Chapter 272: The Confidence of the Super Empire (I)

This was an unprecedented era, and the Chinese Empire became the world suzerainty that replaced the Mongol Empire, an unprecedented super empire whose radiating influence far exceeded that of the four ancient civilizations combined. From the South Pole to the North Pole, there are empire territories and territorial waters in every dimension, and every meridian runs through the territory of the empire in a circle along the equator, the Pacific Ocean is the inner lake of the empire, the Indian Ocean is the backyard of the empire, and the Atlantic Ocean is a newly opened sea. The tide of monopoly on Xuanzhou (Africa) has been set off, and the northern and southern Chizhou (Americas) have entered the five-year schedule of the eastward expansion movement, and in Shenzhou (Asia), where the empire is located, except for the Seljuk Turkic states that are allies of the empire, only the Indian states and the Ghaznavid dynasty can be regarded as semi-colonies. The five countries of Nanyang are already veritable colonies and client states, the governor of the empire and the Ministry of Colonial Affairs are the emperors of these countries, and the monarchs of these five countries have long become puppets that have been hollowed out, and the chiefs of government departments at all levels have also been hollowed out by the advisers of the counselors, without the signatures of these advisers, any government documents are waste paper.

The first-level territory of the Chinese Empire is the mainland of the empire (the territory of the Qing Empire at its peak, including the largest geographical boundary between Mongolia and Tibet, not the ridgeline of the mountain range, but the boundary between the foot of the mountain range and the plain, including the whole territory of Nepal, Bhutan, and the Green Mountains) and the first island chain islands (not counting the Japanese archipelago, including the Ryukyus, Dongyi Island, Luzon Islands and the Greater Sunda Islands except for the territory of Sriwijaya), with an area of more than 12 million square kilometers and a population of more than 300 million people.

The second-level territory is the entire Lingbei Sanxing Province, Hanhai Province and Nanzhou Six Provinces (eastern, central, western Siberia and the former Black Khanate occupied by the empire). The area is even more exaggerated, with more than 25 million square kilometers, but the small population of the river is several orders of magnitude. Except for the Hanhai area, because of its long history, the climate is mild. The foundation of the Black Khanate is still there, and the population density can be compared with that of the Gaochang area, and the population density of Lingbei and Nanzhou has experienced continuous immigration after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the population density is only 1 person per square kilometer. (The number of aborigines is too scarce, the total number is only a few hundred thousand, and after the tens of millions of Han people moved in, it became a rare travel resource in the reserve)

The third-level land is also the largest, almost the entire Chizhou and Xuanzhou belong to the third-level land and quasi-third-level land, with an area of almost 30 million square kilometers. Chizhou has established two areas of less than a million square kilometers of civilized countries and the Mayan Kingdom and the Chimu Kingdom. All the rest of the lands belong to the third level of the empire. The land of Xuanzhou is also in a mysterious state, except for the historical Nile River basin and the eastern Xuanzhou Plateau, that is, the Astra Mountains in the western Sahara, the Almurabit Dynasty and the Almuwahid Dynasty, which is nourished by the water system, can participate in international conferences as imperial states. The rest of the primitive tribal alliances, which did not even have the written word, could only become fish and meat in the hands of the imperial colonists, and the land was bought cheaply. Labor was also reduced to a commodity, and even the cattle and sheep that the indigenous people valued as their lives were exchanged by the colonists for cheap salt, sugar, cornmeal, spices and alcohol. The quasi-third-level land area is almost 20 million square kilometers.

As for the inland and no-man's lands that had not yet been touched by the imperial power, although they did not have a precise map and determined sovereignty, they also became the established goals of the empire. For example, the vast forests in the interior of North Chizhou and the rainforests in the center of Xuanzhou have been surrounded by the third-level territory of the empire. These low-density, outrageous regions were clearly unlikely to be a force to stop the empire's expansion.

The whole world has a total of 149 million square kilometers of land, and the total land of the first, second and third levels of the Chinese Empire is 87 million square kilometers, plus 100 million semi-colonies such as colonies and client states, and more than 70% of the land has entered the control of the empire. With the exception of inhospitable places in high latitudes such as Antarctica and Greenland, the Empire has taken control of all habitable terra nullius lands.

Europe, like its allies, was deeply involved in the imperial world system. The unprecedented super empire naturally has an unprecedented ability to control, and the population of the Han people has crossed the 300 million mark with the support of the Crossing People, and the total population of the world at this time is only less than 500 million. The population and territorial area of the empire naturally matched, and it took only 30 years to go from a population of over 100 million in the pre-Song era to a population of 320 million today. A net growth rate of 4% per year is already the limit. Thanks to the modern medical system established by Wu Qi and the modern food supply system established by Sun Chang, the population growth is very strong, and the efficiency of the population into human resources is also very high.

According to the human development index formulated by the Crossing Public, the empire itself is naturally more than 0.9 in the first place, a few streets behind the second place Solomon Kingdom 0.6, and even more than double the third place Baltic Kingdom by 0.45.

The position of a super-empire is not judged by the number of wars fought and land-occupied. The characteristics of a superpower are that its economic and military strength far surpasses that of any other country, and it uses its powerful military and economic strength to invade, interfere, control, subvert, and plunder other countries everywhere in pursuit of world hegemony. Although the super empire is only one word apart, it more reflects the image of the suzerainty of the leadership position and the person in charge.

In this era, the Chinese Empire, as always, inherited the diplomatic principles of the suzerain-vassal system since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and did not like the great powers of the old time and space to plunder the colonies, but adhered to the modern trade and investment ideas of making cakes while sharing the cakes, and established logistics and trade networks everywhere in the world. In fact, this approach is the least resistant, the most stable and the most profitable. The characteristics of a super-empire are that its economic and military power far exceeds that of any other country, and it assimilates, integrates, controls, invests, and maintains peace with other countries everywhere with its powerful political, cultural, military, and economic strength, and seeks common prosperity in the world.

Investment is not an empty word, through the capital account into the countries and vassal states, the investment money of the colonies and the export of agricultural and sideline products and raw materials from various countries and places in exchange for the dragon yuan can buy any goods and services on the export permission list of the Chinese Empire, the industrial layout and transfer speed of the empire is also very fast, a large number of resource-intensive industries and high-energy consumption industries have begun to move overseas, large steam turbine ships have appeared, trains have used motors, the total mileage of the empire's railways has exceeded 50 million kilometers.

Looking at the basic economic parameters in the Imperial Economic Journal, all per capita, multiplied by the total population of an empire it is easy to see the total. This kind of looking at the per capita figures is also a habit brought about by the traversal, who are not accustomed to looking at big numbers and are fed up with the remnants of the planned economy of the old time and space, and the traversal masses are directly released per capita figures every time they publish the economic data of the empire. In this way, we can appreciate the importance of people, and the more people there are, the natural number will be at risk of declining, so in order to maintain the growth of the data, it is necessary to exceed the growth rate of 8% of the basic data of any commodity production. There is no pressure to maintain employment, the speed of industrial division of labor offsets the pressure of layoffs due to higher efficiency brought about by increased productivity, and the expansion of production capacity requires a large number of skilled workers and labor. With the diffusion of technology and the expansion of production capacity, the prices of various commodities are declining, and the rate of improvement in per capita living standards is naturally very fast.

The empire's wealthy people also increased rapidly, a large amount of liquidity from the banking system allowed countless entrepreneurs to get start-up capital, low prices also allowed them to accumulate wealth quickly, and it did not take a few years for a small workshop to become a large factory. Banks are able to provide high-quality customers with large loan lines and high value-added strategic planning follow-up services.

The rich and the new magnates who had become aristocratic were naturally accustomed to the pursuit of fashion and the creation of various hedonistic industries that were far ahead of their time. Mansions, famous horses, pets of all kinds and ostentatious luxuries, a large number of high-end consumer goods to extract the wealth of the new aristocracy were created, and noblewomen rushed to buy cosmetics, jewelry, fashion, bags; They spend a lot of time at beauty salons, afternoon teas, fashion shows, salons, museums, art galleries and charity events. The nouveau riche men spent their time in the ancient disciplines of polo, football, yachting, racing, building private mansions and palaces, traveling the world and colonies. (To be continued......)