After a busy day, everyone was exhausted from the trip to the rainforest and gem mining areas, and the dinner that night was not tasty. Xiao Letian returned to the Zhiyuan very early with Emperor Tongzhi and King Shangtai.
After having some late-night snacks, the three of them gathered on the back deck and watched the night of the Indian Ocean. The endless supply ships on the sea were still busy. The huge fleet consumes a lot of money every day. It is indeed an arduous task to replenish all the supplies in three days. Task.
"After seeing what happened today, what do you think?" Xiao Letian opened the silver cigarette case and took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth. Zai Chun, who was standing by him, quickly lit the match and helped the master light it.
"Treasure Island! This is really a treasure island..." Zai Chun said excitedly, "I will never know how big and magical this world is until I go abroad!"
"We are indeed lagging behind. Europeans have colonized the world. So many geomantic treasures have been occupied by foreign devils. No wonder they are so rich!"
"But those ignorant rotten scholars in the court still fantasize about a prosperous age... They have no idea how big this world is. They have never even seen such a gem island. They don't even dare to think about it!"
"One day, I will also have such a treasure land. As long as the Qing Dynasty cheers up and has a strong army and the industrial power that the master said... I will lead the troops to attack Galle and make this treasure island ours. colony!"
Zai Chun completely became a fanatical reformist, and he had extremely strong military ideas.
But King Shang Tai looked at the problem from a completely different perspective. "It's not that simple. Listen to what the British said today. Even if we open a gem mining and trading company here, it's impossible for the Europeans to monopolize gems." Will the industry give us a share of the pie?”
"If I were a European, I would set up several large jewelry companies, buy the top gemstone deposits from all over the world, and then control the mining volume myself..."
"Even if there are a lot of gems mined, I'm not in a hurry to sell them. If there are too many gems, the price will definitely go down. It's better to create an atmosphere of shortage so that I can rip off customers..."
"The monopoly has gradually formed. Of course they will not allow us to come in and get a share of the pie. Even if we insist on entering this industry, we probably will not be allowed to intervene in the mining area. At most, we will be allowed to be a second-tier dealer and wholesale from them. chant!"
Xiao Letian shook his head, "You haven't even hit the point! Forget it, you may not be able to understand this at your age. Go back to sleep..."
After blasting away the two two-foot-tall monks, Xiao Letian was smoking alone on the deck. After three cigarettes passed, footsteps sounded behind him: "Master...can you listen to my thoughts?"
It was Xiang Ying. Xiao Letian knew it was him without turning around. "Who told you? The security company?"
"No, it's the sniper Ye Qiu and the platoon leader who was cheated out of twenty silver coins... I asked about all the situations carefully, and I have something to say..."
Xiao Letian said nothing, neither nodded nor shook his head. After a moment of silence, Xiang Ying plucked up the courage to speak, "I think Master, you are thinking about the issue of deep Chinese colonization. Everything I saw today has proved your wisdom." !”
"These greedy Europeans are completely destructive and plundering the global colonies, without the slightest constructiveness. They will not invest in infrastructure, let alone set up education. What they are interested in are resources and markets!"
"You have long seen the hidden dangers of this colonial model, right? That's why you lost your temper in Borneo! Our Chinese colonial process must not simply copy the old European way!"
Seeing that Xiao Letian didn't interrupt him, Xiang Ying sped up his words, "Führer, you have been talking about deep colonization. This deep colonization should start from the hearts of the people, and it should be a win-win kind of colonization..."
"While we obtain the resources of the colonies, we must first develop education so that the indigenous people can be nourished by our culture from generation to generation. Only in this way can they have a centripetal force with us!"
"The second point is to encourage intermarriage and a large number of Chinese descendants to be born in the colonies. You abolished the small feet but did not abolish the system of wives and concubines. I think your plan is to allow our Chinese men to reproduce in large numbers. Population is the most important thing. !”
"The third is equal trade. I don't dare to say it is absolutely fair, but it must be fairer than the Europeans! Today you saw those poor miners. If we Chinese were running these mining areas, the lives of the miners would never be so miserable! In contrast, only the indigenous people have a sense of happiness, and they are more sympathetic to the concept of our Chinese race!"
“Third, we need to establish a system in which cars and cars share the same track and scripts, and we vigorously promote the Chinese language, Chinese characters, and weights and measures in our colonies. I even proposed that we use the accent of the head of state as a benchmark to promote Chinese Mandarin. In this way, we will not even have dialects. All obstacles can be overcome!”
"Master, are you thinking about this? Are you inspired by observing the rule of the British colonists? I firmly believe that your deep colonial policy will be successful!"
Xiang Ying was trembling with excitement. It had been a long time since he had had such an opportunity to express his true feelings to the head of state. "I firmly believe that this kind of cruel colonial rule in Europe will definitely be punished. At most, these European colonies around the world will be punished for a hundred years." One independence war after another will break out!”
"Only we Chinese people, who have taken an extraordinary path, can avoid such a wave of counterattacks and truly expand the living space of our Chinese people!"
Xiao Letian's hand shook and half of the cigarette fell into the sea. He still didn't look back, but his heart was already filled with waves. He never expected that Xiang Ying had such a high level of understanding.
In fact, the deep colonization strategy mentioned above is basically just Xiao Letian's wisdom. Xiao Letian has vaguely revealed these strategies in many meetings, but he has not elaborated on them.
But Xiang Ying's last prediction was incredible. He actually predicted the national independence and liberation movement a hundred years later.
Why use a hundred years? It is now 1869, and a hundred years from now it will be 1969. World War II has long since ended. The global national independence and liberation movement has come to an end, and a large number of European colonies have established independent countries.
Just eighty years later, these colonies ruled by brutal suppression will be in flames, and the colonists can only spit out their fat meat piece by piece.
Why did the Europeans colonize those lands for three to four hundred years or more, but in the end they still did not truly integrate the colonies into their own territory?
This is actually retribution, because from the beginning, the European colonists never regarded the colonies as their own countries. They always brutally plundered and exploited the colonies.
Those who come out to fool around will always have to pay back, and eighty years from now it will be the time for the global reckoning with colonialism. This is the tide of the times that no one can stop.
I never expected that Xiang Ying would dare to make such a prediction!
"You kid...are you a lunatic? Or a lunatic? Or a lunatic..."
