Chapter 537: Winter is Coming (7)
“…… The vast number of working people understand mudslides, they understand them better than we do, and the only thing they don't understand is probably the word 'mudslide' that we have written. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info at this time, whether to let the people learn our words, or we humbly learn from the people, to learn the words commonly used by the people, this is an important way to unite the people......"
Under the light of candles, Zhou Shuren flipped through the materials and adapted the documents of the agrarian revolution era of the Guangfu Party into words that suited the situation in Hungary. After serving as the deputy head of the Propaganda Department for four months and concurrently serving as the head of the Propaganda Department, Zhou Shuren officially became the head of the Propaganda Department of the Hungarian Red Army.
The young cadre did not stay in the big city of Budapest, but collapsed the box cannon and began to work in the vast countryside of Hungary with his comrades. The advisory group to Hungary this time is a very good group in the army, and they are also basically between 173 and 183 in height. What makes Zhou Shuren more satisfied is that the average height of Hungarian men is 163, and Zhou Shuren, who has just broken through 163 in height, can look at each other here at eye level.
It was already half past ten after writing the latest work notes, and Zhou Shuren stretched out a lot and prepared to go to sleep. Just then, someone came running and knocked on the door. Opening the door, the comrades outside panted and said, "Minister Zhou, there is a comrade who is sick, please go and have a look." ”
Zhou Shuren sighed in his heart, the two five-year plans of the People's Republic of China strengthened the construction of the medical system, coupled with the large-scale relocation of people from the mountainous areas to the plains, the overall level of medical coverage is okay. But in Hungary, doctors are almost all in the old class. The poor people can't afford to see a doctor, and the countryside generally thinks that they can prepare for the future at the same time as they see a doctor.
Zhou Shuren, who graduated from Nanjing Medical College, treated several appendicitis patients in his work, and this famous Chinese doctor who can perform open surgery immediately became famous, and once someone fell ill, the first thing that everyone thought of was this doctor. Zhou Shuren also reported to his superiors, hoping that more doctors could come from China, and the number of doctors in Hungary is too small. As for the lack of response in China, Zhou Shuren is not surprised, and the number of doctors in China must not be large.
In Berlin, Wilhelm II rubbed his slightly sour eyes, and the high-ranking officials who attended the meeting were about the same. These people have been discussing what the attitude of the people is in the middle of the night all afternoon, and they have not been able to discuss a result.
"How many Chinese do you think there are in Hungary? Some say five thousand, some say ten thousand. Wilhelm II asked about the central contradiction of the meeting, "Is there not a more definite figure?" ”
The entire European elite knew that the Minchao supported the Hungarian rebellion, and a part of the European upper echelons knew that the Minchao had opened a line of communication in Ottoman Turkey and sent a large number of weapons to the Hungarian rebels through the border between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. There was also a part of the European upper class that knew that some people from the Republic of China had entered Hungary and fought with the mud-legged poor workers. The kind of fluid athletic warfare that had been fought two months ago was not in any way a battle that the Hungarian mud-legged could command.
Although the European upper echelons know a lot, the European upper echelons do not know the specific data. The head of the intelligence department of the German General Staff looked tired, he suffered the most in such a long time. Listening to Emperor Wilhelm II's question, the head of the intelligence department licked his chapped lips and replied: "Those Chinese have not made any special moves, it is difficult to be sure." We will step up intelligence gathering in this regard. ”
"It is true that the Chinese have not made diplomatic moves, and there are no corresponding moves on the Hungarian side. It's very puzzling. The Imperial Foreign Secretary also felt that he could not understand. If it had been such a big incident caused by other forces, a full-scale diplomatic effort would have been launched among the major forces long ago. Even if the Minchao had not done so, Hungary would have had to make a diplomatic effort after defeating the Austrian regular army.
"What can those poor sticks know, they're probably still counting the money." The Reich Chancellor sneered about the consensus of the German upper echelons, and then sparked a few dry laughs. "We are very tight on military spending right now, and even if we send troops, we can't send many people. Your Majesty, since the Hungarians have not made any big moves, and China has not sent troops into Hungary, we might as well see how Austria reacts first. ”
The Prime Minister's remark that he said "no money" goes to the crux of all the issues: a large army needs to be paid, soldiers need to be equipped with weapons and ammunition, and they need to conduct daily training. Therefore, every soldier has spent a considerable amount of military spending, and it is a very uneconomical thing for these soldiers to die for other countries. The economic crisis lasted for two years, and the landlord's family ran out of food. Everyone felt that the matter had been discussed to the point where it was impossible to talk about it anymore, and everyone looked at the emperor. Although Wilhelm II wanted to talk for a while, he was not stupid, and when he glanced at everyone's eyes like arrows, the emperor had to say regretfully: "That's all for today's meeting." ”
As the days went by, first in Italy, then in France, and then in Northern Europe, there was more and more of a statement in the newspapers. The Hungarian insurgents were uneducated, uneducated, and uninformed. Especially uninformed. The state is such a complex system, how can a group of poor sticks and mud legs do such a job. Letting them rule the country is like giving a monkey a precious pocket watch, or it will soon perish on its own because of the lack of social capacity.
Such an assessment is full of extreme contempt for the Hungarian Slovak People's Republic, and the upper echelons of the country are well aware of the difficulties of running the country, and at a time when the economic crisis is causing social problems, such statements are resonant to a considerable extent. The big man tried his best and couldn't make the country operate stably, how could those poor sticks with mud legs be more capable than the big man.
There are also people who are dissatisfied with such criticism, and they are basically poor sticks of the same status as the Hungarian mud legs. No matter how dissatisfied they are and have no voice to speak out, how can the mainstream media take these poor people seriously. All kinds of articles ridiculing and singing about the Hungarian rebels were overwhelming, and the timetable predicting the collapse of Hungary was posted one after another, and the various media seemed to have changed into fortune tellers who could pinch and calculate.
The rich and knowledgeable old men of Europe can laugh at the uninformed Hungarian mud legs, but laugh at Hungary for not being able to solve their own problems. The economic crisis shows no signs of improving, and even Wang Mingshan is surprised.
Hungary has a plain of the middle reaches of the Danube and is one of the suppliers of grain to Europe. Even the war in the region has not been able to salvage the sluggish food prices in Europe. If it is only the price of grain in Europe that has fallen, even the price of industrial products in Germany is falling in the insurance package collected by Wang Mingshan. German small and medium-sized enterprises rely on joining cartels and syndicates to survive, and these monopolies can continue to reduce the price of products under the economic crisis, which really makes Wang Mingshan feel that the capitalist system is really amazing. In the Republic of China, these enterprises were either left to fend for themselves, or they were shut down for rectification. The economy of the Republic of China is the word 'progress', and there is no hesitation in eliminating the backward.
It took Wang Mingshan three months to write the latest edition of his report on the European economy, the third in 1899. It was October, and although the Minguo Dynasty itself had little interest in European chronology, Cyprus was happy to see that the 20th century would be in three months.
In 1900, the Republic of China was going to host the Olympic Games, and the whole country was very concerned about it. In the past 45 years, when it comes to foreigners, the real attitude of the Republic of China is a 'type', and it doesn't matter whether it is polite on the surface or not, these foreigners are just two choices of being beaten by the Republic of China as soon as possible or later by the Republic of China. There is no possibility of not fighting.
This Olympics is probably the first time that the Republic of China has truly treated foreigners with a peaceful attitude, at least Wei Zedu Governor said, 'In this global village, everyone will be good neighbors who live together peacefully.'" Wang Mingshan admired the thick skin of the governor and the numb words he used. He was somewhat skeptical that the Governor would not be very uneasy about next year's Olympics when the report of the investigation of the third quarter of 1899 from the Bank of Europa in Cyprus reached the Governor. And Wang Mingshan himself was a little uneasy, when he first established Europa Bank, everyone thought that the bank would make a lot of money in Europe. In fact, Europa Bank has shrunk a lot of business over the past few years in order to avoid losses. The island of Cyprus, which was once thought to be a place where the industry is more of a tourism industry, is now more of a tourist region.
When the report was sent to Wei Ze, he read it carefully, perhaps because in Wei Ze's childhood and adolescence, when Wei Ze was not interested in the economy, New China had destroyed too many countries' industries around the world, so the economic crisis in the 21st century did not seem to be so intense. Now looking at the description of the economic crisis in Europe with his own eyes, Weeser feels that it is an eye-opener.
Britain has hardly been hit by the economic crisis in the process of transitioning to North America, or the British themselves are to blame. The island of Great Britain, including Scotland and Ireland, originally had a population of 40 million, but now there are only about 25 million left. The poor and the poor have basically gone to North America to start a new life, and even well-off families have begun to migrate to North America.
Rapid North Americanisation has also seen the UK's population soar from 40 million to 55 million. In addition to the fact that a few million people in Canada became the population of the United Kingdom, the former Northeast of the United States, which was incorporated into the United Kingdom, brought millions of people to the British. What's more, in a few years, poor and needless families have given birth to more than 7 million babies.
This increase in population has not benefited European companies in the slightest, and not only that, but the rest of the whole of the UK are Britons who are above the well-off, who have a great demand for high-quality products, and basically only buy the products of British companies. The British, who needed cost-effective products, bought products from the British and North American regions, although the United Kingdom did not change its free trade policy on the surface, and in reality Europe lost the British market.
Cheap industrial goods from Germany, grain from Russia and France, and fruit from Spain were all greatly affected. The UK is the largest consumer market in Europe and is irreplaceable. Other European countries have limited domestic demand, and the absence of a market means that their products rot in the ground or accumulate dust in warehouses.
Looking at the description of the unemployed who could only find food in the garbage heap, Weeser felt that Europe was really a group of slaves. In China, a rebellion would have risen long ago in this situation. Wang Mingshan's description also clarified another question: why not collect the food that no one buys and distribute it to the poor. It turns out that in the eyes of European governments, any action is a business. Apples rot on the branches and no one picks them, and the government can't do anything about it. Transporting apples into the city and distributing them to the poor affected the business of selling apples, and the payment of taxes after passing through the government checkpoint. If you just do a little bit of effort, you can do a good deed. If you do a good deed, you have to pay for it upside down, and no one will do that.
As for wanting the government to do such a thing, it was because Wei Ze was ignorant when he was young. European governments have a variety of options for exploiting and repressing, but there is no option for social assistance.
"Interesting." Weser put down the report and muttered.