"At present, the priority is to focus on domestic affairs, to further stimulate domestic demand through large-scale infrastructure, to deepen the process of industrialization, to make great efforts to digest the Northern Union, and to consolidate the military presence in North and South America......"

Li Fushou expounded on the current intentions of the government, and his will will be implemented as the standard for policy-making and guide the direction of the empire.

Prime Minister Zhang Li and Speaker Fan Zhongzhai listened attentively, and they did not need to record these things, so naturally there were accompanying Secretariat personnel to record His Majesty's will word for word.

Today's service in the Xianju Hall is the deputy director of the secretariat Li Xiaozu, he picked up the pen and wrote, his eyes flashed from time to time if he had a bright light, His Majesty's will he has to go back to think carefully, combined with the current world situation, in order to understand the true meaning.

In the past few years of working by His Majesty's side, his vision has been greatly broadened, he is accustomed to looking at things from a higher perspective, and his ability to control the overall situation has greatly increased.

Specific to current policies; It's better to be still than to be still.

In the current world environment of the beginning of the 20th century

The awakening of European national consciousness struck like a storm, breaking the originally calm situation in Europe, surging from the Balkans to Austria-Hungary, and evolving into the main contradiction and conflict flashpoint of the international community today.

The Italian-Austrian war has stopped, and the Italians' original mercenary expenditure of 160 million lira has skyrocketed to 440 million lira, and there is still no sign of a complete sweep of the Arab guerrillas, and the entire war expenditure has exceeded 1.4 billion lira, almost emptying the treasury of the Kingdom of Italy.

As a last resort, he could only borrow 80 million gold oceans from the Ocean Empire syndicate for subsequent war expenses.

At a time when the Italians were struggling, the Balkan Alliance, consisting of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, had sent an official diplomatic note to the Ottoman Empire, asking it to respond head-on to the territorial claims of the Balkan Alliance, or risk going to war.

This is a blackmail against Austria-Hungary by the four small Balkan countries, and a war that could burn all of Europe seems inevitable.

Within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Hungarian aristocracy was demanding more national self-determination......

In 1912, the whole of Europe was on the verge of a kind of mania, and national and territorial contradictions were the main causes of this impetuousness.

However, is there really a one-time panacea that will solve the problem?

No one can answer this question, and the Europeans don't seem to be thinking about it, they just know that I want this, they want that, who they want, and they don't take into account the feelings of others.

In interpersonal relations, the deterioration of neighborly relations leads to major fights, and the deterioration of inter-state relations is a harbinger of war.

Come to think of it

Li Xiaozu especially admired the wise decision-making of today's saints, who had a great insight into thousands of miles, and was very prescient in eliminating contradictions, and the national contradictions of the Great Ocean Empire were not only numerous but also complex, and problems arose with the expansion of the conquered territory.

There are two powerful measures taken by the Holy One; Reduction and education.

In particular, when the policy of reducing the number of people was first implemented, it aroused tremendous criticism from the government and the public.

Many old masters who claim to be enlightened people have repeatedly written to exhort the saints today to be gentle with the barbarians, to civilize the people's wisdom, and to educate the people with grace and power.

It is not allowed to add up to the sword, and the policy oppression leads to the separation of wives and displacements, which is the source of trouble......

In particular, after the conquest of the Luzon Islands, the indigenous labor force was exported to South America and other parts of the country on a large scale, and the trade of civil women was rampant, and many private armed forces brazenly looted women from indigenous villages and sold them to Chinese residents as wives and concubines, while the government's control and crackdown were weak, and it was almost a situation.

As a result, in just over a decade, the loss of indigenous women in the Luzon Islands has been extremely serious, and there is not one in ten.

This kind of scene makes many moral gentlemen feel heartbroken, on the one hand, they marry wives and concubines at home, and open up branches and leaves for the family. On the other hand, they have spoken out in newspapers and periodicals to criticize the government's inaction, which has led to the intensification of human tragedy.

After a painful period of policy, 14 years have passed. The indigenous groups that were the dominant ethnic group in the Luzon Islands were reduced to a minority.

Today, among the more than 800,000 people in Luzon Islands, the Chinese ethnic group accounts for more than 630,000, the white and South Asian immigrants account for about 300,000, and the remaining indigenous ethnic groups are only more than 1.6 million, of which the older single indigenous men over the age of 35 account for about 70 percent, the rest are older women, and the number of young women and children is negligible.

In today's society, when the age of the indigenous people is generally about 40 years old, according to the law of natural social succession, after 5~10 years, the total population of the indigenous people will be reduced to about one-tenth of the current one-time, and the total population will not exceed 200,000.

In Luzon, where the Chinese population is absolutely dominant, ethnic contradictions will not become contradictions, but only minor frictions.

After more than 30 years of unremitting efforts, the "policy of reducing the number of people" has achieved great results.

Today, in Shangri-La and Borneo, the Chinese population accounts for more than 95%, 88.3% in Australia, 76% in Somalia, 21% in the white community, and only 3% in the black community, which is still slowly dying.

In Mozambique, the Chinese ethnic group accounts for 92.2%, the white ethnic group occupies 4.3%, and the black ethnic group only occupies 3.5%, with a total of more than 300,000 people, mainly distributed in the mines, hydropower station infrastructure construction sites, and the construction army of bridges and paving roads, and the age is generally on the older side, the working environment is bad, and the rate of 6~70,000 people decreases rapidly every year.

Internal information shows; After 30 years of natural elimination, Mozambique is expected to achieve the goal of eliminating blacks in society by 1920, which is the end of the policy of reducing the number of people.

The so-called "reduction policy" does not refer to killing, but to be more harsh on indigenous and black people at the policy level, pay more taxes, exploit more, oppress more, work hard to make a living, and even cannot afford to have children.

This is on the policy side, and on the other hand, there is a strong labor export.

After the Wool War, the government still maintained an annual labor output of more than 100,000 people, mainly young male natives from the Luzon Islands, who were the main force of ethnic reproduction and could live a better and happy life in South American countries.

The complex national contradictions that had been haunting the empire were quietly resolved.

Today, the national ideological emancipation movement in Europe has spread to Asia, and is gathering strength in the Far East, South Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, waiting for an outbreak one day.

The great changes in China are also a wave of this worldwide national liberation movement.

The second move is national education, which has adhered to the "national Zhengyin" education for 30 years, and enshrined the Beiping accent as the Chinese Zhengyin, and the national Zhengyin is taught in the normal colleges within the empire, and it is popularized in every primary and secondary school, which greatly strengthens the language communication ability of the whole society.

All government workers must be proficient in Chinese, a little English, and proficient in the use of national pronunciation, which is the basic requirement.

Extended to the society, from shop guys to shop assistants, from factory supervisors to street vendors, if you don't master the national pronunciation, you can't even do business, let alone communicate with people, which is a necessary skill for the residents of the Ocean Empire.

Decades of persistent promotion have proved that white people can also use Chinese well.

In Australia

Most of the white Chinese people spoke very slippery, and their living habits and stomach were also biased towards Chineseization, and the great glory achieved by the Imperial Expeditionary Force on an international scale was equally excited and proud of the white ethnic group to which the empire belonged, which accelerated the process of national assimilation.

Although the two policies of reduction and education were simple and brutal, the social changes they brought about were extremely significant, and they integrated the vast territory of the empire into a single whole, with a strong cohesion.

"What is the situation in Madagascar now?" Li Fushou asked.

Prime Minister Zhang Li and Speaker Fan Zhongzhai looked at each other, but Fan Zhongzhai coughed lightly and replied;

"Three years ago, when the army went to the island to clear the island, the indigenous population was more than 280,000 and the Chinese immigrant population was about 300,000.

With the opening of the prelude to the construction of large infrastructure

The Madagascar Ring Road and numerous road projects have enabled the indigenous population to find new livelihoods and become a major source of coolie labour for infrastructure.

Today

More than half of the railway around Madagascar has been completed, several backbone roads have been opened to traffic, and wharves in major cities have been built.

According to the statistics at the end of the previous year

The population of the island is still less than 200,000, and the population of Chinese immigrants has increased to more than 400,000, an increase of about 100,000 in three years, and the entire island economy has begun to recover.

From the current point of view, the remaining indigenous population is still the main force of infrastructure construction, shouldering the heavy responsibility of opening mountains and splitting rocks, building roads and bridges. However, due to the fact that the indigenous population is generally older and the labor capacity is declining rapidly, there has been a shortage of labor, which will inevitably affect the progress of the project construction.

Attracted by the land policy, about 3~40,000 immigrants move to Madagascar every year, mainly from landless farmers in Mozambique.

The ebb and flow of the Empire's immigration policy had a significant impact on Africa, especially Madagascar.

With Mozambique's current population of 10 million, the number of immigrants willing to move to Madagascar each year is very small and cannot be changed in a short period of time. Because Mozambique has more opportunities, better living conditions, and a more prosperous urban and rural economy.

At present, there is a regiment of troops stationed in the local area, which is basically scattered in companies throughout the island and near important railway construction sites to maintain local law and order. ”

"Well, the current policy doesn't need to change, less immigration is less, take your time, don't rush." Li Fushou nodded to express his understanding, with the weak infrastructure construction conditions of Madagascar Island, the production mode based on agriculture and animal husbandry does not require too much population.

In the next two or three decades, the island will remain below one million people, and basically every Chinese immigrant can own a large piece of land.

Madagascar is the only region that still maintains preferential policies for immigrants, because it is independent of Africa's natural ecosystem, and its industry is almost blank, and it is difficult to develop an economy that is completely dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, supplemented by planting.

It is said that the Somali Fisheries Company has invested in the construction of a fishery processing plant and has purchased a number of distant-water fishing vessels in preparation for a major operation.

Recently, many Somali businessmen have visited the island to build rice mills, flour mills, fruit canneries, and other businessmen are trying to develop the cultivation of cash crops such as sugar, coffee, cocoa and tobacco, and are already in talks with local government officials.

These Somali businessmen are a very active business force in today's society.