"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we can send a large number of people to colonize this Linyi country, and make the land of Linyi country a place for us to obtain profits. Then we can plunder the local wealth, and then we can continue to reap a lot of harvest at a very small price. Jingwen said.

"Colonization?" Li Shimin didn't know what it meant.

Jingwen immediately explained: "Your Majesty, the so-called colonization, we also have to talk about colonies. Our Central Plains has always adopted the standard of treating the land equally, so that the status of the people in the land is basically the same, except for a small number of nobles and officials, the status of the other people is the same. And those lands are developed as their own land, and then let them become rich. But because of this situation, we need to consume a lot of resources and energy, and in the end it is not pleased. ”

What Jingwen is talking about is the so-called thinking about the land in ancient China, and the land occupied in ancient China was developed according to the treatment of the land. It's all about developing as well as possible, and then really eating the land. And the Chinese did not have a sense of colony in ancient times, so they would not think of colonies at all.

There is a big difference between a colony and its own formal territory, and of course its own real territory should be cherished, and it cannot be wasted and destroyed. As for the colonies, they mainly provide raw materials and various incomes. And the central idea of those colonies is to plunder, anyway, these lands are not their own, and they can grab as much as they want. Anyway, the resources on the colony are also robbed by the colonists, and if they don't take advantage of the plundering in a short period of time, then I'm afraid it will be cheaper for others at that time.

And the core point of this is whether or not to treat these lands as their own land, the colonizers did not regard the colonies as their own territory, but only regarded them as things that could be plundered. And it is precisely because the guiding ideology of the East and the West on the territory is different later, that the two sides have taken different directions.

When China lays down a piece of land, the first thing is to occupy it steadily. And want to occupy. First of all, it is necessary to organize an army to garrison, then build bridges and pave roads, improve infrastructure, and finally let a large number of people move there, so that it can be completed. And if you want to complete this set of processes, you can't complete it in decades or hundreds of years without spending a few decades. And the economic costs involved are also innumerable, so it is not easy for China to eat a piece of land.

However, the colonies were not their own territory for the colonists, they just wanted to make a profit, and the central guiding ideology was not to make them their own. And this time they are thinking about the lowest cost. in exchange for the highest yield. As for what to organize a large army to protect the colony, and then set up a government system, this cost is too high for the colonists to be impossible. As for building bridges and paving roads, it is even more impossible, because they don't regard these lands as their own, why should they build them so carefully? At that time, it is only necessary to repair some channels to facilitate the transportation of the products of the colony back to China, and there is no need to build too elaborate roads.

And one is regarded as a family, and the other is regarded as their own object of robbery. So these two guiding ideologies lead to different behaviors. And this method of China is actually not realistic for ancient times. They did everything possible to get them not to rebel, but the final results were very limited. And if these newly conquered lands are treated as colonies, they can be robbed as much as they can. In this way, it is more in line with the actual conditions of ancient times.

In ancient times, transportation and communication were inconvenient, and it was too difficult to stabilize a piece of land far away from the capital. It is too far from the capital to be able to control it perfectly. And ancient China once experimented with the sub-sealing system. However, after the collapse of the feudal system, a unified centralized power was adopted. However, centralization is very dependent on means of transportation and communication, which was not available in ancient times. I want to improve. There must be adequate road conditions. But if you have to go around it, it is that economic strength cannot provide a road. The construction of roads, the level of science and technology is also a test, so on the whole, the ancient Chinese idea of national unification, as well as this kind of thinking of treating all territories as their own direct territories, is not very in line with development and development. At that time, those so-called national territories will not only not be able to bring huge benefits to the country, but will drag down the country's development.

As for Jingwen, he also speculated that the reason why China was unable to industrialize in later generations was not only that it did not pay attention to science and technology, but also that the original accumulation of capital was insufficient. At that time, the British developed industrialization, and it was only after hundreds of years of primitive accumulation that they were able to complete the industrialization of the country. China's guiding ideology for national territory, which brings all land under direct jurisdiction, will eventually drag down the country's development rather than bring resources and provide primitive accumulation for national development. The investment in the choice of developing the territory is incomparably huge, and it will not be effective in a short period of time. At that time, once there is any problem in the Central Plains, those newly conquered places will rebel again, and all the investment will be wasted. Later, the so-called socialism was implemented, and the method of concentrating forces to do great things allowed all resources to be concentrated and industrialization completed. But by that time it was too late, and it was already too far behind.

Therefore, on the whole, when the means of communication and transportation have not reached a certain strength, it is impossible to control too much territory. Wasn't this how Alexander's empire disintegrated back then? Therefore, we should not be careless. Many people like to expand their territory, but according to China's territorial guiding ideology, it will cost people's lives. And this is the reason why many civilian officials oppose the expansion of territory, which not only does not bring benefits, but slows down the development of other places.

"What do you mean, you want me to open up outside, but you don't regard those lands as your own, just as a tool that can make the local people get benefits. And I, Datang, will not invest too much in them, and will only invest in some roads that can facilitate the transportation of their resources back. And we don't really need to treat it as our own land, anyway, we are mainly robbing their resources and then using them to develop our own country? Is it? Li Shimin asked. (To be continued......)