1855 United States Tycoon

"Dad, Chen Guang Uncle sent a telegram from China." Grey Stone said to Scrooge. "He met a group of people in China who wanted to rebel. Those people wanted to purchase some weapons through him. Chen Uncle felt that there might be a long-term business to do. So he sent us this telegram back."

"Let me see." Scrooge said, taking the telegram from Grey Stone.

"He actually met the pioneer practitioner of the revolution?" Seeing Chen Guang's telegram, Shi Gaozhi was slightly surprised. He doesn't remember when the pioneer practitioners of the revolution started making the revolution, but it seems that the revolution will take place after the Hundred Days of Restoration, right? Mr. Sun started making revolution so soon?

"Grey Stone, what do you think of Chen Guang Uncle's opinion?" Scrooge silently read the message, and then asked.

"In any case, China, with a population of 400 million, is definitely a market that cannot be ignored." Greystone replied, "Moreover, the door of this market is relatively easier to open. Unlike India, a market as big as India. Occupied by the British family, our products cannot be sold at all. Today, compared to the British and French, our influence in China is very limited. This is not a good thing. However, think about it carefully. , We still have some advantages."

"Go on," Scrooge said, leaning back into the thick and soft sofa.

"The British and French directly opened the door of China with guns. This moved the Chinese to a great humiliation. And since then, the large-scale dumping of opium by the British and French in China has made the Chinese people the most influential. Some people in China hate them exceptionally. In contrast, our United States people have a much better image in China. Although I guess many of them may not be able to distinguish the difference between Britain and France and our United States. However, relatively speaking , It is more convenient for us to win over the Chinese than the British.

In addition, the recent Qing-Japanese War will have a profound impact on China. It can be said that the incompetence of the Qing government was completely exposed in this battle. Although they often failed in the past, they lost to the white people, but this time, they lost to the yellow race like them. As far as I know, Chinese people have always been very proud. They once considered themselves the center of the world and the only civilized people in the world. And treat all other nations as barbarians. Although it was later taught by the British and French, this kind of pride still exists at least when they face other Asian countries. Today's disastrous defeat against Japan will inevitably lead to doubts about the government. The Qing government's control of localities was inherently problematic. In fact, after Chen Uncle's failed revolution, many places were already in a state of close to semi-independence. The Empress Dowager of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very skilled, and it took a lot of effort to gradually rebuild the authority of the central government. However, the Manchu Qing government was a small nation government. This war revealed that its military force was completely unreliable and the large nation treated it. The resistance to the rule of the country will naturally be stronger. After this failure, this trend will become more apparent. "

"I know that some Chinese people are already calling for learning from Japan and carrying out a Japanese-style reform. If the reform is successful, then the revolution will have no future. What do you think?" Scrooge asked casually.

"Dad, China is different from Japan. Such reforms are almost impossible to succeed." Grey Stone said

"Why do you think the Manchu reforms will definitely not succeed?" Scrooge raised his head and asked as he stared at Grey Stone who was standing by.

Of course, Grey Stone knew that this was an opportunity to show his own, so he considered the language a little, and then replied:

"Dad, I remember you told me before that any reform is actually the redistribution of benefits. The essence behind the distribution of benefits is the balance of power. The premise of reform is the change in the balance of power. The so-called reform in Japan In fact, it was a revolution. Japan’s powerful feudal clan and the imperial family united and overthrew the shogunate. In making this change, the opposing force has been crushed, and the interests that originally belonged to him can of course be arbitrarily distributed by the victors. With this Of course, the reform can continue.

But the situation in China is different. The power balance that pushed China to reform was the weakening of the dominant Manchu and the relative ascending of the dominant national power. Therefore, the essence of this reform is to allow the dominant small nation to spit out its vested interests and transfer it to the main nation. In this way, it is strange that the dominant Manchus are willing. It's not that when it comes to despair, who would be willing to honestly vomit the benefits that have been eaten and are accustomed to? Although the implicit balance of power has changed, I don't think they will be willing to give up their own interests. Even if the emperor or the empress dowager behind him is willing, but the entire Manchu is unwilling, they can't make such a compromise. What's more, such a concession will only make the balance of power more and more unbalanced, and then they have to worry about whether they will lose everything step by step in the end. Just as the Japanese shogunate could not tolerate the reforms of the ‘Emperor’s Independence’, or in other words, like the South back then..." At this point, Grey Stone looked around.

Scrooge was amused by this action of Grey Stone, and laughed haha: "Don't worry, Grey Stone. Your mother is not here."

Although intellectually understands why the North has a war with the South, and understands that defeat in the South is inevitable, Dorothea is still a staunch southern faction. Who dares to say that the South is not good before her, whether it is Who, even if it was Scrooge, she dared to prevent him from coming to stage face to face.

Gladstone also smiled, but he glanced aside again, and then said, "Dad, it’s like the South back then. Don’t those southern politicians and generals know that the balance of power has changed? I don’t know. Do they have no power at all to resist the North? But the interests of the entire South prevent them from making compromises. I dare say that if the time is set back to the past, the South and the North can only use war to solve the problem. Just like you said before As before, the only lesson we learn from history is that we will never learn from history. Since Japan, United States, and the United Kingdom—if there were no bloody wars during the protector’s period, there would never have been bloodless wars. The Glorious Revolution-and France is also the case. So how can China be an exception? If someone really wants to carry out this kind of reform, it will definitely end in failure. But since the balance of power has changed, then a peaceful compromise If it is not successful, there will be only one solution to the problem, and that is revolution, which is war. Therefore, I feel that from now on I will contact those who want revolution, influence them, and tie them to our chariot. Let them become the spokesperson of our interests, which is of great benefit to us.""Very good, very good." Scrooge said, "but you Chen Uncle did not approve of those revolutionary parties in your message. In his words, he even felt that these revolutionary parties were not even as good as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a cult. . Is it efficient to nurture such a person?"

"Dad, if they are very capable, then they can solve the problem on their own. What do we need to do? Then they will compromise with us and endorse our interests? It's like back then, there was no French Yes, North America may not be able to be independent. And the French support us, in addition to weakening the United Kingdom, in fact, do not actually want to benefit from us? It’s just that we in United States are so powerful that they can’t control it at all. , And even let us take advantage of the chance of their defeat in Haiti to buy Indiana. If they are capable, this story will repeat itself in us. Therefore, I think these incapable revolutions Those who are good revolutionaries are good revolutionaries.” Grey Stone’s answer is really a bit of Scrooge's demeanor back then.

Scrooge nodded. To be honest, choosing a supporter is a difficult thing to grasp. The target of support is too weak. If you don’t do it well, you will become Liu Adou who can’t afford to support him. At that time, he took the things you supported to him, and became a transportation captain, opened a logistics company or something, that’s really true. You can’t cry even if you cry. Just like Scrooge’s original time and space, people from United States have successively supported several logistics companies, from the well-known and mission-critical Kaishen Logistics to He helped him to pit the United States' generation of Tingyan logistics, and then to directly transfer the intact M1A1 tank to ISIS's Iraqi logistics. There have been countless examples of failures.

But it’s not good that the ability of the supported objects is too strong. For example, the French supported the United States, but the colony was forcibly bought by the United States. The later Soviet Union supported the TG. As a result, it was necessary to put a million troops on the border. . So, this is really a tangled thing. But in general, it is better to start a logistics company than to take a bite. Because it doesn't work anymore, you can still sell that stupid stop loss that opened a logistics company.

"Well, how do you plan to support these revolutionaries?" Scrooge asked.

"I guess their first action will definitely fail in a mess." Grey Stone said unceremoniously, "This is not only because of their abilities, but also because there are many people who want top-down reforms. To solve the problem. I think that after they fail, let Chen Uncle contact them again, lend them money, let them study in Heishui and West Point, and provide them with arms. In this way, I don’t think they can resist People are inert with this temptation. In this way, they will not have too many ideas for self-reliance. And the economic foundation of their various activities is in our hands, which makes them not listen to us in the future. NS."

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