Chapter 374: The Chinese Empire in the Hearts of Foreigners
During the reign of the Manchu Dynasty, foreigners, whether high-level elites or low-level ordinary people, thought that the land of China was a barbaric world, decadent and backward, because the Manchu Dynasty was defeated by the Western powers many times, and the Manchu Dynasty paid compensation and ceded land, this view was even more widely circulated, and all foreigners who knew the Manchu Dynasty, even if they had not really come to the land of China, also looked at the Manchu Dynasty with this idea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the founding of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire let the countries of the world see the power of the Chinese Empire through wars again and again, and more than eight years have passed, what does the Chinese Empire look like in the minds of foreigners?
Although they could not come to the Chinese Empire in person to experience the changes in the Chinese Empire, because of the various performances of the Chinese Empire after its establishment, all countries closely watched every move of the Chinese Empire.
From the Chinese Empire's defeat of the invading armies of Britain, France, Russia, and Japan, to the Chinese Empire's airship flying to Europe for airship deterrence, to the Sino-Russian War, until the current Chinese Empire's annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, making Hawaii the Yingzhou of the Chinese Empire, the territory of the Chinese Empire has been in a state of expansion, which is the same as the major powers in the world, they also want more territory, and their careers will be conducive to the development of their own country.
The high-level leaders of various countries do not know the overall development of the Chinese Empire, and just looking at the general situation of the Chinese Empire on the surface, we know that the economic, industrial, and military strength of the Chinese Empire is developing rapidly.
Of course, when the Chinese Empire was developing, other countries were also developing, and other countries did not think that a country that had been founded for less than ten years would develop faster than the major powers, and believed that in addition to its military strength, the economic strength and industrial strength of the Chinese Empire were second-rate in Western countries.
If the high-level leaders of the Western countries really knew the speed of the development of the Chinese Empire, I am afraid that all countries would join hands to blockade the Chinese Empire and strictly restrict the development of the Chinese Empire.
In addition to the high-level officials of various countries having a high understanding of the Chinese Empire, the merchants of various countries who went to the Chinese Empire to do business also had a relatively deep understanding of the Chinese Empire, after all, they often came to the Chinese Empire and experienced the changes in the Chinese Empire firsthand, and the merchants of various countries were shocked by the speed of development of the Chinese Empire.
In particular, those merchants who came and went to China to do business during the Manchu Dynasty were able to perceive the great changes that had taken place in the land of China.
During the Manchu Dynasty, the Chinese gave them a feeling of being a walking corpse, ignorant and ignorant, and when the Chinese Empire was established, in just a few years, the Chinese gave them a feeling of earth-shaking changes, full of energy, and more facial expressions, full of yearning for a better life in the world.
Of course, the most important thing for businessmen is business opportunities.
In the past, merchants from various countries were important to sell their own industrial products to the Chinese Empire, and then buy various raw materials from the Chinese Empire to bring back to their own countries.
But now, merchants from various countries basically buy industrial commodities in their own country, transport them to the country's colonies for sale, and then buy various raw materials in the colonies, transport them to the Chinese Empire for sale, and then buy various industrial products produced by the Chinese Empire itself from the Chinese Empire and ship them back to their home countries for sale.
This is a total of three returns from two small and one large, which is higher than the previous one-round return.
The merchants attached great importance to profits, but the two changes in the trade process before and after made the merchants speechless, when did the Chinese Empire change from an agricultural country to an industrial country?
Although some high-tech industrial products, such as airships and automobiles, have not been sold to foreign countries, such as lighters, pens, and stockings, they have become bestsellers in foreign countries, attracting foreigners to buy them.
Not only that, but the industrial scale of the Chinese Empire continued to expand and was able to meet the needs of the Chinese, and then the goods produced by those factories began to go abroad, and were welcomed by the lower classes of the people of all countries because of their high quality and low prices.
Merchants pursue the greatest profits, so they don't care about other things, as long as they can make more money, so the goods of the Chinese Empire appear in the markets of various countries without hindrance, which can be regarded as directly driving the economic development and industrial development of the Chinese Empire, but these things are not for businessmen to worry about, but also for the heads of government to worry about.
The changes in the Chinese Empire have profoundly affected all countries in the world, but the perception of the Chinese Empire by the lower classes of the common people in various countries is still in the period of the reign of the Manchu Dynasty.
Whether it was in the Manchu Dynasty or in the Chinese Empire, the high-level propaganda of various countries for the land of China was the same, decadent and backward, an uncivilized and barbaric land.
It is difficult for the lower classes of ordinary people in various countries to have the opportunity to go to the Chinese Empire, so their way to understand the Chinese Empire can only be known through the propaganda of various governments, but more people just take it as an anecdote and simply learn about the Chinese Empire.
The people of the lower classes are often the target of foolery by the governments of various countries, and in Yan Xueyi's last life, didn't this kind of joke often appear, countries scandalized China, making their people think that China is still a very backward country, and even the Chinese have a big braid behind their heads, and their clothes are still big coats.
This is still the case with regard to the Chinese Empire, which is propagated as a very backward country.
The ruler of the Chinese Empire was a man with a big head, small eyes, a small mouth, two small mustaches, and a pig's tail behind his head.
The common people living in the Chinese Empire were poorly clothed and fed, living in a dilapidated thatched hut, and some often starved to death and froze to death in winter.
Although the newspapers published information about the defeat of some countries by the Chinese Empire, they only believed that the Chinese Empire won the victory by means of crowd tactics, and that the Chinese Empire would have to pay more than ten times the price of casualties if it wanted to win a war.
All kinds of scenes paint a picture of the Chinese Empire in the minds of the lower classes of people in various countries, they think that such a country is hell on earth, but they do not know that some of the daily necessities they buy are produced by the Chinese Empire, but foreign merchants have tacitly hidden the origin of goods.
Because of the different social status of foreigners, the Chinese Empire they have seen is not very different, and the Chinese Empire does not want to make any changes in this regard, the Chinese Empire is the Chinese Empire, and foreign countries are foreign countries, what does it have to do with me, and more importantly, the Chinese Empire can continue to hide.