Ma Lin promoted the idea of immigration to the New World in various countries, encouraging not only the common people to immigrate but also urging nations to organize immigration and establish their own spheres of influence.
Overseas settlements can also be called colonies, but the New World has no indigenous inhabitants, so there are no issues of plundering and killing.
This truly is the best solution to the poverty problem. The landless will have land once they go, and resource-poor countries will have resources once they go.
Now, the number of steamships has increased by a lot. Whenever Ma Lin buys a mine in a country, he considers building shipyards by the important waterways or coastlines of that country.
Generally, it's done through joint ventures – we provide technology and part of the capital, and the other side provides the land, resources, and labor.
This is helping them develop their water transportation industry.
