Two Song Alliance
Chapter 1500:Two Song Alliance
In North Africa, the Great Egyptian Empire, which regarded the European continent, also developed from a United States (the United States of Sinai).However, because the Komening dynasty and the followers of the dynasty, which ruled the Egyptian Empire, were actually foreigners, faced many challenges in North Africa, they had to gradually strengthen the monarch's power.
Moreover, the "Romans" who had been migrating to Egypt from Greece and Constantinople also dreamed of having a powerful empire, so they could tolerate the power of the Cominian dynasty.
As for the local Copts, Saracens, and Berbers in North Africa, they were more tolerant of power than the outside Romans.
It should be noted that the Copts, Saracens, and Berbers of North Africa did not agree in their attitudes in the face of the “Conquest of the Cominnings.”They did not rebel against the Komenin dynasty as a united people of the Great Eater.The Copts regarded the Komenin dynasty as liberators and welcomed their arrival.The Saracens did not firmly defend the rule of the Fatimids, because the caliphate had long since died.Before the Cominn dynasty conquered Egypt, the Mamluks who ruled Egypt were actually from the steppe of Chincha.Only the Berber Murabits and Almohads resisted the Cominn dynasty.
However, in the face of the Egyptian Komenin dynasty, which was able to continuously profit from the East-West trade and could obtain advanced weapons produced by the Eastern Song and the northern weeks, the Berber resistance eventually failed.
In the "Borber War" for more than 100 years, the centralization of the Cominian dynasty was significantly strengthened.
Thus, by the fourteenth century, Egypt was becoming more and more like an empire, perhaps more appropriate to call it the Third Roman Empire.
Moreover, because the Third Roman Empire had gained a lot in the colonial activities of Black Africa and Europe, the domestic contradictions were more relaxed, and the royal power was naturally very stable.
So Wu Yuankai's father paid a great price in order to make his son the emperor of Egypt.The long-term low-interest public debt of the Egyptian Empire alone bought more than 20 million (two are now also silver coins).Wu Yuankai himself also promised to invest in the Suez Canal project under preparation ... this investment will become the property of the Komening dynasty in the future.
In addition, the Republican Bank of Wu promised to invest in a railway linking Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt.
Railways are now a rarity, and only the Great Zhou Republic and the East Song Dynasty have lines for trial operation.If the railway is built in the next decade, Egypt will be the fifth country in the world to have a railway after the Great Week, the Eastern Song Dynasty, the United States of America, and the New Song Kingdom.
The Suez Canal is not stressed in terms of Egypt.
At such a high cost, the Wu family's figure is certainly not only to inject their own blood into the Egyptian royal family - the Egyptian queen is not worth so much money.
Because the queens of the Egyptian Empire were very strong, they were not their royals.Except for one who has the blood of the Wu family, but the eldest son or eldest daughter of the surname Komening, it seems difficult for the Wu family to get anything in return from Egypt.
The Western Song official Zhao was very familiar with the traditions of the Egyptian Empire and the Cominen Dynasty, but he also considered tucking his son Anna Princess.But the price of the Komening Dynasty was too high, and Xi Song could not afford it at all...
"Sire," Yue said, "as far as my courtiers know, the martial family has a great cost for this marriage!"Probably more than 50 million!”
"50 million!" said Zhao, taking a cold breath, "this is Zhou Guo ripping Egypt!"Do they want to go to war with the Gangnam Thieves?”
Although the "bride price" of 50 million yuan was taken out by the martial family, so a large amount of money went to Egypt, and it is clear that the national will of the Great Zhou Republic is at work!
So this is not an ordinary family, but the two countries are united in this way.
The purpose of the alliance between the Great Zhou Republic and Egypt was certainly aimed at the Eastern Song Dynasty.
Because there is no other country in the world worthy of the sunset of the Great Republic to do so.
Zhao Yan shook his head, “But they and Gangnam are allies for 200 years!”
"I don't know if your majesty has found it," Yue Xuan said, "since more than ten years ago, the bastion has been easily captured!"
“Yes!”Zhao nodded, "The moon of the Great Mongolia, that is, the great marshal (sons of the art of the son) did not know how many of our bastions were broken before ..."
The era of the invincible porch was not broken by the month of the Marshal of the Mongol Prince in the late period of the Great Mongolia War.The month of the Department of Art is not a high-quality student at the University of Light in Mughalburg, who is proficient in mathematics and architecture.After joining the Mongol army, he gradually grew into an expert in the construction and siege of the city.
He also wrote a book on the dead end of the bastion, which systematically summarized the weakness of the bastion defense and the method of breaking the bastion.
At the same time, advances in firearms technology have made the insurmountable bastions that were difficult to break into the early years increasingly fragile.
The emergence and ripe use of destructive weapons such as howitzers, moths, flowering shells and handguns (grenades), and the pits of the dead ends of the bastions have turned the bastion that originally had to pay a great price to occupy, and become the target of easier occupation.
In this case, the offensive and the field of decisive battle began to become the most effective way for military men to win the war.
Yue Xuan went on to say: "In addition, Gangnam thieves have always been loose and weak, their countries are dependent on trade, and their exchanges with Zhou countries are too close."Sen is worried that once the Jiangnan thieves are frustrated in the naval battle, the trade route is cut off, and it is likely that they will fall without war...”
The West Song and the Eastern Song have been fighting for more than 200 years, and they are naturally very well aware of the national conditions of the Eastern Song.Knowing that the weakness of the East Song country lies in its looseness and excessive dependence on trade.
The current world trading system is mostly under the control of the Zhou country.
Once Wu Yuankai became the husband and son-in-law of the Queen of Egypt, the Grand Week-Egyptian alliance would have full control of the world trading system.
In this way, the East Song Dynasty will become the fish meat on the cutting board of the Great Zhou Republic.
“Yeqing,” Zhao Yan’s eyebrows frowned, “isn’t that so?”Three cents of the world has been in the world for more than 200 years...it won’t suddenly be unified, right?”
"Sire, the reason why the world has been able to score three points for more than 200 years is because the three countries are evenly matched, and no one has the ability to defeat the other two countries."But today's three countries are almost equal, and Zhou's population and financial resources exceed the sum of our country and the Gangnam Thieves!Moreover, the firmness of the bastion has also become a thing of the past, and the three countries have a tendency to return to one.
If our country can't work hard, I am afraid that within 20 years, there will be a danger of destruction!"
“Enough to be strong?”Zhao’s eyebrows were more tightly frowned.
He grew up listening to all kinds of hard-fought stories, and then slowly grew old in all kinds of hard work.
But his big Song is undoubtedly a little weak...
Inadequate innate, the efforts of the day after tomorrow may not be able to make up!
“How to fight?”Zhao asked.
"The courtier thinks..." Yue Xuan thought, "can fight against the storm week, only the two Song alliance!"
The two-song alliance?“You want me and the Gangnam Thief Alliance?”
"Strictony," Yue preached, "now our country has only 60 million people, and Jiangnan has more than ten thousand people."Once Jiangnan enters the week, Zhou Guo will have nearly 30,000 people.With 60 million against thirty thousand... is there any reason for my great Song?”
After the bastion era, the current mode of war is a mature version of the queuing shot, that is, the period from the mid-18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, which is similar to another moment.
In this day and age, the number of people is fighting!
The premise, of course, is that the state has enough organizational capacity to use large numbers of people in war.
As a bourgeois republic, the organizational capacity of the Great Zhou Republic is not to be doubted.
If the Grand Republic were to amend the Citizenship Act, it would convert all civilians into citizens.Then the country's ability to mobilize will reach millions of millions of levels.
And the great republic, which had begun the industrial revolution, and at the same time had the wealth of the Americas, had enough capacity to arm an army of millions.
So once the big week into the state of war, the two Songs are unbearable, especially the East Song is also very dependent on sea trade and the bird manure provided by the big week.
Therefore, forming an alliance has become the only means of survival for the two Songs!
The same reason is also known in Jiangning, and now the emperor of the East Song Dynasty Zhao Hao is also discussing countermeasures with Prime Minister Wen Dao.
What gives them both headaches is not the marriage of Wu Yuankai and Princess Anna, but the supply of bird droppings.
"How can I?"Why not?It’s always been there, why didn’t it suddenly happen?Is it a question of price?The price is good to negotiate...it is not a big deal for the court to give a subsidy!”
Zhao Hao's face is full of anxiety, he is now facing the biggest crisis in the past 20 years - bird dung crisis!
The bird dropping output of the big week has always been a quota system, not everyone can buy it, but in accordance with the policy of Huaxia priority, only the East Song and the West Song are eligible to apply for purchase.
Of course, Xisong will not buy, because there is no money... Bird manure is not cheap, a thousand pounds of the unit of the price reached twenty-two silver.This is also the arrival price of Jiangnan Port, if you count the transit costs of Jingjiang, Han River, Sichuan River, Xiangjiang Sijiang and taxes that need to be paid along the way, as well as the profits of distributors in the West and Song Dynasty.A thousand pounds of bird droppings to the hands of farmers must be at least fifty-two.
And fifty-two silver in the lack of precious metals in the West Song, is a lot of money!
In the countryside of the Western Song Dynasty, in the ordinary year, a stone white rice is worth half a piece of silver coins, and 50 silver coins can buy 100 stone white rice.Moreover, the white rice that can be traded at the price of half a silver coin and stone accounts for only a very small part of the rice produced in the rural West Song Dynasty.
Most of the rice produced in rural Xisong is not imported into the market.They are either used to raise people, or to pay taxes, or to exchange them directly for handicrafts.
It can be said that most of the farmers in the Western Song Dynasty have never seen one or two silver coins issued by the Great Zhou Bank and the Great Song Bank (the East Song Central Bank) in their lives, and they have not even seen the silver used for circulation!
Therefore, the bird droppings and new agricultural tools used to increase agricultural production cannot be sold in Western Song...
However, these things are not a problem for the rich rural East Song Dynasty, and Jiangnan in the East Song has a large number of export products that can be exchanged for gold and silver, and there are also huge gold mines on the new Song continent.
Therefore, for more than 100 years, the East Song Dynasty court has been buying a large number of South American bird droppings and then selling them to farmers who farm at a low price.To ensure high food production and low prices.
At the same time, the farmers of the East Song Dynasty also have enough purchasing power to purchase bird droppings and advanced agricultural tools.
Because the current rural East Song Dynasty has long been not the way of small farmers' economy, but a kulak route dominated by dozens of acres of family farms.
According to the statistics of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the mainland of Dongsong has nearly 400 million mu of arable land.The East Song people engaged in agricultural production are only more than 10 million - the East Song has now entered the era of the industrial revolution, the urbanization rate has increased rapidly, and the proportion of the agricultural population is less than 50%.
That is to say, the average Dongsong farmer owns 40 acres of land, and most of them are paddy fields.
If a farmer owns all the paddy fields, and it is used to grow rice.According to the calculation of six stones in a season, 40 acres of paddy fields can harvest 240 stone rice, and 160-170 stones are also made of white rice.
The price of rice in East Song is high, and the purchase price of a stone white rice in the countryside is at least one half silver coin.160 stone white rice can sell at least 240 silver coins.Therefore, most farmers have enough financial resources to buy guano, grain and high-quality agricultural tools to increase their production.
By the way, this East Song imperialist agriculture looks very beautiful on the surface.The countryside is a comfortable pastoral style, there are not many renting and loan sharks of the big landowners, the poor middle-class farmers are almost extinct, most of them are a family of dozens of acres of rich farmers.Moreover, the agricultural tax is very low, and a kulak can earn 200 silver and silver when it is young and relaxed, and life is far more comfortable than the proletariat in the city.
But beneath the surface of the landscape, there is actually a crisis.
The crisis is that the kulaks in the East Song Dynasty are “too lazy” and rely too much on good seeds, bird droppings and high-quality agricultural tools, as well as irrigation facilities.For the slopes that can't be irrigated, there is basically no one to cultivate - what is the reason for the cultivation?How tired?And not that much labor.A total of 10 million farmers, the top day there are 20 million strong labor, 400 million acres of land are barely planted, which has the strength to open the terraces?
But what about not enough food?
There is a colony!Imports are just that, and they don’t cost a lot of money.
And the East Song farmers only consider economic benefits, for the input of large, and the output of white rice is not good to eat two seasons, three seasons of rice, that is not interested in - not good to sell to whom?
The white rice in the East Song is a season of rice, or green food, and the cooked rice is called a fragrance!I know it is for the imperialists.
However, the food security of the Eastern Song Dynasty is entirely based on the bird droppings provided by the Republic of Great Weeks and the guarantee of maritime trade.
Once the big week refused to provide bird droppings and the navy blocked trade, the United States of the East Song Dynasty would immediately fall into crisis.
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