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Chapter 1123 The Fuse of War ([-]rd update, please subscribe)
In fact, not only the embassy in Constantinople found the problem, but also the embassy in Berlin and other places, as well as its commercial offices and branches.All the intelligence gathered in the country by coincidence.

From the investigation department to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then to various companies, and the company's investigation agency shared the intelligence with the investigation department, and finally imported it into the intelligence briefing through the investigation department, and presented it to Emperor Zhu.

"...We have reasons to believe that the so-called "Grain Act" is a link in Bismarck's friendly policy to Russia. According to the analysis of Ng Fung and other companies, this bill appears to be beneficial to the export of German wheat, but it protects domestic farmers. The quota system implemented as an excuse has obvious exclusivity, and if companies with import quotas purchase wheat from a fixed country, it is bound to be difficult for wheat from other countries to enter the German market."

Qian Zizhuang, the head of the Imperial Investigation Department, used to not send intelligence briefings in person. Usually, a commissioner was responsible for sending briefings to the palace, but today is different from the past. This information is very important.

The reason why he emphasized the analysis of Ng Fung and other companies is because they are more professional in this matter than the agents of the investigation department. Taking the new employees assigned to the wheat trade as an example, in addition to receiving professional knowledge training on wheat, At work, I have to receive information on the global wheat market, production, and origin every day. After several years of training and work experience, I will soon become an expert, but only experienced people can analyze and judge the value of information.

A section chief of a company's overseas agency must have been with the company for at least ten years, and the minister requires more than 15 years of experience. Otherwise, although a lot of information has been collected, the information may be worthless if he does not know how to analyze and judge.

It is precisely because of this that Qian Zizhuang firmly believes in this intelligence conclusion.

"Then what's the conclusion?"

"The conclusion is that Germany has launched a strategy against the Roman Empire. According to the current intelligence analysis, this bill is only part of Germany's friendship policy with Russia. In the future, they will continue to increase their bargaining chips. Bismarck's ultimate goal should be to pass similar The tactics we used then drew Rome to their side."

Slightly nodding his head, Emperor Zhu glanced at the intelligence briefing in front of him again, then he stood up from the desk and paced around the office.

In the end, he stood in front of the window and watched the flock of pigeons flying in the sky outside the window. They were passenger pigeons that had already taken root in South America. This kind of pigeons, which have been declining in North America, has now multiplied by hundreds of millions in Daming. They move and fly in the empire.

When staring at them, it creates a feeling as if a black cloud is moving in the sky.

But Emperor Zhu didn't pay attention to these, he was thinking about the question Qian Zizhuang brought.

并不仅仅是俾斯麦的“友俄政策”，而是德国粮食问题。任何对对德意志第二帝国经济情况有一定了解的穿越者可是非常清楚未来德国的粮食缺口有多大，拿1880年为例，德国一年内需要进口220万吨的小麦、80万吨的大麦和20万吨的燕麦！而同时期德国相应的农作物产量分别为小麦240万吨、大麦130万吨、燕麦47万吨！

Let alone how much gold marks Germany needs to pay for importing grain for a year!

But Germany must import food to meet domestic demand, and of course it also needs to import beef and milk powder. This is Ming's strong point and has nothing to do with Russia.But grain export... is indeed Russia's strong point, and Ukraine is known as the granary of Europe.

After turning around, Emperor Zhu looked at Qian Zizhuang, thought for a while, then walked to the table, nodded to the intelligence briefing, and asked:

"Well, how do you think we should handle this?"

"Your Majesty, this incident is unusual. I think this is just the first step for the Germans. They will pass other friendly policies to Russia in the future. We should prepare in advance."

"It is necessary to be prepared, but one thing we need to pay attention to is that in this matter, we can neither influence Germany not to purchase grain from the Roman Empire, nor can we stop their exports!"

"We can't stop it, but we can use some methods to let the Germans stop imports themselves!"

Standing by the desk, Emperor Zhu took out a Cuban cigar from the wooden cigar case on the desk and said with a smile.

"Germany needs to import food. No matter how the Junker landlords object, they still need to import food, because the output of German land cannot meet the food needs of more than 5000 million Germans. Therefore, they need to purchase food from foreign countries. They exported a lot of food, but what if their food production increased?..."

Emperor Zhu asked back.

"Increased food production? Your Majesty? How is this possible?"

"How is that impossible? Fertilizer!"

Emperor Zhu laughed.

"Chemical fertilizers can greatly increase food production, but by using fertilizers made of guano and saltpeter, crop production can be increased a lot. As early as 20 years ago, the German chemist Liebig proposed the "Plant Mineral Nutrition Theory" and established Fertilizer factories that produce potassium chloride, through the application of phosphate fertilizers, bone fertilizers and other fertilizers, will definitely have an extremely significant increase in grain production in Germany. After the grain production increases, their demand for imports will be greatly reduced, but grain importers will certainly not Abandoning the cheap grain of the Roman Empire, how could the Junker landowners in Germany ignore the loss under the dumping of cheap Roman Empire grain?"

After clicking on the briefing on the table, Emperor Zhu said with a smile.

"Even Bismarck needs the support of the Junker landlords in Congress. Perhaps, now he has persuaded the Junker landlords to support him, but when his grain production increases, the dumping of the Roman Empire's grain is unacceptable. At that time, without our help, Germany will start a trade war with the Roman Empire, you know, food... has been one of its most important export commodities since the Russian era."

What else?
It is wood and minerals. As for industrial products, Tsarist Russia, of course, exports raw materials and imports industrial products.

After a pause, Emperor Zhu took out the lighter, put the flame on the cigar, lit the cigar and took a puff, then laughed.

"Since Bismarck thinks he can use this method to make friends with Russia, then we will increase the export of phosphate fertilizer. The effect of phosphate fertilizer on increasing grain production is still very obvious."

Phosphate!

The distribution in African colonies is extremely wide, and now is just the time to increase exports.

"Let Bismarck taste what lifting a rock is like shooting himself in the foot!"

A few years ago, the British moved a lot, and now it's Germany's turn to move stones. Hey, it's only been a few years, and the Germans have also expanded!
Smoking a cigar, lamenting the expansion of the Germans, Emperor Zhu said to himself.

"Did the Germans open up a colony in Southwest Africa? It seems that they are going to extend their hands to Africa!"

"Your Majesty, as we all know, Africa is the last piece of virgin land! With no colonies to carve up, it is only natural for me to extend my hand to Africa. Moreover, they may also have ambitions for our colonies in Africa."

Regarding his judgment, Emperor Zhu agreed deeply.

"In the past, in their view, the interior of Africa was a barren land, but now the whole world knows that it is a very fertile land. There are even some good-for-nothing people from there to a place where milk and honey flow, Now that it is monopolized by us, how can they not be jealous?"

Not to mention ordinary people with pink eye disease, the same is true for countries. Seeing that others have occupied so many colonies, they will naturally be jealous of countries without colonies.

Because of this, it is very likely that the war in the future will be for the colony.

After all, the colony is a piece of fat that no one can ignore...

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

Perhaps in the past few years, Emperor Zhu has gone through speculation and adventure again and again.They fought for an extremely vast colony for the Ming Empire, but this was only temporary.

Why is it temporary?
Because there is no bloodshed!

There was no bloodshed between Ming Dynasty and those great powers because of their popularity. This is the reason why there will be a war in the future.

And this, of course, is the fuse of the future world war.If Daming wants to defend that vast living space, he must pay a corresponding price...

(End of this chapter)