Chapter 525: Visiting the Herdsmen
There are many misconceptions in history, such as the belief that the Second World War was an anti-fascist war, which is a seriously erroneous perception, and the problem lies with Spain, which ended with the victory of Franco, supported by Germany and Italy, and the establishment of a pro-German fascist regime.
This regime lasted for forty years from the date of its establishment, until 1975, and it ended until Franco's death, Franco, the fascist leader, was not punished, if World War II was really for anti-fascism, then why not eliminate Spain as well, so as to completely eradicate the fascist forces!
It can be seen that putting aside the propaganda of the victorious countries to themselves, World War II was simply a hegemonic struggle between the old and new hegemons and the major powers, and the main goal of each country was to re-divide the world power.
In particular, Americans often package themselves as symbols of freedom, beacons of democracy, and the embodiment of justice, but do Americans really believe in ideology and democracy?
This is evident from the allies of the United States, who established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after the end of World War II, including the fascist regime of Spain; In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, a feudal imperial state, is also an ally of the United States, and Iran, controlled by the Pahlavi dynasty, is also an ally; South Korea, which has a military dictatorship in East Asia, is also an ally......
These countries are not only allies of the United States, but also members of the free world that the United States proclaims. Isn't the United States slapping itself in the mouth!
If Americans really believe in democracy, they should attack these allies of their own, let them also bask in the sunshine of freedom, and establish a true American-style democracy. In reality, however, instead of attacking these reactionary dictatorships, the Americans have vigorously supported and helped them maintain their regimes.
After seeing through all this, the only thing that is valued between the big powers is interests, no matter what you are, as long as you listen to me, you are a good thing, otherwise you will be hacked. Straight to death! Compared with. On the contrary, the Soviet Union attached too much importance to ideology and appeared to be extremely pedantic.
There is an even more ironic situation in history, that is, Franco's fascist rule was precisely the period when the living standards of the Spanish people improved the fastest, resulting in the post-war economic miracle, taking the automobile as an example, Spain's private cars have changed from more than 70,000 to more than 1 million, and the national income has also increased significantly. This is also the reason why Franco, a dictator, was accepted by the people, and he brought great progress to the country. After the implementation of democracy, Spain became the hardest hit by the European debt crisis. Once again, history has mercilessly mocked the bullshit scholars who have been brainwashed by democracy, and whoever takes the American propaganda seriously is a complete fool.
In fact, fascism was not able to prevail by deception. It was not snatched by violence, but was really pushed to the throne of the ruling party by the people, which was the case with Hitler, especially the economic miracle he created in Germany is a problem that must be paid attention to.
After Hitler came to power, the unemployment rate fell from more than 50 percent to 1.3 percent, and full employment was achieved, such a low unemployment rate is rare when the economy is doing well, pig iron production has increased from 3.9 million tons in 33 years to 18.6 million tons in 38 years, and steel has risen from 5.6 million tons to 23.2 million tons. The production of magnesium, aluminum, machine tools, etc., even exceeds that of the United States.
The most incredible thing is that Germany has also implemented a comprehensive welfare policy. Workers can take paid time off and even travel to the U.S. to relax. This is unique in the world, and in contrast, Roosevelt's New Deal, which is praised for its recovery, has only restored the economy, and has not yet reached its peak, and the American industry has completely exploded because of the role of World War II, far inferior to Hitler.
Another point that must be noted is that when Hitler created an economic miracle, he also recovered a number of sovereignty lost because of World War I, annexed Austria to Germany, recovered the Sudetenland, the great success of the German economy, and made the best advertisement for his National Socialism, before World War II, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovenia and other countries followed Germany and established similar regimes.
In this era of drastic change, Qiao Yu admires Hitler's achievements very much, but also feels a real threat, just as Qiao Yu is now hostile to the West because he led 500 million Chinese out of poverty, Stalin's original sin was to achieve the industrialization of 200 million people, and Hitler's original sin was that he was expected to unify a divided Europe.
China and Germany are at both ends of the Eurasian continent, Qiao Yu can feel the threat of Germany, so what should Britain, France, the United States and other countries do, it is obvious that they can only end up going to war and rely on guns to solve the most threatening enemy.
After thinking about it, Qiao Yu's mind was also a little disturbed, the drastic changes in the world situation are far from being explained clearly by a few pages of history books, nor can they be interpreted by a few so-called experts, being in the game, Qiao Yu even has a sense of powerlessness, don't think that with the advantage of crossing, you can play with the times between applause, the world is too complicated.
In addition to emotion, Qiao Yu also has to settle down as soon as possible, can not watch the situation change, the Spanish civil war has not yet broken out, China needs to reap the benefits as much as possible, Qiao Yu immediately sent a telegram to Beijing, asking Xu Shuzheng and Qian Moyin to immediately lead a team to visit Germany, their main tasks are two, one is to sell large naval ships to Germany, the other is to open the way for intervention in the Spanish civil war, and China and Germany must reach an arms export plan.
Hitler would definitely be interested in weapons that could break Britain's sea supremacy, and Qiao Yu had already planned to do so, and proposed at this time that it was to sell it for a good price, and Qiao Yu was also sure that Germany would definitely pay a lot of money to buy it, and the only one in the world who could help Germany in the navy was China.
Although Qiao Yu got all kinds of changes in Europe one after another, he was not in a hurry to go to Beijing, but continued to investigate unhurriedly, visited the hospital, comforted the border guards, and went to some mines to investigate, of course, these actions are extremely secret, to avoid the attention of the Soviets, if it is not good if it is targeted by the killer agents.
After reading all of these, Qiao Yu went to see a few yurts in person, and really felt the living conditions of the following herdsmen, China has been a farming nation for thousands of years, and the nomads are a pair of happy enemies. There is already trade with each other. After entering the era of industrialization, the war horse was no longer the most advantageous weapon, and the threat of nomads was completely eliminated, but China was vast and had a large number of nomads in the border areas, allowing them to live a stable life. Completely returning to the country is of great value to China's stability.
After the Chinese government took back Outer Mongolia, it carried out a lot of reforms to the upper class of the Outer Mongolian aristocracy, completely abolishing the power of the old aristocracy, and these princes and nobles were roughly divided into two categories, one was still oriented to the Central Plains. Qiao Yu gave a lot of care to this kind of people, taking back their pastures and slaves, but helping them turn into capitalists, and the minerals found on their land would also give them a share, so these people basically just sat back and waited to collect money.
They don't even have to settle in the bitter cold grasslands, in fact many have already moved to warm islands such as Hainan, Taiwan, and the Ryukyus. Live a comfortable and comfortable life. Sitting at home has a large dividend.
The second is the original pro-Russian forces, trying to achieve independence with the help of Tsarist Russia. Separated from the jurisdiction of the central government, after the rise of Soviet Russia, these people also tried to collude with Soviet Russia, and Qiao Yu would never be polite to this kind of person, their private armed forces were abolished, their property was confiscated, and all pasture slaves were confiscated.
The accomplices and their families were either used as coolies, while others were reduced to commoners, working and living like ordinary herdsmen, without any privileges.
Since the establishment of Outer Mongolia as Yunling Province, the situation in Outer Mongolia has undergone earth-shaking changes, with administrative institutions at all levels and the same domestic settings, unified assessment and selection of officials, and direct control of the central government over the region, which is a unique feat in history.
Even during the Han and Tang dynasties, these steppe areas were still controlled by subjugated chieftains, and the Central Plains was only canonized, and there was no strength to establish administrative regions at all.
This is now possible to do so, and it has a lot to do with the economic transformation of Outer Mongolia, although there are still a large number of herders in Outer Mongolia, but the economic pillar has become the mining industry, and Outer Mongolia can live a good life with rich minerals.
Most of their cattle and sheep have signed sales agreements with outside companies, and they can sell as much as they need to produce, which greatly guarantees the rights and interests of herdsmen and makes their living standards rise sharply.
Herdsmen with money in their pockets naturally have the desire to settle down, after all, nomadism is very hard work, not only in Outer Mongolia, the speed of Inner Mongolia is faster than that of Outer Mongolia, herdsmen even began to change the habit of migrating from water to grass, and began to raise livestock, so that the yield is higher, the income is more, even if it is grazing, it will establish a fixed residence, and wait until the winter to live.
The nomads stopped and settled in large numbers, which also eliminated the last factor of instability, and undoubtedly had a huge role in promoting the strengthening of control over the border areas, and Qiao Yu was also very attentive to this project, and specially took out 10 million from the treasury to support.
According to the plan, by 1940, all the herders were completely settled, and from a historical point of view, this project is of unparalleled significance, which means that the threat of thousands of years of nomads has been completely removed.
Qiao Yu was surrounded by the entourage at this time, and came to the yurt of the shepherd Bagen, and in the future, these yurts are afraid that they will exist more in tourist attractions, to be honest, the sanitary conditions of the yurt are not very good, there are some fur felt blankets covering at will outside, they are all a little black, and the space inside is even smaller and abnormal, and there is a peculiar smell.
But Qiao Yu didn't care about these, but the shepherd Bagan was a little embarrassed, the honest Mongolian man felt a little slow to treat the distinguished guests, according to the etiquette Qiao Yu accepted the Hada offered by Bagen, milk tea, and there is also a delicate sterling silver snuff bottle, the exchange of snuff bottles is also a meeting etiquette of the Mongolian people, later generations with the decline of snuff also disappeared, Qiao Yu accepted them one by one, Bagan seemed very excited, he even felt the same in a dream at this time, how did he not expect that the president would suddenly appear in his home, It's like falling from the sky! (To be continued.) )