Chapter 1503: Form a group to go to India to pan for gold
As a result, there was a shortage of goods in the trade zone, and they had to urgently order goods from major manufacturers. The major local factories were even more happy and suffering.
A large number of orders fill the desks of these factory managers, but the factory's production capacity is limited and cannot be produced!
In order to produce orders and make money, these factories are also using their magical powers to purchase machinery and equipment, expand factories and expand factories, and recruit workers and recruit workers.
For a time, several industrial zones in Guangdong built around the Guangzhou Business District were operating at almost full capacity.
Chen Lifu naturally saw this in his eyes. He knew very well that the opportunity was right in front of him. If he seized it, whether it was Guangdong's economy or his own career, he would take off directly. But if he failed to seize it, nothing would happen.
At this time, he even put down railways and other transportation issues, and stopped going to other state capitals for inspections. He just stayed in Guangzhou every day, and then personally took charge of the overall situation and provided services for enterprises in major industrial zones.
Solve problems and solve problems.
The factories in the area wanted to increase production capacity, but orders from many machinery companies were fully booked and they could not get the goods. Chen Lifu personally wrote a letter to contact several machinery companies in Guangdong Province, especially Zhaoqing Machinery Company, asking them to wait for the same period.
Under certain conditions, priority will be given to meeting the needs of local enterprises.
Those factories, especially labor-intensive enterprises such as textile factories, could not find workers and could not expand production. How could this be done? Chen Lifu directly asked the governor's Yamen officials to take the lead and formed an inspection delegation with a large group of factories that needed workers.
The Lord went to other remote prefectures to recruit workers, and even went directly to Linzhou to recruit workers.
The factory needs to be expanded and there is no land?
This is nothing!
The government had a lot of official land in its hands. The government of the Tang Empire was the largest landowner in the Tang Empire. One-third of the land in the country, regardless of whether it was cultivated land or wasteland, was all imperial official land.
Directly take out government land and plan to establish a new industrial zone.
In short, Chen Lifu turned on the lights and spent a lot of effort to expand the import and export trade and manufacturing industry within his jurisdiction.
In fact, he is familiar with this kind of thing. He has been playing in Shanghai for more than ten years, and he is quite familiar with various economic development routines.
Without this ability, how could he be transferred to Guangdong to serve as governor.
The import and export trade in Guangdong once again reached a new climax in October, because at this time, the country finally received news from distant Africa.
The African Expeditionary Force has successfully captured the city of South Africa and controlled the strategic route of the Cape of Good Hope.
what does that mean?
Even ordinary people who are not military and political officials can analyze it.
This means that the empire has completely controlled the entire Indian Ocean east of the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese colonies along the Indian Ocean coast are like grasshoppers in autumn and will not be around for long.
This also means that the entire market along the Indian Ocean is open to the industry and commerce of the Tang Empire!
In the future, we can even hope to reach the Atlantic Ocean or even go to Europe.
This news, after returning to the country, may not seem like much to ordinary people. It is nothing more than that the empire has won another war overseas. However, for domestic industry and commerce, this means that it is related to import and export.
People who are directly or indirectly related to trade can intuitively feel the shock brought by this news.
In November, a number of domestic trading companies formed a group and formed a fleet of more than 40 merchant ships to go to India. Their goal was not only Myanmar and the eastern coast of India, they were preparing to go to the western coast of India, and even
It was precisely the Safavid dynasty and the Ottoman dynasty that conducted trade.
At the same time, the stock market was also directly affected by this news. The stocks of companies linked to import and export trade were all rising. Even the stock price of Datang Western Trading Company was strong.
It has increased by nearly ten percentage points.
In addition, the stock prices of many listed shipyards have soared, and manufacturers that provide various shipbuilding materials, such as steam engine manufacturers, lumber manufacturers, etc., have all benefited a lot.
Just the news of victory in the South African War brought the domestic business community into a carnival!
Because everyone knows that the significance of the South African campaign is not to destroy many enemies, but to completely control the Indian Ocean and obtain sea passage into the Atlantic Ocean.
How much benefit can be gained from such a large market?
No one can accurately estimate it!
But this is definitely an astronomical figure!
Because the entire Indian Ocean Rim region is a huge market that is enough to stimulate the empire's industrial and commercial economy to make great strides in development again!
In the 24th year of Xuanping, instead of declining due to a series of battles in the Indian Ocean and the Battle of Fusang, domestic industrial and commercial development experienced a blowout.
This is something that many people don’t expect.
Because in the traditional concept, war is a waste of people and money, but in the Tang Dynasty, war has become a good thing to stimulate the domestic economy.
When the domestic industrial and commercial economy was booming with the expansion of exports, many people in the country originally said that attacking India and Fusang would waste people and money, but now they never mention it.
All the changes in the country are seen by Li Xuan. Although it is impossible for him to go out for inspections casually due to his status, he can still clearly know what is happening in the empire from various reports.
The change.
That was the industrial revolution that the Tang Empire had been brewing for more than ten years, and it had been completely detonated!
In this case, there is not much change in the situation. For example, if there is a huge change in the domestic political situation and there is civil strife, even if it is unlikely that the empire will be able to extend its tentacles to every corner of the world.
Although the current industrial revolution has not yet developed industries such as chemical fertilizers, the unit yield of crops has not been significantly improved. Although more and more land is being reclaimed, the population is growing faster, even if it has been overseas in recent years.
Millions of people have immigrated, but the per capita food supply in the empire has actually not increased in any real way. At most, it has remained the same.
When the average food ration has not increased, it means that in fact, most people are still in a state of not having enough to eat.
If you don’t even have enough to eat, no matter how much money you make, it won’t improve your living standards.
However, Li Xuan also knows that solving the food problem will not happen overnight. The fertilizer industry is far away. If he wants to solve the food problem, he can still only follow two old paths, cultivate more cultivated land in the country and immigrate overseas.
The empire has been doing a lot of immigrating overseas, and although it is said to be doing a good job, the amount is still too little.
For this reason, Li Xuan's focus is still on domestic immigration and reclamation.
The development of cultivated land in Huguang and the Pearl River Delta is the most obvious example of success. Today, Huguang and Guangzhou have become major grain provinces. Even though the grain output produced is not as large as that of the Jiangnan region, after meeting its internal consumption, the amount of grain supplied to the outside world
But it has already surpassed the Jiangnan region.
So now Li Xuan is also focusing on other areas. In fact, many areas in the country are not very mature in development.
Especially in the southwestern provinces and the northeastern and northwest regions, development efforts are far from enough.
For example, Guangxi, although it is close to Guangdong, there are several small plains in their province, but the current population is only a few million people. If it can be fully developed, even with current agricultural technology, it can feed tens of millions of people.
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There are also Yunnan and Guizhou, both of which are typical of small people and vast land. Although their arable land area is not large, as long as they are fully developed, they can still feed a lot of people.
The provinces in the south are all provinces that Li Xuan is planning to develop in depth in the next stage. The method is simple and straightforward, including immigrating there and reclaiming wasteland.
In addition to the provinces in the south, Li Xuan also attaches great importance to the development of the northwest and northeast. Even if the environment in the northwest is a little worse, it can still feed a lot of people with a little effort, and after immigration and settlement, it can also supply the frontline army.
required.
In the Northeast, early development could only be based on mining development, supplemented by planting soybeans and other cash crops, but now, Li Xuan plans to carry out large-scale agricultural development.
Such a large plain in the Northeast would be the most important granary in China in later generations. It would be a waste not to develop agriculture.
Anyway, there is no conflict between agricultural development and mining development.
When Li Xuan began to promote domestic immigration and reclamation, the Immigration and Reclamation Department became even busier.
This organization, which is directly affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, has never been idle since its establishment. Over the years, they have organized immigrants to go to Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, and even overseas.
This also made this agency the most important agency in the Ministry of Agriculture, making great contributions to the empire's immigration and reclamation policy.
And Li Xuan did not treat them badly. The Immigration and Reclamation Department belongs to a small number of special weight department-level organizations, and the rank of its director is the third grade.
As for other ordinary department-level organizations in the Tang Dynasty, their directors are generally only from the third grade.
There are not many department-level organizations of the third grade.
At the same time, the director of the department usually also serves as the right minister.
When the left minister of the Ministry of Agriculture becomes vacant, the right minister who is also the director of the department is often directly promoted to the position of left minister.
According to the official rules of the empire, the position of Zuo Shilang is often also a candidate for ministers of various ministries.
In the past ten years or so, four of the successive directors of the Immigration and Reclamation Department have become ministers of the second rank. However, what is interesting is that there has never been a director of the Immigration and Reclamation Department who later became a minister of the Ministry of Agriculture. They were all promoted.
To serve as minister in other ministries.
However, now, Ying Junzhi has broken this rule and served as the deputy director and director of the Northeast Division of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, the first chief envoy of Northeast Province, the governor of Northeast China, the right minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and the director of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, and the Ministry of Agriculture.
Ying Junzhi from Zuo Shilang.
Became the first Minister of Agriculture to come out of the Immigration and Reclamation Department!