Finally, Zhu Jinglun said that if it is necessary to purchase warships from the West, Britain must be given priority.

Published on 27/06/2024

Although the British are slightly disappointed, it is better to get this guarantee. Anyway, they think it is meaningful to help train naval officers.
The rest are some official activities, such as a tour of the British industrial zone. In this era, a number of large factories have generally emerged in Britain, which is different from other countries.
These factories may not be very different from the big six small factories in Europe in technology, but they will be greatly reduced in efficiency, which is the advantage of mass production
It can be said that the British people are still proud of the whole world in terms of scale and technical quality.
However, Zhu Jinglun felt that there was no point in visiting British industry, because the British were the initiators of the industrial revolution, and their industrial revolution was a natural evolution. At that time, there was no competitor, Europe 6 overlord France, under the leadership of Louis XIV and other kings, fought endlessly all the year round and missed the pace of catching up with Britain. By the time they reacted, the British had gone too far.
Therefore, Britain has completed the industrial revolution at leisure, but it is impossible for the latecomers to have it. Except for Britain, it can be regarded as a chaser in other countries, so Zhu Jinglun feels that it is more meaningful to visit other countries.
Visiting the gap is to meet with British capitalists in my spare time.
Many people are very willing to meet Zhu Jinglun, such as the London banker.
They want to give big loans.
But Zhu Jinglun has not finished the loan plan in Britain. He prefers to bank bonds in Kowloon. He is determined to make it a financial center.
"I take the liberty to give you a professional advice. I don’t think your country’s current financial situation is suitable for continuing to work in the national debt office. I think you should seriously consider the suggestion of one person. Maybe you need a professional financial adviser. Our Rothschild family is very willing to help you in this regard."
The most active and powerful banker family is the Rothschild family.
They produced some data to prove that the financial situation is very poor, which proves that Zhu Jinglun intends to take a very risky approach to national debt. They believe that the financial situation has lost the ability to continue financing. On the one hand, they hope to borrow in London, and they are willing to underwrite large bonds on favorable terms. On the other hand, the Rothschild family is very active in hoping to do financial consulting business. They have already done this for many big noble, and some small countries are also conducting financial management according to their family’s suggestions.
If Zhu Jinglun didn’t have tens of millions of taels of silver in his hand, he would have been easily persuaded by this Jew. No wonder their rise in this era was not a fluke.
The Rothschild family didn’t know that Zhu Jinglun made a fortune during the American Civil War, but what did the Bahrain family know that they also thought it was necessary to borrow money?
Zhu Jinglun immediately held talks with the Bahrain family.
"Because we think you may build a lot of railways, maybe you don’t understand that it costs money to build railways. Imagine that there are many mountainous areas in your country that are currently being prepared. The cost is likely to be as high as 3 million pounds. If your country has a follow-up construction plan, then I think it is the most feasible way to bank bonds in London."
The representative of the Bahrain family is very confident.
Zhu Jinglun secretly lamented in his heart that the big government was not quietly preparing the land when preparing the railway plan, and they could judge from these trends that the construction of the railway section was obviously very careful. Zhu Jinglun had reason to believe that Hurd had helped his compatriots, because the land preparation had always been the responsibility of the sea, and Hurd had stronger connections in the sea than an official.
This is not a big problem. Building a railway is not kept secret by any strategic secret, but it is afraid of causing obstruction by the stubborn forces in the township. Therefore, it is currently buying land in the name of building an official road.
But being able to tell the terrain along the way and calculate the budget is really amazing for the British to work.
3 million pounds is equivalent to 12 million silver. If the cost of this railway is so high and Zhu Jinglun intends to extend it, the financial pressure is indeed in line.
However, Zhu Jinglun is not going to borrow money from Britain for the time being. The local tyrants have money to bury them in a silver cellar, such as trying to pry it out and turn it into circulating capital.
Are there some businesses that can still be done with these bankers
"I don’t know if you are considering borrowing money from the Japanese government?"
They have been contacted before.
The representative of Bahrain shook his head. "At present, the situation of the Japanese government is not good. They may fail in the war with the rebels. We can’t take this risk."
Zhu Jinglun laughed. "What if you fail? Don’t you dare to default after the new Japanese government? "
Bahrain wondered, "Do you think they will recognize the opposition debt?"
Bahrain’s concern is not unreasonable. After the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln Horse announced that it would write off the $15 million debt it borrowed from Europe during the Southern War, which caused heavy losses to the British because they were the main underwriters of cotton bonds in the southern United States.
Of course, default is about strength. In history, the Soviet Union overthrew the tsarist government and declared that it would not recognize the tsar’s debt and was punished by the European financial market for a long time. After World War II, the Soviet Union was forced to admit the debt and paid off more than half of the last debt before disintegration. It was not until the 21st century that the Russian Federation paid it off.
Americans say that they will default, and no one can punish them.
The Japanese obviously don’t have the strength of the United States. They are not qualified to default.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun is very confident. "I don’t think anyone in Asia can owe a lot of money and I don’t think anyone can owe money to the British Empire, don’t you think?"
The representative of Bahrain ventured, "Do you mean that your country will use official means to ensure that it can repay its debts tomorrow?"
Zhu Jinglun said, "Of course, protecting the national interests of the country is the bounden duty of the big government."
The representative of Bahrain simply said, "I think we can consider one"
It doesn’t matter what the result is. It’s a big deal that Zhu Jinglun lent the shogunate 12 million silver alone.
It’s time for his trip to Britain to end. He has to communicate with students studying in Denmark.
Section four hundred and twenty-three Nordic trip
These officers arrived in Teana, Denmark, six months after withdrawing from Beixun.
It’s the end of June now, so they’ve been here for less than half a year, and it’s almost three or four months except the journey.
However, their learning situation is not good. At present, they haven’t learned a language, and their learning attitudes are very different. Danish instructors say that some students are very enthusiastic about learning, but they have learned a lot of vocabulary dictionaries, even though they are not proficient in Danish.
However, some officers are not interested in learning western military theory. They think that it is enough to learn Sun’s art of war in war. Foreigners are all trivial things. They walk around, shoot guns, line up troops, and have a rough arrangement. Do you really want to talk about ingenuity or ancestors?
It’s not academic to say these words. They can say these words, which proves that they have pondered over the lack of things in the West. They have studied the knowledge taught by those Swedish instructors in big military schools. At the same time, they have also studied China’s unification of the art of war, and they really think that the foreign military code is too specific, or that Sun’s art of war is profound.
That’s true, but that’s precisely the advantage of westerners. They pay more attention to details. When they show their rules, people really know how to fight. However, China literati know Sun Yat-sen’s art of war by heart, so they can pull out their soldiers. They can’t even arrange their formations.
Just like many other aspects, China culture seems to be full of a precocious phenomenon. In many aspects, the ancestors seem to have finished the walk for future generations. It seems that future generations don’t need to do it in their studies. As soon as Sun Bingfa appeared, he expounded military issues at the ideological level, while the contemporary military works in the West still stayed in the military records of Gaul.
On the contrary, the post-China Military Science Exhibition lowered from the ideological level to the strategic level, and finally paid attention to the tactical aspect. When it came to the art of war in Qi Jiguang, it emphasized the technical aspect.
In Europe, on the other hand, they went from general war records to strategic heights. It was the Prussian military scientist clausewitz who was stimulated by defeat after the Napoleonic Wars that summed up Napoleon’s military ideas and wrote the book On War.
To sum up, the exhibition of military science in China seems to have listed an outline for everyone from Sun Yat-sen’s Art of War, and then later generations will fill in this outline, while the exhibition of European military science is enriching from the foundation step by step.
If you really want to say who is better, I’m afraid there will be a big debate. Zhu Jinglun finally recognizes that "On War" has not yet risen to the ideological level at the strategic level, which is not comparable to Sun Yat-sen’s Art of War.
But it is precisely because Sun Yat-sen’s art of war has reached the ideological level that he expounds the spirit of war, but it means jumping out of war. You can guide the national strategy and build a national defense body, but it can be directly taken to the battlefield, but it has nothing to do with it.

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