Valley Emperor

The relationship between the homeland and overseas territories will inevitably form a primary and secondary relationship.

And everyone has selfishness. When the industry in the Americas develops to a certain level, the conflicts between local business owners and the powerful and the local business community are almost irreconcilable. At that time, independence or even a larger-scale war is possible. of.

The American Revolutionary War and the Civil War in history were all for similar reasons.

Of course, overseas territories, especially places like the Americas, will definitely develop in the future, and even if you want to suppress them, you will not be able to suppress them.

However, Lin Xuan can slow down this progress for a while, and they cannot have a systematic industry in the past 20 to 30 years.

If it takes decades for the local to accumulate, even if the Americas begin to develop industry and have a complete industrial system, then it is impossible to pose too much challenge to the local.

When the industry develops to a certain level, especially after entering the electrification era, various technological gaps and barriers will become larger and larger, and it will be difficult for the latecomers to catch up.

As for what happened decades or even a hundred years later, Li Xuan just didn't bother to worry about it.

He only needs to make sure that while he is alive, the Americas and other overseas territories do not undergo much changes, and he will let future generations worry about the future.

Anyway, it's still the same sentence. When he finishes global localization, it doesn't matter whether it is the independence of the Americas or a war with the mainland. This is all about Datang people fighting against Datang people. Let them toss as much as they like.

Now Li Xuan is not going to worry about future generations.

On the one hand, the localization policy implemented by Li Xuan can accelerate the process of global localization, but on the other hand, it can also be used to limit the industrial development of overseas territories.

Because the overseas territories that can truly complete localization are actually very few and very difficult.

North America, with such superior conditions, seems to be developing well now, but in fact it is still devastated by localization. Such indigenous people are not so easy to deal with.

And as long as there are indigenous people in the local area, the localization will not be completed in one day, and the industry will not be able to develop if the localization is not completed.

Therefore, the localization policy of the Datang Empire cannot be simply understood as a simple policy of immigrating overseas and bringing overseas areas into the local scope. It also has more functions.

Especially when combined with the import and export restrictions of the Import and Export Commission, it has become very important.

After Li Xuan approved the localization of Ceylon, the most happy person was not the Indian affairs yamen, but the navy.

Strictly speaking, Ceylon Island is actually a super-large military base. Although there are many immigrants, most of these immigrants serve the military.

After local localization, a large-scale naval ship repair yard and a small-scale shipyard can be established on the island of Ceylon justifiably.

The Import and Export Committee has made a special reply for the localization of Ceylon Island, allowing the limited development of shipbuilding and ship repair industries on Ceylon Island, and the effective development of the local processing industry.

These three industries are actually aimed at the needs of the military.

The military, especially the navy, urgently needs to build a larger ship repair yard with high technical capabilities on Ceylon Island to meet the navy's repair and maintenance services for many ships in the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and other waters.

At the same time, it is also to provide maintenance and repair services to the private ships of the Empire traveling between these two seas.

Although the navy also had a ship repair shop on Ceylon before, its scale could only be said to be medium, it could only do routine maintenance, and even lacked repair capabilities.

As for civilian ships, today's civilian ships are basically not maintained overseas. In many cases, they can only perform the simplest maintenance in very primitive shipyards.

In order to solve the problem of repair and maintenance of a large number of overseas ships, the high-level officials of the empire also intend to build Ceylon Island as a dock for the Tang Empire in the Indian Ocean to provide repair and maintenance services for the empire's ships, whether it is warships or civilian ships.

In addition, a small shipyard is being set up on the island of Ceylon!

It is worth noting that this shipyard is very different from the shipyards established by the Datang Empire in other overseas territories.

In fact, the Datang Empire has shipyards in many overseas territories, such as the most famous South African shipyard. This shipyard already has the ability to build thousand-ton sail wooden warships. The British, Spanish and Ottomans have Order warships from this shipyard, and ordinary merchant ships can be more.

However, this South African shipyard, like other overseas territory shipyards, is just a traditional shipyard. It can only build wooden ships with sails, and even shipbuilding can only use traditional methods and cannot use various mechanical equipment.

In terms of technical capabilities, South African shipyards are not much better than Spanish shipyards.

However, this Ceylon Island shipyard is different. Although this shipyard is restricted, it can still build small-scale ships of less than 1,000 tons, especially warships.

Because the Datang military is in India, West Asia, Africa and even all over the Americas, the demand for small-tonnage offshore and inland vessels is huge.

But before that, because steam ships are also import and export restricted equipment, only the empire can produce and build these steam ships, and even the use of them can only be done locally.

For a long time, in fact, in the overseas territories, in addition to the large ocean-going ships of ocean-going trading companies and shipping companies, only the military has offshore inland ships with steam engines.

Years ago, in order to solve the problem of offshore inland river traffic in overseas territories, the Import and Export Commission opened a small hole, that is, allowing some shipping companies and overseas territory officials to use offshore and inland river steam vessels in overseas territories.

However, if they want to use it, they can only order from the local area.

Therefore, they all ordered offshore and inland steam ships from the mainland. After the small tonnage was built, they were directly transported to overseas territories by large freighters. The larger tonnage, such as those with a few hundred tons, was slowly leaning against the coastline. Sailing to go.

This time, if Ceylon Island can build a small shipyard that can produce steam steel ships of less than 1,000 tons nearby, then many small ships can be built directly locally, which will save a lot of trouble.

However, in order to control the leakage of technology, each shipyard is strictly limited and can only be an assembly plant. The main components, especially the core components of the steam engine, can only be purchased from the mainland.

At the same time, this shipyard is also a shipyard directly affiliated to the navy, mainly for the navy to build offshore and inland water vessels for use in India, Africa and other places. Orders for private ships are only incidental.

But even so, it was an opening.

In any case, Ceylon has its own shipbuilding industry, even if it is just an assembly shipyard.

In contrast, other places are much worse, such as South Africa, which has developed the shipbuilding industry for many years. Although their South African shipyard seems to be not small, it can only build sail wooden ships.

And there is almost no market for this kind of ships in the Tang Dynasty, because the ships of the Tang Dynasty, let alone sea ships, even the offshore inland water ships are all steam steel ships.

The only purpose of these wooden sailboats is for export.

The English and Spanish as well as the Ottomans are the most important customers of South African shipyards.

As for Datang himself, he has rarely purchased these wooden ships.

It's not that wooden boats are bad or anything, but wooden hulls are now more expensive than steel hulls!

With the explosive growth of the iron and steel industry of the Tang Dynasty, several major domestic iron and steel enterprises have also experienced fierce competition in order to compete for the market. The price war has continued to fight, which has already caused the value of steel to fall to a level that made European indigenous peoples. An almost unimaginably cheap price!

The low price of steel has also greatly reduced the price of various steel products.

The biggest expense for a hull is either wood or steel, and when steel is much cheaper than wood~www.wuxiaspot.com~ it means that steel ships are cheaper than wooden ships.

Businessmen are also normal people, so naturally they choose whatever is cheap.

In this case, the Tang people are in the mainland, and there is no market for large-scale pure wooden ships. The timber requirements for building large-scale ocean-going ships are too high and the price is too high, far less cost-effective than steel.

Of course, in offshore and inland rivers, especially small-tonnage ships, because the requirements for wood are not high, the corresponding price is also cheaper, so there is still some market for wooden ships.

However, on ocean-going ships, the newly built wooden ships are basically invisible.

South African shipyards can only build wooden ships, which limits their customer base and even costs a lot higher.

If they can use steel to make ships, even if they include the cost of transporting steel from the mainland, their cost can be reduced by at least ten percent.

Unfortunately, the Import and Export Commission's restrictions are too strict!

In fact, there is the same situation as the South African shipyard and the New South Shipyard in the Americas.

As Datang's first and one of only three shipyards on the east coast of America, Xinnan Shipyard, like all Datang Empire's shipyards in overseas territories, are all state-owned enterprises with local financial investment. Ministry affiliated companies.

In order to avoid uncontrolled enterprises in overseas territories, in some key traditional handicraft industries, although the Tang government will allow the development of overseas territories, it generally only allows the development of enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and does not allow private capital to enter.

After all, SOEs are an extension of the government, and they think more about political issues than profit issues.

But private capital enterprises only have money in their eyes!

For money they can treat imperial laws as nothing.