Chapter 249: Great Change is Coming
[249] Great changes are coming
As one of the 200 scholars sent by King Li Xi of the Dynasty #Xian, Jin Shunchang is by no means the smartest one among them.
However, as the kind of person who is most receptive to new things, he received a great shock from the changes in China from the very beginning.
At Beijing Oriental University, the first lesson that Jin Shunchang and his fellow scholars learned was not to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but to Marxism and Yao Zaofan Thought.
The radical nature of these courses in politics was unimaginable, so much so that the inspectors sent by the #Xian side issued an outcry after the classes.
As one of the scholars who went to study in China this time, Jin Shunchang intuitively felt that there was a surging power in his mind, and this power may change his life.
Jin Shunchang did one thing, he persuaded a group of like-minded scholars close to him to join forces with Chinese officials to put pressure on the inspectors.
"A rich country and a strong army need to arm their minds first, and the Chinese professor also said that the students of the DPRK # Xian can study conditionally and selectively, in this case, Inspector Park, your opposition is to stand on the position of thieves who do not want to be strong in the DPRK #Xian Fuqiang! Do you want to be a thief? Think we're going to sit back and watch? ”
Chao # Xian Inspector was extremely angry, and brazenly demanded that Jin Shunchang and others be arrested and sent back to China in the office of Chao # Xian International Students at Dongfang University.
Instead of agreeing, the Chinese side arrested Chao # Xian Inspector that night at the behest of Yao Fan, on the grounds of inciting riots # chaos, and executed him early the next morning.
The next thing to wipe your ass was handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Chinese side highly appreciated the resistance of Kim Shunchang and other students to the school inspectors, calling it the revolutionary spirit, and began to visit Chinese factories with panicked Korean # fresh students, and after visiting the newly established textile factory, printing and dyeing factory, glass factory, brick factory, thermal power plant, and radio factory in Beijing, the students were greatly shocked.
Now every Korean #fresh student has a radio donated by the Chinese side, free batteries are distributed every month, and everyone also receives a rich living allowance provided by the Chinese side for free, such as shiny stainless steel pens, beautifully printed notebooks, exquisite workmanship and comfortable autumn clothes and trousers, shirts, coats and leather shoes.
In order to match the life in China, many international students cut off their long hair under the leadership of Kim Soon-chang and kept their revolutionary heads.
In the face of the strong protest of the representative of the king of the dynasty in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, in its capacity as the suzerain, severely reprimanded and demanded that the king of the dynasty #Xian, Li Xi, immediately reflect on himself and accept the package of the Chinese side to return to the vassal and return to the central government as soon as possible.
In addition to the panic of the DPRK #Xian, the country was in chaos, and the pro-China faction was also divided into two factions, one faction said that as long as there is no land reform, it will accept the reform demands of the Chinese side as much as possible. The other faction said that as long as it could maintain its status as a vassal state and the feudal rule of King Chao#Xian, and did not implement the return to China, it could accept a large amount of annual tribute from the Chinese side.
The other faction, which calls itself the founding faction and has the support of Japanese forces behind it, demands that the DPRK #Xian immediately open the country, implement a constitutional monarchy, take refuge in Japan and the European and American powers, and rely on external forces to confront China.
In the midst of the quarrel in the DPRK #Xian, China's pace of construction has not stopped for a moment.
With the mining of gold mines in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, which has the largest gold reserves in the country, and the continuous advancement of the campaign to liberate Annam, a large amount of gold transported from Annam and locally mined gold in Shandong were cast into gold bars, and a large amount of light industry was exchanged for a large number of light industries in the 21st century.
In close cooperation with the Russian government and the German company of America, China received good seeds of dairy cows, wheat and other crops from Europe, and American even brought from Brazil to China a clover rubber suitable for Chinese planting.
The first automobile factory, the first toy factory, the first textile factory, the first shoe factory, the first cement factory, the first watchmaking factory, the first boiler factory, the first instrument factory, the first electrolytic aluminum factory, the first electrolytic copper factory, the first wire factory, the first thermos flask factory, the first sugar factory, the first cigarette factory, the first soap factory, the first wire factory, the first refractory factory, the first abrasives factory, the first weighing instrument factory, the first bicycle factory, the first rubber factory, the first light bulb factory, The first fountain pen factory........................
The first five-year plan is almost all-encompassing, and these are the first factories in the country and even the world that are being built frantically, in addition to civil engineering, multimedia personnel training is also advancing rapidly.
But Yao Fan knows very well that except for a few projects, the rest are all light industry, and in the first few years after it was put into operation, many core materials need to be imported from the 21st century.
As for the production lines of these factories, in 1878 they could not be manufactured independently, and all of them had to be imported from the 21st century.
According to preliminary estimates, Yao Fan felt that it would take at least 20 years in 1878 to complete the construction of an independent industrial system built at the technological level in the mid-20th century.
But Yao Fan is still relatively content, twenty years later, even thirty years later, Huaxia will lead the world in many fields for 50 years, is there anything not satisfied?
And just a few years ago, the country was a hundred years behind the rest of the world.
Because China was pressing forward on the Annam front, Russia had also survived the cold winter on the Turkish battlefield, Britain and France were under great pressure to fight on two fronts, and Germany refused to join Britain and France in the war against Russia, so Britain had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield against Russia as soon as possible.
As soon as the cowardice of Britain and France in the Russo-Turkish war was revealed, it was immediately exploited by Russia.
After paying more than 100,000 casualties, Russia finally landed in Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turkish Sultan was forced to sign the Treaty of San Stefano with Russia, recognizing the autonomy of Bosnia and Montenegro in Ottoman Turkey, recognizing the independence of Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, recognizing Bulgaria's independence as a vassal state of Ottoman Turkey, and ceding to Russia the border areas obtained by the four Ottoman Turks in the previous Crimean War. At the same time, Russian warships were unconditionally allowed to pass through the Guò Bosphorus.
Such a humiliating treaty immediately shocked Britain and France, and Russia now had the right to enter the Mediterranean Sea from the Black Sea, so that it could expand the influence of the navy to North Africa, especially the Suez Canal, and even affect the interests of Italy, France and other countries bordering the Mediterranean.
Britain, in addition to being shocked, and under the coordination of German Chancellor Bismarck, prepared to negotiate with Russia to reduce the benefits of the San Stefano Treaty.
The bottom line for Britain was that at least the Russian Black Sea Fleet would not be allowed to enter the Mediterranean through the Bosphorus.