Chapter 843 How long will it take?

No one knows how Jacob left Shanghai, but even if he got a promise to ensure the safety of the family's capital, he got an unprecedented opportunity, but he still couldn't be happy.

After learning about Li Mo's real purpose hidden in this huge war, he could not restrain his thoughts. The simple word "blue coin settlement" brought more than the shock of the world economy. When Xinhualan becomes "blue gold", culture and politics will undergo earth-shaking changes.

In this world, nothing can leave money. Everything that is valuable needs to be measured by money. When this settlement system takes shape, when people use "how many blue coins" to price a certain commodity, then the politics, culture and even religion of the nation or country will be blue one by one. Colored banknotes are gradually penetrated.

This is a terrible system. What Li Mo has to do is to use its huge unshakable gold reserves to peg the blue coin to gold, while the currencies of other countries will gradually break away from gold and peg the blue coin, which means that Xinhua has used the currency to kidnap the world!

Because in short, once the blue coin appreciates or depreciates, the world monetary system will also fluctuate significantly.

For a Jewish family who wants to control the world economy, they and Li Mo take the same path. The difference is that they are more hidden, while Li Mo is straightforward and simple, using cannons and bombs to achieve their goals!

This is the difference between the country and the family!

The cruise ship slowly left the wharf. Due to the opening of the Suez Canal, it has become a smooth road from Shanghai to Istanbul, all thanks to the unbreakable maritime advantages of the Royal Navy of the Xinhua Empire.

Although this is the first re-opened Asia-Europe sea route, the sea routes from Japan to Xinhua to Italy, North Korea to Xinhua to Austria-Hungary, Luzon, and Singapore to Bulgaria are also preparing for reopening. It can be expected that the Asia-Europe route, which has been closed for more than three years, will become active again in the near future.

Because of the war, more and more Europeans began to pay attention to peaceful Asia. They arrived here along a steady stream of freighters, looking for dream opportunities. In a trance, this place has become the North American continent 20 years ago. The huge population base, superior natural conditions and the hegemony of Xinhua, all No war or crisis can be seen here in the short term, which more stimulates the white people who come to avoid the war and search for gold.

Of course, there are also people who have to stay in the East for several years because of the war. They are eager to end and return to their familiar homes. However, at this moment, no one knows how long it will take for the war to finally stop.

Li Mo lay in the rocking chair, listening to the report, and casually pushed off the ash on the fire pan with pliers, revealing the red charcoal underneath.

"Last month, we put a total of 1968 transport vessels and 288 transport aircraft to the North American front, with a total tonnage of 6.5 million tons of transport materials, most of which are ammunition and food." Zhang Zuolin, who had just returned to the General Staff with Dasheng from the front line, took the report with a slightly solemn face: "In addition to North America, the number of transport ships in the Mediterranean and North African theaters last month also reached 711, with a total of 2.7 million tons of materials.

In addition to combat missions, our fleet has also delivered a total of 2,700 pieces of material support to our allies in Europe, South America and Asia, with a total of 8 million tons!

At present, the Xinhua ship project has delivered 573 transport ships, and 220 other seized and seized cargo ships have all of which have been put into transportation support, and even naval transport ships have been pulled up.

Now our mission has changed from active attack to providing material support to European allies. The pressure of the transport fleet has tripled, and the personnel problem is not very big. At present, the logistics department has adopted the method of changing people without changing ships, just because the distance from Asia to North America and Europe are far away. It takes a long time to go back and forth, and with the surrender of Italy and Spain, once they begin to fully help them recover after the war, the size of the fleet is far from enough.

"In addition to transportation, is there any problem with the materials?" Tang Shaoyi waved her hand and interrupted Zhang Zuolin's words.

"It's better in China. Last year, the drought in the south failed, but the total grain output of the country still maintained growth, so the grain pressure is not very large, but the occupied area is more troublesome." Zhang Zuolin continued: "Australia's early immigration work has begun, but Australia belongs to the desert water-scarce terrain, and the main arable land is concentrated in the Great Artesian Basin. According to the emperor's suggestion, we have completely banned goats and other livestock that will destroy vegetation in Australia, and also banned the hunting of local areas. There are unique animals and plants.

In addition, immigration work has only begun, so it will take at least two to three years to restore to the pre-war production scale. At present, it can only maintain the needs of the garrison and cannot provide help to the country and occupied areas.

At present, the biggest difficulty is North America!

At present, we have controlled seven southern states in the United States, among which Texas and other states are food-producing areas, but the problem is that at least 60% of the population there has fled to the north, and most of the rest are temporarily quarantined by us, so it is impossible to resume food production. We must also rely on domestic support.

The same is true of the European theater. Although Germany has controlled one-third of France's land and occupied the richest Paris Plain for three years, food production is also poor, and their human resources are worse than ours. After taking away a large number of young and middle-aged people to the front line, food can only ensure self-sufficiency. He is also short of supplies! Coupled with the recent Italian food shortage, our pressure on the most important food is also beginning to appear!

As for the Alliencies, the situation in the United States is slightly better. Although about 50 percent of the industrial base has been destroyed by us, the main grain-producing areas of the Great Lakes have not been destroyed. Britain and France are already very bad at present. Because we have blocked the east coast of the United States, except for a small number of smuggled ships, the main transportation in the Atlantic Ocean has been completely interrupted. Britain and France's grain reserves have become unsufficient, especially France has reached the limit. We expect that France will collapse because of food in two months at most!"

"The 20 years of pre-war Europe's prosperity have been destroyed by this war. Your Majesty's ten years of quietly stockpiled materials have also been consumed. The pre-war reserves of copper, lead, tin, aluminum and other metal raw materials have been almost consumed, especially copper. We have begun to use the post-war reserves. "."

"It should be said so!" Zhang Zuolin summed up with a serious look: "Europe has begun to fish, and we are also beginning to feel uncomfortable!"

"Ha ha, there is still a gap." Facing everyone's eyes looking at him, Li Mo stretched out. His words also resonated with everyone. Before the war, he built a complete set of industries for the country by smashing money crazily, but after all, the foundation is thin and the time is short, which is not as good as that of Europe and the United States after the century-old industrial revolution. If it weren't for the technical advantages, perhaps everyone would not have the opportunity to sit here and point to the world map at this moment. Talk about it.

Standing at the height of Li Mo, he can clearly know that the domestic factory has reached the limit, and the possibility of expansion in the short term is very small, so he is very happy that the war can be fought to this extent.

"Let's talk about the current situation." Chen Ping said.

Zhang Zuolin nodded and picked up the baton in front of the map: "In the North American theater, as our supply line began to lengthen, coupled with the winter weather, the U.S. military has stabilized on the front line in Kansas, Missouri and South Carolina on land. The work of the war zone is mainly focused on maintaining local stability. The rear is to ensure the safety of the supply line and give the enemy some pressure on the front line.

At sea, at present, we still maintain the scale of six aircraft carriers and three special convoys on the east coast of the United States. However, at present, the Atlantic cold current is serious, and the seas in many areas have been frozen, and the sea wind, snow and fog are serious at night. The enemy's submarine threat is relatively large, so the fleet has not entered New York for security reasons. About Boston and other northern areas, and in the early stage, our pilots also needed to rest because of the long-term high-intensity operations, and the ammunition consumption was also very serious, so at present, it is only to maintain the blockade and carry out conventional bombing. We need to wait until the end of April to survive the Atlantic winter to resume the full-scale attack.

Zhang Zuolin paused for a moment, and the baton moved horizontally and continued: "In the direction of the Mediterranean, the most important task at present is to force Spain to surrender as soon as possible, while providing support to Germany and Italy. Since the Malta base will not be activated until the end of April, the strategic bombing of southern France will be at least five. It won't start until the beginning of the month.

There is no war in North Africa. With the return of Italy, the two armies of the Ottoman Empire and our two divisions have taken control of the whole territory of Egypt, one of which has also penetrated into French Tunisia and Algeria without much resistance.

On the European side, the German army has suspended the main attack for its own sake, and Britain and France have basically lost the right to take the initiative to attack. According to the latest intelligence, Hindenburg and Rudendorff are already planning the spring offensive and preparing to conquer France in one fell swoop!

At sea, after Tirpitz returned, the German navy began to be active and launched two consecutive breakthroughs. However, because of the delivery of the last two British Hood-class ships, coupled with the two prestige-class ships that escaped from the United States, the North Sea defense line has been stabilized.

At present, while Tirpitz hopes that we will cross the Atlantic to help fight, he has discussed with William II to accelerate the construction of the York class. We expect that a new round of maritime confrontation may begin at the end of April and the beginning of May.

"Yuanshou, didn't you really consider bombing the British mainland?" After hearing this, Li Enfu was a little surprised. First, he looked at Li Mo and then turned to Chen Ping. He was a little puzzled that the military did not mention anything about Britain. You know, Britain is the only one of big fat left. Whether for political purposes or post-war interests, even if it is impossible to treat Britain like the United States, it can maintain the army. The pressure is also appropriate.

Chen Ping smiled, picked up the teacup and smiled, "The moment the German navy breaks through the blockade, we will arrive in the British mainland!"

"It's over. If you blow up the perfect country and then blow up Britain, you will consume a lot of ammunition. I'm afraid Fatty Tang is going to cry, right?" Hearing this, Yan Fu suddenly collapsed. The bombing mission against the United States alone almost exhausted dozens of ammunition factories in the equipment department and continued to deal with Britain. Not to mention Tang Xiao, even he felt extremely tricky.

"Ha ha." Li Mo waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we have prepared something new for Britain. If it goes well, we don't need much ammunition to destroy the industrial capacity!"

"New thing?"

Tang Shaoyi and others stared curiously, but Li Mo didn't seem to have any answer. He just asked with a smile, "Yuanshou, according to your estimation, how long will it take for the war to end?"

"There are still five days left for the Lunar New Year. If you calculate in this way, give us another half a year, and it will be over!"

"Half a year?" Li Mo nodded with his eyes narrowed and said meaningfully, "It should be enough."

(to be continued)