(I haven’t finished coding yet, so I’ll read it again in half an hour. Thank you all)
As time goes by, the private activities of the army generals have become more and more frequent.
However, although those generals are active, the results they have achieved are not good. Among them, Prime Minister Despretis, who is the main target, has not expressed his position so far, but the generals are not discouraged and they will continue to work hard.
Of course, the activities of these generals have always been under the surveillance of thoughtful people. Of course, as the number of their activities increases, their purposes are gradually exposed.
"Your Majesty, this is what the army generals communicated privately to other ministers."
Also in this secret room, a middle-aged man in ordinary clothes handed a document to Carlo.
Carlo opened it, took a look, and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Keep monitoring them."
"It's all about the Kingdom."
After waiting for this person to leave, Carkaro looked seriously.
It recorded the conversations between these admirals and those in contact, and Carlo gradually relaxed as he watched the content of their conversations.
Since these generals want to play politics, it's good to let them feel the strength of professional players.
After letting go of his thoughts, Carlo returned to the office, where various statistics about this year have been placed on his desk, and their height is by no means comparable to before.
Carlo looked at these data files representing the Italian economy and sighed. This year's economic situation is written on them. Whether it is a mule or a horse, you always have to take a look.
He opened the top document, which belonged to the Ministry of Finance. It listed various expenditures of the Italian government this year, and Carlo read it carefully.
This year, the Italian government's total fiscal revenue has reached a new high, which is 1.478 billion lire, which is 58 million lire higher than last year's 1.420 billion lire. The main reason for the growth is that the development of overseas markets has allowed Italian industry to gradually
Recovered
In the future, the tax increase it brings is still very considerable. Because now enterprises have to pay government taxes if they do not enter, and they also have to pay a tariff when exporting. Although Italy encourages exports, the tax paid is not much.
Around 2%, but still considerable.
Although the income looks gratifying, if you look at this year's expenses, it's even more scary.
This year, Italy's fiscal expenditure reached 1.829 billion lire. This year's revenue-expenditure ratio gap has been widened to the largest extent, resulting in a huge deficit of 351 million lire. You must know that this era is on the gold standard, and the banknotes printed by the government have gold content. Such a huge expenditure makes
The government is under a lot of pressure. For this reason, Finance Minister Teera has repeatedly warned Carlo that Italy's finances are in a dangerous situation and must reduce expenditures in order to gradually return the fiscal revenue and expenditure to normal.
And a large part of the 1.829 billion lire expenditure was used to repay maturing national debt and interest. This year, Italy's redemption of national debt reached 197 million lire, and the interest paid was more than 83 million lire. The two items totaled 280 million lire.
This was more than the cost of the Abyssinian War.
You know, this war that established a victory for Italy in East Africa only cost 194 million lire.
The national debt and interest that Italy needs to repay every year are more than enough to fight a colonial war. Under such pressure, how can the Italian government come up with money to invest domestically? Therefore, Italy's industrial development relies more on itself or foreign countries.
capital. This has also resulted in Italy's industrial development being relatively slow compared to the development of other powerful countries.
Of course, as Carlo guided Italy to open up the Far East market, Italy's industrial development finally recovered. Although the gap with other major powers is still large, it can at least give people hope of catching up.
Although the Italian industry has recovered, agricultural products are still the main source of foreign exchange for Italy's exports. At present, the main source of foreign exchange for Italy is various agricultural products. So which agricultural product makes the greatest contribution?
It’s wine. Many people don’t think of it. The wine exported by Italy is the main source of its foreign exchange. The soil in Italy is very beneficial to the growth of grapes, so Italians have been making wine since ancient Rome. Italian wine has always been the leader in Europe.
It's a famous name.
However, when Napoleon III came to power, the French implemented the world-famous red wine hierarchy system, which made French red wine famous in the world.
Of course, the key to this is that the French continue to improve the quality of grapes. Excellent grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Ugni Blanc, Semillon, Syrah, Chenin, and Carignan are basically developed in France.
It is thanks to such grapes, excellent production areas, and superb technology that French wines are world-renowned.
The best in France in this regard is Bordeaux. Its soil and terrain are suitable for the growth of grapes, so Bordeaux wine is the most famous.
Italian wine, on the other hand, was defeated by the French, and the export of wine was also decreasing day by day. If it were not for the support from the government after the unification of Italy, Italian wine with the longest history would have been able to retreat to the country and survive.
Although Italy has the largest number of grape varieties (it is said that there are more than a thousand), the Italian varieties are very old, complex and numerous, and have not been improved at all. In response to this, the government has increased financial investment and forced Italy to
The wine has reopened its way out.
At present, Italian wine has come out of the trough. From the lowest export volume of 210,000 tons in 1861, it has increased to 2.31 million tons now. This is an increase of eleven times, which is not unsuccessful. You must know that French wine
The export volume was only 2.6 million tons, which is enough to show how big the increase in Italian wine production has been.
However, although the export volume of Italian wine has increased significantly, it is mainly driven by volume. The products are mainly concentrated in the mid- to low-end, and there are fewer Italian products of high-end brands.
Of course, the government is very aware of this, so the next step for the Ministry of Agriculture is to come up with high-end Italian red wine products that are recognized by the world.
Of course, apart from wine, Italy’s other major export is citrus.
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That’s right, it’s citrus. Italy exports various varieties of citrus, accounting for 65% of the European citrus market. Although the overall scale is not large, it still allows Italy to export more than 100,000 tons every year.
Don’t think that this number is small. You must know that the current transportation cost of fruits is very high. If they can be shipped to other countries, the price will directly double. The biggest benefit from the export of citrus is farmers, because this can most directly reflect the increase in their income.
This year, Italy's agricultural exports reached 440 million, mainly because of the surge in wine exports this year, which has driven Italy's agricultural exports.
Italy's total exports this year reached 1.674 billion lire, an increase of 7.1% over last year. Imports reached 1.711 billion lire, an increase of 6.2%, and total import and export volume reached 3.385 billion lire, an increase of 6.6%.
(The data was wrong before. Italy’s import and export did not reach 5.137 billion lire. I regarded the data of 1895 as the data of 1885. I am very sorry to my book friends. I apologize here)
The growth of Italy's imports and exports has naturally led to the growth of customs tax revenue, which this year reached 174 million lire, making it the government's second largest tax.
Well, it goes without saying that everyone knows that the largest tax in Italy is agricultural tax. Italy’s agricultural tax revenue reached 191 million lire. It can be said that farmers support the Kingdom of Italy.
Unfortunately, Italy currently does not have the strength to allow industry to support agriculture, because the Italian industry is currently too weak and cannot support the government's finances. Of course, there are currently only a few countries in Europe where industrial tax revenue can support the country (such as Luxembourg)
(except for small countries).
Of course, Italy is not without good news. In the Far East, Italy has an increasingly harmonious relationship with officials of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the number of Far Eastern specialties such as raw silk, tea, tung oil, and bristles represented by Italy is also increasing day by day. Of course, this also leads to the trade gap between Italy and the Qing Dynasty.
Is increasing.
This year, the total trade volume between Italy and the Qing Dynasty reached 412 million lire, and the Qing Dynasty has risen to Italy's third largest trading country. Among them, Italy's total export volume reached 131 million lire, 15 million lire less than last year, mainly because the arms trade volume from the Qing Dynasty decreased.
Italy's exports of machinery and other products are completely unable to withstand the decline in arms trade volume.
Of course, this is within the government's tolerance. Last year, because of the Sino-French war, the Qing governors' favor increased greatly, and the number of arms ordered increased significantly. This goodwill came and went quickly, and besides, the governors and the Qing government could not keep an eye on Italy's arms purchases.
, no, this year it will basically return to 30 to 40 million liras.
Fortunately, Italy's exports of other commodities are quite strong, so the export volume will not drop so ugly.
However, compared with the export value, the import value increased significantly, reaching 281 million lire. Italian businessmen acted as transshippers, importing Qing specialties on a large scale, and then sold them to other countries around the world. The Italian businessmen's large-scale imports in the Qing Dynasty hurt the country.
For the interests of merchants from other countries, ministers from several countries put pressure on the Qing government, asking them to stop giving special treatment to Italian merchants. However, in the face of protests from ministers from various countries, the Qing government only came out and said that this was a commercial behavior, and they did not
The method is to let the merchant designate the seller.
Of course, Italy benefited from the good credit of Italian merchants in the Far East, and Qing merchants were more willing to sell goods to Italian merchants (at the same price).
Because Italian businessmen never default on payments, nor take the opportunity to lower prices too much, nor make any excessive demands (what are you looking at, I'm talking about you British guy).
Of course, there is a reason why Italian businessmen can do business in the Far East in such a friendly manner. Because of the support of the Italian government, the former royal white-glove Howard businessmen relied on their relationships with the governors to create Italy-China friendship with other Italian businessmen who came to China.
The full name of the Business Alliance is the Mutual Aid Alliance of Italian Businessmen in China (referred to as the Italian-Chinese Alliance).
The alliance has mainly set several rules, all of which are to ensure the principle of fair trade. Basically, these businessmen who come to make money will agree. Because the brand of the chamber of commerce alliance is very recognized by Chinese businessmen, as long as you say that you are an Italian-Chinese business alliance
members who are very willing to do business with them.
Because the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance has promised to the outside world that as long as it trades with members of the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance, if something happens to be defrauded, the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance will fully compensate the Chinese businessmen who suffered losses.
There is also precedent for this promise. A previous member of the Italian-Chinese Alliance may have just arrived and did not understand the capabilities of the alliance. Therefore, he used tricks to trade with a Chinese businessman and defrauded him of goods worth 1.2 million lire.
There was no trace.
The deceived Chinese businessmen then approached the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance and asked it to fulfill its promise. Howard, who was in charge of the affairs of the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance, immediately went to investigate in person. After listening to the testimonies of many witnesses, the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance fully compensated the businessmen.
The loss of a Chinese businessman.
As for the person who brought shame to the Business Alliance, we stepped up our efforts to find him.
Three months later, the Horston family in Liverpool, who had just moved to Italy, suffered a fire in their home, and no one in the family escaped. Such a tragedy even appeared in the local newspaper, asking everyone to pay attention to fire safety.
However, from the body of the male protagonist who was not too burnt, it could be vaguely distinguished that he looked like the missing former alliance member.
The actions of the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance have made it even more respected by Chinese businessmen, making it easier for Italian businessmen to do business in the Far East.
Of course, there are more and more Italian businessmen who want to join the Italian-Hualian Alliance. However, if you want to join the alliance, you must pay a deposit. The deposit of 100,000 lire per person makes many businessmen discouraged. Of course, this does not stop Italian businessmen from wanting to join the alliance first.
Ideas to join.
At present, the most important thing for the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance is to crack down on those who pretend to be the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance. Yes, many Italian businessmen have begun to resort to impersonation because they cannot afford the deposit. Not only Italian businessmen, but also others
There are simply not many national businessmen pretending to be members of the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance.
For this reason, the Italian-Chinese Business Alliance has sent out several messages in a row, asking Chinese businessmen to pay attention to identification. In addition, the Chamber of Commerce has also given numbered badges to each member, and has also stepped up its crackdown on these fake thieves.
After ruthlessly dealing with more than a dozen impostors, this wave of impersonation was barely suppressed.
As time goes by, the private activities of the army generals have become more and more frequent. However, although those generals have been active frequently, the results they have achieved are not good. Among them, Prime Minister Despretis, who is the main target,
So far, they have not expressed their stance, but the generals are not discouraged and will continue to work hard.
Of course, the activities of these generals have always been under the surveillance of thoughtful people. Of course, as the number of their activities increases, their purposes are gradually exposed.
"Your Majesty, this is what the army generals communicated privately to other ministers."
Also in this secret room, a middle-aged man in ordinary clothes handed a document to Carlo.
Carlo opened it, took a look, and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Keep monitoring them."
"It's all about the Kingdom."
After waiting for this person to leave, Carkaro looked seriously.
It recorded the conversations between these admirals and those in contact, and Carlo gradually relaxed as he watched the content of their conversations.
Since these generals want to play politics, it's good to let them feel the strength of professional players.
After letting go of his thoughts, Carlo returned to the office, where various statistics about this year have been placed on his desk, and their height is by no means comparable to before.
