"Mother...I think we should help Xiao Letian!" Edward mustered up the courage and said, and the queen was not angry at all, but looked at him patiently. "Help him? What do you want to do?"

Edward thought for a moment, "Mother, although my British Empire is the overlord of the world and is known as the Empire of the Sun never set, you are still very clear about the real situation. Our control over the world is not as powerful as imagined!"

"In the Indian subcontinent, we must cooperate with those kings of the country and those senior leaders of the caste system to completely control the rich land. In Africa, we must rely on the Sultan King of the Land and other tribal elders to effectively rule..."

"In Asia, we need strong local governments to protect our interests! The core of the rule of the empire of the Sun-Downward Empire is not dictatorship but effective control, but cooperation!"

"The fundamental reason for this dominance model is the population. Our colonies are too vast, and how many of our population is? Mother, you should know that the population of the real British Isles is only a little over 40 million, and how many people in all colonies have reached? 300 million or 400 million?"

"With a minority rule over the majority, we can only choose an agent mechanism, which means we must cooperate with local forces to ensure that our interests are maximized..."

"I suggest... can we consider Xiao Letian, whether he, the Chinese, can become our right-hand man in rule Asia? The Qing Dynasty ruled the inland, the Chinese ruled the Pacific island group, and our UK controlled the most important ports and golden waterways..."

"Of course, the greatest benefit must be held in our hands, but we still have to give away some of the flesh and bones. It is also a blessing for our UK to have a few useful hunting dogs!"

The queen nodded after hearing this, "Standing from the perspective of diplomats, there is nothing wrong with your analysis. Asia is too far away from us, and it is indeed beyond the reach. Our military means can only be used as a whip of punishment to deter where to deter it, and it is indeed impossible to deploy huge amounts of troops to engage in a full-scale war..."

"Finding a group of good agents is good for the interests of my British Empire, but..." the queen said with concern, "But how can you be sure that Xiao Letian is a good agent? Just because of this jade carving, you have such a judgment?"

"No, mother, I will never be bribed by bribes. Xiao Letian respects my father. This really touched my heart. I am willing to be a private friend with him, but in the face of national affairs, I can still abandon my personal relationship. The interests of the empire are the supreme interests, which far exceeds my personal relationship!"

"That's good! Edward, if you can figure this out, your father has not spent any effort in vain..."

Edward rubbed his swollen eyes and sighed and said, "Through two wars, we have tamed the Qing Dynasty's hunting dog. Now the southern coast and the Yangtze River basin have opened the door to us. I believe that it will be no problem for our capital to enter the hinterland of China through time..."

"But Asia is not only a continent, but also countless islands scattered on the ocean. Where is the environment worse and the conditions are more difficult. Although it contains wealth, it is difficult to mine it..."

"I have sponsored several expedition teams to go to Southeast Asia before, and the reports they brought me back were very interesting..." Edward lit a cigarette for himself, thought for a while and organized the language.

"We do have endless wealth on the archipelago in Southeast Asia. The spices, rubber, medicinal materials, tin ore, gold, silver, iron and coal, and food we Europeans need are very rich..."

"But unfortunately, many of these natural resources are sleeping in the mountains and in the tropical rainforest, and they are completely unavailable... In the final analysis, it is because there is a lack of human resources available there!"

"Indigenous? Haha, they are all uncivilized cannibals. This is no joke. The cannibals in the rainforest have always existed, including the headhunters, who are proud of cutting off other human heads!"

"Only a part of the civilized and civilized humans in the coastal port area, and these people are basically divided into three categories. One is the descendants of European immigrants, including new immigrants. Their number is the smallest. They can only do some management work and expect them to explore the rainforests and barren mountains? It's unrealistic..."

"There are also a group of civilized humans who believe in the Middle East*. However, they have their own independent culture and have conflicts with our European civilization for thousands of years. It's okay to do business with them. If you really want to cooperate with them in depth? I think it's also unstoppable... But these people are the largest number of Southeast Asian civilized people!"

"The last group of people are immigrant Chinese. These Chinese who left their hometowns due to war and other reasons, including local ethnic groups affected by them, have the second place, but their productivity is the highest!"

"I was very surprised by the report my expedition team gave me. These Chinese people have very skilled farming skills. The vast rainforest has become farmland and economic forests in just a few years!"

"They have primitive backward but still effective management methods, large and small mines and farms, rubber plantations were born in their hands, and countless indigenous people became their employees..."

"The Chinese are a group of natural builders. It is hard to imagine that they regard construction as a belief in life! The expedition team once saw an old man in his eighties who cleared land in the edge of the village and rainforest every day..."

"In a day, he may only be able to clear three or four square meters of land, cut off shrubs and weeds, level the land and pick out gravel... But just three or four square meters of land can become his vegetable garden, and all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits will thrive in his vegetable garden!"

"Our expedition captain thought this was a poor widowed old man, and he was also full of love and wanted to give him some money to support him. But when he went to the old man's house, what happened to you, mother?"

The Queen was attracted by the story of the expedition and couldn't help but ask, "What happened? Say..."

Edward spread his hands, "My expedition captain was so embarrassed that his face turned red with shame. He never expected that only such an old man, his family owned a total of 300 acres of rubber plantations and more than 500 acres of land..."

"He is a landlord!"

"How could it be? He has so much wealth and is almost eighty years old, why do he still have to work?" Queen Victoria looked at her son incredibly.

"Three hundred acres of rubber plantations and more than five hundred acres of farmland, such financial resources can be considered a small wealthy family in London... Could it be that his descendants abandoned him?"
Chapter completed!