Chapter 218 East Asian Integration Strategy (II)

How could a group of scholars and samurai in the feudal era who only knew how to control personnel power and important positions could be the opponents of the traversal people who had experienced the baptism of institutional reform (the destruction of the system first promotes the cult of personality and the creation of gods, and it is easier to use the system to stifle the politics of the dictatorship)

The ideology of the military has slowly evolved from loyalty to the Heike to loyalty to the state and to the Senate, the highest organ of power that represents the state. Japan's economy is still growing rapidly, with construction sites and populations increasing everywhere, but the Heike is weakening its grip with the establishment of a central bank and numerous commercial government departments and competitors. The cash flow obtained from the monopoly of customs and trading ports alone is becoming less and less important in the overall cash flow of the national economy.

After 1952, the economic position of the Heike family changed from the absolute leader of half of western Japan, with a GDP of more than 30%, to a third power with only 5%. The first is to control the state-owned assets under the name of the Economic Committee of the Japanese Senate, and control 30% of Japan's land and 80% of coastal commerce through the central bank. The second is the Shinto group in eastern Japan, which received human and material support from the five major Buddhist religious corporations of the empire, and the rising shrine and temple consortium not only controlled the most intensively cultivated agricultural land in Japan, but also controlled the lucrative whaling industry and cultural entertainment industry. (It is impossible to develop manufacturing in Japan)

This three-way situation is the situation in Japan that has been created by the efforts of the people. The Heike controlled most of the imports, exports, and commerce, and the Senate controlled finance and civil affairs. The Social Institute Group controls agriculture and services other than finance. As a result of this industrial distribution, the number of seats in the House of Councillors increased as the number of people in the service industry and the fishing industry increased, and the number of members of the House of Councillors increased by the Social Yuan group and the banking system that crossed the House of Councillors, and the ministers and the Imperial family almost faded out of politics. became a group of pension aristocrats.

In 1957, when Emperor Shirakawa returned to heaven due to kidney failure, the whole of Japan held a referendum to conduct a public opinion poll, and the Heike had been envious of the status and influence of the high-ranking nobles of the empire for a long time, and took the opportunity to propose that after the annexation of Japan to the empire and become a province, the Heike could enter the imperial senate and become one of the 50 core families that could influence the high-level decision-making of the entire empire.

As Junjie, who took the initiative to surrender to Japan when the Crossing Crowd first came to Japan, the support over the years has swelled the power of the Hei family to a level comparable to that of the Su Shi family, which was the first to cooperate with the Crossing Clan, but it can only be limited to Japan. In terms of local influence, there is no problem in entering the Senate to get a few seats, but it is a fantasy to enter the Standing Committee and share the rights of the 17 Standing Committee. The seats obtained by the Heike clan can only come from one-third of the seats corresponding to the voters of the Japanese provinces. More would be unrealistic. In order to be elected to the Standing Committee, he must be the chairman of an important committee with real power in the House of Councillors, and even if the Heike won all the seats representing 8 million Japanese members in Japan, it would not be possible to get enough votes to enter the real power committee in the Imperial House of Councillors, which has a total of more than 180 million people.

At this time, the king of Goryeo, who had enough of the puppet, also took the opportunity to propose to be incorporated into the empire. It would be good to be part of the empire and get a hereditary throne, and it would be natural to lose any rights without it. The proposals of both countries were induced step by step by the pawns arranged within the courts of the two countries, and the two colonies had completed their mission at this stage. It's time to become part of the empire. Traveling through an empire under the control of the Crowd would not make the same mistakes as the British. Nearly a few hundred years of colonial rule, it can't be so brain-dead.

As for the Jin and Liao countries in East Asia, it has long been not a problem, after a long period of immigration and mixed settlement, only a few hundred thousand Jurchens scattered and lived among the millions of Han people who moved in after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there were hardly many big waves, and the millions of nomads of the Liao State lived a nomadic life like their ancestors after losing the most developed area of Nanjing Dao, and they were fed up, and they could live the life of imperial citizens in vain without paying the price.

In the past few decades, the most Sinicized of the five northern countries was not the backward nomads and the peoples of the archipelago, but the Gaochang Uighurs, where Buddhism flourished the most, and the degree of exchange here far exceeded that of several other countries. All of Han Buddhism was introduced through the cities of Gaochang, which controlled the Silk Road, and the grottoes, the greatest treasure of Buddhism's past and material wealth, were located in Gaochang. Every year, there are thousands of monks who apply to enter the Gaochang exchange, plus the retinue and dozens of times the number of business travelers. In terms of the quantity and quality of bilateral exchanges, the other four countries have been steadily suppressed. Compared with the other four countries only have metal mineral resources and agricultural and sideline products, Gaochang also has extremely developed light industry and commercial resources, as the most important cotton production area and primary processing base in the northwest, the investment in Gaochang has always been the sum of the rest of the countries.

In addition to the need for environmental management and the protection of tangible cultural heritage, Gaochang has abundant energy resources known to future generations, with an astonishing output of solar energy, natural gas, oil, and coal, which is very conducive to the development of various energy-intensive industries, such as electrolytic aluminum and fertilizers.

Gaochang also has great strategic value, as it controls the entire key area with the Green Mountains as the center for a radius of 5,000 miles, which can support several times the population of other regions. Its ecological carrying capacity far exceeds that of the fragile Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the cold and barren Siberia dozens of times. In particular, the green river valleys and windward slopes of northern Xinjiang are sandwiched between many mountain ranges and the foothills of the windward slopes are rich in water and grass, which can easily feed more than 20 million head of livestock.

In the past, the territory belonging to Gaochang basically belonged to the inaccessible desert edge oasis and inland river alluvial fan, and after entering Gaochang from the Qilian Mountains, it is difficult to find a little green in the Gobi and desert. Almost all of the essence of Gaochang is in the oasis cities in the northern Tarim Basin of the Turpan Basin and north of the Tarim River, and now it has obtained a large area of pastures and high-quality arable land south and east of Lake Balkhash in the northwest, and its natural national strength has greatly increased, becoming a new hot land for imperial agricultural capital investment.

The elites of Gaochang have bowed down to the Chinese civilization that has never been in large-scale contact before, from the meal system to the exquisite living utensils and facilities, a large number of international students have been stuffed into many colleges and universities in the northwest in the name of Buddhist exchanges, and the elites who have returned to China after receiving brainwashing have naturally ignored the old immortal rights of the Uighur monarch of Gaochang Khan Vijab, how can the interests of him and a few people in the top level be greater than the rights of all Gaochang people. Many of the middle class and grassroots officials in Gaochang were in favor of joining the empire, and this kind of public opinion has been brewing in Gaochang for a long time, compared with the suddenness of Japan and Goryeo and the helplessness of Liao and Jin, the process of Gaochang joining the empire was the smoothest.

In the late Song Dynasty, Gaochang longed for the Central Plains Dynasty, and now everything is ready, both formally and substantively, the superstructure is completely ready to join the empire, not to mention that the economic base has long fallen into the various local tribes under the control of the empire.

By 1958, the whole of East Asia had been fully incorporated into the territory of the Chinese Empire. Although less than half of the Chinese speaking nationals in the five countries were originally inhabited, the large number of immigrants ensured that more than 80% of the Han population in each settlement was no problem.

According to the research of the traversals, the world empire of the medieval era only needed hundreds of thousands of tens of thousands to dominate one side (Greece, Macedonia, Rome, Venice, Eastern Rome, Mongolia and other large number of nomads), and they wanted nothing more than land and wealth; The global hegemonic majority of the Age of Discovery had only a few million people (Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands), and its expansion and influence at this time were limited to a very small number of coastal strongholds and commercial cities, and they wanted nothing more than luxury goods and land; The global hegemons of the colonial era needed tens of millions of people to support them, and the expansion and influence of the countries (Britain, France) at this time had to penetrate deep into the countryside and inland areas, and they wanted raw materials and markets to maintain their own capitalist system; When the time came for the industrial age, global hegemony could only be sustained by large countries with populations of more than 100 million (the Soviet Union and the United States), and expansion and influence expanded from the economic sphere to cultural and commodity control, and they also demanded ideological leadership and sustainable hegemony.

Those who have experienced the information age are even more convinced that when globalization is completed, the leader can only be a superpower with a population of more than 1 billion, and only such a large country can complete the task of leading mankind into the space age to have such influence and appeal, relying on the absolute superiority of the population and economic scale to create a unified value system to lead the world. Isn't it easy for the population of China's traditional territory (south of the Great Wall and east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau) to reach the level of an industrial society? By the time Asia is unified, it will be trivial to exceed 1 billion.

At this time, the world was still in the Middle Ages, China itself had entered the industrial age, and the colonies and overseas territories had reached various stages between the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Age according to the distance and proximity.

East Asian integration is precisely the first goal of the people since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is natural to breathe a sigh of relief after it has been realized. It has been three months since the five domestic annexes received during the Spring Festival and National Day have been completed. Canonizing the five allied monarchs in the Chinese civilization system at the same time, and accepting all their rights and obligations is the premise of crossing the promises, and the benefits given to the five monarchs and their families in the promises are the hereditary titles of princes and the treatment that is regarded as equivalent to that of ordinary prince-level nobles (obviously this treatment is much better than what they are treated at home, and Wanyan Aguta, who came out of the poor mountains and bad waters, agreed almost without hesitation after visiting Shenjing, Zongren, who had never seen a 20-story building, was busy moving out of the palace of Heiankyo almost immediately, and the waste-like Yelu Yeonxi and the king of Goryeo were almost puppets for decades by the nobles controlled by the traversals, and after reading the conditions of the empire's reply, he immediately nodded and agreed to move to Shenjing for retirement). The unification festival, which was celebrated with great fanfare, was set as the unforgettable first summer day of 1959 when the monarchs of the five countries handed over their respective powers and entered Shenjing to accept the new title of Emperor Li Hao. (To be continued......)