Valley Emperor

In the large-scale and far-reaching imperial conference, in order to continue to develop the imperial economy and improve the living standards of the people, the Son of Heaven officially approved the strategy of the 'Global Economic Development Plan' submitted by the cabinet.

In order to cooperate with the global economic development plan, the Son of Heaven then formally approved the plan submitted by the cabinet to upgrade several overseas territories into provinces.

This plan is mainly aimed at areas where population localization has been completed, where the local people are all citizens of the empire, and there are no other problems. In fact, it is aimed at North America.

Therefore North America will be divided into seven provinces.

At the same time, names with clear distinctions such as homeland, overseas homeland, overseas territory, and overseas colony are abolished.

Changed to provincial highways, state capitals directly under the cabinet, etc.

This means that, politically, the seven provinces of the Americas are equated with several provinces on the mainland.

Although the Import and Export Committee still exists, it directly stipulates that the management scope of the Import and Export Committee is limited to the import and export trade between the empire and the indigenous countries, and has no right to interfere with the internal trade of the empire.

However, the Empire has quietly established a new independent agency called the 'National Defense Control Council, which is responsible for regulating personnel, technology, equipment, materials, etc. that affect the security of the Empire's national defense.

At the same time, it is stipulated that any industry involving the research and production of firearms and even cold weapons or other industries that have an important impact on national defense must obtain the approval of the National Defense Control Commission before it can obtain a national defense license and engage in the national defense industry.

This is all on the surface, but the actual killer move is that in the Datang Empire, to open any type of business, you actually need a special license.

If you want to mine, you need a mining license. If you want to set up a steel factory, you also need a license to smelt steel. The same is true for most other industries.

However, the Ministry of Commerce has been very strict in issuing licenses for some strategic industries for many years. Now, it is basically impossible for private enterprises to obtain licenses for strategic industries except for state-owned or royal-owned enterprises.

Even the Ministry of Agriculture came to join in the fun, saying that for the food security of the people in the empire, mining and oil extraction and industrial production should not encroach on farmland or cause pollution, and all manufacturing enterprises must obtain the agency's environmental permit before they can handle it.

In short, the Tang Empire now recognizes that the seven provinces of the Americas are also part of the mainland, and will open up railways, some restrictions on industrial products, and even allow the opening of some light industrial factories, but the empire's economic development plan clearly defines the Americas and other regions Positioned as a strategic granary.

The core will be the development of mechanized agriculture, rather than the construction of factories.

Even if you want to build, the official will not approve.

In addition, there are seven provinces in the Americas, and after the yamen for the affairs of the Americas is directly abolished, it means that the Americas will not become a whole in the future.

This is very important. In the past, when people talked about the localization of the Americas, they were talking about the entire Americas. Now, Li Xuan directly cancelled the yamen for American affairs, and the word America will become history.

All of the above restrictions have only one core purpose, that is, to prevent the industrialization of overseas areas!

Overseas territories can use trains, cars and all other industrial age products!

But it must not have the ability to manufacture trains, automobiles, and various mechanical products.

In economic integration, the most important thing is the division of production!

The division of labor in the local area is the industrial production base, while the overseas territory is the agricultural production base and resource production base.

In fact, many of the above-mentioned major policies have nothing to do with ordinary people. Many people do not even care about the overseas localization that the cabinet bosses worry about every day.

They are more concerned with their actual interests.

Especially the tens of millions of immigrants in the Americas, what do they care about?

They don't care if there are steel mills, machine shops, shipyards, arsenals, etc. in America.

What they care about is the price of grain this year, and whether the products they consume daily, such as textiles and other things, are cheaper or more expensive.

To put it bluntly, they care more about their own lives!

For the needs of ordinary immigrants from these overseas territories, Li Xuan has truly met the needs.

The price problem is now more affected by freight costs, so overseas railways can be built, and coal production can be expanded to reduce coal prices.

And encourage the local import of various agricultural products and mineral products from overseas regions.

The standard of living that local people can enjoy, Li Xuan wants to let overseas immigrants also enjoy.

And when the needs of ordinary overseas immigrants are solved, the remaining small group of powerful and businessmen who have immigrated overseas are just clowns jumping on the beam, and there is still Hantong.

The Tang Empire, founded for decades, has never relied on the powerful and merchants, but on the masses of the people, especially the lowest peasant class!

Of course, many of the above-mentioned measures are also temporary measures, because Li Xuan knows, as do other important ministers, that it is impossible to keep such restrictions forever.

The development of industry and even heavy industry in overseas regions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is an inevitable historical development and will not change because of the reversal of manpower.

What the empire can do now is to delay the progress and wait for the successful economic integration before doing this.

If it really doesn't work, first use the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises to invest in setting up a few steel mills and the like.

In short, don't count on private capital.

How should I put it, the top officials of the empire took great pains to deal with the potential betrayal in overseas regions, and at the beginning they took forced suppression.

Now that I find it a little overwhelming, it becomes economic kidnapping, and then focuses on restrictions.

If you still can't hold back, then let go little by little.

The best outcome that the top officials of the empire hoped is that when they are completely released, these overseas territories will be completely integrated with the mainland.

It is not easy to completely integrate the homeland and overseas territories.

Distance sucks!

Across the Pacific Ocean, no matter how many methods are used, it is difficult to completely eliminate the estrangement caused by this distance.

To this end, what Li Xuan hopes is all kinds of new technologies.

For example, continue to develop the shipping industry, further increase shipping speed and reduce shipping costs.

Another important thing is communication!

One of the more important prerequisites for promoting the empire to engage in economic integration is that, after years of hard work, the Datang Empire has completed the laying of the Pacific cable.

One of the core strategic projects, the Pacific Cable Project, is the Nanyang Submarine Cable System, which was officially laid and completed in the first half of this year, and has been completed before.

The Indian Ocean cable project, the Mediterranean cable project and the upcoming Atlantic cable project are currently under construction.

It is conservatively estimated that Datang's global submarine communication network will take shape in two years at most!

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