So Russia could only continue the war, accumulate wealth by robbing other small countries of gold, silver and jewelry, land, minerals, women, children, etc., and repay the annual interest, but this was not enough, as the expenditure of the loan became more and more huge, the interest was not enough to repay, so it sold the minerals, and almost all the minerals in the country were under the control of the merchants of the Chinese Empire.

Selling the forest farms, almost sixty percent of the forest farms went to the Chinese Empire, but then a lease agreement was signed, and it was returned to the Russian nobility and the royal family, collecting rent from them every year, and in this way repaying a part, only a small part of the arrears interest.

Russia still owes money to build the railway, so the railway is gradually mortgaged to the Chinese Empire, which employs Russians to operate, hire Russians to work, hire Russian troops to defend the railway, and operate in partnership with Russians, or exclusively, but does not pay taxes to Russians, and the taxes are directly included in the interest on repayment, which is beyond the interest expense, so part of it is included in the repayment part.

After that, the Russians learned from the Qing Dynasty to use the taxes of other parties in their own country to pay off their debts, which was offset by more than ten years.

The roads and railways in Russia are all operated by the Chinese Empire, or jointly operated, and after the profits are generated by employing Russians, part of it is given to the Russians, part of it is given to the workers or the cost of continuing to operate, part of the interest is repaid, and part of the arrears are repaid, and tax points and fees will be set up on the roads, which belong to the additional income of the Chinese Empire and are not included in the repayment and interest.

Russia's use, food, drink, clothing, walking, transportation, and even the cemetery are all provided by the Chinese Empire, almost more than ten years later, it is fully controlled by the Chinese Empire, and the only thing that the Chinese Empire cannot control is the fighting nature of the Russians, and the nature of expansion, they always want more land and population.

Maybe there are many sober-minded people in Russia who see the risk, but they are also very helpless, trillions, tens of trillions of Huaxia yuan in arrears, they are desperate to just pay back the interest every year, plus billions of Huaxia yuan in arrears, this is still the Chinese Empire agrees that they will use manual offset some of the arrears, otherwise they will still have to owe, there is no possibility of repaying the money at all.

Unless the problem is solved through turmoil, war, Russia will sink on it.

And Zhang Qiang also saw the situation in Russia, gradually reducing some of their arrears every year, and letting them borrow new arrears every year, so that they could have money to repay billions of Chinese yuan every year.

At this time, through a series of plundering strategies, the Chinese Empire has basically emptied the hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars owed by Russia to the Chinese Empire when it just ended the war.

And as commercial trade with Turkey and Sweden grew, from billions to hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and then hundreds of billions of dollars, the raw materials of the Chinese empire were obtained from Siberia and Central Asia, the Western Regions, and overseas satrapies, processed in the core areas, and then returned to other satrapy goods, or coins, and exported to other countries.

The annual fiscal revenue has increased from tens of billions to 300 billion yuan in the past, in addition to the annual repayment to the money number, the state, the people, and the businessmen to clean up the country's loans, that is, a part of the bag to Russia and the Qing Dynasty, as well as Turkey, Turkey is more conservative, there are not many bags, just billions, at most 10 billion loans, while using a few years to pay off, and then look at the situation bag, after the Chinese Empire and Turkey borrowed a few times, the total income from repayment and interest income is close to two or three billion yuan per year, Can be used to guarantee administrative expenses for the Imperial Hub.

After repaying the loans, and then borrowing a part of them, the treasury of the Chinese Empire spent the rest of the money, allocated funds to various places, purchased grain, immigration, and financed some new industries, such as steam engine manufacturing workshops, shipyard upgrades, railroad upgrades, locomotive replacements, telegraph lines, and loans to merchants.

In short, although the financial revenue of the Chinese Empire has increased, the annual repayment and subsidies are being tightened, except for some large-scale projects that must be upgraded, and now it is not possible to complete the replacement of the warships of the naval division, but more than 200 experimental steam warships and more than 200 finalized first-generation steam warships, of which 70 percent of the finalized warships have not been built, and 50 percent of the experimental warships have not been completed.

However, more than 50 experimental warships have been sold, especially the first test ships and the previously developed ones, all of which were bought by the Spaniards, and the British have also ordered 200 samples of 600 horsepower steam engines, and these orders will be completed in two or three years.

This year is good, with the orders of the Spaniards and the British, as well as a series of purchase contracts and commercial cooperation, the financial revenue of the Chinese Empire has increased by 10 billion Chinese dollars, which is purely new income, and other taxes have also increased one after another, about a billion dollars per month, because a lot of the revenue is equally divided into the local fiscal revenue of the core state capital in the coastal area, especially the Southeast Asian Viceroyalty near where.

The total trade volume of the British, Spaniards, Turks, Qing Dynasty, and Russia made the financial revenue of the Chinese Empire grow by leaps and bounds this year.

Of course, there is another point of making money, that is, the buying and selling of weapons and equipment, the Spaniards and the British are the majority, but they buy and sell ships and warships, while the Turks and the Arshav dynasty buy and sell cannons and muskets, although these profits are not as good as large warships and advanced steam engines, but they are also bringing at least billions of Chinese yuan to the Chinese Empire every year.

As for Russia, the Chinese Empire is no longer ready to give them loans, reducing loans year by year, and gradually increasing the amount of arrears to be collected, as long as Russia does not end the war for a day, they can only rely on the Chinese Empire, and can only buy weapons from the Chinese Empire.

Another country that needs weapons is Sweden, Norway and other countries, although they don't need much, but they also bring at least more than a billion Chinese yuan in income.

The reason for temporarily giving up support for Russia is that if it supports again, it is possible that the Chinese Empire will not be able to recover the loan without overthrowing those nobles and princes and emperors in Russia, because their expenses are too extravagant and wasteful, and every year a lot of money is hidden by them, and it is bought into gold, and the jewelry is scattered in everyone's homes, or it is found a place to hide, which is not circulated every year, and it is not invested every year, how can Russia be good?

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