African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1280 Davao City

Winston's plan is generally feasible. The most important thing is whether the United States will fall into the trap. However, based on the situation in the previous life, Britain is still very good at fooling Americans.

Britain's wartime propaganda bureau had an information department specifically designed to attack the United States. It also hired a large number of professionals familiar with the American situation to lobby the American upper class and elites in various fields, selling the benefits of joining the Allied camp.

Public opinion in the United States is also deeply influenced by Britain. This is easy to understand. The United States is no longer the world hegemon it once was. The world's public opinion hegemony is now firmly in the hands of Britain.

Public opinion hegemony can be said to be the privilege of every world hegemon. For example, in the 21st century, even a powerful country like the Far Eastern Empire and Russia, which was second only to the United States, was not only besieged by this public opinion hegemony, but also had a group of yes-men who were fostered in the country.

As for other countries, unless they adopt the information blocking strategy of North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea and other countries and disconnect themselves from the rest of the world, they can never escape the encirclement and harvesting of public opinion hegemony.

The most typical example is the Soviet Union. In the late Soviet Union, it was indeed a regime that could not keep up with the times. However, under the color revolutions in the West, the upper class voluntarily surrendered and deconstructed the foundation of its own rule, which was really shocking.

Compared with the ruling class of the Soviet Union in the later period, it is obvious that the methods and vision of the top leaders of the North Korean government are much more sophisticated. After all, if the Soviet Union really dragged on, no matter how much it declined, it would still be much stronger than Russia later.

This also illustrates the seriousness of the leadership gap in the Soviet Union. However, in a country founded on idealism, loyal and righteous people who fought bravely in battles are most likely to fall on the battlefield and in political struggles. It is not difficult to understand why the Soviet Union could not even find qualified leaders in its later years.

Today, it is the British who control the world's public opinion hegemony. Although the United States has surpassed Britain in economy and industry, it cannot break free from the strong soft power chains accumulated by Britain over hundreds of years.

In this regard, East Africa is less threatened by the hegemony of British public opinion. Of course, this is only limited to East Africa. Overseas, East Africa is also discredited and belittled by Britain.

The reason for this situation is that East Africa has long implemented a "closed-door" policy in the past, and the world public opinion hegemony led by Britain has found it difficult to penetrate East Africa.

Although East Africa had been opened to the outside world before World War I, it was too late for Britain to set up a propaganda machine in East Africa at that time.

Moreover, even after opening up, it is difficult for other forces to infiltrate the East African public opinion system. After all, East Africa is still implementing the speech censorship system of the closed-door era.

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Cottonland Lao Island.

1917 October.

The Liberty arrived at Davao, one of the most prosperous cities in Mindanao. As the third largest city in the Philippines in its previous life, Davao is now developing rapidly under the construction of East Africa, and its population has reached more than 30,000.

There is no way around it. After East Africa massacred the local indigenous resistance forces, it can be said that the population of the entire Mindanao island has dropped sharply.

The situation in Davao City is much better than that in the eastern region headed by Zamboanga City. The eastern part of Mindanao was once the area with the largest Arab population on the island. In order to completely control the ancient city of Zamboanga City, East Africa almost turned the area into a wasteland.

At least there are still some uncivilized indigenous people in Davao who only have an unsystematic primitive religion, so they are reluctantly accepted by the East African government. Of course, according to the traditional virtues of East Africa, most of the indigenous people who remain must be local women.

After all, East Africa also needs to consider the "bachelors" in the colonies, which is conducive to the stability of East Africa's local rule.

Later, a large number of immigrants were recruited from East Africa, which increased the population of Davao City to more than 30,000. This population size is second only to Zamboanga City in Mindanao.

In Mindanao, which is governed by East Africa, population settlements are quite scattered, so it is quite difficult for Davao City and Zamboanga City to become cities with a population of over 10,000.

This is mainly due to the complex terrain and large area of ​​Mindanao. When East Africa bought Mindanao, it was not just one island, but a large group of islands. Many of these islands are best described as "tasteless to eat, a pity to abandon". Because there are many islands and bays in the Mindanao colony, many places have strategic value.

East Africa can be abandoned, but the enemy cannot be allowed to occupy these places, especially the United States in the north. Therefore, in order to plant a flag in Mindanao, East Africa can only disperse its limited population.

Even some major islands may have a population of only double digits, and the purpose of this population is only to prove East Africa's rule over this area.

For example, Samar Island, the third largest island in the Philippines in the past, was also part of the trade between East Africa and Spain regarding Mindanao.

At present, the total population on Samar Island is only more than 10,000 people, while the population of this island in the past was as high as more than one million.

It can be seen from this that the population of the Mindanao colony is extremely scarce. The total population of the entire Mindanao colony is less than 600,000. This is the result of more than ten years of efforts in East Africa.

On the Liberty, the Slavs stretched their heads and looked at the relatively prosperous city of Davao.

"Is this our final destination? It looks like the conditions are pretty good. After all, there are so many people here, which means this place is not completely undeveloped."

“All the way down, after crossing the Strait of Malacca, this is the second most populous place I have ever seen, and it is smaller than Zamboanga City.”

The population of Zamboanga City is nearly 10,000 more than that of Davao City, so the city size appears to be much larger than here.

"The entire Nanyang is almost entirely covered with rainforests with strange vegetation, some of which are similar to the vegetation in the Ottoman Empire. However, the southern part of the Ottoman Empire is all desert, and there are almost no human habitation here. It is even more incomparable to Russia."

"The level of development is too low. Ukraine is full of fertile farmland. Even the deserts of the Ottoman Empire had many developed oases. But here it is like an isolated place. There is either an endless sea or a rainforest that stretches as far as the eye can see."

"If you live in a place like this, I don't know how desperate you would feel."

"And the climate here. Since we left Basra, the temperature on the ship has been getting higher and higher, and the air has been getting more and more humid. The worst thing is seasickness."

"It's because the East Africans provided enough food and medicine. Otherwise, I can't believe how desperate life would be here. I hope that after we reach land, our living environment will be better."

The Slavs on the Liberty showed great panic and confusion about their future fate. The South China Sea region was too desolate, and coupled with the terrible climate here, no one could settle down.

During these days of drifting at sea, it can be said that few people were still in high spirits. In fact, after the allies took them away from Ukraine, the mental state of most people was not very good.

Amid the Slavic controversy, the Liberty finally docked at the pier in Davao City.

This brought a long-lost smile to Captain Hilda's face. He laughed and said, "We have finally reached the destination. The journey of more than 20 days has been really tough."

Even experienced sailors would find it difficult to survive such a journey. One can imagine the torture that the Slavs, most of whom had never seen the sea, endured during these twenty days.

First mate Wilknitz said to Hilda, "I know a bar in Davao City. After the handover is arranged, I will take you there for a cold beer. The drinks in that bar are all locally produced and shipped over. They taste quite good."

First mate Wilknitz was quite familiar with Davao City. He had been there more than a dozen times, but that was when he drove a new commercial ship, not the old sailing ship Liberty.

(End of this chapter)