Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1319 Imposing Sanctity
For Dashun's proposal to educate their king and government, Hancock and others are very supportive, thinking that Dashun is doing the right thing.

There is no doubt that the North American market is a market with great potential and strong consumption power.

At this time, of course, the industrial revolution has not yet broken out in Europe, but the living standards of "people" in the thirteen North American states are really very high.

Compared with most countries and populations 200 years later, North America, which has nothing to do with the Industrial Revolution at this time, still has a much higher standard of living.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the "people" under the three views of North America at this time.

Excluding expulsion, in some southern states, the average asset of each family is 392 pounds, equivalent to about 1200 taels of silver; on average in the north, the average asset of each family is 252 pounds, equivalent to about 750 years of silver.

This refers to the rural average.

Farmers in North America and farmers in Dashun are both farmers.But farmers and farmers are different.

There is no need to resist the invasion of the northern nomads such as the Huns, Khitan, and Mongolia, the labor of repairing the Yellow River embankment every year, and the land robbed from the aborigines, so that even decades after the outbreak of the industrial revolution, they made money and went to North America to work as farmers. Land is still the dream of many European workers.

With the production tools and agricultural productivity level at this time, each owner-peasant family tinkered with a hundred acres of land without any pressure.

Leave a part of the grassland, or plant pastures to raise cattle, sheep, and drink milk.

Part of the land is fallow, and it is burned in autumn, and the weeds are eliminated in the fertile field.

Dozens of acres of land are left to plant one species.

According to the descriptions of some military officers at this time, this pastoral life is really comfortable and relaxed:

Nowhere else in the world is a North Carolina farmer as laid-back, and he comes closer to the description of Promised Land than anywhere else: Corn yields are so high here that only a little needs to be grown to feed a family.With the help of the lowland grasslands, they can get meat without effort; the highlands are full of wild fruits and berries of all kinds...]

[During the slack season, the men lie in bed and sleep soundly until the sun has completed a third of its journey, driving away all unhealthy moisture.They just yawned, stretched their legs, lit their cigarettes, and went outside under the protection of a cloud of smoke...]

[When the sky was high and the sun was up, they folded their arms and leaned against the fence next to the corn field, thinking seriously whether they should go to the tavern for a drink at night...]

This is not the chaos during the Westward Movement, nor the confusion caused by the development of capitalism in the 1830s when the original owner farmers and petty bourgeois paradise were shattered, but the pastoral era that really belonged to the owner farmers and petty bourgeois.

No nobility.

No taxes.

There is no need to repair the embankment if the Yellow River floods.

No raids by northern nomads.

Military service is not required.

There are British government forces, under Pitt's policy, fighting for North America and destroying their enemies one by one.

No tropical diseases.

Technologies such as ironware, blast furnace iron, and cattle farming have spread.

Fertile land has accumulated millions of years of fertilizing elements that have not yet been used.

And Dashun’s “as a farmer, I can plant a hundred acres of land, but I don’t have that much land”; “As a tenant farmer, I also want to raise cattle, but I don’t even have grassland to feed cattle”; Poor peasants, I have three acres of land, and I don’t need tools such as columbine carts at all. Even if I dig holes with my fingers and touch seeds with my tongue, I can plant the three acres of land.” The situation is completely different.

Even though there are still the vast majority of farmers in North America at this time, and the industrial revolution has not even been seen, it is indeed comfortable to be a self-cultivator here at this time.

Industrial development will indeed destroy the small peasant economy.

But for different farmers, the degree of harm is different.

The impact of cheap cloth, for a family with 60 acres or 360 acres of land, the big deal is that the wife will stop rubbing wool, and I will sell two more carts of corn, which is enough for the whole family to wear clothes.

The impact of cheap cloth is on a person who owns three or four acres of land and has to rent the land for cultivation. If there is not enough food to eat, he mixes it with wild vegetables and grows some cotton on the side of the land. For the families who change their food, the impact is not the same as that of the former families who sell two more cars of corn to solve the problem.

Although they are all called peasants, they are also called small-scale peasant economy.

And these two kinds of farmers in different states have completely different consumption abilities for tea, cotton cloth and the like.

The extreme underdevelopment of agriculture before the exchange between the East and the West, the late emergence of technologies such as blast furnace iron technology and ox farming, and the violent Black Death at the end of the Middle Ages, coupled with the price revolution caused by Spanish silver, made Europe and the United States in the East and West. After exchanges and the exchange of species between the old and new continents, it immediately became a huge market with strong consumption power.

Many later generations, when studying the yield per mu, intentionally or unintentionally, replaced the acre with the mu; replaced the small quat weight unit with the large quat, and came to many wonderful conclusions, but these conclusions are not true. Otherwise, the British agricultural revolution would be meaningless.

For Europe, due to the underdeveloped agricultural technology and limited carrying capacity, after the technological explosion, the means of production owned by each farmer remained unchanged but the production efficiency increased. 17 catties.

As far as North America is concerned, the vast land makes the tenancy system almost impossible to exist, and the area that can be cultivated by self-cultivation farmers can almost reach the productivity limit of the iron age of cattle farming.

Even if most people are actually farmers, their consumption power is extremely huge.

Of course, it is impossible for Hancock and others to think rationally in this way, but with their sensibility and common sense of daily life, they know that the tea, cloth, porcelain, etc. brought by Dashun this time can sell very well.

As long as there are no expelled families-for example, North America at this time describes the hands of black people not with hands, but with "hooves".Some small yeoman who had domestic slaves, who might dine with them, would have been disgusted by many and considered inconceivable: it is hard to imagine that our hands and their hooves are at the same table - both actually could The ability to consume tea cotton cloth and low-end porcelain.

And Dashun's high-end products, such as high-end silk and porcelain, are of course not worried about sales.After all, North America is a colony. As long as it is a colony, there is a self-deprecating subconscious towards the mother country, especially in terms of culture.Washington once wrote a letter to a friend, asking him to help buy a batch of Chinese porcelain, which must be consistent with the popular styles of European high society, "If it is different, then there is no need to buy it."After these people have money, they naturally want to move closer to what they consider to be the upper class, and the upper class in Europe is currently setting off a Chinese craze.

At least, before the ancient city of Pompeii was excavated, even the architecture and garden culture had begun to invade Europe.Only with the excavation of the ancient city of Pompeii, neoclassical aesthetics began to recognize ancient Rome to shape Christian civilization.The aesthetic infiltration of oriental culture, with Kew Gardens in England, the Pagoda in Nanjing, and the China Palace in Sweden as its high point, is finally over.

From the looks of it, everything is fine.

produce.

consumption.

market.

culture.

demand.

It also includes religious issues. Dashun's attitude towards the Holy See made the Puritans in North America not extremely disgusted with Dashun.Heresy is worse than heresy.

Wait, wait, it all fits.

However, there is a very annoying problem that cannot be bypassed.

Hancock and others are all businessmen in North America.Their vision is still very low at this time, and they cannot see some things on a more macro level.

This is also an important reason why Dashun chose to carve up North America instead of instigating the separation of North America.

This very annoying and unavoidable problem is called "currency".

Currency is too magical and full of contradictions.

It's not that there is no currency in North America, but the currency in North America is not what Dashun wants, or it can be said that after Dashun wants it, there will be no eggs.

Currency in North America is currency and is an equivalent.

They can buy corn, tobacco, fish, shrimp, slaves, meat, cattle, etc., but the merchants in Dashun don't want any of these things, because they will lose money when they are shipped back.

The currency that Dashun wanted was not necessarily silver.

Gold is fine too.

Copper is fine too.

Or anything else that can be transported back to Dashun and make money, in fact, it will do.

However, this is what North America lacks now.

Historically, Lao Ma once commented on the Western Gold Rush Movement at that time, saying that it was a more important event than the vigorous February Revolution in France at that time, which drove away the Restoration Dynasty and recreated the French Second Republic.

The east coast of North America lacks precious metals.

North America is not South America, nor Peru, nor Potosí.

From a precious metals point of view, the east coast of North America was very barren and there was not enough gold and silver.

Although one of the twelve hatreds of the U.S. uprising was that the United Kingdom prohibited North America from making its own currency, but in fact what the United Kingdom prohibited was the excessive issuance of private banknotes in North America.

In the early days, in Massachusetts, the currency used by early immigrants was shells.

Six pierced white shells are worth a penny; three pierced black shells are worth a penny.

However, the improvement of productivity and the widespread use of ironware make this kind of money similar to printing paper: If I have a diamond baked in a pot and drill shells at home every day, wouldn’t I earn a million a month?
Some 40 years later, the shell currency devalued on a massive scale.

North America began to use corn as currency, but corn has a disadvantage as currency, which is too big and heavy.I go to buy a foot of cloth, and buy a sack of corn from home?

The thirteen states are also adapted to local conditions.

Massachusetts abandoned shells for corn, Virginia for tobacco, and Connecticut for wheat.

This is determined by the teachings of the Puritans and the class consciousness of the petty bourgeoisie in industry and commerce.

Because at this time, the land called the Bahamas under the feet of the smugglers is considered one of the starting points of the "American Dream". "The problem hit hard.

One side believes that there should be at least an organization like the Presbyterian Church and the Senate; the other thinks that any organization is useless, and there must be no government at all.

Hundreds of people, divided into two factions, do not communicate with each other until death.

This doctrine, class culture, and the status quo of small bourgeois landowners in North America all make the currency itself a thing without a "government reputation", either in kind or in gold and silver.

Until these years, with the development of North America - the reason why the British feel a little wronged is the issue of navigation regulations in the twelve hates of the army. Before 1750, the industrial and commercial development of North America was indeed protected, not Like Twelve Hate, it completely destroys the development of industry and commerce—because the gold and silverization of North American currency began in the early 18th century. If there is a pure trade deficit, no local production of gold and silver, or simply destroying industry and commerce, North America It is impossible to achieve currency gold and silver.Only a large inflow of gold and silver can make the currency gold and silver, just like the basis of the silver monetization in Ming Dynasty is the silver inflow from foreign trade.

The dividing line in 1750 was just because of the previous protection policy and the industrial support of several 10 taels of silver per year, which made dyes, canvas, etc., have begun to exceed Britain's own needs.

Even so, Dashun is still worried, because the gold and silver accumulation in North America is still not enough to conduct extensive trade with Dashun.

If you really let go of the suction, the gold and silver will be sucked up in three years at most.Dashun doesn't want paper money.

The lack of precious metal currencies in North America is not a headache for North America, but Dashun is a headache.

Dashun not only needs to solve the trade problem in North America, but also solves the problem of currency shortage in North America, otherwise the vast market in North America will be invalid and meaningless.

(End of this chapter)