1825 My New Daming

Chapter 106 Ben Zhuge is an old imperialist! (Luo Luo begging to read more, please read more!)

"Of course I know!" Zhuge Weidao nodded again and again, patted his chest and said, "Great military master, my little brother knows how to control those little Japans best!"

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and nodded, "I know you have a solution! You thought of marrying Dahei Kong as your wife, but you must be trying to gradually control Dahei's family through marriage and grandchildren's inheritance? If you can marry Daheikong The Hei Family's firm grasp is indeed useful in controlling Japan, but the effect is a little slower."

"It's not only slow to take effect?" Zhuge Wei Daoxin said, "This set is useless at all. After marrying Daheikong, slowly infiltrating the Dahei family, and finally letting the son born of Daheikong join the Dahei family is possible. It was achieved. However, it is probably delusional to want to control Japan as a country through a big black chaebol! Now Japan is already a nation-state. Where can a big black chaebol control it? And once the original Zhuge Weidao becomes The Taishang Boss of the Dahei chaebol, whose interests will he represent? Is it Daming's or Dahei's?"

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said to Zhuge Weijiu: "Grand Military Advisor, the marriage with the Dahei family is just to support reliable agents in Japan. After all, Japan has a population of 4000 to [-] million, and annexation is not cost-effective. It's not too appropriate to accept it as a vassal state. After all, the Daming vassal state also wants to follow us to eat and drink.

In my opinion, Japan should still maintain its nominal independence.But at the same time, we want to control Japan's defense, Japan's currency and finance, Japan's energy resources, Japan's food, and Japan's industries!Among them, currency, energy, and food are the most important and the easiest to control! "

Zhuge Weidao's "historical foundation" came in handy again at this time.Although he didn't know that the future of this timeline would go like this, he still remembered the words of Mr. Kissinger-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.Now oil is not very important, coal is the most important.But Japan's coal has long been pinched by Daming!
As for Japan's food, Japan's food is not enough, and Japan does not have enough chemical fertilizers, both of which need to be imported from Daming.However, Daming never tried to use grain and chemical fertilizers as weapons to get stuck in Japan's neck.

In terms of currency and finance, the chaebols of Ming Dynasty often cooperated with the Japanese chaebols to obtain huge profits.But the Ming court never thought of partially depriving Japan of its monetary sovereignty.

The reason for such a situation is of course related to the dominance of the Great Ming Dynasty in the East and the blind spots in knowledge of King Zhuge Wuzhong.The dominant Ming Empire didn't care much about manipulating the political economy of a sovereign country, because there were not many sovereign countries around Da Ming, and it seemed impossible for Da Ming to manipulate Rakshasa and Da Jin.

And looking at the attire on the portrait of King Zhuge Wuzhong, I also know that the old man has no idea of ​​the new imperialism's use of financial means to engage in hidden colonization, so it is impossible to leave a "Kissinger heavenly book" "For posterity reference.

"Control Japan's currency, energy, and food." The old man Zhuge Weijiu felt his eyes light up when he heard what Zhuge Weidao said.

Because what Zhuge Weidao is proposing now is at the strategic level, and the source is Mr. Kissinger, who is an old imperialist!Even if the Earl of Liverpool and George Canning of the British Empire are compared with him, the methods are very immature, let alone the old Zhuge who have no experience in colonialism.Although this group of old Zhuge is very skilled in methods such as marriage, bribery, assassination, rumors, and alienation, but those methods are not strategies, at most they are tactics.If there is no correct strategy, no matter how well the tactics are used, it is also a headless chicken.

"We can control this food and energy. If we don't give it, we can refuse it. Even if the British are willing to use a [-]-ton giant ship to help them transport it for thousands of miles, the cost will be astonishingly high!" Zhuge Weijiu has already pinched his fingers. Got up, "but how do we control Japan's finance and currency? We can't control Japan's gold and silver seats. Although the money seat is presided over by the Japanese Zheng family, the right to mint money and issue banknotes is still in the shogunate Granted, the shogunate can take it back at any time."

In fact, there is no need for Zhuge Weijiu to introduce, Zhuge Weidao also knows what the current state of Japan is - Japan is now "poor" without losing its sovereignty, although it is always a bit shameful to sell its own girls in exchange for the 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 loses the bet in the Sino-Japanese War, it will probably be reduced to this point.And now that it has fallen to such a point, Japan, which is still struggling, will not let go of the opportunity to gamble what little chips it has when Ming and Great Britain are at war!
Because this is their last chance to come back against the wind, no matter how small the odds of winning are, they will still make a huge bet!

For Ming, before breaking with Britain, it is best to choke Japan's throat, deprive Japan of part of its sovereignty, and let Japan become its own cannon fodder. To achieve this goal, a war is probably inevitable.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Zhuge for a long time: "Master, if you want to control Japan's finance, you have to fight with them! Only when you win can you force them to start the country financially, anchor the Japanese currency to our silver dollar, and at the same time Let our bank capital go in and hold their gold, silver, and money seats! As long as we control Japan's currency and finance, we can then reset their industries and destroy Japan's steel, shipbuilding, machinery, chemicals, military industries, etc. Heavy industry, and at the same time use the capital of Jinza, Ginza, and Qianza to invest in light industry and tourism, making Japan our economic colony.

Moreover, Japan, which has lost 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 we provide.In this way, we can actually control Japan's defense, make them lose the ability to resist, and be under our control forever! "

"Fight?" Zhuge Weijiu couldn't help frowning when he heard that he was going to fight Japan, "One hundred and eight brothers, don't think that Japan is a small country. Their population is more than 3000 million people than the people of the British mainland." Many! Among them are hundreds of thousands of families of warriors. Those warriors are martial and aggressive.

"But Japan is an island country, and food, fertilizers, and energy all depend on imports!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Once their navy is destroyed and the coastline is blocked, Japan will have no way to import food, fertilizers, and energy. 4000 million People will starve, the country's economy will collapse, and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate will be unstable. The whole country will fall into deep despair. At that time, I will be able to take dogs in tomorrow!"

"Dogs?" Zhuge Weijiu asked, "Let Japan be a vassal state?"

Daming is still very good to its own vassal states. Although most of these vassal states are the places where Daming supplies raw materials and dumps goods, they are not imposed by the Ming Empire, but the result of market regulation.Among them, North Korea has no resources and a large population, so it relies on low-cost labor to engage in some labor-intensive industries, and it also exports labor to Ming Dynasty.

And let Japan become a vassal state, then some dishonorable but essential industries will wither.
Zhuge Weidao waved his hands and smiled: "Of course we can't accept Japan as a vassal state. It's not good for us, and the Japanese will lose face. We can make Japan an ally of Ming Dynasty, a currency, energy, food, An ally whose industry and defense are firmly controlled by Da Ming!"

(End of this chapter)