Steel Dynasty - Chapter 970

[Chapter 964 The real situation]

“You are a smart man, but you are not smart enough. I will not be stupid enough to send troops to Europe now, and your stupidity is that you think that Chongqing will be wiped out as easily as the natives.”

Sitting in the official office Sitting on the red lacquered wooden chair, Xiao Ming looked directly into Dick’s eyes.

Dick was speechless. He had to admit that the failure this time was basically due to the arrogance brought about by their hundreds of years of foreign colonization, otherwise they would not have taken this action at all.

And now it turns out he’s fighting an industrial powerhouse in Asia.

“Dear Your Majesty the Emperor, you are the wisest emperor I have ever seen in Asia. It is indeed true. I think both Britain and France will reconsider their relationship with the Great Chongqing this time. There will be a great number of civilized countries in the list. “A seat in Chongqing.”

Dick flattered that during the two hundred years of European colonization, Europe has actually been adopting two foreign policies.

For the indigenous tribes in Africa and South America, they classify them as primitive indigenous people who have not yet entered civilized society, because these indigenous people have not yet formed a complete social structure, and their lives are mainly based on hunting. These tribes even eat the corpses of their enemies.

This type of indigenous people were completely abandoned by them from civilization. During the colonial process, they implemented a policy of massacre.

Because they need the land and resources of these indigenous people, and these uncivilized indigenous people are worthless to them. After all, many tribes have no writing and language, and do not accept modern civilization. They are barbaric and dangerous, and their goods cannot be used like this. enough profits among the natives.

After colonizing India, they divided another level of civilization, which was a semi-civilized society that was slightly higher than the original indigenous people.

For these countries that have a basic social structure, a written language, and their own commodities, but lack scientific development, they adopt a policy of colonial trade.

Because the people in such countries have enough purchasing power, their products can be sold in these areas.

At the same time, these countries also have certain counterattack capabilities, and they need to be treated with caution.

In the past, they classified Great Chongqing as a second-category country like India, and their goal was to make Great Chongqing the second India.

But now it is obvious that Dayu should be included in the ranks of civilized countries on an equal footing with them.

Thinking of this, Dick explained it to Xiao Ming in detail, hoping that the emperor in front of him would be happy, because this is equal to an honor for a country, because Europe finally appreciates this civilization.

After Dick’s explanation ended, not only Xiao Ming, but also Qian Dafu, Xie Yuan and Ding Chang all laughed.

Even the translator also had a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.

“Congressman Dick, you seem to be mistaken. In our eyes, your Europe is a second-class country, and this is the current Great Chongqing!”

Xie Yuan gave a thumbs up, confident and calm.

Xiao Ming shook his head helplessly. He understood Dick’s mood. In fact, just like modern times, it is difficult for the West to change long-established concepts in a short time.

Today in the 21st century, Western countries still look down on his country with colored glasses, and their internal propaganda is smearing it everywhere, so that many Westerners believe that his country is still stuck in the backwardness of the World War II period.

So the same goes for Dick. Although his life is hanging by a thread, his true thoughts are exposed unknowingly.

“Arrogant British people, one day you will live trembling in the shadow of the Great Yu Kingdom.” Xiao Ming’s eyes narrowed, “Now you’d better tell the truth.”

Dick’s body trembled, he He knew that all his clever tricks had been seen through, and that the current Chongqing country was not afraid of them.

With a sigh in his heart, he had no choice but to describe the events in England to Xiao Ming in detail.

Xiao Ming listened and asked the translator to record it. This would be the first-hand information he obtained today.

An hour later, Dick said everything he could say, and Xiao Ming asked Xie Yuan to imprison Dick and Wilson again.

“Your Majesty, the more than 3,000 prisoners of war who are living and eating for free are wasting the money of our country, the general thought it would be better to send them to the mines to work as coolies.” Xie Yuan glanced at Wilson with a dangerous look.

The war was won, but the navy also suffered its largest loss since its establishment, and he felt aggrieved.

“It’s up to you. As long as these two don’t die, I’ll wait for them to send the ransom and replace them.” Xiao Ming said with great certainty.

According to the Dutch, there has always been a rule in Europe that ransoms were exchanged for captured generals. Wilson and Dick must have come from a big family to take on such important tasks and would be worth a lot of money.

When the time comes, he may be able to speak like a lion.

After receiving Xiao Ming’s instructions, Xie Yuan felt relieved. He asked the soldiers to take the two of them down and ordered them to “treat them well”.

At this time, Xiao Ming frowned as he took the information given by the translator. In the narration just now, Dick described the development status of Britain in detail.

Generally speaking, steam engine technology is developing very rapidly in the UK. Perhaps because of the stimulation of Great Chongqing, the Queen of England allocated a large sum of money to support the application of steam engines.

The concentration of funds and talents is said to have led to the emergence of an improved second generation of steam engines. At the same time, under this promotion policy, aristocrats and capitalists quickly established a number of steam engine factories.

In addition to vigorously developing steam engines in the UK, the UK also exported steam engines to the European continent to earn money to develop local technology. Nowadays, there is a steam engine craze across Europe.

France is not willing to be left alone. In the European market, it competes with Britain for profits in the steam engine market. The British cooperate with each other and compete with each other at the same time.

“Your Majesty, Europe is a threat to us no matter what. It is not a good thing for steam engine technology to flourish in Europe now.” Qian Dafu sighed, “Especially these two traitors have made Europe’s basic science leap forward. In addition, the culture and education of European countries are even higher than that of Great Chongqing. It is easy for them to use these technologies to compete with us.”

Xiao Ming nodded lightly. He understood Qian Dafu’s worries, just as the Manchu Dynasty’s civil and military officials were also worried.

However, he knew very well that the accumulation of European technology could not keep up with the accumulation of technological crystals.

What Britain now possesses is at most a high school level of science and technology, and this knowledge allows it to develop its industrial capabilities using steam engines to the level of World War I at most.

However, in Xiao Ming’s opinion, this knowledge is not very important to Europe, because according to the current scientific level of Europe, it will be fully developed within thirty years.

The most critical issue now is the changes brought about by the development of Great Chongqing itself. These changes are actually on the table and can be seen at a glance.

For example, in electricity, the UK was unable to obtain ready-made technology from the two of them, but it did get an accurate research direction. Then scientists will naturally work in this direction, because this is a direction that does not require research and wrangling.

Historically, the slow development of science was due to many detours and delays caused by doubts from opposition forces. Now, the country of Chongqing has become a beacon for scientific and technological development.

Unknowingly leading the development of world science and technology.

(End of chapter)