33.14 Finance, Military Technology(1/2)
In August 109, the Holy Gu Calendar, Xinfeng City.
As the war broke out in the north, ships traveled more and more frequently recently, and the docks were surrounded by steam filled with these paddle steamers.
The Burning Wheel has passed an aid bill to provide weapons such as firearms and ammunition to the locust forces in the north, and export important strategic materials such as mechanical processing facilities.
The Locust family actually wants to buy equipment like the armored bull tank.
For this reason, the thin-skinned Yu Qian had to take the initiative to click on the remote communication with Zhouyou.
At that time, the Zhouyou who was still on the ship had a clear answer: "The locusts now need our overall military intervention the most. The subsequent military sale is a step to wait until our corps stabilizes the situation."
The subtle meaning: "The main battle tank and fighter aircraft are not equipped with a military system, and it is very likely to be a loss-making transaction with investment, so we must first determine the dominance of the burning wheel, and then carry out military reforms for the locusts and fully change their clothes."
Yuqian lowered her head, listened to Zhou You's explanation with a flushed face, and overturned the last worry that some people in the family always chewed their mouths, "Zhou You don't want to help her."
In fact, Yuqian had already rationally confirmed the news of Lanlun joining the war, because the war machine was opened in all aspects.
Large-scale bond issuance in finance! And this form of bonds - the entire middle and lower layers of the Burning Wheel may not have realized that this is a bond. A large number of silver coins were quickly made, and then these digitally encoded silver coins were soldered together, put on the glass panel, and issued to the market. As long as the board is closed ten years later and the bank will not open, after the bank confirms, it will be returned to the scattered coins at 5% of the profit.
In this way, the bank of the Burning Wheel issued a large amount of silver coins over-issued.
In theory, the large amount of currency entered the market would cause inflation. Spain and the Ming Dynasty were so ruined. However, in the Song Dynasty, copper coins were minted every year, but the result was deflation every year - because everyone (including a series of surrounding countries) were all housed in the cellars and were not circulated on the market.
Modern capital countries will scientifically control this phenomenon and forcefully stimulate the enthusiasm of labor force by overdrawing future money. They are used for competition in science and technology industries in peace, and mobilization is directly completed during wars.
Of course, in peacetime, this kind of increase in competitiveness by issuing bonds is purely based on business rules. If it continues, the national reputation will sooner or later be overdrawn and bankrupt. But if some people go bankrupt before themselves, then there is no problem. Whoever can't hold on first will start a war if the industrial country has the ability. Of course, once the war fails, it will be plundered by other countries and eliminate the deficit for other countries.
Ran Lun is also doing this now, and the central government has suddenly gained a lot of funds.
Internal: As long as the market prices are stable, money is valuable. The internal combustion wheels start like turbochargers. From small factory owners to ordinary workers, they are all hurrying to make money and complete orders after order.
External: The economy of the Burning Wheel frantically plunders the minerals in the entire ‘Ku’ area.
So the following situation occurred. The silver coins of the burning wheel are now circulated directly into the hands of the nobles under Jueying's command.
These nobles received bribes and agreed that some merchants would purchase some important materials from the northern control area, and even sold craftsmen to the south as slaves. In other words, the large amount of bonds issued by the Rising Wheel is now using the materials from the Jueying control area to be hostile to Jueying!
Zhou You: I won this debt, it’s very easy to repay.
The policy of burning the wheel is a pure capitalist method. However, this method has the positive effect of winning the war, and also has some side effects.
Before this, in order to protect workers' rights, Zhouyou agreed to work four shifts within the internal law of the rim.
Since capitalism just emerged, Zhouyou still retained some majesty equivalent to feudal lords in the burning wheel. These capitalists are not brave enough, and no one dared to test the law a few years ago.
But now, before the wartime system was opened, many of the following companies have directly carried out a ten-hour working system every day after ordering a large number of production lines. Some even have a 12-hour working system and two shifts.
Because the workers' group is now standing with the boss, it seems like a class. It is against the law by supporting the factory in groups. If you want to enforce the law at this time, it is actually the workers in the factory that are confronting.
Now the laws set by Zhouyou in advance have been in name only.
In an environment where historical processes have not been baptized, workers themselves have destroyed the advanced laws to protect them. This "homework" seems to have to be completed by the people of this world in the future.
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Back to the national level, Zhouyou believes that the Rain Wheel is worthwhile in this kind of bond issuance.
If as an agricultural country, the top level is the comprador class and there is no self-replicating and increasing value of the industrial system, it would be terrible to overdraw future money. If you issue real silver coins, you can turn them into gold coupons after the war.
But Lanlun is now an industrial country. As long as you win the Northern War, a series of raw materials will be included in the jurisdiction and the accounts will definitely be smoothed out.
Now everyone knows that the face value of the federal issued silver coins is far greater than the number of consumer goods on the market now. However, Ranlun Bank uses its credibility to confirm that the silver coins will not depreciate, and everyone has silver coins and is willing to consume in the future.
In fact, as the scale of industrial output value gradually increases, the currency that the government issues bonds in the war and flows into the hands of the people will sooner or later be recovered from the consumption tax year after the end of the war.
During the war, the government consumed production capacity. After the war, the government hoped that people would consume and feed production capacity.
Here, finance is to bridge the credibility required by different people at different times. Allow everyone to burst out their enthusiasm for labor when they are most suitable for labor and when they may need to consume in the future. This will not cause insufficient demand when they are able to work and waste summer like a butterfly.
On the Rock Crystal Star, such a greedy industrial society that wants to expand has already exposed its sharp claws.
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At the port of Xinfengcheng, as a large amount of materials are transported out, a large number of immigrants are constantly transported in.
In this war, the population was once a negative asset on other lord lands. After all, a war without righteousness simply for power is very realistic, and the decision-makers will definitely abandon the worthless "things".
In this world, agricultural means of production were usurped by knight lords, military industry was replaced by worms, and ordinary people were valuable only if they became slaves. As for other free people who had lived by the "tertiary industry" before, they were basically abandoned.
[Oh, young women are scarce assets everywhere and are taken care of more during wartime.]
If the Rock Crystal Star had not descended from the World Tour, there would be no surprise that a turning point in the population would appear in this battle for imperial power. As the space for human species to reproduce and prosper, this turning point would never rise again after it would go down. Humans would go to extinction when they were not paying attention.
However, the burning wheel is now starting an industrial miracle.
Xishui Port, Xiahong Island, and a series of industrial cities built on the southern coastline were all short of people, and wars in various parts of the north made the lords urgently need military industrial products. This led to the second major concentration of mankind.
Compared to the last time the population was flooded by poisonous insects and rushed to the coastal cities, this time there were no slums, but large areas of heavy industrial chimneys.
Men, women, and children underwent physical examinations, and then went to different camps separately and received skills training under the training of instructors.
Since these classes will enter the production line in the future, these instructors are comparable to middle school teachers in the 21st century. In order to ask for a good team of workers, capitalists care very much about instructors' training.
Among cement walkways and metal railings, people wearing gray-blue uniforms began to line up and shouted slogans to start teaming. Discipline, literacy rate, collaboration, and basic health are the same as students' college entrance examination scores.
In the camp, the instructors got up the earliest, slept the latest, and were very concerned about everyone's diet every day. Moreover, they had long been thinking about all kinds of patients, which moved these immigrants.
On the 11th, 10 am.
A 7,000-ton armored battleship docked on the shore, and the rivets on the hull were as solemn as a coat button.
The three huge launchers on the armored ship showed a slightly arrogant and ferocious feeling in the sun.
Zhou You jumped down from the gray-blue bow, his knees bent slightly, and half-squatted on the concrete floor of the dock, cushioning the impact with elastic force. Of course, such active performance made Lu Boya, who was behind him, breathed helplessly after seeing Zhou You have nothing to do.
After getting along for years, Lu Boya knows that her teacher is masculine and highly responsible. She is always good at behavior in everyone's eyes, but when there are few people, she always shows a little bit of skin.
Lu Boya looked at Zhou You who had recovered his serious posture on the pier and commented in her heart: "What a lot of energy!"
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Three days later, multiple investigations were conducted on multiple related production sites such as individual weapons factories, electrification forging factories, etc.
The zooyou and all the students in charge of industry gathered together to discuss military military preparations.
The factory's highest technical department has tested many northern blue gold insects, especially the troops of the electric mosquitoes. There are several such corpses placed on the test bench. The metal skeleton and polymerized wing membrane make the wheel-burning technicians marvel at the diversity of the biological production system of the northern Gu nest.
Of course, no one is in vain. In terms of diversity, the Linlong, a transformed insect, and connected with various standard weapons, is more varied than the northern Gu Nest.
On the test bench, Zhou You personally checked the long launch tube with a matrix. Good guy, this electromagnetic acceleration pipeline formed by this organism! According to the technical classification system, it is a reconnection gun.
[Electromagnetic gun technology is divided into two types, one is rail gun and the other is coil gun.]
The rail gun projectiles must contact the track, and the barrel is likely to wear out during high speed.
Coil cannons allow the projectile to hang inside without wear, but how to control the power constant is a problem.
The reconnection gun, the two square interface pipes and the shells are suspended in the gap between the squares. It is a structure that combines the designs of two electromagnetic guns: they do not have contact ablation of pipelines, but can also maintain peak acceleration. It is the culmination of electromagnetic gun technology.
However, this requires very high requirements for electrical control design and superconducting materials.
According to the knowledge of the World Travel, this is a technological level that can only be achieved in the China-core era.
The standard in the pre-nuclear era is to develop atomic bombs and apply fission reactions to many applications. The standard for medium-nuclear nuclear is to complete controllable nuclear fusion.
Controllable nuclear fusion involves the transition of superconducting technology. Jueying's Guworm can directly cross this threshold in microscopic nanomanufacturing.
But for the Burning Wheel, to complete this technology, is it simply to cultivate human organs in the Hua Tuo era? - In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people could see the health of other people's organs, but people just couldn't make them...
"But it doesn't matter." Zhou You, "This kind of door design consumes a lot of power. I don't believe that you don't have engine technology, and you can also have vehicles carrying electromagnetic cannons that move quickly!"
To deal with air-fired mosquitoes, it is enough to produce more missiles. The main thing to be guarded against is the electromagnetic cannons that may appear on the ground.
In this regard, the idea of the Zhouyou is:
1. Directly upgrade the tank gun, and the barrel must be mixed with rare earths, nickel and chromium and other elements to ensure the increase of the chamber pressure.
2. Develop new long pole armor-piercing bullets.
3. At the same time, it also enhances the further development of lens optical equipment to accurately control the fire control system of the tank.
4. Didn’t Tianqiu Zhongtan come out? I’ve been watching that thing a bit strange. Hey, with such a large platform, just remove the structure of a cannon and thicken the front armor, isn’t it enough!
The middle gate is sniper! It depends on who is accurate enough, Jia thick... but before Zhouyou's ideas expand into the industrial platform and other students' minds. Lu Boya took the lead and expressed her unique ideas.
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Before Zhouyou returned to the island, Lu Boya took out the works she had prepared before from the warehouse.
Xiahong Island, the largest automation laboratory hall, is a pure steel lifting platform slowly rises from the ground.
"Clang, clang..." After the steel frame stabilizer was unbuttoned, a large mecha took steps and entered the exercise field.
Above is a tank turret, and the cylinder's observation mirror protrudes in the center, like an eye growing in the center, using a 100mm caliber cannon, and the chassis is a pair of thick mechanical feet.
The power is fuel electricity, so during operation, in addition to the buzzing sound of the motor starting, there is also the creaking sound of the gas turbine.
When this thing was unveiled in front of Zhou You, it shot ten times, and all of them completed the bull's-eye hit on the target 1,500 meters away. The fire control system was obviously very good.
Zhou You stared at Lu Boya with a little confused mind, - How much does this student like mechas? Why don't you need this skill on the tank? Alas, it's all because you (the nobleman of Yanjingxing) is too poor.
Zhouyou is in "contemplation" (donning).
Lu Boya said with great advice: "This is a Cyclops mecha that can advance with the tank. The tank provides cover for its feet to attack secondary behemoth targets, while the Cyclops mecha sniped the key targets in the distance."
To be continued...