"Of course I do!" Zhuge nodded for Dao again and again, patted his chest and said, "Great military division, the junior brother knows how to control those little Japans best!" ”

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and nodded, "The old man knows that you have a way!" You were thinking about marrying Da Hei Kong as your wife, and you must have been gradually controlling the Da Hei family through marriage and grandson inheritance, right? If you can firmly grasp the Daikoku family, it will indeed be of some use to control Japan, but the effect will be a little slower. ”

"Why is it slow to get results?" Zhuge said for the Dao Heart, "This set is useless at all...... After marrying Da Heikong, it is possible to slowly infiltrate the Da Hei family, and finally let the son born of Da Heikong enter the Da Hei family. But to want to control Japan through a big black chaebol is probably delusional! Japan is now a nation-state. Where can a big black chaebol control? And once the original Zhuge Weidao becomes the boss of the big black chaebol, whose interests will he represent? Is it the big Ming or the big black? ”

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said to Zhuge Weijiu: "Great military division, the marriage with the Great Black Family is just to support reliable agents within Japan...... After all, this country of Japan has a population of 30 to 40 million, and it is not cost-effective to annex it, and it is not very suitable to accept it as a vassal state. After all, the Ming Domain also wants to follow us to eat and drink spicy food.

In the younger brother's opinion, Japan should still maintain its nominal independence. But at the same time, we must control Japan's defense, control Japan's currency and finance, control Japan's energy resources, control Japan's grain, and control Japan's industry! Among them, currency, energy, and food are the most important and the easiest to control! ”

Zhuge Weidao's "historical foundation" came in handy again at this time. Although he didn't know how this timeline would go in the future, he still remembered the words of old man Kissinger - if you control oil, you control all countries; If you control the currency, you control the whole world; If you control the food, you control all the people!

Although the current Ming Dynasty has no way to control the world's oil, oh, it should be coal. Oil isn't very important now, coal is the most important thing. But Japan's coal has long been pinched by the Ming Dynasty!

As for Japan's grain ...... Japan doesn't have enough food to eat, and Japan doesn't have enough fertilizer, so both of these need to be imported from the Ming Dynasty. However, Daming never tried to use food and fertilizer as weapons to jam Japan's neck.

In terms of currency and finance, the chaebols of the Ming Dynasty often join forces with the Japanese chaebols to make huge profits. However, the Ming court never thought of depriving Japan of its monetary sovereignty in part.

The reason for this situation is, of course, related to the dominance of the Great Ming Dynasty in the East and the blind spot of the knowledge of King Zhuge Wuzhong. The Ming Empire, a monopoly of the Ming Dynasty, does not care much about how to manipulate the political economy of a sovereign country, because there are few sovereign countries around the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for the Rakshasa and Dajin to be manipulated by the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the dress on the portrait of King Zhuge Wuzhong, I also know that his old man does not know anything about the new imperialism's use of financial means to engage in hidden colonization, so it is impossible to leave a copy of the "Kissinger Book of Heaven" for future generations to refer to.

"Control Japan's currency, energy, and food ......" Zhuge Weijiu, the old man, listened to what Zhuge Weidao said, and suddenly felt that his eyes lit up.

Because what Zhuge Weidao is proposing now, it is all strategic, and the source is the old man Kissinger, who is an old imperialist! Even the current Earl of Liverpool in the British Empire, George. Compared with him, Canning's means are also very immature, not to mention the old Zhuge who has little experience in colonialism. Although these old Zhuge are very skilled in marriage, bribery, assassination, rumor-mongering, and discord, those methods are not strategies, at most they are tactics. If you don't have the right strategy, no matter how well you use your tactics, you're a headless fly.

"We can control this food and energy...... If we say we don't give, we can not give. Even if the British are willing to use a 10,000-ton ship to help them transfer thousands of miles, the cost will be amazingly high! Zhuge Weijiu had already pinched his fingers and counted, "But how can we control this Japanese finance and currency?" We can't control Japan's gold seat and Ginza, although the money seat is presided over by the Japanese Zheng family, but the right to mint money and issue money is still granted by the shogunate, and the shogunate can take it back at any time. ”

Its practical needs are not introduced by Zhuge for a long time, Zhuge Weidao also knows what the current situation of Japan is - the current Japan is "poor" without losing sovereignty, although it is always a bit embarrassing to sell its own girls in exchange for the funds and resources needed for development, but this is also the helplessness of Japan living in the shadow of the super Ming.

In another timeline, if Japan loses the Sino-Japanese War, it will probably fall to such a point. And now it has long fallen to such a point, but the Japanese country that is still struggling, will definitely not let go of the opportunity to gamble on the little chips it has when the Ming Dynasty and Britain are at war!

Because this is their last chance to turn the tables against the wind, no matter how small the win, they will also make a national gamble!

For the Ming Dynasty, before breaking with Britain, it is better to hold Japan by the throat, deprive Japan of part of its sovereignty, and let Japan become its own cannon fodder...... And to achieve this goal, I am afraid that a war is inevitable.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Zhuge for a long time: "Great military division, if you want to control Japan's finances, you can only fight with them!" Only by winning the war can we force them to open the country financially, anchor Japan's currency to our silver yuan, and at the same time let our bank capital go in to control their gold, silver, and money! As long as we control Japan's currency and finance, we can reset their industries and destroy Japan's heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding, machinery, chemicals, and military industry, and at the same time use the capital of Kaneza, Ginza, and Qianza to invest in light industry and tourism, so that Japan can become our economic colony.

Moreover, Japan, which has lost heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and chemicals, has no ability to develop an independent military industrial system, and can only rely on the arms provided by us. In this way, we can actually control Japan's defense, so that they lose the ability to resist and be under our control forever! ”

"Fight?" Zhuge Weijiu couldn't help frowning when he heard that he was going to fight with Japan, "One hundred and eight brothers, don't think that Japan is a small country, and their population is more than 30 million...... More than people in the UK! Among them, there are hundreds of thousands of samurai families, and those samurai are martial and aggressive, and they are very difficult to deal with. ”

"But Japan is an island country, and food, fertilizer, and energy all rely on imports!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Once their navy is destroyed and the coastline is blocked, Japan will have no way to import grain, fertilizer, and energy, and thirty or forty million people will have to starve, the country's economy will collapse, and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate will be unstable...... The whole country would also fall into deep despair. At that time, I will be able to collect the dog tomorrow! ”

"Collect the dog?" Zhuge asked for a long time, "Let Japan be a vassal state?" ”

The Ming Dynasty was still very good to its own vassal states, although most of these vassal states were raw material suppliers and commodity dumping places of the Ming Dynasty, but that was not imposed by the Ming Empire, but the result of market regulation. Among them, because the North Korean state has little resources and has a large population, it relies on low-cost labor to engage in some labor-intensive industries, and also exports laborers to the Ming Dynasty.

And if Japan becomes a vassal state, some of the less glamorous but indispensable industries will wither......

Zhuge waved his hand and said with a smile: "Of course we can't accept Japan as a vassal state, it's not good for us, and the Japanese can't hang on their faces...... We can make Japan an ally of the Ming Dynasty, an ally whose currency, energy, food, industry, and defense are firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty! ”