Yang Zhengbin's words also aroused great interest from many other ministers. The New World is not only extremely important for the imperial official, but also very interested in the business community who is increasingly speaking in the empire. However, the main interest of the empire's business community is still concentrated on providing supply and transportation for the empire's troops in the new world. They are still full of doubts about the New World, which is thousands of kilometers away from the southwest of the empire, which also affects the feelings of their spokespersons in the center of the empire.

"Mr. Yang, what do you mean is that a large amount of minerals have been discovered in the New World, including gold, silver, copper and iron mines?" After swallowing, the Minister of Commerce Zeng Guohong couldn't help but speak out and asked.

As the Minister of Commerce, he said that he should have some understanding of these situations, but in addition to the military, the surveying and mapping teams and prospecting organizations mainly come from the intelligence and economic development departments. The Ministry of Commerce is more focused on developing more mature economic areas, such as trade relations with the Three Kingdoms Alliance and the Nanyang Alliance, and developing commercial exchanges with the Baltic and Aegean coastal areas. For areas such as the New World where the commodity market is not yet mature, the Ministry of Commerce is not the focus of concern for areas such as the New World.

However, Zeng Guohong's other identity is an important representative of Jiangnan merchants in the central central government. Jiangnan merchants have played an increasingly important role in the imperial economic status, and their influence in the imperial political class has also increased. Jiangnan has begun to launch a new technological revolution, and investment in technological transformation of traditional industries has increased sharply. However, this does not mean that Jiangnan merchants are only afraid that their attention will be limited to the traditional industries in Jiangnan. For resource utilization industries such as mining and metallurgy, they also know that their profits are far greater than traditional industries. However, in the Tanghe Empire era, these industries have been monopolized by central aristocrats, mainly the imperial capital and Heshuo region. It is quite difficult for Jiangnan business circles to intervene in these industries.

But now the situation is different. The establishment of the Tang Empire announced the decline of the Tanghe Central Aristocracy. Although the upstarts who had a close relationship with the Tanghe Central Aristocracy were once again striving to gain a foothold in the empire. But this is a brand new empire after all, and it is inevitable that a large number of wealthy and prominent families who were favored by the Tanghe Empire would withdraw from the historical stage, such as the Miao family, Qin family, and Boris family, the five major families in the Tanghe River in the past have almost all been already

The distributors disappeared, and occasionally they could be mentioned in recalling history. Instead, they were mainly engaged in business and business groups such as the Northwest, Jiangnan, Kansai, New Central, and Northern Luzon. Although they all made their fortunes by relying on industry and commerce, they gradually became several groups with considerable influence due to their different bases and different industries. They each had a considerable background in the imperial central government, and some important officials gradually evolved into spokespersons for their economic interests.

After the decline of several major families that had always monopolized the imperial mining and metallurgical industries, they replaced them with the Northwest and New Central Business and Business class. They competed with Jiangnan merchants for dominance in these two major industries, and the struggle was also quite fierce. The competition had already spread throughout the entire Indian and German regions and Northern Luzon regions. Now a new resource area has emerged. As the spokesperson for Jiangnan merchants, how could Zeng Guohong not pay attention to it?

"Well, in the New World territory controlled by the Empire, gold, silver, copper, iron and coal mines were found. The reserves of gold and silver mines were large, especially the reserves of copper mines were said to be far more than the reserves discovered by the Empire's main body. However, most of the areas where these mines are located are located in inland areas. Now the transportation conditions in these areas are quite backward. If you want to mine, you need to solve the transportation problem first. However, the water conservancy resources in that area are quite rich. If you can plan well and dig some small canals, I believe this problem can be solved well."

Of course, Yang Zhengbin knew that it was not just Zeng Guohong who was pricking up his ears and listening to his introduction. Tian Yi, Lao Min, Qiu Yunhan and others were thinking about the content of their words. Behind them are a considerable group of industrial and commercial forces. The reason why he wanted to throw out such a bait was to attract the industrial and commercial class behind these guys to focus on the New World. The basic conditions of the New World were too poor, and it was difficult to rely entirely on the Central Committee of the Empire to invest. If these industrial and commercial giants with huge 10,000 yuan could be successfully introduced, the development progress of the New World would be greatly improved. This is also the main reason why His Majesty the Emperor intended to leak this information at this meeting.

"Okay, Zhengbin, don't talk too far. We all know the prosperity of the New World. Mines are certainly one aspect, but the most important thing is that the land in the New World is not close to and wide, and the most important thing is that these lands are quite fertile. Didn't the intelligence department and the surveying and mapping team say that they discovered a big lake? It is said that the radius of hundreds of miles around the big lake is full of fertile land, which can not only grow rice, but also grow sugarcane, coffee, tea trees, tobacco, and cocoa? These areas can be completely compatible with these areas.

Mobilize immigration to develop as soon as possible. I believe that that area will soon become an important raw material base for our empire. The empire has not had a complete development plan before. The Ministry of Economic Development should consider the plan well. If no one cultivates these unowned lands, they should be included in the state." Although Wufeng said that he wanted Yang Zhengbin to turn to the point, he added fuel to the fire and intended to let everyone understand that the time is fleeting. If you want to do it, you must be as early as possible.

"As for the order, Your Majesty." Yang Zhengbin responded quickly: "I mean that if I want to consolidate the empire's rule in these areas, I should increase my efforts to develop the economy of those areas where our Tang tribes do not have the advantage. At the same time, I encourage the Tang tribe's business community to enter these areas and let them take the economic dominance in these areas as much as possible. Only in this way can the imperial rule be more effectively consolidated, and the Tang tribes should also strive to take the initiative in the New World. After all, the resources and land in these areas are quite cheap. Now the Indian and Dean nobles have a very sensitive sense of smell and have already noticed this opportunity. If the Tang merchants in our empire do not catch up, there will be no such good opportunities in the New World in the future."

Seeing that Yang Zhengbin's words were still a bit off topic, Xiao Tang was not aware that the other party intended this under Wufeng's instruction. As the Prime Minister of the State Council, he certainly had the responsibility to bring the topic back: "Your Majesty, I think that the economic and technological development of the powerful people in the Western Continent is now rapidly developing, and our empire must not be backward. In addition to the central government continuing to strengthen investment in this regard, we should also introduce policies to encourage and support enterprises and private institutions to establish scientific research institutions. The imperial finance can allocate a special fund specifically to support and reward institutions and personnel who have achieved achievements in scientific research, or the imperial finance can also invest in jointly establishing cooperative research institutions with enterprises and private societies. Only by establishing a set of institutions that attach importance to and encourage scientific research development can it become an effective mechanism, so that the empire's atmosphere of paying attention to scientific research and technology will be popularized. In addition, the empire should also attach importance to the popularization and promotion and application system of the new technology developed. Only in this way can the empire's economy benefit from it to the greatest extent."

"Xiao Xiang's words are very reasonable. Technical leadership has become an important criterion for measuring a country's development level and comprehensive economic strength. All countries in the Western Continent have realized this. They are now ahead of us in many aspects. So I think we can make some adjustments to the collection direction of the intelligence department. In addition to collecting political, economic and military intelligence in these countries, we should appropriately tilt the focus to the collection of their technological development. In this regard, the General Intelligence Administration should play a special role. I think that in the General Intelligence Administration, it may be better to set up a special intelligence collection department for advanced industrial and agricultural technology in various countries, specifically collect and spy on the relatively leading industrial and agricultural technologies of various countries, and transmit these technical intelligence back to the empire as much as possible, so that these intelligence can play a role in the economic development of the empire."

Su Qin considered this issue from another perspective. For example, steelmaking, mechanical manufacturing, shipbuilding and military production technology in the Kingdom of Leeds, mechanical manufacturing and military production technology in the Famini Empire were ahead of the empire in many aspects. If these technologies can be obtained, it can save a lot of energy and time for the empire's scientific and technological development departments, so that these industrial departments in the empire can master it and apply it to practice as soon as possible, greatly improving the upgrading of industries and improving production efficiency.
Chapter completed!