Chapter 679: The Impact of Sino-British Relations
"Your Majesty, the British have raised the export tax rate on Indian cotton, and in the past two months, China's cotton imports have dropped by 12%, the domestic cotton production cost has increased by 3%, the cotton price has increased by 5%, and the price of cloth has fluctuated." zn nautical miles, Zhang Shouyan said to Liu Xianjin. And that's just one of the consequences of the Sino-British confrontation!
The stalemate between China and Britain has been close to three months, and it has snowed twice in Beijing, and it looks like it is about to end the year. This is the time of year when China's average expenditure is the highest, and it seems that the price of cloth has finally increased once after more than a decade of continuous price reduction. And it's a significant increase.
Liu Xian doesn't think that the price of cloth is still likely to be suppressed. Until the cotton planting industry in Xinjiang and Central Asia is on a large scale, and until the domestic demand for cotton can be satisfied, the recovery of cloth prices will be difficult to suppress.
"It's just a piece of cloth." Liu Xian waved his hand. Britain has raised export tax rates, and China has also raised tariffs on raw silk and tea. Liu Xian has decided to bring China to the big ship of 'trade protectionism'. I am also ready to bear the price!
China has truly embarked on the road of challenging Britain's world and hegemony! Although it is only the Far East that is being leveraged now, although China has become Germany's 'pathfinder', Liu Xian does not regret it!
Since the British are so tough, let's wait for India to stir up the mess too!
Liu Xian had already ordered the Military Intelligence Bureau to recruit and contact anti-British Indians and organizations in southern Tibet, and although this number was only a drop in the bucket compared to the huge population base in India, it was still possible to engage in terror, terror, and attacks to disrupt the British ruling order in India.
India now does have a lot of importance for Liu Xian: first of all, it provides a huge amount of money to the British Empire every year. India is a vast consumer market; Second, it is the second largest tea producer in the world after China. Although there is a single variety of tea in India. Black tea accounts for more than 95% of production, but Europeans drink black tea. Green tea is only popular in China, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam. Indian tea has become the biggest competitor of Chinese tea in the world over the years;
Now that China and Britain are at loggerheads, Britain's tea imports from China will inevitably be greatly reduced. There is also the United States, which may also introduce Indian tea in large quantities. Coupled with Russia, which has long been cut off, it is certain that China's tea exports will suffer a heavy blow in the coming year. How could Liu Xian have no reason to disturb the social order in India?
Siam's 'cool season' is coming to an end, the heat is coming, but it is not yet the rainy season, large-scale offensive warfare is still going on, the armies of Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Champasak and Nguyen Dynasty have launched a siege on Siam, and the British warships have been hovering along the coast of Phnom Penh and Nguyen Dynasty for a long time as a threat. They also sent envoys demanding that these countries immediately withdraw their troops and withdraw from the Siamese border, but all of them were vetoed by the countries. The current Bangkok dynasty has lost half of its country, and Chulalongkorn is about to become a rampant.
Liu Xian waited for the Taiping army to come to Malaya, and then it would be time to see if the British would continue to be hard!
"Your Majesty, the queen has returned to the palace." After dealing with government affairs, Liu Xian lay on the chair and closed his eyes to meditate, filtering over and over again the troubles that the country will encounter next year. The attendant came in to report, and Liu Xian remembered. My wife in the main house is 'setting up a banquet and playing' in the imperial garden today. Invite the lady of Manjing!
The whole capital knows what it's for. Is there a hairy thing to see in the imperial garden in winter? Even though the garden is truly excellent, the verdant pines, cypresses, and bamboos in the garden are dotted with rocks, and the garden is evergreen all year round, and it is a unique sight even now when the snow is just clear. But the cold weather is not a good time to 'play'. The queen mother, this is for the crown prince to see the princess!
Liu Xian has already drawn up several children, and the queen needs to take a look for herself. At the same time, there were also the concubines who had sons in the queen and the palace, and they were only one or two years younger than the prince. After the prince's wedding, their happy event is also about to be put on the table.
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Look at Myanmar again. Ming Zhuang, who returned to his base, looked proud. This time he got a hundred revolvers from Yuan Shikai, which were small, lightweight, and easy to hide. The caliber is 11.43mm, which is very large, and the large one ensures that it can kill with one hit. During the demonstration, the accompanying Wehrmacht instructor directly grabbed a gun and fired a shot at a wild boar, and the bullet made a deep hole in the boar's back. The wild boar was killed on the spot!
This is the power of a large-caliber revolver! If combined with the air tip and bullets, although the armor-piercing ability is weaker, the accuracy distance is very short, and the flight stability is poor, but the power is extremely great. At the same time, the empty tip、Bullet is not a special bullet that is difficult to do、Bullet! Anyway, this power is not inferior to Damu and bullets.
All the generals of the anti-British army and Ming Zhuang's son who did not follow Ming Zhuang to Laron were stunned. Before they could retract their eyes, the instructor took out a double-barreled hunting gun and shot it at the carcass of the wild boar twice in a row, knocking the entire wild boar's skin and flesh into a thousand holes.
Bright and strong, very proud. This kind of double-barreled shotgun, which can hit iron sand, seems to him to be better than regular and regular steps and guns. Because the requirements for using it, training, training, shooting, and hand are very low, and with a little training and practice, you can pull it to war. This kind of hunting and gun has very low requirements for shooting, attacking, and level, and the iron sand covers a large area, which is very suitable for the kind of combat needs of fighting close-range ambush warfare as the instructor said.
Finally, he walked to a steel barrel that was obliquely erected, and without the instructor of the Wehrmacht to speak, he personally introduced: "This is a flying thunder and a cannon, also known as a cannon without conscience and a heart." It is powerful and is guaranteed to kill everyone within a 20-meter radius. Unless it is a permanent fortification made of cement and steel, it can be solved with one shot. After the introduction, Ming Zhuang summoned the generals and soldiers of the whole army, and asked the Wehrmacht instructors to operate and fire the guns in front of everyone. Only a loud bang was heard, and the explosives, medicines, and packets flew to a distance of two or three hundred meters at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then a shocking noise broke out, and when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the grass, stems and vines within a radius of twenty or thirty meters from the explosion and explosion point were all gone, the soil was turned up, and a deep crater appeared on the ground.
Ming Zhuang looked at all the generals and soldiers under his command and was directly dumbfounded, and laughed happily again. The Flying Thunder Cannon is so powerful! There is no life or death if a cannon goes down, otherwise how could the kingdom and the army call it a conscienceless cannon.
"Sure enough, it's a flying thunder!" Ming Zhuang's son clapped his hands and shouted, "I don't have a good conscience, what conscience do you need to deal with the British!" ”
"Commit this murder to protect the country and the law. The Buddha will forgive us too! ”
His son's words made Ming Zhuang smile more comfortably. "Spread the king's orders, and from this day onwards train the troops, and obey the teachings of the instructors. Strive to skillfully use all kinds of weapons in the shortest possible time and form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time. Then go and fight the British who have invaded the territory of Burma! ”
The sooner you start attacking, the sooner you can earn points. And points are weapons, ammunition, medicines and food, and the source of their own development and growth. Ming Zhuang is already impatient!
"Our team will grow very quickly. We'll have 20,000, 50,000, 100,000 people, all armed with new rifles and cannons, with enough ammunition, with endless food and medicine. We want to drive the British out of Upper and Lower Burma once and for all. Restore the glory of my Gongbang Dynasty to the past! ”
The Gongbang Dynasty, which originated in Ripple, once dominated the Indochina Peninsula, and repelled the Chinese army four times, attacked Ayutthaya, the capital of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and finally occupied it, although it did not have it for a long time, and was completely expelled from Siam by Zheng Xin [the nominal founder of the Bangkok Dynasty, in fact, the current Siamese royal family was rebelled and usurped by Zheng Xin's generals] completely expelled from Siam territory, and also invaded Shan State and the Kingdom of Laos, and also attacked the Kingdom of Manipur in India, which eventually triggered the Qing-Burma War. Repelled the attacks of the Qing army four times before and after, although the national strength declined, it also made the Gongbang Dynasty proud.
During the reign of the sixth king, Meng Yun, the Gongbang dynasty was still in its golden age. But just five years later, under the reign of King Mengji, the British Governor of the East Indies Amestad launched the first war of aggression against Burma in 1824, and the Gongbang Dynasty suddenly fell from the golden age to the gray iron age.
Five years ago, Myanmar dominated the Indochina Peninsula, and five years later it collapsed. He lost Lower Burma in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 and was completely destroyed in the Third Anglo-Burmese War that ended last year.
Prince Ming Zhuang will not forget the glory of the glorious days of the Gongbang Dynasty, and he will remember the shame of the decline of the dynasty more firmly in his heart. Whenever he has the opportunity and possibility, he will repay the British with the most ruthless and vicious means!
So it was a difficult time before, and Ming Zhuang was indifferent to the surrender of the British with superior conditions, and it was because of this. Now the appearance of China has given him the opportunity to fulfill his wishes, and in the dark night he saw a white light, Ming Zhuang completely forgot the words he had told his son before he went to Lajon, and now he is grateful to China for a hundred and ten thousand!
Soon, twenty generals and young officers of the anti-British army were sent to the Lashio Military School by Ming Zhuang. This included his four sons, all of whom were sent over, and none of them were kept.
In times of complete despair, giving people a glimmer of hope, the gratitude and loyalty that will be won are so great!
For Ming Zhuang at that time, life could be abandoned, and there was nothing that could not be given up. As long as he can take revenge on the British, against the British who destroyed Burma and his homeland, Ming Zhuang can give everything!
Because no matter how bad it is, it's at best like it is now.
Liu Xian also waited for the good news from Myanmar, he felt that those weapons were completely things that could be used as soon as they were taught, and there would definitely be good news coming from Myanmar soon. As a result, another battle in Siam caught his eye first......
ps: Cut two or three hundred words. I don't know where there are illegal keywords.,I wasted two hours.,Tried more than 20 times.,It's still fucking contained.,It's really crazy!
Kouhu, kouhu, kouhu........................ (To be continued......)