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In the list of weapons purchased on loan, there are field portable artillery urgently needed by Sweden and explosives for bombing castles, as well as some obsolete arquebus guns and armor.

In terms of the repayment method, the preparatory committee gave a suggestion for a repayment method. This repayment method is only a suggestion and requires the permission of the nobles and the king.

The proposal for the repayment method is to grant the company the salt franchise and grain export franchise in the Baltic Sea region of Sweden. It will be counted as a management agency, and Sweden will send people to monitor the profits. The profits will be turned over to the King of Sweden every year, and a certain amount will be deducted every year. Principal repayment plus a franchise profit management fee of [-] percent of revenue.

Companies are allowed to set up special salt cooking workshops, and the profits of the salt cooking workshops are not included in the profits turned over to the exclusive pricing.

In addition to the loan necessary to purchase weapons, the company's preparatory committee can also lend Gustav an interest-free loan of about 80 Bohemian thalers to enrich the Swedish treasury.

But the interest-free loan is only interest-free in name, which must contain certain behind-the-scenes transactions.

The company's request is to cooperate with Sweden to establish a Swedish mining, metallurgy and weapons company. The Swedish royal family does not need to pay, but only needs to be granted various preferential rights. In addition to the normal tax payment every year, there is another 15.00% dividend in the form of guns. Paid to the Swedish Crown.

The repayment period of this interest-free loan is 20 years, and the company also has 20 years of monopoly mining rights for foreign mining companies. After 20 years, the Swedish royal family will be allowed to release restrictions on capital from other countries to mine.

In addition, it is hoped that the Swedish royal family and the aristocratic council will allow the people and companies of the republic to conduct reasonable and legal trade in Sweden and the right to open workshops such as papermaking and hydraulic sawmills under the premise of abiding by Swedish laws.If there is a tax system reform, the citizens and companies of the Republic have the right to undertake the right to undertake regional taxation.

The Communist Party of the Mexican Party funded and established a "university" in Stockholm, and hoped that the Swedish royal family would exempt the university from taxes and grant a certain amount of land to the university, mainly teaching geometry, mathematics, accounting, bookkeeping, natural science and The training of grassroots artillery officers does not involve any religious education, and the first batch of teachers is the direction of expenditure of [-] talers in the previous loan.It doesn't cost much, the land belongs to the king, it doesn't cost money to grant fiefs, and the teacher's salary is the cash return income from the loan.

Chapter 57 Imperialism ([-])

The money invested is nothing in the Republic, but for Sweden, which has only [-] permanent residents in the big city of Stockholm, it is life-saving money.

Chen Jian, the instigator behind the scenes, is sure that Sweden can agree to these conditions, and will consider them to be very favorable conditions.

For the marauding Gustav and his legions of mercenaries, war can make you rich, and you can feed war with war.

Once the war broke out, the annual ransom from the towns of northern Germany could support more legions.In order to support war with war, a large number of weapons are needed. Chen Jian is sure that a foreign holding company, a complex of copper and iron smelting and artillery, will soon be able to rely on Sweden to seize the wealth of the entire north-central Europe.

Chen Jian does not want to see a Catholic Germany dominated by Austria, which is likely to result in tariff protection, which is quite detrimental to exports.Sweden is the most important chess piece to stir up Catholic Germany, and it does not require Chen Jian to go into battle shirtless or the capital group of the Republic to send troops. It only needs a certain amount of loans to make Sweden, which is weak at this time, grow up quickly.

Weak countries with investment potential pay little but gain a lot.Once the economic lifeline other than robbery is under control, the future income will not be comparable to the hundreds of thousands of silver coins today.

The aristocracy in Sweden is not strong, and the Linköping tragedy has already killed a wave of aristocrats. The war can allow the lower classes to participate in national politics more widely, which is of great help to the awakening of democracy. This is beneficial to the progress of the times .

When the negotiations between the preparatory committee and the Swedish envoy gradually became clear, Chen Jian finally showed up, which meant that the negotiations had reached the final stage.

Using his previous personal connections in the army, Chen Jian invited the Swedish envoy to watch an elite army drill near the capital.

In addition to horizontal formation tactics and platoon guns, the Swedish envoy was most impressed by the artillery level of these elite troops.

Compared with the artillery technology in Europe at this time, the artillery here is higher than the level of gravity value plus parabolic calculation. Even if the cannon has no cross-age technology because the boring machine for digging the cylinder has not been successful, the gravity acceleration measured by the pendulum Value and parabola calculations have greatly improved the accuracy of artillery operation.

After calculating the gravitational acceleration by means of mathematics and pendulums, the Academy organized an expensive new artillery prefabricated scale angle table.

In the field provided by the military, a lot of money was spent to build a flat and wide field, and a fort two meters above the field was built to allow cannons of various calibers and body ratios to shoot in a posture parallel to the ground. , to measure the distance between the first impact point and the fort.

Using a simple parabolic calculation, roughly calculate the average flight speed of the cannon shells with different charges, and then use the corrected values ​​​​from the trigonometric function table brought back from Europe by the Department of Mathematics and Chen Jian to compile the various shooting parameters.

Artillery officers must learn geometry, while artillerymen only need to be able to read and understand the parameters and scales and protractors that follow the diagram.

It's not accurate, but compared to the previous experience, it is a huge improvement, and the hit rate is much higher than before.

In the white smoke of the practice field, Chen Jian and the Swedish envoy had a conversation in Dutch amidst the smell of gunpowder smoke left by the guns.

The Swedish envoys called Chen Jian according to his position when he sailed around the world, and Chen Jian did not correct him, because before coming here, a power group in some capitals with great ties to capital had a conversation with Chen Jian. Private capital is running this matter, but Chen Jian can properly use some official identities, even if they have been deprived, they can still be borrowed.

"Mr. Governor, your country's artillery is of a very high level."

"Artillery technology is partly math and partly luck. But math is always with luck. That's why we want to open a university in your country. These things should belong to all people, just as many things should It is the same as it is generally applicable in the world."

There are many things that are universally applicable in the world, but which ones are not depends on who has the right to speak in the world.Chen Jian used mathematics to make a small opening, creating a sophistry concept, making many things taught by the planned university sophistry universal, especially in the humanities.

The Swedish envoy didn't think so much, and praised: "It is indeed the case. Indeed, many things are universally applicable in the world. His Majesty the King will definitely agree with your proposal to establish a university in Stockholm, and I think His Majesty the King will seal enough land and give universities tax exemptions. If your country has people who earn a living as mercenaries at this level, we'd like to hire a bunch of soldiers."

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "It's impossible. There may be private actions, but organized mercenaries use the blood of Chinese people to make money, which is absolutely forbidden. However, some retired artillery officers can be hired in private capacity. Hired, I can contact you for this. Regarding the ongoing war in your country, I personally sympathize with the people who suffer in the war, so I will suggest that the International Society of Healing and Healing send some field doctors. At home, I will also look for Some surgical interns went there, maybe their skills are not good, but learning and improving in the wounded barracks is better than nothing.”

Thinking of the level of those interns, Chen Jian felt that the level of anatomy, surgery, and amputation would be greatly improved after being sent to the wounded barracks over there for internship.High-level doctors will not go, but interns are no problem. Maybe they can rely on the Dan-Shween War and the Russo-Swiss War to train several famous surgeons and anatomy masters in the future. It is impossible for the level of human life to be low.

The Swedish envoy knew that the changes that took place in the wounded barracks during the West-Dutch War did not actually require great medical skills. Qualified nurses were enough to reduce the death rate from [-]% to [-]%. The International Society of Healing the Wounded and Toddler has gained a great reputation.

"I have considered that saving lives and helping the wounded should be the kindness and nature of human beings, but what I have seen is not the case. Therefore, I hope that after you return to your country, you can convey it on my behalf. "Signed. In the future, the Association of Rescue the Dying and Healing the Wounded can give priority to the treatment of wounded soldiers in the signatory countries. I hope that the world can take a big step forward, and in the future, after massacres of cities and civilian wounded soldiers, they can be condemned, sanctioned, and jointly sent troops to protect the world. axiom."

"I will definitely convey this point on behalf of Mr. Governor, and I think the benevolent king will definitely agree."

Chen Jian chuckled inwardly, but there was no option to prohibit robbery in the draft agreement, and the previous performance of the International Association of Healing the Wounded and Rescue was amazing. It is estimated that Gustav would sign it after weighing the pros and cons.

The progress of the proposed convention is very small. In order to attract the Netherlands to join the convention, there are no provisions such as prohibiting massacres for religious reasons.

This is a pact to attract emerging countries to challenge the old order in Europe. A brand new world order and the mainstream three views are not only established by force, but actually a business, but the investment in this business is silver and manpower, and the harvest is It seems that there is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it does not mean that it is meaningless.

If it becomes axiomatic to massacre cities and civilians and wounded soldiers, then even if it opens the door to the concept of human rights, if it spreads, one day robbery and killing people for religious reasons will become a mistake—and now, Killing people because of religion is a kind of political correctness.

Although the Swedish envoy agreed with this matter, Chen Jian hadn't mentioned the loan and arms sales that he most wanted to hear, so now he can only cater to Chen Jian and say these things that are not important to him.

After Chen Jian talked for a while about people's rights and other things that seemed reasonable to the nobles but were generally pure nonsense, he finally talked about investment and loans.

"I can make it clear that the Republic has no intention of forming an alliance with your country for the time being, nor does it have the idea of ​​government financial support. This needs to be passed by our National Assembly, but this is obviously not the time. However, investment by private companies is feasible, People from the preparatory committee have already discussed with you, the specific amount is up to both of you to discuss, I just talk about the name of the contract."

"I want to know, in whose name is our investment and the cooperation agreement signed with your country? The company hopes to sign a contract with the State of Sweden, rather than a contract and cooperation agreement with the Vasa family in Sweden. This point It is our bottom line, whoever supports the contract is a government that can be recognized by the company; if the contract is not recognized, the company will not recognize the legitimacy of the government.”

"Of course, we can provide some support and loans now, but the real cooperation treaty must be signed after the king of your country is officially enthroned and has the support of the parliament and nobles, and the subsequent series of cooperation can also be launched. I hope you will Go back and convey it clearly. You have to know that your country is not the same as ours here. Let alone the question of whether it is legally supported. If Poland’s Sigmund Vasa led his troops back to Sweden and became the king of Sweden, he would not recognize these investments. What about the contract?"

"Whether it is reasonable or not, you have your reasons, your theories, including noble blood, inheritance rights, etc. But these things do not apply to us, and we do not recognize them. Not to mention the idea of ​​our party, it is an investment company These bloodlines and inheritance rights are bullshit. Whoever recognizes the contract is reasonable within the concept of capital, and the rest is bullshit. Even if Siegmund Vasa has the right to claim, even if there is an orthodox Vasa family bloodline , but does not recognize various contracts, he is a pseudo-regime in the capital system.”

"I like capital very much. It only cares about benefits, not about blood. I like nouveau riche far more than I like nobles.

Chapter 58 Imperialism ([-])

There were originally only two nations in Europe, commoners and nobles.

The era of civilians has come quietly with the guns fired, but many people are still ignorant that a sovereign state can and can only happen when civilians really start to participate in state affairs, that is, when a large number of civilians are required to die as soldiers.

Chen Jian said this at this time, just to strengthen Gustav's attitude of standing with foreign capital, and capital is like a drug addiction, which he can't quit if he wants to.

The Swedish envoy somewhat understood what Chen Jian meant. These words sounded uncomfortable to the Swedes, but they could not refute them at this time.

As for whose country Sweden is, whose Sweden it is, what sovereignty is, etc., I can only talk about it at this time.

Whether the contract is recognized or not is never based on lip service.A treaty fought with a pair of fists is meaningless, that is, there is nothing you can do if you don't recognize the so-called order. It's not that there is nothing, but Sweden certainly does not have such power.

Sweden not only needs loans at this time, but also needs to attract investment. Those high-quality iron ores are in the ground, and they will never be developed without capital and technology. The primitive and backward mining and metallurgical technology makes iron ore only iron ore.

Now Spain is minting copper coins, which has led to an increase in the price of copper. Sweden also has some copper mines, but the silver coins exchanged every year are really pitiful.

When the preparatory committee proposed the loan and mining, the Swedish envoy had already achieved its goal, and the rest was just bargaining, but Chen Jian obviously wanted to make the loan and support have more political conditions attached.

"Mr. Governor, I will convey your words to His Majesty the King. As for whether to agree, it is not up to me to decide."