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Although the whole world was opposed to the war waged by Britain against the Boers, Britain was still able to carry on the war without the help of Europe, as the Americans did, and the Boers did not gain the status of an independent overseas white state with the help of European sympathy.

The main reason is not that the Boers are not strong enough, the performance of the Boers is much better than that of the Americans. The main reason is that Britain is much stronger than Britain was back then, and the British are more united and more supportive of the war than they were back then, from civilians to elites.

In just five or six years, the changes in the international and domestic situation, especially the changes in the domestic situation, allow China to project greater power outward, and also make the name of the Chinese Ming Empire more resounding.

Beginning in 1894, after more than five years of internal political adjustments and an annual financial subsidy of 100 million taels, the north has smoothed the gap with the south in terms of government agencies and administrative efficiency.

As a result, not only did the north not experience any large-scale turmoil, but after the initial discomfort, it began to enter a period of rapid economic growth and high political stability.

This kind of result is expected and reasonable, and everyone can imagine that the north will achieve rapid development after reunification, but everyone did not expect such rapid development.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the politics of the north and the south have been divided for more than 30 years, in the past 30 years, the south has completed industrial accumulation, although the industrial level has never caught up with the most developed countries in the West, but it has always attracted new technologies to spread in the south, without special introduction, a large number of Western industrialists take the initiative to bring the latest technology to the Ming Dynasty, they hope to succeed in the Ming market, Nobel is like this, Siemens is like this, Schneider withdrew and entered, after tasting the large market of hundreds of millions of people, It is really not interesting to fight in the narrow field of European countries.

Therefore, Daming has the ability to design and can't keep up with the UK, but the ability to imitate Britain's most advanced warships has no pressure, and it has the ability to invent virtue electronic products, but it can quickly introduce imitation, it can be said that in the field of creative technology, Daming is still lacking, but at the level of application technology, there is no obstacle.

This ability to learn and accept Western technology without obstacles, coupled with a huge market, the power of the explosion, is beyond imagination, it can be said that Germany needs to transform traditional industries, and strive to operate new industries such as chemicals and electricity in order to make its own industrial strength surpass the old developed countries Britain, Ming only need to introduce new technology to transform the old technology, this one way, can easily surpass other countries.

Because other European countries can become their own big powers, call themselves powerful powers, call themselves world empires, but only the Chinese are qualified to call themselves giants, and no one cares about the size of their countries in later generations, and even some people think that half of the Chinese will be more developed, but in fact, it is this scale that the West can never imitate China's unique advantages.

After the Ming Dynasty unified the whole country, this scale advantage was greatly strengthened, from the scale of more than 100 million people to the scale of more than 400 million people.

The South's ability to introduce Western technology, combined with the North's sheer population and resources, has produced a power far beyond any expert's expectations.

At first, everyone saw the poverty caused by the backward economy of the north, thought that more than 300 million northerners could not afford the products of the south, and thought that the country would have to carry a huge burden.

But no one sees that it is precisely this kind of disparity, in fact, in the economy, it is a huge space, for the south, the north is a huge space for investment, and the huge investment in the south has greatly improved the economic composition of the north and created a larger market.

In the history of Japan, the industrial and economic level doubled ten years after the First Sino-Japanese War, and after the Russo-Japanese War ten years later, the industrial and economic strength doubled, and after the First World War, it more than doubled. Why?

Huge market space!

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan seized the Korean market, but in fact, until World War II, Japan was a net investment in North Korea's finances, and it was also a net investment in the Taiwan colony, and even once the Japanese government had the idea of selling Taiwan, the buyers were all found, the price was negotiated, and France was willing to take over with 12 million francs.

After the unification of the whole country in the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed a net input in the north, but the cost of this input was borne by the government, and for the private economy, it was a huge investment area, a huge market and raw material production area, and a cheaper labor force, these economic factors combined, the outbreak is bound to be a high-speed growth economy.

According to the statistics of China's Ministry of Industry and Household Affairs, China's industrial and mining industries and overall economy have doubled within five years, because the Ming Dynasty's unification of China brought more room for growth than Japan's occupation of Korea after the First Sino-Japanese War and the Northeast after the Russo-Japanese War.

After reunification, the railway from Tianjin to Taiyuan was built on the railway to Shanxi alone. From Henan into the Changzhi Basin to connect Taiyuan, and finally into the Datong railway. There is also a railway from Taiyuan to Xi'an. The railways that run through the Yangtze River basin have two coastal railways in the north and south.

The north bank connects Yangzhou, Chaohu and Anqing from the south, communicates the Grand Canal and the Huaihe River area, connects Hankou, Jingzhou and Yichang, communicates the Hanjiang region, enters Chongqing through Fengjie and Guang'an, communicates the Jialing River area, and then connects Chengdu along the Neijiang River and Ziyang in the Tuojiang region.

The south bank starts from Shanghai, passes through the Suzhou-Xichang area, enters Nanjing, connects Wuhu and Chizhou on the south bank, and is a prosperous area in the south of the Yangtze River all the way, then enters the Jiujiang River, communicates the Ganjiang River Basin, enters Ezhou and Yueyang, communicates the Xiangjiang River Basin, enters the south bank of Jingzhou, and also communicates the Hanjiang River Basin, and then enters Sichuan from Yidu, Badong and other places, connects Chongqing through Wanzhou, Zhongxian and Fuling, and continues to connect Jiangjin and Luzhou to the south to reach Xuzhou (Yibin), and then enters Chengdu from Leshan and Meishan in the Minjiang region.

Entering Sichuan, a province accounting for one-tenth of the Chinese population, has significant economic benefits, and the benefits brought by the construction of the railway alone have ensured the normal operation of the two railways, becoming the railway with the best operating efficiency after the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, and even more significant than the benefits of the Beijing-Han and Beijing-Shanghai railways, because the Shu road is difficult, and the Sichuan people are more dependent on the railway.

In addition to facilities such as railways, there are other infrastructure improvements, such as major coastal ports, Yantai started the transformation of a new deep-water port, which was only expanded in the 1930s and is now 30 years ahead of schedule; There are also Tianjin and Haizhou (Lianyungang), which are also key port construction. The newly built ports and open ports also include Cangzhou in Beizhili, Dongying and Rizhao in Shandong.

Inland water transport is another key point, the northernmost Liaohe River, after dredging and remediation, so that 1,000-ton barges can go directly to Tieling, and Panjin, Xinmin and other river ports have been renovated; In the middle of the Yellow River Basin, although the river transport was very underdeveloped in later generations, but in this era, the Yellow River can pass hundreds of tons of ships, and the navigable capacity is always much stronger than the Grand Canal, after dredging, three hundred tons of ships can pass to Kaifeng; The key area is the Yangtze River Basin, along which more than 30 large river ports, hundreds of medium-sized river ports, and small wharves are operated and managed by the private sector.

The infrastructure also includes facilities such as water and electricity. The benefits brought by technical facilities such as water and electricity are also huge, and even the northern region quickly keeps up with the south in terms of electrification, and the northern handicraft industry has also caught up with the wave of electrification for the first time.

Through large-scale infrastructure, the business environment has been improved, and the efficiency improvement brought about by the prosperity of traditional industries alone has increased by more than 10 percentage points per year; These efficiency improvements have attracted huge amounts of private investment, and the direct benefits brought by investment are enormous, and the investment, income, and additional efficiency gains brought about by them add up to more than 20 percent, and the result is an annual economic growth rate of 15 percent, doubling the economy in five years.

According to the main economic indicators, this is the most impressive round of growth in China's economic history, and it is of international significance.

Because judging from the most important sign of railway construction, China has begun to approach the United States and become one of the biggest driving forces of the country's economy, as well as Russia.

From 1892 to 1893 Russia experienced one of the most impressive upsurges in the history of capitalism. From 1890 to 1900, 22,600 kilometers of railways were laid in Russia. Coal in the Donbass, oil in Baku, metallurgy in the south are developing rapidly. By the end of the 90s, Russia had surpassed France in pig iron and steel production to become the fifth largest in the world, and the length of railway lines was second only to the United States.

In this round of growth cycle, the United States is still the world's engine engine, a war between the Ming Dynasty and the United States, not only did not affect the speed of development of the United States, but because of the post-war reconstruction caused by the war, the United States provided considerable investment space, starting from 1894, the United States in five years of new and repaired railways as high as 80,000 kilometers, four times that of Russia. Spurred by the war, steel production surged, and the post-war boosted economic reconstruction, with U.S. steel production reaching 20 million tons, most of which was smelted into steel, and the price dropped from $120 30 ago to $13 a ton, a nearly tenfold price reduction, which means a nearly tenfold increase in efficiency.

After the reunification, China's growth was not inferior, also because of the role of the war, the Ming Dynasty's steel output doubled before the war, from 5 million tons of pig iron and 1 million tons of steel before the war, to 10 million tons of pig iron and 5 million tons of steel. After the war, most of the steel production was transferred to industrial construction, and after the reunification, the country needed a lot of infrastructure investment, and the new railway mileage reached 60,000 kilometers, which was three times the mileage of the previous Daming railway. Shipbuilding capacity has increased significantly, surpassing France and ranking third behind Britain and Germany.

It can be said that this round of economic growth was driven by the United States, China, and Russia, and China's economy has reached a new height, from the periphery of the world economy, to the core of the world economy.

However, there are still differences, although the railway is still the main driving force for this round of economic growth in the United States, the power industry and the steel industry have begun to be on an equal footing with the railway industry, and the emerging automobile manufacturing industry has also begun to exert force. In the Ming Dynasty and Russia, the construction of railways was still the main driving force, electricity and steel began to develop, and the automobile industry had not yet sprouted.

But even so, although it has not yet fully led the development of the world, and is only in the second row, it still touches the center of the world economy and the position it has held for a long time in a long history.

While the world began to pay attention, it also began to feel threatened.

Threats bring prevention, and threats bring pulls.

Rational use of this perceived threat in the Western world can break their defenses and at the same time put themselves in an extremely advantageous position.

These are all diplomatic tasks to be done.

Diplomats are more and more able to grasp these advantages purely by themselves, to put it bluntly, it is still Li Hongzhang who understood that he was defeated by razing, and the problem is that different national strengths doomed Li Hongzhang to failure, because he did not understand another sentence, which is called a weak country without diplomacy.

Only a strong country can take the initiative to seek diplomatic interests, because only a strong country can be able to pursue its own world policy.