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Chapter 966 The Nature of Imperialists (Fourth update, please subscribe)

Coming to Downing Street again, Li Yian couldn't remember how many times he had been here.

But every time there are corresponding gains, what kind of gains will there be this time?

From the moment he entered the Prime Minister's office, Li Yian and Eden had a pleasant chat, from Nanyang to Britain, and then to Nanyang's investment in the Commonwealth. Although Nanyang's products have seized a lot of market share in the Commonwealth, Britain still made a lot of profit with Nanyang's investment. Eden was naturally very clear about this. This is also the fundamental reason for the harmonious relationship between the two sides.

But in the end we always got back to the point, talking about Egypt and the Suez Canal.

“…So, based on basic business rules and credibility, we believe that commercial agreements are inviolable and Egypt cannot and has no right to take back the Suez Canal.”

Although Egypt has not done so yet, what Eden said now is just a hypothesis. This foresight is one of the reasons why the British Empire was able to flourish for more than a century.

"As Mr. Prime Minister said, commercial agreements are inviolable. I agree with this. No country can confiscate the property of other countries with a piece of paper! If we allow this to happen, the world economy will be devastated!"

This is of course the case of the butt deciding the head. The reason why Li Yian said this is because Nanyang now has a lot of investments in Africa, South America, Australia and the Middle East. If they casually introduce a bill in the future to "nationalize" them, it will not be as simple as suffering heavy losses.

By then, the interests of hundreds of millions of Nanyang people will be damaged - more than 30% of Nanyang's overseas investments are national annuities, which are the pension insurance for Nanyang people. In order to prevent Nanyang's pensions from being exhausted one day, in addition to postponing the retirement age to 65, Li Yian also made some investment portfolios, mainly investing in industrial basic raw materials such as mines and oil. Although these industrial basic raw materials have limited fluctuations, the profits are long-term, just like Australia's iron ore and copper mines, which can be mined for hundreds of years without any problems, and a one-time investment will pay off for a hundred years, and the same is true for oil.

The long-term returns from these investments are sufficient to ensure that the Nanyang "National Pension" can continue to receive generous returns in the next one or two hundred years, thus avoiding the situation where pension funds are exhausted.

Therefore, no one cares more about "international business rules" than Li Yian. To put it bluntly, it is all about interests.

Just like Nanyang supports free trade, the reason for supporting it is that free trade is beneficial to Nanyang's exports, while trade protection is against Nanyang's interests. Even Nanyang can justifiably say that our economy has developed without any trade protection.

There is no trade protection in the "Nanyang Model". Why not? Because after the war, all countries were short of materials. They did not have enough for themselves, so how could they have extra products?

Trade protection? Protecting loneliness?

Therefore, Nanyang is opposed to trade protectionism, and in the revision of the terms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, it also firmly opposes the so-called "protection period for developing countries".

"Your Excellency is right. Therefore, we hope that in the near future, Nanyang can stand together with the UK to jointly safeguard the international business rules of the world, and not be bound by the so-called international morality! This is not only for the continuation of international business rules, but also for our common interests!"

Eden, who comes from the Conservative Party, is a typical imperialist. Compared with dealing with the Labour Party and the white left, Li Yian prefers to deal with people like him because they are direct and frank!
Benefits are benefits.

In fact, compared to those hypocritical white left politicians in another world, the seemingly immoral imperialists are the real people with high morals. Their morality and compassion are not given to those so-called "refugees" who come out of nowhere, but their compassion and care are always given to their compatriots. And what they defend is also the fundamental interests of their compatriots.

In comparison, what are those Bai Zuo?
They are nothing but a bunch of selfish hypocrites.

What is the essence of white left virtues?
It is false morality that requires no sacrifice, just like in the refugee crisis in Europe, where those white leftists who advocate unlimited acceptance of refugees from the Middle East do not bear the corresponding long-term security, economic and social responsibilities themselves, but are able to naturally gain a high moral reputation - behind this generosity is a lack of sense of responsibility towards the country, community and family; while those who uphold traditional values ​​​​who have a strong sense of responsibility towards family, community and country have to worry about the threats that follow, and are also criticized as "Nazis" or "fascists".

In fact, imperialists are the real patriots, but their love is "narrow". They only love their own country and their own people.

And what about the white left?

They never care about the poor people of their own country, but are keen on caring about people far away. The reason why white leftists are more keen on caring about refugees is not because of their nobility, but because caring about people who have nothing to do with them far away can be easily packaged as noble virtues, which is a moral shortcut to earn fame at a very low cost.

Therefore, some counterintuitive phenomena become natural: the more distant and irrelevant people are, the more they can get the attention of white leftists, and the closer people are, the less likely they are to get the attention of white leftists.

But the imperialists are different. They care about the people and things around them, and this care is completely based on traditional virtues. The essence of virtue lies in responsibility, and responsibility is a kind of boring and trivial obligation that requires long-term efforts. The virtues of traditional values ​​are all based on specific responsibilities.

Because of this, Li Yian and Aiden have a common language, because they both know each other's moral bottom line and understand each other's thoughts. After all, the imperialists have the same ideas and are traditional. "Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, morality... morality is generous, but it is definitely not generous to others. If morality is useful, then why do we need laws?"

Li Yian's answer made Aiden nod in agreement.

"Your Excellency is right. In the post-war world, some countries always like to confuse morality and rules. So, I think that in the future we should deepen cooperation, not only to safeguard our common interests, but also to protect traditional rules from being destroyed!"

After saying that, Aiden looked at the other person expectantly, waiting for his answer.

Facing Aiden's charming eyes, Li Yian fell silent. He just quietly lit the cigar, took a puff, and then held the cigar in his mouth. If it was the previous owner of this office, Fatty Qiu would definitely light a cigar and then take big puffs.

Compared with Fatso, Eden was obviously a little immature. It was no wonder that Fatso was also worried about him and gave him a hand. Before he resigned, Eden had been presiding over Britain as Deputy Prime Minister.

While Li Yian was thinking with a cigar in his mouth, Aiden just looked at him straight, full of expectation!

He couldn't help but look forward to it. Although he knew that if something happened to the canal, the French would definitely get involved, but France couldn't fight. And they didn't have an atomic bomb.

Nanyang is different. Not only can he fight, but he also has an atomic bomb! He is naturally looking forward to such a helper!
Compared to Aiden's expectations, Li Yian seemed very calm.

Maintain traditional rules!

This burden is a bit heavy, Xiao Dengzi, don’t you know who broke this traditional rule?

It was a joint effort of the United States and the Russians to sabotage it. You know it now, but you don’t experience it. When the "Suez Canal Crisis" comes, you and France will taste the bitterness!

The "Suez Canal Crisis" and the threats from the United States and the Soviet Union directly stripped Britain of its prestige. As we all know, as the world's largest colonial empire, Britain was the first country in Europe to allow its colonies to become independent, and it almost just went with the flow.

Most of Britain's efforts to protect its colonies were concentrated before the "Suez Canal Crisis". After the crisis, facing the decline of national strength, Britain did not even do superficial work.

The collapse of British Africa inevitably affected other European countries. The so-called "African Independence Year" was essentially the British giving up their efforts to maintain their colonies, which led to France also giving up their efforts. Just like the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Eastern European countries were destined to collapse as well.

Britain gave up treatment, and other European colonial countries could not hold out either.

The canal crisis was the beginning of the continuous collapse of the British Empire. If it were Tangshan, it would correspond to the "Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895", when the tiger skin of the British Empire was completely torn off.

From then on, Britain completely became a follower of the United States!
Now, rather than saying that Britain is pulling Nanyang together to maintain traditional rules, it is better to say that they are working together to maintain the traditional interests of the British Empire.

"Maintaining traditional rules... this..."

After pondering for a moment, Li Yian said with some embarrassment.

"Nanyang is very willing to play a role with the UK, but as we all know, the United States and the Soviet Union are now undermining traditional rules to varying degrees. In this case, it is very stressful and difficult to defend traditional rules."

"It's very stressful, but it can be overcome. Although there are difficulties, they are only temporary!"

He also knew that this was the other party reminding him that it was time to show the generosity of the British Empire.

"Sir, I have good news for you. We have reached a consensus on the issue of Malaya's independence. We believe that the time is ripe for Malaya's independence!"

(End of this chapter)