The Infinite Journey of the Sage

Chapter 178 Trade drives the economy

Euphemia looked at the emperor, Kagura and Nunnally who were having a heated discussion, and couldn't help but feel a little worried in her heart.

She didn't know about any military issues, but being in a place with the most sensitive intelligence in the world, she was also clear about Bunitalia's failure in this world.

Among other things, she had personally experienced the fall of District 11, which represented Bunitalia's power in Asia.

The areas fell one after another.

Australia, Malacca, and the Middle East were all held in Kelal's hands one after another.

The economic channel was quickly opened, and the exchanges of businessmen made the country prosperous. Although I have never been to Europe, it must have been the same as this place under the auspices of that man.

The defense of Zhu Forbidden City was handed over to Hong Gu, and Li Xingke, as a general, actually took charge of District 11. From this, we can see that the Chinese Federation is interested in District 11.

Attacking from that side, Area 11 can be a bridgehead, a storage area for supplies, a large warehouse, and a stable fortress.

And that's not the case if we defend from here.

If the opponent wants to attack here, they have to pay ten times or a hundred times the price, especially the logistical pressure, which is enough to make people desperate.

Moreover, Keilal had no intention of imitating the Japanese in guarding any island.

You can attack District 11, but it is not the mainland of the Chinese Federation. If you attack it, you will lose!

In addition to releasing Area 11 for the Empire to attack, the Empire's supply lines on the sea will also become dangerous.

No matter what island the empire is stationed on, they cannot quickly establish a defense line and offensive.

Just make use of the maneuverability of battleships and the air superiority of aircraft carriers. No matter which island they use as a springboard, garrison troops, or store food, ammunition and other logistical items will be quickly destroyed and evacuated.

It is foreseeable that the war on the sea will be an extremely fierce, continuous, and long-term war. Neither the Chinese Federation nor Bunitalia will take a step back.

But if the Bunitalia Empire was said to be the center of the world before, then after Kelal captured the entire Eurasian continent, it would not be a bad idea to use another sentence to describe the Bunitalia Empire.

——A barbaric land hanging alone outside the center of the world.

Trade is about mutual exchanges.

When my products go and your products come over, everyone makes money, and only then can a trade be formed.

But who should the Bunitalia Empire do business with now?

In the past, the Bunitalia Empire could sell colonial goods to the Chinese Federation or the EU through colonies at low prices and high prices, but now that the colonies are taken down, only the American mainland is left.

The Bunitalia Empire needs tea from India, Yunnan and Zhejiang, but the Chinese Federation does not need the coffee from the Bunitalia Empire. Even the coffee within the Bunitalia Empire is drunk by the lowest level people. For example, white-collar workers and upper-class people all drink tea, good tea, and expensive tea. Tea from India is a little less popular, and then tea from Fujian, Yunnan, and Zhejiang.

The empire imports large amounts of tea from the Chinese Federation every year.

But now, the Chinese Federation no longer trades with the Empire due to the war, and now a large amount of tea leaves are going to Europe.

If the empire wants to buy tea, it must buy more expensive and equivalent tea from the second-tier dealers in EU.

This is only one aspect.

And wood.

The northern part of the empire has a large amount of timber resources. These timbers are also needed by the people of the Chinese Federation. Whether they are building houses or coffins, they are part of the Chinese people's life of old age, illness and death.

But now because of the war, the empire's timber export business must be very difficult to do. Neither Africa nor the EU need so much timber. They don't have this habit. Where does the Chinese Federation's timber come from?

The resources from logging mountains and ruining temples along the Eurasian railway that is being built are extremely huge. Wood and gravel can be used directly on the spot. Countless wood resources can be obtained from the collapsed mountains, because Europe The Asian Railway is being built all the way, with a train of rails pulling it over and a train of wood pulling back. As a Chinese businessman, he naturally knows what kind of wood the Chinese like.

In this way, the businessmen who contracted the railway had already made a fortune before the railway was completed, making countless businessmen in the country jealous. For a while, the price of timber in the Chinese Federation was actually higher than before. Two points cheaper before the war.

However, the wood in the Chinese Federation has become cheaper, but there are definitely many bankrupt timber merchants in the Bunitalia Empire.

These are just two examples.

The Chinese Federation, which has a huge demand for furs, also chose the EU again. The EU's natural resources have even overflowed into natural disasters, especially in Northern Europe. So since there is demand from the Chinese Federation, the hunters and EU fur merchants will developed.

The ones who went bankrupt were the fur merchants of the Bunitalia Empire.

There are many such examples. The farmers of the Bunitalia Empire, the breeders of the Bunitalia Empire, and various industries in the Bunitalia Empire have suffered huge internal injuries. Bunita The upper echelons of the Leah Empire are not aware of this internal injury, but the nobles will find that the income of one of their companies has begun to decrease, and a certain industry in their charge has gradually become sluggish. This weakening is temporary now. Invisible, but it will make the empire weak in the long run. The Bunitalia Empire is a mature market, but a mature market means that it has been finalized, and the internal market share has been fixed. Which industry in the country , which trade routes have been determined, and when foreign trade dies, the domestic market share will definitely change dramatically.

Larger funds will flow back into the Bunitalia Empire, which will have a huge impact on the economic market of the Bunitalia Empire. The owners behind the funds will fight for domestic market share. The entire Bunitalia Empire The Thalia Empire will become extremely chaotic because of Kelal's "Business War". Compared with enemies that cannot be defeated by force for a while, how can it not be extremely simple for them to clean up the people inside?

The powerful nobles will cannibalize the weak nobles, and the big capital will eliminate the small capital. Then the commercial flow within the Bunitalia Empire will become a stagnant water, and all costs will be forced on the ordinary people of the Bunitalia Empire, thus This further caused the foundation of the Bunitalia Empire to falter.

Euphemia in the Chinese Federation has already seen this step under the guidance of Kelal, but I wonder if the leader of the Bunitalia Empire, Brother Schneizel, has seen this step?

If Schneizel really focused on war and the economy, he could indeed discover the traps and dangers of Kelal.

But he didn't. Schneizel was too busy. He was busy appeasing the officials, communicating with the emperor on how to fight next, and secretly discussing with Cornelia what to do.

Everyone in the Bunitalia Empire is not thinking about fighting.

Their hearts are floating.

The war did not defeat them, what defeated them was the pressure Keilal kept putting on them.

Can the Bunitalia Empire, which bombed the east coast and attacked the royal court, protect their most basic rights-survival?

The emperor never gave a specific combat method from beginning to end. Should the Bunitalia Empire attack District 11 or attack English Island?

Using one word to describe the current Bunitalia Empire couldn't be more appropriate.

People's hearts are floating!

In this situation, what other thoughts does the Bunitalia Empire have to fight against the Chinese Federation and the EU?

Now they have to sort out their own affairs first and figure out the domestic affairs.

The ministers and Schneizel were waiting for the emperor to give specific regulations, the emperor was waiting for V.V. to give him a response, and V.V. was waiting for feedback from the assassins.

This kind of waiting is the biggest reason for people's excitement.

However, it took several days to send the assassin to EU, and it took several days after the news of the assassin's death was sent back to V.V.

It took a week to go back and forth, and this week was enough for merchants from the Mediterranean to reach the Indian Ocean!

The emperor was in disbelief when he received the news, "Why did it fail?"

"If he has a C.C., I'm afraid he is also a GEASS user." V.V., whose white hair almost fell to the ground, said coldly: "In that case, let's use the country's strength to speak for itself, Charles, my People will assist you.”

"Well, if that's the case, then that's all." Emperor Charles nodded and said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, Charles, our wish will definitely come true."

V.V. was like a ghost wandering in the palace, his calm and cold voice echoed faintly in the palace.

It's my wish, you liar. The emperor's eyes narrowed slightly and he said in his heart.

"Gather the knights and start a counterattack on District 11 soon." When the emperor announced this in the meeting hall, he meant to summon a large number of living knightmare knights from the Bunitalia Empire to launch a counterattack.

But what Schneizel found unbelievable was that it had already been half a month! It has been half a month since the opponent attacked the imperial capital that day!

The emperor waited for half a month before giving an order for [total war]?

If he can prepare in advance in these half months, the Bunitalia Empire can get more knights, more Vincents, more battleships, and more powerful industrial support.

But there was nothing. In this half month, the emperor did not communicate with anyone, nor did he ask him to make any preparations!

And the worst thing is that the emperor launched a war against the Chinese Federation while he was still in trouble. The entire Bunitalia Empire was very poorly prepared for the war.

Of course, if the twelve Knights of the Round Table that the Emperor is proud of are preparations for war, then just pretend that Schneizel has not said so.

But now there are only eleven Knights of the Round Table, and more importantly, most of the infantry cannot resist the opponent's electromagnetic weapons. If you only rely on the seventh-generation knightmare Vincent, you will have to face the opponent's low-altitude White Tiger and high-altitude P51. There are also electromagnetic weapons on land.

Even the seventh-generation knightmare is basically helpless when it comes to this kind of dragnet.

No matter how much he orders those research and development institutions and how many factories he orders, the Bunitalia Empire is still in an extremely disadvantageous situation.

In Schneizel's view, the current empire should proceed steadily, first repairing the production factories on the east and west sides, and then proceed steadily in the Pacific, building docks and logistics routes one by one on the islands, and slowly pushing the front to the eleventh district. , after accumulating strength on the periphery of District 11 and equipping ordinary soldiers with new weapons, they pushed through in one breath. After the arduous battle in District 11, they occupied District 11 and took back Australia. , only after taking the strategic initiative can we force the other party to negotiate.

But now, the emperor issued an order asking the good men of the Bunitalia Empire to use their lives to fill the gap in weapons. Schneizel could not understand or accept it. He argued: "But now the other party in terms of weapons The side with the advantage is, can we wait a few months before attacking?"

The emperor has even waited for half a month, so what if he waits for half a year?

War is never a matter of urgency.

"I said, do it." The emperor's eyes revealed seriousness and seriousness, making Schneizel sigh helplessly in front of the emperor's gaze.

"Yes, your majesty."

Bunitalia, the most powerful war machine in the world, rumbled into action. The developed population and industrial population accumulated over the past century, with their productivity, threw themselves into this war without any hesitation at the emperor's order. in production.

Things like floating battleships, which were already under development, were naturally put into use, and three were quickly produced in half a month.

Relying on these three floating battleships, the Empire's total number of knightmare troops in the sky and on the sea exceeded 3,000.

Including the landed infantry, the total number of troops this time exceeded 100,000.

These 100,000 people are not servants or numbers, but genuine intellectuals who have gone through the four levels of education of junior high school, high school and university. They are the most elite army in the entire Bunitalia Empire.

With them as the backbone, the Bunitalia Empire can easily recruit half a million servants and numberers. However, now that there are no colonies, it is no joke that one of these 100,000 people is equivalent to ten.

But something that actually happened in history.

The Bunitalia Empire relied on 100,000 such soldiers to complete the suppression of Japan, a country with 100 million people.

Now, the trade war that belongs to Kelal is over.

The real war is about to begin.