74 Dirty Iron Age(2/2)
"What kind of person do you think our Sea Emperor is?" Sir Wenhan asked.
Ma Dichen was stunned, thought for a while and said, "A very smart, completely civilized man. Today, he immediately guessed what a telegram is from the word combination. We were all shocked by this IQ and couldn't speak for a long time."
Sir Wenhan sneered: "I know very well his intelligence. He is not like other Chinese. He understands the strength of our British Empire and the gap between us and the civilization he lives in. So he maintains business, absorbs our military, and uses scientific and technological achievements to deal with his enemies."
"This is a good thing. I don't want to do business like I did with the Qing Dynasty before. It was all disgusting bribes. Apart from silver dollars and naval gun shells, it was completely impossible to communicate. Your Majesty not only maintains business order, but also a business genius. Believe me, although India's opium production and sales will drop a lot this year, the UK will get more pounds on this product." Madichen said.
"Since he took the lead in pulling up your opium trust, you have completely turned to his side. I understand it completely." Sir Wenhan smiled sarcastically: "But I want to remind you, imagine that if this business Majesty was under us, and had a completely swaying Qing Dynasty on land, and with his great talent and Leonardo da Vinci's wisdom, he had such a vast and rich continent, and his tens of millions of subjects who were extremely respected, would you think he would still protect the interests of our British Empire in the Far East as he is now?"
Ma Dichen was very smart and immediately changed his face: "Are you saying he is a Chinese hypocritical?"
"No, I didn't say that." Wenhan said seriously: "I respect zhao very much. Although I am thirty years older than him. I noticed that he treated his army and his subordinates extremely cruelly, but this made him more respected; he obviously understood both our civilization and his own civilization; but we cannot understand his civilization as much as he did. Once a unified continent appears, with a strong nationalist government and a smart and intelligent emperor who is very good at learning from us, we cannot without considering the possibility of strong xenophobia in advance? At least it is the high price that we will pay to control this place. This is the Far East! The farthest place on the earth is on the planet. I think that once this happens, not only does our government not want to see, but you businessmen do not want to see it."
Wen Han took a deep breath and continued: "Opium is indeed the most important commodity in our country, but the world's largest buyer is here. If zhao defeats the Qing Dynasty, it is probably not the trust of you, the international opium seller, but the trust of his own domestic buyer. At that time, they could not only decide on the import price, but also the quantity of imports. Moreover, I noticed that zhao himself hates opium very much. If someone consumes opium, he will be executed immediately. Moreover, the greedy emperor's only industry that refused to give the title of "royal" was his domestic opium trust. If such an emperor and government took over the entire Qing Dynasty, I suspect that he would likely ban opium directly. He not only hates opium itself, but also hates the outflow of wealth caused by opium. I think one of his major goals in organizing domestic opium trusts is to reduce this."
Ma Dichen was already shocked. He stared at Wen Han with his eyes, was stunned for a while before nodding slowly: "You are absolutely correct. But the entire Qing Dynasty region can only understand business and protect it. If the Qing Dynasty defeated it, the situation might be worse than defeating the Qing Dynasty."
Sir Wenhan laughed and applauded: "It's totally correct."
"What do you adults want to do? How can we make the interests of our government and businessmen the greatest and most reliable?" asked Ma Dichen.
"Zhao and the Qing Kingdom coexist." Wenhan said coldly: "They are absolute mortal enemies and will not unite. Now we need our help, and we indirectly help him teach the arrogant Braided Kingdom. Now if we can let Braided Kingdom understand its strength, they must also understand that to deal with Zhuhao and other rebels, we must seek help from our British Empire."
As he said that, Wen Han raised his hands parallel and said, "This is a balance, the left is zhao, and the right is the Qing Dynasty. And we are the decisive force that determines who can win."
"If we want to be superior, we will be superior." Wen Han lowered his left hand.
"If we want the Qing Dynasty to take advantage, the Qing Dynasty will take advantage." Wen Han raised his left hand and lowered his right hand.
"So, in order to gain an advantage, they had to seek help from our British Empire. They gave me one point discount on one side, and on the other side, they had to give me two points discount on the other." Wenhan sneered: "The final outcome is that we have not only won international reputation, but also completely manipulated the situation in the Far East and maximized our interests."
"The glorious isolation policy that has been tried and done," Ma Dichen applauded, but soon he smiled bitterly and said, "I hope now that someone in the Qing government can understand the situation like zhao, otherwise they may not be able to pay attention to us."
"Now that the Qing Dynasty's defenders are bombarded Zhoushan and plundering Dinghai County, the Qing Dynasty's defenses are powerless at all. I think the Qing government will not fail to react, right? We can help them form a fleet that can compete with them. This will not only restrict them, but also make him listen to our words, but may also drive the arms industry. After all, there are too many warships in our British Empire, and some eliminated warships have been wasting at the port."
"I think your decision is correct. I have changed my mind now. You will provide appropriate weapons assistance to the Qing Dynasty. The only thing I am worried about is the Qing Dynasty court and a group of barbarians." Ma Dichen sighed.
Chapter completed!