Chapter 253 The Current Situation of the Countries

The situation in France is better, this time the investment is less, so the loss is less, France itself does not attach importance to the development of industrial enterprises, most of the money is used as usury loans, and most of them are loans to sovereign countries, although it is difficult to recover temporarily, but I believe that sooner or later these loans will be recovered, unless these countries are destroyed. Besides www.biquge.info France has many colonies that generate a lot of profits every year, and the government is doing well. Now the government is only facing a rapidly developing Germany, which is not only developing rapidly in terms of economic development, but also developing its military strength very rapidly, which makes the French government feel very stressed.

In the face of German pressure, the French government built a large number of permanent fortifications in addition to the war of armaments, and strengthened its alliance with Britain and Russia, hoping that one day they could join forces against the Germans.

Since 1905, the Russian Empire has been continuously revolted by serfs, forcing Russia to spend a lot of military expenditure on protecting local security; In order to make up for this loss, the Russian Empire only nationalized the assets of the Rothschilds, and did not take action against other Jewish families, and did not cause the Jews living in the Russian Empire to flee for the time being; In order to defend against the pressure of Germany in Europe, and also under the pressure of the Xia Empire, Russia continued to shrink its interests in Asia, and in a short period of time, the Russian Empire did not want to have a conflict with the Xia Empire and break out into war.

Other countries, such as Spain and Portugal, which have no or few colonies, have had an even more difficult time after the outbreak of the economic crisis, and they are afraid that other countries will rob their few colonies, and their people will live in poverty and complain about the high unemployment rate.

And if you think of a country like the Ottoman Empire, it has become a fat in the mouths of the European powers, and everyone wants to take a bite; In the north, the Russian Empire was eyeing each other, Germany took the opportunity to enter the two river basins, and Britain regarded this place as its sphere of influence.

In Asia, Japan is affected by the economic crisis, and countries such as Britain and France are still unable to take care of themselves, so they still have the energy to take care of Japan, and they are still urging to repay their previous loans; Now it is difficult to sell the industrial products produced in Japan, and the compensation of the Xia Empire has to be paid, and the life is simply unbearable, and the people have begun to sell their daughters on a large scale; The Xia Empire established a large number of women's training institutions in Xinzhou and Ezo Provinces, specializing in training Japanese women to learn the Chinese language and the living habits and culture of the Chinese, and in the future, these women would be married to the officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire as wives; Of course, there are many similar institutions in the Lelang Special Administrative Region, the Peninsula Special Administrative Region, and the direct jurisdiction of the Northern Theater Command.

As long as it is an unmarried woman, between the ages of 15 and 25, the appearance cannot be too ugly, and the body is healthy, the Xia Empire will recruit her, and if she has a skill, it will be more popular; In Japan, with the help of the garrison of the Xia Empire, a complete human trafficking network was formed, and in Jiuzhou, such a girl could be bought for only a dozen taels of silver, and transported to Ezo or Xinzhou Province, at least 40 to 50 taels of silver could be sold.

Now the Xia Empire sells grain in Japan at a low price, and even these ten taels of silver can live in a Japanese family for a long time and avoid the fate of the whole family being starved to death.

There is also a way to help the Japanese get rid of the tragic fate is to join the mercenaries of the Xia Empire, as long as they are admitted by the mercenaries of the Xia Empire, the whole family can immigrate to the Xia Empire, not only salary, bonuses, but also can buy the land of the Xia Empire, settle in the local area, as long as the Chinese language passes the assessment, the family members within three generations can enjoy the treatment of citizens of the Xia Empire; This measure made a large number of Japanese veterans join the mercenaries of the Xia Empire, these mercenaries were first trained in Xinzhou and Ezo Province, and after passing the training, they would take their whole families to the Xia Empire together, and at the same time settle their families, they also had to accept Zhang Wei's systematic review, and only after passing the review could they officially serve in the mercenaries.

Japan also has an important way to earn foreign exchange, that is, to actively develop the tertiary industry, to the king to export the service industry, since the beautiful girl was bought by the Xia Empire, there are many married women who have children, under the organization of people with hearts, a large number of people to the Qing Dynasty to pan for gold, because the Japanese women service in place, the price is low, and in the past, the Qing Dynasty men were bullied by Japanese men, and now they can find some dignity in Japanese women, therefore, Japanese women are very popular in the Qing Dynasty, and earn a lot of silver for the Japanese government.

Even in Europe and the United States, Japan's service personnel are also very popular, the economy is sluggish, this kind of cheap service just fills the gap in the market, but also to alleviate social contradictions, the European and American governments have given the green light to this matter all the way, welcome more Japanese service personnel, even the most xenophobic US government, on this matter is also a blind eye, close a blind eye, this kind of service personnel are not in the ranks of being repatriated.

Now the days of the Great Qing Kingdom are very comfortable, all the frontiers are defended by the Xia Empire, and now the Alliance has also disappeared, no longer causing harm to the Great Qing Kingdom, many of the original members of the League either announced their separation from the League and joined the nationality of the Xia Empire, or how to join the army and government of the Frontier Special Zone after leaving the League, and some continue to work for the Qing Dynasty.

After Cai returned to Guangxi from Hanoi, he still returned to the place where he used to work, but now he is only an ordinary teacher in the Guangxi Army Academy.

For example, the Bank of Asia exchanged more than 2 billion taels of silver from the Qing Dynasty at a low price, and these silver were exchanged by the Qing magnates, and now the silver is appreciating, but no one dares to ask the Bank of Asia to compensate, one is afraid of the Xia Empire behind the Bank of Asia, and the other is afraid of leaking the matter of exchanging a large amount of silver, in that case, he will be in trouble.

What is even more regrettable is that the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty continues to decline, the economic development is very good, the whole country is prosperous, the people's lives are gradually rich, the displaced people are relocated in large numbers, and the appearance is very bright, but there is not much tax, the two major items of grain and salt are not taxed by the Xia Empire, and the equipment and industrial products sold by other Xia Empires are not taxed, but the amount of tax evasion by the Xia Empire every year is very amazing; Moreover, many of the products produced by the Great Qing Kingdom were supplied to the Xia Empire's Lelang, Xinzhou, Ezo and other provinces, and were exported in the name of the Xia Empire, and they did not need to pay taxes; The Eastern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region is now under construction, and the tax revenue continues to increase, but it was said at the beginning that the tax revenue of the Border Special Administrative Region will be used to build the border army and defend the eastern and northern Xinjiang.

Yuan Shikai can only steal fun now, the original 6 towns in Beiyang have been expanded to 8 towns with the help of the Xia Empire, plus the army in Dongjiang, it is already 16 towns and 10 mixed associations, as long as these troops are trained, they will be able to successfully occupy the entire Qing Dynasty next year, overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and achieve a smooth transition of power. (To be continued.) )