In the north of Chang'an City, inside the office building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, British Minister Yarman sat on a chair by the window on the third floor, waiting for the reply of the Han government while watching the scene outside.

The flow of people and vehicles is endless, all kinds of agricultural and industrial products are placed in the shops and stalls in an orderly manner, and the people who come and go stop and stop from time to time from the shops next to the market to buy a few items for the celebration of the festival and the industrial goods needed by the family.

After more than ten years, Yarman, who returned to South America again and was promoted to the post of British minister to Han, looked at the scene outside the window, and had a feeling of both familiarity and strangeness.

Fourteen years ago, when the Argentine federal government still existed and the name of the city was still called Córdoba, Yarman, as a diplomatic upstart, came to Argentina as the deputy counsellor of the British Consulate in Córdoba, and fourteen years later, the South American Han swept La Plata, Argentina and Uruguay became history in the war in 1878, and the Chinese of the South American Han replaced the Hispanic white and became the master of the La Plata region.

The Spanish-style Gothic architecture is still there, but the crowd walking on this land has been replaced by Chinese from the Far East.

Witnessing the regime change in the La Plata region, Yarman felt sorry for the white Argentines and Uruguayans, but also had a strong curiosity about the Han country in South America.

The current world is dominated by whites, and the yellow race, the brown race, and the black race are all inferior in the eyes of the Western powers, but the Chinese, who were called the sleeping giant lions by Napoleon the Great, did not wake up in the Far East continent, but in the south of South America, by a group of Chinese workers from the lowest level, it took just over 20 years to complete the change from an agricultural country to a primary industrial country. In addition to the leap and bounds in the country's overall strength, only the Han country in South America has achieved similar achievements.

Although Tsarist Russia and the Far East are also following the example of the Western powers in carrying out a new industrial revolution, compared with the industrial and national bases of the two countries, their current achievements are still far behind those of the Han Kingdom in South America.

More than ten years ago, relying on Peruvian Chinese laborers, successively defeated the Brazilian Empire, the Argentine Republic, and occupied the two southern states of Brazil and the five northern states of Argentina, the South American Han State, which was called South American Prussia by Western countries, and 14 years later, the total number of native Chinese, whites, and Indians reached 17.42 million, and the total steel output exceeded that of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the South American Han State, which ranked eighth in the world, took off the title of South American Prussia, and was given a new title by Britain and Germany, and the Germany of South America.

During the year, the German government increased its investment in South America, with a total of more than 10,000 professionals in shipbuilding, steel smelting, machinery manufacturing, etc., and industrial equipment worth 70 million taels of silver, which were continuously shipped to South America from Germany itself.

More than 70 percent of the various machinery and equipment sold and donated by Germany are technologies that have been popularized in Europe and do not have patent barriers, and a small part are cutting-edge advanced technologies that have been acquired by Han at great expense and by means of technology exchange.

The large industrial system is an overall project covering thousands of subdivisions, even some of the industrial technologies popularized in many European countries, after being introduced into the local area, can also make up for the shortcomings of the local industry in the corresponding field, and achieve the purpose of comprehensive development and improvement of the industrial field.

In the economic field, Germany will receive paid aid, and in the political field, learn from Germany's experience, and at the same time, according to the actual local situation, prepare for a constitutional monarchy, and carry out reform and innovation in the political field.

In the field of education, students are sent to Germany to absorb and learn German industrial, scientific and technological and military knowledge.

In the military field, the German government regularly dispatches 300 to 700 military instructors and military technicians to the Han country in South America every year; on the one hand, it guides the improvement of the training methods of the Han army and navy on the one hand on the German model, and on the other hand, it sets up joint research institutes in certain emerging military fields to jointly dispatch professionals to carry out key technical research and tackle key technical problems in the fields of airships, submarines, and heavy machine guns in the form of technology sharing.

After defeating the Second French Empire, the German Army was revered as a model of European armies and became the object of emulation by the armies of many countries, while compared with the army, the overall strength of the German Navy lagged behind Britain and France, and was barely on the same level as the United States, Tsarist Russia, and the Kingdom of Italy.

The strength of the German navy is inferior to that of Britain and France, which is a fact that the local government has long known, but unlike Britain and France, which like to hide and tuck, often open their mouths, and link the purchase of ships with politics, the German government is relatively more generous in this regard, coupled with the all-round cooperation between China and Germany in other fields, the choice of the German navy as the object of imitation is the first choice based on the overall situation of the country.

The all-round cooperation between the two countries is based on mutual benefit, and when the South American Han country obtains much-needed benefits in terms of technology and industrial capital from Germany, the German side also obtains extremely considerable benefits with the help of exporting industrial equipment, technology and capital.

In terms of economy, the technology and industrial equipment sold by Germany and the economic transactions carried out by the two sides in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, chemicals, and internal combustion engines have provided Germany with a total market share of more than 100 million silver.

From the perspective of industrial growth alone, the average annual growth rate of German industry is only 2.7%;

year, the growth rate reached 4.1%;

5.2% per annum;

Even in the years after the economic crisis of 1882, the average annual growth rate of German industry jumped to 6.1%; Its growth rate far exceeds that of the United Kingdom, France and other countries, only

It is second to Han and the United States.

In addition, the industrial production efficiency of the German Empire increased dramatically during the years. Over the past 19 years, the average production index of German companies has increased from

100 rose to 360, and the average labor productivity index of workers rose from 100 to 225.

Rapid industrial growth enabled the rising Germany to quickly catch up with and surpass the old capitalist countries, surpassing France in 1874 and Britain in 1889, excluding the colonial bonuses, in terms of European domestic industrial capacity alone.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces. In Germany, "scientific and technological research is widely supported by the government, and in addition, the German government has introduced the model of establishing joint research institutes proposed by the Han side to Europe, and advocated the establishment of independent research departments by large German industrial companies." By 1899, there were 127 large technology companies in Germany with independent research institutes, with as many as 200 people employed in the largest research departments.

The rapid growth of the German Empire in terms of industry mainly depends on the inherent foundation of the country, but the comprehensive cooperation between the two countries, especially the technical support provided by the Han to German related enterprises in the two major emerging fields of chemical industry and electrical, has played a great role in promoting the take-off of the German economy and industry.

Electrical industry,

In 1876, there was no electrical section in the industrial survey in Germany, and thousands of electrical workers were included in other projects. By 1882 there were 8,600 workers in the electrical industry, and by 1888 the number had risen to 107,000.

The famous Siemens company is a microcosm of the development of the German electrical industry during this period. In 1872, he was a member of the company

The number of workers increased to more than 3,200 a year, and by 1888 it had soared to nearly 10,800.

By the beginning of 1889, there were 135 electric companies in Germany with a total capital of 1.02 billion marks. The total output value of the German electrical industry has increased by 28 times in the past year. In the development of the electrical industry, perhaps the output of cable products can explain some problems. In the 1870s, Germany also

There was no cable industry, and the average annual output of cable products was only £30,000, but by 1888 its output had reached £6,240,000.

Ironically, the largest number of German cables imported are actually from the United Kingdom, the homeland of the cable industry. By 1889, Germany produced 34 percent of the world's electrical products, while the United States, the world's largest industrial nation, had only 21 percent of the market. (The technical reserves of the Hanguo electrical industry are not as good as those of the chemical industry, and it only occupies a partial share in the international market in several subdivisions such as hydroelectric power, and the overall market share is very low.) ）

In the field of chemical industry, Germany is second only to the emerging chemical power of South America, but under the influence of trade protection of Western powers, Han's chemical products, except for rubber and other monopoly areas occupy a certain share in the European market, in terms of the entire large chemical field, Germany occupies the largest European market share.

Hundreds of technologies first discovered by the Han Kingdom in South America and applied to industrial production, and then exchanged technology with the German side, which quickly enhanced the market competitiveness of German chemical enterprises, and many small enterprises, with the help of chemical technology introduced by the German government, have been able to rapidly develop into world-famous large-scale chemical industry enterprises.

For example, the Baden Aniline Company was founded in 1865 with only 30 workers, and by the beginning of 1889 it had more than 4,000 employees.

In just five years, 112 chemical companies were established in Germany with a capital of 92 million marks. By 1889, Germany had 108 large chemical joint-stock companies with a total capital of 332.9 million marks. The production of the chemical industry also shows the most similar prosperity of the Han Kingdom and the fruition of Germany.

Through the mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation model, Germany has achieved further industrial development achievements than in history, and South America has also taken this opportunity to become the only emerging power in South America that has initially achieved industrialization in the overall field.

The international situation is unpredictable, and former allies are likely to become enemies to watch out for because of a war, and former enemies are likely to become allies in just a few years.

Twenty-one years is enough time to complete the change of a generation, after twenty-one years of changes, the comprehensive strength of the Han State in terms of economy, population, military and other aspects jumped to the first place in South America, with the strength of the Han State at the beginning of 1889, the use of force again, the way to directly contain the Han State in South America is no longer helpful.

The British Army did not have an advantage in the South American battlefield in terms of numbers and comprehensive combat effectiveness, and it gave up the interests of other major overseas colonies and devoted its energy to the direction of South America, single-mindedly curbing the development and expansion of the Han State in South America.

Regardless of whether it is admitted or denied, Han has become a decisive force that cannot be ignored in South America, and if Britain does not want to completely withdraw from the South American market, it must change its original policy and policy to meet some of the expansion needs of Han and draw Han together to resist the infiltration of the United States into South America.

British Minister Yarman took the initiative to contact the Han government for two main purposes, one was to obtain Han support and oppose the full involvement of the United States in South American affairs.

The second is to abandon the containment policy of the South American Han State to a certain extent, improve the political relations with the South American Han State, and acquiesce in the substantive occupation of Paraguay by the South American Han State when the situation in Paraguay deteriorates beyond control.

From the British side, the establishment and rise of the Han State in South America and the loss of control of the situation in South American countries were all caused by the initiative of López Jr. to initiate the Paraguayan War.

After the end of the Paraguayan War, López Jr. took advantage of the expansion of the South American Han State in Argentina and Uruguay as a cover, and sent troops to occupy the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul and other regions, expanding the territory of Paraguay to more than 1 million square kilometers.

As the source of the drastic changes in the situation in South America, the British side initially accepted the reality that López Jr. controlled Paraguay, but López Jr.'s arrogance, arrogance, superstitious belief in force, and a series of behaviors that did not repair internal affairs made Paraguay's domestic economy continue to decline, and industry and agriculture were almost completely destroyed because of the war. Even British commerce in the Paraná Valley has been severely affected.

It is true that Paraguay signed an agreement on the navigation of the Paraná River basin, but due to the turbulence in Paraguay and the fragmentation of many regional warlord leaders, when British merchant ships passed through Paraguay to control the river basin, they were often plundered by various armed elements and Paraguayan government forces disguised as armed forces.

The protests of the British Minister in Paraguay were often transmitted, but it was difficult to get a positive response from the Paraguayan government.

If the local warlords' independent behavior of obtaining military salaries and supplements is forcibly stopped at a time when military subsidies are severely scarce, then the situation left for Lopez Jr. is only ousted by the army that he has been loyal to in the past.

The British government has long given up its policy of wooing López Jr., and López Jr. and Paraguay, who have no use value, are left with only the value of being used as bargaining chips to win over South American Han and the Republic of Brazil.