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Yang Zhengbin's words also aroused the great interest of many other ministers, the New World is not only extremely important to the imperial officials, but also the business community that has more and more say in the empire is very interested, but now the main interest of the imperial business community is still focused on the commercial activities of providing supplies and transportation for the empire's garrison in the New World, and they are still full of suspicion about the New World, which is still thousands of kilometers away from the port of Sikkim in the southwest, which also affects the feeling of their spokesmen in the center of the empire. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Lord Yang, do you mean that a large number of minerals have been discovered in the New World now, including gold, silver, copper, and iron mines?" swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Zeng Guohong, Minister of Commerce, couldn't help but ask.

As the Minister of Commerce, he said that he should have some understanding of these situations, but in addition to the military, the surveying and mapping teams and prospecting organizations mainly come from the intelligence department and the economic development department, while the Ministry of Commerce focuses more on the development of relatively mature economic regions, such as commercial relations with the Triple Alliance and the South Sea Alliance, and the development of commercial exchanges with the Baltic and Aegean coastal regions.

But Zeng Guohong's other identity is an important representative of Jiangnan merchants in the center of the empire, Jiangnan merchants have played an increasingly important role in the empire's economic status, and even their influence in the empire's political class is also increasing, Jiangnan has begun to set off a new wave of technological revolution, and investment in technological transformation of traditional industries has soared, but this does not mean that Jiangnan businessmen are only afraid to focus on the traditional industries in Jiangnan. They also know that the profits of resource-utilizing industries such as metallurgy far exceed those of traditional industries, but in the Tang Empire, these industries have been monopolized by the central aristocracy, mainly the nobles of the Yanjing and Heshuo regions, and it is quite difficult for the Jiangnan business community to get involved in these industries.

But now the situation is different, the establishment of the Tang Empire announced the decline of the central nobility of the Tang River, although through Situ Yutang, Zhu Zimei and the Huey family and other nouveau riche who are inextricably linked to the original central nobility of the Tang River, they have regained a foothold in the empire. But after all, this is a brand-new empire, and it is inevitable that a large number of wealthy families who were originally favored in the Tang River Empire will withdraw from the stage of history, such as the Miao family, the Qin family, and the Boris family, which are almost all known as the five major families of the Tang River, have almost disappeared, and can occasionally be mentioned in the recollection of history, replaced by the Northwest Department, the Jiangnan Department, the Kansai Department, the New Central Department, The factions such as the Northern Luzon faction are mainly in the industrial and commercial circles, although they all rely on industry and commerce to make their fortunes, but because of their different bases and different industries, they have gradually divided into several groups with considerable influence. They all had their own backgrounds in the central government of the empire, and some important ministers gradually evolved into spokesmen for their economic interests.

After the decline of several major families that had monopolized the mining and metallurgical industries of the empire, they were replaced by the industrial and commercial wealthy class of the northwest and the new central system, and they competed with the Jiangnan businessmen for the dominance of these two major industries, and the struggle was also quite fierce, and the competition has spread throughout the Indoan region and the North Luzon region, and now there is a new resource area, as the spokesperson of the Jiangnan businessmen, how can Zeng Guohong not pay attention to it?

"Well, in the territories of the New World controlled by the Empire, gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal mines have been found. Silver ore reserves are very large, especially copper ore reserves are said to be far more than the reserves found in the empire itself several times, but most of the areas where these mines are located are located in inland areas, and now the transportation conditions in these areas are quite backward, if you want to mine them, you first need to solve the transportation problem, but the water resources in that area are quite rich, if you can make a good plan, dig some small canals, I believe this problem can be solved very well. ”

Of course, Yang Zhengbin knew that it was not only Zeng Guohong who pricked up his ears to listen to his introduction, Tian Yi, Lao Min, Qiu Yunhan and the others are pondering the content of their words, they all represent a considerable group of industrial and commercial forces behind them, the reason why they want to throw such a bait is to attract the industrial and commercial class behind these guys to turn their attention to the New World, the basic conditions of the New World are too poor, and it is really difficult to rely entirely on the central government of the empire for investment, if you can successfully introduce these industrial and commercial tycoons who are worth tens of thousands of dollars, then the development progress of the New World will be greatly improved, which is also the main reason why His Majesty the Emperor intends to leak this information at this meeting。

"Okay, Zhengbin, don't take the topic away, we all know the wealth of the New World, of course, mines are one thing, but the most important thing is that the land in the New World is not close to the vast and unpopular, and the most important thing is that these lands are quite fertile, didn't the intelligence department and the mapping team say that a large lake was discovered, and that the surrounding area of the big lake is full of fertile land, which can not only grow rice, but also grow sugar cane, coffee, tea trees, tobacco, and cocoa? These areas can be developed as soon as possible, and I believe that this area will soon be able to become an important raw material base for our empire, and the empire does not have a complete development plan before this, and the Ministry of Economic Development should think about the plan, and these ownerless lands should be included in the state if no one cultivates them. Although Wu Feng said that he wanted Yang Zhengbin to get to the point, he added fuel to the fire, deliberately trying to make everyone understand that the time was fleeting, and the only way to do it was to do it as soon as possible.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Yang Zhengbin hurriedly responded: " The minister means that if you want to consolidate the empire's rule in these areas, you should increase your efforts to develop the economy of those areas where our Tang people do not have an advantage, and at the same time encourage the Tang business community to enter these areas, so that they can occupy a dominant position in the economy of these areas as much as possible, only in this way can the imperial rule be more effectively consolidated, and at the same time, the Tang people in the New World should also strive for the initiative, after all, the resources and land in these areas are quite cheap, and now those Indian nobles have a very sensitive sense of smell and have sensed this opportunity, if the Tang merchants in our empire do not catch up, there will be no such good opportunities in the New World in the future。 ”

Seeing that Yang Zhengbin's words were still a little off-topic, Xiao Tang didn't know that this was the other party's intention to do so under the instruction of Wufeng, and as the prime minister of the Government Council, of course he had the responsibility to pull the topic back:" Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now that the economic and technological development of the Western Continent is rapid, our empire must not lag behind, in addition to the central government axe to continue to strengthen investment in this area, we should also introduce policies to encourage and support enterprises and private people to establish scientific research institutions, the imperial finance can allocate a special fund to support and reward institutions and personnel who have made achievements in scientific research, or the imperial finance can also fund the establishment of cooperative research institutions with enterprises and civil associations, only the establishment of a set of institutions that attach importance to and encourage the development of scientific research can make it an effective mechanism, so that the empire's atmosphere of attaching importance to the development of scientific research and technology can be popularizedIn addition, the empire should also pay attention to the popularization and application of new technologies developed in order to maximize the benefits of the empire's economy. ”

"Xiao Xiang's words are very reasonable, technological leadership has increasingly become an important criterion for measuring a country's degree of development and comprehensive economic strength, and all the countries of the Western Continent have realized this, and they are now ahead of us in many aspects, so I feel that we can make some adjustments in the direction of the collection of intelligence departments, in addition to collecting political, economic and military intelligence on these countries, we should appropriately tilt the focus on the collection of their technological development, and in this regard, the General Intelligence Agency should play a special role, and I think that in the General Intelligence Administration, we might as well set up a special department for collecting information on advanced industrial and agricultural technologies in various countries, which is dedicated to collecting and spying on the leading industrial and agricultural technologies of various countries, and transmitting these technical information back to the empire as much as possible, so that this information can play a role in the economic development of the empire. ”

Su Qin considered this problem from another angle, such as the steelmaking, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding and military production technology of the Leeds Kingdom, and the machinery manufacturing and military production technology of the Famini Empire are ahead of the empire in many aspects, if these technologies can be obtained, it can save a lot of energy and time for the empire's scientific and technological development departments, so that these industrial sectors in the empire can be mastered and applied to practice as soon as possible, greatly improving the upgrading of the industry and improving production efficiency.

Su Qin's words made Wu Feng think deeply, he has never been a rigid person, as long as he can fight for greater interests for the empire, he has never been taboo in means. The empire has encountered snooping from other forces in the research of glue and mortar and gunpowder, fortunately, the empire's research in these military aspects is strictly guarded so that foreign forces have not succeeded, but for the powers of the Western Continent, they may not be aware of the important surname in this regard, the intelligence sent back from the General Intelligence Agency shows that their advanced technology is more in private enterprises, rather than in the hands of political axes, there are loopholes to be exploited, the imperial intelligence department can play a greater role in this regard, contribute to the economic development of the empire, of course, draw inferences from one another, the empire's security department should also strengthen the secrecy of the empire's advanced technology in various industries, to prevent opponents from using the same means to deal with the empire, then the empire really has more to gain than it loses.

(To be continued)