The Second Reich: Beginning with the Prince of Prussia

By the time He Shen arrived in Gaul, he had completely put away the contempt in his heart.

Unlike Italy, Gaul was a traditional European power.

Although the area of the mainland is not large, only 550,000 square kilometers.

That's the size of their two provinces.

However, Gaul also had a large number of colonies overseas.

Combined, these colonies cover a total area of more than 10 million square kilometers.

If you add the size of the colonies, then the area of Gaul is even larger than that of the Celestial Empire.

Such a country, Heshen naturally does not dare to despise it.

Moreover, when they cared about Duli before, they were already severely shocked.

Now that they have come to a country that is even more powerful than Yi Duli, He Shen and the others not only dare not despise it.

is even a little restrained, for fear that his every move will lose face in the court.

Fortunately, the Gauls did not know this, and they were only concerned about the large orders in the hands of Heshen.

So along the way, the Gauls were very polite to Heshen and his entourage.

It's even a little too polite!

In Gaul, Ho Shen saw more, larger warships.

I saw more factories, more prosperous cities, and more affluent people.

He was deeply shocked by this, and felt that Gaul really lived up to its reputation.

Their national strength and military strength are indeed stronger than those of Italy, and they are more than one and a half points stronger.130

Especially when he saw the Eiffel Tower, which was hundreds of meters high, He Shen's heart was greatly shocked.

More than 300 meters high, all of them are steel towers!

It was completely beyond his imagination!

How much steel does it take!

The Gauls were too extravagant, right?

You know, the Celestial Empire's annual steel output is less than 10,000 tons!

With such an iron tower, they can't even get up to the technical strength, and they can't even get together the steel used for construction!

At this moment, He Shen Zhongshen felt the huge gap in strength between the East and the West.

This also gave him the idea of learning from the West, introducing technology, and developing his own industry.

Of course, before that, he had to complete the task given to him by the emperor.

Let's buy back the battleships that the sailors urgently need, if there are no warships.

The Japanese people are afraid that they will start to detain the border, and then the imperial court will probably be busy dealing with the Japanese invaders.

There will be no time and energy to develop industry!

The Gauls were speechless when they saw that He Shen and the others were shocked for a long time, and they were very satisfied with the effect.

In fact, let alone He Shen and others.

Even people from other European countries will be shocked to see the Eiffel Tower!

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The Gauls played their abacus well, and they showed the Eiffel Tower to He Shen and others.

Leave a very powerful impression of Gallic in the minds of the other party, and this impression will influence their judgment.

Help them beat the competition and get this order.

Since He Shen and the others met the Eiffel Tower, their minds were full of thoughts about the invincibility of the Gauls.

It's so luxurious that it uses up so much steel just to build an iron tower.

The richness and strength of the Gauls can be seen!

Therefore, He Shen and others also had a great impression of Gaul and felt that they were cooperating with such a powerful country.

Only in line with the identity of the Celestial Empire can you buy better weapons than the Japanese people.

Thinking of this, He Shen had almost made up his mind and placed an order with Gaul.

However, the plans of the Gauls ultimately fell short.

Just when He Shen and the others had almost decided that Gaul was their partner, they saw that such a large order was about to fly away.

Other countries were suddenly unhappy, especially when the sun never set.

They had thought that this order would fall into their hands, after all, the Celestial Empire's mission had not yet visited Sunset.

With the strength of the sun that never sets, they will definitely be able to subdue them!

But now the other party did not intend to move on, as if they were about to finalize the Gauls.

How can people endure the sun that never sets? (Read the violent novel, go to the Feilu Novel Network!)

So, they just took a walk, and the news reached the ears of He Shen and others through the mouths of others.

It was easy for Heshen to dissipate his goodwill towards Gaul, and then completely ruined the (CGBG) business.

The news that the sun never sets is simple.

Didn't the Gauls want to show that they were strong?

This kind of thing is just to deceive the people of the Celestial Empire who don't understand the situation in Europe, but to deceive them. []

That's a dream!

So, they took a walk and told He Shen and the others.

Gaul had suffered two crushing defeats in the last two decades.

A total of more than 1.5 billion taels of silver in war reparations were paid!

As soon as this news came out, He Shen and the others suddenly dropped their jaws!

1,500,000,000 taels of silver!

What a terrible number!

You must know that the annual financial income of the Celestial Empire at this time is only tens of millions of taels of silver!

1.5 billion taels of silver, which is worth their treasury income for 30 years!

Because the numbers are too outrageous, when He Shen heard the news.

The first reaction is not to believe it!

No matter how strong Gaul is, in his opinion, it is estimated that it is slightly stronger than the Celestial Empire.

If the Celestial Empire loses the war, it will definitely not be able to come up with so much money as 1.5 billion taels of silver.

Even if Gaul was slightly stronger than them, it would not have been possible to get so much money?

So this news must be fake!

However, if it's true or not, you will find out when you ask someone!

He Shen did not ask the Gauls, as this might be a history of humiliation for the Gauls.

So if you ask them, they will most likely hide it.

He approached a few Norsemen and asked them about it.

As a result, after asking, I was stunned to find that this matter was actually true!

This made He Shen sigh with emotion!

"I thought Gaul was strong enough!

I didn't expect that there are even more powerful countries in Europe than them!

What is the origin of the Second Empire, how can it be in just twenty years?

Defeated Gaul twice and breached the Gallic capital twice. "

He Shen was puzzled because he had seen the Gallic army before.

This army was all armed with fine muskets, the kind of firearms that Shen had never seen before.

But at first glance, it is much better than the arquebuses and shotguns that the Qing army is currently equipped with.

And the Gallic army was not only good in terms of guns, but also of excellent quality artillery.

In terms of quantity, it is even more complete to explode the Qing army!

Such a strong army would actually be defeated by the Second Empire.

And let the family hit the capital, which made He Shen very curious.

How powerful was the army of the Second Empire?

Compared to the navy, the army is obviously more important to the Celestial Empire.

In addition, He Shen himself is the Minister of Military Aircraft, so he is also more concerned about this aspect.

So, after learning about it.

He immediately became interested in the Second Empire!