Section 452 Nanyang Base
What really changed Maria's fate was the re-establishment of the tsarist regime in Siberia, Archduchess Olga ascended the throne, gave up the war with Soviet Russia, and began to help the exiled nobles return to the rule of the tsar, Maria came back at that time, her status allowed her to easily get a large amount of real estate, the Nikolai government would help her to occupy the land, and the Chinese agricultural company was happy to cooperate with her, but she did not accept it, but continued to work on her fashion career in Siberia. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Maria has thoroughly grasped the fashion connotation of Paris, and added more new elements to Siberia, including even some cultural elements of the local Tunguska nomadic tribes, which continue to cause popularity in Paris, blowing a whirring Siberian wind.
As a Russian royal nobleman, Maria also came this time, she didn't think that her ex-husband actually came, the two met with a lot of emotion, the Swedish prince is also righteous, when he was a husband and wife, although he did not have much affection for this political marriage, lukewarm to his wife, when Maria filed for divorce, he collapsed.
After the divorce, when his wife encountered difficulties, he also took the initiative to return his wife's original dowry to let her get through the initial difficulties.
Now that both of them have their own families, they find that there is still affection between them, but it is family affection, and this war has taught the European aristocracy a lot of things, such as cherishing the declining old class, who are becoming more and more scarce races, and will be eliminated by society.
The Swedish prince even invited the couple to have time to visit Sweden.
Every day new guests arrived, and the last to arrive were representatives of Eastern countries, such as the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the royal families of Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea.
Eastern countries will also participate in various celebrations of European royal families, such as Li Hongzhang participated in the coronation of the Russian Tsar, the coronation of King George of the United Kingdom China also sent people to participate, and the Japanese Emperor Hirohito also participated in some ceremonies, but small countries such as Greece often do not pay so much attention.
This time, the standard given by the eastern countries was very high, and the Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang personally arrived, the Japanese prince Komatsu Teruhisa, and the Korean prince Li Kun, who was the younger brother of the new Korean king Li Tuo who succeeded to the throne last year, and the second son of Gojong, because Li Tuo had no heirs, he was regarded as the heir to the Korean royal family. The Ryukyu royal family also sent the prince Shosho, who was the eldest son of the first king of the Ryukyus after the restoration of the Ryukyus, and it was clear that he would inherit the throne in the tradition of the Eastern countries.
Four East Asian countries, a foreign minister, three important members of the royal family, plus the main members of the royal family of European countries, made the wedding of the king of Greece like an international conference, and Greece appeared in the world news for a time.
But obviously this is not their due international status, the reason why the four East Asian countries give them face is eighty percent of it is to look at Yang Chao's face, because the wife of the Greek king is Yang Chao's sister-in-law, and Yang Chao announced early that he would attend the wedding with the female tsar in person, so Pan Xun thought that he should give the chairman a cheer, China has all cheered, and other East Asian countries have also decided to cheer.
But after these people arrived in Greece, they were not in a hurry to communicate with other countries, but first came to visit the Tsar, of course, that is, Yang Chao.
In fact, most of the other countries also mean this, and most of the purpose of contact with the Tsarist family is actually aimed at Yang Chao, and most of the purpose of Yang Chao is aimed at China.
This is the status quo, Yang Chao has become the protector of the tsar with the power of China.
Europeans think so, openly adding this title to Yang Chao in the newspapers, and the Soviet Russians lashed out at home, and the biggest reason for their truth-only Pravda Black Tsar is this.
Britain and France have favorable trade terms with China, both sides have developed each other into the largest trading partners, and other small countries have no interests, such as Belgium, Luxembourg, and even Sweden, Denmark and other small countries have a certain economic strength, but they are caught in the post-war depression in Europe, the economy is half dead, and they also hope to open up trade with China and develop the domestic economy.
It is a pity that Belgium and Luxembourg are stronger in industrial strength among these countries, but they cannot compete with China's industrial products, Denmark and Sweden have only started their late industrialization, Denmark mainly exports agricultural products, such as pork and butter, etc., which China does not need, and Sichuan raises pigs only a lot more than Denmark.
Therefore, they are doomed to disappointment, and it is impossible for Belgian and Luxembourg steel, Danish and Swedish products to break into China.
The only promising development in the small country is the Netherlands, the Netherlands as a glorious sea coachman in the 16th century, the foundation is very good, but the industrial age is falling behind, the industrial revolution in the Netherlands and Denmark and Sweden basically happened together, later than Britain, France and Germany, and even half a century later than Belgium, which was originally a country.
But these small countries have one thing in common, that is, education is very developed, before industrialization, they patiently established a compulsory education system, Sweden, Denmark's education level is now the world's leading level, the Netherlands' education level is much higher than the European average.
For example, the Netherlands is driven by shipbuilding and electronics industries, Philips is the largest employer in the Netherlands, and the light bulbs produced by 2,000 workers are supplied to European countries.
It's just that their domestic market is very small, the Netherlands is okay, there are East Indies colonies, where tens of millions of people, especially the increasingly wealthy Chinese are a good consumer market, so in the past two years, the Netherlands has slowly overshadowed Denmark and Sweden, and stood out in Northern Europe.
Originally, the situation of Belgium and Luxembourg, which is a country with the Netherlands, is much worse, the industry is mainly based on the steel industry and manufacturing, which looks high-end, but it is too simple, the steel and manufacturing industries of Britain, France and Germany are stronger than them, and if there is no market, they can't think of depression.
This is the price of division, Belgium was occupied by Germany in World War I, it is conceivable that if they had not separated from the Netherlands, with the developed industrial and coal and iron resources of Belgium and Luxembourg, plus the Netherlands' commercial network covering the whole world, adding up to the scale of tens of millions of people, Germany must consider the consequences if they want to invade, just like they never dared to invade Switzerland in World War I and World War II.
The sea coachmen split into the industrially developed cities of Belgium and Luxembourg in the south, and the commercial and financial development of the Netherlands, with the result that the three countries, which were supposed to be very complementary industries, fought their own battles and lost their advantages.
Now that the Dutch have also begun the industrial revolution, these two countries as neighbors have no chance.
The Dutch took the processing of minerals, sugar, edible oil, tobacco, chocolate, and grain in the South Seas colonies as the base of light industry, the shipbuilding industry as the leader of heavy industry, the rise of the machine industry, and the vast colonial market, the whole world is now optimistic about them.
Therefore, Yang Chao is also quite enthusiastic about the Dutch, especially the Greek port project with the Dutch, the Dutch attach great importance to it, and accompanied Yang Chao to inspect it before the wedding.
Yang Chao gladly accepted the Dutchman's request to continue to expand bilateral trade, and the Dutch expressed their willingness to give zero-tariff treatment to China's steel industry in exchange for preferential treatment for exporting electronic products to China.
The Dutch want to develop the shipbuilding industry, and the two ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam have been modernized to become the most competitive and excellent ports in Europe, and have begun to restore the glory of the Central and Eastern European entrepot trade that they have been doing for centuries, and they are now planning to restore the glory of the shipbuilding industry of the past.
It takes a lot of steel, and it makes no difference to them whether to use Chinese steel or European steel, and they are more than happy to get other concessions in exchange.
It's just that the Dutch have made a very good calculation, they will cancel the tariffs on the steel industry, and they will definitely not only give it to China, Britain, France and even Germany, they will not offend, but they want to exchange for the opportunity to enter the Chinese electronics market, and the Chinese electronics market is now seriously lacking in competition, and the most competitive Americans have withdrawn from the Chinese market, and the Dutch believe that there is a large market gap there, and they will definitely have a lot to do.
However, Yang Chao accepted and handed over China's electronics industry to Siemens, which is not a good thing. This year, the Japanese reached a consensus with General Electric of the United States, and Mitsubishi and Mitsui cooperated with General Electric and Westinghouse Electric of the United States respectively to establish a large electronics factory in Japan, specifically facing the Chinese market.
"I will make a proposal to my country. I believe that this kind of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation is rejected by our Congress. However, China has always attached great importance to the Nanyang issue, and if the Netherlands is willing to increase investment in the Nanyang. Personally, the Netherlands currently lacks a port facing Europe in the South Seas, and although Jakarta is good, it is not on the main shipping lane, which seriously affects the direct shipping of China's merchant ships to Europe. At present, although Singapore plays a transit role, one port is obviously not enough. If the Netherlands is interested in investing in the construction of a new port in the Strait of Malacca, I believe that the King of the Ryukyus Shipping Company and the Hokkien Huay Kuan Shipping Company will be very interested. ”
Across the Strait of Malacca, Palembang near Singapore is a good place, and it was the largest port in the area for a long time, and it slowly declined with the rise of Singapore.
If the port situation can be improved, it is still very promising, Singapore is naturally good, but it is under the control of the British, if there are no competitors, how can the British be willing to give up there?
The Dutch, on the other hand, are much easier to control than the British, and they are certainly willing to accept joint ventures.
Sure enough, the Dutch agreed without any hesitation, and financed from the Chinese market, and the Ryukyus, China, and Japan jointly invested and operated together, which not only ensured capital and technology, but also guaranteed the market.
Because the participating King Ryukyu Shipping Company, NYK Shipping Company, and China's Hokkien Kaiwan Shipping Company, these three companies basically control the international trade and transportation business of the three East Asian countries, and once they all put their business in Palembang, it will be enough for this port to develop. (To be continued.) )