Chapter 177: Preparing to Return to China
Hua Tuo's investigation ended ahead of schedule, which also means that he will return to China with the ship, and the mission of Wu Zhengdao and Li Mengshi has been basically completed, and Li Mengshi's investigation report has also been submitted, and there is no longer much need to stay in Hong Kong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Moreover, as more and more immigrants are recruited, if the original resettlement site is not vacated, it will not be able to recruit again, and the ships allocated from Yan Jianye also need to be sailed back to China for steam engine wheel transformation.
Therefore, the current task of Hong Kong overseas consulates is to actively prepare for returning to China, and porcelain, tea, silk and other materials are still hot-selling products in China.
However, with the rise of the textile industry, cotton has also become the object of mass purchases, and cotton is the raw material for the production of cotton yarn and cotton cloth, which are urgently needed.
The first batch of cotton cloth sold very well in Europe, and the new process is used to dye the cloth, the color of the dyed will not change, no matter how to wash or that color, the natural will not fade, so ordinary people in Europe are very fond of cheap Australian cotton.
The main reason for the popularity of cotton cloth was that its price was much lower than that of Europe, and even if it was shipped to various European countries by sea, it could make a lot of profits, which added to the list of goods shipped by Dutch merchants.
Of course, with the expansion of textile mills, the Australian cotton market will also expand, according to the Ministry of Foreign Trade's plan, the end of this year will be the first batch of mechanical weaving exports to Daming, which is one of the Ministry of Foreign Trade's export plans this year.
With the increasing number of goods produced in Australia, the export of goods has changed from a single mirror to the current export of more than a dozen goods.
Sugar, ironware, cotton, and spirits are the main items exported by Australia, in order to ensure that the price of mirrors does not fall too fast, so the Ministry of Foreign Trade has specially formulated an annual regional export limit.
As early as before, the price of the first batch of mirrors could be sold for hundreds of thousands of taels to now the one-person high mirror has fallen to 50,000 taels, although this price is still very profitable in the eyes of everyone, but in fact it has depreciated by half, if you can't control the quantity, it will be possible to fall below a few thousand taels.
At that time, the streets were full of people who could use mirrors, as the main economic pillar of Australia's export earnings, mirrors could not depreciate too quickly, otherwise Australia's economy would be affected.
This is not what the Ministry of Foreign Trade proposed, as well as Chang'an Bank, that is, the Central Bank of Australia extrapolated based on the market.
Australia is in a stage of rapid development, and the capital investment required is very large, at least to keep the price of mirrors for about five years, so as to effectively carry out the transition period.
As long as the transition period has passed, the price of the mirror will not depreciate much.
At present, mirror exports account for 75% of Australia's tax revenue, which is too large, and once it is affected, it is likely to bring a big economic crisis to Australia.
At this moment, Zhou Billy, Wu Zhengdao and others gathered together, "Everyone hasn't been together for a long time, this time I go back, the next time I come here may be a month or two later, you stay here to work, you have to take care." ”
Wu Zhengdao raised his glass to toast like others, in fact, after going back this time, he didn't have much chance to come out, as the time of the founding of the country was getting closer and closer, a lot of affairs that needed to be dealt with, as well as the selection of personnel in various departments, the arrangement of new immigrants, etc., all needed to be carried out by him.
"Yes, Lao Wu's work is very heavy after going back this time, although the specific founding time is set on October 1st, which is to commemorate the 11th National Day, but the preliminary preparations still need to be done."
It is said that in order to build the country, the executive committee proposed that the various departments should be formed for a period of trial operation, during which everyone will be suitable for a new job, and it is also a better job after the founding of the country.
The founding of the country also means that the actual politics of Australia will change, the current executive committee members will become the cabinet over, and the leaders of the various groups will be the status of members of parliament, of course, there will be many more members, which is a great opportunity for many people.
At this time, Wu Zhengdao must be in the country, keeping an eye on the changes in the situation, he is not representing him alone, but also representing whether the interests of Zhou Yang and others can be guaranteed.
Among the younger generation, Wu Zhengdao and Zhou Yang are still very influential, and many young people are led by them.
"Before Lao Xu came out, he specially told that the establishment of local councils in overseas territories also needs to be accelerated, Zhou Yang, you have to hurry up, this is a political task."
"It is not difficult to establish a local council, and Yuzhou and I have already discussed that some local immigrants will join the council members to cultivate their ability to participate in politics."
Allowing local immigrants to join the parliament will definitely not be passed in the country, don't look at how someone wants to give the Ming immigrants human rights or something, but when it really touches their interests, they will definitely not let go so easily.
Allowing immigrants to join parliament means giving them the power to participate in politics, which can be very dangerous if their influence exceeds that of the people themselves.
As the first generation to establish Australia, on the surface, Australia is taking the route of participating in politics with its full name, but in fact, the big guys know in their hearts that this decision-making power can only linger in the hands of the traversal themselves, at least within one or two generations, the right cannot really reach the immigrants.
If Zhou Yang set this precedent, it may cause a lot of pressure on the local area, so as soon as Zhou Yang finished speaking, Wu Zhengdao frowned.
"You don't agree with this." Zhou Yang asked, somewhat surprised, in his opinion, that getting local immigrants into the parliament was a way to unite the immigrants and the relationship they once had with each other.
I think you should submit a report to the Executive Committee, after all, the impact is too great, if other overseas consulates also learn from your method, it means that your overseas consulate government not only has a high degree of autonomy, but may have a certain impact on the mainland.
In fact, what Wu Zhengdao wants to say is that the acquisition of such rights by local immigrants is likely to eventually lead to the overseas consular government not being controlled by the mainland.
Although the current governor has a high degree of autonomy, it is completely different from the state of eventual development mentioned by Zhou Yang, which belongs to two extremes.
"Well, I'll give full consideration to your suggestion, and now we should finish this dinner and not talk about business."
(To be continued.) )