Chapter 319: Commercial Colonization
If you have grain in your hands, you are not panicked. This is the best portrayal of Zhu Youxiao at present. ◎, the output of commercial grain in the Northeast region will increase significantly next year, and the arable land that can be developed in Taiwan has basically been developed, and the output of commercial grain will also increase.
The development of Luzon and Jawa Islands can also export commercial grain to the Ming Dynasty.
The development scale of state-owned capital in Australia will also expand next year, but it will take several years to export commercial grain to the local area on a large scale.
At this time, the Khmer Phnom Penh Dynasty sent an envoy to Ming to pay tribute. Zhu Youxiao asked the Ministry of Rites to receive it. The next day, the envoy of the Phnom Penh Dynasty presented the tribute to the king of the Phnom Penh Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao read the tribute presentation of the Phnom Penh Dynasty and immediately issued an order to reward wealth and brocade, which is much more valuable than the tributes paid by the Khmer tribute.
This is a polite exchange between countries, so naturally there is no need to be so stingy. After all, as a country above the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty always had the demeanor of a country above the country.
Of course, the reward was not given for free. Zhu Youxiao immediately decided to return to the Khmer to negotiate with the Khmer on trade and development.
The Khmer Phnom Peninsula was the most respectful to the Ming Dynasty among the countries on the Indochina Peninsula, so Zhu Youxiao no longer had the idea of invading the Khmer by force, but decided to cooperate with the Khmer to peacefully develop the Khmer resources.
As long as the Phnom Penh Dynasty was willing to open up the market and accept investment from Ming Capital in its territory in agriculture, mining and other fields, the Ming Dynasty could list the Phnom Penh Dynasty as a protector.
This is a kind of cooperation, that is, both parties make the cake bigger and the double-production can gain benefits. Of course, the Ming Dynasty will gain greater benefits, because the Ming Dynasty wants the Khmer to export high-tech commodities with higher added value. Through cooperation, the Khmer can produce more agricultural and mineral products, and they are all commodities with no added value.
With the cooperation between the two sides, the Ming Dynasty had commercial interests in the Khmer, and the Ming Dynasty would also provide force protection for the Khmer to prevent it from external invasions.
This is a commercial colonization model, which was developed by the United States after World War II. Previously, Europeans used the model of colonization by force to plunder externally.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty could have adopted the commercial colonization model after World War II. Because the Ming Dynasty had the largest commercial economy of this era, it surpassed the Europeans in manufacturing.
At this time, Europeans could not use this model to colonize externally because European countries did not have such complete commodities.
At this time, Europeans actually had no advantageous commodities at all.
After the British Industrial Revolution, the advantageous commodities were nothing more than cotton, steel, and coal. Before the Opium War, they could not even compete with China on normal trade, and in the end they could only export large amounts of opium to China.
At this time, the commercial economy of the Ming Dynasty was much more thorough than in the Qing Dynasty, and there were many bulk advantageous commodities, including cotton cloth, raw silk, porcelain, tea, various steel, glass products, and various daily necessities.
By this time state-owned capital has developed, the production capacity of many commodities has become very strong. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously expand the market. There are only two ways to expand the market. One is the expansion of the internal market. Therefore, new policy reform is needed to integrate resources so that the people can have something to do and money to make money, so that they can consume these commodities.
Another is the expansion of external markets. Before the external market is developed, the market will not be very large. For example, when North Korea first traded with the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, the trade volume was relatively low at the beginning. However, as the Ming Dynasty's capital continued to invest in North Korea and develop various resources, the trade volume is now increasing year by year.
Although the Khmer was also communicating with the Ming Dynasty at this time, the market was not fully opened and there were still a large number of resources not being developed.
The Khmer wanted to develop these resources very slowly because the Khmer lacked both technology and capital. If the Ming capital could enter the Khmer, it could bring with it funds and technology, thereby increasing the speed of resource development.
While the Khmer sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty, the Siamese envoys arrived half a month later. The Ming Dynasty and Siamese had a lot of official exchanges. Regarding the previous unhappiness, the Siamese king was afraid of causing unhappiness to the Ming Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty has expanded everywhere in Southeast Asia, so he was so scared that he hurriedly sent envoys to pay tribute.
Since Siam bowed his head and admitted his mistake, he naturally had to show some sincerity. Zhu Youxiao also rewarded some wealth and brocade, and then returned to Siam to negotiate with Siam according to the cooperative development model.
In fact, the negotiations with Khmer and Siam were said to be negotiations, but more like making demands. Do Khmer and Siam dare to refuse? Obviously, they cannot refuse. Because the Ming Dynasty's military forces have been deployed to the doorsteps of Khmer and Siam.
A man is guilty of being guilty of being a treasure. If he does not develop the resources of the Indochina Peninsula, he will not have a good life without the Indochina Peninsula exporting commercial grain to the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Ming Dynasty could develop Nanyang and Australia obtain commercial grain, there was only so much labor force. More labor force was invested in agriculture, industry, construction, and military work force.
The Indochina Peninsula not only has a large amount of agricultural resources, but also a lot of labor. If these labor forces are organized well, a large amount of commercial grain can be produced. The Ming Dynasty can reduce labor investment in agriculture and spend more labor on the development of industry and military.
As expected, after the Ming delegation arrived in Khmer and Siam, the negotiations were progressing smoothly. With the support of the Royal Navy, neither Khmer nor Siam dared to reject the Ming Dynasty's request.
The Ming Dynasty asked them to open the market, they opened up, let them open the capital investment channels, and they also opened up. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty and the Siam garrison also talked about it in the Khmer.
The purpose of the garrison was mainly to protect the security of Ming capital in the Khmer and Siam. In addition, the Ming Dynasty will also establish an embassy in Khmer and Siam to maintain communication with the Khmer Phnom Penh dynasty and the Ayutthaya dynasty in Siam.
After a series of terms were signed, Ming Dynasty commodities could be exported to Khmer and Siam without any obstacles, and at the same time, they could also develop agricultural, forestry, minerals, fisheries and other resources in Khmer and Siam.
After the terms were signed, the capital of the state-owned consortium of the Ming Dynasty poured into the Khmer and Siam, and began to hire workers in the Khmer and Siam to develop resources in rice fields, forestry, minerals, fisheries and other aspects. The main development is rice fields, and the rice production conditions in Siam and Khmer are very superior.
Siam's arable land resources reached more than 300 million acres, while the population of Siam was only more than 6 million. Large areas of arable land were not developed because they could not use so much arable land at all. So there were still forests everywhere.
As the Ming Dynasty brought Siam into the commodity economy market, a large number of resources would be gradually developed.
Chapter completed!