Chapter 1280 Davao City

Winston's plan is generally feasible. The most important thing is to see whether the United States will fall for it. However, according to the situation in the previous life, Britain is still very good at fooling Americans.

The British wartime propaganda bureau has an information department dedicated to attacking the United States. At the same time, it employs a large number of professionals familiar with the national conditions of the United States to lobby the American upper class and elites in various fields, and sell the benefits of joining the Allied camp.

The public opinion in the United States is also deeply influenced by Britain. This is easy to understand. Today, the United States is not the world hegemon in the previous life. Now the world public opinion hegemony is firmly in the hands of Britain.

Public opinion hegemony can be said to be the privilege of every world hegemon. For example, in the 21st century in the previous life, the Far East Empire, Russia, a world power second only to the United States, was not only besieged by this public opinion hegemony, but also had a group of yes-men who were fostered in the country.

As for other countries, unless they adopt the information closure strategy of North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea and other countries and disconnect from the world, they can't get rid of the encirclement and harvest of public opinion hegemony.

The most typical example is the Soviet Union. In the late Soviet Union, it was indeed a regime that could not keep up with the times. However, under the color revolution in the West, the upper class surrendered voluntarily and deconstructed its own ruling foundation, which was really surprising.

Compared with the ruling class in the late Soviet Union, it is obvious that the means and vision of the high-level officials of the North Korean government are much more sophisticated. After all, if the Soviet Union really dragged on, no matter how it declined, it would be much stronger than Russia later.

This also shows the seriousness of the Soviet leadership's broken belt. However, in a country founded on idealism, loyal and righteous people who charged into battle are most likely to fall on the battlefield and in political struggles. It is not difficult to understand that the Soviet Union could not even find qualified leaders in the late period.

Today, it is the British who control the hegemony of world public opinion. Although the United States has surpassed Britain in economy and industry, it cannot get rid of the strong soft power chain accumulated by Britain for hundreds of years.

In this regard, East Africa is less threatened by the hegemony of British public opinion. Of course, this is limited to East Africa. East Africa is also smeared and belittled by Britain overseas.

The reason for this situation is that East Africa has long implemented a "closed-door" policy, and the world public opinion hegemony led by Britain has difficulty infiltrating East Africa.

Although East Africa was open to the outside world before World War I, at this time, Britain had no time to set up another public opinion machine in East Africa.

Moreover, even after the opening of East Africa, it is difficult for other forces to infiltrate the East African public opinion system. After all, East Africa is still implementing the speech censorship system of the closed-door era.

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Mindanao.

July 1917.

The Liberty arrived at Davao, one of the most prosperous cities in Mindanao. As the third largest city in the Philippines in the past, Davao has developed rapidly under the construction of East Africa, and its population has reached more than 30,000.

There is no way around it. After East Africa bloodbathed the local indigenous resistance forces, it can be said that the population of the entire Mindanao Island has dropped sharply.

The situation in Davao City is much better than that in the eastern region headed by Zamboanga City. The eastern part of Mindanao was once the area with the largest Arab population on the island. In order to completely control the ancient city of Zamboanga City, East Africa almost turned the area into a white land.

At least there are some uncivilized indigenous people in Davao, who only have unsystematic primitive religions, so they are barely accepted by the East African government. Of course, according to the traditional virtues of East Africa, most of the indigenous people left must be local women.

After all, East Africa also needs to consider the "bachelors" in the colony, which is conducive to the stability of East Africa's rule in the local area.

Later, East Africa recruited a large number of immigrants, which increased the population of Davao City to more than 30,000. This population size is second only to Zamboanga City in Mindanao.

In Mindanao under the governance of East Africa, the population settlements are quite scattered, so it is quite difficult for Davao City and Zamboanga City to become cities with a population of more than 10,000.

This is mainly due to the complex terrain and large area of ​​Mindanao. East Africa purchased Mindanao not just as an island, but a large group of islands.

There are many places in these island groups that are best described as "tasteless to eat, a pity to abandon", because there are many islands and bays in the Mindanao colony, so many places have strategic value.

East Africa can do without it, but it cannot let the enemy occupy these places, especially the United States in the north, so in order to plant a flag in Mindanao, East Africa can only disperse the limited population.

Even some major islands may have a population of only two digits, and the role of this population is just to prove East Africa's rule here.

For example, Samar Island, the third largest island in the Philippines in the previous life, is also part of the trade between East Africa and Spain on Mindanao.

At present, the total population on Samar Island is only more than 10,000 people, while the population of this island in the previous life was as high as more than one million.

It can be seen from this that the population of the Mindanao colony is extremely scarce, and the total population of the entire Mindanao colony is less than 600,000, which is the result of East Africa's efforts for more than ten years.

On the Liberty, the Slavs looked up at the relatively prosperous Davao City.

"Is this our final destination? It looks like the conditions are pretty good. After all, there are so many people, which means this place is not completely undeveloped."

"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 Davao City, so the city size seems much larger than here.

"The entire Nanyang is almost covered with rainforests with strange vegetation, some of which are similar to the vegetation in the Ottoman Empire, but the southern part of the Ottoman Empire is all desert, and there are almost no people here, which is even more incomparable with Russia."

"The level of development is too low. Ukraine is a large area of ​​fertile land that has been developed. Even the desert areas of the Ottoman Empire have many developed oases, but here is like a place isolated from the world. It is either an endless sea or a rainforest that stretches as far as the eye can see."

"If you live in such a place, I really don't know how desperate it would be."

"And the climate here. Since leaving Basra, the temperature on the ship has been getting higher and higher, and the air has been getting more and more humid. The worst thing is seasickness."

"It is because the East Africans provide sufficient food and medicine, otherwise I can't believe how desperate it would be to live here. I hope that after landing on land, our living environment will be better."

The Slavs on the Liberty showed great panic and confusion about their future fate. It is really that the Nanyang area is too desolate, coupled with the bad climate here, no one can settle down.

During these days of drifting on the sea, it can be said that few people are still energetic. In fact, since the Allies took them away from Ukraine, most people's mental state is not very good.

Amid the controversy of the Slavs, the Liberty finally docked at the dock in Davao City.

This made Captain Hilda's face show a long-lost smile. He laughed and said, "Finally arrived at the destination. The journey of more than 20 days is really uncomfortable."

Even for old sailors, it is difficult to survive such a journey. It is conceivable that most Slavs who have never seen the sea have suffered in the past 20 days.

First mate Wilknitz said to Hilda: "I know a bar in Davao City. After arranging the handover, I will take you to have a cold beer. The drinks in that bar are all locally produced and shipped here. The taste is quite good."

First mate Wilknitz is familiar with Davao City. He has been here more than a dozen times, but that was driving a new commercial ship, not the old sailing ship Liberty.