Valley Emperor
Vol 2 Chapter 1790: Weird global trade
The emigration of the Tang Empire in Africa was mainly guided by gold mines. After all, the power of gold is infinite, enough to attract many people to go to South Africa to pan for gold regardless of their health.
And most of the gold diggers, in fact, will end up losing even the shorts left, and finally have to become miners in the gold mine, or go to the surrounding to obtain land for reclamation.
The land resources in South Africa are still very rich, and there is a lot of fertile land. Therefore, in recent years, the number of immigrants attracted by South Africa has gradually increased.
As for other parts of Africa, there are relatively few large-scale immigration behaviors at present, mainly concentrated in those coastal port colonies, mainly serving the passing merchant ships, rather than engaging in settlements.
Compared with the development difficulties in Africa, India and other regions, the Americas are much easier.
On the one hand, the number of indigenous people in the Americas is not large. The Spanish and Portuguese colonized the Americas for many years, resulting in a cliff-like decline in the number of local indigenous people.
Today the Spaniards and Portuguese had to transport labor from other places if they wanted to develop their colonies in the Americas.
When the Datang Empire packaged almost the entire North American natives to the Spaniards, Spain was very happy, showing how severe the labor shortage in the Americas was.
With fewer indigenous people, the development of Datang will be smoother.
Even if the Tang Empire has just set foot in South America for a few years, that is, the southeastern region of South America, especially the coastal plains in the central region, although the Tang people have only been here for a few years, they are already million, and it is still growing rapidly.
However, these are nothing compared to the development in North America.
Over the years, at least half of the empire's overseas immigrants went to North America.
Few natives, fertile land, and a climate similar to that of the empire's native land have become important conditions for attracting immigrants. In addition, the empire has long decided to localize North America for development.
The American Affairs Yamen has been committed to the localization process for so many years, and the progress is quite smooth.
At present, basically, the western coastal areas and the eastern and southern coastal areas have no indigenous people. At present, only the central and inland areas of North America still have relatively dense indigenous gathering areas, but the American affairs yamen is promoting the 'Central Movement' , encouraging migrants to travel farther inland from the coast.
It is estimated that within ten years, the localization of North America can be completely completed.
By then, North America will become the largest and most populous overseas homeland of the empire.
Not to mention the future, even now, the population of Datang in North America is already several million.
In recent years, millions of immigrants have migrated to North America almost every year. This data is very terrifying.
Overseas immigration in the Americas, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and other regions has led to the fact that the total population of the Datang Empire in many of the above-mentioned overseas colonies, overseas territories, and overseas mainland has already exceeded 10 million people.
These populations also represent the market for commodities, the supply of various industrial raw materials, agricultural products, etc., and form a complete market with the local market.
This also brings huge demand for ocean freight.
The increasing demand for ocean passenger transportation and ocean freight transportation year by year stimulates the rapid growth of the shipping industry of the Datang Empire every year.
This is why shipping companies such as Feng Shipping Company and Changjiang Shipping Company build new ships every year to expand their capacity.
For these, Emperor Li Xuan of the Tang Empire naturally saw it.
In his view, the current global trade system dominated by the Tang Dynasty has basically set up a framework, and all that needs to be done in the future is to continue to expand its scale.
In the current Datang global trade system, Datang's local, overseas local, overseas territories, and overseas colonies together constitute Datang's internal trade system, and together with the trade in indigenous areas, it constitutes Datang's global trade system.
It is worth noting that the area and population of indigenous control areas are actually quite large. For example, the whole of Europe, West Asia, India, most of Africa, parts of the Americas, etc., belong to indigenous control areas, and the total population is small. Say there are two or three billion.
But their spending power is too low, and they cannot afford to consume many commodities.
Therefore, this has also created a very strange situation, that is, despite the fact that Datang's ships are running around the world, most of them are actually serving the Datang people themselves.
How to put it, there are so many countries and populations in the entire European region, even if they include North Africa, their spending power is not as good as a North America under the Datang rule.
Therefore, Datang companies, especially those in the manufacturing industry, are absolutely guided by the local market when considering the market. As for the indigenous market, it is all incidental.
Even the kerosene, which has been very hot in recent years, is the same.
Even if the Datang Empire restricted the export of kerosene in an almost administrative order to ensure the local supply of kerosene, but if there was no such restriction, the amount of kerosene that could be exported in the end was actually not much.
Because for Datang itself, ordinary families can afford the current price of kerosene.
But in Aboriginal-controlled areas, at least the local decent middle class can afford the price.
The reason for this is that Datang will impose a certain export tax on the export of kerosene, and at the same time, it has to add expensive ocean freight, and the price is generally higher than the price of kerosene in the local market.
But this is not the point. The point is that the income of ordinary people in the indigenous control area is too low.
Regardless of whether it is India, West Asia, or Europe, the population seems to be large, but in fact, most of them are people at the bottom, and many are still serfs.
The vast majority of these populations do not have any spending power.
On the Tatar side, the market is much larger. The Tatars' systems are basically copied from the Datang Empire. Such a Tatar Golden Kingdom is also a behemoth in Europe.
At the same time, they also liberated a large number of serfs in Europe and allocated them land for cultivation. After these serfs became free people, they could not only contribute tax revenue, but also have certain spending power.
This is also the reason why, although Datang and the Golden Kingdom of Tatar are at war, the trade between the two sides has not stopped. It is a huge loss for the Tang people not to occupy such a large market and give it to the natives.
It's just this trade connection that makes the Import and Export Commission very vigilant.
Because in this process, a large amount of prohibited materials will definitely be exported to the Tatars.
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