The fleet docked in Constanta, an important port city in the Kingdom of Romania. You didn't need to look at the red flag. Just by looking at the huge size of the ship, you knew it was the Min dynasty fleet. Only the Min dynasty fleet would send such a large ship into the Black Sea.
Most of the metal products were unloaded from the ship, such as sickles, axes, and steel plows. Cars and trucks were also hoisted from the ship. Barrels of gasoline, diesel, and kerosene were transported with the cars and trucks. The number of candles in daily necessities was very large. In addition to these industrial products, there was a large number of alfalfa in agricultural products. In recent years, Romania's livestock industry had developed rapidly. The local green fodder was not as good as the alfalfa from East Africa in terms of quantity and quality. There were many bloody conflicts in Constanta and the southwest of the Kingdom of Romania covered by Constanta. The final victors finally reached an agreement on the alfalfa issue. The alfalfa of the Min dynasty was finally accepted by the Romanian market.
One-way transportation was very unfavorable for the ship. Leather, bone meal, and grain, these special products of Romania were loaded on the ship in large quantities. The bone meal was produced in a factory set up by the Min dynasty in Romania. Selling pig and sheep bones on a cow's head had happened more than a hundred times in Romania. In order to be more effective in deceiving the Min dynasty's inspectors, the local sellers used various means, including using cow fat to flavor the pig bones. In the end, the Min dynasty had to build a factory in the port of Constanta. Starting from the purchase of cow bones, the matter was finally settled.
The goods that arrived in Constanta from the Min dynasty began to flow according to the market rules. Kerosene went to the areas where kerosene lamps were used. Candles, flashlights, and dry batteries went to the rich areas of the cities and rural areas. Luxury goods, including bone porcelain, entered the big cities. Because of the vehicles, the overall volume was not small.
There was a railway from the port city of Constanta to the capital, Bucharest. People and materials left on passenger cars or trucks on the mixed passenger and cargo line. The diplomats of the Min dynasty sighed. Recently, the Min dynasty had put forward the idea of separating passenger and cargo. There were more and more goods transported on the freight line, and the difference between freight and passenger became greater and greater. This mixed passenger and freight train line had begun to seem uneconomical.
The diplomats only thought so. The whole Europe left him the feeling of backwardness. Unlike the large-scale construction of the Min dynasty, the actions of the European countries could be described as slow. The Europeans were indeed working hard to make money, but it was all about making money. In addition to the railway, there was basically no large-scale social construction. This made the citizens of the civil dynasty, who were used to the style of the civil dynasty, very uncomfortable. Apart from the word 'countryside', he couldn't find any other comment on it.
Bucharest, the capital of the Kingdom of Romania, appeared to be quite peaceful. It was hard to imagine that this country was currently in a state of war with its neighbor, Hungary. Hungary had proposed several times to end the war, but Romania had stubbornly rejected it. From the leisurely attitude of the people in the city of Bucharest, it could be seen that these Slavs were very confident in the security guarantee that Russia had offered to their 'Slavic brothers'.
They had come with the purpose of opening up a passage for Hungary. After seeing the current situation, the diplomats of the People's Republic of China felt that they had no hope of accomplishing their mission. The Hungary was of Hungary, and they of Hungary. for of Hungary was to to to.
Fortunately, the Min Dynasty had made sufficient predictions about the difficulty of this diplomatic mission. Most of the diplomatic personnel who came this time were intelligence collectors and summarizers. Everyone was summarizing the large amount of information in the Min Dynasty's embassy in Romania. At the same time, they participated in various local activities. Like most countries, the universities in the capital had great influence in these countries. They could also represent the direction of public opinion. The Min dynasty's intelligence personnel participated in these school activities.
The information brought back by the intelligence personnel was very common. It was mostly about the hatred of the Republican Party, the fear of anti-feudalism, and the hostility to the socialist system. In summary, the Romanians thought that Hungary was evil. It would be best if they could take the opportunity to destroy this country. Even if they couldn't, it would be best to seize the Western Carpathian Mountains and liberate the Romanians in that area from Hungary's tyranny.
"Gentlemen, the greatest threat to us now is neither England nor China, nor is it the Ottoman Turks that will fall sooner or later. The greatest threat to us is the rising German nationalism. Those Germans want to establish European hegemony to gain the ability to fight against China and England. We Slavs are facing a huge threat. Germany and the Osman Empire have formed an alliance. Our biggest enemy now is Germany … "
At the meeting in the university setting, a person who looked like a professor was shouting. The intelligence personnel's face was calm. Everyone had received a lot of professional training, one of which was to learn to control facial muscles. No matter how surprised they were, as long as the facial muscles could be effectively controlled, they could still show different or even completely opposite expressions from their mood.
This was the fifth time in recent days that someone had made such a public statement against Germany. It had reached the level of national policy. Although the Min dynasty's intelligence personnel didn't care about Romania, the statement itself surprised everyone. So the news turned into radio waves and went straight to Cyprus.
Cyprus was now not only the headquarters of the Bank of Europe, but also an important frontline base for the Min dynasty's European intelligence department. Intelligence from all over Europe was gathered again, and then analyzed by professionals. Pan-Slavism had long been a key word in the intelligence. German nationalism was also one of the key words, but there was a big difference between the two. When the data was evaluated, everyone found that the two began to have a new relationship. That was the confrontation of ideas.
The contradiction in Europe had always been the contradiction between Germany and France, but the contradiction between Germany and France was not the only contradiction. Prussia drove Austria out of the German Union and finally formed a small Germany, but this didn't mean that the newly established Germany would give up Austria. In terms of alliance priority, Germany naturally preferred Austria.
Germany thought that Russia needed Germany more, and its attitude toward Russia was very contemptuous. However, the reason in reality was probably that Germany was short of money. Even the very wise Prime Minister Bismarck had to take measures to prevent Russia's assets from financing in the German financial market. For its own sake, Russia formed a Franco-Russian alliance with France in a secret agreement around 1892. Originally, the purpose of Russia's alliance with France was more because it was unwilling to be looked down upon by Germany. It wanted to solve the financial problem through some small means, and it was not necessarily because it really thought that Russia needed to join the German side in the future decisive battle between Germany and France.
However, the development of the world had never been shifted by individual will. The Franco-Russian alliance allowed France, which originally strongly supported the industrialization of Russia, to continue to pour into Russia on a larger scale. Russia's own reforms allowed Russia's economy to develop by leaps and bounds. For example, the steel production of Russia in 1904 was bound to exceed 4 million tons, a figure that firmly ranked second in Europe.
With a sharp sword in hand, the desire to kill was born. Regardless of what the relatives of the German Emperor and the Emperor of Russia thought, the industrial development of Russia made the officials and intellectuals of Russia have the idea of completely dominating the situation in Europe. This idea naturally relied on Pan-Slavism. As for Germany, the problematic youth, because of the victory of small Germany, a strong desire for the revival of the German nation was born metaphysically. With the development of the national power of the two countries, naturally, there was a confrontation. Now this confrontation from a kind of emotion and intuition had become a "confrontation of ideas."
A few years ago, Wang Mingshan, from an economic analysis, found that the proportion of the military industry in European countries was very low in the industrial level of European countries. For decades in the Min dynasty, the proportion of military-related industries in the entire country's industry had dropped from the highest 100%, and now it had dropped to about 5%. However, the industrial development experience of European countries was different from that of the Min dynasty. The Min dynasty could convert heavy industry to military use within a few months, but the conversion speed of European countries would be relatively slow. Especially for a more backward country like Russia, which probably did not have such ideas and preparation, the conversion efficiency was even worse. With the level of these countries, it was impossible to see the possibility of a super European war.
However, after seeing the latest struggle of ideas, Wang Mingshan felt that a war throughout Europe was inevitable. If the conflict was only for some shallow reasons, like the Franco-Russian alliance's intention to cheat money, the danger of the war was actually very limited. But when the reason for the war became based on the idea of nationalism, if one wanted to deny the war, one had to first deny nationalism. If one couldn't deny nationalism, then one had to admit that in the situation where national interests were the highest, war was an undeniable option.
Thinking of this, Wang Mingshan suddenly felt that he had a deeper understanding of the Sino-American war that broke out more than a decade ago. The war between China and the United States spanned thousands of miles, so most people joined the war in response to the call of the Military Governor Of Vaize. But it was undeniable that everyone believed that the Military Governor Of Vaize regarded the state ownership of land as his life would make the people who bore the cost of the war the beneficiaries of the war.
This was actually a kind of nationalism, but the people believed that the Military Governor Of Vaize could best represent the interests of the people of China, so it seemed that patriotism turned into loyalty. If the Military Governor Of Vaize himself was like the dog emperor of Manchu Qing in the hearts of the people, Wang Mingshan would never believe that the Liberation Army would fight such an arduous war in North America.
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