Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Of course, Lin Yi's thoughts were quickly excluded by him.

Just kidding, if you contact the Boupai Republic now, aren't you making yourself uncomfortable?

The unique national nature of the Bupa Republic is too easy to infect the people at the bottom. Although Lin Yi feels that Daxia is now very tolerant towards the lower class, no one can say whether someone will take advantage of this to cause trouble for Daxia.

As for Daxia, although it has been transfusing blood to the Gallic Empire and the Hans Empire and supporting the construction of the empire, the annual financial expenditure is an astronomical figure, but Daxia's level of making money is also very strong.

By 1921, the Daxia Empire relied on its vast land area and numerous subordinate countries, and its fiscal revenue officially exceeded billion imperial silver dollars.

Of this, about 60% is commercial tax revenue, another 20% is customs duties, and the rest is miscellaneous taxes.

It may seem like tens of billions of taxes are very high, but after careful calculation, in fact, there is not much money that can be saved throughout the year.

The empire needs to spend two billion imperial silver dollars every year to support the empire's infrastructure construction, and there is also nearly one billion US dollars in scientific research expenses. There is also foreign aid and construction in various places.

These expenses alone amount to an expenditure of seven to eight billion per year.

If disaster years are included, the empire still needs to provide financial subsidies to farmers. In short, as soon as he opens his eyes now, Qian Yi, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Empire, has to think about one thing: where does the money come from and where does it go.

But throwing so much money at it is indeed quite effective.

First of all, the empire's infrastructure construction has been quite effective. After the successful completion of the second empire ten-year development plan, the total length of the empire's highways exceeds 420 million kilometers, meeting the requirements for access to every village.

The total length of railways exceeds 13 kilometers, especially in the eastern part of the empire, a dense railway network has been completed and the smooth circulation of goods has been achieved.

In terms of steel production, the empire has completed the initial target of 1500 million tons of steel production and has reached 2665 million tons. (I made a mistake earlier and it has been corrected. Thanks to book friend Shimmer Holy Spirit)

Because the empire has good coal-producing areas, the empire's annual coal output has reached 5.6 million tons, and its electricity production is 1960 billion hours. In terms of these data, the empire has comprehensively surpassed Millikin's production level.

It can be said that the empire is already the world's number one industrial power.

But this does not mean that the empire has grown into the most powerful country.

In some aspects, the empire still has shortcomings. The most important among them are high-end intellectuals.

As the saying goes, it takes ten years to educate a tree and a hundred years to educate a person. The empire started later than Western countries in Western science. Although it has tried its best to catch up in recent years, it still lags behind in terms of high-end intellectuals.

However, with the rise of the empire and the establishment of a large number of higher education institutions in various places, this gap is shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

I believe that in another ten years, the empire will be able to catch up with Western countries in this regard. By then, some new scientific research and technological achievements will surely show a blowout.

In terms of resources, what the empire is most lacking now is oil. Although the empire has now proven that it has a large amount of oil in the four provinces outside the empire. But Lin Yi is not mining.

He still hopes to use Saudi oil first and use domestic oil as a strategic reserve.

As for the construction of oil fields in Saudi Arabia, it is nearing completion. The current daily oil production in Saudi Arabia has reached 11 barrels. In time, with the completion of the construction of the oil field, the maximum daily oil production can reach 120 million to 160 million barrels.

Such a large amount of oil production is enough for the empire's daily use.

Of course, the empire is still not as good as Milicia in this regard. At this time, Millikin's daily oil production had reached 170 million barrels, which was more than ten times the current level of Daxia.

This shows that Daxia still has a lot of room for improvement.

Similarly, Daxia also has its own advantage, that is, Daxia's military industry is still far ahead.

First of all, the Empire A-3 and A-4 tanks previously designed by the Empire have passed testing and were officially put into production, and have begun to gradually replace the old A-1 and A-2 tanks.

In addition, the Imperial Army Weapons Research Institute, considering that the empire's future enemies will also have weapons such as tanks, has developed a new type of tank based on the A-3 tank chassis.

Since this type of tank has different battlefield uses from the Type A tank, which is mainly used to break through the enemy's defense line, the weapon number in the empire is designated as the Type A tank.

As for this newly developed tank, its main task is to target enemy tanks, so it is designated as a Type B tank.

The design of this kind of chariot is again ahead of the world. This kind of tank is called a tank destroyer in Western countries.

The Type B tank designed by the Weapons Research Institute is now capable of carrying a 75mm artillery. After testing, it was found that this Type B tank can effectively penetrate 90mm of composite armor frontally at a distance of two thousand meters.

When Lin Yi saw these data, he lamented that the people in the weapons research institute were somewhat phobic about lack of firepower, and he also felt that they were a little crazy.

At the same time, Lin Yi felt that since the technical reserves of the Weapons Research Institute have reached this point, and the empire will not be short of oil in the future, it can begin to implement large-scale production of weapons and equipment such as tanks.

Considering that the empire did not have stable and highly productive oil fields, Lin Yi only planned to establish two armored divisions. (The oil fields within the Daxia Empire have only been exploited to a very small extent and are mainly used as strategic reserves.)

Now that we are not short of fuel and have the skills, we can just let go of our shoulders and accomplish our goals.

Lin Yi directly approved the proposal to form ten armored divisions. At the same time, he changed all the original Longxiang Army into mechanized infantry and prepared to equip them with trucks, armored vehicles and a small number of combat vehicles to enhance the strength of the army.

At the same time, in order to ensure the complex mission environment, Lin Yi also issued the latest instructions to the Weapons Research Institute, hoping that they could design a Type C tank.

The design concept of this tank is to provide long-range fire support to infantry. According to what European countries call it, the Type C tank should be defined as a self-propelled artillery.

When Lin Yi's design requirements were handed over to Yang Bing, Yang Bing seemed to feel that he had opened a door to a new world.

It turns out that a tank can still be designed like this?

As a result, under Yang Bing's organization, Lin Yi got the first design draft of the Type C tank in just five days.

Lin Yi was shocked when he saw the design drawing of the Type C tank. What did he see? This Yang Bing actually used the A-120 tank chassis to build a -caliber self-propelled howitzer.

If he hadn't known that Yang Bing was a native of Daxia, he might have wondered whether Yang Bing had also traveled through time.