Faced with the Spanish coming to his door and actively requesting to purchase large quantities of ordnance, Xu Zhenchuan naturally welcomed it!
Today, the Tang Empire's strategy for Europe is to support as much as possible and buy as much ordnance as it needs.
Of course, you can’t have less money!
However, there was no need to worry about the Spaniards' ability to pay at this time. Spain, which occupied the vast America, was very rich, not only in gold and silver, but they were also able to plunder a large number of various products from the Americas and sell them to the Tang Dynasty.
Relatively speaking, the affordability of countries such as France and the Holy Roman Empire is much worse. These countries may seem large, but they are all poor, and they have to bargain for everything they buy.
There are Spaniards there who are so generous that they can purchase equipment that can equip tens of thousands of people with just one wave of their hands.
When Xu Zhenchuan wrote back to China this time, he also mentioned the arms trade issue, so that more export-oriented ordnance could be transported domestically to Europe.
A simple summary is: people here are stupid and money comes quickly.
Not only the ordnance used by the army, but also the warships of the navy can be sold, and the market is very good.
Xu Zhenchuan had already negotiated a warship deal with the English. After thinking about it for a long time, the English finally made up their mind to expand their navy.
For this reason, they decided to purchase three battleships, five cruisers and twelve frigates from Datang this year, a total of twenty battleships, and the transaction amount reached a huge two million.
Of course, with such a large amount of money as two million, the English couldn't get it out immediately. They could only take out part of it, and wanted to pay the rest in installments.
However, when Datang engaged in the weapons business, they always paid the money and delivered the goods, and there was no credit.
If you don't have money, just buy a few boats, and then buy them when you make money.
To this end, the Queen of England and many nobles scraped together a few hundred thousand dollars to buy three frigates and a cruiser.
At the same time, he was still searching for money everywhere, working as a pirate, a slave trader and so on.
The Tang Dynasty has nothing to do with this.
Today's Europe can be said to be in chaos, but the arms trade of the Tang Dynasty was booming.
But in the empire itself, everything is still peaceful!
Even though the Western Expedition is still in progress, except for the occasional related victory news in newspapers, there is basically no news. People seem to have forgotten that there is still a war in the Western Regions, and they are all working on their own.
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This is not just the case for ordinary people, even the important officials in the court don't pay much attention to the war in the Western Regions. Anyway, the fighting is like that, and it has little impact.
The most important thing is the development of the empire itself!
For example, in December of the 28th year of Xuanping, at the last imperial meeting before the end of the year, there were only one or two military issues, and the rest were domestic affairs.
Among them, the topic on the Northeast Development took up most of the meeting's time.
The development of the Northeast is not a new topic, but this term has been around for a long time, and the empire's development of the Northeast has continued.
But this year, many departments in the empire have successively proposed to increase immigration and development to the Northeast.
The most important factor is that many minerals, coal, iron ore and other minerals have been continuously discovered in the Northeast region, making a large number of domestic mining companies, steel and other related companies drool.
However, the current population in the Northeast is small and it is difficult to recruit people, so many companies are constantly writing letters requesting the government to increase support for immigrants to the Northeast.
Several major agencies, including the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture, also support this matter.
Finally, a series of support plans for the development of Northeast China were proposed.
The most important one is the tax incentive plan.
The current difficulty in developing Northeast China lies in cost, regardless of labor costs or other factors. In the final analysis, it is still cost. Excessive costs make it difficult for enterprises to develop.
For this reason, this time the Empire's Northeast Development Plan is planned to take tax incentives as the guide, first solve the cost problem of enterprises, and then let enterprises be the main force in recruiting immigrants.
Instead of using the Immigration and Reclamation Division as the main force for recruiting immigrants as in the past.
But tax incentives have a huge impact.
If one of them fails, it will cause big trouble.
Therefore, after long discussions, it was finally decided that starting from the 29th year of Xuanping, enterprises investing in remote areas, mainly labor-intensive enterprises that can provide a large number of jobs, will be given specific tax incentives.
Among them, the mining industry is a key industry, and other large-scale farms and other planting enterprises will also receive certain preferential treatment.
The most important purpose is to reduce the costs of enterprises so that they can recruit enough employees from the mainland.
Adopting preferential tax policies has always been a treasure that the empire supports for local areas and will not be used lightly.
This kind of tax preferential policy was used more often in the early years, but it has been rarely used in the past ten years. Nowadays, many companies in the empire, except for a few specific companies, can no longer enjoy the benefits from the empire.
There are tax incentives at the central level, but at most they are tax incentives at the local level.
But once used, it often has a huge effect.
Many enterprises in the empire often have very heavy taxes and large amounts.
If there are tax incentives, corporate investments can often be directly converted from losses to profits.
In the last issue of the Tang Dynasty Daily in the 28th year of Xuanping, the empire gave a gift to the citizens. It is expected that starting from the 29th year of Xuanping, in the next ten years, companies in specific regions and industries will be adopted.
The preferential tax policy initially covers the three northeastern provinces, Ha Phong Province, and Gansu Province, and will be further expanded depending on the situation.
The industries covered include mining-related companies, steel companies, etc.
After this news was announced, the stock prices of domestic companies in the mining and steel sectors rose rapidly, especially that of Liaodong Mining Company, which is based in the Northeast region. The stock price rose by more than 20% in just a few days!
Of course, companies reciprocate the favor. They are all in the empire. Why does the empire implement preferential tax policies? It is just to develop the above-mentioned areas.
So, soon they went to the mainland to recruit a large number of workers!
This kind of enterprise's own recruitment of workers to work in the Northeast is more efficient than the hard work of the Immigration and Reclamation Department in mobilizing immigrants.
Many people even heard that the Northeast is recruiting a lot of workers and the wages are high, so many people go to the Northeast to work.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is optimistic that within the next three years, the entire Northeastern region's permanent population will increase from the current five million to about eight million, and to tens of millions within five years.
The only problem is that although more people are going, not many are willing to stay and naturalize. Many people go to work and then come back.
Therefore, it can only be counted as a permanent resident population, not a registered population.
But this is enough. Regardless of where one’s household registration is, as long as there is a population, local land resources and mineral resources can be developed!
Twenty-nine years after Xuan Ping, the empire is still calm, the war in the Western Region has initially stopped, and other internal affairs are relatively stable, with no major events.
This spring was an extremely peaceful spring for the huge Tang Empire, but for some people, it was unusual.
On February 16, at the pier of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, a young man in gorgeous clothes boarded the Pacific with a large entourage.
When boarding the ship, the captain of the Pacific greeted him personally, and many other dignitaries who had already boarded the ship also took the initiative to greet him on the deck, because at this time, the person who boarded the Pacific was Wang Lulin, the new prince of the Empire!
Wang Lulin, who is only twenty-six years old, has a noble demeanor in every move he makes, making everyone think he is a true aristocrat.
But who would have thought that the Wang family was born into serious bandits!
His father, Wang Chaofeng, was one of the earliest senior generals in the Tang Dynasty. When the Tang Dynasty was still living in Xingquan Prefecture, he was the commander of the Fifth Infantry Battalion. He later participated in a series of battles and rose through the ranks.
Before the Unification War was over, he was already a lieutenant general in the army and was awarded the title of Marquis. But then, before the Unification War was over, he died of illness. He was not alive to see the Tang Dynasty unify the empire, and he never saw the Tang Dynasty transforming the empire.
Global expansion.
In the sixth year of Xuanping, Wang Chaofeng died young.
Li Xuan was also very touched by this veteran who had worked hard with him for several years and died of illness just when he was about to enjoy glory and wealth.
At that time, in order to win over people's hearts, Wang Lulin, Wang Chaofeng's eldest son, could directly inherit the title of marquis. In the 13th year of Xuanping, when he was honoring some generals who died during the Unification War, Li Xuan specially gave Wang Chaofeng a series of titles.
, the original title can be inherited for three generations, and after three generations, the title can be hereditary and retired with the country after the title is reduced to baron.
Wang Lulin inherited the title when he was three years old, and was the youngest nobleman in the empire for many years. And because his father had a good relationship with Li Chunjing, although he was young and had no elders to care for him, he was able to grow up smoothly and accepted
Education at its finest.
It's just that this person didn't like joining the army, so after graduating from the martial arts school, he served in the army for two years and then retired directly.
Joining the army is just a matter of management for many aristocratic families. Retiring after serving in the army for a few years is also the choice of many aristocratic children. After retiring, he entered politics, but he resigned directly after a few years!
At the end of last year, Li Xuan canonized some nobles and changed some nobles' titles. Wang Lulin's fiefdom was transferred from the previous Bandan Province to America, and his title was also changed to Xinbeihou.
Although it is not Xinjinshan City, it is not far away.
Wang Lulin, who is not serving in the army or serving as an official, is focused on running his family business. No, he is preparing to go to North America to build his own fiefdom as soon as spring begins.
Naturally, they would not neglect top nobles like Xinbei Hou, the captain of the Pacific and other dignitaries heading to America.
Wang Lulin didn't pay attention to the compliments from others. He had been used to such compliments since he was a child.
At this time, he was more concerned about his fiefdom in North America: New Taipei State