Chapter 465 Development in the East, Development in the West, Collapse in the Middle—3
It's just that these brand-new policies are really full of the smell of changing the soup without changing the medicine, and it is difficult for people to have too much hope for their effects.
First of all, Suning decided to continue to build a large number of roads in the central region and increase the income of ordinary people with infrastructure investment, and at the same time, he has also ordered the fleet to go to sea and start planting rubber on the islands of Southeast Asia As for the rubber saplings, it is purchased in the system store, the reason for this decision is because of the technical needs of the steam engine, because without rubber, it is difficult to solve the problem of air tightness of the cylinder.
The second measure is to encourage the research and development of science and technology, hoping to use this to find more commercial gimmicks for the output of technical products.
The third measure is to enrich the local cultural identity, hoping to use nostalgia to make those who have already started to invest extensively in other regions want to withdraw their attention a little.
The three measures are really as he expected, did not receive good results, the most serious is the second, although a lot of technological innovation and research and development has been carried out, but unfortunately, because the capital has been concentrated in the east and west, so they have occupied a strong advantage in the competition for talents, the two regions in the middle, but also because of the concentration of talents, and their own need to send out some talents. But this process has not been well controlled, so that a large number of talents are actually in the form of a loss to the rapid development of the east and west ends.
Although the industrial and commercial manufacturing industry that has just been established here does not have a sound department in the core area of the Liangzhou system, there are even very few skilled mechanics, so that the skilled craftsmen in the core area can get the wages of their masters' masters here. But the situation soon improved, especially for those who invested in setting up factories. You invest all the profits you make from selling the goods into production.
After all, in the past, most of the production departments of the Liangzhou system were controlled by Suning. This gives them the right to set prices, so these merchants who sell goods privately came up with the idea of building their own production factories, of course, at the beginning, this idea is still far from the actual construction, but with the continuous expansion of the territory, the rapid intensification of overseas trade, the major companies controlled by the Liangzhou system have been unable to meet the needs of the maritime merchants, which gives the merchants more room to live, so there is a crazy factory construction behavior.
Suning is obviously negligent in guarding against this, especially those small states in India, after establishing a good relationship with the Yuliangzhou system, they began to hire relevant talents on a large scale.
And they have in their hands a huge amount of property deprived from slaves, which makes the price of talent soar rapidly, so that Suning, who has a large amount of silver reserves, is a little caught off guard.
All of this makes Suning's second measure seem useless.
And his first measure was also hated as a waste of money and labor.
In the large-scale infrastructure construction behavior, Suning has promoted it by virtue of its strong silver reserves, and a large number of building materials and manpower are purchased and hired from the surrounding areas. Of course, the locals have also benefited a lot in the process, but although their incomes have increased, prices and various costs have also increased.
What made them even more angry was that after the roads were built, the vehicles that whizzed by carried supplies farther east.
Yes, there is a huge difference between the East and the West, which gives them a huge complementary advantage in commerce, and the crazy trade volume has also been generated.
But the central region has not benefited from this frenzied trade practice.
Things from the West often have a strong Western character, whether it is minerals, or imitations of various collectibles with cultural characteristics, or even simple food and clothing. All of them can bring serious squeeze to the various commercial products of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate.
Because their own output is small, there is not enough population to participate in the related industries, which makes them not too well-known in the market, and in the production process, it is not much ahead of others, so it is not easy to achieve the effect of scarcity and expensive, and it is even more embarrassing. However, there was a lack of people to exploit these minerals in the Western Regions, so they could only watch the trucks full of ore whizz past their doors, transporting those things to the core area of Liangzhou for processing.
For those goods from the East, Baidu has a style similar to the Liangzhou system, and food is no longer a problem for the Liangzhou system, and the entire central region does not need to worry about this. I don't need to worry about the supply chain, as for whether it is worth worrying about in terms of selling price, it purely depends on the income of residents.
Anyway, there is no one who is willing to merge his food price below the production cost line. Supply and demand are not the determining factor in commodity prices. It is rare for two systems to occur within the scope of future world history, but this also means that once a similar situation occurs, it will pose a huge threat to Suning's ruling order.
In fact, the export of labor services was originally a relatively important economic phenomenon in the eastern region, at least it could help solve many problems in the collapsed areas of the central region, but due to the relative lack of numbers in the army, and the fact that the children of Guanzhong have always had a tradition of martial arts, this made most of the fresh labor force eventually flow into the national defense system, rather than the economic field.
As for Suning's third measure, it is even more speechless, those capitalists seem to only care about their own money, and do not care about the feelings of the year, and they are almost silent about Suning's call. Moreover, the reason for their busyness was enough to make the Soviet Union angry, because they were busy opening more factories and concentrating the factors of production such as technology and capital in the east and west, and the problem of the collapse of the central part would become more and more serious if it continued for a long time. The entire Liangzhou system will become an ugly dumbbell, and the once-glorious heartland will become a fragile lever that cannot bear the weight of both ends.
Against this backdrop, Suning had to use his last weapon. Although the risk is very high, if it is not, it may be difficult to change the economic landscape of the core area of the Liangzhou system.