Chapter 664: The Industrial Economy at War

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Both sides of the avenue are full of financial workers in suits, their steps are hurried, and even the people sitting in the café are talking about stocks and money.

This is a place that has been criticized as "dirty" by many contemporaries!

Lin Tongren, a modern novelist who lives in Shanghai, openly said in the article that Huidong New Road is "every time I walk there, it is like walking into the mouth of a demon!" ”

Tao Chengkai, a professor at the Department of Chinese Literature of Peking University, wrote about his impressions of Shanghai in his 1928 anthology: "The cars on the new road in Huidong are swimming so happily in the blood of the people that they refuse to stop for a moment!" ”

No matter how these literary and artistic practitioners feel about Huidong New Road, they still can't stop the fact that Huidong New Road is the financial center of China and even Asia, and countless money transactions take place here every day.

In the Shanghai Stock Exchange, a large number of stock codes and prices are marked on the electronic quotation board above, some of which are green and some are red, and most of them are related to the defense industry, such as several large domestic aircraft manufacturing companies, such as the steel ladder industry and so on. The decline is concentrated in electrical products and export industries, among which raw silk-related industries, radios, electric fans and other electrical related industries generally fell.

After the outbreak of war, the first stimulus must be the defense industry, whether it is an airplane, a warship or a tank artillery, each defense enterprise has received a large order from the military, which has led to the rise in the stock price of the entire related industry. The outbreak of the war also affected the import and export market, China's import and export trade because of the outbreak of 1929 economic damage was serious, after the outbreak of the war is even more aggravated by this phenomenon, the export of raw silk and tea and other traditional agricultural products exports have been seriously shrunk, and the emerging electrical appliances and pharmaceutical industry exports have also suffered a great negative impression, pharmaceutical exports are okay, after all, people from other countries can not wear stockings, do not wear silk clothes, and even do not drink Chinese tea and do not use Chinese radios and electric fans, But you can't do without Chinese antimicrobials.

China's antimicrobial industry is growing rapidly, and in addition to the established Tongkui Pharmaceutical, there is also Yangcheng Pharmaceutical, which was established specifically to produce penicillin. As the two largest pharmaceutical companies in China, these two companies have developed and produced a series of antibiotic products, and there are currently more than 10 antibiotic drugs in China. And because China has strict secrecy about antibiotics, and even added a large number of useless and harmless ingredients in the production process for the sake of formula secrecy. It further increases the difficulty of cracking generic antibiotics abroad.

In fact, many foreign laboratories have imitated the sulfonamide series of antimicrobials, but China has applied for a large number of relevant patents to various countries, although these patents may not have much effect on the defense industry, but in the field of people's livelihood, countries generally do not publicly support domestic enterprises to infringe.

Although some industries are booming and others are shrinking, on the whole, China's economy has emerged from the impact of the 1929 economic crisis and is gradually stabilizing and recovering.

In other countries, the economic crisis is still getting worse day by day, not to mention the source of the economic outbreak, the United States, the number of bankrupt banks has reached thousands, the number of unemployed people is increasing day by day, and in the major countries of Europe, the impact of the economic crisis is also very large, and more importantly, they are helpless against this huge world economic crisis, and can only let the situation continue to deteriorate.

Although before the outbreak of the war, Ben was also in a deep economic crisis, but after the outbreak of the war, the domestic industry of Ben received large orders from the military, which alleviated the predicament of the industry to a certain extent. If this war could have been won and some other war dividends could have been reaped, then it was possible for this war to completely extricate itself from the effects of the economic crisis. And if it can't win, then it will further hit the industrial economy of the country, and cause irreparable impact.

The war has brought opportunities and challenges to both countries, and whether this war is an opportunity or a challenge can only be seen after the war is over, and in order to win this war, both countries are carrying out large-scale mobilization in the country, trying to concentrate more forces to fight the war.

The forces that China has invested and are ready to invest in this war include the entire navy, more than 70 percent of the air force, and 40 percent of the land force.

For example, the Air Force, although it is said that only about 70 percent of the combat aircraft have been invested, but the 70 percent of the Air Force has transferred almost all the B4 bombers and B7 bombers, and the F2 fighters fighting on the Korean front line are all the improved F2 series, mainly F2C.

There are as many as seven or eight modifications of China's F2 fighters, and the prototype is F2A, which is the basic model of the Chinese Air Force. F2B is a carrier-based aircraft ordered by the Navy. The F2C was a major improvement of the F2A by the Chinese Air Force in 1925, with the speed increased to 280 kilometers and the range slightly reduced to 750 kilometers. After 1926, the Navy also carried out ship-based based on the Air Force's F2C, and improved the F2D into service, with a speed of 270 kilometers and a range of 700 kilometers. In 1928, the Navy once again optimized the design of F2D, and entered service with F2E, increasing the speed to 280 kilometers and the range to 730 kilometers.

In 1929, the Air Force planned to make major improvements to the F2, proposing the latest F2F plan, which planned to increase the speed of the F2F to 300 kilometers per hour and increase the range to 900 kilometers by replacing it with new engines.

However, when the F2F plan was proposed, the F3 fighter had matured and began to serve in small quantities, so the F2F only flew a few test planes and stopped the follow-up improvement, and after the outbreak of the war, the F2 series fighter has basically exhausted the improvement potential of the fuselage, so the Air Force has officially stopped the improvement plan for the F2 series fighter.

In this war, although only about 70 percent of the strength invested by the air force was invested, in fact all the combat planes invested were new aircraft, which shows that the Chinese air force has already taken out most of its belongings.

So far, the army has mobilized troops from at least the northeast and Hebei regions, while the vast number of troops stationed in East China, South China, Northwest China, and Russia have not yet moved, and the total strength of China's active army, including the field army and garrison units in various localities, is close to 3 million, while the number of troops engaged in fighting in Korea is actually less than 500,000. This is not because the army is unwilling to invest more troops, but because there are too many places for the army to defend, and the troops in Siberia, South China, and East China cannot be easily transferred. If there are other changes that are made, it can have a very bad impact.

However, although the number of troops is not large, the equipment and material supply of the combat troops entering the DPRK are the best. Of the more than 50 infantry divisions in China, only six divisions are equipped with two 105-mm howitzer battalions, and most of the other units have a 105-mm howitzer battalion, and some second-line units do not even have one. And these six divisions are all front-line combat readiness units, two of which are in Siberia and one in Nanjing, that is, the guard division. And the remaining three, including the 47th Division, are in North Korea.

The troops fighting in the DPRK are basically front-line troops, and the capacity of the railway transportation lines to the DPRK is also limited, so it is impossible for the military to send millions of troops to the DPRK in one go, and can only select some units with relatively good combat effectiveness to fight in the DPRK. and to provide these troops with the best logistical supplies.

In order to provide supplies for the troops entering the DPRK, the domestic defense industry has begun to work day and night, and the assembly line is constantly producing artillery shells and bullets, and then these military materials will be loaded into wooden boxes and transported to nearby military warehouses, and it will not be long before these military supplies will be loaded onto the train and rushed to the DPRK to be delivered to the hands of the troops participating in the war.

Among these defense enterprises, the Chuzhou Aircraft Company has the heaviest production task. In a series of military operations, the navy and army were fine, and there were still many reserves of ammunition and so on, so they couldn't rush for a while. However, the need for new fighters in the Air Force is beyond the comprehension of other services.

When the Type 91 fighters of the Yue Army were put into the skies over North Korea, a large number of active F2C fighters in the Chinese Air Force were suddenly at a disadvantage, and they had to rely on numerical superiority to suppress the surname Neng advantage of the Type 91 fighters of the Yue Army. After learning of the excellent performance of the Type 91 fighters, they said, "Nakajima Aircraft and Mitsubishi and other aircraft manufacturing companies in China have been ordered to manufacture this new type of aircraft, and in a short period of time, a large number of Type 91 fighters have been reinforced to the skies over North Korea."

At the same time, the Chinese Air Force also began to dispatch F3 fighters into North Korea to fight, and three days after the F3 fighters entered North Korea, a four-plane squad of F3 fighters on air patrol, and the six Type 91 fighters encountered and had an air battle, and the next result was the kind expected by Wu Shizhong and other air force leaders, the F3 fighters with a better surname were able to successfully suppress the Type 91 fighters of the Army Air Force, and in the air battle, their own F3 fighters were shot down, but they were destroyed. The four Type 91 fighters achieved an excellent record of four to one.

In this case, the Air Force is even more urging the domestic Chuzhou Aircraft Company to speed up the production of F3 fighters, if it were not for the lack of technology and equipment for the manufacture of F3 fighters by several other domestic aircraft manufacturing companies, the Air Force would probably have to let several other aircraft companies also manufacture F3 fighters.