"From the fourteenth year of Tai'an, the Great Zhou Emperor began to implement the first five-year plan, mainly for major projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

In addition, the Great Zhou Emperor also cultivated a network of roads throughout the country by raising funds from merchants. Once this road network is opened, the economic development of Dazhou will surely rise to a new stage.

Not only that, but Da Zhou also spent more than ten years to migrate on a large scale to the uninhabited Liaodong region. According to incomplete statistics, the immigrant population of Liaodong has exceeded tens of millions, which has enabled the development of the huge and fertile land in Liaodong, and has now become the largest granary of the Great Zhou, and a steady stream of grain and grass is transported from Liaodong to all parts of the northern Great Zhou Dynasty......"

In his letter to the Queen of England, Wilson gave a detailed account of the development of the Great Zhou in recent years.

Not only that, but he also analyzed the great advantages of the five-year plan that Da Zhou is now being implemented, and suggested that the English government should pursue a similar policy.

As soon as the letter arrived in England, it caused an uproar at the top of the government.

Some members of the House of Lords have even submitted proposals to the government to introduce a similar five-year plan in England.

However, it is clear that because of the different national conditions, there are no necessary conditions for the implementation of the five-year plan in England.

Take the words of Mountbatten, the speaker of the House of Lords: "England is different from the Great Zhou, the land of the Great Zhou is vast, the geographical structure is complex, and the land area of the English mainland is only equivalent to a province of the Great Zhou, and the domestic roads are fast, there are many ports, and factories are all over the country, there is no need to implement the five-year plan." ”

Mountbatten's words represent the views of many parliamentarians.

England is a very small country, only equivalent to a province of the Great Zhou, so there is no need to implement the so-called five-year plan.

More importantly, the five-year plan implements major projects that have a bearing on the national economy and people's livelihood, and obviously requires a huge amount of money.

England's economic discoveries were largely based on colonial plunder, and many were reluctant to make major project investments.

After all, with this spare money, they might as well open a few more plantations in the colony, or mine a few more mineral deposits. Because the profit from investing in these things is much higher than investing in infrastructure.

England is only the size of a palm, and the transportation network has already been perfected, so there is no need for investment. Could it be that they should build infrastructure in those colonies?

I'm afraid that no one wants to invest in these infrastructures in the colonies.

Therefore, even if many cabinet ministers support it, when the House of Lords votes, the support rate is less than 20 percent, and the five-year plan will naturally come to an end.

On the day the results of the vote came out, Prime Minister Tony Blair sighed when he learned of the results: "The global hegemony of the British Empire, from this moment on, will completely decline." ”

Unlike England, France was extremely interested in the Great Zhou's five-year plan.

As a result, the French Emperor Louis XVIII also issued an ambitious plan to unite the countries of the European continent and build a communication artery with the countries of Europe.

It's just that this plan is too huge and involves dozens of countries, large and small, so the French government has to communicate and negotiate with other countries.

However, it is clear that even if many people see great business opportunities in it, and many big businessmen are willing to pay for the construction of transportation networks connecting countries, on the contrary, governments in other countries except France are not very motivated.

Governments are not fools, and they can see that once Louis XVIII's plan is successfully implemented, it will be necessary for the economies of various countries to become more connected, which in turn will be able to promote the development of their economies in the long run.

Although Louis XVIII's plan could boost the economic development of European countries, it was even more obvious that once this plan was implemented, the rule of France, the hegemon of the European continent, would be more secure.

Because once the transportation network between the countries was built, France would be able to send its troops to their countries in the fastest possible time.

In Europe, apart from England, there is no country that can really compete with France, and England is blocked by the Channel, and sometimes it is powerless to intervene in European affairs, so European governments do everything possible to prevaricate Louis XVIII's plan.

After more than half a year of lobbying, except for a few Western European countries such as Francois and the Netherlands, which were persuaded to agree, no country agreed.

Among them, in addition to the troubles caused by the Eastern European hegemon Rus' state, the most important thing is the intervention of the Austrian government.

As we all know, as the third largest power in the European continent, Austria is second only to England and France in national strength, and its political influence in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, is extremely large.

Therefore, Austria fears that once the so-called European transportation network is completed, France will extend its political influence into Eastern Europe. That's why the Austrian government spared no effort to oppose it, even at the expense of turning against France.

However, in the end, France still did not turn against Austria, because the current France has lost the Rus' state, and if it loses the support of the great power Austria, then France will be in a passive situation in Europe in terms of political competition in Europe in the future.

Louis XVIII saw that he could not do anything, so he decided not to force other countries except to unite with Western European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Franco.

The geographical results of Europe are not complicated, and even if it connects the main transportation routes of various countries, France itself does not have much capital investment.

But Louis XVIII was not an ordinary person, so he planned to build an industrial base in France in Karthas and Lorraine in the east.

Karlsas and Lorraine are close to the Ruhr region in Germany, during which coal and iron resources are abundant, but because France has not done such work as resource integration before, the industrial competitive advantage is not large.

With the Great Zhou's five-year plan as a reference, Louis XVIII was confident that the two regions of Karthas and Lorraine in eastern France would join forces with the Netherlands, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and other places to become the largest industrial center in Europe.

This was Louis XVIII's second ambitious project, outside of the road network.

Unlike previous road network projects, Louis XVIII's plan was fully supported by the Netherlands and the states of central and western Germany.

Because although the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Bavaria and other central and western German states are rich in mineral resources, they do not have huge capital in their own countries, so they can only watch those mineral deposits buried in the ground.

Now, with France's abundant capital, in a few years, it will become the largest industrial center in Europe, and indeed in the whole world, and the Netherlands and the western states of Germany will also benefit, so why not?

After all, unlike Austria, the Netherlands is only a small country, and Germany is now divided into dozens of states, protected by France, Austria, the Netherlands and other countries.