In the warm room, Richard waved his hand, and the court ladies quietly retreated, their steps as light as cats.

Immersed in the couch, Richard flipped through the newspaper in his hand, his eyes drawn to the news reported by a French newspaper;

According to the Anglican newspaper Paris;

New Year's Eon

In order to strengthen the traditional friendly relations with the Ottoman Empire, enhance mutual understanding and trade, and strengthen political, military and cultural exchanges, the French Emperor Napoleon III Louis Bonaparte sent the Marquis of Lavaletti as a special envoy to Constantinople for a meaningful journey of harmony......

Richard slowly put down the newspaper in his hand, and his deep eyes flashed with a complicated expression, and he saw the great crisis facing Europe from this seemingly simple news of his visit to the outside world.

Napoleon III did his job, and his aim was to provoke a "dispute over the Holy Land" and stimulate the sensitive nerves of the Russian woolly bear, thereby creating a widespread European crisis.

The French envoy, the Marquis de la Valati, went to Constantinople ostensibly for the sake of good-neighborly and friendly exchanges between the two countries, but secretly demanded that the Ottoman Empire explicitly recognize France's right to protect most of the churches in the Holy Land, and did not hesitate to threaten with force.

The Ottoman Empire hesitated on the issue of the "Holy Land of Jerusalem", and neither France nor Russia could afford to offend anyone.

The Marquis de Lavaletti will reaffirm the centuries-old privilege of being the "defender of the Holy Land" granted by France, and threaten to use force, an honor that now belongs to the Tsar.

If you think about it on your toes, how could the Russian Tsar, who had always been arrogant, endure such humiliation?

Russia does not share a border with France, and the Russian tsar has no way to directly seek revenge from the French, so this evil breath will naturally spread on the Ottoman Empire.

The Russians have always coveted the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and there have been 8 Russo-Turkish wars between the two sides, and one more will be nothing.

Now that the war excuse has been delivered, what is the Russian woolly bear hesitating?

At the end of 1815, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria signed the Treaty of the Quadruple Alliance to prevent France from posing another threat to Europe, which became a heavy shackle around France's neck, and from then on it could only dance in shackles.

Once war breaks out, the Holy Alliance will naturally collapse.

The internal logic is simple;

Out of the need to safeguard the interests of global hegemony, Britain must not allow Russia to swallow a large amount of territory of the Ottoman Empire and extend its black hand to the Black Sea and the warm Mediterranean coast, which is also the common demand of the great powers of Western Europe.

In their bones, Britain, France, Prussia and the countries of Europe never regarded Russia as their own, but as a barbarian race from the East, greedy and unfillable, a huge destructive force, with an extremely vigilant and defensive attitude.

Once Tsarist Russia sent troops to the Ottoman Empire and a war broke out between the two sides, Britain would inevitably come to the aid of the Ottoman Empire, and it was possible to drag Prussia and other countries into the water, including France.

In this way, no matter who wins or loses this war in the end, France will be the big winner in the end.

Wouldn't it be wonderful that the Holy Alliance against France naturally collapsed, and Napoleon III of France was relieved of his heavy shackles, so that he could henceforth show his strength in Europe and the world?

The displacement of tens of millions of people and the loss of lives caused by the war, and the death of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the war, were completely out of the consideration of Emperor Napoleon III.

The suffering of ordinary people, can it still be counted?

Richard stood up, his thoughts were surging, and he paced to the window and looked out, and the Sunshine City in front of him was lined with buildings, high and low, and the roofs were all covered with thick snow, showing a beautiful snow scene in the north.

Pushing open the window, the heavy chill and the cold wind rushed towards the face, which made people feel refreshed from the body to the heart, and the mind was clearer.

The arrogance and ruthlessness of the ruling class of the feudal kingdoms of Europe have a long history, and the cold-blooded deviation from the common people has been proven countless times in centuries of European history.

Far from it

Just as Emperor Napoleon III did, he deliberately provoked a war of mass destruction in Europe for his own selfish interests.

The Great Famine in Ireland is now in its fifth year, and the population of Ireland under British rule has plummeted by a quarter, a cold figure that includes more than a million Irish people who emigrated to the famine in addition to starvation and disease.

In 1848 alone, 37,700 Irish emigrated to the Tang Kingdom, making them the main component of white immigration.

Richard had spent £17,000 on two ships of grain to send to Ireland, only to be ordered to unload the goods at Scottish ports, and only God knows whether the grain would eventually reach the victims of the Irish disaster.

The cold-bloodedness of the British royal family is chilling to the bone, but this is a private matter of the family, and Richard knows that the wisest thing to do is to keep his mouth shut, turn a blind eye, and listen to it.

Countries such as Britain and France are not alone, and if you look at what other European countries have done, you will find that this is a common phenomenon.

The bloody repression and massacres of the Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians in the territory of the Ottoman Empire, the brutal exploitation of the feudal serfs by the Tsarist Empire, the iron-fisted suppression of the Balkans and the Hungarian uprising by the Austro-Hungarian army......

Richard took a deep breath of cold air, and let go of his complicated thoughts, not thinking about the mess in Europe, but concentrating on the situation in North America.

In the foreseeable next 3~5 years, the Tang Kingdom will usher in a rare period of peaceful development, the chaotic Mexico is unable to look north, and the anxious US government has no time to go west.

The Tang Kingdom must seize this period of peaceful development, further increase the scale and pace of immigration, make every effort to develop the industrial and agricultural economy, consolidate the kingdom's heritage, and realize the comprehensive development of industrial and agricultural industries.

The current economic structure of the Tang Kingdom is not healthy, and two-thirds of the total economic output comes from the mining industry, especially the gold panning in the American River, which accounts for almost half of the national economic output.

no doubt

Gold will run out one day, and that is not far off, in two or three years.

Today, the American River gold panning industry has entered the second stage, and it is difficult for ordinary gold diggers to find large pieces of easy-to-wash golden sand near rivers and on river beaches, and the dream of getting rich overnight is gradually fading.

Gold rush at this stage

Most of them have to use equipment such as panning tanks in order to obtain considerable income, and the simplest gold panning plate is hard for a day, that is, the income of thirty or forty yuan.

Not too little, not too much.

Compared with the myth of being able to reap one or two hundred yuan a day in the early days of gold panning, and even getting rich overnight, it is much inferior.

From the perspective of the kingdom, there is an urgent need to find an alternative industry comparable to the gold panning industry to maintain the overall economic output of the Tang Kingdom, so as not to have a wide range of fluctuations and affect the income level of the general public.

Now

As the wave of Chinese immigration grew, vast tracts of barren land were reclaimed, and countless farms, pastures, and plantations sprung up across the kingdom's borders, throughout the 14 provinces and along the coast and along the railways.

The output of agriculture and animal husbandry is growing rapidly every month, the characteristics of the Chinese people who are industrious and thrifty have been greatly exerted, and the supply of poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, cattle and sheep on the market is becoming more and more abundant, and the melons, fruits and vegetables are dazzling.

The industrial development of the kingdom has also been gratifying, with 5 steel mills, 11 cement factories, hundreds of timber mills and brick kilns, hundreds of various food processing factories, and thousands of handicraft workshops.

Next

First of all, the kingdom plans to import two more sets of copper ore screening and smelting equipment, focusing on increasing the mining and smelting production capacity of the Morenzi copper mine, increasing its annual output from less than 10,000 tons to 20,000 tons/year, and cultivating it into a pillar industry of the national economy.

Second, the Tang Kingdom will focus on the development of cotton plantation economy, in the east and south of New Mexico, there are large tracts of land suitable for growing cotton, which is an important industry that can support the entire national economy, and must focus on investment and development.

At present, the pillar industry of Britain is the cotton textile industry, which imports a large amount of cotton from the southern part of the United States and processes it into cheap woven cloth through advanced textile machinery, which sells well in Europe and the world.

The overall population of the Tang Kingdom is not large, even if the development of the cotton textile industry is far from enough in front of the world's textile giants like the United Kingdom, and it will not affect anything.

The third is the weapons industry, shipbuilding and steel industry and other heavy industries, due to the needs of immigration and trade, the Tang Kingdom has always had a strong demand for shipbuilding and steel industry, which is an industry worthy of focus development.

The weapons industry is a new business card of the Tang Kingdom, especially led by the Colt Weapons Company, behind which there are hundreds of sword workshops and gunsmith workshops, and the exquisite weapons produced are meticulous in every field, forming an increasing influence.

For example, precision rifles focused on hunting, with rifling drawn in ordinary flintlock muskets, lengthened barrels, and special bullets used to achieve excellent shooting performance at longer distances and more accurately.

In the Phoenix City and Taoyuan City of the Tang Kingdom, there are several gun-making workshops that are known for producing precision rifles, opening up the market with customization and professionalism, and many officers who like hunting are proud to have a precision rifle engraved with the name of a famous gunsmith, and the business is so good that it is booming.

Among the hunting rifles, there is also a high-powered rifle or double-barreled shotgun, which can take down large wild animals such as buffalo, North American brown bear, and North American elk with one shot, which is extremely powerful and also requires a special gunsmith's workshop to build.

For example, cold weapons such as swords, Chinese swords, Damascus scimitars, Italian cross swords, cane swords, Fusang katanas, etc., in these subdivisions, many well-known workshops have emerged in the Tang Kingdom.

In the martial social atmosphere, business is generally very good.

Social development has its own laws, and as long as there is a need in the market, supply will naturally be generated to fill the gaps and needs in the market, and the arms industry will gradually develop and gradually flourish.

Relying on the relatively developed shipbuilding and steel industry in North America, the future economic development of the Tang Kingdom will focus on foreign trade, and the vast colonies and circle of friends of Britain are huge markets that have not yet been explored.

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