Chapter 106: This Zhuge is an old imperialist! (Luo Luo, please read, please read!)

"Of course I know!" Zhuge Weidao nodded repeatedly, patted his chest and said, "Great military advisor, I know best how to control those little Japanese!"

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and nodded, "I know you have a way! You thought about marrying Daheikong before, and you must have been trying to gradually control the Dahei family through marriage and grandson inheritance, right? If you can get Daheikong

The Hei family's firm grasp is indeed somewhat useful in controlling Japan, but the results are a little slow."

"It's not only slow to take effect?" Zhuge Wei said in his heart, "This trick is useless. After marrying Daheikong and slowly infiltrating the Dahei family, it is possible that the son born by Daheikong can finally join the Dahei family.

Achieved. But trying to control Japan through a big black chaebol is probably a delusion! Japan is now a nation-state. Is it possible for a big black chaebol to control it? And once the original Zhuge Weidao becomes

If the supreme boss of the Dahei chaebol is defeated, whose interests will he represent? Ming’s or Dahei’s?”

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said to Zhuge Weijiu: "The purpose of the marriage between the Great Military Advisor and the Daikoku family is to cultivate reliable agents within Japan. After all, Japan has a population of 30 to 40 million people, and annexation is not cost-effective.

Yes, it is not very appropriate to accept it as a vassal state. After all, the Ming Dynasty vassal state also wants to follow us to enjoy prosperity and prosperity.

In my 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 food, and control Japan's industry

!Among them, currency, energy, and food are the most important and the easiest to control!"

Zhuge Weidao's "historical skills" came in handy again at this time. Although he didn't know how the future of this timeline would go, he still remembered the words of Mr. Kissinger - if you control oil, you control

If you control the currency, you control the whole world; if you control the food, you control all the people!

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

As for Japan’s food, Japan’s food is not enough to eat, and Japan does not have enough fertilizer. Both of these need to be imported from Ming Dynasty. However, Ming Dynasty never tried to use food and fertilizer as weapons to choke Japan’s neck.

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

The reason for this situation is of course related to the dominance of the Ming Dynasty in the East and the intellectual blind spots of King Zhuge Wuzhong. The dominant Ming Empire did not pay much attention to how to control the political economy of a sovereign country, because the Ming Dynasty was surrounded by

There are not many sovereign countries, and it seems impossible for Rakshasa and Dajin among them to be manipulated by the Ming Dynasty.

And looking at the clothes on the portrait of King Zhuge Wuzhong, we also know that the old man did not understand the new imperialist method of using financial means to engage in hidden colonization, so it is impossible to leave behind a "Kissinger's Book"

"For future generations to refer to.

"Control Japan's currency, energy, and food." Zhuge Weijiu, the old man, heard what Zhuge Weidao said, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

Because what Zhuge Weidao is proposing now is all strategic level. The source is Mr. Kissinger, who is an old imperialist! Even the Earl of Liverpool and George Canning in the British Empire now compare with him.

The methods are also very immature, let alone the old Zhuges who have little experience in colonialism. Although these old Zhuges are very skilled in marriage, bribery, assassination, rumors, and alienation, those methods cannot be called strategies.

, at best, they are just tactics. If there is no correct strategy, no matter how well the tactics are used, they will still be useless.

"It's easy for us to control this food and energy. If we say we won't give it, we won't give it. Even if the British are willing to use giant ships of 10,000 tons to help them transport thousands of miles, the cost will be astonishingly high!" Zhuge Weijiu was already counting on his fingers.

I got up, "But how do we control Japan's finance and currency? We can't control Japan's Gold and Ginza. Although the Qianzao is presided over by the Zheng family of Japan, the right to mint and issue money in the Qianzao still belongs to the shogunate.

What is granted can be withdrawn by the shogunate at any time."

In fact, Zhuge Weidao does not need to introduce it. Zhuge Weidao also knows what the current situation of Japan is - Japan is "poor" without losing its sovereignty, although it is always a bit shameful to sell its own girls in exchange for funds and resources needed for development.

, but this is also the helplessness of Japan, which lives in the shadow of the super Ming Dynasty.

If Japan in another timeline had lost the Sino-Japanese War, it would probably have fallen to this point. And Japan, which has already fallen to this point now, but is still struggling, will definitely not let go of the Ming Dynasty.

When fighting against Great Britain, it's a chance to put all the chips you have on the line!

Because this is their last chance to make a comeback, no matter how small the chance of winning is, they will make a country-wide bet!

For Ming Dynasty, before breaking with Britain, it was best to choke Japan, deprive Japan of part of its sovereignty, and make Japan its cannon fodder. To achieve this goal, a war is probably inevitable.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said to Zhuge Weijiu: "Great military advisor, if you want to control Japan's finance, you have to fight with them! If you win, you can force them to finance the country and anchor Japan's currency to our silver yuan. At the same time,

Let our bank capital come in to control their gold, silver, and money! As long as we control Japan's currency and finance, we can then reset their industries and destroy Japan's steel, shipbuilding, machinery, chemical industry, military industry, etc.

Heavy industry, while using the capital of Kinza, Ginza, and Qianza to invest in light industry and tourism, making Japan our economic colony.

Moreover, Japan, which has lost its heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding, machinery, and chemicals, has no ability to develop an independent military industry system and can only rely on the arms we provide. In this way, we can actually control Japan's defense and make them lose their ability to resist.

, always under our control!"

"A fight?" Zhuge Weijiu couldn't help frowning when he heard that there was going to be a war with Japan, "One Hundred and Eighth Brother, don't think that Japan is a small country. Their population of more than 30 million is larger than the people of the United Kingdom.

There are more! There are hundreds of thousands of warrior families among them, and those warriors are all martial and aggressive. They value fame over death, and are very difficult to deal with."

"But Japan is an island country, and food, fertilizer, and energy are all dependent 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 food, fertilizer, energy, three or four thousand

Thousands of people will starve, the country's economy will collapse, and the Tokugawa shogunate's rule will be unstable. The entire country will fall into deep despair. By then, I will be able to collect dogs tomorrow!"

"Accept dogs?" Zhuge Weijiu asked, "Let Japan become a vassal state?"

The Ming Dynasty was still very good to its vassals. Although most of these vassal states were the source of raw materials and goods dumping for the Ming Dynasty, they were not imposed by the Ming Empire, but the result of market regulation. Among them, Korea

With few resources and a large population, they relied on low-cost labor to develop some labor-intensive industries and exported labor to the Ming Dynasty.

And if Japan becomes a vassal state, some less glorious but essential industries will wither.

Zhuge Weidao waved his hands and said with a smile: "Of course we can't accept Japan as a vassal state. This is not good for us, and the Japanese will not lose face. We can make Japan an ally of the Ming Dynasty, a currency, energy source, and food source.

An ally whose industry and defense are all firmly controlled by the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!