Chapter 214 Application Form of South China Mining Company
In Xihu City, Wuhu Province, Feng Xinyuan looked at the application form in his hand. After reading it carefully and again, he signed and stamped it.
After signing and sealing, Feng Xinyuan fell into deep thought.
He knew very well what impact the report he signed would have in the future.
This impact not only affects the Five Lakes Provinces, but also has a certain impact on the seven American provinces, and even on the global strategy of the entire empire.
Because this is the first time the empire has officially approved companies to use machinery and equipment to mine mineral resources in overseas territories.
Of course, even though Feng Xinyuan was the governor of Wuhu Province, he did not have the authority to directly approve such a thing.
In fact, this application report has already been approved by many agencies!
There is approval from the Department of Mines of the Ministry of Commerce, approval from the Department of Geology and Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, approval from the Fire Department of the Patrol Department, approval from the Department of Health of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and approval from the National Defense Safety Regulatory Commission.
It has the signatures and seals of the heads of eighteen organizations in total!
Except for the governor's office of Wuhu Province, the other seventeen institutions are all Jinling and Gyeonggi.
In other words, this is an application approved and approved by the high-level officials of the empire. It is also the first approved application for using mechanical equipment for mining overseas in the history of the Tang Empire.
Mining minerals overseas is not uncommon. There are many examples of the Tang Empire mining minerals overseas.
In the early stage, it mined precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper. In the middle stage, it got involved in saltpeter, guano and other minerals that were lacking in the country. In the later stage, it began to mine coal mines on a large scale around the world.
Because the steam ships of the Tang Empire traveled all over the world, the demand for coal was huge, and it was impossible for the Datang Empire to dig coal from the mainland and transport it to overseas warehouses for backup. This cost was too high, so the Tang Empire
In many overseas territories, we even worked with the indigenous people to mine overseas coal mines.
For example, the British Isles region in Europe was a major coal supply base for the Tang Empire in overseas areas. It is conservatively estimated that there are at least hundreds of thousands of local indigenous people mining coal through manual mining, and then supplying it to the Tang Empire in Europe and other regions.
coal consumption.
Therefore, it is nothing new for the Tang Empire to mine minerals overseas. Whether it was overseas territories or indigenous-controlled areas, similar behaviors were observed.
However, the use of machinery and equipment to mine minerals in overseas territories is absolutely unprecedented.
The Tang Empire had extremely strict control over machinery and equipment. Over the past many years, only local areas and partially localized areas were allowed to use machinery and equipment.
Typical examples are the gold mines in South Africa and the oil fields in the Baku region.
You must know that in order to exploit the gold and oil in these places, the Tang Empire carried out an unprecedented "partial localization".
Later, in order to develop the Nanyang region, the Tang Empire simply took an unprecedented move in human history. The Tang Empire moved all the Nanyang natives to Africa through land replacement.
In the end, the Tang Empire carried out immigration and development in the deserted Nanyang area and operated it as a native place.
Today's Nanyang Peninsula has three more provinces and one state, namely Annan Province, Siam Province, Myanmar Province, and Malacca State. In addition, there is a buffer isolation zone in Myanmar Province and India, which is very large.
The main function of the huge Myanmar West Prefecture is to prevent the influx of indigenous people from the Indian region. The west end is occupied by the Tang Dynasty border defense troops, the east is also occupied by the Tang Dynasty border defense troops, and there is a large no-man's land in the middle.
To the west of Myanmar West State, the overseas territory of Bengal was directly under the Tang Dynasty, and further west were several indigenous kingdoms supported by the Tang Dynasty.
From puppet indigenous kingdoms to overseas territories, to local isolation zones, and then to local residential areas, the Tang Empire took great pains to prevent the influx of indigenous people from the southwest border.
From the examples in the Nanyang Peninsula, we can see how much importance the Tang Empire attached to localization and the use of machinery and equipment.
Such strict restrictions have also led to the fact that although the Tang Empire currently has extensive overseas territories around the world, except for a very few elevators, port facilities, ships and other machinery, it is almost difficult to see other mechanical equipment.
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The only places where you can see more of them are major overseas military bases.
For example, the Ceuta military base has relatively complete warships and ordinary ship maintenance facilities.
There are similar facilities in Xinnanggang and Xinjinshanzhou.
But now, the Tang Empire is preparing to make a small opening!
This application report says it is for coal mining, but it is actually applying for coal mining equipment. A mining company that can submit such an application report and finally get approval from many agencies is naturally not an ordinary company.
This application report was applied for by South China Mining Company, the largest mining company in the empire.
During the previous split of the American Mining Company, the company invested in subscribing to some of the coal mines of the American Mining Company in the Americas, several of which are rich mines in the Wuhu region.
But even though this company is the largest mining company in the empire, if it hadn't been approved by the empire's senior officials, they probably wouldn't have even written the application.
After all, the senior officials of South China Mining Company are all on-the-job officials. In terms of rank, the general manager of South China Mining Company is also a third-grade official, and his political consciousness is definitely high.
This application report was actually ordered by the superiors.
To put it bluntly, the empire's senior leaders are planning to let South China Mining Company, a large mining company directly controlled by the empire, test the waters first.
This can not only meet the needs of economic integration, develop minerals in overseas territories such as the Americas, and supply the local market, but also limit the outflow of large amounts of machinery and equipment.
This kind of thing can only be done by large enterprises directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises such as South China Mining Company, not other slightly smaller enterprises affiliated with the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. As for private capital!
They couldn't even find a way to submit an application...
To obtain an application for the use of machinery and equipment for overseas mining, approval from 17 Gyeonggi agencies and approval from overseas territorial authorities is required.
If you want to obtain the approval of so many agencies at the same time, to be honest, without the approval of the Holy Emperor, no one in the world can do it, even if the nine ministers on duty in the Royal Study Room work together to do it, because the Holy Emperor does not
If it takes a stance, the military is 100% opposed to it.
The Tang military, regardless of the army or navy, all wanted to maintain the status quo. They would rather have every shell and every bullet shipped from the mainland, even if it was expensive. Anyway, the empire had the money to let them do it.