"Your Excellency Lopunov, I'm afraid you don't know that there are no less than five cities with a population of more than one million in the Great Zhou alone. Can you imagine it? ”

You know, Paris, the largest city in Europe, has a population of just over 300,000, a city with a population of millions of people, what kind of concept is that, Lopunov can't imagine.

If it was one or two, Lopunov would have calmed down, after all, the population size of the Great Zhou was placed there. But there were five cities with a population of more than a million at once, and Lopunov could not have imagined it anyway.

"Oh God! Sir Pierre, you're not joking with me, are you? Lopnov's eyes widened and he asked, "There are as many as five cities in Dazhou with a population of more than one million, is this ...... How is this possible? ”

"How could it be?" Pierre laughed at Lopunov's loneliness in his heart, and explained: "As early as a thousand years ago, there were cities with a population of more than one million in the Great Zhou. As far as I know, thousands of years ago, Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Jiangning, Hangzhou and other places had populations of more than one million.

Of course, that was a thousand years ago, and with the development of the times, many of these cities have declined, such as Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places, but other new super cities have risen later.

It's like the current capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was only a military town thousands of years ago, with a population of less than 100,000, but now? After the Great Zhou established their capital there, it took less than a hundred years to build their capital into a super city with a population of millions.

In addition to the current capital, the southern cities of Jiangning, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and Chengdu have a population of more than one million.

Moreover, there are no less than twenty cities with a population of more than 500,000 in the Great Zhou, and your Excellency Lopunov, can you imagine how rich the Great Zhou really is? ”

After Pierre's description, Lopinov was eager to fly to Dazhou now to see if it was as prosperous as Pierre described.

In fact, there is a lot of moisture in Pierre's description.

In the whole Great Zhou, only two cities, Beijing and Jiangning, had a population of more than one million. But for more than 500,000 cities, there are more than 20.

Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Huguang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Chang'an, Guanzhong, and Chengdu in Sichuan and Shu all have populations of more than 500,000.

Of course, being populous doesn't mean being prosperous.

It's like Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places that were once extremely prosperous, but now they are not very prosperous.

But Pierre had only been to the capital and some areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and had never been to the interior of the Great Zhou Dynasty at all, so many of what he said was only half-understood.

Of course, this also has to do with the embarrassing situation that the European powers are now facing.

Although the industrial revolution has already begun in European countries and colonies are spread all over the world, they have the same drawback, that is, they cannot sell domestically produced industrial goods.

If you open the world map and take a closer look, you can see that there are many colonies of the European powers, but none of them can be called rich.

Of course, from the perspective of future generations, whether it is North America or Australia, they are very rich countries and regions, but after all, it is not the future generations, whether it is North America, Australia, Africa, or Latin America, they are just the resource plundering land of the European powers, and the European powers will not spend a lot of money to build there.

After counting it carefully, among the colonies of those European powers, the richest is none other than Tianzhu.

Tianzhu was not only developed relatively early, but also had a large population, and was one of the ancient civilizations, so it naturally became the largest dumping ground for commodities of the European powers.

But in fact, the industrial products of the European powers did not sell well in Tianzhu, because most of the people in Tianzhu could not afford to buy industrial products from Europe. In addition, because of the competition between the European powers, they dumped very few industrial products abroad.

This is not the case with the Great Zhou, which has only just started the industrial revolution, but now it is the world's largest exporter of goods, and the porcelain, silk and tea he produces are very popular all over the world.

The European powers plundered so much wealth from all over the world, but in the end they found that all this wealth ended up in the pockets of Da Zhou.

In fact, the European powers were also depressed, they could have imposed an economic blockade on the Great Zhou, but the reality was that they needed silk, porcelain and tea from the Great Zhou in Europe, and the Great Zhou did not need the industrial products produced in Europe.

Now that most of the European powers have established diplomatic relations with the Great Zhou, how to get the people of the Great Zhou to buy their industrial products has become their top priority.

But the Great Zhou is now the leader of the small-scale peasant economy, and unless the small-scale peasant economy of the Great Zhou goes bankrupt, it will be more difficult for Europe to dump industrial products in the Great Zhou.

The continuous inflow of wealth into the Great Zhou, and the inability to sell the industrial products produced, were the embarrassing situation faced by the European powers.

In this case, the wealthy Da Zhou naturally became the object of envy of everyone.

The Great Zhou of this era, in the eyes of Europeans, was even taller than the American imperialism of later generations. Especially after the descriptions of the merchants who traveled between the Great Zhou and Europe, it is clear that the Great Zhou was a place full of gold.

Indeed, in addition to being exposed to maritime risks, these merchants basically made a profit in their trade with Da Zhou.

As long as they can purchase silk, tea, porcelain and other luxury goods from the Great Zhou, there is no possibility of losing money.

Of course, if you are stupid and dump industrial products on Dazhou, then there is nothing to say about the loss.

The Great Zhou is so rich, the European powers have long coveted it, and it is very difficult to use force.

Didn't England want to use force against Da Zhou before? It's just that it didn't pass the final parliamentary vote.

Now, after this fiasco of the Rus' state, the European powers are even more afraid of the Great Zhou, and no one dares to say anything about using force against the Great Zhou.

As the second most powerful country in Europe, the Rus Kingdom was defeated at the hands of the Great Zhou, and now who dares to underestimate the force of the Great Zhou? It's better to obediently obtain wealth from Da Zhou through trade means!

Now, after a few attempts, savvy European businessmen have figured out a few tricks. Although industrial products could not be sold in the Great Zhou, those machinery and equipment, as well as experts, scholars and technicians, were very popular in the Great Zhou.

Therefore, many businessmen are pouring machinery and equipment at the same time, but also constantly fool domestic experts, scholars and skilled workers to go to the Great Zhou, in exchange for the remuneration of the Great Zhou.

These riches, though far less than the profits of pouring silk, tea, and porcelain, were much better than sailing to the Great Zhou by air......