The economic development situation this year has become very clear. In the past two years, the competition situation of the United States and Germany was originally in progress. The Ocean Empire has ascended the throne of the world's largest economic power, but it is not much different from the two economic powers of Germany and the United States, and is in the leading position at the first level.

However, this year, the Ocean Empire has greatly surpassed Germany and the United States and left behind.

First look at the national income

In the 14 years after the outbreak of World War I, in the GDP statistics of the great powers, the total economic output of the Ocean Empire reached US$25.7 billion, higher than Germany's US$23.95 billion, and the United States' US$21.8 billion ranked first in the world. The gap between the three countries is not big, and it is generally in the leading world's first camp.

The UK is in fourth place with US$18.453 billion, which is already quite behind the 20 billion dollar group and is being left farther and farther in the field of economic development.

But see

This statistics are the GDP output of Britain, and does not include its colonies and 350 million colonial people all over the world, nor does it include strong economies such as Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. If this is added, the British Empire will still be the world's number one.

It is October 1915, and the final statistics for the whole year have not yet been released, but judging from the economic development of the empire in the first three quarters, it is a foregone conclusion that it has significantly surpassed last year.

In the first three quarters alone, the Ocean Empire has completed US$28.6 billion, significantly exceeding the annual level of last year. The annual GDP can be seen in the range of US$38 billion to US$39 billion.

Germany, the United States and Britain were seriously affected by the war, and the total economic volume did not advance but retreated, and the gap between the outside world suddenly widened.

Comparison of the most important steel and coal output;

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

Last year, the United States' annual steel production only recovered to 22.32 million tons, ranking second in the world.

This year, it has suffered serious impact from the Second US-Japan War. Don’t talk about anything beyond it. Whether it can reach the production level of last year is still a question mark?

Germany, ranked third, had a pre-war steel production of 17.6 million tons. It was also affected by the war and had a serious shortage of labor. It would be great if it could have 10 million tons this year.

The fourth-ranked UK produced 7.76 million tons of steel last year, and it will also be 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 digs coal, no one makes steel, and no one transports it. From mining to industrial fields, where is the production of people and scarce?

Before the outbreak of the war, France still had 4.69 million tons of steel production, ranking fifth in the world. However, the war spread across France's territory, and this year there was no small part of the steel production, which was completely over.

Due to the war factors, the demand for steel has increased sharply, and the production gap of the Allies has been well filled by the Ocean Empire. Although the Ocean Empire has made great efforts to produce, it is still facing a shortage of steel and prices have soared.

Compared with before the war, the price of a ton of steel increased by more than eight times, and the special pipes increased by more than ten times, and this one was still priceless.

The steel production capacity lost by Britain, France and Russia alone was as high as 13.6 million tons due to the war, and the Ocean Empire only had so many steel growth in a year, so there was no more.

Then, the additional demand for steel caused by war will not be met, which will naturally lead to soaring prices.

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

Originally, this demand gap could be supplemented by the United States. In 1908, the United States' steel production reached 28.8 million tons, with a long-term growth potential of 50 million or even 80 million tons.

Unfortunately, the outbreak of the Second US-Japan War broke all these dreams.

This is the case when God does not follow people's wishes.

On the one hand, the Ocean Empire obtained a huge amount of wealth through exports to Europe, and in turn gave huge financial loans to Britain, France and other countries, supporting them to purchase more industrial and agricultural materials from the Ocean Empire, and sent them tanks, aircraft, cannons, ammunition, barbed wire mesh of hundreds of thousands of tons, and steel for trenches to build trenches. Shipyards of all sizes are producing escort ships, and delivered 107 2,200-ton destroyers and hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo ships in one year. The business is in full swing and making a lot of money.

On the other hand, at this critical moment, the United States fell into the Second US-Japan War. Not only did it not have the opportunity to use a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to strengthen its economic strength, in order to win the vicious Fusang people, the overall economy was forced to turn to the wartime economy.

Products are not exported to make money, but are consumed in large quantities in the increasingly fierce Second US-Japan War, which will greatly increase the debt of the United States, weaken the national heritage, and reduce the overall people's wealth. The most important thing is to lose the golden opportunity for development.

Li Fushou will not let such a good opportunity go in vain.

In the industrial development plan for next year and after, the steel production capacity will increase from the existing 50 million tons to 70 million and 86 million tons respectively to meet the strong demand of Europe.

In fact

This planning report is for the outside world. According to the scale of steel production capacity growth controlled by the upper levels of the empire, it will be between 62 million to 63 million tons next year, and about 70 million tons year afterwards, which is 15 million tons different from the publicly planned capacity target.

According to the actual situation, the floating up and down is between 2 million and 3 million tons.

The reason why we strictly control the growth of steel production capacity is to keep the international market in a highly hungry state, maintain a high bargaining price in steel, and thus make high profits.

Otherwise, the output will indeed increase, the price will be reduced, and the profit will be much less.

Calculated 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, which makes people feel moved!

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is really faster to make money than to grab money.

Such a good situation cannot be achieved without Li Fushou's painstaking planning. Originally, the United States was preparing to take action against Fusang, and planned to completely defeat the so-called Republic of Arizona in one and a half months. It has done a lot of work and major concessions to this end, and formulated a careful military action plan.

Who would have thought...the country of Fusang was taken over?

Some of the key information comes from the Political Information Bureau. The Americans think they have done a good job in confidentiality, but in fact they have already revealed the truth.

If the US-Japan War is postponed for 20 days, the United States will have the opportunity to continuously transport more than 300,000 militias into New Mexico, and the total force will be increased to more than 580,000, forming a large number of soldiers...

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

Now everything is different. After the war broke out, Fuso immediately mobilized 4 divisions, including the third, seventh, eleventh and sixteenth divisions, a total of 100,000 troops, set out from Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Kobe and other places, and arrived in Los Angeles a few days ago, and will go from here to the Republic of Arizona.

According to regulations, these Japanese soldiers who arrived in North America were only allowed to carry luggage and essentials, and could not carry guns, ammunition and any weapons. After arriving in Los Angeles, they entered the designated suburbs and repaired and waited for the boarding order here.

Weapons, ammunition and other materials and equipment will be transported by special arms ships.

The above public behavior shows that the Americans have been betrayed.

Trace the roots

The United Kingdom and Fuso are both members of the Allies, and the Ocean Empire is closely related to the United Kingdom. Although it expressed a neutral position in this large-scale world war, it actually seriously favored the Allies.

Considering from this perspective, it is not surprising that the actions made by the Ocean Empire are made.

For no reason, the Americans hated the British again. Who told him that he did too many bad things on weekdays and his reputation was too bad. Now that he was in vain, he could not get rid of the suspicion that could affect the Republic of California except the Ocean Empire and Britain.

After giving orders

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

He sat behind the imperial case, picked up the hot tea and took a sip, then took out the memorial and read it.

After reviewing more than a dozen memorials, he looked at a memorial in his hand for a while, and his brows frowned tightly.

This is a report from African Governor Li Sizhong.

The details are that due to his outstanding military talent and dazzling military achievements, German Emperor William II personally issued a commendation order and promoted him to major general in the army, trying every means to supplement a real German army, with a total of about 3,600 people and a large number of weapons and equipment were sent.

This expanded Major General Walbeck's troops to 15,000, and they appeared everywhere to fight jungle guerrilla warfare, causing the British-led coalition forces to suffer.

At the most, British commander Mats led an army of more than 50,000 people to encircle Walbek. The war spread to British South Africa, Kenya and Mozambique of the Ocean Empire, almost all of which were affected.

A pocket-sized "naval battle" even broke out on Lake Tanganyika. At that time, a German warship, the USS Konesburg, was chased and blocked into Lake Tanganyika. With the assistance of Major General Wolbeck, the USS Konesburg warship launched a water guerrilla war with three British warships, which caused great headaches for the British, which shows how great the energy Wolbeck exerted.

By the end of this year

Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal gathered nearly 100,000 troops and launched a continuous encirclement and suppression of Woolbeck.

In this battle of great strength, Wolbeck adopted elusive guerrilla tactics, demonstrating an extremely high command art.

A British officer said;

When you think you succeed, it is not. The advancing British army will suddenly be shot with intensive fire! What's even more terrifying is that we have no idea where the bullets were fired!

When the British army on the southern route heard the gunshots, they immediately moved to the north, trying to reinforce the northern army in the city. Unexpectedly, a large number of German troops suddenly came out from behind them, and several groups of people surrounded and suppressed the British army and suffered heavy casualties in the German army's elusive fighting style.

But no matter what, Germany and East Africa are in a desperate situation surrounded by all sides.

Even though there were a small number of German arms transport ships that secretly crossed the blockade, the German troops in East Africa were still dropping a drop in the bucket for the continuous battle. The besieged Wolbek was besieged in multiple directions, at sea, British East Africa, Uganda, Belgium Congo, Mozambique and Northern Rodria, and were surrounded by numerous encirclements.

Although the situation was extremely difficult, Wolbeck did not want the British to live a safe life. He took the initiative to launch raids on the neighboring British colonies Kenya and Rhodenia, destroying local fortresses built along railways and transportation lines. His army also destroyed 20 trains and a long section of British railways, and the battle was very exciting.

When the British Navy forced the Konisburg to sink on the Rufige River, Wolbeck organized the personnel on the ship into his own troops. He also managed to pick up some of the artillery on the ship and form his artillery unit.

September 3

After learning that a train full of arms was arrived in Weiyuan Fort Town in Malawi, Wolbeck led his men to rush to the sky, cross the mountains and raid on Weiyuan Fort, and seized the train full of arms in one fell swoop.

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

Post-event statistics

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

Through this battle

Major General Walbeck completely solved the hidden dangers and could supply more than one year of weapons and military supplies, which was conducive to fighting a protracted war with the British.

The arms of this train were ordered by the British, and now it is all cheaper than Major General Walbeck.

In the original history, Major General Walbeck did the same, but he robbed the Portuguese fortress with abundant material storage. Through this move, he solved the problem of logistics supply difficulties. With his generous seizure, he dealt 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... brought a big problem to Li Fushou.

Just grab things. The Ocean Empire is not short of this little money. The key is that you have killed and injured so many soldiers, so you can't bear it.

How can smart people do such bird things?

From the perspective of the Germans, Wolbeck's battle was very beautiful. Because the Ocean Empire soldiers stationed in Fort Weiyuan could not surrender, fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

There is no suspense in the outcome of the battle. Wolbeck brought a total of more than 6,000 main German troops, and there were two infantry regiments composed of white men, and they were sneak attacks.

The counterattacks of the soldiers of the Ocean Empire were also quite fierce. During the battle, the fierce machine gun fired by just two castles caused more than 170 casualties in the main German army. It can be said that even though they were defeated, they were still honored.

In desperation, Wolbeck also killed the local garrison and bombed the mortars he carried with him violently, killing and injuring more than a hundred people on the spot.

By this time, I can no longer hold back.

But that is the German view, and it would be different from Li Fushou's position;

The Ocean Empire is a neutral country. You ran to my head and killed people and set fire. Don’t you know how many eyes Prince Ma has?

The problem now is that the Ocean Empire is not ready to join the war in advance!

Moreover, next year will be three extremely cruel battles. In addition, once the Allies join the Group declares war on Germany, many products will not be sold at high prices. Even for the need to jointly fight against the German army, the Ocean Empire should bleed heavily to provide free assistance to the Allies.
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