"Europeans are crazy!"

On the first day of the sixth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the front page of the "Central Plains Daily" used such an eye-catching headline. Many ordinary people in China know the news of the US war against China, and the Europeans are instigating it behind it, so the news about Europe in the newspapers is very popular at this time.

In China, more than one newspaper has analyzed the details behind the lighthouse state's declaration of war on China. It must be that there are European forces behind the support of the Americans, so they dare to 'fall into the ground' and 'take advantage of the fire' against China in such a decisive way.

Before the first day of June, countless Chinese people had already regarded the second war between China and the United States as a conspiracy of Europeans, and this 'European' was even named by more than one newspaper as a specific target - the British.

But after seeing the headlines of the "Central Plains Daily", today's people are even more amazed, it turns out that it is not only the lighthouse country that has jumped, but even the two brothers and sisters in Spain and Portugal have attacked Chen Han in South America. This Briton is really ruthless.

The Iberian Peninsula War had been going on for five or six years, and at its most difficult time, the Spanish crown as a whole had fallen into Napoleon's net, while the Portuguese royal family had fled to Brazil in the Americas, and the resistance of the two countries was supported by the British. Even if Portugal and Spain had now regained their independence, it would be ridiculous to say that these two countries could not listen to the British.

It was as if the British had seen the shock of the British declaring war on the mighty Chen Han Empire, and the huge shock could satisfy everyone's hearts, and someone actually challenged the majesty of the Celestial Empire, and then this news spread throughout China like a whirlwind. Zhongyuan Daily is one of the most important newspapers in China, and to a certain extent, it is a beacon in China's political arena.

"This is a great opportunity to win the Americas!" The sudden big news did not make the Chinese angry, no, it cannot be said that there is no anger, it can only be said that the time of this anger is too short, the rabbit provoked the tiger, will the tiger still spend a day to get angry? The cheers from the people soon made the whole of China boil. There are still a large number of nobles who have not gone to the Americas, and of course they hope that the Americas will completely become the Americas of the Chinese. Therefore, countless Chinese no longer worry about the prospect of war, on the contrary, in their eyes, this is a godsend for China to completely win the Americas.

Although there are quite a few people in the Lighthouse Country, and there is also a hard-trained army, these are not a problem in front of the Chen Han Empire.

The land is insane, especially the land occupied by the Lighthouse State, which is the most delicious place in the whole of America. Coupled with the land in the hands of Spain and Portugal, such a large piece, it is simply impossible not to pursue.

Originally, many people thought that after the end of the Sino-Russian War, in a few years, the feudal states and vassal states of the Great Canonization would settle down, and then the final war in the Americas would begin. But who thought that the Europeans would provoke the war first, although this would catch the imperial court very unprepared, but no one believed that Chen Han would lose the war, even if the whites could have a little advantage at the beginning, the final victory would inevitably belong to China.

When the dragon is sleeping, the rabbit can also come forward and bite twice, but when the dragon wakes up, the fate that awaits the rabbit must be death without a place to bury. This would be the best chance for Chen Han to annex the lands of the Americas.

I don't even need to find an excuse, I just swallow it in one bite, without any moral pressure.

But that doesn't mean the British are good 'allies' in their eyes. The British have a strong hostility towards the Empire, and the British are the Empire's greatest enemies, which has been recognized by countless Chinese people. Therefore, although the British handed Chen Han an 'excuse', Chen Han did not have any one ready to thank the British.

The mood of the people is rapidly stirring.

That's like the rabbit and the lighthouse country in later generations, it is common for each other to find fault with each other, and there are also a group of people who are hostile to each other, but at the national level, no one will easily turn their faces with each other. It's just that in this era when there are no small mushrooms, this kind of 'fight but not break' international relations are far less solid than the relationship between the lighthouse country and the rabbit.

Of course, at the official level, China and the UK are still friendly countries, and it is better not to say some things. In the case where interests determine the relationship between countries, as long as there is a need, no matter how big the dirt is, it can be regarded as not knowing.

This is a taboo in Sino-British relations. At a time when Sino-British relations are 'friendly', no one can touch this taboo.

If you want to uncover this scar, you can only wait until the day when China and Britain go to war.

Profit is always something that is coveted. As the world's first capital empire, the British were well aware of the essence of 'capital'. That's like an old Chinese saying: a three-year-old child has no second chance of being coveted except for coveting. But he is also holding a gold ingot, but his holder is a strong man with a steel knife, how can anyone dare to rob it?

The British know that the gap between their national strength and China's power is getting bigger and bigger, and the Chinese are now quite regular and polite to Britain, but capital determines the final result, and when the capital that pursues the maximization of interests reaches a certain zero point in the power difference between China and Britain, they believe that the Chinese will definitely unscrupulously plunder Britain's interests.

And since this is the case, then when there is no huge difference in each other's strength, the first strike is stronger.

That's what London thinks. This time, not to mention letting the Chinese plant a big heel, just to slow down the Chinese by a few steps, that is the greatest success.

There was also a special guest at Ekdal's house, Nicholas Pearson. This is a Dutchman who has entered the customs officially, and on the surface he is just an ordinary businessman, but in reality he is a spy working for Sweden.

Of course, it cannot be said that Pearson was a spy, because his work never involved military classified intelligence, and Pearson was more like a social investigator. He only came to see Ekdal because he had a certain social status in China, at least in Shanghai, and not because he wanted Ekdal to contribute to the Swedish government behind him.

He just wanted to learn a China that Ekdal knew from Ekdal.

"The rise and fall of a city depends on the prosperity of the market, the number of citizens, the complexion of the people at the bottom, and the clothing of the most ordinary members." Ekdal 'taught' Pearson as a kind of teacher, because the latter was a sociologist who was conducting social research and research in China.

"I can say that Shanghai is much stronger than all the European cities you've seen."

Pearson nodded in agreement with Ekdal, but he wasn't lying or anything. Shanghai's economy and market are prosperous, and Shanghai's population and residents' incomes are indeed stronger than all European countries of this era.

"But you don't know the real power here."

The tone was a little cold, revealing an unmistakable affirmation.

"Seriously, it's not a coincidence that you're here today, I'm going to visit a friend in Jiuting Town, Songjiang. But if you want, you can follow me to the towns and villages of Shanghai. I'm sure you'll make new discoveries. ”

The coachman drove the carriage and pulled Ekdal and Pearson from downtown Shanghai to Jiuting Town in Songjiang County, and it was already noon. After a hearty lunch, Pearson learned from the Chinese friend of Ekdal that there are two industrial parks, the old and the new, the old one has a long time, and the new industrial park has been completed for less than five years, but in five years, the new industrial park has more than 30 enterprises, large and small.

From match factories, cigarette factories, soap factories, glass factories to food processing factories, textile factories, garment factories, hardware processing factories, machinery factories, the total capital is as high as 40 million Chinese yuan, and the investment in the old industrial park is several times that of the new industrial park.

When Pearson came out of a friend's house in Ekdal, it was only five o'clock, and it was not yet dusk, and the market of Jiuting Town should be the coolest and most sparsely populated time of the day. And what Pearson saw in front of him was indeed like this, the sparse pedestrians, the deserted streets, all so cold.

The retinue behind Pearson raised his hand and beckoned a horse-drawn carriage parked at the corner of the street. Throughout China, at least in big cities like Shanghai, there are many, many of these horse-drawn carriages parked in street parking areas. "Go to your new industrial park in Jiuting Town."

Pearson's biggest interest now is the old and new industrial parks in Jiuting Township.

The carriage went straight south except for the south end of the town. After passing through a gathering place, it only took half a moment for people to come to the new industrial park. The latter sits on the banks of a river that leads east to Qibao Town, an important economic town in Songjiang County. That family's Qibao is much wider than Jiuting, Qibao Town is a thousand-year-old town in Shanghai, and Qibao was an important town when Songjiang County was still Songjiang Mansion.

The new industrial park in Jiuting Town does not occupy too much of an area. But it can be seen that the large vacant land next to it is also reserved for this new industrial park.

"Keep going inside." Pearson didn't get out of the car and walk around the new industrial park. The industrial park says 'not big' just relative to the speed of the horse-drawn carriage, not on foot. This is the difference between a car and a bicycle.

The carriage wandered for a full two quarters of an hour, and then, as Pearson intended, came to a halt again at the outermost part of the park.

There was silence in the carriage. Pearson closed his eyes, and all that seemed to be left in his mind was the whirring chimney. This is industry, although it is still very thin, but we must not forget its carrier - a new industrial park of the township government.

As a Dutchman, Plzeň first compared the new industrial park not to his boss, the Swedes, but to his native Netherlands.

Think of Amsterdam, think of Rotterdam, which of the surrounding towns of the big cities of the Netherlands has such a strong industrial base?

Compared with today's Netherlands, the industry of the new industrial park in Jiuting Town can only be described as 'strong'.

The carriage waited quietly on the side of the new industrial park, and time passed slowly. Suddenly, Pearson in the carriage heard a bell.

The bell rang from behind, and Pearson looked out to see a public carriage approaching at a constant speed, with the driver at the head flicking his whip and a bell hanging from each of the horses' necks. The bell rings when you walk around~~

The carriage came to a halt at the gate of the mill, and then Pearson saw a group of workers in uniform step out of the wagon, but they were the workers of the mill. I counted them, and there were more than twenty of them.

And the public carriage was like a start, and in the hours that followed, a carriage arrived every three to five minutes. A considerable number of these carriages go directly into the industrial park, while others stop at junctions and are almost entirely filled with workers. Looking at the handwriting printed on the outside of the uniform, it is a textile factory, a machinery factory, and a garment factory.

As the sun sets, a whistle sounds.

The sound comes from the textile mill.

At dusk, at the sound of the whistle, public carriages full of people drove out of the factory gates, and then large groups of workers in the same style uniforms swarmed out of the textile factory gates. Some of these people are on foot and some are cyclists.

Pearson's face changed, and there were at least three hundred of them. This is not a small factory.

And the people who went in before can't come out with the workers who got off work now, which means that the people who went in before were doing the night shift......