Therefore, while China and the United States were still arguing at the negotiating table, there was a sudden ambiguous change in Sino-British relations, and Britain quietly persuaded the Australian government to set up a special zone in the Pilbara iron ore area, allowing this area to employ no more than 100,000 Chinese workers, which was equivalent to doubling the quota of Chinese workers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, in order to take into account the racist attitude of the Australian government, they announced that this is only a measure to increase the production of Pilbara iron ore, saying that the Chinese workers working in the Pilbara will not have Australian nationality, they are just hired workers, and they must be audited by the Australian government once every three years, and those who do not pass the audit will be repatriated to China. These Chinese workers can be expelled at any time.

But overall, the open quota for Chinese workers will allow more Chinese workers to mine in the Pilbara region.

100,000 Chinese workers will greatly increase the iron ore production in the Pilbara iron ore area, and it is hoped that the supply of raw materials for Guangdong's 10 million tons of steel output will be met within three years, and the steel plant is a Sino-British joint venture, and the steel produced is mainly supplied to the shipyard that is built, and the shipyard is also a Sino-British joint venture, so it can be said that the increase in the production of the Pilbara iron ore mine is also greatly beneficial to the UK.

Although it is beneficial to British investors, such as the Armstrong shipyard, but according to the concept of Europe and the United States, it is the most beneficial to China, so this is also a show of goodwill by the British Empire to China. It is called Hong Kong-Kowloon Free City.

This is to offend a large number of patriotic and indignant youth, who believe that this move is tantamount to an alternative colonization, although the merged free city completely adopts the Shanghai model, but there is no doubt that the British, who have run Hong Kong for more than half a century, have great influence and voice here.

But this is something that Mi Qing, who has a very good reputation in Guangdong, has recently urged, and everyone knows that Yang Chao is standing behind Mi Qing, why would Yang Chao agree to this kind of merger that seems to be extremely painful?

The reason is very simple, Yang Chao wants to pull it out to make a comparison, although China is now very strong, but the sinking of more than half a century still makes many fragile guys feel inferior, even if China's industrial strength is already very strong, and industrialization continues to accelerate and deepen development, but these inferior people always have an excuse, their thoughts are reflected in public opinion, that is, there is a belief that the reason why China has developed to the present is the result of imitating the West, these people demand that China continue to Westernize, system, This group of people demanded a complete overhaul of the old system, a complete overthrow of the existing laws, and the adoption of Western laws in the style of Europe and the United States.

There are quite a few such people, and they run through all strata, and there are returnee elites like Li Fu'an who have studied at the top level, and a large number of cultural celebrities in the New Culture Movement, these people have always been under the banner of innovation and change, and have a great right to speak, and their reasoning seems to be very reasonable, and it is difficult for people to refute it.

For example, they say that the reason why China is becoming stronger now is the result of learning from the West, and it is irrefutable that the most successful Shandong province has a deep European and American imprint from industrial enterprises to local governments, especially the German imprint, and the Qingdao government is still using the efficient management system of the German colonial government. Local governments in other parts of Shandong have also adopted modern management models.

Culturally, European countries all use alphabet scripts, Roman alphabets, Greek alphabets, Russian alphabets, English alphabets, grammatical alphabets, German alphabets, etc. constitute the European language system, and Western archaeological discoveries also show that Chinese characters, this kind of hieroglyphs, appeared as early as thousands of years ago, is the earliest form of human writing, is directly developed from cuneiform, and alphabetic writing is a text that evolved from hieroglyphs, so it is more advanced to represent the future.

For example, typewriters are being used on a large scale, Western characters can be easily typed, while Chinese characters are almost impossible to type out on typewriters, although some people have invented various Chinese typewriters, all of which are too complex to be useful.

Therefore, various Westernized elites can cite a large number of examples to prove the backwardness of the Chinese system, the backwardness of Chinese culture, and even the backwardness of the Chinese race, and Yang Chao knows that in the end, many people will hate China for not being colonized for hundreds of years, thinking that China has missed the best opportunity for Westernization.

However, in Yang Chao's concept of connecting ancient and modern China and foreign countries, it is very clear that it is an inevitable path for a backward country to learn from the experience of advanced countries.

Is the underlying reason for China's success simply imitating Western countries? If it's so simple, it's too easy to succeed. How many countries in later generations have not been able to imitate success, and only a few countries have successfully entered the ranks of developed countries through imitation, such as Japan, just because Japan has become Westernized?

The Philippines and India were profoundly influenced by British and American colonial rule, not to mention India, which was ruled by Britain for hundreds of years, but the degree of westernization of the Philippines, which had been colonized by the United States for more than 30 years, is not comparable to Japan.

The Americans have established an American-style political system, an American-style legal system, and even an American-style medical and education system for the Philippines, and the popularity of compulsory education in the Philippines has reached more than 30%, and even the English-speaking population has exceeded 30%. Comparing the differences between Japan and India and the Philippines, can it be said that the success stemmed from Westernization?

Yang Chao believes that both China and the West, the reason why they can develop is not in Westernization or localization, but in whether they can absorb industrial civilization well, industrial civilization is not pure Western civilization, but a new type of civilization, to really talk about it, Western traditional culture is still anti-industrial, first of all, religious culture is against science, handicraft guild system is against large-scale industrial production, the reason why Westerners succeed is not to adhere to their own civilization, on the contrary, to break some shackles in their own inherent civilization, Only then did we usher in a new type of industrial civilization.

And if China wants to succeed, it is natural to introduce industrial civilization, and in the process of introducing this civilization, some traditional cultures will naturally be affected and impacted, but they cannot be completely denied, otherwise where will the Chinese trace their roots? Without the core of traditional Chinese culture, how can Chinese civilization rise?

Therefore, the success of the West is to graft industrial civilization onto their traditions, but it has made a large number of fools who cannot see the essence think that Western culture has innate superiority, and even developed to the extent that the Western race is the superior race and the Asian race is inferior. There are a large number of such people among highly educated and cultured people, not to mention ordinary people.

This kind of Westernized elite can be found all over the country, but especially in Hong Kong, although it is only a small number of people, but in the past, they cooperated with the British colonialists, their social status and economic strength are very strong, they have great influence, and there are many believers in what they say.

Yang Chao simply let these guys compete with Shanghai in the Hong Kong and Kowloon areas, and see if the Hong Kong and Kowloon areas run by the Westernized Hong Kong and Kowloon elites are successful, or whether the Shanghai run by Xie Guanhui, a local turtle like Xie Guanhui, is more successful, and the result will be like a resounding slap in the face to wake up a large number of blindly obedient Chinese.

As for whether Hong Kong and Kowloon will compare with Shanghai, this is a completely false proposition, the geographical location of Shanghai determines that it is prepared for the economic center, and Hong Kong, which is directly ruled by the British, has never competed with Shanghai in history, if it were not for the change of the color of the mainland and the transformation of Shanghai's economy, Hong Kong would have been trampled under Shanghai's feet.

Of course, to do such an experiment, from the outside world, the first is to give back to the British Empire for the expansion of the Pilbara Chinese labor quota, so that the British government will continue to persuade Australia to relax the restrictions on Chinese entering the Pilbara region, and the second is to show the world that China is a free country, so as to create momentum for China to resist and resist the United States' anti-Chinese occupation.

These two points are the short-term benefits of the merger of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and in fact, when the Chinese side announced this result, the whole world saw that Sino-British relations were not affected by the Sino-US conflict, and the closed and conservative Americans continued to be isolated.

Soon after, China announced that it had reached a similar agreement with France to carry out large-scale cooperation with France in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, simplifying customs clearance procedures between Yunnan, Guangxi and Vietnam, and allowing the French to use Yunnan's copper resources in joint ventures with Chinese companies to develop a copper wire-based cable industry. Experimental new large-scale silkworm planting industry in Guangxi, Guangxi's land and climate type are very suitable for the development of silkworms, and the labor cost is also very low.

While deepening cooperation with Britain and France, Chinese representatives continued to argue with the Americans at the negotiating table, and the Chinese were able to endure their temperament, but the Americans felt more and more uneasy and felt a deep sense of loneliness. However, at the level of opening up, they really cannot compete with China, and they cannot give Britain and France the sensational benefits at one time. Even the slightest reduction in tariffs would overthrow the US government by domestic capitalists.

So the U.S. government wisely made concessions, and the Americans, who were not short of money, began to stop dwelling on the issue of compensation. (To be continued.) )