America’s Big Hero

Chapter 425: On Southeast Asian Chinese

(The views and perspectives generated after being substituted by Boss Li do not represent me. I will have the opportunity to elaborate on my views later. Some readers have asked questions about "racial discrimination" before, and there will be a personal statement of views in the "South Africa chapter" later)

A group of people boarded the plane to Bangkok, Thailand. On the plane, Shen Biluolin and the others looked at Xiao En very strangely.

There is contempt in the funny, and helplessness in the contempt.

After all, Sean still feels bitter about not being given a grand official reception when he arrived in Hong Kong!

Question: How to ensure that the official reception is grand when I arrive?

Answer: Drive the fleet ahead of time!

This is what Sean did this time. He communicated with the Thai government in advance and planned to bring the fleet to Thailand. Of course, he himself is an aircraft maker.

Battleships are not so comfortable.

They all brought warships to visit, so how about a grand reception?

Even if you don't give Xiao En face, you should also give Battleship face!

Therefore, when Sean's Sky Palace arrived, he received the most solemn reception at the airport.

The King of Thailand, 61-year-old Zheng Gu, was present in person in formal attire, accompanied by his son, Crown Prince Zheng Mian.

(Every Thai king has a Chinese name, surnamed Zheng, because the first Thai king was the king of Thonburi Dynasty in Thailand, the son-in-law of Teochew Zheng Xin, who later killed his father-in-law King Zheng Xin through a coup, and later said he was Zheng Xin's son was recognized by the Qing Dynasty and obtained the legal throne.)

Band, flowers, applause, filming team, all the tedious etiquette went on for an hour.

In the end, Sean was a little irritable, and regretted making such a big deal!

This is not the first time he has come to Thailand, it's just that he came here quietly before, not very formally.

It's not too late. After being greeted at the airport, the group went to the Thai royal palace to visit, browse, explain...the banquet.

It took a full day to complete a set of procedures.

Of course, this is not without benefits. During the talks after the banquet, King Zheng Gu of Thailand extended an invitation to Xiao En, hoping to cooperate with Umbrella in the field of military security.

Invite Umbrella to help train the Thai Navy and conduct no less than three training exercises every year to help the Thai Navy improve its combat effectiveness.

In addition, it is also hoped that the umbrella will help train Thailand's own special operations forces and rainforest combat forces.

As we all know, although Thailand is calm on the surface and there are no anti-government forces, there are many drug criminals and local armed forces living in the border rainforest.

This is like a cancer for Thailand, which has a very bad impact on Thailand's domestic security and also brings great troubles to economic development.

Just look at the police in Thailand.

At the same time, this also affects Thailand's international reputation.

If a sovereign country can't even deal with the illegal armed forces in its territory, you will know the level of combat effectiveness of the country's military.

It makes it hard to remain in awe of the country.

Sean nodded in agreement. If the Thai military was strong, he wouldn't bring his private armed fleet to visit unscrupulously.

He never visited the east with his fleet.

I have never been to France or England, and I dare not approach Lao Maozi!

As for other countries...

Hey, aren't there only five sovereign countries in the world?

cough cough...

Sean naturally readily agreed to King Thai's order.

It can be said bluntly that the U.S. military may not be firm in its beliefs, but its training methods are definitely top-notch in the world, and of course, so is its equipment.

A five-year training partnership deal worth $800 million.

Although it is just training and there is no defense plan, in fact, more people need to be sent to the umbrella side, and this is really teaching the real thing.

Of course, how much the Thais can learn is not Sean's concern.

On the other hand, the King of Thailand was also very satisfied.

In the eyes of the King of Thailand, Sean's visit plan is nothing more than two points, first, to help the United States expand its influence in Southeast Asian countries, and second, to seek interests for himself.

However, the king of Thailand doesn't want to engage in any coastal defense with Xiao En.

There is an old saying in China, it is easier to invite gods than to give them away, and there is also an idiom called doves occupying magpies' nests.

With the right to station the fleet, the umbrella can easily extend its tentacles through the fleet to places and to every corner.

Therefore, he changed the way to train the army, which is not only good for the Thai army, but also gives Sean more. It not only wins Sean over, but also prevents the other party from infiltrating the influence on a large scale. Signal.

Simply perfect!

Both sides are happy, and so is Belloc Towne!

As an American, ADM's director, Belloc Towne felt valued in Thailand, throughout Southeast Asia, but that didn't make ADM's business run smoothly.

On the surface, everyone is very polite, but secretly they are very vigilant, forming an alliance to boycott ADM.

This troubled Belloc Tony very much.

But the problem is, he still has nothing to do.

You can't hit the door, hold a gun to the other party's head, and let them sell the land to ADM!

But now, with Sean here, the opportunity has come!

Look, look, the fleet reached the port, the muzzles were opened, the missiles were mounted, the king immediately came out to greet them honestly, and then signed a series of 'treaties', I asked you if they looked familiar?

The rest, of course, is to open the port, open the market, and let whatever you want!

Belloc Tony really had reason to be excited, after all, he was the first to propose cooperation with Sean in Southeast Asia in exchange for Sean's support and dominate the Southeast Asian market!

Now, Sean is stepping on the colorful... Sean is coming with the fleet!

That night, Sean moved into a property given to him by the Thai royal family, a large villa on the beach.

Bringing a group of Yingying and Yanyan, so happy!

The next day, Neil, who has been stationed in Bangkok, came. Sean talked about the agreement reached between the Umbrella Club and the Thai royal family to help the Thai military train troops and improve their combat capabilities, especially in the mountain rainforest.

The reason why I told Neil this is to prepare him. Many of Neil's clients are armed by the drug criminals in the mountains.

"It's a good thing, let's pass on the news first." Sean shook the red wine in the glass and said with a smile: "Make those drug criminals nervous, don't be nervous, why are they willing to spend money to buy more weapons! "

"In the future, whether it's for exercises or actual combat training, we will launch an attack on the drug criminals in Sannei, so that they can see how powerful they are."

"Be careful, don't beat them all up!" Neil frowned. He knew what Sean meant, and only when the two sides fought would they have the desire to consume.

"No, don't worry, I believe in the Thai military, they don't have the strength!" Sean laughed and said, "It's a good thing to make your customers suffer a little bit, and save them from being arrogant."

"What do you do with all the money in your hands? Money is money only when it is spent!"

"Too much money is not good for them, and the pigs will be slaughtered if they become fat!"

"After they have suffered a lot, you can sell them more and more advanced weapons, especially individual anti-aircraft missiles, which cost 200,000 U.S. dollars a round, and you can't do anything less!"

"Pfft!" Neil spewed out a sip of wine. Black market weapons are indeed expensive. The Sam-7, which normally sells for $2,000, will sell for 20,000, ten times the profit. This is the rule.

But Sean's mouth is 200,000, a hundred times the gap, which he did not expect!

"If no one suppresses bandits, then no one will buy 2000. If people often suppress bandits, then of course it's a different matter. Demand determines the market!" Sean raised his brows, "When the time comes, let the media follow along." , Criticize the rampant drug abuse in Thailand, the government’s inaction, the military’s poor combat effectiveness, and its inability to fight drugs, etc., they will naturally do it.”

"Don't worry about the final result, as long as it hits, then praise it, and let the umbrella push me."

"There are comings and goings, and the market has vitality!"

Neil laughed and gave Sean a 'wink', "Boss, you are so bad, I like it so much!"

"Get out!" Sean shivered in disgust, and kicked over.

Neil bit his lower lip and raised his butt, with a shy face, "Be gentle."

"Fuck you!" Sean quickly stopped his feet, speechless.

Neil laughed again.

It took a long time to return to the topic, "I'm afraid they will suffer too much, and if they retreat deeper, they will move towards Laos and Cambodia."

"It's okay." Sean shook his head and said, "You can also sell them a training later, and find Bill. We have absorbed some Colombian special forces in South America, the best jungle warfare in the world, rainforest warfare expert troops, both sides It’s interesting to take turns to improve combat effectiveness.”

"Good idea!" Neil's smile gradually changed

...

After confirming that Sean had rested well, Belloc Tony came to the door, and he didn't forget to bring a gift.

Of course, Sean didn't care if he brought gifts, he would only remember those who didn't!

Lying on the beach chair, drinking fruit juice, Sean listened to Belloc Tony talk about the situation of the agricultural product market in Southeast Asia, the difficulties encountered at present, and the problems that Sean needed to solve.

"Take Thailand as an example. At present, Thailand's agricultural population accounts for 30%. Agriculture is also Thailand's most important export product and the main source of foreign exchange. Exports are mainly rice, cassava, palm oil, rubber, sugar cane, etc., all of which are in the business of ADM. within range."

"You still want to eat it all!" Sean pulled down his sunglasses a little bit, squinting at Belloc Tony.

"It's better to eat it all." Belloc Towne said something of course, but then shrugged, "The problem is that our acquisition has encountered resistance, to be precise, it has been delayed, and it feels a bit like non-violent non-cooperation .”

"Don't even think about it!" Sean directly sentenced Belloc Tony's idea to death. "It's very difficult for you to acquire land in Southeast Asia. Even if you do, it's only a little bit, and it doesn't have any effect."

"Why?" Belloc Tony looked puzzled.

"The United States, Australia, South America, and Southeast Asia used to be European colonies. If you arrange the discovery time, Southeast Asia is the earliest. Very early, merchants from the Mediterranean region arrived in Southeast Asia, and then the United States, South America, and Australia. " Sean thought for a while and said, "But now we can look back and find a problem."

"What?" Belloc Tony looked curious, not understanding how Sean could drag it back hundreds of years ago.

"In the Americas that were discovered later, the aborigines were basically killed, and there were not many aborigines left in South America. They all became mixed blood. The same is true in Australia, but the aborigines in Southeast Asia, which was first discovered, have remained intact."

Belloc Towne nodded. That is indeed the case. It is also a colonization. Europeans have completely occupied North and South America and have absolute influence in Africa, but not in Southeast Asia, not at all.

"Because the aborigines here are not closed. When Europeans began to colonize Southeast Asia, they found that the level of civilization here is not behind that of Europe. Compared with cavalry, they have seen the Mongols, compared with the fleet, they have seen Ming Dynasty, compared with firearms , In the 16th century, everyone was on the same level.”

"The reason for this situation is that they were deeply influenced by the ancient empire in the east for more than a thousand years."

"So, what do you want to express?" Belloc Tony was still confused.

"Culture!" Sean raised his hand and snapped his fingers. "The obsession with owning land, this culture affects every Southeast Asian, so it's hard for you to get land ownership from them like in South America!"

"What's more, in some countries, the land is still in the hands of the Chinese, so it is even more impossible for you to buy it."

"Then what should we do?" Belloc Tony frowned.

In North and South America, several major grain merchants control the entire industrial chain starting from the land, but now they are stuck at the source.

"Divide and draw together." Sean gave the answer.

"Can you elaborate a bit more, dear Mr. Sean?" Belloc Tony couldn't understand at all.

"To be more specific, let's start with history. It's a long story."

"It's okay." Belloc Tony raised the juice in his hand, "We have a lot of time."

"Well, when it comes to dividing and wooing, we must first understand that in Southeast Asia, we can simply distinguish between two groups, the aborigines and the Chinese, and they are the ones we need to divide and woo!" Sean narrowed his eyes and said in a playful tone : "If you take out the rich list over the years, you will find that in Southeast Asian countries, except Annan, most of the rich lists in other countries are Chinese, 80% are Chinese."

(Annan is because after the Vietnam War, in 1977, the government confiscated the assets of the Chinese, forcibly drove them out of the country, and forced every Chinese who left to pay 12 taels of gold, and one third of the Chinese died.)

Belloc Tony tilted his head and thought for a while, "Well, indeed, but why, this is Southeast Asia, why the rich are not natives, but foreigners, and this is not Africa, I can't understand it at all."

"If we compare Southeast Asia to Europe before World War II, then we will be surprised to find that the Chinese in Southeast Asia are, to a certain extent, replicas of the Jews!" Sean had a strange smile on his lips.

"Countries in Southeast Asia will launch an anti-China movement every few years. The earliest is the Hongxi tragedy in 1740, just like Europe began to collectively oppose oil every few years."

"Youtai people do not have their own country. Although the Chinese have a prosperous city in Southeast Asia, they have only been independent for 24 years, which is insignificant in the 400-year colonial history. Moreover, they cannot What kind of help is provided to the Chinese, and they are heavily influenced by the United Kingdom politically, and they can’t provide much help, at most it is a safe haven for funds.”

"In those years in Europe, the richest people were Yau Tai people, not nobles from various European countries. Just like in Southeast Asia now, the richest people are all Chinese."

"However, in those years in Europe, back and forth, the rich are still those oily people, just like the Chinese in Southeast Asia today."

"So, does it look like it?" Sean smiled and looked at Belloc Tony, "They are all foreign nationalities, they don't have their own country, they are mainly engaged in business, they are the richest people, and they all have their own language. , their own culture, their own inheritance, will not be assimilated by the locals, and will be periodically opposed."

Belloc Tony had a ghostly expression on his face, "It's really similar!"

"Yeah, if we dig deeper, we will find that every time we oppose China or oil, those who are killed are those in the middle and lower levels, while the rich, luxurious and oily people at the top are still alive and well."

"The reason for this situation is that the roles played by the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the people in Yau Tai are almost the same."

Xiao En continued with a smile: "They made their fortunes in the first place because they were the white gloves of the local dignitaries."

"Because the Youtai people have no country, nor the concept of a country, they are pure businessmen. Crazy to extract the maximum profit, the oil Tai people use the protection and privileges given by the rich and powerful to amass wealth several times crazily."

"But after social conflicts have accumulated to a certain extent, the country will transfer the contradictions to the oily people for a harvest, and redistribute the wealth of these oily people while alleviating the contradictions."

"As for those real top-notch people, they have already used their connections to get information in advance and ran away, or they were simply protected by local dignitaries, and when social conflicts became a thing of the past, they continued to jump out and do repetitive tasks."

"So, the Youtai people are still the Youtai people, and they are still the richest group. Of course, the United States later appeared, giving the Youtai people a new piece of soil, and they will never lose their tail."

"Of course, the Youtai people will not be so scary after having a country."

"The situation in Southeast Asia is similar. The only difference is that the dignitaries served by the Chinese have never been natives of Southeast Asia, at least not before World War II."

"In the early days, the Chinese relied on the Eastern Empire. Although they were not superior to others, they were almost the same. After the decline of the East and the arrival of the European colonists, in order to manage the natives better and more economically, and extract the maximum profit from the colonies, they discovered the local The Chinese are very similar to the oily people in Europe, so they adopted the old method to give the Chinese in Southeast Asia the greatest privileges and become the high-level management of the local people in the colonial government."

"Manage mines, manage plantations, manage ports, manage factories, and have various special management rights, including contracting a village, a tribe, or the taxation of a city."

"The Chinese took advantage of this privilege to obtain a lot of wealth, and the colonists also directed the hatred of the locals to the Chinese. When the contradictions accumulated to a certain extent, an anti-China incident was set off, and then everything returned to the original point."

"Back and forth, the real pitiful ones are the ordinary Chinese and Taiwanese, and the richest people at the top... are even more pitiful!" Sean said categorically, as a capitalist, he must end up in his own class!

"This is history." Sean picked up the juice and took a sip and continued: "Of course, there are essential differences between the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Tai people in Southeast Asia. The reason for keeping the most wealth."

"First, unlike the Yautai people who like to wander, the Chinese don't like to wander, but prefer to be rooted in one place. The Chinese like the land and like to engage in the real economy, which is engraved in their bones and in their genes."

"The same is to take advantage of the privileges given by the powerful. For the convenience of traveling, the oil people prefer to engage in finance and equity rather than real industries that cannot be taken away. However, the Chinese have used the privileges granted by the European colonists to obtain too many mines, The ownership of land such as plantations, ports, etc., made it possible for the Chinese to retain their wealth legally after they got rid of the colonists.”

"Secondly, the Youtai people really don't have a country, but the Chinese don't. Behind them is the suzerain country that the Southeast Asian countries have surrendered for two thousand years. This makes the Southeast Asian countries dare not really pick up the butcher's knife and forcibly snatch the Chinese away after they become independent. Those legally owned fixed assets such as mines, land, ports, factories, etc., and even some franchise rights established in the past are still in hand.”

"This is the benefit of having a backer, and it is also one of the reasons why Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia strongly supported the East before and after World War II. There is a feeling of compatriots belonging to the same family, and there are also great interests. It is difficult for pure feelings to be so large-scale and so long regardless of the cost. support."

(PS: It is inconvenient to list some information. In the early years, Southeast Asian countries had a lot of communication with great men, hoping to get back those economic lifeline industries related to privileges and people's livelihood. Whether it is from the system itself or the judgment of the future in China, The advice given to Chinese businessmen is that they should not hold these industries for a long time, as they are easy to be used by others and cause conflicts... But how many people can give up their rights and interests, and it is precisely because of these that they can maintain influence and wealth. )

Take the Guo family as an example. In 1909, Guo Qinren came to Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and founded Dongsheng Company, which specialized in rice, soybeans and sugar.

Guo Henian was born in 1923. After the Japanese occupation of Malaya in 1942, Malay consumer goods were scarce after the war. The authorities strictly controlled the food supply. Datu Ong, who was the food control officer at the time, had an intimate relationship with Guo Qinjian. Obtained the exclusive right to purchase and sell, monopolized and controlled the food and sugar business in the entire state of Johor, including the food supply rights of the local government, hospitals, and the army, and laid the foundation for reaching the peak.

"So, what you mean is that we are now cooperating with the natives of these countries in Southeast Asia, taking advantage of the local anti-Chinese sentiment to snatch all the land and mines from the Chinese?" Belloc Tony immediately heard this history. I thought I understood Sean's thoughts.

Sean squinted at Belloc Tony, grabbed a bunch of grapes next to him and threw it over, cursing angrily: "Grab, rob, rob, you know how to rob, I hate you robbing the most, a little technology There is no content!"

"I, Sean, a serious businessman!"

Belloc Towne: ? ? ?

Are you sure it's me?