Chapter 8: That Night (Two) (《》)

As the Second Industrial Revolution deepened in major industrial countries, the productivity brought about by large-scale machine production increased explosively. In that era, were there too many trade unions and social security, resulting in a disconnect between production and consumption. In 1898, an unprecedented economic crisis first broke out from Russia and further spread to Central and Western Europe, and then affected the United States and even Asia.

Russia, which felt threatened in this economic crisis, accelerated its pace of conquering northern China and establishing Yellow Russia to pass on the crisis. Five years ago, when something happened in China, Russia first killed and expelled Chinese expatriates in the sea blue bubble, tested China's attitude, and even triggered a direct exchange of fire between the two armies. Finally, under international mediation, the Chinese expatriates left the country, and Russia compensated for property and life losses to the forefront.

The island countries also suffered heavy blows in this crisis. In order to get rid of the crisis, the island government imitated China's deficit fiscal and government orders to save industry and commerce, and almost all of these resources were put into combat preparations. The depressed island countries' industry and commerce seemed to have been given a shot of a heart-warming agent, and the island chaebols who tasted the sweetness were even more enthusiastic and enthusiastic inciting radical thoughts and promoting war against China.

In China, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a radical nationalist trend quietly emerged. As soon as the Hailan Bamboo crisis came out, the calls for war against Russia were rampant among the younger generation, chaebols and soldiers. At this moment, the island countries that had taken a breath were openly approaching Russia and preparing to ally with Russia to control China, which triggered an unprecedented wave of anti-Japanese war.

Driven by multiple factors, the Asian war finally came to the brink of outbreak step by step. The three countries have tightened their belts to prepare for war and have fallen into a fanatical military competition. The competition-style groundwater of 10,000 tons of warships, shipbuilding and military expansion plans are more radical than the other. Unconsciously, the finances of the three countries have been on the verge of dangerous warning line, and the unlimited military expansion has reached the critical point. The last thing left is to end all these efforts with a decisive war.

With the help of the actual alliance with Germany, Russia transferred a large number of troops originally stationed in the west to the east and organized three fronts, targeting China's Northeast, Mongolia and Xinjiang, respectively, and took a whale-eating position. Six Japanese standing divisions stationed in North Korea, and another six divisions were conducting special military exercises in Hokkaido, and most of them were later transferred to the west.

Faced with this threat, the Chinese army, which has always adhered to the elite military policy after the founding of the People's Republic of China to alleviate financial pressure, immediately returned to the forefront. Recently, in the name of voluntary recruitment, the military and naval forces have been secretly mobilized through grassroots organizations. The original brigade-level shelf troops were rapidly expanded into divisions, and the equipment and supplies were continuously replenished. The scale of the army and navy has almost doubled out of thin air!

Faced with the severe winter in the north, all three parties were sharpening their knives and waiting for the victory to be decided when spring blooms!

Zheng Yu looked at the seemingly true world map in front of him, looking at the familiar but very different Eastern countries on it, and watching the rooster being replaced by a huge maple leaf, it seemed as if he could see the turbulent storm of this time and space for decades, burning fire, cold steel jungle, and blood flowing.

What a magnificent era that would be!

Counting romantic figures, I still look at the present day.

In that era, his cheap adoptive father, Emperor Zheng Ying.

Zheng Yu had to admire this person.

Zheng Ying was said to have been sold abroad since childhood. After finishing her studies, she brought three trusted students to Annan to establish relationships with the local Chinese clans, gradually building her own family and armed forces, and then rose step by step, and finally won the title of China.

This person had a rare international vision in China at that time and had extraordinary awesome skills. When he was dormant in the Sanwuguan area in northern Annan, the warlord leader cleverly used the large-scale anti-Semitism wave in Europe at that time to help the Jews establish a country in Annan as bait, and then contacted the British and Indian authorities and even the British cabinet.

The British Prime Minister at that time, Disrael was a Jewish man and had close ties with Jewish families such as Rothschild. Through the matchmaking of these people, Zheng Ying's army successfully became the pawn of Britain's restraining French colonial expansion in the Indochina Peninsula.

In order to realize the dream of founding the country, the Jews provided huge financial support to Zheng Ying in the form of fundraising and long-term low-interest loans. This future emperor was by no means a good person. While using the Jews, he also established an interest alliance with the Chinese clans in Nanyang, especially the glory of defeating the French army twice, which made the overseas Chinese community in Nanyang, which was oppressed by Western colonial authorities rejoice, and almost rushed to join the camp of the Zhenguo Army.

Long before heading north to occupy half of the south of the Yangtze River, the Zhenguo Army had occupied the northern part of Annan, Shangliao and Xialiao (now Laos), the former sphere of influence (West Borneo), and the tentacles of the forces had already spread throughout the Nanyang region. The hero naturally married the daughter of the Li family in Java and tied the overseas Chinese community in the Nanyang army's chariot.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this man's actions were even more imaginative, but he was even more integrated.

In terms of political system, the emperor promoted constitutionalism with high profile, established two houses of parliament and cabinet, and combined with the traditional Chinese gentry autonomy to establish the local Senate; on the other hand, because a large number of parliamentarians were recommended by the emperor, and the Baath Party built by this person alone was the dominant family, and the power of the big bosses in power were all trusted, in fact, the real power of the country was still firmly controlled by this enlightened monarch.

In Zheng Yu's opinion, this is really a right medicine. With China's thousands of years of imperial autocracy tradition, more than 90% of them are purely illiterate, and the remaining so-called scholars read the Four Books and Five Classics, believe in the Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons, and the economic structure is almost completely natural economy. In such a country, democracy must be used to dictatorship in the guise of democracy. What's more terrible is that due to the lack of recognized supreme authority, this so-called democratic system will evolve into a naked political struggle or even civil war in China. The opposition in the audience will attack the rulings on the rulings on the rulings on the Taiwan authorities under the banner of democratic republic. In the end, the central authority of the country is completely destroyed, and all kinds of politicians and warlords attack each other with the signs of public opinion and even compete with force, dragging the country into a darker abyss.

Zheng Yu, who knew that this period of history, knew that rather than doing this, it would be better to establish absolute orthodox authority with the junxian and eliminate the covetousness of state power by the ambitious people. The country is currently in a period of economic, political and cultural transformation, and urgently needs to concentrate its efforts to catch up quickly, but it inevitably faces many resistances and constraints of traditional forces. At this stage, an enlightened ruler, with the cloak of a constitutional monarchy, practices the reality of an enlightened monarchy and authoritarianism, and promotes reform with authoritarianism, is the best choice for the country. History has a clear understanding, and successful later countries like Germany, such as the island country, are like this, and China, which is more backward, naturally has to be more autocratic. Zheng Yu thought that if this mysterious emperor, if he was not a time traveler, must have been inspired by Germany and Japan, at least he could be considered a person who opened his mind and focused on adapting to local conditions.

In terms of economy, he expanded the new policy in the South to the whole country, vigorously built railways, renovated the original road system, improved municipalities, built postal and new highways; established a central fiscal system, imitated the Bank of England to establish the Imperial Central Bank, recycled gold and silver to issue paper money; created a modern national fiscal budget system, established statistical institutions, and improved the treasury bond issuance system; in addition, with state-owned and royal-owned banks as the backbone, private banks were encouraged to establish banks, established a bank network throughout the country, absorbed social surplus wealth, and used financial leverage to adjust funds to invest in the industrial and commercial industries.

On the rural issue, he abolished the agricultural tax, restricted the highest rent, formed a farmer's association with veterans as the core, established a rural credit cooperative, banned traditional rural usury and money, reduced the burden on farmers, and increased his prestige among the peasant class. The mutual checks and balances between the farmers' association and local gentry also ensured the relative stability of rural order.

In terms of taxation, he hired tax experts from Britain and the United States to jointly formulate a very distinctive modern tax system. The traditional likin card was abolished and changed to unified taxation in the consumption and production links to promote commodity circulation. In addition, through traditional relations with the United Kingdom, part of the tariff sovereignty was reclaimed, protection of domestic industry and commerce was strengthened, and export subsidy policies were adopted to quickly accumulate foreign exchange, ensure the stability of the national currency, and ensure the import of crucial machines, technology and precision semi-finished products in the industrialization process.

In terms of education, as early as the Nanyang Zongli Yamen period, this person began to implement three-year compulsory education, and built tuition-free normal schools, middle schools and universities. While literacy and instilling national concepts, he focused on cultivating elite talents. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this system was further promoted to the whole country, especially after adopting the tax-sharing system of central and local governments, the local government had abundant financial resources, and China has always respected teachers and respected the way. Running schools is an elegant thing to keep their name in the local history. A climax of school management emerged in the country. Primary primary schools have already followed the military camps to the frontier, and some wealthy provinces have even begun to implement six-year compulsory education.

In terms of culture, since the era of Zhenguo Army, Zheng Ying vigorously introduced Western learning and promoted Europeanization. However, after establishing an empire, this man in turn promoted nationalization, vigorously advocated nationalism, and even took the lead in worshiping Emperor Huang, proposed the seven virtues of the empire of loyalty, courage, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, and improved clothing. For a time, the domestic situation changed, European style, American rain and Chinese traditional culture blended with each other, and each had a flag bearer and loyalty. He scolded him from time to time in the newspaper, and I said you were an English and American slave, and you called me a corrupt scholar, and it became a landscape.

Of course, there will be advantages and disadvantages when it comes to the rise. Although there are many banners, royal assets and "protecting the Party" in the 18894-1895, the funds of the terrorist expenses have accumulated, and the country has already built a heavy deficit due to high debts.
Chapter completed!