Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1381 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])
And as more and more people from the school of practical learning went to the Southern Ocean and North America, some things that were discussed many times during the "Great Awakening" in the late Ming Dynasty could no longer be covered up.

In the beginning, many people satirized the Confucian retro radical reformists, saying that they "don't even understand arithmetic, counting is the six arts of a gentleman, and they claim to be a master of Confucianism... According to your ideas, one household has fifty acres of land, and you can calculate it yourself. Do you think there are so many fields in the world?"

At the beginning, Yan Yuan was too radical, and was accused of "hurting the business of the rich and taking away the land of the rich, which is not the right way."

Then Li Wei and others improved this radical idea, and then Wang Yuan finally came up with a fairly complete "30-year redemption" plan.

If we say that before the level of technology is reached, this idea is utopian, even somewhat reactionary——Li Wei cannot solve the contradiction of more people and less land, and the problem he has not solved in his vision is "for industry It may be difficult to accommodate such a large population”; and reactionary means that behind this set of plans, it also involves a very strict hierarchy of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and only farmers have land. Industry and commerce are not allowed to take land, etc.

Well, now, many problems can be solved theoretically at the technical level.

For example, the land in Australia may be worse, but the land in North America is really good. No matter how bad Fenglin Bay is, it is better than places with little rain such as Gansu, and better than the little flat land on the mountains in the southwest that can grow corn. .

Take industry and commerce as an example. With the development of industry, Li Wei felt that his ideas were utopian during his lifetime. The problem of "industry and commerce cannot accommodate too many people" has also seen the dawn of a solution.

When technology, or the level of productivity—navigation, shipbuilding, navigation, mathematics, and astronomy, which are also productivity—has reached a theoretically feasible level, why not do it, which makes many people wonder.

The conflict between people and land in Dashun is about to reach the point of no return.

Historically, after the Yellow River burst, around Weishan Lake, tens of thousands of farmers in Shandong and Jiangsu fought with arms at every turn, which lasted until the 20s.

Not to mention the contradictions between natives and guests, the pursuit of seedlings to expand their business, and Mongolian aristocratic landownership caused by Mongolian reclamation, which led to herdsman uprisings and tenant killings, as well as the influential White Lotus Sect uprising.

Songsu is not the Netherlands, nor can it be the Netherlands.

Dashun's general "world" thinking makes these people who take the first step still pretend to be the world in their hearts, and it is impossible to be the model of the Netherlands and Spain.

This world naturally includes people from Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu and other places.

There are people in Jiangnan, and people in other places are also people.

As a result, some radical ideas are inevitable.Since we have the whole world in mind, we will naturally turn our attention to a place located in the temperate zone, the northern hemisphere, with a humid and flat climate, and the lowest winter temperature is only two or three degrees below zero. There are maple trees, birch trees, poplar trees, wheat, corn, vegetables, and rivers. , It is very suitable for water conservancy and dam irrigation, where there are few people and a lot of land.

Even if, in fact, this matter is being done, such as the current method of setting up a gold mine and immigrant singing.

But many people feel that it is too late, why not seize the day and use the most violent means to solve this matter?Or in other words, use the most violent and radical means to reduce the pain of giving birth from the old mother's body in the new era?

It is different from what some people imagined, or even completely opposite.

Ever since Yoniko Ming sent Swedish prisoners of war back to Gothenburg, the exchanges between Dashun and Europe have gradually deepened. The more you know about Europe, in this era of "primitive accumulation"...

It doesn't matter if stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade.

Take history as a mirror or barbarians as a mirror.

Even the so-called learning from barbarians to control barbarians.

These people of the Dashunshi School learned from each other and attacked again and again, and the direction of attack went straight to the direction of "strengthening centralization of power", not the other way around.

Shun Cheng Yu Ming.

Some things, whether it is called allusion to history, or called to express the will of the ancients, in short, many people use the events of the Ming Dynasty to express their thoughts.

It is said that the former court did not even have the right to issue banknotes. After the silver reform, the moment it was determined to use silver as a tax, it was tantamount to surrendering the right to issue banknotes to the big merchants along the southeast coast.Not to mention the West, even Japan, the shogunate also has the right to issue banknotes - issuing copper coins, collecting taxes but collecting silver, which is not called the right to issue banknotes.Because copper coins are not auxiliary currency, but similar to the relationship between domestic currency and foreign currency, the exchange price fluctuates according to the exchange rate, not a fixed amount of auxiliary currency, so in fact there is no right to issue banknotes, but "freedom" to give up the right to issue banknotes I gave it to a businessman, isn't this bullshit?
Speaking of the former imperial court, even the customs couldn’t understand that such a large trade volume could convert copper coins to the level of silver monetization, and its tax collection capacity was eight blocks behind that of the United Kingdom.

It is said that countries such as Prussia know how to subsidize the textile industry with finances, but it is not good here. There is no economic policy, and it depends on free development.They don't even have the brains to learn from the French Ministry of Finance to organize silk production and export to obtain fiscal revenue.

It is said that in order to control the franchise of tea, the Netherlands did not hesitate to use various means to strangle the Ostend Company and the British East India Company.It's good here, tea is a specialty here, and they don't know how to monopolize the tea export tax.

In this era of primitive accumulation, the Dashun group opened their eyes to see the world at this time, and what they saw were only four words.

"National strength".

This is completely different from when we opened our eyes to see the world after the European Spring in 1848.At that time, primitive accumulation had been completed, the bourgeoisie of various countries had basically come to power, and even in the next few years, China's handicraft industry was comparable to that of the machinery industry, which was blocked by ocean freight.

That's what I saw back then.

What you see now is like this.

Because, after all, even the genuine "The Wealth of Nations" will not appear until a few years later, and after it appears, it is not a British policy, but an anti-British policy.

At this time, when you look out with your eyes, all you can see is mercantilism, strengthening centralization, and strong intervention-as long as mercantilism does not "take the name as it sounds", you should know this "emphasis on agriculture and despise business" Light business" is not a relative relationship.

Coupled with the long-standing tradition, many radicals in the practical school believe that the strengths of "teaching foreigners' skills" should be removed from the shell and taken from the core.

For example, the strength of the United Kingdom lies in its ability to raise such a large fleet through taxation.The small island country can only rely on taxation to squeeze out a fleet that is about the same size as Dashun.

Well, the core of this length does not mean that Dashun wants to build a larger fleet, but that "it is necessary to use the means of British money to build ships to promote immigration". A fleet like this, with great skills from the barbarians, can't it concentrate on large-scale immigration?

"Learning skills from barbarians" in different eras are different.Just like at this time, it is impossible to learn free trade, openness and tolerance when learning from foreigners' skills, because Yi himself doesn't have these things at this time, how can he learn from them?
How could it be possible to learn something that does not exist at this time?

Therefore, it is more suitable to be a teacher at this time than to be a teacher later.Later, what I learned was the superstructure after getting rich; what I learned now is the superstructure when I was rich.

Even if you don't need to distinguish carefully, if you look at the essence through the phenomenon and only look at the phenomenon, you won't be fooled.

And there is really no need to learn such things as heresy trials, the unity of politics and religion, and witch trials.

There is a very extreme Confucian school in the local area. Yan Yuan and others clearly proposed that the heretics should be "physically exterminated"-those over 60 years old can be lightly sentenced out of respect for the elders; Monks and Taoists must be physically eliminated if they do not return to the vulgar.

Therefore, if we want to talk about foreign exchange, we must learn something.

Well, apart from military technology and science instead of engineering, I am afraid that what you can learn at this time is to concentrate on doing big things, find ways to collect taxes, find ways to use a lot of taxes to do things that need to be done, strengthen control, strengthen Supervision, enhanced centralization and administrative efficiency.

In short, Liu Yu was originally a radical in Dashun.

But now, some radicals of the Real School think that Liu Yu is too conservative, a conservative, or even an old conservative.

"Mr. Xingguo is getting old..."

This sentence, circulated among the radicals of the real school, is not reporting the facts of an age, but has its special meaning.

Like these people who are looking for gold and prospecting and mapping on the west coast of North America at this time.

In these years, it is impossible for children from rich and powerful families to learn prospecting and surveying and mapping.Because the place to go is either a snow-capped mountain plateau, a vast desert, a tropical rainforest, or a foreign land full of indigenous people.

And the children who have no money will learn industries such as surveying and mapping, just to make a living.

However, it is the children of these poor families who are sent abroad to survey and map a large number of overseas plains, fertile soil, and fertile land with thousands of miles of potential.

What will they think?
When they think about their parents' land and what kind of life they live, they naturally think that the top priority of the imperial court is to concentrate their efforts on emigrating to realize the wish of "a family of five and a field of one hundred mu".

But what is Liu Yu doing?
They are doing things slowly, whether it is done in Shandong, or the method of guiding North American gold digging immigrants at this time, in their opinion, it is too slow.I always feel that Liu Yu is probably really old when he is doing things now, compared to the vigorous and vigorous reforms in Songsu and Yangai and Caogai back then.

Even out of inertia, many people will still immediately stand up to support the court's approach, and are even willing to say things like "this is a necessary price".

This idea gradually sprouted in the minds of the younger generation of Practical School.

As for the people of the prospecting team, accompanying the prospecting team along the river to search for gold mines, seeing the dense jungle and fertile land, enjoying the warm but not too hot summer, made their impulses stronger .

Many surveying and mapping people have been to Southeast Asia and even Africa.

Given their choice, would they prefer Southeast Asia or the west coast of North America?It goes without saying that anyone born in a temperate zone prefers the four seasons, the maple tree to the coconut tree, and the tiger and leopard to malaria and fever.

The young people in the prospecting team have also learned simple economics, although it is a simplified version of the simplified version.

So they also know that the vast ocean is separated here, and it is impossible to follow the Nanyang model-the Nanyang model is to force development and promote immigration by the state.For example, the transfer of rice to the rice plantations in Nanyang is equivalent to the imperial court using the rice tax in the south of the Yangtze River, and the loss collection after the ban on canal water transportation, etc., invested in Nanyang, and supported the development and immigration of Nanyang.

The premise of the Nanyang model is that Nanyang rice is indeed cheaper than Jiangnan rice.

Available in North America, this model is not available.Unless silver grass and golden trees can be planted in North America, the Nanyang model cannot be used.

So they also understand that the way to set up a gold mine is the right one.

But the problem is that many people are thinking: Why do they have to make money?Why must it be economically driven?Why not use the special economic power of national power to directly distort and carry out reclamation and immigration without profit?

This is why they feel that Liu Yu is old and conservative.Some people even thought that the Holy Son of Heaven was getting old, so what if the future crown prince was more conservative?
(End of this chapter)