Since raising that stupid dog, Ma Zhou's temper has become much more irritable. Every day, he is with a stupid dog who can only make him want to develop a hundred and eight full dog feast. It is not easy to be crazy.

Zhang Chao felt that the conditions were becoming more and more mature, and it was time to start fully implementing overseas colonial policies.

"What colonized overseas is not about conquering many foreign tribes, nor is it about capturing many territories. What is the fundamental thing about colonizing overseas? It is about transfusion of blood to the court!"

"Exploring new overseas markets, looking for cheaper raw materials, and even mining many resources lacking in the Central Plains. These are the real purposes of our overseas colonization. Therefore, for overseas colonization, we should not only conquer a country, nor do we occupy a lot of territory. What we need is a brand new model, such as occupying an island and a port, which is enough."

Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou's ideas are still a bit different.

In Prime Minister Ma Zhou's concept, of course, it is still relatively traditional. It is believed that overseas colonization is like conquering Goguryeo and conquering Linyi, with the goal of ultimately destroying the country and occupying its territory.

But Zhang Chao didn't think so. It's not necessary to colonize, to strive for such a big goal from the beginning. Zhang Chao's colonization goal plunders resources and open up new markets.

If you can trade, then establish a trading port and trade with the indigenous people. If you can't trade, then establish a stronghold and fight with them. With Dahua's advanced navigation technology, excellent equipment, and good training, you can completely abuse the indigenous people.

Catching slaves, building castles, manors, mining, and planting are actually very potential.

Everything is still in the Central Plains.

We must always keep Zhongyuan in the lead.

"How to ensure that these colonial companies are always loyal to the court?"

"After all, many overseas colonial companies can only colonize very far-reaching overseas areas, and it will be very difficult for the court to manage them."

With enough strength, you will definitely not be willing to be controlled. This is nature.

But Zhang Chao is not worried about this.

"A piece of overseas colony, even if the shareholders of the colonial company are rich and powerful, they cannot do without the support of the court. Even if the company is rich, what if the court controls the customs ports in the Central Plains, then these colonial companies will not get what they need. In other words, if the colonial company wants to make a profit, it actually has to rely on the Central Plains market. In essence, the most profitable way for colonial companies is to plunder and conquer, and the other is to trade."

"The slaves or materials they plundered must be transported back to the Central Plains to make money. If they trade, they will be even more inseparable from the Central Plains, because many profitable commodities are only produced in the Central Plains, and the cost here is the lowest."

What does the Central Plains mean?

It is equivalent to a huge trading market, whether it is a vassal state or an overseas colonial company, if there is no trading market like the Central Plains, their development will be a rootless tree and they will never think about developing it.

"In short, colonial companies will never be a threat to the court. The better the colonial companies do, the more blood transfusions they will be. This is like our enfeoffment of princes. We don't need to worry about the princes far away from the Central Plains."

"I plan to set up a standard for establishing overseas colonial companies in the future. As long as the standards are met, I can apply for authorization from the court. After passing the review, I pay a deposit to the court and a colonial authorization fee, and I can have the power to open up the colony."

“Is it really appropriate to open colonial companies now?”

"There is nothing appropriate. Doing it now and doing it in the future is a matter of the first choice. There is no need to miss the opportunity now. However, it is necessary to relax the colonial companies, but supervision should still be supervised. First of all, the management of immigration should be strengthened. People in the Central Plains should not be easily allowed to immigrate to overseas colonies. Even the fiefs of princes should be strengthened. People in the Central Plains should also be strengthened. People in the Central Plains should also have to increase the conditions for immigrating to the fiefs of princes."

Immigration is an equally important resource. Without a population, especially the Han Dynasty’s insufficient population, excellent craftsmen and other elites, it will be even more difficult to develop a fiefdom or colony.

As long as the immigration is stuck, the colonial companies or the fiefs of the princes will be greatly controlled by the Central Plains, and the Central Plains court does not have to worry about a large number of people losing to border areas or overseas, especially those excellent craftsmen and technical talents and scholars. These are extremely important resources in this era.

Ma Zhou also supports this.

In fact, the management of population mobility in previous dynasties was extremely strict, and the people were not allowed to leave their townships and counties easily.

A hundred miles away, you have to pass the path. Without these, you can't pass through those levels at all.

In the past, the imperial court did this to bind the people to the land, which could ensure agricultural grain production, local stability, and facilitate management.

Before this, the court had no longer banned population movement.

People in the countryside can work in the city, or even cross state roads. They only need an identity card to carry with them and can go anywhere. If you live in a foreign land, then you can apply for a temporary residence permit or something like that.

This loose population management system and the taxation system after the implementation of two taxes make it simple and convenient for population circulation, which is also conducive to the development of industry and commerce.

However, some new problems have also emerged in the past two years.

For example, the imperial court enfeoffed a large number of princes, and the princes were in the border areas. One of the biggest problems was the lack of population. Especially the Han people who lacked the subject, which made the development of princes in their fiefdoms severely limited. Therefore, the princes purchased a large number of slaves on the one hand, while the princes proposed many superior conditions to attract Han people to immigrate to fiefdoms.

Previously, the Zhang family developed Liuqiu, and used this method to provide excellent immigration conditions. Immigration has settlement fees, travel fees, free land grants, exemption of taxes and other conditions, and even established cooperatives to issue interest-free loans.

One by one, the policies attracted many immigrants from the Central Plains to settle down in Liuqiu.

The other princes also showed their supernatural powers.

If you give a hundred acres of land, then I will give a hundred acres of land. I can even bring a hundred households and give them an official position. In short, for the sake of population, the princes have really shown their magical powers over the years.

Of course, now, the population gap has become increasingly large, and there are not so many people in the Central Plains to dig.

The population that flows from the Central Plains to the fiefs of the princes is also quite large, at least tens of millions.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Chao proposed to immigrate to the territories of the princes.

The Central Plains system cannot be changed. The court must give priority to ensuring the development of the Central Plains before taking into account the princes. Otherwise, if the leader is weak and the branches are strong, it will be very dangerous.

Zhang Chao has made stricter requirements for overseas leaders and must strictly strengthen the conditions for immigration overseas.

"There is also the outflow of restrictions on technology."

In addition to population, technology is also very important.

The court must control important basic strategic industries such as mining, smelting, steel production, military production, shipbuilding, etc., and even if some private enterprises are liberated in the Central Plains, they cannot develop outside the Central Plains.

At most, mining industries are allowed outside the Central Plains, but processing and manufacturing industries are not allowed.

For example, in the shipbuilding industry, there can be logging outside the Central Plains, but ship timber processing must be carried back to the Central Plains for processing.

For example, when mining various minerals such as coal, iron and copper, it can be explored outside the Central Plains, but it is not allowed to be smelted and processed there directly. Only some screening and other work of the ore is allowed. Smelting must be in the Central Plains.

Even textile printing and dyeing must be in the Central Plains.

Strictly controlling the outflow of technology will allow Zhongyuan to always be in the technological leadership and master the most core competitiveness.

No matter how fertile the reliability is, if there is no Central Plains export technology there, and only grain can be planted, mulberry, hemp, cotton, etc., then they will at most be the output place for basic grain and cotton and thread.

These raw materials were transported back to the Central Plains, and after printing, dyeing and textiles, they became other better commodities and could also have stronger added value. In other words, these processed silk products, cotton products, etc. eventually made more profits in the Central Plains, and accordingly, the imperial court also received more taxes.

Trust is just a huge source of raw materials, and what they earn in the entire commodity circulation link is only the smallest part.

Through this economic scissor, the court can easily cut the wool of the princes, making them unable to keep up with the development speed of the court, and even failing to have some core competitive technologies.

The blockade of processing technology on them can also make the overseas colonies and vassal fiefs only produce raw materials and then exchange them for handmade goods, which will be cut again.

Direct robbery, such as levying taxes on princes, increasing taxes, etc., is the most technical thing and is also the easiest to arouse dissatisfaction among princes.

But in this way, it is more gentle and hidden, and at the same time it is more effective.

Killing people without blood, cutting flesh with a blunt knife.

To rob, you must also have technical content. This has always been Zhang Chao's philosophy.

"Don't worry about opening the colonies boldly. We don't have to worry about how many overseas colonies will be there, nor do we have to worry about losing control. We do what we need to do, and we don't have to worry about everything else."

If we really need to control immigration and technology outflow, the court can actually collect money while lying down.

The better they develop, the more blood transfusions they will be to the court, and the stronger the court will be. Whether it is the princes or colonies, they will be unable to compete with the court, and they will be more inseparable from the powerful system of the court. They can only silently support the operation of this huge system like a gear.

Without this system, they are nothing.

Not to mention that the court could make them useless, it would indeed cause the colonies of a single economy to collapse instantly.

Ma Zhou sighed.
Chapter completed!