Chapter 632: Controlling their lifeblood (second update, please subscribe)
“Control and influence?”
Zuo Xiaohan said with some doubts.
“While in London, the British believed that the Tang people’s influence in Malaya far exceeded theirs, and their control over the economy was beyond the reach of the local indigenous people. Statistics show that 75% of the local economy is dominated by The Tang people control that more than 90% of the local plantations, factories and mines belong to the Tang people, as well as 80% of the banking industry and 80% of the retail industry..."
In each data, Zuo Xiaohan said When speaking out, everything illustrates the economic status of the Tang people in the local area!
On the surface, this data seems astonishing, and it also shows the Tang people's control over the entire region.
And this is also the reason why Western colonists are afraid of it. Because - the Tang people control the economy of the entire region. This seems to indicate that they have unimaginable control and influence locally.
But actually?
While listening to these data, Li Yian sneered in his heart,
Many people like to use how much the Tang people control a country’s economy to describe the economic influence of the Tang people, but this is not the case. The control and influence on the world are almost worth mentioning.
"... Generally speaking, the Malayan Tang people have an absolute advantage economically, which even aroused the vigilance of the British."
After Zuo Xiaohan made this conclusion, Li Yi'an nodded, said.
"You are right, the Tang people do control the local economy, so I would like to ask you how much of the lifeblood of the local people do they control?"
In fact, this is the most fundamental question. .
“What?”
Your Excellency's question made Zuo Xiaohan, the director-general of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, stunned. When he was surprised, Zhang Yunlin frowned at the side. After thinking for a moment, he asked tentatively.
"You are referring to how many local people they employ, right?"
Nodding slightly, Li Yian said.
"Yes, that's it. What is the biggest characteristic of the Tang people? They are self-employed, which means they give priority to hiring their own people, whether it is plantations, factories or mines. This is of course care for their own people, and it is also the concern of the Tang people. It is a manifestation of social mutual assistance, but it also creates a situation where the control and influence over the local indigenous people are declining. "
Li Yian stopped and took a sip of his cigar, and then said.
"This is the problem that the Tang people have in the local area now. We control the economy, but the local people are scattered in the countryside. They have very limited influence from us. Even in the future, the Tang people take control of the national power after independence. This If the problem is not solved, it will still bring about very serious hidden dangers. If it is allowed to develop, it will even affect the future ownership of Malaya. After all, in terms of population, we do not have an absolute advantage at all, but all this is It can be changed. After all, even in Malaya, the gender ratio of Tang people is unbalanced. There are many Tang men who are single..."
Li Yi'an poked his cigar in the northwest direction and continued.
"What we need to do now is to pull Malay women out of their homes in the countryside through industrial transfer and let them work in factories. After they get used to and adapt to the current urban work, Naturally, they are more inclined to marry more hard-working Tang people, which will undoubtedly help increase the fertility rate of the Tang people, thereby ensuring the stability of Malaya in the future.”
In fact, there is no need to encourage, local women are all. They are more inclined to marry Tang people. In the eyes of both British colonists and locals, "Tang people are the strongest, most ambitious, most mutually supportive, and most flexible immigrants in the world." Many Tang people have no status. Wen came to Malaya, worked tirelessly, saved money, started a family, and eventually became a millionaire.
For this reason, Malayan women were happy to marry Tang people, at least before their independence, before the Malays claimed the so-called Malay supremacy. "What is needed now is to use the textile industry, clothing factories, and shoe factories to bring more "Nyonya" out of the countryside and let them marry Tang people. Anyway, the local tradition is polygamy. As long as the Tang people can maintain economic support for her. advantage, then every time one more local Nyonya marries a Tang person, the natives will have a few fewer children. In this way, I think the Tang people will have an absolute advantage in the population. "
This... this is the real conspiracy!
Zhang Yunlin looked at His Excellency pacing back and forth in the room with awe but a little doubt.
"Excuse me, Your Excellency, will this intensify the conflict between them?"
"The locals look down on women, and our factory is not just When recruiting female workers, there will also be some factories that need male workers. Recruit them. Every time our factory recruits a worker, it means that a native is under our control and influence. "
"Is this the control and influence you mentioned earlier?"
Zuo Xiaohan said.
"Whoever serves the bowl is in charge. First pull them out of the countryside and let them adapt to modern society. In the city, if you are unemployed, you will starve. In order to eat, they will obey the boss's various orders. , this kind of control and influence is what we need. Of course, after entering the city, the fertility rate will also decrease to a certain extent due to the heavy work and living environment..."
Especially the living environment, according to According to the statistics of later sociologists, the impact of apartment-style housing on fertility is extremely significant. Compared with living in townhouses or detached houses, people living in apartments obviously lack the desire to have children. This is because most families like to live alone in relative privacy and are not subject to If others are disturbed by their daily noises, you and your children are free to make some noise. The proportion of trendy young people in the survey who are willing to live together in apartment buildings does not exceed 20%. In fact, as long as their income and work radius allow, the vast majority of families will move to single-family homes.
The most typical example is the three countries in East Asia - they are all dominated by apartments, and the result is that the fertility rate is simply appalling. After all, family life is destined to require a private space, and noisy children will also affect the rest of those around them. If there are constant complaints from neighbors or are disturbed by neighbor's children, then the desire to have children will naturally decrease.
That's why Li Yian required from the very beginning that public housing must be single-family, providing a large number of wooden houses for living. Even apartment buildings have enough private space for families. Nanyang can get a "baby boom" even without conscious guidance from the authorities.
Of course, this "baby boom" only belongs to Tangshan. In the future, Malaya, as a country influenced by Nanyang, will definitely improve social security by providing public housing to residents, but at that time , in Malaya, apartments are provided to new urban residents. Even the type of apartment has been thought out by Li Yi'an. It is the low-cost Khrushchev building - the floor height is 2.5 meters, and there are two rooms. A small pigeon coop of 44 square meters and three rooms of 60 square meters.
In a house like that, not to mention increasing the fertility rate, but also the basic marital life must be suppressed. Li Yi'an has deep feelings for that kind of small apartment. After all, before time travel, he himself lived in such an old apartment. Not to mention a couple, even when his roommates occasionally did DIY, the sound of their breathing was loud. It could reach his ears that the feeling of the two of them DIYing across the wall was no different from being in the same room.
Using an apartment like that will definitely help reduce the fertility rate. Is this "shooting yourself in the foot"?
Of course not, because the biggest feature of Malaya is that 95% of the Tang people live in the city, and 85% of the residents in the city are Tang people. They originally have their own houses, and almost no "Township" means "detached house".
Who will those apartments be for in the future?
Of course it benefits the local people. By allocating housing, they are unwilling to have more children, thereby reducing the fertility rate of those indigenous people. This is simply a genius idea!
Suddenly turned around and stared at Zuo Xiaohan and Zhang Yunlin with a proud smile. At this time, Li Yian felt proud in his heart.
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(End of this chapter)