Chapter 1710: Thirteen. Icewind Forest (2)

Objectively speaking, the tsar's reform intentions are well-meaning. Its core essence is to try to make all parties satisfied through a compromise, so that the domestic situation will remain stable when the next big change comes. Judging from his opening of local self-government and the establishment of the "Government Conference", the young tsar also tended to be enlightened. However, the monarch’s will is impossible to fight against the entire country and the entire upper-level interest group, and its complete reservation of royal interests in the amnesty order will not disappoint the deeply disappointed people at the bottom level with their reform intentions and will. Landlords are forced to release their profits, and a large amount of labor flows from the countryside into the city, which makes the shortage of rural labor force makes landlords complain.
The serfs were dissatisfied because they could not directly obtain the land; the landowners had to relax their control of the labor force, and even had to transfer the land to the previous serfs, so they were even more dissatisfied; the result of trying to satisfy everyone was that none of them satisfaction. People who had great hopes for the czar's pardon were gradually disappointed after seeing the reality that they still had nothing under the clear "freedom" and "equality". The dissatisfaction began to escalate into a curse, and the "little dad" became a "scrap thing." The curse was escalating towards public protest, and some people gradually became radical and extreme. Various secret associations have sprung up like mushrooms. I believe that the terror tendency of these secret associations will eventually rise in the light of the current situation.
Extremists are keen to use means such as assault or assassination to express their aspirations to the entire society. But more often, these people have no purpose at all, just to vent their anger. In this context, all bureaucratic officials and celebrities will become the targets of secret associations and lone wolf attackers. As the largest and most conspicuous target of the Principality, the Tsar is the first to bear the brunt. So even just to keep his head, His Majesty the Tsar and his ministers must find a route that can divert domestic contradictions.
The route they found was Lapland.
The Principality is moving towards industrialization. Despite many problems, there will be no change in the general direction of joining the ranks of modern industrial countries. As its form of foreign trade has shifted from exporting mainly agricultural products and primary industrial raw materials in the past to taking into account the export of simple industrial products, the source of its expansion has been increased in addition to traditional territorial ambitions, security, and strategic initiative. An "export product and capital", this makes the direction of the principality's expansion began to move closer to the path that the old industrial countries have traveled.
The poor economic situation makes the Principality urgently need to obtain a larger and more stable market for domestic commodities and capital, so as to ensure that the domestic situation is stable and capital forces can continue to thrive. But in the first place, the crude industrial products of the Principality lacked competitiveness in the international market, and secondly, the Principality did not have overseas colonies for dumping like the Empire and Albion. Therefore, the principality of the Principality's export is still mainly agricultural products, minerals and handicrafts.
After summarizing all the problems, the crux of the Principality's problems is clear. At this time, the Principality was in the first industrial upgrade after entering industrialization, and the sharp opposition of various social contradictions during this period was originally a normal phenomenon. It is just that a large number of problems originally left by the Principality also concentrated during this period, making the contradictions more intense.
Against this backdrop, the Principality Government adopted a two-handed strategy to reverse the dangerous domestic situation like a volcano that accumulates energy. On the one hand, it increased the resilience against domestic instability and imposed strict restrictions on the breeding grounds of anarchism and revolutionary parties, such as universities and slums. At the same time, it emulated the empire and established hard labor throughout the permafrost in the extreme north. The battalion put a large number of criminals, political prisoners and their families into it. Some of the more serious crimes were hanged directly in conspicuous places.
In a society where the people at the bottom suffer from poverty, it is impossible to solve the problem by simply suppressing it. To release benefits to the bottom, give them at least work that can feed themselves and their families, clean and bright houses, and a life that can maintain a certain dignity-this is the fundamental way to end all turmoil and chaos. For those who hold capital, they need to find a market with a good environment and full of prospects, so that their capital can be transferred from hot money to industrial investment, and the money used for speculation can be turned into factory enterprises. While increasing wealth for the capitalists, it also provides more job opportunities for the people at the bottom.
But in the short term, the chaos in the Principality's domestic market will hardly be fundamentally improved. Since it is impossible to look forward to the domestic market, the way out for the principality can only be in Lapland.
Speaking of which, no one may believe that as a side of the human camp, a country that was exposed to modern industrial products earlier than the Principality, Lapland's industrialization progress is lower than that of the Principality.
There are many reasons for this result, the most important being the impact of war, the lack of national strength, and the unstable external political environment.
In a series of wars, Lapland has a close relationship with Charlemagne, but it also maintains a relationship with Yalfheim. From the perspective of the small country itself, this two-sided bet is actually a safer way to protect yourself in troubled times. After all, it is very dangerous to fall to a certain side before the fight between the two giant monsters shows a clear sign of victory or defeat. Bet on both sides first, observe the direction of the battle at the same time, and finally make the most beneficial choice according to the situation. A stable decision-maker will make such a choice that takes into account both internal and external situations. If it weren’t for a worldly evil like Li Lin, it took only a few months to completely smooth out Charlemagne, and maybe Lapland’s little abacus could really advance smoothly.
The rapid rise of the empire defeated Lapland's small calculation, and used the two major powers to fight against each other to benefit from it, and the plan to achieve industrialization at a minimum cost also fizzled. In the previous war, Charlemagne and Yalfheim put all their resources and industrial production capacity into the overall war, and there was no extra industrial equipment or technical talent to win Lapland. After the war, because of Lapland's betting on both sides, the empire was cold on Lapland. Albion was afraid that his alliance with the Principality would not be too close to Lapland and assist him in developing the industrial system. Others, such as the Republic, Cyrus, and Castile, are also helpless because of distance or their weak national strength.
As a result, Lapland can only rely on itself to promote industrialization. However, hundreds of years of war have already caused the country's economy to wither, and a large number of talents have poured into the military or related fields. The rush to turn around and change the direction of development will only put the country into a dilemma similar to that of the Principality, and even worse. With such intense anxiety in mind, Lapland unfolded at a very slow speed with exceptional caution (this is absolutely necessary and absolutely necessary). When the tracks of public transportation vehicles appeared on the streets of St. Petersburg and were driven by horses to be driven by electricity; electric lights began to replace the gas lights to illuminate the night sky of the city; the steam engine roaring in the factory was around the clock. Lapland still maintains the scenery that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. Only the wealthy area of ​​the capital, the mansions of the nobles, and the foreign embassies and consulates in Helsingfors, people can see a little influx of modern civilization in this country.
Due to backward industrialization, even crude primary industrial products in the Principality can be dumped in this country. The only obstacles are the anti-Principality national sentiment in this country and the more competitive products of other countries. But as long as Lapland is under control, the Principality can use its force and policy tendencies to exclude competitors from other countries, turning Lapland into its own ban, an exclusive market that can dump goods arbitrarily. In this way, the bottom of the Principality can also benefit from the development of the country, various domestic social conflicts can be alleviated and covered up, and the stagnant industrialization process can be restarted again.
It is precisely because of various internal and external factors that the Principality has been holding on to the idea of ​​annexing Lapland until it was defeated under the pressure of almost the entire world during the joint meeting, which made it necessary to give up unrealistic delusions.
The countries clearly understood that unless the investment in the industrialization process of the Principality is increased and a large amount of money is used to reverse the domestic situation of the Principality, it will be difficult for the Principality to withstand Lapland’s desire. But no country-including Albion, who most supports the Principality-is happy to see this extreme north bear becoming too strong. Not only because of the huge funding gap ~ EbookFREE.me ~ countries themselves are also undergoing economic transformation and upgrading, and it is impossible to provide such huge funds. More importantly, this will have a serious impact on peace under the new order system, and will inevitably lead to the outbreak of world wars in advance, which is not in the interest of any party.
However, the nations also do not want to directly turn their heads against the Principality for this reason, or conflicts within the Principality will always erupt and set off revolutions and civil wars, because this is also not in everyone's interest.
The empire feared that the revolutionary wave would shape another republic, and the republican thought would have an impact on the empire. Other countries are afraid that the Principality will fall into a split, and become a group of small countries that can't focus on other directions (actually, fighting against the empire).
Based on the above concerns and their respective interests, in the end everyone still left a narrow gap in the "Bonn Treaty" to the Principality called "Open Doors and Interests". That is, in the form of an agreement, the market of Lapland will be ceded to a part of the Principality, which will not only give the Principality face, but also give the Principality a market. This is to appease the Principality who is sad and upset by frustration.
But even so, no one is counting on a paper treaty and a big or small concession to restrain the inexorable extreme north giant bear. Whether it is an empire or Albion, privately, they have increased their focus on Lapland. Various military and political personnel frequently communicate with Helsingvers, Yalfheim, Lundinium, and diplomats from other small countries. It is even more common with spies, and even the figures of the Republic’s intelligence personnel are not uncommon.
Since ancient times, the places where spies, soldiers and diplomats have concentrated are mostly the places where wars are coming. From the point of view of the "love" of Lapland in various countries, they obviously do not believe that the Congress will honestly abide by the contract and will definitely find an opportunity." A big fight".
Judging from the signs that the Principality has signed the "Bonn Treaty" to date, all countries have not given much consideration.