The Qing court was about to take back the governance of Guangdong, which actually did not have a particularly big impact on the Tang Dynasty. During this period, the military government actually adopted more of a no-do approach to Guangdong. Due to the relative shortage of manpower, the Tang people basically only did two things in Guangdong: immigration and commerce.

Datang has set up immigration offices in almost every state capital in Guangdong, and these immigration offices will continue to be maintained after the transfer of governance. Optimistically, Guangdong will continue to provide millions of immigrants to the Tang Dynasty in the next few years, but of course the main constraint is the capacity of the Tang people.

In addition, Datang took the opportunity of governing Guangdong to completely spread Datang's commercial goods in most of Guangdong. All kinds of locally produced goods from Datang have established their own marketing channels in Guangdong. A typical example is the Guangzhou Prefecture, which built a power plant during the Tang Dynasty and began to supply electricity to the city. Due to the relatively large damage to the city in the previous siege of Guangzhou, a number of new buildings were contracted by the Tang people's construction company in the city. Even, Guangzhou is preparing to open a Datang Lianhua supermarket at the end of the year to supply all kinds of Datang goods. In addition, the hearts and eyes of the Cantonese people are also relatively lively, and many people have taken a fancy to the machinery of the Tang people. Through various connections, these merchants bought some machines from Tang merchants, opened ≮∧dǐng≮∧diǎn≮∧ small ≮∧ said, .2★▽ set up their own factories. In just one year, 30 factories of all sizes using Datang machines were established in Guangzhou, including cement factories, paper mills, and printing factories for producing cement, garment factories for sewing clothes, shoes, and hats on sewing machines, and flour mills.

It can be said that from the perspective of industrialization, Guangdong is even running in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if the governing power is transferred, the new governor of Guangdong will not rashly turn back. It may be difficult to open a factory, but it will not stop the rise of a new group of capital.

in Guangdong and Jiangnan and other places. Over time, there will be a growing trend that the rate of return on investing in land will be quite low. This is because the Qing State was unable to be independent in foreign trade policy, which made Datang commodities enter the domestic market without restrictions, especially the serious surplus of grain in Datang, which was frantically pouring in. It is impossible for a large number of laborers in Datang to gather in the city and become industrial workers. A considerable part of it still went to the farms. As of October 1780, the cultivated land area of Jiazhou alone has reached 20 million mu, and if the full power is opened, the annual grain production of the entire Tang Dynasty has pointed to 10 million tons per year.

This is an unsolvable problem, on the one hand, agricultural technology is the closest to modern technology in Datang, whether it is from improved seeds or other farming methods, fertilizers and rotations, etc., compared to what monocrystalline blade turbofan engines, graphene and other things in the industry are much easier to achieve. Moreover, the proportion of high-yield crops in the proportion of Datang grain is also relatively large. On the other hand, Datang's current local population is only about 2 million, and the annual direct consumption of grain is three or four hundred tons. Indirect consumption, calculated in terms of per capita consumption, is only 780,000 tons at most. It can be said that since 1776, the supply and demand relationship of grain production in the Tang Republic has always been seriously unbalanced.

The country's clamoring for balanced development of agriculture has led to the widespread cultivation of vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, and even cotton and flax in the Central Valley, but this has not been able to stop the explosion in grain production, especially as new farmers continue to enter the farms. Originally, the country believed that the rapid growth of internal migration was too rapid to restrict food production. Adequate food supplies should be provided for new immigrants. However, the Ministry of Agriculture of the State Council held an emergency agricultural development meeting this year, and if it continues to develop at this rate. Not only will there be a lot of food waste, but there will also be a collapse of agriculture. Datang has been implementing the official grain plan for many years, and if the market sets its own price, then the grain will not even be sold for a pound and a penny, and even the farm will not be able to pay for its own fertilizer and agricultural machinery. In addition, the grain reserves of the Republic of Datang. It has exceeded 12 million tons, and even if the population of Datang grows rapidly in the future, it is not afraid of any situation at all.

In order to solve the overcapacity of grain, Datang grain merchants have worked extremely hard to promote their own grain to the world. At present, Datang's main grain exports are New Spain and Europe, but the export volume is still insufficient compared to the production volume. By this time, Datang had basically controlled grain prices in Mexico, Grenada, Peru and Chile. The local grain production itself is very small, and after the stable supply of Datang, many people even abandoned the farm for other purposes. However, the total export volume of these places is only tens of thousands of tons. After all, in a place like Mexico, many people grow corn to be self-sufficient.

Qing became an important grain export market for the Tang Republic, with relatively low yields per mu, huge demand, and controlled foreign trade customs, all of which enabled Datang to dump large quantities of its surplus grain. So in this year, extremely strong Datang grain merchants appeared in the three special zones of Datang China, who brought millions of tons of grain and began to dump them at low prices. This part of the grain has no value in the Tang Dynasty, but it is transported to the Qing Kingdom and sold for profit. However, the blow to the local agricultural economy of the Qing State was also extremely heavy.

In the long run, whether it is Huguang or Jiangnan, farmers can support their families by cultivating their fields, but their ability to exchange surplus grain for other daily necessities has greatly decreased. In particular, the landless tenant farmers themselves lived relatively poorly, and after paying taxes on their grain, they were left with a diǎn ration and grain to exchange for money. However, due to the dumping of Datang grain, it will inevitably lead to a serious reduction in their income, and even almost no silver income, and in the end there is only one ending, that is, bankruptcy. In a year or two, the Qing court could not discover the secret, but in the long run, the Qing court would inevitably find that the Tang people's grain dumping was shaking their rule.

As Datang builds more and more island-class 10,000-ton cargo ships and ocean-class small cargo ships, the export volume of grain will continue to rise, and even reach millions or even tens of millions of tons in the future. Unlike in the 21st century, when China's own grain supply exceeded demand and had to be imported, in fact, the Qing Dynasty's grain production was not only self-sufficient, but also had a slight surplus. However, the appearance of cheaper grain on the market will naturally seriously affect the agricultural production of the Qing Dynasty, even if the import volume is only a few percent of the grain output of the Qing Dynasty, it is enough to set off a bloody storm.

For Datang, it is not only the three states on the west coast that produce grain. The three southeastern states do not have much population at present, so they can be ignored for the time being. The Guwei Territory, whose population was dominated by exiled Manchus, produced nearly one million tons of grain, although its overall agricultural output was far less than that of the mainland. There are still 2.6 million Japanese farmers in the Ou Overseas Territory, which has just started, and Datang does not want to industrialize this overseas territory for a while, so it mainly maintains its economic form based on planting, fishing, and forestry. In addition, it is also undergoing the transformation of agricultural cooperatives and agricultural technology, and it is clear that it will soon become a granary. On the other hand, Ou is an important grain producer in Japan. Of course, Ou's grain can be sold to Japan. The three overseas territories in Southeast Asia, limited by their population, will not mainly develop crops, and their food will be supplied locally, but they will also form a certain self-sufficiency.

It can be said that grain has become an important weapon used to transform China into the Tang Republic. The Datang grain merchants were mixed in with all kinds of other Datang merchants, bringing their goods, and it seemed difficult to distinguish them. Because the roles of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty are all similar, the goods they bring are either not available in the Qing Dynasty, or they are owned by the Qing Dynasty and they sell them at low prices and with good quality. Nevertheless, these grain merchants would become an important driving force in transforming the small peasant economy and society in the Qing Dynasty.

Datang grain merchants often take the initiative to contact grain merchants in various places to supply them, and some even take the initiative to open grain stores in some areas to supply all kinds of grain produced by Datang. Of course, many grain merchants not only provide simple hulled grain, but also provide processed grain products, such as flour, machine-made noodles, rice noodles, etc., which can obtain higher profits after processing. For ordinary Qing consumers, the price of these processed grain products may be slightly expensive, and they will not take the initiative to choose, but eventually such goods will go to everyone's family.

is really highly profitable, and it has to talk about Datang's oil and sugar. On the other hand, China's soybeans have been almost entirely imported, and Chinese's oil intake is in the hands of the world's four largest grain merchants. At this time, the situation is somewhat similar, any crop of Datang is in oversupply for the country, and locally produced soybeans, peanuts and rapeseed are processed to produce a large amount of high-quality edible oil. However, the fat intake of the Qing people has always been insufficient, and the high cost of production and the high price are the main factors. The edible oil exported from Datang was quickly welcomed because of its low price.

The same is true for sugar. Datang opened up a large number of sugar cane fields in the Hawaiian Islands, which were transported to the mainland to be processed into sugar. Before modern times, sugar intake was limited not only in China, but also in Europe. The sugar that was once brought back from the Americas was to be sold as medicine in pharmacies in London. It can be said that, like fats and fats, sugar is a commodity that is in great demand and in short supply. Almost as much white sugar arrives at the ports of the three special zones, and how many goods are diverted to various places for sale within a week. Coupled with the demand in Europe and the United States, the sugar produced by Datang is in short supply.

In fact, in the era of low social development, agriculture and simple agricultural processed products are the main force of social consumption. After grasping this context, Datang's economic department attaches great importance to the development of such industries. (To be continued.) )