Chapter 1037: Living Space
"What are we doing for? A thousand words come together in one sentence: survival. Expand a broader living space for the Chinese nation! One day in May, when Meng Xiang gave a speech to a group of young officers who were about to enter the army at the Yunmengshan Military Academy, he directly stimulated.
Many wars may be fought out of greed, but more often than not, they are for survival.
The continuation of individuals and families may inspire more greed. However, as a larger collective, as a country established by a subject nation, the survival of the nation and the state is the most important thing to consider.
Under the dual evolution of capital and aristocracy, Western countries are more likely to take risks for gold coins, and the concept of the state has become diluted in Europe, where the nation flourishes in the national jungle. The British and Germans, both Germanic peoples, could be enemies of life and death, and the seeds spilled by the British Empire could also turn their backs on their own.
In any case, when modern industrial civilization was opened, Africa and the Americas provided a broader space for the development and survival of many peoples in Europe.
And China has always existed in the form of a main nation and a country. Although the cohesion of the core of civilization has maintained a large population, the living space has become narrower and narrower.
Restricted by the scientific and technological conditions of ancient times, the huge population labor created the wealth of civilization, but also put the burden of a large population base on the country.
The output of the land is limited, and it has to be subtracted by the exploitation of all strata, and when the surplus cannot afford the prosperity of the population, it is prone to unrest.
One empire after another in China has fallen, causing the interruption of Chinese civilization again and again, and destroying countless civilization wealth.
Even if the government under modern civilization vigorously promotes democracy and reduces the proportion of exploitation and oppression, it still cannot completely solve the contradiction between land and population.
Grain needs land, factories need land, cities need land, cash crops need land, in order to breathe freely. Landland is needed to green vegetation. Land is needed for all kinds of resources derived from the land for the needs of industry.
To a certain extent, land is also the most important element of living space.
However, although China has a large land and abundant resources, compared with the huge population, the living space is extremely scarce.
Just to solve a problem of eating, later generations have to wield their own knives. Alleviate the embarrassment of living space at the cost of limiting the population. Then the demand for all kinds of land turned the embarrassment into a crisis. Even if there are problems in the redistribution system, there is a lot less room for maneuver in the contradiction between the natural population and living space.
Now, even if you don't count those vassal states, the citizen population of China alone is already nearly 600 million, and according to the current economic conditions, even if you don't interfere with childbirth, it can exceed one billion within 30 years. As long as there are no surprises in the future. 1.5 billion, 2 billion, and even more will be coming soon.
In China, it is already a bit crowded to accommodate six or seven billion.
Although Southeast Asia can accommodate 6 or 700 million people in the future, the hot and humid environment there is not a suitable living area for human beings, and the tropical forests are not suitable for large-scale destruction, so it will be good to develop a population of 300 million in the future.
Similarly, Siberia and the Far East, despite their vastness, are exceedingly cold and costly to human beings. The old Maozi of later generations can't stand it. The entire northern region. Even as the greenhouse effect warms the climate, the range of activities increases. It will not be easy to settle 50 million.
The extreme arid climate in the Middle East is too much for even 50 million people to feed themselves.
Central Asia, too, has a great burden because of its arid climate, which can accommodate a population of 100 million.
In the area occupied by China, Australia, which has the most favorable conditions, also has a hot, dry and rainy climate because the Tropic of Capricorn runs through the middle of the continent, so that most areas are under the control of the subtropical high pressure. Even if the climate in the southeast region is good, the entire continent, which can accommodate two or three hundred million on the basis of not greatly destroying the unique natural environment, is still slightly crowded.
Sometimes Meng Xiang calculates that in order to make future generations live more comfortably, there is a contradiction in the area occupied now, with a population of 1.5 billion.
Maybe squeeze it, and at this time, the territory occupied by China will have no problem accommodating twice the population.
But when Huaxia developed to a population of 3 billion, whether Huaxia could build a bridge of immigration on other astral bodies was not guaranteed even by Meng Xiang.
For the sake of the future of China, Meng Xiang does not mind taking advantage of the more favorable conditions at this time to seek a broader space for survival and development.
At least now there is no nuclear cloud shrouded in it, and it can expand unscrupulously without fear of destroying the cradle of the earth.
However, the territory with a good environment is occupied by a dense population or a powerful state, and it is far less easy to seize than before.
At this time, there was no other way but a more brutal war.
With the support of the base and the huge population base of Huaxia, even if he singles out the whole world militarily, Meng Xiang is not afraid.
Of course, the population of China is still not large, and the extremely weak Chinese civilization is not enough to assimilate the whole world. Even in the case of the lack of adventurous spirit and expansion consciousness of the Chinese people, even the assimilation of the occupied territories took a long time.
This determines the path that China is going to take now, and it is impossible to guard a continent with a population of two or three hundred million, leisurely settle in the whole world, and rely on bases to form a network to control the whole world, as some madmen have proposed, and of course it will not completely occupy the whole world as some madmen have proposed. That may be the long-term goal of Huaxia in the future, not the present.
"As long as we completely occupy more than half of the world, we will already be the king of the world!" Meng Xiang has already established this short- and medium-term goal in his heart. However, in terms of land alone, even if it occupies the whole of Asia, it will be less than 30% of the world's total land area. We still need to work on half the world's borders.
Of course, the living space of the Chinese nation has expanded, and naturally the living space of other ethnic groups will naturally shrink, or even disappear.
In order to eliminate future troubles, in addition to retaining a little bit of national characteristics and enhancing the development of Chinese civilization, Meng Xiang did not intend to squander his sympathy.
Especially for Japan, South Korea and North Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc., Meng Xiang has already drawn a fork for them in his heart.
There were not many Japanese men left, and the only remaining ones were also taken as prisoners of war and sent to Siberia and the Far East to open up the wasteland.
There were also a large number of Koreans, Vietnamese, Indonesians, etc.
The old Chinese fritters, who are good at playing tricks, provoked the internal struggles between the two Koreas, so that in the North and South Korean areas, where the two devils are extremely prevalent, a hat of Japanese spies and agents can clean up many people. The subsequent struggle for power and profit created many losers. The sticks are as ruthless as their kind, and the massacres that have been expanded again and again do not need the Huaxia people to take the initiative to make the cleanup more thorough.
In the Indochina Peninsula, where there are many ethnic groups and villages are chaotic, the repeated infighting and banditry have been completely reduced.
The remaining young and strong obediently joined the servant army of Huaxia to go to the front line as cannon fodder, or go to remote places to open up wasteland and build roads.
Those who do not comply, with all sorts of big hats, become a new force in the development of the Far North or the more wild areas of the tropical rainforest.
These people did not have all the preferential treatment of Chinese immigrants, and even did not have the basic security conditions of the obedient, and a severe cold in the northern polar regions or a disease in the tropical rainforest could easily take their lives.
Even those who are submissive and have basic security often fall unwittingly in the face of nature's challenges.
In a top-secret archive in China, more than 400,000 people disappeared into the Siberian wilderness last winter alone. Among them, there are only more than 200 Chinese people.
Similarly, the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia have devoured more than a million workers for three years in a row.
In those harsh northern or southern regions, there may be more than a dozen corpses buried under every kilometer of railways and roads, and the smell of rust and blood may permeate every newly cultivated farm.
And that's just the beginning.
Conquest has always been accompanied by blood.
In addition to those on the list of endangered animals, there are also countries and peoples that are docile and easy to assimilate, or difficult to manage.
For these, Meng Xiang directly took the trick of the reservation used by the Americans.
There the kingdom is either to establish autonomous regions or even to prop up puppet governments.
For example, Thailand and other places, a Buddhist autonomous region, has eliminated many contradictions and taken off the hat of the state. The princely states of Burma, Malaya, and Afghanistan, as long as there is an autonomous region, it doesn't matter who the name of the country is, and those that are controversial will quickly perish for various reasons.
Iran and Turkey continue to retain their national caps. However, the territory was missing, and part of it was ceded to China, so that China could have a large passage through Europe and Asia.
Regardless of whether these countries join the China League or not, all kinds of resources have already been grasped.
The Shenyue Kingdom, which joined the Huameng and was an iron-clad alliance with China, has greatly expanded, swallowing some countries in the Middle East that are not easy to handle religious relations, and still retains the banner of religion, which can allow Huaxia to reduce the pressure from religion after successively conquering Damascus, Jerusalem and other places.
At the same time, a large number of Chinese immigrants continued to come to the Shenyue country like iron buddies, and gradually became the mainstream ethnic group of this emerging country.
Similarly, the migration plan to Africa was already on Meng Xiang's desk at this time. (To be continued.) )
PS: This chapter is written badly. The brain is booming, and it has not been straightened out. I'm sorry!