This year's economic development situation has been very clear, the first two years originally presented a competition situation in which the West, the United States, and Germany went hand in hand, and the Ocean Empire ascended the throne of the world's largest economic power, but there was not much gap with Germany and the United States, and it was in the leading position at the first level.

But this year, the Ocean Empire has left Germany and the United States far behind.

Let's start with gross national income

In the 14 years since the outbreak of the First World War, in the statistics of the total GDP of the great powers, the annual economic output of the Ocean Empire reached 25.7 billion US dollars, higher than Germany's 23.95 billion US dollars, and the United States ranked first in the world with 21.8 billion US dollars.

Britain is in fourth place with $18.453 billion, which is not a small position behind the $20 billion group, and it has been thrown farther and farther away in the field of economic development.

But to see

This statistic is the GDP output of the United Kingdom, and does not include its colonies and 350 million colonized people throughout the world, and does not include Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the Indian subcontinent and other strong economies, if you add this piece, the British Empire is still the first in the world.

It is now October 1915, and the final statistics for the whole year have not yet come out, but judging from the economic development of the empire in the first three quarters, it is already a sure thing that it will surpass last year by a large margin.

In the first three quarters alone, the Ocean Empire has completed 28.6 billion US dollars, which greatly exceeded the level of last year, and the annual GDP can be seen in the range of 38 billion ~ 39 billion US dollars.

However, Germany, the United States, and Britain were seriously affected by the war, and their economic aggregates were not advancing but retreating, and the gap between China and Britain widened sharply.

Compare the most important steel and coal production;

In the first three quarters, the total steel output of the Ocean Empire reached 37.82 million tons, and there is basically no suspense in the annual steel output of more than 50 million tons.

Last year, the annual steel output of the United States only recovered to the level of 22.32 million tons, ranking second in the world.

This year has been seriously affected by the second US-Japan war, don't talk about surpassing anything, whether it can reach last year's production level is still a question mark?

Germany, which ranked third, produced 17.6 million tons of steel before the war, and it was also affected by the war and suffered from a severe shortage of labor, so it would be good to have 10 million tons this year.

The fourth-ranked United Kingdom, which produced 7.76 million tons of steel last year, will also make a big discount this year.

Although the war did not burn to the British Isles, a large number of young men and strong laborers were put into the battlefield, no one dug coal, no one made steel, no one transported, from mining to industry, there was a great shortage of people, where did the output come from?

Before the outbreak of the war, France still had 4.69 million tons of steel output, ranking fifth in the world, but the war spread all over the territory of France, and this year's steel output was not even a fraction, which was completely finished.

Because of the war, the demand for steel increased sharply, and the production gap of the Entente countries was well filled by the Ocean Empire, although the Ocean Empire was full of production, but it was still facing a shortage of steel, and prices were soaring.

Compared with before the war, the price of a ton of steel has increased by more than eight times, and the price of special pipes has increased by more than ten times.

Britain, France and Russia alone lost 13.6 million tons of steel production capacity due to the war, and the annual increase in steel of the Ocean Empire is so much that there is no more.

Then, the additional demand for steel caused by the war cannot be met, which naturally leads to skyrocketing prices.

It is initially estimated that the Ocean Empire will need to increase production by another 20 million tons to meet demand.

Originally, this demand gap could be replenished, and the United States produced 28.8 million tons of steel in 1908, with a long-term growth potential of 50 million or even 80 million tons.

Unfortunately, the outbreak of the Second American-Japanese War interrupted all these dreams.

The so-called heaven does not obey the wishes of man, and this is the case.

On the one hand, the Ocean Empire obtained a huge amount of wealth through exports to Europe, and in turn, it gave Britain, France and other countries huge gold and ocean loans, supporting them to buy more industrial and agricultural materials from the Ocean Empire, sending them tanks, planes, artillery, ammunition, hundreds of thousands of tons of barbed wire, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel to build trenches, large and small shipyards are producing escort ships, and 107 2,200-ton destroyers and dozens of 10,000-ton cargo ships were delivered in a year.

On the other hand, at this critical time, the United States was plunged into the Second US-Japan War, and instead of having the opportunity to take advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to strengthen its economic strength, it was forced to turn to a wartime economy as a whole in order to win the ferocious Fuso people.

The product is not to export to make money, but in the intensifying second war between the United States and Japan was consumed in large quantities, which will greatly increase the debt of the United States, weaken the national heritage, reduce the overall wealth of the people, and the most important thing is to miss the golden opportunity for development.

Such a good opportunity, Li Fushou will not let it go in vain.

In the industrial development plan for the next year, steel production capacity will be increased from the current 50 million tons to 70 million tons and 86 million tons respectively to meet the strong demand in Europe.

As a matter of fact

This planning report is made for the outside world to see, according to the scale of steel production capacity growth controlled by the empire's high-level internal control, next year is between 62 million tons ~ 63 million tons, and the next year will be about 70 million tons, which is 15 million tons different from the public planning capacity target.

According to the actual situation, it fluctuates between 2 million ~ 3 million tons.

The reason for strictly controlling the growth of steel production capacity is to keep the international market in a state of high hunger, maintain a high steel bargaining, and earn high windfall profits.

Otherwise, the output will indeed go up, the price will fall, and the profit will be much less.

Based on the huge steel export volume of the Ocean Empire, the price fluctuates up and down, and the gap is hundreds of millions of dollars, and the wealth is moving!

With this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting rich is really faster than grabbing money.

To be able to have such a good situation, it is inseparable from Li Fushou's painstaking planning, originally the United States was ready to attack the Fusang country first, planning to use one and a half to two months to completely defeat the so-called Arizona Republic, for this reason did a lot of work and major concessions, and formulated a thorough military action plan.

Who would have thought ...... was actually robbed of the opportunity by Fuso?

Some of the key information came from the Political Intelligence Bureau, and the people of the United States thought that they had done a good job of secrecy, but in fact, they had already revealed the bottom of it.

If the outbreak of the US-Japan war is delayed for 20 days, it will give the United States the opportunity to continuously send more than 300,000 militia into New Mexico, and the total number of troops will increase to more than 580,000 people, forming a trend of large soldiers......

At that time, the people of Fuso will definitely face a hard battle.

Now everything is different, after the outbreak of the war, Fuso immediately mobilized the third, seventh, eleventh, sixteenth and 16 divisions of a total of 100,000 troops, respectively from Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Kobe and other places, has arrived in Los Angeles a few days ago, will go to the Republic of Arizona from here.

These Japanese soldiers who arrived in North America were only allowed to carry luggage and necessities, not guns, ammunition and any weapons, and after arriving in Los Angeles, they entered the designated suburban area for repairs, where they waited for boarding orders.

Weapons, ammunition and other supplies and equipment will be transported by specialized munitions ships.

All of the above public acts show that the people of the United States have been betrayed.

Go back to the roots

Britain was a member of the Entente bloc with Fuso, and the Ocean Empire had close ties with Great Britain, and although it had expressed its neutrality in the grand world war, it was in fact heavily biased towards the Entente bloc.

Think about it from this point of view. It is not surprising that the Ocean Empire has made various moves.

For no reason, the Mi Guoyan hated the British again, who told him to do too many bad things on weekdays, and his reputation was too stinky, and this time he was lying down in vain, and the only thing that could affect the Republic of California was the Ocean Empire was the United Kingdom, and he couldn't get rid of the suspicion anyway.

After the order

Secretary-General Cai Tinggan had already started to handle it immediately, and Li Fushou continued to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the blue sea and blue sky of Sydney Bay, and walked back leisurely.

He sat down behind the royal case, took a sip of hot tea, and then took out the piece and read it.

After reviewing more than a dozen pieces of music, he held one in his hand and read it for a while, his brows furrowed.

This is a report from the Governor General of Africa, Li Sizhong.

The details are that the German East African garrison Volbeck due to outstanding military talent, dazzling achievements, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally issued a commendation order and exceptionally promoted to major general, trying to replenish it with a real German army, a total of about 3,600 people, and sent a large number of weapons and equipment.

This swelled the strength of Major General Walbeck's forces to 15,000, and they roamed the jungle guerrilla warfare, causing the British-led coalition to suffer.

At its peak, British commander Mats led an army of more than 50,000 men to encircle Walbeck, and the war spread to British South Africa, Kenya and Mozambique in the Ocean Empire, almost all of which were affected.

There was even a pocket-sized "naval battle" on Lake Tanganyika, when a German battleship "Königsberg" was chased into Lake Tanganyika, and with the assistance of Rear Admiral Wolbeck, the battleship "Königsberg" launched an underwater guerrilla battle with three British warships, which caused the British to have a headache against it, which shows the great energy that Walbeck exerted.

By the end of the year

Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal gathered an army of nearly 100,000 men to launch a continuous encirclement and suppression of Woolbeck.

In this battle of great disparity, Walbeck adopted elusive guerrilla tactics and demonstrated a high command art.

A British officer said;

When you think you've won, it's not, and the advancing British will suddenly come under intense fire! What's even more terrifying is that we have absolutely no idea where the bullets are coming from!

The British troops on the south road heard the gunshots and immediately moved closer to the north, trying to reinforce the northern route army in the city, but they did not expect a large number of German troops to suddenly kill from behind them, and the British troops surrounded and suppressed the British army in several ways and suffered heavy casualties in the elusive fighting methods of the German army.

Either way, German East Africa was in a desperate situation surrounded on all sides.

Even if there were a small number of German arms carriers that had sneaked across the blockade line, it was still a drop in the bucket for the Germans in East Africa in continuous fighting, and the besieged Wolbeck was besieged from many directions, and the sea, British East Africa, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Mozambique and Northern Rodria were encircled.

Despite the extremely difficult situation, Walbeck did not want the British to live in peace, and launched a surprise attack on the neighboring British colonies of Kenya and Rhodesia, destroying the local forts along the railway and transportation lines. His army also destroyed 20 trains and a long section of British railroad, and the battle was fought with great success.

When the British Navy forced the Königsberg to sink itself on the Rufigi River, Walbeck incorporated the ship's personnel into his own unit. He also managed to scoop up part of the ship's guns and form his artillery unit.

September 3

After learning that a train full of munitions had arrived in Fort Wilfar, Malawi, Walbeck led his men to storm Fort Wilvan through the mountains and capture the train full of munitions in one fell swoop.

During the fighting, the local garrison suffered 277 killed, 612 wounded, and more than 60 civilians killed and wounded. All the equipment and weapons were disarmed, and the German army from German East Africa was like locusts. The hungry eyes turned green, the entire Weiyuan Fort was completely scraped, and the cattle and sheep of the local people were all taken away.

Post-mortem statistics

Weiyuanbao Town lost more than 1,200 cattle, more than 47,000 sheep, more than 800 mules, horses, carts and trucks, grain, oil, cloth and other materials.

Through this battle

Major General Wallbeck completely solved the hidden danger and could supply weapons and military supplies for more than a year, which was conducive to fighting a protracted war with the British.

And the arms for this train were ordered by the British, and now they are all cheap, Major General Walbeck.

In the original history, Major General Walbeck did the same, except that he looted the well-stocked Portuguese forts, through which he solved the problem of logistical supply difficulties, and with the rich capture, he fought with the British until the end of the world war.

Now in this historical time and space, he turned to rob the Ocean Empire.

And this ...... It brought a big problem to Li Fushou.

Just grab something. The Ocean Empire is not short of this little money, the key is that you have killed and injured so many soldiers, this is unbearable.

How do smart people do this kind of bird thing?

From the point of view of the Germans, the battle for Volbeck was fought very beautifully. Because it was impossible for the soldiers of the Great Ocean Empire stationed at Weiyuan Fort to be captured, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

There was no suspense about the outcome of the battle, and Walbeck brought the main German army with a total of more than 6,000 men, including two infantry regiments composed of whites alone, and it was a sneak attack.

The counterattack of the soldiers of the Ocean Empire was also quite fierce, and in the battle, only two bunkers fired fiercely from machine guns, causing more than 170 casualties to the main force of the German army.

In a hurry, Walbeck also killed the local garrison, and concentrated the mortar he carried with him to bombard violently, killing and wounding more than 100 people on the spot.

By this time, it was no longer possible to keep his hands.

But that was the view of the Germans, and it was different from Li Fushou's standpoint;

The Ocean Empire is a neutral country, you ran to my head to kill people and set fires, don't you know how many eyes Lord Ma has?

The problem now is that the Ocean Empire is completely unprepared to join the war in advance!

Moreover, next year will be the three major battles that are extremely cruel, and once the Entente group declares war on Germany, many goods will no longer be able to sell at a high price, and even out of the need to fight the German army together, the Ocean Empire should hemorrhage to aid the allies for free.

The war has been fought until now, and everyone else is exhausted. And you eat fat head and big ears, should you spit it out?

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