Chapter 3659: Chu's economy

South Korea, Xinzheng. Han Shu is very concerned about the situation of his navy being besieged.

"So far, you still haven't made the siege?" Han Shu asked after hearing the Secretary of the Navy's report.

"Yes, yes, my lord, there is no other way. We have tried to clear the siege. But the situation is." The Secretary of the Navy explained. They have made relevant efforts, and it can be said that they have done well enough. They also blocked the Suez Canal. In this case, it is equivalent to their losses will increase further. The news spread, causing the three Suez Canal-related stocks in South Korea to fall a lot. They had already fallen for a long time. But now, this situation will make them worse. Because they need to drag the stranded warship out to solve the problem.

"We already have a warship stranded there, my lord, the current situation is that we can't even dispatch a speedboat unless we use aviation forces. However, the actual effect of that is not great. The airship has been mobilized. When it comes to Seth, there are only short-range aircraft to perform such tasks." The Secretary of the Navy said worriedly. There are also seaplanes in the local area. In fact, that kind of aircraft is not a new thing. South Korea bought a few from Qin and made imitations, but this is not enough to solve all the problems because they are too clear. The seaplane's voyage can barely get there, but it can't come back after flying there. In other words, the plane must stay there. At the same time, the weapons he carries are very limited, at most two small bombs weighing one kilogram of medium weight. The navy personnel themselves do not know how effective this bomb can play. It can be said that this is a very pessimistic situation.

"Anyway? You have to reinforce them. Then it is time to throw a bomb, which is also a time to express our attitude." Han Shu made it clear. The Secretary of the Navy reluctantly accepted the order. He was helpless, but the order was like this, and the above didn't care about it.

In the north of Suez, in the 3rd Clippers Squadron, their situation is not too bad. But it's not too good. Because of low morale.

"Fortunately, when the **** encirclement was formed, we dug a deep well by ourselves and hoarded a certain amount of supplies. Otherwise, we would not be able to hold on to the encirclement until now." The lieutenant took the binoculars and looked at Jiatai who surrounded them Kei Ren said. The Carthaginians did not have a good way. Launching a strong attack, their losses are staggering, and they simply have no ability to eat each other. Without launching an offense, they would need to consume more of their shells. This is an indisputable fact that this company has increased their ammunition reserves. If they don't want to do this, they can only passively besie each other, and some of the pirates in Carthage have retreated on their own. Because they felt that there was no benefit to this operation. This is indeed the case.

"Yeah. But in terms of time, it is still far away from the siege. After all, it will take a lot of time." Li Shuang said. For the Marine Corps, this may not be a big deal, but the Navy personnel are different, because this is a land siege. They have never experienced such pressure. The besieged party not only has to bear the pressure from the opponent’s offensive. More importantly, they have to bear such offensive pressure every day. If they can't hold on, they will be breached. This has led to generally low morale among navy personnel.

"Reinforcement, we need reinforcement. Without reinforcement, we won't get anything." Li Shuang said. The lieutenant agreed, but they did not see where the reinforcements were.

Qin State, Xianyang.

"This is the second similar report sent by the bank. At the same time, there was a telegram from Goguryeo. The local Zhao country businessmen were investing frantically, and they had quite a lot of money in their hands. Do we have to take it too? Similar investment. If you don't do that." Meng Yi shook his head. Looking at Shang Wen worried.

Although it was the second similar report, Shangwen still felt a certain amount of pressure. This pressure came from the bank, and Zhao Guoren increased their money supply. Moreover, the numbers continue to increase, which has led to certain fluctuations in their prices. Such fluctuations have a certain impact on Zhao Guo. For example, the salary they issued felt a little insufficient. Their savings have also shrunk, but their pace of external expansion has accelerated. This is the disadvantage of increasing the money supply. In doing so, Zhao Guo was sacrificing the interests of the people in exchange for the interests of the country and the government. This is not unreasonable, because Qin State once did this, but Qin State controlled this degree very well. For example, the price of a flour pancake was 25 cents before, but the current price is 20 cents. As a result, Qin State controlled prices very well, and there were still some declines. This was because most of the surplus money was transferred out. And Zhao Guo is also doing this, but part of it has flowed into his own domestic market. But most of it still flows out. These currencies that flowed out had a certain impact on Qin's capital expansion.

"We must take measures. If we continue to let Zhao Guo do this, the situation will have an unfavorable effect on us, and our expansion activities will bring stagnation." Meng Yi said worriedly. This means that the bank's profits have decreased a lot.

"Well, but we can’t stop the people of Zhao Guoren and do this, and the people of Zhao Guoren seem to continue to do so. The only way is that we invest in the people of Zhao Guoren, continue to encourage them to do so, and then produce certain Cooperation, perhaps this can avoid further difficulties." Shang Wen thought for a while and said.

"Cooperation?" Meng Yi asked, looking at Shang Wen in surprise.

"Yes, cooperation. In fact, Zhao Guo's technology is not very advanced. They just don't separate some low-level technologies. In this way, the profit among them will be reduced a lot, but they got the project and carried out. Investment. We have a firm foothold locally. In contrast, our engineering projects are always one piece. The technical level is high, but it is not flexible enough. No country is willing to bear such a large project investment, which requires too much capital. Now." Shang Wen said. The reason why Qin’s engineering technology companies, such as power equipment companies, cannot compete with Zhao’s enterprises, is that apart from the gap in personnel salaries, it is flexibility. Qin’s people come according to their standards, and Zhao’s people, in order to get some For engineering, they disassembled the technology and proceeded. In this case, it would be a costly project. Through small projects to quickly reduce this gap, this is a cunning approach, but it is indeed useful.

"We should see the advantages of Zhao Guoren, and Zhao Guo's stock market is developing rapidly. They seem to be exerting efforts. To solve other things, we can try to solve these problems, and we can invest in their companies. In this case , Through capital cooperation, we have achieved our investment objectives. We may not necessarily compete with each other. From another perspective, we can also make money.” Shang Wen said.

"But, in this case, some of our engineering and technology companies, what should they do?" Meng Yi asked worriedly.

"They can go to the north. In fact, I think we should use this opportunity to do such things. You must know that in terms of engineering, South Korea and Zhao still have such an advantage, and they have such a cheap advantage. In the north , The construction of the port needs to spend more money. This is not a small expenditure for us. Why do we not attract them to build?" Shang Wen asked Meng Yi. Meng Yi frowned. Obviously, he didn't expect Shang Wen to think so. In fact, they did not expect to be able to do this.

In the northern port of Qin State, workers from the Western Regions are extremely busy. They not only have to build a large wharf, but in addition to commercial wharves, there are more shipyards, military wharves, and military defense projects. In addition, there is a city with railways, highways, and urban roads leading to the south. In short, there are many engineering projects, and they feel it is difficult for them to finish so many projects.

"The progress of the project is much faster than we expected, but there are many projects, and King Qin has already issued orders. Complete so many projects as soon as possible." An engineer said while standing on the construction site. The development of the Americas has entered a new stage, and the people of Qin have not yet had their own port. This makes Qin people very embarrassed.

The Admiralty has planned to build another port in the Wadao area outside of Haicheng. In this case, their engineering degree has suddenly increased a lot, but the population potential of the Western Regions has been fully tapped. They really can't find more people to carry out so many construction projects.

"Without a population, many things are difficult to do, and we all know this. Unless the above gives us a population of one million, otherwise, in a short period of time, the establishment of such a large city is just an empty shelf." The engineer said so. The construction of a city cannot be built all at once. This requires a process. For example, Shang Wen used to build more cities. His goal was to build some small towns along the railway into more cities through the model of population development, but the cities waited two or three years before they were established. Get up, because it takes a time process. King Qin obviously knew this too, because Shang Wen had submitted a related report.

However, the development of Qin State was very fast. In particular, the center of gravity was adjusted. The development of the Western Regions was still going on, but it was only under the influence of inertia. Qin's center of gravity has been adjusted to the eastern seas, and the development of the Americas will be placed in an important position, and this way. The northern sea city and the construction of many port cities will become more and more, but the fact is that the Qin State lacks enough population and labor to do such things, and they need too many people. The people of Qin people do not have so much labor to provide them.

Chu State, Wuyue was connected by the northern bank. Chu State built a railway bridge here. The existence of this railway bridge directly connects the north and south banks of the Yangtze River. This is an amazing project.

The railway bridge is a steel-framed bridge. This is a double-deck bridge with trains running on the lower floor and motor vehicles on the upper floor with people walking. This kind of bridge is expensive to build, costing more than 20 million Chu Yuan, which is equivalent to half of the Qin State. The money is more than five million. The cost is quite expensive.

"This railway bridge can very well link the economy of the north bank and the south bank. In this way, the Wuyue area is no longer a pure economic area. It can effectively radiate to Pengcheng and drive the economic development of more regions. "Chen Ping explained to Fan Zeng with a smile.

"Well. The cost is a bit too expensive. We have seen the economic value and it will take some time. However, these costs make some departments feel dissatisfied." Fan Zeng said on the bridge. The significance of this bridge is. You can drive directly to the Wuyue Haicheng area through the Pengcheng Railway Section. In this way, the transfer speed of materials between the two places can be reached. After all, the cargo throughput of Haicheng is more than twice that of the northern port, although they continue to widen. However, due to the limitation of railway construction, it cannot be compared with Haicheng. After all, in addition to a large number of piers, Haicheng also has more developed shipyards, machinery factories, large piers, and various Various factories are more prosperous than the reserve on the north bank of the Yangtze River. With the convenience of the Yangtze River, its radiation area has become larger and larger. But embarrassingly, the Pengcheng area is in dilapidated condition and a large number of people are attracted. Arriving in Haicheng, Pengcheng is the capital of Chu State, but his population is only less than 300,000. According to the survey in the last year, his population has been continuously exported from 700,000 to less than 300,000 today. The population of the city has exceeded 2 million, and the trend of population increase is getting bigger and bigger. His economic contribution has exceeded 30% of the entire Chu State’s economy. It can be said that Haicheng occupies a large proportion.

From this point of view, the construction of a railway bridge to connect the north and the south is of great significance, and it is worth spending such a lot of money. Chen Ping considered from this point. However, Chu domestics are very dissatisfied with this. They believe that as long as the number of navy and merchant ships is increased, it will also make up for the demand for economic construction. Chen Ping answered them with disdain.

"They don't understand the economy at all. If Chu's economy does not develop well, how can there be so much funds to solve the problem. The problem is that there is still a lot to do in Chu's development." Chen Ping said to Fan Zeng at this time.