Chapter 437: Colonization is needed even when backward - On Luo Yaoguo's colonial policy (please subscribe, please vote)
"What does kneeling colonization mean?"
For the first time, Hong Xiuquan found that he could not keep up with Heavenly Father's thinking. He didn't know much about colonialism at first, but didn't Luo Outline turn the Lanfang Republic into a vassal state of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a while ago? According to Luo Yaoguo, The Lanfang Republic was China's overseas colonial territory. So Hong Xiuquan inquired with the well-informed Hong Rengan, and finally understood what a colony was.
But he didn't understand how this colonization could be carried out on his knees?
If you don’t understand, just ask. Hong Xiuquan looked at Luo Yaoguo with a puzzled face and asked: "Ninth brother, isn’t this colonial country an advanced and powerful country that takes over the land of ignorant and backward people, and then sends its own people there to do it?" A domineering system? What do you mean by kneeling down to colonize? Shouldn’t colonization be carried out with foreign guns and cannons?"
Luo Yaoguo sighed: "King of Heaven, aren't we China lagging behind now? If we fall behind, we will be beaten. Wasn't it already beaten by the English country with its strong ships and powerful guns more than ten years ago?"
"That's right!" Hong Xiuquan nodded, "Hong Kong has been cut off from the Nine Brothers. Is there any territory in the world that has not been occupied by great powers like England, France, and the United States that we can occupy?"
"Of course!" Luo Yaoguo said with a wry smile, "But that's not our goal!"
"Why?" Hong Xiuquan asked.
"Because you will lose money!" Luo Yaoguo explained, "Colonization is not necessarily profitable! And even if you can make a profit in the end, you usually have to invest a lot of money in development before you can make a profit. As for us, firstly, we don't have that much capital; Secondly, most of the sites that can be easily repaid have owners; thirdly, we don’t have time to develop slowly because there is no solution to this year’s severe drought! There will be another flood in the Yellow River next year, which will also be hopeless, and there will be a severe drought in Jiangnan the year after that. !」
"Ah? So many disasters?" Hong Xiuquan was shocked, "There is also a severe drought in Jiangnan? What should we do?"
Luo Yaoguo smiled bitterly and said: "Don't worry, Heavenly King, our Chinese people will have other difficulties in the future, and the most indispensable thing for them is difficulties! Although there have been disasters everywhere in the past few years and the people have been in dire straits, we still have to fight against the evil spirits! That is a large battle involving hundreds of thousands or millions of people, and it requires a large supply of food and grass!"
Hong Rengan was soft-hearted and interjected in a trembling voice: "In a year of great disaster, do you still want the people to tighten their belts and pay taxes and food supplies to the front line?"
The ministers in the synagogue also frowned. The people were in dire straits and had to tighten their belts to fight. Isn't this too difficult?
"Yes!" Luo Yaoguo nodded, with a firm tone, "Everything is for the front line, we must fight, and we must win!"
Hong Xiuquan frowned and asked, "Is it too harsh? Do you want to slow down?"
"It can't be slowed down!" When Luo Yaoguo said these three words, the air in the entire small hall trembled. He paused and then said: "Because of this disaster, and for well-known reasons, there will be frequent troubles in the future. , it is impossible to wait for a few years!"
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Hong Xiuquan immediately felt that dozens of eyes were directed at him, as if saying: They all blame you! It was you who hurt Brother Tian, ​​so the Heavenly Father sent disasters!
But Luo Yaoguo waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "It's not all the fault of the King of Heaven, it's also the fault of too many people in the world!" He didn't want to pass the blame, because he needed to pass the blame if he couldn't solve the problem, and he could solve the problem. He said
: "There are too many people, too little land, and the geographical advantages have been exhausted. There is no way to move around!"
"In the past, when the population was not that large, agriculture was very prosperous in ordinary years, and the output in years of minor disasters was enough to eat and drink. Only in major disasters did we need to use the old resources. But now, in ordinary years, many people in the world can starve to death.
One hundred thousand, in the year of a small disaster, people would have died of hunger everywhere, let alone a big disaster
Year? This drought in Huguang would have been nothing if it were placed a hundred years ago. This year, Huguang’s autumn grain harvest will not be exhausted, and the summer grain harvest will still be bumper. If Huguang didn’t have so many mouths, there would be no need to allocate grain from elsewhere for such a disaster.
You can live by yourself. But now"
Luo Yaoguo shook his head and said nothing further. The people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom all know the suffering of too many people and too little land! Because Guangxi is in this situation now. The per capita cultivated land is less than two acres. Before the Opium War, people had to go to Guangdong to work as coolies.
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The people of Guangxi can still drink the soup of foreign trade and survive. After the Opium War, the foreign trade ports were moved and the people of Guangxi could not drink the soup, so they had no choice but to rebel. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just one of the many rebel groups in Guangxi.
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As for Guangdong, the situation is not much better. Although Guangdong has more cultivated land than Guangxi, Guangdong has a larger population! Moreover, the contradiction between man and land has always been acute, otherwise there would not have been such fierce armed fighting between natives and foreigners and the Red Army uprising.
The people in the Jintian Uprising were either Hakkas of their own generation who came from Guangdong, or they were members of the older generation or several generations above them.
If the conflict between people and land in Guangdong is not acute, why would those people go to Guangxi?
And now, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has to pick up the big thunder from Guangdong and Guangxi, so there will be more and more difficulties in the future!
He paused and then said: "So now we have to raise food from the sites where disasters are occurring or are about to occur to support the front line, so that the contradiction between occupying people and land becomes more prominent and the people are struggling to make a living.
A site that is prone to disasters and troubles. In order to avoid old people who have a hard time making a living.
When the people rebel because they cannot survive, we must take three countermeasures. The first is to divide the land and divide the land. This is to quench the immediate thirst. The effect is immediate, but it can only last for a few years at most; the second is to develop industry. This is a
The third is to colonize the outside world. This is a way to solve the conflict between man and land in the medium term.
But because we neither have the ships or artillery that can fight against the great powers, nor the financial resources to undertake the development of relatively remote and barren colonies, nor do we have much time to wait for such poor places to develop. So we can only think about it.
How to send people to good places controlled by the great powers and
We are not allowed to pay to send them because we have no money. The only way is to let the poor people go out to work as laborers to earn hard money. To put it more ugly, it is to sell piglets and let others bear the cost of colonization. Let them
Start with coolies! If this isn’t colonization on your knees, what is it?”
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Hong Xiuquan, several ministers present couldn't help but question it.
"Ah! I've been talking for a long time about selling piglets!"
"Your Highness King Wu, can this be considered colonization?"
"How is this a colonization? They are obviously going out to work as coolies. This has nothing to do with colonization!"
Luo Yaoguo's face darkened slightly and he glanced around the auditorium. Everyone immediately calmed down and continued to listen to his explanation. He said: "Just going abroad to work as laborers cannot be called colonization. Because once our people are here
When a certain number of people arrived, they felt threatened.
. Or maybe you have too much money in your pocket, which makes people jealous. Then they will exclude China, show off their knives, and have a bloodbath! Java Island controlled by the Dutch and Luzon Island controlled by Spain have done this in the past.
Is that the case? The Hakkas in Borneo almost got a bloodbath from the Dutch before!
Therefore, when the piglets are sold out, our True Testament church and consulate must follow immediately, and the Tiandi synagogue controlled by the secret hall must also follow. We must also select capable backbones to serve as True Testament missionaries.
Not only must we develop believers among the Chinese coolies, we must also organize key believers for military training and be ready to deal with the conflicts that will inevitably occur. Don’t have any illusions. We can’t give much money, but we can still provide talents who have gone through blood and fire.
Give out a lot."
His tone suddenly became extremely solemn: "If there is a conflict, there will definitely be sacrifices. Our people will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and there will definitely be rivers of blood! Because in the foreseeable future, the powers will be strong after all, and our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not
It is very possible to cross the ocean and go to their territory to fight with them. Therefore, we can only use the militia organized by the Zhenyue Sect, the Tiandihui, and the Dark Hall to fight against the colonial regular army and the indigenous people incited by the foreigners.
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In the process of confrontation, our people will not only make huge sacrifices, but also suffer temporary and partial defeats. But in the end, our people will definitely win and get a vast and wealthy colonial land. But then
It can only be a tragic victory, a victory that can only be won after decades of struggle at the cost of hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives. So it is a crying expansion, a victory of colonial land with blood, tears and bones.
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Luo Yaoguo's words were very heavy, but in fact his mood was not heavy at all. He sacrificed hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives to conquer the entire Nanyang, and even opened up one or two Chinese villages controlled by the Zhenyue sect on the other side of the ocean.
State, is this a heavy price? Actually not at all! In fact, in the original history, the Chinese paid far more than one million lives in Southeast Asia due to various wars, conflicts and inter-ethnic struggles!
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In his opinion, this is just the difference between dying a million dollars in vain, or dying a million dollars and taking everything you deserve.
There was silence in the auditorium, and everyone was shocked by the crazy idea put forward by Luo Yaoguo.
But Luo Yaoguo was still talking about his thoughts: "Whether it is Nanyang or the New World, after all, it is much easier to make money than in China. There are more people and less land, and there are rich resources. Some places are rich in spices, and some places can dig gold.
, some places are stuck in the throat of maritime trade. Although many people will die outside, there will still be many people who seize the opportunity to turn around and make a fortune.
And we want to unify the world and destroy the pure demons. We also need to develop an army and a navy to resist foreign aggression. We might even start a fight with the foreigners who interfere with us. Also, we have to learn how the foreigners make money and set up factories. Opening mines and building railways are indispensable. But these cannot be done without burning money, and a lot of money is burned. So where does this huge amount of money come from?
Of course, the domestic territory can be scraped, but it will definitely not be enough. After all, there are many people in the country but little land, and we see that we have to fight for years, so we really can't squeeze out much.
Therefore, we have to find a way to coax back those Chinese who have made a fortune in Nanyang and the New World, and let them return to China with their hard-earned money to invest in factories, mines, and railway construction. If money is really tight, , you can also issue some debt notes and borrow some money from them for turnover.
In addition, there are two small and medium-sized grain-producing countries in Nanyang, Siam and Vietnam. These two countries have always been vassals of China. We are in difficulty now and will be even more difficult in the future. Should we discuss it carefully with them? , want to order food? This is standing up and begging for food!"
Having said this, Luo Yaoguo rolled his eyes and looked at Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting at the head of the conference table. He saw that Hong Xiuquan's face was as solemn as the dark clouds before the storm. He knew that he was in trouble.
Luo Yaoguo cleared his throat and said with a smile: "King of Heaven... I have explained to you clearly the decrees of Heavenly Father. This decree was specially given to you by Heavenly Father. Since it is for you A big test is an excellent opportunity for you to make meritorious deeds! It depends on how you grasp it."
Chapter completed!