Chapter 430: , Trade wars and proxy wars

Shipbuilding will not be too fast, but the announcement of this plan immediately caused a huge reaction in the market. To build these warships requires a lot of steel, a lot of factories, a lot of workers, a lot of engineers, and a lot of engineers... Or to apply a later term, that is:
"The Soviet Union, the Party Central Committee, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industry Commission, nine ministries of defense industry, 600 related majors, and 8,000 supporting manufacturers. In short, it takes a great country to complete it."
Now here in France, the Republic has replaced the "Soviet Union", the ruling government has replaced the "Party Central Committee", and the military-industrial complex has replaced the "Military Industry Committee and the nine defense industry ministries". Although the French military industry has not yet developed, it has " There are 600 related majors and 8,000 supporting manufacturers", but the warships of this era are simpler, and France’s existing industrial capabilities are sufficient. As for "a great country", isn't Napoleon's current slogan "Let France continue to be great"?
With the launch of this plan, industrial machinery that had been stagnant began to operate again, steel mills and various machinery factories began to recruit workers, and various supporting factories began to operate, so factory workers began to receive wages. Take it, the market began to show a clear recovery.
"Investing in the military can stimulate the economy within a period of time, but in the long run, if we hadn't dug a gold mine, investing in the military would basically mean an inevitable war. Because if there is no war, there is no gain War dividends, such an approach will only lead to increasing debt economically, and eventually lead to increasing economic pressure. It can be said that this is a way of drinking poisonous alcohol to quench your thirst.
See Napoleon’s comment It seemed that the recovering economy was very satisfied, Joseph couldn't help but remind. ::
"I know this naturally." Napoleon said.
The huge shipbuilding plan has also greatly relieved other countries on the European continent. The reason is naturally simple. If the French are committed to building a large fleet, their goal will certainly not be themselves. As for what the French did to expand their army, of course it was to land in England.
However, the usage of these expanded engineers has once again refreshed the recognition of other countries that there is still this kind of gameplay. The French immediately announced a second plan to expand domestic demand, which is the "Plan for the Management of Five Major Rivers in France." According to this plan, France will connect the five major water systems in France through the canal in the next few years, making France's inland navigation more convenient.
In addition, France will also clean up the waterways of the rivers so that larger ships can enter the French interior directly. Of course, this is a huge project, and the newly formed engineering troops are directly used for this purpose.
The third part of expanding domestic demand is to combat the dumping of foreign goods in France.
This target is also the United Kingdom. Napoleon accused Britain of failing to abide by the accepted principles of free trade when trading with France and even Europe and the mainland, and demanded that Britain immediately stop discriminatory tariffs on French steel products, otherwise France will take equivalent sanctions. .
In fact, over the years, France has been in a superior position in trade with Britain. This is true even if the British imposed some tariffs and other restrictions on French industrial products. (Of course. The French’s surplus is not without a price. The UK alone has a trade deficit with France, but the UK has a trade surplus with Europe as a whole.) Since the French have a surplus status, they naturally did not have it before. I care too much about British behavior, but now, it is not the same as before. In Napoleon’s plan, it was the Jews who were responsible for the outbreak of the economic crisis, and the British must be responsible for the consequences of the economic crisis.
Because to solve the economic crisis, the most important thing is to reduce production capacity. However, it is not a good thing to go to one's own capacity. It is better to go to others' capacity. All of Europe, except France, is worth going to the British production capacity, not to mention that the British control so many colonies, which are the best dumping markets for industrial products. Who in Europe doesn't look red?
So as soon as Napoleon's State of the Union address and budget were released, countries on the European continent followed suit. The Netherlands first followed up, claiming that the UK’s dumping actions violated the principle of free trade. Therefore, in retaliation, the Netherlands was prepared to double to triple the tariffs on more than 50 goods imported from the UK.
Then the Rhine Union, the Republic of Northern Italy and even Austria joined in. They also said that because the British did not abide by the rules and refused to open the colonial market to European countries, they would also increase the tariffs on British goods in a targeted manner.
Then the French came on stage. French Foreign Minister Talleyrand summoned the British ambassador to France and demanded that Britain immediately adopt the same "open door policy" as Spain, allowing other European countries to conduct any legal business in the British colonies on an equal basis. activity.
This is of course impossible, because if such a request is agreed, whose colony is the colony? This is something the British cannot agree to anyhow, at least, when the French army’s boots are not on the ground of Buckingham Palace, they absolutely cannot agree.
Therefore, the British did not hesitate to reject the absurd request of the French, and said that if France imposes trade sanctions on the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom will also impose trade sanctions on France.
After getting such an answer, the French immediately announced that they would impose punitive tariffs on more than 30 commodities exported from the UK. As for the British, they first advised the French not to do things that are harmful to others, and then strictly warned the French not to underestimate the British's determination to defend their own interests, and then dragged on for another month and saw that almost all of Europe followed the French The wind began to close the market to the UK, and the British officially announced that they would also impose punitive tariffs on more than 30 products exported from France to the UK. So a trade war officially broke out.
In Ireland, the armistice between the Irish and the British has been maintained for several years. In these years, everyone has not been idle. The British continued to build strongholds in their own control areas, trying to consolidate their own control areas, and to prepare for future sweeps.
The Irish are naturally not idle. In the past few years, the Irish side has strengthened the regularization of the Independence Army. Although limited to the agreement with the British, the Independence Army still has only two divisions, and each division has only two divisions. Three regiments. There are only three battalions under each regiment. Below the battalion... the company under the battalion is uncertain, the most are already from platoon A to Z, and even the platoon below is also uncertain, from A to Z There are also a lot of people. The number of people in the lower class and the group below the class is not quite right. In short, it is to make a regiment of the Irish Independence Army and Li Yunlong's regiment comparable in scale, and a division of the Irish Independence Army has grown from a division of the Anti-Union Army to a group army in later generations. Scale up. Together, the two divisions have a hundred thousand people.
In addition to the increase in the number, with the support of the French allies, the training level and equipment level of the Irish Independence Army has also been significantly improved. The French have never given up on arming the Irish. They used various methods to provide weapons to the Irish under the guise of various civilian facilities. Now, apart from heavy artillery, the Irish Independence Army is even slightly more advanced than the British in other aspects.
In addition, the mutual penetration between the two parties has not stopped. The British have been trying hard to put spies into the Irish team, and the Irish are also constantly instigating people on the British side. But in general, the Irish naturally have the upper hand in this matter. Because it is not easy for the British to get into the Irish; but the Irish, the British, there are Irish people on two boats.
In addition, in the past few years, although the two sides have maintained a peaceful situation as a whole, small-scale conflicts have hardly been interrupted in the past few years. Most of these conflicts took place between the "hoeing group" under the Irish Independence Army and the special operations team of the British Military Intelligence Agency. The Irish "rapist group" has been operating secretly in cities including Dublin, assassinating those "rapists" who refused to cooperate with the United Irish Federation, in order to force more Irish serving the British to join. Come in the ranks of "foot on two boats".
To be honest, with the exception of a few, most people who become "rapists" love money and fear death for two reasons. Such people can't say how loyal to the UK, unless the British are strict about it, they are not particularly repulsive of "stepping on two boats". Now, if you don’t "give it a little convenience over there" or "do things too aggressively", you may be killed by a bullet that does not know where, or even a grenade. Therefore, Irish people in British-controlled areas generally feel a little bit passive. In order to catch the "shoveling team" of the Irish Federation, basically we can only rely on the honest British.
In order to curb the action of the "shoveling group", the British Military Intelligence Service specially set up a special operation team. They often set up a bait first (let a "rape lover" do something special to attract the "shoveling group" operation. ), and then conduct a targeted ambush.
In the beginning, the Special Operations Team of the Military Intelligence Bureau used this method to smash the "shoulder gang" and killed many "shoulder gang" soldiers. But shortly afterwards, the "hoeing group" also took countermeasures, and they began to directly attack the military intelligence special operations team.
And their attack methods and techniques are constantly being renovated. At one point, they even got French-made grenades into the city, and then shelled the premises of the Special Operations Team of the Military Intelligence Service. It also caused considerable casualties to the Rangers of the Military Intelligence Bureau.
And after that, the British discovered that the Irish shoveling bands had more and more tricks. In addition to violent grenades and rifles with scopes, they also used small crossbows that fired poisonous needles. This crossbow is only as big as a palm, and looks like a children's toy. But it is very deadly to use. It can shoot a poisonous needle up to 20 meters away silently, and has a very good hit accuracy at a distance of about ten meters. Because this poisonous needle uses a special nerve agent from a certain organism in the tropical rain forest, this agent is a highly effective anesthetic that can block nerve conduction, so many people don’t even feel it when they are shot. .
Once hit by this poisonous needle, the toxin will invade the human body. After a few minutes, it will relax the muscles of the poisoned person's body, including the diaphragm and heart muscle. Once the diaphragm and heart muscle relax, the person immediately loses spontaneous breathing and heartbeat. Then within a few minutes, he will die from lack of oxygen in the brain.
Because the effect of this toxin is so good and it is so difficult to find, the Irish sometimes even smear this thing on the tip of an umbrella for assassination. In short, in this dark battle, the British discovered that they were technically crushed by the Irish...
Now Britain and France have almost officially turned their faces. To be honest, the Irish have been waiting for this day for a long time. The entire Union of United Irishmen knows ~EbookFREE.me~The time for independence is just around the corner.
In July 1805, the Irish collected this year's potatoes, and then declared that the British army violated the armistice agreement and attacked a village near the military boundary between the two sides, causing huge losses to the Irish people. The British had actively disrupted the armistice between the two sides, so from this moment on, the armistice agreement no longer exists.
Of course, in order to show the image of Irish love for peace, the United Irish Federation and the Irish Independence Army gave the British a chance for peace. They issued an ultimatum to the British, demanding that the British would attack the Irish village within twelve hours. Of British criminals were handed over to the Irish for disposal, and the British were named directly. They also asked the British to withdraw all troops from Ireland within 48 hours.
Such a condition, of course, is not a condition of peace. It is a condition for the British to surrender. Even the only purpose of such a condition is to make the British reject it.
So the British naturally refused without hesitation. At the same time, they also ordered the British army in Ireland to immediately enter the first level of combat readiness, ready to use force to counter the rebellion and maintain national unity. Then the United Irish Federation issued the "Declaration of the Liberation of All Ireland", so after a few years of armistice, the flames of war in Ireland once again burned.