The immigration of the Tang Empire in Africa was mainly guided by gold mines. After all, the power of gold is infinite, enough to attract many people to go to South Africa to pan for gold regardless of their own safety.
Most gold diggers will actually lose all their money in the end, and end up having to become miners in gold mines, or go to the surrounding areas to acquire land for cultivation.
South Africa is still very rich in land resources and there is a lot of fertile land. Therefore, in recent years, the number of immigrants attracted by South Africa has gradually increased.
As for other parts of Africa, there are currently relatively few large-scale immigration activities. They are mainly concentrated in coastal port colonies, which mainly serve passing merchant ships, rather than engaging in settlement.
Compared with the difficulties in development in Africa, India and other regions, the Americas seem to be much easier.
On the one hand, there are not many indigenous people in the Americas. The Spanish and Portuguese have colonized the Americas for many years, causing the number of local indigenous people to plummet.
Nowadays, if the Spanish and Portuguese want to develop colonies in the Americas, they have to transport laborers from other places.
When the Tang Empire packed up almost all the indigenous people in North America and sent them to the Spanish, Spain was very happy. This shows how severe the labor shortage in the Americas is.
If there are fewer indigenous people, the development of the Tang Dynasty will be smoother.
Even in South America, where the Tang Empire had just set foot a few years ago, that is, in the southeastern region of South America, especially in the coastal plains of the central region, although the Tang Empire had just arrived a few years ago, it already had a large presence.
million, and it is still growing rapidly.
But these are nothing compared to the development in North America.
Over the years, at least half of the empire's overseas immigrants have gone to North America.
There are few indigenous people, the land is fertile, and the climate is similar to the empire's mainland. These have become important conditions for attracting immigrants. In addition, the empire has long decided to develop North America locally.
The American Affairs Office has been committed to the localization process for many years, and the progress has been quite smooth.
At present, there are basically no indigenous people in the western coastal areas and the eastern and southern coastal areas. Currently, only the central inland areas of North America still have relatively dense indigenous gathering areas. However, the American Affairs Office is promoting the 'Central Movement'
, encouraging immigrants to move deeper from coastal areas to inland areas.
It is estimated that localization in North America will be completely completed within ten years.
By then, North America will become the empire's largest and most populous overseas region.
Not to mention the future, even now, the population of the Tang Dynasty in North America is already several million.
In recent years, millions of immigrants have moved to North America almost every year. This figure is very scary.
Overseas immigration in the Americas, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and other regions has resulted in the Tang Empire's total population in many of the above-mentioned overseas colonies, overseas territories, and overseas territories already exceeding 10 million.
These populations also represent the market for commodities, the supply of various industrial raw materials, agricultural products, etc., and form a complete market with the local market.
This has brought about huge demand for ocean freight.
The demand for ocean passenger transport and ocean freight increased year by year, stimulating the Tang Empire's shipping industry to maintain rapid growth every year.
This is why shipping companies such as Fung Shipping Company and Yangtze River Shipping Company build new ships every year to expand their shipping capacity.
Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, naturally saw this.
In his view, the current global trading system dominated by the Tang Empire has basically established a framework, and all that needs to be done in the future is to continue to expand its scale.
The current global trade system of the Tang Dynasty, the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, the mainland overseas, overseas territories, and overseas colonies together constitute the internal trade system of the Tang Dynasty, and then coupled with the trade in indigenous areas, together constitute the global trade system of the Tang Dynasty.
It is worth noting that the area and population of indigenous-controlled areas are actually quite large. For example, the entire Europe, West Asia, India, most of Africa, parts of the Americas, etc. are all indigenous-controlled areas, with a small combined population.
It is said that there are two to three billion.
But their spending power is too low, and they cannot afford many commodities.
Therefore, this resulted in a very strange situation, that is, despite the Tang Dynasty's ships traveling all over the world, most of them actually served the Tang people themselves.
How can I put it, with so many countries and populations in Europe, even if North Africa is included, their consumption power is not as good as North America under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, companies in Datang, especially those in the manufacturing industry, absolutely take the local market as the guide when considering the market. As for the indigenous market, that is all incidental.
The same is true even for kerosene, which has been very popular in recent years.
Even though the Tang Empire restricted the export of kerosene in an almost administrative order in order to ensure the local supply of kerosene, without this restriction, the amount of kerosene that could be exported in the end was actually not much.
Because for the Tang Dynasty, ordinary families can afford the current price of kerosene.
But in indigenous-controlled areas, at least the local decent middle class can afford this price.
The reason for this situation is that Datang will impose a certain export tax on the export of kerosene. At the same time, expensive ocean freight must be added, and the price is generally higher than the price of kerosene in the local market.
But this is not the point. The point is that the income of ordinary people in indigenous-controlled areas is too low.
Regardless of whether it is India, West Asia, or Europe, the population seems to be large, but in fact most of them are people at the lowest level, and many are still serfs.
The vast majority of these people do not have any spending power.
On the Tatar side, the market is much larger. The various systems of the Tatars are basically copied from the Tang Empire. Such a Tatar Golden Kingdom is also a behemoth in Europe.
At the same time, they also liberated a large number of serfs in Europe and gave them land for farming. After these serfs became freedmen, they could not only contribute taxes, but also had a certain spending power.
This is also the reason why although the Tang Dynasty and the Golden Kingdom of Tatar are at war, the trade between the two sides has not stopped. If the Tang Dynasty did not occupy such a large market and give it to the natives, it would be a big loss.
It's just this kind of trade connection that makes the Import and Export Committee very vigilant.
Because during this process, a large amount of prohibited materials will definitely be exported to the Tatars.