The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 176: Want to have sex?
Chapter Subtitle: Small Money and Big Cannons
Thursday morning, April 21, 1921.
"Boss, today's newspaper."
"Ai Si, thank you."
A female voice came from the bedroom and said, "Is this Miss Moman? Please call my servant for me."
The unhappy female secretary glared at her boss fiercely and replied unhappily, "Okay, Ms. Brooks."
Lord Grey Knight boasts a 16-point constitution, so a night swim is no problem for him. The Grand Mage developed cold symptoms upon returning, yet he remained energetic and thought he had time to take care of Miss Moman.
But when he opened the door of his guest room, he was surprised and delighted to find that his Keke was following him again.
Our Master Yuan is really regretting it now. He really shouldn't have provoked this fair, rich, and beautiful woman. Miss Moman was right next to him, and she looked like she was ready to be picked. He didn't even have the chance to eat her along the way. This is really...
He sighed in his heart and couldn't help but wonder, was he replenishing his magic, or was he replenishing the magic of the witch in the bedroom?
He also discovered a problem this morning, which made him look like a gigolo. Not to mention his driver and secretary, even Einstein had this wrong perception.
Really, her harem is ready to come and fight when she is called... No, it is ready to go when she is dismissed. Once she goes, she will be content to be a concubine without any complaints and without having any affairs with the grooms or drivers.
On the other hand, I haven't officially started a harem yet, but I just found a sex buddy. She comes whenever I'm not called, and I fight as soon as she shows up. Her fighting ability is quite high.
The old woman who had given birth to three children was a fire-breaker. In order to protect the honor of the Seres people, especially the men, he had to use all his tricks.
Seriously, her harem is full of virgins, so even if they're not, they have to be written as virgins. And then look at me... I'm always breaking the evil slash, acting like a paladin.
If I were the protagonist of a time-travel novel, the author would definitely rush from New York's Fifth Avenue to Shanghai's Fourth Street!
Forget it, I'll be leaving the United States in a few months. History will finally return to normal, and Cromwell will be able to find his Mr. Right... That's probably how it is.
Yuan Yan, filled with grief and indignation, quickly swallowed her tears, picked up today's newspaper, flipped through it, found the Washington Post, glanced at the front page, and then opened it to the second page...
“Very Good!”
As he expected, the current U.S. Attorney General, Harry M. Dougherty, indeed published a signed article entitled "This Administration Will Implement the Spirit of 'Fighting Fifty with Fifty' and the Payne-Alteri Act."
This lengthy article was not written by Yuan Yanshu, but was written by his father, Mr. McCall, who was entrusted by him to "His Majesty the Emperor." The son-in-law of the president of New York Life Insurance Company was an expert in contract law and economic bills.
It should be noted that the policies and methods used by the United States to colonize the Philippines were very different from those of the old colonial powers. In a sense, it can really be called "benevolent."
Politically, "American colonial policy in the Philippines was an extremely liberal policy, completely different from that of Spain." This statement comes from "A History of Southeast Asia," written by Americans themselves.
From the outset, the United States offered high-ranking officials and generous salaries to woo the Filipino elite and military and political officials. This policy reached its peak after the progressive president, Wilson, came to the White House.
The US government even encourages American officials serving in the Philippine government to retire, and in return will provide them with generous pensions so that more positions can be given to local Filipinos.
By such means, the Americans gradually introduced their own political organizational form and bourgeois democratic politics into the Philippines, making it "Americanized."
Economically, the Penn-Alteri Act passed by the United States Congress in 1909 was a "free trade" policy adopted for the Philippine colony.
Simply put, the Philippines and the US mainland are considered a customs union. US goods imported into the Philippines are duty-free and without quantity restrictions. Philippine exports of raw materials and manufactured goods also enjoy this treatment within certain limits and scopes.
By 1921, most of the Philippine exports to the United States were exempt from tariffs, with the exception of a few agricultural products such as rice.
It has to be said that compared with , such colonial policies can be described as "merciful".
There are three main reasons why the United States implemented such a benevolent colonial policy:
First, the most important purpose of America in seizing the Philippines from the Spaniards was China.
Just like the pioneers of the Age of Exploration explored a new route to Seres to bypass the Arabs, the "chosen country" America is not very interested in the resources in the Philippines. What they really want is to get involved in the huge Chinese market.
Second, by the end of the 19th century, the United States had become a true imperialist country, so they could seize economic benefits from the colonies by exporting capital.
They didn't need to be as greedy as the old colonialists; they could just use the later methods of taking control of the processing industry and dumping industrial products. This would also reduce the resistance of the colonial people and facilitate their rule.
Third, the Americans at that time... well, from independence to the 21st century, a large number of Americans firmly believed that they were the promoters of universal values with "manifest destiny" and represented the correct direction of history or the "end" of all human systems.
You could say they're covert cultural colonialists, or they've brainwashed themselves into idiots, but some Americans are truly dedicated to exporting their ideology.
Therefore, the American people really agree with the policies implemented by successive governments in the Philippines.
On the one hand, colonial affairs are the internal affairs of the United States of America, and the Secretary of State has no authority to interfere; on the other hand, the US government does not have a colonial secretary like other countries, so such internal policies and regulations are the job of the Attorney General.
So for this Republican Attorney General, Mr. Dougherty naturally had to publish such a relevant article at the beginning of his term to show the public that this government will also inherit such policy spirit.
However, why would the article that Master Yuan wants the current Minister of Justice to publish be limited to the Philippines?
The real meat of the story is at the end of this article.
Mr. Dougherty… Mr. McCall… actually Mr. Yuan Yanshu wrote at the end: “The U.S. government and I have noticed a very bad trend emerging in the colonies of Southeast Asian countries.
Certain countries, having finally abolished their colonial policies that violated universal values and liberalism, are now going against the historical trend and adopting extremely inhumane and uncapitalist means of oppression against the colonial peoples.
As Attorney General of the United States government, I urge these colonial governments to quickly return to the right path of history and refrain from exacerbating conflicts with the local people. Don't forget the lessons of history: a hundred years ago (1825-1830), the same oppression sparked the Javanese uprising.
In order to maintain peace and stability in Southeast Asia and the world, the U.S. government will not sit idly by and allow this to happen in today's civilized world!"
Are these few short sentences worth one hundred thousand U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to two million U.S. dollars or more than twelve million RMB in later generations?
Of course it's worth it. And it's fair, cheap, and great value.
This is a signed article by the U.S. Attorney General. He is speaking on behalf of the current government, and it can be seen as a declaration of the U.S. government's policy.
If Dougherty weren't a corrupt official obsessed with money and lacking in knowledge, even if our Master Yuan offered him double the price, he wouldn't have easily published an article that interferes with other countries' internal affairs and could have sparked international disputes.
Of course, for proud Americans, interfering in other countries’ internal affairs is no big deal, whether it’s 1921 or 2017. Because that’s the true style of imperialism.
Besides, this time they were interfering with a poor country like the Netherlands.
The Dutch aren't the coachmen of the sea anymore. They can only plant tulips and kill the Chinese and indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia. What can they do? At most, they can make a verbal protest. Are they really going to declare war on America?
If Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands really declared war over this matter, it would be exactly what some Americans wanted. Perhaps Dougherty and Harding would become American heroes who uphold universal values. Their reputations would not be as bad as they were in the original timeline.
After reading the article, Yuan Yan suddenly confirmed that Mr. Doherty had not changed even a single punctuation mark.
Now he felt at ease, as he could give an explanation to Nanyang, and he had also taken the first step in interfering in the historical development of Nanyang.
Just then, his driver came in and said, "Second Master, the car is ready. When do we leave?"
Master Yuan put down the newspaper and said, "We're leaving now! But first we have to go to the telegraph office..."
