Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1389 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])

How much, or in other words, how much energy does Dashun's so-called "old conservatives" have?
This is a concept that is difficult to define precisely.

If we say that those who support the diversion of the Yellow River to the north, support the stability of the regime to ensure the completion of the new course of the Yellow River, support immigration to North America and Australia, and support the stability of the Dashun regime to ensure the railway plan from Beijing to Hankou are all counted as "old conservatives".

This number is much larger, and the energy is also very large.

But, in fact, Dashun's so-called "old conservatives" are also extremely polarized internally.

One of the factions, they are essentially a group of "rebels", and they are extreme "rebels".

Because they believe, [There is, and only one, way to shorten, diminish, and limit the ferocious death throes of the old age, and the bloodshed of the birth of the new age, and that way is to practice revolutionary terror].

With the fastest speed and in a terrifying way, complete the alternation of the old and new eras, minimize the struggles of the old era, and minimize the bleeding and pain of the new era.

This group of people is actually counted among the so-called "old conservatives" at this time.

However, they believed that in a short period of time, it was hard to say who in Dashun was capable of carrying out this kind of terror.So, basically, this group of people is not opposed to "raising your name", but now they tend to delay the time for "raising your name" until the Yellow River channel is completed and the population of North America is enough to compete with the East Coast.

As for Liu Yu personally, he himself is not a "celestial centralist", or even a follower of the pure productivity religion.

From the perspective of pure productivity, Dashun, which has already experienced the first industrial revolution, and Europe, which can't even compare with India in the cotton textile industry, who has a higher level of productivity at this time?

Obviously, it was Dashun.

When he urged Dashun to be involved in the "First World War", he knew very well that he had to win or lose.

Win, European Revolution.

Lose, Dashun explodes.

However, from the beginning to the end, Dashun has been avoiding this "unified market" issue.Songsu's advanced productivity and strong capital are restricted in the country, because the Dashun court cannot bear, and does not dare to bear, the result of the collapse of the small peasant economy in non-coastal areas.

Therefore, if they win, it means that the emerging class in Dashun can only expand outward.

And this outward expansion is aimed at India and Europe.

In the end, it will inevitably lead to awakening, uprising, and resistance in Europe.

Some things are obvious things, like lice on a bald head, because in history, not to mention Britain, even France, there have been incidents where the joiners association asked the French East India Company not to import oriental lacquerware and other commodities.

Dashun's lack of delivery capabilities prevents effective "imperialist" intervention, so Europe's awakening and resistance are inevitable.

As an important market in Europe, as well as the region with the highest "silver stock" in the world at this time, and an important market in Dashun, once Europe begins to wake up and resist.

Then it will definitely affect Dashun.

Likewise, there is the Indian problem.

That is, the huge contradiction between India's "hand rubbed cotton yarn" and Dashun's "mechanical spinning", Liu Yu has been laying mines.He has always suppressed and concealed the technology of mechanical spinning, but has been following the footsteps of the emerging class in Dashun—that is, shaping India into a cotton and cotton yarn producing area.

Once India's cotton and cotton yarn become the most important industries in India, then Dashun's backhanded introduction of mechanical spinning will inevitably lead to huge chaos, which will also lead to a serious crisis of overproduction in Dashun.

This kind of crisis will drive the emerging class in Dashun to look towards the protected domestic potential market, that is, the already crumbling small-scale peasant economy where the contradiction between man and land is extremely serious.

No hope.The awakening of Europe, the uprising in India, and the continued decline of the market, we can only stare inside, or we will explode.

That is, through the "awakening" of Europe and India, the contradictions of Dashun were born, and the "awakening" of Dashun was promoted.

And because of the difference in per capita land between the East and the West, what Europe is awakening is the awakening of the national bourgeoisie as the main force. They want to resist the dumping of Dashun, protect the autonomy of tariffs, and safeguard the development of their own national industries.

When this "awakening" is passed on to Dashun, Dashun has shaped a large number of industrial forces because it took a step ahead of the industrial revolution. In Dashun, the main force of "awakening" will be workers and small farmers.

Because Liu Yu is very convinced that the emerging class in Dashun is really "give you a chance and you will be useless", unable to lead the times, and fundamentally unable to cope with the severe pain and dystocia of the transformation.

As for how long this time will take?
This is the reason why he went to Shandong to rub the Yellow River after he decided to participate in the "First World War" in Dashun.Even if the whole world knows that the Yellow River is a mess, no one wants to be involved in it, even if many people know that "the Northern Jue is the inevitable sword of Damocles".

This time is about 30 years.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Yan to know these things.

But he still made an inference from Liu Yu's actions that "the reasoning is wrong and the conclusion is incorrect, but the time is basically correct".

That is to say, among the Practical School within Dashun, there are a large number of people, even those who in principle agree with Juntian as the number one benevolent government, will choose to go conservative in a short time.

This is of course of great significance to Li Yan.

If we say that the entire Practical School, as well as the industrial and commercial, navy, and officer corps within the sphere of influence of the Practical School, all agree that it is time to "equalize the land" and concentrate on emigrating.

Then, as the prince who has the closest relationship with the Real School, Li Yan will definitely come up with some ideas.

At least, he was blind in one eye, and for a while, he was thinking about wearing the skin of an unrelated ancestor who was "shot blind in one eye by Chen Yongfu".

However, ever since Liu Yu went to Shandong to rub the Yellow River, he decisively chose to give up wearing this skin.

This has nothing to do with Liu Yu, but with the Real School group. It doesn't matter what Liu Yu thinks. After the disappearance, he chose to finish digging the course of the Yellow River and finish the immigration on the west coast of North America.

And this group of people is precisely the group of people with the most political energy in the Real School.

Li Yan once imagined that he could imitate his ancestor who was shot blind in one eye, but all he wanted to learn was skin.

Coup d'état, the lower defeats the upper, the Xuanwu Gate, the extermination of the country's thieves, the side of the Qing emperor, and the sailors wearing yellow robes, all will do.

However, just like the ancestor in the story, it is impossible for him to do the Eighteen Riders hibernating in the mountains and insisting on fighting.

Therefore, when the former had no chance, he didn't even want to put on his skin immediately.

Today, he said so much through this incident, but in essence, it is more like a personal political declaration.

The subtext is: From now on, I am also an old conservative who "focuses on the overall situation", "for the community for a long time", "benefits in the future", and "stabilizes the situation for China's development".

At the moment when the war is about to end, the meaning of this political declaration is very profound.

He was talking about Liu Yu every sentence, but in fact he was talking about himself.

He said that Liu Yu chose to rub the Yellow River and choose a gold mine to build a platform, that is, he chose not to be chaotic for 30 years, not to make major changes, and not to cause chaos in the world because of the equalization of land.

In fact, what he wants to say is: I think so, and I support it.

In fact, the so-called "old conservatives" in Dashun's internal practical school are indeed very powerful.

But this kind of division method that only looks at the surface is actually very fallacious.

For the simplest matter of repairing the railway.

The so-called "old conservatives" in Dashun all support the construction of the railway.

But in fact, the reasons for support are quite different.

The reason Liu Yu gave to the emperor can be described as the benchmark of "old conservatives":

Namely, the Grand Canal without water.

Soldiers can be stationed in the capital, and within a month, they can travel thousands of miles to maintain the system.

The government can allocate food, and within a few days, the disaster area can get porridge and rice, at least there will be no large-scale resistance and uprising.

Only these two items, the starting point can be described as "conservative" in "conservative".

But in fact, those who support the construction of the railway have too many ideas, and they don't just go for these two goals.

Many of them are, in fact, standard "potential rebels of the Radicals."

In a sense, the so-called "old conservatives" in the matter of railway construction are a combination of "reactionaries among reactionaries" and "radicals among radicals" in politics.

Politically, the reactionaries among the reactionaries are probably no more reactionary than the emperor who wants to maintain the imperial power and maintain the family.

It is completely reactionary, and it is impossible to be more reactionary.

Among the radicals, it is estimated that there is no hope at this time to use the railway to achieve the effect of the Songsu Canal Economic Belt, to realize the dumping of the first-developed areas in the country to the later-developed areas, and to quickly destroy the old system. This group of people is even more radical.

Radical at its peak, it couldn't be more radical than this at this point.

As for the group of people who opposed the construction of the railway, on the political stage of Dashun...

Whether it is a tappet or a weeping temple, in the eyes of the emperor at this time, it is actually just a feudal coquettish.

The distorted coquettishness of the feudal dependent personal relationship after de-masculinization:

If you don't listen to others, they will say that you are a bad person~
Hey, you don’t listen to others, they want to write a diary to express their dissatisfaction when they go back~
If you don't listen to others, they won't do it for you~
As far as the emperor at this time was concerned, he was very clear-headed and comforted these coquettish people from time to time, but what he thought in his heart was: Damn it, the one who can rebel against Lao Tzu is the one who shouts the slogan of Juntian.Just you guys, what the hell, do you really want to equalize yourself first and then equalize the fields to rebel?Don't talk about rebellion, just talk about the retro faction inside, and the slogan shouted is Juntian is the first benevolent government. Do you really want to play like this?Whether it's those who are chattering, or those who are crying and writing diaries, don't you know that if you really move, you are the group of people who will be suppressed?

Since you are not a threat to Lao Tzu, act like a baby, just play around.

As for the people of the real school, the emperor also played it very clearly: You see, you are marginal people, this matter has nothing to do with me, it is the group of old stereotypes who oppose you.But since you were excluded by the mainstream, I promoted you. The officials of the Real School are all out of my personal favor.

From time to time, when the emperor was acting coquettishly in front of the gentry, he would also use the Practical School to say things: Stop being coquettish.

Of course, the emperor would definitely not do this, but it is still effective to use this method from time to time.

As for who are the "old conservatives" in Dashun at this time, it is really difficult to say clearly.

But what is certain is that the so-called "old conservatives" in Dashun now basically control Dashun's guns and money bags - Dashun's traditional regular taxation is not a money bag, because it is received as it is spent, disaster relief is exempted from flood control Xiuhe, an empty money bag is not a money bag.

Dashun's real guns are not subject to traditional taxes.

In fact, Dashun has basically established a positive feedback loop of "trade, tariffs, military support, and trade protection".

(End of this chapter)