Chapter 1132: The Perfect Plan

"However, our Great Song has enough positions to absorb people from traditional industries, while other Dongtu countries do not have this capability. In the long run, this is prone to causing trouble and is not conducive to the rule of the kings we support," Zhao Xu thought of something and said to Yang He.

Currently, Great Song maintains a high trade surplus with all countries in Dongtu.

These surpluses naturally allow Great Song's factories to continuously benefit, and Great Song's social wealth to continuously grow.

The increase in overall wealth in turn benefits the people of Great Song, making them increasingly wealthy.

Conversely, however, the wealth created by other Dongtu countries each year is effectively used entirely to exchange for industrial goods, and the wealth of these entire countries grows slowly or even declines.

In the short term, this is indeed beneficial to Great Song, but in the long run, it is disadvantageous to Great Song.

Just as merchants say, you cannot earn a copper coin from a beggar.

The result of draining the pond to catch all the fish is that you end up with nothing to eat yourself.

This is also the reason why, when he ascended the throne, he promised the kings of Dongtu to provide them with Steam Technology.

There is a saying in business: let's grow the cake together.

Transferring Steam Technology is one of the means to grow the cake.

One way to increase a country's overall wealth is to reasonably earn wealth from other countries through trade.

Another way is to increase the total amount of social wealth through technology.

For example, before chemical fertilizers, the yield of one mu of land was two hundred jin, but with chemical fertilizers, the yield is six hundred jin; this is equivalent to an increase in overall wealth.

Historically, the economic aggregate of the next dynasty is always higher than that of the previous one; this is the principle.

This time, he called Yang He over to have him formulate a plan.

They can no longer just sell light industrial goods; from now on, they must also sell heavy industrial goods, such as the Steam Engine.

They can even contract for the Railway construction of Dongtu countries.

In this way, they can not only extract more wealth by selling heavy industrial goods.

They can also enable Dongtu countries to achieve an increase in their domestic overall wealth.

Only when they have money can Great Song earn more.

Otherwise, if a bunch of people are dirt poor and cannot even afford pants, who will they sell industrial goods to?

Of course, there is one most important point.

If a younger brother follows a big brother, he shouldn't be going hungry nine times in three days.

To make people loyal, you have to give them food to eat.

Only by following Great Song and living better and better can these Dongtu countries be submissive to Great Song from top to bottom.

This is regarding the transfer of phased-out technology.

Another aspect that allows them to solve the employment problem, make up for the trade deficit, and is also beneficial to Great Song is labor export.

The contemporary Philippines earns foreign exchange by exporting Filipino maids.

Here, foreign exchange is the Song Yuan.

Thinking of this, he said to Yang He, "During this period, in addition to packaging Steam Technology for Dongtu countries, we must also prepare for the overseas labor export affairs of various Dongtu countries to Great Song."

Although the population of Great Song is already considered large in the current world.

But for Zhao Xu, as Electricity is continuously popularized and industrial categories become more and more complete, the gap in the industrial population will only grow larger.

To solve this problem, he is already prepared to completely destroy Great Song's small-scale peasant economy.

This is to continuously promote the Family Farm Plan, reduce the number of farmers to increase the industrial population, and let a small number of farm owners take on the task of food production.

It is just that there is a prominent problem when this plan is implemented.

That is, farm owners must possess various types of farming machinery,

To replace manual labor, otherwise this plan simply cannot work.

It is precisely because of this reason that the current plan is being implemented slowly.

Currently, he is already laying out plans to solve this problem.

That is to overcome the Internal Combustion Engine problem on one hand, and the fossil energy problem on the other.

The world's first piston Internal Combustion Engine was born in 1860—this is the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Great Song already has the conditions to produce Internal Combustion Engines in all aspects, just waiting for the Research Institute to solve the remaining technical problems and build the production lines.

And before Internal Combustion Engine machinery is popularized to farm owners, the problem of insufficient farm labor can only be solved through human labor and steam machinery.

Previously, Westerners solved the problem of insufficient labor on their farms through the slave trade.

He is not willing to do so.

Because he knows very well that if he does this, Great Song will inevitably be bitten back in the future.

For him, the most reasonable method is overseas labor.

Great Song's farm owners hire farmers from other Dongtu countries to act as labor to operate the farms and pay these farmers.

When the contract expires, these farmers can return to their own countries.

Great Song's farm owners therefore

achieved the normal operation of their farms, and these hired laborers earned Song Yuan.

Of course, overseas labor is not limited to farms; it can involve all aspects.

Including infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and Railways.

Even if some Workshops lack people, they can hire laborers.

These laborers work in Great Song, earn Song Yuan, and it is also equivalent to helping build Great Song.

The people of Great Song enjoy the labor services they provide.

Afterwards, they take these Song Yuan back to their respective countries and come to buy Great Song's industrial goods again, with wealth flowing back to Great Song, realizing the circulation of the Dongtu regional economy.

This is the perfect plan.