Chapter 185: How to Use Capital to Conquer a Tribe

What is the climate of Southeast Asia, it is a typical tropical rainforest climate and tropical monsoon climate, the two are about 10 degrees north latitude as the dividing line, and the economy of the entire Southeast Asia can also be said to be 10 degrees north latitude as the dividing line. The north is the agricultural development of the Li family Da Yue, the Khmer Angkor Dynasty and the Champa Kingdom, has always been the land of fish and rice, the population density is much greater than that of Hainan and the two vast, although the national strength is not strong, but the civilization is developed, the economy is prosperous. Regular annual precipitation and well-developed irrigation systems ensure that these countries on the Indochina Peninsula are largely free from famine and natural disasters. However, the tropical rainforest climate south of the 10th parallel was not just as lucky, and slash-and-burn farming was the production method of most of the farmers in the territory of Sri Buddha, and his backward productivity led to the death of Sri Buddha in repeated defeats at home to the Chola kingdom, which was not worth mentioning in combat effectiveness.

Dynasties that lacked centralized authority could hardly build irrigation systems like those of the Angkor dynasty, and natural taxes, armies, and organizational power were scarce. Although Buddhism brought morality and ethics, it did not bring with it organizational systems and national concepts, and it was difficult for people in tropical rainforest climates to establish effective organizations, not only because of the indolence and the weakness of the hot and humid climate caused by the climate and land that could easily feed themselves, but also because of the competition and international environment that was so weak that there was almost no competition.

It had always been backward and peaceful before the ocean-going technology, and when the Great Cannibals entered the area in large numbers, it was still backward and poor, because China's wealth and development attracted the Great Cannibals like a sun, and they would not be interested in this poor place that even had no currency, at most some swords, cloth, spices and jewels from Siaa specialties in exchange for a little clove cardamom to trade with China. It's as poor as ever. The king's capital was nothing more than a few wooden houses floating on the water, without any of the characteristics of a civilized country or sign of prosperity, and without high-rise buildings. With no stone piers or lighthouses, the legendary nation that often offered gifts to China was not much better than the indigenous Malay tribes in the eastern islands, according to the caravans who had first arrived at Sri Buddha.

Sri Buddha, with Sumatra as the core, did not have any confidence to become a great power in Southeast Asia, and the country with a maximum shipbuilding tonnage of no more than 200 tons was just a puppet on the colonial table in the eyes of the crossing public.

According to Zhang Bo's original words, the work of one meal, three craft class (the ship class divided by tonnage and combat effectiveness, the 10,000-ton class can only be a scientific-class battleship named after the discipline made of all-steel. Still just staying on the drawings, the 5,000 to 8,000-ton industrial-class cruisers named after various industries have not yet been launched, and the three ships that are on the slipway are the killer ships stationed at the three overseas bases. The county-level warships named after the region belonged to the escort ships of 2,000 to 4,000 tons, which were similar to the destroyers of later generations, but there were only more than 20 of them protecting the merchant fleet at sea, and the 1,000-ton craft-class clippers could only be regarded as larger armed merchant ships. Although it is only about 700 tons. It was enough to cross the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific) clippers, the guns of the warships and the 3,000 sailors accompanying them could conquer the country.

Nominally, the country had more than 300,000 square kilometers of territory, but even the king did not know how much land his princes had. Even the territory of this country was officially known to many of the deceased royal courts of Sri Buddha after passing through the charts of the division of spheres of influence given by the people after the signing of the friendly trade treaty.

Will this dynasty be able to conquer vast territories and build a vast empire of 15 vassals a hundred years later? No Chinese will believe it, but if you cross it, you will believe it. Because the travelers know that there is no place in the world where competition can be compared to the competition in the area around the Great Wall in northern China. The strength and competition of the countries of Southeast Asia are no different from the struggle between the Han Chinese and the northern nomads as the defense of Stalingrad, and the children in the next room are playing at home.

In the chicken coop, as long as it is a little stronger than other chickens, it can run amok, but in the eyes of human beings, it will be ignored, and the struggle of Southeast Asian countries is not even qualified to enter the ears of Chinese scholars. Its influence on China and the world is not even comparable to that of Loulan, which is hundreds of times smaller than it. The reason why a strong chicken is able to swagger around in the nest is not because the owner does not have the ability to kill the chicken, but because he does not see how many eggs are in the nest.

When China entered capitalism. The values and worldviews of the scholars in the feudal era were replaced by the values and worldviews of the new aristocracy and capitalists, and the ruling class elite of the empire saw wealth and sources that could not be seen in the past under the cultivation of the traversals. The premise of temporary peace with the countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia is to open the dumping market and raw material production areas at the lowest cost, but after many elites saw that Sri Buddha basically had no purchasing power and raw material production capacity, their faces changed. The original amicable barter wore out the patience of the imperial merchants, and large quantities of imperial coins were shipped into the ports of Sri Buddha and the surrounding countries.

The consequences are naturally obvious, these coins are hidden in cellars and chests by turtles who don't understand economics, and it is difficult to see the light of day, and the more Celestial Empire coins that can buy all kinds of exquisite products of the Celestial Empire, the better, and what is the result of a large amount of purchasing power rushing into the primitive tribes with backward productivity? Of course, all the tribal possessions were bought out? Wouldn't that be inflationary? No, as long as a small amount of mansions and consumer goods can be used for princely consumption, most of the coins can be recovered, and the death of Sri Buddha even ordered that all localities pay taxes only to pay imperial coins, and Sri Buddha died completely reduced to the economic colony of the empire.

The princes felt that the land that was not very productive belonged to the agricultural capitalists of the Chinese Empire, who would grow cash crops and rice on the newly acquired tropical red soils and swamps, a large number of giant trees cut down from the uninhabitable rainforests to produce planks and furniture, the reclaimed land was applied soil amendments (lime and waste ore particles, sand to change acidity and air permeability, mineral content), silt and peat were laid to increase fertility, and these lands were used to grow high value-added rubber, Cocoa (seedlings from secret greenhouses in the Crowd, Brazilian improvements), coffee, cinchona, coconut, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, sisal and oil palm. Let the turtles who have never seen the world see how many times the output value of their original land can be increased after investing in capital and technology.

The inaccessible lands of the interior were sold to the industrial capitalists of the Chinese Empire for a symbolic fee of the late Sri Buddha, who tendered and operated these mines that were still only on the map, and after raising funds from the white wolf, they came with workers to open up the mines and build one smelting enterprise and new town. The large shortage of labor also stimulated the military aristocracy of Sri Buddha's death, and it was naturally the lowest risk and high return business to conquer and plunder the population and buy it to the big bosses from the Celestial Empire.

A large number of unsettled coastal harbors and rivers belonged to the commercial capitalists of the Chinese Empire, who would build port and logistics infrastructure in these areas with great space resources to provide the necessary supporting facilities for the primary industry and agriculture of the colony's single economy, otherwise the agricultural and mineral products produced would not be transported back due to the tragic Sri Buddha infrastructure, and they would not be able to make money, and they would not be the sinners of the nation and the scum of their own families. (To be continued......)