C2802 A History of Millennium Disaster Relief (1/2)

Zai Chun did not have time to think why a general like him would have such a deep understanding of the Chinese people.

He could not imagine how much work Britain had done in Asia. In fact, from the moment the Chinese were born, the British Intelligence had never stopped spying on them.

Each step of the Chinese development was clearly fed back to London, where many Asian experts and professional military, political and economic figures joined forces to analyse and judge the situation.

They have to give advice to senior members of the government, and whether or not every step of the Chinese way will have an impact on British interests, that has to be considered.

As a high-ranking officer who had suppressed Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Kingdom of Qing, Gordon naturally became a Military experts who was familiar with East Asia and was absorbed into the group.

Therefore, the fact that Gordon was able to appear at the scene of the welcoming ceremony and establish a close relationship with the Tongzhi Emperor was all inseparable from the influence of the British Government.

The fact that Britain was doing all of this was not to say that it was about to start a war against the Chinese. This was purely due to the natural vigilance of the world's strongest country.

If the Chinese had been careful not to offend Britain's core interests and were willing to cooperate with Britain, the British Empire would not have attacked and destroyed them.

All that Britain has done is to prevent it from happening!

Fortunately, Xiao Letian was very smart, he was a calm Transcender. He was completely different from his peers who were filled with violent thoughts.

This guy was good at hiding himself, at taking advantage of others' power, at using class conflicts, and was good at finding allies to balance out the situation … It was these cautious moves that kept him at the bottom of the British ladder.

Take a look at the development of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Basically, the Chinese avoided the most profitable industries in the British, and even avoided the big cities controlled by the European colonists. Instead, they chose to build a new city in the wilderness.

It was precisely this kind of low-key, intangible infiltration that did not pursue sudden profits that allowed the Chinese to extend their reach to Southeast Asia without angering Britain.

In the end, the result was very good. The Chinese were finally recognized by the United Kingdom and became an independent nation in the world!

Gordon was familiar with all of the things inside, he even knew that Xiao Letian had almost touched the reverse scale of the British people a few times. Luckily, he was crafty enough to adjust his policies in time, thus lowering the level of the alarm.

Through his research and analysis, Gordon gradually familiarized himself with the Chinese financial, political, economic and cultural … It was because he had followed her all along that she brought up the crucial issue of food today.

Food! When these two words jumped into Zai Chun's ears, the little emperor immediately tensed up.

Zai Chun might not know much about finance, but food was something that the governance of China had not been able to go around for thousands of years!

Some people once said that the feudal history of China, to put it simply, was a history of dealing with food, or a history of disaster relief.

China was too big! Ten miles was different, while a hundred miles was different! Mountains, hills, highlands, basins, plains, ponds... From north to south, from east to west, the climate and terrain were all different.

In such a large country, there was no guarantee that every place would be plentiful and that the people would be fully clothed!

Usually, it was a drought, but there was a flood in Hunan, resulting in another bumper harvest in Sichuan … At the same time, a great plague of locusts had also descended upon the river plain!

Even if there weren't any disasters in the Central Plains this year, there was a chance that there would be a disaster on the prairie!

Since there were disasters, they had to be relieved. The management of the Ancient China Empire focused most of their energy on the relief efforts, and in the end, they still had to contend with the food.