Chapter 737 (1/2)

The European beating stone bear is the most clear. Europeans can abandon everything for the sake of interests, even if they have no time to care about other places, but it does not mean that they will give up coveting the American continent. So it's also a deterrent for Europeans to build their own nests stronger first.

Of course, to build a huge coastal defense gun system, it is necessary to use a lot of raw materials such as steel and cement, as well as land transportation and shipping. So this huge project is also an excellent way to stimulate domestic demand.

Another important project to boost domestic demand is the railway.

With the efforts of many scientists of Yanhuang Academy of science and technology, the Empire has successfully developed the first generation of steam engine locomotives. Although the horsepower is not very high, the trains can be promoted in the Empire.

In this era, once the railway starts to be popularized in China, it is undoubtedly of great significance.

It takes a lot of labor to build a railway. Once the railway is completed, the domestic transportation capacity will be greatly improved.

In fact, the improvement of the national strength of the United States began with the vigorous construction of railways.

So the empire is now preparing to build a railway from Shangjing to the four capital.

In addition, the Empire's Dahua bank has been established for several years, and the currency issue is also very smooth. Especially after the recovery of Mexico, a large amount of silver and gold from San Luis Potosi and gold from the rocky mountains made a great contribution to the gold and silver reserves of UOB.

With a large amount of gold and silver as reserves, the gold, silver and copper coins issued by the Empire had a high reputation and value. Stone bear has not issued banknotes for the time being because it is not the right time to issue banknotes. It is not too late to issue paper money until the economic foundation of the empire is strengthened and developed in the Pacific.

The current financial system adopted by the empire is the gold standard. That is to say, the exchange ratio between silver and gold should be stipulated, with gold as reserve and silver and brass as currency in circulation. Although there are gold coins in the market, there are few gold coins in circulation. Even in circulation, most of them are large denomination gold coins, mostly used for large transactions.

In addition, stone bear also began to mine silver and gold deposits in Canada. The soul of the stone bear comes from the future. It is very clear that Canada is also rich in gold reserves. Therefore, temporarily opening up gold mining in Canada can not only make the Empire have more gold reserves, but also attract more European gold miners to America.

Compared with the silver and gold mines in the Rocky Mountains, the gold mining conditions in Canada are undoubtedly more difficult. After all, most of the silver and gold deposits in Canada are north of the Great Lakes. Poor mining conditions actually have one advantage, that is, they can make those gold miners stay in America longer

In addition, since the Empire has recovered Havana, the Royal astrillo shipyard of the former Spanish Kingdom, which was originally set up in the Gulf of Havana, can not be abandoned. And Cuba produces cedar, which is a better shipbuilding material than European oak.

At present, before the steel warship has made a breakthrough in technology, if we want to cross the ocean, we have to use sail warships.

At the time of recovering Havana, none of the engineers and shipbuilders in astrillo's Shipyard could escape, and the stone bear didn't intend to let them go back home. Let's build a ship for me in Havana!

Stone bear thinks that at least in 15 or 6 years, steel warships will not be able to complete the voyage across the ocean, but now many ownerless overseas places have a strong attraction, attracting stone bear can't wait to conquer.

For example, in the northeast of South Africa, near Johannesburg, for example, in Australia, for example, in the iron corner of Brazil

Some of these places have become colonies of other countries, but some are still ownerless. But for the stone bear, no matter whether he has a master or no master, as long as I like it and don't say anything, it's just robbing.

For example, although South Africa is now occupied by the Netherlands, if the stone bear really wants to grab it, the Netherlands is not a country. What's more, stone bear doesn't want to rob Cape Town. What stone bear wants to rob is only the northeast of South Africa. Of course, it's not difficult to rob Maputo, which belongs to Portugal, to build a port