Chapter 491: Three Points

Chapter 491: Three Points

Chapter 491: Three-way Tripartite
Before the end of 1879, the six provinces controlled by the Literary Society finally surrendered.

This was not done by the Finnish Society on Shao Quanzhong's side. Shao Quanzhong was too lazy to subvert the local government of these literary societies whose military strength was far inferior to that of the Huai Army. If they really wanted to fight, it would be very easy.

It's all about money.

After the end of the European War, the wallets of all countries were empty, and the order volume dropped suddenly. No matter how cheap Daxia's industrial products were, they could not sell in such large quantities.

On the Planning and Investment Committee side, because of the industrialization of 20 million immigrants and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, the South American Pau Heavenly Kingdom Federation, Northern Japan, and Romania, domestic demand was driven and the military-to-civilian transition could be maintained, but the efficiency began to decline.

The European war was equivalent to overdrawing the potential of various countries. Now that the European war is over, it is inevitable that the world economy will enter a relatively long period of depression.

Even the unified Economic Exchange Association was scratching its head about how to deal with the Great Depression. The private companies in the six provinces of the Literary Society did not have the support of unified material dispatching with computer technology or the cooperation of Babbage's management technology. Once the dividends from the European war disappeared, they immediately began to lose money.

Once the pace of industrialization begins, it cannot be stopped.

People who are used to making a lot of money by investing in factories will suddenly find themselves in financial difficulties once the factory stops making money.

Therefore, not only did ordinary people want equal land rights, but the rich could not bear the Great Depression and finally could not bear the losses anymore. They demanded to join the overall economic system and become shareholders to receive stable dividends.
After experiencing the industrialized speed of making money, those people suddenly felt that land was not so attractive anymore.

The demands of the financial backers behind the scenes are beyond measure. The provincial governors are basically the biggest investors themselves, so the collective petition has been submitted to the Senate chaired by Tian Xing.

In the Bamboo House, Shao Quanzhong and Zhang Siwen discussed for a long time. Soon, Tian Xing, Zhang Zhidong, Wang Yongxian and Zeng Xiaoyi were called in...

On November 1879, 11, the regional inspectors of the Huai Army and the provincial governors of the Literary Society were summoned to Hailing to discuss national affairs.

After a long discussion of one and a half months, we finally reached a conclusion.

January 1880, 1, Wanghailou Square.

There were huge crowds of people, and the military band played a new celebratory music, the French song "Brother Jacques".

The newly joined elders of the literary society believed that the Marshal's Training Song belonged to the Huai Army and could not represent the entire Daxia, so they chose a French music with a brisk rhythm.

This piece of music is well-known to later generations. Someone even wrote new lyrics for it and named it "Two Tigers".

"Two tigers, two tigers, running fast, running fast. One has no eyes, and one has no tail, how strange."

Have you heard of it?
These new veterans have nothing to do. They dare not find fault with Marshal Shao, so they can only do the job of changing the songs.

This matter seems very important, but it has no practical effect, right?

Shao Hengzhong, Song Le, Lin Bo and Grant were appointed as marshals, and Liao Rong as naval marshal. They were the so-called Five Tiger Generals under Shao Marshal, and their actual military rank exceeded that of admiral.

Emery is still a general, and Dong Fuxiang, Le Sen, Song Qing, Naram Salahei (Fat Tiger), Wang Nima, Ma Yukun, Shao Yuan, Xu Bangdao, Liu Jintang and the provincial governors of the former literary society are all army generals.

Ma Han, Liu Buchan, Lin Taizeng, Li Chengmou, Wu Changqing, and Deng Shichang were admirals of the navy. The Air Force had just been established and there were no generals at the rank of admiral.

Zeng Xiaoyi and Wu Ziyi have already taken off their military uniforms and entered politics, and are no longer among the generals.

Nie Shicheng, who started a business with Shao Quanzhong, is now a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. Liu Mingchuan, who fought together, also serves in the Qing Dynasty. Yuan Baoheng and Zeng Guoquan both became generals as military governors.

Among the students studying in Germany, the two best ones are Shao Quanxiao and Zhang Zihuai. Now one is in the Southern Slavic Federation and the other is in Spain, and they have basically left the Huai Army.

Quanren went to Daxia Telecom, and Quanyi is now a famous general, but he rose to prominence relatively late. Like Fan He, the chief of staff of the Guards Brigade, and Ivan, who commanded the Cossack Brigade stationed in Cyprus, they were all prepared to be awarded the rank of lieutenant general and were not qualified to show up at this occasion. Among the civil officials, Zhang Zhidong was the head and served as prime minister, and the foreign minister was Zeng Jize, who was transferred back from the Federation. As for the merger of Hunan and Huaihe, Zeng Guofan made a correct decision at the time, and his younger brother Zeng Guoquan and his son Zeng Jize have now become high-ranking officials.

The affairs of Daxia were completed, but it was not over yet, as the next group of people appeared.

Wu Wenxi was promoted to the position of Speaker of the Imperial Senate, and his subordinates included envoys sent by Daxia and various vassal states.

Wu Wenxi crowned Shao Quanzhong. Originally, Shao Quanzhong's favorite candidate was his adoptive father Qiao Songnian, but unfortunately he did not live to see this day.

When it comes to jewelry and diamonds, the Wen family has no shortage of them, but unfortunately Shao Quanzhong doesn't care at all about wearing a crown. He finds it too tiring to wear either a tiara or a Western-style crown.

"Back then" someone looked very ugly in an ancient dragon robe, just like a fat landlord, with a stale air.

Although Shao Quanzhong, as a minister at that time, did not say anything, he still secretly complained about it for a long time.

For modern emperors like Yung Wing and Zhang Siwen, it was really inappropriate and against the trend to look like an ancient person.

Shao Quanzhong simply continued to wear the general's uniform and issued an edict that in order to draw a clear line with the old era, he, as the emperor, was exempted from kneeling and did not wear any dragon robes. He was basically a "Western-style" emperor.

Zhang Siwen is still the advisor of the Imperial Privy Council, and is in charge of the Imperial Planning Investment Committee, which is still chaired by Wang Yongxian.

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The New Year's Day in Hailing is lively and the people are excited and in high spirits.

But in fact, despite the seemingly booming situation, there is a hidden worry, that is - the Great Depression.

The six provinces controlled by the Literature Society had to surrender because they could not withstand the impact of reduced factory orders. Now this problem was thrown to Wang Yongxian.

So, the next day, a group of decision-makers gathered together again to consider how to deal with this problem that seemed no one could solve.

The new Imperial Foreign Minister Wu Ziyi was the first to speak, "Your Majesty——"

Shao Quanzhong waved his hand, "We shouldn't call him Your Majesty. I think it's better to call him Marshal."

Wu Ziyi readily agreed, "Marshal, I just came back from Germany, and the situation there is very bad right now."

"Alfonso and Gustav were expelled, but their fellow tribesmen still controlled most of the country's economic interests and made a fortune from the national crisis, while ordinary people suffered from hunger and cold."

"Because France could not afford the war reparations of 20 billion gold marks a year, it occupied the Ruhr area years ago and used force to monitor and urge the production of local German workers."

"But due to the Great Depression, even if they produced products, they couldn't sell them. Under the instruction of the German Emperor, the workers in the Ruhr area began to slow down. They seemed to be busy, but they were not producing any results. The French were helpless."

Shao Quanzhong waved his hand. "That's the Germans and the French's problem, not ours. Alfonso, the brother-in-law, has his own ideas and no longer listens to me, his brother-in-law. We are friends with France, not allies. There's no need to worry about them."

"But we are also facing the same problem. In the Great Depression, we, the world's factory, are the first to be hit and we will not be able to sell our products."

"If we fail to bring real benefits to the federal states and the Huaxia Convention Society, the newly established treaty organization will inevitably become disunited, and even the federal empire will be in danger of collapse. What should we do?"

(End of this chapter)