The war is fighting for consumption, Germany's torrent of steel, the huge resurrection plan of the high seas fleet, and domestic industrial production and construction all require huge supply of steel, food, medicine and other strategic materials.

Germany used the wealth they plundered from European countries, and the massacre of Jews, and obtained gold, silver, jewelry, etc., or exchanged it for gold and silver to pay huge import fees for strategic materials to the Tang Empire.

The same is true for Italy. Compared with Germany, Italy plundered very little, but it was also a considerable wealth. It was also squandered by Mussolini, mainly used to enhance Italy's military equipment strength. Because the Italian army was too weak, even Mussolini himself could not bear it, so he also squandered gold and silver to purchase weapons and equipment from the Tang Empire on a large scale.

If the Tang Empire has achieved great benefits in alliance with Germany and Italy, it has gained great benefits, allowing it to gain the entire Oceania, control two-thirds of the Pacific region, occupy the Far East, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu archipelago, and the Taiwan archipelago, replace the UK to control most of the world's major maritime transportation lines and adjacent strategic strongholds, absorb the entire British Royal Navy and the French Navy, and has a terrifying invincible fleet with a total tonnage of 6.4 million tons. It has achieved huge military benefits, making the armies of various countries envious and jealous.

However, the acquisition of economic benefits is even greater. This is invisible data. Before the Tang Empire completed the complete control of the occupied areas and the economic data statistics were completed, the total GDP of the Tang Empire had exceeded 300 billion Tang Yuan. Compared with the outbreak of World War II, the total GDP increased by 100 billion Tang Yuan in just a few years, and the total GDP of the United States was only 100 billion US dollars. This speed is shocking, and it is the effect brought about by the victory of the war.

As the Tang army completed military occupation and administrative jurisdiction over two million square kilometers of areas in Australia and the Far East, the total GDP of Australia and the Far East was also classified as the Tang Empire. The total GDP of the Far East was not high, and the Soviets focused on Europe. Although the Soviet Union's GDP exceeded US$180 billion in recent years, the proportion of the Far East was not high, with less than US$30 billion in total GDP.

Australia is different. Since its establishment, the Tang Empire has included Australia in its rear energy base. Over the years, it has invested more than 12 billion Tangyuan in Australia, focusing on large-scale exploration of Australian iron ore, copper ore, gold ore, diamond ore, rare earth ore, and investing in the construction of a large number of ore mining and smelting factories. The fresh grain and meat of the Tang Empire are provided by farms and ranches invested in Australia. After experiencing global avian influenza, Australia has expanded to more than 10,000 ranches, and almost every rural Australian family is serving the Tang Empire. One farm or ranch, the grain and meat products produced are partially sent to the Tang Empire for processing and sale, and some are processed and sold to the world on-site. The entire Australia stimulated rapid economic development due to the rise of the Tang Empire, and the total GDP at this time has exceeded 65 billion Tangyuan.

In this way, the GDP of Australia and the Far East joins the total GDP of the Tang Empire, making the total GDP of the Tang Empire actually close to more than 395 billion Tang Yuan. If the GDP of Taiwan, Ireland, Cyprus, and other original British colonial strongholds occupied by the Tang Empire will also be included, the total GDP of the Tang Empire is already the same as that of the United States.

In fact, because the Tang Empire was an ally of Germany and Italy, most of the wealth plundered by Germany and Italy from Europe and Africa was used to purchase steel, oil, weapons and equipment from the Tang Empire. The war money was very huge and on the surface, it was very large and complicated. There were many Tang merchants who were taking advantage of the legal loopholes of the Tang Empire to conduct undercover operations. This invisible transaction was even more uncountable, making the real GDP of the Tang Empire far surpass that of the United States.

For the Tang Empire, the only thing that cannot compete with the United States is actually back to population resources, because the United States has reached 180 million, while the local population of the Tang Empire is only 15 million. In addition to the merged Australia, the Far East and other overseas territories, the population is only 22 million.

In addition to the competition between industry, agriculture and military industry, the potential of war has to be controlled by people in the end. Germany and Japan lost World War II in history, and the insufficient population caused the war consumption to be unable to be supplemented, which is also one of the most critical factors.

Therefore, Zhang Meng did not choose to compete with the United States. One of the factors was due to the insufficient population and resources of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng realized that as the territory of the Tang Empire expanded, population resources once again became an obstacle to the development of economic and military strength. Therefore, under his order, the ministers of the Ministry of Revenue of the Tang Empire quickly formulated a new round of population introduction plan.

This is the fourth large-scale population introduction plan of the Tang Empire. The number of people required to be introduced this time is also the largest, requiring 10 million people in the first stage. However, because of the complete medical and social welfare security system, the population introduced by the Tang Empire was of extremely high quality, and was mainly intellectuals and middle- and senior technical talents. This greatly restricted the inflow of population. After all, the Tang Empire mainly targeted Chinese ethnic groups, and mainland China had just ended the war, and talents were also scarce and scarce. The National Government was also controlling the outflow of senior talents, so the Tang Empire could easily obtain less and less population.

The memorial reported by the Ministry of Revenue to Zhang Meng shows that the 10 million people needed to be introduced in the first phase of the Tang Empire was difficult to rely on foreign aid, and it may take ten years or even twenty years.

In other words, the Tang Empire now introduces foreign aid population and can obtain one million people every year. This is quite good. For the future development of the Tang Empire, the population base is still too small, and Zhang Meng is not satisfied. But he cannot introduce millions of people into the Tang Dynasty in a crazy year like before, because many parts of the Tang Empire have stabilized, with local inherent forces and interest groups. They do not want foreign populations to break their interest chains, which will affect the stability of the Tang Empire itself. After all, the Tang Empire was not established for a short time, and Zhang Meng has been working hard to stabilize the entire empire, twisting all the Tang people into one rope, and forming a real Tang people's large group. He cannot destroy this just-consistent foundation.

In this way, Zhang Meng had to issue a population rest order, stipulating that the families of the Tang Empire would make the honor of giving birth to children to the country and encourage childbirth. For each family to have one more child, the imperial government rewarded 10,000 Tang yuan, which was enough for the child to complete high school graduation, and the family had almost no special financial burden.

As soon as this regulation was released, all families in the entire Tang Empire cheered and the Tang people, who have always regarded having many children and blessings as the tradition, naturally supported this policy. Women of Chinese descent were born to be prone to pregnancy and fertility. Therefore, once this policy was implemented, I believe that in the next twenty years, the population weakness of the Tang Empire would be greatly improved.
Chapter completed!