Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1462 The Last Farce ([-])

Li Yan's words sounded a little ironic.

People who were elated before and wanted to use free trade as a new gift to form a new world system actually did not believe in free trade at all.

This is the same irony as a person who does not believe in heaven at all becomes the pope, and a person who has no propriety, morality and shame at all wins the Juren.

Take the story in "Zhuangzi·Tianyun".

I talked about the truth that an old horse said that [-] men and women immigrated to Australia but could not translate the social conditions in the UK.

In the end, "reflection", Dashun won the first battle, why it was so difficult to win, why it took 30 years to prepare for such a large size and population, why the gap was so big, and finally it was extremely wretched to win - relying on squatting The pits and maritime harassment dragged Britain down a little bit, but it was not at all won by the decisive battle in the strait.

Li Yan not only opened his eyes to see the world.

And actually went to the Atlantic to fight.

It can even be regarded as personally participating in the First World War that changed the course of history.

Therefore, he was puzzled.

The British laws and regulations allowed the UK to resist the siege of China, France, Spain, Russia, and Austria. In the end, it relied on Dashun's wretched tactics to drag the victory.

Does that mean that Britain's comprehensive control over the economy and extreme mercantilism are the right path?
Here, Li Yan did not take the words literally.

Think that mercantilism is the so-called abstract understanding of emphasizing industry and commerce.

It is to truly understand what mercantilism is, what is protection policy, commercial hegemony, navigation law, and the subsidy or heavy tax policy of the commodity enumeration law.

When it comes to issues within Kyushu, the unavoidable issue of mergers forced Li Yan to ask Liu Yu.

If you say, believe in the invisible hand.

So, land mergers, loan sharks, and money going to farmland and pawnshops, is this considered invisible hand?
Does it count as the performance of the invisible hand in the social reality of Dashun, a small farmer and private ownership of small land?
The invisible hand is Tao.

For example, this Tao is to find places with high temperature.

And a glass of 0-degree water, and a glass of 15-degree water, this "Tao" will find 15-degree water.

However, a glass of 15-degree water and a glass of 50-degree water, this "Tao", will find 50-degree water instead of continuing to find 15-degree water.

However, some people think that "the invisible hand is the Tao".

But in fact, the "invisible hand" is regarded as a technique - a technique that will definitely find water at 15 degrees, rather than looking for water with a high temperature.

Similar, as long as it is used, industry and commerce will definitely develop.On the contrary, if industry and commerce did not develop, but instead land was merged and usury was rampant, it must be a useless result.

Lao Tzu said: [What I said today is still traced.The husband's trace is where the shoe comes from, but how can the trace be worn? 】

That's probably what it means.

A group of people took footprints, thinking they were feet.

This is too far away from Tao.

Of course, that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Merge is merge.

Annexation to the extreme, the land is concentrated in the hands of big landlords, then there is no annexation?

The problem is that... you have to be able to keep out of Zhangjiao, Huang Chao, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Zicheng.

History has proved that all dynasties have not had this ability.

Then, we cannot "put aside reality and not talk about it" and just talk about "reason".

Because the world is real and realistic.

Therefore, the reality cannot be ignored.

Therefore, Li Yan admitted the reality.

Therefore, Li Yan read Wang Anshi's poem and also said Su Zhe's evaluation.

In the end, all I can say is, take half of each.

Then, it sounds interesting.

Each take half?
At the end of the development of the Yan-Li School, when Wang Yuan put forward the plan of "each taking half" that "not only needs the development of industry and commerce, but also protects the interests of small farmers", he thought it over and over again, and finally came up with the theory of "only farmers have land". ".

In other words, strengthen identity control so that each can get half.

The premise of this "only agriculture and land" is to develop industry and commerce, but not abolish currency like North Korea, and allow land to be bought and sold appropriately.

In the end, I thought about it, hey, isn’t your businessman rich?Then I will give you an identity mark. Merchants are not allowed to buy land, and even if you have money, you can't buy it. Isn't this solved?
This is also an acknowledgment of reality.

Then, each takes half and recognizes the reality. There must be policies, means, ruling techniques, and specific methods.

It’s not that just talking about policies can guarantee that businessmen who have money will not buy land or lend money, but will honestly engage in industry and commerce in the pioneering areas.

So, what about policy?

What about specific policies?
The plan given by Wang Anshi is clearly written in the poem.

[The host is good at manipulating things, like the sky holding the head of the fight]

The problem is that this plan itself is a fantasy.

Whether it is Da Song, Da Ming, or Da Shun, what kind of thing is it that can achieve [like the sky holding the head of the fight]?
How organized are you?

What kind of grassroots control do you have?

Do you really think that the ruler of the world is the Yellow Emperor, who can know the subtleties of the world from all sides?

With more than one billion mu of land a year, and the administrative ability to receive less than 2000 million taels of silver, is it worthy of talking about [Ru Tianchi Doukui]?
This is not to sing the praises of excessive expropriation.

Instead.

I have the ability to collect land tax of [-] million taels of silver, but I don't.

And I want to accept it too, but I can't afford it.

It's not the same thing at all.

You have to be able to collect [-] million taels before you are eligible to talk about "benevolent governance". I will not accept it.

And you don't have the ability to accept it at all, but you say the word "benevolence and justice", then it's purely because I can't be the richest man because I don't want to.

However, Liu Yu did not pursue this question, but asked: "Nowadays, there are some knowledge that are gradually becoming prominent."

"It's the so-called Juntian, Eleven, Shipbuilding, Migration, and Reclamation of Fusang."

"First enrich the small peasants, and then the businessmen."

"So, the market is available."

"In this way, the small peasants are rich, and the wages of those hired by others must be high."

"It can also be regarded as the policy of Su Ziyou's so-called 'poor but not deficient, the rich and the poor will live together for a long time, and the world will be settled' under the current conditions."

"This kind of eminent learning is spreading all over the world, and the soul is gradually becoming. Does your Highness think it is feasible?"

"Alternatively, there are words of ancient Confucian scholars mixed in. It is a further step to think that the township covenant and the well field will be changed."

This is not taboo in Dashun.

For a long time, the saying that equalizing the land is the most benevolent government in the world is political correctness.

Whether it can be done is one thing, and whether this statement will be directly caught and killed is another matter.

These statements, since Liu Yu said that they are all "excellent learning".

Then, Li Yan must have heard it more than once.

What's more, this is indeed the Xianxue of today, especially the Xianxue that is obvious and obvious in the new school.

As early as when Liu Yu presided over Nanyang in Songsu, when he was arguing with the group of Yan Li School, this idea had already appeared in the market.

And with the immigration of Fusang, some things seem to be really achievable.

I satirized the Yan Li school before, saying that you are thinking about [-] acres of land per capita, and you don't understand arithmetic at all, so you are thinking about it here.

But now...

In Fusang and Southern Ocean, there are indeed billions of acres of land that can be cultivated, and the climate is suitable.

A small farmer's dream.

Ida retro.

New business studies.

These three theories, which were originally said to be completely impossible to blend together, and may even be irreconcilable, have turned into a hodgepodge of superstitions.

However, the difficulty of this question is not whether this is a good idea.

Instead, the obvious learning can be in the folk.

However, Xianxue cannot have a spokesperson in the court.

Unless, Xianxue is no longer Xianxue, but Shengxue.

Otherwise...you, a duke, you, a prince, have become the "favored by all", what do you want to do?

This is you, the duke, and you plan to go one step further, to be named "Duke Anshun" in Dashun?
Or, you, the prince, are planning to enlist these prominent scholars in the mansion, and plan to launch a plan to go to the general's mansion?
Even, a little lower, not princes, but scholar-bureaucrats.

So you are preparing to "use the power of one person to change the world's learning"?Are you going to start the "New Meanings of the Three Classics", reform the imperial examinations, and set up schools, so that in the future, all scholars will use the "New Meanings of the Three Classics" as the standard answer?

Even so, Liu Yu said it was purely an academic discussion.

However, it is okay to discuss such things academically if you are far away from the rivers and lakes; but it is a bit scary to engage in academic discussions while living in a high temple.

In the beginning, Li Yan just talked about free trade with Liu Yu, and he was very happy, and even wanted to create a new world.This is not a big problem at all.

Now, when Liu Yu asked this, Li Yan felt a little awkward.

He didn't answer directly, but said with a haha: "This matter is easier said than done."

"In the past, Duke Jing reformed the law, and the world was in chaos. It can't be as the predecessors said, Duke Jing is a treacherous minister, right? It is always for the sake of the community."

"Right now, the Yellow River has not been completed yet. Let me see this and talk about it later."

"Wait until the course of the Yellow River is complete... as the country's official words: people who come later, things that come later."

"However, is it possible to make a compromise?"

A compromise, a compromise.

Over the years, in Dashun's policies, the most indispensable thing is a compromise.

All kinds of compromises.

Since it is a compromise.

So, that is, and thin mud.

Liu Yu didn't have to ask what a compromise was.

Nothing more than that.

Neither equal field.

Not much has changed.

business development.

Business as usual.

And use the tax revenue of the imperial court to carry out immigration.

One county will be moved this year, one state will be moved next year, and one prefecture will be moved the year after.

Yugong moved the mountains and Jingwei reclaimed the sea. There are hundreds of states and counties in the world.

There is no need for Li Yan to say that it is a compromise.

But Liu Yu had to ask, to see if Li Yan's understanding of reality and economy could afford something.

Sui said, "since this compromise is said, someone once said so."

"The so-called: Taxation can be compared with the sun's action of absorbing the vapors of the earth, and then distributing them in the state of rain to all the places that need water for moisture and production. And this water, evaporated back to the sky, in a continuous cycle."

"If this cycle is done regularly, fertilization, moisture, vitality, and development follow."

"But when the sky, in its fury, pours out in torrential rain. There is only so much transpiration, more here, less there."

"Whether there is rain here or drought there, and whether this rain is beneficial or harmful, it may be held that the same amount of water is almost always taken and returned at the end of the year."

"So distribution alone makes a difference. Equity and regularity, it creates abundance."

"As it is with the water cycle, so it is with taxes."

"Taxation, as support for immigration, has two meanings."

"In the beginning, the total amount of water was fixed, but the water fell where it should."

"Then, with resettlement, resettlement, reclamation, the total 'water' will also increase. And more water can be used to moisten more dry places."

"Rely on taxes to support immigration and reclamation, as the initial expenditure of resettlement and reclamation villages."

"Then, after a few years, these cultivators can not only repay the previous expenditures, but also provide indirect taxes such as land tax and salt tax. In this cycle, the 'total water volume' will become larger and larger, and the places that can be moistened will also be reduced. more and more……"

"What do you think, Your Highness?"

Li Yan didn't think too much, and shook his head with a smile: "It doesn't apply."

"If these lands that can be cultivated are in the Central Plains, or even in Liao, that's easy to say. That's right."

"But in reality, these lands that can be cultivated are in Fusang. Then, this idea is completely wrong."

"Of course, as I said earlier, it is correct to use water as a metaphor for taxation, and to replace the sky with rain, so as to moisten drought and reduce waterlogging."

"But later on, it's very unrealistic."

"Since it is in Fusang, it is tens of thousands of miles away... If you do the colony of the British thirteen states, it will not last long, and you will be reversed in a few years."

"And it is unrealistic to collect taxes from them and complete this cycle for a long time."

"First, tens of thousands of miles away from Fusang, one person migrated and abandoned, no less than one hundred and fifty taels. How many years can we pay off the initial expenditure by planting alone?"

"Secondly, taxing them can at most be used for resettling, eating, and waiting for the harvest after the resettlement has passed."

"However, these expenditures are small."

"The big head goes from the Central Plains to the sea, and then sails from the sea to Fusang. This big head, their tax is meaningless."

"So, this fantasy is also, at least in this dynasty, unrealistic."

"Instead of thinking about this, it is better to continue to develop industry and commerce, and to increase the tax on processors and increase immigration as a compromise. This may be feasible. But to say, to engage in reclamation, use the rewards of reclamation and the rewards of immigration. capital, it is not feasible.”

"This matter, the Duke is trying to teach me."

"Guo Gong's method of emigrating in Fusang is not based on the benefits of reclamation, but on the benefits of industry and commerce. First dig gold, then sell wine, rub cotton, and dry salt. In the final analysis, these profits are used for wages and paid to hired workers. And hired workers And use the money to buy land for farming. In the final analysis, the money comes from industry and commerce, not cultivation.”

"The compromise strategy I mentioned is the same. It's just that the Duke is making money in Fusang to immigrate to Fusang. I just thought that if we continue to develop local industries and businesses, the tax revenue will be used for relocation."

"In the final analysis, money still depends on industry and commerce. You can't expect the benefits of cultivation to form a cycle of its own."

(End of this chapter)