He was not very interested in the financial industry. He was engaged in the financial industry because of its high income. In an environment like Lingao, the role of the financial industry is very limited, and it will take at least several decades for major development. In contrast, he is very interested in the ancient past events of the Age of Discovery, such as exploration, trade, and the East and West India Company. Passionate about being a colonizer in a new time and space. He also participated in the preparations for the Southeast Asia Company, but soon felt that the power of this company was too small. It was purely a place to find a way out for the pirate merchants who were attached to the Senate. It was not the Senate version of the East India Company.
Finally he applied to the Ministry of Colonial Trade. It soon became apparent that despite its great reputation, this department did not receive much resource allocation within the Senate system. It is said to be "colonial", but in fact its main business is import and export trade.
Trade is of course very important. He also agreed with this point, but in his opinion, the department head was too "peace-loving", so why did he buy so many things? Wouldn't it be better to grab it?
The obvious result was that he and Skade were very unhappy. Although Skade came from a foreign trade background, he knew very little about colonial history, so he was no match for the debate conference.
Although he got the pleasure of winning the debate, it did little good to his "career". In the Ministry of Colonial Trade, he got his wish and got the position of Director of the Colonial Department. In theory, he could manage all the colonies in the "non-East Asian region" of the Senate, but this colony was just a stronghold in Hongji. Jeju and Taiwan are both "local", and judging from the momentum of the Senate, Vietnam will have to be "local" sooner or later.
After much thinking, only by allowing the Senate to "move southward" could we get rid of his incompetent situation as the Director of the Colonial Department. Fortunately, whether to "go south" or "go north" has been debated since before the Senate entered Lingao City. In recent years, as the plate has become larger and larger, this kind of dispute has begun to surface.
There is no doubt that in the face of the chaotic northern continent, Southeast Asia, which is relatively wild and empty and has a lot of resources, can attract the attention of the elders. Therefore, from the meeting before the launch of the mainland strategy, some people opposed the launch of the mainland strategy, and instead invested corresponding forces in Southeast Asia.
However, most of the senators considered that if they launched an attack on Southeast Asia first, the future population under the Senate would inevitably have more naturalized people of Southeast Asian origin, which would be very detrimental to the population structure. Moreover, going south will inevitably be accompanied by large-scale colonization. Before a sufficient local population is obtained, it will be difficult to recruit enough immigrants to Southeast Asia under the Ming Dynasty just relying on semi-public Senate enterprises such as Delong and Qiwei.
The final result of the discussion was to win over Guangdong and Guangxi as the Senate's base on the mainland. The native population of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially the Han population, is at least nine million. This number is enough to maintain the main population level of the elders.
The battle between Guangdong and Guangxi has started with great success and has recently fallen into a quagmire. Although the surrounding people do not express their opinions very much, they have been paying attention to the situation of the battle. In his opinion, the current quagmire of the war between Guangdong and Guangxi can just contain the mouthpieces of the "Northward Movement" who advocate that after occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, they will continue to go northward to expand their victory. On my own side, I can put forward the argument for going south in an honest and fair manner - follow the trend.
It is not difficult to put forward an argument, but it is rare to have someone to support you. After all, this is a change in strategic direction and requires a two-thirds majority at the Senate Assembly. It is not enough to just "go with the trend" and rely on the support of the old southern faction. We also have to win over the middle faction.
Who are the centrists? After thinking around, I finally decided to start with the industrial port. In his opinion, Industrial Port is a big vote bank, but its presence in the Senate is not strong. Most people are immersed in their own professions and rarely care about changes in the political situation and strategic direction. If their enthusiasm for "participating in political affairs" can be aroused, let alone going south to establish colonies, it will not be a problem to become the chairman of the Senate or the secretary of state in the future.
After careful consideration, Dr. Zhou began to intentionally contact industry veterans. Coming to this seminar today is also an important part of his plan. After all, it has nothing to do with chemical engineering. My chemistry level is roughly that of a senior high school student - I have almost forgotten about it. He also doesn't understand mechanics, biology, medicine, petroleum... Anyway, he has nothing to do with the majors related to Danzhou Industrial Park.
The reason why he came to the seminar was because he boasted about having "raw material solutions". He discussed the specific plan with several people from the Industrial Port, and they were "like-minded". A consensus was formed.
But to turn the "consensus" of these people into an "industry consensus" requires further operations.
The industrial department is a very large department, with almost half of the veterans concentrated there. Roughly divided by major, it can be roughly divided into four major areas: energy, machinery, metallurgy, and chemical industry.
Among these four sectors, the two sectors that are most dissatisfied with the current situation are energy and chemical industries. Both of these are very important, but low-level industrial categories that have been constrained by resource conditions for a long time and cannot make breakthroughs.
A low level means that you cannot speak loudly within the Senate, and you feel ignored.
After analyzing the situation of the two major groups, I believe that in comparison, the chemical industry group must have greater grievances than the energy group - compared to the veterans of the energy group, they have the possibility of losing their lives or being seriously injured every day. The production conditions that naturalized migrant workers have to endure when they go to the site to provide practical guidance and supervision are also even worse.
As long as there are complaints, it is easy to form a consensus. After several observations and tests, the surrounding people had a private "in-depth communication" with "Er Zhang", and both parties "fully expressed their views" and "reached a consensus."
People around me realize that the demands of industrial groups are actually not consistent, but there is one thing they all have in common, and that is dissatisfaction with resource allocation.
The Senate is very poor on Hainan Island. Hainan Island has a lot of resources and theoretically lacks nothing. But except for iron, there are common problems of too few reserves and scattered production areas. Many resources remain in untapped inland areas. Development is more difficult.
For a long time, insufficient resources have become a major problem that has seriously plagued the industrial sector. When it comes to industrial output, it can be said that it is constantly increasing, with a large rate of growth every year. But this growth is negligible in the face of massive demand.
Only by seizing the core appeal of "resources" can the industrial sector support its southbound policy.
Sure enough, this fluttering sentence "It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice" immediately caught everyone's hearts, and Zhang Hao responded immediately with understanding: "That's right, without resources, just making a plan is useless!"
Zhang Xiao also immediately said: "A lot of resources are thrown into Guangdong and Guangxi to improve the results, asking us all day long how much gunpowder, how much fertilizer, how much medicine can be provided... TNND, can I poop out these things? When it came time to allocate production materials, there was nothing, but if I wanted to transfer them out, I had to ask diligently!"
This immediately aroused the resonance of everyone present: discounting when accepting projects and being as eager as a spark when asking for things are consistent characteristics of the Senate. Bargaining has basically become a required course for project veterans.
Although everyone knows that the Planning Institute is not an oil mine. Objectively speaking, only as many things as there are available can be distributed, and projects also need to be coordinated and arranged. But people's emotions always feel that this distribution is "unfair" and that they are "neglected". Especially the frustration after the projects they applied for were rejected and discounted, which made them full of resentment.
"Anyway, we are just a group of tool people." Zhang Hao began to fan the flames. "Anyway, in the eyes of Ma Qianzhu and the others, we are just high-level naturalized citizens who realize the great ideals of the Senate!"
This time, cold water was poured into the boiling pot, and the emotions of the senior members of the seminar were aroused. What the elders hate and fear most is to be regarded as a "stepping stone to their great cause." As long as someone says this, it will have miraculous effects immediately. Even Ji Tuisi felt unhappy, but he soon realized that the Director of the Colonial Office, who had no professional background, tried every means to squeeze into this seminar, and he must have some purpose.
He thought quickly and immediately guessed the real thoughts around him.
However, he was in no hurry to stop the complaints and agitation of the senators. Ji Tuisi thought that no matter what, what he said was right. The Senate did need to pay attention to the development and allocation of resources. Since ancient times, children who cry have milk. It's not a bad thing to have such a catfish jump in and give it a try - it can also increase the chemical industry's say.
Seeing that the atmosphere was about to change, he coughed and said: "Everyone knows that all the difficulties we are encountering now are due to insufficient production capacity. The reason for insufficient production capacity is nothing more than the lack of resource supply. To solve it, we must solve it from the root. Resource issues.”
In the following time, I started to explain the advantages of going south with the materials I had carefully prepared. The main contents are "ten thousand hectares of fertile land where three-season rice is grown casually" in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, "countless minerals on the coastline", "light crude oil will come out by itself when you dig a hole"... These materials are all from him. Over the past month, I have been immersed in my homework in the big library. To be honest, he didn't even think so carefully when he wrote his doctoral thesis.
Although the elders of the industrial port knew something about the resource advantages of Southeast Asia, after all, this was in the 17th century, and Southeast Asia was still a "barbaric land", so the elders didn't know much about this land. Now that they are being blown away by the surroundings, it has immediately turned into a "land flowing with milk and honey". Everyone can't help but yearn for it, and the anger of "the Executive Committee is harming the country" is ignited in their hearts - although the Executive Committee has already It has been disbanded for many years.
