In order to solve the problem of serious insufficient production capacity of the Kuli Shipyard, we also saw the huge effects brought by the shipbuilding industry, such as jobs, tax revenue, etc.
There was no need for the Kuli Prefecture Yamen to come forward. The Haidong Governor Yamen had already come forward to request financial assistance from Jinling on its own.
Naturally, this request does not mean asking for assistance from the cabinet. This is just a shipyard, but it has not yet reached the level of requiring the cabinet's intervention. They just sought help from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
There are several large shipyards under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and there is no shortage of technology and funds.
Nowadays, the strategic position of the West Sea is more important, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is also an official agency of the empire. Naturally, the starting point for considering things is from the official level, so they also intend to support the Kuri Shipyard.
Therefore, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises directly intervened administratively and allowed several wholly-owned shipyard companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to invest in the Kuli Shipyard. This investment can not only bring funds to the Kuli Shipyard, but more importantly, it also
It can bring technology.
With the help of big brothers like Jiangnan Shipyard, the small Kuli Shipyard can grow in an instant.
For a time, numerous pieces of machinery and equipment were transported to Curry by rail, and several large shipyards also organized hundreds of technical personnel to go to Curry for support.
Curry Shipyard is developing, but although the development speed will be very fast, it will take a year and a half to see the results.
Now, of course, we can only build ships slowly.
At the same time, considering that the military has not yet launched a new round of Western Expedition, Haidong has resisted the pressure of the Navy and first used the production capacity of the Curry Shipyard to build ordinary ships.
Anyway, the West Sea Fleet currently has about a dozen river warships that will be in service in the next few months. They can actually block the Tatars from entering the West Sea from the Volga River, and even control the entire West Sea.
The Navy's 100-ship plan for the West Sea Fleet is not meant to control the West Sea, but to subsequently control the Volga River. To be more precise, it is to participate in a new round of Western Expeditions.
So I won’t be in a hurry for a while.
The Navy has also been promised that most of the production capacity of the Curry Shipyard in one year will be given priority to the Navy, so the pressure on the Curry Shipyard has been suspended.
This means that in the next year, many civilian ships will gradually enter the market and compete with existing ships such as the Shengyuan.
This made Zuo Chengsheng and others of Xihai Trading Company realize that competition will become increasingly fierce in the future.
This also forced Xihai Trading Company to increase trade volume and at the same time strengthen or even bundle sales channels.
The development of Xihai Trading Company, and even the development of Xihai as a whole, was actually a small matter for the huge Tang Empire.
Even in the cabinet meetings in recent months, Xihai has not been raised.
For the imperial high-level officials, although Central Asia was important, this importance was targeted.
As long as the Tatars were driven out of Central Asia and the empire took control of Central Asia and established Haidong Province, many of the empire's top officials had little interest in other affairs in Central Asia.
Anyway, Haidong Province has been established, so the next thing is to let nature take its course. There will be support that should be provided, and there will definitely not be support that should not be provided.
Just like Liaodong Province, Northeastern Province, Ha Phong Province and other provinces back then.
The top officials of the empire are concerned about taking it down, and after taking it down, they will naturally do whatever they want.
After all, the high-ranking officials of the empire are very busy. In such a large empire, there are many things to do, and they pay attention to everything, so don't expect these cabinet bosses to be able to do much.
The officials of the empire are very busy, but the Holy Emperor Li Xuan has been very free in recent years.
Li Xuan rarely pays attention to anything nowadays, especially miscellaneous things that can hardly attract his attention.
As time has passed, Li Xuan now basically doesn't care much about anything other than unifying the world.
There is no way, now Li Xuan only has this pursuit in life.
Life in this world is nothing more than fame and fortune.
Well, whether it's money or power, Li Xuan has basically reached the peak.
Now all I can pursue is fame.
Even with this name, he basically achieved the ultimate goal of China's thousands of years of history, unifying China and greatly expanding to the outside world.
But he still wants more, he wants to unify the world and set an insurmountable benchmark for future generations.
It is not easy to do this!
Time was so tight that Li Xuan was no longer willing to wait any longer.
Taking advantage of the end of the war in Central Asia and a relatively peaceful period in the next one or two years, Li Xuan is ready to completely solve the localization problem of the Nanyang Islands.
The Nanyang Islands are Luzon Province, Banten Province, Malacca State and Australia. They basically include all the islands in Nanyang and half of Peninsular Malaysia.
The empire has established administrative rule in the above-mentioned areas for many years, even the smallest area of Malacca has been almost ten years.
During this period, localization has been promoted.
Especially the previously promoted indigenous labor policy has greatly accelerated the localization process.
The current Nanyang Labor Service Company has hired more than one million local indigenous youths from various islands in the Southeast Asia. These cheap labor forces are used to build various local infrastructure.
And these more than one million young people have basically wiped out all the indigenous young people on the many islands currently controlled by the Tang Dynasty.
Because of the labor policy, Mindao Island became the second island after Luzon to be 100% localized. This also gave great confidence to the empire's senior officials and local officials.
Currently, officials in Luzon Province are working hard to promote this policy in other islands, striving to completely complete localization within six months, and then apply to become a native province of the empire.
This is very important and everyone is paying attention.
Immigrants, businessmen, and officials are all looking forward to it.
Even in order to speed up the progress, many companies directly donate money and materials to Nanyang Labor Service Company...
The purpose is to complete localization as soon as possible and then go there and make money.
Luzon Province is expected to complete localization within half a year, and Banten Province and Malacca State are expected to complete this plan within two years.
As for Australia, if we just talk about Australia Island, it has actually been completed a long time ago, because there were not many indigenous people on Australia Island, but they have disappeared in the past few years, and now there are only imperial subjects on the entire Australian Island.
What they have left to do is New Zealand. There are still a large number of indigenous people in that poor place, and they are quite ferocious, including many cannibals.
To this end, they also specially introduced many indigenous people from the Nanyang Peninsula in the name of labor services, and then issued them certain cold weapons and matchlock guns, and gave them certain rewards to help the Tang Dynasty exterminate these cannibals.
I estimate that if we work steadily, we can clean it up in a few years.
It is expected that the localization of most of the entire Nanyang Islands will be completed within two years, and will be completely completed within five years.
In order to inspire the determination of local officials, Li Xuan also made a small opening.
In the past, when the empire was in the Nanyang region, the goal of localization was to complete an entire province. For example, Luzon Province needed to complete localization within the entire province before it could become a native province.
Now, Li Xuan plans to relax the conditions step by step and give those officials and companies a sweet spot so that they can continue to work hard.
As a result, Luzon and Mindao became the first beneficiaries of this gradual localization policy.
In the winter of the thirty-fifth year of Xuanping, the empire officially announced the partial localization of Luzon Prefecture. Luzon Prefecture and Mindao Prefecture under Luzon Province would be directly incorporated into the local government for rule.
what does that mean?
This means that the above two places will not be restricted by the Import and Export Committee.
Because the restrictions of the Import and Export Committee only apply to areas outside the empire's homeland, regardless of whether they are overseas territories or indigenous-controlled areas, they are all controlled areas.
As for the mainland, it is naturally not a restricted area.
As soon as this news came out, it directly stimulated many companies!
Luzon Mining Company immediately announced that the company will develop and put into production multiple mining areas on Luzon and Mindao Islands.
This company has actually occupied some of the local mining areas for a long time, but it has never developed these ordinary minerals, mainly developing gold mines.
The reason why these ordinary minerals have not been developed is also simple. In the past, various equipment could not be imported into this place, and we could only rely on traditional manual mining. And most importantly, even transportation was difficult to transport.
There is no railway connecting the mining area and the port, so the minerals cannot be transported out even after they are mined.
Luzon Mining Company is ready to invest in mining, and other companies will naturally not fall behind.
For example, the Datang Railway Corporation announced that it was establishing the Nanyang Railway Company and would build a railway on Luzon Island to connect multiple important regions and ports.
With railways solving transportation problems, the rest is actually very simple.
At least many local agricultural products, especially cash crops, can be shipped out smoothly.
In the past, the economy of Luzon Island was mainly based on agriculture. The empire successively immigrated to Luzon Island by hundreds of thousands of people. Basically, they were all farmers who came here to cultivate land.
The grain output they grow is actually very large, at least they can't eat it all themselves. Previously, a lot of it was shipped back to the mainland for sale.
Apart from agriculture, the only remaining industries are handicrafts and service industries at best, and industry does not exist.
Not even a rice mill or anything like that!
But now, things are different. Many businessmen are already preparing to set up local processing plants directly to purchase and process various agricultural products nearby and then sell them externally.
Although the population of Luzon is only a small amount, and its economic aggregate is not much even after localization, it still allows many people to find opportunities to play.
And this makes others look forward to the localization of the entire Nanyang region.