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Chapter 632: Mastering their lifeblood (second update, please subscribe)
"Control and influence?"

Zuo Xiaohan said with some doubts.

"When they were in London, the British believed that the Tang people's influence in Malaya far exceeded theirs, and their control over the economy was beyond the reach of the local indigenous people. Statistics show that 75% of the local economy is controlled by the Tang people, and local planting More than 90% of the parks, factories and mines belong to Tang people, as well as 80% of the banking industry and 80% of the retail industry..."

When Zuo Xiaohan came out with data one after another, they all explained the economic status of the Tang people in the local area!
On the surface, this data seems astonishing, and it also shows the Tang people's control over the entire region.

And this is also the reason why Western colonists are afraid of it. Because - the Tang people control the economy of the entire region. This seems to indicate that they have unimaginable control and influence locally.

But actually?

When listening to these data, Li Yian sneered in his heart,

Many people like to use how much the Tang people control a country's economy to describe the economic influence of the Tang people. However, the actual control and influence are hardly worth mentioning.

"... Generally speaking, the Malayan Tang people have an absolute advantage economically, which even aroused the vigilance of the British."

After Zuo Xiaohan made this conclusion, Li Yian nodded and said.

"You are right, the Tang people do control the local economy, so I would like to ask you how much of the lifeblood of the local people do they control?"

In fact, this is the most fundamental problem.

"what?"

Your Excellency's question made Zuo Xiaohan, the director-general of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, stunned. When he was surprised, Zhang Yunlin frowned at the side. After thinking for a moment, he asked tentatively.

"Your Excellency, are you referring to how many local people they employ?"

Li Yian said with a slight nod.

"Yes, that's it. What is the biggest characteristic of the Tang people? They are self-employed, which means they give priority to hiring their own people, whether it is plantations, factories or mines. This is of course caring for their own people, and it is also a manifestation of the mutual aid of the Tang community. , but this has also created a situation in which control and influence over local indigenous people have declined.”

Li Yian stopped to take a puff of his cigar, and then said again.

"This is the problem that the Tang people have in the local area now. We control the economy, but the local people are scattered in the countryside. They have very limited influence from us. Even in the future, the Tang people take control of the national power after independence. This If the problem is not solved, it will still bring about very serious hidden dangers. If it is allowed to develop, it will even affect the future ownership of Malaya. After all, in terms of population, we do not have an absolute advantage at all, but all this is It can be changed. After all, even in Malaya, the sex ratio of Tang people is unbalanced, and many Tang men are single..."

Li Yian poked his cigar in the northwest direction and continued,

“What we need to do now is to pull Malay women out of their homes in the countryside through industrial transfer and let them work in factories. After they get used to working in the city, they will naturally be more inclined to marry more hard-working men. Tang people, this will undoubtedly help increase the fertility rate of the Tang people, thereby ensuring the stability of Malaya in the future. "

In fact, there is no need to encourage them. Local women are more inclined to marry Tang people. In the eyes of both British colonists and local people, "Tang people are the strongest, most ambitious, most supportive, and have the smartest minds in the world." "Flexible immigration", many Tang people came to Malaya with no money, worked tirelessly, saved money, started a family and started a business, and eventually became millionaires.

It is for this reason that Malayan women were happy to marry Tang people, at least before their independence and before the Malays claimed the so-called Malay supremacy. "What is needed now is to use the textile industry, clothing factories, and shoe factories to bring more "Nyonya" out of the countryside and let them marry Tang people. Anyway, the local tradition is polygamy. As long as the Tang people can maintain economic support for her. If one more local Nyonya marries a Tang person, the natives will have fewer children. In this way, I think the Tang people will have an absolute advantage in the population. "

This...this is the real conspiracy!

Zhang Yunlin looked at His Excellency pacing back and forth in the room with awe but slightly doubtful eyes.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency. Will this intensify the conflict between them?"

"The locals look down on women, and our factory not only recruits female workers, there are also some factories that need male workers and recruit them. Every time our factory recruits a worker, it means there is a native worker." People are under our control and influence.”

"Is this the control and influence you mentioned earlier?"

Zuo Xiaohan said.

"Who cares who serves the dishes? First pull them out of the countryside and let them adapt to modern society. In the city, if you are unemployed, you will starve. In order to eat, they will obey the boss's various orders. This kind of control and Influence is what we need. Of course, after entering the city, the fertility rate will also decrease to a certain extent due to the heavy work and living environment..."

Especially the living environment. According to the statistics of later sociologists, the impact of apartment-style housing on the fertility rate is extremely significant. Compared with living in townhouses or single-family houses, people living in apartments obviously lack the desire to have children. This is because most families just like to live next to each other. You can live alone in privacy without being disturbed by other people's daily noises. You and your children are free to make some noise. The proportion of trendy young people in the survey who are willing to live together in apartment buildings does not exceed 20%. In fact, as long as their income and work radius allow, the vast majority of families will move to single-family homes.

The most typical example is the three countries in East Asia - they are all dominated by apartments, and the result is that the fertility rate is simply appalling. After all, family life is destined to require a private space, and noisy children will also affect the rest of those around them. If there are constant complaints from neighbors or are disturbed by neighbor's children, then the desire to have children will naturally decrease.

That's why Li Yian required from the very beginning that public housing must be single-family, providing a large number of wooden houses for living. Even apartment buildings have enough private space for families. Nanyang can get a "baby boom" even without conscious guidance from the authorities.

Of course, this "baby boom" only belongs to Tangshan. In the future, Malaya, as a country influenced by Nanyang, will definitely improve social security by providing public housing to residents. However, at that time, in Malaya, Apartments are provided for new residents in the city. Li Yian has even thought about the type of apartment. It is the kind of low-cost Khrushchev building - the floor height is 2.5 meters, two rooms are 44 square meters, and three The room is a small pigeon cage of 60 square meters.

In a house like that, not to mention increasing the fertility rate, but also suppressing the basic life of a couple. Li Yi'an has deep feelings for that kind of small apartment. After all, before time travel, he himself lived in such an old apartment. Not to mention a couple, even when his roommates occasionally did DIY, the sound of their breathing was loud. It could reach his ears that the feeling of the two of them DIYing across the wall was no different from being in the same room.

Using an apartment like that will definitely help reduce the fertility rate. Is this "shooting yourself in the foot"?

Of course not, because the biggest feature of Malaya is that 95% of the Tang people live in the city, and 85% of the residents in the city are Tang people. They originally have their own houses, and they are almost either "townships" or "townships". Single-family house."

Who will those apartments be for in the future?

Of course it benefits the local people. By allocating housing, they are unwilling to have more children, thereby reducing the fertility rate of the indigenous people. This is simply a genius idea!

Suddenly turning around and staring at Zuo Xiaohan and Zhang Yunlin with a proud smile, Li Yi'an felt proud in his heart.

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(End of this chapter)