Chapter 649: China's Biggest Crisis

Chen Ming's anger made all the Shaanxi officials represented by Wu Xueli sweat like pulp, and they all wanted to lower their heads to the crotch of their pants. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Looking at Wu Xueli's swaying figure when he walked, Chen Ming really flashed a touch of unbearability in his heart.

But this was a plan he had already calculated in his heart.

After receiving the news that the Ottoman Empire had come to China early next summer, all this was generated in his mind. Who let this news come along with some things in the Ottoman country, the Order and the Praetorian Guard, really damn existence.

Chen Ming wanted to fight back, and he thought about the distribution of the big people and Heavenly Believers in Xiaguanzhong, Jin Province, and the Central Plains, Guanzhong was obviously the best choice.

Who let this Wu Xueli have a hardcore friend named Pang Zhenkun?

Wait until the fifth year of Chengtian and the first cabinet expires, Pang Zhenkun will enter the second cabinet without accident, this Wu Xueli did a good job in Guanzhong, just press him for a few more years.

Otherwise, Wu Xueli, as a link, will connect Pang Zhenkun and Yan Xishen more and more closely. That's not good!

Pang Zhenkun is a native of the Central Plains, but he came out of Huxiang and has close ties with many people in Hunan. And Yan Xishen has been classified into the faction of the former Qing officials, the latter has a strong accumulation, but there is no outstanding 'top person', and Pang Zhenkun, a person who is very trusted by Chen Ming, has some bad effects on Chen Ming's court structure.

So by the way, let's hit Wu Xueli, this can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

After Wu Xueli and the others retreated, Chen Ming immediately returned to the side hall, looked at the big map hanging on the wall, and with a wave of his hand, Liu Wu took a red ink pen and personally marked Xianyang and Baotou in Inner Mongolia on the map. A straight road 1,800 miles long appeared on the map. The widest is 60 meters, and generally there are 20 meters, spanning lofty mountains and mountains, tiling and twisting and meandering.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the First Emperor built such an ancient highway with extraordinary power.

This has to remind people of the European proverb - all roads lead to Rome, the five-meter-wide Roman road built by the Romans has made Europeans proud for a thousand years, and the Qin Straight Road ordered by the First Emperor has been almost ignored in China two years ago.

It was Chen Ming, the traverser, who had forgotten the existence of this road before, if it weren't for Wu Xueli's sudden proposal to repair Qin Zhidao, Chen Ming's eyes would have been staring at the transportation network he had planned. And sadly, when the transportation network plan was finalized, no one mentioned the words Qin Zhidao to him.

Chen Ming only got the relevant information and recitals from Wu Xueli when he returned to Xi'an City. Wu Xueli was very well prepared, he had organized a group of people to look up all the information related to Qin Zhidao in history, and he also sent people to visit the current situation of Qin Zhidao, and the preparation was really detailed.

Although Chen Ming has not yet decided to repair this 2,000-year-old highway, and presumably wants the Ministry of Finance to make a budget estimate, in fact, he is already preparing to repair such a road in his heart.

In the days when train technology is far from mature, rammed earth pavement is actually the main body of China's road traffic network, and the output of cement is simply impossible to supply all roads, and only the most important stage of cement can be used for sporadic lines, the latter of which is mainly used for port construction and housing construction.

Qin Straight Road, such a thoroughfare that was still in service until the Ming Dynasty, and the traffic artery that gradually became congested in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, is of course necessary to rejuvenate it.

Although many sections of the entire Qinzhi Road have been flooded by hazel mang, and some sections of the road have been damaged, the overall workload of this restoration project is much less than the construction of a flat road connecting Guanzhong to Mongolia.

Although the Ming Dynasty began, when it came to exchanges with Inner Mongolia, Jin Province had completely surpassed Shaanxi. Moreover, the Great Wall in the north of Shaanxi is more of a yellow sand and a partial land, rather than a wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep.

But Chen Ming, who was looking at the map, would definitely do more harm than good to repair Qin Zhidao, even if it was for the sake of northern Shaanxi. With the Qin Zhidao as the foundation, the impact of the Wei River Basin on northern Shaanxi will definitely be much higher. Even in order to revitalize the economy of northern Shaanxi, Chen Ming felt that it was worth repairing Qin Zhidao.

Of course, all this is based on careful exploration after the engineering team was established.

Chen Ming had a small notebook in his hand, which recorded a lot of things, such as this Qin Zhidao, this kind of sudden outbreak, which had a certain meaning of existence, and gave people unexpected 'surprises', which were all recorded in this small book.

Just like when Chen Ming first learned about the port country of Hexian Town, Chen Ming wrote it down in this booklet, and now there is no problem with the affairs of Hexian Town.

Although Chen Ming did not wait in Nanjing City this year, the envoys who came to congratulate him in Nanjing City this year were the most gathered.

Not only Siam, Quang Nam, and North Zheng have arrived, but Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Siam, Korea, and even Japan, Yogyakarta, and Brunei have also sent special envoys to Nanjing.

It can be seen that China beat Yogyakarta, forced Malay to submit, and defeated Manila, which shocked many people around.

And before the Chinese New Year, according to the news sent by Nanjing, a large number of noble families were dealing with certain industries, and more than one person asked the relevant officials of the Ministry of Finance about the issuance of land bonds in North America.

The first troops marching into California have been on the road for two months, and their influence has already been manifested. Now North America may already be fighting. In any case, the imperial court's use of troops in North America made everyone see the hope and progress of overseas feudal states.

The emperor is not a fool of empty words, but a real effort.

Therefore, the securities markets in Shanghai and Guangzhou have been quite unpredictable recently, and they are obviously very promising stocks, but they have been sold by some people at this time. This is not the case or two, which has caused a lot of shock in the market.

These things were all recorded by Chen Ming in the book, but some were important and some were not important.

According to intelligence, Chen Ming's 'ambition' is likely to have been artificially spread. Some of the big businessmen who were closely related to the noble family also heard the news.

Xiong Bingzhang's feedback is that in the recent time - within a month, the coastal ports of Shandong, northern Jiangsu and Hebei, to be precise, Tianjin, Qingdao, Yantai and Lianyungang, have suddenly invested a large amount of money in the field of shipbuilding and daily necessities manufacturing.

The economic development of Hebei, Shandong, and northern Jiangsu has been pulled up by this sudden wave of 'accidents'.

Originally, everything had settled in Layue, but the economic development curve in North China had risen in a straight line.

This change has brought about a dramatic change in economic development forecasts for the next few years.

Just the expansion of the logging industry caused by the development of shipbuilding in the north, and all the daily work needed by the army of lumberjacks, can change too much in the future.

Not to mention that there are many more pots and spoons, kitchen knives and shovels, scissors, needles and threads, farm tools and hardware and other ironware manufacturers in these places.

For immigrants, iron tools are indispensable.

And the immigration route from China to North America, from any point of view, must be the northern route. The northern route is just these big ports, and the nearby industry is very likely to become an old hen that lays golden eggs in the future.

Unconsciously, Chen Ming's thriving business force has completed an industrial transfer. This wave of economic development peaks in the coastal areas of North China really accelerated his previous vision of North China by two or three years.

Chen Ming did not know that in the past month, many foreign businessmen in Nanjing have seen the ebb and flow of the economic field in South China. They didn't know that Chen Ming was going to 'feudal and build a country' overseas, with the California War officially on the table, with the inevitable appearance of Jiazhou land bonds, this large amount of money was hoarded by Chen Han magnates and some big businessmen, and the funds that were ready to be spent on land bonds were shouted by Europeans one by one: incredible.

They can't understand the phenomenon.

Obviously, the income of land bonds is very small, and it is the most profitable choice to put yourself in the tide of rapid development.

However, so many Chinese aristocrats and important state ministers chose to move their limited capital from making money to not making money. Again, this was not an order from the Chinese emperor, but a spontaneous choice of these high-ranking Chinese strata.

In the eyes of many uninformed people, this is a manifestation of the extremely close and inseparable unity of the Chinese imperial monarchs and ministers.

Europeans have said that the strongest fortresses tend to collapse from within.

While they acknowledge China's power, no one will sit idly by and watch China erode their interests. You know, after the news of China's military march to California in North America completely spread in Chinese mainland, Watson suddenly raised China's danger to the peak.

Before, he had firmly thought that China's threat to the Kingdom of Great Britain only existed in India, but he had never thought that the Chinese emperor, who had a huge appetite, had already set his eyes on California, thousands of miles away.

Obviously, the entire west coast of North America will be plundered by the Chinese, and after seizing the west coast, the Chinese will definitely move towards the interior of North America. A rocky mountain can't stop the Chinese!

This trend of the Chinese has really threatened the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain in North America. They're not just beating the duck now, they're selling a real meaningful step to the North American continent. California is quite different from Alaska.

Although the Spaniards had only just entered there for a few years, they looked at the east coast at the same latitude, which was the thirteen states of North America, and the most important interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain in North America. You can imagine how superior California's natural conditions are.

The British regard the thirteen states of North America as their 'New England', and in addition to the population and various basic industries, the thirteen states of North America have all the conditions for independent statehood. Then if the same superior land is occupied by the Chinese, it is simply a more powerful enemy than the French.

Everyone can fight wishful thinking, but it must be backed by absolute strength.

The most favorable situation for China now is that China's overall strength is definitely much stronger than that of the British.

There is no country around China that can cause problems, let alone challenges. Therefore, after China has ended the war with Russia, it can have enough energy to devote itself to devouring Spanish interests.

It is now an invincible dragon, once the food in its stomach is digested, it can open its mouth and bite everything in front of it with impunity, and no rules or systems can stop its wrath.

Eventually, China will realize Chen Ming's great vision of devouring the Americas, dividing Eurasia, and coercing the world.

But while he was carrying out his plan step by step, the Westerners did not stop their brains, and the British were also playing their own wishful thinking. Although Watson's level is not yet at the top, including Brontë and Robert, the level is not too high. But that doesn't mean they have any worse brains than the big names at the top of London.

"The Chinese must fight at home, and they must make China's homeland move." Otherwise, a stable and rapidly developing China would have too much power to use abroad.

"We must make war between the Russians and the Chinese. Let these two land powers fight a hundred-year war. ”

"Russians are not so stupid? Mr. Count, do you think that the current His Majesty Catherine II is ready for war? ”

Brontë shook his finger at Robert, the consul general in front of him was a qualified deputy in Brontë's eyes, and he was more capable of many things in business than himself, but Robert's biggest flaw was his political vision, which limited his growth height.

"Russia will not lose. It was an opponent that the Chinese could not defeat. The smile on Brontë's face was very relaxed and charming, "Moscow and Petersburg are too far from Beijing for the Chinese to penetrate the heart of Russia." What the Mongols could do in the 13th century, the more powerful Chinese today could never do. ”

"But they have an ally from the Ottoman Empire."

"Then Russia also has a whole monotheistic world standing behind it." Brontë said in a firm tone. "As long as the Russians can draw the attention of China, London can support the Slavs with the last penny in the treasury."

"But it is impossible for the Russians to throw all their forces into the East, their interests in Europe are the core wealth of Russia."

The leaders of China and Russia are not fools, how can they fight endless wars?

"Do you think Russia will turn its gaze to the east if it doesn't get the slightest benefit to the west?"

"The fuse between China and Russia was the defeated Tatars, and I don't know how many of these bannermen are left. But I know that the Chinese will never let go of such an enemy to survive under their noses for a long time. And the great Majesty Catherine II will not admit defeat, and the biggest reason for this defeat is not China. ”

"Then the next war broke out, in the vast and inhospitable Siberia, in the Kazakh steppes, where there was no industrial base. The Russian Cossack cavalry will not make the Chinese have a good time. ”

"If this war breaks out, it must have a bitter outcome for the loser. Either the Russians are willing to lose tens of millions of square kilometers of land, or the Chinese watch the dead Manchu Empire come back to life, or they will continue to fight. ”

"Maybe in three or five years, a Hundred Years War will break out in which both China and Russia will have to grit their teeth!"

The Russians could not accept the loss of the bitter fruit of all of Siberia, even if it was a barren land that produced nothing but fur; And the dignity of Chinese will never be able to watch the Manchu Dynasty come back from the dead......

Brontë and Watson had a tacit understanding, they laughed very happily, they felt that this was the biggest crisis in China, and the British only needed to stand behind the Russians at the right time when the next Sino-Russian war broke out and push hard. Chinese, whose energies are greatly attracted by the war on land, will be minimized in North America.

Robert frowned.