Chapter 66: If you don't want to be revolutionized, you can only expand externally

Time flies quickly in peace, since the defeat of the Beiyang Army in the civil war by the Northwest Town Shoufu (a nondescript name) brought down the government of Yuan Shikai and replaced by the central government led by Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Then the whole of northern China was generally settled, and although there were still some small-scale incursions, most of them were small things such as exterminating bandits or quelling local rebellions, and large-scale military operations never broke out again. Even Sun Yat-sen's establishment of the Generalissimo's Mansion in the south failed to provoke a new round of civil war.

Zhang Zhidong was very ambitious to maintain sovereignty and unity, and once wrote to Chen Cheng in private, saying that as long as he lent him 200,000 troops, he would be able to kill the gang of rebellious ministers and thieves with the help of the Hubei army and the borrowed army.

For such a ridiculous proposal, Chenchen and Lin Mengchu were naturally insensitive to thanks. Just kidding, you central government are just pushing out to fool the world, can you still be ordered by you? is still borrowing soldiers, Zhang Zhidong doesn't understand the situation at all.

On the other hand, there has been more and more struggling between governments and countries. The British were very angry at China's failure to pay the money, but they could not do anything about it. After all, this is a big market with a population of tens of millions, and they don't want to lose it. If they really want to send troops to fight, they can't make up their minds.

Moreover, the total volume of trade between the North and Great Britain was gradually rising, even during the war.

In their opinion, as long as they can block the ports in the north, they can force the government that has now moved to Dragon City to bow down, but they are too ignorant of the power of the planned economy.

In today's China, what is lacking is product, material scarcity rather than overproduction. For a society that is completely dominated by the government, being locked down is a bit troublesome, but the impact is not so great.

In this era when coal and iron are everything, even if it is blocked, it is still possible to complete industrialization with the help of internal population resources. The equipment and technology needed had already been prepared when Gu Lu was still there, and all that was needed now was to install the equipment and train the workers.

Of course, the fact that the planned 10,000-ton hydraulic press has not been shipped will have a big impact on some of their plans, especially the naval development plan, but it is not particularly important. China's geographical environment determines that it can only give priority to the development of the Continental Army, and the navy can only retreat to the second, and it is good to be able to defend maritime interests at a minimum.

It is as if Taiwan is still in the hands of Japan, and Northeast China is still in the hands of the Russians, but whether it is the Guangzhou government, the Taiyuan (Longcheng) government, or the Beijing government, they all pretend to turn a blind eye to this. Before you don't have enough strength, being blind **** will only make people feel ridiculous.

And if there is enough power, it will become a normal historical process. This is the so-called: the poor will develop together, and the big will be since ancient times. For some, the state is a tool to rule, and in fact it is true. The essence of the state is that the ruling class rules over the ruled class.

But for the Chinese, whose nationalism is beginning to awaken, the occupation of the territory by foreign invaders is an extremely intolerable thing. Therefore, in the city of Beijing today, some patriotic young people walk on the streets from time to time, and these mass incidents always get great attention from the newspaper industry.

Every time there is some group ** incident, all kinds of newspapers will write all kinds of sensational headlines, and content that does not want to do anything with the headline at all, but "Handan Daily" is as always on the front page with some dry policy news, and its sales have not declined because of the appearance of "Taiyuan Daily".

Caliber is justice, and power is justice. There are many, many people in this world who pursue justice, especially the Japanese who are just opening their eyes to the world. Although these islanders always have problems with the big picture and always do strange things strategically, they have an incomparable passion for details.

What these Japanese people are best at is making dojos inside snails. Since the Handan regime had proved to the world that they were very justified in two wars, the Japanese had an attitude of learning and sent a large number of spies to China to carry out various espionage activities.

Except for being a little shorter and having a strange brain circuit, the Japanese are not much different from the Chinese. Therefore, they have a greater chance of obtaining classified information than their European and American counterparts, but it is only some peripheral technology that can be accessed by outsiders.

In the Black Dragon Society, which strictly implements the level of secrecy, if a person wants to be promoted, he must first pass the political review level. Those political workers really want to find out all the eighteen generations of your ancestors, not to mention the anti-anti-corruption committee, which looks like an anti-thief and a corrupt criminal.

The Japanese get the most such techniques as honeycomb coal, straw mat weaving, and cement formulations. Things such as batch production stimulation technology and data of the alloy industry are strictly confidential, not to mention entering the water's edge, even if you ask, someone will come to you to drink tea in the small black house.

The old guys of the Meiji Restoration are not dead yet, and the Japanese government is still acting very rational and reasonable. At present, Japan's steel production is only about 100,000 tons per year. This steel output is not even as good as that of the steel mill near Handan.

That's it, the Japanese are still ambitiously building their largest fleet in Asia, the sixth in the world. Therefore, their army can only put extra emphasis on spirituality. After not dying, it is because of how good Bushido is, but because Japan is really poor.

In addition to the large number of wandering samurai who lost their economic and political status during the Restoration, the poor proletariat is now the largest part of Japan. There is no doubt that Japan's decades of reform have not improved the living standards of the common people, except for creating a large number of wealthy people and conglomerates.

Like all imperialist countries of this era, Japan brutally exploited and oppressed the lower strata of the people, and tried by all means to take away the income of the common people who were barely satisfied.

Even before the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan had already reached the point where there was a revolution in the midst of a spark. Fortunately, there is an even more wasteful Daqing Kingdom on the side to bully it. After the seizure of North Korea, the newly acquired land and mines finally appeased the people of the country.

Those consortia also had new targets for exploitation, and the Japanese strata had a chance to breathe. They have not yet eaten up the dividends of the war, but anyone who understands knows that the small markets in Korea are not enough to satisfy the appetites of the growing big merchants in Japan.

Once the dividends of the war are eaten up and there is no new income, the flame that was previously suppressed will burn again. (To be continued.) )