Who said that there is no infrastructure in the South Seas

As early as 1933, seven years before the founding of the empire, the Crossing Masses sent his men to the South Seas to draw maps and nautical charts, and after more than ten years, the aggregated nautical charts were not much different from the ultra-high-definition satellite areas published in modern times. In the eyes of most of the people, Yuben and other early feudal states had no infrastructure at all, so only by increasing investment and building a large number of supporting facilities such as roads and docks could they plunder wealth and resources more efficiently.

But this kind of long-term investment, which is large and slow to bear fruit, does not arouse the enthusiasm of imperial investors, and Congress will not agree to allocate funds to these allies to build roads and other facilities to completely replace their political and administrative functions.

In fact, this is not the case, and all countries, with the exception of Sri Buddha, who is relatively backward in civilization, have a large amount of infrastructure, especially water conservancy projects and roads. Although both China and Rome had established a large network of national roads in the pre-Christmas era, they were unable to maintain them and slowly fell into disuse in the long years that followed. Seeing the benefits of building roads at the core of the two civilizations, the surrounding civilizations will naturally build their own road systems, although they are not so large in scale and high standards.

For example, the Liao country, which is next to China, has built many roads and water conservancy facilities in the south, where agriculture is developed. The water conservancy network around Angkor Thom, where water conservancy facilities reached its peak, was built on the basis of huge rectangular artificial pools as water sources. The uneven seasonal distribution of precipitation caused by the tropical monsoon climate can only be achieved through the construction of reservoirs to store water to solve the problem of irrigation in the dry season and flooding in the rainy season. Island countries and peninsular countries (although the Indochina Peninsula is much larger than the Goryeo Peninsula, but it is also a peninsula, both have a lot of maritime and inland waterway transportation potential to be tapped) before entering industrialization, can solve the logistics bottleneck problem by establishing a water transportation network, and water transportation is the lowest construction cost and transportation cost in the logistics mode.

Canals and rivers were not only agricultural water sources or water transport networks, but also served as transportation networks, and large and small natural and artificial rivers greatly facilitated the transportation of the Allies, and for thousands of years, rivers that few ships had passed through were covered with ships and settlements in a few years. When the citizens of the empire who came to explore the backward and barbaric Allied ports in their impressions of backward and barbaric Allied countries arrived at the backward and barbaric ports of the Empire, they saw high-rise buildings, magnificent docks, customs buildings, huge dock warehouses, and full berths full of Imperial merchant ships. There is no difference between the images on the retina and what you see when you leave the port, and some of the differences are that you see more sailors and coolies, their skin is darker (the level of mechanization in the port is more backward, and loading and unloading requires more manpower), and the voices heard are a large number of local local dialects and strange domestic dialects and Chinese of the allies, and the smell is also a lot more sweet aroma unique to fruits and cash crops (most of the exported goods are cash crops, so the taste of the dock is relatively strong), The skin feels the tropical breeze and the sun is hot.

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"Living here, it is inevitable to miss my hometown a little, although there are many pearls and gems here, but it is not as good as the wine and food in my hometown!" Wang Cheng, who was resident in the Champa Kingdom, recalled the scene when he enjoyed delicious pickles and donkey meat at home, and couldn't help but sigh.

"The original vacuum canned food that the younger generation just brought from China is original, and when it is hot, it tastes much different from the hot food at home?" You Shuai, who was fortunate enough to be assigned to the Champangguo Agricultural University as a foreign teacher after watching the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, presented his treasure in front of Wang Cheng.

"Didn't you say earlier, this kind of vacuum canned food is still the invention of Mr. Qian! Wasn't all the canned food produced by the Guangzhou Canning Factory built last year all the food contracted by the Nanyang Navy? The quantity of donkey meat is originally small, only 200 tons a year, and the export is less than 20 tons, and the quota of imported food that King Jaya Indravarman II buys every year is only more than 200 catties of special canned meat, and the entire Champa capital Biyanya can buy 10 catties a year, which is good, where did you get this special canned donkey meat? ”

"Senior, have you forgotten that my family is a shareholder of a cannery? Although you are the major shareholder of Oriental Food Group, and its canned whale meat and products are sold all over the country, and the supply exceeds demand much more than my canning factory, but it is no problem to get hundreds of tons of canned special meat, right? ”

"My appetite is not very heavy, what I like is the environment and atmosphere of my hometown, which is not something that can be replaced by some food."

"The atmosphere of the place where the people of Jiangnan gather is indeed difficult to reproduce in this lazy and hot capital of Cham. The agricultural university in Bijaya is really very strong. It actually copied the teaching building of ** National Agricultural University, built a 4-story building, and 40 agricultural seedling bases were all connected and leveled (hard pavement, concrete water pipe network and biogas network plus land leveling) were built! ”

"Although the hardware is fixed, the software is not there! There are not enough teachers, and the number of students is pitiful. Teachers' offices and dormitories are mostly empty. The vicinity is all the granges of the magnates of the Champa Kingdom, and the seedling bases on the table are actually rented granges. These guys are really going to use our education loans to repair their family's land and infrastructure! ”

"Take your time! Although we have built a university, it is not yet harvest time! By the time our students have mastered the agriculture and prices of the city, these magnates will not be fish on the chopping board, and they will spit out the profits of those who eat them. ”

"Yes! When I came, the 100 tons of rice here were only 20 gold coins (the big gold coin is a gold coin with a face value of 50 yuan, and you can buy 10 stone in China, which is 1 ton of grain, that is to say, before the founding of the country, the grain price in Champa was one-fifth of that in China), but now after a large number of high-yield seeds and fertilizers and other agricultural artifacts to increase yield, the yield of commercial rice in Champa has increased more than three times. However, the policy of exporting a large amount of grain led to the export behavior of the Chinese Empire, which led to the rise of local grain prices instead of falling. Exports account for 80 per cent of local production. The profits we earn in seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, processing, transportation, wholesale and retail accounts for more than 90% of the total profits of the entire grain production and marketing. Almost all the peasants in Champa are working for us! ”

"They take the loan but have to pay it back, although the education loan with almost zero interest can be repaid after ten years, but the loan of such a huge amount is so squandered by these short-sighted elites, who can pay for them? Only their collateral goods - land mortgaged by educational loans. Didn't our predecessors stay here so tirelessly to create a new and densely populated market and a source of raw materials with higher purchasing power that was absolutely subordinate to our empire? ”

"These lands and coastlines, which have a large amount of tropical agro-climate and land resources, oil and gas resources, are the best fruits, and what we need is these plains and lands that can be connected, and the mountainous areas on the border with the Khmer in the west have almost no value, we just need the coastline and these coastal plains."

"Then lending money to these powerful people to build roads and bridges, build water conservancy projects, and sell the cement and building materials produced by the empire doesn't seem to be the ultimate goal, right?"

"These are just small means in the process, and we run the Nanyang Five not to make money, but to get most of the most productive land and talents. With these talents, there is a continuous source of energy, and we will make money from here for eternity. As the old saying goes, 'If you fish with all your might, you can't do it, and next year there will be no fish; Burning the fields and hunting, how can you not get it, and next year there will be no beasts' If we want to make money as quickly as possible, wouldn't it be faster to send an army to rob all of this place directly? But can it compare with the speed and scale at which trade and investment are making money now?

At the beginning, if you sent a large army to rob everyone in the Champa Kingdom, you would not only create boundless slaughter and blood feuds, but also the wealth and things accumulated over thousands of years would not be converted into 2 million gold coins. What now? We trade 20 million a year. Every year, all the benefits that the empire obtains from the Champa Kingdom (trade profits, investment income, employment promotion, domestic price stabilization, etc.) add up, at least hundreds of millions of dragon dollars, which is equivalent to robbing the Champa once a year, and the whole Champa Kingdom will also scold us and actively cooperate with all our activities. ”

"Next year, the seed company of our agricultural university will be able to officially export rice seeds to China! Didn't the predecessors account for a large share in this company, if they could go public in Xinjing after five years, they could at least earn tens of millions of net profits! The increased stock can be mortgaged by the bank and the money lent can buy at least 5,000 hectares of high-quality paddy fields! ”

"The data I saw last year showed that we were investing in more infrastructure than Dongyi Island in the Champa country. Not to mention water, roads and ports, biogas street lights, water and sewerage networks, public toilets and sewage treatment plants also cost us so much to build? ”

"It's not a tool used by the principal to buy the hearts of the people, anyway, these money are not going to be returned by the Champa court that has been loaned, all of them have been converted into national debts, and these should have been counted as municipal debts, all of which have been converted into national bonds, and the debts owed by the current Zhancheng State are as high as 600 million, and with the current financial revenue, it will not be paid back in 80 years."

"Isn't this a forced buying and selling?"

"Half of the money goes into their pockets, less than a third is used for infrastructure, and the remaining one-sixth is used as a contingency to repay interest in the next few years."

"What if you can't pay off these debts in a few years?"

"All this infrastructure is collateral! It's all up to our own people who bought the bonds! ”

"It's not about spending money to get a bunch of real estate, why is it so complicated? Why don't you just spend your own money to build these real estates, and instead spend twice the excess money to buy the magnates of the city state? ”

"You don't understand this, spending money is to buy more things, such as tax incentives attached to borrowing money and benefits such as unlimited scale of capital exports."

"I don't understand, these rights can't all be obtained in a battle, why spend money to buy them?"

"When you understand, you will be the head of the trading house opened by your father, and your father will be blessed sooner." (To be continued.) )