Chapter 161 Global Tariff Agreement
readx; The army is disarmament, the army and the air force are no exception, the air force, directly retired a large number of old propeller aircraft, such as the famous F5 series during World War II, the F4H series were fully launched in 1946 fighter units, only part of the F5 modified as ground bombers continue to serve in the second-line troops, these propeller aircraft because there is no mothballed value, so they are sold to the world market in large quantities, especially with China's allies are basically shotguns for guns, Whether it is North Korea or Thailand, or Finland, Turkey, Iran, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece and other countries and allies supported by China, all use F5 and F4H fighters, and there are still a lot of them, and even several countries in South America, such as Argentina, and Spain in Europe, are equipped with a large number of China's F5 and F4 series fighters. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Dealing with surplus military supplies in large quantities and cheaply in the name of military aid is something that both China and the United States are doing, and the Americans are also sending large quantities of equipment abroad, and even a lot of old equipment is thrown directly on the battlefield and is too lazy to bring it back to the United States if it is not given away. France and Italy have a large number of M3 and M4 tanks left behind by the U.S. military and various old armored vehicles and other weapons and equipment.
The same is true for China, with a large number of F5 and F4 series aircraft being sold, while various army equipment such as T9\12 series tanks and 1937-style semi-automatic rifles and 1936-style submachine guns are massively supplied to allied countries.
In terms of military aid, the navy is very little, and the Chinese Navy would rather let its capital ships be dismantled after decommissioning, rather than sell them to several allied countries in Asia and the Indian Ocean, such as Thailand.
However, it dealt with two light aircraft carriers to Germany, that is, the two Qingchengshan-class light cruisers, because the Chinese Navy has launched jet aircraft on a large scale, those 30,000-ton or 40,000-ton Qingshan-class aircraft carriers and Wutaishan aircraft carriers feel too small, and this is only a 20,000-ton light aircraft carrier It is even more difficult to use, but because the hull is still very new, and the surname in all aspects is still good, it is a waste to retire it like this, and because Germany, an ally, is located on the coast of the North Sea, At the same time, the German Navy is also continuing to build their Zeppelin aircraft carrier and preparing to form an aircraft carrier battle group, so they are given these two light aircraft carriers for early training and later cooperative operations.
In addition, several cruisers and destroyers were sold to the Germans, but in addition to Germany, it was difficult for other allied countries to obtain these capital ships, and basically only frigates could be obtained, and destroyers and cruisers, although they were also sold, were also sold to some old ships that served before the war. As for the large number of capital destroyers and cruisers commissioned during World War II, the Chinese Navy has no intention of selling half of them, and although many warships were forced to be decommissioned due to the disarmament of the Navy, they were all mothballed and not delisted.
While countries are disarming one after another, countries continue to develop their armaments, and to some extent, they are still engaged in an arms race.
For example, while the U.S. Navy is disarming and mothballing a large number of warships, on the other hand, it is the United States-class super aircraft carrier that is under intense construction at the same time, and the Chinese Navy is also here, while mothballing a large number of warships, it is at the same time a large-scale modification of the existing Qingshan-class and Wutaishan-class aircraft carriers, adding steam catapults, expanding the size and load of elevators, and installing various electronic equipment and air defense equipment, etc., as a counterpart to the large-scale service of F11 jet fighters. At the same time, it is also developing and serving carrier-based jet attack aircraft. Of course, more importantly, the construction of the six Huashan-class super aircraft carriers is also in full swing, and its first Huashan-class super aircraft carrier is expected to be commissioned by the end of this year after three years of intense construction, and the second ship of the Huashan-class will also be officially commissioned in March next year, in addition to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ships will also be commissioned between 1948 and 1949.
By 1950, the Chinese Navy will have six Huashan-class super aircraft carriers, two Jiulianshan-class super aircraft carriers, two Tianshan-class super aircraft carriers, and more than a dozen modified Qingshan-class and Wutaishan-class medium-sized aircraft carriers in service.
Although the Chinese and US navies are disarming, the scale of the arms race is no less than at all, and one super aircraft carrier after another has been launched into service, and no one who looks at it will feel that the navies of the two countries have returned to the warehouse.
The main theme of the post-1946 world has basically revolved around post-war reconstruction and disarmament. According to China's military service law, after the military retires, the military is obliged to arrange a job or directly pay a considerable retirement pension, which was still popular in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the twenties, but after the thirties and especially after the forties, China's industrial development was great, and after the war, especially the huge global market brought about by the reconstruction of various countries, China's industry and commerce once again took off after the warA large number of new factories have been built, and these factories are recruiting a large number of workers, so the retired soldiers basically do not have to worry about employment, and many will directly receive the large amount of retirement money.
However, these pensions and pensions for disabled soldiers are not worth mentioning compared with the huge military spending during the war, after China's disarmament in 1946, and at the same time there is no need to fight, the military expenditure has plummeted, and Wu Yanqing, the Minister of Finance, does not have to worry about how to sell those war bonds every day, but the deficit of the political axe is still very large, and for many years after the end of the war, China has to have a headache in order to reduce the deficit, and the debt of the political axe is estimated to be more and more day by day. The devil only knows how much debt the political axe will have in a few decades.
Although the political axe is worried about the financial deficit, but the people, especially in the industrial and commercial industry, is a prosperous scene, even though the end of the war has brought great trouble to many domestic defense contractors, many enterprises with national defense contracting as the main business laid off 50 percent or even more than 80 percent of the staff overnight, but some defense contractor enterprises have been prepared early, such as the largest domestic defense contractor Fule Electric, in mid-1944 after the end of the war is deeply felt after the end of the crisis, Since then, Fule Electric has been working hard for the transformation, and has been working hard for the transformation after the end of the war for the past two years, so by the official armistice in 1946, after the military began large-scale disarmament, although the relevant military business of Fule Electric was inevitably hit hard, but Fule Electric on the one hand was to carry out layoffs in the military industry, on the other hand, it was also actively expanding the civilian market and the international arms market.
Even though the 1946 Fule Electric was affected by the end of the war, the defense business was sluggish, resulting in a sharp drop in stock prices, but its 1946 Fule Electric and 1939 Fule Electric were still unable to be issued, and the 1939 Fule Electric was at most a large enterprise, but in 1946, Fule Electric had grown into a real super enterprise, and the product lines of many subordinate enterprises not only included the industrial flower of jet aero engines, At the same time, in order to resist the downturn in the post-war military business, Fule Electric has also vigorously developed many civilian products, relying on its profound technical background and huge capital scale, it has almost fully entered the home appliance industry, refrigerators, electric fans, air conditioners, etc., and has also entered the oil industry and automobile industry on a large scale.
Fule Electric relies on technology and capital, and its competitiveness is much stronger than many small and medium-sized manufacturers in China, so that it was accused of monopoly for the second time after the fifties, and Fule Electric was accused of monopoly in the twenties because of the monopoly of the country's power industry and power equipment, and was finally forced to split into three of Northern Electric Power, Southern Electric Power and Fule Electric. After the fifties, he was once again accused of monopoly and was forced to dismantle and reorganize again, but with the support of Chen Jingyun at that time, Fule Electric still kept most of its family foundation, but set up subsidiaries for some non-core businesses, such as home appliances and automobiles and petroleum reading power, and continued to maintain core businesses, such as electronic basic industry, aero engine industry, and heavy machinery industry.
Of course, this is the later 50s of Fule Electric, and in 1946 Fule Electric, it was still more tragic, as soon as the war ended, the stock price plummeted by 10 percent, and after China's disarmament plan was introduced one after another, by the end of 1946, the market value of Fule Electric had shrunk by one-third compared with the peak of 1945.
In 1946, compared with the tragedy of Fule Electric, other non-defense-related enterprises were all smiling, and the money they made could not even fit in their pockets, and those capitalists in Huidong Xinlu shouted that Europe is ours and the world is ours to invest extensively in the global direction, and in less than two years, China has invested no less than 20 billion Chinese yuan in Germany, Austria and other European regions under the control of China by means of loans and direct investment.
When China, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly signed a tariff agreement in June 1946, it represented that the American market and traditional Western markets such as Britain and France were once again open to China after the outbreak of World War II.
In the second half of 1946, just six months after the tariff agreement was signed, the trade between China and the United States reached one-third of the total global international trade in 1946. It can be seen from this that in 1946 the two major economies of China and the United States occupied a position in the world.
There are pros and cons to this tariff agreement, for China, the United States and Europe and other Western markets are certainly opening up to themselves, but the same China and the Asian market under China's control are also open to the United States, and it is difficult to say clearly the gains and losses here.
In the midst of prosperity, time entered 1949, and it was not a quiet year for China.