Chapter 137: Obstacles to the Industrial Revolution

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After the G2 summit, a group of Nolan military and political figures were the first to leave the camp, while the Chinese side stayed, and when the back of the last Nolan disappeared at the Yingkou, Jing Ling, who had sent them off, turned to the imperial elites behind him and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, as the general engineering team of the empire, you must be careful in the planning of the blueprint, and any ideas and decisions you make will dominate the rise and fall of this empire." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Thousands of imperial elites looked up at their emperor with undisguised fervor in their eyes, and the two-month-long negotiations made them realize that the world was about to change, and that the Chinese empire they led would come out on top...... Or drowned in the torrent of conquest.

Jing Ling sat back at the main seat of the negotiation table, then motioned for the rest of the people to sit down around him, and then said to a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes: "Academician Zhang, to what extent has your Academy of Military Sciences researched the steam engine?" ”

Academician Zhang straightened his glasses, straightened his waist and said: "Now it has entered the fifth stage of the experiment, which basically solves the problem of large fuel consumption, and the steam engine model required by the textile industry has been successfully tested, while it will take about half a year for trains and ships to start testing." ”

"Half a year ......" Jing Ling seemed a little impatient, "If you want to get rich first, steam trains and ships must be developed as soon as possible, if you lack people and money, just report it, and you must not be stingy with investment in this area." ”

After receiving President Zhang's answer, he glanced at everyone present, and then asked: "The textile industry will be the first pillar industry of our country at this stage, but it is difficult to implement the textile industry revolution, first of all, we have to solve the problems of energy, food, fiber and building materials."

There are huge coal resources under the ground of Mobei County, so there is no worry about energy in a hundred years. Then there is the problem of food, if a large number of peasants wash their feet and go to the fields to become workers, the whole country will starve, and the textile industry needs a lot of fiber, that is, cotton.

Cotton is a crop that consumes soil fertility so much that even with the invention of chemical fertilizers, the land of our country cannot withstand the toss. Then there is the problem of building materials, the development of the country needs a lot of reinforced concrete, but our land resources are too scarce, we lack everything except coal mines, so you tell me, how to solve the problem of food, fiber and construction materials? ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a silence in the room, followed by a cacophony of discussions, and after more than two hours of talking, the Minister of Finance was the first to reply: "It is true that our land is too small, and if we implement an agricultural economy, we can feed the country's 10 million people, but if we carry out the industrial revolution and the peasants go to the cities to become workers, then the whole country will starve." If the industrial revolution in the textile industry had to be carried out, then I think we could earn foreign exchange by exporting coal and textiles, and importing grain, fiber, and building materials north of Nolan and the peninsula. ”

The strategic commander of Tandong County interjected: "If the revolutionary army takes full control of Tandong County, we can also get these supplies there. ”

Jing Ling waved his hand and scolded the Minister of Finance: "What kind of bad idea is this!? Nolan's coal mines all over the country are gathered in the north, and unless they are funny, they will abandon the coal mines in the north and come to us to send us money. Besides, if they don't sell us food, fiber, and building materials if they don't sell them to us, won't our entire industrial system collapse? ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately felt that this was indeed the case, and at the same time, they were also sighing at the high vision of the Thunder Emperor, and picking out the root of the problem in one sentence, the Minister of Finance also felt red because the rest of his colleagues had been staring at him, and hated himself in his heart, how could he not think of this level of problems?

Jing Ling patted the table and said impatiently: "After discussing for more than two hours, there is no good solution!?" Seeing that everyone was speechless, he pointed directly at Cain and said, "Take your military commission. From the President's perspective, I would like to talk about the scarcity of supplies. ”

Cain was stunned, and after coming back to his senses, he glanced at the rest of the people and asked, "Are you sure you want to say it here?" ”

"Of course." Jing Ling set his eyes on the military and political figures who had been rehabilitated, and finally fixed on the old and strong Adolf, and continued: "The people here are the pillars of the empire, the engineers of the blueprint, what else can they not listen to? ”

Adolf's body was shocked, thinking that the Thunder Emperor's words could be described as very clever, those military and political people who were rehabilitated were worried that their loyalty would be doubted, so they had always served the country loyally, and now the real supreme ruler of the empire treated them as confidants, which made them even more determined to serve the empire.

Cain glanced at Jing Ling, thinking that this man's scheming skills were not ordinary, even worse than those old fritters who had ruled the country for half a century, he cleared his thoughts and said: "If we solve the problem of lack of materials from the perspective of the military, we will directly capture the northern border of Nolan and the peninsula, as long as we get that fertile land and the labor force of hundreds of millions of people, the industrial revolution will have the power to support." ”

"No way!" The Minister of Defense retorted: "We cannot tear up the Strategic Partnership agreement, and once the Warsaw Pact is dissolved, we will be sandwiched between the two superpowers, Nolan and Albertan!" ”

The president of the National Defense University echoed: "Yes, war cuts off trade, spawns hatred, and opens up endless strife, so I don't agree with Chairman Cain's point either." ”

Cain smiled, "I didn't say that China wants to go to war with Nolan, in fact, I want to think about things from a different angle, sometimes the war doesn't need to be fought by the biggest beneficiary himself." ”

"What do you mean?" The Minister of Defense wondered.

"I mean it very clearly." Cain explains: "Nolan has a population of 400 million, of which more than 100 million are slaves, and these oppressed slaves are scattered across the country to plantations, workshops, families, and so on, so they are not able to form a strong force of resistance. But intelligence analysis tells us that Nolan has at least 100,000 slave revolts a year, and that they failed because of their loose organizational structure, and that if we can secretly provide them with military assistance, the flames of revolt will spread like sparks in all lands shrouded in the evil slavery system! (To be continued.) )