There were originally only two peoples in Europe, the plebeians and the aristocracy.

The era of civilians has quietly come with the firing of guns, but many people are still ignorant that sovereign states can only happen when civilians really begin to participate in the affairs of the state, that is, when a large number of civilians are needed to die as soldiers.

Chen Jian said this at this time, just to strengthen Gustav's attitude of standing with foreign capital, and capital is like a drug addiction, which he can't quit if he wants to.

The Swedish envoy somewhat understood what Jian Chen meant, and these words sounded very uncomfortable to the Swedes, but they could not refute it at this time.

As for whose country is Sweden, whose Sweden is it, and what is sovereignty...... And so on, I can only talk about these questions at this time.

Whether the contract is recognized or not is never a matter of lip service. It is not for nothing that a treaty with a pair of fists is meaningless, and it is helpless to deny the so-called order, but Sweden certainly does not have such power.

Sweden not only needs loans at this time, but also needs to attract investment, those good iron ore in the ground, no capital and technology can never be developed, primitive and backward mining and metallurgical technology so that iron ore can only be iron ore.

Nowadays, the price of copper has risen due to the minting of copper coins in Spain, and there are some copper mines in Sweden, but the silver coins exchanged every year are really pitiful.

By the time the Preparatory Committee proposed the loan and the mine, the Swedish envoys had already achieved their goal, and all that remained was to bargain, but Chen Jian clearly wanted more political strings attached to the loan and support.

"Mr. Governor, I will convey your words to His Majesty. As for whether I can agree or not, it's not up to me to decide. ”

"I know this, so my words are the company's bottom line. It's a long way to get to Stockholm from here, and every negotiation takes too much time, and we don't lack time. So, I hope that when you go back, all the conditions will be met, so that we can organize our forces and funds and invest them as soon as possible. You have to know that there is only one purpose for a businessman, and that is profit. There are so many profitable places to go right now, and if we can't reach an agreement soon, it's hard for me to predict where this capital will go. ”

Jian Chen thought for a moment and then asked, "Since official support is unlikely, then I suggest that you better not waste your time here." In a few days, you can go south with me to see for yourself the mines, mining methods, and smelting methods of Mincheng. I think that can help you decide. ”

"Mr. Governor, although I have only stayed in Mincheng for a few days, I believe that your country's smelting technology is very advanced."

"Some things, seen with your own eyes and guessed with your own eyes, are completely different."

"Okay, I'll see it with my own eyes."

"After reading it, you'll be convinced that it's better to choose us than the Dutch or Bohemian people who have the know-how to open the mines. Whether it is capital or smelting technology, it will not be bad. As far as your country is concerned, the population is sparse, and the most important thing is to improve the labor efficiency of each worker. ”

How much was mined and smelted, the Swedes could not decide. However, the more smelting, the more taxes are levied, and if the Swedish crown insists on monopolizing the export franchise of copper and iron, this is also directly related to the royal family's income.

This can be used as a bargaining content, even if the Swedish royal family monopolizes the monopoly of metal exports, it needs people on the company's side to help transport and sell.

Sweden at this time had nothing to export on a large scale except grain, but in the future it could affect northern Germany, and this was an excellent opportunity for the Nanyang Company and the rest of the capital groups to formally enter Europe, bypassing the commercial monopoly of the Dutch.

As the first industry to get rid of the handicraft model, the mining industry has a strong power of capital and the most extensive adoption of new technologies, which is also the best entry point.

For those shareholders represented by the Preparatory Committee, mining minerals in Sweden would make it easier to supply the European market, and would be very profitable without transportation costs and some preferential policies to attract investment.

Although it will have an impact on the profits of some of Nanyang's products, Nanyang's capital group also believes that this investment will be beneficial in the long run.

Even if you give up some profits from wrought iron, pig iron, and copper, as long as you can tear up the Dutch commercial monopoly in Sweden, you can try to invest several times more silver coins.

The two forces of the capital group had already reached an agreement under Chen Jian's mediation and matchmaking, and began to try for the first time long-term investments with expected returns of more than five years, as well as political investments similar to those of Lü Buwei's support for Zichu.

When the smoke of gunfire on the exercise ground ended, the exchange between Chen Jian and the Swedish envoy also came to an end. The two sides did not seem to have discussed many substantive issues, but the Swedish envoy was already very satisfied and convinced that the investment and loan were sincere, because Jian Chen had already nodded.

For the rest of the day, the Swedish envoy only continued to discuss the details with the people of the preparatory committee, quietly waiting for the day when Chen Jian would return to Mincheng. No more looking for others, no more trying to get in touch with the official Ministry of Rites of the Republic. The Ministry of Rites was still understanding the intricate relationship between the Habsburgs, Catholicism, and Spain, believing that the greatest enemy was Spain, and that it was not particularly interested in Sweden's affairs, and did not believe that such a small weak Nordic country could leverage the situation in Europe as a whole.

This is not Sweden's problem, even the Dutch, who have fought with Spain for decades, are officially ambiguous in their attitude.

It is still the seemingly private forces that preside over the negotiations, and even if some big families reach out, they are still doing so in an unofficial name.

And the Dutch wanted too many things, especially an official treaty, so Chen Jian was the first to contact the Dutch, but they still made progress.

There were too many conservative forces in the old republics, and their interests were not overseas, so there was not much interest in these matters.

The Dutch Indian companies, bankers, and businessmen monopolized the power of the provincial councils and maintained the political situation in the Netherlands, so the question of trade was the problem of the Dutch ruling class, that is, the problem of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, which was the embodiment of the ruling class.

However, the ruling class here, the maritime merchants, factory owners, and capitalists, did not achieve complete superiority and power, so the entire ruling class, disguised as the main body of the republic, was full of divisions, and it was impossible to focus on overseas and trade.

The landlord class longed for land, but they did not yearn for the abundance of land like the Great Wilderness City and the Black Swan River, but which no one cultivated and could be deprived of labor. If the hostile countries were around and within the cultural sphere, they would have been agitating for war with slogans such as fight to the end and the establishment of a new order.

The conservative, conservative and reactionary part of the old families were already wary of the growth of the capitalist group, and they had no desire to invest abroad, and they did not like the capitalist way of making money compared to the profits of a large amount of land.

As for the ordinary wealthy yeoman farmers, their lives have little to do with the trade that takes place overseas, and they do not care about or support them.

And those countrymen who are richer yeoman farmers and below are not part of the ruling class, even if they are not even basic, these have nothing to do with them, and even if they are unorganized, they have no influence, and they only speak as farts, and no one will listen.

In the end, the first imperialists in the whole republic who were most enthusiastic about expansion, overseas investment, and naval construction could and could only be capitalists. This is true of both commercial and industrial capital, and the interests of industrial and commercial capital are the same, given the advantage of handicrafts and the advantage of the price revolution before it has taken place.

That is, the batch of monsters that Chen Jian spent more than ten years raising with Minjun as the center, as well as some family capital in the north that was affected by this batch of monsters.

The imperialists are not only keen on foreign expansion, investment and monopoly, but also at home, and whoever stands in the way of their expansion, they will find a way to get rid of the other party and strive to become the mainstream of the real ruling class, no matter what means they use.

Many people in Minjun have experienced first-hand the super-profits of trade with Europe and the Spanish colonies, and this feeling is like tobacco mixed with hemp leaves, which makes them want to stop, and the profit-seeking nature of capital itself forces them to stop.

Some of the families of the Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet in the capital have gradually understood the way of this, and some families have contacted Nanyang Company and reached a series of agreements on share expansion, trying to promote a joint monster of capital and power. They relied on the capital and power of Nanyang to aspire to greater power, and implicitly promised to give Nanyang greater support when they took power.

These behind-the-scenes deals, as well as the power struggles and high-level internal contradictions in the republic that have been demonstrated, have become even more acute after Chen Jian deliberately flamboyed banquets or contacts with envoys from the Netherlands, Sweden, Britain and other countries.

On the one hand, it is the old forces that do not care about everything outside, because it does not involve their existing interests, especially those on the land, so the official internal disagreement of the whole republic is slow to react.

On the other hand, it was Chen Jian, Nanyang Company, the Preparatory Committee for Mineral and Metallurgical Investment, and other emerging forces that took the initiative to contact, react, and strive for it, and even bypassed the official level, and officially set foot in politics with the power of capital for the first time - although not domestic.

In contrast, some people finally became dissatisfied.

The reason for their dissatisfaction is not that the official Republic prohibits them from making such investments and contacts, and in fact the official does not prohibit them but acquiesces in them.

But acquiescence was not enough, and the reason for their dissatisfaction was that the republic did not take the initiative to defend their interests, to use the power of the state to help their capital gains, or to support them with soldiers and wars at the national level, and even to discuss the expansion of the navy with a special tax at the National Assembly.

Just as Jian had made contact with the Swedish envoys and began his fourth bargaining with the Dutch over various entanglements of interests, from Asia to the Americas, a political group that seemed insignificant at the time was quietly established in the capital.

These would-be colonialists, imperialists, overseas investment groups, and industrial and commercial capitalists have set up an organization called the "New Order Discussion Society" in a very low-key way.

The organization is very loose, not partisan, the number of people is small, and the threshold for participation is extremely high, and internal members need to recommend each other.

This organization, which looks similar to a drinking party in the living room, obviously has a close relationship with Jian Chen, especially during this time period.

But this organization did not absorb Chen Jian, because they have money, people and power, but the only thing they lack is a legitimate name, and many of the ideas of the Mo Party are incompatible with them, so they need to hire a group of pens and mouthpieces that are more in line with their justification.

They can't do without Jian Chen for the time being, but they have already begun to prepare for breaking away from Jian Chen. They are still within the framework of the old classical republic, but they have begun to define the foundation and ideology of a new republic.