This war completely changed Zhou Chenggong, because the conversation with Zhou Lang made him completely recognize his situation, he had no choice, he had to go against the trend, otherwise he would fall into the abyss and be crushed.

There is no chance of creating a gentle Greek state, and he must take a special approach to increase the country's power quickly.

Therefore, he could not give up his attraction to the Greek-speaking peoples, who lived in the Ottoman Empire, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Italian states, and there were four or five million people of Greek descent, and if he could win the centripetal force of these people and make them constantly move back to their homeland, Greece would not be smaller in terms of population than any Western European country.

At this point, Zhou Chenggong did not shy away from his heart that he was very envious of the crown prince who was exercising in the Americas, and with the opening of the railway, the passage to immigrate to the great plains of the Americas has been opened. He received information that the number of Chinese in the Americas under the crown prince had reached fifteen million, and that a policy of household consolidation was implemented for the Indians of the Great Plains.

As a prince with a systematic Chinese education, Zhou Chenggong knew too well what kind of policy it was to organize households and people, relying on strong government management, fixing a large group of Indians to the land, giving them hukou, prohibiting migration, sending officials to manage them, and handing them agricultural planting techniques. Radically changing their culture and way of life will certainly be met with resistance, which will inevitably be accompanied by bloody repression. Europe has been able to maintain a multi-ethnic form for thousands of years, while the Han Chinese in China have reached more than 98 percent, and this strong administrative system has played the greatest role.

Of course, this kind of strong management is not very in line with public opinion, but for national integration, it is the least damaging way, and Westerners do not want to do this, but they have no experience. The fusion of Westerners and nomads, often in the form of massacres and genocide, who is more inhuman? Even in modern times, in order to integrate the Indians, the Australians also adopted the method of forcibly taking away the Indians' babies and handing them over to white couples to raise, directly cutting off the humanity between the Indians and their children, who is more inhumane?

In just a few years, the crown prince increased the population of the Americas from 10 million to 15 million, and Zhou Chenggong never admitted that this was the crown prince's outstanding ability, but the resources he possessed were too large, hundreds of millions, and still told the growing Chinese population that it was his biggest capital. Not only the crown prince, but also the Kingdom of South Africa and the Manchu Empire were using various ways to attract immigrants from China.

South Africa gave arable land, livestock, and slaves to attract Han Chinese immigrants, and sought ways to support African companies to continue to gain the right to exile prisoners from China; The Manchus gave greater preference to those who were literate, essentially giving a position as a banner official as long as they were literate.

Zhou Chenggong also wanted to attract Han Chinese immigrants, but strong Greek nationalism made him afraid to do so, he was always a Chinese prince, his identity was always suspicious, if he attracted Chinese immigrants, it would cause a huge sense of crisis among the Greeks, and the nationalists who now supported his rule would immediately become his biggest opponents.

But the Chinese cannot be attracted, and Chinese capital must be introduced.

The war has left Greece in debt, with a foreign debt of up to £10 million, an average of £10 per Greek, and with the current finances, it cannot even pay the interest.

In order to balance the finances, just after the end of the war, Zhou successfully purged the local powerful factions in the north, and at the same time used the army of up to 200,000 as the backing to force the Peloponnesian natives to surrender. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Chenggong cut half of the country's regular army, retained only 100,000 elites, and the other 100,000 were immediately demobilized.

But saving money is not a symptom of the problem, and if there is no new source of finance in the short term, Greece will inevitably go bankrupt. It is necessary to attract a large amount of capital to balance the finances, and there is no doubt that China is the country with the strongest capital strength in the world at present.

Therefore, after purging the domestic opposition and firmly controlling the power of the Greek state in his own hands, Zhou Chenggong immediately launched an investment plan for Chinese capital. He again invited European companies to come to Greece to build a railway, but this time they refused.

European companies have built railways around Athens, and the railway line between Athens and the port of Piraeus has not been profitable so far. The main reason why European companies were willing to build railways in Greece was that the railways they built in the Austrian Empire were very profitable, and the railways from Viana to Trieste and Venice connected the capital and ports of a country of more than 20 million people, and the transportation volume was guaranteed. However, after the opening of the Black Sea Railway, Austria became more and more dependent on the Danube River for access to the sea, resulting in a decline in the efficiency of the railway. The European company simply sold it to the Austrian government, abandoning the business of operating railways in Austria.

Even the railways in Austria are hardly profitable, let alone the Greek ones. The construction of the railway from Athens to the north had to pass through many mountains, and the cost of building the road was very high, but it was basically impossible to make a profit, because the basins in the northern region only lived in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and there were very few areas with more than 200,000. The product is also very poor, only wool, olive oil and other crops, completely unable to support the volume of railway transportation.

The possible construction of this railway was only of practical significance for the Greek government to maintain its rule, and was completely uncommercially viable.

In addition, the European company has recently been given the right to build a railway in France, and the French government has authorized the European company to build a railway from Marseille to Paris for 20 years, after which the railway and ancillary assets will be handed over to the French government unless the authorization is extended.

The construction of a railway on the rich and flat plains of France is much more attractive than the construction of a railway in the rugged and barren country of Greece, and European companies are currently focused on building the Paris railway, and are not interested in investing in Greek railways at all.

Zhou Chenggong could not attract European companies to invest in railways in Greece, but he knew too well the importance of transportation to a country, and it was not unreasonable for the Roman Empire, the Qin Empire, and the Persian Empire to spend a huge amount of money to build an official road network. Greece is only an effect, but its national complexity is no less than that of any great power.

The significance of the railway was so great that Zhou Chenggong decided to grit his teeth and build it himself. However, just to build a railway from Greece to the northern border, the budget is calculated in millions of pounds, and the current Greece is completely unable to afford such a high financial expenditure, but Zhou Chenggong has a strong willingness to build the railway, and immediately starts. Through the operation of the railways in Athens and the surrounding areas, Greece already has a certain number of operation and management talents, but the engineering technology to build railways in complex geological formations is not yet available, so it still turns to European companies for help, signs road construction contracts with them, and hires them to contract railway projects.

Even if the king has an iron will, but in the face of this kind of investment, the will alone is not enough, Greece, even if it digs three feet into the ground, it is impossible to squeeze out so much money, not to mention that Greece already owes a huge debt, and with the current financial situation, even the interest cannot be paid. But Greece is all the hard work of Zhou Chenggong, and he is definitely not a scoundrel mentality when he is in debt when he treats the issue of governing the country. He had a tight financing plan to ensure the construction of the railway.

He first set up a Greek bank with a Chinese model of 30,000 pounds of money from the state. The bank was authorized to issue the Greek drachma, a Greek currency, on the basis of gold and silver reserves, stipulating that 1 drachma was 20 grams of silver or 1 gram of gold. At the same time, the public bank is authorized to issue the same amount of currency with treasury bonds as reserves, the state can issue financing through bonds, and the public banks can issue currency with bonds as reserves. This is actually the way the country creates money, in this way, it is even possible to issue paper money that exceeds several times the gold equivalent to circulate in the market, but this multiple cannot be calculated even by the most brilliant economists, and the situation is different from country to country, and the multiplier of paper money expansion is also different.

Zhou Chenggong, who received an elite education in China and Britain, was certainly not stupid enough to think that he could conjure wealth out of thin air, and the purpose of his establishment of the public bank was not to accumulate wealth, but to create a stable monetary system. The biggest difference between this bank and the Chinese bank is that it has no gold. Zhou Chenggong used the treasury to support, but only took out 30,000 pounds, and the Greek finances at this time were indeed too tight.

The French provided a model, and their French banks were once empty, but by chance, Louis XVIII authorized the establishment of a bank for European companies, and the ample gold reserves of European companies indirectly stabilized the credit of the franc banknotes.

Therefore, Zhou Chenggong also intends to authorize European companies to establish a bank in Greece and give them the power to issue bank bills, hoping to allow European companies to bring more gold into Greece, thus indirectly stabilizing Greek finance. At that time, the public bank will rely on the national debt to issue banknotes in a controlled manner, and the European companies will issue banknotes with real money and silver, guaranteed by the government's credit, and the parallel circulation of the two banknotes can play a role in supporting each other, which is equivalent to allowing the public banks that are short of gold and silver to borrow some of the credit of European companies.

The establishment of banks is very profitable, and European companies have already tasted the sweetness of this in France, and Greece is meat no matter how small, and they have no reason to refuse. Coupled with Zhou Chenggong's background in European companies, there is no reason why they should not support it. But there are conditions for the establishment of banks and the issuance of banknotes.

That is, to ask European companies to help Greece raise the full amount of money to build the railway, and Zhou Chenggong demanded that the interest rate should not be higher than three percent, which is not at all what Greece can enjoy at this time, and the British lent them 1.1 million pounds, and the final interest rate was as high as 1 cent and 5 percent.