Chapter 1958 Partial localization along the railway
Few of the upper-class dignitaries in the Tang Empire were fools. They were all human beings who had gone through countless power struggles to climb up the ranks.
With just a quick thought, they knew that for the Tang Empire at this stage, premature localization and industrialization of North America was not a good thing.
Because this would cause the empire to lose control of North America.
Once there is chaos in North America, the empire cannot even guarantee that it can suppress the local rebellion.
Just imagine, if an overseas mainland with a population of over 10 million and a complete industrial system conflicts with the local area due to various reasons, and then declares independence, well, there is a high probability that it will be an independent country led by the local vassal king, and the establishment of an emperor will be something like that.
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Under such circumstances, if the empire wants to span the entire Pacific and suppress the rebellion in North America, it will definitely be a hundred times more difficult than unifying the world at this stage.
Because North America has a population and resources, and what’s even more frightening is that once localized, they will be able to complete complete industrialization in a short time. When the three are combined, it will directly give birth to a regional power, and it will also be a region that has completed industrialization.
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This is why the Tang Empire paid great attention to agricultural immigration and development during the process of overseas immigration and development of overseas territories, but it deliberately ignored or even prohibited the fundamental reason for industrial development in overseas territories.
This is also the fundamental reason why the high-level dignitaries of the Tang Empire did not support the localization of overseas territories.
Why do we need to localize? Isn’t it great now? Immigrants could make a living by farming, so why do they have to build factories?
Not only the powerful, but also the industrial and commercial circles generally do not support it, because although the market in overseas territories is not big, it is still a market. Once overseas territories are localized and can build their own factories, many local industrial products will be very important.
It is difficult to sell in overseas territories after localization.
This has been proven in many localization actions, such as Fuso back then, which was a dumping ground for industrial products.
However, after the localization of Fuso and the establishment of Beihai Province, not to mention becoming a dumping ground for goods from mainland provinces, Beihai Province has now taken over in some fields, especially in the field of raw silk-based silk fabrics and cotton spinning.
It has gained a considerable share of the empire’s domestic market.
Even in high-end industries such as shipbuilding, several shipyards in Beihai Province are doing quite well.
This was mostly the case in several subsequent regions that carried out partial localization, such as Luzon Province, Banten Province, Malacca State, Australia and other regions. After partial localization, many various factories immediately appeared in the local area, from mainland China.
Local industrial goods quickly lost their market.
Repeated occurrences of this situation have caused many mainland entrepreneurs to no longer welcome, or even reject, the localization of overseas territories.
The conflict of interests between local enterprises and enterprises in overseas territories, and the concerns of the upper echelons of the empire about not losing their greatness, are all the fundamental reasons why the localization of North America is so far away.
Of course, this is just the opinion of ordinary people!
The Holy Emperor’s view is different!
In the view of Sheng Tianzi, the future localization of North America is inevitable and even unstoppable by manpower. From the empire itself, this may have risks and incentives, but for the entire Chinese nation, it must be done.
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Well, even if North America and the mainland of the empire fight in the future, it will only be a fight among the Chinese themselves. Maybe the leaders of both sides will still be the vassal kings of the Li family.
Even if it's smashed, the meat is still in the pot.
Therefore, Li Xuan is not too worried about this.
Besides, even if there will be a certain degree of greatness in North America after industrialization, as long as communication and military deployment are properly dealt with, the problem will not be too big.
For example, after the advent of radio, North America will know when something happens locally, and it will be very simple to deal with it.
As for military deployment, they often adopt the method of off-site deployment. Many locally recruited soldiers and officers are stationed in North America, and they are not afraid that they will not be ruthless when suppressing rebellions.
The most critical point is that even after industrialization, the defense industry cannot be left to overseas countries.
And when science and technology continue to develop and the difficulty of producing ordnance weapons further increases, it will actually become more difficult for local rebellions overseas.
They can mass-produce flintlock muskets by simply modifying the mechanical equipment.
However, there is no special arsenal for breech-loading rifled metal rifles like the Li Fu rifle, so there is no way to mass-produce them.
Not to mention battleships. There are shipyards that are useless, and there must be a complete set of industrial systems. If one of them is stuck at random, it will be finished.
The national defense industry has always been the most strictly controlled industry in Datang. The production of various types of weapons requires licenses. Currently, there are still only three major arms companies holding national defense licenses.
If other companies dare to produce weapons, they are breaking the law!
Control some key industries, solve wireless communications, and control higher education. At the same time, there will be no partiality in specific economic policies, and immigration exchanges between the two places will be increased.
After taking many measures, Li Xuan felt that he did not dare to talk about it for too long, but it should be able to ensure the stability of North America within a few decades.
As for what will happen decades or even centuries later, Li Xuan doesn't bother to care.
If you want to rebel, then rebel, if you want to fight, then fight. Anyway, Li Xuan will be dead by then, so he can still control so much.
Anyway, Li Xuan has already distributed his sons to various parts of the world. No matter how hard he fights, they are still his own sons, and the old Li family is still the royal family.
The Holy Emperor has his own plan for the localization process in North America, and he must first solve the problem of radio communication.
Until then, let's keep it the same.
This situation is also known to the officials of the American Affairs Office, and most of them are even supporters of this policy.
Although they are officials serving in the American Affairs Office, they are first and foremost imperial officials. Their mission is not to help North America complete industrialization but independence, but to help the empire control this region.
Therefore, they have stopped talking about localization in North America in recent years.
However, they still felt that they needed to build an east-west railway to connect the east and west coasts of North America. This was not only to better develop the large amounts of land in the hinterland, but also to shorten the distance from the empire to the eastern coast of North America.
This is not only good for economic development, but also good for the empire to better control North America.
The question is, how to build this railway when North America cannot be localized in a short time?
Finally, they came up with a method. It was wrong, and it cannot be said that they came up with it, but that it was plagiarized.