Since the Austro-Greek War, Greece has avoided every great power war and has been immersed in development.

On the contrary, in many great power wars in the Black Sea region, Greece has enjoyed the most abundant war dividends.

Fifteen years have passed since the end of the Austro-Greek War, which was a fifteen years of peace, including the four-year Kazakh war between China and Anglo-Russian, which brought about the industrial revolution in Greece.

During the war, Greece monopolized the grain trade in the Black Sea region by virtue of its special relations with all parties, and its investment in shipping and shipbuilding increased year after year, and after the war, it became the largest trading power in the Eastern Mediterranean, and its merchant fleet exceeded the number of merchant ships in this area by Chinese European companies.

At the same time, taking advantage of the special geographical location, the cotton and wool textile industry continued to grow rapidly, and during the war their machine industry was even involved in the production of munitions. After the war, Greece has become one of the most industrially powerful countries in the region, in the cotton and wool textile industry, it can compete with Austria, the total amount is inferior, but in terms of exports, it can compete with each other, and even surpass Austria.

After four years of war money, Greece's financial situation has also been greatly improved, before the perennial burden of tens of millions of pounds of huge debt, after the war dropped to five million, a reduction of more than seven million pounds, this is a small country, is really a rare opportunity, without this war, Greece will have to suffer in the financial crisis for at least ten years, lost time costs, twenty years can not make up.

The post-war Greek economy continued to move forward on the basis built during the war, and although the profit margins were not as high as during the war, the lasting profitability of industry appeared to be more benign and sustainable.

After the war, there was also an economic crisis, and the over-inflated cotton textile industry fluctuated again under the impact of British products after the war, but after the big waves, a large number of technologically backward and poorly managed factories were eliminated, and the technical level of Greek industry improved.

After the bourgeois revolution that swept Europe, Greece was hit to a certain extent, but the powerful king maintained stability in the province of Athens, and Athens, as the largest industrial center of Greece, took a large amount of the Black Sea market from the Austrians when European society was affected.

The Greek Industrial Revolution ushered in a second upsurge, which lasted for three years, and before it could decline, the Triple Alliance declared war on Russia.

This was another rare war fortune, and Greece continued to trade in entrepots, but the cotton and wool textile industry, whose main market was the Black Sea region, was hit by the war and suffered a cold winter. The machinery industry, which was originally based on railways, shipbuilding, and textile industries, was transferred to arms production during the war, and there were great gains in arms exports, and Greece still made excess profits on the whole.

Even during the war, Greece began to export capital, holding a large number of bonds issued by Austria in the Black Sea financial markets. After the war, Greece paid off all its foreign debts, and the government kept only three million pounds in debt, but it was all domestic debt borrowed from the Greek market, and the era of paying interest abroad was over.

At least 10 of the 15 years have been a good opportunity for development, and Greece has seized the opportunity of the three industrial revolutions to greatly reshape Greek society.

In addition to the accumulation of capital and the development of technology, the industrial revolution will also bring about the agglomeration of population.

Population growth is the foundation for the growth of national strength.

Greece takes advantage of its location to develop its industry, as long as it relies on attracting foreign labor.

Greece is a small country, but the Greek nation is not an absolute small nation, in the division of nationalities under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek nation is a large nation with a population of more than 10 million, second only to the Turkic people, is the second largest nation in the Ottoman Empire.

Taking advantage of this political division, Zhou Chenggong spread the banner of the nation, shaped Greece into the national concept of the Greek nation's motherland, and always fought for the identity of the Greek nation, taking the opportunity to attract Greek immigrants.

When Greece first became independent, it had a population of only 800,000, and within five years after Zhou Chenggong became king, it grew to a population of 1 million, but at this time, it mainly relied on the suppression and exclusion of the Greek nation in the territory by the Ottoman Empire because of the independence of Greece.

After the Austro-Greek War, Greece received numerous islands in the Aegean Sea, as well as southern Macedonia and northern Epirus, increasing its population to 1.5 million.

Fifteen years later, Greece entered a period of stability and the Industrial Revolution began, at this time the main attraction was the jobs brought by the Industrial Revolution, and a large number of low-level Greeks in the Ottoman Empire were attracted by the job opportunities and immigrated to Greece.

There were not only authentic Greeks from Asia Minor, but also Greek-speaking Romanians, Bulgarians, and Albanians.

In 15 years, 800,000 immigrants poured into Greece, almost as many as the population of Greece at the beginning of independence. Immigrants not only bring with them labor, but also some immigrants bring with them. Although the Greek diaspora is mainly located on the Black Sea coast and in the Balkans, there are also a number of Greek diaspora communities in Italy, France and Spain, such as Queen Connie of Greece, who came from a prominent Greek family in northern Italy.

The diaspora also brings with them different cultures, which are vastly different and even interreligious. Because of the rule of the Ottoman Empire, a large number of Bulgarians, Albanians, and Romanians have converted to Islam, and even the ethnic groups on the Greek peninsula have a large number of Muslims, and there are some people who do not speak Greek, but believe in Orthodox Christianity, they also have a Greek cultural identity. These people were registered as Greeks and immigrated into the industrial areas of Greece, mainly Athens and the surrounding seaport area, where a new language based on the Athenian dialect of the past was formed, which began to be called Urban Greek.

The negative aspects of different cultures are increased conflict, chaotic metropolitan areas, poor security environment, and increased social dynamism. The collision of different ideas led to a cultural flourishing scene in Greece in a short period of time, with a large number of literary and artistic works emerging.

The natural reproduction of immigrants and native populations has doubled the population of Greece to three million, and the population growth caused by immigration tends to have a very favorable age structure, dominated by young and middle-aged laborers. Industrial migrants are mainly concentrated in cities, and the rate of urbanization has increased, and the large-scale concentration of people has given rise to prosperous markets.

The agglomeration effect of large cities first appeared in the vicinity of Athens, not only the overseas immigrants are mainly concentrated in the surrounding areas of Athens, but the population of the agricultural areas in Greece is also shifting here, and the province of Athens gathers more than half of the population of Greece, forming a metropolitan area of more than 1.5 million people.

Politically, although Zhou Chenggong was educated in England, he was forced to go to England, he did not like the British parliamentary system very much, and he insisted that Athens Province should not have a parliament. After the Austro-Greek War, he greatly strengthened the power of the crown by purging the local powerful factions, and pushed Greece to pass a bill that made the province of Athens a direct domain of the king, following the example of the province of Zhili in China.

The king had absolute authority in the province of Athens, which was initially derogatory to the liberals as an Oriental-style autocracy, but then the people gradually began to realize that the province really needed an authoritative government, because it was so chaotic, with people of different cultural backgrounds, ethnic origins and religious beliefs coming together, and a parliamentary government with low efficiency could not deal with the endless contradictions.

Therefore, after a few years, the people of Athens Province themselves did not object, and at this time, the people of Athens Province, in fact, the proportion of foreign population had begun to exceed the local population, and they were never able to form a fixed localism, and they lacked the basis of parliamentarism.

It was in this way that the province of Athens developed rapidly with an authoritative government as its core, with the characteristics of chaos but balance, contradiction and cohesion. The public security environment has always been bad, but there has been no major turmoil, and contradictions and conflicts have always existed, but they have not moved towards splitting.

In addition to the province of Athens as a direct domain, and the formation of a city cluster with Athens as the core and satellite cities around the ports, the king directly controlled half of the population of Greece, and foreign power in the rest of Greece was also great.

Through the imperial examination system, the officials of the administrative organs in various places are personally appointed by the king, and these administrative officials form a balance of power with the local parliament, and the king has at least half of the influence on the locality, in most places, due to the complete purge of the local powerful factions, the parliament also lacks the strength to resist the royal power, basically the king controls the locality, with the exception of only one place, that is, the Peloponnesian Province, where the local powerful factions are not completely cleansed, because this has not fallen back then, There was no question of local tycoons defecting to the enemy, and there was no excuse for the king to purge, although the king suppressed a large number of local tycoons by force, and more could be retained, so the Peloponnesians had been in the vanguard of the anti-king all these years.

As a result of the king's confrontation, the state invested very little in the Peloponnese in infrastructure and other fields, and the economy here became the most backward, with the largest proportion of Peloponnesians among the emigrants to Athens in the provinces of the country.

Militarily, after the Austro-Greek War, the king has always maintained a mercenary conscription army, the number of which has been maintained at 100,000, which is not large, but the level of training is high. Zhou Chenggong attached great importance to this small army, and established a military academy to train talents, so that the army has always been relatively regular, at least with the European army at the same time, in terms of officer quality.

The 100,000 small but elite Greek army, with an equally small reserve force, mainly veterans, can be mobilized to bring the size of the Greek army to 300,000.

With an army of this size, it is not bad to control internal security, and it is not qualified to intervene in the struggle for hegemony among major powers at all.