For a weak country, the only reason to pay attention to it is probably the cheapest labor, which was the case in the Qing Empire in the past, and it is also the case in Japan now.

Think about the Japanese do have reason to be anxious, tens of millions of people are crammed into a few islands with such an area, even food is not self-sufficient, and earthquakes and tsunamis come all day long, I don't know when the country will be wiped out, no wonder Japan is thinking about expansion from top to bottom, there is no future without expansion, look at the British Empire, the same island country, the population is even smaller than Japan, but people's colonies are all over the world, where they want to immigrate, the wealth is not spent, the Japanese are just unbalanced, If you haven't been completely driven crazy, you can already be considered a Japanese with a strong psychological quality.

Li Mu is now the number one sufferer of the Japanese, to be honest, when he first arrived in this time and space, it is true that Li Mu hated the Japanese to death, but after so many years, the hatred in Li Mu's heart is slowly decreasing, after all, the Japanese in this time and space have not hurt the Chinese, but the Chinese are constantly causing pain to the Japanese, if the Japanese can always remain humble in front of Li Mu, then after thirty or fifty years, maybe Li Mu will also consider letting the Japanese go.

Of course, this possibility is extremely small, after all, the Japanese temperament is there, don't look at the Japanese are honest now, once Japan is given enough space for development and let Japan grow, no one can be sure that the Japanese will retaliate against the Chinese in the future, so Li Mu still will not let go easily, and the Japanese who are not threatened are the best Japanese.

In Vladivostok, there is no threat to the Japanese, in order to carry out urban renovation of Vladivostok, the Vladivostok government hired no less than 200,000 Japanese from Japan, although these Japanese work for the Vladivostok government, but it is impossible to enjoy the treatment of American workers, the Vladivostok government said that most of their salaries are settled by the shogunate, and then the shogunate and those Japanese workers settle, as for how much money those workers will eventually get, this is not in the consideration of the Vladivostok state government.

It's already good, Japan has had a serious famine in the past two years, the country is starving, such an island country, the living space is too small compared with the mainland countries, when the Qing Empire has a local famine, the people can still flee, go to other places to survive, the Japanese have nowhere to escape, once such a small country has a famine, it must be a national nature, and there is nowhere to escape, so those who are employed by the Vladivostok government are relatively lucky, although they can't get a few dollars, but at least they can eat enough, This is already the greatest luck.

More fortunate for those immigrants to Vladivostok, without the propaganda of the Pacific Company, the Chinese of the Qing Kingdom simply could not understand how fertile the land of Vladivostok is, although Vladivostok has nearly half a year of winter, but the summer temperature of Vladivostok is still acceptable, the spring wasteland, a fire down, the land after the sun exposure, the next year only need to plant the seeds, there is no need to intensively cultivate, the average yield per mu easily exceeds the Qing land that has been intensively cultivated for hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even thousands of years.

For the people who love farming, such land is God's reward for eating, every Chinese who comes to Vladivostok is simply crazy after getting the commitment of the Vladivostok state government, each person within 100 acres, how much can be reclaimed is their own, this part of the land can be left to future generations in the future, Vladivostok state government will not tax this part of the land, which means that all the Chinese who immigrate to Vladivostok, as long as they are hardworking and capable, they are all landlords.

No, happier than the landlords of the Qing State, because the Chinese in Vladivostok do not have to endure the exploitation of the Vladivostok state government, do not have to pay the various harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Qing State, and do not have to endure the extortion of the ruffians and hooligans, in Vladivostok, if someone dares to break into their homes rashly, or as long as they feel that their safety is threatened, people can carry out unlimited counterattacks, that is, the so-called killing of the Qing State, which was previously only enjoyed by the powerful in the Qing State, but in Vladivostok, Any ordinary person has the right to fight back indefinitely, and this has been written into law by the government of Vladivostok and cannot be changed by anyone.

It is really impossible to change, many laws in the United States are like this, as long as the law is introduced, then it is basically impossible to change, anyone who wants to change the law, must consider whether it will affect the votes, because it will definitely affect the interests of some people, thus affecting the votes, and then it will no longer affect the individual, but the entire party, so it is a very difficult thing to change the law, even if some laws are outdated because of the age, later people can only endure it.

So there are a lot of amazing laws in the United States, like California that doesn't allow cycling in swimming pools, and Alabama that it's illegal to put ice cream in your pocket, and these laws are probably for some crazy people because normal people don't do that.

Vladivostok also has some laws that may seem absurd in the future, such as the current government of Vladivostok that prohibits anyone in Vladivostok from interacting with foreign employees except for work reasons.

This law seems strange even now, but it is necessary, whether Li Mu admits it or not, many Chinese still love to show off, gossip psychology is very serious, or most Chinese are friendly to others, and there is no defense against strangers, if the Chinese in Vladivostok have too much communication with foreign employees, so that those Japanese employees, or Korean employees, understand the policy of the Vladivostok State government towards new immigrants, then it is certain that all foreign employees will submit immigration requests to the Vladivostok State government.

Let's not talk about whether Vladivostok can accept these people, Li Mu worked hard to calculate the Russians, but not to accept the Japanese and Koreans, Li Mu is not so fraternal.

While Li Mu was at ease in Vladivostok, the Qing government finally formally responded to the request of the Far Eastern Company, and as expected, the Qing State rejected most of them, and only agreed to allow the Far Eastern Company to carry out a certain degree of commercial activities in the treaty ports that had been identified by the Qing State.

Well, this response is meaningless, because the Qing government has now basically lost control over those treaty ports, and foreigners already enjoy the right to operate in those treaty ports, and even have consular jurisdiction, and the Far East company still needs the consent of the Qing government to conduct business activities in the treaty ports?

There is no need at all, if it is just an ordinary business activity, the Far Eastern Company does not even have to pay taxes to the Qing government, because it is the British who manage the customs of the Qing government.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't agree, Li Mu didn't expect the Qing government to agree to the conditions of the Far East Company, and even if the Qing government didn't agree, then the Far East Company would have a reason to provoke trouble.

It is not to provoke trouble, the Far East Company wants to start a war, and at this point there is no difference between the Far East Company and other colonial enterprises, and what cannot be obtained at the negotiating table will be plundered through war, but the Far East Company does not want money, but the whole country, which is probably not what the Qing government did not expect.

It is very easy to provoke an incident, the Far Eastern Company already has people operating in the Qing Dynasty, and with just a casual little thing, the Far Eastern Company can find an excuse, and even the crime that they want to add is unexcused, is it a fact that the Japanese used the pretext of the disappearance of a soldier to provoke a war?

It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, the important thing is that you can beat you, this is the real reason for the outbreak of most conflicts, as small as two people fighting, as big as two countries breaking out into a war, they all think that they can win the war.

It is enough to have a reason, now is not the best time to start a war, if nothing else, next spring, the Far Eastern Company will provoke a war, and this period of time will be the last peace of the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, it is not peaceful, although the Far East Company has not stirred up trouble, the French in the south are not idle, but the colonial army formed by the French is not very competitive, even in the case of repeated appropriations from the French government, the colonial army cannot defeat the Black Flag Army of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

There is no need to consider the weather to start a war in Annam, and it is very suitable for a year or four years, so the French are also ruthless and want to mobilize troops from the French mainland to go to Annam to participate in the war.

Of course, the ambitions of the French are not big, now they just want to take Annam, and they do not fantasize about directly attacking the Qing State, and the French do not have this strength, even if they have, Britain and the United States will not watch the Qing State become a French colony, so in Li Mu's plan, the Far East Company is just to provoke a war, break through the capital of the Qing State, and force the Qing State to accept the conditions of the Far East Company, and then the war will become a civil war of the Qing State, and then it will be the time for Yan Shun to appear.

"Enjoy the peace, this is probably the last hour." This is the emotion of Li Mu at the dinner to welcome James Bryan.

Butterflies in South America fanned their wings, a storm will break out in East Asia, Li Mu came to this world, changed the fate of too many people, and even changed the fate of too many countries, the Cubans drove out the Spaniards ten years in advance, Japan's Meiji Restoration died halfway, and the Russians were driven out of Eastern Siberia by Li Mu, so this world, the outbreak of the First World War, will probably be much earlier than the other world, maybe in the next few years.

James Bryan was on his way to St. Petersburg, and the main purpose of his trip was to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia.

Historically, the United States has never signed this thing with Russia, and this time and space is not good, because Vladivostok, and now the United States and Russia share a border, so although everyone knows that the "Non-Aggression Pact" thing is a joke, but everyone must also get some sense of security as much as possible through this thing, otherwise the world will be chaotic.

"No, no, no, peace is the main theme, and I went to Vladivostok this time to find peace." James Bryan is serious, Li Mu can not believe this thing, but James Bryan must believe it, this is the meaning of James Bryan's existence as Secretary of State.

"Would you believe that this kind of thing can bring peace?" Li Mu bluntly said that any peace is a joke, and only under the premise of mutual nuclear deterrence can we keep each other restrained, and everything else is false.

There is no eternal peace between countries, only eternal interests, in most cases friendship is to keep warm, human beings have never stopped, even if there is no external threat, their own people will have internal strife.

"Well, to be honest I don't believe it either, but for the most part, we need a guarantee, whether it's from strength or commitment from other countries." James Bryan is not stupid, Li Mudu has already said it so bluntly, it would be too shameless to pretend to be stupid and sweet.

No matter how noble the Americans say, judging from the results of the two world wars, the United States is the only winner, referring to the principle of conspiracy theories, the United States is the creator of the two world wars.

You must know that the United States' gross national economic output at the end of the 19th century had surpassed that of Britain and became the world's first, so if the United States had not provided funds for European countries, those European countries would most likely not be able to fight, and they would not even be able to afford an arms race, and they would not have had any money to buy any armaments.

It is precisely because of the right and left sources of the United States that the United States has gone from being a rising star before the two world wars to becoming the world policeman after the two world wars.

However, is there absolute luck in this world?

No, pies never fall from the sky, Li Mu seems to be the luckiest person in the world, but if Li Mu doesn't know the direction of the world, Li Mu is also unknown, and he won't even survive to go ashore, and this book can end in three chapters.

Of course, the reason for the outbreak of the world war is not something that the United States can provoke alone, the United States may have expected the result of the world war, but those European countries also have their own considerations, or that sentence, the reason why the war broke out is because both warring parties think that their advantages are relatively large, so they will make a desperate bet, the British, the French, and the Germans are not stupid, only the tsar played himself to death.

"When you get to St. Petersburg, you'll understand why I said that." Li Mu didn't talk nonsense, and let James Bryan find the answer himself.

There is no need to be reminded, James Bryan should also know that the Russians are having a very difficult time now, because of the defeat on the battlefield, the Russians have repeatedly cut their flesh, the domestic resentment is boiling, and the tsar is surviving.

At the very least, we must also divert domestic attention, don't think about those bad things in the country, see how many families those European countries have, and if you can't make money doing business, then simply grab it back.