Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2223, Globalization Economy
Li Zhaofan thought about the long-term development of the Chaling colony.

Because he knew that oil would run out one day, but the population of his Li family was increasing. It was impossible to say that relying on oil would always lead a good life like now.

The Li family has always been a scholarly family, and the family mainly studied for the imperial examination. This kind of life of sitting and eating is not the way of life of the Li family, and it does not conform to the legacy left by Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang’s visit to the Chaling Colony also left a legacy for Li Zhaofan and the Li family. The most important sentence is that people who have no foresight must have near-term worries. The Li family cannot lie on the oil and become useless rice bugs.

That's why the Li family will vigorously support their own family's children to study, take the imperial examination, and take the university entrance examination, because only by studying, knowledge, and culture can they truly keep these huge wealth of the Li family.

This has been the case since ancient times.

Some people may get rich overnight, but they can't keep their wealth, and they will soon lose their wealth through various forms.

The biggest problem here is that I have no culture, no knowledge, too little knowledge, too little experience, so my morals are not matched, and I can't keep huge wealth at all.

Since ancient times, all big families that have been able to continue have basically attached great importance to the education of their own family children, because they know that only knowledge is the wealth that others cannot take away, and it is also the most precious wealth. Nature will follow.

"What is a better investment?"

Li Zhaofan was thinking in his mind.

There are many places where you can invest now. Among other things, you can get good returns every year just by taking the funds to the Daming Tianjin Stock Exchange or the South African Stock Exchange to buy stocks.

These two stock exchanges are currently the only two major stock exchanges in the world. A large number of commercial firms and factories are listed here. Their perfect system can also ensure the rights and interests of investors. At the end of each year, when dividends are distributed, shareholders when they are happiest.

"Dong Dong~"

Just as Li Zhaofan was thinking, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in~"

Li Zhaofan came back to his senses and said.

Soon, a young man about 20 years old walked in with a smile on his face. This man was called Li Yanchuan, the son of Li Zhaofan's brother, and a brilliant student who had just graduated from the South African University of Technology.

"Oh, it's Yanchuan!"

Seeing Li Yanchuan, Li Zhaofan immediately laughed.

"Uncle~"

Li Yanchuan also saluted respectfully.

"sit down."

"Thank you uncle!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Li Zhaofan also asked about Li Yanchuan's studies.

"How was your schooling here in South Africa?"

"I've already graduated, and I'm going back to work in our family."

Li Yanchuan quickly replied.

"Very well, our Li family needs people like you who have gone to a new type of university to come back, so that we can develop better."

"Just right, I'm also thinking about the future development of our Li family. You can also help me."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhaofan nodded in satisfaction.

The Li family is full of talents, but many of them are from traditional schools. The road to the imperial examination is much more difficult. Although several children in the family have been admitted to Juren, they have never been able to pass the examination.

Even if one is admitted as a Jinshi and can be an official in Daming, Ning, or Chu, it doesn't really matter to the Li family.

Because the Li family moved to Chaling, only Huguang's hometown in Daming still has some land and real estate, and there are no other industries and people.

So for the Li family, the most important thing now is actually the Chaling colony in front of them, which has exhausted all the efforts of the Li family. The development here is the most important thing for the Li family.

Studying old studies obviously has no meaning and effect on the Li family colony. Although it is an independent small kingdom, there is no need to establish any dynasty or the like.

Because the population here is so small, and they are all from the Li family.

It is useless for you to learn the old knowledge, but to learn the new one, which is very important to the Li family.

In fact, Li Zhaofan intends to develop the oil refining industry, smelting oil himself, and exporting finished products directly. In this case, the income will be much higher than selling crude oil directly.

But smelting oil requires technology and equipment. The equipment is good, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can buy it. Only this technology, if your family has no talents in this field and relies on outsiders for everything, it will be unreliable after all.

In addition, the Li family still has huge wealth. How to manage the huge wealth here is also very technical.

Times have changed.

Now is no longer the era when people relied on studying to become officials, hoarded a lot of land after they got rich, and then collected land rent. Now the price of food in the world is extremely cheap.

Counting on the income from hoarding land and collecting land rent, the Li family is drinking the northwest wind.

Now there are various channels and methods of global investment, all of which can be learned in new universities, especially those majoring in finance and economics, as for the traditional old learning.

Don't expect a group of scholars who know about Zheye to have any sense of investment. They have always looked down on gold, silver and money, and think that these yellow and white things will most tarnish their nobility of scholars.

Let them manage money, and it is possible that they may lose you seven to eighty-eight for a year.

"Uncle, I'm still young and I don't understand anything, so I may not be able to help you much."

Li Yanchuan said modestly.

"Where will it be~"

"The Technical University of South Africa, this is the best university in South Africa, and the talents from it are all over the world from all walks of life."

Li Zhaofan smiled, and then talked about the future of his Li family's Chaling colony.

"Although our Li family has this colony, we are living pretty well on the income from oil, but the oil will always be exploited. Our Li family cannot live on oil forever."

"All in all, our Li family still has to find a way to do some other things and develop more other industries, so that our wealth can continue and grow continuously, so that the family can continue to grow."

"However, in our place, the conditions are so bad that we can't develop anything. Apart from oil, we can develop the oil smelting industry, and there is nothing else to develop."

When Li Zhaofan talked about this matter, he was also very troubled.

"Uncle, your worries are very reasonable."

"Petroleum is a non-renewable resource, and the less you dig, the less you dig."

"It's really impossible for our Li family to lie on oil all the time."

After listening, Li Yanchuan nodded solemnly in agreement.

"Haha, you think so too, so what do you think we should do with the situation of our Li family?"

Li Zhaofan asked with a smile.

"Actually, we should not limit ourselves to our Li family's colony, but should look at the whole world and have a global vision and awareness."

Li Yanchuan thought about it and said.

"Global vision and awareness?"

"Tell me in detail."

When Li Zhaofan heard this, he became energetic immediately.

Li Zhaofan himself is actually a traditional scholar, and the education he has received is also traditional old school education, so although he knows that the Li family cannot lie on oil, he doesn't know how to do it.

"Yes!"

"The so-called global vision and awareness was actually proposed by a professor in my university."

"He said that today's time is different from the past thousands of years. In the past, the histories of various parts of the world were often independent, and it was difficult to influence each other. Even if there were exchanges, both the scale and the number of people were very small. Not enough to have much impact on the global economy, politics and culture."

"But it's different now. The world is developing rapidly, and the influence of various regions is increasing, and they influence each other, especially in the economic field, and the influence between each other is even greater."

"When the northern region of Daming suffered a severe cold wave and a large number of cattle and sheep froze to death, the price of wool would inevitably rise in the next year."

"When rubber plantations in Nanyang suffer from diseases and reduce rubber production, the prices of rubber-related products will increase significantly."

"When our oil fields in the Persian Gulf reduce production, global oil prices will rise accordingly."

"These are enough to show that the global economy is gradually developing towards integration and globalization. Each region influences and promotes each other, and relies on its own advantages to occupy a place in this huge system."

"For example, in our Chaling colony of the Li family, we produce oil here, and the cost of extracting oil is very low, so we have an advantage in oil."

"For another example, on the Tianzhu continent, the climate is very suitable for the development of agriculture, so Ningguo and Western United Commercial Bank are now the most important producers of spices, grain, sugar, and tea."

"Another example is here in South Huangjinzhou, where there is a vast grassland with abundant water and grass, so it is very suitable for grazing cattle and sheep. Animal husbandry is the main industry. The cattle and sheep produced are not only of good quality, but also very cheap."

"These are the most typical manifestations of globalization and integrated development. A region's economy is relatively single, and it should give full play to its own advantages and highlight its own advantages to obtain absolute competitiveness in this field. "

"Such an economic model was not available at any time in the past, and it is impossible to appear."

"Because in the past, people wanted to eat and fill their stomachs. Even in places that are not suitable for developing agriculture, they still need to develop agriculture, because if you don't cultivate the land, you will starve to death, and it is impossible to engage in other industries. "

"Even if it can be developed, it is often impossible to transport it out because of traffic and transportation, let alone sell the product to a place thousands of miles away."

After thinking for a while, Li Yanchuan began to talk about the content of this globalized economy and integrated economy in detail.

"The new situation of globalized economy and integrated economy is now inseparable from our increasingly developed transportation and transportation technology."

"Trains, cars, and ships have all greatly facilitated the exchange and trade of people and goods. The cars produced in the Beijing-Tianjin region of the Ming Empire can be sold to any region in the world."

"Raw materials from all over the world can also be transported to the Ming Empire, which is enough to illustrate this point."

"Under such a development trend, all regions of the world will be involved and deeply affected. A place that can follow this development trend and trend can quickly gain its own place in the global economy .”

"Conversely, if it cannot be applied and complied with the development trend of this globalized economy, it will inevitably be gradually eliminated and abandoned by the times."

"Take Persia and Egypt around us."

"The geographical conditions in Persia and Egypt are very suitable for growing cotton, and the quality of the grown cotton is very good and very popular."

"However, these two places are not very suitable for the development of agriculture, especially Egypt, whose agriculture can only rely on the water of the Nile River for irrigation, and does not have an advantage in the development of agriculture."

"If the Persians and Egyptians were just growing food, they might be able to feed their own population, but they wouldn't get rich."

"Because on a global scale, they don't have any advantages in growing food, and they are far from being able to compare with the Ming Empire and South African colonies that used a lot of agricultural mechanization."

"Daming's four major granaries, namely Black Soil Province, Hezhong Province, Liaodong Province, and Beijinjinzhou, have vast, flat, and fertile land, and adopt mechanized farming methods, which have extremely high efficiency, large output, and low cost."

"Even if the grains of the Ming Empire were transported to Egypt and Persia, the price would be lower than their local grains, and the quality would be much better than their local grains."

"So purely from an economic point of view, growing food in Persia and Egypt is not as cost-effective as growing cotton."

"They can grow cotton, sell it to Daming people at a good price, and then buy cheap and better quality grain from Daming people, so that they can have extra income."

"If they just grow food, they are likely to be able to barely fill their stomachs. Once they encounter a drought year, even filling their stomachs will be a problem."

"This is a manifestation of the global economy. The economic development of a place must be integrated into the global economy, and it will also be integrated into it."

Li Yanchuan took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

"Because this is the choice and inevitability of the market, under the influence of economic orientation, people will choose ways that are beneficial to themselves to live better."

"That's how it is. I talked to some officials in Persia about this period. He said that fewer and fewer people in Persia are growing food, and everyone is growing cotton and raising sheep. I didn't expect this to be the truth."

After Li Zhaofan listened, he suddenly realized what he said.

Now it seems that I have understood a little bit. In the past, I always couldn't understand why such a situation happened. It turns out that there is such a reason behind it.

"Yes, in fact, the impact of Persia and Egypt in these aspects is not too great, but the impact on agriculture. In these vassal states and colonies outside our Ming Dynasty, this impact is even more far-reaching."

"Our Chaling Colony and Zhang Colony produce oil. We don't even grow food ourselves. We rely on imports for almost all of our products. We can live pretty well just relying on oil alone."

"There is also Chu State, where animal husbandry is the main industry; Ning State is mainly based on sugar, spices and tea; the South African colony has its own industrial advantages, so ship manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, electrical industry, and steel industry are the main industries."

"There are also large and small colonies and vassal states, which almost all illustrate this point. The colonies and vassal states that conform to the development of the global economy have developed rapidly and become rich quickly."

"On the contrary, the vassal states and colonies that do not like the development of the globalized economy tend to develop extremely slowly."

"Like Xingguo on the Gold Coast of West Africa, Xingguo itself does not have the foundation for industrial development. It insists on developing industry, but as a result, a large amount of investment is invested, and nothing is returned."

"Xingguo needs technology without technology, talent without talent, what industry can be developed, the best way for them to develop is to take the plantation economy, plant one or two crops with better economic value, and integrate into the global economy to develop stand up."

Li Yanchuan nodded and continued.

"In that case, our Li family's colony can only continue to exploit oil?"

Li Zhaofan thought for a while and said.

"It's petroleum-based related industries, such as petroleum refining and petrochemicals!"

"Petroleum is not only used to smelt gasoline and diesel, it is also an extremely important chemical raw material, and its use in chemical industry is also very large."

"We can only eat a small part of the oil industry chain simply by exporting crude oil. If we want to fully expand our income, we must develop oil refining and petrochemicals."

"And once these two industries can develop, we can also slowly take the road of industrialization, and the ability to resist risks will be greatly increased."

"On top of that, we have huge oil revenues that can be invested on a global scale."

"For example, in Australia and Gold Island, there are many high-quality iron ore and copper mines. These places have inconvenient transportation and mining requires a lot of investment. We can definitely invest in these iron ore and copper mines."

"The rubber plantation in the Nanyang region is also very good. We can also invest in a large number of plantations in the Nanyang region to grow rubber."

"We can also invest in some commercial firms and factories in South Africa and Daming. These commercial firms and factories are developing rapidly and have very good benefits. Many of them lack funds and cannot expand quickly. We can definitely invest in these factories and commercial firms."

"It doesn't have to be limited to the one-third-acre land in Chaling. We Daming people have the most land and resources in the world, and there are many places where we can invest. Moreover, under the system of the Ming Empire, in fact, no matter where we go Almost the same, not much difference."

"On this point, we can learn more from Liu Gong, the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet today. The industries under Liu's family are all over the world and all major industries."

"Liu Jin doesn't have his own colony, but all major colonies around the world have the Liu family's shares. Even in our Chaling colony, the Liu family only invested a few million taels of silver and then divided half of it. It can be said that the investment has been very successful.”

"Similar to this kind of investment, the Liu family still has many, in many fields, there is their Liu family. Although it seems to be inconspicuous on the surface, but Liu Jin, a towering tree The roots have already been deeply extended to all parts of the world, and have gone to various fields.”

"Liu Jin's Liu family?"

When Li Yanchuan mentioned Liu Jin and the Liu family, Li Zhaofan couldn't help but nodded.

Thinking that his Chaling Colony was full of difficulties and he would not be able to get along, Liu Jin directly dumped several million taels of silver to buy half of the Chaling Colony for himself.

At that time, I still felt that I had made a profit, and I was very happy. As a result, until now, the Li family has been deeply complaining about this transaction, and it is a big loss.

It's only a few million taels. Chaling Colony now sells oil for tens of millions of taels a year. Liu Jin's initial investment of several million taels is now making huge profits every year.

To be honest, many people in the Li family clamored to find Liu Jin to discuss buying back the other half of the ownership, but Li Zhaofan did not dare to bring up this matter with the Liu family.

On the one hand, this is a matter related to the reputation of the Li family. If you go back on what you said at the beginning, the reputation of the Li family will be indifferent.

Another aspect is that the Liu family is not an ordinary family. Whether it is in Daming, South Africa, or other vassal states, colonies, etc., they all have huge influence. dead himself.

The Liu family is a super family with extremely far-reaching influence in the world today. Its influence and wealth are beyond imagination, and it has exceeded the scope of the Li family's worries now.

The Li family is only thinking about how to continue and expand their wealth. The Liu family has already deployed the world decades ago, planning the development and pattern of the next few hundred years.

"You speak very well!"

"This new study is still very useful. Compared with your brothers who study the old study, your knowledge and thinking are several levels higher. You are a rare talent in our Li family."

Li Zhaofan praised Li Yanchuan for coming. After hearing Li Yanchuan's words, Li Zhaofan had a clear understanding of the current global economy and pattern.

He has a rough idea of ​​how the Li family should go in the future.

Although the Chaling Colony is said to belong to the Li family and needs to be managed well, it cannot be restricted by the Chaling Colony. Instead, it should look at the world and integrate into the global economy, and at the same time, continue to integrate into the huge Ming Empire into the system.

This kind of Li family can be regarded as a truly developed Li family on a global scale, not a Li family limited to the small place of Chaling.

We must look at the world, focus on the world and future development.

PS: The two chapters are combined into one chapter, I am too lazy to split them~~
(End of this chapter)