Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1174 Preparations for War ([-])
"That's ok, let's get things done as soon as possible. I just came here. After I'm done, I'll find a house to rent. I went to the Southern Ocean and built your house first. Work hard for a few years , I have everything. Then the ship you mentioned to go to the Southern Ocean also departs from Shanghai?"

"Yeah. I heard it's in Shanghai, so I'll find out if you go there. I don't know how much the ferry ticket is, but it seems like two or thirty taels for one person? But I know how much it is. It seems to be five taels." For money, you can occupy 30 mu of land. The first five years are tax-free, and after five years, it seems to be 300 taxes, right? It is said that it is no more than 6 cents per mu of land."

Zhao Liben pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "This man is much more valuable than the land."

"Yes, it is said that there are very few people going there. But if there are more people going there in the future, I am afraid that the number of land will be less. It is good to go early. The court also said that it is not allowed to buy foreign slaves to go there. , and will not runaway slave law, fugitive law and other things, the card is very strict. It is allowed to have contracted long-term workers, but it can not exceed six years at most, and the contract long-term workers must be Han Chinese, but now no one buys long-term workers in the past , lose money."

Zhao Liben said: "That's right, 30 taels for a boat ticket for a contracted long-term worker. With this money, it is better to buy land in Kanto to grow soybeans. What is this Southern Ocean? Even if you grow grain, it will be difficult to sell it. It can’t make money. It’s suitable for us, who want to live a small life, have a hundred acres of land, and three to five cattle and horses.”

How much does it cost to emigrate to the Southern Ocean now? This account is actually very difficult to calculate.

Some things have their internal laws.

Such as African slaves and Irish immigrants from North America.

It was the trade between Europe and America that made slaves profitable.

Waiting for the population to increase and the Irish to enrich the Americas, they can become indentured slaves and exchange tickets.

As for whether slaves are valuable, or contracted slaves and free labor are valuable after expiration, there are classic cases.

American plantation owners, when doing some dangerous things, will definitely hire Irishmen, and it is impossible to choose expensive private property slaves.

The problem that Dashun is facing now is not the issue of slaves, indentured long-term workers, or free hired workers.

Instead, it was strangled at the first step.

The cost of trade between Oceania and Dashun was too high, at least before the advent of steamships, it was completely unrealistic.

Even if Liu Yu didn't stick to the basic division of progress and reaction and refused to restore slavery, even if Dashun went backwards and allowed slavery, it would be useless.

A slave on an American plantation whose labor was integrated into world trade for the European market.

And even if Dashun returned to slavery in a reactionary way, and engaged in slavery in Oceania, who has money and nowhere to spend it, why buy some slaves?

Like slaves in Haiti, growing sugar cane.

Dashun can't even eat the sugar cane in Nanyang, so why go to Oceania to grow sugar cane?
Or, go to Oceania to grow food?That's too much money to spend.

Capital is willing to wait for this place to develop before investing; but if you ask him to invest and build an empty land to expand the market or something, it is purely a dream.

Therefore, before the gold mine is released, this kind of immigration can only be official.

And it can only rely on the official solution to the Indian problem and the leftovers of the soldier's retirement problem prepared for India's war preparations to take the lead.

Of course, speaking of this matter, many things involved in it, whether it is Liu Yu or the emperor, actually have their own thoughts.

The main thing is to see who is thinking more about it at the time.

As Dashun began to popularize the monthly distance and angle look-up table method to measure longitude and latitude at sea, Dashun's sea routes are already very accurate. Basically, there is a difference of one or two minutes at most, thirty to fifty nautical miles, so it is not a big problem.

Liu Yu had already spent money to move some farmers to Oceania. The number was small, but livestock such as cattle, horses and sheep had already been bred there.

It's not like the Mayflower, or the Virginia Company, or Arthur Philips' prisoner fleet.

On the Mayflower, there are Puritan heretics; the Virginia Company employs urban refugees; Arthur Philips' prisoner fleet, most of them are prisoners.

Will they farm?

Is farming a craft?
Actually, yes.

A group of urban handicraftsmen are not very good at farming.

The first few groups of people that Liu Yu moved over were all able to farm, raise cattle, goats and horses.

The climatic conditions there are almost the same.

Food production has also achieved a breakthrough from zero to one. In terms of food, there is no need for assistance from the mother country.

Looks like it's in good condition.

But how much does immigration cost?

Ocean currents, monsoons, windless belts, these things, it is destined that Dashun will go to Oceania at this time, so he can only rely on the triangle jump.

And this kind of triangle jump sailing takes about half a year, that is, 4 to 6 months.

After all, this is not selling slaves. This is sending a group of veterans who have served for more than ten years. Too many people have died. A group of veterans who have served for 15 years are really not good men and women.

On the way, you need to stop at the triangle jumping island for replenishment.

Sailing comfort with relatively low mortality is required.

It’s impossible to stuff them one on top of another like a slave ship. If you really want to do that, it’s better to trick those retired soldiers, drive the ship halfway, and throw them all into the sea—just like Badawi’s Like the rumors of the Asian uprising, the Dutch tricked the Chinese into going to Ceylon, but in fact they drove the boat halfway and threw the people into the sea.

With such a voyage and such a voyage distance, a ship of about 800 tons can only accommodate about 400 people.

If it is a capital investment, profit needs to be considered.Is there anything worth shipping back from Oceania?At least, not yet.

Come back empty.

In other words, it is roughly equivalent to the cost of sailing to Europe, wear and tear, average interest on capital, wages of crew and sailors, etc.

If it is a commercial operation, how much does one person charge, in fact, to promote the flow of capital to the shipping industry and open up special routes to immigrants from Oceania?

It is impossible for those who can afford this ticket to choose to go to Oceania as a self-employed farmer.

Those who want to go to Oceania to be self-cultivated farmers will definitely not be able to afford this ticket.

Therefore, in this matter, in the end, only the government can lead the investment, or it can be run by the government, or it can be contracted by businessmen with the government's money.

Of course, Dashun's current status as a soldier is seriously abnormal.

After all, soldiers are basically treated as human beings, and the last time it was the middle Tang Dynasty.Afterwards, it was either the bandits or Qiu Ba. This time it was just a coincidence, not the normality or tradition that should be taken for granted.

How long this abnormal situation can last is a big question mark.

In order to prevent India from becoming a vassal and prevent the governor of India from becoming self-reliant, Dashun will definitely not choose to let the generals recruit troops in India by themselves.

If Dashun wants to rule India, he can only recruit troops locally. Even if everything goes perfectly, it will still require about 2 people to replace old and new every year.

And the 2 old and new alternates are based on the boarding quota set by "one husband and five families" in ancient books.

All in all, the annual resettlement of retired soldiers in the direction of India needs to consider the scale of 10 people per year.Wife and children, parents and mothers are also human beings.

10 people, farm tools, seeds, vehicles, food supplies for six months...

This amount of money, say more or less.

Not being able to afford it is one thing.

Whether they are willing to pay the money is another matter.

Based on Liu Yu's observations of the prince over the years, it can only be said that he is prescribing the right medicine.

There is nothing wrong with it now. It can not only make the ruler feel at ease and avoid worries, but also don't let the ruler know how much it will cost.

After all, the money has to be paid by the court.

The imperial court doesn't know how to do magic tricks, so it can't make money.

Money can only come out of taxes, but ask who collects taxes?How much tax will be charged in the future?Although this is a science, in fact it is often a fuse.

Now Dashun's foreign conquest, expansion and efficient operation of trade rely on a keen leader and strict rule of man, as well as a large number of rational egoists under the tide of the times and opportunities for class leaps.

Once some core things are replaced, or the ascension channel is closed, it will rot very quickly.

It is foreseeable that one day in the future, some ministers will offer some "faithful advice" to the new emperor: for example, the resettlement of retired soldiers is a waste of money, for example, the previous policy of Xingguo Duke wasted money and food for the country, for example, such a really redundant policy, for example, for Soldiers are paid too much military pay and so on.

At that time, maybe someone really thought about it, why not sell all these retired soldiers into contract slaves, not only not waste a dime of money from the court, but also earn money.

After all, a normal mind is a relatively rare thing for the scholar-bureaucrats of the old era.

Besides, like Du Feng, he is rational and self-interested now, because he has a great future in front of him, so he can seek a title.After stabilizing in the future, there will be no such opportunities. How can you make money without drinking the blood of soldiers, compared to eating empty wages, and not selling thieves to serve as contracted slaves?

Dashun made sufficient preparations for conquering India.

The more fully prepared, the bigger the hole left for the emperor behind.

In the rising stage, the generals will enter the prime minister, everyone has a head, and the cake is getting bigger and bigger. The more self-interested, the more honest and strong, just like Wu Qi, in order to achieve his fame and fame, he shared the suffering with the soldiers and sucked the sores.

In the stable period, a group of proud soldiers who enlisted in India; a group of newly-rising military heroes; a group of soldiers stationed in India who are waiting to retire; a group of post-expansion stable period who do not have much chance of advancement and can only think about drinking the blood of soldiers to make money The bureaucrats; and the old generation in the town are dying, running, and doing bad things; the pie has to be redistributed...

Liu Yu had no doubts that even if the shrewd and experienced ruler at this time was placed in that position, he would still be at a loss for what to do.

He buried a lot of mines, which is not bad for this one, but the ancients said: Accumulated soil makes mountains, and accumulated water forms abyss.Therefore, if you don't accumulate steps, you won't reach thousands of miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be able to form rivers and seas.

Of course, apart from burying mines, the same is true in business matters, it is necessary to accumulate earth into mountains.

It should be said that so far, Dashun's preparations and mobilization for the conquest of India have been completely completed.

Including military service system, prevention of vassalization, tactical preparation, strategic direction, national debt warm-up, capital mobilization, Ceylon’s population layout more than ten years in advance, food supply, Ceylon’s agricultural recovery, and the outbreak of the industrial revolution required Bangladesh cotton cultivation. All problems have already had a general direction, or have been basically solved.

For the rest, just wait for the war between Britain and France, and the ambitious young son of Bangladesh will die.

However, before the outbreak of the First World War, Liu Yu still took advantage of the opportunity of the Emperor's Grand Parade in Songsu and the gathering of envoys from various countries to export to the Holy See and Portugal.In the eyes of later generations, a wave of big news comparable to the outbreak of World War I was produced.

(End of this chapter)