Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 164 The Black Hand Behind the Scenes (First update, please subscribe)
The British have their strategic goals in the La Plata region!
Looking at the bewildered staff, Zhu Xianhai explained.

"For example, between Argentina and Brazil, the UK's strategic goal is to keep these two powers at odds for a long time, so that it is difficult for them to adopt a unified policy towards the UK. And in the past few decades In order to maintain this balance, they first supported Uruguay's independence, and then turned Uruguay into a "bait", and then used it to incite Brazil and Argentina to confront Paraguay. This is very beneficial to British capital. Brazil and Argentina sponsored means to manipulate the economies of these two countries, thereby bringing them under their control, in order to gain a firm British position in South America, thereby turning them into British economic colonies, while the British instigated The purpose of confrontation among South American countries is to maintain his traditional policy - "divide and conquer."

The British shit-stirring tradition definitely has a history. They moved from Europe to South America, and they were all laid out decades in advance. If you didn’t know, the war that almost caused Paraguay to almost "destroy the country and genocide" would happen two years later. However, Zhu Xianhai couldn't believe it. Since the day it supported Uruguay's independence in 1825, Britain has become a piece of fat.

A provocation caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in the four countries of the La Plata region!
Such an advance layout has to make people sigh the foresight of the British guy.

After a pause, he walked to the map and pointed to Paraguay on the map.

"Now, Paraguay is approaching France and is seeking the support of the French emperor to dominate the La Plata region. Britain certainly does not want France to intervene in the affairs of this region. For this reason, a few years ago, the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Lord Russell It is impossible to go to Paris to seek confirmation from the country, but what is certain is that due to Paraguay’s resistance to the United Kingdom and the current increasingly complicated problems in La Plata countries, the United Kingdom, in order to maximize its own interests and maintain the balance of power between Brazil and Argentina, provoked La Plata. The confrontation between the countries in Plata, the UK absolutely does not want Miter to shift his attention to the south at this time, which will lead to the rise of Paraguay and damage the regional balance of power. This is the root cause of their interference!"

Listening to the lord's analysis, Fang Zhanbo, Qian Deshan, Sun Muli and others were all dumbfounded, and Qian Deshan even murmured.

"This, this... the vertical and horizontal techniques of the pre-Qin and Warring States in the history books are nothing more than this!"

It should be said that there are still many gaps!

Staring at the map, Zhu Xianhai fell into deep thought. Decades ago, when the countries of La Plata became independent, the British started their layout. Under the circumstances, the "Paraguay War" became the end of this layout.Through this war, Britain further strengthened their control over the region, and Brazil and Argentina never escaped his control, and even more so for Paraguay.

The La Plata strategy took the British nearly half a century to achieve success.

and then?
Then there is Nam Hwa!
Zhu Xianhai naturally thought of the war between South China and the Allied Forces of Argentina and Chile. In the end, the British and even the Americans ended up directly. In the final analysis, it was not only because of their skin color, but more importantly, South China affected them in South America. core interests!

This is the most critical factor!
this point is very important!
It was even something that Zhu Xianhai had neglected in the past.

"Damn Brit...he's the root of it all!"

Behind the scenes is the British!

In the past, Zhu Xianhai always thought that the United Kingdom and the United States were only on the same side because of their skin color, and they just did not tolerate the regime established by Nanhua, a yellow race, in this land.

But in fact, it is because of Nanhua's development strategy that it conflicts with the core interests of the United Kingdom.

For Nanhua, the current South American market is a blue ocean!
Because there is no industry in South America at all, until now South American countries are still dominated by agriculture, plantation or mine economy. In that long-term simulation, Nanhua relied on its geographical advantages to develop import substitution industries and gradually replace the "South American imports from various countries".

But in this process, Zhu Xianhai ignored that there is one biggest obstacle in all of this - the British!

Britain is now the factory of the world.Many of the goods sold in South American markets are British.

While Nanhua's products entered South American countries, they directly competed with British products, which seemed a bit difficult.

But in fact, this is not a problem at all-the outbreak of the Civil War helped him solve this problem.

After the outbreak of the war, with the cut off of southern cotton exports, the British textile industry fell into a cotton crisis. While cotton prices soared, a large number of cotton spinning factories stopped production or even closed down. Although British businessmen tried their best to buy cotton from India and even China, the actual Until the end of the Civil War, their demand for cotton was not met, and the production was only 70% of that before the war.

What does this mean, it means that there is a 30% gap in the market that needs to be filled, and the South American market is not important at all compared to other markets!

Let alone competition, in the case of a shortage of commodities in the market, the cotton cloth produced by Nanhua's textile mills was sold out as soon as it left the factory, but the price was still high.

For Nan Hua, this is simply a godsend opportunity!
Where did it come from the cotton textile factory in Nanhua?

This is the dividend of the war-at present, a large number of textile factories in the UK have closed down due to the shortage of raw material supply. Buffett is taking the opportunity to buy factories in the UK!
As for the ingredients!

That is cotton!
As a "partner" of the Confederacy, Nanhua's smuggling ship would load a large amount of cotton when smuggling arms back to the Confederacy. In addition, Nanhua's agricultural reclamation areas had already grown cotton on a large scale, so the problem of raw materials was of course not a problem.

From 1862 to 1864, Nanhua’s products were continuously sold to South American countries in those two years, not only Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil in the La Plata region, but also Chile, Peru, Venezuela and other countries. , Even Mexico has produced all kinds of South China goods.

With the end of the Civil War and the recovery of the British textile industry, the competition between Nanhua products and British products in various aspects was naturally inevitable.

It was from this time that the British set their sights on Nanhua, and the shit-stirring stick immediately started their series of layouts.

ten years!

After the British painstakingly laid out and even continued to advance for ten years, the war broke out!

As the British wish!
(End of this chapter)