Valley Emperor

After a large number of mechanical equipment arrives, and the engineers have completed the installation and commissioning, then the machinery can be used instead of a large amount of manpower to mine coal. Coal demand in the Americas.

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You must know that there was a lot of coal in the Americas before, but in fact a lot of it had to be transported from Europe!

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This has to be said to be an irony!

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The biggest reason is that the cost of artificial coal mining in the Americas is too high!

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The coal on the European side is mainly produced in the British Isles, and the coal mines there are also controlled by the large mining companies of Datang and developed in cooperation with the local indigenous people. The salary of the local indigenous people is much lower, even if it is added later Shipping costs are also much cheaper than locally mined coal in the Americas.

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This is also the reason why the mineral resources of many Datang overseas territories, including North America, are difficult to develop.

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It's not that the quality is not good enough, or the reserves are not rich enough!

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But the cost is too high!

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The Datang Empire clearly stipulated that no indigenous people should appear in any area under the control of the Datang Dynasty, so those mining companies could only hire the people of the empire if they wanted to mine minerals.

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And hiring imperial immigrants to mine, the wages are not low, even higher than the cost of hiring laborers to mine in the mainland, and it is much higher.

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The labor cost is expensive, and advanced machinery and equipment cannot be used, so mining various minerals has become impossible.

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However, mining costs in indigenous control areas are much lower.

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The British Isles are rich in coal resources, and there are also a lot of indigenous labor resources. The same manual mining, the cost is very low.

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But now things have changed. After the installation and commissioning of a large number of mechanical equipment is completed, although the number of miners employed is still the same as before, the production capacity has skyrocketed tenfold in an instant!

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What is this concept?

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This means that the cost of coal will also drop significantly!

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On the first day of production, Miao Mingkun accompanied Feng Xinyuan, governor of the Five Lakes Province, to inspect with a group of company executives, and explained: "Now the production capacity of our coal mines has increased by at least 20 times compared with the past, and there are still Potential to continue increasing capacity!”

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"In terms of cost, our selling price can be at least 15% cheaper than that of European coal. After the equipment is adjusted and the production is more familiar, this figure can be further reduced!"

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"At the same time, this coal mine, including mining areas, transportation, sales and other channels, will create at least 5,000 jobs, and the salary will not be lower than the local average salary level!"

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After listening to Miao Mingkun's series of introductions, Feng Xinyuan actually had no interest in listening.

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He knows more about the pulling effect of the coal mine on the local economy than the person in charge of the enterprise, Miao Mingkun. What he values ​​is not purely economic benefits. He values ​​the reduction of local coal costs, which can further reduce transportation costs. Reduce the cost of outbound food shipments.

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In turn, it has increased the income of nearly two million farmers in the Five Lakes Province.

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This is his purpose, and it is also the goal of the upper echelons of the empire.

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That is to stabilize the core subject of overseas immigration, that is, the local farmers!

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Whether at home or abroad, the core support group of the empire has always been farmers!

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As for the business class, in fact, strictly speaking, there is no such class in the empire!

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The empire has only the gentry class!

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Many business owners, you say he is a businessman?

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People have to despise you: we are a scholarly family, an aristocratic family!

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If you insist that he is a merchant class, they can beat you directly!

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At the same time, the existence of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Royal Assets Section is also very special. Together, these two institutions directly control almost all heavy industries, some light industries, and almost all financial industries.

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Almost all industries related to the lifeline of the empire are controlled by the capital of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises or the Royal Assets Division.

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Official capital directly controls at least 30% of the empire's economic volume. If indirect control is included, then it is completely impossible to settle.

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Because no industry can actually leave official capital.

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Even the textile industry with the most active private capital on the surface is inevitably constrained by official capital.

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The textile equipment, transportation and many other industries they use are inseparable from official capital enterprises.

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This special economic system of the Datang Empire has also caused many unique economic phenomena in the current Datang Empire.

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For example, if the price of coal is based on a purely capitalist economic concept, it will follow the market. If the output is low and the demand is large, the price will remain high. Even if the coal merchants increase production, they will try to maintain the high price of coal as much as possible. , will not blindly expand production capacity to cause coal prices to plummet.

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But the current Datang Empire has begun to spare no effort to suppress the price of coal.

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What's even more strange is that the major mining companies are still very cooperative, and even take the initiative to do it.

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This is completely against the laws of the market economy.

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Why did it become like this?

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Naturally, it was because most of the coal enterprises in the Datang Empire were state-owned enterprises. Officially-capitalized coal enterprises controlled more than 95 percent of the coal production capacity.

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Official capital has taken the lead in suppressing coal prices, and it is impossible for the few remaining private coal companies to maintain high prices.

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The price of coal in North America has always been relatively high~www.wuxiaspot.com~Because the local mining cost in North America was high before, if it is shipped from Europe, the freight must be added, so the overall price of coal is still relatively high. .

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Now, with the large-scale expansion of the West Lake Coal Mine under the Americas Branch of South China Mining Corporation, the coal price in the east coast of the Americas can be greatly lowered. Economic integration plans are of great strategic significance.

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Reduce the freight as much as possible, reduce the cost of global trade, and reduce the cost of trade, communication and travel between the mainland and overseas territories of the Datang Empire. This is a prerequisite for completely binding the domestic and overseas territories together.

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Because only if this precondition exists, then the quantity of various agricultural products and mineral products imported from overseas territories can be expanded in the future.

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Only when the import volume is large can overseas territories be completely dependent on the local market economically.

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When this kind of dependence emerges, and if it continues to strengthen for decades, it will be possible to make the economic system of the overseas territories more unitary, and even take the initiative to de-industrialize, thereby realizing the economic integration pursued by the high-level officials of the Datang Empire.

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Under this grand strategy, after the initial development of the West Lake Coal Mine, the South China Mining Company focused on the development of two other coal mines in the Five Lakes Provinces. A large coal mine.

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This has led to a rapid increase in coal production capacity in North America.