Chapter 286 New China, New

In April 1917, Hu Chuyuan, who returned to China, couldn't wait to formulate a huge migration and investment plan to continue to develop industry and agriculture in Tyumei, Uralsk and Yabinsk, and use natural gas resources to establish a reliable urban heating system.

After having the experience of large-scale immigration to Novosibirsk, when migrating to Western Siberia, the preparations and various response policies of the central government axe have also been improved.

For Chinese people living in these areas, the state will have special financial subsidies to provide basic heating. Even in suburbs and rural areas, each person will have a fire fee every year, and local government axes also have special subsidies for the repair of fire kang.

Although a large amount of military expenditure was spent in the war, relying on early estimates and reasonable investment, the national assets of the central government axe have risen steadily. Excrued from the state's fixed investment and state-owned infrastructure, the total amount of financial assets, gold reserves and foreign exchange reserves is about 34.4 billion yuan, and the central government axe still holds more than 1 in the provinces. A preferential rental land for industry and commerce with a market value of 4 billion yuan.

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission only has a surplus of 1.4 billion yuan in addition to the country's military expenditure on investment in silver assets.

In May, Hu Chuyuan, as Prime Minister, approved the new National Citizenship Regulation and Immigration Act, and began to make macro adjustments to the population distribution of domestic residents based on the guidelines of large agricultural economic policies.

The southern population has gradually migrated to the central and Southeast Asian regions, the central population has gradually moved to the north, and the northern population has continued to migrate to Western Siberia, Novosibirsk, Central Siberia, the three northeastern provinces and Ili Province.

In Ili Province, ethnic minorities are also transferred to Novosibirsk and Central Siberia.

In May 1917, regarding the expansion of military strength and excessive armaments left over from the war, the National Military Commission made a comprehensive military adjustment plan, merging the former Army Department, the Air Force Department and the Navy Department into the new Ministry of National Defense, and each army set up the General Staff Office of the three armed forces directly under the jurisdiction of the National Military Commission.

According to the needs of national defense, the official establishment of the army has been increased to 84 divisions, 43 divisions have been added as integrated divisions, the Nanyang Corps has been added, and the air force has 17 divisions. The navy has retained 14 marine divisions in addition to the original establishment.

According to different situations and needs, the maximum size of the National Guard forces under the provinces and autonomous provinces is three conventional divisions. Under normal circumstances, there is only one division. The soldiers of the National Guard in each province shall be uniformly assigned by the service department of the National Military Commission, and the proportion of soldiers shall not exceed 20%.

The National Guard, the Coast Guard and the Central National Defense Force all belong to the service system. They only pay service allowances at ordinary times, continue to maintain the policy of temporary front-line allowances, and retain and adhere to the original basic principle that the army is a military academy.

After adjustment, the total number of members of the Central National Defense Force was reduced from wartime to 1.72 million, and the total number of National Guard forces was 830,000.

In July 1917, under the auspices of Hu Chuyuan, the administrative division of the country was readjusted. The Sumansia Autonomous Region was divided into Sumansia Province and Sulawesi Autonomous Province, Tibet Province, Xinjiang Province, Ili and Altai (Western Mongolia and the Altai Territory were integrated into one province to prevent the division of [***]. The areas where Han, Russians, Kazakhs and Mongols live in China, where Russians mainly migrate to this area), Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shaanxi and Kashmir are also established as autonomous provinces.

On the basis of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government of Yanjing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, a new municipality directly under the Central Government will continue to be added to Singapore.

Since then, China's administrative region has 29 Changzhi provinces (three northeastern provinces, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, six provinces of Jiangnan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangnan, Sumansia, Jeju, Pacific Islands, East Siberia, Central Siberia, West Siberia , Novosibirsk, South West Siberia), as well as 12 autonomous provinces and 5 municipalities directly under the central government.

The total territory of the country is 24.783 million square kilometers. In Asia, China has 12 protectorates of North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei, Sumatra, Java, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Iraq. Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Kuwait are There are seven overseas provinces: Papua Guinea (formerly Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, Social Islands, Lane Islands and Andaman Islands.

In Japan, China is still firmly in control of the Nagasaki concession.

In Africa, China has 14 overseas provinces in Nepal, Cameroon, Benin, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Mozambique, Sao Tome Islands, Comodo Islands and Djibouti. Through cooperation with the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, China is also Trying to take advantage of Libya and Sudan.

In South America, China has two overseas provinces, Suriname and Central Guyana.

In Europe, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Seville, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia and Albania are actually the protectorates of China. They enjoy the right to internal and diplomatic freedom within the entire Asia-Europe League Treaty, but maintain a unified surname militarily and economically.

Hu Chuyuan's only concern now is Russia. Although it now controls the situation of the Federal Republic of Russia and supervises Russia, just as Germany does not necessarily belong to the British and American camp, in the long run, Russia does not necessarily belong to the Chinese camp.

There is no doubt about the Russian hatred of the Chinese. If China and the British and American camps really reach the point where they have to go to war, they will only help Britain and the United States, not China.

Germany is the opposite, especially when the French and the Anglo-American camps wear a pair of trousers.

The butterfly effect brought by China's strength is terrible. The whole international situation is unpredictable. Now, no one is 100% sure.

In addition to the worries about World War II, Hu Chuyuan has to consider another more important issue at this time.

Republic!!!

By the Constitution, he can only serve as Prime Minister for up to three terms. Because of the outbreak of World War I, he was forced to be re-elected for two terms.

He can't wait any longer. Except for him, others may not be able to steadily complete the transition into the republican era.

However, just after the end of the First World War, the country is facing large-scale immigration adjustment and new large-scale development policies. The promotion of large-scale agricultural economic policies is very strong, and the huge population base is ensuring that the country expands to every corner of the existing territory.

The great migration of population, the great adjustment of the military, the great division of administration...!!

Hu Chuyuan can only focus on economic problems at home and abroad and secretly accelerate the deployment of a full republic.

Although World War I ended two years earlier than expected, it still had a great economic blow to countries, and the damage of the war to the world economy was far greater than the direct military expenditure of countries.

During the war, the total number of troops recruited by various countries exceeded 57 million people, and more than 7 million people died from famine and diseases caused by war and war, and were basically concentrated in Europe.

As of 1917, the overall industrial production capacity of the European continent had dropped by 50%. Although Germany, under the persuasion of Hu Chuyuan, announced its surrender before the Ally's full attack on Germany, it was claimed by Britain, France and other countries for debts of up to 3.7 billion pounds, and the previously occupied territories of Poland and France were separated. With the loss of all investment assets in foreign countries, the national economy has long been in bankruptcy.

Because the headquarters and settlement center of major assets such as BASF Chemical were relocated to Switzerland in advance, Hu Chuyuan's personal assets in Germany barely escaped half. The assets of BASF Chemical, Siemens, German Commercial Bank, Mercedes-Benz and other companies around the world also avoided being confiscated by other countries. .

From 1914 to 1917, Britain's total foreign trade deficit reached 2.134 billion pounds, not only forced to sell political axe assets worth 1 billion pounds, but also owed China 420 million pounds and the United States 550 million pounds of international debt.

France, which has always been known as a usurable country, also had to borrow 870 million pounds from China and mortgage Morocco's suzerain rights to China.

The country that really harvested the most during the First World War was China, followed by the United States, and the third one was the Japanese capital that Hu Chuyuan was very reluctant to see. Taking advantage of the fragility of British and French capital during the war, the Japanese consortium recovered a large amount of investment from various countries, and gradually regained the country's economic and financial sovereignty. .

At present, CITIC Bank, Wells Fargo and HSBC are the designated banknote issuing banks of Japan. The Fukang consortium also has a high holding capacity of the Fuji consortium, which can form a certain degree of restriction on Japan.

After 15 years of slow crawling, Japan got up again and paid off the compensation debt to China. Taking advantage of the precious opportunity of the First World War, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and other consortia also regained their strength.

Relying on the military and other material orders of Britain, France, Russia and other countries in Japan, the Japanese industry has grown a lot in recent years. Relying on the accumulation of national education, the development and construction of the country's internal market, especially through learning from China and plagiarizing the characteristics of the joint venture system, the current Japanese industry should not be underestimated too much. However, there is no need to pay attention to it. After all, the times are completely different.

In the world, the country with the highest total gold reserves is no longer the United Kingdom, but China, which holds 10,480 tons of gold, followed by the United States, holding 5,275 tons of gold.

In July 1917, the exchange rate of silver for gold reached a high of 10.4:1 in nearly a decade.

The war is over, but the world economy is still in severe turmoil and the Great Depression. Silver is still the second only precious metal investment channel to gold, and the price will not fall in the short term.

As an excellent investor, before 1917, when the silver exchange rate exceeded 11:1, Hu Chuyuan gradually sold the silver assets held in China for bottom fishing for the European economy.

The Chinese yuan is slowly showing signs of replacing the British pound. In the Asian region, international trade settlement is basically the Chinese yuan... This is the main reason for the conflict between China and the United Kingdom, and the reason why the status of Singapore's free financial zone has been replaced by Hong Kong. What's more, the UK is willing to sell at a high price. The reason for the slope.

At the same time, China and the United States have also changed from debtors as a whole to creditors. As of July 1917, the total foreign debt to China has reached 2.37 billion pounds, and the proportion of British and French capital in China has been greatly weakened.

For Europe, this is an unprecedented catastrophe. For China, the harvest far outweighs the loss. For the United States, this is an unprecedented harvest. For Japan, this is a God-given opportunity.

(to be continued)