Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2318 The land flowing with milk and honey

He is not very interested in the financial industry. He was engaged in the financial industry because of the high income in this industry.In an environment like Lingao, the role of the financial industry is very limited, and it will take at least a few decades for it to develop greatly.In contrast, he is very interested in the old things of the age of exploration, trade, and the East and West India Company.Passionate about being a colonist of a new dimension.He also participated in the preparations for the Southeast Asia Company, but soon felt that the company's power was too small. It was purely a place for pirate merchants attached to the Senate to find a way out, and it was not the Senate's version of the East India Company.

Eventually he applied to the Colonial Trade Department.It was soon discovered that despite its great name, the department did not receive much resource allocation in the Senate system.It is said to be "colonization", but in fact the main business is to engage in import and export trade.

Trade is of course very important.The people around him also agreed on this point, but in his opinion, the Secretary was too "peace-loving". Why did he buy so many things?Wouldn't it be better to grab it?
The obvious result was that he and Skelder had a bad time.Although Skade was born in foreign trade, he knew very little about colonial history, so he was naturally not his opponent when he started the debate.

Although he got the thrill of winning the debate, it did not help his "career".In the Ministry of Colonial Trade, Surrounding got the position of Chief of the Colonial Department as he wished, theoretically he could manage all the colonies in the "non-East Asian region" of the Senate, but this colony is just a stronghold in Hongji.Jeju and Taiwan are all "local", and judging by the momentum of the Senate, Vietnam will also be "local" sooner or later.

After thinking about it, only by letting the Senate "go south" can he get rid of the ineffective situation of the head of the colonial department.Fortunately, "going south" or "going north" has been debated since before the Senate entered Lingao City.Over the past few years, as the plate has become bigger and bigger, this kind of contention has begun to surface.

Undoubtedly, in the face of the chaotic northern continent, Southeast Asia, which is relatively barren and empty and has a lot of resources, can attract the attention of the elders more.Therefore, from the meeting before the launch of the mainland strategy, some people opposed the mainland strategy, and instead invested corresponding forces in Southeast Asia.

However, most of the elders considered that if they first launched a strategy against Southeast Asia, it would inevitably result in more naturalized people of Southeast Asian origin among the population under the Senate's rule in the future, which would be very detrimental to the population composition.Moreover, going south will inevitably be accompanied by large-scale colonization. Before there is enough local population, it is difficult to recruit enough immigrants to Southeast Asia under the Ming Dynasty by relying on semi-public Senate companies such as Delong and Qiwei.

The final result of the discussion was to win Guangdong and Guangxi as the basic board of the Senate on the mainland.The native population of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially the Han population, is at least 900 million.This number is enough to maintain the main population level of the elders.

The Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi started with triumphant advances until recently it fell into a quagmire. Although the surroundings did not express their opinions much, they have been paying attention to the situation of the battle.In his view, the current quagmire of the Guangdong-Guangzhou war can just curb the mouthpieces of the "Northward faction" who advocate that after the occupation of Guangdong and Guangxi, they will continue to go north to expand the results of the war.On my own side, I can put forward the argument of going south in an open and honest way—following the trend.

It is not difficult to make an argument, but it is rare to have someone to support yourself.After all, this is a change in the strategic direction, and it requires a two-thirds majority at the Senate meeting.It is not enough to just "follow the trend" and rely on the support of the old southward faction, and the middle faction must also be recruited.

Who are the centrists?After thinking about it around, I finally decided to start from the industrial entrance.In his opinion, the Industrial Port is a big ticket store, but it doesn't have a strong sense of presence in the Senate.Most people are addicted to their own majors and rarely care about political changes and strategic directions.If their enthusiasm for "participating in and discussing state affairs" can be aroused, let alone going south to build colonies, it will not be a problem to become the chairman of the Senate or the secretary of state in the future.

After thinking about it, Dr. Zhou began to deliberately contact the veterans of the industry.Attending this seminar today is also an important part of his plan.After all, it has nothing to do with chemical engineering, and the level of chemistry is roughly the level of the third year of high school——I almost forgot about it.He also doesn't understand machinery, biology, medicine, petroleum... Anyway, he has nothing to do with majors related to Danzhou Industrial Park.

The reason why he came to the seminar was that he squeezed into the meeting because he boasted that he had "material solutions".He discussed the specific plan with a few people in the industry, and they were considered "like-minded".A consensus was formed.

But to turn the "consensus" of these few people into "the consensus of the industry", this requires further operations.

The industrial port is a very large department, and almost half of the veterans are concentrated.According to the majors, it can be roughly divided into four major areas: energy, machinery, metallurgy, and chemical industry.

Among the four sectors, the most dissatisfied with the status quo is mainly in the energy and chemical industries.Both of these openings are very important, but have long been constrained by resource conditions and low-level industrial categories that cannot make breakthroughs.

The low level means that there is no loud voice in the Senate, and there is a great feeling of being ignored.

The surroundings analyzed the situation of the two big mouths, and believed that in comparison, the chemical mouth must be more resentful than the energy mouth-compared with the veterans of the energy mouth, they have the possibility of death and serious injury every day.And the production conditions that the naturalized migrant workers have to endure are even worse when they go to the site to guide and supervise the production.

As long as there are complaints, it is easy to form a consensus.After several observations and trials, the surroundings had a private "in-depth communication" with "Er Zhang", and the two parties "fully expressed their views" and "reached a consensus".

The people around realized that the appeals of the industry are not the same, but they all have one thing in common, that is dissatisfaction with the allocation of resources.

The Senate is very poor on Hainan Island. There are a lot of resources on Hainan Island, and theoretically there is no shortage of anything.However, except for iron, there are generally problems of too little reserves and scattered production areas.Many resources are still in undeveloped inland areas.It is more difficult to develop.

For a long time, the lack of resources has become the main problem that has seriously plagued the industry.In terms of industrial output, it can be said that it has been steadily increasing, with a large percentage of growth every year.But this growth is negligible in the face of massive demand.

Only by grasping the core demand of "resources" can the industrialists support their southward policy.

Sure enough, the bland sentence "A clever woman can't cook without rice" immediately captured the hearts of everyone, and Zhang Hao immediately responded with understanding: "That's true, there are no resources, just making a plan is useless!"

Zhang Xiao also immediately said: "Throw a lot of resources into Guangdong and Guangxi to improve the record, and ask us all day long, how much gunpowder, how much fertilizer, how much medicine can we provide... TNND, can I get these things out of shit? When it comes to allocating production materials, there is nothing, but to transfer out is to ask diligently!"

This immediately resonated with the people present: discounts when applying for projects, and rush when asking for things, which are the consistent characteristics of the Senate.Basically, bargaining has become a compulsory course for veterans who run projects.

Although everyone knows that the Planning Institute is not a piss-piercing oil mine, objectively there are only as many things as there are, and projects also need overall planning.But people always feel that this distribution is "unfair" and that they are "neglected".Especially the frustration after the project they applied for was rejected and discounted made them full of resentment.

"Anyway, we are just a bunch of tool people." Zhang Hao began to fan the flames, "Anyway, in the eyes of Ma Qianzhu and his group, we are just high-level naturalized people who make the Senate even greater!"

This time, cold water was poured into the boiling pot, and the emotions of the veterans in the seminar were mobilized.What the elders hate and fear the most is being regarded as a "stepping stone to a great cause".As long as someone utters these words, they will receive miraculous effects immediately.Even Ji Tuisi felt displeased, but soon realized that the head of the Colonial Division, who had no professional background, tried every means to squeeze into this seminar, and he must have some kind of purpose.

His thoughts were fast, and he immediately guessed the real thoughts around him.

However, he was not in a hurry to stop the complaints and agitation of the elders. Ji Tuisi thought, no matter what, what he said was not bad, and the Senate's development and deployment of resources really needed to be taken seriously.Children who cry since ancient times have milk to eat.It would be a good thing to have such a catfish jumping in and making a fuss—at the same time, it can also increase the right to speak of the chemical industry.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, he coughed and said, "Everyone knows that all the difficulties we are encountering now are due to insufficient production capacity. The reason for the insufficient production capacity is nothing more than the lack of resource supply. To solve it, we must solve it from the root. resource issue."

In the following time, the surroundings began to explain the advantages of going south with the materials they carefully prepared.The main content is "thousands of hectares of fertile land where three crops of rice can be planted casually" in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, "countless minerals on the coastline", "light crude oil that will emerge by itself when you dig a hole"... These materials are all from him. Over the past month, I have been burying myself in the homework in the big library.To be honest, he never put so much effort into writing his doctoral dissertation.

Although the veterans of the industrial port probably knew about the resource advantages of Southeast Asia, after all, this was in the 17th century, and Southeast Asia was still a "wild land", so the veterans didn't know much about this land.Now being blown around like this, it immediately turned into a "land flowing with milk and honey", and everyone couldn't help but yearn for it, and the anger of "the executive committee harmed the country" was ignited in their hearts-although the executive committee had long ago It has been disbanded for many years.

(End of this chapter)