Section 272 The Battle for Australia
The naval school was also established, although the naval tactics of the French were not as advanced as those of the British, but on the whole they were passable, especially the academic level of navigation was not bad, and the main thing was to let them be instructors, and the real tactical concept was concurrently served by the Chinese naval officers who returned from studying in the UK.
Due to the fact that there were only more than 30 people studying in Britain at that time, resulting in a scarcity of talents, the scale of the naval school has been small, and the arrival of the French has greatly enhanced the professional level, and the number has been greatly expanded, and now it can enroll 200 students every year.
What can be excavated from Napoleon has fully satisfied the assumption of the time when he took the risk to snatch Napoleon, time, Zhou Lang only needs time, give him another twenty years, as the new generation grows, China will be completely changed.
It's just that China seems to be overforced, I don't know if Napoleon's appeal is too strong, or China itself has a strong attraction to Westerners, or the combined effect of the two is too great, resulting in the influx of French talents into China The scale is too large, which greatly exceeds Zhou Lang's expectations, making him a little worried about whether the French will become one of the Chinese peoples!
The government has solved about 3,000 jobs for high-level technical and teaching talents, but nearly 10,000 young people who have graduated from university and have little experience in the industry have poured into China with free ferry tickets from China!
These people are not all here to find work, in this era, in fact, not only in France, in any country, students who can get a university education are often not from poor families, even in the United Kingdom, where apprenticeships are prevalent, the best vocational apprentices are often exclusive to the rich, such as apprentices in the banking industry, and they can't get in without their parents' connections. Bankers' apprentices are often the children of bankers, or the children of big capitalists, and few of the sons of farmers go to the banks to work as apprentices.
French universities are the exclusive domain of wealthy families because of their high tuition fees, who have just graduated or do not need to work after graduation, who are young, wealthy, romantic, and full of admiration for Napoleon, and many have even joined Napoleon's army. They all came to join Napoleon.
Some quickly fell into embarrassment and began to look for work, and their expertise made it easier for them to pursue a career as a mechanic or engineer in China's burgeoning industrial sector, which was in short supply.
But there were also those who, who did not need to work for money, met the adored Napoleon, but they did not go, they began to do business in China. If it was ordinary trade, some people began to enter the industrial field.
They have the capital, they have the knowledge, and even many of them have factories at home, maybe the technology is not as advanced as the British, but the management method is a big factory system. In a short period of time, a large number of foreigners applied to open factories, which even caused administrative chaos.
Zhou Lang's reform in the field of industry and commerce stipulates that anything that the government does not explicitly prohibit can be done. Factories that are no longer in industries regulated by the government shall be licensed in accordance with general trades. In the past, it was not that foreigners applied for licenses, for example, the British East India Company opened a tea factory in Xiamen, but such a dense number of foreigners applied for licenses never appeared.
How is the government going to manage it? The matter was reported to the public, and Wang Fuqian felt troublesome and decided to let the emperor decide.
Zhou Lang didn't expect Napoleon to attract French capital.
What to do. In later generations, the whole world welcomed foreign investment, but now that China's industry has just started, and the entry of large amounts of French capital will lead to economic colonization, he can't help but be a little worried.
If China's industrial economy has been formed, Zhou Lang will not be worried, but it is still a period of private capital accumulation, let the French to invest, I am afraid that these foreign capital will form a situation that cannot be lost, and then the industrialization of the Russians has such a problem, after the arrival of the economic crisis, a large number of foreign capital withdrew, resulting in a deeper crisis in Russia than other countries, and even caused the defeat of the Russo-Japanese War and the later revolution.
But these French seem to be talented, and they are a little reluctant to turn them away, after all, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is rare, where to find the next empire to die? I'm afraid we'll have to wait until Wilhelm II kills the German Empire.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhou Lang promulgated standardized management measures, and made general provisions for foreign businessmen to set up factories, unless they are licensed by the government, foreigners are not allowed to set up factories on a sole proprietorship, and there must be a partnership with Chinese, and the proportion of Chinese shares must not be less than half.
A joint venture method will put an end to the problem of foreign capital controlling industrial capital, as for whether the French can find partners in China, Zhou Lang can't care, if they don't even have this ability, it is estimated that they will definitely die a miserable death if they want to open up in China, which can be regarded as screening a batch of bad products in advance.
The French were still able to think of a way, and many French began to seek Chinese citizenship. There is no fixed method of naturalization, and the management is very lax, but the hierarchy is very high. The traditional method of household registration management is generally that the emperor rewards foreigners for naturalization, such as the German John Tang, the Belgian Nan Huairen, the French Bai Jin, the Portuguese Xu Risheng, the Italian Lang Shining, etc., all of which have been successfully naturalized. These people were specially approved by the emperor, and there were also methods that did not go through the emperor. Before the Opium War, there was a Prussian missionary who served the British, and was naturalized in the ancestral hall surnamed Guo in Tong'an, Fujian, and named Guo Shila. This method is to connect with the local clan, and it must be tacitly approved by the local government, and the black-box operation can be bought with money.
Now that such a large number of people are seeking naturalization, the local government suddenly feels that there is no way. No matter how bold an official is, he would not dare to let so many people become naturalized. So it was reported layer by layer.
Zhou Lang couldn't help laughing at himself, who said that foreigners are brainless, and this turn is not faster than anyone else?
In this regard, the naturalization measures were also promulgated, stipulating that unless they have settled in China for more than 10 years, have a good tax record, and have no criminal facts, they can apply to the local government household registration department for naturalization. In addition, naturalization is not allowed unless there are "people who have distinguished themselves in China", or through marriage, such as marrying a Chinese woman or marrying a Chinese man.
After the promulgation of the measures, only those who came to China in the early days could meet the requirements for the time being, or some businessmen who had been doing business in France for a long time. Of course, these scientists Zhou Lang wanted them to become naturalized, and the world's top talents were popular everywhere they went, but who would have thought that they would be naturalized for this reason.
A large number of French scientific and technological personnel have applied for naturalization in order to help their compatriots start businesses in China, and then the two French people have partnered to circumvent Zhou Lang's purpose of restricting French capital. Of course, the main reason is that it is much more difficult to find a Chinese partner than to find their own compatriots, it is difficult for them to trust Chinese businessmen, and it is even more difficult for Chinese businessmen to believe in them!
This circumvention is acquiesced by Zhou Lang, because it is legal, and in order to restrict the capital of a certain country, it is too costly to change the law again and again.
It's just a loophole, a way for humans to adapt to social laws, and when it comes to the ability to exploit loopholes, the Chinese are the originators.
The French took advantage of the loopholes stipulated by China, and the Chinese also took advantage of the loopholes imposed by the British blockade.
In Australia, Zhou Guan, who was bent on increasing the number of immigrants to 10,000, tried his best to exploit the loopholes of the British Navy.
When he discovered that the British did not prohibit goods from entering Australia, he disguised the immigrants as sailors and sent them to the settlement as soon as they entered the port; Later, the British began to investigate, and if the number of people in and out did not match, they would punish merchant ships, and even seize them, until the Chinese colonies handed over the people, and they forbade any Chinese immigrants to enter Australia.
After this gap was blocked, Zhou Guan had other methods, such as dropping down the immigrants in the positions that the British fleet could not blockade, and allowing them to enter the colony on foot, for which several temporary landing sites were opened up in the surrounding area of more than 100 miles. When the British found out, they extended the blockade and began to patrol regularly, especially during the typhoon season, when they blocked almost the entire mouth of the Murray River.
Mo tired, Mo tired, because it is not easy to open up, now the common people have begun to call the river of tears, and the first small city formed by the colony is also called the city of tears.
The location of the city of wiping tears is not in the mouth of the Murray River, because there are a large number of lagoons at the mouth of this large river, and it was later found that it is not convenient for large boats to enter and exit, so the city was established nearby, in fact, it is the location of Adelaide in later generations, which is not a coincidence, but because only here is suitable for building a city, there is also a small river here, which can solve the problem of urban water, because the principle of building a city in China and the West is the same, so the urban layout is basically the same.
The population of the settlements along the Murray River and the Murray River has reached 9,000 people, and Zhou Guan is about to reach the population target of 10,000, of course he refuses to give up, but the British blockade is getting tighter and tighter, and he has come up with another way, he has reopened a colony, located in the southwest of Australia, where there is also a navigable river, not as big as the Murray River, but it is already a rare river in Australia that continues to flow.
The river has long been explored by the Dutch because of the large number of black swans near the river, which the Dutch named the Swan River.
Later, the British opened up a colony on the river and named it Perth.
Zhou Guan did not build a city in Perth, but went deeper into the river than Perth, both to avoid the British blockade and to chase developable land.
Because the purpose of secretly opening up this colony was to win the position of governor for himself, Zhou Guan named the river Dengke River, Tu an auspicious one, two years ago Dengke River began to establish a colony, and now the population has exceeded 1,000 people, which is the result of immigration at any cost, for which Zhou officials intercepted prisoners sent to Africa for two years.
Now the old Zhou official began to ask Zhou Lang for the position of governor.
Zhou Lang immediately appointed him Governor of Nanyang and Australia.
Borneo had become a Chinese colony in Nanyang, and did not send too many officials, but appointed local Chinese chiefs, maintained local customary law, and appointed Zhou officials to manage the area, with the intention of continuing to develop the place through commercial means, allowing Zhou officials to form a Nanyang Australian company to manage. At the same time, it continued to open up more colonies in the South Seas and Australia.
Nanyang is relatively simple, because the Dutch control area is almost a few large islands around Java Island, some small islands with development value, or large islands like New Guinea that are too difficult to develop, they did not control it, the purpose of appointing Zhou Guan is to follow him to develop where, and the Chinese have developed a mature Borneo also under his control, the purpose is to let him have a nearby base.
But Australia is also under his control, and the problem is much more complicated, because Australia has always been under the actual control of the British, and it is impossible for Zhou Guan to let go of his hands and feet to develop, and if he continues to sneak around, there is obviously no future. Dare to appoint the governor of Australia to Zhou Guan, of course Zhou Lang is going to solve this problem, it is impossible to solve it by Zhou Guan's own strength, this kind of thing has to be done by the state.
Zhou Lang's approach was to send a fleet of fifty battleships to Australia, not only to lift the blockade of the British fleet to the Chinese colonies, but also to counter-blockade the British colonies, that is, Sydney and Tasmania!