It won't be too quick to build a ship, but the announcement of this plan immediately caused a huge reaction in the market. To build these warships, you need a lot of steel, a lot of factories, a lot of workers, a lot of engineers, a lot of ...... Or to paraphrase a later generation, that is:

"The USSR, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industrial Commission and nine ministries of defense industry, 600 related specialties, 8,000 supporting manufacturers, in short, a great country is needed to complete him."

Now here in France, the republic has replaced the "Soviet Union", the ruling government has replaced the "Party Central Committee", and the military-industrial complex has replaced the "Military Industrial Commission and nine ministries of defense industry", although France's military industry has not yet developed to the point of having "600 related specialties and 8,000 supporting manufacturers", but the warships of this era are also simpler, and France's existing industrial capacity is also sufficient. As for "a great country", isn't Napoleon's slogan today "Let France continue to be great"?

With the introduction of this plan, the industrial machinery that had been stagnant began to run again, the steel mills and various machinery factories began to recruit workers again, and all kinds of supporting factories began to operate, so the factory workers began to receive wages, and the market began to show a significant recovery.

"Investing in the military, but in the short term, you can stimulate the economy, but in the long run, if we don't dig the gold mine, investing in the military like this basically means that it will inevitably go to war. Because if there is no war, the dividends of war cannot be reaped, and such an approach will only lead to an increase in debt from an economic point of view. and eventually lead to increasing economic pressure. It can be said that this is a practice of drinking poisoned wine to quench thirst. Seeing that Napoleon was satisfied with the economy, which seemed to be beginning to recover, Joseph couldn't help but remind.

"Of course I know." Napoleon said.

The huge shipbuilding program has also greatly relieved other countries on the European continent. The reason, of course, is simple, if the French are committed to building a large fleet, then their goal will certainly not be themselves. As for what the French were doing to expand their army, it was, of course, to land in England.

However, the use of these expanded engineering troops has once again refreshed the cognition of other countries - it turns out that there is still this kind of gameplay. The French then announced a second plan to expand domestic demand, that is, the "plan for the management of the five major rivers in France." According to this plan, France will be able to connect France's five major river systems through canals in the coming years, making French inland waterways more convenient.

In addition, France will carry out a major clean-up of river channels so that larger ships can also enter the interior of France. Of course, this is quite a huge project, and the newly formed engineering corps is directly put to such a handy.

The third part of the expansion of domestic demand is the fight against the dumping of foreign goods in France.

The target is the United Kingdom, too. Napoleon accused Britain of not abiding by the universally accepted principles of free trade in trade with France and the European continent, and demanded that Britain immediately stop discriminatory tariffs on French steel products, otherwise France would adopt reciprocal sanctions.

In fact, France has been in a position of superiority in trade with Britain over the years. This was true even when the British imposed some tariffs and other restrictions on French industrial goods. (Of course.) The French are not without a price, Britain has a trade deficit with France alone, but Britain has a trade surplus with the whole of Europe. Since the French were in a surplus position, they did not pay much attention to the behavior of the British in the past, but now they are not the same as they used to be. In Napoleon's plan, it was the Jews who were responsible for the outbreak of the economic crisis, and the British had to bear the blame for the consequences of the economic crisis.

Because to solve the economic crisis, the most important thing is to reduce production capacity. But it's not a good thing to go to your own production capacity, it's better to go to someone else's production capacity. The whole of Europe, except for France, is still worth going to the production capacity of the United Kingdom, not to mention, the British control so many colonies, that are the best dumping markets for industrial products. Who in all of Europe doesn't look red in the eyes?

So as soon as Napoleon's State of the Union address and budget were released, those countries on the European continent followed suit. The Netherlands followed suit first, claiming that Britain's dumping practices violated the principle of free trade, so in retaliation, the Netherlands was prepared to double or triple tariffs on more than 50 goods imported from Britain.

Soon after, the Rhine Confederation, the Republic of Northern Italy, and even Austria joined in. They also said that because the British were unruly and refused to open their colonial markets to European countries, they would also raise tariffs on British goods.

Then the French came to the scene, and French Foreign Minister Talleyrand summoned the British ambassador to France and demanded that Britain immediately adopt the same "open door policy" as Spain, allowing the rest of Europe to conduct any legitimate business activities in the British colonies on an equal footing.

This is, of course, impossible, because if such a demand is agreed, then whose colony is it? This is something that the British could not have agreed to in any case, at least, at a time when the boots of the French army were not on the ground of Buckingham Palace.

So the British did not hesitate to refuse the ridiculous demands of the French, and said that if France imposed trade sanctions on the UK, the UK would also impose trade sanctions on France.

Immediately after receiving such an answer, the French announced punitive tariffs on more than thirty British exports. As for the British, they first advised the French not to do anything that harmed others and themselves, and then solemnly warned the French not to underestimate the determination of the British to defend their own interests, and then dragged on for another month, seeing that almost all of Europe followed the French trend and began to close the market to the British, the British officially announced that they would also impose punitive tariffs on more than 30 kinds of French exports to Britain. And so a trade war officially broke out.

And in Ireland, the truce between the Irish and the British has been in place for several years, and in all these years, everyone has not been idle. The British continued to build strongholds in their areas of control, trying to consolidate their areas of control and prepare for future raids.

In the past few years, the Irish side has strengthened the regularization of the Independence Army, although limited to the agreement with the British, the Independence Army still has only two divisions, only three regiments under each division, and only three battalions under each regiment, and ...... below the battalion The companies below the battalion are not certain, the most have already gone from platoon A to Z, and even the platoon below is also uncertain, and there are many from A to Z, and the number of squads below platoons and groups below squads is not quite right. In short, it is to make a regiment of the Irish Independence Army compare with a regiment of Li Yunlong in terms of scale, and a division of the Irish Independence Army has grown from a division of the Anti-Japanese Union to the size of a group army of the PLA in later generations. Combined, the two divisions have 100,000 men.

In addition to the increase in numbers, there has been a noticeable improvement in the level of training and equipment of the Irish Independence Army, with the support of the French allies. The French never gave up arming the Irish. In every way, under the guise of various civilian facilities, they supplied weapons to the Irish. Today, the Irish Independence Army is even a little more advanced than Britain in terms of weaponry and equipment, except for heavy artillery.

In addition, the mutual penetration of the two sides has not stopped. The British have been trying hard to stuff spies into the ranks of the Irish, and the Irish are constantly plotting against the British. But in general, in this matter, the Irish naturally had the upper hand. For it was not easy for the English to blend in with the Irish; But the Irish, the British, there are Irish people who have two boats on their feet.

In addition, in the past few years, although the two sides have generally maintained a peaceful situation, the skirmishes have hardly been interrupted in recent years. Most of these clashes took place between the "hoe gangs" of the Irish Independence Army and the Einsatzgruppen of the British Military Intelligence. The Irish "hoe gangs" have been secretly operating in cities including Dublin, assassinating those who refuse to cooperate with the United Irish Federation, in order to force more Irish people in the service of the British to join the ranks of "stepping on two boats".

To be honest, except for a very small number of people who will be "rapists", most of them are for two reasons - love money and fear of death. Such people are not very loyal to the British, unless the British are strict, and they are not particularly exclusive to "stepping on two boats". Now, if you don't "make it easier for that side" or "do things too actively", you may be killed by a bullet flying from nowhere, or even a grenade. Therefore, the Irish in the British-controlled areas generally have a sense of passivity. To catch the "hoe team" of the Irish Federation, we basically had to rely on the British who were serious about it.

In order to curb the actions of the "hoe gang", the British military intelligence bureau has set up a special task force, and they often set up a bait (let a "love traitor" do something special to attract the "hoe gang" operation), and then carry out targeted ambushes.

At the beginning, the special task force of the Military Intelligence Bureau relied on this method to trap the "hoe gang" very much, and killed many "hoe gang" soldiers. Soon after, however, the "hoe gangs" also took countermeasures, and they began to launch direct attacks against the special forces of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

And their methods and techniques are constantly being reinvented. At one point, they even brought French-made grenadiers into the city and shelled the premises of the special forces of the Military Intelligence Service. It also caused a lot of casualties to the Einsatzgruppen of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

And after that, the British found that the Irish hoeed and ganged more and more tricks, in addition to violent grenadiers, rifles with scopes, and even used small bows and crossbows that fired poison needles. This bow is only the size of a palm, and it looks like a children's toy. But it is very lethal to use, it can shoot a poisonous needle silently twenty meters away, and has a fairly good hit accuracy at a distance of about ten meters. Because the needle uses a special nerve agent from a creature in the rainforest, which is a highly effective anesthetic that blocks nerve conduction, many people don't even feel it when they are shot.

Once hit by this poisonous needle, the toxin will invade the body, and after a few minutes, it will relax the muscles of the poisoned person's body, including the diaphragm and heart muscle. Once the diaphragm and heart muscle relax, the person immediately loses spontaneous breathing and heartbeat. Then within a few minutes, he would die from a lack of oxygen to his brain.

Because the toxin is so effective and so difficult to detect, the Irish sometimes even smear it on the tip of their umbrella to assassinate them. In short, it was in this dark war that the British found that they were technically crushed by the Irish......

Now that Britain and France have almost officially turned their faces, to be honest, the Irish have been waiting for this day for a long time, and the whole United Irish Federation knows that the time for independence is at hand.

In July 1805, the Irish had harvested this year's potatoes and claimed that the British army had violated the armistice by attacking a village near the military demarcation between the two sides, inflicting great losses on the Irish people. The British had already taken the initiative to break the armistice between the two sides, so from this moment on, the armistice no longer existed.

Of course, in order to show the peace-loving image of the Irish, the United Irish Union and the Irish Independence Army still gave the British a chance at peace, and they issued an ultimatum to the British, asking the British to hand over the British criminals who attacked Irish villages to the Irish within twelve hours, and directly named the British. They also demanded that the British withdraw all their troops from Ireland within forty-eight hours.

Such a condition, of course, is not a condition of peace, it is a condition for the surrender of the British, and even such a condition is put forward for the sole purpose of getting the British to reject it.

The British naturally refused without hesitation, and at the same time they ordered the British army in Ireland to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness, ready to use force to quell the rebellion and maintain the unity of the country. Then the United Irish Union issued the "Declaration of the Liberation of All Ireland", and after several years of armistice, the flames of war were once again burning in Ireland.