Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1096 Industrial Revolution ([-])

This kind of deformed import and export trade cannot be said to be one-way.If it is true, the people who grow rice in Jiangsu and other places have also been affected by the impact of North Korean rice.

But the question is not whether it was affected.

The question is whether these affected people can influence Dashun's trade policy.

Because North Korea's trade policy cannot be autonomous, especially after the killing of ginseng at the border, the initiative to expand and open ports is completely in Dashun's hands.

Although some thoughts have burst out in North Korea, thinking that Dashun has changed from "kingly way" to "overbearing" towards North Korea, in fact, Dashun has changed from Xia to Barbarian.Because only Yi Di only uses domineering but not domineering.

However, the core strength of Dashun is in the capital, and the garrisons, officials, nobles, and ruling core groups in the capital are supported by financial revenue.

After the more in-depth reform of silver monetization, what is sent out is money.

To distribute food, I hope that the more expensive the food, the better.

To distribute money, we naturally hope that the food will be as cheap as possible.

This group of people at the real political core doesn't think that the reduction in food prices is a bad thing, so that's it.

In short, North Korea finally accepted this result, and because of North Korea’s special taxation system and sources of fiscal revenue, the Korean royal family finally recognized this deformed import and export trade, and even gained certain benefits from it. .

North Korea, which calls itself Little China.

Such as the two-class system, caste status, slave-servant system, family clan system, etc., I don’t see where it is Chinese or where it is Chinese.

But there is one thing about North Korea, which is very consistent, that is, North Korea's tax system is really in line with the "Huang Zongxi's Law" proposed by Huang Zongxi by summarizing the tax system reforms of previous dynasties.

Huang Zongxi's law, in short, the more the tax is changed, the lower the class will be more and more miserable.

Theoretically, tax A and tax B will be merged into tax C.The reality is that after the C tax is changed, both the A tax and the B tax are retained—for example, Wang Fuzhi complained about a whip method, which was agreed to twist the past few strands of rope into a whip, and it turned out that several strands of rope are still there. Added a whip.

Theoretically, some special taxes should be levied under special circumstances, and should be banned once the special circumstances pass.However, the reality is—for example, after the classic Manchu dynasty stole the world, it continued to collect the Liao pay "in order to regain the Liao land and defeat the eastern captives".

In theory, regardless of whether it is reasonable to levy taxes according to the head, but levy taxes according to the head and labor force can always guarantee the financial expenditure of the imperial court.However, the reality is that taxation based on the head will inevitably lead to the bureaucratic nobles who have slaves to conceal the population;

This Huang Zongxi's law has played a full set in North Korea.

Even this is not enough, and the "green crop method" with North Korean characteristics is added, and the grain is returned.

To put it simply, the so-called grain return system is a variant of the young crop method. The imperial court distributes rice to the people, and then uses the interest income to support the consumption of bureaucrats and the royal family.

You have to borrow even if you don’t borrow.

Increase income at the grassroots level.

Under such circumstances, the Joseon court also found out, hey, lend usury to the people, and implement the grain repayment system to collect such a little interest; why not sell the rice to Dashun, and import cotton cloth from Dashun for internal sales, and make another profit? ?

In addition, Liu Yu's foreign trade, especially the foreign trade with neighboring countries, has always been insignificant, and he has always taken the initiative to help the other side establish customs and allow the other side to levy certain tariffs.

This is true for Japan, and it is also true for North Korea.

Taking the initiative to let the opposite side levy tariffs, but the tax rate is not high, which can just crush its local industry to death, and also allow the opposite court to maintain a certain amount of fiscal revenue, thereby suppressing internally and increasing their dependence on tariffs by the way.

Japan is the shogunate holding tariffs, enjoying themselves, helping Dashun to suppress the princes from all walks of life, and being the governor of Dashun.

Due to the special situation in North Korea, the rice return system and the tax system under Huang Zongxi's law made the imperial court have the most rice in their hands.

And along with the internal changes in North Korea, remote areas were allowed to replace rice with native tribute.

This made the Joseon Dynasty, in an economic sense, transformed into a North Korean trading company controlled by Dashun Capital Group.

The imperial court collects taxes, lends money, harvests grain, and collects soil tribute; then the Korean imperial court sells these rice, ginseng, antler, etc. to Dashun in exchange for Dashun’s cotton cloth, silk, porcelain, iron books; For iron handicraft products, more rice is exchanged inside.

It is not that the Korean court has not considered resistance. For example, it has issued a ban on extravagance, hoping to reverse the trend, thereby prohibiting the circulation of Dashun's cotton cloth and satin in North Korea.

Liu Yu's counterattack was also very simple.

Collected many "Huangming Tongji" that were banned during the Longqing period of the previous dynasty, distributed them with subsidies, and transported them to North Korea.

There is a legality issue involved here.

According to the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the "Huangming Tongji", Li Chenggui was the son of the power traitor Li Renren, and his father and son killed four monarchs in a row, and it was wrong to win the country properly.

The succession of the king of Joseon itself has some problems. His brother drank his ginseng soup and died immediately after a bite. Brother and brother died.

It was originally labeled a "regicide".

After chasing after the ancestors, he said that Li Chenggui was the son of Li Renren, and the father and son were addicted to killing the king. Naturally, the Joseon royal family couldn't bear it.Why, your brother died this time, is this a family characteristic?

Because of his mother's low background, even the scholar-bureaucrats would be furious with the sentence "My mother and maidservant" when they read "Historical Records", and they engaged in literary inquisition, let alone this matter.

In the end, Dashun strictly prohibited the export of some "vassal amazed" history books, and the customs strictly investigated them.

The Li government said that this history was written incorrectly. It was banned during the Longqing period of the previous dynasty. Li Renren was not actually Li Chenggui's father. Our "History of Ming Dynasty" does not adopt this statement.

The condition is that in North Korea, the ban on extravagance is lifted, and Dashun's export products will not pay the rest of the tax after the customs pays taxes, and the government bank can pass through the interior without hindrance.

The same cultural circle still has the advantages of the same cultural circle, and can accurately touch the starting point in the cultural circle.

If the Western forces want to engage in it, it will be difficult to find this point, at least they will not find this point in a short time.

Of course, this idea was not conceived by a non-Dashun person like Liu Yu. It was given by a real Dashun person around him.

The result was that North Korea engaged in a wave of literary inquisition.

The scholar-official class in North Korea was already fiercely infighting, and the party struggle was serious. They took the opportunity to make a wave of political enemies. After a hundred or so heads fell to the ground, the reformers failed completely. They were killed and exiled, and the conservatives and reactionaries took full power. .

And this mosquito prison in North Korea directly caused a series of serious problems in the follow-up North Korea, and directly affected Dashun's final decision on the issue of "countyization" of the vassal.

Because...these people who were dealt with and exiled by the Mosquito Prison can read and understand Chinese characters.

Officials can't do it, and they are all literate and losers in political struggles—the losers in political struggles just prove that they are qualified to participate in politics—so what will this group of literate people do?

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The hitchhiker who was going back to his hometown to find his family did not feel any discomfort during his two-day stay in Incheon.

A group of people selling goods.

A group of people buy goods.

They spoke the official language of the imperial court and used the issued banknotes.

He is not in business, nor can he personally experience why the high-profit "Three Treasures of Korea" are actually beyond the reach of ordinary businessmen.But after thinking about it for a while, you will know that such a good thing, who can do this kind of business, no matter whether it is North Korea or Dashun, must have a very wide network.

After taking a look, I found that it was not much different from places like Sanjiangkou, Tongjiangzi, and Yingkou. They were all about buying and selling goods, and there was no exotic scenery at all, so I felt bored.

After waiting for two days, the boat passengers boarded and headed for Songjiang Mansion.

The isinglass vendor in the hammock next to him has already disembarked, and no one in Incheon is buying this hammock anymore, but this hammock is not available for long.

On the morning of the second day after sailing from Incheon, something happened to the passenger ship.

As a result, when he went to the deck to breathe, he just caught up with a few people floating on the boat in the distance, obviously a shipwreck.

He helped to lend a hand and rescued a few people.

The people on the passenger ship were confirmed to be able to speak Chinese after inquiring. After they were not Koreans, they took money from these people and arranged them on board.

There is only one person living in the hammock that was vacated next to the returnee.

In his early 20s, he speaks a slightly weird Jiaoliao Mandarin.

After a brief exchange, this person claimed that his surname was Zhao, and he was from Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. He followed the merchant ship to North Korea to do business.The result was a shipwreck, but fortunately the ship was rescued.

If we talked any more, the person who claimed to be surnamed Zhao didn't speak. It seemed that he didn't want to talk too much, so the returnee didn't ask any more questions.

Only hearing that this person was also surnamed Zhao, I thought it was fate, because his surname was also Zhao, and his name was Liben, which was a very common name for a salt worker.

Thinking that this person is obviously a businessman, and someone from Dengzhou Prefecture.

Although meeting by chance is fate, and although the same surname is also fate, there are too many people with the surname Zhao, and the two of them will never have the chance to meet in the future.On the opposite side is another boring gourd, who can't hold back a few words, and doesn't seem to want to talk to people, and has nothing to talk about.

Just treat it as a small incident that I encountered on the way back to my hometown, and do it casually, and each will go their own way in the future, no one will recognize the other.

He couldn't have imagined at this time that when he returned to his hometown to look for his younger brother, wife and children, he would meet this person again, and even walk together for a long time.

Only then did he know that this person's surname was not Zhao, not even Dashun.

It's a person from North Korea, whose surname is Quan, and his name is Quan Zheshen.

In the original history, this person can also be regarded as a person who inherited the past and ushered in the future in the history of the Korean nation.It can even be said that the subsequent proliferation of Christianity in South Korea, the rejection of Western learning by the scholar-bureaucrat class, and the comprehensive development of Christianity at the bottom of the peninsula all have something to do with him.

This is not to say that he is a very devout Christian, on the contrary, he is a disciple of authentic Confucianism, two classes of nobles, and the closed disciple of Li Xinghu, who pioneered practical learning in Korea.

The core figure of the leftists of the Xinghu School——the Xinghu Leftists focused on North Korea’s rural areas where the old system collapsed due to the development of the commodity economy and the land was annexed to the people’s livelihood. The road to building a three-generation rule of the moral heaven.

They have tried to reform and save the nation, tried to destroy Zhu Zi and establish a new school, but in the end they really couldn’t find a way, and in the end they were assimilated in the process of replacing Confucianism with Buddhism—there is a way. Only by smashing the old things and erecting new universally applicable things can the national become the world; then the world will be packaged as traditional; finally the world will be national—such as universally applicable Scientific principles, precisely because they belong to the world, have been stamped with ideological stamps for a long time, and are considered to belong to the Western nation.

But obviously, Dashun, as the mother country of culture and civilization, has this opportunity, such as leading a new culture that is generally applicable to the material basis of the industrial age, and then the nation's talents are world-wide, because it is world-wide but led by the nation.

For example, the reason for Liu Yu's meeting in Rugao to reform the salt administration was that Liu Yu felt that the material foundation had already begun to be laid, and the superstructure had to follow up.Because Jiangsu's economic foundation after the reform will soon involve the whole world in this new system, and everything will be based on Jiangsu's continuous industrialization as a template, and the superstructure created by this template can be the national , and of the world.

However, North Korea obviously does not have this opportunity.

And it is precisely because Quan Zhe is a group of Xinghu radicals, his foundation in Confucianism is too good, and Li Xinghu's closed disciple is extremely intelligent, but his economic foundation cannot make him escape the limitations of the times.

Therefore, he has a very high reputation and spread widely for his teachings on Confucianism, anti-Zhuzi Neo-Confucianism, and his talents and learning.

This directly gave political opponents with serious partisanship an excuse to attack for nothing.

Political struggle, do you really care about the spread of belief?In the eyes of political opponents, Christianity is not scary. What they are afraid of is that they will take advantage of this opening to reform Confucianism and finally gain the right to speak and gain power. That is terrible.Quan Zheshen and others jumped so high that it was a free opportunity, which directly led to the severance of the reform of practical learning in North Korea and the destruction of the spread of Western learning.

This is also the reason why Catholicism is clearly banned, but the final result is that Christianity has not been banned and spread wildly; but the reason why all practical science has been wiped out—political enemies really don’t care about God, God, Haotian, Confucius and Mencius, but about party disputes. If you don't touch a whole body of shit, you definitely won't touch Western learning and practical learning.

And the bottom spread... who cares?

It's just partisanship.

Prohibition of religion did not prohibit teaching, but practical science was banned. This can also be said to be a characteristic of the party struggle between literati and bureaucrats.

(End of this chapter)