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Chapter 757 Pressure

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    Japan, across the sea, feels this impact even more deeply.

    The Japanese economy achieved extraordinary development during World War I.  During the war, Japan took advantage of the temporary withdrawal of European and American goods from Asia and almost monopolized the Asian market; it continued to expand business to Europe.  The war transformed Japan from a foreign trade importing superpower to a foreign trade superpower, from an agricultural country to an industrial country, and from a debtor country to a creditor country.

    ¡°However, although Japan¡¯s economy is growing rapidly, it is relatively fragile compared with European and American countries.  It is an island country with a narrow domestic market and poor resources.  Once there is any disturbance, it will definitely be affected more strongly than traditional industrial countries.

    In 1920, marked by the collapse of stock prices on the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges, Japan's postwar economic crisis began.  During the crisis, instead of carrying out a thorough rectification of the financial sector, the government implemented an overly large relief policy and an irresponsible proactive fiscal policy.  Starting from February of that year, the loan amount of Tokyo-Osaka Bank began to exceed the deposit amount, and it showed a trend of increasing month by month.

    Although the government has saved a number of companies that were on the verge of bankruptcy, it has also laid hidden dangers for the future development of the Japanese economy.

    Because the domestic price level is much higher than the international price level, Japan's imports continue to grow, while exports are struggling, causing a general blow to Japanese companies, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises with weak competitiveness, and causing the Japanese economy to fall into a long-term depression.  After that, the main importing country of general small commodities and light industrial products turned out to be China, which had always been a dumping ground for Japanese goods!

    After the Republic of China¡¯s steel output surpassed Japan¡¯s for the first time in 1921, it was out of control and has maintained this figure forever.

    When Japan continued to be depressed, China's steel production reached 1.5 times that in 1922; after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, centered on Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan's property losses reached 10 billion yen, while China's steel production reached its unprecedented level that year.  2.5 times, its industrial development potential is impressive.

    On the other hand, in order to get rid of its economic difficulties, Japan's government has provided aid to damaged capitalism through large amounts of internal loans, and it has gradually revealed its decline.

    Originally, China in its semi-colonial state was a "natural" dumping ground for Japanese products. However, due to the passage of time, the current private economic capabilities funded by large state-owned enterprises and the government are far from comparable to the same period in official history. The Chinese government's  The ability to control the economy is also different, so there are many obstacles to passing on economic difficulties to China.

    Because of the explosion of industry and commerce, China imported fewer and fewer goods from Japan. In the end, all the latter could produce were equipment representing its final industrial achievements.  But even so, apart from the fact that China still needs to import a small amount of machine tools for the production of mother machines, the number of projects is gradually decreasing - because Japan's industrial level is more than an order of magnitude worse than Europe.

    With German technology as a reference, the United States from time to time relaxing the export of industrial equipment that is not military-sensitive, and the Soviet Union¡¯s all-round open trade, China is increasingly looking down on Japanese things.

    On the contrary, China¡¯s cheap industrial products and agricultural products, especially textiles, are increasingly flowing into Japan.  The reputation of the ¡°manufacturing power¡± in later generations is definitely not false:

    China has a huge population that is in the transition period from an agricultural society to an industrial society. A large number of workers will make it possible to solve the labor problem in a few decades. China has a huge consumer market that can accommodate a variety of products that may not be possible in small countries.  Survival niche products can easily generate economies of scale.

    This kind of volume can produce unstoppable force when it exerts force in any direction.

    The textile industry is an example.

    The more developed United States and Britain have eliminated it. Throughout the world, the distribution center of the textile industry was once clear: Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia.  Germany once had "Song of the Textile Workers of Silesia". Before and after World War I, Japan regarded the textile industry as the backbone of its national economy.

    But when China established a foothold in this industry, everything changed.

    Clothing, food, housing and transportation are the basic needs of the people. China has enough to eat on a large scale, and clothing is naturally the next most important need. After all, it is such a large market.  And China has the foundation for the development of the textile industry: a large number of female workers and abundant agricultural products (mainly cotton).

    This advantage quickly crushed Japanese textile companies in China and quickly spread to its country.  Cheap and high-quality Chinese textiles are flooding the Japanese domestic market, which is nothing less than a major earthquake for the economy that is preparing to gradually recover from the aftershocks of the Great Kanto Earthquake.  However, this earthquake was nationwide, and its impact was far more violent and lasting than the Great Kanto Earthquake.

    Affected by this, Japan¡¯s domestic textile industry was almost destroyed, and various other industries gradually fell into depression.

    But China, separated by a sea, has differentA whole world.

    The People¡¯s Party achieves the goal of not allowing a single unemployed vagrant in society by training cadres, organizing people, planning and dictating land, actively cultivating land, actively developing labor-intensive enterprises, and organizing nationwide infrastructure construction.

    Financially, the state implements rent reductions in the second and fifth years to ensure that landless farmers who have transformed from tenant households can resume production; in addition, they have successively implemented profits tax, inheritance tax, prepared social insurance, promoted labor welfare, promoted cooperative undertakings, implemented equalization of land rights, and implemented moderation.  Capital, etc., protects economic development.

    Marshal Zhang Hanqing has endless ways to implement policies, and he has mastered some programmatic tricks that even the politically mature old imperialist countries cannot think of.

    Recently, it is said that the construction of a people-oriented society and the implementation of policies are the top priority, and it is also planned to promote land bonds, insurance systems for soldiers and workers, etc., to build a modern society, etc., which has gained more and more public support and expectations. The people  The party¡¯s influence is unprecedented.

    With the help of China¡¯s abundant resources, the country has been committed to the rapid development of the steel industry for several consecutive years, making China¡¯s pace of catching up with Japan in basic industrial capabilities faster and faster.

    In 1924, steel production was close to 2.8 times that of Japan. By the end of 1925, it reached 3.9 times, reaching 2.625 million tons, which basically made up for the loss of national industrial strength caused by the backwardness of the late Qing government and successive years of civil war.  The cumulative steel output in the past two years alone is close to Japan's total output since the Meiji Restoration.

    It¡¯s not Zhang Hanqing who can encourage the backward China to grow. It¡¯s actually that this young marshal is too knowledgeable. Not only can he manage the army and the people, but he also understands economics and industry. He even seems to know which places in China have oil, coal and iron ore.  Familiar with chest.  This kind of "prophet" ability makes it impossible for China to slow down its economic development even if it wants to!

    Due to the substantial improvement in heavy industry capabilities and basic industries, China's military industry capabilities have been greatly enhanced. The 36 integrated armies of the People's Army will become an insurmountable barrier for Japan's aggressive forces in China.

    In a few years, Jiang Baili¡¯s theory and practice of people¡¯s war bore fruitful results.  Because there is no war, the service period of the people's officers and soldiers has been significantly shortened. Taking the ordinary army infantry as an example, the service period has changed from the previous indefinite period to six years, four years, three years, and two years. Zhang Hanqing even proposed at the Military Commission meeting  Reduced to one and a half years.

    This is not a simple number of years agreement, but a far-reaching national defense strategy.  With a short service period, more reserve officers and soldiers will receive military training, and more soldiers will be able to be mobilized immediately in the event of war in the future.  Moreover, the presence of a large number of reserve officers and soldiers also adds strength and convenience to the construction of grassroots militia.

    This principle is the same as hiding wealth from the people. Zhang Hanqing called it hiding troops from the people.

    In terms of fiscal revenue, in 1922, the Feng Dynasty before taking over China was half that of Japan in the same period.  By the end of 1923, although China's Zhili and Fengtian factions were at war, and Japan was barely recovering from the economic crisis, Japan encountered the Great Kanto Earthquake, and China quickly invested a large sum of gold in national construction.  Due to the joining of Shandong, Henan, Beijing, Tianjin and other places, the financial inventory at the end of the year shows that China has reached 88% of Japan's.

    By 1924, when the second three-year economic development plan was completed, due to the joining of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanxi Province, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, China had the opportunity to surpass Japan for the first time in modern times, widening the gap between China and Japan.  to about 1.5 times.

    Riding on this east wind, in 1925, when China was developing in an all-round way, the gap continued to soar to nearly 1.8 times.

    In fact, even during the Republic of China period in official history, China was still the world's economic power in terms of economic aggregate.  In 1913, China's GDP still ranked second in the world, and even after the September 9th  After the 18th Incident and Japan taking over the three northeastern provinces, China's most economically developed provinces, China's GDP is still 1.9 to 2.8 times that of Japan.

    ¡°It was just because of the backwardness of industry and transportation and the war that the great powers at that time did not regard China as a great power.

    In this time and space, due to the central government's active fiscal policy, the government has been able to guide various industries of the national economy in an unprecedented manner, and the economy that has been stagnant for many years has developed by leaps and bounds.  Also due to the convenient transportation and the strong centralization ability of the Republic of China government, China's industrial and economic strength gradually attracted the attention of the world.

    The People¡¯s Party has completely revitalized the loose Chinese forces in every corner!

    It¡¯s not scary if there are wolves everywhere, as long as they are led by sheep; and even a group of sheep, as long as they are led by wolves and show off their horns that are not rigid, will still be aggressive.

    Does Japan feel the danger is coming because of this?  In order to prevent China from rising as soon as possible, Japan's domestic clamor for using force against China is getting louder and louder.  Later, the notorious Class-A war criminal and current Emperor's bodyguard Hideki Tojo saw at a glance the threat posed by the close relative strength between China and Japan:

    ¡°If a new war against China is not launched as soon as possible and won, China will soon surpass Japan in an all-round way, and the empire will permanently lose its great situation since the Meiji era. It will not only lose control of the situation in China, but also lose control of the situation in China.  The source of important economic lifeline will be cut off, and then marginalized in Asia!" (Remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com)"If a new war against China is not launched as soon as possible and won, China will soon surpass Japan in an all-round way, and the empire will permanently lose its great situation since the Meiji era. It will not only lose control of the situation in China, but also lose control of the situation in China.  The source of important economic lifeline will be cut off, and then marginalized in Asia!" (Remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com
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