Zaichun had no time to figure out why a general, Gordon, knew so much about the Chinese, and even had a professional knowledge of finance!

He could not have imagined how much work the UK has done against Asia. In fact, from the moment the Chinese forces were born, the British intelligence department's gaze never stopped spying.

Every step of the development of the Chinese people was clearly fed back to London, and many Asian experts and military, political and economic professionals joined forces to analyze and judge.

They must provide various suggestions to the top government officials, and whether each step of the Chinese people will have an impact on the interests of the UK must be considered clearly.

As a general who suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty, Gordon naturally became a military expert familiar with East Asia and was absorbed into this group.

Therefore, Gordon was able to appear at the welcoming ceremony and establish close relationships with Emperor Tongzhi. All this is inseparable from the promoters behind the British government.

The UK does all this, in fact, does not mean that it will soon start a war or be unfavorable to the Chinese. This is purely due to the natural vigilance of the world's number one power.

If the Chinese can always be careful not to violate the core interests of Britain and are willing to cooperate with Britain, then the empire will not be destroyed if the sun does not set.

Everything Britain does is just to prevent problems before it happens!

Fortunately, Xiao Letian is very smart. He is a calm time traveler, completely different from his colleagues who are full of violent thoughts.

This guy is good at hiding himself, good at taking advantage of power, good at taking advantage of class contradictions, good at finding allies to balance the situation... It is these careful actions that have kept him developing under the eyes of Britain but not touching the bottom line of the British.

Let’s look at the development of the Chinese people in Southeast Asia. Basically, the Chinese people avoided the most profitable industries of the British, and even avoided the big cities controlled by European colonists, and chose to rebuild new cities in the wilderness.

It is this kind of low-key and introverted in the invisible infiltration that does not pursue huge profits that has allowed the Chinese people to extend their hands to Southeast Asia without angering the UK.

The final result was very good. The Chinese people were finally recognized by the United Kingdom and became an independent country in the world!

Gordon was familiar with all the inside stories here. He even knew that Xiao Letian had almost touched the British's reverse scale several times. Fortunately, he was very cunning and timely adjustments to the policy, which lowered the alarm level.

Through repeated discussions and analysis, Gordon gradually became familiar with the Chinese finance, politics, economy, and culture... It is precisely because he followed up throughout the process that he mentioned the most critical lifeline issue of food today.

Food! When these two words jumped into Zaichun's ears, the little emperor suddenly became nervous, and the Confucian education he had been through for many years suddenly raised a red alarm for him.

Zai Chun can be said to be ignorant of financial affairs, but food is a mountain that China cannot bypass in its governance for thousands of years!

Someone once said that China's feudal history is to put it bluntly a history of dealing with food, or a history of disaster relief.

China is too big, with different winds of ten miles and different customs of hundreds of miles! Mountains, hills, plateaus, basins, plains, ponds... from north to south, from east to west, climate and landforms are completely different.

With such a large country, there is no guarantee that all places can have a bumper harvest every year and that the people can have enough food and clothing!

Often, it was a drought in Zhili, but Hunan suffered heavy floods, and Sichuan suffered another great harvest... At the same time, a big locust plague even occurred in the Heluo Plain!

Even in the Central Plains region, there will be no disaster this year, but it may not be possible to have a white disaster on the grassland!

When there is a disaster, relief must be provided. Most of the energy of the annual governance of ancient Chinese dynasties is devoted to disaster relief. After all, it is to compete with food.

In the agricultural society, people can avoid meat, spend money without money, or even be a wife... but you have to ensure that the people do not starve to death!

This is the last red line to maintain the rule of the dynasty. If you can’t do this, just wait for rebellion and wait for the beacon to be everywhere!

The backward productivity and low technological level are the key to the lack of logistics and transportation, which makes ancient relief and disaster relief a headache for all politicians.

But you have to have a headache, because if you do it well, the life of the dynasty can continue. If you don’t do it well, what will await you is a earth-shaking revolution!

Didn’t the Ming Dynasty die in the end in disaster relief? During the Little Ice Age, northern China has been famine for years, and the land is barren, and people are living in poverty. In the end, people who have no food can only rise up.

Disaster relief turned into suppression! The last little vitality of the Ming Dynasty was consumed!

Zaichun's fathers carefully studied the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, so they attached great importance to food security in the middle and early Qing Dynasty. Zaichun received the purest imperial education, so he certainly knew what food meant to China.

Once the great revolution of the sky collapses and the earth falls, it will not be a reason to win, but a food victory!

Whoever has food in his hands will have a population, and with a population, everything will be possible!

Gordon really woke up the dreamer today. It turned out that his master had been garrisoning in Nanyang, and he used administrative power to force the main source of economic resources of the reclamation area to be agriculture, and there were conspiracies in it!

It is obvious that growing rubber and spices are more profitable than growing rice, but if you don’t make money, Xiao Letian would rather pay the finances and stock up on food. What kind of wolf ambition is this!

Is he just waiting for natural disasters and man-made disasters? Then use food to lure my people?

His heart is punishable! It is true that his heart is punishable!

No wonder the master has always asked Chinese universities to study new technologies for food storage, no wonder he desperately introduced the most advanced canned production equipment in the United States.

After all, he not only wants production, he also wants inventory!

Xiao Letian wants to build the largest food empire in Asia in his own hands, and these foods are bullets that will compete for the people's hearts in the future!

What do untouchables know about loyalty to the emperor! Whoever gives them food is the emperor!

Scenes of horror flashed through Emperor Tongzhi's mind. He suddenly remembered the military ration factory of Ryukyu that was a thousand people. Countless rice, wheat, oil, spices, and grains... were ground into powder and then roasted in a huge mechanical oven.

These oils are filled with special flours with heavy oil, sugar and salt. Under the pressure of high-pressure machinery, they turn into pieces of compressed biscuits.

These compressed biscuits have to go through three or four drying procedures in the end, and are finally wrapped in oil paper, and even sealed directly in cans.

At that time, Zai Chun only knew that these compressed biscuits were military rations for soldiers during the expedition, but now he suddenly realized that this kind of thing was not just used in military affairs!

"Damn it! Ordinary packed compressed biscuits can be stored for more than two years! Canned packaging can even be stored for more than five years!"

"It's so scary. Adults only need a small piece of it, crushed and cooked into porridge to eat enough. What if this is used to provide disaster relief?"
Chapter completed!