"Mr. Ambassador, I am very pleased that you are here today for the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Industrial Expo. Personally, I have always believed that when it comes to trade, China and the UK have a relationship of 'one one wins, and one loses'. If the trade between the two sides is normal, it will be beneficial for both sides; And if trade is blocked, both China and Britain will lose a lot of benefits. Therefore, trade sanctions are not advisable. Chen Sheng is not lying, he has indeed always opposed trade sanctions against the UK. It's just that Chen Han's internal calls for initiating trade sanctions against the UK are still very loud. After all, in the ancient history of China, this wrist has always been very favored by the ruling class of the Central Plains.

The embargo on Mongolia during the Ming Dynasty forced the Mongols to fight endlessly, frequently going south, and even the iron pot became a rarity on the steppe, which was the manifestation of this 'sanction method'. The Manchu trade in rhubarb to Russia was also an expression of this philosophy.

Now the people within Chen Han have just replaced 'Mongolia' with 'British'. If the trade between China and Britain is in the middle of the middle, the loss to Britain will be very large, and of course the loss to China will be even greater, because China has always been a country that exports far more than it imports.

"The world is moving forward, everyone should look forward, and common prosperity is the pursuit of China and the UK. The Eastern and Western worlds have a good basis for cooperation, and I believe that disputes will only be fought to the death. Peaceful development and common prosperity will be the true meaning of the whole world in the future. ”

In the war between the East and the West, the transaction quota between the British, the French and Chen Han not only did not decline, but increased rapidly.

Whether it's medicine, steel, or other kinds of materials, the desire of Westerners to buy is skyrocketing. After all, medicine and steel are the two basic elements necessary for the war machine of the 'army'.

The British came in and plundered a large amount of cotton and grain in India, which is the war of the current era, which does not require chemicals, oil, and a large number of rare metal elements. Today's wars require only two basic factors: steel, population, and endless wealth.

Military uniforms, bedding, tents, medicines, livestock, forage, and so on, all of which require a lot of money.

The cabinet has received a lot of excerpts from officials before, and many of them believe that Westerners should not be allowed to purchase goods and materials in a liberal manner. But the final result was that Chen Han raised the tariff rate of some species such as steel and medicine.

Chen Han's current steel production can fully meet the needs of the Western world, after all, the two sides are separated by thousands of miles, and the Europeans only purchase steel in China, the quantity is really not large, and the amount is not as high as medicine. There's no way, time is at this juncture, modern medicine has just emerged, and if you want to wait for it to really take the lead, there will be seventy or eighty years. The Europeans could only buy medicine from China, and at least the previous examples had shown that Chinese medicine was useful, and that it was not foolish witchcraft.

Chen Sheng is a senior executive of Chen Han, and of course knows the direction of the future development of East-West relations. Chen Ming had already formulated everything, and Chen Sheng had no doubt that the future development would run according to Chen Ming's vision, because this world is determined by the will of the strong. And in the current war, the winner must also belong to Chen Han.

China will not really invade Europe, and it will not completely tear its face with the United Kingdom. The relationship between the two may be the relationship between Chang'an and the border fetters in the Tang Dynasty, and it can't even be reached.

In the future, as long as the British do not lose their brains, the level of trade between China and Britain will sooner or later return to normal and develop rapidly. There may be a violent trade conflict between the East and the West, and a trade war, but this must be done only if the industrial revolution in the West is complete. Otherwise, why would Britain compete with China?

Needless trade sanctions will only affect bilateral economic development. At this point, China should learn from the United States in later generations, and look at the trade sanctions they have issued again and again, all of which have clear and unmistakable purposes.

"I am really shocked to see the speed of industrial development in your country. In just forty years, an ancient civilized country has risen again, and now, no country dares to underestimate China's power. These machines that act in all directions are the source of China's power. ”

Corver said to Chen Sheng with a lot of emotion that he could imagine that the real strength of the Chinese Empire, which is now threatening the whole of Europe, may not be as strong as either of Britain and France forty years ago, which is definitely a miracle brought about by an industrial revolution.

When shaking hands with Chen Sheng and greeting him, Korver praised Emperor Chen in front of him without insensibility, but all diplomatic envoys from the West know this rule of China, and it is absolutely right to praise His Majesty the Emperor. Chen Sheng smiled happily on his face.

In addition to the British, there were also French, Danes, and Prussians on the European side, and Sweden, an old friend of China, became increasingly alienated from Chen Han after the status of the new crown prince was established.

In addition, there are envoys from more than a dozen countries and regions led by Ottomans and Iran, such as the Elam family of Egypt.

Then there was a large group of Chen-Han vassals, including Gurkha, Sikh, Siam, Phnom Penh, and Japan.

The foreign envoys in front of Chen Sheng and Fang Weidian were like the kings of the river, and they were endless. It wasn't until 10 o'clock that the opening ceremony officially began.

After Fang Weidian and Chen Sheng delivered speeches respectively, the first Shanghai Industrial Expo officially opened.

Chen Sheng personally invited all foreign envoys in China to accompany him to visit this industrial expo, in fact, this is also an exhibition, and even some orders have been finalized before, but now they are at the expo, making the aura of the expo more dazzling.

In the exhibition area, the dazzling array of industrial products is enough to prove that Korvor's touting just now is not unfounded. Now China has really walked in the forefront of the world in industry, a large number of new technologies and the application of steam engines, so that China's industry is developing rapidly at a shocking speed.

In this regard, even the British, who started the Industrial Revolution a few years before China, cannot compare.

Because compared with the narrow Britain, China has better natural conditions for industrial development and a broader market. As long as someone is properly guided and can guarantee the relative stability of the national order, China's industry will move forward at an astonishing pace.

And what about the UK? At the very beginning of the industrial revolution, they were forced into the quagmire of the North American War, which was not confined to the North American continent, but a global war. The land of the thirteen states of North America was mainly fought on land warfare, and the global naval battle was the focus of the British heartbreak.

The war saw a delay in British industrialization, although at the time, no one in the British was aware of it. But now, looking back, the huge power gap between China and Britain began with that war. The independence of the Americans turned out to have a great impact not only on the Western world, but also on the Eastern world.

Many of the diplomatic envoys of various countries present in China were major shareholders of part-time foreign banks, and their purpose of visiting this industrial expo was very clear, that is, to see with their own eyes the industrial strength of the Chinese and the forefront of the development of their application technology. But in addition to this, they will also select the goods they like, and then order them in large quantities, and rent or simply buy those ships made by Chinese shipyards, and ship them back to their home countries as quickly as possible, so that they can generate profits as quickly as possible.

As for the envoys of other countries, the vassal states of Chen and Han, although they were also interested in this industrial goods fair, they were more interested in each other's interests - mercenary leasing.

Japan and the Gurkha were at the center of the deal, and they had the most soldiers. The Gurkha are a group of poor ghosts, and even if they bite a piece of fat from India, there are still countless poor Gurkha mountain people, and these are the sources of Gurkha mercenaries. Japan, on the other hand, has a huge population pressure, and although its population has been drastically reduced by several million in recent years, Japan is still far from being vast and sparsely populated. There are so many young people, rather than letting them do nothing and 'live easily' in the countryside and cities, it is better to form mercenaries and be leased out by the Tokugawa shogunate to make money.

The latter no longer pays attention to the fact that non-samurai cannot join the army, anyway, mercenaries, and a large number of Japanese civilians are filled with it. The Tokugawa shogunate trained six mercenary regiments in this way, plus four corps composed of pure samurai, and there were 100,000 mercenaries in Japan alone. And Japan's regular army was as many as 50,000 - the Tokugawa shogunate was only willing to maintain an army of 50,000 people, and at the same time there were 100,000 Class B reserves and 50,000 Class A reserve regiments.

However, the 100,000-strong Class B reserve received only a small amount of salary, and the 50,000-strong reserve regiment received only one-third of the Japanese soldiers on active duty. As for the 100,000 mercenaries, it would not waste a grain of grain and rice for the Tokugawa shogunate, but on the contrary, it could earn a lot of benefits for the Tokugawa shogunate.

It was a first-class mercenary corps composed of pure samurai, and Chen Han hired two, both of which were thrown in the Americas, and most of the money was paid by the vassal countries of the Americas. Of the remaining two, one was employed by the indigenous princes of South India, and the other by Mysore. Of the six second-level mercenary corps, Chen Han also hired one, and the Japanese government itself hired one, all of which were on the battlefield in the Americas. One more is in Africa and two are in Central Asia, the 'masters' of the latter are the Seven Khanates of Central Asia. The last one left is in Japan, and it is already a fragrant bun that many people are eyeing for.

The Japanese have a supernatural skill that allows them to expand their mercenaries at any time, and their reservists can enter the regular army at any time, because the former can become mercenaries at any time. The words 'land of mercenaries' are really not bad at all when pressed on the heads of the Japanese.

As long as there was money to be made, the Tokugawa shogunate could send out the last soldier under his command to make money.

It's just that the shogunate still has a temperance, much stronger than the German Archduke of Hesse.

Seeing the joy of the Huaxia Grand League playing by themselves, they were a little unwilling to be left aside.

Chen Han is about to change the emperor, so should the war in Russia and the Americas continue?

The emperor has changed, and the political situation will naturally be shaken, does the new emperor still want to fight?

Chen Sheng smiled faintly at the inquiries of the 'curious' Western diplomats, and did not directly state his position, but kicked the ball to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is the pot of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Ladies and gentlemen, whether the war will continue in the coming year depends not on the accession to the throne of our new emperor, but on the attitude of Russia and the allies behind it." Chen Sheng told everyone that the foundation of the Chen dynasty was very stable, and the replacement of the old and new emperors would not cause any major fluctuations.

"I am wise and martial to Your Majesty, and I have been blessed with the world, and there is no one else in the ages; His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is humble and diligent in political affairs, wise and respectful, and admired by all the people in the world. This change of the throne, the melons are ripe, and the water is natural, and there is a turbulent national situation? Fang Weidian also said the words to death.

War or not, the country's major principles and policies are the will of the entire court, and the interests of all strata, even if Chen Ming is in power, he will also seek the opinions of the cabinet and the senior government. Now that the war is fought for the sake of the present, how can Chen Ding decide to make a truce without authorization? Besides, Chen Ming wants to drive the expedition again, wouldn't Chen Ding's truce want to flash his own Lao Tzu with a big back? This is simply impossible, and there is simply no possibility of a Chinese strike.

Don't look at China's self-proclaimed peaceful character, peace-loving, and anti-war. But this is not a fart in the face of real national interests.

Russia was the biggest threat to the north of Chen-Han before, and no peace-loving person can deny this. With a population of 35 million+ and a relatively vast land, this all shows Russia's combat effectiveness and war potential.

Therefore, the destruction of Russia has become an imminent matter for Chen Han.

For Chen Han, this is the national interest.

Despite the fact that China is extremely powerful today, China is still a country, not a great alliance of mankind. It is not a Soviet, it is not a United Nations. The Great Game between East and West is the struggle for world hegemony and interests.

One can think of Chen Han as a newly rising empire, a very powerful country without enough colonial interests, which will inevitably challenge the previous colonial powers and snatch prey from the other side, which will also undermine the current international relations.

China today is no different from Germany in history, the only difference is that Chen Han is much stronger than Germany at that time, and it is strong enough to single-handedly take on the whole of Europe.

After the rise of China, an extremely complex international struggle began. In this international struggle, which had a bearing on the colonial and fundamental interests of various countries, the United States, France, Great Britain, China, Prussia, Austria, Russia, the Ottomans, Persia and other powerful countries all participated in it. As for who can "have the last laugh", war is a necessary means of testing.

In this competition between countries, countries are courting allies in order to confront hostile or potentially hostile states. Britain and France can go from being enemies to wearing a pair of pants and working closely together, and this is a manifestation of national interests.