Xiao Letian's plan is very pragmatic. He said that the ultimate goal of the Chinese people is Britain, not a moment of arrogant arrogance. When everyone heard Xiao Letian's detailed explanation, they felt relieved and the expression on their face gradually eased.

Wang Huaiyuan and the others thought that Xiao Letian had expanded himself because he defeated Tsarist Russia. With the land area of ​​the Chinese people, only 30,000 to 40,000 regular troops and a small force with a registered population of only more than 5 million, they dared to confront the British Empire? Isn’t this a joke!

But Xiao Letian's explanation then made everyone present frown.

"What is the core conflict between countries? In fact, it is the competition for resources. On the surface, it is money, commercial interests, religion, culture, land... but these are just superficial phenomena!"

"Resources, only resources are the core competitiveness. Even the industrial revolution is based on the abundant resources and an improvement in production efficiency..."

"Is this difficult to understand? Actually, it is not difficult. For example, in the UK, no matter how many factories or steam engines there are in China, how high their production efficiency is, but in the final analysis, it still needs raw materials to process them, so that all kinds of industrial products can appear..."

"It is precisely because of the mutual circulation of resources and industrial products that money and commercial trade are produced. This is the fundamental core competitiveness of the country..."

"You want to develop the gem industry? Then you have to make sure you have the resources for gem mines in your hands. If you want to develop the textile industry, you must have cotton and wool, right?"

"For more complex things, such as the Zhiyuan warship under our feet, this is the mechanical deep processing products that combine multiple resources, such as steelmaking, coke, chemical industry, rubber, glass manufacturing, arms machinery... to create such a classic across the ages!"

"It is conceivable that if we and Prussia do not have coal, steel, non-ferrous, rubber... without all kinds of resources, can we do it with technology and production equipment?"

Everyone nodded frequently after saying this. Wang Huaiyuan couldn't help but sigh, "It's true. Not only industry, but also agriculture, there is a competition for resources..."

"For example, in the UK now, they use cotton from North America and India, Australian wool, Odessa's food, Chinese tea... It can be said that it was the gathering of rich resources from the colonies around the world that made Britain rich."

"Not to mention anything else, just the food industry, Britain is extremely dependent on the harvest from overseas colonies!"

"That's right!" Xiao Letian stood up and said loudly, "You must always remember that sooner or later we Chinese will clean up the mess on the mainland. For us, the biggest crisis is nothing else, but the hundreds of millions of mouths on the mainland!"

"The world is the most important thing to eat, and what kind of food, clothing, housing and transportation must not rely on resources? When China wants to solve the problem of food and clothing, is it enough to rely on the land output of the mainland alone?"

"If it is not enough, it must be insufficient. This is the inevitable rise and fall of the feudal dynasty in China over the past thousands of years. If it is enough, with the kindness and patience of the Chinese people, how could there be a revolution that changes dynasty?"

"Growing grain requires land, growing cotton requires land, growing vegetables and fruits requires land, including animal husbandry, and land... And the population will always grow upward, and once the limit value breaks through, it will definitely be short of limits!"

"In history, once such a crisis occurs in China, it is basically an unsolvable problem and an incurable terminal illness! No matter how glorious the dynasty or how powerful the emperor and generals are, they can only be helpless in the face of such a crisis!"

"When the problem is not effectively solved, it will develop to the most terrifying ending, that is, revolution! The extremely poor rebelled for survival, and the heads of nobles and landlords and tycoons rolled into dust, and a large number of people died rapidly, until the amount that the land on the mainland could afford..."

"After a round of destruction and redistribution, a new dynasty rises, and another cycle of reincarnation begins to turn..."

Xiao Letian sighed, "We Chinese cannot follow the old path! If you want to solve this problem that has not been solved for thousands of years, there is only one way, that is, go abroad to colonize the whole world..."

"We use the method of direct Chinese expansion to directly occupy the land, just like Borneo. In the future, this will be the territory of our Chinese. All the resources on it can feed back to our mother country!"

"This is not enough. For more distant areas, we need to colonize economically, just like the chess piece I set up in the Middle East. Once it is established in the future, our capital will be able to expand here..."

"The Middle East will have a very important resource in the future. We Chinese must make arrangements in advance and use joint-stock companies to join these wealthy alliances in the Middle East to ensure that we can buy the resources we want with money!"

"This is the two-hand preparation I will make for the Chinese in the future. I want the Chinese people to expand on the Pacific coast. We want the Chinese people's capital to spread around the world... There is only one purpose, that is resource security!"

"We Chinese need to have enough food to eat, enough cotton and wool, as well as enough steel, non-ferrous metals, rubber, rare minerals...including the oil I once said!"

"It is impossible to solve these things if we rely on our territory of more than 1,000 square kilometers. The only way is to go out and grab them in various ways!"

"So think about it, if we grab more, will the UK get less? How will they treat us when the resources they get less?"

"Will they still welcome us like today? Haha...what else can be there besides giving us a war?"

"So I said that Britain is our ultimate enemy in the future. It is not that I, Xiao Letian, is that I clearly judged that the development of history is inevitable... Britain will carry out to us sooner or later!"

"I judge that it will not last more than thirty years!"

With a bang, there were whispering sounds in the cabin. Xiang Ying asked, "I firmly believe in the judgment of the head of state. Indeed, when our hands reach into the British rice cooker, they will definitely not give up. At that time, Britain will definitely retaliate against military revenge!"

"War will definitely take the lead in the sea, so the navy is the core of our future strategic! Increase the allocation... The navy must control East Asia within ten years, South Asia within twenty years, and the Western Pacific or even enter the Indian Ocean within thirty years..."

"It's not possible to not have more than sixty ironclad ships! I ask the Head of State for additional funding!"

Sima Yun frowned and said, "Additional funding? How easy is it... A Far East War with Tsarist Russia has drained our finances. Without more than ten years of rest and recuperation, we will not be able to achieve a fiscal surplus at all!"

"No... there is another gold mine!" Xiang Ying said coldly, "The Qing Dynasty... As long as we can overthrow the Qing Dynasty and replace it, China's financial resources will be enough for us!"

"If you should tear apart, tear apart... Send troops to the Yangtze River... and form an alliance with the Hunan Army to seize Jiangnan, causing a situation of confrontation between the north and the south. With the business capabilities of our Chinese people, the economy of Jiangnan has recovered in three years!"
Chapter completed!