"The cost of developing Jiangnan is higher than immigrating to Nanyang, what's the big deal. If we don't deal with the miasma-ridden subtropical region like Jiangnan, how can we conquer the more difficult tropical regions? Wu Qi spoke of the difficulties of immigration.

"It's not a question of cost, it's a question of our future implementation of a demographic strategy. We have the money, but the population living in the strategic location is insufficient. Dongyi Island, as the most important key node of the first island chain, has a total of less than 100,000 of our reliable subordinates and controlled company contract immigrants, which is simply negligible compared with the figure of more than 23 million in the 21st century.

If you want to take Nanyang, you must first take down the five Nanyang countries with better living conditions and a certain degree of civilization, Sri Buddha and Angkor are too big to solve the problem of our team in the Nanyang region with serious shortage of manpower at this stage, and it is more practical to solve the problem of Da Viet and Champa kingdoms first.

As for the relatively far-reaching road from Dali to Bagan, the road from Bagan to Bagan is extremely bad, and the Yunnan-Burma highway has not yet been built, and the degree of development there can be comparable to that of Tibet. Within three years, there was little chance of establishing a base of more than 120 people there. Li Fei, who is in charge of overseas affairs, also pointed out the practical difficulties.

"Don't do immigration development in the lakes, vast clouds, swampy plains and hills in the south of the Yangtze River, and go to the many coastal areas of the distant South Seas for commercial colonization? That one costs high? Didn't you study arithmetic and geography? Bai Jia complained.

"Of course, the cost of colonizing the South Seas is low!" Liu Xin retorted.

"How is that possible? Far away places are cheaper than near places? Am I hallucinating? ”

"Of course, it is possible that many basins, plains, plateaus (dams), river valleys, and man-made plains (enclosing lakes and making fields) in Yunnan-Guichuan that can accommodate a million people have not yet appeared in front of the world. Without the centuries-long development process of later generations, the Jiangnan hills at this time were still inaccessible dense forests, and the plains of the two lakes were mostly swamps and water bodies. The Pearl River basin in the southwest is a thousand miles of uninhabited primeval jungle. Most of the settlements along the river will not exceed 2,000 people. There are no basic roads, and almost all of them rely on water transportation and manpower to open the roads (areas without rivers and streams are struggling). In order to build settlements in these areas, transporting large quantities of building materials and materials into these areas would consume nearly 200 times the cost of sea transportation over equal distances, and there are not many resources and benefits worth investing in the development of this area that is destined to be agricultural or small village industry and commerce.

The development of coastal ports in the South Seas is quite different.

Firstly, these areas have very low transportation costs, and secondly, they are extremely rich in resources, whether oil or spices. All of them are goodies that we desperately need. Brunei has a lot of oil. Easy to mine, good quality and large quantity, it is simply the first choice for our core petroleum raw material origin. A large number of developed coastal plains have relatively basic irrigation systems, which can be used to grow rice and cash crops. We just need a little revamping. The construction of several fertilizer and pesticide factories can produce at least several times the number of agricultural and sideline products and cash crops of the local indigenous people every year. These are the most sought-after goods we import in bulk.

If there are settled immigrants, a standing army and a ruling order can be formed. We immigrants work as overseers, and we hire or buy local aborigines as laborers. The development of plantations and mines can create a stable trade structure for resources for commodities. As long as the scissors difference is large enough, it is similar to opening a gold mine, and it can attract at least 2 million immigrants to the South Seas in ten years. As an agricultural director, Sun Chang also has a study on the cost of international trade.

"It's useless to make the abacus sound, look at our important source of immigration, those narrow townships are about to become wide townships, Fujian Road is still so-so, and Xiuzhou, where Chen Guanxian is located, is simply a population black hole. Almost drained the idle labor of a dozen surrounding state capitals. There are construction sites and factories built everywhere. The narrow townships of Liangzhejiang Road are basically about to become wide townships. It seems to have absorbed 200,000 young laborers, right? Li Fei complained.

"What is this? There are few narrow towns along the coast. There are not many people, do you rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water? The fishermen and professional sailors were almost all caught by Sun Chang and Li Fei. Those families are doing well. Every day is a big fish and a big meat, do you know how much money Li Fei gives to the sailors of the merchant fleet under him for a month? A high salary of 2000 Chenji money! It attracts the top underwater heroes. The heads and brains of the coastal naval forces were all fattened by his bribes.

If we don't have a moral bottom line, we can all hire these sailors who have completely turned to us to go to coastal fishing villages to kidnap fishermen and go to coastal colonies to engage in construction. There are too many projects started at the same time, and although there is enough money, there are not enough people. We don't have as many high-quality migrant workers and construction workers as in the 21st century. There are too few local tyrants who break out from the contractor, there are few construction companies among our partners, and even fewer engineers and companies that can get the membership of the Institute of Construction Engineers and the membership of the Construction Industry Association, and even fewer are pitiful, and by last month, there were only 14 first-class companies and 3 second-level companies, and all the third-level qualifications that can build large bridges or public construction projects are our own companies.

How can you tell me to rest assured that those half-barreled pirates and sailors are in charge of building port facilities for overseas colonies? If they can build a fortress to control the Straits of Malacca, I'll go and eat Xiang. "Lao Yang especially hates the tofu slag project.

"Why don't you call a few boys from the north to the southern region to train for a few years, and then be promoted to the headquarters to be the president of the group? They have proved their strength and talent with far more than the results of their predecessors, we do not engage in seniority, meritocracy is the core of modern management! Bai Jia, the head of human resources, also hopes that people will make the best use of their talents and materials, and use talents where they are most needed.

"Yes, there is a serious shortage of manpower, many partners in the south have great opinions, some time ago the partner bank that presided over the discount of acceptance bills on Guangnan East Road actually appeared more than 1.4 million Chenji discount income, that is to say, there were management mistakes in our coastal banking system, resulting in tight liquidity in the market, and many normal acceptance bills had to be discounted in advance in exchange for funds. Many loan contracts that need to be extended when they expire are not extended, and no one has done a lot of loan review work. As a result, many merchants are short of funds and have to borrow usury to repay us and keep our credit history! This is a serious mistake that will cause us to lose our financial dominance. Chen Guanxian said that he was under a lot of pressure and couldn't keep busy.

"What's the use of just mobilizing those five people? Can it fill the gap of more than 2,000 jobs? It is not necessary to transfer 1,000 people from the north to the south to help the emergency. Let them be tired for half a year first, and calculate 3 times the salary. After half a year, let them reduce the intensity of part-time work, and let the newly recruited employees take over. Those five are all landlubbers, and the waterway is too slow, so just let them ride directly on our latest all-metal transport plane. Li Ji unleashed the hammer of the timpani.

"Investing in the construction of a network of highways and canals from Jingnan to Guangzhou, and small-scale management of tributaries or main streams of the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins (changing bends and straightening, deepening and widening) can achieve the premise of reducing migration costs and promoting the take-off of the local economy. It would be good for us to set up a few related companies to go public and make money, and the profits from infrastructure construction will be left to those local landlords in China, after all, we have brought a large number of landlords over the years to become the holders of surplus agricultural capital, and it is time to reap the fruits. It's not a good thing to invest your own money every time and put every penny of profit in your pocket. Li Ji also had to share some money to unite the landlord forces in Jiangnan.

"We can't always take what the government should do, and the local government should also take part of the cause of immigration, and we can't just enjoy the fruits of the widening of narrow villages! Asking the coastal governors, who have been rich from overseas trade, to support the inward migration of the population at some cost is also an opportunity to highlight the achievements of local officials! Do you want to give our people some chances? "Bai Jia always stands in the shoes of her own students and fights for welfare.

"That's a good offer! But there's a bit of a problem. Otherwise, it would not be appropriate for us to directly transfer the surplus agricultural labor from the narrow townships such as the Chengdu Plain and the Nanyang Basin to the Jianghan Plain or the plains along the two lakes, and it would not be suitable for us to move from the coastal areas inward. After all, it is still easier for those who move inland to adapt, and it is still easy for people who have lived by the sea for a long time to adapt to the climate, water and soil of the seaside! Wu Qi took into account the problems of patients and the need for fine-tuning of the cost expenditure strategy.

"Dean Wu is very insightful, we can't afford to make the same mistake again! Not to mention the previous mistakes, this wave of immigration must be handled by those officials who have been raised for many years, we must rest, we must relax, otherwise it will be abolished. "Lee Ki also hates that his subordinates always take money and don't do anything.

"It's so decided, the first year of colonization is just to open a base and fight the front station, and the next few years will be discussed. First of all, do a good job of technical reserves in the attack, sharpen the knife and don't mistake the woodcutter! (To be continued......)