When Tang Ning came, he forgot to remind Singapore's Governor Reuters to be low-key and luxurious. This guy made the welcome ceremony extremely grand, with slogans such as "Welcome the Duke of London to visit Singapore". At the port, a Chinese lion dance team was sent. The sound of firecrackers rang out into the sky and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

Even without Downing's guidance, Reuters knew that Chinese people in Malaya were the progressive forces, because the local Malays were so lazy that the nominal ruler Sultan (the title of monarch) who had certain power had to adopt the "Hong Kong Master system" to develop the economy.

In Malaya without industry, developing the economy is naturally to cultivate plantations, mainly two popular economic crops: gummy and pepper. Gummy is the ingredients used by Indians when chewing betel nut, while Europeans in the 19th century were particularly obsessed with pepper. (betel nut is a strong carcinogen, so don't learn from Indians).

In order to encourage labor to develop land by the river, when a grower chooses wasteland by the river, he applies to the ruler for a permit called "Harbor Deed". In this permit, the ruler gives him tenure of a large area of ​​land, and its scope is between the tributary of a river and another tributary. The convenient place where the tributary flows into the mainstream is a "port", and the person who opens the port is called "port owner".

Almost all the people applying for the port contract were Chinese, and a large number of Chinese laborers came to Malaya to pioneer in this way. Before the Downing plantation was opened, all the laborers working for the port owners were not just hundreds. Downing brought a team of 2,000 people at once, of which 500 were "reserved troops", and another 1,500 were responsible for the plantation labor and conduct military training in their spare time. In addition, the 500 Hessian hunters brought from Europe recently, and the half-soldiers and half-agricultural workers worked for Downing reached 2,500, which was a decisive military force in Malaya. It is the main body of Singapore's "voluntary rifle army". The power of the other European colonists is relatively scattered and it is impossible to compete with Downing's Hessian mercenaries.

In May 1954, a fight between Chinese secret societies broke out, killing and injured hundreds of people. It was suppressed by the Singapore Voluntary Rifle Army and became an excuse for the Singapore Governor to ban the secret societies. Reuters was the commander at the time, and later became the governor. The current Governor of Reuters is full of confidence.

Including Wallace, Downing has eight "port owners" under its umbrella, as well as the port of oil palm plantations jointly operated with Wood and others, which is the largest planter in Malaya.

Reuters has begun to implement a policy of restricting pornography, gambling and drugs in Malaya. It is subject to strong resistance from the Chinese power, but there is no problem with voluntary rifle soldiers in hand. Considering the role of pornography, gambling and drugs on the economy, without them, it will suddenly cause many people to be unemployed, so Downing also let Reuters start large-scale infrastructure construction and absorb labor. When Downing came to Singapore, there were actually many ways to get his Smart to run.

The politicians who are promiscuous Reuters are indeed well organized, and Downing is quite satisfied with his work.

There are only two Smarts in the entire Malaya, but Downing still implemented a policy of license plates for them, one is SG0001 and the other is SG0002. Of course, SG represents Singapore.

The prize for Reuters was Singapore No. 1, enough for him to travel proudly in the "Governor's Car". But he was not proud for long. Downing instructed him to carry out the next step, transforming the entire Malay Peninsula into a dual parliamentary regime of the upper parliament and the lower house of commoners, composed of nobles and civilians like Britain. This was an extremely difficult reform in the untouched strait, so Downing did not give him a timetable, but only let him act expediently.

Tang Ning's idea made Reuters feel awe-inspiring. Now he has the final say in the entire Malay Peninsula. This big capitalist actually has to worry about Malaya's century-old plan, and he has the whole world in mind.

The power of capital is huge. Downing inspected a natural deep-water port discovered by a captain named Henry Keppel in the UK in 1848 and determined to build a dock of the same level as the crystal shipyard here. This would be a huge project that requires tens of thousands of workers. Infrastructure alone can make Singapore's economy a step further, and there will be a huge number of Chinese, Indian and Malay workers pouring into Singapore. The supporting companies of the shipyard will be even more large. If you say that a project turns Singapore into an Asian economic center, that's OK.

To cooperate with the project, Downing has instructed the Telegraph and Reuters’ global network to hype and have the Governor’s Office set up a Investment Merchants Agency to host interested global investors, engineers and workers.

The appeal of the Duke of London's golden signboard is too great, and the whole of Europe is shocked. Obviously, Downing wants to build Singapore into the capital of Asia. Industrialists who are interested in developing outside Europe have expressed their interest in investing in Singapore. Why is Singapore so promising? The Duke said that this place will become the future capital of rubber and oil palm. Isn't that enough? Rubber production, oil palm production, and free trade port, which is enough for all capital, but it is not enough for Downing himself. He remembers that Malaya has oil, and finding this product and building the oil industry will make it even more interesting.

Although hydrogen fuel cells do not require petroleum, in addition to fueling fuel reformers that can be cracked into methanol to provide fuel for hydrogen fuel cells, petroleum is also an industrial raw material. In the era of the oil industry, almost all chemical raw materials can eventually be traced to the head of oil. Plastics, ethylene, asphalt, wax, fertilizers, chemical fibers, pesticides, gunpowder, etc.

In order to integrate investment projects in Malaya, Downing established Temasek Capital, which is the former name of Singapore. It is obvious that one person can’t get huge help by making money alone. To integrate the power of Europe, Temasek Capital mainly sets up investment promotion sites in London, Zurich, Munich, and Brussels. Investors and industrialists can invest in the overall projects of Temasek Capital, or they can invest in the subdivided shipbuilding industry, port industry, rubber industry, oil palm industry, and oil industry. Follow the Earl of London to have a big fight.

When the Telegraph announced that Temasek Capital received an investment intention of up to 10 million pounds, the whole world was shocked. The influence of the Duke was too fierce. Of course, the Duke didn't need so much money at all. In the end, he only received 3 million pounds of investment, 40% from the UK, 10% from Switzerland, 10% from Bavaria, 10% from Belgium, and the rest from all over the world, were quite dispersed. This was to ensure that many countries had spokespersons of Temasek Capital. Downing himself invested 1 million pounds, accounting for a quarter of Temasek Capital's shares, but because other investors were very dispersed, he was an unshakable leader.

Lord Duke is not in Europe, but Europe has his legend. It has been more than a month since he reached a secret agreement with Bismarck to support him in accepting Luxembourg, but Tangning did not see any action. It turned out that Tangning considered that the "Duke of London" was already very satisfied. When he became the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, it would affect his reputation in England, so he was a little hesitant. The emperor was not anxious about the eunuch, and Tangning was not anxious. Bismarck and Krupp were anxious for him and asked how his Hesse mercenaries were recruiting? The implication was that Luxembourg's defense should be put on the agenda?

Downing was reluctantly unable to do so. Hesse hired 2,000 mercenaries to Luxembourg. After the change of defense, Prussia left 2,000 soldiers and Hesse mercenaries to form a joint force to temporarily jointly be responsible for Luxembourg's defense. At this time, Bismarck informed the Dutch king of the Dutch king of the event that he wanted to change defense with Downing's mercenaries. The Dutch king was shocked. He had almost forgotten the sale of Luxembourg. He thought that Downing was not interested in it. It turned out that he had reached an agreement with Prussia and probably reached an agreement with France. Otherwise, why would France have allowed his products to enter France in all directions?

When the Dutch king was nervous and wondering what Downing was thinking, Downing, a talent representative from the Amsterdam branch of Reuters, expressed his intention to buy Luxembourg and asked for a price!

The Dutch king was very hesitant. Obviously, in such a situation, he could not offer any good prices at all. And it seemed that Tangning was not in a hurry at all, and quietly waited for him to discuss with the ministers slowly. The Dutch king was psychologically stressed, afraid that once Tangning took over Luxembourg's defense, he would not pay at all, so he finally offered a price of 2 million pounds. Tangning's answer was "expensive".

After returning to bargain and return the price, Bismarck put pressure on the Dutch king. The Dutch king had a sudden inspiration and said that one million can be enough, and he must convert it into shares of Temasek Capital! Recently, Temasek Capital has been very popular throughout Europe, and he also felt that this is a sure-making deal.

Downing also had an idea and said: "Temasek's investment has been confirmed and cannot be changed, but the climate and resources of the Dutch East India (Indonesia) are very close to the Malay Peninsula, so you can consider investing there."

After repeated consideration, the Dutch King agreed to Downing's opinion, 1 million pounds were divided into two parts, 500,000 yuan in cash, and then used the remaining 500,000 yuan to form an investment company with Downing. The Netherlands was the first country to establish the East India Company, and the Dutch East India Company was the world's first joint-stock company. Later, because of the continuous invasion of interests by Britain, the Dutch East India Company was dissolved and bankrupted in 1799. In order to commemorate the "sages", the Dutch King suggested that their joint ventures once again carry the banner of the East India Company. Unexpectedly, Downing prefers to collect old antiques than the Dutch King, and even he accepted the "Nanhai Company" synonymous with the bubble economy. How could he not like the Dutch East India Company, which was once a highlight in the history of the world economy?

Founded on March 20, 1602, the Dutch East India Company, which has a history of 250 years, is revived with the glorious revival, and is led by the world's most powerful industrialist, which excited the nostalgic Dutch. Unfortunately, the new company does not require so much investment at all. The royal family accounts for one-third, Downing accounts for one-third, and Dutch investors accounts for one-third, each investing 500,000 pounds. Because investors are relatively scattered, the voice is mainly in the hands of the king and Downing.
Chapter completed!