As for Li Xuan, he thought that moving one family would mean moving, and so would three or five families. Moreover, there were only a few million people in total, so it wouldn't be a big deal, so just change them to another place.
So when we were in Africa, we were able to carve out several areas for them.
But this time, Datang will not provide transportation subsidies. If you want to hire our Datang ships to immigrate, you can, but the normal charges will apply.
You said that you are all paupers and can't even pay for the ferry tickets, but we in the Tang Dynasty are rich and can give you a loan.
The most we can do is charge you a little more interest. Don’t worry, the interest rate is definitely not high. You can probably pay it off by going to Africa for 180 years.
The Tang Empire started the relocation business in Nanyang!
And it was not one country or two countries, but all the remaining countries in the Nanyang region were packed up and sent to Africa. And later when there was a turmoil, Li Xuan did a good thing and brought them all together, so
You can let them join a group to keep warm. As for the war between them in the future, it has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty.
Because the Nanyang relocation business is so huge, the total number of people who need to be transported alone exceeds three million, and this is still a preliminary figure, and this figure is not accurate.
People from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimate that it would not be a surprise to have four million or even five million people by then.
Li Xuan didn't care about this. They all collected money anyway, and there was not much difference between three million and five million.
Furthermore, for the Tang Empire, the huge business and profits brought by helping them immigrate and subsequently sell various materials to survive were nothing.
More importantly, in the future, the entire Nanyang Peninsula and many Nanyang islands will become the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, and they will still be empty and can be directly brought under the jurisdiction of the mainland and settled in the mainland.
This will save you the troublesome and complicated localization.
And this was the reason why the Tang Empire agreed to help these Southeast Asian countries relocate.
You must know that although Datang's maritime transportation capacity is huge, it is still needed. To maintain the huge transportation volume in overseas territories and local coasts around the world, the number of ships required is a very huge number.
At present, the total tonnage of the Tang Empire's ships is a very large number, reaching a terrifying more than four million tons, and this data is still growing rapidly.
The total maritime tonnage of other countries these days is only a small amount, among which Spain and Portugal are relatively large. Their total tonnage should be 200,000 tons.
As for other countries, rising stars such as England and the Netherlands, they also have hundreds of thousands of tons, and others have tens of thousands of tons.
The total tonnage of ships in other countries is only a fraction of that of Datang!
The total tonnage of the Tang Dynasty's ships was not so terrible more than ten years ago, that is, during the age of sails. It was only a few hundred thousand tons. In the 19th year of Xuanping, the total tonnage was only a few hundred thousand tons.
More than 300,000 tons.
The reason why it has become so big in the past ten years is that Datang has expanded rapidly around the world, with footprints all over the Americas, India, Africa and Europe.
On the other hand, it was due to the emergence of steam and steel ships.
The emergence of these steam and steel ships allowed ships to be built larger and larger, and when large-tonnage ships were transported across oceans, freight charges were cheaper, which prompted merchants to become more inclined to build large-tonnage ships.
In the past, in the era of sailing wooden ships, a merchant ship was only a few hundred tons, and anything over a thousand tons was a big ship.
But now newly built ships, even those running offshore routes, generally start with a thousand tons, while ocean-going ships are two to three thousand tons and upwards, and large cargo ships of four to five thousand tons have begun to appear on a large scale.
The rapid increase in the tonnage of transport ships, the fall in steel prices, coupled with the outbreak of the industrial revolution in the empire, the huge demand for cargo transportation, as well as the global expansion and immigration, resulted in the total tonnage of various types of ships in the Tang Empire.
Rising rapidly.
Because in this era, whether it is local coastal transportation, inland waterway transportation, or ocean transportation, a large number of ships are needed.
Datang's railways were able to build such a huge railway network from scratch in more than ten years. This rapid development of shipping is also a matter of cleaning up.
When a huge country with a population of more than 200 million, and a huge empire with a stable political situation and no large-scale civil strife, carried out the Industrial Revolution, the capabilities that emerged were so huge that even future generations could not imagine.
In the original time and space, Britain, with a population of only tens of millions, was able to develop to this extent after the industrial revolution.
After the Tang Empire, with a population of more than 200 million, carried out the Industrial Revolution, the impact would be even greater.
In fact, the tonnage of these millions of tons of ships today is all because Datang can be regarded as a country with a domestic demand-oriented economy. If it was a country with a foreign trade economy like England in the original time and space, the tonnage of these ships would have soared to thousands.
More than 10,000 tons.
After all, Datang's shipbuilding industry is quite developed now. If there is market demand, they can build ships with larger tonnage in a short time.
Because for today's shipbuilding industry, shipbuilding is actually quite simple, even far less complicated than wooden shipbuilding.
Many small shipyards along the river can build small iron ships with a load capacity of hundreds of tons.
Because when they build ships, they are actually just an assembly factory. As the core of various types of ship steel, they are provided by several major domestic steel companies. The processing equipment is provided by machinery companies. As for steam engines, domestic manufacturers can now manufacture steam engines.
There are more than a dozen companies, some are cheap and some are expensive, and their power ranges from a few horses to thousands of horses.
At the same time, the technical standards for ships these days are not as high as those of later generations. For ordinary merchant ships, especially those running on inland rivers and lakes, shipowners' requirements are actually quite low.
Of course, the technical requirements mentioned here are low and are limited to some civilian ships with low requirements. However, the technical standards for military ships and some ocean-going ships are still relatively high.
Therefore, there is still a certain technical difficulty in building this type of ship. There are only a dozen or so shipyards in China that can build large-tonnage ships, especially ships of more than 5,000 tons.
As for those that can build 10,000-ton ships, there are currently only two, one is Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, and the other is Jiangnan Shipyard, but soon several other shipyards such as Qingdao Naval Shipyard and Shamian Shipbuilding will also
They will gradually have the ability to build 10,000-ton ships, because their 10,000-ton shipyards are almost ready.