"Of course I know!" Zhuge Weidao nodded repeatedly, patted his chest and said, "Great military advisor, I know best how to control those little Japanese!"
Zhuge Weijiu smiled and nodded, "I know you have a way! You thought about marrying Daheikong before, and you must have been trying to gradually control Dahei's family through marriage and inheritance, right? If you can get Daheikong The Hei family's firm grasp is indeed somewhat useful in controlling Japan, but the results are a little slow."
"It's not only slow to work?" Zhuge Wei said in his heart, "This trick is useless... After marrying Daheikong, he slowly infiltrated the Dahei family, and finally let the son of Daheikong succeed Dahei. It is possible to achieve the goal of the family. But it is probably delusional to want to control the country of Japan through a big black chaebol! Now Japan is already a nation-state. Where can a big black chaebol control it? And the original Once Zhuge Weidao becomes the supreme boss of the Dahei chaebol, whose interests will he represent? Ming's or Dahei's?"
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said to Zhuge Weijiu: "The great military advisor, the marriage with the Daihei family is just to cultivate reliable agents in Japan... After all, Japan has a population of 30 to 40 million people. , annexation is not cost-effective, and it is not very suitable to accept it as a vassal state. After all, the Ming vassal state also wants to follow us to enjoy prosperity.
In my opinion, Japan should still maintain its nominal independence. But at the same time, we must control Japan's defense, control Japan's currency and finance, control Japan's energy resources, control Japan's food, and control Japan's industry! Among them, currency, energy, and food are the most important and easiest to control! "
Zhuge Weidao's "historical skills" came in handy again at this time. Although he doesn’t know how this timeline will go in the future, he still remembers Kissinger’s words – if you control oil, you control all countries; if you control currency, you control the whole world; If you control food, you control everyone!
Although the current Ming Dynasty has no way to control the world's oil, oh, it should be coal. Oil is not very important now, coal is the most important. But Japan’s coal has long been in the hands of Ming Dynasty!
As for Japan's food... Japan's food is not enough to eat, and Japan does not have enough fertilizer. Both of these need to be imported from Daming. However, Ming Dynasty never tried to use food and fertilizer as weapons to choke Japan.
In terms of currency and finance, Ming Dynasty's chaebols often teamed up with Japanese chaebols to make huge profits. However, the Ming court never thought of partially depriving Japan of its monetary sovereignty.
The reason for this situation is of course related to the dominance of the Ming Dynasty in the East and the intellectual blind spots of King Zhuge Wuzhong. The dominant Ming Empire was not very concerned about how to control the political economy of a sovereign country, because there were not many sovereign countries around the Ming Dynasty, and it seemed impossible for the Rakshasa and Dajin among them to be manipulated by the Ming Dynasty.
And looking at the clothes on the portrait of King Zhuge Wuzhong, we also know that the old man did not understand the neo-imperialist method of using financial means to engage in hidden colonization, so it is impossible to leave behind a "Kissinger's Book" "For future generations to refer to.
"Control Japan's currency, energy, food..." Zhuge Weijiu, the old man, suddenly felt his eyes light up after hearing what Zhuge Weidao said.
Because what Zhuge Weidao is proposing now is all strategic level, and the source is Mr. Kissinger, who is an old imperialist! Even the Earl of Liverpool and George Canning of the current British Empire are very immature in their methods compared with him, let alone the old Zhuges who have little experience in colonialism. Although this group of old Zhuges are very skilled in methods such as marriage, bribery, assassination, rumors, and alienation, those methods cannot be called strategies, at most they are tactics. Without a correct strategy, no matter how good the tactics are, they are useless.
"We can easily control this food and energy... If we say we won't give it, we won't give it. Even if the British are willing to use 10,000-ton ships to help them transport thousands of miles, the cost will be astonishingly high!" Zhuge Weijiu He was already counting on his fingers, "But how do we control Japan's finance and currency? We can't control Japan's Gold and Ginza. Although the Qianzao is presided over by the Zheng family of Japan, the coinage and issuance of money in the Qianzao The power is still granted by the shogunate and can be taken back by the shogunate at any time."
In fact, Zhuge Weidao does not need to introduce it. Zhuge Weidao also knows what the current situation of Japan is - Japan is "poor" without losing its sovereignty, although it is always a bit shameful to sell its own girls in exchange for funds and resources needed for development. But this is also the helplessness of Japan, which lives in the shadow of the super Ming Dynasty.
If Japan in another timeline lost the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, it would probably be in this situation. And Japan, which has long since fallen to this point but is still struggling, will definitely not let go of the opportunity to put all its little chips on the line when the Ming Dynasty and Britain fight!
Because this is their last chance to make a comeback, no matter how small the chance of winning is, they will make a country-wide bet!
For Ming Dynasty, before breaking with Britain, it was best to choke Japan, deprive Japan of part of its sovereignty, and make Japan its cannon fodder...and to achieve this goal, a war is probably inevitable of.
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Zhuge Weijiu: "Great Military Advisor, if you want to control Japan's finance, you have to fight with them! Only by winning can you force them to finance the country and anchor Japan's currency to our silver yuan. At the same time, Let our bank capital come in to control their gold, silver, and money! As long as we control Japan's currency and finance, we can then reset their industries and destroy Japan's steel, shipbuilding, machinery, chemical industry, military industry, etc. Heavy industry, while using the capital of Kinza, Ginza, and Qianza to invest in light industry and tourism, making Japan our economic colony.
Moreover, Japan, which has lost its heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and chemicals, has no ability to develop an independent military industry system and can only rely on the arms provided by us. In this way, we can actually control Japan's defense, making them lose the ability to resist and always be under our control! "
"A fight?" Zhuge Weijiu couldn't help frowning when he heard that he was going to fight Japan, "One Hundred and Eighth Brother, don't think that Japan is a small country. Their population is more than 30 million... There are more people than there are in the UK! There are hundreds of thousands of warrior families among them, and those warriors are all martial and aggressive. They value fame over death, and are very difficult to deal with."
"But Japan is an island country, and food, fertilizer, and energy are all dependent on imports!" Zhuge Weidao laughed. "Once their navy is destroyed and the coastline is blocked, Japan will have no way to import food, fertilizer, and energy. Three or four thousand Thousands of people will starve, the country's economy will collapse, and the Tokugawa shogunate's rule will be unstable...The entire country will fall into deep despair. By then, I will be able to conquer the country tomorrow. It’s a dog!”
"Accept dogs?" Zhuge Weijiu asked, "Let Japan become a vassal state?"
The Ming Dynasty was still very good to its vassal states. Although most of these vassal states were the raw material suppliers and commodity dumping places for the Ming Dynasty, they were not imposed by the Ming Empire, but the result of market regulation. Among them, North Korea had few resources and a large population, so it relied on low-cost labor to develop some labor-intensive industries and also exported labor to the Ming Dynasty.
And if Japan becomes a vassal state, some shameless but essential industries will wither away...
Zhuge Weidao waved his hands and said with a smile: "Of course we can't accept Japan as a vassal state. This is not good for us, and the Japanese can't lose face... We can let Japan be an ally of the Ming Dynasty and a currency. , energy, food, industry, and defense are all allies firmly controlled by Ming Dynasty!"
