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"Your Highness, we have carefully inspected all the rooms, and there are no problems."

After separating from Bourblon, Lin Haifeng did not rest, but went to the living room of Napoleon III, which he designated as a meeting room. Long before he walked in, Li Xiucheng, Huang Zaixing and other important figures were already waiting here with Fu Shanxiang. When he heard Wang Haiyang's words, he nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, always tighten a vigilant string in your brain, this is a necessary thing for people in your business." ”

Then, he looked at the assistants in front of him, who must have been very tired, but he couldn't see anything unusual on his face, and smiled lightly, "No way, we are not here for sightseeing, there are still a lot of things in China, and we need to go back as soon as possible." So, I've declined their kindness, and you're going to be fully in your roles starting tomorrow afternoon. In order to better accomplish our respective tasks, please use the time of our Minister Shanxiang tonight and tomorrow morning to give us a detailed introduction to the current situation here, and by the way, we can also communicate and communicate, so that we can know in our hearts. ”

As he spoke, he looked down at his watch, and then nodded at Fu Shanxiang beside him, "Today, I will first introduce to us the recent economic situation here and be a gentleman for everyone." ”

Fu Shanxiang coughed lightly, not looking at Lin Haifeng, who was smiling, but smiled shyly at the Celestial Empire officials opposite, "How dare Mr. Dang, to be honest, the various situations that happen here are too complicated, and they can dazzle people. I'm afraid I'll mislead you because of my poor introduction. ”

"According to the information collected from various sources, the source of the predicament encountered by France and major European countries this time came from the United States, but in the final analysis, the initiator of the chaos is still the British ......" Fu Shanxiang showed Lin Haifeng and others in detail the current predicament of Britain, France and other countries according to the situation grasped through various channels.

For nearly a decade, Britain's exports of cotton textiles to the United States and its colonies have been growing at an insane pace. And the construction of American railroads that began in the fifties entered a new **. x3xqx Chinese x Shou x x built as many as 670,000 miles of railways, because the United States also reduced import tariffs, this huge market for locomotives and rails was basically occupied by the British. At first, British merchants not only vigorously expanded their exports of goods to the United States, but also continued to raise prices, putting British industry itself in an extremely advantageous position. Spurred on by the lucrative profits of investing in the United States, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, this wave of speculation has been set off by importers and exporters who rely on bad checks and export credits to survive. As a result, the local credit of the two countries is highly inflated and speculation is rampant. With the help of the extensive development of export credits and short promissory notes. Banks are even more unscrupulous in lending large quantities of their own capital to companies with already small amounts of their own capital out of empty promissory notes. And that's not all. The practice of taking advantage of the opportunity to set up enterprises indiscriminately and deceive small investors of their trust and money is still widespread among some profiteers.

But under this so-called prosperity, the wages of the workers living at the bottom of the society are always pressed again and again, and the market without follow-up consumption naturally cannot last long, and the capacity is quickly filled. Now, in fact, the crisis has been on the rise since the year before. Due to the fact that the UK's exports to foreign countries have grown too much for several consecutive years. Textile prices have fallen. Businesses had to scale back production. In recent years, due to the unexpected emergence of our large demand and the implementation of strategies. Although the export volume of British steel is still rising, the price has fallen by 30% compared with before. Moreover, the inventory in the UK is now increasing day by day. At present, all the illusions have not been fully uncovered for the time being because there are still those speculators in the banking industry, but the prices of cotton, yarn, wool, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and other goods have risen for all to see.

As a result of the initial benefit from the rise in the prices of heavy industry products in Britain, the pressure on the industrial development of countries such as France and Prussia has plummeted, and the heavy industry in France and Prussia has made rapid progress since then. In the last decade, the power of steam engines in Prussia and France has more than doubled and increased respectively, and the number of steam looms has also increased in large numbers. However, because of the same speculative mentality, they cannot escape the temptation of profit and fall into it. In just one year since last year, the number of banks in Prussia has doubled, and the amount of banknotes issued has more than tripled, at the time of the great opening of banks in Britain and the United States. (Aishang Novel Network .net debut) and France's bank lending business has increased more than three times.

As in the UK, the factories are working at full capacity day and night, but the wages of the workers are not raised, and the inability to compete with the UK has led to skyrocketing prices in the country, so most factories are now overstocked.

Fu Shanxiang also said that as soon as you arrived in Paris, you all saw that the city of Paris was undergoing a large-scale demolition and reconstruction, which, in the words of their emperor, was called stimulating domestic demand at a critical moment to maintain the stability of the domestic economy. In the presence of Haussmann, their governor of the Seine, I saw this grand plan of Napoleon III, from which the historical landscape of Paris would be dramatically changed, with wide boulevards, radial roads, star-shaped intersections, open parks, etc., in the city. When asked why the avenues of Paris were wide and straight in the future, the Haussmann prefect bluntly said, "Cannonballs don't know how to turn right." "The reason for the construction of the road was simply to make it easier for the horse teams that entered the town to suppress the uprising of the citizens in the future to be more unimpeded and easier to bombard. The narrow streets made it easy for the citizens of the uprising to set up barricades.

In fact, the ring road network and the passages formed by the houses formed in Paris for hundreds of years are indeed not very good, and the pollution of drinking water often causes epidemics, and the transformation is right. And some of the parts of their renovation that I have seen have really been inspired, as Haussmann has paved more than a thousand miles of water pipes and almost the same length of drainage channels in Paris in recent years. It also built a central vegetable market in the center of the city, which can be called a large-scale urban central vegetable market unique in the whole of Europe, which meets the supply of vegetables, fruits, non-staple foods and meat in almost the entire Paris urban area, and some people also vividly call it "Paris belly Q". In fact, these are also things that we were not willing to pay attention to in the past.

However, this large-scale demolition and reconstruction led to zhì. However, instead of stimulating consumption as they expected, a large number of workers, craftsmen, small traders, and other people at the bottom of society who originally lived in the cities were driven to live in the suburbs, where there was no infrastructure at all, and the sanitary environment was even worse. The only areas not designated by the Haussmann as the demolition area were the old districts of Paris, the southern part of the Bob and Marais districts, which were originally overcrowded civilian areas, and the population density increased dramatically due to the inhabitants of the demolished population. This qiē. Ordinary to the burghers. It's simply an ongoing disaster. Many of the city's classics, including the Cité Île, the cradle of Paris, were similarly quickly destroyed, and the vast number of simple jobs that would have provided the unemployed were buried in the rubble. But the beautiful buildings that were built with it were so expensive that ordinary workers could not even think of them, and they seemed to be beautiful Paris, but they were just a paradise for the rich. So, with a spot, you can get a glimpse of the whole leopard. Not only will France's so-called domestic demand not be really stimulated, but the poor will only get poorer and poorer. The contradictions in all social strata will become increasingly intensified......

"Now it's France, England, the United States. It's like a pile of dry firewood, as long as the spark from the bankruptcy of the enterprise is a little bigger, the fire of the bankruptcy will immediately burn. But......" Fu Shanxiang said here, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "just a few days before your arrival, the Seine was still flowing with a large amount of milk dumped by those black-hearted factories and profiteers, fresh milk, but also by the Seine, there were still lying old people and children who died of hunger. ”

Time. Napoleon III's lavish parlor, full of gold and jade, fell silent.

"That's why so many French people are pinning their hopes on us." After a while, Fu Shanxiang said quietly. "The people who welcomed our Celestial Empire to visit the Wèn group were required by the government to go, but many of them were really willing to go from the bottom of their hearts. It is hard to imagine how many people will suffer from the real crisis once it is full-blown and how many helpless elderly people and children will ......"

"This is a defect created by their own system, as you said in the introduction, at the critical moment when the crisis is imminent, they are not willing to use their brains seriously to share even a little bit of the huge profits brought by their shameless greed with the workers and peasants who have paid their lives for them, so as to bring the whole country out of the predicament, but they are not willing to do so at all. In the minds of these people, the ordinary people who really create value are just a group of tools that are inferior to pigs and dogs," Lin Haifeng looked at Fu Shanxiang who lowered his head, "We are not saviors, and there has never been a real so-called closest relationship between countries with different beliefs, and there is only a competition of interests." If you win, your country and people will be happy, and if you lose, you can only quietly hide to the side, secretly lick the wounds on your body, and blame no one. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Haifeng turned his head to look at everyone in the conference room again, "How did you sing that song of our Communist League?" There has never been a savior, nor does it depend on the immortal emperor, if we want to create the happiness of mankind, it is all up to us. Comrade Fu Shanxiang's introduction was very comprehensive and meticulous, which fully shows that all the colleagues of the legation have made tremendous efforts and have learned a lot of new things, which should be commended and praised, and we should all pay deep tribute to these soldiers on the diplomatic front who are far away from their relatives in the motherland. However, Fu Shanxiang's personal emotions in the end are very problematic. Here, I repeat once again, we are shouldering the heavy trust of the people of the Celestial Empire, and for us, the interests of the people of the Celestial Empire are higher than a qiē. No one can put their personal feelings above the people of the Celestial Empire, otherwise, what you see them today will be us tomorrow! ”

The meeting ended, and Li Xiucheng, Huang Zaixing and other people left the conference room one after another. Seeing that Lin Haifeng and Fu Shanxiang were still sitting in their respective positions without moving, Liu Xianghe, who had already walked to the door, hesitated slightly, and was the last to walk out of the door and gently close the heavy door.

"Shanxiang, isn't my last words a little heavy?" Lin Haifeng asked with a smile while looking down at the pipe in his hand.

"No...... Not...... There is no ......" Fu Shanxiang lowered his head and fiddled with a handkerchief in his hand, and shook his head gently, "Your Highness...... I...... Doesn't it seem like I'm a good fit...... Not very suitable for such a transaction......"

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