"I used to say that there were too many pitfalls and too few carrots, but now that the sub-bases have been opened, there are too many pitfalls and too few carrots." Liu Xiang shook his head and decided to make a list to sort out his thoughts.
From the current point of view, Vietnam is mainly positioned as a coal base and rice supply base. However, the Grand Library specially provides information on the war in the south. If you go to this area, it is probably to engage in armed colonization? The people have bombed to the current point, regardless of food.
Or for fuel, the demand for traversing the group is like a black hole that suddenly explodes. The previous warm and gentle trade with Vietnam can no longer satisfy the stomach of the Senate - and the boiler. Judging from the recent "two publications and one newspaper", the trade with Vietnam
The call for more direct measures was very loud, and the saying of "taking back the nine true gods of our country, Nichinan County" appeared many times.
As for Ryukyu, after reading the "Historical Research" in the Great Library, Liu Xiang generally understood that the current historical period is the time when the Ryukyu-Diaoyu Islands issue has gone wrong "since ancient times": the Satsuma clan forced the Sho dynasty to pay tribute to the Satsuma clan
, and actually controlled Ryukyu. From this time on, Japan started the process of Japaneseizing, colonizing, and localizing Ryukyu. Although Ryukyu later still surrendered to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it actually became a vassal of Satsuma.
Putting aside this hot historical issue that has just begun, Ryukyu is now an important maritime landmark on the Northeast Asia route in the entire East Asia region - except for the Senate. From the topographic map, trade ships from Fujian go all the way north along the Ryukyu Islands.
There are islands and reefs along the way for route guidance and supply, and it is an important central hub for navigation in East Asia. Controlling Ryukyu is of little significance to the Senate, which can rely on charts to sail along the ocean currents, but it indirectly controls the central hub of other maritime merchants.
The Japanese trade route and the monopoly on trade with Japan are just around the corner. The sulfur on several volcanic islands in Ryukyu is an urgently needed industrial raw material for the Senate. Therefore, the goal of going to Ryukyu seems to be very clear.
But Ryukyu is insignificant compared to Vietnam and Guangzhou. It is just a casual move. It doesn't matter whether it is won or not. As a local administrative official for many years, I was sent there to be a little overqualified.
"Guangzhou--" Liu Xiang began to mutter in his heart again. The hardest thing to guess is this. Speaking of Guangzhou, everyone in the Senate knows that it is the territory of Guo Dadong and the basic territory of the "Guanglei Department". Especially
The fact that the Great World Project is about to complete its first phase in the near future only adds to this impression.
"Is it necessary to rotate cadres to prevent people from becoming powerful?" This question came to Liu Xiang's mind again. Judging from the consistent policies of the Executive Committee, whether it is political factions or the personal political speculation of the elders, as long as they are not above the line
They are all allowed to move freely, but no faction or individual will be allowed to become powerful.
From the perspective of local factions, the weakest is the "main island faction" of Hainan Island. Even the Sanya region, where Wang Gong is personally in charge, is actually completely dependent on the central government. As for Vietnam, Hangzhou, Jeju Island, Shandong, and Taiwan
Although the expatriate teams in other places have considerable strength, they still rely heavily on the central government.
Only the Guanglei Department controls the largest and most important trade gate of the Senate. Even after the Hangzhou Station opened the trade channel to Shanghai, more than 70% of the Senate's trade with the Ming Dynasty was still conducted through this portal.
.Not only that, but Leizhou’s sugar industry can be called the money printing machine of the Senate. Its importance is self-evident.
It is a matter of course that the Executive Committee should carry out certain personnel reorganization of the Guanglei Department to avoid losing the top position.
However, this matter is not easy to handle. Although Liu Xiang was looking forward to going to Guangzhou to show off his skills, his enthusiasm quickly died out. The situation there is different. It is not that the director of the county office can be transferred to Guangzhou with a transfer order.
Substitute someone. Just randomly replace someone and take over Guo Dongzhu's shift. It's easy to say within your own system that Guo Yi will never disobey the organization's orders. The problem is that his transfer will cause great shock to the local business circle in Guangzhou.
Do those people who often come and go with Ziziha recognize you as your new boss? Liu Xiang has been a local official for several years, and he understands the thinking of the indigenous people very well. The idea of rule by man is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although everyone in Guangzhou knows Guo Yi
He represents "Australians", but Dongzhu Guo's transfer, no matter whether it will be considered as his personal "loss of power", it is the norm that "the people die and the government ceases" - let alone the 17th century, even in the 21st century, the street office,
It is possible for the county to change its leadership and refuse to acknowledge the predecessor's accounts at all.
Even if he takes over, the money temporarily stored in the purple cabinet will probably be withdrawn in a few days - after all, business credit in this era is based on individuals rather than legal entities. If this happens,
, regardless of whether something big happened or not, this is too embarrassing.
Of course, it would be great if Xiao Guo's team could stay in office. But this matter is not something he can decide at all.
Let’s not talk about internal problems, but there are still three political troubles in Guangzhou: the bureaucrats in Guangzhou, the Portuguese in Macau, and the elders in Hong Kong.
Fucheng is where the provincial bureaucracy is located. People are sent here to establish the underground government and the shadow shogunate. The dignitaries in Fucheng must not be as willing as Wu Mingjin to cooperate as background props. It took Guo Yi several years to build relationships, and he
Once he leaves, can he pick him up?
Macau is currently in a "legally leased land" status with the Ming government. If there is an underground government, should we recognize the colonial status? From a national sentiment point of view, we should not recognize it. Although the colony of Macau is closely related to "I, the Qing Dynasty"
The five-port trade and various cessions of land were different, and legally they were considered normal land leases. However, a large number of people in the Senate still did not recognize the existence of colonies of other countries in the core territory of the Chinese nation, no matter what form they were.
Therefore, the call to drive away the Portuguese and take back Macau has always existed in the Senate, and it is still very loud.
However, from the perspective of actual interests, Liu Xiang believes that Macao is still the most important trading port for the Senate and the Portuguese. In particular, most of the Indian goods imported by the Senate are through Portuguese channels. Driving away the Portuguese will not only satisfy the national pride.
There is no real benefit outside the country. What's more, the Portuguese, who have lost their motherland, are now extremely deferential to the Senate, which is far easier to deal with than the rebellious Dutch.
The most troublesome thing is actually Hong Kong. If Guangzhou is controlled, what kind of relationship will it have with Hong Kong? Liu Xiang knows that the current group of elders in Hong Kong are trying to do something big. However, in this time and space, it is possible for Hong Kong to become the Pearl of the Orient.
Sex no longer exists. Since the Senate can directly rule Guangzhou, why bother using this small island at the mouth of the Pearl River, which is short of resources in all aspects? In the past, the establishment of a base in Hong Kong was just to monitor Guangzhou. Once Guangzhou fell to the Senate,
Without the control of the Court, the value of Hong Kong will disappear.
At present, Hong Kong's industry has almost achieved a certain scale of shipbuilding industry development by relying on the primary labor cooperation provided by the craftsmen in Guangzhou Prefecture. In addition, its industry is very limited and has a strong color of supporting military services: light
Almost all of the several agricultural product processing enterprises established in the industrial system serve the Lianqin headquarters, and they still rely on the supply of agricultural products from the Pearl River Delta.
In other words, apart from its function as a port, Hong Kong currently relies entirely on the mainland. The port function is completely meaningless except for the navy. Since it can directly control various ports using Guangzhou,
Why bother to go to Hong Kong and take a detour?
After taking office, how will I get along with the elders of Hong Kong? Should I ask that Hong Kong be classified as part of Guangzhou?
My brain hurts just thinking about it...
Opening the "Situation Compilation", Liu Xiang decided to focus on local sentiments first.
After years of intervention by the Senate, the economic and social structure of Guangzhou Prefecture has undergone earth-shaking changes, so this time the Great Library did not participate in the "Situation Compilation" at all. This important social survey document was mainly compiled by the Guangzhou Station, and the Intelligence Bureau gave full support
Data support. Because of the detailed data, it is more suitable for Liu Xiang's reading habits than the compilation of several historical documents crawled out of the big library.
Liu Xiang scanned the data again, wrote and drew on the paper, and made a coarse-grained clustering and classification of the data according to his own understanding, making the data more suitable for his understanding of political and economic aspects.
"Well, in terms of pop, this is the situation now!" Liu Xiang divided the data into squires, bureaucrats, farmers, laborers, laborers, and technicians according to the classification model of Steel League in P Club's Four Meng.
Handicraftsmen, military households and other large types, then took out a printed administrative division map of Guangfu, and marked different labels and numbers on different areas. After working hard for more than two hours,
Filled out this diagram - then he took out another one that had been filled in and compared it. This one was a program he wrote in his spare time in the past few months while studying the three "included as gifts" documents.
The generated and processed process is similar to the manual one just now, except that all calculations are handed over to the computer.
This comparison, as expected, there are still many differences between the two pictures...
"I'm so idle!" Liu Xiang decisively abandoned the results he had worked on for two hours and still used the graph generated by the computer for analysis. As for going back to check or something, Liu Xiang simply gave up - the laptop had already
It’s packed, and it’s inconvenient to rummage through the boxes now. Anyway, the sea route from Haikou to Lingao is only about 60 kilometers, and this regular tugboat with turtle speed will arrive after dark. But after all, the data has been reviewed just now, and it is better than simply
You can understand it better when you look at the computer-processed pictures. Many ideas come to mind just at a glance.