Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1419 The Last Step of the Yellow River Problem ([-])
Since it is mandatory that even women and children move in together, one must always consider the future of this place, not just mining, so as to solve Dashun's own problems to the greatest extent.

With the typical Mediterranean climate here, it is not impossible to develop food agriculture here.But the premise is that the population is enough, enough to build water conservancy projects, otherwise it will definitely be useless.

Mediterranean climate, with different periods of rain and heat.The weather in summer is really hot, which is very suitable for crop growth, but there is really no rain, so we can only rely on irrigation.

And irrigation means that there must be at least a few hundred thousand people here to make such a siege.Building canals and water conservancy projects requires a sufficient population.

Just like in the place to the east of Dashishan, Dashun took the name of Xinyizhou, in essence, it has already made preparations for separation in the future.

The same is true here.

Dashun's policy has been determined, and everything here revolves around immigration.Even if it is digging for gold and silver, in terms of the overall policy direction, it is only a means, not an end.

Therefore, in fact, there are not too many industrial restrictions here, and the purpose is still to develop the industry so as to attract people to the greatest extent.

In fact, it is equivalent to allowing future separation here.After all, agriculture, minerals, climate, fresh water, land, forests, coal mines... There is no shortage of anything here, sooner or later.

Therefore, the land policy here is completely different from that in the Maple Bay area in the north.

With a line of latitude in the northern latitude as the boundary, to the north is the small-scale peasant economy, including those who work in the gold mines.

However, the land near Jinshan is neither allowed nor planned to allow small-scale farming.

To be precise, in terms of policy direction, it is here to implement the "chaebol" system - the imperial court and chaebols contribute funds, support them in the future, and sell state-owned assets to family business groups.

The industries are mainly cotton planting, textiles, wine, mining, and metal processing.Especially on the issue of land, the step of dividing and merging small farmers is directly omitted here, and large-scale farms are directly established.

The labor force is still dominated by immigrants from Dashun, or forcibly created wage laborers.

That is:

The land north of the demarcation line is on the precipitation line suitable for planting wheat, where the small-scale peasant economy is dominated, and the state-owned land is sold, mainly small family farms.

Considering the climate and other factors, the land south of the demarcation line is neither suitable nor necessary for small-scale peasant economy.Directly engage in large farms, engage in contract labor, and then buy a piece of land in the north.

Of course, this requires a process and cannot be accomplished overnight.

But the negotiations between Dashun and Spain provided enough possibilities for this plan.

Spain in South America has enough population, poor enough productivity, and enough gold and silver, which means it has a big enough market.However, Spain's local industrial production capacity is basically zero, and Spain cannot resist Dashun's smuggling, so it can only accept Dashun's bilateral trade terms and earn tariffs.

The land around Jinshan, especially the valley area near the gold mine, is very suitable for growing cotton on a large scale, and the quality of the cotton will be very good.

However, in this kind of place, whether it is climate or precipitation, it is meaningless to engage in small-scale farming to grow cotton.

Can't do it.There are many problems in cotton planting after salt reclamation in northern Jiangsu in history, such as mistakes such as renting, sharing, and land rent. There is no need to take another step.

Instead of directly engaging in large-scale planting, use contract long-term workers as labor force, use a large number of women who migrated together from Jinshan as female textile workers and cotton pickers, use the west coast of South America in Spain as the market, and use the copper mine saltpeter bird that will soon be developed on the west coast of South America Taking advantage of the fecal and other industries as an opportunity, the Jinshan area was directly built into the textile industry center of the entire west coast of North and South America, or west of the mountains.

Dashun does not want the market here, and allows all kinds of industries to develop here, and even foresees the separation of self-sufficiency and self-contained systems here in the future.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as it can absorb millions or tens of millions of people within a few decades, it's easy to talk about anything.

If the road that has not been passed in history is to be passed through, the Songsu area alone is not enough.At least Shandong, Gyeonggi and other places have to be pulled into the capitalist system, so as to form a violent crushing advantage over the western regions.

That is to say, assuming or in case it is possible to complete the industrialization of the northern and eastern coastal areas and disintegrate the small-scale peasant economy through reforms and thorough violent revolutions sweeping the whole world, even if there is an external market, it is necessary to ensure that the pain of transformation in the industrialized areas is bearable Yes, then it can only rely on immigrants.

Because, in the first industrial revolution, the world market can only accommodate a few million industrial workers, and there cannot be more.It is necessary to find a way of life for the bankrupt small farmers who are both affected and impossible to find employment.

Self-cultivating farmers can't earn any surplus value, so they can't afford to spend money to hire people to immigrate here.

We can only rely on industries, large plantations, and other economies that can earn surplus value to drive immigration.

The original intention is: the value that contract workers can create in eight years can still create enough surplus value for employers after paying for the boat ticket, the purchase of 120 acres of land in the north, and eight years of food and clothing.

Then, immigration can continue in a steady stream.

Of course, as far as the present is concerned, at this moment, the industry that can create so much value in eight years is the only industry in the Jinshan area that is mining gold.

Capital is not stupid.

Therefore, at the level of the feudal dynasty of Dashun, it can only try the chaebol system here at this time.

That is to say, the Dashun court first funded the construction of a number of cotton fields and textile factories, which can be regarded as labor relief to solve the problem of occupying the no-man's land of the Yellow River.

After it is built and started, it will be sold directly to private individuals to support the plutocrats and oligarchs, who will control the cotton fields, textile industry, metal processing, mining, finance, etc. here.

These people may be military nobles, children of the royal family, imperial merchants, or rewards from the emperor—at least, to make the "fiefdom" here meaningful.Otherwise, it would be meaningless to seal a piece of wasteland tens of thousands of miles away by military exploits.

In the future, whether they are overthrown by the common people, evolved into militaristic Junkers, feudal plutocrats, or maintain the strong feudal remnants here is beyond our control now, and ultimately depends on the people on the west coast of North America themselves.

Of course, it may also depend on Dashun's local side.Maybe the world will be turned upside down in the future, and the whole world will eventually be liberated, which is also unknown.

But in any case, since the purpose is to immigrate, and to immigrate as much as possible.

This method may be relatively the most efficient in the case of the basically unrealistic situation envisaged by the radicals of practical learning.

It is also theoretically the most in line with the theory of capital—although, it is retrograde.

Just as Lao Ma criticized: In Europe, although laborers are free, they are naturally subordinate to capitalists; while in colonies, human means must be used to create such subordination.

All Liu Yu's policies in Fusang revolve around this.

The old horse said: A black man is a black man, and under certain circumstances, he can become a slave.Apart from this condition, he cannot be a slave.

A cotton spinning machine is a machine for spinning cotton, which, under certain circumstances, can become capital.Apart from this condition, it is not capital.

Just as gold itself is not currency...capital is a social production relationship, a historical production relationship.

The key here is "situation".

And Liu Yu's policy in Fusang is to create this situation, using the country's powerful means, rather than relying on spontaneous accumulation, mergers, divisions, population growth, etc., to forcibly create this situation.

It is not impossible to rely on spontaneous savings, mergers and divisions, and population increase, but it is too slow.

He can't wait.

He wants to make a Chinese in North China, in this case, a hired labor exploited in Fusang; in this case, the land in the barren Golden Valley area becomes a means of production that can capture surplus value.

And to ensure that capital can extract far more than the value of the boat ticket and eight years of food and clothing from these Chinese hired workers.

Moreover, after paying the boat ticket and eight years of food and clothing, the average annual income of the residual value extracted is greater than the return on investment in land storage, land purchase, and lease in Dashun.

And to do that, Spain is key.

Because Spain has gone 200 years earlier, the population is enough to support a market, and Spain, as the issuer of world currency in the early years, did not develop its own industry at all.

Spain's South America is a market that can do this.

If not, then warships, soldiers, and artillery were needed to force Spain to accept trade.Even, supporting the large estate owners and people of mixed race in South America to separate from their home country, so as to control the economy and dump goods, completing the last hop.

Of course, it also includes Dashun’s demand for saltpeter, copper ore, and struvite, which promotes the prosperity of the west coast of South America, thereby expanding the market—even if Spain lacks population and labor, Dashun doesn’t mind letting the Catholics after the ban, As "contract workers", they were transported to Chile's saltpeter mines and copper mines.

But now, relying on World War I, Gibraltar, Luzon, tariffs and other issues, there is no need to completely allow Spain to accept free trade for the time being, and this productivity in the early stage will not worry about selling it.

What needs to be done now is to rely on state-owned capital to invest in the valley and build an industrial framework first.In the future, it will be directly privatized, support chaebols, sell cheap or "reward" to the chaebols, oligarchs, military nobles, etc. to be supported.

If you can't figure out the difference between Dashun native land and Fusang colony, then it is impossible to complete the cause of rapid immigration.

The difference between the two has been made very clear by Lao Ma.The "situation" to be created by the two sides, the conditions to achieve this "situation", and the things to be supplemented by this "situation" are different.

If you can't tell the difference clearly, you will inevitably fail.

It can even be said that anyone who fantasizes about relying on small farmers to complete the immigration of Chinese in North America is absolutely impossible in this era and under the constraints of this kind of transportation technology, and they simply cannot afford this huge cost.

Therefore, not all of this wave of immigrants went to work in the gold mines.

Instead, some people got off the boat and were taken directly to a place that is suitable for growing cotton and a little farther from the coastline.

Textile mills are in no hurry.

Because one of Liu Yu’s policies on the Yellow River no-man’s land is to organize women to produce cotton textiles, relying on the West African market vacated by the destruction of the textile industries in Mumbai, Surat, Dhaka, etc., or called triangular trade. Market, to alleviate the survival predicament of land expropriation and river digging.

All the women who immigrated here can weave.

As long as the cotton is planted there, the people who move in the next year don't need too much training at all, and they can directly transplant the textile workshops or the household iron wheel looms in Nantong area.

The project of the Yellow River no-man's land can be regarded as the completion of the drill.

For men, several years of excavating river channels and building lake embankments, etc., have gradually enabled them to have a certain degree of organizational power and become familiar with the mode of everyone's work.

For women, several years of textile production organization and sales have enabled them to have a certain degree of organizational power, and they are familiar with the mode of getting together to weave and sell their wrists to earn wages.

These people immigrated here, and the early development was relatively easy.

Of course, there is blood and cruelty behind this, even if it is said that Dashun has already been regarded as the ceiling of the feudal dynasty on the Yellow River issue, and the pain has been alleviated as much as possible.

But the world has been linked together by sailing ships. The pain relieved by Dashun in the case of the Yellow River no-man's land is, to a certain extent, also due to the textile workers in Surat, Dhaka, Calcutta, and Lancashire. The piles of bones made a buffer.

When some of the people who got off the boat started to plant cotton in the valley.

Basically, Liu Yu's layout in Fusang is roughly over.

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If there is no accident, a few years later, the scene of the entire Fusang area should look like this:
In Xinyizhou:

Because of the barrier of the Dashi Mountains, it is difficult for goods from the west coast to cross the mountain pass and trade with Xinyizhou.

Xinyizhou relies on the fur ginseng trade, the shipping of the North American Great River and the Mississippi River, and is facing the market in the direction of the Atlantic Ocean.

Brewing, grain, flax and wool weaving, coal mining, blast furnace iron, these industries began to eat up the North American Atlantic market, and continued to accommodate more migrants.

Because these industries need wage laborers, and the population here is scarce, it is still necessary to bring people from Dashun after all.

In Maple Bay:

The good climate and the purchase policy of state-owned land for family farms make this place the destination for resettling immigrants.

All the immigrants who came to Fusang, if they did not cross the mountain pass to Xinyizhou for the first time, would eventually choose to buy their own land here and become self-cultivated farmers.

Perhaps, not long after, gold mines were discovered in the bitter cold area in the north, so a new wave of gold rush took this place as the starting point.But this has been unable to drive more immigrants, because there are many successful gold diggers in Jinshan.

Just as Liu Yu planned at the beginning, Jinshan was burned down and rebuilt in repeated fires.

This makes the wood processing industry in Fenglin Bay quickly become the cornerstone of the city.

The shipbuilding and transportation industries developed from the timber processing industry, grain base and other industrial chains have made this place the shipbuilding center of Fuso Colony in Dashun.

The large number of self-cultivating farmers resettled here also made Fenglin Bay an important trading port.

Local food, cattle and horses, timber, fur, wine, etc. are all traded here.

Salt, textiles, saltpeter, etc. in the south also need to be traded here.

In Jinshan:
The mining of gold mines quickly made this a city with a population of more than [-].

The urgently needed food, timber, etc., are transported here by merchant ships in Fenglin Bay.

When the merchant ship returns, it carries the salt and cotton cloth here to complete a basic circular transaction.

The cotton planting industry in the valley developed and became profitable.

The big landowners who have been supported have become plantation owners here, and they need to hire cheap contract workers from Dashun every year.

Every year when the cotton picking season comes, a large number of wives of miners will come here to do seasonal work and pick cotton.

The use of cotton gin greatly improves the separation efficiency of cotton and cottonseed.

The good climate here makes the lint length excellent here.

A large amount of cotton was transported to Jinshan, which became the textile industry center of the west coast of North and South America.

A large number of women are engaged in the cotton textile industry here.

The homespun cloth in the Luxi region was originally very thick and thick, which was very suitable for working. After improvement, it is especially suitable for miners' clothes because it is thick and heavy.The immigrants here are basically from Luxi, so this kind of cloth has become the favorite of laborers, gold miners, and land reclamators.

The cotton cloth produced here is not only supplied to the local miners, but also to the farmers in Fenglin Bay in the north, because cotton cannot be grown there, similar to Dashun’s cotton cloth trade to the Northeast.

More cotton cloth was transported to the south by cargo ship.

In Mexico, trade in the local market.

In Panama, through the narrow land route, it crossed to the Atlantic Ocean, and even began to conflict with the cotton cloth that Dashun participated in the triangular trade.

In Chile, these cotton cloths were exchanged for saltpeter, struvite, or copper nuggets.These saltpeter and struvite were transported back by the boats that transported people, and became fertilizers for the pioneering areas such as Dashun Jiaodong, Gyeonggi, Northern Jiangsu, and Southern Jiangsu.

As a result, a new triangular trade across the Pacific Ocean has greatly reduced the cost of transporting people.

Merchant ships are in Weihai or Jiaozhou Bay, full of people.

Transport people to Jinshan, or to mine, or to grow cotton, or to weave cloth, or to pick grapes.

The people-carrying ship unloaded the people, loaded Jinshan's cotton cloth, wine, etc., and headed for Chile in South America.

After being sold in Chile, loaded with Chilean struvite, saltpeter, copper blocks, etc., they returned to Dashun along the classic Manila sailing ocean current route.

The gold and silver accumulated in Spain and the urgent need for struvite and saltpeter in Dashun made the trans-Pacific triangular trade no longer a one-way unprofitable one-way trade, and it was no longer a matter of not knowing what to transport on the return journey.

As a result, the cost of transporting people has dropped again and again.

Perhaps, because of the economic control of the imperial court, unless it is a people transport ship, it is not allowed to engage in the saltpeter trade.Obviously, such control is very possible.

Moreover, this kind of control is also completely achievable.

Because Spain has never been free trade.From the very beginning, Spain's colonial policy has been strictly controlled. How can saltpeter copper mines be allowed to be developed by capital?
This has become a situation similar to the trade between Dashun and Japan: both sides manage it together, Dashun has to manage it, and the Japanese shogunate has to take trade profits, so smuggling has been greatly curbed.

And here, it is the transportation of people, which has become the prerequisite for engaging in the trade of saltpeter and copper nuggets, so the cost of transportation has also been reduced.

Even... the transportation of people is similar to the ice cubes in the cabin of the ship during the trade between France and Dashun. If it is idle, it is still idle, so it is better to decorate it.

Shipping costs have come down.

The agriculture and industry in Fusang have developed, and the cost of living here has also come down.

The more people there are, the more commodities they need, and the more profitable it is to open factories, and the more people from Dashun are needed to come here to supplement.

Or maybe, when the population continued to increase, another big news came: Not far to the east, there is a huge silver mine there!

Thus, the Eastward Movement, which started from Jinshan, arose.

Silver mines need workers.

Silver mines require mercury.

Silver mines require dynamite.

Silver mines also require food.

However, Dashun's policy in Fusang and the land policy that forbids private land enclosures have forced the gold and silver here to flow back to Dashun itself.

Invest in industries such as railways, mines, metallurgy, machinery, textiles, and shipbuilding.

Or, invest in soybean planting in the Northeast, wheat farms in Ezo, and sugar rice in Southeast Asia.

Or to India, canals, cotton, dyes.

It may even be invested in North Korea, coal mines, and iron ore.

Or maybe, relying on trade with India and Europe; relying on the Fusang Gold Mine, the Great Silver Mine; or even the possible gold mines in the Southern Ocean.

Dashun finally completed the currency reform and realized the double standard of gold and silver, or the reform of the gold standard and silver standard, so that copper coins and silver are no longer the relationship between domestic currency and foreign currency.

The news of the discovery of the new silver mine has prompted more immigrants to come here, which has greatly eased the conflict between people and land in Shandong, making the per capita land in Shandong finally reach the minimum standard for a low-pain transition...

Etc., etc……

Of course, none of this has happened yet.

It takes time.It cannot be done overnight.

Moreover, "everything is normal" is also required-this normality includes the possibility of launching a war against Spain and forcing trade.

However, with regard to policy, at this time, there is only so much that can be done.

It is impossible for Dashun, a feudal dynasty, to do more.If more can be done, then Dashun is really not a feudal dynasty, and even the "gentle" emigration by repairing the Yellow River is already somewhat unrealistic smallpox.

This is the last step in the Dashun Yellow River problem, and as for digging the river channel, it will be a long project.

(End of this chapter)