The colonial monopoly plan that Xiao Letian mentioned was really not just a fantasy that stayed on paper as he thought. In fact, this plan had already emerged before the war, but only a few elites had the right to know about it. That’s all.
Of course, these people would not publicize it to the outside world, let alone Zaichun, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Since mankind completed the great geographical discovery, the distance between countries has become smaller and smaller. The ancients talked about the ends of the sky and the corners of the sea, and Xiao Letian sometimes even shouted the words "global village".
From these two words, you can feel that the consciousness of human society is undergoing tremendous changes. In the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that the end of the Atlantic Ocean was a cliff, and the seawater flowed into the universe like a waterfall from where it came, and ships would flow wherever they went. Fell into the universe.
Nowadays, the concept that the earth is round has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, including all Christian sects, and they have to hold their noses to admit it. After it was confirmed that the earth is round, Christianity was beaten to the point of losing its spirit. Religion quickly receded from Europe and could no longer compete with secular power.
Since the earth has become a village, it means that the circulation of people, money, and materials has become more and more convenient. At this time, more and more businessmen are involved in international trade, and some successful businessmen will definitely choose Upgrading means that capitalists have begun to appear. They no longer rely on the original industry to survive, and can make huge profits by relying on capital alone.
This power is quite huge. The most successful group of businessmen in human history must be Jews. This has become an international consensus in Xiao Letian's previous life.
But in the mid-nineteenth century, Jews were very powerful but could only be said to be members of a successful businessman group.
Arab merchants in Central Asia, China's Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants, and the Guangzhou Thirteen Trade Groups, including the Jiangsu and Zhejiang business groups that flourished in modern times, were also very powerful businessmen at that time, and the capital they controlled was no worse than that of the Jews.
Now that the Chinese are on the rise, Xiao Letian is working hard to promote mercantilism. As long as the Chinese businessmen in the world are obedient and abide by the rules, they can be protected and even gain political rights within the Chinese group.
This has stimulated business groups all over the world. It has been a dream of businessmen for thousands of years to obtain political rights. Therefore, in the emerging financial city of Naha, you can see the semicolons of all Chinese business companies here.
It's interesting to say that Shanxi merchants were still very close to the Qing Dynasty in this era, but these Shanxi merchant families actually sent their bastards to Ryukyu to open a semicolon.
The Qiao family's Fusheng Gong Company, Dade Bank, the Chang family's Yu Zilianhao, the Cao family's Sanduotang, the Hou family's Wei Zihao... and other famous Shanxi merchants have all set up offices in Naha , and some even opened semicolons.
This in itself is part of the nature of merchants to make multiple bets and cast a wide net, but being able to bring Shanxi merchants who have never intervened in maritime trade to come to Ryukyu to open a semicolon has proven that Xiao Letian's mercantilism has won the support of countless merchants. support.
The good wind helps me to reach the top with its power! Xiao Letian's growing power is inseparable from the support of these businessmen. These businessmen have spent the most money and energy in all previous wars.
Not to mention the Nanpiao storm in Jiangnan that made everyone sleepless. At that time, almost all Chinese businessmen bet their fortunes and lives on Xiao Letian. Once Xiao Letian failed, these people would definitely go bankrupt. fate.
Let’s not talk about Xiao Letian’s father-in-law Fan Qian. The whole family had no choice but to follow Xiao Letian all the way to the dark side. After all, there was only one uncle without a son. Even if he went to the execution ground and had to be beheaded, he had to follow him. He didn’t. s Choice.
This is not the case for other businessmen, such as Boss Niu, the boss of Sihai Bank who is second only to Fan Yan in power, and Boss Mi, the major shareholder of Mi Bank. The reasons why these two followed Xiao Letian all the way are complicated.
Repaying gratitude is a very important reason, coveting the titles and political rights established for merchants in the Chinese code is an even more important reason, and the third point is the colonial property monopoly plan launched by Xiao Letian before the Far East War.
Businessmen value profit over separation. No one can completely rely on kindness to tie up businessmen. If you want them to work hard or even risk their lives, you have to be able to write bad checks.
How rich the Far East is and how rich its natural resources are, this has been blowing a lot of wind before the war. First, it stirs up the hearts of these businessmen, and finally secretly throws out the plan of breeding monopoly to the key figures.
Good guy, there is no businessman in the world who can escape the temptation of monopoly! For more than one million square kilometers of land, only three timber development licenses were issued, and they were auctioned. You can imagine how fierce the competition was.
There are also gold, iron ore, non-ferrous metals, smelting, port construction investment... These most profitable industries require a lot of start-up capital, but the returns are extremely high. As long as a monopoly can be guaranteed, there will be no profit.
Before the war, countless businessmen came to Fan Ru to express their allegiance. The old man was so annoyed by these people that he almost had a nervous breakdown.
The final result was that the special war bonds issued by the Chinese were wiped out, and the Jiangnan South Banknote Crisis was successfully defeated by these businessmen. They even gained the first stock exchange market in Asia... It was precisely with the help of these businessmen that After unremitting efforts, we have sufficient ammunition for the war in the Far East.
Many years after the war, European military strategists and politicians analyzed the war and discovered Xiao Letian's previous financial plan bit by bit from many declassified materials. Only then did they know that Russia's defeat was not unjust at all.
How could the Chinese provoke a military war in the Far East? The Chinese declared war on Tsarist Russia entirely in three aspects: financial, diplomatic, and military. The battle plan was not on the military map at all.
In the three-pronged war, only in the military aspect, Tsarist Russia had some remarkable and brilliant tactics, while in the diplomatic aspect, they were all passively beaten. As for the financial war, they did not have that awareness.
Xiao Letian also struggled before the war. He was actually very clear about the pros and cons of the colonial property monopoly plan. In the past life, there was a very unique country that was South Korea. Their economic rise after World War II relied on the policy of colonial monopoly.
After the Korean War, the 38th Parallel divided the two countries. The Korean Peninsula was originally a mountainous and barren place, but now it is divided into two countries, let alone the national strength.
South Korea takes a closer look at the land here. There is not much farmland, and it can only support food and clothing. It depends on God's support. There are simply no resources. The limited coal and iron resources are in the north, and they cannot develop them.
In the end, after much deliberation, the only way to survive was by developing manufacturing. But at that time, they did not have a place in the international manufacturing industry.
Not to mention the old countries such as Britain, France and the United States, Germany, the defeated country, also has a lot of foundation, and even Japan's manufacturing industry has become a climate.
At this time, if South Korea wants to get ahead, it has to use some evil tricks. The last thing that came out was actually this breeding and production monopoly plan, and they played it more ruthlessly than Xiao Letian.
