Chapter 300: , Westernization Movement and Batumi

Although some progress has been made in long-distance power transmission, cross-regional power transmission is still impossible, at least for now. Therefore, the situation in which thermal power plants are blooming has not changed. The only change is probably that there are fewer people stealing cables.
This is because there is a lot less copper on the wires of equal length, and on the other hand, it is too dangerous to steal high-voltage wires. At least in Paris, there has been more than one person from the province who is wrong. Now the situation has changed a lot. There are very few people from the province who do this kind of thing. Basically, the people who do this kind of thing are either highlanders or lowlanders. It's not Poles. Anyway, it's mainly because foreigners stupidly steal the wires after they find that no one is watching them. As a result, they are directly cremated.
The death of some foreign thieves was not a big deal. After all, they have just entered the nineteenth century. Not to mention that the French don’t care much about such things. Even the embassies and consulates of these thieves’ home countries don’t treat them at all. Take this to heart. A few low-ranking people died when they died, what's the big deal. Even in their opinion, the death of these people reduced the factors of social instability, and more deaths are even worth celebrating.
However, although these people "dead not to regret", their death has a bad side effect, that is, their actions can cause a large area of ​​power outages every time, although the affected people are generally also affected. Not the most important thing. A power outage will bring huge economic losses to factories or various bars and nightclubs on the Montmartre Heights, but it is always a big trouble. Therefore, "Science Pravda" even had to publish a special series, to popularize the relevant safety knowledge of high-voltage electricity to everyone: don't see the bird falling on it and it's okay, just think it's okay to reach out!
But these are all minor problems. Napoleon is now annoyed by the fact that it seems that the arms are not selling well recently.
Austria was a good buyer. Every time the French came out with something good, Austria would bite the bullet and buy it. Especially when copper mines were discovered in Prussia and they made a fortune from the copper mines, the Austrians followed the exploration and discovered that the veins of the copper mines extended to the controlled area of ​​Austria, so the Austrians immediately acted and started Open the copper mine. Moreover, the Austrians did not open mines like Prussia, and they shy away when using workers. The Austrians directly negotiated with the Polish nobles and paid some money, and then dragged all the Polish serfs over to mine.
As for Prussia, Prussia really doesn't dare to do that now. Because Poles already account for half of the population of Prussia today. As a result, because of the cost advantage, the Austrians took away a lot of business from the Prussians. It stands to reason that if the Austrians have more money, they should be able to buy more French weapons.
However, the Austrians feel that they can't beat the French anyway, and now that the French have so much business with themselves, they should not be able to beat themselves. As for beating others, it seems that there is nothing to beat. Moreover, France’s weapons are renewed so quickly, and after buying new ones, they will fall behind in a short time. Austria, unlike Britain and Spain, can sell old-fashioned things to the colonies.
As a result, the Austrians simply decided to save the money for weapons first, or use it for some business. This way, I can make a little more money. When will the war really start, wouldn’t it be fragrant to buy the latest style from the French?
So the arms orders from Austria have naturally shrunk rapidly.
In order to stimulate the consumption desire of the Austrians, Napoleon wanted to conduct a joint military exercise with Prussia, or secretly sell some small things to the Poles. Let them get into trouble, so that the Austrians realize the need to spend money quickly.
But both proposals were opposed by Joseph and Lucien. Joseph strongly opposes the plan to arm the Poles: "If the Poles get into trouble, the operation of the copper mine will definitely be affected. If the copper mines in Austria reduce production, the price of copper in Europe will definitely rise again. The point of buying weapons. Money, really may not be able to fill this hole!"
Lucien opposed the joint military exercise with Prussia. He believes that this is not conducive to building the image of France who loves peace and is a good friend of the people of Europe.
"I have no objection to threatening Austria and asking him to do business honestly, but Napoleon, are your methods simple and rude? There is no sense of art at all."
So Napoleon became angry, and immediately threw out the trick of "You say I can't do it, you can do it": "You said it is simple. Tell me, what can you do?"
Then Lucien immediately said: "This matter is not my responsibility. I am not an expert in this area. Don't shirk responsibility."
Joseph suggested: "Or, do we sell something to the Russians?"
"Russian? What can Russians afford?" Napoleon said, "Russians are stingy."
Russia's economic situation is not good, especially in the past two years, because of the continuous bumper harvest of grain in France, the price of grain on the international market has been low. This is definitely a big blow to the Russians, whose main source of foreign exchange is grain exports. So the Russians really don't have much money.
"We can give them a loan." Lucien hurriedly interrupted, "Look, we give the Russians a loan, and the Russians use the loan to buy our things, and then use the money we lent him to pay, and then slowly repay it. The interest on our loan, and...isn’t that good?"
"Why do the Russians want to borrow from us? It doesn't seem to be under threat for the time being." Napoleon said.
"We can let the news go, just say that Turkey wants to buy a large number of weapons from us." Lucien said.
"It's not enough, Lucien, it's not enough." Joseph suddenly said, "We want to let out the news that Turkey has reached a deal with us. Based on this deal, we will export a gun factory to Turkey. "
"In this case, what if the Russians ask us to buy an arsenal?" Napoleon asked.
"Sell it to him, it can even include technology transfer." Joseph said indifferently.
"How can it work?" Napoleon said.
"Why not? Even if they have factories in their hands, can they still produce products that can compete with us for the market? Can they still not rely on our support? And, you said, the Russians The money is actually quite limited. If they gritted their teeth and bought our factory, they would have to get the money elsewhere. How can they get it?
Either by saving, what can they save? By buying factories and technology from us, they can save research costs. Well, we can persuade them, ‘Don’t repeat inventing the wheel’. Anyway, what they have researched on their own is not as technologically advanced as what they bought from us, and they are more expensive. That being the case, why not cut the research fee?
It's like someone who wants to eat meat, he can buy it at the market, or he can raise his own pigs. But if they raise pigs by themselves, because they have no experience and skills, the cost of raising pigs by themselves is high and the taste is not good. You said, can this pig be kept? It's better to go outside to be precise, to buy pork from us.
In this way, he will no longer spend money on raising his own pigs. In fact, as long as he is willing to spend money on this and slowly cultivate his own team, the pork they develop themselves will always become fragrant in the future. One day it gets cheaper. However, we can stop the accumulation of scientific and technical talents of the Russians by selling factories and technology at the right time. While we can constantly sell them certain technologies at the most suitable time to make their scientific researchers'heroes useless', and at the same time, we can take the opportunity to dig these'heroes useless' scientific researchers to us Come here. Napoleon, don't you say that this is not a very good thing? "
"Then what if the Austrians and the British make similar demands?" Napoleon asked again ~ EbookFREE.me ~ specific problems, specific analysis? Well, Austria is nothing, Britain still has to impose certain restrictions. However, this restriction must also be measured. In addition, it is best that this restriction is not made directly by us, but by a committee. For example, aren’t we very different from the British, Austrians, and Russians in terms of the system? We are a republic, aren’t we? We can completely organize the democratic countries in Europe, us, the Federal Republic of Northern Italy, and the Federal Republic of Rhine to adopt a republican system to form an organization that specializes in technology export. It is called the ‘Export Control Coordinating Committee’, with its office located in Paris, responsible for the review of technology exports from any non-republic country. Technology and various equipment and commodities that have not been approved by this committee are not allowed to be exported. "Joseph said.
"Yes, Napoleon, I think we can first sell factories to Turkey; then we can sell factories to Russia; then we can provoke something in Turkey or Russia; then they will naturally suppress it; then we can let some'opposition' 'The media, and other republicans accused us of handing the tyrant a butcher's knife to suppress the people for money; then we can justifiably set up this committee.' Lucien said,
Simply use this matter, we can A pile of nails was buried on the side of the real opposition."