Chapter 450 Internal Economy
Hopkins returned to Washington with a list of Stalin's most urgently needed weapons and military supplies. Hopkins's trip to the Soviet Union gave Roosevelt a new understanding of the Soviet Union's resistance and combat future. When Hopkins returned to the United States, Roosevelt and Churchill met in New York.
Hopkins made an objective introduction and dispelled the fantasy that many politicians and soldiers of the United States and Britain would soon collapse. He convinced Roosevelt that it was wise to transport as much military supplies as possible to the Soviet Union, thus allowing the US government to finally determine the actual measures to aid the Soviet Union against Germany, and strengthened the United States' determination and confidence to participate in the international anti-fascist alliance.
Therefore, this visit became a turning point in US-Soviet relations during the war.
Shortly after Hopkins visited the Soviet Union, Roosevelt ordered the shipment of larger aid materials to the Soviet Union, and announced the lifting of the freezing of the 60 million US dollars of deposits of the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Finn War, allowing the Soviet Union to use the deposit to purchase the strategic materials needed in the United States.
Three days later, the US government notified the Soviet government and decided to provide all possible economic aid and extend the validity period of the US-Soviet Trade Treaty by one year. Ten days later, the US sent the 100th fleet to the Soviet Union, and larger-scale aid was being carried out in an orderly manner.
However, during Hopkins' trip, there was one thing Roosevelt wanted to know most that Hopkins did not collect enough information for him, that is, information and intelligence about the war between the Soviet Union and China.
Although Stalin agreed to allow Hopkins to conduct field visits in areas currently under control of the Soviet Union. He allowed him to go deep into the frontier of combat, arsenals and other places for visits, only China's war situation was blocked.
Some advantage of this dictatorship is that as long as the supreme leader orders everything, the people below will implement it. Although Hopkins obtained a lot of information on the production, life and preparations of the Soviet Union, everyone gained little information on the war with China.
Hopkins could only learn from a few words that the Soviet Union seemed to fail in the war with the Chinese, but how miserable it was. It is difficult to know how much it was.
In fact, Hopkins cannot be blamed for being incompetent, but for the entire Soviet Union. Under the mouthpiece of the Soviet Union's official news propaganda, there were very few contents about Sino-Soviet wars. Soviet generals and leaders who knew the situation were issued severe closures, so how could ordinary people know about it?
Moreover, most of the defeated Soviet soldiers in the Tungus area were recruited in the central Soviet Union and local areas, and had little influence on those living in the west.
If Hopkins could go deeper into the central Soviet Union, he would hear more news about his relatives losing contact in the Far East. However, how could Stalin be so careless and give Hopkins such an opportunity to go deeper?
The Soviet Union and Germany war reports flew to Paris, London and Washington like snowflakes, but in these reports, several new weapons adopted by the Germans were mentioned more.
The first is the general-purpose machine gun codenamed mg42 that appeared in the infantry. This machine gun is improved from its predecessor, the type mg34 universal machine gun. However, compared with his predecessor, the biggest change in mg42 is the appearance changes brought about by its simple production process.
Compared with the complex mechanical processing of mg34 and the low metal utilization rate, the mg42 machine gun produced by mature stamping technology has a lower production cost, and it also greatly alleviates the production capacity dilemma of Germany's scarce metal resources.
In this year's new round of offensive against the Soviet Union, a large number of ugly appearances, like a pieced together by several iron sheets and an iron pipe. The seemingly "short-made" machine appeared on the battlefield in large numbers, which meant that the German stamping production process had entered a high-level stage.
However, one of the reasons why the famous machine mg42 was delayed late is mainly because Germany did not attack France as in later generations, so Germany was unable to utilize France's industrial system, which caused Germany's industrial and technological progress to a certain extent.
However, compared with the delayed arrival of mg42 machine gun, what surprised the United States, Britain, France and other countries was that in the new round of offensives of the Soviet Union, a very terrifying main battle tank - the Tiger tank appeared in the German troops. This tank is not only huge in size but also has excellent defense.
And it is certain that this tank is different from the experimental tanks that appeared last year. The Tiger tanks equipped now have obviously improved to a great extent. The use of better diesel engines not only greatly improves the output power of the tank, but also gives the tank reliable safety and stability.
After analysis by scientists, they believe that the Germans have made substantial improvements in the technology of studying the 1,100 horsepower diesel engines provided by the Chinese.
The emergence of the Tiger tank made the United States, Britain and France, which were deeply aware of the slow progress in tank research. At present, no main battle tank among the Three Kingdoms can compete with the Tiger, let alone the Chinese Brutal Bear II behind them.
For the scientific and technological personnel of the Three Kingdoms, the most exciting thing is that through spies, they finally got one of the twenty-seven vehicle-mounted air defense radars in Germany after paying the lives of hundreds of senior spies and hundreds of disguised spies.
When the radar data vehicle was escorted by layers of warships, it was sent to the United States, and the infantrymen from the three regiments who had been waiting here for a long time, with guns and live ammunitions sent to the most secret laboratory.
When the radar data vehicle that was destroyed by a desperate bet with a submachine gun was presented to all researchers in the United States, Britain and France, all the researchers were shocked by the remaining equipment in the radar vehicle.
The label of the Chinese-made label wrapped around the equipment is no longer scorned by these researchers. They know that the instruments and equipment in front of them are indeed made in China. In the protection surgery department, the circuit boards with beautiful lines and the dense and delicate and durable electronic components are all admired by these arrogant researchers.
They could not imagine that in an era when electronic components were still extremely stupid, the electronic components produced by the Chinese had shrunk to an incredible level.
An American transistor is as thick as a thumb, but the Chinese have shrunk to a size of only half the size of the same power component in the United States. And judging from the production date on the components, these products are still products from 1940!
If it is changed to this day, I don’t know how practical the Chinese electronic components have been developed to.
The weapons reports about the Chinese are also constantly summarized in front of Roosevelt's desk. Without exception, these reports indicate that the strength of the Chinese weapons industry is much beyond everyone's imagination.
It was just on Roosevelt's desk, the thin pages of paper in the middle. Although the things recorded in the paper were covered and could not be seen, the remaining half of it was revealed in the last page of these pages. On this half, it was written with a fountain pen:
After capturing the Soviet Union, Germany will be unable to attack westward. It is expected that by the end of this year, Britain and France, the allies, will extend their colonial hand to Southeast Asia again.
Zhong Yang’s true thoughts are that he is unwilling to participate in this world war dominated by Europe and the United States. If Americans pursue isolationism, in fact, China pursues isolationism more than the United States.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, China has been in a closed state and lost the opportunity to communicate with the outside world. Although after the Opium War, China's countries were repeatedly bombarded by the cannons of the great powers, the people of the country still adhered to traditional ideas and refused to accept the influence of foreign civilizations.
To a certain extent, China's self-sufficient small peasant economy and the backward cultural concept of oppression by Jiannu have led to the formation of a tradition of opposing and hostility to new things in the entire China for hundreds of years. In this ever-changing wave of the new era, China has stopped moving forward in culture and technology.
China's economy has been in a small peasant economy since ancient times. This is a special national condition created by the national conditions for thousands of years. The British wanted to dump their own goods in China but they always seemed to have no idea what to do.
So the Opium War broke the shell of China's small peasant economy and entered the Chinese market. However, China's huge territory diluted the influence of British product dumping, which made the West had to knock on this layer of turtle shell again and again and continuously penetrate into the Chinese economy.
Under the barbaric rule of the Jiannu Dynasty, the opposition, doubt and questioning of new things in Chinese culture made the domestic industrial process slow, which further aggravated the speed of China's derailment from the world.
Even in this era, on the land of China, there are still many people who are cautious and cautious about external things. Especially in China's industrial and commercial development, many landlords who have mastered the original accumulation of their landlords, and their families still have certain doubts and scrutiny attitudes about running factories and buying property.
Some of these people still adhere to the traditional idea of land as big as the big and businessmen as the cheap, and have been reluctant to invest in the pace of China's industrial process; some of them are afraid of investing their assets into their inherent resources after starting a factory and buying a property.
Once the national policy changes, once the traditional official card is obtained, it is necessary to make such a difficult combination of officials and businessmen, and the assets you have accumulated have finally accumulated will be gone.
After decades of continuous in-depth cooperation and development, China's private private industry level has developed to a great extent under the integration of the Industrial and Economic Union.
Factory that could only produce primary products has begun to produce enterprises with higher technical content and stricter processing requirements. To give the simplest example, in the original Bear II tank, various parts could only be produced and processed from more than a dozen large state-owned factories.
However, now, more than 400 companies have been able to process and produce products of the same quality and required quality. The increase in this number also means that the cost of the product is decreasing and the production efficiency is increasing.
The production of the Tiger i main battle tank is a new generation of mature technical products naturally born after integrating the production capacity of thousands of industrial and mining enterprises of all sizes.
In terms of technology and related industrial production, we have to admire the approach of technology and innovation in the Western production and operation model.
Although the first direction of use of almost all scientific and technological products is in the military field, it is unrealistic to just let state-owned enterprises lead the research and development and production of science and technology. Since state-owned enterprises have state-owned enterprises to pay for production and sales, this makes state-owned enterprises without survival pressure and easily become self-sustaining and unwilling to make progress.
However, those private enterprises live in a highly competitive market economy. In order to survive, they must use the best products or the most cost-effective products to gain market share. Without market share and without sales, what awaits them is bankruptcy.
For this reason, new production processes that can reduce production costs and increase efficiency have become a necessary condition for them to become stronger and bigger or even survive.
Therefore, in every year, before college students graduate and find employment, industrial and mining enterprises will spontaneously organize the strongest lineup to recruit people to various universities and technical schools to explore various talents, from front-line technical production talents to R&D talents in colleges and universities.
Every company has tried every effort to inspire these graduates to work in their own companies, especially those with excellent skills and high-quality students with high knowledge and qualities. It is the top priority for the campaign to win over. From high salaries every month and year to prioritizing food and accommodation, and even arranging students' families to migrate to their company life. Various means are emerging one after another.
This phenomenon made the senior executives of the China Economic and Economic Union very happy, because only various enterprises take the initiative to open up the road of research and production, can China's scientific and technological development be guided to the most suitable development track.
The so-called military technology is just like civilian technology, it is nothing more than the product of talent and money. Which country in the world with talent and wealth has no good technology? Civilian technology is the same as military technology. If you spend money to attract a group of researchers for a period of time, you will naturally achieve results.
In later generations, the Soviet Union and China's economic and industrial development model was to use administrative methods to draw funds for the development of civilian technology to develop military technology. In the short term, it can indeed integrate the scientific and technological products needed for the whole country's scientific and technological elites to jointly research and research.
However, looking at the whole country, these technological products can only be mastered in state-owned enterprises with low production efficiency. Private enterprises have been unable to obtain updated technological innovation due to the confidentiality restrictions of military technology. Even if technological innovation occurs, they are often taken away by state-owned institutions. This makes private enterprises lose interest in innovation and gradually eliminated by the market.
This is an unbalanced development. It is also a short-sighted development of fishing in a dry pond. Although it can improve significantly in the short term, this imbalance destroys the long-term market competition mechanism, and this imbalance comes at a cost. Civil industrial technology can often recover investment, while military-purpose most cannot.
So there is a problem with the Soviet model. All money is a vicious cycle. The Grenas system simply uses money to build some satellites and throws them into the garbage dump. GPS can recover costs and make money.
The final result was that the Soviets gradually couldn't play, and the United States did a good job in military-to-civilian transformation, and civilian technology was also very powerful. It gradually transformed military-to-civilian technology into civilian technology, and used the transformed civilian technology to earn more profits in the market to support the research and development of newer technologies.
In the cycle, Americans can develop better technology by making money. After gradually marketization, the country's investment in new products and new technologies will become smaller and smaller. However, the development speed of new products and new technologies will become larger and faster due to the investment of private capital.
In this time and space, some people have noticed that the extremely high pollution control fees that China's Hualian government began to collect. These fees are not symbolic charges, but terrible and huge fines that can cause the company to collapse. Faced with this situation, some people have noticed that in the newly occupied areas of Siberia, such environmental governance costs are not available at all.
Although it is not certain whether these lands can eventually become China's affiliated areas, some business owners who were first tied to the Chinese military chariots have begun to migrate high-energy-consuming and high-pollution enterprises to these places. From decades of experience, they have found that the powerful force behind them will never let them suffer any losses.
What is most gratifying is that the technical talents trained by the national education system have been used to the greatest extent, which is the project that ancient Chinese books pays the most attention to.
Zhong Yang, who knows the role of education in a country's future, tried to improve and myth China's education system from the very beginning. He is committed to creating students' interest in learning and research in childhood based on their interests.
Because of the natural bad nature of the market economy, in later generations, people were stimulated by the desire to make quick success and instant profits and lost their patience and rationality. What money does it take to quickly invest in these projects, stock speculation, housing speculation, building houses, housing garrisoning, financing, economic sales, funds...
All kinds of frivolous economic disciplines are sought after by students.
However, few people have noticed that in the context of the greatest economic profit, how many bubbles are built of real estate, real estate market, and stocks are so fragile and nihilistic. Once the gorgeous film of the beautiful bubble flashes is shattered, it will cause great harm and damage to the country.
The financial industry can indeed stimulate the profit after production and sales to the greatest extent, but who can clearly see that if a country's financial industry is not well controlled, the financial industry will become a gravedigger in the production industry.
Illusory finance can turn a penny into hundreds of times more returns, but assets do not come out of thin air. Even if the source of money is constantly printed, what about the food people need? Everything about food, clothing, housing and transportation still needs the support of the production industry.
Therefore, Zhong Yang gradually established a corresponding set of authority value mechanisms, and only the real economy can be recognized by the state and obtained corresponding purchase recognition.
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