Chapter 586 A cage of 500 million people! (Please order, vote)
Before the morning mist was dissipated, Charles Watson, secretary of the British Consulate, had already taken Moore and his party to the muddy ridge. The Cambridge-graduated Dongfangtong pointed to the terraced fields opposite the hillside and said: "There are very few plains outside Nagasaki, which is not enough to feed the excessive population. People have done their best to survive. All the hillsides with slower slopes in this area have been developed into terraces. People have made unimaginable efforts to get a little more food! But even so, the farmers here are still extremely poor, and the annual tribute given to the lord usually accounts for 50 to 70% of the harvest!"
"Fifty to seventy percent....::" Moore exclaimed. Friedrich was watching three hunchbacked farmers weeding in the fields. They used their hands to pull out the weeds in the fields very carefully, for fear of missing one.
It looks like you are catching gold on the West Coast.
"The serious attitude of Japanese farmers towards planting is enough to be the gardener of the Royal Botanical Garden..." Friedrich commented on them in his notebook.
Bai Siwen lit a cigar, took a sip, and said leisurely: "Chinese farmers are the same as them, but now they don't have to pay so much land rent...
1 "Is this a good thing?" Moore knew Bai Siwen's identity. He looked at the former Qing official who was "run to Britain" and thought to himself: "He must have been a big landlord, and his family's land was divided by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although he and I are friends, I still think that is a great thing to be pleased with!"
Bai Siwen smiled mockingly: "Land rent, usury and feudal dependence are locks on farmers in China, Japan and North Korea... But when these three locks were cut off, it is hard to say whether the liberated farmers should pick up hoes or muskets!"
Wen Xian suddenly asked, "How many people are there in Japan?"
"It's estimated that it's about 30 million." Charles Watson replied.
"Where is North Korea and China?" Wen Xian asked again.
"Yang Dongwang's people have just released the demographic statistics of North Korea, with more than 17 million, while China is estimated to have 450 million!"
"About 500 million..." Wen Xian said, "Europe is about 270 million, about half of East Asia."
The fields suddenly became silent.
At noon, Charles Watson led Moore and his party to the Pozza Kiln Factory, which was impressive. Dozens of potters were naked in the high temperature of more than 40 degrees, smashing the clay and making noise. Although everyone was busy, the production scale was actually not large, and the production process was completely handmade, with very low efficiency and the output should not be too high.
When the kiln owner proudly displayed the celadon incense burner dedicated to the Satsuma lord, the guests from Britain couldn't help but sigh. Although the craftsmen in this kiln factory were very skilled and extremely responsible, the porcelain they burned with all their best efforts was not as good as the bone porcelain of the Royal Dalton produced by industrial production...
"These craftsmen live in the leaking slab house." Charles pointed to the slum behind the kiln factory. "Although they can produce the best porcelain in Japan, they can only eat with a gap of pottery bowl... and they are not full!"
Moore wrote in his notebook: "The lack of resources and dark feudal rule made Japan have the most hardworking and dedicated handicraftsmen, but their production scale and market were always limited. When feudal rule was replaced by more efficient bourgeois rule, insufficient resources would become a bottleneck for liberating productivity.
At that time... "
In a lacquerware workshop, a group of Japanese female workers are polishing a batch of exquisite dressing boxes. Japanese English words can also be used to represent "lacquerware", which shows how popular exquisite Japanese lacquerware is in Europe. Even Moore couldn't help but want to choose a beautiful lacquerware for his "Yanni" as a gift. He picked up a jewelry box and sighed: "Craftsmen who can produce this kind of goods can earn at least three pounds a week in the UK.
Bai Siwen also looked at a tobacco box and looked at it: "A craftsman who can produce such things must also create the most precise mechanical gears.::::" When he spoke, he threw his light on the most beautiful female worker Aju, and at the same time he took out a one-two-pound "Sukuga" (a kind of gold coin) from his pocket.
In the consulate study that evening, Charles spread out a "Nasaki Consulate Report" and displayed it in front of Moore and others: "Japan produces 6 million kilograms of copper, 1.2 million pounds of raw silk, and more than 100,000 lacquerware, while farmers eat rice on average for only one stone per year. In addition, more than 30,000 Japanese girls were sold to the west coast of North America, and the Zhenyou School is the biggest human trafficker...::
"Then what?" Bai Siwen interrupted him with a smoke ring, "Being sold to the West Coast is not a bad thing for those Japanese girls, right?"
Charles nodded: "It's better than starving to death... So the trafficking behavior of the True Que School does not dislike the people in the lower classes of Japan. Instead, many people are grateful to them. After all, the price they give is very high, and many Japanese women who arrive on the West Coast can still send money to their homes!"
"Japan's only way out is industrialization!" Moore commented while looking through his notes, "China, North Korea, and Japan's way out is industrialization!"
"What will happen after industrialization?" Bai Siwen looked at Moore.
Moore said: "What will happen after industrialization will not affect China, North Korea, and Japan's industrialization! There are 500 million hard-working people here, and they are already standing on the threshold of industrialization. The feudal chains between China and North Korea have been broken. Although Japan is still a feudal country, when the Zhenyou faction attracts enough civilians and lower-level samurai, Japan's feudal rule will definitely collapse. At that time, Japan will also embark on the road of industrialization. This is inevitable, and it cannot be reversed by anyone's will. When this race, which accounts for 40% of the world's total population, awakens, who can force them to fall asleep?"
"But as long as the three East Asian countries cannot unite, we will have the opportunity to lock them in East Asia!" Wen Xian suddenly interrupted, "North Korea and Japan may become cages that trap China!"
Bai Siwen laughed and said, "How is this possible? China has been the master of East Asia since ancient times!"
"Dongfangtong" Charles shook his head: "In fact, it is not necessarily... and in the period when China was the most powerful, it was not able to conquer Japan. In addition, there is obviously a contradiction between Yang Xiuqing, who now ruled North Korea and the center of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
"Little North Korea..." Bai Siwen looked disdainful.
"What if Japan is added?" Wen Xian said with his finger, "North Korea and Japan have a population of about 50 million. Although it is only one-eighth to one-ninth of China, as long as it is supported by Britain and France, it may not be impossible to fight against China!"
"How is that possible?" Bai Siwen still didn't believe it, "More, Friedrich, what do you think?"
Moore shook his head: "Europeans support Japan, and North Korea is inevitable to fight against China! It is another matter whether it can be successful, but the 500 million people in East Asia have been divided into a prison for another 45,000 people. This is something that any ruler of the European world empire can think of!"
While writing and drawing on his laptop, Friedrich said, "I think Prince Albert sponsors this Eastern Expedition. All he wants is a plan to support Japan and North Korea and curb China." He looked up at Wen Xian, "Otherwise, we wouldn't run directly from Java to Japan, right?"
Wen Xian smiled but refused to answer.
Friedrich asked again: "Where will we go next stop? Is North Korea?"
Fumienze looked at Charles, and the "Dongfangtong" smiled and said, "Going to Osaka and Kyoto... Some interesting things are happening there, which are worth witnessing."
"What's going on there?" Moore asked with interest.
Charles laughed and said, "The fusion of Shintoism and the True Job Sect, two religions that are incompatible with each other are actually tied together by scholars of the True Job Sect and Japanese Shinto priests, and the methods they took are simply ridiculous..."
The door of the study was suddenly knocked open, and Dutch Consul Van Limburg Styren suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
The Amsterdam noble descendant, with Kuaixin's fingers, turned white, and the veins were beating under the parchment-like old skin: "Batavia...Karitama Strait...
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British Consul Sir Sutton followed the old Dutch man silently. He originally wanted to take Moore, Wenxian and others to visit inside and outside Nagasaki City today, but the report on the situation of Java brought by the Albatross,
The Dutch consulate was asked to take him to the Dutch consulate early in the morning to discuss countermeasures.
Unexpectedly, the "Surabashi" class opened from the Dutch East India just now brought a express message from the Dutch East India Governor's Office::
"It seems we can't go to Osaka and Kyoto to see the archbishop of the true archbishop and the Japanese emperor!" Sir Sutton suddenly spoke, "We must go to North Korea! Mr. Pahud, the governor of the Dutch East India, hopes that our UK and the East King of the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom will mediate together to prevent the situation in the Dutch East India from further deteriorating!"
Wen Xian seemed a little surprised: "Is the situation in East India of Dutch is bad?"
"Oh no!" The Dutch consul said with a bad look on his face, "Batavia, Semarang, and Surabaya were all captured by the True Quotes! Thousands of white men became hostages, and the Dutch East India fleet was also severely damaged by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Navy in the Karitama Strait..."
Chapter completed!