Chapter 687 Nearing Bankruptcy Finance

Although the third-level base is only in the initial stage, its production capacity is already very exaggerated, at least several times stronger than the entire weapons production in China.

However, Meng Xiang consumes more now.

Not only is the continuous rain of bullets pouring on the front line, but there are also millions of troops in the country who are constantly practicing live ammunition and training batches of jīng soldiers. In addition, the greater consumption comes from the global arms trade of copycat companies and umbrella companies.

Compared with the wars between China and Soviet Russia, the European war consumed more weapons and ammunition.

Some of the factories of the Germans had not yet been transferred to the military industry, producing a large number of machines for China, and the corresponding bases produced a large number of weapons to equip the German ** team. Even in addition to super warships, the Germans have purchased more than one billion dollars of tanks, aircraft, warships and other weapons and equipment from copycat companies.

The British buy weapons and strategic materiel all over the world, and there are hundreds of millions of pounds from the umbrella. Especially on the destroyers, in the face of the strong blockade chain of the Germans, the fifty destroyers purchased from the Americans did not work at all. In order to maintain the fragile maritime lifeline, the British could only keep filling in, and over the course of a year, they purchased more than 50 destroyers from the Umbrella Company.

But this advantage was quickly offset by the threat of new submarines from the Germans, who remained half-dead.

With that comes a massive loss of wealth. The hard currencies of gold and foreign exchange quickly flowed into Meng Xiang's pockets, but more often than not, the many mines, lands and resources that Meng Xiang delineated on the world map fell into the hands of those shadow companies.

Places such as Europe, the Americas, and even Africa are rich in resources, and China needs to abide by some rules of the game before it has the ability to confront the entire Western world. The economy is controlled under the Western idea of the sanctity of the property of the Muls. More convenient.

Huaxia may expand to some regions in the future. There are also rules that are not meant to be broken immediately, because they are the foundation of a stable society, and even the laws of forcible appropriation need a fig leaf. Unless all the cards are shuffled. This is also where the Western world deeply hates Sovietism. There is no reason at all.

Meng Xiang had already calculated that even if the base was against the sky, Huaxia would not have the ability to swallow the world in a short period of time. Military occupation does not mean that it can be owned, and at this time, China could not even talk about the rise of a world power, let alone digest the world. The revival of the modern state and the idea of the nation is sure to make anyone who tries to occupy the globe anxious. Unless the whole of Western civilization is wiped out. Settle everything with slaughter.

Regardless of whether the Time and Space Administration will interfere with this, a nation without a rival can easily fall into the dream of the sinking of the Boss Empire. Just like the blooming of ideas, civilizations from different perspectives can promote each other and improve together.

The opponent can never be eliminated, and Meng Xiang also needs to have an opponent who can be controlled to be a sparring partner for Huaxia in the future.

It is not uncommon for later generations to use more covert economic and even financial means to use resources that may not be able to be snatched by violent means. Meng Xiang took it and used it.

The anxious British are selling all kinds of resources at a large price, and with the resources that have not yet been developed, Meng Xiang directly controls the major film companies and holds them in their hands.

Also drawing on resources and wealth are the Americans. Historically, the United States did not only make a fortune by selling arms and collecting gold, but also made the most money from the colonies of Britain and France. But now. With Meng Xiang, this and it grabbed food. It's just scattered under many film companies, and it doesn't look so conspicuous. Judging from the development of this time and space, the Americans are still the biggest beneficiaries on the surface. Naturally, he didn't know that the resources controlled by Meng Xiang were already an astonishing amount.

But these resources can't be exchanged for money in the short term, and Meng Xiang doesn't want to exchange them for money.

These are the cornerstones of China's future rejuvenation. With resources. ォ has the foundation for future development.

Therefore, a large number of base-made weapons have been exchanged for resources, but they are not money. The resources mined in the base were exchanged for a huge amount in the base's account, but it was not yet time to turn into real wealth. This made Meng Xiang suddenly discover that the government of the vanguard army was about to go bankrupt.

The vanguard army unified most of China in a very short period of time, and also extended all kinds of preferential policies to the territory it occupied.

Dibao reduces taxes and fees on land. However, it has increased the financial burden of the government. In order to prosper in industry and commerce and catch up with the big cake of orders in World War II, the Vanguard Army also adopted some tax reduction policies. While this was offset by the booming gross tax revenues from industry and commerce, compulsory education and health care reforms, as well as a large share of infrastructure, led to more spending.

Just connecting the railways to the outside world costs tens of millions of yuan, and there are road construction projects all over China. The construction of water conservancy and urban public facilities is also a huge capital investment, although it can drive domestic demand. Expanding employment and stimulating the development of the country's economy is a huge burden on government and finance.

If it weren't for the huge profits from the sale of arms, penicillin, sulfonamides and other yào products, I am afraid that the finances would have collapsed long ago.

However, after the continuous consumption of the Soviet and Russian wars, coupled with the offset of the increase in invisible resources, the finances of the vanguard military and government not only showed huge deficits, but even reached the verge of bankruptcy.

"War is a gold hole, bottomless, and it is true!" But when Meng Xiang got the report on the expenses of the Northern War handed over by Zhou Bai, he also broke out in a cold sweat.

Weapons and ammunition are provided free of charge at the base, which is not a big expense. But the costs associated with transporting weapons and ammunition to the front line are enormous.

There are only two sub-bases in Siberia, and the forward base in Neen, which has just been deployed near Chita, does not provide much support. The two sub-bases are not yet able to supply the logistics support of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the rest needs to be transported from the rear.

Whether it is the consumption of personnel or the consumption of fuel, it is a shocking amount.

Air transport is very convenient, but it also brings a huge fuel consumption. The consumption of thousands of planes for three months directly dried up the fuel that the vanguard army had prepared for more than half a year, and the navy, which had greatly reduced its training, had great opinions.

Although Meng Xiang has developed several oil fields such as Zhongyuan Oilfield, it is still in the stage of secrecy in order to let the Japanese desperately seek oil from the south. In addition, it is necessary to leave more oil reserves for future generations, and the scale of these developments is not large, and the main source of oil is still shipped from overseas. Southeast Asia is one aspect, and more is from the Middle East and other places.

Every day, tankers flying German and American flags and nǎi cattle on the bottom of the sea travel between the Middle East and China. These are not enough for China's oil consumption, and even a large amount of crude oil needs to be imported from Britain and the United States.

This is related to Mengxiang's future industrial planning.

Through the fog of the future, Meng Xiang naturally understands that the future will be the era of electrification. The cheap and excellent quality of oil in the early days will replace coal as the king of energy after World War II. Meng Xiang is planning the future development of Huaxia industry, and unconsciously consolidates the cornerstone of stone electrification of Huaxia industry. Under the guidance of such development, the consumption of civilian fuel naturally increased greatly, and even began to squeeze out the share of military fuel.

The vanguard army also needs to accumulate strategic oil depots, which will greatly increase the share of imported oil.

The oil giants of Britain and the United States have taken a fancy to the potential of this blowout in China, and they still do not give up the market in China when the relationship between Britain and the United States and China is a little cold.

During World War II, many countries were short of oil, but this shortage was relative, they just lacked the ability to deliver enough fuel to where it was needed. For example, the Japanese, after occupying Borneo's oil, could not transport it to the mainland. The Germans also had an imbalance in the oil booty in various places, and Romania and other places had a lot of oil, but it was difficult to transport it to the front line under the blows of the Allies.

As for Britain and the United States, it is needless to mention that the Americans have never been short of oil, and even support the whole world. Losing the European market, although the price of oil has risen, there is still a lot of production capacity that has not been released, which naturally makes those oil giants feel distressed. Huaxia's neutral status allowed them to quickly find a way to circumvent political criticism.

Meng Xiang is also willing to win over these British and American giants to slow down the time that may turn against Britain and the United States. Fueled by a variety of factors, and with the increase in prices caused by the war, fuel consumption naturally became a major part of the Vanguard Army's financial expenditure. The war in the Urals has not stopped, and every day it consumes the fuel that makes Meng Xiang ròu painful. A lot of oil is exchanged for real money from abroad, and it is not something that can be obtained by printing bills by yourself, which is also an aspect of financial constraints.

All kinds of circumstances have led to the poor development of the vanguard army's finances, with less in and more out, and it is difficult to use taxes to carry out a good cycle, and the external assets controlled by Meng Xiang have the dilemma of cash flow shrinkage because they need to be kept secret and there is no special detailed planning, which leads to this financial crisis.

"It is unrealistic to raise taxes, and money is needed everywhere for such a large scale in the country, and some expenditures are essential. The return of funds from foreign arms sales is a little slow, where do you want to go to make a lot of money? Meng Xiang felt a headache. If there is enough time, close to the arms trade can close the gap, but now it is precisely the lack of time. Mainly because of a bad news brought by Zhou Bai to make matters worse: "Someone has noticed our financial leakage and is attacking our financial system!" ”!。