In March 1908, Lin Youde got the report card of his own industry for the whole year of 1907. Free e-book download.
Although the war against Mexico was launched, because the victory of this war was very simple, and Lin Ji's own strength had expanded a lot, this time it was not as traumatic as Lin Ji's previous participation in the war. The entire Lin Ji
The goals set at the beginning of the year have basically been achieved, and in some areas we have achieved results well above the goals.
The first was the colonial operation in Australia. After the British army retreated from Xi Zang, the rights promised to Lin Ji by Isabella, who was still queen at the time, were not weakened after Isabella was transferred. Lin Youde was once worried about the fake queen.
And Moriarty, who is behind her, will strengthen monitoring of China's colonial activities in Western Australia and find ways to add some restrictions, but these worries have proven to be unnecessary.
In fact, Australia has reduced its garrison in Western Australia, and the British naval fleet has also reduced its patrols in the waters of Western Australia. On the contrary, the activities of the Chinese Federation Navy in Western Australia have increased significantly. This change has made ore smuggling rampant, and the smuggling of ore alone has
Lin Ji has reaped a lot of benefits from just one item.
Near the world's largest open-pit iron ore vein, the Chinese have established multiple settlements with a scale of more than 10,000 people, connected by a double-track railway. There are no official Australian management agencies in these settlements, only a few people with no real power.
Supervisor Lin Kee established a paramilitary organization to maintain order in these towns.
Lin Ji also built a railway to connect these colonial settlements with other Australian cities, hoping to purchase agricultural products from Australians to feed the growing number of miners. However, Australia's agricultural production capacity was insufficient, so Lin Youde's special commissioner and local Australian gentry
Wealthy businessmen signed agreements to purchase large amounts of land and then immigrated Chinese farmers to grow agricultural products and graze cattle.
These actions have caused the number of Chinese in Australia to increase exponentially, which has led to dissatisfaction and panic among white people - Australia's largest newspaper exclaimed: "In another two years we may have to face the political demands of the yellow people, and then we will have to face the political demands of the yellow people.
In ten years we will become a minority in Australia!"
This statement was almost immediately refuted by Australia's second largest newspaper: "The regime of Horangabo has never engaged in racial discrimination. The Spaniards who chose to stay in the Philippines ten years ago are probably not willing to change back to Spanish citizenship now."
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Obviously, this second largest newspaper took a lot of benefits from Lin Youde.
In addition to silver bullets, Lin Youde also used practical actions to "seduce" the Australians. The construction company and power company under Lin's name built the infrastructure of the Australian colonial settlement in accordance with the standards of Helang Yabo - you must know that Helang Yabo is now in Australia
In the eyes of most people, it is a city of science fiction, synonymous with advanced technology. This trick is indeed effective. Officials sent by the Australian colonial authorities to the colonial sites in China continued to express their surprise through various channels, and many of them had the idea of destroying the city.
White Australian cities also want to be built like this.
One official wrote to his wife: "You should really come and take a look at this city. You will immediately feel how simple and primitive our life was in the past."
This effort paid off for the first time in January 1908: the Australian authorities finally agreed to hand over the Sydney power grid reconstruction contract to a company named Lin Youde.
Precisely because the colonization in Australia went very smoothly, Lin Ji's steel production capacity increased exponentially, and the quality also improved significantly. Steel was continuously transported to mainland China, providing guarantee for the vigorous railway construction.
Secondly, the construction of Lin Youde's base camp is also in full swing.
The entire Philippines has entered modernization at an alarming rate. One cannot help but wonder what the Spaniards did on this archipelago in the past, and there is still only such a mess after so many years.
Langgabo has expanded into a huge city, and it has a tendency to continue to expand. It is entrenched on the northeastern shore of Subic Bay. From the air, it looks like a gray scar on the earth. However, Lin Kee’s planners still
Continue to add various things to the coast around Subic Bay. In another ten years, an industrial zone around Subic Bay will be formed.
This huge emerging industrial zone produces "big" products such as cars, locomotives, ships, and generator sets, as well as the steel used to produce these products and export them. It also produces small electrical appliances such as radios, tape recorders, and refrigerators, and of course various other products.
Weapons and equipment, ammunition, etc.
In addition, this is Lin Youde's scientific research center and cultural center. This city has the best universities in Asia and possibly the Pacific Rim, countless higher technical colleges, junior high schools and high schools. These schools are drawn from all over the Federation of China.
Students and the most talented young people gather here to study for the rise of China.
The school's reputation in Helangyabo became more and more famous, and finally the country realized that Lin Youde was robbing talents. They tried to catch up but found that it was too late.
Helangyabo is the heart of Lin Ji and the foundation of all Lin Youde's strategic ideas and ambitions. As long as this city exists, Lin Youde will always have the capital to make a comeback.
Manila, not far from Helanggabo, is a different scene. As Lin Ji's general manager in Manila, the ability shown by Xiang Qiyi, an old fox, made Lin Youde sigh, "I couldn't even bring him into my small life."
"It's a pity." As the well-known leader of the second hill in Linji, Xiang Qiyi's policies in Manila have his own characteristics. He has been quite successful in uniting the external forces and resources of Linji.
Lin Youde initially wanted to establish a super trust that would monopolize everything, but later found that it was too difficult. He had to put his energy and resources on those key industries and could not take into account people's livelihood industries. What Xiang Qiyi did in Manila was
Organize and mobilize external resources to support people's livelihood industries by providing conveniences. Manila has now become an industrial city that produces textiles, flour, cigarettes, chocolate and other people's livelihood products. Although the output value is not as good as that of Langabo, which is crazy about dumping cars and other goods.
, but it’s amazing enough.
This Xiang Qiyi has gained such great popularity that various factions in the country are trying every means to win over Xiang Qiyi in an attempt to split Lin Youde's empire from within - in fact, there is actually a Xiang Qiyi faction within Lin Ji, but
Lin Youde's personal reputation was so terrible that Lin Ji behaved monolithically.
Xiang Qiyi himself also knew that whether he broke away from Lin Ji or went against Lin Youde, he was seeking death, so he ignored all domestic attempts to win over him.
But he has his own plans.
The Gestapo added an attachment to the report obtained by Lin Youde, recording Xiang Qiyi's "problematic words and deeds." For example, he once said to his young grandson: "Grandpa's generation will definitely become ministers. You
Dad probably has to be an honest man. But when it comes to you, there will be a lot to do."
When he saw this part, Lin Youde picked up his pen and added a line of annotation on the report: "No archiving. I believe in my son."
Outside the Philippines, the development of other areas controlled by the Navy has also achieved considerable success. The industrial reform of the Japanese archipelago is proceeding very smoothly. The Meiji Restoration was an incomplete capitalist reform, leaving many problems until the 20th century.
It has not been completely solved for a century - such as the politics of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.
In the last time and space, Japan gradually moved towards fascism in the 1920s. One of the reasons was this incomplete reform. Japan's defeat and integration into the Chinese Federation provided a good opportunity to solve this problem.
Although Lin Youde failed to completely dismantle the clans within Japan, he greatly weakened the power of the clans. Lin Youde used commercial competition to force Japan to adopt a more capitalist production organization method to cope with the fierce competition. In addition, the merger with China
Japan has completely liquidated the remnants of militarism and no longer needs to bear huge military expenditures. Japan's economic development is far more prosperous than in the previous time and space. This prosperity provides Lin Ji, who is nominally the Ministry of the Navy, with
Received quite generous taxes.
And Lin Ji has also received quite good returns in Japan's two experimental areas: Japan himself is indeed very suitable for sweatshops, and Lin Ji has contributed a lot of products to the directly affiliated industrial zones in Kitakyushu and other places. Directly let Du Qifeng and his
His subordinates made suggestions to transfer more secondary production lines and production tasks to Japan.
Compared with Japan, Taiwan's development is lagging behind. The shackles of infrastructure, geographical location and resources have limited the island's industry, which is not even as good as some developed provinces in China - such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The entire Admiralty-controlled area is like a dragon. Hokkaido is the tail of the dragon, while Langabo and Manila are the eyes of the dragon. This dragon lies across the Western Pacific, peeping at the entire world.
In addition to directly controlling the development of the area, Lin Ji's investments in other areas have also made things prosperous.
Before 1907, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian had always been the focus of Lin Youde's domestic investment. In 1907, investment in these three provinces was slightly reduced, but investment in other provinces and cities across the country increased significantly. Construction companies and power companies under Lin Youde's name,
Transportation companies and publishing companies have widely penetrated into the entire Federation of China.
Another investment focus of Lin Ji is Mexico - now the country of the Aztecs. The joint venture between Lin Ji and the Americans drilled many high-yield oil wells, so they began to build large-scale oil refining facilities in the Aztecs. Lin Youde
The automobile business made oil officially have the title of black gold in this time and space, almost at the same time as the previous time and space.
In addition, Lin Youde also built railways and power plants in Aztec territory. He also built a large port in New Quanzhou on the Gulf of Mexico—the former Coatzacoalcos.
Lin Youde doesn't plan to reach out to the Atlantic Ocean yet, but it would be good to build a port and make preparations.
In addition to these visible achievements, the report Lin Youde received also summarized the invisible achievements.
In 1907, Lin Kee held the first international art exhibition, inviting many well-known painters to participate. Lin Kee also held the first international fashion show. Lin Kee's publishing company translated many Chinese classics into foreign languages and spread them around the world.
Published in various places, etc., to name a few.
Lin Ji's great achievements made many famous sociology scholars change their views.
The most obvious point is that Marx and his theories have been questioned a lot, and the great powers found the best material to fight back against the socialists from Lin Ji's strength: they listed various welfare measures taken by Lin Ji within their sphere of influence,
Such as free medical care and free education, etc., trying to prove that the assertion in Marx's theory that "ownership suitable for the current productivity can only be established through violent revolution" is wrong.
All of this was written in the report as an attachment, but Lin Youde only glanced at it briefly and was not interested in it.
Lin Youde spent more than an hour reading this lengthy report - he skipped almost all the charts and overly detailed discussions, then wrote "read" and threw it aside, opened another document and started
Concerned about the German Empress' visit to China.