After listening to Xu Wei's words, they realized that it was a great deal to use billions of dollars to stably recruit tens of millions of people!
Li Ru said helplessly: "It seems that the food problem may have troubled the court for more than ten years!"
Food prices cannot be reduced, and industry cannot accommodate the new population. They can only let the new population go to Jiangnan and Liaodong to reclaim wasteland. Even if they try to increase the planting area of cash crops, food growth cannot be changed in a short time.
Jia Xu thought for a while and then said: "The imperial court now spends billions of money every year to hoard food. Why don't we spend the money to build tracks in the Western Regions. Now Liu Bei keeps attacking the Kushan Empire. If Liu Bei really annexes the Kushan Empire, A powerful empire with a population of tens of millions has appeared in our Daqian Western Region, which is extremely detrimental to the imperial court's rule in the Western Region.
The imperial court should find ways to support General Duan Peng and the others and absorb the population of the Kushan Empire to enrich the territory of the Western Regions. This will not only strengthen our control over the Western Regions, but also weaken Liu Bei's strength. If the Western Regions have a population of several million, every year It can help the imperial court consume tens of millions of more grains, which is better than the imperial court spending money to collect grain!
And now that the Silk Road is becoming increasingly prosperous, a large amount of goods need to be transported. Horses and camels alone are no longer able to keep up with the current economic development of Daqian. Although the cost of building this set of tracks is high, the cost of maintaining it should not be too high. Moreover, this track can not only calculate economic accounts, but also calculate military accounts. With this track, the imperial court's control over the Western Regions has been increased by more than 10 times, making it less likely to happen like the former Han Dynasty abandoning the Western Regions!"
The abandonment of the Western Regions by the Eastern Han Dynasty government was the most hated thing for the entire Xiliang people. When the Western Regions were in hand, most of the entire Silk Road was controlled by the Eastern Han government. A large number of business travelers revitalized the entire Xiliang economy, and even the Qiang people robbed a few things. You can feed the tribe.
But after the Silk Road was cut off, Xiliang became rapidly barren, and the Qiang and Xiliang people had to compete for the few resources. The century-old rebellion of the Qiang people made all Xiliang people heartbroken, and it also made people in Xiliang heartbroken. The people of Xiliang understood that the Western Regions were the lifeline of Xiliang. The stronger the power of the Daqian court in the Western Regions, the more prosperous Xiliang would be.
Xu Wei thought for a while and nodded: "The imperial court must indeed pay attention to the Western Regions, and the development of the Western Regions must also be put on the agenda!"
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This is not only the threat of Liu Bei, but also the changes brought about by the development of maritime transport. Historically, the Silk Road declined completely after the Tang Dynasty. In addition to the poor military strength of the Song Dynasty and its complete withdrawal from the Western Regions, another important reason was the maritime The Silk Road replaced the Silk Road on the road. Without profits, the Silk Road in the Western Regions was naturally cut off.
And now Daqian's maritime transport is extremely developed and is now connected to the Tianfang region. Most of the civilizations in the World Island are connected by Daqian's maritime trade. The Silk Road in the Western Regions will soon be cut off as it was in history.
And Xu Wei had to find a new way out for the Western Regions, and later generations also gave the path that the Western Regions should take, which was to grow cotton, a cash crop, and at the same time vigorously develop the cotton textile industry in Xiliang, relying on the cotton industry. The chain is enough for the development of the Western Regions and Xiliang.
Growing cotton obviously requires a lot of labor, and it is unknown whether the entire Western Region has a population of two million. Using the population of the Kushan Empire to fill the Western Region is one way!
Wang Guojun said helplessly: "But if we do this, the railway project will be affected!"
Daqian's finances are also limited, and most of them have budgets. Although wooden rails are more than ten times cheaper than railway rails, it is clear that the cost of building rail tracks in the Western Regions will not be low just because it is tens of thousands of miles long. The money is only It may come from the construction costs of the railway.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "We can sell the grain overseas at a lower price. For the court, as long as the grain is sold, it will be profitable! At the same time, the taxes and fees on grain exports will be cancelled, so that the export volume of grain will It should improve a lot.”
Xu Wei could only come up with the method of low-price dumping. No one in this world has ever seen this trick! Daqian's overseas forces also grow food, but the self-sufficiency rate is different. Most of the people who grow food overseas are savages. Naturally, the efficiency cannot be compared with the people of Daqian. The price of food on these islands is generally more than twice as high as that of Daqian.
The price of grain in Cao Cao's Crab Island is about 300 yuan per stone, which is more than twice that of Daqian. However, the grain transported by Daqian has transportation fees and taxes. When it comes to Cao Cao's Crab Island, there is no price advantage. Cao Cao is just short of food. Only then would large quantities of grain be imported, and now Xu Wei is using dumping to reduce the price of grain by more than 40%, which can directly drive Cao Cao's farmers into bankruptcy.
And Cao Cao may not be dissatisfied. The silk industry on Crab Island has become more and more prosperous in recent years, but now cultivating mulberry trees has become a problem. After all, Crab Island is a small island and there is not much land to plant mulberry trees. Now Crab Island has already Many families are switching to rice cultivation and mulberry cultivation. If the price of grain in Daqian continues to fall, this process will become faster.
The situation on other islands is similar to Crab Island. They don't have many people. If they can buy food at low prices in Daqian, they will definitely want to expand the planting area of cash crops. After all, this is more profitable.
When Li Ru heard Xu Wei's words, he smiled calmly and said: "This is a wonderful strategy for governing. Even if the court loses a little, it is worth it!"
If they can control the food of these islands, the Daqian court will not have to worry about these forces rebelling against the Daqian court in the future. If they dare to do this, the first people to tear these rebellious people apart will be the local people!
Others can naturally think of the benefits of this, and everyone nods and thinks that this strategy is okay. It will lose money anyway, so it is good to use this method to control the food channels of overseas forces.
After the meeting, Wang Guojun returned home in a good mood. As soon as he returned home, his daughter rushed over and said: "Father, the eldest father is coming to our house!"
Then his wife Zhen Ji came out with an old man. This old man was Zhen Ju, Wang Guojun’s father-in-law!
Wang Guojun said: "Father-in-law, are you here?"
Zhen Ju smiled bitterly and said, "I came to you because I was entrusted by an old friend to ask for something?"
Wang Guojun looked surprised. Although the two parties were married, Zhen Ju had never asked for anything from him. Even when the children of the Zhen family were imprisoned, they did not ask for anything from him!
Wang Guojun said: "Sir, please speak!"
Zhen Ju said: "Zhen An's eldest son went to find some rubber tree, but now three years have passed, and Zhen Xing has not come back. It can be said that there are no people alive and no corpses after death. Zhen An came to my place to ask for help.
Can you contact anyone in the New World who knows the news about Zhen Xing?"