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Chapter 159 Allied Forces

In the eyes of allies, China's aid is directly related to the size of its efforts.

The result is that all the allies proposed that they should share the opportunities to participate in the war and allow the troops of all countries to work together.

Of course, in the eyes of politicians, this is completely an economic account.

Don’t forget that this war has fundamentally changed the economic structure of various countries. Not only did China and the United States enter a state of war, but they began to gradually abolish the market economic system and establish a planned economic system regulated by the state. Other participating countries that are closely related to economic exchanges have also adjusted their economic structure. More importantly, the huge war consumption also requires all participating countries to adjust the economic operation mode to ensure that the military industry is given priority, which inevitably has a negative impact on the people’s livelihood industry.

The most significant impact is that almost all participating countries experienced soaring prices.

During the war, the most important resource for people's living things must be food.

Around the world, countries that can be self-sufficiency in food can count with ten fingers, and less than five countries with wealth.

The most important food exporters are China and the United States.

The reason is simple. China and the United States first solved the energy problem and completed the factoryization of agriculture, and were able to produce enough food with very little manpower. On the contrary, grain production in other countries is a big problem. Even if countries like Canada and Australia can be self-sufficiency, they are mainly traditional agriculture and have low production efficiency, resulting in high food prices.

The result is that both China and the United States regard food as strategic materials for foreign aid.

In fact, this is closely related to the overall war strategy implemented by China and the United States.

The reason is that both China and the United States need to use the human resources of allies to take on some military production tasks, thereby reducing the burden on their own military industry. For example, within the Oriental Alliance Group, China only bears 40% of the military chemical production tasks, and 60% of the other military chemical products are undertaken by Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and India. In this way, the human resources that these countries can use for the people's livelihood industry have been greatly reduced, and they have to give up some industries with low labor efficiency. Among them, traditional agriculture is the main reason. As a result, the agricultural output of almost all allies has dropped sharply in 2053, and they have to import agricultural products from China to ensure that the domestic agricultural product market supply is higher than the consumption.

Here, China's foreign aid issues are involved.

According to the information released after the war, in 2053 alone, China exported about 300 million tons of materials, including 130 million tons of grain. By 2054, the grain output alone exceeded 300 million tons. By the year before the end of the war, it was as high as 800 million tons. It can be said that by the end of the war, the grain produced by China's agricultural factories supported more than 2 billion people from the Oriental Alliance Group.

There is no doubt that these foreign aids are definitely not free.

To put it simply, most of the aid is nominally free, that is, allies receiving aid can only obtain aid from China according to the production tasks assigned by China and complete the production work of war. But in fact, the specific amount of aid must be determined by the contributions made by each country.

At that time, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State Council, China specially established a wartime foreign aid office.

The task of this department is to evaluate the contributions made by each allied state and the value generated, so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a direct reference standard when allocating its share of aid.

Of course, it is not just China that is doing this, the United States has also taken a similar approach to aid allied countries.

For any country, this direct assistance is both a driving force to encourage its participation in war and a major reason for its efforts to strive for a higher status.

Even in wartime, the impact was very significant.

For example, in 2053, China's export of grain was not enough to fill the gap in grain production reduction. It was not until 2055 that the grain production and demand of the Oriental Alliance Group became balanced. As a result, in 2053, except for the mainland Chinese market that basically maintained a stable grain supply, only Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia had relatively sufficient food supply. The latter four countries are grain producers themselves and the food shortage is not large. Other countries within the group all experienced more or less food crises, and India's food shortage exceeded 100 million tons, causing about 200 million Indians to be hungry.

As for other daily necessities, it is almost a similar situation.

For example, at the end of 2053, due to supply shortages, a piece of soap could be sold in India for 100 yuan, but not even one yuan in China.

Overall, it will take until 2055 that the Oriental Alliance Group's daily life assets will be balanced.

Before this, except for China, other countries had to fight for more aid and had to find ways to make more contributions on the battlefield.

The most direct way is to send more troops to the war.

In fact, at the end of 2052, the Oriental Alliance Group established the "Joint Operations Command".

However, this command is nominally "joint combat" and actually has nothing to do with combat. Its main responsibility is only to be responsible for material transportation.

Of course, using this command, all the allies sent troops.

However, except for the Horn of Africa, the troops dispatched by allies who are not on the battlefield are mainly responsible for logistics work. For example, on the Middle East battlefield, there are 50,000 Malaysian soldiers, 70,000 Indonesian soldiers, and 40,000 Bangladeshi soldiers working in the rear.

Now, the allies are no longer satisfied with non-combat tasks and have put forward the requirement to participate in front-line combat.

In this way, the Allied Command has to be established to command the Allied combat forces.

Although it is not difficult to establish a headquarters, and no allies question China's leadership status, there are still great differences on some details. For example, the status of each country in the Allied Command, and the responsibilities of officers sent by the armies of each country, etc.

As China's Minister of War, the supreme military commander of the Chinese army and the only marshal, Mu Haoyang bears unshirkable responsibility for establishing the Allied Command. Huang Hanlin asked him to go to Tehran in order to solve all problems with his prestige.

To be precise, it is not to solve the problem, but to tell the allied generals that everything is subject to command.

Interestingly, almost all those who went to Tehran at that time were marshals. As a result, Mu Haoyang, the Chinese naval marshal, was flooded by a large group of marshals.

Fortunately, no one dares to question the value of the Chinese Navy Marshal.
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