Chapter 49 China needs a dictator

In the clear winter, Zijin Mountain still has the golden yellow of late autumn, bleak ancient trees everywhere, and the sky is as blue as a wash. The sun was shining brightly in winter, and I squinted my eyes and looked up. The sky was like a brand-new and huge sapphire, shining. The refreshing wind blowing head-on will only make life feel light and feel open-minded.

Zixia Lake in winter has formed a thick layer of ice. There is neither the green of spring nor the hustle of summer, nor the hustle and bustle of summer. There is no purple and red in autumn. There is only the severe cold in winter, but the sense of tranquility and quietness unique to winter is not what other seasons can give. Walking by the lake, it only makes people feel the coolness of winter.

"Your Majesty, according to the newspaper, Congress has agreed to declare war on Ottoman Turkey?"

Looking at the children playing on the frozen lake, Ji Li asked Chen Moran beside her with a smile.

"Hmm!"

Nod, Chen Moran turned his eyes to the children on the ice, where they rowed the ice, but Yixuan, the eldest son of the emperor, stood motionless on the ice like a little adult, without the happiness that ordinary children should have.

"Will there be a conflict with the UK?"

Although she still has the title of British aristocracy, it is well known that Ji Li is the queen of China. When Chen is faced with the interests of China and the United Kingdom, she will definitely choose the former instead of the latter. No one in China will doubt this.

When the empire had not yet been built, her performance when she led the ship to return home, and in the subsequent conflict of the former Anglo-Poland Oil Company, she showed the obligation of a Chinese queen. In fact, for many years, for the domestic people, they had already accepted this blonde queen.

"Conflict is inevitable!"

Chen Moran did not hide anything in front of his wife. In fact, there was no need to hide it at all. He clearly knew that his wife might rarely interfere in political affairs, but she was supported by many people in the parliament. In the eyes of some people, Ji Li was far more inclined to cook than him, and also supported Mingzhu.

In contrast, it seems that for Chinese politics, the emperor is more inclined to read talents. Therefore, there are some things that don't require her to leave the palace. There will always be some people who deliberately spread the news into the palace. Although they don't like women to interfere in government affairs, Chen Moran knows that they just want to get some support from the palace in this way.

"But in any case, China must establish its own power presence in the Arabian Peninsula. In the process of carve up the world, China has fallen far behind the rest of the world's powers. As a backward country, we must do everything we can to expand our sphere of influence... Well, work hard!"

Become a powerful country! Become a great power!

This is Chen Moran's dream, or also China's dream. In the past ten years, he has been working hard for this. World War I is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Naturally, this opportunity must be seized and must not be missed, especially the oil buried in the deserts of the Middle East, which is enough to meet the future. The country's demand for hundreds of years.

Even Chen Muran has considered that if China can control oil in the Middle East and even incorporate oil fields into China's overseas territories, it may be difficult for Arabs who have lost financial support to become the root cause of terrorist activities as in history.

Historically, it was through oil, as a new weapon and a political blackmail weapon. In the economic rivalry of the West, the Arabs' power was strengthened, and the sharp rise in energy costs disrupted the gold in Western Europe and the entire Western Hemisphere. The integration of the market has destroyed the international trade model and pushed the industry into a long-term recession abyss.

The most direct consequence of the energy disaster is the flow of money from oil-importing countries into the pockets of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In the years when the Arabs used oil as a weapon, the capital that promoted global economic growth was diverted to a few oil-producing countries.

But the most important thing is that the Arabs regard oil as a "gift of God". Oil has brought a steady stream of wealth to the Arabs, and wealth has made them arrogant. As the world's dependence on oil has increased, more money has also flowed to the Middle East, and the unproductive Arabs are hostile to modern civilization. In later generations, countries' dependence on Middle East oil has been seriously misrepresented, which also seriously limits their foreign policy choices.

As Churchill said, "Islamic extremism is as dangerous as rabies", while the poor and fallen Arabs are not worthy of vigilance, but the Arabs who hold wealth, when combined with religious extremism, will be a nightmare for any major country.

For China, which wants to become a big country and a powerful country, there are some things that must be prevented from burning. If the Arab oil is controlled, the connection between future religious extremism and huge wealth can be cut off economically, while the huge wealth brought by oil can be used as a blood transfusion to supply China and promote China. Economic development.

The war is the only chance for China to obtain the oil production area in the Arabian Peninsula!

"But it's just a desert, will it..."

Ji Li appropriately expressed her concern. In fact, this is the worry of some people in the Congress. In their opinion, it is not cost-effective to send troops to the Near East. Many people even say strangely, "After spending a huge amount of money and hundreds of thousands of soldiers bleed, we get just a piece of sand."

"Ji Li, what if there is oil under that desert?"

In front of his wife, Chen Moran doesn't need to hide anything, and she doesn't want to hide anything. After all, she is her own family.

"Oil?"

As the largest shareholder of China-Potable Petroleum Company, Ji Li naturally knows the important surname of oil and the huge wealth brought by oil. It can be said that the reason why the royal family now only receives 1.2 million yuan of royal expenditure every year, while maintaining a huge expenditure, it is almost entirely dependent on the Sino-Potable Petroleum Company in the Persian oil field. As for Your Majesty's industrial companies, the profits of industrial companies have been used to expand operations or buy state bonds over the past many years.

"Yes, there is oil in Persia. How can there be no oil in the Arabian Peninsula, which is 100 kilometers away? Even there may be the region with the richest oil resources in the world. Many places are exposed oil seedlings, so in any case, we must get there, even if it is 10,000 steps back.

Looking at his wife, Chen Moran smiled.

"We have not found oil in Arabia, but it is true that the Sino-Polish oil company has exploited oil in Persia. It has a colony in the Arabian Peninsula, which can ensure our safety in the Persian oil fields. China is an oil-poor country that guarantees the supply of oil and energy. Things we must think about for future generations!"

When it comes to thinking about future generations, Chen Moran looks at the ice. In the future, the exploitation of oil in Arabia will still be dominated by the Chinese oil company controlled by the Sino-Possel Petroleum Company. The reason is very simple. Another history of time and space has proved that the economic development speed of resource-poor countries is one. Compared with resource-rich countries, it is 2 to 3 times faster. This is the result of adjustments to population differences, initial per capita income and other factors. Moreover, resource wealth will also bring too much trouble, dirty [***] and reckless consumption.

The economies of resource-rich countries began to stagnate after the 1970s. In other words, the economy stagnated after the influx of oil wealth. There are two reasons to explain this problem. The main economic problem is called Dutch disease, which refers to the economic consequences of the discovery of a large amount of natural gas resources in the Netherlands in the 1960s. The sudden discovery of a large amount of mineral deposits led to a large influx of foreign capital, which in turn raised the value of the domestic currency. The sharp rise of the domestic currency has greatly reduced the competitiveness of domestically produced products in the domestic and foreign markets. After a period of time, domestic manufacturing and agriculture began to shrink, and economic growth was damaged.

Although this problem is a headache, Norway and Alaska in the United States have found a wise solution. They split a large amount of income from the oil trade and injected it into the "stabilization" fund. Alaska directly distributed the oil "reds" to the residents slowly, while Norway gave the benefits to the people through public expenditure to avoid economic overheating. Chile is a relatively successful developing country, and it has also taken the same measures to establish a fund to deal with the huge revenue brought by copper resources.

And these are what the loan companies operating in the political axe saw from economic books. In the future, the Arab oil development will also follow this model. As for the development led by the Sino-Spoil Company, even after Yixuan becomes the emperor of this country in the future, he will never have the whole imperial emperor. Like PetroChina and Sinopec in later generations, they are desperate for personal benefit. After all, the whole country is "his". As the "parent" of this big family, he must "love his family", that is, the people here. This is the responsibility of the family and also the responsibility of the emperor.

Chen Moran knows that in the past few years, Ji Li has been instilling this idea in her children. In any case, her wife has started. In the future, whether the royal family will become a decoration or a symbol, in short, the royal family will move forward with history.

"That's why I asked Congress to declare war on the Ottomans! Whether they agree or disagree, they must pass a declaration of war, so that the army can rightly attack the Arabian Peninsula!"

When spitting out these words, Chen Moran's body exudes the breath of "power in the world". In the eyes of many people, this is the smell of "reader". Ji Li looked at her father-in-law. At this time, he returned to the role of "Emperor of the Chinese Empire". She couldn't help sighing in her heart that power will always Let people get lost. I hope he won't really lose himself.

Aware of her wife's gloomy look, thinking of the communication many years ago, Chen Moran took her hand. She always gently reminded herself that she could understand the future better than many people when she wanted to get lost in power.

"Some people say that I am a reader,"

The sudden change stunned Ji Li, but she smiled and hadn't chatted with him like this for a long time.

"You're not!"

Ji Li said with certainty.

"It's just that they don't understand you!"

"No!"

He shook his head, and Chen Moran's expression became serious. This was the first time that he really faced the other side of himself.

"I am a reader. Whether it is the constitution of the empire or the operation of the imperial authority, it is to ensure the supremacy of imperial power and my control of the political axe. Therefore, until now, there are still people who oppose me. However, what they do not know is that between the reader and the reader, in a sense, There can also be an essential difference: there are readers who understand and readers who don't understand!"

Those who understand and those who don't understand?

Your Majesty's words only made Ji Li taste the difference between the two in her heart. This was the first time she heard him talk about the reality he had been avoiding - "reading talent", while Chen Moran looked very serious.

"I know, this sounds strange, but it's actually very real. The reader who understands knows that cooking society is a historical trend, and he is just a helpless result of a conflicting society and a historical transition figure. And those who don't understand will dream that the system of reading is inevitable in society, and it will be passed down from generation to generation like the ancient imperial system. And I..."

Turning to his wife, Chen Moran laughed.

"I'm just a transitioner of history!"

The transitioner of history, if what is the biggest change in the past few years, I'm afraid it is to recognize my position. In a few years, it is difficult for me to recognize my position, and people are valuable to know it.

"Before and after I became emperor, there have always been people advocating Mingzhu and the constitutional people who did not realize that there has been no tradition of autonomy in China for thousands of years, so there is no tradition of Mingzhu. In this case, the direct implementation of Mingzhu politics is likely to lead to chaos. And the real politics must operate in a state where the opposition can exist. However, it is difficult for our people to accept the opposition. In the political struggles of various dynasties in Chinese history, it has always been a game of life and death, and the winner will eat it all!"

Maybe it's to justify yourself, or maybe it's to find the positioning of history for yourself. Chen Moran explains everything for himself.

"So, those who advocate the establishment of the constitution ignore this point, that is, under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, either party is in power, and the opposing party must have equal status in a realistic sense. The winning party in the election is to get the opportunity to tolerate the other party and lead the construction of the country, not to get a favorable position to use the national resources given by the people to eliminate the other party. On the wild side, when raising objections, it should also be out of consideration for the benefit of the whole people, and there should also be no hatred and actions that can't be eliminated by the other party. Its premise is that both sides should agree with a core value. This is a prerequisite for the implementation of the open cooking system. Otherwise, the open cooking system will become a game without rules and restrictions, and you can't play it after two laps!"

A little helpless shrugged his shoulders. Thinking of the compatriots' thinking habit of "chasing the poor banditing the poor", Chen Moran just felt a little helpless. "Whether it is for the republican or the royalists, the two sides just lack common core values, and the Mingzhu game is sure to be lucky. I can't go on. From the beginning of political confrontation, I went to the situation where you died or I lived. In the end, all the people were dragged to both ends, and the middle zone could not survive.

When talking about this, Chen Moran's mind appeared in another time and space. It was perhaps the largest civil war in Chinese history. In that era not far from themselves and the present, people perceived the decline and hopelessness of the country. People had their own imaginations of justice and ideals. People for Defend ideas and fight. When ideas become organizations, people are involved in them. In the end, the rise and fall of the organization replaces the success or failure of ideas. In the end, the purpose of the organization replaces the justice of the process, and the organization replaces the ideal and becomes justice itself.

Perhaps, there has never been a great organization in China; perhaps, in the choice of direction of Chinese society, China always draws a contract; perhaps, any opportunity in China leads to failure; maybe. China always repeats historical mistakes and tragedies over and over again; perhaps, China will never know where it comes from and where it is going.

But here, I would rather try and explore, even if... after a silent thought, Chen Moran turned to his wife with a sad look on his face.

"And in the end, when the civil war is decided, no matter which side wins, the Mingzhu game can only brake. If things really go to that point, division, violent confrontation, and blood flow will become an unchangeable reality, and gradually become an unchangeable history. Now, in any case, none of this will happen, because whether left or right, above their heads, I have prepared a referee for them. A powerful referee."

With the corners of his lips raised, Chen Moran's eyes became more and more firm.

"Who is this referee? It's the law! No, it's better to make a law that no one respects. To be precise, it's me. Of course, it's more important to be loyal to the royal family and my army. In any case, under the suppression of the royal family and the army, they must play political games within the framework of the Constitution, and finally get used to political games when they get used to it. When playing political games, after learning to cook political compromises! That day..."

Turning around, Chen Moran looked at Ji Li seriously.

"That day, I also succeeded, that is, the day when the royal family handed over power as a symbol of existence! And before that day comes, China must have an army of readers and loyal to readers!"

(to be continued)