Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1095 Industrial Revolution ([-])

"It must have been seven or eight years? I had just graduated from the New School at that time, and I remembered reading the newspaper that another commercial port had opened in North Korea."

"At that time, I was admitted to a junior college. My family said that it would be useless to continue to study. They asked me to start a little business. They said that North Korea had opened a port, and I was asked to make a living. I used to do some business, I have a distant uncle who was stationed as a soldier in Busan for several years and can speak Korean, so why don’t I go there to do business.”

Whether it is a new school, a specialized school, or a newspaper, they are all unfamiliar to the hitchhikers.

But it is precisely because this small trader is learning new things, and because of the piece of gold brought out by the hitchhiker from the gold mine that year, the class of the two has been brought closer, and they can chat and laugh together.

If this is to study the Four Books and Five Classics, and the one admitted is not a specialist but a Jinshi, there is a huge gap in status between the two, and it is impossible for them to have the opportunity to talk together.

The small peddler didn't look down on this hitchhiker either. It's very simple. Those who take passenger ships these days must be worth a few hundred taels or more.

Real coolies, workers, and low-level immigrants do not take passenger ships.Instead, they piled up in a cargo ship that seemed to be transporting slaves and ran around.

Since one can take a passenger ship, one can be considered a class in itself.

Regardless of how the money came from, even if it was snatched by a beard or a thieves, as long as you don't get caught, with the values ​​​​of several regions involved in Dashun's capitalist market system, including Weihai, That's all worth looking at.

Making money is the real skill, maybe one day he will be pardoned, and he will become a respectable factory owner in a sudden change.

In particular, Terengganu is the place where Liu Yu started to build a navy, and it is also an important source of soldiers for the navy and marines in Dashun, so the atmosphere is like this.Many of the veterans who participated in the Japanese War and the Nanyang Conquest have made a fortune, and they have always used burning, killing, looting and stealing as capital to brag about at the wine table.

It is often such as "I was in Banten, Nanyang... the military discipline officer beat us, and those cowards yelled at me, but I didn't say a word."

Commerce, industry, plunder, wealth, these things subtly affect the three views of these areas at the forefront of social transformation in Dashun.

The popularity of muskets, especially flintlocks, in these places made equality among people possible.

New learning education also plays a very terrible role in this.Although the new school does not study ideology, instead it still teaches the Three-Character Classic and Thousand-Character Analects, but the objective and scientific explanation of the material world itself is quietly shaping the three views of this group of people.

And the "newspaper" that small traders call, also adds some explanations hidden by the new three views to many things.

For example, the opening of the Incheon port seven or eight years ago that the small businessman mentioned, the newspapers not only reported the event itself, but explained in a deeper level why the port was opened.

The reason is because of the ginseng in the "Three Treasures of Korea" at this time.

A group of people from North Korea crossed the border to collect ginseng, catch mink, and shoot deer.

Actually this is normal.

But the problem is that there were also a group of Shandong people picking ginseng there at that time, and the North Korean people didn't pick ginseng, so they chose to grab it.

Ambushed the ginseng pickers who had passed by from Shandong, and killed twelve of them.There was a good man who slipped away when he saw that the situation was not good.

After slipping away, two or three hundred people were gathered, and they were going to have sex with the group on the opposite side.

The conflict between the two sides has not lasted for a day or two. Ginseng has become a high-end medicinal material since the mid-Ming Dynasty, and its price has been rising day by day.In addition, Dashun began to emigrate to Liaodong in the early stage because of the lessons learned in the late Ming Dynasty; North Korea also sold ginseng to Japan before, and this thing can be exchanged for Japanese silver.

Therefore, ginseng collectors from both sides often meet in border areas, and conflicts are common.

To put it bluntly, no one in the field of ginseng harvesting is a good bird, and no one is brave and ruthless.And the place where the ginseng is collected is remote, just like when Liu Yu was robbed when he went to Yongning Temple, no one would care if he killed someone.

Once this is done, the trouble will be big.

The incident was too big, and the court came forward, and in the end, even bigger incidents broke out...

Because the place where the two sides fought, or the village where the decisive battle took place, was in Dashun.

And that village is basically all Koreans.

Dashun was furious, punished several officials in the border area, and conducted a comprehensive inspection of the border area. As a result, there were more Koreans in some places than in Dashun.

This is also considered normal.

On the one hand, Dashun directly launched trade with Japan, and North Korea was doing well by monopolizing the trade between China and Japan.

Since Liu Yu monopolized the trade with Japan, he directly cut off the trade between North Korea and Japan.

Then there was the invasion of Japan, the opening of a port in Busan and the garrison of troops, which made the traditional society on the North Korean side disintegrate rapidly.

North Korea is not Dashun. As far as North Korea’s small-scale peasant economic concept is concerned, how can it stand up to a new capital group that has eaten the Northeast, Nanyang, and even Europe and has not yet had enough of Dashun?
Cotton cloth, porcelain, silk, ironware, agricultural tools, books, small commodities, cigarettes, wine, sugar, glass, etc., within a few years, almost all the precious metals accumulated by North Korea’s previous trade with Japan were taken away.

The two classes of nobles also want to live a good life, so what should they do?Continue to exploit farmers and collect more tribute rice.

North Korea is different from Dashun.

For example, the trade between China and the West at this time, assuming, just assuming that Dashun has no military industrial foundation at all, if you want to buy guns and cannons, you can sell some silk and porcelain to solve the problem.

The handicraft industry is extremely developed, and agriculture is only technically superior to that of North Korea. Even if Europe is engaged in the agricultural revolution at this time, the yield per mu is not as high as that of Dashun.

North Korea and Japan are not the same.

No matter what happens in Japan, there are real mountains of gold and silver in their hands.

What about North Korea?

Dashun can make the small peasant economy very firm and stubborn.

North Korea cannot call the small peasant economy very strong and stubborn, it is very fragile.

The opening of Busan port and Dashun cutting off the trade between Japan and North Korea had a huge impact on North Korea.

Greatly exacerbated the social contradictions within North Korea, and the two classes of nobles also increased their exploitation of the bottom to maintain their growing material needs.

Huge social contradictions caused a large number of people in the northern region to flee.

At this time, Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards are everywhere. This is really a tyranny in the true sense.

However, Dashun's development of the Northeast is based on a capital-oriented economic model, and the imperial court is unable to do large-scale official immigration.

Just like Baishan, Tonghua and other places in later generations, Dashun immigrants haven't even occupied the vast plains, so they run to this kind of place where birds don't shit?

It's really hard to survive, and I don't have the money to go to that kind of remote place.

Rich people invest in Northeast China to make money. If they go to that kind of place, whether they grow soybeans or sorghum, how can they be shipped out?

Liu Yu had already tried his best.

In the south of the Songliao watershed, the power of capital was introduced to occupy the area with convenient transportation and river transportation.

To the north of the Songliao watershed, semi-official immigrants occupied Vladivostok, Heilongjiang estuary and other places, and engaged in the pattern of painting land as a prison, first occupying the estuary area.

But after all, immigration to the north has to go around a big circle, bypassing the Korean Peninsula. Compared with going directly to the Bohai Sea and up the Liaohe River, the efficiency is not as bad as 01:30.

North Korea is different, just run over there.

It is impossible for Dashun to station too many military forces in the border area of ​​North Korea, this is inevitable.Only when there is a hole in the brain, a large amount of military expenses are spent, and they go there to garrison the army.

Secondly, the smuggling trade in border areas is very frequent.

And all the early pioneers of Dashun who ran there were actually willing to accept people who escaped from North Korea.

Wouldn't it be okay to be a tenant farmer or a hired laborer?

If this is the case, it can only be regarded as helpless. Dashun's side is thinking at most that the government will pay for a group of immigrants to go to the border areas.

Spend more money chant.

After all, there were events at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Liaodong region was the most vulnerable nerve in Dashun.

However, someone danced on this nerve, which made the emperor fly into a rage.

That is, when investigating the problem of villages in the border area, someone reported that officials from the North Korean side had collected tribute and taxes from the North Korean villages here.

It should be certain that the king of Joseon did not know, and it is basically certain that it was the spontaneous behavior of local officials.

But for Dashun, this matter really caused an uproar.

Isn't this nonsense?
They are all from the Confucian cultural circle, and benevolence and justice are the foundation. Some officials, out of benevolence and righteousness, turn a blind eye to some civilians who have fled from North Korea.

But come here to collect taxes...

Liaodong was originally a bad tooth in Dashun. A hundred years ago, this tooth caused a terrible pain here. These years, the pain has disappeared, and I thought it was cured, but the deep memory of the toothache at the time is still imprinted in my mind.

Running here to collect taxes is equivalent to taking a needle and pricking Dashun's bad tooth hard.

Of course, this incident itself must have caused an uproar.

But how to deal with this matter actually hides the true attitude of Dashun's decision-making circle.

Dashun was thinking of transforming counties into North Korea and northern Vietnam. If counties were transformed into counties, there would be nothing to say about immigration and reclamation.

If you want to be a truly universal empire, you have to walk on two legs.

The Industrial Revolution was just one leg of it.

The other leg is Confucian magic reform, or whatever, it will always be made into a culture in line with the industrial age, leading the cultural circle to maintain the status of the cultural mother country, or even the cultural mother country of the entire industrial civilization.

This is why Liu Yu could force the reform of the salt administration, but he insisted on creating the Rugao meeting.

The meeting in Rugao will not affect the Dashun industrial revolution after the Jiangsu reform, but it will affect the cultural transformation of traditional and modern society in the future.

If the spontaneous transformation is successful and the two legs are completed, the problem of the prefecturalization of the concept of the world will not be big.

But looking at it now, Dashun's decision-makers actually don't want to transform the counties into North Korea for the time being, because they feel that the time has not come.

Therefore, this matter is the standard thunder and rain.

The emperor was furious, and the Li government was furious, but how to solve it after the anger?
This can only be said to be sleepy and send pillows, so let's add more ports to open ports.

This has little to do with Dashun's official emphasis on trade, and the trade volume between the two sides is really not that big.The fundamental reason is that Dashun's decision-making team has the idea of ​​transforming prefectures and counties, as well as the achievements of the previous policy of commercial control of Mongolia and business development in Nanyang, which makes Dashun hope to repeat a similar story.

Through the opening of ports, gradually increase control, thinking that the prefectures and counties in the future will compare with the achievements of the Han and Tang Dynasties. This is the way of thinking of the feudal dynasty to expand its territory.If the pure feudal dynasties expanded their territory, neither changing production relations nor pulling in a subordinate position in the market, it would not be regarded as imperialism, but just the expansion of classical empires.

However, just in time for the initial industrial revolution in Jiangsu, the significance of opening ports this time has been casted with a standard layer of imperialism.

The term "Three Treasures of Korea" has gradually become a common saying along with North Korea's opening of more ports and continued liberalization of trade restrictions.

Three treasures of Korea, ginseng, mink fur, antler horns.

The route from Weihai to North Korea has become the most important route of the "Three Treasures", and with the new students from Dengzhou Prefecture running around the world, this sentence is everywhere.

But in fact, the real big trade is three other things: rice, paper...and women.

Moreover, the rice output is far lower than Dashun's per capita grain share, and it is exporting frantically, ensuring the food stability in Jiangsu's transition period from Changshu, Jiangsu to the start of the industrial revolution.

(End of this chapter)