"There's nothing you can't do!"

After finishing a day's work, Li Ziyuan glanced at the letter again and whispered to himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's just a colony, anyway!"

Yes!

It's just colonies there.

No one cares what happens there?

"Who cares about them?"

No one promised him.

Standing up from the Ming-style desk, through the room, Li Ziyuan came to the corridor, he looked in the distance and seemed to want to see the prosperity of Guangzhou, of course, he wanted to see the prosperity of the wharf, the current Guangzhou is more prosperous than in the past, although it cannot be compared with the five before the trade, but soon, maybe next year, or the year after that, with the construction of the Hanyue Railway, at that time, Guangzhou City is bound to be prosperous again.

At that time, merchants from all over the world will gather here again.

Tea, silk and other Chinese products will be shipped to Guangzhou through gunpowder, and then to the world. At that time, Guangzhou will not only be the gateway of the three provinces, but will also become the gateway of China in the southeast. It is conceivable that this will not change for decades or even hundreds of years to come.

Guangzhou will only become more and more prosperous!

As a person who opens his eyes to the world, Li Ziyuan has always been a realist. A traditional scholar has learned a lot in the past few years, and he has his own understanding of the world, and it is based on this understanding that he will go all out to build schools and support the development of industry and commerce in Guangdong, because he knows that that is the future, and anyone who tries to stop this will be eliminated by the times.

Similarly, any country that tries to swim against the current will be eliminated.

He understood what kind of world this was: this world was purely a jungle, and what this world believed in was the law of the jungle, and as for the so-called public law, humanity and even civilization, it was just the so-called rules of the game, and whether or not to abide by it was always to follow the will of the strong.

As for the fate of the author, no one or any country will think about it.

This is an era of the jungle.

It is precisely because of this sober meaning that Li Ziyuan knows what Han Du wants, and he wants to make China a tiger in this jungle, not a sheep to be humiliated.

As a tiger, eating sheep is inevitable!

This is inherently a world of the jungle.

The weak will inevitably be enslaved and bullied by the strong, this has been the case for thousands of years, this is the immutable law of human society, so why resist him.

"Just getting some slaves......"

No, it's not slaves, it's to drive the headhunters of the rainforest out of the rainforest, to educate them, to change them, to bring civilization to the barbarians.

That's right!

This is different from the plundering of slaves by Westerners, this is the indoctrination of civilization to barbarism!

Civilization is supposed to educate barbarism!

This is the responsibility and obligation of civilization!

Just like more than 2,000 years ago, Qin Shi Huang ordered hundreds of thousands of troops to enter Lingnan and educate Baiyue. Indoctrination is never just about holding a book. Rather, with knives and guns, for barbarians, the conquest of knives and guns will make them pick up books.

Although Li Ziyuan is to a large extent a traditional scholar, and even deep down he dislikes Westerners and the kind of civilization based on plunder, but now he has realized that even if he is disgusted with certain standards, he must show respect, because in this era, either your strength is enough to change this rule, or you can conform to this rule.

Of course, now China does not have the strength to change, so it can only conform and comply with this rule.

"Well, it's not a big deal. It's nothing more than ......"

The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and Li Ziyuan said in a calm tone.

"It's nothing more than turning people into soldiers!"

Yes, it is nothing more than to train those exiles into soldiers, let them crusade in the rainforest against the wildlings in the rainforest, kill the resisters, capture the surrenderers, use the wildlings to reclaim the land, and then give the reclaimed land to the new immigrants. Of course, the first land to be reclaimed was not "public land", but the private property of officials at all levels.

In this way, the benefits can be maximized.

But who should do all this? He didn't want his nephew to meddle in this matter, and he didn't want the officials and companies sent to interfere, and the dirty work should be done by someone else.

Thinking of this, a series of candidates appeared in Li Ziyuan's mind, and in the end, a relatively suitable candidate appeared in his mind. So he took a few steps forward and said to the staff in the office.

"Let Mr. Blaise come to the officer, immediately."

Like the governor's office, there were also foreigners in the governor's yamen in Guangdong, and Bryce was one of them.

A few minutes later, Bryce came up from the office of the Affairs Section. He looked more like a sailor, and although he wore a suit, his appearance was a bit rough, and he looked more like a farmer than a scholar.

Many people will be fooled by his appearance, but in reality, he did study, although he did not go to university, but for many years he had been in Africa and India, and after several bankruptcies he had to accept the employment of Guangdong Province as an adviser to the governor's yamen.

And his job was very simple - to help the Governorate establish a modern "prison management", of course, not the prison, but the "prisoners" in Xu Wen's salt works and the railway construction sites in Lingnan, so that they could work more efficiently.

That's what Bryce does

And Li Ziyuan chose this person because he had a wealth of "colonial" work experience, and when he walked into the room, Li Ziyuan had already stuffed the letter into a drawer.

"Bryce!"

Li Ziyuan smiled kindly at him.

"I have something I need your advice on."

In the face of this Bryce, Li Ziyuan did not hide anything.

"Well, you see, you should know that this official, to be precise, there is a company in Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Company, which leases about 80,000 square kilometers of land in perpetuity, of course, we all know very well that those lands are tropical rainforests, and there is hardly much use value, but now we want to reclaim it into a plantation, which means that we need a lot of labor, and this official has been doing this, you should know that the exiled beggars and landless people are all to provide labor to North Borneo. And there, now we have a problem—"

With his eyes fixed on Bryss, Li Ziyuan continued.

"That is, the barbarians, the barbarians of the rainforest even hunt human heads and eat human flesh. We are now following the example of Sarawak and using the indigenous people to rule, but the barbarians have rejected the rule of civilized society, and now the local companies have a new idea: to prohibit them from headhunting and move them out of the rainforest to cultivate the fields within the framework of civilized society. ”

To whom does the cultivated field belong? It certainly won't belong to those savages. No one will care about their interests at all.

"Moving the wildlings out of the rainforest?"

"Yes, this is the only way to avoid the refusal of the savages to accept modern civilization, and of course, there is another reason, labor! You know very well that now the colonies need labor. According to the information we have, there are about 500,000 to 100,000 indigenous people, including the wild people in the rainforest, and now our idea is to organize them completely into village communities, so that they can get out of the rainforest and give them land to make a living on the land...... I hope you can give me some advice. ”

Faced with the governor's words, Bryce felt very surprised, he was not an expert in doing this.

"Your Excellency, this ...... I don't know about it, maybe you should go to someone else......"

"No!"

Shaking his head, Li Ziyuan said.

"I think your advice on the management of those Manchurians can be used on these savages."

Bryce realized that they did not want to bring the wild man into civilization at all, but wanted to use it as a "serf", which he was no stranger to, in fact, as a Boer, he was also no stranger to enslaving the natives, although the British abolished slavery in the Cape Town colony twenty years ago, and even forced the Boers to give up these, but it did not prevent the Boers from continuing to enslave those indigenous blacks in an alternative way.

"You mean...... Do we use those barbarians with a more flexible wrist? ”

At this time, Bryce's tone was extremely cautious, and he wanted to know the governor's request.

"Well, maybe so!"

What is a flexible wrist? Both men knew very well that it was a kind of slavery that was not slavery.

"In that case, a lot of people will probably die!"

"It's okay,"

Li Ziyuan said to Bryce in a calm tone,

"It's just a colony, and I'm sure you won't let me down, Mr. Bryss."

"Of course, Lord Governor!"

Nodding his head, Bryce asked again.

"Your Excellency, how many rights do I have?"

"Plenipotency!"

Leaving the governor's office, Bryce grinned along the way. It seemed to him that he had been given an errand that was best suited to him, and that the use of the natives had long since penetrated the blood of the Boers, and now all he needed was to use the methods used in Africa on the savages.

"It's a good job."

Bryce muttered to himself.

For him, this is indeed a good job, but for Li Ziyuan, he knows very well what his decision today means, which means a change in colonial policy, and also means that the way China treats its colonies in the future is precisely the way it treats the barbarians in the colonies.

"I hope it's the right choice, right?"

In his own words, Li Ziyuan said with a smile again.

"It should be correct, after all, for the lord, the colonies are needed, as for the natives above...... Who cares. However, this matter must be hidden from Wuchang's side first, after all, it is not suitable for outsiders to know about it now......"

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