Chapter 469: The Forerunner of War Dividends
readx; He said, "No matter how stupid I am now, I can still know from the last April Fool's Day arms purchase that there is some kind of cooperation agreement between China and the United States, and now that the United States is the first to recognize the legal status of the Republic of China, I am even more sure that there is a similar alliance between China and the United States, which makes me very nervous." Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
However, while being nervous, he said, "I can't do anything, after all, he can't stop China from establishing diplomatic relations with the United States."
Moreover, the imminent outbreak of a major war in Europe is not only an opportunity for the United States, but also an opportunity for China, but also a major opportunity for Ben's rise, which has even predicted that if a war breaks out in Europe, Ben will also make a large fortune from the war and completely save the present financial crisis, and if there is no war in Europe, then Ben's finances will have to collapse completely in two or three years.
In addition to economic revenue, it is also very important that if war breaks out between Britain and Germany, then as an ally of Britain, it is natural to declare war on Germany and seize all German colonies in Asia, including many islands in the Pacific Ocean and even Tsingtao in China.
In this way, "while Ben was quietly mobilizing several standing divisions, he said, "The industrial and commercial circles in the country also began to greatly expand production, because by this time a large number of orders from European countries had flown to all parts of the world."
Not to mention the large number of orders obtained by the United States, Britain, France, and even Germany are using a huge amount of money to buy various industrial products from the United States.
Since the introduction of a batch of antibiotics in the UK, it was found that the medical effect of antibiotics is very huge, and the war is about to break out, so the UK has placed a huge order for Tongkui Pharmaceutical to supply the British [***] team.
It is no secret that Britain uses a large number of antibiotics, and soon the French [***] side also sent a purchase order for antibiotics to Tongkui Pharmaceutical, and then Russia also sent a purchase order for a batch of antibiotics.
The Entente countries ordered a large number of antibiotics, and the Allies naturally saw the role of antibiotics, and Germany and Austria-Hungary also followed suit to order the purchase of antibiotics from Tongkui Pharmaceutical.
In addition to these large European countries that are preparing to enter the war, even Serbia, a small Balkan country, has sent orders to Tongkui Pharmaceutical!
Rao is Tongkui Pharmaceutical's second phase of production increase plan has been completed, but it is naturally impossible to supply so many antimicrobial orders at the same time.
In fact, the current Tongkui Pharmaceutical can not even supply one-fifth of the quantity of these orders, and now Tongkui Pharmaceutical has stopped supplying to foreign private markets, in addition to the national army's own use, the price of antibiotics in domestic private hospitals is also soaring, and the vacated output is all used to supply countries, and it is impossible to distribute evenly, so we can only raise the price and raise the price, and sell the one that accepts the high price, and the one who does not accept it can only wait for the future.
In the end, the United Kingdom is not short of money, and has generously contracted almost half of the antibiotic production share of Tongkui Pharmaceutical, while the rest is purchased by Germany at a high price, and other countries can only buy a very small amount.
In addition to the antibiotics produced by Tongkui Pharmaceutical, the medical morphine produced by the state-owned morphine factory under the Anti-Smoking Division is also purchased in large quantities by the French [***] side, as the world's largest opium producer and consumer, China produces a large amount of morphine, and the price is cheaper than that produced in India and other opium regions, and this pain-relieving morphine has been widely used in the national army with antibiotics, but morphine is not an exclusive product, although the morphine produced in China is cheap, the quantity is also large, However, most of the other countries also have other sources, so for the time being, we only get orders from the French [***] side.
These two kinds of military medical supplies are high value-added commodities, although they will not be as outrageous as the private price when providing [***] parties, but the price is still high, for example, the export amount of antibiotics in July is as high as more than 3 million yuan, and the export amount will increase with the increase in the output of Tongkui Pharmaceutical, and the ability to absorb gold is extremely strong.
In addition to these two special medical supplies, China's traditional foreign trade goods have not been able to get much export opportunities, and the main exporter of raw silk is the United States, and people are not fighting now. Other tea, porcelain, etc. are not war materials, so they are no longer on the emergency procurement list of the logistics departments of each party.
However, for China today, the so-called war dividend does not mean how many commodities it directly exports, in fact, even the war dividends that China is counting on now do not mean how many military materials are directly exported to European countries. For China and the two countries, the so-called war dividend is because of the outbreak of the war in Europe, European capital and commodities withdrew from the Asian market, caused by this part of the market vacancies.
The same is true for China's own industry and commerce, after the withdrawal of European capital and goods, if the country's industry and commerce can fill this part of the market gap in time, then after the end of the First World War, China's industry and commerce will be able to repeat countless times, and then the industry and commerce will say, 'There is no problem with these few streets.'"
At this time, the problem arises, China says that the industry and commerce of the two countries are very similar, and the market is also the Asian market, and the market is fixed, and if China wants to develop, it cannot cede the market to the "capital", and if it wants to really rise, then it must also seize these markets. The current Asian market is so big that it can't afford to support two industrial countries!
As for the war dividends on the European continent, they were basically prepared for the United States, and in fact, apart from the United States, China and China had no way to supply the industrial products that the European countries needed in large quantities.
In this war dividend, the United States is destined to eat the big head, leaving only a small head for the rest of the world to fight for, China and the other side are fighting for a part of it, although the losing side is not at all, but there is only a share of soup left.
In order to fill the gap in this part of the market after European capital withdrew from the domestic market, Chen Jingyun has clearly instructed all enterprises under Huaxia Bank to provide sufficient capital loans for the introduction of equipment and almost to expand production. As for other private entrepreneurs other than Huaxia Bank, Chen Jingyun also instructed the officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to guide domestic private entrepreneurs to make relevant preparations to seize the market.
In this case, many Chinese enterprises have also sent a lot of orders for industrial equipment to foreign countries, because Europe has faced the war, so most of the orders for this part of the industrial equipment are sent to the United States, and a small part is sent to the capital.
To a certain extent, while Chen Jingyun was preparing to use the European war to develop his own industry and commerce, he also directly expanded the investment of American capital in China, allowing the United States to obtain a wider range of war profits. Because China now wants to develop industry and commerce, it is almost destined to import a lot of machinery and equipment, and although the United States also occupies a lot of this part of the original import volume, it is definitely not as high as more than eighty percent as it is now.
In this world war, there is only one real winner, and that is the United States! And before the war broke out, the United States was already destined to be the only winner of this war.
In mid-June, he went out again to inspect the world, and did not go too far, but went around along the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou railway. First set off from Nanjing, and then arrived in Jiangyin to inspect the Jiangyin fortress. Because Nanjing is positioned as the capital, so the Jiangyin fortress is extremely important, as long as it can be blocked here, then Nanjing can not be threatened by the enemy's naval guns and the army, and after the Nationalist Army controlled the Jiangyin fort, it was also repaired for a time, and changed to Jiangyin fortress. Later, in order to prepare for the Qingdao War, Chen Jingyun prepared for the war in Qingdao and said that after the outbreak of the conflict between the warships and the warships of the Yangtze River, he added special funds to prepare the Jiangyin and Wusong fortresses.
Among them, Wusong Fortress takes the South Fort, the North Fort, and the Lion Forest Fort as the core, and builds a fortress fortress area, deploying more than 50 artillery pieces of various types, including rear-loading artillery and rapid-fire guns, and a small number of front-loading large-caliber artillery. In order to strengthen the firepower of Wusong Fortress, the Nationalist Navy not only moved some old heavy guns in stock, but even the main guns on retired gunboats, so that the strength of Wusong Fortress was greatly increased.
Jiangyin Fort did not receive much attention as a soldier in the late Qing Dynasty, and after Xinhai due to the establishment of the capital of the Republic of China in Nanjing, the Jiangyin Fort was also refurbished in addition to the Wusong Fort, and some artillery was deployed, but in terms of firepower, it could not be compared with the Wusong Fort.
However, the Jiangyin Fort is different from the Wusong Fort, which is adjacent to the sea and can be said to be the most important gateway to block the enemy navy from entering the Yangtze River, and may also directly face the heavy artillery bombardment of the enemy navy at that time, so the firepower and defense are built according to the coastal defense fortress. The Jiangyin Fort, the most important role is to hold the Yangtze River waterway, for the foreign enemy navy, that is, after the fall of the Wusong Fort, it can play a role, and then it will also face a large number of enemy army attacks, so the positioning direction of the Jiangyin Fort is not the coastal defense fortress, but as the gateway to Nanjing, the land fortress to build. In addition to the artillery of the fortress itself, an infantry regiment of the Eighth Division was also stationed in the Wusong Battery. And the Jiangyin fortress was the main force of the 21st Division.
After inspecting Jiangyin, Chen Jingyun arrived in Shanghai, and visited and inspected the Shanghai Economic Development Zone, as well as a series of important enterprises such as Shanghai Arsenal and Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant, and then Chen Jingyun arrived in Hangzhou, also to inspect the Economic Development Zone, and then Chen Jingyun returned the same way, passing through Shanghai, Chen Jingyun saw the long-lost Lina and Countess Grantor mother and daughter.