Chapter 452: Indian Layout
In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the development of various parts of the Ming Dynasty continued. With the gradual release of the population in the Huguang and Huaihe River basins, the migrant population has become abundant.
A large number of people immigrated to the Northeast and Western Regions.
The population began to rise, and the resources were gradually exploited. At the same time, migration to the outside world continues, especially to North America, which now stands at more than 60,000.
These 60,000 or so people have cultivated land near Jinshan Bay, and they are self-sufficient in food, and the commodity they can produce is cotton.
Australia's migrant population has grown to more than half a million people, and farms and ranches, as well as mines, are being developed everywhere. Plans for the construction of railways have also begun, and the next priority for development has been identified as mining.
Australia has a large amount of iron-rich ore, which is a very scarce resource in the Ming Dynasty. After the number of steamships of the Ming Dynasty increased, these iron-rich ores could be transported back to the mainland for smelting. At present, because the tonnage of ships is still relatively small, and sailing ships are still the mainstay, the development of overseas mining is not very good.
In the Bengal region of India, which was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty sent many officials to manage it, and the management of these areas was a bit chaotic at first, but gradually adapted to it. With the military support of the Ming army, the Ming Dynasty vigorously launched a reform campaign to eliminate the caste system in Bangladesh.
This reform soon caused the rejection of the entire Indian princely states, and the millennial families saw the Ming Dynasty as a threat to their position.
However, after India's defeat, it did not dare to jump for a while. After all, the trade agreement has been signed, so Daming's goods still poured into the Indian market.
Daming rarely imports goods from India, and more imports various raw materials from India. India has a lot of arable land, more than 2 billion acres, and the raw materials that can be produced are very rich.
Huge trade profits soon exploded, and the Ming bought cotton from India, processed it into cotton cloth, and then sold it back. One in and one out, it immediately generates huge profits.
In particular, the Ming Dynasty built a textile factory in Bangladesh, and textile interests suddenly became more terrifying. Bangladesh has the cheapest workers here, and it is close to India, so the transportation distance is greatly reduced.
Under the impact of the cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty, the originally prosperous Indian textile industry gradually declined. There has been a large number of unemployed textile workers, who have flocked to Bangladesh in order to survive.
Because Bangladesh is under the management of the Ming Dynasty, at least no one will starve to death.
The Ming did not carry out extortion of these Indians in Bengal, and after some iron-blooded reforms, the local families were slaughtered as fat pigs by the Ming Dynasty. The system basically uses the local New Deal model, and although the cost of such reform is a little higher, it is much better for those Indian people.
The Ming government organized manpower to build water conservancy, roads, and urban infrastructure in Bangladesh, and also provided many jobs.
It's just that the wages of these Indians are too low compared to those of the locals. And because of the continuous influx of people here, Bangladesh has an extremely rich labor force, which has generated a large demographic dividend. The continuous influx of people has also led to the problem of wages not rising.
If it is in the Ming Dynasty, the migration of household registration is now subject to certain restrictions, in order to avoid the population of some backward areas from frantically impacting the economic order of developed areas. Of course, this restriction does not completely close the door, but can only get a household registration after working in a certain city for a few years.
In addition, the population of economically backward areas can directly immigrate to areas encouraged by the imperial court, and can directly obtain household registration, and at the same time can obtain resource allocation.
Such a policy ensures normal order.
In later generations, many countries adopted this system, such as China, Russia, and South Africa. Among them, the apartheid policy of the South African Boers was in fact to divide South Africa into a number of internal 'states', and then the central government became the 'United Nations' model. There is nothing wrong with such a policy in itself, but it has been overplayed.
At that time, South Africa became a developed country under the development of the Boers, and the interests of both whites and blacks were actually guaranteed to a certain extent. However, South Africa has a huge interest in natural resources such as diamonds and gold, and countries naturally want to colonize South Africa.
Then Mandela appeared, sold everything that could be sold for the national interest, and the Boers were driven out of South Africa, and those who had the money to emigrate left, and those who did not have money to emigrate went to the slums.
What else can countries say about such a 'selfless traitor' as Mandela? He could only be warmly applauded, and then swarmed in to carve up the interests of South Africa.
This kind of household registration management system and regional population barriers are actually a good policy, but the difference in racial and skin color in South Africa is too great, and the Boers have gone overboard, and they want to make a small world internally, divided into white countries and black countries, and in fact there is a certain amount of racial discrimination.
Because of the continuous influx of population in Bangladesh, this kind of regional protection does not exist, and the demographic dividend has become very high, but for Indians living in Bangladesh, it is not so beautiful, the competition is too fierce, and the wages are so low, if you don't do it, someone is willing to do it.
The one who gains is naturally Daming Capital.
Daming only exported technical and managerial talents to Bangladesh, or they were engaged in business activities in the past, and the dirty work was done by those Indians. Moreover, the change of household registration in Bangladesh is the most strictly managed place, and it is difficult for those Indians to immigrate to other provinces of the Ming Dynasty, so as to avoid the population impact of other provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
Bangladesh will become the province with the largest and longest-lasting demographic dividend in the Ming Dynasty, because it is constantly sucking blood from India.
With the further impact of Ming goods on India, after the impact on India's natural economy, more and more Indians will pour in from the border.
The Ming Dynasty is here, and the welfare of Indians is still there, which is also the basic right to survival. However, unlike the basic right to survive in other provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the standard here is that you can't starve to death. In other provinces of the Ming Dynasty, or for the Han people in Bangladesh, the standard of the basic right to subsistence guaranteed by the Ming Dynasty is constantly improving, and to what extent, it is mainly due to the extent to which the social productive forces have developed.
The basic standard of the right to life in the Ming Dynasty today is that in addition to starving and not dying, but also freezing and dying, there is a place to live. Even if the place of residence is poor, it cannot form a slum. At the same time, the right to education of the children of the common people is guaranteed, and at least six years of compulsory education must be completed, and countries that have no money to pay tuition fees are exempted from tuition fees.
In Bangladesh, Indians do not fully enjoy this standard, but there is an opportunity to enjoy this basic standard as long as they have lived and worked for more than five years and can speak Chinese.
In other words, Indians who have just entered Bangladesh do not enjoy such treatment. However, after working for a certain amount of time, Daming will still give them to improve the protection standards of their basic right to survival.
The influx of Ming goods into India has had a huge impact on India, and problems have arisen in the past year.
Moreover, in the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the scale of trade between the two sides continued to expand, and the problem continued to worsen.
India's natural economic model has been disrupted, and more and more artisans are unemployed. With the reform of the Ming Dynasty in Bengal, it has been rejected by many local thousand-year-old families, and the Womaer Dynasty also began to pay attention to the import of goods from the Ming Dynasty, and the contradictions between the two sides are getting bigger and bigger.
It's just that not long after the end of the war, India did not have the courage to start another war immediately.
The name of the governor of Bengal in the Ming Dynasty is Li Huamin, who is a first-class jinshi in Enke in the second year of the Apocalypse, who has been training in the local area for ten years, and finally became a feudal official last year and was sent to Bangladesh.
After completing the reform of the Bengali system, Li Huamin began to actively contact and communicate with the various princely states of India, assuring them that the Ming had no intention of reposing them, in order to try to eliminate the rejection of the Ming by those local princely states.
The effect is still there, driven by interests, some princely states chose to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to promote trade. Because the commodities of the Ming Dynasty can plunder wealth very efficiently, the great families of those princely states naturally don't care about the life or death of the Indian people below, they only need to benefit.
There are interests in compradors, since the import of goods from the Ming Dynasty has become an established fact, it is better to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty and become the comprador himself to seek benefits from it. For the sake of commodity export, Daming is naturally willing to share part of the benefits with these princely families.
So under the strong combination, the dealer takes all.
Moreover, those princely states found that although the goods of the Ming Dynasty would lead to a decrease in taxes, these taxes were paid to the Womaer dynasty in proportion, but the business income did not need to be paid. Moreover, after the impact of the commodity economy on the rural natural economy, the plundering of those Indian people was more efficient, even if the Ming Dynasty earned the benefits, they obtained more benefits than before, and the gap between the rich and the poor increased.
Driven by these interests, a group of princely families began to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty.
And these princely states that cooperated with the Ming Dynasty could also sell their goods to other princely states and plunder profits from other princely states, and the strength of these princely state compradors began to increase, and a group of pro-Ming princely state forces began to be organized.
Through such means, the Ming Dynasty basically achieved the goal of winning over a group of princely families. As the number of princely states that fell to the Ming increased, those princely families who were slow to respond were excluded from the comprador group.
After all, there are so many interests, if no princely family can benefit, then the Ming Dynasty will have no interests.
Usually the Ming will choose the most powerful princely states in the region as spokespersons, this is called high-quality partners, these powerful princely states as the head of the snake, can ensure that the Ming goods in the surrounding princely states circulation, as for the tax into the Ming no matter how much the Ming does, the Ming just sell the goods to them, and then buy raw materials from them. How much they can talk about in other princely states about the tax on goods depends on their own abilities.
If it is a weak princely state, it will not be able to do this.
Li Huamin also sold weapons and equipment to the comprador princely forces to strengthen their armed forces. These princely state armies, once in time of war, are estimated to only need a casual bribe, and they will defect. Because the Ming ruled India, it could bring them more benefits, but the Womor Dynasty had no choice.
For a federal state like India, it is easy to be divided from within by external forces, and as long as there are enough interests, they do not care about the interests of the whole country. India itself is like a federation of many states, each of which sees itself as a country.
The weaker princely states were isolated, and the Womor dynasty was suppressed.
The layout of the Ming Dynasty in India was roughly formed in the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, and it was continuing to carry out commercial plundering of India. This kind of commercial plundering is much milder than the historical plundering mode of the British against India, but the speed of plundering is not too bad, because the British in history did not have so many commodities as the Ming Dynasty.
During the First World War, Britain's exports were basically textiles, steel and coal, and the Ming Dynasty was not only these goods, but also had a greater impact on India's economy. (To be continued.) )