Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The lack of coal and iron resources was a huge weakness of the France. However, this weakness could still be fixed. If the France truly made up his mind and wanted to make up for it, he could solve this problem through the gigantic colony.

France lacks the resources of coal and iron, but its colonies are not lacking, and like England, there are not many of them. But they have made up for the deficiencies in their resources through their vast colonies, so Britain has produced the world's largest amount of steel and coal so far.

But the French did not seem to care at all for such a great flaw, and did not even think of making up for it. Why?

In fact, the worst thing was that the French had a national character problem!

This was a country that was greedy for money! Moreover, their nobles and capitalists were obsessed with the luxurious palace, and were unable to extricate themselves. This was a bad habit that they developed during the era of the Sun King!

Delicious clothing, extravagant desires, France is all about eating, drinking and enjoying the wind.

In order to satisfy this kind of life, France's economic structure has appeared a one-sided unreasonable phenomenon, that is, heavy light industry, and light heavy industry!

Prussian intelligence had done a thorough analysis of the Government of France. The result was that last year, 70% of the France's industrial output had been provided by the light industry, while only 30% had been provided by the heavy industry.

And what are these light industries? It was a high-end tea set, crystal ware, expensive furniture, wine, delicious food, popular European leather goods, and beautiful clothes and hats … That is to say, the entire light industry in France is largely for the luxury goods.

Can this thing fight a war? It was obviously impossible!

Being overly obsessed with luxury goods would naturally cause their light industry to develop in a deformed manner. This was because it was very difficult to quantify luxury goods and, of course, the things that were produced would not be called luxury goods.

Therefore, the light industry in France was basically a small handicraft workshop with around a few dozen people. There were very few large factories with over a thousand people.

Hehe! The more I said, the more I felt like I saw a European version of the Great Qing Empire. Before the empire was defeated by Britain, the Great Qing Empire was also in a fantasy of being arrogant.

Alright, let's take a look at the most crucial element of the Industrial Revolution. That is the railway, let's see how the French railways are doing.

In 1869, the total length of the French highway last year was 17,900 kilometers, but Prussia had already built a railway line of 21,400 kilometers, which meant that the number of locomotives was several times that of the French. In other words, Prussia had an absolute advantage in terms of the mobilization of troops, the mobilization of resources, the mobilization of resources, and so on.

The more Xiao Luotian said, the more William I's mouth opened up. He was thoroughly shocked by the numbers, but what happened afterwards was even more shocking.

Dear His Majesty the King, let us take another look at French agriculture. We must admit that, in terms of geography, the France has a warmer climate than we do in Prussia, influenced by the climate of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It is more suitable for the development of agriculture.

We all know that during the French Revolution period, the feudal system of land concentration was abolished and turned into a small land ownership system owned by the peasants. In other words, a large piece of land was completely dismantled and divided into small scattered pieces.

It is well-known that the ability of farmers to resist all kinds of risks is very weak, so after decades of development, this kind of scattered farmers holding small land system, is destined to produce a serious polarization.

There would always be people who were good at scheming. The better their days passed, the worse their days would be!

This was a long-term process of polarization, and this time, the polarization in the France countryside had reached a state of extreme suffering.

France did not develop a heavy industry, which meant that he did not have many factories and enterprises that could accommodate the bankrupt and destitute peasants. The so-called working class of France, in a sense, should belong to the city's civil class.

Farmers who are truly destitute and bankrupt cannot survive in the metropolis because they do not have the technology to enter the luxury industry and there are not many large factories that can offer them the opportunity to sell off their cheap labour.

They were slaves to the usurpers. They were a new kind of slaves, slaves of financial products and capital.

Strangely enough, since the French were not too obsessed with the land, this polarization was followed by a completely different social trend from that of China.

If, in China, for example, after the land of Great Qing had been fragmented, another serious polarization would occur within a few decades, and what would happen in the end?

On one side was the rise of the new landowner class, and on the other was the conversion of the destitute peasants into tenants.

In the Qing Empire, this was a land concentration process, so the rich liked the ownership of the land more. However, the France was not the case, the rich people of France were very strange, they liked to lend money to the rich, rather than taking ownership of the land directly.

Maybe the two families were similar farmers 30 years ago, but 30 years later, one was doing very well, becoming a rich man with a fiscal surplus, while the other became an insolvent man.

So this time rich people do not like the Chinese, like to directly buy the land from the bankrupt, but let the bankrupt continue to hold the land!

In order to continue to operate the land and maintain the normal production of the land, the bankrupt would have to borrow money from the rich. This was the social reality of usury!

There are those who say that all the people in France are usurpers, and even that the French economy is usurpative imperialism, I am sure of that.

Extreme poverty farmers had to lock on to the land generation after generation, turning each year's hard-working surplus into interest on usury.

At the same time, the ownership of the land was still in their hands, giving them an inexplicable fantasy of the future!

It was because of these fantasies that they were reluctant to leave their land, and could not change their identity to become a free craftsman! Since then, restrictions have also been exacerbated by the development of large-scale industrialization in France.

Heavy industry is difficult to develop without the support of an adequate number of workers.

Prussia, on the other hand, for decades had abolished serfdom in Prussia and vigorously promoted the capitalist economy of large farms, which could stimulate the development of agricultural mechanization, while peasants or serfs who had lost their land and had nothing left entered the city under the pressure of life and threw themselves into the working class.

This formed a win-win situation, agriculture due to the scientific and technological improvement, as a result of intensive development, agricultural production is increasing year by year.

Second industrial development also received much-needed human resources, and Prussia's industrial development was far smoother than France's, with the support of a large free population base.

"My dear Majesty, Prussia's entire strength can be said to completely crush France, but this point has already been deeply hidden by Bismark. The entire world still thinks that Prussia is still that extremely weak nation of the past!"

"The entire world has been deceived. Once war breaks out, they will definitely be so shocked that their eyes will fall out!"