In order to completely block the entry of indigenous people in the Indian region, it is not a big deal to build a main railway line and several railway branch lines. Anyway, the Army has generously said that the Army will send engineering troops to help build it together. After the completion, the Army will transport it, and the price
I'll give it a little higher for you, too.
It is said that the Army's engineering corps is also professional in building railways, and its methods are clean and neat, and the speed of railway construction is very fast.
However, Datang Railway Corporation refused. If the Army Corps of Engineers were to help build the railway, it would be free, but the cost would be so high that they would vomit blood. More importantly, the railway built by the Army Corps of Engineers would not be usable.
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Because the Army Corps of Engineers builds railways as quickly as possible. If there are obstacles, they will blow them all the way. If they can't blow them, they will just take a detour. They won't dig tunnels with you or anything like that.
Whenever a bridge needs to be built, an iron bridge or even a pontoon bridge can be used casually...
Even if they are now allowed to build commercial railways, it is difficult to change the fundamentals.
After all, the construction they usually study are emergency military railways, which are generally used to transport train guns and emergency logistics transportation. The requirements are to be fast and usable!
They were able to build a several-kilometer military railway directly in the barren mountains and forests in just a few days.
But if you ask them to control construction costs, improve service life, and even safety, that is really not their expertise.
Therefore, unless it is in West Asia or Eastern Europe, the Datang Railway Corporation will not deal with the Army's engineering corps. If it has the skills to deal with them, it might as well just do the repairs on its own.
The railway plan for the Nanyang Peninsula region aims to completely integrate the Nanyang Peninsula region with other mainland provinces, accelerate local exchanges, and completely reverse the current embarrassing situation in the Nanyang region.
What an embarrassing situation!
Although it has been a long time since the relocation of the Nanyang region, and it has been some years since the empire established provinces and states in the Nanyang Peninsula, in the hearts of many people in the Tang Dynasty, the Nanhai Peninsula is still an overseas region, and it is the only one relatively recognized by the people of the Tang Dynasty.
There is only Jiaozhou.
Because this place is directly under the jurisdiction of Guangxi and connected to Guangdong, and Datang occupied Guangning County many years ago. In order to develop the Guangning coal mine, a railway from Lianzhou to Guangning was built long ago.
Jiaozhou is right next door, and subsequent railways will be connected very quickly.
Therefore, in the minds of the vast majority of people in the Tang Dynasty, Jiaozhou is regarded as the local area in the traditional sense.
However, Annam Province in the area south of Jiaozhou is an overseas territory, not to mention Siam Province and Myanmar Province.
However, in the overall planning of the Tang Empire, the Nanyang region, especially the Nanyang Peninsula, was the future hinterland of the mainland and the future local granary.
Chen Lifu and other high-ranking officials in the empire wanted to build the Nanyang Peninsula into the empire's second Jiangnan and make it the super granary of the empire itself.
Which is to a degree that far exceeds that of Central Asia and other regions.
Not to mention overseas territories.
This is also reflected in railway construction.
After Datang Railway Corporation announced the Nanyang Coastal Railway plan, other agencies quickly followed suit.
Soon the Ministry of Industry announced that it would carry out a large-scale expansion of the Malacca Port to transform this strategically important port from a military port and transit port into a real commercial port, which would in turn drive the development of Malacca State and even the entire Nanyang region.
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Nanyang Petroleum Company, Imperial Oil Company, Royal Petroleum Company and many other large companies have also successively announced that they will set up large-scale refineries in the Nanyang region, mainly in several oil producing areas, to supply nearby Nanyang region and India and other regions.
Supply of kerosene and other petrochemical products.
The Luzon Wandao Rubber Company, currently the largest rubber supplier in the Tang Empire, has also announced that it will invest a lot of money to build at least three large-scale rubber plantations. In addition, it will cooperate with a large number of rubber planters.
, support the development of small and medium-sized rubber plantations in Nanyang region.
Lingao Erjiu Company, a well-known seafood supplier in the empire and a canned food supplier, also announced that it will build a large-scale seafood processing plant in Malacca and invest in the construction of a canned fruit processing plant in Luzon and Bangkok.
factory.
These are just a few.
Driven by the empire's Nanyang economic development plan, a large amount of capital began to pour into the Nanyang region.
It’s not just capital that’s going here, but also all kinds of talents and more ordinary people.
However, although investment in industry and commerce can develop the local economy and attract a certain number of free immigrants, the real large-scale development of Nanyang still requires a major move by the Immigration and Reclamation Department.
In order to increase the population in the Nanyang region, the Immigration and Reclamation Department has been conducting consultations and talks with various agencies to ensure that the Nanyang region is attractive to immigrants.
At the same time, the Immigration and Reclamation Department is once again recruiting official immigrants on a large scale across the country, especially in places with a large population, limited land, and relatively backward economies.
And provides a large amount of subsidies for immigrants.
Free land, grain seeds, and basic farm tools are provided for basic operations. Additional one-time subsidies include travel subsidies, housing construction subsidies, food ration subsidies, medical subsidies, etc.
In order to achieve their agency's immigration goals, the Immigration and Reclamation Department spares no effort to obtain various benefits for immigrants.
As for why we strive for it.
Well, they will definitely not pay for this money, it will be paid by other institutions.
Even if you want them to pay, they don't have the money...
For example, medical subsidies, although not a direct payment, promise that new immigrants will enjoy free official medical care for a certain period of time if they suffer from certain diseases, mainly specific tropical diseases, after arriving in Nanyang.
Where did this money come from?
In name, the Ministry of Health gives it!
But in fact, the Ministry of Health has no money, and in the end, other agencies have to chip in the money.
Many other immigration benefits also adopt a similar approach.
Even the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites cooperated in the propaganda, shouting the slogan of "Nanyang Development", and carried out large-scale publicity through the Tang Dynasty Daily and other newspapers.
The last time such a large-scale publicity campaign was carried out was nearly twenty years ago.
In order to develop the Liaohe Plain area, the empire also shouted the slogan of Liaohe River Development. In just a few years, the population of the Liaohe Plain area increased to millions.
You must know that there were no trains or steamships back then, so transportation problems were extremely troublesome, and the resulting immigration was even more troublesome.
Although domestic and overseas immigration in the Tang Empire had begun more than thirty years ago, the scale in the previous ten years was actually not large, mainly due to transportation problems, which took a long time and high costs to transport immigrants.
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The real outbreak of immigration occurred after trains and boats appeared and became popular on a large scale.
It was not until around the 30th year of Xuanping that a large-scale immigration wave formed.
From that time on, the number of immigrants who took trains and ships from all over the mainland to coastal ports and then took steam ocean ships to go overseas each year reached two to three million.
And it has always remained high.
Many of the tens of millions of people in the Americas actually immigrated in the past decade or so.
The development of transportation has made immigration cheaper and faster.
The development of health care has brought some tropical diseases, especially infectious diseases, under certain control.
The development of the industrial and commercial economy can provide more jobs and income.
Together, these laid the foundation for today's Nanyang development.
Strictly speaking, the difficulty of immigration under the Nanyang Development Plan is much greater than that of previous immigrants to the Americas.
Immigration to the Americas is just a little further away, but the Americas are blessed with a natural environment that makes people happy to go there.
In the past, nine of the ten official immigrants wanted to go to America, and the Immigration and Reclamation Department had to adopt a series of methods such as canceling ship ticket subsidies to divert immigrants.
As for the Nanyang region, no one is willing to go there.
The situation is better now, but the improvement is limited.
Therefore, the work of immigrating to Southeast Asia is still very difficult.
But no matter how difficult it is, it can't withstand the strong official support from the empire!