The report declared that although the empire's territory is vast, its resources are extremely scarce. Whether it is iron ore, coal, even oil or other minerals, they are not that rich.
However, in overseas territories and indigenous territories, various resources are extremely abundant.
For example, in North America, there are almost all kinds of resources, and in India, Africa and other regions, there are countless minerals waiting to be discovered.
At the same time, the empire's oil survey teams have discovered oil in the deserts of the Red Sea region of West Asia, and even found traces of oil in the Balkans under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Then he said that the empire's industry and commerce were developing extremely rapidly, and the consumption of various resources was astronomical. Now it is increasingly difficult for the local side to supply so many resources, so the subsequent large-scale development of overseas resources is inevitable.
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Next, people from the Ministry of Commerce also spoke, saying that the empire's local enterprises are developing extremely rapidly. Although the local market is huge, overseas markets are becoming more and more important, especially when more and more people of the empire immigrate overseas.
, the overseas market will inevitably evolve from being a supplement to the current local market to a huge market comparable to the local market.
How should I put it? In the subsequent meetings on the second and third days, although the various reports said different things, the core argument was actually the same, that is, the empire needed many resources from overseas.
As for why this is the case, in fact many important officials of the empire are well aware of it.
Because at the previous imperial duty meeting, nine current core ministers of the Tang Empire discussed with the Holy Emperor how to alleviate the conflicts between the mainland and overseas territories, how to make the mainland and overseas territories more closely connected, and how to avoid potential rebellion in overseas territories.
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In addition to many old arguments, Chen Lifu, as the minister on duty currently in charge of economic development affairs of the empire, put forward a very interesting idea!
That is ‘economic integration’!
Chen Lifu said this at the time: "If the economic systems of the empire's mainland and many overseas territories are completely tied together, and the overseas territories will face a complete economic collapse once they are separated from the local-centered economic system, then
Will they still rebel?"
"People will die for money and birds will die for food. What will they do if there is no benefit or even harm? Even if a small number of people are willing, will the majority of people be willing?"
Regarding how to deal with potential rebellions in overseas territories, Li Xuan never believed that military suppression and restrictions on localization could solve the problem. Therefore, these methods were only unilateral restrictions and failed to resolve conflicts of interest.
Even the differentiation measures proposed subsequently can only be regarded as resolving part of the conflict of interest.
But the 'economic integration' proposed by Chen Lifu gave Li Xuan a glimmer of hope.
If the global economic system of the Tang Empire is made more closely connected and the overseas territories have to pay a huge price after breaking away from this economic system, then most people can be prevented from having unwanted thoughts.
As for the few die-hards, they will naturally resort to military strikes and other means.
And how can we better bind overseas territories with the mainland and how can we better achieve economic integration?
This is the core of this enlarged imperial meeting.
Of course, this strategy cannot be stated publicly. If it were stated publicly, it is estimated that many lords and a few other people would jump over the wall in a hurry.
What they want is localization, but not the complete binding of overseas territories and the mainland. This is not in their interests.
After several consecutive days of reporting meetings, Chen Lifu, as a cabinet representative, proposed a package of economic development plans.
This includes expanding the import of overseas agricultural products and industrial raw materials. In addition, the most important thing is to completely cancel all tariffs between the empire's mainland and overseas territories, whether it is exports or imports.
The quoted statement is that overseas territories are also part of the imperial territory, and trade between imperial territories does not need to pay tariffs of any nature.
This measure is also called the global free trade system.
This free trade system sounds like it treats overseas territories and the mainland together, but in fact almost the entire economic integration policy is to bind overseas territories and the mainland together, and this free trade system is no exception.
Various tariffs have been cancelled, which means that if agricultural products and mineral resource products from overseas territories are transported to the mainland for sale, no taxes or fees are required. Similarly, various industrial products from the empire's mainland are exported to overseas territories without any taxes.
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This will further reduce trade costs between the homeland and overseas territories.
At the same time, in order to further reduce the cost of maritime trade and further develop trade between the mainland and overseas territories, the empire will introduce a series of shipping support policies.
Including shipbuilding subsidies, coal subsidies, etc.
What is more important is to support larger-scale coal mining, further increase coal supply, and reduce coal prices.
Coal costs are a big item in today's shipping costs. Reducing coal costs can directly reduce a large amount of shipping costs, which will further stimulate overseas trade.
But the point is not this. The point is that the Import and Export Committee will liberalize a large number of official industrial products, especially industrial equipment needed for ordinary life.
Including agricultural machinery, construction machinery, port facilities, and even railway restrictions will be relaxed, etc.
On this basis, mechanical agricultural production and mechanical mineral development will be fully implemented in overseas territories to meet the empire's increasingly huge demand for food and industrial raw materials.
From now on, all citizens of the empire, whether they live locally or overseas, will be able to enjoy all the conveniences brought about by the development of the empire's science and technology, whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation.
This economic development plan caused a nationwide sensation once it was announced!
This news has not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, but has already spread throughout the empire through express and wired telegrams. The meeting that day has not yet ended. A large number of stocks were listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Guangzhou Stock Exchange.
It skyrocketed instantly!
Almost all industries such as steel, shipbuilding, energy, and machinery manufacturing have experienced surges to varying degrees, especially the American Mining Company, which owns many mines in North America and has become the largest mine owner in the Americas. However, it has
Because of the high cost of manual mining and high freight costs, North American Mining Corporation can only develop gold, silver and other precious metal minerals on a small scale.
After nearly twenty years of hard work, spring is finally here!
This company has just ushered in the spring, but it has already changed its owner in advance.