Chapter 164 The Mastermind (First Update, Please Subscribe)
The British have their strategic objectives in the La Plata region!
Looking at the confused staff, Zhu Xianhai explained.
"For example, between Argentina and Brazil, Britain's strategic goal is to keep these two powers at odds for a long time, so that it will be difficult for them to adopt a unified policy towards Britain. In the past few decades, in order to maintain this balance, they first supported Uruguay's independence, and then turned Uruguay into a "bait" to incite Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay to oppose each other. This is very beneficial to British capital. Britain can manipulate the economies of Brazil and Argentina through funding these two countries, thereby placing them under its control, in order to gain a solid position in South America and turn them into British economic colonies. The purpose of Britain's inciting confrontation among South American countries is to maintain its traditional policy of "divide and rule."
Britain's tradition of stirring up trouble definitely has a history. They have done so from Europe to South America, and have been planning ahead for decades. If Zhu Xianhai had not known that a war would take place two years later that almost led to the "national destruction" of Paraguay, he would never have believed that Britain had turned Uruguay into a piece of fat meat since the day it supported its independence in 1825.
One provocation caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of fat people in the four countries of the La Plata region!
Such advance planning makes people sigh at the British's foresight.
After a pause, he walked to the map and pointed to Paraguay on the map.
"Now, Paraguay is approaching France and is seeking the support of the French emperor to dominate the La Plata region. Britain certainly does not want France to interfere in the affairs of this region. For this reason, a few years ago, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Russell went to Paris to seek confirmation from the United Kingdom. But what is certain is that due to Paraguay's resistance to Britain and the increasingly complex problems of the La Plata countries, Britain, in order to maximize its own interests and maintain the balance between Brazil and Argentina, has provoked confrontation among the La Plata countries. Britain absolutely does not want Mitre to shift his attention to the south at this time, which will lead to the rise of Paraguay and then destroy the regional balance. This is the fundamental reason for their interference!"
Listening to their lord's analysis, Fang Zhanbo, Qian Deshan, Sun Muli and others were all dumbfounded, and Qian Deshan even murmured.
"This, this... the tactics of diplomacy in the pre-Qin and Warring States periods in history books are just like this!"
It should be said that there is still quite a gap!
Zhu Xianhai stared at the map and fell into deep thought. Decades ago, when the countries of La Plata became independent one after another, the British began their layout. Now they were just closing the net. In the end, under their careful planning, the "Paraguayan War" became the end of this layout. Through this war, Britain further strengthened their control over the region. Brazil and Argentina could never get rid of their control, and this was even more true for Paraguay.
The La Plata strategy took the British nearly half a century to implement and was successful.
Then what?
Then there is Nanhua!
Zhu Xianhai naturally thought of the war between South China and the coalition forces of Argentina and Chile. In the end, the British and even the Americans were directly defeated in that war. In the final analysis, it was not just because of the skin color issue. The more important reason was that South China affected their core interests in South America!
This is the most critical factor!
This is very important!
This is something that Zhu Xianhai had even ignored in the past.
"That damn English guy...he's the cause of everything!"
The mastermind behind this is the British!
In the past, Zhu Xianhai always thought that Britain and the United States only took sides because of skin color, and they just couldn't tolerate the existence of the regime established by the yellow people, Nanhua, on this land.
But in fact, it was because South China's development strategy conflicted with Britain's core interests.
For Nanhua, the current South American market is a definite blue ocean!
Because there is no industry in South America at all, until now South American countries are still mainly based on agriculture, plantations or mining economies. In that long-term simulation, Nanhua relied on its geographical advantages to develop import substitution industries and gradually replace "imports from South American countries."
In this process, Zhu Xianhai overlooked the fact that there was one biggest obstacle to all this - the British!
Britain is now the world's factory. Many of the goods sold in the South American market are British products.
It seemed a bit difficult for Nanhua's products to enter South American countries and directly compete with British goods.
But in fact, this was not a problem at all - the outbreak of the Civil War helped him solve this problem.
After the outbreak of the war, with the interruption of cotton exports from the South, the British textile industry fell into a cotton crisis. As cotton prices soared, a large number of cotton spinning factories stopped production or even went bankrupt. Although British businessmen tried every means to buy cotton from India and even China, in fact, their demand for cotton was not met until the end of the Civil War, and output was only 70% of the pre-war level.
What does this mean? It means that there is a 30% gap in the market that needs to be filled. Compared with other markets, the South American market is not important at all!
Not to mention competition, in the context of commodity shortages in the market, the cotton cloth produced by Nanhua's textile factory was sold out as soon as it left the factory, and at a high price.
For Nanhua, this is simply a godsend!
Where did Nanhua’s cotton textile factory come from?
This is the dividend of war - right now, a large number of textile factories in the UK are closing down and going bankrupt due to supply problems with raw materials, and Buffett is taking the opportunity to buy factories in the UK at the bottom!
As for the ingredients!
That's cotton!
As a "partner" of the Confederacy, Nanhua's smuggling ships would load large amounts of cotton on their return journey after smuggling arms to the Confederacy. In addition, cotton was already grown on a large scale in Nanhua's agricultural reclamation areas, so the raw material issue was certainly not a problem.
From 1862 to 1864, Nanhua's products were continuously sold to various South American countries, not only Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil in the La Plata region, but also Chile, Peru, Venezuela and other countries. Even Mexico produced various types of Nanhua products.
With the end of the Civil War and the recovery of the British textile industry, competition between South China products and British products in all aspects became inevitable.
It was from this time that the British turned their attention to Nanhua, and the troublemaker immediately began their series of arrangements.
ten years!
After the British had made painstaking plans and even pushed forward for ten years, the war broke out!
Just as the British wished!
(End of this chapter)
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