Fox of France

Things like shipbuilding will not be too fast, but the announcement of this plan immediately caused a huge reaction in the market. The construction of these warships requires a lot of steel, a lot of factories, a lot of workers, a lot of engineers, a lot...or to use a certain saying in later generations, that is:

"The Soviet Union, the Party Central Committee, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industry Commission, and nine defense industry ministries, 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 executive government has replaced the "Party Central Committee", and the military-industrial complex has replaced the "Military Industrial Committee and the Nine Ministry of Defense Industry". Although the French military industry has not yet developed, it has " 600 related majors and 8,000 supporting manufacturers", but the warships of this era are also simpler, and the existing industrial capabilities of France are sufficient. As for "a great country", isn't Napoleon's current slogan "Let France continue to be great"?

With the introduction of this plan, industrial machines that had been stagnant began to operate again, steel factories and various machinery factories began to recruit workers again, and various supporting factories began to operate, so the workers in the factories also began to receive wages. Taken, the market began to see a clear recovery.

"Investing in the military can stimulate the economy for a while, but in the long run, if we don't dig a gold mine, investing in the military like this basically means inevitable war. Because if there is no war, there will be no harvest. War dividends, such an approach economically, will only lead to increasing debts. And eventually lead to increasing economic pressure. It can be said that this is a way of drinking poisoned wine to quench your thirst." See Napoleon for The economy that seems to be recovering is very satisfying, Joseph couldn't help reminding.

"Of course I know that." Napoleon said.

The huge shipbuilding plan also greatly relieved other countries on the European continent. The reason is naturally very simple. If the French are committed to building a large fleet, then their goal will definitely not be themselves. As for what the French did to expand their army, of course it was to land in England.

However, the use of these expanded engineers has once again refreshed the cognition of other countries-it turns out that there is still this kind of gameplay. The French then announced the second plan to expand domestic demand, that is, the "Five Major Rivers and Water System Management Plan in France". According to this plan, France will connect the five major water systems in France through canals in the next few years, making France's inland waterway transportation more convenient.

In addition, France will also conduct a major clean-up of river channels so that larger sea-going ships can also directly enter the French inland. Of course, this is quite a huge project, and the newly formed engineering corps was directly put to such a use.

The third part of expanding domestic demand is to combat the dumping of foreign goods in France.

The same target is the United Kingdom. Napoleon accused Britain of not abiding by the generally recognized principles of free trade when conducting trade with France and even the European continent, and demanded that Britain immediately stop discriminatory tariffs on French steel products, otherwise France would take reciprocal sanctions .

In fact, France has always been in a superior position in trade with Britain over the years. This was the case even though the British imposed some tariffs and other restrictions on French industrial products. (Of course. The French's superiority is not without cost. Britain has a trade deficit with France alone, but Britain has a trade surplus with Europe as a whole.) Since the French are in a surplus position, they naturally did not have I care too much about the various behaviors of the United Kingdom, but now, it is different from the past. In Napoleon's plan, the Jews 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. But it is not a good thing to go to your own production capacity, it is better to go to other people's production capacity. In the whole of Europe, except for France, the production capacity of the United Kingdom is worth visiting. What's more, the British control so many colonies, which are the best dumping markets for industrial products. Who in Europe doesn't have red eyes?

Therefore, as soon as Napoleon's State of the Union address and budget were released, those countries on the European continent started to make troubles one after another. The Netherlands followed up first, declaring that Britain’s dumping behavior violated the principle of free trade. Therefore, in retaliation, the Netherlands prepared to double to triple the tariffs on more than 50 kinds of goods imported from the UK.

Immediately afterwards, the Rhine Union, the Northern Italian Republic and even Austria also 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 tariffs on British goods in a targeted manner.

Then the French came to the field in person. French Foreign Minister Talleyrand summoned the British ambassador to France and asked Britain to immediately adopt the same "open door policy" as Spain, allowing other European countries to conduct any legal business in British colonies on an equal footing. Activity.

This is of course impossible, because if such a request is agreed, whose colony is the colony? This was something the English could never have agreed to, at least not so long as the boots of the French army were not on the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

Therefore, the British rejected the French's absurd request without hesitation, and said that if France imposes trade sanctions on Britain, Britain will also impose trade sanctions on France.

After receiving such an answer, the French immediately announced the imposition of punitive tariffs on more than 30 types of goods exported from the United Kingdom. As for the British, they first advised the French not to do things that harm others and benefit themselves, and then solemnly warned the French not to underestimate the determination of the British to defend their own interests, and then dragged on for another month, seeing 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 truce between the Irish and the British has been maintained for several years. During these years, everyone has not been idle. The British continued to build strongholds in their own control area, trying to consolidate their control area and prepare for future raids.

The Irish are naturally not idle. In the past few years, the Irish side has strengthened the regularization of the Independent Army. Although it is limited to the agreement with the British, the Independent Army still has only two divisions. Three regiments, each regiment has only three battalions, below the battalion... the companies below the battalion are not sure, the most are already arranged from A to Z, even the lower platoon is also uncertain, from A to Z There are also quite a few, and the number of people in the lower class and the lower group is not quite right. In short, it is a regiment of the Irish Independence Army, which is comparable in size to a regiment of Li Yunlong, and a division of the Irish Independence Army has developed from a division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance to a group army of the PLA in later generations scale. The two divisions together have 100,000 people.

In addition to the increase in numbers, with the support of the French allies, the training level and equipment level of the Irish Independence Army have also improved significantly. The French never gave up arming the Irish. In various ways and under the guise of various civilian facilities, they supplied the Irish with arms. Now the Irish Independence Army is even a little more advanced than the United Kingdom in terms of weaponry except for heavy artillery.

In addition, the mutual penetration between the two sides has not stopped. The British have been working hard to add spies to the Irish team, and the Irish are constantly instigating against the British. But in general, in this matter, the Irish naturally have the upper hand. Because it is not easy for the British to mix in with the Irish; but for the Irish, there are some Irish people who are 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 almost never stopped in the past few years. Most of these conflicts took place between the "Evil Rape Regiment" under the Irish Independence Army and the special operations team of the British Military Intelligence Service. The Irish "anti-rape group" has been secretly operating in cities including Dublin, assassinating those "love rape" who refuse to cooperate with the United Irish Federation, in order to force more Irish who serve the British to join Come in the ranks of "stepping on two boats".

To be honest, except for a very small number of people who will become "rapists", most of them have nothing more than two reasons-love of money and fear of death. Such people cannot be said to be very loyal to Britain, unless the British check them strictly, they are actually not particularly repulsive of "stepping on two boats". In addition, if you don't "give it a little convenience" or "do things too actively", you may be killed by a bullet flying from nowhere, or even a grenade. Therefore, the Irish in the British-controlled areas generally have a feeling of passive sabotage. If you want to catch the "anti-rape team" of the Irish Federation, you can basically only rely on the serious British.

In order to curb the actions of the "anti-rape group", the British Military Intelligence Bureau specially formed a special operations team. They often set up a bait (let a "love rape" do some special jumping things to attract the "anti-rape group" to act) ), followed by a targeted ambush.

In the beginning, the special operations team of the Military Intelligence Bureau used this method to deceive the "anti-rape group" and killed many "anti-rape group" soldiers. But not long after, the "anti-rape regiment" also took countermeasures, and they began to directly attack the special operations team of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Moreover, their attack methods and techniques are constantly being refurbished. At one point they even brought French-made grenade grenades into the city, and then shelled the compound of the Special Operations Unit of the Military Intelligence Service. It also caused a lot of casualties to the Rangers of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

And after that, the British discovered that the Irish anti-rape regiment had more and more tricks. In addition to violent grenades and rifles with scopes, they also used small crossbows that fired poisonous needles. This kind of crossbow is only the size of a palm and looks like a children's toy. But it is very deadly when used. It can shoot a poisonous needle 20 meters away silently, and it has a fairly good hit accuracy at a distance of about ten meters. Because this poisonous needle uses a special nerve agent from a certain creature in the tropical rainforest, this poison is a highly effective anesthetic that can block nerve conduction, so many people do not even feel a little bit when they are shot .

Once hit by this poisonous needle, the toxin will invade the human body, and after a few minutes, it will relax the muscles of the poisoned person's whole body, including the diaphragm and heart muscle. Once the diaphragm and heart muscle relax, the person immediately loses spontaneous breathing and heartbeat. Then within minutes, he would die from lack of oxygen to his brain.

Because the toxin worked so well and was so hard to spot, the Irish sometimes even rubbed it on the prongs of their umbrellas for assassination purposes. In short, in this secret war, the British found 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 United Irish Federation knows that the time for independence is at hand.

In July 1805, the Irish harvested this year's potatoes, and then declared that the British army violated the armistice agreement and attacked a village near the military demarcation line between the two sides, causing huge losses to the Irish people. The British had voluntarily broken the armistice between the two sides, so from this moment the armistice ceased to exist.

Of course, in order to show the image of the Irish who love peace, the United Irish Federation and the Irish Independence Army still gave the British a chance for peace. They issued an ultimatum to the British, requiring the British to attack Irish villages within twelve hours. The British criminals were handed over to the Irish, and the names of these British were directly named. They also demanded that the British withdraw all troops from Ireland within forty-eight hours.

Such a condition, of course, is not a condition of peace, it is a condition for the British to surrender, and the only purpose of even proposing 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 suppress the rebellion and maintain national unity. Then the United Irish Federation issued the "Declaration for the Liberation of All Ireland", so after a few years of truce, the flames of war ignited again in Ireland.