Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1133 Helping the world and benefiting oneself

This answer is not completely in line with Quan Zheshen's idea.But thinking that if he went to Songsu, he might have the opportunity to meet Duke Xingguo with Meng Songlu, which is not so difficult to accept.

Just looking at everything that is seen now, it cannot be said that the people are not rich.

It just sounds like the process is too painful and costly.

According to Cheng Tingzuo's meaning, it seems to be saying that as long as you find a way that does not require bloodshed, repression, pain, forced immigration, migration, exile, execution, and being forced to quit the rent and go to the factory to be a idler, to achieve the current effect, it is success.

He doesn't object to the current result, but thinks the process is too rough and not gentle enough.

The huge contrast between Songsu soaring to the sky and Yangzhou Jiutian landing, maybe there is a way to let Songsu soar to the sky without letting Yangzhou Jiutian fall to the ground.

Generally speaking, since it is necessary to integrate into the Songsu capital system that has already been done, it must develop industry and commerce.

However, although Cheng Tingzuo and others are practical, they are limited by the height of the stage and are too far away from the decision-making circle.

There are some things that he doesn't know about some differences in the upper echelons.

For example, the opening of North Korea's port is supposed to be a way for North Korea to develop industry and commerce.

But in fact, the Dashun court has repeatedly put pressure on North Korea, and does not support North Korea's opening of the mining ban and mining of copper and gold mines.

The source of this incident is the issue of the Maolong Silver Factory in the border area between Myanmar and Dashun.

The situation of the Maolong Silver Factory was accompanied by the need to mint money in Dashun, which led to the emergence of a large number of miners in Yunnan.

A large number of miners are looking for new mines and continue to extend to the border.

The extension to the border has led to a sharp increase in the number of Han people in the Maolong silver factory area, because mining and smelting organizations cannot rely solely on local chieftains, and Han miners do have advanced productivity in the local area.

Dashun is aware of these problems and understands that opening the mining ban will greatly promote immigration in bitter cold areas and remote areas.

Put it in the North Korean country and deal with it, and Dashun will inevitably be vigilant.

Originally, there were many things like crossing the border to collect ginseng, and then there were things like fleeing across the river and gathering in villages.

The gold, silver and copper mines in North Korea are basically located in the northern border mountains.

If the mining ban is really lifted, people will rush over, and the border areas will be even more unbearable.

North Korea has its own gold, silver and copper mines. Although there are not many, they are indeed worth mining.Just in the border mountains to the north.

Dashun saw the situation of the Maolong Silver Factory. With the development of the mining industry, tens of thousands of miners and [-] farmers gathered around, forming a force among a group of chieftains, which will help Dashun go south to Burma in the future. Created an excellent foundation.

If North Korea develops mines, I'm afraid it will repeat a similar path.The border area itself is a place of bitter cold, and the capital of Dashun is unwilling to go there, because there is no transportation line, and the things planted cannot be transported, so they are only willing to enclose land everywhere in the Liaohe River Basin.

There are more and more fleeing people from North Korea, and eventually they gather into villages and towns on the border, which will be troublesome in the future.

Whether or not to transform into counties now is still a problem to be solved in the future, and it has not been decided roughly, and it is not that Dashun has never had trouble with North Korea.

The general idea is that North Korea can relax the mining ban, but allow Dashun merchants to invest, and also allow Dashun miners to mine gold.

Obviously, it is impossible for North Korea to agree.Dashun's pressure here should not be too strict, and he still needs to save some face.

Simply, let the North Korean country continue to maintain the mining ban, so as not to rush a bunch of people to the border area.

This actually blocked the development of North Korea. This is not an era in which future generations can rely on high accumulation to quickly pursue industrialization.

This is an era when the handmade cotton cloth of a province can cause the great powers in Asia and Europe to go to war with each other, and the market is so limited.

According to the view of the Adam Smith school, the division of labor between countries always has what they are good at and what others are not good at, and finally a balance is reached.

However, his set of theories originally needed two things in history: "What can the Dutch shipping industry do after being taken away by the British?" For one thing, crazy patching.

The situation at this time is quite different.

North Korea's major industries, such as ginseng, are not grown in the Northeast, but because Liu Yu suppresses the development for the sake of "benefit".

There is no way to grab the textile industry.

It is possible to grow cotton, but the problem is to grow cotton for export. With the current grain yield per mu, North Korea should first remove two-thirds of its population.

In essence, there is only one way to go on.

That is to continue to expand the opening of ports. Dashun obtained the privilege of opening mines in North Korea. Dashun's capital and population poured into northern North Korea to develop mining, dig gold, and promote the development of heavy industries such as iron and coal mines.

This is more attractive than digging for gold in places like Oceania or San Francisco.

But North Korea is definitely not stupid. This is equivalent to the surrender of the four counties of Han, and it cannot be resolved with a few words of simple courtesy to the government.

Unless the First World War is over, Dashun will have the energy to play with the vassals behind closed doors.

Therefore, in essence, Cheng Tingzuo's answer was nothing.

This is a closed loop.

If you want to develop, you must close the door, close the port, and release the mining ban.

And this will inevitably anger Dashun.

The capital of Dashun is not in Jinling, but in Beijing, and it is very, very, very sensitive to the northeast, which has a very, very, very serious sequelae of the late Ming Dynasty.Going to North Korea is much closer than going to Nanyang.

If he wanted to resist by force and make Dashun retreat despite difficulties, the prerequisites were to close ports, ban mining, accumulate corn, and build arsenals.

In fact, at the moment when Dashun took advantage of the opportunity of King Austria's succession war to go to Nanyang, seize Malacca, ban religion and resist the enemy outside of Malacca, the East Asian issue was already doomed.

Nothing more than a difference in form.

It's just the difference between counties and counties, or retaining the status of a vassal state but opening up capital investment privileges.

As for now, Cheng Tingzuo asked Quan Zheshen to go to Songsu to find the answer, but he couldn't find the answer, at least he couldn't find the answer Quan Zheshen wanted.

The answer that the Xinghu school wants to find is how to prevent the extreme hardship of the bottom class caused by the emergence of private ownership of land, land mergers, and the beginning of usury in rural areas.

The answer that the Songsu model can give is not to solve the problem, but to solve the people.

Encourage mergers, encourage lending, abandon tax in kind, promote metal currency, and finally form a big landowner who grows cotton and rice and exports Dashun.What North Korea has to do is to ask the suzerain country to send troops when the "Donghak Party Uprising" breaks out.

Authentic polar opposite.

Of course, what Cheng Tingzuo meant was definitely not what he meant, and he definitely didn't think of this step.

The reason why he said that was because Liu Yu had really talked about the North Korean issue in the Songsu area before, and what he said was very gentle at the time.

So gentle, it sounds like Liu Yu meant to be very tolerant and gentle at the time.

It is believed that Confucian students in North Korea should be encouraged to study abroad and learn practical learning.

For example, learn how to grow rice, how to repair water conservancy, how to grow soybeans, how to grow cotton, how to build waterwheels and so on.

This still sounds very in line with the theme of "practical learning" of the Yan Li School. Don't you think this is very good?

As for the subtext behind this, in essence, Cheng Tingzuo is still a remnant of the old era after all, and has not yet understood what the Songsu model is and what the logic of social operation is.

He, a remnant of the old era, is still considering a possibility.

These are still the three paths mentioned in Liu Yu's letter.

Could it be that a new school of improved Confucianism can cover Honolulu with primitive productivity, Henan and Shaanxi where landlords, tenants, and small farmers are stable, and Kanto, Songsu, and Nanyang, which have basically stripped the small peasant economy from being involved in the world market, and then solve the problem of Songsu and Nanyang? The new contradictions that emerged after the factoryization of the Soviet Union, and at the same time solve the plight of Korea, Ryukyu and Japan, and incidentally resist the invasion of Catholicism, Islam, and Protestantism in terms of religious beliefs?

If you don't want to represent the interests of a certain class, but pursue omnipotence and the holy way, then you can only continue to consider and try this possibility.

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A few days later, Shanghai.

Some people surrounded Liu Yu, looking at the first real public building complex in Dashun that had just been completed.

It includes a series of buildings such as a park, a library, and a museum of nations planned after occupying a piece of land.

Almost all the people around Liu Yu knew that Liu Yu was definitely going to leave Jiangsu during the emperor's southern tour, and it was impossible to stay here any longer.

Even if the emperor doesn't say anything, Liu Yu will take the initiative to leave.

After all, after years of development, favorable policies, and the mandatory closure of trade ports in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, Jiangsu has truly become the capital of the world's finances and taxes by virtue of the best water transport network in the pre-railway era. Halfway.

Every year, an astonishing amount of silver is provided for the imperial treasury or the emperor's internal funds.

Even if there is no danger to defend, even if the people who work here have no military power, it is impossible to stay in this kind of place forever.

The public buildings that have just been completed will soon be used as the place where the emperor accepts "all nations come to court" and parades the army.

Sufficient open space is also solved by enclosing land.

Fortunately, many years ago, enough land had been forcibly occupied. With the development of trade and the expansion of cities, the price of the land occupied by money was now rising.

The housing tax idea proposed by Wang Yuan of the Yan-Li School was also tried here.

Accompanied by Liu Yu's inspection, there are both officials and wealthy businessmen in the province.

It seems to be more or less "arranging funeral affairs".

Some of the people that the emperor sent over at the beginning have also grown up after these years of experience.

At least I understand how to manage these rapidly developing cities that are completely different from the past.

This time the emperor toured the south, the merchants "actively" made donations to prepare reception expenses for the emperor's tour.

It was completely different from the last time. Last time, the emperor allowed them to go to Nanyang, and they didn't have to take care of the pick-up.But this time, the emperor didn't say anything, and the merchants "voluntarily" paid for it.

Most people have no anxiety in their hearts, and feel that everything is on the right track, and the most difficult transition period has basically passed.

The only thing is the special status here in the future, I am afraid that a Jiedushi will not be competent, and the level of Jiedushi is no longer enough.

In name, Lin Min is still serving as the Jiedu Envoy of Jiangsu, but now everyone knows that after the reform is completed in Jiangsu, the imperial court cannot be handed over to a Jiedu Envoy anyway.

In the officialdom, there are many speculations as to whose hands this big piece of fat will fall into.

In the market, the influence is not that great. They feel that Xiao Guicao is following that way, and everyone has long been accustomed to following this way.

Even if a corrupt person comes, this is different from before.At the beginning, the yamen encircled a lot of land that was not very valuable at that time, but now the land price is high, even if it is corrupt, it will not increase the apportionment as in the past.

The crowd slowly came to the small hill in the park, and some towering chimneys had appeared in the industrial area in the distance, emitting black soot.

Even though the wind direction was taken into account when the layout was made, there is still a faint smell of burning coal.

Liu Yu closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and was very satisfied.

These smoking chimneys, many things drive the steam engine.

But because of the particularity of Dashun, most of these steam engines are not related to the textile industry.

The mechanical spinning machine that he has been obsessed with has already begun to appear.

The yarn shortage in the Songsu area has gradually emerged.From four people spinning and one weaving in the past; it has been upgraded to today's 16 people spinning and one weaving.

Reshaping the basis of the export-oriented textile industry, the cotton yarn industry has adopted a factory system from the beginning, basically controlling the spinning process of long-staple cotton.

Once the research on the mechanical spinning wheel is successful, the transition will be very smooth.

There is a very common saying that the wheel of the times has begun to turn, but the reality is that it has already started to turn. The final result of the upcoming World War I will directly determine the future development of Dashun.

Although he was confident and felt that he would win, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

Seeing him closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, everyone sighed instead. They didn't know if he was reluctant to come here, or if he was worried about his return to Beijing in the future, so they didn't dare to say anything.

This is not a good answer.

If the connection is not good, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the emperor, or it is obviously a good flattery, but it hits the painful spot and causes a lot of unhappiness.

After a long time, Liu Yu said as if arranging the funeral, "The ancients said that people have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. This is the case in all walks of life."

"Although it is not the time for Songsu to start at this time, the future of many industries is still uncertain. A wise man, when cooking oil in a raging fire, thinks of many crises in the future."

"You are here today, where do you think the crisis of Songsu industry will lie in the future?"

This is Liu Yu trying to test everyone's political orientation, of course it is mainly for the outside world.

The current situation is not an exaggeration to use a fiery fire to cook oil.

A painful transition period means cheap labor.

A short period of peace means rapid expansion of the external market.

The development of Guandong Nanyang has enabled industrial and commercial practitioners to experience the era of the lowest food prices, which means that they can pay lower wages.

It has been ten years since the outbreak of Qi Xing calling for rice subsidy subsidies.Only when the price of rice reaches a certain value that was negotiated at the beginning, can there be rice stickers. There is really no chance of increasing rice stickers in recent years.

Policy-guided overseas investment has brought a large amount of capital into a state of flow, and the development of markets in surrounding areas such as Nanyang, Kanto, Korea, and Japan has also minimized the impact of the price revolution.

In Dashun, labor prices and food prices, denominated in silver, are still about one-third of the level of the highest regions in Western Europe.

So much so that in Tianjin and other places, even straw hats woven from wheat straw can be sold, and Europe is the place where wheat is produced.

From the perspective of the emerging class, it can undoubtedly be called the era of burning oil.

As for the gradually disintegrating rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and the tenants who have been gradually withdrawn or forced to withdraw their tenants, the semi-owner farmers have been really hurt by the price of grain. They are not qualified to judge whether it is a dark world or a raging fire.

Now Liu Yu asks these emerging classes, and the bureaucrats who are increasingly closely connected with these emerging classes, what is foresight?

After thinking for a while, everyone answered surprisingly unanimously.

"If you have foresight, you should stay overseas."

"Over the years, I have read newspapers and learned about overseas affairs. Judging from the current situation, it seems that there is a possibility of a big war outside the territory?"

"This year's French ginseng futures have not yet arrived in Hong Kong, and some people have already started to raise their prices. They are for hoarding. It is like the newspaper said in the past that the Dutch knew about the Nanyang War and hoarded tea."

At this time, the newspapers in Songsu, Dengzhou, Yingkou, Nanyang and other places were not so much newspapers, but one-third were newspapers, one-third were charts of maritime countries, and one-third were foreign colonial history. .

The so-called enlightenment of people's wisdom does not necessarily have to be shouting slogans. On the premise of believing that people are not fools, it is enough to show the dynamics of the world.

Of course, these emerging classes in Dashun are not fools, and many of them are even speculative to make a fortune. They have long been keenly aware that all disturbances in foreign affairs will have an impact on the Songsu area.

Looking at it now, the impact is not too great. At most, a group of people bet that Britain and France will soon go to war in North America.When Dashun was doing business in Aachen, it wanted to sign the anti-piracy convention and anti-privateship convention, but neither country signed it.

If they really fight, isn't that robbing each other's ships?At that time, is there any reason not to raise prices?
After all, in theory, everyone thinks that Liu Yu is quite pro-French. If the time comes and the British hijack the ship to sell ginseng, they will impose tariffs or not allow it to be sold.

As for considering that Dashun might seize the window to join the war, most people didn't think about it.

Although, in fact, several oligarchs of the Dashun Western Trading Company were quite dissatisfied with the East India Companies of various countries, and conflicts between the two sides also occurred from time to time.

However, Dashun's involvement in the world war was unprecedented after all.

Going to Nanyang does not count.

When going to Nanyang, Dashun's merchants were not strong enough to have a great willingness to go to war. It was purely that the emperor went to Nanyang to monopolize the spice trade before the reenactment.

Therefore, Dashun still has to take this step after all.

Let some classes see the great benefits brought by the war, and deeply understand the relationship between war and themselves.

This is of great significance to the Songsu area, because most of the time, they cannot personally feel the relationship between the war and them.

For example, the war in the Northwest Territories is so far away and has no immediate interests for them.

Of course, at this time, if there is another war with the Raksha Kingdom over the northern ice ocean beyond the Whale Sea, they will definitely feel it personally, because some people have made a fortune from trading sea dragon skins and oil.

In the war in the northwest region, the ones who can make a fortune are the Shanshan Capital Group, which failed to compete in the Jiangnan region, not them.

Now, Liu Yu reminded them.

"Confucianism first said: The rise and fall of the world is everyone's responsibility."

"Now I look at the war in Europe, the victory or defeat of the country, the loss of profit and merchants. If there is loss of profit, there is responsibility. To you, the so-called rise and fall of the world and the victory or defeat of the country may be empty talk to you. Now It's very different."

"Some things, some wars, the gentry don't support it, I can understand it very well. There is no benefit at all, but they have to pay more national taxes. Why should they support it?"

"However, then again, if the countries of Europa go to war again, it will be extremely beneficial to your trade. Since you can all see that the war between Britain and France in Europe may be imminent, if you want to come this year, there will be new news. "

"You can see that the rise and fall of the industry lies outside the territory, which is also an eye-opening view of the world."

"Now you might as well talk about it, what do you want? I will know it in my heart in the future."

Liu Yu knows what these people want, he has his own judgment.

But it's useless for him to know what's going on in his heart, it takes these people to know what's in his heart.

If their answer is wrong, this time "confess the funeral", you need to point it out: No, you don't want this, you should want that.

They don't need to consider the interests of small farmers or hired workers. Liu Yu is only asking about the demands of their own class.

(End of this chapter)