Wang Chen couldn't help but cast his eyes on the sea. He knew where the answer was, on the golden channel on the sea.
Bailayitun Reclamation Area is not just a large farm. It is actually a part of the Chinese granary. Experts from the Agricultural College have designed a special bamboo barn specifically for the Nanyang region. The rice is not in direct contact with the earth but is held up in the air by bamboo poles, and then surrounded by bamboo mats and thatched roofs, forming large and small barns. Small barn.
The space layout is reasonable and the air circulation is smooth. The rice that the indigenous monkeys will germinate in three or four months can be stored in this kind of barn for more than half a year.
Don’t think that half a year is short. If the price is low for half a year, the Chinese merchant ship trading system will come in handy. At the port of Bailayi, there are merchant ships transporting rice to the Qing Dynasty almost every day, one after another. The ship brought huge profits.
"So it turns out that the key to solving the problem is not only farming civilization, but also the support of a strong commercial civilization. This is how a swan can fly by flapping its two wings at the same time..."
Wang Chen understood nothing wrong. Firstly, the indigenous tribes did not have stored technology, secondly they did not have a strong commercial sales network, and thirdly they were lazy. This kind of civilization was simply obsolete.
"Hey, these idiots, why do you think you are grabbing farmland? Even if you grab it, can you manage it? Have you digested the excess grain produced? Can you sell it? Just for such a small profit. Just start a war? If you don’t destroy your country, who will destroy it?”
Wang Chen's epiphany basically explains the general image of the current economic operation of Nanyang. These native kingdoms are inferior civilizations in the eyes of Europeans and Chinese.
Civilization has high ground, and a civilization that exists in a primitive state of fishing, hunting, and gathering cannot possibly be a rival to other advanced civilizations.
At present, in Nanyang, Europeans dominate the most profitable industries, such as rubber, spices, gold mining... and port and seaway management.
Rubber, spices, gold, coffee and other commodities can be transported directly to Europe via sea routes in exchange for high profits, and the management rights of seaports can collect a lot of taxes and provide military bases. These are things that Europeans, especially the British, core interests.
However, the Europeans have never been involved in the Nanyang grain industry from beginning to end. Even the relatively profitable sugar, they have not intervened much because the sea transportation is too far.
It’s very simple to think about it. People are profit-driven. For the same investment, if one business has a profit margin of 70% and another has a profit margin of more than twice, what do you think people will choose?
In the end, European businessmen chose the profiteering industries with the highest profits, while they had no energy to control the grain, sugar, fruit and other industries with relatively low profit points.
This gave Xiao Letian a window to penetrate. Europeans were not willing to do the rice business, but the Chinese were willing to do it. Chinese businessmen could endure the trouble and were willing to make a long-term business. In addition, the rice business was indispensable. To expand the land, the Chinese just like land.
Under Xiao Letian's inducement and policy support, reclamation areas in Southeast Asia sprouted up everywhere. In all strategic places that were not occupied by Europeans, the Chinese wanted to get involved.
Start by leasing it. After more than ten years of operation, enough people have immigrated, and the money and food reserves are sufficient. Then you can find an opportunity to become independent. In this way, you will have a port and land.
Gradually, two parallel lines appeared in the economy of the Nanyang region. The thicker one was the resource trade and trade route management controlled by European merchants. This was the largest transaction. Nanyang's precious metals and various natural resources were shipped back to Europe. What was exchanged was ship after ship of dumped industrial products.
The second line is controlled by Chinese businessmen. The grain and land business circle focuses on grain trade and involves other industries. The ultimate goal is land.
Xiao Letian is ambitious but not arrogant. He knows that when he is not strong enough, he can never challenge the interests of the British. On the contrary, he has to safeguard the interests of the British for the time being to paralyze the enemy.
To stabilize the expansion of the Chinese economy, we must first make preparations in areas that the British did not pay attention to. Humanity did not reach the point of deep colonization in the 19th century. The British Empire on which the sun never sets only controlled important ports and cities. Map The huge territory does not mean that they can really take root in the administrative system.
There are too many lands that are nominally European colonies. In fact, they are still managed by the local indigenous people. The Chinese people are infiltrating into these places. As long as they do not take away the core assets of the big noses, this will not cause too many disputes. .
"That's it...that's it!" Wang Chen suddenly felt that his mouth was a little dry, and he was very thirsty. This was a stress reaction after being extremely nervous.
For ordinary people, the true appearance of this world cannot be seen, but today Wang Chen climbed up a ladder by chance, and with his eyes exposed outside the fence, he finally saw a corner of the world.
It was an ethereal and wonderful sight that was hard to describe. It was as if he had opened a God's perspective, and the entire map of Nanyang suddenly became real. It was also like flying a hot air balloon to an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the terrain of Nanyang was like reading a text on the palm of your hand.
The head of state's strategy was being deduced on the land as if it were alive. Chinese settlements were blooming everywhere, quietly hoarding power on the periphery of the British influence.
One after another, backward kingdoms and tribes were annexed, lower civilizations were merged with higher civilizations, and the Chinese, whom Europeans looked down upon, were willing to take over, and the era of deep economic colonization had begun.
"Platoon commander... Platoon commander... What are you thinking about? You've been in a daze for ten minutes..."
"Ah? Ah..." Wang Chen was suddenly awakened from his epiphany by his brothers. He was a little annoyed, but when he looked at the time, he knew that he couldn't delay.
He looked at the frightened indigenous women and children, then looked at the little girl who could speak Chinese and nodded, "Thank you! Protect yourselves. After this war is over, you should submit to our Chinese people. This is the only way for your backward civilization to survive..."
After saying that, Wang Chen took out five silver coins from his pocket and stuffed them into the little girl's hands, "The war will be over soon... If you just be patient, you will have endless rice after the war is over, believe me!" "
"Let's go, brothers! Today I finally understand why the head of state is fighting... Without us Chinese to lead them, these indigenous peoples will never progress!"
"Killing is just to make them better! Today I know what kind of bodhisattva heart the head of state has! Move forward, all the way east..."
