In recent years, the large factories in the textile industry in various countries have completely expelled the manual workshops and completed the large-scale industry of the textile industry.

In the era of steam engines, the textile industry is a strategic level of industrial industry, basically the only industry that can be industrialized on a large scale, other industries are around the textile industry, the largest customer of the machine manufacturing industry is the textile industry, the largest customer of the transportation industry is the textile industry, either the transportation of textiles or the transportation of textile raw materials.

Driven by textile industry products and other traditional bulk commodities, the representative steam engine of the new technology was quickly applied to the shipping industry and the railway industry, greatly reducing transportation costs and increasing speed. The spread of the telegraph increased the speed of communication and reduced the cost of communication. Machine building began to become an independent industrial sector. The world has experienced a decade of frenzied railway construction, the Americans have built 30,000 kilometers of railways, China has built 150,000 kilometers of railways, the British railway network has long been completed, the Prussian railway has more than 20,000 kilometers, and the Russian and French railways have all exceeded 10,000 kilometers.

Technological progress brought about a wave of prosperity, and the power of the Prussian steam engine increased by more than 4 times, and the number of spindles increased by about 1 times. The number of spindles in France has been halved, the number of steam looms has doubled, and heavy industry has increased by 75%. While the export of British goods is expanding, the export price is still rising, and the profit is very considerable. As a result, the industries of various countries began to surplus. The textile productivity of the United Kingdom alone is enough to meet the needs of the entire Western countries. Rail transport has promoted the great development of the machinery industry, but when the railway industry begins to have a surplus, the whole crisis is already doomed.

Spurred on by lucrative profits, credit around the world is highly inflated. Deposits at the London Stock Bank doubled and a half, from £18 million to £43 million. The number of banks in the United States increased from 824 to 1,416, and lending increased from $445 million to $684 million. The number of German banks increased from 9 to 29 and the amount of banknotes issued doubled. The Banque de France more than tripled its lending operations, from 1.8 billion francs to 5.6 billion francs. The export credit and short promissory note regimes were widely developed, with banks lending large quantities of short promissory notes to companies with very small amounts of their own capital.

The situation is even worse in China, where free-market joint-stock banks are ten times the size of Britain and four or five times as many bubbles as Britain are created.

While this prolongs the boom, it increases the risks. In addition, the practice of setting up abusive companies to defraud small investors of their trust and money is rife, and many banks are involved in creating bubbles, causing stock prices to skyrocket and plummet.

The textile industry is excessive, the heavy industry is saturated, the financial industry bubble is serious, there is no longer such a large market to accommodate the textiles of the industrial countries, the textile industry is shrinking rapidly, a large number of factories are bankrupt, there are no so many goods for railway transportation, the profits of the railway industry are declining, investment is shrinking, the emerging industry machine manufacturing industry is shrinking, there are not so many investment opportunities for the financial industry, a large number of financial institutions have accumulated bad debts, the textile industry as the representative of the light industry and the heavy industry represented by the machine industry, As well as the simultaneous crisis in the financial sector, represented by joint-stock banks, the entire economy will inevitably be in trouble.

This dilemma is the main reason why China's rulers have begun to strengthen tariff barriers, which have triggered a trade war that has ignited the fuse of the economic crisis.

China is an economy ten times that of the United Kingdom, and the contradictions and troubles are correspondingly ten times that of the United Kingdom, which only needs to deal with more than 15 million urban people, while China needs to deal with 200 million urban proletarians.

The prestige of the crown prince is insufficient, the old emperor does not care about the world, and it seems that all unfavorable factors are gathered together.

Immediately after the outbreak of the economic crisis, a wave of bankruptcies broke out, and the local railway companies, commercial companies, and mining companies, which had expanded arbitrarily, began to fall into trouble, closed down and went bankrupt, and then the workers lost their jobs, and the aimless unemployed wandered around the cities, full of dissatisfaction with society.

Various labor groups, mainly those of the same nature, began to compromise, and these gangs were not strictly managed, born out of the traditional party associations, and had strong habits in the rivers and lakes. The main purpose of attracting workers to join the union is to absorb membership dues. Poor workers join them to protect themselves. Joining a gang will not be bullied by other groups while working, will not be fired by the owner at will, and can also fight for wage increases from time to time, although the gang will take a large chunk, but the workers can still benefit from joining the gang.

During Zhou Lang's reign, a high-pressure policy was implemented against gang organizations, but it has not been possible to put an end to such private secret association activities. There have always been gangs, such as the Cao Gang and the Salt Gang, which could not be extinct during the Qing Dynasty, and the gang members were always like leeks, cutting stubble and growing stubble.

Zhou Lang practiced the traditional practice of directly attacking the leaders and putting an end to the gang members drawing lots to make the low-level congregations guilty. As a result, millions of violent criminals were exiled during the Zhou Lang era. But it also taught the gang how to fight against the government, and they found that when the government exiled them, they would all go through the court under the banner of the rule of law. The court trial, on the other hand, is based on the sentence of the convict. As a result, the gang members began to stop violent acts such as fights, but used soft threats and intimidation. They threw worship posts to the capitalists, wrote threatening letters, poured dog blood, and threw dead dogs. Let the workers sit in front of the capitalists, and let the old and weak women and children besiege the yamen of the government.

These soft measures are difficult to convict and allow the gangs to begin to formalize, and if their members are caught, they have decent hired counsellors to defend them.

It can be said that the Chinese-style trade unions in the form of gangs, except for the strong characteristics of clan and local protectionism, are no different from the trade unions in Europe, and have always been the mainstream of the power of the trade unions in China. The struggle between gangs in different localities for the right to operate the industry is even more fierce than the struggle between trade unions and capitalists for interests.

But in this atmosphere, Western-style trade unions have gradually introduced into China, and for the government, such unions are even more of a headache, and they have caused many revolutions in the West, and they are fighting for power, unlike the gang forces for the purpose of making money.

The business forces formed the Chamber of Commerce, and they used the money to buy the gangs to cooperate, and on the other hand, they financed the union forces and financed them to fight for the establishment of a parliamentary system.

The bureaucracy and the imperial power are suppressing the political demands of the trade unions and chambers of commerce, and the likes of the merchants are also trying to enter the house, which is intolerable.

The civilian-bureaucratic clique, with a strong elite worldview, strongly rejected the parliament, and the crown prince did not want to be restrained by the parliament, although the union's criticism of the government as only a servant of the emperor was somewhat biased, but to a certain extent, this is true. The bureaucracy has elements that constrain the imperial power, and there are also elements that depend on the imperial power. Both chambers of commerce and trade unions want to restrain official and royal power and allow them to play a greater political role.

In the midst of the great crisis, the revolution finally broke out in China, the least likely place to be revolutionary. However, the way of the outbreak is slightly different from that of the West. Similar to Prussia, the army, which came from a conservative countryside, sided with the emperor. The city-dwellers did not take up arms, but political groups with ulterior motives, capitalist forces seeking power, and the working class seeking a stable life took to the streets. They blocked the gates of the government and set up barricades in the streets. Various requests were made.

Under these circumstances, the crown prince was in great disarray, and his officials were all trying to encourage him to take measures, and some hoped that the crown prince would order a swift crackdown, believing that the city was completely out of control, and that if it was not suppressed as soon as possible and the workers organized by the union were dispersed, the consequences would be unimaginable. The old and serious bureaucrats want to talk to the trade unions. Find various gang leaders to act as intermediaries and meet the demands of some poor people.

The crown prince was at a loss, there had never been an urban riot of this scale in the history of China, and it was forcibly traced back to the rebellion of the Chinese people during the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty, which had no reference significance at all.

He could not make up his mind, and when the three earliest and largest industrial centers of Songjiang, Guangzhou, and Fuzhou, which had completely lost control, had already been stationed in the army, the opposition still did not give up, they still erected barricades, and confronted the officers and soldiers with all kinds of shoddy weapons, and their demands never changed, and after so many years of brewing and how many struggles they had experienced, it was easy to take advantage of the opportunity of this large-scale economic crisis to mobilize the citizens and workers, I don't know what year and month.

The orders for the suppression have been drawn up, and at the last moment the crown prince's courage was lost, and he was not afraid in the face of foreign enemies, because he knew that he would never lose, but in this kind of civil war, he had no confidence and shot at hundreds of thousands of people, if it could not be suppressed, he did not dare to imagine the consequences, although France was a small country, the tragic situation of the French Revolution was enough to alert any big country.

Moreover, the army was not very willing to fight, especially under the emergency order, only the local auxiliaries could rush to the city in time, and these garrisons were all natives of the local area, and they were inextricably linked with the people of the uprising. The government approached the leaders of various gangs to communicate with the workers' organizations, and those workers' organizations also found local fame and communicated with the army. Auxiliary officers have repeatedly reported that soldiers do not want to fight, fearing that forcibly ordering soldiers to shoot will cause mutiny.

The bad reputation for suppressing the populace and the risk of a mutiny among the soldiers were too great, which made the crown prince panic, and at the last moment, he pushed the problem to his father, and a telegram was photographed on Wudang Mountain.

Zhou Lang, who cultivated his mind in Wudang Mountain, also paid attention to the situation at all times, and after he received the telegram from the crown prince, he sighed, this son always made himself not very satisfied. All he could choose was repression and concession, and he didn't choose either, but gave the choice to someone else. At this time, giving up the choice means giving up power, he still has a father to rely on now, if he becomes pro-government in the future, who will he hand it over?

Zhou Lang is also very emotional about the current situation, what should come is always coming, although he has been careful to maintain it for so many years, but the trend of social reconstruction brought about by the industrial revolution still pushes the revolutionary forces to the forefront.

After Zhou Lang handed over power in the past two years, he basically didn't care about anything, even if there was a war, he might ignore it, with the current national strength, he would not hurt his muscles or bones if he lost or won, but he couldn't ignore this kind of internal struggle, because only this force can subvert an empire like China.

So Zhou Lang prepared and immediately made a high-profile public itinerary and returned to the capital!