() Since the fall of Yuan Shikai, mainland China has fallen into a situation of warlord separatism. The centralized government in various places has lost the central government.
Yang Yang's control, they have used their own troops to firmly hold one-third of their own land and become the emperor of the country. In the north, Cao Kun, the direct warlord headed by Feng Guozhang,
Li Chun, Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan and others controlled Zhili, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places; while the Anhui warlords Xu Shuzheng, Jin Yunpeng, Duan Zhigui, Fu Liangzuo, Ni Sichong and others, headed by Duan Qirui,
Controlled Anhui, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, Shaanxi and other places; together with the Feng clique warlord Zhang Zuolin, Shanxi clique warlord Yan Xishan and Fu Zuoyi, the Yunnan clique warlord Tang Jiyao, the Guangxi clique warlord Lu Tingrong, the entire Central China
The country was divided into several large and small regions. In addition to these warlords, there were also law-enforcement forces headed by Sun Yat-sen, who contacted the Guangxi and Yunnan warlords and used Guangdong as their base to compete with the Anhui clique in the north.
Historically, the Zhili clique warlords were agents of the British, while the Anhui, Feng, and Jin clique warlords were more inclined to the Japanese. However, due to Liu Fu's crossing and the rise of Taiwan, the Japanese were continuously attacked. Domestic
The economy is in a slump, although the
In the past few years, they have received strong support from the Americans, but they still do not have much power to intervene in China's affairs. Therefore, the Japanese only supported one Feng clique as their agent in China, and the Anhui clique and the Shanxi clique turned to
American embrace.
Among these warlords, except for Zhang Zuolin and Yan Xishan, almost all others have contact with the South China Sea Federation, especially the Guangxi warlord Lu Tingrong, who is relatively close to Hainan Island and Taiwan Island, the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao and some of the guardians led by Sun Yat-sen
In these contacts, what the warlords in various places wanted most was nothing more than federal guns, ammunition, and warships and cannons. However, according to Liu Fu's instructions, the federal government
fu only agrees to carry out normal trade with the other party and does not need to discuss any arms business.
However, when the Federation deals with these warlords, it does not use barter or currency purchases, because whatever funds these warlords have are saved to expand armaments, and it is impossible to use them to purchase food, medicine, coal, etc.
Materials, and the reward received by the Federation when trading with them is people!
In fact, it cannot be said to be human beings directly. Wouldn't it become a slave trade? The federation provides corresponding goods to the warlords who trade with it according to the quantity, and all these warlords need to pay is to allow the federal government to send personnel to their jurisdiction.
Recruitment points will be set up in the area, and the safety and order of the recruitment points will be guaranteed.
In fact, to put it bluntly, this is buying and selling people, but the methods are more subtle and the methods are softer. People at federal recruitment sites do not force locals to apply for jobs, but only offer various preferential conditions to attract local idle labor.
Federal jobs or naturalization. And the local warlords can use their most abundant population in exchange for corresponding material rewards, and the population loss is not very large. Although they know that it is not appropriate to continue like this in the long run, for the immediate interests, that is
I can't care about the long term.
Because Chinese people are attached to their hometown and land, the recruitment of workers in the federal government has not been very smooth. In more than two years, less than 1 million people have been recruited from several provinces in the south of the mainland, and a lot of materials have been paid. However,
federal government
Fu doesn't feel bad or wronged, because the federation's food output is very high. In addition to selling it to European war zones, the rest is enough to satisfy the appetite of these warlords. Moreover, due to the large amount of food imported, the food supply in many areas in the south has been reduced.
Prices are getting lower and lower, which leads to lower and lower incomes for farmers who farm. Eventually, they are unable to make ends meet and become bankrupt. These bankrupt farmers and refugees fleeing the war are the main targets for federal recruitment.
In addition to recruiting immigrants on the mainland, the federal government has also opened some small commercial shops and small factories on the mainland, selling some high-end federal products in big cities and producing some small products such as lighters and cigarettes.
These industries are all invested and established by the federal government, and most of them are directly responsible for the Ministry of the Interior and the Military Intelligence Office. They are generally treated as a normal business, and half of them are used as permanent bases for intelligence agencies. Moreover, the federal government
fu does not encourage investment and business in mainland China because the political situation there is unstable and private investment is likely to be lost.
In addition to the continued chaos in mainland China, Europe is also in chaos. After the United States entered the war, although the United States military was not very easy to use, it relied on its strong manufacturing and production capabilities to continuously supply various weapons and equipment.
were transported to the European continent. Countries such as Britain and France, which had been in a decline due to the outbreak of revolution in Russia and its withdrawal from the war, quickly recovered with the strong participation of the Americans and launched an active counterattack against Germany.
Because the Germans misjudged the military strength of the United States, in their view, even if the United States participated in the war, the mobilization and preparation work alone would take one to one and a half years. By then, Britain and France should already be in the German Army.
The United States surrendered under the attack of a powerful attack and unrestricted submarine warfare by German submarines, and the United States' participation in the war became insignificant. Who would have thought that for the sake of their interests in Europe, the Americans would fight for their own interests in Europe in just half a year?
Hundreds of thousands of troops and a large amount of equipment were transported to the European continent in a short period of time. Due to the participation of the United States in the war, China, Greece, Brazil, Cuba, Libya, Thailand and some South American countries that were originally neutral have all joined the camp of the Allied Powers.
This makes the Germans a little bit unable to bear it. After all, they have been fighting in Europe for more than two years. Even Germany in its heyday couldn't help so many countries joining together.
In the second half of 1917, the Allies' pig iron production dropped to 15 million tons, while the Allies' output reached 50 million tons; the Allies' steel production was 16 million tons, while the Allies' output reached 58 million tons; the Allies' coal output was more than 300 million tons, while the Allies'
Reached more than 800 million tons. Although these figures cannot fully explain the problem, in a war that cannot be ended quickly, these figures often
It used to represent the final trend of the war. Today, the United States has invested 1 million American soldiers on the French battlefield. Together with French and British troops, they pinned the 190 German divisions to the front in northern France.
This left the Germans unable to take another step forward, and the British were freed up to wipe out the German power in Africa, Central Asia and other places, further weakening Germany's war potential.
When the Germans were unable to support themselves, the South China Sea Federation, through its neutrality status and agreements with Britain, France and other countries, tried its best to transport shiploads of rice, steel, coal, medicines, and textiles to the European continent.
, and used them to exchange for large amounts of precious metals and foreign exchange with European countries before returning to Asia. In addition, because the British and American shipyards were unable to compensate for the losses caused by German submarines in the early stages,
The number of merchant ships, so the three shipyards of the Federation have received a large number of orders, which not only earned a large amount of foreign exchange reserves, but also trained a large number of shipbuilding workers for the Federation. Since shipbuilding is a comprehensive high-end industry, so
These shipbuilding projects also indirectly brought huge profits to many enterprises in the federation, and from one side, helped the upgrading of federal industry and manufacturing.
When domestic companies are full, the government's taxes will increase. Starting in 2009, Liu Fu began to deliberately separate the industries under his name from the government. This does not mean that the money earned from these industries is not the same.
Let Liu Fu keep it in his pocket. The purpose of Liu Fu's doing this is to slowly normalize the federal government. Instead of relying too much on a certain person or group to survive, Liu Fu should be able to balance the balance of payments on his own.
Of course, Liu Fu didn't give up at all. He invested part of his income in the bank, and then used these funds to issue low-interest and interest-free loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, slowly supporting the growth of these small enterprises.
, then these enterprises can create more profits, and the government will also receive more tax revenue, which is equivalent to helping this new government slowly develop its own hematopoietic function.
Except for using part of the money to grant loans, more than half of Liu Fu's income was invested in several major federal research institutes. Most of these research institutes were transformed from the research institute established in Keelung in 1888.
Now they have more research projects, they are more specific and they cost more money. The federal government cannot spend much money to maintain these research projects every year, because the federal government cannot spend much money to maintain these research projects.
The places that Fu manages are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more places that need to be developed. Various constructions require a large amount of funds. Therefore, Liu Fu basically pays for the research funds of these institutes out of his own pocket, but Liu Fu does not
What complaints? As a time traveler, he understands the power of technology very well. He still has many ideas that need to be completed by the research institute. Therefore, every year, the large dividends transferred from the Sandro Group and Schneider Petroleum Company,
They were all invested in these money-burning research projects by Liu Fu.
