Since raising that stupid dog, Ma Zhou's temper has become a lot more irritable.
It's not easy to be with a stupid dog who can only toss him around and wants to develop a hundred and eight all-dog feasts every day.
Zhang Chao felt that the conditions were now ripe and it was time to start a full-scale overseas colonization policy.
"Overseas colonization is not about how many foreign tribes to conquer, nor how many territories to conquer, what is the root of overseas colonization is to transfuse blood for the imperial court" "Open up new overseas markets, find cheaper raw materials, and even exploit many of the resources that are lacking in the Central Plains.
These are the real purposes of our overseas colonization, so for overseas colonization, it is not necessary to say that we want to destroy a country, nor to occupy many territories.
What we need is a completely new model, such as occupying an island, occupying a port, it is enough. ” Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou's ideas are still a little different.
Prime Minister Ma Zhou's concept, of course, is still relatively traditional, believing that overseas colonization, just like the conquest of Goguryeo and the conquest of Linyi, is aimed at eventually destroying its country and occupying its land.
But Zhang Chao didn't think so, colonization, there was no need to go to such a big goal from the beginning.
The goal of Zhang Chao's colonization was to plunder resources and open up new markets.
If you can trade, then build a trading port and trade with the natives.
If you can't trade, then build a stronghold, fight them, with Dahua's advanced navigation technology, excellent equipment, and well-trained, you can completely abuse those natives.
Catching slaves and trading slaves, building castles and manors, mining and planting, in fact, are also very potential.
Everything is still in the Central Plains at all.
It is necessary to keep the Central Plains in the leading position.
"How can we ensure that these colonial companies remain loyal to the imperial court?"
"After all, many overseas colonial companies can only colonize very distant overseas areas, and it is not easy for the imperial court to manage them."
With enough strength, it is definitely not willing to be controlled, this is nature.
But Zhang Chao is not worried about this.
"In an overseas colony, even if the shareholders of the colonial company are rich and powerful, they cannot do without the support of the imperial court.
Even if the company is rich, if the imperial court controls the customs port of the Central Plains, then these colonial companies will not be able to get what they need, in other words, if the colonial companies want to make profits, they actually have to rely on the Central Plains market.
Essentially, the most profitable way for colonial companies was through plunder and conquest, and through trade. ” "Whether it is the slaves or materials they plundered, they must all be transported back to the Central Plains to make money.
And if they are traders, they will be even more inseparable from the Central Plains, because many profitable goods are only produced in the Central Plains, and the cost here is the lowest. ” What is the equivalent of the Central Plains It is equivalent to a huge trading market, whether it is a vassal state or an overseas colonial company, if there is no such a trading market as the Central Plains, then their development is a rootless tree, and they don't want to develop at all.
"In short, the colonial company will never be a threat to the imperial court, and the better the colonial company does, the more blood transfusions will be given to the imperial court.
This is just like our feudal princes, the princes who are far away from the Central Plains, we don't need to worry. ” "I plan to set up a standard for the establishment of an overseas colonial company in the future, and as long as the standard is met, I can apply to the imperial court for authorization.
After passing the review, after paying a security deposit to the imperial court and a colonial authorization fee, you can have the right to open up the colony. ” "Is it really appropriate to fully open the colonial company now?"
"There is nothing that is inappropriate, it is a matter of opportunity to do it now and to do it later.
There is no need to miss the opportunity now, but the colonial companies should be liberalized, but the regulation should still be regulated.
First of all, on the issue of immigration, it is necessary to strengthen the management of this, and we must not easily let the people of the Central Plains emigrate to overseas colonies, and even the immigration of the fiefs of the princes must also be strengthened, and the conditions for the people of the Central Plains to immigrate to the fiefs of the princes must also be raised. ” Immigration is an important resource, and without a population, especially the Han population, and the lack of elite such as excellent craftsmen, it will be even more difficult to develop a fief or colony.
As long as the immigrants are stuck, the colonial companies or princes' fiefs will be greatly restricted by the Central Plains, and the Central Plains court does not have to worry about the loss of a large number of people to the border areas or overseas, especially those excellent craftsmen and scholars, etc., which are extremely important resources in this era.
Ma Zhou also supports this.
In fact, the management of population movement in successive dynasties was extremely strict, and even the people were not allowed to leave the township and county easily.
A hundred miles away, you have to open a road to guide these.
Without these, you wouldn't be able to pass through those levels.
In the past, the imperial court did this in order to tie the people to the land, so as to ensure agricultural and grain production, and also ensure the stability of the local area, which was conducive to management.
Previously, in fact, the imperial court did not prohibit the movement of people very much.
People in the countryside can go to the city to work, and may even cross the state and cross the road, as long as they need an identity card to carry on their bodies, and they can go anywhere.
If you live in a foreign country, you can get a temporary residence permit or something.
This kind of relaxed population management system, as well as the taxation system after the implementation of the two taxes, have made the circulation of the population simple and convenient, which is also conducive to the development of industry and commerce.
However, some new problems have also emerged in the past two years.
For example, the imperial court divided a large number of princes, and the princes were in the border areas, and the biggest problem was the lack of population.
In particular, the Han people lacked a main body, which severely limited the development of the princes in the fiefdom.
As a result, the princes bought a large number of slaves on the one hand, and on the other hand, they put forward many favorable conditions to attract Han Chinese immigrants to the fiefdoms.
Previously, Zhangjia Development Liuqiu also used this method to give excellent immigration conditions, immigrants have settling-in expenses, travel expenses, free land grants, exemptions and other conditions, and even established cooperatives to issue interest-free loans.
One policy after another has attracted many immigrants from the Central Plains to settle down in Liuqiu.
The other princes also showed their own powers.
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If you give 100 acres of land, then I will give 200 acres of land, and even bring a population of 100 households, and give an official position or something, in short, for the sake of the population, the princes have really shown their magic over the years.
Of course, now, the population gap is getting bigger and bigger, and there are not so many people to dig in the Central Plains.
The number of people who flowed from the Central Plains to the fiefdoms of the princes was also quite large, at least tens of millions.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Chao proposed to impose restrictions on the territory of the immigrant princes.
The Central Plains system must not be changed, and the imperial court must give priority to ensuring the development of the Central Plains, and then it can take into account the princes, otherwise, if the lord is weak and strong, it is still very dangerous.
Zhang Chao has stricter requirements for overseas consulates, and the conditions for immigrating overseas must be strictly strengthened.
"Then there's the outflow of restrictions on technology."
In addition to the population, technology is also very important.
Mining, smelting, iron and steel production, military production, shipbuilding and other important basic strategic industries must be controlled by the imperial court, even if some private enterprises are released in the Central Plains, they cannot be developed outside the Central Plains.
At most, mining is allowed outside the Central Plains, but processing and manufacturing are not allowed.
For example, in the shipbuilding industry, there can be logging outside the Central Plains, but the processing of ship timber must be in the Central Plains, and the timber must be transported back to the Central Plains for further processing.
Another example is the mining of various minerals such as coal, iron and copper, which can be explored and mined outside the Central Plains, but it is not allowed to smelt and process directly there, and only some screening and other work is allowed on the ore, and the smelting must be in the Central Plains.
Even such as textile printing and dyeing, they must be in the Central Plains.
Strict control of the outflow of technology can keep the Central Plains in the leading position of technology and grasp the core competitiveness.
No matter how fertile the reliability is, if there is no Central Plains export technology, they can only grow grain, mulberry, hemp and cotton, etc., then they will at most be the production place of basic grain and cotton and linen silk.
These raw materials are transported back to the Central Plains, and after printing, dyeing, textile, etc., they become other better commodities and can also have stronger added value, in other words, these processed silk products, cotton products, etc., in the end, the Central Plains has gained more profits, and correspondingly, the imperial court has also obtained more taxes.
And credibility is only a huge source of raw materials, and what they earn in the entire commodity circulation chain is only the least part.
Through this kind of economic scissors, the imperial court can easily shear the wool of the princes, so that they can never keep up with the development speed of the imperial court, and even make it impossible for them to have some core competitive technologies.
And the blockade of processing technology on them can also make those overseas colonies and princely fiefdoms only produce raw materials and then exchange them for handmade goods, so that they will be cut again.
Direct robbery, such as collecting taxes from the princes, raising taxes, etc., is the most untechnical thing, and it is also the most likely to provoke the dissatisfaction of the princes.
But in this way, it is gentler and more hidden, and at the same time more effective.
There is no blood in the killing, and the flesh is cut with a blunt knife.
If you want to rob, you have to rob with technical content, which has always been Zhang Chao's concept.
"Don't worry about opening up the colonies, we don't have to worry about how many overseas colonies there will be by then, and we don't have to worry about getting out of control, we do what we need to do, and we don't have to worry about the rest."
If you really want to control the outflow of immigrants and technology, then the imperial court can actually lie down and collect money.
The better they develop, the more blood they will transfuse to the imperial court, and the stronger the imperial court will be, whether it is the princes or colonies, they will be unable to compete with the imperial court, and the more inseparable they will be from this powerful system of the imperial court.
Out of this system, they are nothing.
Not to mention that the imperial court can make them useless even a needle, but it will indeed make the colony of a single economy collapse in an instant.
Ma Zhou sighed.
It feels like the emperor is always one step behind, they take one step to see five steps, and the emperor is one step at a time to see ten steps. t1706231537: