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Therefore, when given a choice, the more outstanding the prince is, the more suspicious the emperor will be.

He would even deliberately indulge several other princes and make them fight with the crown prince.

He even deposed the crown prince in order to eliminate the threat.

But in China, such a thing does not exist at all.

The emperor has full trust in the prince.

When the prince was thirteen years old, he was allowed to take turns to participate in politics in the six ministries.

Then, when the prince was sixteen years old, he would take him by his side and personally teach him how to handle government affairs.

One or two years later, when the prince became familiar with government affairs, Jia Cong took the initiative to delegate power and let the prince try to handle government affairs personally.

As a result, Jia Cong was semi-liberated from government affairs and had more time to guide the development of science and technology.

As for the princes and princesses of the royal family, they were filial to Jia Cong and respected the crown prince, and none of them showed any ambition to compete for the position of crown prince.

Of course, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he has no ambition. Maybe he has ambition but has not shown it.

You know, human hearts are the most unpredictable.

However, at least on the surface, they never showed it.

And this was enough for Jia Cong.

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It is said that several Western countries, including Zhenzhen Kingdom, Eagle Kingdom, and Elephant Kingdom, began to form an alliance and then formulated a countermeasure.

First, they strongly condemned the Central Plains for plundering the world's wealth.

Second, they demanded that China disclose all its advanced technologies because science has no borders.

The Central Plains, on the other hand, forcibly set up barriers and blocked technology.

Third, they asked Zhongyuan to keep various technologies and then withdraw from the markets of various countries.

In response, Jia Cong sneered and could only say that they were dreaming.

In other words, it is the Central Plains that is leading in technology now. If they were the leading party, they would only plunder more fiercely.

They wanted to obtain the Central Plains' technology for free, and were unwilling to pay for it. They also wanted the Central Plains' products and completely withdraw from their country.

I have to say, this is truly the logic of a robber.

Naturally, Jia Cong would not agree to such an excessive request.

Even before they made these requests, Jia Cong had already begun to make plans.

After they made their request, Jia Cong naturally refused.

The allied countries, represented by Zhenzhen Kingdom and Xiang Kingdom, once again made shameless moves.

They decided to directly confiscate all of Zhongyuan's assets in their country.

This time, their bandit faces were exposed.

We want you to give it to us, right?
In that case, let's get it ourselves.

In fact, China had started transferring funds and talents very early on. As for factories, machines and other items, they were scrapped before leaving.

Since you want it, I'll leave you an empty shell.

In this way, Zhongyuan will lose a large amount of money.

All the initial investment was wasted.

There are other losses, too, which, when added together, are simply incalculable.

But after all, it is on someone else's territory, and these losses are inevitable.

In addition, these losses will not be in vain, they will naturally earn them back double later.

And Jia Cong simply chose to fight to the end and chose to fight back.

First of all, all the countries that had confiscated Central Plains’ assets had their investments in Central Plains also confiscated by Central Plains.

In this way, the Central Plains gained a great deal of benefit.

And these countries' investment in China is not less at all.

After all, China is not only the world's most powerful country, but also the world's largest economy.

This is everyone's dream place.

Big financial groups and capital from all over the world come here to invest.

There is gold everywhere here, it just depends on whether you have the ability to pick it up.

Moreover, the laws in the Central Plains are also very good. As long as you abide by the laws and pay taxes in full, you will be protected by the laws in the Central Plains.

China's counterattack directly caused heavy losses to the world's major financial groups.

These chaebols immediately became dissatisfied and began to put pressure on the authorities in their respective countries.

And this is just the first step of China's counterattack.

The second step is to put more than half of China’s electronic and mechanical products under export control and prohibit their export.

Of course, this step seems very puzzling to outsiders. If one restricts the export of one's own goods, wouldn't it be like hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting oneself by thirty thousand?

Not to mention people from abroad, even people in China find it hard to understand this wave of operations.

However, they believed in their emperor. Since the emperor did this, he must have his reasons.

Third, China strongly condemns the countries that imposed sanctions and has also imposed counter-sanctions on their goods.

This time, the Central Plains can be said to have confronted the entire world.

Except for the people of Central Plains, everyone felt that Central Plains had made a stupid move and that doing this was tantamount to seeking their own death.

Because the development of Central Plains is inseparable from the huge market of the world.

Without this market, the Central Plains economy will inevitably decline and collapse.

Zhongyuan will soon beg for mercy from them and agree to a series of their demands.

But it didn't take long. Before the Central Plains economy collapsed, they themselves were the first to lose control.

After more than ten years of development, all developed countries have achieved electrical modernization.

Of course, more than 90% of these electrical appliances are manufactured in China.

The remaining 10% is made in other countries.

And they can only produce low-end products. They have no competitiveness at all in high-end products.

Because of the sanctions on Central Plains, they no longer import these products from Central Plains.

It's not just electronic products, both sides have almost completely closed all trade windows.

They plan to use the technology from the Central Plains to vigorously develop local industries.

Then finally replace all Central Plains products with local industries.

In this process, various discomforts and conditions will inevitably arise.

And they have already prepared for the pain.

Unexpectedly, they did not expect that the pain would come so quickly and be so painful.

First of all, the inventory of spare parts for various products was quickly used up.

Too much inventory will squeeze a lot of funds.

But now the shipping speed between the two sides is extremely fast, so they did not stockpile a large amount of goods in advance.

Before counterattacking the Central Plains, they had also thought about stockpiling a large amount of goods.

Unexpectedly, their conspiracy had already been seen through by Zhongyuan, so Zhongyuan still supplied them according to the previous supply volume and rejected their request for large-scale purchases.

Now, in less than half a month, their stock has been used up.

At this time, an embarrassing thing happened.

Whether it is a tram or other electronic products, once a fault occurs, parts need to be replaced.

Now there are no parts available for replacement.

Without spare parts, these products cannot be repaired and will remain idle.

This, however, cannot be blamed on Zhongyuan. It is not that Zhongyuan's manufacturers refused to sell to them, but that their authorities took the initiative to sanction them.

This would cause disaster to the general public.

Of course, it’s not just the people who suffer.

The nobles, and even those in power, also suffered.

After all, they have more money and use more electronic products.

Fortunately, they can still take money from one pocket to pay for another.

Simply remove the parts of other similar products and replace them.

But the common people are far from having such luxury.

They can only watch the limitations of their equipment.

So they all started cursing and complaining about those in power.

There were even strikes, demonstrations and other activities.

However, those in power had anticipated this situation and therefore did not take it seriously.

Instead, we use various means to eliminate the impact of such incidents.

As long as their local industries develop, all problems can be solved.

However, they soon discovered that they were a little too optimistic.

Putting aside other things, they cannot even produce most of the parts.

They originally thought that these parts had no technological content at all and could be easily produced.

But it turned out that they were too optimistic and the problem was completely different from what they had imagined.

In addition, the few domestic industries in their own country have begun to suspend production.

Because it is a local industry and has its own patents.

However, most of the parts are still imported from Central China.

They imposed sanctions on Central China and refused to import all goods related to electronic products from Central China, which naturally included these parts.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to purchase from the Central Plains at this time.

Originally, they didn't pay attention to these details. They were just some spare parts and it was not like they couldn't produce them.

The original reason for importing from the Central Plains was simply because their prices were lower.

Now that they have stopped importing, they have realized belatedly that they are actually unable to produce most of these parts.

It turns out that these parts are all technologically advanced.

But with their current capabilities, they simply cannot produce it.

And they discovered something even more terrifying.

That is, to produce a product, too many parts are needed.

However, as a single country, they simply cannot possess all categories of machinery.

I'm afraid these are only available in the Central Plains.

Perhaps, only if all their countries work together can they compete with the Central Plains.

But is it really possible? Can they really work together?

Apart from anything else, I am afraid that it will not be long before one of their countries betrays their alliance and colludes with the Central Plains again.

It is very likely that the first country to cooperate with the Central Plains will be their country.

I have to say, this is a great sadness and irony.

Therefore, these remaining local industries have basically all come to a standstill.

Of course, there are also industries that can sustain themselves on their own.

But this is really too little.

And the products they produce are also very low-end and small categories.

At this time, the people of these countries realized it belatedly after calculating afterwards.

It turns out that Central Plains had been on guard against them from the very beginning.

From the very beginning, Zhongyuan has firmly controlled many scientific and technological technologies in its own hands.

They simply cannot get rid of their dependence on the Central Plains.

Unless, they start a new business.

However, they couldn't help but do some calculations if they really wanted to start a new business.

To develop to the current level of technology, and with the concerted efforts of all major countries, it would take at least thirty years.

It turns out that the gap between them and the Central Plains is so huge!

Moreover, who knows how far the technology in the Central Plains will develop in thirty years!

But can they survive these thirty years?
They all knew in their hearts that this was absolutely impossible.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frug

Once they are used to using electrical appliances, it is impossible to ask them to go back to the dark ages.

Just like the people in the future, if you ask them to stop using mobile phones, how long can they last?
How could the people tolerate returning to primitive living conditions for thirty years?
They don’t know whether the people can hold on, but they know that they definitely can’t hold on.

In less than three years, they will be driven out of power.

At this point, all of them had to admit that their first step of sanctions against Central Plains ended in complete failure.

And given the nature of the Central Plains, they will definitely make them pay a huge price before they are willing to trade with them again.

And this is something they absolutely cannot tolerate.

After all, beneath their polite appearance, the dirty blood of bandits flows.

Therefore, in the end, they decided to send troops together and declare war directly on the Central Plains.

Their minimum goal is to scare the Central Plains and force them to disclose all their technologies.

They even have to send technical personnel to help them complete industrialization.

If the Central Plains is vulnerable, they don't mind and will directly destroy it, enslave it, and make it their colony.

After the plot was completed, they sat together to discuss.

When to send troops and how many troops each country will send.

After winning, how will the benefits be distributed?

If they wanted to colonize the Central Plains, which places would each country get?

After everything was discussed, they were finally ready to send troops.

What they didn't know was that their conspiracy, which they thought was secretive, had already been detected by China.

While they were preparing, China was also preparing at the same time.

Three months later, their army was finally assembled.

A mighty army consisting of thirteen countries, with a total of more than 5,000 warships and a total of one million troops, set out.

Almost all of these countries have come out in full force.

After all, their country is not very big.

However, the Central Plains was too powerful, and when the benefits were finally divided, they were distributed according to the number of troops sent and the amount of effort put in.

Therefore, they had to put all their efforts into launching this war.

As long as they can win, all of their countries will surely make a fortune.

What they didn't know was that they had just set out, and the footage of their departure had been secretly filmed by the Jinyiwei and sent back in advance.

After Jia Cong received the news, he immediately convened a small meeting.

Only officials at the ministerial level were eligible to attend this rally. (End of this chapter)