mission!

Each generation has its own mission.

What is my mission?

"I must study politics and war so that my sons will have the freedom to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, shipbuilding, navigation, commerce and agriculture, and their children will have the right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, sculpture, textiles and ceramics."

Gazing at the city of Quito outside the window, Zhu Youbai silently repeated this famous saying of John Adams in his heart. Although he was the second president of the United States, his father also highly respected some of his views.

In fact, the broad mind of the sea is the reason why the empire can come from behind. When I was a child, my father specially explained the meaning of this sentence. According to my father's explanation, this is the theory of needs hierarchy. Only when you reach this level, you will have the energy to go to the next level, and so on. This is even the reason why my father advocates this sentence.

“Every generation has its own mission to accomplish.”

With a frown on his face, Zhu Youbai was now a little confused.

“Where is my mission?”

The reason why he, the king of Ecuador, is so confused is that until now, he has not figured out his position.

Am I first generation or second generation?

The reason why Zhu Youbai came up with such an idea was because of Ecuador's special national conditions - he was invited by the Ecuadorian people to become king, and after being crowned king, he has been committed to the development of the kingdom.

In addition to implementing a massive land reform, he promoted base construction to attract imperial investment. In just two years, Ecuador's industrial and commercial economy underwent a radical change.

Logically speaking, as a king, he should be quite relieved, but what is the reality?

Deep down he had other thoughts.

What kind of country should Ecuador be in the future?

Is it Ecuador?

Or is it China's Ecuador?

The answer is obvious, China's Ecuador is Zhu Youbai's target.

If he wants to achieve this goal, it means that he must do something - devote himself to the sinicization of the country.

And this is what his generation must accomplish.

"I want to hand over a Chinese-style country to my children."

When Zhu Youbai shared his idea with Yuan Tianxi, Assistant Minister of the Executive Yuan, he unexpectedly encountered his immediate opposition.

"Your Majesty, what we need is to change this country in a gentle and silent way, rather than through radical and coercive means."

As the assistant minister, Yuan Tianxi was once the chief affairs officer of the Prince of Lu's Palace. With his assistance, he helped Zhu Youbai establish an administrative team before he came to Ecuador for the coronation. It was because of this that they did not become puppets. Of course, with the support of the empire, they could not become puppets.

But it is better to have your own people who control some of the key points of the government than to have no one at all.

“What is radical coercive means?”

Zhu Youbai said directly.

"It takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to train a person. What's wrong with offering Mandarin courses in schools? The same writing system and the same pronunciation, isn't this the policy that the empire has been promoting for many years? How many people in Shanxi today still can't speak Mandarin? Many children speak Mandarin more standardly than many new immigrants."

As the earliest area conquered by the empire, Shanxi has been completely Sinicized. Many non-Chinese children cannot even speak Spanish or indigenous languages. Mandarin is the only language spoken in the area.

In Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and other places, compulsory Chinese language education has also made great progress. For this reason, Zhu Youbai feels that similar policies should be implemented in Ecuador.

"Your Majesty, the biggest difference here is... this is not an occupied area!"

Yuan Tianxi said directly.

"The reality we must face is that the population of Ecuador is divided into two parts: those who support the kingdom and those who support the establishment of a republic that emulates the political measures of the empire. At the time, only 35% of the total population supported the king's coronation. Although the number has reached about 70% through land reform in the past two years, the latter still has a broad popular base. If we use coercive measures to promote the national language, we will inevitably encounter resistance from those people. In the absence of a dominant Chinese population, our efforts will be in vain. Of course..."

After a pause, Yuan Tianxi looked at the king and said.

"Unless we adopt the compulsory measures that the Empire adopted in the occupied areas, which means that we need to invest a large number of security forces to maintain law and order, and at the same time, we need to bear huge military expenditures. In Yu Chen's opinion, this is obviously not worth the cost. After all..."

Yuan Tianxi said this as he took out a report.

"Rather than coercion, we should adopt the Cuban and Mexican methods, that is, to complete Ecuador's ethnic integration by introducing immigrants and intermarriage. Currently, Ecuador has a population of only 1.1 million, of which 8% are white, 24% are European-Indian, 50% are Indian, and 18% are Chinese. Although the proportion of Chinese seems small, among the 200,000 Chinese immigrants, 160,000 are male immigrants in their prime. So far, about 60,000 immigrants have married local women. At present, the population of Chinese families has exceeded 260,000."

Why do many local women marry Chinese immigrants?

To put it bluntly, the economic base determines the superstructure - Chinese immigrants have high incomes. Their income is generally more than twice that of local workers and four to five times that of farmers. In this case, every Chinese man is a hot commodity in the eyes of local women.

In fact, this is also the reason why Indian women married white men before the Chinese entered Latin America - even the poorest white men were superior to ordinary Indians in political status and financial resources.

Women...are married up.

"Whether their wives are European-Indian, Indian or white, this means that 60,000 non-Chinese people have lost the opportunity to marry and have children. As a result, the Chinese population is increasing. What we need is to further increase the number of Chinese immigrants and increase their income at the same time."

As Yuan Tianxi spoke, he handed the report in his hand to the king and said.

"This is my suggestion. Considering the current war's promotion of the kingdom's industrial and commercial economy, both factory expansion and new construction have provided a large number of jobs. In order to ensure the overall image of the Chinese as a high-income group, we must increase the intensity of immigration from the country instead of giving jobs to the locals. Of course, if they can speak Mandarin, I think it may be easier to find a job..."

As a senior politician, Yuan Tianxi knew very well what should be used to induce those people to learn the national language, rather than forcing them to learn it. Just like when the Spanish occupied this land, they did not set up schools here, nor did they force the locals to learn Spanish, but the benefits would drive the locals to learn. And this is also common in other occupied areas of the empire.

But for Ecuador, what is needed here is not just for the locals to learn Mandarin, but more importantly, integration. Only through integration can this country truly become a member of the Chinese nation.