Chapter 352: Alaska and Mexico
The real animal protection, Zhu Fugui is also working hard.
For example, the North American passenger pigeons that are about to be eaten up by the Yankees, Daming has already opened up several protectorates for them.
This bird is very migratory in flight, and it is difficult to survive and reproduce in captivity, so it can only be carried out in the way of habitat protection.
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty now has fewer people and more rotten land, so it is not too extravagant to set aside a few pieces as a nature reserve and send a small group of nursery staff to patrol with guns.
After all, these nature reserves can be used for tourism development and cultural value in the future.
For example, Huangshi Park, which is not far from Fengdu, has now been connected to the large railway network, and many Fengdu citizens choose to go there for vacation......
Although there are not many more than 30 days of vacation a year, you can still have time for the whole family to spend if you squeeze it.
When the population increases in the future, Zhu Fugui will also appropriately increase the vacation time of citizen workers.
All in all, the Ming Dynasty, which sits on the vast wilderness of the Midwestern part of North America, is really much larger than the extravagant space of China in later generations.
But when it comes to land, no one is afraid of having a lot of land.
The day after Zhu Fugui sent Lao Li away, Zhu Fugui received information that the Russian Empire officially took the initiative to terminate negotiations with the Washington government on the sale of Alaska.
This is a deviation from the original history.
In the original historical line, Tsarist Russia was to sell Alaska to the United States of America in 1867, that is, next year.
Alaska covers an area of 1.7 million square kilometers, which is 200,000 square kilometers larger than the entire "chicken head" of Heijiliao + the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.
Although this is also a rotten land, as long as it is big enough, it is also very fragrant.
Historically, Americans have paid only $7 million plus $200,000 in fees to buy the 1.7 million square kilometers, and the average acre of land is worth only two cents.
$7,000,000 is just the price of 3 medium ironclad battleships, or 1.5 main ironclad battleships.
Although it can't be said to be a small amount of money, it is indeed better than nothing compared to a country's political income.
The reason why Tsarist Russia sold Alaska so cheaply is actually the same as my Qing Dynasty, and it is also a routine of inviting foreigners to guard the country.
Even Zhu Fugui felt that the Russians in 1867 were inspired by the genius of the Qing Dynasty in 1860, so they came up with a way to sell Alaska to the Americans and let the Americans block the British and French attack on Siberia.
Of course, in the end, Tsarist Siberia did preserve.
But whether this is the credit of the Americans, or the ghost weather in the polar regions, is unknown.
No matter how unreliable the calculations of the Russians were before, but in this time and space, the Russians obviously have no intention of resisting Britain even with the United States.
It's not that they don't want to connect, it's just that the Americans look like pills, and they really can't count on it.
And even if the Russians want to sell, the Americans will not buy it.
Even if they could not afford it, they did not dare to offend Britain and France.
Recently, the southern government has relied on Zhu Fugui's low-interest loan of 3 million yuan to barely survive.
The two northern governments were generously financed by the French.
After all, it is usury imperialism, and the interest rate is much higher than that of Daming, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the poison of the devil.
At present, whether it is Washington or New York, the tax rate has reached an outrageous height.
But even then, their fiscal revenues can only cover 14% of their expenditures.
According to Julie's calculations, the combined debt of the two states may have exceeded $4 billion.
And the annual financial income of the two gangs will not exceed 400 million.
The debt ratio has exceeded a staggering ten times.
You know, now is the era of the gold and silver standard, and it is not his Fed that can solve the problem by printing money.
In the end, either the two states completely ignore the so-called "spirit of contract" and default on the French by force, or they will go bankrupt completely, and a large number of high-quality assets will be harvested by the French.
It can be said that the Americans of this life have finally lived like Argentina.
Zhu Fugui has already written "América Don't Cry for Me", and is waiting for the release of the vinyl album.
When the time comes, countless American capitalists and middle-class people will listen to melodious songs and free fall from the balcony one by one in an upside-down posture......
In short, in the American Civil War, the French chicken may become the biggest winner.
This is also the reason why Zhu Fugui's milk jokes are quickly popular in the two northern states.
In contrast, the Ming Dynasty, as a creditor country in the southern states, is much more moderate, but it is just a small right to extraterritoriality, and the soldiers can let a cult town disappear at will according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Zhu Fugui's 3 million and Faji's 4 billion are not of the same order of magnitude, although the latter is also rolled up with compound interest, but the principal is far from being supported by Daming.
At present, the global capital market is expecting the debt default of the two northern states of the United States to be higher and higher, so the financial valuation of the US debt has also dived.
Julie suggested that Zhu Fugui buy some U.S. bonds through the black market, maybe he could exchange for some mines and factories at that time.
It's risky, but it's worth the risk.
However, Zhu Fugui rejected this opinion.
In the financial sector, Zhu Fugui thinks that she is not Julie's opponent, but in terms of "the art of trading", this little girl is not as good as herself.
The White Hound has now begun to land in Europe, although it has not yet established an effective intelligence network, and can only be responsible for sending back the official newspaper as soon as possible, and cannot obtain top-secret information.
But newspapers are enough.
With the perspective of God in later generations, combined with the newspapers in Paris, Zhu Fugui can almost guess France's next move.
His Majesty Napoleon III, an old friend of the Ming Dynasty, was a man who could not be idle.
Historically, he has been committed to usury and warfare.
In hindsight, the most important place for France to use force now is of course its eastern neighbor, the German Confederation, which has just completed the initial unification.
Historically, however, it was clear that the three brothers had underestimated the potential of the German Confederation, and thought that Austria could easily deal with these North Germans as it had done in the past.
So he didn't intervene too much in German affairs, but set his sights on Mexico.
The French invasion of Mexico was not unexpected.
What are the front-page headlines in Parisian newspapers lately?
Did Bismarck make some iron-clad speech again?
Was it the Suez Canal that killed tens of thousands of Egyptian slave laborers?
Neither!
There are only two things that go with the front page headlines in Paris: fashion and banknotes!
Oh, and perhaps add the monsters of Corsica, the unspeakable cannibals, the dastardly thieves, and the Emperor of the Supreme Majesty.
In short, the front page of the newspaper in the early days was basically the news of Richmond Fashion Week.
The citizens of Paris protested against the incompetence of Napoleon III, and Napoleon III's wife did not know the art as well as his uncle's!
You know, although Napoleon I's wife took advantage of his march into Egypt to cuckold him madly, and also found three strong men to have a shameful party, but she is a great beauty in Paris!
What bad intentions can a beauty have?
But the wives of the three emperors are different.
An ugly Scotsman.
It is precisely because of this ugly Scottish woman that we have lowered the taste of Paris, and even eclipsed Paris in front of Richmond Fashion Week.
In short, in May and June, a considerable number of newspapers criticized the couple for Nasan.
But in July and August, the wind in the newspapers changed.
On July 17, 1866, Mexican President Benito Juárez announced that he would stop paying interest on loans to foreign countries, a statement that angered all Parisians, or indeed all French.
Although not yet as 18 percent of the population as it was in its heyday was associated with foreign usury, Mexico's declaration of default is undoubtedly the most serious provocation to France.
The stock exchange of the Paris Stock Exchange has stirred the nerves of every Frenchman.
Of course, it was not only the French who suffered from Mexico's default, but also the British and Spaniards.
But the losses of the French were undoubtedly the greatest.
Zhu Fugui estimated that the time for France to send troops was probably not far away.
said that he would organize Julie's acquisition of the US debt from the French.
This kind of thing, even if it is 1 Ming yuan for a $100 bond, it is a blood loss.
At the negotiation table of the war, this kind of bond was collected as straw paper with the mentality of pitiful Hanako.
Zhu Fugui believes that that day should not be too far away.
Shaking his head, Zhu Fugui improvised eight French jokes, wrote them in a small book, and turned around and asked the young man from the Voice of Daming to broadcast them.
The young man named Xia Jiang has a Fujian flavor in his southern English, which is especially suitable for telling milk jokes.
Besides......
Zhu Fugui thought about it, and in the spirit of having dates and no dates, he called Ito Hirofumi: "Ito Huangmen, you wrote a letter to Comrade Alexander II Nikolayevich, Tsar of Russia, on behalf of me......"
Zhu Fugui was stunned.
Did I just say comrade?
It's really strange, I don't know why when I talk about something, I always unconsciously add the word comrade.
The timeline of this world has changed, and there should be no Red Russia.
And the comradeship between himself and him as emperors and imperialist dictatorial monarchs seems to be true.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"
Hirofumi Ito woke up Zhu Fugui, who was distracted.
Zhu Fugui shook his head, didn't think about these strange things, and continued to instruct, "Anyway, you help me ask the Russians if they are willing to sell Alaska to Daming." ”
"Tell Comrade Nikolayevich that our Daming is very sincere, and I hope that they will behave themselves and not let down the ardent expectations of the people of the two countries for peace."
As he spoke, Zhu Fugui stretched his waist, and Ito Hirofumi bowed and hurriedly retreated.
Needless to say, Ito's writing doesn't have to worry about Zhu Fugui at all.
As for writing a letter to intimidate the Russian humanities, it can be regarded as Zhu Fugui's temporary intention.
However, it is naturally best for Russians to be willing to communicate with the big light and dark, and they are unwilling to be with Zhu Fugui.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet been repaired, it is extremely difficult for Tsarist Russia to project military forces in the Far East, and the military losses are extremely serious, the Ming Dynasty naturally wants to take the lead in fighting against Russia and recover the vast territory of our yellow race.
Anyway, who is not fighting, in this era, Tsarist Russia can't even beat my Qing Dynasty in the Far East, and when the Ming Dynasty goes crazy, it is also excellent to press these two false giants to the ground and beat them together.
The only thing Zhu Fugui is worried about is the attitude of the British.
I hope that the German barbarians on the Elbe River will be able to share a little pressure for the Ming Dynasty......