Chapter Seventy-Three: The Author Sits and Falls Asleep Again
Darwin went back and forth between Berlin and the city of the West several times, and the two sides almost hit it off, and China and Germany reached a secret agreement on the exchange of white slaves for food, minerals, and arms. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The genius strategist Chancellor Bismarck began to transfer troops back from the front before the agreement was reached, and then the troops were divided into two routes, one to integrate the states in Germany, and the other to open fire directly with the Anglo-French forces on the Franco-Prussian border.
The million Anglo-French troops on the Franco-Prussian border were still waiting for the Prussians to come to Paris to cry Qin Ting, and then send troops to fight the Qing Army Eight Banners in Germany.
The Anglo-French troops, who were on a leisurely vacation, never expected that the Prussian shells would fall on them. There was no psychological obstacle at all to fight the Anglo-French Prussians, and the Germans chose a very good slogan, revenge.
Emperor Napoleon I was the first to shatter the German states, and countless Germans were displaced during the Napoleonic era a few decades ago.
The Prussians have been fighting for decades, and all the people are soldiers, just to avenge the revenge of the year. Now the retribution also falls on the emperor of the Napoleonic family, although this Napoleon III is only a son of a gentleman who succeeded to the throne by virtue of his ancestral reputation.
As for the British, there is nothing to say, the British have been playing the role of European-stirring sticks for hundreds of years, and the people of continental Europe themselves do not see the British as Europeans.
Not to mention that if Prussia rises, the first thing it will do is to grab the land under the sun with the British. The British colonies imposed a policy of protection against goods from other countries with high tariff barriers, so that the interests of the native British capitalists could be maximized. But this is also absolutely offensive, and the development of capitalism in other European countries without colonies has been suppressed.
After all, Napoleon III was not born in the army, and although he frequently sent troops to fight with the Prussian army, he was still beaten by the Prussian army commanded by Bismarck. It was not until after the French were defeated again in a battle outside Paris that the French commander-in-chief, Napoleon III, entered the Prussian prisoner of war camp.
Less than three months after the Franco-Prussian war began, France perished. Only this time what awaits the French is not land reparations, but direct rule. Prime Minister Bismarck meticulously divided the entire French mainland into 10,000 districts (the level equivalent to towns), and the Prussian occupation forces stipulated that if someone rebelled in a certain district and no one exposed it, the whole region would be reduced to slavery and sold to the Far East.
Another advantage of this is that if you don't move the French people from French soil, how can you move the Germans over? If it weren't for the Germans ruling the Germans, how could they have been able to maintain peace for a long time? After all, no one likes to be ruled by crooked nuts except Ah San—as for Ah San, they are used to being ruled.
After the destruction of the Gallic chicken in less than 100 days, Prussia's prestige was greatly enhanced, of course, the British called the Prussians European traitors, but the Prussians didn't care, and our Prussian territory expanded several times at once, saying that this is worthy of the Kingdom of Germany.
If France is using hard power, Prussia is both soft and hard against other German states. However, even the hardest of the bones, after seeing that even the European lion France was vulnerable, all the German states chose to recognize Prussia as the main and Wilhelm I as the king, and established the Kingdom of Germany.
After the annexation of France by the newly formed Kingdom of Germany, European countries fell to the ground, and in the past, European countries fought fairly elegantly, after all, everyone was a relative. In the end, the loser often pays a ransom and can continue to be his king, and now Germany's annexation of France in a big way is stepping on the bottom line of the European royal family - as for the Russia that was wiped out by our Qing Dynasty, it was the barbarians of Europe, and Europe itself does not care how many Russians die.
After the annexation of France, the Germans put on a posture of "who dares to make a noise, I will fight whom", in the face of Germany's aggressive offensive, Italy and Hungary, which are in a cold sweat, are already thinking about whether to call me to play with Germany, after all, now that Britain is the empire on which the sun never sets, it is better for everyone to kill cattle for the New Year than to fight you to the death in this European continent.
As for the Nordic countries, they have all honestly returned to the islands of Northern Europe to eat fish, and since the Swedes who produced the European lion Gustav are not my opponents of the Qing Dynasty, the other Nordic countries will not be able to commit it and send them to death.
And as Nordic people, we all know that people in other places can't stand the cold weather in Northern Europe, and as for the island countries, they can only be said to be used to it.
Xianfeng punched Sweden, kicked the Ottomans, and won over Prussia, and it took only a few months for a set of combined punches to tear apart the European anti-Qing coalition that had been established for three years.
Although the British were still shouting the oath of immortality, they had secretly sent their merchant ships under the Portuguese flag to the ports of the Far East to buy tea -- always drinking imported tea at high prices, and those rich and new capitalists were just that, and ordinary small aristocratic families could not accept it.
It's not easy for the British aristocracy these days, depending on the financial resources, it always has to be held once or several times a month, otherwise how can it be considered a nobleman? Always go to participate in the silver mess that others have invited, and after you go, whether you want to play with women or be played by women, or watch other men play women or other women play women or even other men play men, it depends on the situation.
Although the theme of the silver mess is play, eating, drinking and music are indispensable, and apart from these, what else can you ask the nobles to do. You know, the world thinks that labor is shameful, and manual labor is especially shameful. The so-called aristocracy should be unearned, how many British merchants gave up their business after buying a noble title.
For it is shameful for a nobleman to still do business, to be despised, to be despised in every silver mess in which he can participate. If his children and grandchildren also take over his business, they will also be despised by the upper class and will not be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives.
If you want to really talk about what the European aristocracy lived on, the answer is also very simple, taxes and interest on fiefs. In the era of precious metal money, inflation was negligible, and even if there was inflation, the government reduced the gold and silver content of the coins during the war, and the government had to recycle and recast this inferior coin after the war - otherwise the nobles would rebel against you, because the nobles had the most wealth and suffered the most damage.
There were large and small fiefs, rich and poor, but the nobles themselves did not collect taxes, and could not afford to lose that person, but handed over to the tax collector to be responsible, given that the European peasant uprising had never been successful, so the nobles were quite relieved. The other part is the interest on the inheritance left by previous generations, and the annual income of interest in Europe in this era is generally one-tenth or even a little more.
In this way, if you inherit an inheritance of 100,000 pounds, you will get about 10,000 pounds of interest every year. This is money in the era of precious metal money, and it has not yet been inflationary, and it is still quite strong to buy. In fact, there is no accounting currency such as the British pound sterling in circulation, but gold shillings, silver pennies, and copper French shillings. Twenty shillings are equal to one pound sterling, and they are minted into gold coins, and one pound is a big one.
In other words, in China today, the price of a young and strong male white slave is about one pound (no matter how expensive it is, everyone will buy mules and cattle and horses), and the young and beautiful white female slave is even more expensive, and the price is converted to pounds ranging from 2-5 pounds.