Xiao Letian's plan was very pragmatic. He said that the ultimate goal of the Chinese people was Britain, and it was not a moment of arrogance. When everyone heard Xiao Letian's detailed explanation, they were relieved and the expressions on their faces gradually softened.
Wang Huaiyuan and others thought that Xiao Letian was inflated because he defeated Tsarist Russia. With a small land area of Chinese, only 30,000 to 40,000 regular troops, and a registered population of only more than 5 million, a small force dared to compete with the British Empire. confrontation? Isn't this a joke!
But then Xiao Letian's explanation made everyone present frown.
"What is the core conflict between countries? In fact, it is the competition for resources. On the surface, it is money, business interests, religion, culture, land... But these are just superficial phenomena!"
"Resources, only resources are the core competitiveness. Even the industrial revolution is just an improvement in production efficiency based on abundant resources..."
"Is this difficult to understand? In fact, it is not difficult. For example, in the United Kingdom, no matter how many factories and steam engines there are in the country, or how high their production efficiency is, in the final analysis, there must be raw materials for processing, so that various kinds of products can be produced. Various industrial products..."
“It is precisely because of the mutual circulation of resources and industrial products that money and commercial trade are generated. This is the fundamental core competitiveness of the country...”
"You want to develop the gem industry? Then you must first ensure that you have the resources of gem mines. If you want to develop the textile industry, you must have cotton and wool, right?"
"The more complicated ones, such as the battleship Zhiyuan under our feet, are mechanical deep-processing products that combine a variety of resources. Steelmaking, coke, chemicals, rubber, glass manufacturing, arms machinery... Various industries are brought together to create It has become such a timeless classic!”
"It is conceivable that if we and Prussia do not have coal, steel, non-ferrous metals, rubber... and various resources, what can we do if we only have technology and production equipment?"
Everyone nodded frequently during the conversation, and Wang Huaiyuan couldn't help but sigh, "That's true. Not only industry, but also agriculture also has competition for resources..."
"For example, the United Kingdom now uses cotton from North America and India, wool from Australia, grain from Odessa, and tea from China... It can be said that the rich resources of colonies around the world have been brought together to make the United Kingdom. Abundance.”
"If nothing else, just in the food industry, Britain is extremely dependent on the harvest from its overseas colonies!"
"That's right!" Xiao Letian stood up and said loudly, "You must always remember that we Chinese will have to clean up the mess in the mainland sooner or later. The biggest crisis for us is nothing else but the hundreds of millions in the mainland. Open your mouth!"
"The world is vast and the greatest food is available. What kind of food, clothing, housing and transportation cannot rely on resources? When China wants to solve the problem of food and clothing for 340 million people, is it enough to rely solely on the land output of the mainland?"
"If it's not enough, it must be not enough. This is the inevitable result of the rise and fall of China's feudal dynasties over thousands of years. If it were not enough, with the kindness and patience of the Chinese people, how could there be a revolution to change dynasties?"
"Growing food requires land, growing cotton also requires land, growing vegetables and fruits requires land even more, including animal husbandry, which also requires land... and the population will always grow upward. Once the limit is exceeded, it will definitely be stretched!"
"Historically, once such a crisis occurred in China, it was basically an unsolvable problem and an incurable terminal disease! No matter how glorious the dynasty or how powerful the emperors and generals were, they could only be helpless in the face of such a crisis!"
"When the problem is not effectively solved, it will develop into the most terrifying ending, which is revolution! The poor will rebel in order to survive, the heads of the nobles and landlords will fall into the dust, and a large number of people will die rapidly. It has been dying out until the amount of land in the mainland can bear it..."
"After a round of destruction and redistribution, a new dynasty emerged, and another cycle began to turn..."
Xiao Letian sighed, "We Chinese cannot follow the old path! If we want to solve this problem that has been unsolved for thousands of years, there is only one way, and that is to go abroad and colonize the world..."
"For territories that are close to us, we can use direct Chinese expansion to directly occupy the land, just like Borneo. In the future, this will be our Chinese territory, and all the resources there will be able to feed back to our mother country!"
"This is not enough. For more distant areas, we need to carry out economic colonization, just like the lantern chess piece I deployed in the Middle East. Once a country is established in the future, our capital will be able to expand here..."
"There will be a very important resource in the Middle East in the future. We Chinese must make arrangements in advance and use the form of joint-stock companies to form alliances with these wealthy families in the Middle East to ensure that we can use money to buy the resources we want!"
"This is my two-way preparation for the Chinese people in the future. I want the Chinese land to expand along the Pacific coast, and we want the Chinese capital to spread around the world... There is only one purpose for everything, and that is resources. Safety!"
"We Chinese must have enough food to eat, enough cotton and wool, enough steel, non-ferrous metals, rubber, rare mineral deposits...including the oil I once said!"
"These things cannot be solved by our territory of more than a thousand square kilometers. The only way is to go out and grab them, and use various methods to grab them!"
"Then think about it, if we grab more, will the UK get less? When they get less resources, how will they treat us?"
"When the time comes, will they still welcome us like today? Haha... In addition to giving us a war, what else can they do?"
"So when I say that Britain is our ultimate enemy in the future, it's not because I, Xiao Letian, am warlike, but because I clearly judge that the development of history is inevitable... Britain will attack us sooner or later!"
"I judge that the time will not exceed thirty years!"
There was a bang, and there was a lot of whispering in the cabin. After a while, Xiang Ying asked, "I firmly believe in the judgment of the head of state. Indeed, when our hands are put into the British rice pot, they will not let it go. When the time comes, the British There will definitely be military retaliation!”
"The war will definitely take place on the sea first, so the navy is the core of our future strategy! Increase the allocation... The navy must control East Asia within ten years, control Southeast Asia within twenty years, and control the West within thirty years. The Pacific Ocean even enters the Indian Ocean..."
"It's impossible without more than 60 ironclad ships! I ask the head of state for additional funding!"
Sima Yun frowned and said, "Additional appropriation? Easier said than done... A war with Tsarist Russia in the Far East has drained our finances. Without more than ten years of rest and recuperation, we simply cannot achieve a fiscal surplus!"
"No... there is another gold mine!" Xiang Ying said coldly, "The Manchu and Qing Dynasties... As long as we can overthrow the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and replace them, China's financial resources are enough for us!"
"When it's time to break up, we'll break up... send troops to the Yangtze River... and form an alliance with the Hunan Army to separate Jiangnan, creating a situation of confrontation between the north and the south. With the business capabilities of our Chinese people, the economy of Jiangnan has recovered in three years!"
"Use Jiangnan's financial resources to support the navy!"
