The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 768: Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to benefit all mankind! (ask for monthly votes)

"There are quite a few Chinese in Australia, too?" Feng Yunshan became interested after hearing what Luo Yaoguo said, so he asked, "Do you know the exact number?"

"Hui Fu, you go ahead and speak." Luo Yaoguo nodded to Zhao Liewen beside him.

Zhao Liewen took two steps forward and opened the official document to report: "Master, we have sent people to investigate the situation in various provinces of British Australia. Since the first year of the Tianli period, gold mines have been discovered near Melbourne, and foreigners call it the 'New Gold Mountain'. Poor people from Guangdong and Fujian took foreign ships to make a living. By the seventh year of the Tianli period, there were more than 40,000 Chinese workers who gathered in the Ballarat and Bendigo mining areas, using bamboo tubes to dig shallow gold sands, and indeed found a lot of gold."

"There were more than 40,000 in the seventh year of the Tianli calendar?" Feng Yunshan nodded, "Then should there be 100,000 by now?"

"Not that much." Luo Yaoguo shook his head, then winked at Zhao Liewen, asking him to continue.

Zhao Liewen said: "In 1860, the Governor's Office of New South Wales produced a booklet stating that there were more than Chinese workers in their province. Victoria was even more lively, with the Chinese building their own Guandi Temple and hometown association halls, creating a whole Chinatown. Unfortunately, British officials were jealous, and in the fifth year of the Tianli period, they issued the "Chinese Restriction Order", requiring every Chinese who came ashore to pay a ten-pound head tax, and also prohibiting Chinese and foreigners from marrying each other. Since then, there have been more and more crooked rules."

"Why is Fifth Sister also engaging in anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese policies?" Feng Yunshan frowned, looking somewhat displeased.

Luo Yaoguo also sighed.

Zhao Liewen continued, "Now that the gold mines in Victoria are almost empty, many Chinese workers have moved to northern Queensland. There are still more than 5,000 people left in the Bathurst mining area in New South Wales, specializing in washing waste slag. In total, there are about 48,000 Chinese in Australia now, most of whom are from Xinhui, Taishan and Kaiping in Guangdong. Although these compatriots were bullied by foreigners, they were still able to save money and send it back to their hometowns. It is really touching."

Feng Yunshan stroked his beard and nodded, sighing, "We are all Chinese children. It is not easy to make a living across the ocean. But the fifth sister is the daughter of the Heavenly Father and the sister of the Heavenly Brother after all. The British Empire is comparable to the United States, which is known as the sun never sets and does not kill each other."

"Third brother," Luo Yaoguo said with a smile, "Fifth sister is responsible for the huge British Empire, which occupies a quarter of the world's total land area, not counting the freezing Antarctica! How can she manage it all by herself? As brothers, shouldn't we take on more responsibility for her?"

"Be more tolerant?" Feng Yunshan frowned even more tightly. "How do you want to be tolerant?"

"Of course I'm helping Fifth Sister develop Australia." Luo Yaoguo said, "Third brother, I'm not greedy for Australia's land and resources. I just feel it's a pity to see such a large wasteland in Australia, so I want to help Fifth Sister take care of it. If it can be developed, our excessive population will have a place to go, and we can also make use of Australia's resources and land, and develop the market. This will benefit us, Fifth Sister, the people, and the foreign devils. It will even be of great benefit to all mankind!"

"Is it that beneficial?" Feng Yunshan was stunned by Luo Yaoguo's trickery. "Why does this involve all of humanity?"

"Of course it can be related!" Luo Yaoguo explained, "Third brother, think about it, such a large piece of land. It is not much smaller than our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Now there are only 100 million people. If you spread it out, you can't see a single person in ten miles! Moreover, more than half of the foreigners among the 100 million people are criminals from the British Isles. They are not people who can work honestly! How can we develop production? How can we open mines and farm? If Australia wants to develop, it can only allow a large number of Chinese to enter. If there are more Chinese in Australia, production will surely rise, and the land in Australia can be used to its full potential, providing more food and minerals for all mankind, and consuming more industrial products. Isn't this benefiting all mankind? There are still many people starving, and there are still many industrial products that cannot be sold in the UK. Let our Chinese help the fifth sister develop Australia. On the one hand, it can provide food for the hungry and cold people all over the world, and on the other hand, it can help Britain sell goods. Isn't this benefiting all mankind?"

"Ninth brother, what you said makes sense." Feng Yunshan nodded. "According to this statement, there are still a lot of abandoned lands in the world, right?"

"Yes, yes," Luo Yaoguo said to his secretary general Zhao Liewen, "Hui Fu, can you tell me more about the situation in South America?"

Zhao Liewen immediately spread out a map of the South Seas and bowed to report: "Master, Prime Minister, this South American territory spans the equator, with the Andes Mountains running thousands of miles in the north and the Tierra del Fuego glaciers in the south. The entire territory is divided into more than ten countries, the largest of which belongs to Brazil, which occupies 30% of the territory. The land is hot and humid and has many miasma. Where the Amazon River flows, there are towering ancient trees and wild beasts. The natives make a living by fishing and hunting. The coastal countries such as Peru and Chile do have fertile land for farming."

Luo Yaoguo added: "The land of South America is more than twice as large as that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the population is ridiculously small!"

Zhao Liewen went on to say: "In terms of the population of South America, there are about 18 million people in total. White people account for 30%, most of whom are descendants of Spain and Portugal; 40% are natives, scattered in the mountains and wilderness; the rest are black slaves and their descendants, among which Brazil has not abolished slavery to this day. In addition, South America is vast and rich in resources. Chile and Peru have saltpeter mines, and Bolivia has silver mountains. They are the richest, and foreign merchants are constantly competing to buy them. Unfortunately, the local government is weak, and all the profits and rights belong to British and French companies."

Feng Yunshan shook his head: "Why do all these benefits belong to Britain and France?"

Luo Yaoguo said with a smile: "How much can Britain and France take? They don't have many people themselves, and they can't develop much of South America's land and resources. If the land can't be developed and the minerals can't be mined, how much can British and French capital take? In my opinion, we have to help South America." Feng Yunshan asked: "How many Chinese are there in South America?"

Zhao Liewen said: "Chinese people have gradually been involved in this area since the Tianli period. Peru is the worst hit. The hard labor in the sugarcane plantations and guano islands there is heavy. No less than 40,000 poor people from Guangdong and Fujian have been deceived into becoming 'contract workers'. However, the journey is long, the conditions are difficult, and there are epidemics. Many people died of illness and exhaustion. There are also small groups of Cantonese merchants who sell tea, lacquer and porcelain in Brazil, but they are excluded by foreigners and cannot make a fortune. In short, most Chinese people here are like drifting duckweed without support, which is more difficult than Australia."

Feng Yunshan picked up the teacup on the coffee table and took a sip of the warm tea. He pondered for a moment before looking at Luo Yaoguo and said, "Ninth brother, our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to help both Australia and South America? Isn't that too much? How about... choose one from the two?"

"Not much, not much," Luo Yaoguo shook his head. "Third brother, the population of our country is increasing year by year. The new people need to eat and work, and the needs will increase! Why should we choose between the two? Let's help Nanyang, the United States, Australia, and South America together! Only when these places are developed, our people can live a good life!"

Feng Yunshan nodded: "That's right! The Ministry of Revenue sent me a report last time, saying that by the 30th or 40th year of the Tianli period, the population of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could reach 100 million. When the population was 400 million, the geographical advantages of the Han area were exhausted. If there were 100 million..."

Luo Yaoguo continued his words, "So, we can only live a good life if we help all mankind progress together. Otherwise, if we work hard for 30 or 40 years behind closed doors, and the people still don't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, even if we can tolerate it, the heavens can't tolerate it!"

"That's true!" Feng Yunshan asked, "Ninth brother, then according to you, how should we help Australia and South America next?"

Luo Yaoguo considered and said, "Third brother, since Heavenly Father has sent so many of us brothers and sisters down together, it is naturally for us to cooperate and divide the work. In my opinion, we can divide the work and cooperate, each taking care of our own business."

"How to divide the work?" Feng Yunshan asked.

Luo Yaoguo said, "In fact, we brothers and sisters have divided the work among each other now. Fourth brother is helping Korea and Japan, while sixth brother's family is in charge of the East Indies and Malacca in Southeast Asia. North America is developed by my younger brother and third brother's people. Now there are only two large areas left, Australia and South America, as well as Annan, Burma, Cambodia, and Siam. How about this, I will help fifth sister to manage Australia, and third brother, your brother-in-law and eighth brother's families will send people to South America. As for Annan, Burma, Cambodia, and Siam, let's discuss it carefully and see who should be assigned to it?"

After listening to what Luo Yaoguo said, Feng Yunshan understood most of it. Luo Yaoguo talked to him for so long, but in the end it was all about dividing the business. Oh, it should be division of labor and cooperation, helping mankind to develop better and faster. People who came down from heaven are noble!
"Ninth brother, tell me in detail." Feng Yunshan did not nod immediately, but asked for details.

Luo Yaoguo continued, "Third brother, what I mean is to appoint a few more archbishops and vice-archbishops under the True Covenant Sect headquarters, so that people from all walks of life can have positions to be arranged and careers to create, so that they don't all stay at home doing nothing."

To put it bluntly, the bigwigs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were just a bunch of violent rebels who were good at performing magic tricks. Few of them were easy to take care of! Moreover, this group of people had many children, so there would definitely be many second and third generations to be arranged in the future! If they were all stuck in the country, they would explode sooner or later. It would be right to separate them as soon as possible.

Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's way is also easy to be divided - it is a shaman dance! There is a natural motivation to preach the scriptures. Now there is the successful experience and wealth effect of the True Covenant Sect in preaching in Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and North America. I don't know how many people are jealous!

So Luo Yaoguo wanted to take advantage of this momentum and do something great!
As the leader of the True Covenant sect, Feng Yunshan was definitely interested in "helping all mankind", but he was still a little wary of the European powers: "Ninth brother, it is definitely a good thing for us to help all mankind! But have you considered the positions of England and France? America is in chaos, otherwise we would not be able to succeed in the western United States! England and France will not cause chaos on their own!"

"Third brother," Luo Yaoguo smiled mysteriously, "You are wrong. There will be a big mess in Europe soon!"

"What? Who's going to cause chaos in Europe?" Feng Yunshan looked at Luo Yaoguo.

"France!" Luo Yaoguo lowered his voice, "France will be in chaos in six or seven years!"

"How big is the chaos?" Feng Yunshan asked.

"It's too early to tell," Luo Yaoguo said with anticipation, "maybe there will be a Red France!"

(End of this chapter)