Chapter 777: The expansionism of the Great Heng people
The reason for the generals of the Daheng military to oppose the expansion of large-scale war is very simple, that is, to avoid the expansionist sentiment of the domestic war rising again and again, and finally force the military to a desperate road with no way out: once again single-handedly fight the world!
Therefore, the rise of expansionism that began last year actually worries the military leadership!
The military also likes to expand, and it's better to have a war once in a while.
However, this kind of expansion of the military is a limited expansion, and to put it bluntly, it is enough to bully and bully small and medium-sized countries to gain some benefits.
In this process, the military has made some credit for itself, reflecting the military's sense of existence, and brushing up some political capital, but the two sides of the Daheng Army and Navy have never planned to really fight the world, even if it is the Lieji War, the military has always strictly controlled the scale of the war, and the cabinet has repeatedly asked the military to launch strict actions, such as shelling Gafia proper, sending large troops to kill the Republic of Kean and even Gafia proper, etc., which were directly rejected by the military.
In order to control the scale of the war!
If it weren't for the resolute attitude of the military, the Daheng Empire would not have adopted the term local conflict, and would have directly declared war a long time ago.
However, the domestic expansion sentiment continues to rise, not to mention the people, the folk sentiment of the Daheng people has always been shouting for external expansion, and the key thing is that the current imperial high-level also has this voice.
In the second half of last year, a businessman committed his own death and was caught playing smuggling in the Krull Kingdom.
Choked the Krull people enough, and laughed on the spot: You Daheng people want extraterritoriality? Yes, as long as you can defeat our kingdom's navy, and then send an army to land on our kingdom island, and wipe out the native garrison army of our kingdom island, then let alone extraterritoriality, the entire kingdom island will be yours at that time!
In order to calm the situation, although the diplomatic minister who almost provoked the Hengke War for the sake of a smuggler was transferred back to China, the most disgusting thing is that this person was not even dismissed, and as soon as he turned around, he went to other countries as ministers.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' behavior of making trouble everywhere abroad has made the army and navy very unhappy!
Without the instigation of these high-ranking cabinet officials, the Liej War would not have been fought at all, and if it survived, it would have been a skirmish, and then a diplomatic solution would have been made.
However, under the impetus of the cabinet, it has directly turned into a 'large-scale armed conflict' with hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides.
Although the military was also happy to see it happen at that time, the military would not let the cabinet officials restrain their noses, and the cabinet wanted to expand the scale of the war, take the opportunity to annex the Lieji Kingdom, and finally get a Daheng overseas territory out, but it was blocked back by the military of the Daheng Empire.
If you want an overseas territory to dry your eggs, can you still kill millions of people in the local area and then immigrate there?
If you can't, just get a military base to maintain a military presence, and use the kingdom of Liej as an industrial dumping market, so that you can make more money.
And at this council meeting, Secretary Lai Jinhai, as soon as he saw that the situation was not quite right, immediately expressed his position on behalf of the army and navy: We don't want to do this kind of thing in the world, don't fool around!
These words made many senior officials who were full of confidence show dissatisfied looks.
In the more than a dozen anti-Heng wars in the central continent, we did it again and again, destroying countless countries and annexing countless territories by the way.
Otherwise, there are Daheng people's territory and expand to more than 7.5 million square kilometers now.
How is it that your military has forgotten such a fine tradition today?
The army and navy generals led by Lai Jinhai naturally ignore the mouths of these civilian officials, a group of fools, they know every day that they shout and shout and kill, and when the time comes, you will not hide behind and watch the show, but we will fight on top of the army and navy.
This victory is due to your strategic planning, and our military is responsible for losing Nima.
You want this kind of good thing too? Dream on!
Under the pressure of the staunch conservative lord and faction of the military, those civilian officials who shout and kill every day, although they shout for going south to Olisa today and eastward to Kingdom Island tomorrow, they are always stable as a whole.
Of course, it is not only the military's own credit, but also the reason why Emperor Lin Ziran constantly adjusts and suppresses.
When Daheng was first unified, Lin Ziran found that the nationalism within the Daheng Empire was extremely high, which was due to the cultural traditions formed by thousands of years of tradition, as well as the backwardness of the empire caused by the division in the past few decades, and the disappointment caused by missing the opportunity to seize the world market.
Now that people feel that our Daheng has been unified, and it has been more than ten years since we tried our courage, it is time to grab what we haven't grabbed in the previous decades.
In fact, Lin Ziran has always used the official media to guide this kind of national sentiment, for example, to guide more emphasis on domestic development.
At the same time, it is also to instill a new concept of expansion in the people, that is, expansion does not have to kill all the foreigners, and take their land to become their own.
This kind of expansion is naturally the best in the agricultural era, but now it is the industrial age, and the expansion of our Daheng people must keep pace with the times, and we can use more advanced expansion methods to obtain benefits, and then support the development of the country and the people's lives better.
What is the expansion method?
Resource plunder!
We can obtain a lot of benefits through the export of high value-added industrial products in exchange for a lot of their wealth, and at the same time, we can also control and plunder through financial and other means.
So, what we need now is not a territory, but a market!
And in order to gain the market, we first develop ourselves well!
This kind of propaganda has also achieved a certain effect, in the past ten years, Daheng people have been immersed in industry, and the expansion of international trade is the product of this policy.
Of course, this argument can also lead to problems, such as the current conflict with other countries for the sake of the global market!
And this, in fact, from another point of view, is also a change in the natural yearning of Daheng people for expansion, but in the past, Daheng people wanted to encroach on land, and now Daheng people want to expand the market.
However, the expansion mentality has never been far from the great Heng people!
Don't look at the diplomats of Daheng people in public for three days and two ends to emphasize what world peace, free trade and the like, a hello, hello, everyone, happy business together, but in fact, the reason why Daheng people's reputation in the international community is not good, and the last ten years have not changed for the better, is because the free trade of Daheng people is to let others open the market to let themselves in, but Daheng people themselves will never easily open the market.
Well, agricultural products and oil and other Daheng advantageous industries are exceptions!
If you have the ability to export grain, kerosene and other things to Daheng, Daheng people will write you a big word!
Therefore, other countries are not stupid, even the paramilitary ally of the Kingdom of Orr, they will not believe in the so-called free trade in the mouth of Daheng's diplomats, and other countries will not believe it.