Chapter 281

The foundation of global prosperity

The empire had now entered a complete peace, with regional conflicts and local wars gone, and even the Hundred Years' War between England and France (thanks to the new marriage between the two royal families and the compensation to Britain from the union of Scotland and Ireland, which will be discussed in more detail in a later chapter), the whole world was at peace. If there is no external trouble, it is natural to look at the internal trouble. Does the empire have internal troubles? Apparently not.

The problems at home and abroad of the country have been solved, so smooth operation is the only pursuit of the government, and the promotion and fortune can only slowly boil up the qualifications and work step by step, what to think of relying on military exploits and outstanding political achievements to speed up the speed of promotion and fortune can only belong to those bold and courageous strong people, and those weak people in the classical era means and channels are all blocked by the system and supervision.

The prosperous era naturally appeared in the case of a very stable internal and external environment, which not only appeared in the territory of the Chinese Empire, but the whole world ushered in a golden age.

Whether it is a few "big powers" in Europe or the Mayan United Kingdom in Chizhou (about to be reorganized into the Mayan Kingdom, the largest Maya Pan Tu King completely took over the magnates of the rest of the city-states, established a political system of fictitious posts, and secretly changed the concept of letting these magnates hand over the governance and armed forces of their territories, and became civil officials and military officers in their respective territories, and then gave up the position of Mayapan's civil and military officials, and used the rich capital to attract ambitious magnates to settle down, shamelessly copying Louis XIV's big move. Then let those elites who do not delegate power to take the salaries paid by the treasury to serve as city officials, and if these officials make mistakes, they will lose their positions, which means that the central power has the power to appoint and dismiss personnel. The key is to get them to surrender their arms. Buying up positions and salaries to buy middle and lower-ranking officers and soldiers, inciting soldiers who have been withheld to kill those who oppose and ignore the officers, all these measures have since concentrated power in the hands of the Kokom family) and the kingdom of Chimu have become very strong economic growth poles.

Their dominance of regional resources (tropical cash crops, timber, and oil from the Maya, saltpeter, copper, and silver mines from Chimu) allowed the Chinese Empire to achieve far more returns on investment and cooperation projects than in its territory.

Is it true that a peaceful environment leads to prosperity? Plus what about abundant resources? Look at Israel.

The reality that the Chinese empire has been in a state of expansion has kept the labor price of the Chinese people high, and the root cause of the super-profits from many projects invested in these countries and adjacent third-tier territories is the cheap and abundant labor supply in these countries relative to immigrants. These countries have not only allowed a surplus labor force that is worthless to change a large amount of foreign exchange and imported goods, but also greatly improved their economic status and the skill level of their workers.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the era of large-scale simple commodity dumping at home and abroad opened the doors of other countries and lasted only five or six years, and it became the export of capital and technology. The reason for this is simple: the empire's rapid expansion has allowed it to occupy more than most of the world's size. Eighty to 90 per cent of all the world's trade markets are domestic, and foreign dumping is just for shearing sheep, not much wool. How much wool could the Maya and Chimu in the Stone Age and the small peasant economies of Europe and Central China provide in the feudal society, and a colony of the Luzon Islands, which had entered the embryonic industrialization of capitalism, could provide the combined trade volume of these allies by exporting cash crops and minerals and importing industrial machinery and consumer goods.

The Empire's foreign commodity dumping soon caused the Allies to lose large amounts of precious metal currency, and they were almost drained of deflation. In order to shear more wool, the capitalists naturally had to invest heavily and build markets in these regions. Engaged in market cultivation.

In fact, the visible hand that crosses the control of the crowd sees only the country. I don't want to put any energy into foreign affairs. The heads of the Senate committees on the economic sphere, which were so big at the thought of the huge colonial economy, simply had no energy to care about the affairs of these allies. The children of the first generation of allied elites have returned to China one after another to study abroad, and have started pilot special zones or infrastructure construction. The Belt and Road Party, with loans and investments from various public and private institutions in the empire, soon sold the country out.

Except for a small number of smart people who cooperated closely and were deeply appreciated in the process of leading the way, seized the opportunity to fill their pockets, and became the trendsetters of the motherland's market economy and the first batch of new oligarchs, the vast majority of other international students still became wage earners and compradors.

Old Time and Space Mid-19th Century British Economist Stanley. Jewwins writes: "Oceania has our pastures, Argentina and the western steppes of North America have our herds, Peru sends its silver, and gold from South Africa and Australia goes to London; Indians and Chinese grow tea for us, and our coffee, sugar and spice plantations are located throughout the East Indies.

The great empire built by the Crossing Crowd far exceeds this level. A student of Lee Ki. Wang Baichuan, a well-known economist, wrote in the newspaper: 'The nomads of the north were tamed by our trade and honestly shepherded sheep and cattle for us. Goryeo and Japan in the East also put aside their fragile self-esteem and became subjects of the empire, becoming professional fishermen and lumberjacks; Countless indigenous peoples of the southern archipelago and the mainland have opened up a wide variety of tropical cash crop plantations for the empire, and millions of tons of local sugar, spices, rubber, tropical fruits, palm oil, and hemp are imported every year. The ancient Indochina Peninsula Buddhism and the countries on the path of the Sanzang Master became the rice and cotton production areas of the empire, and the Islamic countries in the west were also full of the civilization of the empire because of trade. Wherever there is a coastline, there are citizens of the empire, as long as there is a port, the prosperity brought by the imperial trade, the mahogany, ivory, tortoiseshell, marble, leather of the colonies decorate the rooms of the citizens, the jade, gold, platinum, silver, precious stones, and pearls of the overseas territories fill the dressers of the ladies, and the cocoa, coffee, sweet wine, condiments, and delicacies of the allied countries enrich the people's tables. We live in the best of times, and this is the era we created with our industrious hands. ’

This passage shows that the nature of the imported goods is raw materials. In some cases, the emphasis on overseas prosperity is also intended as a fig leaf to cover up the export of capital and the dumping of industrial goods. Only invest and reduce the scissors poorly. Increasing the purchasing power of trading partners is the only way to achieve sustainable sheep shearing. Not many media will say how many tens of thousands of industrial products and high-precision equipment have been exported by the country, which is not conducive to improving the sense of national honor and pride, but makes people realize the huge and exploitative degree of scissors difference.

The simple division of labor in the empire to provide capital, technology, industrial products, and other countries and regions to provide food, labor, raw materials, energy, and markets is the pattern of globalization for a long time to come.

In the electric revolution that drove the second industrialization, it was natural to select those surface oil and gas fields that were low-cost to extract. Abandonment of oil and gas fields with small reserves and high costs. The lowest cost of oil production in the world is naturally the Gulf region, where a large number of projects and schools have been established to support the oil extraction, transportation and refining capabilities of the Seljuks and Saracens. These projects and schools, which made the locals rich, soon became new urban centers and Chinatowns. There are Chinese signboards and road signs everywhere, almost indistinguishable from duty-free ports such as Gibraltar.

Its development was also based on the Empire's educational policy of choosing Arabic as its first foreign language at the beginning of its existence. This time and space is not the old time of the 21st century, without the cultural expansion of Queen Victoria's sunset colonial empire, and half of the Old World centered on the Arabian Peninsula is Arabic-speaking and Islamized. Not only the Seljuks, Ghaznavids, and Saracens speak Arabic, but half of the continent speaks Arabic. In particular, many small Islamized states, city-states, and tribes in the north and east have Arabic as the official language. As a huge economic and cultural community, the Arabic-speaking region was the empire's largest trading partner, on a par with the Sanskrit-speaking region in second place.

The population density is much larger than that of the Arabic-speaking region, and the Sanskrit area is only half the size of the former. But the population is not much different. The Baltic kingdom in Bengal was only one-tenth the size of the Seljuk kingdom, but its population was as high as 10 million, more than half of the Seljuk population. The two countries traded with the empire in a similar amount.

The reason is simple, the Baltic Kingdom was a self-sufficient feudal state with a small peasant economy. Limited import and export capacity. Even if the population is large. It can only export a little agricultural products such as grain and dyes, and import some luxury goods, building materials and groceries, and has little purchasing power and consumption power. Seljuk is a new pre-industrial country, sparsely populated and rich in resources, exporting a large amount of oil, wool, minerals and importing a full range of industrial products every year, making its economic development very fast. A large amount of investment from the empire also allowed the country to develop at a high speed, surpassing the Baltic Kingdom, a backward country that had established trade with the empire for a long time.

In order to make friends from afar and close to attack, weakening the neighboring countries, making the neighbors' economies homogeneous, and relying more and more on the trade of the empire is the basic national policy. And the Sunni Seljuk and Saracen's hostility to Shia Egypt is a natural backdrop for arms sales and checks and balances.

As long as the equilibrium in the Middle East is maintained. Coupled with the fine-tuning of the puppet-like kingdom of Solomon, the empire can adjust the balance like a weight.

As for the Chizhou Continent, that's not to mention. Under the impact of the tide of immigration, gold rush, and the tide of colonization, the red-skinned natives who were backward in terms of population, force, and cohesion soon became apprentices to miners, farmers, lumberjacks, mercenaries, and fur merchants. Even the chiefs of various tribes are also in the imperial immigration authorities of the three bullets (bullets, silver bullets, meat bullets, of course, this meat bullet does not refer to women, but refers to the urban civilization life with much higher productivity than the backward fishing and hunting civilization, and the attraction of fish and meat meals with oil and salt is great for tribes that need to rely on smoking to quench their hunger. The surrender of surrender under the offensive, the surrender of refuge, and the surrender of sincerity (those who can't fight are called surrender, those who lose Cheng before the fight and pay tribute are called surrender, and those who lead the way are called surrender). With the exception of the Maya and Chimu kingdoms, two higher-level tribal alliances that escaped being annexed, the other tribal territories were integrated into the empire. These two fortunate countries have become models for other tribes and the biggest black hole of labor, constantly attracting neighboring tribes to migrate to the territory to set up various plantations and mines.

Considering that the scale of capitalist industry is obviously incompatible with the population density of the fishing and hunting era, a single Potosi mine employs tens of thousands of miners, which is almost the total number of elite laborers in the entire Andes region. In order to exploit the silver mines of the Patagonian highlands and the copper saltpeter mines of the Chimu Kingdom, almost the entire southern tribe of Southern Chizhou was concentrated.

Almost all of North Ejau's resources are concentrated in the seaside areas and on the continental edge, and the Parrot Peninsula (shaped like a parrot's beak, i.e., the Florida Peninsula) and the indigo plantations and crocodile farms are very short of labor. The slave trade was a source of helplessness for the Empire. No one sold black slaves to the distant east coast of Chizhou, because there were a lot of labor opportunities on the west coast of Xuanzhou, and both planting and logging required a lot of local labor, and transporting slaves across the Atlantic was very costly. The slave trade in Chizhou was mainly carried away by the temperate tribes to the plantations by the tribes of the tropics, and the tribes of the plains were taken by the tribes of the mountains to open mines, and the citizens of the empire basically did not participate in the slave trade, because the profits were really small and the risks were too great.

The Slave Trade Prohibition Act imposes staggering penalties on nationals involved in the human trade, and if caught, life imprisonment or hard labor in the mines is almost a death sentence. Indigenous chiefs who have made a fortune will also actively strive for naturalization after washing their hands of gold, but the current situation of labor shortage cannot be alleviated. Many industries and jobs cannot be replaced by machines, such as laborers in plantations of higher plants such as palm, rubber, cocoa, mango, etc., especially in some processing industries that require manual work.

In order to alleviate the labor shortage on the east coast of North Chizhou, the introduction of labor from Europe became a good solution. In general, the world's population movement represents the pace of development of the world, more and more people from the countryside to the city, more and more people from the Old World to the New World, more and more imperial citizens from the homeland to overseas, this wave of migration is accompanied by the elimination of disputes, the diffusion of technology, the expansion of markets, the upgrading of society, the elimination of unemployment, and the stability and prosperity.

All in all, prosperity comes from the right flow of people and high-quality growth. When a hunter learns to use a gun instead of a bow and arrow, his family will be rich, and the population of a tribe will increase to a sufficient number to participate in the division of labor in the radiating area, and it will become a town and prosper. This kind of growth, which attaches importance to both quantity and quality, is the foundation of prosperity and the core point of making a fortune through the crowd. (To be continued.) )u