On August 31, 701, Continental Calendar, after three court discussions, the Empire’s Seventh Tribunal rejected the lawsuit brought by representatives of the Tobacco Industry Association on the grounds that the Empire currently had no legal basis to file a lawsuit against the administrative order of the administrative agency, and the Empire’s trial body did not Accepting similar lawsuits is the beginning of a precedent. Before the promulgation of the "Imperial Administrative Procedure Law", a series of challenges and lawsuits against administrative agencies will end in vain.
Of course, this also contributed to the brewing and birth of the "Imperial Administrative Procedure Law" in some aspects, but the passage of this bill still needs a long way to go. At least for now, no one can accept the overthrow of the "Imperial Administrative Procedure Law" by individuals and civil forces. The phenomenon of government orders, even in the form of a court ruling, is not acceptable, and the overthrow in Xijiang is more like a special case and a heresy. It is clearly said that it was because of the intervention of higher-level forces that the Northwest Bank represented by James was allowed to Compromise, and if it is to become a common phenomenon, there is not much feasibility. Even the most radical Minister of Justice Molun has to admit that in the near future or even for a long time, individuals or civil forces will have to use legal means to overturn Government administrative orders are not very realistic, but this good start at least gives people some hope that as long as they continue along this path, there will eventually be a day when a new era in the legal profession will be ushered in.
Although the case ultimately ended in the failure of the Tobacco Industry Association, it was the beginning of an era of great significance. In the words of later historians, it marked that the imperial industrial and commercial community had begun to mature as an independent and important political force. They stood up and dared to take to the political stage to protect their rights and interests through legal means. After the conclusion of this lawsuit, some relevant representatives of the Imperial Senate and the Citizens' Chamber were planning to start drafting the "Imperial Administrative Procedure Law". From a certain perspective, this also promotes the legalization process in disguised form.
Compared with the turmoil in the tobacco industry, the empire's handling of another monopoly material is calm. The salt industry is still included in the monopoly as an important material related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The entire empire is divided according to counties, and it is still followed. The original method of purchasing monopoly rights was replaced, but in order to strengthen the control of the salt industry, the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development adopted a high deposit system to ensure that salt merchants and salt industry practitioners were not allowed to operate in violation of regulations.
The empire's shipbuilding industry also experienced rapid development in 701. In the empire itself, in addition to the Jiangnan Shipyard and Southeast Shipyard in Yuhang, which completed their integration and became the main force in the empire's shipbuilding industry, the Dengzhou Shipyard in Dengzhou, Donghai County also began to rise suddenly and steadily. It ranks among the three main shipyards in the empire.
If Jiangnan Shipyard and Southeast Shipyard rely more on the Jiangnan shipping industry that flourished under the imperial official orders and policy encouragement, then Dengzhou Shipyard relies almost entirely on the development of the private shipping industry in Yanyun and East China Sea areas, especially After Luman became the Governor of the East China Sea, he made it clear that the Governor's Office of the East China Sea would support the development of the Dengzhou Shipyard. In addition to adopting various policies to support the development of the Dengzhou Shipyard, he also required that large ship construction in the areas along the Shanjiang River should choose the Dengzhou Shipyard as much as possible. Construction, and because the shipbuilding industry in Yanyun area is underdeveloped, more and more people choose the nearby Dengzhou Shipyard as a procurement base.
The vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry is not only along the Atlantic coast. The Nanyang Shipyard invested and controlled by the Empire in Nanhai County and many other shipyards established by the Nanhai Shipping Family have also gone through a series of reforms to form a shipyard based in Eastern Samoa. Nanyang Shipyard and Sanbao Shipyard are two major enterprises based in Sanbao Port. In fact, both shipyards were once controlled by the empire. However, with the establishment of the empire and changes in economic views, the State-owned Assets Management Department of the Imperial Ministry of Finance also began to gradually reduce its holdings in the two shipyards, and finally retained only a small symbolic amount. shares. However, the development of the two shipyards has not been affected by this, and their development momentum has become even more fierce. They have entered the fiercely competitive civilian shipbuilding market of the Nanyang Alliance and firmly established a foothold.
With the integration of the southwest region into imperial management, Nanyang Shipyard and Sanbao Shipyard began to enter Nan'an and Western Samoa, competing for the market with the Sikkim Shipyard that originally occupied a dominant position in the market, and once triggered a cruel price war. In the later period, the imperial economy developed After the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce intervened for coordination, the three shipyards standardized the market and began to enter the market of the Western Peninsula region and the Kingdom of Western Oran.
In contrast, although the empire has now become a coastal country on the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea, due to historical reasons, there is basically no decent shipbuilding industry in the Indian region, and the shipbuilding industry in the Meili region is not developed. Although Meili's The shipping industry is very prosperous, but most of the ships in this area come from shipbuilders in the south and the Kingdom of Jutland and Constantine and the Western Continent. However, when the two deep-water commercial ports under construction turned into two huge construction sites, it also meant that the empire would not forget that the coastline on this land still had its own long sea frontier. To defend this sea frontier, it not only required A powerful navy also requires strong shipbuilding capabilities and prosperous maritime trade to support it.
The prosperity of the imperial shipbuilding industry also led to the development of long-sea trade, especially in the South China Sea. Due to long-term historical reasons and the psychological precipitation of merchants in Jiangnan, they prefer to conduct offshore trade with Milan and the other two countries of the Triple Alliance. The countries of the Nanyang Alliance are also the main trading partners of Jiangnan and even the East China Sea region. However, the South China Sea region The merchants were obviously more adventurous and innovative. They not only actively competed with Jiangnan and East China Sea traders for the market of the Nanyang Alliance, but also actively moved into surrounding areas.
The surrender of the southwest region made the traders in the South China Sea region very happy. This also allowed the market in the southwest region and the South China Sea region to be quickly integrated. Of course, now they are not only satisfied with exploring the internal market of the empire, but also the empire's business. The Ministry's export-encouraging policy makes them more willing to conduct re-export trade overseas, where they can receive more financial subsidies.
The merchants of Sikkim and Western Samoa soon joined their plans for foreign trade conquests. The markets of West Oran and Jutland were open to them, and tradition also brought them into contact with the Latin Ocean coast of the western continent and Adria. Countries in the Gulf area have maintained long-term and stable trade relations, and the development of the shipping industry now also makes them want to change the original situation in which countries and cities in the Western Continent took the initiative in trade, and import a large number of glass products, knitwear, and other products from the Western Continent. While selling woolen cloth, handicrafts, olive oil, wine, rum, and silver, they were also actively seeking to sell more imperial goods.
Along with the rapid development of the shipping industry and foreign trade industry, another activity closely related to these two industries also flourished, that is, the overseas exploration and colonization industry.
As early as the establishment of the empire, the empire promulgated a regulation to encourage and reward navigation and exploration. This also led to a trend of overseas exploration and conquest in the empire. However, the empire was more restricted by Japanese forces in the Atlantic Ocean. The main purpose is to rely on a series of small ports established on the Mawen Islands to explore the southeast. In the Atlantic Ocean, people in the South China Sea area are more adventurous, especially in the empire and even in the nobility canonization policy, they will be open to explorers. This passion was ignited when tilted, and it was under these conditions that Golden Crown Island was discovered.
Golden Crown Island played a vital role in the Southwest War. Without Golden Crown Island as a springboard and base, Liang Chongxin's landing plan would be a castle in the air. The army would not be able to drift at sea for a few more days, and the risk would be several times greater. The Imperial Navy tried its best to turn Golden Crown Island into a military restricted area, but was firmly opposed by Nanhai County.
With its large area and unique location, Golden Crown Island can be built into an important commercial port. Moreover, due to its beautiful and unique scenery, coconut groves are all over the island, streams are crisscrossed, and a large number of coral reefs around it form a natural annular breakwater. It can be built into an excellent sheltered deep-water port, and the beautiful environment is like a paradise. Nanhai County hopes to turn it into a tourist attraction, and the Empire's Ministry of Economic Development also hopes to use this place as a bridgehead for southward exploration so that the Empire can rely on it in the future. It is more convenient to explore and colonize southward.
The existence of the New World has been officially proven, and its area is unusually vast. So far, expedition teams from various countries have not been able to penetrate into the heart of this continent. No one still understands the shape of the New World and what is on the continent. What exists, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of the continental countries for conquest.
There should be two types of indigenous people discovered in the New World so far. One is the subwhite race, whose characteristics are more similar to the Indian race. They live in the northern and western coastal areas of the New World, while some others are Black people should belong to the same race as the Mafei people in the southern border area of the Central and Western Continents. Most of them live in inland areas, but many of their explorations still stay in the coastal areas, dense virgin forests, and boundless deserts. The looming swamp areas and the hostility of the indigenous residents have deterred explorers from the Laya continent from going deep.
However, the powerful countries of La Asia, including the Tang Empire, have begun to establish a series of colonial points in the northern and western regions of the New World. An emerging industry has also become popular and has swept the entire central and western continent, and that is slave hunting. .