The first thousand four hundred and eighty-six chapters Nanyang localization
The African Expeditionary Fleet encountered a large-scale storm in the Indian Ocean. This news will not be reported back to China for a while. Let alone the country, even if they want to know the news in India, it will take a long time.
However, even if the news is spread back to the country, it will not actually cause too much waves. Sailing on the high seas is so dangerous these days. There were not countless shipwrecks and deaths that year. The only difference is that in the past, the shipwrecks and deaths were all ordinary merchant ships, and
What we have now is just warships.
Even the army and the Navy of the Tang Dynasty have suffered a lot of losses over the years. In the 18th year of Xuanping, a cruiser encountered a storm and sank while performing a mission in Nanyang. There were even more small ships.
The Tang Empire was not an empire that would make a fuss if just a few people died. As a traditional feudal empire, in order to achieve strategic goals, not to mention thousands of people, even tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people were lost.
Dare to do it.
For example, immigration development!
Due to the poor medical conditions in modern times, the risk of overseas immigration is very high. In the early years, when immigrants from the empire went to Luzon, the mortality rate was quite high. Basically, the mortality rate would reach 100% in a year.
More than ten, and within ten years, the mortality rate of these immigrants can reach 30%.
And that’s not counting the casualties during transportation.
Nowadays, overseas migration in the tropical areas of Southeast Asia is a very high-risk thing!
But interestingly, this situation does not exist in North America.
Because North America has a relatively high latitude and belongs to the subtropical region, compared to the tropical areas, it is similar to the empire itself. When the people of the empire go to America, they will not be greatly affected by the climate, and there is no local climate.
What tropical rainforests lead to many tropical rainforest-specific diseases?
Therefore, the empire's immigration in North America is relatively smooth. At most, some immigrants will die during transportation, but after arriving in America, there will not be large-scale deaths.
From this point of view, North America is more suitable for the empire to carry out immigration and development than the South Ocean and India!
The empire has also begun to adjust its immigration focus in recent years. The Nanyang region, including Australia, and other Pacific western regions are still the key areas for immigration, because the Tang Empire wants to implement the localization of Nanyang.
To implement the localization of Nanyang, it is not enough to defeat the local indigenous kingdoms and establish administrative rule. This is not called localization, it can only be regarded as colonization at most.
The Tang Empire must take root in Nanyang and make this land an integral part of the Tang Empire from now on. If there are not enough people, how can this place be called an integral part of the Tang Empire?
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The localization of Nanyang is the basic policy established by the empire in recent years, and it cannot be changed, at least not until Li Xuan's death.
Therefore, in recent years, despite the harsh environment in the Nanyang region, the Tang Empire still continued to immigrate unswervingly, and the number was increasing year by year.
Especially after capturing Malacca last year and sweeping away all the Portuguese colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia, the Immigration and Reclamation Department began its biggest move since its establishment.
The first is the introduction of a series of plans to stimulate immigration. The most important plan should be the land allocation for immigrants. Land is always the best tool to stimulate Chinese farmers. This immigration land allocation plan is different from the previous Nanyang immigration land allocation plan.
There is a huge difference.
When the empire carried out immigration in Southeast Asia in the early years, the immigration land distribution plan implemented was said to be land distribution, but in fact it was just lip service. The immigration authorities said it was land distribution, but these were all barren mountains and forests, and the few farmlands were all
It is in the hands of the local indigenous people.
The immigration authorities have divided the land, but they usually don't care about how to actually control the land. They often need to form a militia and army from the immigrants, and then rely on the militia to drive away the local indigenous people before they can finally open up wasteland.
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But the current land distribution for immigrants is to directly allocate land that is already under the control of the government. From last year to now, the troops stationed in various places in Southeast Asia and the militia forces in various places have launched countless raids to expel the indigenous people and then control them.
most of the land.
For example, in Luzon, a key area for immigrants, there are basically no traces of indigenous people on the entire Luzon island. This leaves a large amount of officially controlled land for distribution to immigrants.
In addition to the direct and free distribution of land under government control, immigration land allocation is not only for individuals, but also for institutions.
The empire specifically formulated this policy with reference to the favorable factors brought about by the enfeoffment of nobles and land allotment. Of course, this land is not free. On the contrary, institutions must pay for the purchase. At the same time, the purchased land has not actually been officially recognized by the government.
actual control of land.
But why do those companies and other commercial institutions buy these lands that are still in the hands of the indigenous people? This is because the empire will continue to implement the mineral laws implemented in the native land on these lands.
In other words, as long as you own the land, you also own the trees, animals on the surface of the land, and various minerals underground.
At the same time, a preferential tax policy has been introduced specifically for the exploitation of these resources!
First of all, the article stipulates that commercial activities such as mining and logging in the Nanyang region, specifically Luzon, Banten, Malacca, and Australia, can obtain tax exemption for five years, and there will be a period after five years.
Ten-year half-tax period tax benefits.
The entire tax preferential period lasts for fifteen years.
This tax preferential policy can be described as a big killer!
Living in Datang, especially doing business, requires taxes, and the taxes in some industries are not low. For example, in the mining industry, the taxes are relatively heavy. Even when doing business in overseas territories, the taxes are also based on domestic regulations.
tax policies.
For example, when mining gold, silver, copper and other precious metals, the tax rate is very heavy. In the end, when a hundred yuan of gold is dug out, at least fifty yuan is paid as tax, and then the cost is deducted. In fact, although mining companies are still very profitable,
But it has nothing to do with huge profits.
But now, there is a five-year tax exemption followed by another ten and a half years of tax, which will allow businessmen to earn several times more profits.
If gold mines were mined in Nanyang in the past, after deducting taxes and costs, the gross profit of digging out 100 yuan of gold would only be more than 10 yuan. But as soon as this tax preferential policy comes out, the profit will soar to more than 60 yuan.
A profit of more than ten yuan has turned into a profit of more than sixty yuan. What does this mean?
500% increase in profits!
Those businessmen calculated carefully and found that although the initial investment cost of mining in Nanyang was very high, and the cost of mining was not low when organizing immigrants from the country, it could not afford tax exemption. In the final comparison, it turned out to be more profitable than mining metal mines in China.
High, and a lot higher.
As a result, many mining companies are full of enthusiasm and rush to purchase large amounts of land and then prepare for survey and development.
Of course, the immigration authorities are not stupid. Their purpose is to use the land and tax-free policies to attract these companies to develop the land and introduce domestic immigrants, thereby enriching the local population.
But if those companies only purchase the land without developing it, or want to keep it for future development, then it won't work.
Therefore, the land purchased by these institutions has restrictive conditions, that is, it must be developed within three years. If it is not developed within the expiration date, or the degree of development does not meet the requirements of the contract, the immigration authorities will unconditionally reclaim the land.
This series of policies are all aimed at attracting domestic capital to invest in Nanyang Map and introducing domestic immigrants.
Even in order to force these commercial organizations to bring in immigrants from the country, the empire also specially passed the employee protection law!
No institution or individual in the empire is allowed to hire indigenous people for work. Once found, they will be fined a high amount. Moreover, this fine does not have a fixed amount, but is calculated on a proportional basis. In the final calculation, this company will definitely be fined to
Bankruptcy!
The purpose of this employee protection act is actually to prevent these companies from directly employing indigenous people locally in order to save costs, or simply capture indigenous people as slaves to perform various labors.
Although this can effectively reduce business costs, in terms of national sentiment, using foreigners as slaves seems to be very satisfying.
But this is seriously contrary to the empire's Nanyang localization policy.
The ultimate goal of the empire's Nanyang localization policy was to make Nanyang the homeland of the Chinese people, not just to rule these areas.
This is also the reason why the Tang Empire has insisted on opposing the slavery system over the years, because the Tang Empire is unwilling to let these indigenous people live on the land of the empire, even if they are just slaves.
Therefore, when the Spanish and Portuguese set up black slave plantations in the Americas, the Tang Empire was very contemptuous.
We are already in the industrial age, so what kind of slavery is there? Only the barbarians in Europe can do these things.
The Tang Empire has always opposed slavery!
This is true for overseas territories, not to mention the mainland of the empire. There are many foreigners who come to the empire for trade every year, but they are all restricted to the trade zones of major trading ports.
Those foreign merchants were not allowed to leave the trading area and go deep into the hinterland of the empire to live and do business.
Only a small number of foreign official personnel can leave the business zone through diplomatic channels and then go to Jinling City and other places.
The localization of Nanyang is a major focus of the empire's overseas colonial policy, so although it is difficult, it will not give up.
While the localization work in Nanyang is ongoing, the immigration development in other areas, especially the final settlement in Fusang, is also on the agenda!