At least they know the process of the Anglo-Persian war very well, this is a war that has just ended, on the surface, it is the Persian invasion of Afghanistan, Britain helped Afghanistan to repel the Persians, in fact, it is a contest between Russia and British India, this great contest in Central Asia has just begun, although the war has stopped, the dark war will continue for a long time.

Marx was originally quite disgusted by Britain's unbridled expansion, and often published articles satirizing British expansion in the anti-British American media, but now that control of the East India Company had changed hands, and the new ruler was Lord Windsor, with whom he had a secret state-building agreement on both sides of the Red Sea, his mentality changed. According to Marx's strategic plan, the East India Company could gradually encroach on all the important ports in the Persian Gulf by virtue of its superior navy, laying a good foundation for linking the spheres of influence of India and the Arabian Peninsula in the future. This plan was Downing's favorite, because the army contest was very costly in terms of financial and manpower, and controlling the port city with the support of the navy was the least costly. As for the mountainous territories of Afghanistan, it is necessary to help the natives prevent the invasion of Persia and Russia, and to hold the positions in northern India at the minimum cost.

Unlike the traditional British colonial expansionists, Downing thought that it was good enough to run India well, and it would be good not to even let the Indians go to famine, so he was reluctant to continue to occupy more land in Afghanistan. Indians are generally docile, and as long as they let their lives be passable, there will be no big mess.

In order to ensure good agriculture in this country with a huge population, three things need to be done: First, liberalize international trade and solve the food problem as quickly as possible. The introduction of ultra-low tariffs on agricultural products allows products from areas with developed agriculture to enter the area freely. This is contrary to the traditional way of protecting agriculture, if the government interventionists are allowed to do this, they are always inclined to engage in a protective tariff, so that the country's agriculture can survive, this is a completely wrong approach, it will only please the existing farmers, but it will not make agriculture more developed, the trend is the international division of labor, since the country is not suitable for a certain kind of agriculture, then human resources should be allowed to flow to advantageous industries.

But what about farmers who have lost their competitiveness? Then it is the turn of the second matching project - railway, highway and other infrastructure construction, which can not only attract a large number of jobs, but also promote circulation, so that international or high-quality grain-producing areas can transport grain to various places at a lower logistics cost. This step would also facilitate the flow of labor to high-value agricultural areas, and even the government would come in to cover the cost of migration.

The new policy of giving priority to the overlord, Britain, to provide the colonies with cheap raw materials is about to be replaced by a new policy that is too harmful to the Indian economy and is an anti-market barbarism. The third brother and third sister-in-law are also human beings, and it is too inhumane to starve them. If you can't even fill your stomach, you can't use all the means of domination. Downing's own factories and businesses that employ large numbers of workers will quietly lead local wages and benefits, rather than relying on coercive orders to raise them, which is a hundred times better than coercive orders. Not only do the workers know the trade-offs, but their peers have nothing to complain about.

The third point is modern agriculture, which can be put in charge of Liebig, and with the help of chemical fertilizers, India's grain production capacity can be raised to a higher level in an instant. Importing advanced agricultural tools from the United States is also a must.

India is the most harmful place for religion, in order to maintain order, it is necessary to carry out de-religious actions against the most important military forces, all the overly superstitious native soldiers have to be disarmed and returned to the field, don't feed you a pork, beef you have to rebel, then how can it continue? The de-religionization of the police force is secondary, followed by the executive, the judiciary, and the parliament, in short, let the more religious people control the key departments. Atheism aside, liberalism, skepticism, and agnosticism are the bottom line. In the key cities of Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, etc., municipalities were set up to exercise spiritual rule in these cities, and the upper house would lead the legislation there, keeping the ignorant and ignorant people out of the ruling class, but also giving the lower house a certain power to channel the opinions of the common people.

India is a good place with iron mines, otherwise how can there be a steel king? Downing's steel industry has another Asian base. The Indian subcontinent is such a big place, and there is a lot of arable land, as long as Tang Ning is given such a sincere and iron-blooded figure in power, there is no problem with eating, and there is no problem with relative political stability.

The Indians have the advantage of being particularly heat-tolerant, and this good foreign policy is very beneficial for Downing to send a large number of Indian immigrants to the Arabian Peninsula for development, so that the "occupation" of the Arabian Peninsula plan has solid human resources. Europeans, East Asians, you let them go to the desert peninsula to toss, kill them.

When discussing the issue of Alaska, Engels reminded that it was better for the East India Company's navy to occupy the strategic location of Hawaii, as long as this step was achieved, it would not be the turn of the Russians to play Lippi in Alaska. Reasonable. It is better to occupy this place by yourself, and to guard against the Japanese, and to choke this strategic zone from Alaska to the Japanese island can make Japan more obedient.

Downing glanced at the map, Hawaii is still relatively close to the United States, and a hasty occupation may attract diplomatic pressure from the Americans. This has to be considered in the long run. However, you can first send someone to explore the terrain suitable for building a military port. At present, Hawaii is inhabited only by weak natives and can be easily conquered.

This place is unfamiliar to Downing, and it is still Engels who tells a brief history of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

This is the archipelago first discovered by the famous European navigator Captain Cook. It was 1778 when Kamehameha, the strongest chieftain at the time, united the Hawaiian tribes and proclaimed himself king as Kamehameha I. King Kamehameha I thought the British flag was beautiful, so he imitated a pattern on his flag, so that the Kingdom of Hawaii looked like a British colony and more like the American flag.

After seeing the advanced culture of Europe, in 1840, the Hawaiian government amended the law to change the original monarchy into a constitutional monarchy. In 1843, the British government publicly asserted British sovereignty over Hawaii. In 1849, the French government claimed to occupy Hawaii and had some sovereignty over Hawaii, but this claim caused discontent among the inhabitants of Hawaii at the time.

It can be said that at present, no major power cares much about this territory, and it depends on whether the East India Company can land on the island under the banner of the British government. According to Engels' inference, this is the center of North America, Australia, and Asia, and the deployment of some naval forces is quite beneficial to sea power, and it would be better if there was a plan to develop the local economy.

Downing only remembered that Hawaii had a tourism industry, and nothing else. As for the strategic significance, it seems that no army of any country has fought here in a big war, and I can't help but have some doubts. (He didn't know that Pearl Harbor was in Hawaii)

Marx jokingly said for a long time that he wanted to experiment with his theory of public ownership in India, but Tang Ning didn't believe him, saying that after taking the Kingdom of Hawaii, he could go to Hawaii to experiment it, haha!

The biggest trouble with Hawaii's economic development is that it is far away from any continent, about 3,000 kilometers from the nearest West Coast of the United States. Tang Ning suddenly remembered his airship project, and it seemed that only an airship could easily cross the moat. 100 kilometers per hour, 3000 kilometers is just over a day's voyage. More than 4,000 kilometers from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia is only a two-day voyage. Airships are indeed a logistics killer, so who better to occupy Hawaii than Downing?

Every day, a large-capacity airship flies to the United States, Hawaii is American, to Japan, Hawaii is to Japan, to Australia, that is Australia, of course, Tang's Malaya will be the protagonist.