Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1217 Thoughts of Luntai ([-])
A sophisticated ruler will definitely find ways to increase the number of small producers and yeoman farmers.From the perspective of feudal rule, Liu Yu's worries are very reasonable. The emperor said these words, and it is very likely that the Yellow River breach will create a perfect small producer and grant land between Gyeonggi and Songsu. Agricultural buffer zone.

Small producers and yeoman farmers, the most supportive of stability, were almost the most conservative.

On the one hand, they are different from those poor tenant farmers who have nothing. For the poor tenant farmers, they have nothing to lose.

On the other hand, they are also full of fear of the new era, or fear of change, because they have no ability to share in the new era, and they are uneasy about any changes.

For the original Dashun, the Shandong issue was a big one, and he didn't dare to move lightly. Even the emperor had no qualifications to take advantage of the opportunity to do things.

But it's really different now.

With the change of the canal rice, the emergence of the railway, the rise of the sea, and the strength of the navy, the emperor is [-]% sure that after the Yellow River bursts, he can complete the most beneficial disposal method for the imperial power.

Even though Liu Yu wasn't sure whether the emperor would think so, it was still very simple to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Use methods such as uprisings after the catastrophe and eating big households to wipe out some landlords; then send troops to wipe out the rebels;

This is very simple, don't block the opening, send troops to prevent fleeing, or fight slowly, three to five years is enough to completely reshuffle the cards.

At the same time, taking advantage of the lack of livelihood of the people after the disaster to reduce their resistance to migration, some people were left here to teach and cultivate fields, while others moved overseas or to Heilongjiang.

In fact, with Dashun's rice transportation routes, financial capabilities, and military capabilities at this time, the cost of doing so is the lowest, and it is also the most beneficial choice for the imperial power.

Conversely, from the perspective of truly solving the land system nationwide and overthrowing the feudal dynasty, the status of Shandong has become quite embarrassing.

If Liu Yu hadn't transported by sea and abandoned the canal, once the Yellow River burst and the canal was blocked, a large-scale uprising broke out.

Basically... it's a pioneer for the king.

But this kind of pioneering of the king means that it can lead to chaos in the court of Dashun, reduce the control of the local area, and the simmering class conflicts will erupt one after another.If Dashun wants to protect the canal, it will definitely choose to focus on suppressing the resistance in the canal area, making the local resistance powerless to suppress, and if it is not guaranteed, it will succeed.

This is not to say that rebellion is addictive, but that there are certain things that can only be resolved in this way.Whether it is to ensure that most of the people will not starve to death during the transition period, or to dismantle the gentry's control of the local area and concentrate on emigrating with a new look of the new government... the old ship Dashun alone cannot do it.

However, the current situation is that even if an uprising breaks out in the Canal District, it will be a dead end, and it is a sacrifice that is purely in vain and cannot affect the situation in the whole country, and it will be very easy to suppress, and it will not cause The economic center and the political center are cut off.

If the emperor is experienced enough, then by taking advantage of the Yellow River breach issue, it means that the class foundation of Dashun imperial power has been greatly strengthened.

In the Gyeonggi area, you can cultivate Mongolia and enter the Guandong; after the Yellow River diverted, it became a natural moat; the reshuffle in the Shandong area created a large number of land-granting farmers and small producers-this is what Liu Yu said, those good families or blood-taxed frontier soldiers Small landlords and wealthy owner farmers are the sharpest swords of imperial power.Landlords and gentry, in fact, are not bullshit, they are extremely fragile.

In fact, in Liu Yu's view, when Dashun concentrated all its strength and completed the battle of India and this Europa battle, the imperial power of Dashun was useless.It is time to properly weaken and detonate those buried mines one by one.

Old En said: In front of it, there is no ultimate thing, absolute thing, sacred thing; it points out the temporary nature of all things; In the continuous process to the higher level, nothing exists.

It's like Dashun's Western Trading Company.Without the monopoly, exclusive, and centralized Dashun Western Trading Company, Dashun would not be able to open up the European market, and all small retail merchants would be compradorized, and would be eaten up one by one by European monopoly companies.People will be beaten to death for smuggling in Xiaocang, and people will seize the boat and lower the price for selling tea with Batavia. They will continue to reincarnate, and they will not be able to open up the situation, and they will not be able to get around the homogeneous competition of goods in India.

But now, he is about to complete his mission and become an obstacle to the progress of productivity, so Liu Yu has already considered letting him die.

The imperial power is about to do the same.

To some extent, Liu Yu jumped out at this time to solve the Yellow River problem...

Just talking about ideas and logic, in fact, it is similar to the thinking of some people who wanted to kill Stolypin during the reform of Stolypin in the later Tsarist Russia. If it is really changed, it will greatly enhance the power of the imperial power, and its ruling power will be greatly enhanced.

The Yellow River breach had greatly shaken the rule of Dashun 20 years ago; but now, Liu Yu feels that the experienced ruler may take this opportunity to turn disaster into blessing and greatly strengthen the ruling foundation of imperial power.At least judging from the emperor's level of rule and the prestige of his wrist at this time, it is very possible.

Even if these reasons are not considered, but only from the perspective of personal conscience, Liu Yu also hopes to try to solve the problem of diverting the Yellow River in a way that man can conquer nature.

Do your best, listen to the destiny, and do your best if you can't make it.

Bursting is not a big problem, almost every year, it just needs to be blocked every year.

But the premise is that there must be a river. If there is no river, how can it be blocked?
The diversion is a big problem, because there is no river course in the north, it can only be flooded with flood irrigation, which will completely destroy the cultivated land system in Shandong area - the flood irrigation area of ​​the Yellow River, which will lead to serious saline-alkali disasters; it will lead to hydrological chaos; it will also lead to the original irrigation system Completely scrapped, this is not comparable, but a huge disaster involving tens of millions of people.

Thus, the emperor went from being puzzled at the beginning, to being silent, and then to wondering what Liu Yu wanted to do.

This matter is not easy to do.

And taking history as a mirror, I feel that the practice of being able to restrain the blue dragon of the Yellow River seems to have failed except for the legendary Dayu's flood control.

After a while of silence, the emperor didn't need to play this charade with Liu Yu. Even though Liu Yu didn't directly put forward the clear statement that he would use Zhenqing and Yan to rule the Yellow River, it didn't mean that the emperor didn't understand what Liu Yu was talking about.

"Will the common people object to what Ai Qing thinks you are going to do?"

Liu Yu didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "Yes. Not only the people in the river area will, but also the surrounding people. The Yellow River is a god of disaster. The people spreading the Yellow River, especially the downstream, will suffer more than other places."

"The danger of breaches, the difficulties of siltation, and the exhaustion of river construction. If I were a citizen of Shandong, I would also oppose it. There has been no Yellow River trouble for hundreds of years. In addition, after the construction of the Taihang Embankment, there will be no Yellow River trouble in the east of the canal."

"In addition, the river course occupies land and fields, and the people are resettled. If you say that no one resists, you are lying."

"I can clearly say that the originally rich and prosperous places in Shandong were Caozhou, Heze, Liaocheng, and Linqing."

"Once this is done, Caozhou, Heze, and Liaocheng, which were originally the richest places in Shandong and the most prosperous in business and industry, will become the poorest places in Shandong."

"Moreover, the river course from Kaifeng to Caozhou will be the most dangerous part of the Yellow River."

"As for the waterways along the way, they are all ruined."

"The salt fields in Lijin and other places along the coast are all abandoned."

"The drainage of the cities along the way is all waste."

"If the people don't resist, it will be a rare thing in ancient times."

Since ancient times, the most affluent place in Shandong has been Southwest Shandong.But once the Yellow River diverts, Southwest Shandong will become the poorest place in Shandong.

The diversion of the Yellow River will change many things, and it will inevitably arouse resistance.Not just the common people, but also the gentry.

No one wants to put a "bomb" at the door of the house.

The prosperity of Yangzhou City is no longer, but Yangzhou is just a place.And the surrounding areas that have been victimized a lot because of the river incident near Yangzhou still support this.For example, the north and south of the east bank suffered from the suffering of the Li Canal.

The incident in Shandong originally caused serious dissatisfaction among some people because of the abandoned canal.

Farmers who are freed from the pain of water transport and grain will naturally benefit.But they were all solitary small farmers, without strength or voice.

As for the cities near the water transport, the people there, the gentry along the way, and the people there can make enough noise.

These accumulated grievances have been wiped away by the continuous uprisings and suppressions over the years, and Liu Yu's actions now obviously want to cause some troubles.

Hearing Liu Yu's straightforward answer, the emperor didn't take it too seriously when he said clearly that there would be resistance, it was obvious.

So the emperor asked again: "If Aiqing goes out of the town of Yanzhou, he really wants to go out of the river and build river embankments. Let me ask you, is Aiqing really planning to use the treasury to redeem it?"

Liu Yu didn't change his face, and said lightly: "Yes, and no."

"Yes, it does cost money."

"No, the money has to be paid, but don't give it to your hands. As a migration toll, you have [-] acres of land, and you have [-] acres of wasteland. If you give it to your hands, it will be useless. It not only intensifies land annexation, but also makes the local people still It is impossible to go to land with fertile water and grass to reclaim wasteland."

"The imperial court should guide where the money goes. If the money doesn't want to go to immigrants, it may not be impossible to force the emigration by means of guarding Luntai."

"Just like if the money does not want to go to the Kanto and Nanyang, but to annex the land, then use all means to make it unwilling, unwilling, or unable to go."

"If you can convince the people with reason, then you will obey. If you can't, then you will be forced to relocate. The imperial court may also force a decree to stipulate that there is no man's land. Anyone who lives here will be forced to relocate."

"Crying for ten miles is better than crying for the whole of Shandong. There is no way to achieve both. I have been thinking about it for several years, but I really can't think of a way to achieve both."

"The only thing we can do is to put the money to good use. It is guaranteed that even if we travel across the ocean to Fusang, the death rate will be controlled at 5%. To reduce the death rate, this can already be done, but it will cost more money. Prepare food supplies, and a boat can't pack so many people like cattle."

"Besides, if this matter is done for ten or 20 years, the annual consumption will not be much. Take the Whale Sea immigration as a lesson. The initial immigration is very expensive. Once the scale is formed, the food output is large, and the industry and commerce are gradually flourishing, then It will be much cheaper to emigrate.”

"If your Majesty can allow the ministers to do three or five things, and balance it out, there is actually no need to spend much money on the court. If you can allow the ministers, this matter can abolish the court for 5000 to [-] million taels, or even less, or it may be completed."

(End of this chapter)