Section 553 Influence Outside Europe (3)
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Some of the company's industrial products in India began to be exported to China in large quantities, and at the same time, a large number of machinery and equipment were imported from China, and the economy formed a complementary economy. The future of the company India is still very bright, and the discordant thing is that there are also some forces demanding national independence and liberation, needless to say that there is the support of the British forces behind them. But they are all small fish and shrimp, and they can't turn up big waves. The vast majority of corporate India's elites still support the corporation, because the vast majority of bureaucrats benefit from the educational system established by the corporation, and the political theories they accept are also Confucianism and Taoism based on China's culture of loyalty and filial piety. Fifty years is enough time for Confucianism and Taoism to take root in this agricultural country. Although it is still very shallow compared with China's Confucianism and Taoism, which lasted for thousands of years, it is much more stable than the British grafting Western ideas in British India.
So in the Indian region, it is accepted that Chinese rule is more benevolent; The evaluation of the outside world is meaningless, and the Indians themselves, even think so, that some elites in the British Indian region who have awakened the national spirit have even pushed for the annexation of British India by Corporate India; Some of the opposition in Corporate India tend to seek more to establish an Indian state than to overthrow the corporation, and they want the corporation to allow India to become a state rather than a corporate territory. There was a large group of people who even thought that the Chinese emperor should bring India under his rule or invite a member of the Chinese royal family to come to India as emperor.
As for the establishment of a republic, it is still heretical all over the world. At a time when there was no elite or family like Gandhi who gathered the prestige of all people in India, bringing in a monarch from outside was the most realistic and feasible plan for Indians to establish a state.
But even if the company does not exploit in India and only regards business interests as corporate profits, India is the most important asset of the company and cannot be easily abandoned.
In addition, India is also an important talent reserve base for the company, and India's human resources have played a great role in the development of Africa. It is not only some Indian farmers who are pioneering in Africa, but more than half of the managers are also from India. The corporations control India's administrative system, from which they can draw sophisticated officials. Of course, these officials are all Sinicized Indians, and they must at least be able to speak Chinese, otherwise it will be difficult to be reused by the company's managers.
With India's human and material resources, African companies will be able to carry out some important construction in Africa. Otherwise, African companies would not have been able to gain the control they have over Africa today, and they would not have been able to get enough support from home in terms of manpower alone. Because Africa's appeal to Chinese is really limited. The benefits that can be developed are shared by Chinese commercial companies, and African companies are only responsible for managing business, and in terms of development, it is mainly some profit-driven companies to develop, such as Africa's mineral deposits and trade, which are mainly done by other companies, and African companies are only responsible for maintaining a basic order and collecting customs duties and other taxes. There is no capacity to invest in specific development.
Through the sinicization of Indian officials, the African company completed the sinicization of the Congo River and the Niger River basin. The local upper class spoke Chinese and used Chinese characters, and one-third of the population was organized into households and people, and was directly ruled by the company, while the rest of the population was scattered in dense jungles or remote areas where transportation was inconvenient and the company's power was difficult to reach, and still lived a primitive tribal and clan life.
In a city ruled by African companies, there is no need to be amazed when you see a black-faced African man, speaking an authentic Chinese official dialect, wearing a long robe and Confucian clothes, and opening his mouth, when he introduces his surname Zhang Wang Li Zhao, this is just an ordinary local middle class.
Outside of Europe, the only areas where China has a stronger influence and no direct rule is basically the west coast of South America, mainly Peru and Chile.
These two regions, along with Ecuador, Central America and Mexico, are currently ruled by the Carlos family, who insist that they have the legal right to inherit the Spanish throne, that they are the male direct line of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty, that the previous king Philip VII is the younger brother of the family, and that the current queen is the daughter of Philip VII, and that the woman has not had the right to inherit in Spain, and their claims have always been supported by the Church. Now that the Carlos Empire has passed to the second generation in Mexico, in the hands of Carlos VI, Count of Montmorin, the royal family is unwilling to compromise despite the fact that the native white class in South America generally promotes the policy of independent South American statehood.
Due to the severance of ties with the Spanish mainland, the white people of the Spanish peninsula completely lost power in the area ruled by Carlos, and the power was completely in the hands of the native whites and a small number of upper-class mulattoes. In the past decade, there has been a complicated power struggle between the upper class and the upper class, mainly native-born whites, and the middle and lower elites represented by the Mestizos, and the royal power of Carlos. In the heart of Mexico, Carlos relied on an Indian army converted to Catholicism to suppress the antagonism between the native-born whites and mestizos, and imposed a poisonous rule.
However, the native-born white forces had an advantage in Chile, establishing a parliament, controlling the local army, and repeatedly expelling the governor sent by Carlos. Chile did not declare independence under the mediation of China, and continued to provide financial support to Carlos in his struggle with the Queen of Spain for colonial dominance. Carlos also began to acquiesce in the power of the parliament, and the governor he sent became a symbol of royal power, no longer interfering in specific politics, and became a rubber stamp of the parliament.
In the area between the Philippines and Chile, the situation in Peru was complicated, where the two sides formed a balance of power, the native whites established a parliamentary government and an army, but the Peruvian governor also had a Mexican army, and the two sides looked at each other, but the struggle remained within the parliamentary limits for the time being, and no civil war broke out. Peru also supported Carlos' seizure of power, and in their view, Carlos's rule was at least better than that of the Spanish government.
China also has much more influence in these regions than in Europe, not only through the support of the Carlos family, but above all through the penetration of commercial power. The natural conditions here are quite good, in fact, the development potential is very large, the agricultural potential of Peru, the potential of the mining industry in Chile, are world-class.
A number of Chinese companies, the largest of which are Americas, operate large-scale farms in Peru. Land that has not been occupied by whites for hundreds of years is purchased through legal procedures and intensively developed. Peru is an Indian-majority region with a small number of whites, and in the past it was concentrated on the exploitation of minerals, with neither the ability nor the capital to exploit the land. And there is a big problem, on the Pacific side, blocked by the coastal mountains, the main plains are in the eastern part of the coast, and the rivers originate from the Andes Mountains and flow directly into the Amazon rainforest. To develop these plains, transportation access is needed. It was the construction of the costly mountain railroad that made inland development possible.
The development of the land, the lack of labor, the employment of local Indians and mestizos, and of course the Chinese, but mostly as overseers and technicians, introduced rice cultivation here, has turned Peru into the center of rice production in South America, developing more than 30 million acres of rice fields, half of which belong to American companies.
Other commercial companies are mainly engaged in minerals and forestry, and are also mainly based on local manpower. Under the management of Chinese companies, Peru has become the world's largest producer of silver. Although silver is no longer the legal tender in China, the silver trading center is in China. Silver from South America entered China, then re-exported to silver-standard countries dominated by India, and even resold to Japan.
Along with these commercial companies, there were also Chinese, although the number was small and it was difficult to stay, but they created a mixed race in the local area, mostly mixed with Indians, but also mixed with whites and Creoles, in short, the blood is very confusing, but culturally sinicized.
Such a mixed-race group did not suffer the same intense discrimination as the Spaniards, who value their ancestry, and they continued to serve within the company, although they still inevitably suffered some discrimination, but there was no political repression, and they were able to hold important positions in various companies as long as they were able. But this ethnic group can only exert power, not demographic influence, because there are only 100,000 people in Peru and 20,000 in Chile.
Since the Chinese commercial companies basically control the commerce of Peru and Chile, and they are also dominant in agriculture, and the export of grain is basically done by Chinese companies, these companies have a strong influence on the west coast of the Americas, otherwise they would not be able to mediate the disputes between the local government and the Carlos family.
Unlike history, the population of Peru may be small in terms of the number of Chinese because it lacks the resources to attract Chinese immigrants. Chile is even less likely to become a good immigration area, because the Chinese are generally unwilling to be miners, if they are willing to mine, they can get higher wages at home, why bother to mine overseas.
But the culture brought by these immigrants is gradually influencing the West Coast of the Americas. Politically, they are not yet able to compete with whites and mixed-race people, but because the face is more like Indians than whites, and the Chinese do not like to fight, they are more tolerant, which makes the relationship between mixed-race Chinese and Indians less tense than whites, in Indian tribal areas, business is mainly these mixed-race Chinese, they continue to mix with Indians, blood-more and more like Indians, but culturally, more and more Han. Bringing Chinese culture into Indian culture began.
Compared with the whites, the culture of the Indians is relatively backward, and although most Indians have converted to Catholicism, this does not prevent them from learning Chinese, reading Confucius and Mencius, and from arming themselves with rebellious spirits such as the Water Margin.
The Chinese mixed-race group, which is constantly mixed with the Indians, is gradually getting closer to the Indians, and if this ethnic group with the largest number can be brought together by the Chinese mixed-race group with a high level of education, it will inevitably become the largest political force in western South America. This is not an intentional contest, but a natural progression.
The purpose of their school is mainly to educate their children, but it is inevitable that some Indian children will be taught, and the purpose of their medical hall may be more for profit, but it will also benefit the Indians.
The whites are almost isolated from the Indian society, and the Indians live in their own communities, mainly in the countryside, with the village community as a unit, some mixed-race Chinese operate here, gradually integrate into it, and gradually gain leadership power, subtly, the Chinese mixed-race people are climbing towards the high power of the Indians.
The new mixed-race generation, the second-generation Chinese-born half-breed, and the educated Chinese-born Indians gradually merged together to form a new ethnic group with a Chinese identity, and in time it was inevitable that a new ethnic group would challenge the whites.
The overseas Chinese population and the Sinicized population still maintain a rapid growth momentum, but the local population has begun to slow down, and a new era seems to have arrived.