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Chen Lifu's proposal to re-expand overseas trade and focus on India as a new growth point is naturally not nonsense.
Although he came from a traditional scholar background, in fact, in the first twenty years of his life, he had never been exposed to anything like business and economic management. In the first twenty years of his life, all he had been exposed to was the Four Books
Five Classics.
But after joining the Tang Dynasty, he began to learn a lot of new era knowledge on his own in order to climb up quickly.
Especially during the eleven years he served in Shanghai, being in Shanghai, a place with the most developed industry and commerce in the Tang Empire and where all kinds of new things emerged in an endless stream, broadened his horizons. In addition, he insisted on constantly learning new things.
knowledge, so now he is already one of the outstanding senior officials in developing industrial and commercial economy.
Moreover, this excellence is recognized and approved by Li Xuan.
This can be seen by looking specifically at the development speed of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture. Although Chen Lifu was a scholar and was only a tax official in the early days of his official career in the Tang Dynasty, he still had the ability to develop the industrial and commercial economy, and he was very capable.
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Ever since Chen Lifu received the edict a few days ago, asking him to return to Beijing to report on his duties, he knew that he was returning to Beijing to compete for the governor of Guangdong.
But when returning to Beijing to report on his duties, how should he impress Emperor Sheng and get the opportunity to serve as governor of Guangdong?
Just rely on his previous glorious resume? Rely on the Holy Emperor's trust in him?
This is impossible.
Because of his past experience and Emperor Sheng's trust in him, at most it can only help him get a chance to be a final candidate, and Jia Wenbo has the same chance as him.
Speaking of resume, Jia Wenbo is no worse than him, even better than him. Now Jia Wenbo is already a second-grade governor. He has rich experience in governing local areas, has good ability to develop industry and commerce, and also rectifies officialdom and stabilizes people's livelihood.
All other methods are good.
Speaking of trust, Jia Wenbo is also one of the people in the Emperor's heart. Otherwise, how could he have climbed so fast in these years? It only took about ten years to go from the fourth grade to the second grade in one breath?
Regardless of qualifications, the trust of the Holy Emperor, or ability, etc., in fact, these two people are in the same league, and there is no clear distinction between them.
In this case, the best and only way to completely impress the Holy Emperor is to come up with a policy plan that satisfies the Holy Emperor.
Moreover, this cannot be an ordinary policy plan that is discussed in general terms. It must be a policy plan that is integrated with the actual situation of the empire and the Guangdong region.
This plan needs to be in line with the overall environment of the empire, the expectations of the Holy Emperor for the Guangdong region, and it also needs to be in line with the actual situation in Guangdong.
Chen Lifu has been busy these days, busy looking through information in Guangdong, looking through many policy information, and finally he came up with this Guangdong policy plan.
Naturally, his policy plan cannot be explained clearly in a few words, and it involves not only the industrial and commercial economy, but actually covers many aspects.
Because what he is competing for is not the chief envoy who is under the governor of Guangdong and is responsible for developing people's livelihood and economy. What he is competing for is the governor of a province. Although the governor of a province in the Tang Empire has much less power than the governor of the pre-Ming Dynasty,
, but the power is still very huge.
Except for the three items of military, taxation, and justice, everything else is basically under the jurisdiction of the governor.
In actual situations, even in taxation and judicial matters, the governor actually has certain powers, but it is not so obvious.
Therefore, as a governor of a province, you need to be responsible for many things, and his policy plans are divided into several categories!
Among them, the one he ranked first was the administration of officials.
The administrative situation in Guangdong was very bad three years ago. Otherwise, Li Xuan would not have sent Zhou Yiran, a 'state official', to Guangdong to rectify the officialdom. After Zhou Yiran's three years of rectification, the administrative situation in Guangdong has improved.
It has been greatly improved, but there are still some problems. At the same time, we must strictly prevent the resurgence of administrative problems.
Therefore, when Chen Lifu explained Guangdong's policy plan to Li Xuan, he put the rectification of officialdom first!
He believes that the official policy of Zhou Yiran when he was in power in Guangdong should be continued, and we should continue to crack down on all kinds of official corruption, especially the corruption of middle- and lower-level officials. If the corruption of a senior official will cause the upper beam to be out of alignment, the lower beam will be crooked.
This will lead to corruption in the entire officialdom, and then the corruption of grassroots officials will completely shake the government's rule and reduce the government's prestige among the people.
Because ordinary people, even those upper-class merchants, landlords, and gentry, they come into contact with middle and low-level officials on a daily basis. As for ordinary people, they only come into contact with ordinary grassroots officials.
These rank-9 and rank-8 grassroots officials may not be considered a big deal individually, but once a trend becomes established, the negative impact on the entire society will be huge.
Therefore, Chen Lifu plans to continue Zhou Yiran's policies on the management of middle- and high-level officials, and also prepares to vigorously crack down on grassroots corruption.
Chen Lifu was also a good hand in rectifying the administration of officials. He was a tax official and served as the director of the tax inspection department, where he was responsible for arresting people and killing them.
Such people have a natural advantage in reorganizing the administration of officials.
When he served as the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai and the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, the performance of officialdom under his rule was quite good. Without a good administrative atmosphere, how could Songjiang Prefecture be full of vitality?
You must know that Shanghai is not the only place with geographical advantages. There are many places with geographical advantages these days, but why is Shanghai the only one developing so well? Although other places have also developed, their brilliance is not as bright as that of Shanghai.
It is like the ratio between fireflies and bright moon.
Good official governance lays the foundation for the rapid development of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture.
Regarding the administration of officials, Li Xuan was quite satisfied with the plan proposed by Chen Lifu. He knew that Chen Lifu was good at administering officials, so this plan for administration of officials that satisfied him was also expected.
However, in terms of subsequent economic development for people's livelihood, Chen Lifu's plan surprised Li Xuan.
Among the series of people's livelihood economic development plans proposed by Chen Lifu, some are commonplace things that basically all senior officials with a little political consciousness will know and will do.
For example, we will continue to absorb people from economically backward areas with more people and less land, and move to the vast Pearl River Delta area, which is suitable for agricultural cultivation, for agricultural development.
Another example is encouraging manufacturing and so on.
Basically, every senior local official said this to Li Xuan and did so. Of course, whether it can be done and how much it can be done depends on the individual's ability.
However, in addition to these conventional policies, Chen Lifu also proposed measures to continue to expand overseas trade, and his main focus was on India.
Li Xuan was a little curious about this. Nowadays, the empire's overseas trade has declined. This is inevitable. Due to the impact of the war with the Portuguese, European routes have been extremely and completely cut off. Along with this, routes in Africa, West Asia and even India have also been interrupted.
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The foreign merchants in the above areas, in order to avoid the war and avoid being sunk by the Portuguese as pirates, have stopped trading across the Indian Ocean to Malacca.
Today, there are only two channels left that can support the Tang Dynasty's trade with India, West Asia, Africa and even Europe. One is the Tang Dynasty Western Trading Company, and the other is the Spanish Global Fleet.
But after the war broke out last year, although the Spanish fleet came this year, its scale was much smaller. Obviously, the Spanish were also affected by the war.
The Portuguese people's blockade on the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa is very strict. Even if the Spanish want to pass, they need to be careful.
As a result, the only one left that can take the lead is Datang Western Trading Company.
However, today the Datang Western Trading Company is working with the navy to fight with the Portuguese. Although the business is still going on, the scale is not as big as before.
After all, the Tang Xiyang Trading Company seems to be a trading company, but it is actually a colonial institution representing the government, and its business activities are just incidental.
Nowadays, cooperating with the navy to fight the Portuguese is their top priority.
As a result, overseas trade west of Malacca came to a standstill.
However, Chen Lifu obviously knew about this situation. Since he knew it and said it, he was naturally prepared.
So he proposed a solution to Li Xuan, that is, since the Tang Western Trading Company is unable to cope with it, can it follow the example of Nanyang, Fuso, America and other regions and liberalize trade licenses in India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions.
As long as this trade license is released, more than a hundred domestic ocean-going trading companies with overseas trade licenses will immediately be like sharks that smell blood and pounce on India, West Asia, North Africa and other places to make profits.
Make huge profits.
As for India and other regions today, the Tang Dynasty is still at war with the Portuguese, and the shipping routes are very dangerous. What's the matter? Those who engage in ocean trade these days are not risking their lives with their heads on their trousers.
Not to mention the dangers in the Indian Ocean, even for ships running the Fuso Route and the Nanyang Route, many ships encounter various accidents and silences every year.
Basically every year, there are trading companies that go bankrupt due to various accidents that lead to shipwrecks. Some of them fight with the indigenous people and end up being killed and losing all their money.
Some encountered pirates, and many more encountered storms.
In short, limited by contemporary navigation technology, ocean trade is always accompanied by various surprises and the risks are huge!