Generally speaking, countries with large land powers generally do not develop into maritime powers too early, precisely because land resources are too abundant, and their exploitation of marine resources does not seem to be too strong in pursuit, but it is an inevitable trend for land powers to develop into maritime powers under suitable conditions.

China's population is too large, and the pursuit of deep-sea fishing is a necessary way to support domestic food security, which is why the empire has been supporting the development of deep-sea fisheries during the Tang Shaoyi cabinet, and Wanda Fenghai Fishing Company is a product of this period.

According to a survey by the Ministry of Oceans, the global marine fishery can guarantee at least 80 million tons of fishery supply every year, which means that the ocean can provide more than 95 billion yuan of output value, which can ensure the annual supply of high-standard protein and seafood and fish for the country's 488 million people.

The empire flocked to it.

In the national plan of Gu Weijun's cabinet, it is planned to increase the empire's marine fishery output to 30 million tons within 10 years, a three-fold increase compared with the current stage.

Although the Far Eastern consortium withdrew from the deep-sea fishing industry, it has a high stake in Wandafeng and Nanyang International Fishery Corporation, and is bound to be the beneficiary of this policy.

In view of the important surname of this industry, Song Biao, as the emperor, naturally supported it, and his summoning of Huang Wanqiao was the greatest support for this.

After listening to the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the armistice negotiations between China and Italy that afternoon, Song Biao took half an hour to meet with Huang Wanqiao, first conferred on him the title of First Class Lord of the Empire, and thanked him for his support for the development of China's deep-sea fisheries.

In the Guanxi Pavilion of Nianci Garden, Song Biao prepared some refreshments for Huang Wanqiao, and the two sat in the pavilion while watching the scenery and negotiating, which naturally made Huang Wanqiao excited.

Basically, Huang Wanqiao is reporting on the new trend of international fishery development, as well as the richness of fishery resources in the entire Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, because the Pacific Ocean is the convergence of various currents to the place, the marine fishery resources are the richest, accounting for about 70% of the world's marine fisheries, Wandafeng Company, which started in the Indian Ocean fishery, in the past five years, especially after the merger of the Far East Fishery Company, has also focused part of its development on the fishing grounds in the Pacific Ocean.

In order to support the development of the company and China's fishery, Wanda Feng and Northeast Heavy Industries have reached a new agreement to jointly develop a 12,000-ton displacement integrated fishing vessel, which will be the largest integrated fishing vessel in the world, integrating fishing, processing, freezing and drying, and capable of processing 1,000 tons of fishery resources per day.

Huang Wanqiao intends to buy 20 ships at a time, 12 of which are for the Pacific Ocean, four for the Atlantic Ocean and the remaining six for the Indian Ocean, and in the South Atlantic, Wanda Fone has established new fishing port bases in both the Congo and Morocco.

In addition, Wanda Feng will continue to invest huge sums of money in the deep-sea fishery, purchase additional 5,000 tons to 7,000 tons of mainstream medium-sized integrated fishing vessels, invest in the construction of more than 10 transit bases and fishing ports in the Pacific Islands, and increase the layout of the entire Pacific fishery.

The strongest part of the Wanda Feng Company is that it basically monopolizes the Indian Ocean fishery, and merges with the Far East Fishery Company, and obtains the entire layout of the Far East in the Pacific Fishery, especially in the Galapagos Islands, the Far East Company has signed a long-term franchise agreement with Ecuador to develop the fishery resources of the East Pacific Ocean as a base, and in the Far East Sea, the Wanda Feng Company also occupies a huge fishing area in the northern part of the Sea.

This makes Wanda Fung company will have a broad enough space for development for a long time in the future, and its fishery products are sold to Europe and the United States about half of the year every year, and it is also a major new foreign exchange export project of the empire.

Listening to Huang Wanqiao's report, Song Biao became more and more interested in deep-sea fisheries, and the craziest time of the fishery was in 1984, when 18 million tons of marine fishery resources were fished around the world, which played a very prominent role in the crazy rise of the economy at that time.

After talking about the company's expansion in scale, Huang Wanqiao also said that he wanted to continue to expand the scope of deep processing and create several well-known brands and new products, especially in the fields of fish oil, canned food, and high-protein powder, and invest more money in scientific research.

In fact, Huang Wanqiao's acquisition of Far East Fishery Company is definitely a profitable business, although it bears huge credit pressure, such as fish oil, high protein powder and other high-tech and high-value-added deep processing scientific research are the foundation laid by Far East Fishery Company in the early stage.

Far East wanted to withdraw from this industry, not because of the lack of development space in this industry, but because of the normal contraction of the industry, the direct industry of the entire consortium was concentrated in real estate, ports, shipping, cultural films, hotels and other basic projects, and part of the proceeds from the sale of the Far East Ocean Fishing Company three years ago have been invested in emerging cultural industries such as the Far East Film Company and Asia Wireless Television in the past few years, and a number of film companies have been merged in the United States to seek a seat in the world's film and television giants, and the Far East International Hotel has more than 170 hotels in the worldto become the world's largest hotel chain.

In the past, the Far East was a commercial house, a heavy industry group, with the textile, fishery, agriculture and animal husbandry, food these industries gradually divested from the main business, the Far East consortium obvious strategic contraction, but also a real estate hotel and international shipping company, Far East International Airlines is also the world's largest global surname airline, with an annual passenger volume of more than 800,000 passengers.

The Far East no longer wants to spend energy and financial resources to do the industry, there are always others who want to do it very much, Huang Wanqiao is like this, as long as he can stabilize the throne of the world's fishery king, he is still a giant among Chinese businessmen.

Because of the rare opportunity, Huang Wanqiao is inevitably a little talkative.

Song Biao also understands that many people are like this in their first visit, and even the tenth time they are just like this, and they always want to say everything they can say, only good things, not bad things.

Song Biao, who had long been accustomed to this situation, was not in a hurry, and listened patiently until Lieutenant General Chen Jiayou came to remind him, saying that half an hour had passed, and that Wang Zhaoming, speaker of the National Assembly, would come to meet him later.

Huang Wanqiao was really anxious when he heard this, he still had a lot of things to say.

Song Biao glanced at him roughly, and then instructed Chen Jiayou: "Sir Huang rarely comes to the inner court, let Wang Zhaoming wait for another half an hour." ”

"Yes!"

Chen Jiayou agreed, and left quietly.

At this time, Song Biao took out the world and domestic marine fishery report compiled by the Ministry of Ocean, and while looking at some details of this report, he said to Huang Wanqiao: "The empire's support and publicity for marine fisheries over the years has been very attentive, and the development momentum of Wanda Feng and other fishing companies is indeed good, but everything has shortcomings, you might as well talk about what problems the marine fishery has in these years, right?" ”

Huang Wanqiao thought for a while and said: "In fact, there are still difficulties, one is that the domestic demand is not strong enough, compared with Europe and the United States, the average level of domestic demand in our marine fishery is still low; Second, the fishery is also developing rapidly, and they also regard the deep-sea fishery as a new pillar of national development, vigorously developing, and constantly using low-price competition in the international market. From the current point of view, the growth of overseas demand is very slow, and the domestic demand is not strong enough, so in order to realize the central government's 10-year deep-sea fishery plan, it is necessary to further expand the domestic fishery market. Most of our people are accustomed to eating freshwater fish, and they are not very suitable for marine fish, and some of the more large deep-sea fish species are not liked in China. ”

Song Biao snorted and said: "Regarding the first question, it is impossible for the political axe to help you do much publicity, you have your own marine fisheries association, and you can do propaganda together through the association, and you must publicize the benefits of eating sea fish and seafood to the people, and secondly, the products should be adjusted more, more and better processing should be carried out, and the scope of demand should be expanded." As for the second question, competition is a very normal situation, don't be afraid of competition, China said that the economic and trade war has been fought for so many years, and the reason why we have been able to become the ultimate victor is precisely because we are not afraid of competition, and we must use our brains more and think more of ways to do so. ”

Huang Wanqiao nodded again and again and said, "What the emperor said is true." ”

Song Biao thought for a moment and advised: "Increase more investment in scientific and technological research and development, expand to the field of deep processing, not only to increase production, but also to increase the progress of added value." In addition, the world situation is unstable, enterprises should pay more attention to risks, do not blindly expand, too risky is not a good thing. ”

Huang Wanqiao continued to nod in acknowledgement.

Song Biao feels that although Wanda Fung has developed rapidly in recent years, the debt risk has always been very high, and once the world economic environment deteriorates, Wandafeng's debt problem will become very serious.

Huang Wanqiao cautiously asked: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Central Military Department is also bidding for suppliers, this is a big order, our Wanda Feng Company wants to win it very much, and we also hope that the national defense soldiers can eat the best seafood and fish products." ”

Song Biao smiled and said: "I'm afraid I don't care about this matter, but if you are interested in bidding, that's a good thing, my advice to you is the same as for the South Sea fishery, do a good job in the expansion of deep processing, and invest in research according to the needs of the military and the actual situation, which must be nutritious and delicious, but also be able to ensure convenience and speed." As far as I know, the price is one thing, and more importantly, it will be evaluated in the military department, and their respective products will be investigated and tested in different units, and finally decided according to the feedback of grassroots soldiers, so the most important thing is that the product is excellent. ”

Huang Wanqiao immediately said: "Please rest assured, the emperor has been tracking this for several years and has prepared dozens of different products, which can definitely ensure the needs of the military department and soldiers." ”

Song Biao didn't care about this kind of problem, he changed the topic with Huang Wanqiao and said: "This time I want to call you over, in addition to talking about the development of deep-sea fisheries, I also want to ask you about Africa." Among the Chinese businessmen in Africa, you are relatively smooth, and you have worked hard in Africa for more than ten years, and you have a deep understanding of Africa, so in your opinion, should the interests of the empire in Africa be big or small, and how should they develop? ”

Huang Wanqiao pondered carefully and cautiously for a moment, and replied: "Back to the emperor, as far as the people can see, this part of Africa is still a relatively barbaric place, and most of them are tribes, if you want to do business with the local people, you must interact with the elders of each tribe, as long as you reach a mutually beneficial agreement with the tribes, then everything will be fine." On the other hand, even if the relationship with the political axe is very good, and the colonial or mutual aid and cooperation agreement has been signed, the practical significance is not very good, so in the management of Africa, we should pay attention to the local tribes, and then the political axe institutions. If you want to talk about resources, Africa's resources are indeed very rich, gold and diamonds are as common as local products, the people's Wanda Fung Trading Company does business in Africa and tribes, that is to exchange shoes for gold, of course, if you sell weapons, it will be more profitable, gold and diamonds are at your disposal. Great Wall has a Hongtu company in Northern Malaysia, which sells weapons in Africa very well and is very profitable. This is the case in Africa, it is very profitable to pay money with one hand and deliver goods with one hand to do trade, but if you want to invest in industry in the local area, it is completely impossible to set up factories, because they are very lazy, and the people just arrived in North Malaysia to hire their locals, and they are completely commanded, and they will rest for half a day on the first half of the day, and they will disappear for half a month from time to time, and they can only do casual work. Now there are more than 600,000 people in the autonomous province of North Malaysia, we Chinese account for half, and this proportion will be higher in the future, according to the area and environment of North Malaysia, how can it accommodate more than one million people, the people think that the central government still does not really attach importance to North Malaysia, in fact, the location of North Malaysia is particularly good, and the development can become a bridgehead for trade between China and Africa, and it is easy to understand the situation in Africa in North Malaysia, and it is difficult to do trade locally if you do not understand these conditions. ”

Listening to such words, Song Biao sighed and said, "It is indeed not easy to occupy a place in this part of Africa. At this stage, the empire is still mainly based on the army and air force in terms of national strategy, that is, it is developing around the Eurasian continent, but we will not ignore the development of the sea, which is why we strongly support the development of the ocean-going shipping industry and marine fisheries. The Empire's maritime strategic center is still dominated by the Pacific Ocean, but in order to protect the entire West Asian member of the Asian Union, it must expand in the Indian Ocean at the same time. With the changes and development of national interests, the navy is currently preparing a new plan, and the naval base in North Malaysia will be further expanded. You are also right when you say that the central government does not pay enough attention to North Malaysia, but the interests of the empire always have to develop step by step, and in the past, without the strength to develop in the Indian Ocean, it was natural that it could not focus too much on North Malaysia, but now it is different. As for our development in Africa, on the whole, it is also based on virtue and benevolence, and does not engage in colonial rule, so it is still very recommendable for you to build Hwaseong in Africa, and you can continue to develop according to this model, and find ways to lease and purchase land in the appropriate port area to build Hwaseong, mainly around trade to develop economic and trade relations in Africa. ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao paused for a moment and added: "Africa is very important, but it is only very important, the center of gravity of the empire at this stage is still in Asia, so the expansion in Africa depends to a large extent on you powerful Chinese businessmen. ”

Huang Wanqiao immediately got up to pay homage and said: "Your Majesty is willing to serve the emperor and the country for the sake of dogs and horses." ”

Song Biao corrected: "It can't be said to be effective, it should be said that it is a win-win cooperation between the political axe and the enterprise." ”

In the remaining ten minutes, Song Biao and Huang Wanqiao inquired more deeply about some information related to Africa, and then entrusted Huang Wanqiao and other Chinese businessmen from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Africa in the name of the Inner Court to cooperate with the Central Research Bureau and the Central Academy of Social Sciences to make a detailed research report on Africa, so as to help the central government and Chinese businessmen better understand the actual situation in Africa and find a road to Africa suitable for China.

Of course, the center of gravity of the empire's interests is still in Asia, and the key areas of the empire's core interests are from Vladivostok to the port of Aden.

Unlike Britain and the United States, the empire must simultaneously maintain the balanced development of the navy, land, and air forces; the army is the foundation for dominating the Eurasian continent, the navy is the foundation for protecting the interests in the waters of Southeast Asia and West Asia, and the air force is the auxiliary service.

After Huang Wanqiao's resignation, Wang Zhaoming, speaker of the National Assembly, entered the Xuanzheng Garden for an audience.

With Cai Yuanpei's old age and frailty, Wang Zhaoming, who has been the vice chairman of the Guangfu Party for a long time, officially became the chairman of the board of directors and served as the speaker of the National Assembly, which can be regarded as a very suitable position.

Song Biao asked Wang Zhaoming to come over this time, but also to increase communication with the Congress, let Wang Zhaoming promote the reform of the Congress, strengthen the role of the Congressman, as an important foundation for the empire to further fight corruption and promote the work of the Diet.

Sometimes it can't solve the [***] problem, but if it is a real country with the rule of law, it can indeed solve the [***] problem.

The key lies in the coexistence of the rule of law and the rule of law, both of which are indispensable.

In addition, Wang Zhaoming was invited to visit Britain in June, where he will meet with the British Prime Minister and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

On the one hand, China has indeed consolidated China's extraordinary position as the leading country in Asia, and has consolidated the power of China, Southeast Asia, and Central and Western Asia into a whole, so that China has the right to speak and political influence beyond Britain and the United States, and on the other hand, China is bound to actively respond to the calls and strong demands of Southeast Asian and Central and Western Asian countries for Asian anti-colonization.

In particular, the countries of Central and Western Asia are generally Islamic countries, and there is a special relationship between them, which makes Saudi Arabia and Iran eagerly expect Yemen, Oman, Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, and other countries to read, and Iraq also has a strong demand for the recovery of Kuwait.

These countries are now very weak, the only stronger country is Iran, but Iran's navy basically directly recruits China's retired officers and soldiers, they still rely on China's regional protection, lack the ability to read to provoke Britain and France, China, as the leader of the Asian League, must also stand up and speak for the collective interests and goals of the Asian Union.

Of course, as far as China is concerned, the more countries that decolonize Asia and the more member states join the Asian League, the stronger China's interest space and voice in the whole world, so China itself also has this kind of interest and needs to confront Britain.

It is precisely for this reason that the contradiction between China and Britain is very intense, and every time China develops, Britain will retreat one step, but the more confrontation it has, the more the two sides need to communicate, and try their best to complete the resolution of this contradiction through consultation and step-by-step adjustment, rather than directly putting it into war.

If everything is as Churchill's British conservatives said, don't expect to take anything from Britain without war, and China really wants to go to all-out war with Britain, and the end can only be to tear Britain to pieces.

If the British conservatives thought that the British Empire could still wage a full-scale war with what is now China, they would be insane.

What's more, the world is so complicated, the Asian League, the Soviet Union, the United States, the German-Italian fascist camp, France, all of which are reading each other, and the British Empire lacks real and reliable allies in the world, even if there are too many fierce contradictions and competition between China and the United States, China and the Soviet Union, China and Italy, Britain and these countries and camps are also white-hot contradictions.

Compared with the world during the First World War, there were only two camps different, the world is too complicated now, each camp is the enemy of each other and contains each other, no one can occupy a clear advantage, once the face is really torn apart, forcing the opponent's two camps to unite, the world will inevitably be an unprecedented war.

One thing that is clearly certain is that whichever side China is on, it will be the ultimate winner.

With the strength of each camp roughly balanced, the strength of the Chinese Empire and the entire Asian League is too terrifying, and it can completely give the other camp an overwhelming advantage.

It is precisely under such circumstances that Britain cannot effectively curb China's expansion in Asia, and the United States cannot effectively curb China's infiltration in Central and South America; relatively speaking, among all the international contradictions in China, the contradictions between China and the United States and China and France are the lowest, and the cooperation between the two sides is greater than the contradictions, and the contradictions between China and Britain and China are the deepest, and the contradictions between China and the Soviet Union are not very intense, while between China and Germany, there are certain contradictions and competition in the economy, but politically and militarily, there are no contradictions between the two sides.

Britain can also play a drama of returning to the Asia-Pacific region like the United States in the 21st century, placing its military center of gravity and all warships in the Asian region, but it really does not have the strength to do so, and it cannot take care of so much.

The whole world is really too chaotic.

China has risen in this chaotic era, so much so that every European and American Soviet white country knows that this is one of the unprecedented threats, but no country can implement a truly effective containment of China, let alone carry out all-out confrontation.

If even Germany and Italy are falsely entrusting each other, how can Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France join forces, and they cannot truly believe in this book.

In short, the bizarre chaos of this great era is very beneficial to China.

(To be continued)