Chapter 1280 Davao City
Winston's plan is generally feasible. The most important thing is to see whether the United States can fall into the trap. However, according to previous life situations, the United Kingdom is still very good at deceiving Americans.
The British Wartime Propaganda Bureau had an information department dedicated to attacking the United States. It also hired a large number of professionals who were familiar with the national conditions of the United States to lobby the upper class and elites in various fields in the United States to sell the benefits of joining the Allied camp.
The public opinion in the United States has also been deeply influenced by the United Kingdom. This is easy to understand. The United States is not the world hegemon in its previous life. The hegemony of world public opinion is now firmly in the hands of the United Kingdom.
Hegemony of public opinion can be said to be the prerogative of every world hegemon. For example, in the 21st century in the previous life, a world power like Russia, which was as powerful as the Far Eastern Empire and second only to the United States, was not only surrounded and suppressed by this hegemony of public opinion, but also a group of people in the country who were A fostered yes man.
As for other countries, unless they adopt the information-closing strategy of North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea and other countries and lose touch with the world, they will never be able to escape the encirclement and harvest of public opinion hegemony.
The most typical example is the Soviet Union. The late Soviet Union was indeed a regime that could no longer keep up with the times. However, under the color revolutions in the West, the upper class took the initiative to surrender and deconstructed the basis of its own rule. It was really shocking.
Compared with the ruling class in the later period of the Soviet Union, it is obvious that the methods and vision of the top leaders of the North Korean government are much smarter. After all, if the Soviet Union really drags on, no matter how it declines, it will still be much stronger than Russia later.
And this also illustrates the seriousness of the disconnection of the Soviet leadership. However, for a country founded on idealism, loyal people who charge into battle are most likely to fall on the battlefield and political struggles. This is why it is not difficult to understand the late Soviet Union. Even qualified leaders cannot be found.
Today, it is the British who control the hegemony of world public opinion. Although the United States has surpassed the British economically and industrially, it cannot escape the strong soft power chain accumulated by the British for hundreds of years.
In this regard, East Africa is relatively less threatened by the hegemony of British public opinion. Of course, this is limited to East Africa. Overseas, East Africa has also been smeared and belittled by the British.
The reason for this situation is that East Africa has long implemented a "closed-door" policy in the past, and the hegemony of world public opinion led by the United Kingdom has found it difficult to penetrate East Africa.
Although East Africa had been opened to the outside world before World War I, by this time, it was too late for Britain to deploy another public opinion machine in East Africa.
Moreover, even after East Africa opens up, it is difficult for other forces to penetrate the East African public opinion system. After all, East Africa still implements the speech censorship system of the closed country era.
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Mindanao.
July 1917.
The Liberty arrived in Davao, one of the most prosperous cities in Mindanao. As the third largest city in the Philippines in its previous life, Davao has developed relatively rapidly under the construction of East Africa, with a population of more than 30,000.
There is nothing that can be done about this. After East Africa bloodbathed the local indigenous resistance forces, it can be said that the population of the entire Mindanao Island dropped off a cliff.
The situation in Davao City is much stronger than that in the eastern regions, led by Zamboanga City. Eastern Mindanao was once the area with the largest Arab population on the island. In order to completely grasp the ancient city of Zamboanga City, East Africa almost transformed the area into Into white ground.
After all, there are still some uncivilized indigenous people in Davao. They only have a fragmented primitive religion, so they are reluctantly accepted by the East African government. Of course, according to the traditional virtues of East Africa, most of the remaining indigenous people must be local women.
After all, East Africa also needs to consider the "bachelors" in the colonies, which is conducive to the stability of East Africa's local rule.
Later, East Africa recruited a large number of immigrants, so that the population of Davao City increased to more than 30,000. This population size is second only to Zamboanga City in Mindanao.
This is mainly due to the complex terrain and huge area restrictions of Mindanao. When East Africa purchased Mindanao, it was not just an island, but covered a large island group. Many of these island groups are best described as "tasteless to eat and a pity to abandon." Because the Mindanao colony has many islands and bays, many places have strategic value.
East Africa does not need it, but it cannot allow the enemy to occupy these places, especially the United States in the north. Therefore, in order to plant its flag in Mindanao, East Africa can only disperse its limited population.
Even the population of some major islands may only be in double digits. The role of this population is just to prove East Africa's dominance here.
For example, in the previous life, Samar, the third largest island in the Philippines, was also part of the Mindanao deal between East Africa and Spain.
At present, the total population of Samar Island is only more than 10,000 people, but in the previous life, the population of this island was as high as more than one million.
It can be seen from this that the population of the Mindanao colony is extremely scarce. The total population of the entire Mindanao colony is less than 600,000. This is the result of more than ten years of efforts in East Africa.
On the Liberty, the Slavs stretched their heads and looked at the relatively prosperous Davao City.
"Is this our final destination? It seems that the conditions are pretty good. After all, there are such a large population, which shows that this place is not completely undeveloped."
"All the way down, after crossing the Strait of Malacca, this is the second most populous place I have ever seen. It is smaller than Zamboanga City."
The population of Zamboanga City is nearly 10,000 more than that of Davao, so the city size appears to be much larger than here.
"The entire Southeast Asia is almost full of rainforests with strange-shaped vegetation, some of which are similar to the vegetation of the Ottoman Empire. However, the southern part of the Ottoman Empire is desert. There is almost no human habitation here, and it cannot be compared with Russia."
"The level of development is too low. Ukraine is full of fertile land that has been developed in large areas. Even the desert areas of the Ottoman Empire have many oases that have been developed. But this place is simply like an isolated place, with either the endless sea or the vast sea as far as the eye can see. Endless rainforest.”
"I don't know how desperate it would be to live in a place like this."
"There is also the climate here. Since leaving Basra, the temperature on the ship has been getting higher and higher, the air has become more and more humid, and the worst thing is seasickness."
"That is to say, the food and medicine provided by the East Africans are sufficient. Otherwise, I can't believe how desperate life would be here. I hope that our living environment will be better after we land on land."
The Slavs on the Liberty all showed great panic and confusion about their future destiny. The Nanyang region was really too desolate. Coupled with the bad climate here, no one could feel at ease.
During these days wandering at sea, it can be said that few people are still in good spirits. In fact, after the Allies took them away from Ukraine, the mental state of most people was not very good.
Amid the Slavic controversy, the Liberty finally docked at the Davao City docks.
This brought a long-lost smile to Captain Hilda's face. He laughed loudly and said, "We finally arrived at the destination. The journey of more than twenty days has been really uncomfortable."
Even experienced sailors find it difficult to survive such a journey. You can imagine the torture that most Slavs, who have never even seen the sea, endured during these twenty days.
First Mate Wilknitz said to Hilda: "I know a bar in Davao City. After the handover is arranged, I will take you to have a glass of cold beer. The drinks in that bar are all locally produced. Came here and it tastes pretty good.”
First Officer Wilknitz is relatively familiar with Davao City. He has been here more than a dozen times, but it was on a new commercial ship, not the old sailboat Liberty.
(End of chapter)