Chapter 431 The Construction of a German Chinatown
In the agricultural era, a country's comprehensive national strength is mainly reflected in the human and material resources it occupies; that is, the country has a large population, a large territory, and a rich resource, so its comprehensive national strength is strong.
However, in the increasingly developed industrial era in later generations, the population and territory are no longer fundamental factors for measuring a country's comprehensive strength.
Because in the era of industrial development, the factor that determines whether a country's comprehensive national strength is to evaluate it from the country's industrial technology, scale and production capacity, as well as new technologies such as information technology.
After the information age, what countries compete with each other is the ability to integrate resources and the strength of their ability to control international information resources.
However, no matter how rapidly the human era develops, the constituent elements of comprehensive national strength are divided into two categories: material factors and spiritual factors.
Material factors are generally based on a country's basic strength, economic capabilities, natural resource capabilities, military capabilities, and hardware such as culture, aerospace, science and technology, and education.
The spiritual factors include cultural elements such as customs, cultural traditions, national spirit, ideals, beliefs, morality, etc.
So when Chen Yanlong decided to rebuild Bavaria's economic development, he was also considering the economic construction of other German cities and the reorganization of the army.
However, when recruiting talents to build Bavaria's economic construction, Chen Yanlong was also starting to build a German Chinatown.
In later generations, traveling in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, or many European cities such as Paris, London and Amsterdam, going to the local Chinatown to have Chinese dim sum, or buying Chinese handicrafts, are a very pleasant shopping experience, and these bustling Chinatowns are also a tourist hotspot that attracts a large number of tourists.
But in the 21st century, there was no Chinatown in Germany, which had almost 200,000 Chinese people.
According to historical records in later generations, in 1941, the Chinese nation declared war on Germany, and at the same time, some Gestapos who participated in the organization and implementation of the Jewish Holocaust in Eastern Europe also returned to Hamburg. These extreme Gestapos also regarded the Chinese as enemies and wanted to eliminate them. On May 13, 1944, the Gestapo launched the "Chinese Operation" to arrest the Chinese in Hamburg.
The Gestapo arrested all Chinese men from the St. Pauli area they could catch. The arrested Chinese were treated inhumanely in labor camps, and many Chinese were injured and killed.
Therefore, most of the Chinese who survived after the war left Hamburg, and only 30 people finally returned to Hamburg.
Of course, before the anti-fascist war in China, Germany had Chinatown in the 19th and early 20th centuries; especially after Hitler came to power in 1933, he had a honeymoon period with China.
Because at that time, Germany needed the strategic materials of China's country tungsten, iron, and manganese. To build guns and cannons, these materials were needed, and China also needed German guns and cannons to carry out military equipment.
But in 1938, Hitler implemented the policy of "pure German blood", believing that "the five generations of Germans are the real Germans." For this reason, Chinese people began to suffer because many secret police were active around Chinatown; Chinese people were forced to divorce their German wives on the grounds that "would defile the blood of the Germans."
Finally, around 1939, World War II was about to break out, and the Nazi regime gradually increased its persecution of immigrants from various countries, and the Chinese living in Chinatown began to flee Hamburg.
Chen Yanlong still has a clear memory of this dark history of Germany's Chinatown; because before he traveled through time, he had participated in reading a lot of online information about why Germany's Chinatown disappeared.
When Chen Yanlong made up his mind to rebuild a Chinatown, he called Himmler over.
"I want to rebuild a Chinatown in the Jewelry Street area of St. Pauli District, Hamburg; I hope to see Chinese restaurants, Chinese teahouses, Chinese grocery stores, Chinese laundry and other stores there again!"
When Himmler arrived at the meeting room of Chen Yanlong's Prime Minister's Office, Chen Yanlong went straight to the road after someone asked someone to prepare some refreshments for the other party.
"But now China is declaring war with us, and the Chinese living in Hamburg have already left! I'll go there to find Chinese people to rebuild Germany's Chinatown? Head of State!"
After hearing this, Himmler stared at Chen Yanlong with suspicion.
"Do you feel that military strength and economic strength are important to the rise of a country?"
Chen Yanlong just asked with a relaxed look on his face.
"important!"
Himmler asked without hesitation.
"We Germany are a country that lacks natural resources. Do you agree with it?"
Chen Yanlong continued to ask back.
"This...is true!"
Himmler hesitated.
"I now need a large amount of natural resources such as tungsten, iron, manganese, etc. to build more advanced and powerful guns, rockets, aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers and other weapons and equipment to strengthen our country's military strength and combat effectiveness!"
"I believe you should also know that in the recent several large-scale counterattacks against the British, American and Soviet forces, we have achieved dazzling results! So I will at all costs get more natural resources to develop the military and economic power of our empire!"
"The natural resources of China's country are just the beginning, because we still need to cooperate with more countries to develop and strengthen our empire!"
"And I am very convinced that there is no eternal enemy, only eternal interest relations, especially the interests between countries."
"Just like our allies Italy and Japan, if other countries give them better cooperation conditions; I believe they will definitely turn the guns to deal with our German Empire; on the contrary, with the allies such as Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union who are fighting to death now, if our military strength is stronger than theirs, if we give them great benefits, do you feel that they will continue to fight the war?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yanlong asked in a series of long and long questions.
"This... won't be!"
Himmler, who had not yet completely digested Chen Yanlong's words, said in a daze.
"Then you go and rebuild the German Chinatown for me. I hope to see this Chinatown recover from anger before Christmas!"
"In addition, I will also send diplomats to provide some military supplies with them to support them so that they can better fight against Japan. The consequence of this is that I hope that after the war, our empire will become a friendly economic cooperation allied country with China, and be able to conduct various academic research, exchanges with science and technology, and the circulation of natural resources will be conducive to the economic and technological development of our empire!"
Hearing this, Chen Yanlong continued.
"But if Japan does this, will it protest and fight back against us when it is known!"
After hearing this, Himmler stared at him with concern.
"Didn't I just say it? There is no eternal enemy, only eternal interest; and will our German Empire be afraid of the threat of a small Japanese? Are you, as a high-level official of our empire, afraid of the other party?"
Chen Yanlong retorted.
"No! I will never be afraid of a little Japanese. I am just worried that if we do this, it will destroy the good cooperative relationship between us and our allies, and I am worried!"
Himmler responded loudly.
"I'll be able to do things properly. Just do what I just said!"
"Winter and Christmas are coming soon, and we must prepare some special Christmas gifts for our officers and soldiers and people; especially for the soldiers on the Eastern Front, we must prepare them in advance for combat clothing for winter and military supplies that need to be used in winter!"
Chen Yanlong ignored the other party's words and decisively took the lead.
"Yes! Head of State!"
Chapter completed!