Chapter 210: The Liberalization of the Ghaznavids

The small conference room of Chenji Academy. Li Ji, who was about to adjourn the meeting, picked up a document and looked at it.

"Why haven't these plans been executed?" Li Ji took out the catalog of Ghaznavid Raiders and pointed to a few of them and asked.

"It is being implemented, and the new treaty we have signed provides for equal missionary provisions. Our territories and satrapies in India and Southeast Asia are open to the mosques in the Ghaznavids, and as long as they have the money to buy land to build new mosques, they agree to send missionary imams to build new bases, and we are free to buy land within their borders to build Buddhist mosques and spread everything in the empire.

For now, the terms of the Ghaznavid's advance in the Boxi Mountains are still very good. Seeing the weakness of the central government and the decline in its control, the localities soon began to engage in separatist activities. A large number of feudal lords approached our consulates everywhere, hoping for arms and trade aid, and for more territory.

It seems that the division of Ghaznavid is imminent. Bai Jia said proudly.

"What are you proud of? What are the benefits of the Ghaznavid split! ”

"That's a big deal! In a country with a long history of civil strife, whose military expenditures are absolutely enormous, we can completely control the country by non-military means, and ensure that Islamic countries such as the Seljuks and the Qarakhanids have nothing to say. We can also put into practice how to achieve high economic growth in a country with a constant civil war. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that the market economy and liberalized trade are the only core drivers of economic growth.

As long as we try all the elements of economic growth, the ultimate theory of economics in the future can be developed in advance. A unified macroeconomic growth model is comparable to the grand unification theory of physics. ”

"When did you have this ambition, it was simply a ransack of our team. Do you know how much human and material resources we need to create this environment that meets many assumptions? You're going against the sky! ”

"Hey, hey!" Wang Neng touched his head embarrassedly.

"It's a good thing and I'm sure it will be successful. We can fully guarantee that all the princes of this completely divided country will become our most obedient servants. Each tribe and village will become the most staunch pro-Chinese faction, because only the empire can provide them with the security, order, and welfare provided by the original Ghaznavid axe in the midst of war, and we can provide more. Who can resist an outside force with unlimited resources? ”

Although the Ghaznavids were an Islamic country ruled by the Turks, their population was difficult to grow due to long-term internal and external troubles. Ghaznavid, with a population of less than 10 million, was almost killed by his former subordinates. The rulers of the Seljuk Empire were ancestors of the Ghaznavid royal family, and the Ghor dynasty, which would destroy the Ghaznavids in the future, was also a vassal under his jurisdiction. The current Ghaznavid monarch Arauu. Duura. Abu. Said. Masuded. Root. Ibrahim was a non-existent waste, compared to his ancestor Mahmud, a firefly compared to the sun. He had not been able to deal with the flurry of reading power in the country before we had been bolstered with great financial aid and interest-free loans a few years earlier, and the hereditary nature of the governors everywhere had become an inextricable trend, and the great princes (the great tribal confederations and the powerful satraps) had colluded with the Seljuks or us for the supreme throne.

From this point of view, he is simply a dou who can't be helped! I propose to abolish him completely, and set up an absolutely obedient puppet to become the compiler of our former great power. The spiritual leader of the entire Islamic world, Caliph al-Musteizhir (the 28th caliph of the Abbasids after losing real power, was really just a spiritual religious leader) was the best puppet. No one in the Islamic world can surpass the caliph in appeal, he is like the pope of Christendom, but he does not have the power of the pope and the organization of the Holy See. The chaos in Ghaznavid is actually similar to the era of warlord melee during our Republic of China, which is the golden period that foreign forces have entered. A puppet-like head of state must at least have something that can be used without threatening us, preferably an influence that can be wiped out at any time, such as faith and morality.

Ghaznavid's internal and external troubles will slowly hollow out, and they will become a label on this country, and we will control everything in this country, and all the wars and turmoil will be our own self-directed and self-staged procedures. It costs us just to test our theories, and it's not worth it, only posterity can judge it. ”

"Before the liberalization of the Ghaznavids, almost all the means of production belonged to feudal lords and warlords, governors, and so on, and after we opened their borders, a large number of new vested interests appeared in their localities to replace the old feudal lords. I felt that the merchant power was too thin, and that it was necessary to add the new market-oriented agricultural land capitalists, the new aristocracy. Otherwise, it is impossible for the religious conservative forces and warlords to surrender under the new framework. "Bai Jia spends his strength.

There are not enough agents and lackeys, and this is the greatest difficulty of imperialism in the semi-colonies. In order to learn from the advanced experience of future generations, the people agreed to the strategy of opening up international students and the leasing plan of opening up coastal ports. A large number of large public facilities and comprehensive universities have been built on leased lands that go beyond mosques. Through the trade network, the settlements of the entire Ghaznavid territory were invaded step by step.

With the exception of the coastal areas under the control of the governors, the large number of Afghan hill tribes in the interior were almost exclusively employed by the Empire's mining and textile companies. These tribes with a population of no more than 1,000 people are almost all fully engaged or passively involved in the global division of labor system that traverses the public planning. The great empire with an area of more than 5 million square kilometers disappeared after 1040, and the Ghaznavid army fought a decisive battle with the Seljuk Turks in Dandankan, the Ghaznavid army was defeated, losing all its possessions in Iran and Central Asia, Khorasan and Khorezm fell into the hands of the Seljuk Empire one after another, and a number of small Muslim dynasties began to appear in India. The Ghaznavid kingdom, which is now less than a million square kilometers, consists of only a large area of the Hindu Kush Mountains and a coast from the Gulf of Oman to the mouth of the Indus River, which is probably too barren for the Seljuks to look down on.

In order to test his economic theories and create an economic environment that transcends the limit, Ghaznavid, without peace dividends, demographic dividends, reform dividends, and resource dividends, can only rely on trade and foreign capital to develop. This unique environment can only be maintained by strong external forces, and the people who cross the public also need a proof to prove that their liberal economic policy theory is the best political axe economic policy in line with the times, and any heavy agriculture and suppression of business or mercantilism are weak.

This country with unique conditions is simply a perfect guinea pig for experiments. With the exception of the sea to the southwest, the entire border is surrounded by hostile countries. With no resources and no security, it is not even as good as the island country, at least it is rich in marine resources. It is basic common sense that the economy of a country with internal divisions imminent and surrounded by external enemies is almost impossible for it to develop steadily. In order to break this common sense, the Crossing Masses did not use powerful military or other forces to change this precarious political and military situation, but unilaterally used a powerful financial advantage to throw money desperately. Huge amounts of money were lent to a large number of agents and feudal lords for a long time at extremely low interest rates and under strict conditions in many regulatory directions, and the first three-year loan secured by customs and taxes alone amounted to 200 million dragon dollars. 90% of the initial loan and investment is spent on the construction of transportation facilities. The slogan of building roads first if you want to get rich has also penetrated the hearts of everyone, as well as the hearts of countless partners and directors of overseas industries.

With this alone, the Travelers controlled 99% of Ghaznavid's logistics and wholesale business. No matter how greedy and shameless these governors and local feudal lords were, no one dared to fight the idea of investment in the Chinese Empire. The hanged bodies of countless Arab pirates and horse bandits near the coastal docks and inland trading inns speak to all of the strength and resolve of the Empire.

The focus is on arranging monopolies in various pillar industries and uniting the regional economy. The Sindh region is a representative example, where only sugarcane and rice are cultivated in the riverside areas, and the Hindu Kush Mountains are divided into 10,000 square kilometers as a unit, and only the most suitable single commodity is produced.

Huge numbers of trade orders and staking agents poured into the Ghaznavids, and a large number of nomadic tribes rallied around these feudal lords, who seemed to have appeared overnight, and women became weavers, children became shepherds, and men of age became miners and lumberjacks. Large quantities of textile orders and raw material purchase orders were crammed into the tents of tribal chiefs and elders, and large quantities of consumer goods and building materials were brought into the tribes as truckloads of ores, timber, primary industrial raw materials, and primary processed products such as woollen fabrics and leather were transported.

This rapid commercialization was actively promoted by feudal lords large and small, just like the pyramid schemes of later generations, and every time a tribe joined the market, the production and marketing of goods reached a certain scale to obtain a certain imperial commodity import agency or extremely scarce luxury goods trade import quotas and other incentives. This advanced marketing mechanism quickly destroyed the traditional family economy of local protectionism and self-sufficiency, and swept countless families and forces into the tide of marketization. The massive export of capital and technology led to the explosive and strong growth of the Ghaznavid economy, with GDP growth of 30% in half a year and a fourfold increase in import and export trade.

The rapid expansion of trade outlets covered the entire Ghaznavid territory almost in just three months, and the feudal lords, large and small, had ten times the previous tax revenue almost overnight (a large number of loans were enough to exceed the feudal lords' meagre rent income even if they were placed in the bank to earn interest), and the tax collectors who collected the gate tax and transaction tax on the towns and cities every day to buy and sell goods were too busy to spare time to go to the countryside to collect the traditional poll tax and agricultural tax in the past. Almost all of this was contracted to the part-time tax contractors of the Imperial compradors.

This indirect and covert means in turn obtained the financial rights of the whole of Ghaznavid, and became the highest level of collateral and instalment guarantee for huge loans and investments.

Militarily, the traversal went even further, not only killing many bandits, co-opting a large number of displaced people and bankrupts, but also creating a non-aggression system among many local forces, directly robbing all mercenaries and the army of their jobs. A large amount of military expenditure was cut from the budgets of large and small feudal lords, and the vast majority of feudal lords chose to cooperate with the Empire, except for a few troops and guards to maintain law and order, and the fortifications on the borders of the various powers were dismantled, and the Empire guaranteed the security of their territory. As long as anyone dares to cross the line, the Empire will send troops to sweep him away.

This disguised control of the Ghaznavid military actually completely eradicated internal chaos and greatly reduced the cost of colonization, just imagine how much resistance a country without an army has in the face of foreign forces. This divisive situation is a favorite of all imperialism. (To be continued.) )