Chapter 2137 The Preliminary Achievements of Economic Integration
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A large number of people began to work in small and medium-sized cities near their hometowns, either full-time or part-time during slack periods, which greatly increased the income of ordinary farmers in rural areas.
This is extremely important!
It is also an important reason for the decrease in the empire’s food index!
Because overall, the proportion of low-income groups is the largest, and their food index is the key data that affects the overall food index.
Otherwise, the empire would not have continued to focus on increasing the income growth of low-income groups for several years.
At the same time, this is also inseparable from the large amount of cheap food and industrial raw materials coming from overseas territories.
Forty years after the Ping Dynasty, the empire adopted various measures, especially the comprehensive abolition of tariffs, the adoption of a thorough global free trade system, and the increase in production and price reduction of basic raw materials such as coal and steel, which greatly reduced the cost of ocean transportation, making it easier for people coming to overseas territories to
Large quantities of grain and industrial raw materials can be imported into the country at an acceptable price.
Especially in the Americas, a large amount of grain and meat products are imported to the mainland every year.
This will not only allow the imperial people in the Americas to earn more income, but also allow the local people to eat more and cheaper food.
Five years have passed, and the empire's economic development plan has achieved initial results, and the 'global economic integration' behind it has also achieved practical results.
Behind a series of economic measures, a variety of situations were created that the upper echelons of the empire wanted to see, that is, overseas territories, especially the Americas, became increasingly dependent on the local region for their economy.
Nowadays, the Americas produce a large amount of grain and meat products every year, but the local area cannot consume so much food. In the end, most of this food needs to be transported to the local market for sale.
This is not related to one or two people, but to the overall interests of the nearly 20 million people in the Americas today.
Because immigrants in the Americas are generally agricultural immigrants, they generally own more land and make a living through agriculture and animal husbandry, and most of their products need to be transported to the homeland for sale.
This is what the upper echelons of the empire want to see!
The empire's huge local market directly kidnapped the economies of overseas territories represented by the Americas!
In particular, it is directly bound to the agricultural and animal husbandry population, which accounts for the vast majority of the population in overseas territories.
At the same time, global free trade and the comprehensive elimination of tariffs will reduce the cost of transporting local industrial products to overseas territories for sale, and eliminate the possibility of capital from overseas territories developing their own industries from the source.
Let's set up a possibility. If capital in the Americas builds factories by itself, their technology and cost will definitely be inferior to mature local products.
When local products are transported to the Americas for sale, because the freight is low and there are no tariffs, even if the two sides compete, the winner will be the local products.
This is what the upper echelons of the empire want to see, and it is also what most farmers in the Americas want to see.
They hope to sell their grain at a good price and use cheap and high-quality industrial products!
Even commercial capital in overseas territories can benefit from this process. They can invest in retail, transportation and other industries, or even directly participate in local industries. Even if they do not build factories in overseas territories, they can still make a lot of profits.
The only ones who don't want to see this situation are the overseas lords!
But for the time being, the overseas lords of the empire are still very honest. They can at most make small moves in various aspects and make some preparations in advance, but they still don't have the guts to blatantly oppose global economic integration.
There were even some vassal kings who were able to gain benefits from this process.
For example, there are vassal kings in some places who have no industrial resources in their territory, but only large areas of fertile land.
Even if industrial restrictions are relaxed, it will be difficult to develop any decent industry.
What he can rely on is a large amount of fertile land, so although the vassal kings in these places are somewhat reluctant to the empire's global economic integration, they will still accept it and even actively integrate into it.
This is also an inconspicuous but very important part of the empire's global economic integration, which is to divide the interests of overseas lords.
Not every vassal king has a fiefdom with full industrial potential. In fact, there are very few that have such potential, and most of them are concentrated in the northern part of America, especially the Five Lakes Province.
The place is rich in various mineral resources and has good transportation conditions. Even if you look at the world, this kind of place is very suitable for developing various industries, especially heavy industry.
For such places, the measures taken by the empire's top officials are also very targeted. First, they send officials with strong skills and flexibility to serve as governors. Officials who can serve as governors of overseas provinces like Wuhu Province are carefully selected by the empire's top officials.
Selected ministers.
Each and every one of them has great skills!
After all, they need to suppress the vassal king, divide the interests of the local elites, stabilize the middle and low-level people, and especially strengthen the overall centripetal force of the middle- and low-level people towards the empire to avoid separatist tendencies.
Feng Xinyuan, the former governor of Wuhu Province, is one of the most typical representatives!
During his five years as the governor of Wuhu Province, Wuhu Province had the greatest industrial potential in the entire American region, and was also the most dissatisfied with the local area. Moreover, the vassal king of this place was the sixth prince, Prince Zheng, who had great influence.
Even so, he still firmly controlled this overseas province, which was originally the most separatist, under the control of the empire.
Politically, the methods he adopted were extremely powerful. Even when facing King Zheng, he would dare to directly attack him. During his five years in office, he had more than 50 letters to impeach King Zheng, many of which were outstanding and effective.
Results.
In the forty-second year, Feng Xinyuan collected a lot of evidence and implicated King Zheng, saying that he was secretly hiding weapons and wooing the generals of the palace guards with the intention of conspiring against him.
Prince Zheng was deceived so badly that all the confidant officers he had tried so hard to insert into the palace guard were all kicked out.
In the end, the Holy Emperor personally ordered him to be banned for a year!
It seemed like a ban, but in fact it was a very serious warning, forcing King Zheng to write a letter requesting to return to the capital to fulfill his filial piety!
Given the current political environment of the Tang Empire, it is not a good thing for the vassal kings to return to the capital. A dozen or twenty years ago, the vassal kings were eager to return to the capital, but now, few are actually willing or courageous to return to the capital.
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They are all afraid that they will never be able to come out again after returning to the capital. This is to a certain extent reducing the vassal status!
King Zheng wrote a letter requesting to return to Beijing to fulfill his filial piety. In fact, he was retreating in order to advance, saying that he was willing to voluntarily give up his fiefdom...
Of course, Li Xuan didn't really intend to remove him from the feudal clan.