In the Brunei region of Borneo, there is no longer any kingdom at this moment. It has completely become a city of Chinese immigrants!
The arrival of the head of state was truly earth-shattering. The entire Brunei Bay had been under martial law three days ago. The main channel was cleared and no ships from any country were allowed to enter. The largest trestle was renovated and covered with a bright red carpet.
In less than five years, it has become the capital of Borneo, with nearly 200,000 people living here, and the infrastructure is extremely well built!
Along the coastline, Xiao Letian could see groups of forts with powerful firepower. They crossed and covered each other to form a shooting net, vigilantly guarding against all threats on the sea!
Behind the coastal defense fort are endless rubber forests, rice fields, factories and workshops, and even lush tropical rainforests beyond!
The Chinese are nothing short of infrastructure madmen, the repairmen of the earth. As long as they are given land, they will use their own racial magic and immediately carry out various transformations!
Coal-burning steam engines drove water pumps to drain the swamps day and night, and farmers built various dams and began to farm!
The original river channel has been widened and deepened, and the dense spider web of water channels and drainage ditches have become a natural supplement to the river channel!
The tropical rainforest swamps that caused headaches for both natives and foreigners were actually transformed into large tracts of farmland and manors by the industrious hands of the Chinese in less than five years!
This is really a miracle. In the minds of Europeans at that time, the land near the equator was difficult to cultivate. These wild lands should be kept as they were. Europeans just had to manage those ports!
No one is interested in transforming the environment and making large-scale infrastructure investments. In the eyes of Europeans, if the tropical rainforest were not rich in various spices, mineral deposits, ports, etc., no one would want to live here at all.
It rains half the year, typhoons are frequent, trees are dense, and the land is covered with swamps... Let alone industry, even primitive agriculture is difficult to develop.
Except for the plains created by some rivers, which can be used for agricultural development, other places are green deserts!
It’s no wonder that Europeans have such a concept. The reproductive capacity of tropical rainforests is really amazing, and the growth of trees is changing at a speed that can be discerned with the naked eye!
The forest clearing that was just cut down turned into a jungle again within three months. When people and the rainforest compete for living space, the final result always ends in people's failure!
Not to mention that there are venomous snakes, mosquitoes, flies, and cannibals in this rainforest... This makes it impossible for those Europeans who are used to pampering to adapt!
With the body in the mouth of the foreign colonists, the tropical rain forest is also called the green desert no man's land!
But I didn't expect that this green desert was conquered by the Chinese. These people obviously didn't know the story of Dayu's water control. They didn't know that the Chinese people's unique trick to conquer Feng Shui was all racial talent!
"The biggest problem in tropical rainforest development is that there is too much water. If there is too much water, it will leak out. In the final analysis, it is better to use the valuable experience left by our ancestors!"
Xiao Letian held the binoculars and looked greedily at the villages and towns on the coastline, as well as the beautiful farm scenery made up of neat and uniform geometric shapes!
He even saw terraced fields. These farmers who were extremely greedy for land refused to let go of even a little bit of wasteland!
"Succeed or fail Xiao He, China is the most successful agricultural civilization in the Chinese era, bar none, but it is precisely because this light is so dazzling that it has become a burden for the Chinese people to enter industrial civilization!"
"Things that are too successful will carry too much burden... They can't let go of this burden. They are always hesitant and unwilling to cross over in the face of the new era..."
"But you can triple jump by teasing others! Others will never wait for us when they board the fast ship of the Industrial Revolution!"
Listening to the emotion of the head of state, Xiang Ying continued, "Is that why the master learned from Sun Wukong to draw the earth as a prison? You know the nature of the Chinese people, and you cannot twist their habits. You can only make the best of the situation, just like controlling water..."
"Hey... you think so, that's okay! But don't use the example of Sun Wukong painting the earth as a prison, you should say building a nest to attract the phoenix..."
"China is too big, and governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. The Manchu understanding of this sentence is not to mess with it. It is best to do nothing and maintain the rules of the past. It is best to be peaceful..."
"But I have a different understanding of this sentence. The saying that governing a big country is like cooking small dishes actually means that you prepare a few more pots!"
"When you go fishing at sea, the boat is full. Don't always think about cooking in one pot. You must learn to prepare a hundred or eighty pots to make different flavors!"
"If you need air-drying, do it; if you need cured meat, do it with cured meat. Don't mix the steamed ones with the braised ones. The soup-making ones should also be put in the same pot with the stir-fried ones!"
"You have to make the best use of the situation. Facing the people should be like facing a chaotic stream or swamp. You must straighten it out before you can administer medicine!"
"Borneo's experience in developing tropical rainforests can be vigorously promoted. What should we worry about when there is too much rain in the equatorial region? The key is to divert it!"
"If the naturally formed rivers alone cannot release so much water, can't we use manpower to dig more river channels? Large blood vessels also need small blood vessels to dredge them!"
"Dense ditches, criss-crossing rivers, leveling the land, building dams to build momentum... If you can understand these twelve words of mantra, let alone water control, you will have no problem in governing the country!"
Xiang Ying was silent, watching the mountains and rivers passing by along the coastline. For more than half an hour, he suddenly raised his head and said, "I seem to understand a little bit!"
"The human heart is like a pool of stagnant and smelly water trapped in a swamp. This means that there are too many Chinese people. Everyone has their own thoughts and desires, and of course their own arrogance and prejudice!"
"Master often says that the Chinese people are famous for their stubbornness. Once a person is over the age of eighteen or twenty, it will be extremely difficult to change his views after they are formed!"
"Especially people who have been domesticated from thousands of years of farming civilization, they stubbornly refuse to change and always want to continue their original lives without ever changing!"
"It's easy for two people to handle it alone. We can do our work carefully and be reasonable little by little... But how can we be reasonable when hundreds or thousands of people gather together?"
"The chicken has its own mouth, and the duck has its own mouth. You say your tune, and he will bend his roof... The more people there are, the more chaotic it will be, and more people will create the same kind of stubbornness in a small circle!"
"A group of people hold on to wrong ideas, encourage and support each other, and then collectively think that they are the right ones!"
"Haha... That's right, now in the Qing Dynasty, let alone the Manchu Qing Dynasty, countless Han people think the same way!"
"Expand this number tens of millions of times, and when we buy a super empire with hundreds of millions of people...how can we reason with these people? How can we change their stubbornness and prejudice?"
"Master is right. When encountering disorderly turbulence, there is only one best way...drain them and let all the water leak out!"
"Don't block them, don't fight them...but guide the diversion!"
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