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Chapter 1551 The richest man in the world

For Yang Yuanzhao, it doesn't matter. Even if the state's explicit compensation is clearly paid, he sees it. It doesn't matter. For him, money is a number, and even some forward-looking projects that seem very dangerous, in his opinion, can be done. Yang Yuanzhao is a time traveler and has an all-in-one machine, a magical artifact. He uses the technology of turning stones into gold, but has not lost much. Instead, he has made huge profits and created emerging technology fields one by one.

Compared with money, Yang Yuanzhao hopes to promote some new technologies. In the development of science and technology in this world, many times, the newly born technologies are fragile. For example, the iron weapons were completely ineffective at the peak of bronzes, which were not as powerful as bronzes in the peak era, but with their extremely powerful vitality, they gradually replaced the role of bronzes over a long period of time.

This is an objective law of historical development, but if there is a person, as a pioneer, directly pushes its development and reduces its struggle in a weak period, this is very important for a new technology, which represents saving time. Although a technology that goes from young to mature requires too much time, those technologies that have succeeded after going through twists and turns, or even repeated failures, are often used to exchange time for funds because of huge investment.

Yang Yuanzhao is not afraid of these. He is a time traveler and knows very well that future development, even if not all, a simple context is enough to save him a lot of time. Many times, time is wasted in such a slow replacement. For example, the time of discovering electricity is decades away from the time when large-scale application of electricity and triggering the electrical appliance revolution. If the world can enter this field earlier, what will happen to the development of the world? For example, if materials, when machine tools are just beginning to become popular, they will consider materials, even high-speed steel, to speed up the efficiency of machine tools.

It is precisely because of a time traveler, with the forward-looking nature of a time traveler, Yang Yuanzhao has always been committed to promoting the development of semiconductors, computer software and hardware, and even new materials. These are verified by later generations, and huge projects for the improvement of the entire industrial production. And the most important thing is that after Yang Yuanzhao's time travel, he left a foundation for China. In order to solve the problem of railway operation diagrams, he took out a calculator. Even if it was expanded into a simple computer, it was not comparable to the big guy in the United States during World War II. Although it was promoted to grow, computer technology became popular in China and became the biggest representative of soft power.

There are many similar industries, and there is also a lot of investment and research. Yang Yuanzhao keeps expanding the research field and stuffing everything he wants or what others think of. Although the results are gratifying, the research costs he independently bears every year are astronomical for any country, but they are huge. At some point, only by using an all-in-one machine can we overcome the research difficulties.

The current resources of all-in-one machines cannot be evaluated by value. For example, in some cutting-edge alloy fields, semiconductor fields, and radars and other application weapons, all-in-one machines are really indispensable. The most critical issue that restricts cost has not been solved until the 21st century. Only all-in-one machines can provide the most perfect and reliable semiconductor components, which is very important in the military field.

Therefore, no one was jealous of the results of this. Those who knew this were all at the highest level. They knew very well that if these projects had considerable profits, the state would take them over. National capitalism was not just a simple statement. Many projects were carefully evaluated. It was because the misfortunes and good fortunes were unpredictable, so it was handed over to Yang Yuanzhao, even if it was allowed to make money because of this.

Basically, the current situation in China is created by Yang Yuanzhao. His money is almost no different from the country's money. At most, it is just a little bit changed and then it is invested in the areas that the country needs most urgently. Yang Yuanzhao is a simple person who does not like to spend money on the world. His biggest hobby is actually collecting antiques. This is also considered to promote the civilization of the Chinese nation. Whether it is antiques recovered from Germany or new archaeological discoveries, when the central government did not have enough funds to invest in the protection of these cultural relics, the huge museums and foundations led by Yang Yuanzhao began to protect these cultural relics, and even held a series of cultural relics exhibitions for free.

In the war era, antiques were far less valuable than later generations. Yang Yuanzhao did not spend much on antiques. At least, it was not much relative to his overall expenditure. As long as he did not buy antiques on a large scale, the current maintenance cost was 20 million yuan per year. After two large-scale inputs from Germany and Japan, ordinary cultural relics alone were no longer worth the large-scale income. Unless Germany could occupy London and take over the British Museum, that would be a craze for a large number of cultural relics to return to China.

As of now, Yang Yuanzhao's foundations spend a lot of money. For example, the Children's Nutrition Foundation. The purpose of this foundation is to add an extra cup of milk for every child in China. It doesn't seem to be much. This is a matter of popularizing nearly 220 million minors. Just this item, each person spends 0.1 yuan a day, but it is nearly 8 billion yuan a year. Even the country is a little unbearable. Yang Yuanzhao took it out without hesitation and implemented it in the milk source to ensure that no additives or the like appear. For this reason, there are at least four large-scale dairy cow groups in the Mongolian grassland, and there are more of them in China's large and small grasslands.

This special fund directly entered these dairy companies, using regional and regional distribution to ensure that different places could drink safe milk. Don’t underestimate this cup of milk. Yang Yuanzhao’s hands, but there is a statistics on the health status of the Republic of China. Why was the old China called the sick man of East Asia? On the one hand, the British opium destroyed too many people in China, and even had some inheritance. On the other hand, the long-term war and inability to eat enough to make the seed degenerate. Milk is rich in energy and protein, which is the best supplement. Even in the difficult situation after the war, Japan relied on a cup of milk a day to increase the height of young people in just a few decades. Why didn’t China do this? Isn’t it just investing nearly 10 billion yuan every year? This is no problem. For Yang Yuanzhao, this is not much.

This is just one of many foundations, including the enrollment foundation for the poor, the medical insurance foundation, the leukemia special fund, the tuberculosis special fund, etc. In Yang Yuanzhao's name, there are at least 10 foundations that spend billions of dollars, and the annual expenditure amounts of more than 37 billion yuan. You should know that the Chinese Yuan is already a good currency in the world, basically the same as the German Mark, one-half of the US dollar and one-tenth of the pound, but 37 billion yuan is equivalent to 18.5 billion US dollars. You should know that this figure is still the average annual expenditure, which shows Yang Yuanzhao's wealth.

In this era, the gold standard has not finally collapsed. The currencies of major countries in the world are still issued with gold vouchers. The 20 dollar bills represent an ounce of gold and can be exchanged freely. The value of the US dollar and the pound is extremely high. For example, in the early 20th century, two major consortiums in the United States, Rockefeller and Morgan consortiums. The former was a family consortium, known as the richest family in the world. The trust model he founded, especially the Mobil Oil Company, almost monopolized the entire United States, and the family and the wealth it affected was about 60 billion US dollars.

In the early 20th century, Rockefeller was the richest family, but not the most influential in the United States. The Morgan consortium was not a complete family business. It was dominated by the Morgan family and spanned many bankers. The total wealth they had influenced reached 150 billion. More families and stronger financial resources allowed Morgan to suppress Rockefeller in the early 20th century. In 1911, Mobil Oil was split, which was proof of this. In the next 20 years, Rockefeller had been tolerant and continued to rise again until the 1930s and 1940s, and became the leader of the top ten consortiums in the United States.

Even Morgan and Rockefeller, the two top consortiums in the United States, had only gained and influenced wealth of 150 billion and 60 billion in the early 20th century. However, Yang Yuanzhao was able to spend 18.5 billion US dollars a year, which seemed incredible, but in fact nothing. China's economy has grown leapfrog in the past eight years. It surpassed the United States five years ago, and now it surpassed the United States per capita. In terms of economic total volume, it is more than 8 times that of the United States. In addition, although the United States is led by Morgan and Rockefeller, it has eight major consortiums and owns its own capitalism. Most of its wealth is concentrated in the hands of the middle class and small companies.

China is different. The chamber of commerce led by Yang Yuanzhao has controlled China from the beginning from both industry and agriculture. During the extreme period, 95% of the industry in the northwest belongs to the Baotou Chamber of Commerce. Even with the new policies implemented now, the Baotou Chamber of Commerce withdrew from the traditional so-called national lifeline. State capitalism controls large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises. However, Yang Yuanzhao still controls 30% of the entire Chinese industry, and the other 20% are controlled by a series of chambers of commerce such as Shanxi merchants. The state only controls more than 40%. Only a less than half of the total is controlled by other free companies.

This concentration is quite amazing. Together with the eight major consortiums in the United States, it is a problem whether they can control 10% of the United States, not to mention an economy that is 8 times higher than the United States. China's unique development process has created Yang Yuanzhao. Such a rich man is still a country except China. All the powerful countries in the world are unprecedentedly certain, and the possibility of no future generations is really great. (To be continued.)

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