The global economic development plan is still ongoing. This plan will not end in one or two years, nor will it end in three or five years. It will be a long-term policy that will last for at least twenty years.
Because the Tang Empire wanted to improve people's economic income and eat better, it lowered the food index to less than 40%.
However, this is just the surface, the goal known to ordinary people.
This long-term plan also has a deeper goal, which is global economic integration, easing the contradiction between the homeland and overseas territories, and reducing the independence tendency of overseas territories.
Based on this, the Tang Empire began to deeply bind the economies of its local and overseas territories through global economic integration, and in the process further strengthened the empire's local-dominated division of economic production, ensuring that no completed industry would appear in any overseas territory.
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But even the high-ranking officials in the imperial study did not believe that this plan would be effective in the end, especially when it came to preventing the establishment of industry in overseas territories.
In fact, many senior officials in the empire are very pessimistic.
As the saying goes, you can stop it for a while, but you can't stop it forever!
Over time, these overseas territories will always seek to establish their own industrial systems. Even if the princes do not promote it, the powerful people who have become rich in the overseas territories will also pursue it, because it represents greater profits.
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The idea of the empire's senior officials is to delay it for a while.
Taking advantage of this delay, the empire continues to strive for development, climb the technological tree, and push industrial technology up a few levels.
The current industrial technology content is still too low, even if there is not a single factory in the Americas, if left alone, local technical personnel and capital can rebuild an industrial system from start to finish for you in minutes.
However, if the technology is improved a few levels, then even if they have money and people, they probably won't be able to do it in a short time.
For example, this weapon, a breech-loading gun, can easily be produced in overseas territories by setting up factories from scratch.
But as for tanks, planes, and battleships, it is very difficult for them to produce these in a short time.
What the empire's top leaders want is this effect. Once they become independent, even if they have money and someone to build factories or the like, they will be able to give the locals enough time to mobilize troops for suppression, and they don't have to worry about overseas territories breaking out before the suppression.
A lot of tanks and warships are coming.
However, most people don't know this kind of strategic goal, only the top officials of the empire know about it.
Well, in fact, those vassal kings also knew these strategies of the empire.
Well, the person in charge of the specific implementation of global economic integration is Prince Li Hao.
If Prince Li Hao can be allowed to focus his governance on this, then even if the vassal king cannot understand the underlying purpose, at least he will know that it will not be of any benefit to him.
That was Prince Li Hao.
People who dream about cutting down the feudal vassal!
And other overseas vassal kings will not sit still and wait for death.
You don’t dare to resist global economic integration. At least before Holy Emperor Li Xuan died, you didn’t have the guts. Instead, you had to pretend to be a strong supporter. Otherwise, if Holy Emperor Li Xuan knew about it, the board would be destroyed in a minute.
coming.
The taste is probably not pleasant, and no one is willing to try it.
But if there is no direct resistance, it does not mean that Chen Cang cannot be assassinated secretly!
It is a very coincidence that starting four years ago, the princes of the major overseas territories have started charity education. While supporting primary and secondary schools, they also encourage and support talented students to apply for local universities and study.
What is most important in the new era?
It's Bole.
What about again?
That’s talent!
Although many of the talents they trained do not want to come back after they go to the mainland, if even one of ten people they send out comes back, it is a profit!
Others who are more courageous will secretly set up a technical secondary school in name only, but in fact, in the name of repeating a grade and failing academically, many of the students will repeat the grade and continue to study for six years or even longer.
Well, this is all for university courses, in order to circumvent the restriction that overseas territories do not have universities and cannot organize universities.
At first glance, the plan of these vassal kings is to hoard a group of technical talents in advance for use in setting up factories when major changes occur in the future.
In fact, these little thoughts of overseas vassal kings could not be hidden from Hantong's ears, but the Holy Emperor turned a blind eye to them.
But if the prince knew about it and took care of it, Li Xuan wouldn't stop him.
Li Xuan has always not cared much about the intrigues of his sons, as long as they play within the big framework he has drawn. This is true even if the vassal kings want to stand on their own, or if the prince wants to cut down the vassal, Li Xuan basically doesn't care about them.
own struggle.
This kind of intrigue is very training for people, and it can also distinguish personal abilities.
Whoever loses in these intrigues will bear the consequences himself.
In the early years, if several vassal kings went too far and were caught by the prince and reported to the imperial court, Li Xuan would not be partial and would receive the appropriate punishment. Usually, the offending vassal king would be given a new fiefdom and let the prince be punished accordingly.
He went to another crappy place and started from scratch.
If he wanted to continue playing, he would probably be more cautious.
If the mud still fails to hold up the wall, and if it fails through conspiracy and tricks, then Li Xuan will decide that his son has no ability, and will just give him some barren land to play with.
Don't expect anything other than glory and wealth in this life.
Li Xuan's policy actually made the prince feel aggrieved, but there was nothing he could do no matter how aggrieved he was.
Over the years, he has somewhat understood Li Xuan's approach.
The changes in overseas territories in recent years also made Prince Li Hao feel that it would be a matter of time before these overseas territories became independent.
This is an inevitable law of economic development, and there is no way to stop it. I don’t see that the empire has made great efforts to promote global economic integration, but it still cannot completely eliminate the possibility of independence of overseas territories!
After he succeeds to the throne, he can survive ten, twenty or even fifty years, but what about one hundred years?
Where is his successor?
Prince Li Hao is becoming more and more pessimistic like Li Xuan in this regard.
Even though he has not succeeded to the throne yet, in fact, he has already made plans to divide a group of sons out after he waits for the throne.
No matter what happens to the overseas territories in the future, the meat will still rot in the pot!
Time and position will change a person. After Prince Li Hao has handled government affairs as the prince for many years, he can somewhat understand Li Xuan's motives on some matters.
Although it's not a lot, it's not all, but it's enough.
If he could be one-tenth as good as his father, then he would become the second greatest emperor in human history!
The greatest one is naturally his father, the Holy Emperor.