing more than a shot in the arm for Germany. After receiving the reply from the northwest, Germany from top to bottom had a clear understanding that this matter must be handled as the top priority of the whole of Germany, and that anything that affected the smooth progress of this matter would be killed.
Germany also knows that these manpower, these professional talents, if they are placed in Germany, they will have greater achievements, but they can't make full use of these talents, for no other reason, they are enemies, Belgium is better to do a little bit, maybe slowly, digest some, there will be improvements, France is almost impossible, unless it is controlled by force, with iron and blood. Germany is congenitally deficient, and won the Franco-Prussian War, but manpower is always exhausted, with a population of about 60 million, the proportion of urbanization is not the highest, and the manpower they can draw is limited, which seems to be majestic, and the British and French cannot raise their heads, but the British and French have a deep heritage, once they breathe, it will be a disaster for Germany, and when Britain and France fully apply the manpower and material resources of the colony, Germany will usher in waves of challenges.
In this case, it is a good idea to take the personnel who are destined to be uncontrollable and will occupy a considerable amount of armed forces in exchange for a steady stream of funds every month, and the most important thing is that this qiē is still the initiative of the northwest, which is still negotiable for Germany, and they can also get more benefits. In the end, after several bargains, the two sides reached a reunification, in addition to the monthly salary, the northwest must support 100 million US dollars in materials every year, and the German side needs to specify materials, which can be weapons, military materials, and even warships.
This point, almost a bit of an excessive condition, especially the warship, which can occupy the future development of the Northwest Navy, but the Northwest did not hesitate at all, directly agreed, for the current Northwest, strong industrial production capacity, a lot of wealth, especially several medicines, stockings, cotton textiles and ceramics, these are irreplaceable, especially on the basis of the original ceramics, the development of sanitary ware, this new type of ceramics, after the appearance, immediately swept the world, It has not mastered the preliminary ceramic key, there is no all-in-one machine such an anti-heaven artifact, even if other countries see these ceramics, they can't crack it, ceramics, medicines, polymer composite materials, it has become the three major ways to make money in the northwest, plus some traditional industries and labor-intensive industries, even if Europe is now at war, the northwest has not obtained the Allied arms business, but also the export volume is still rising. These wages, together with the aid given to Germany, were only a fraction of the orders placed by Germany, and the wool was out of the sheep. As for warships, the Northwest is already preparing to expand the size of shipyards, Qingdao is a good place, and there are many other ports in Shandong, and once the whole country is unified, there will be more places where shipyards can be built, and as long as there are enough personnel, shipbuilding will not be a problem.
The generosity of the Northwest, directly after a simple agreement between the two sides, was signed by the Kaiser and the Northwest Ambassador to Germany, Yang Yuanzhao and Mu Mo, together with this shocking agreement, the total amount of billions of dollars, but it was an agreement on people, this matter was also criticized by many so-called pacifists in later generations, especially Western scholars, who believed that the achievements of the Northwest were obtained from the West, and the evidence was that from 1908, Yang Yuanzhao introduced those scientists from the West, and at the end of 1913, In 1914, mass emigration worked. However, these prisoners of war and immigrants, in the future, fell in love with China, and a large part of them joined China and became an important part of many ethnic groups in China. (To be continued......)