Chapter 2142 The people of the Tang Dynasty who make people speechless
Chen Lifu obviously also knew that the empire attached great importance to the issue of illegal immigration, because he himself also hated the illegal immigration of indigenous people. As a scholar with a traditional gentry background, Chen Lifu had never regarded the indigenous barbarians as human beings, and naturally he would not allow them to do so.
They have invaded the homes of the Tang Dynasty people.
In his early years, he was one of the main ministers who supported the construction of the border wall. Without these ministers who hated the natives, how could the empire spend so much manpower and material resources to build the border wall?
Therefore, in the latest letter, Chen Lifu also focused on the issue of illegal immigration and once again analyzed the benefits of glocalization, which is that it can effectively curb illegal immigration!
He said that in order to prevent illegal immigration, the empire has now spent countless manpower and material resources to build border walls stretching from the West Sea in the west to Myanmar in the east, and has constructed a huge no-man's land and military blockade zone, but even so, it still has little effect.
But if the native territory is directly expanded to the entire Indian Peninsula, West Asia, and even most of Europe, and the indigenous people are moved to Africa or other places that are easy to blockade.
At that time, we can directly use the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and other oceans as border blockades. At the same time, we will dispatch special maritime patrol forces to block part of the coast of Africa and prohibit the indigenous people from developing shipbuilding and navigation.
In order to completely solve the difficult problem of border blockade.
It has to be said that after Chen Lifu gave a lot of reasons before, the public did not react at all, but after this argument came out, public opinion was instantly in an uproar.
In particular, the people in some border provinces close to the indigenous areas reacted fiercely to this. People in many areas have already made some kind of book of peoples, requesting the empire to push the border line forward by a few hundred dollars.
For kilometers, it is best to push it all the way to the sea.
In short, they do not want to border with the indigenous people, and they do not want to endure the continuous flow of illegal indigenous immigrants smuggled in...
Even the Holy Emperor Li Xuan was speechless at this kind of public opinion!
Throughout ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, the people who support expansion not for the sake of territorial survival, not for resources, not for other conflicts, but simply to solve the problem of illegal immigration, are probably the only people in the Tang Empire!
But, this is the fact!
Not only the public opinion, but also the middle and high-level officials of the empire generally have this idea. Although everyone's interests are different, this does not prevent them from supporting the empire's next expansion.
For businessmen and enterprises, they want to continue to expand the scope of localization so that they can develop more resources more conveniently and at low cost.
For example, in the oil industry, they have long been eyeing the oil fields in Romania. They discovered the oil fields in this area many years ago, but this area is under indigenous control and cannot exploit oil.
Another example is iron ore, coal mines and other mining companies. They have long been eyeing coal in the British Isles, coal mines and iron mines in Germany, France and other regions. However, they are still limited by the fact that these places are under indigenous control, so
They can only adopt a roundabout strategy and simply act as an ore purchaser.
But if these places can be brought under the control of the empire, then they can legitimately acquire these mines and then develop them.
Even ordinary farmers in the empire mostly want to obtain more fertile land.
You must know that in the empire's home areas, there have always been a situation of more people and less land. In the past, most of the land immigrants flowed to Southeast Asia and the Americas.
However, America is too far away from the mainland and industrialization is prohibited.
The climate and environment in Nanyang are not very good.
As for Central Asia, that place is actually not suitable for the development of agriculture. The empire mainly develops animal husbandry there.
But it's different in Europe or the Indian Peninsula. These places can be developed as new granaries.
How can I put it, the people of the empire will not refuse to become farmers.
In today's general environment, the empire supports expansion.
When the upper and lower levels have reached a consensus on something, the next thing is very simple. Officials continue to write letters requesting global localization, and analyze it from various angles.
Under this situation, the Holy Emperor no longer ignored the leaks at this time. On December 26, the forty-sixth year of Xuanping, when the New Year was approaching, the Holy Emperor sent Chen Lifu and several other letters
Representative excerpts were sent to the imperial study room for circulation.
This means that the matter has become public, and at the same time, the Holy Emperor has acquiesced to the advancement at this time.
A few days later, the annual Spring Festival came, and Li Xuan held a Spring Festival state banquet according to tradition. At the New Year's Eve state banquet, Holy Emperor Li Xuan made a speech on the matter for the first time. In an informal chat, Holy Emperor Li Xuan said
, the new year is coming, and in the coming year, the empire will continue to seek more living space and a better living environment for the people of the empire.
Although there is no mention of global localization in this statement, everyone is smart and can understand what Sheng Tianzi means.
This more living space means the need for more territory.
A better living environment means more resources.
This sentence basically set the tone for the global localization crisis that lasted for more than half a month: expansion!
The specific method of expansion is something that needs to be considered in detail later.
After the Spring Festival, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Emperor Sheng presided over the first duty meeting of the Royal Study Room of the new year. Accompanied by Prince Li Hao, nine ministers on duty and 21 ministers on duty from both civil and military sides attended the meeting.
In the meeting, there was no direct discussion about expansion, global localization or the like. Instead, they discussed people's livelihood and economic matters.
Once again, the problem of more people and less land in East Asia was mentioned!
It is said that although the empire has continued to organize people to immigrate from the mainland provinces of East Asia in recent years, especially provinces with more people and less land, even though it has alleviated the problem of more people and less land to a certain extent, it still has not been able to completely solve it. After all, it is now peace.
In the prosperous age, there were no wars or large-scale natural disasters. Even if there were occasional natural disasters such as droughts and floods, the empire could effectively solve them with its current strength and mobilization and organizational capabilities.
Therefore, the population growth rate of local people has always maintained a relatively high level, which also means that the problem of more people and less land has never been completely solved.
Now, it is necessary to carry out a new round of large-scale officially organized immigration operations to alleviate the population pressure in some provinces.