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Just when Guan Poming asked Xu Changqing about the Guan family's foothold, Guan Zheng suddenly stood outside the door and said, "Grandpa, sir, Lin Yuan, Feng Jiusheng, the two old men and the person named Li Yunlong are out asking to see you. ”

Seeing that someone was disturbing, Guan Poming was very unhappy, and was about to make Guan Zheng refuse, but was stopped by Xu Changqing. Seeing him smiling, he seemed to have guessed that these people would turn around and ask to see them alone, there was no surprise on his face, he smiled, and said: "Just talking about the Guan family's foothold in Nanyang, and the person who may help the Guan family gain a foothold is here, this is fate! Brother Guan, please let these people in!" As he spoke, he saw that Guan was about to call those people, but Xu Changqing seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked again: "By the way, Brother Guan, where is the Moses you want to protect now?" Why haven't you seen him since you entered the Doge's Palace? Aren't you afraid that something will happen to him?"

"That person's subordinates have returned, and now they don't want us to protect them for the time being!" Guan Zheng looked at Xu Changqing puzzled, and said: "If Mr. wants to find him, you can go to the residence of the former governor Awenyo to find him, he has been staying there since he entered the governor's palace." Fiction"

After speaking, Guan Zheng turned around and walked towards the front hall, although Guan Poming on the side was also very curious about Xu Changqing's attention to Moses, but in the end he was able to hold back his curiosity and did not ask.

It didn't take long for Guan Zheng to lead the three of them into the outside, and the three of them didn't say much, and after saluting, they went directly to the chair they were sitting on before. There was silence in the room for a moment, and Feng Jiusheng opened his mouth and asked bluntly, "Sir, the plan I just said is a rough plan. Can you tell me how many of you are waiting for you, and how the details will be implemented?"

"Have you decided?" Xu Changqing didn't answer immediately, but asked with a stern expression.

The crowd looked at each other. Nodding and said, "I am willing to ask for a place for the Nanyang Chinese to live and live, and I hope that Mr. can give me advice."

Xu Changqing saw that everyone's tone was firm, so he no longer played tricks. He said in a deep voice: "To tell you the truth, the chances of success in the great plan I just said are very small, and if you do what I said, you will only waste money and time." ”

Hearing Xu Changqing's words, everyone showed surprise, and just as they wanted to ask Xu Changqing why he was like this, Xu Changqing immediately raised his hand to stop everyone. He continued: "Although the best time to implement the great plan of the country just now has long passed. But that doesn't mean that the plan is completely useless. I have a question for you, what does it mean to be a country?"

"The territory is vast, the population is large, and the soldiers are strong!" Li Yunlong was the first to express his opinion, and others also said how they could be called a country in their hearts, although the words were different, but the meaning was roughly the same.

Xu Changqing did not agree, nor did he object. Just said slowly: "There is a country called Switzerland in Europe, and its land area is only the size of Huaxia Difu City, which can be described as a small land. However, such a small country is the hub of the road between the north and the south of Europe, and although its country is not strong in military strength and has a small population, its status in Europe is not low, and it has always been able to stand among the European powers. What do you think of this country?"

The room was quiet again. Everyone seemed to be lost in thought. Obviously, Xu Changqing's words gave them great inspiration.

"Sir, do you mean that let's also build a city-state?" Lin Yuan has presided over the demon slaying Lin family's outer hall for a long time, and naturally understands the way of power and scheming. Soon sensed the meaning of Xu Changqing's words, and exclaimed.

Li Yunlong frowned and said, "If such a city-state is established, how can we defend ourselves against foreign enemies?"

"Defend against enemies abroad, if there are no enemies around, how can you defend against enemies abroad?" Xu Changqing smiled indifferently, and did not immediately explain Li Yunlongdi's problem, but said slowly: "Although the European powers that control Southeast Asia are now constantly strife, so that the Chinese have an opportunity to take advantage of it, but we Chinese are not united internally, and we cannot gather all our forces together to build a huge island country. As he spoke, Xu Changqing re-said the internal shortcomings of the Chinese businessmen that he had said to Guan Poming before, and after seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, he continued: "With such internal people's hearts floating and various interest factions in place, coupled with such a large sea area, the forces will inevitably be dispersed. Even if it is forcibly established according to my method in the future, it will not be able to survive for a long time, and the whole country will collapse with a little external force. ”

"That's true!" Lin Yuan said with a gloomy face: "The Lanfang Republic established in the past was because of internal disunity, which made those Dutch see the opportunity, so it was so light-hearted......"

Lin Yuan didn't say any more, and everyone present also showed regret, which shows how profound the impact of the collapse of the Lanfang Republic was on them.

"The fall of the Republic of Lanfang is not only due to internal problems, but also because the place where it was founded occupies the key point of the entire east-west route. This has touched the fundamental interests of the European Chamber of Commerce, and the control of the parliaments of the European powers is the various large local maritime trade chambers of commerce, coupled with the incompetence of the Qing court as the mother country, the demise of the Lanfang Republic can be said to be inevitable. Xu Changqing didn't want the atmosphere to be depressed like this, analyzed it a little, and continued: "Because of this, the Chinese in Nanyang should not be too ambitious, instead of building a country that will be destroyed at any time, it is better to concentrate all the forces that can be concentrated, control one or more key cities that are not favored by the European powers, and then look for an opportunity to establish a city-state that is purely based on maritime commerce between the East and the West." The country can be one or several. A country's strength is relatively concentrated, and it is easier to deal with accidents when encountered. However, there are also advantages to creating multiple countries, which can secretly forge alliances and expand the influence of the surrounding region, while overtly showing confrontation, thus distracting the European powers and causing them to gradually relax their vigilance. As for national defense, I think it is possible to give up defense for the time being, hand over defense to the European powers, cooperate with them to build military ports and heavy industries there, and when the internal strife among the European powers intensifies and completely relax their attention here, they can seize all the gains in one fell swoop, and then form an alliance with the government of the Republic of China and the surrounding countries to jointly resist possible counterattacks by the European powers in the future. ”

There was silence in the room for a while, everyone was attracted by such a huge plan, and their minds were quickly calculating the gains and losses, and finally everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at each other, as if exchanging ideas with each other.