According to Chen Lifu's proposition, the empire should unify the world and spread the emperor's grace all over the world. Of course, in order to demonstrate the benevolence of the empire, the African land can be temporarily given to the indigenous barbarians to live in.
Based on this policy, the empire's expansion in Africa was actually limited, and it only controlled parts of North Africa, South Africa, and coastal areas, while leaving the vast central and inland areas of Africa untouched.
These places have been determined by the Tang Empire long ago. In order to reflect the emperor's great grace, the lands awarded to foreign races by the Holy Emperor can also be referred to as gifted lands.
Therefore, imperial globalization does not include the vast interior areas of Africa.
Chen Lifu's eagerness to globalize the empire was definitely not because the empire needed a wider supply of raw materials or a dumping ground for industrial products, nor did it mean that the people of the empire needed more land.
There are even some voices within the empire saying that things are fine now and there is no need to continue large-scale expansion.
After all, we have now entered the industrial age. As long as the land is enough, there is no need to occupy all the land.
There is another sentence that many people dare not say openly, that is, occupation is of no use. After more than a few hundred years, they will still rebel and go out independently. Now the empire has gone to great lengths to maintain the situation in America.
The number of troops stationed in America is increasing year by year, but the empire's top brass are becoming more worried about American independence every year.
From now on, if we occupy all parts of Europe, the same situation will most likely occur.
Therefore, many people are not willing to achieve global unification. It is good to leave these indigenous countries as product dumping grounds and cut a wave of leeks from time to time. There is no need to spend a lot of time to achieve global unification.
However, there are people who have these ideas, but they are not the mainstream. In fact, the mainstream is like Chen Lifu: Unifying the world is something you can only do if you don't ask for it. Now if you don't vote for it, you are simply sorry.
Ancestor, I can't help myself.
Moreover, the most important thing is that since the empire established the policy of ‘fighting is worse than buying’ and ‘buying is worse than wanting’, the cost of unifying the world is extremely low!
If you want to occupy a certain place in the early stage, you will need to mobilize a large army, which can easily cost tens of millions or even billions of dollars!
In the mid-term, the Tang Dynasty people got smart and spent tens of millions of Tang yuan to buy Spain and the Americas controlled by the Portuguese. They also spent hundreds of dollars to buy Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula from the Ottomans.
Just ten thousand.
In the later period, that is, in the past few years, when the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars made deals, they even saved money. The Tang Dynasty just promised to give them a place to live in the future, and then sold them a batch of weapons at a low price.
After signing a number of more trade agreements, the Tatars themselves gave large tracts of Eastern European land directly to the Tang Dynasty.
When they fought against the Ottomans before, the Tatars did not launch the war to occupy these lands for themselves, but just to capture this area and then hand it over to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for various benefits.
In this process, the direct cost paid by the Tang Empire was actually very small, only a few million Tang Yuan.
However, the Tatars were not at a loss either. They made a fortune by seizing a large amount of loot during the Ottoman War.
As for the cost of the Ottomans' relocation, it has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty. It is just a normal loan. The Ottomans have to pay back the capital with interest.
To sum up, since it cooperated with the Tatars, the Tang Empire unified a large territory with basically no cost, not to mention the risks.
Unless the earth explodes or aliens invade, there is no risk to the Tang Empire!
This is also an important reason why many people in the Tang Dynasty support imperial globalization!
At the higher level of the empire, specifically Chen Lifu, he proposed this and promoted it quickly.
That's because he is not young, and has been serving as the minister on duty in the imperial study room for some years. If we look at it according to conventional circumstances, he should have retired a few years ago.
In fact, he performs a routine beggar's bone fracture every year, and the Holy Emperor refutes it every time!
This is his special treatment as the foreman of the minister on duty in the royal study room!
Before him, Liu Bagou, Jia Wenbo and several other foremans of the imperial study room had received this kind of special treatment, but even so, his tenure was limited and he could not continue to work forever!
He needs to achieve great results before becoming an official, so that he can completely overwhelm the previous foremen of the imperial study, and even completely overwhelm Liu Bagou, making himself the number one minister in the Xuan Ping Dynasty!
Hundreds of thousands of years later, when future generations talk about the Xuanping era of the Tang Dynasty, they may have forgotten other people, but they must remember the Holy Emperor Li Xuan and Chen Lifu.
For this reason, he was very anxious, and this urgency became more and more intense as time passed.
In the past year or two, Chen Lifu has been able to deeply feel that a few years ago, Jia Wenbo, his predecessor, would be so urgent.
Beginning in the 40th year of Xuanping, Jia Wenbo, the oldest person in the imperial study at that time, began to urgently promote domestic economic development, and became more and more urgent as time passed.
Previously, Chen Lifu still despised Jia Wenbo, thinking that he was too impatient.
But now Chen Lifu can understand Jia Wenbo back then. It's not that he was impatient, but that time didn't wait for me.
It took me so many years to get ahead in the imperial study and become the oldest and most powerful minister in the Tang Empire. But, after getting ahead, I will find that the pressure is even greater.
If you don't do this well, you will be forced to beg for bones. Even if you do it well, you won't have a few years left.
Except for Liu Bagou in his early years, he has been the most senior minister on duty in the imperial study room, and is actually the foreman of the imperial study room.
After you make it to the top, your tenure is still only as short as three years and no longer than five years. No matter how old you are or what your health is like, you still have to be a beggar!
This is because in the political arena of the Tang Dynasty, officials had a limited number of years to hold leadership positions. Generally speaking, if they hold a leadership position for as short as three years or as long as five years, they will usually be transferred. In some special circumstances, they will be transferred.
It can be extended appropriately, but it will only be extended for about one or two years at most.
It is impossible for you to stay in a leadership position forever.
The same is true for the head of the Royal Study Room!
If the empire's political arena wants to maintain healthy development, it requires the mobility of officials, thereby ensuring officials' upward path, and at the same time preventing officials from controlling a certain institution for a long time and forming an independent kingdom.
That's why the empire has explicit regulations that lead officials need to be adjusted for as little as three years and as long as five years, along with related systems such as the age at which officials can enter office.