Fox of France

The years-long War of Independence brought great damage to Ireland. In the entire base area, almost every village has sacrificed martyrs, and in the fiercely contested area, there is almost no family whose house has not been destroyed by fire. Although the Federation has always adhered to the principle of grasping the revolution with one hand and promoting production with the other. However, a large number of able-bodied laborers have become soldiers, and agricultural labor is often supported by women, the elderly, and children, and the British come here from time to time to make trouble and engage in the "three-light policy". Therefore, agricultural production has also been greatly affected. Destruction, if it weren't for the selfless support of the French, there would have been a famine in Ireland long ago.

Therefore, Ireland's top priority now is to restore agricultural production.

To this end, the Irish Independence Army will carry out large-scale demobilization, and the number of people will be reduced by half on the current basis. Only the most experienced and capable fighters will remain in the army. Some of the most combative armies will also assume their international responsibilities - to continue fighting to overthrow British imperialism.

Ireland is swampy, so there is a lot of peat. It is also the fuel used by many Irish households. However, peat has very low calories, and it is okay as a fuel for household cooking, but it is not very useful as an industrial fuel. In addition, some low-lying peat can also be used as fertilizer. This thing basically doesn't have much economic value in the eyes of the French. But for Ireland now, it is indeed very important. The mining of low-lying peat, in particular, was crucial to the recovery of Irish agriculture. Therefore, the mining of peat is the first important direction.

In addition, according to the exploration of the British, there are still some copper and silver mines in Ireland, but the reserves are quite limited and the grade is not good. But the lead-zinc mine is quite good. This is probably a key point for the development of mining in Ireland in the future.

It's just that Ireland's mineral base lacks the most important coal mines and iron mines, so it is basically difficult to develop heavy industries. However, what kind of heavy industry does a country positioned as a bulldog need? Who wants to buy bones after becoming a dog? Anyone who wants to buy their own bones is actually a fat pig who is not even qualified to be a dog.

However, Ireland has good hydropower resources. In the mountains in the south and northwest of Ireland, there are many rivers with large drops, which are very suitable for hydropower development. With electricity, it is not only very good for agriculture, but also makes it possible for the development of many light industries.

"The next step, the most important thing in Ireland is economic reconstruction. Because of the lack of coal and iron resources, Ireland is not suitable for the development of heavy industry, but as far as I know, the water resources in the mountainous areas in the south and northwest of Ireland are indeed very rich. Relying on the moisture brought by the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland has abundant rainfall, and the drop between the mountains in the south and northwest and the plains in the middle provides very favorable conditions for us to build cascade power stations.

Everyone may know that in Europe today, French agriculture is the most secure. Floods and droughts follow people, and they don't know famine. By what? Rely on the irrigation system based on electricity. With electricity, we can use electricity to pump river water and even groundwater to irrigate farmland during droughts; during floods, we can pump excess water into rivers. This has made our agricultural production in France more resistant to natural disasters. It also makes us in France have a bumper harvest almost every year. And if Ireland can establish such an irrigation system relying on hydropower, the Irish will have a bumper harvest every year in the future.

Sufficient electricity will also make the development of light industry possible. The textile and food industries will be able to develop rapidly, and the development of these industries will also make Ireland rich.

Comrades and friends. At this moment, I suddenly remembered a few years ago, when my younger brother Napoleon, after defeating the intervention of the reactionary forces on the European continent in the French Revolution, talked about the fundamental task of the revolution in the French National Assembly A word said. He said: 'The French people want to win a rich and happy life! Their right to a good and rich life can no longer be trampled upon by those greedy feudal rulers. ’ Similarly, comrades, why the Irish people want to make a revolution, in the final analysis, isn’t it also for the pursuit of a beautiful and prosperous life?

Comrades, the battles of the past few years have amply demonstrated how good we are at destroying an old world; and in the future, a greater and more difficult goal awaits us, that is, to prove to the world how good we are Great at building a new world! "

At the preparatory meeting for the founding of the country, Joseph's speech aroused warm applause from the representatives.

In the next few days, under Joseph's matchmaking, the Bank of Rome provided a large amount of interest-free and low-interest loans to Ireland to support Ireland's economic development. At the same time, Joseph also represented the French Academy of Sciences, the University of Paris, and Ireland to determine the educational assistance plan.

"Education is the foundation of a country's development. 'No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education', Frederick was able to lead Prussia to rise back then, relying on vigorously building education. Now Ireland needs to pay attention to education if it wants to have a good development. For example If we want to build a large number of hydropower stations, we need a large number of engineering personnel in power. In the short term, we can rely on hiring French engineers to solve the problem, but in the long run, Ireland must cultivate enough of its own builders. So, education is the top priority. We cannot ignore it.

When the British colonial rulers ruled Ireland, not only did they not establish schools in Ireland, but they also prohibited Irish people from studying abroad, and prohibited Irish people from applying for degrees and scholarships in British universities. Why are they doing this? The purpose is to make us stupid so that we can continue to squeeze and enslave us.

Our French comrades are willing to provide us with selfless help in this regard. Our two countries will jointly establish an education fund for universal education. Our French comrades will send us a group of teachers every year to support our basic education. Help us build a complete primary education system.

In addition, our French comrades will also provide our outstanding students with the opportunity to study abroad with full scholarships. Every year, such places will be provided according to a certain proportion of our middle school graduates. In this way, after several years, the cultural quality of our people will be greatly improved. Our culture and economy will both develop by leaps and bounds.

Of course, our French comrades have given us such selfless help, and we cannot do nothing in return. We Irish are not bad ungrateful breeds, though the French comrades did not think of it when they helped us. Our ability is limited to help our French comrades, but we are willing to fight side by side with our French comrades at any time. A friend of France is a friend of our Irish; an enemy of France is an enemy of our Irish. Therefore, I request the Federation to authorize me to, on behalf of the Federation, the new Irish government, and the government of the French Republic, sign a "French-Irish Friendship and Cooperation Treaty" based on equality and mutual assistance. "At the last preparatory meeting, President Russell made such a request to the entire conference.