Valley Emperor

Chen Lifu's proposal to re-expand overseas trade and put new growth points on India is naturally not nonsense.

Although he was a traditional scholar, in fact, in the first 20 years of his life, he had never been exposed to anything like business and economic management. In the first 20 years of his life, he had only been exposed to the Four Books Five Classics.

But after entering the Tang Dynasty, he began to learn a lot of new era knowledge by himself in order to be able to climb up quickly.

In particular, during the eleven years he worked in Shanghai, he was in Shanghai, where the industry and commerce of the Tang Empire were the most developed, and all kinds of new things emerged one after another, which also broadened his horizons. In addition, he insisted on constantly learning new things. Knowledge, so now he is one of the better senior officials in developing the industrial and commercial economy.

And this kind of excellence is recognized and recognized by Li Xuan.

Looking at the development speed of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, it can be seen. Although Chen Lifu was a scholar, and he was only a tax official in the early days of Tang Dynasty, he still has the ability to develop the industrial and commercial economy, and he is very good at it. good.

Since Chen Lifu received the edict a few days ago and asked him to return to Beijing to report his duties, he knew that he was returning to Beijing in order to compete with the governor of Guangdong.

But when he returned to Beijing to report his work, how to impress the Son of Heaven, so as to get the opportunity to serve as the governor of Guangdong.

Just relying on your own bright resume? Relying on the Son of Heaven's trust in him?

This is impossible.

Because of his past experience and the Son of Heaven's trust in him, at most it can only help him get a chance to be a final candidate, and there is also Jia Wenbo who has the same chance as him.

Speaking of his resume, Jia Wenbo is not worse than him at all, even stronger than him. Now Jia Wenbo is a second-rank governor. He has extremely rich experience in managing local governments, and has a good ability to develop business, and he has rectified the governance of officials and stabilized people's livelihood. The means are all good.

Speaking of trust, Jia Wenbo also belongs to Jane in the heart of the emperor, or else can he climb so fast in these years? It only took about ten years to go from the fourth rank to the second rank in one breath?

Whether it is qualifications or the trust of the Son of Heaven, or ability, etc., in fact, these two people are in the middle, and there is no obvious difference between them.

In this case, if you want to completely impress the Son of Heaven, the best and only way is to come up with a government plan that will satisfy the Son of Heaven.

Moreover, this cannot be a general policy plan, it must be a policy plan that is actually combined with the empire and the Guangdong region.

This plan needs to conform to the overall environment of the empire, the expectations of the Son of Heaven for the Guangdong region, and the actual situation in Guangdong.

Chen Lifu has been busy these days. He was busy reading the documents in Guangdong, and reading many policy documents. Finally, he came up with this Guangdong policy plan.

Naturally, his policy plan cannot be explained in a few words, and it involves not only the industrial and commercial economy, but actually covers many aspects.

Because he is not competing with the governor of Guangdong, who is in charge of the development of the people's livelihood and the economy, he is competing with the governor of a province, and the governor of a province in the Tang Empire, although the power is much less than the governor of the former Ming Dynasty. , but the power is still very large.

Except for the military, taxation, and judicial affairs, the rest are basically managed by the governor.

In actual situations, even in terms of taxation and justice, the governor actually has certain powers, but it is not so obvious.

Therefore, to be the governor of a province, there are a lot of things to be responsible for, and his governance plans are also divided into several categories!

Among them, he was listed first, that is, the administration of officials.

Three years ago, the situation of official management in Guangdong was very bad. Otherwise, Li Xuan would not have sent Zhou Yiran, a 'state official', to Guangdong to rectify the officialdom. It has been greatly improved, but there are still some problems. At the same time, it is also strictly to prevent the resurgence of the problem of official management.

Therefore, when Chen Lifu explained Guangdong's policy plan to Li Xuan, he put the rectification of officials in the first place!

He believes that it is necessary to continue the official governance policy of Zhou Yiran when he was in charge of Guangdong, and continue to crack down on all kinds of official corruption, especially the corruption of middle and lower-level officials. This in turn leads to the corruption of the entire officialdom, then the corruption of grass-roots officials will completely shake the government's rule and reduce the prestige of the government among the people.

Because ordinary people, even those businessmen, landlords, and gentry in the upper class, they are in daily contact with some middle and low-level officials, and as for ordinary people, they are only some ordinary grassroots officials.

These ninth-rank and eighth-rank grass-roots officials may be nothing if they are singled out, but once the atmosphere is formed, the negative impact on the entire society will be huge.

Therefore, Chen Lifu intends to continue Zhou Yiran's policy on the management of middle and high-level officials, and also prepares to vigorously crack down on corruption at the grassroots level.

Chen Lifu is also a good player in rectifying the management of officials. He was a tax official back then, and when he was the director of the tax inspection department, what he did was to arrest people and kill people.

Such people have a natural advantage in rectifying the administration of officials.

During his tenure as magistrate of a special county in Shanghai and the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, the performance of the officials under his rule was quite good. If there was no good atmosphere for official management, how could Songjiang Prefecture be full of vitality.

You must know that Shanghai is not the only place with geographical advantages. There are many places that are far from geographical advantages these days, but why is Shanghai the only one developing so well? Although other places have also developed, their brilliance is not comparable to that of Shanghai. It is like the ratio of fireflies and bright moons.

Good management of officials lays the foundation for the rapid development of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture.

Regarding the administration of officials, Li Xuan was quite satisfied with the plan proposed by Chen Lifu. He knew that Chen Lifu had a good hand in the administration of officials, so this plan of administration of officials that satisfied him was also expected.

However, in the follow-up economic development of people's livelihood, Chen Lifu's plan surprised Li Xuan a little.

Among the series of economic development plans for people's livelihood proposed by Chen Lifu, there are some things that are often talked about, basically, things that senior officials with a little political consciousness will know and will do.

For example, continue to absorb people from areas with more people and less land and with backward economy, to the vast Pearl River Delta region suitable for agricultural cultivation for agricultural development.

Another example is to encourage manufacturing or something.

These measures, basically every high-level local official said to Li Xuan, and did the same. Of course, whether it can be done or not, and how much can be done, depends on one's ability.

However, in addition to these conventional policies, Chen Lifu also proposed measures to continue expanding overseas trade, and his main focus was on India.

Li Xuan is a little curious about this. Now the empire's overseas trade has declined, which is inevitable. Because of the war with the Vine people, the European routes have been completely cut off, and the routes to Africa, West Asia and even India have also been interrupted. .

In order to avoid the war, the foreign merchants in the above-mentioned areas were sunk by the Vine people as pirates, so they have stopped trading across the Indian Ocean to Malacca.

Today, there are only two channels left to support Datang's trade with India, West Asia, Africa and even Europe. One is the Datang Western Trading Company, and the other is the Spaniard's Global Fleet.

But after the war broke out last year, although the Spanish fleet also came this year, the scale was much smaller. Obviously, the Spanish were also affected by the war.

The blockade of the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa by the Vine people is very strict, even if the Spaniards want to pass through, they need to be careful.

In this way, the only one who can provoke the lead is Datang Western Trading Company.

However, today's Datang Western Trading Company is working with the navy and the Portuguese. Although the business is still going on, the scale is not as big as before.

After all, the Datang Xiyang Trading Company seems to be a trading company, but it is actually a colonial institution representing the government, and its business behavior is only incidental.

Now it is their top priority to cooperate with the navy and the grape people to fight.

As a result, overseas trade west of Malacca also came to a standstill.

However, Chen Lifu obviously knew about this situation. Since he knew and said it, he was naturally prepared.

So he proposed a solution to Li Xuan, that is, since Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. is out of reach~www.wuxiaspot.com~, can we follow the example of Nanyang, Fusang, America and other regions, and let go of India, West Asia, North Africa and other regions trade license.

As long as this trade license is released, more than 100 domestic ocean-going trading companies with overseas trade licenses will immediately be able to rush to India, West Asia, North Africa and other places like a shark that smells bloody, to earn money Take huge profits.

As for India and other regions today, Datang is still fighting with the grape people, and the route is very dangerous. What's the matter? Those who run ocean-going trade these days, who don't put their heads on their pants and fight for their lives.

Not to mention the dangers of the Indian Ocean, even the ships running the Fusang route and the Nanyang route, there are many ships encountering various unexpected silences every year.

Basically, every year, there are trading companies that go bankrupt due to various accidents that lead to shipwrecks.

Some encounter pirates, and more encounter storms.

In short, limited by contemporary navigation technology, ocean-going trade is always accompanied by various accidents, and the risks are huge!

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