Roughly since 1860, the world has entered the era of bipolar hegemony, counting France, which is a pseudo-"three-legged stand", and these two poles are of course the British Empire and the Chinese Empire. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info【Fengyun Novel Reading】

Like the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Chinese Empire and the British Empire engaged in confrontation at all levels around the world, from the East to the West, both economically and politically, including a small range of military confrontations and conflicts.

In terms of the overall situation, both sides have their own winners and losers.

In 1883, the contradictions between the Chinese Empire and the British Empire were accumulating, but fortunately, the governments of the two countries seemed intent on containing the escalation of the conflict and avoiding a possible major war. But this year began to enter the Chinese era, because the Chinese first changed their thinking and opened the ** of bipolar hegemony.

From the global map of the time, we can clearly see that there is practically no possibility of war between the two countries.

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Even Gladstone, as prime minister, knows that these guys in China will not and do not want to get along with the Chinese, he just hopes that he can give them a little warning and not go too far. After all, China, Britain and France now have a lot of cooperation in Egyptian affairs, and they are not too ugly to look at each other.

India, the most brilliant pearl in the crown of the British Empire has always been next to the Chinese, and once the two countries break off diplomatic relations and declare war, the crown of the British Empress will be indifferent.

Europe, the main market for the sale of the Chinese Empire's products at that time, will be closed after the war.

At that time, the results of these two world hegemons can be predicted to be the same end.

So, both Chinese and British politicians used their own compromises to maintain this semblance of peace until one day another force emerged.

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Lin Hong knew very well that even if the two countries really went to war, his chances of winning would still be very large. Without the European market itself, the current domestic market structure and internal circulation consumption are enough to support the economic development of the entire country. But it's sometimes a philosophy that the butt decides the head. What the people want is stability, a stable life, and a stable income. Of course, if Lin Hong insisted on going to war, the common people would never say much, and this is also a legacy of Eastern feudal thought, I don't know if it is a good or a bad thing.

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Blitzkrieg, Lin Hong didn't think about it, but at this time period, in the era of no aircraft and no missiles, China in the far east and Britain in Western Europe are not completely sure that they can win in a short time.

In fact, Lin Hong wanted to follow the confrontation between China and Britain to further stimulate the potential of the nation.

1883, New Year's Day on January 1.

The three chambers of the National Assembly of the Imperial Chinese Empire passed the Imperial Budget Bill of 1883, submitted by the Cabinet. In fact, the bill had already been submitted once in November 1882, and the reason why the revision was delayed until New Year's Day of the following year was because Lin Hong proposed new additions in the Diet and the cabinet had to redo the budget.

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"George, tell me about the whole of last year," Gladstone motioned to his deputy, George Cragg.

In addition to the unchanged funding for the social welfare system, the current budget includes administrative expenses, including military expenditures for the navy and the army, which have been reduced to a certain extent. All the extra money was invested in the Ministry of Culture and the Propaganda Department, which was used to promote Chinese culture and export Chinese ideas to the world.

In Lin Hong's view, since China and Britain have entered the time of all-out confrontation and bipolar struggle for hegemony, it should not just be a simple military, political, and economic struggle, but should raise this struggle to the cultural and ideological level. Use Chinese cuisine to cut down the dark cuisine of Britain, use Marxism to set off the British workers' movement, and use Confucian benevolence and loyalty to influence European utilitarianism.

Of course, Lin Hong also discovered the shortcomings of the Chinese Empire itself, that is, religion.

Traditional Taoism, has always emphasized non-action, of course, Taoism has also said that everything is done here, and people take it out of context, the whole is a kind of born thought, which cannot compete with Christianity and Islam at all, as for Buddhism, Lin Hong looks down on it the most, and Lin Hong has been constantly suppressing Buddhism in the more than 40 years since the establishment of the empire.

Monks have to pay taxes, and monks have to take exams. These are two hard rules, and since this year, Lin Hong has decided to apply one of the exams in this rule to Christianity and Islam in order to curb their development.

The Chinese people are actually the most particular people who pay attention to use, in fact, the real belief of our Chinese should be the belief of ancestors and heroes. So what Lin Hong has to do this year is to reshape the Chinese Taoist faith. In later generations, Lin Hong, as an otaku, also read the books of the flood famine, and as the source of the flood famine, Lin Hong decided to take Huainanzi out again and sort out a perfect system of the flood and immortal family.

Hongjun, Pangu, Nuwa, Sanqing Daozu, etc., etc., when the traditional Chinese immortal system is taken out, the common people will definitely not pay attention to Jesus and Allah, and then those Western religions will all get out.

1 December 1882, Downing Street, England.

William Gladstone, the prime minister of the British Empire, is in his office discussing with his cabinet ministers the way to govern the country for the next year.

"George, tell us about the whole of last year," Gladstone motioned to his deputy, George Cragg.

"Yes, Prime Minister." George opened the document in his hand and began to state, "As of last month, the data given by the Ministry of Finance shows that China's economy is generally on an upward trend, and the current development is still quite good, in the coal, steel, sugar and other raw material markets we still occupy most of the world's market, but it must be pointed out that we have begun to lose our advantage in commodity output, Chinese goods are frantically selling in the European market, but our businessmen lack effective means to counter the commercial trade of the Chinese." ......”

"Chinese usually sell traditional goods at very low margins in the European market, but our merchants can't do that because the volume of these Chinese goods is so large. In particular, China's traditional fist products, tea and silk, still occupy ninety percent of the world market in Chinese, and even in India, most of the black tea production is Chinese investment. ”

"In addition, we have completely lost the initiative in some new commodities, such as daily chemical products and non-staple foods, and our businessmen are simply unwilling to get involved in these industries with high production costs and low profits."

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"The French have also been developing their economy rapidly in recent years, and they have opened many joint ventures with the Chinese to introduce Chinese technology, while our businessmen cannot normally carry out technical cooperation and joint venture construction with the Chinese due to the constraints of imperial laws, which many domestic businessmen have expressed their opinions."

Of course, Lin Hong also discovered the shortcomings of the Chinese Empire itself, that is, religion.

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"I won't say much, everyone, we are engaged in a full-scale world hegemony with the Chinese, I don't want to lose, the British Empire can't lose." I would like to know what you can do to reverse the current situation of the Empire's commercial weakness towards China. Gladstone said as he looked at the crowd.

Everyone here knows the weakness of British business in recent years, but in fact they don't care, because they have always been vested interests, yes, six years ago, Britain issued a decree, this decree is called the British Empire General Rules of Commerce and Trade, in fact, it is a hidden law against Chinese business trade and Sino-British joint ventures.

In fact, such a law is not obviously binding on everyone here, they are all representatives of the interests of famous conglomerates and big businessmen in the British Empire, what is the law in front of interests, and cooperating with the Chinese to produce unprofitable sums of money has also put an end to the interference of small and medium-sized businessmen through such a decree, of course, they are not willing to say more. In fact, even the prime minister's own family has stepped in.

In business, the British are the most reluctant to offend the Chinese, the Chinese are launching new goods every year, especially matches and other goods are simply popular all over the world, especially the Chinese also monopolize the sales of matches, matches were invented by the French in 1898, these commodities are a gold mine to be tapped, the Chinese are willing to take out and cooperate with them, they are not willing to get along with money, as for the national interests in the eyes of these businessmen is nothing.

Even Gladstone, as prime minister, knows that these guys in China will not and do not want to get along with the Chinese, and he just hopes that he can give them a little warning and not go too far. After all, China, Britain and France now have a lot of cooperation in Egyptian affairs, and they are not too ugly to look at each other.

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