Xinshun 1730

Chapter 506 Holding the retro banner and moving forward
Liu Yu was stunned, and couldn't help asking: "Didn't I see the Raksha man talking with his father-in-law outside the palace gate just now? Why didn't you ask Raksha, but asked about Ezo?"

While speaking, he led Qi Guogong into the main hall, and Yi Guogong was also present.

After serving the tea, he screened out the servants.

Although the Nanyang strategy is a secret between the court and Duke Yi, the emperor did not keep this matter from him.Firstly, it is trustworthy, and secondly, Tian Suo, Liu Yu and others have all been involved in it, so let's just say it.

After sitting down, Duke Qi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "What is there to talk about about the Raksha people?"

""Sun Tzu" said: "Victory in a hundred battles is not a good man; a soldier who defeats others without fighting is a good man."

"The "Six Secret Teachings" also said: Those who are good at fighting don't wait for Zhang Jun; those who are good at curing the sick, the reason is before they are born; those who are good at defeating the enemy are better than invisible; there is no war in the first battle."

"As for the matter with Rakshasa, plan and negotiate. The Rakshasa people can't sit still, and the negotiation is sure, so what else is there to ask?"

"However, after this incident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be said to have stood firm. It won a lot of land without sending any troops or spending any money. Didn't you say before that what you can't get on the battlefield, you can't get it on the negotiating table? ?"

"That's true. The enemy knows that if you can get it on the battlefield, you can get it on the negotiating table; if the enemy thinks you can't get it on the battlefield, you can't get it on the negotiating table."

"But fighting costs money. If we can maneuver according to the diplomatic situation, we can save money and kill people. Your Majesty asked me to temporarily take charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I will not put all my hopes on diplomacy. But at this time , Excessive correction, should boast the role of diplomacy, downplay the role of the army's threat to the Rakshasa."

Liu Yu nodded again and again, not wanting that Duke Yi beside him couldn't help laughing and said: "Old Tian, ​​you just went to Europa for a while, and you have seen too much domineering, and you have no kingly heart."

"Whether diplomacy is useful or not has nothing to do with land or wealth, but with righteousness and reason, whether it is the Celestial Dynasty or not."

"Isn't the matter of the Raksha Kingdom just to use the barbarians to control the barbarians? Another name is diplomacy, but the people in the Li government know that it is the use of the barbarians to control the barbarians."

"How can things be so simple? If you want so much land, you have to give up the title of the Celestial Dynasty. Do you think the court wants the land? Or the Celestial Dynasty?"

"This matter will be troublesome in the future. You two are optimistic."

Liu Yu shook his head disapprovingly and said: "The Han also used the barbarians to control the barbarians, and the Song Dynasty also used the barbarians to control the barbarians, but they are very different. The Han used the barbarians to control the barbarians and conquered the Western Regions. They had great ambitions, fixed distances, and even tried to communicate with Rome. This matter is similar. Your Majesty is also planning to use Bo Wang Hou to find Dayue Clan as an alliance to determine the rationality of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

"After all, Zhang Qian is a Lang official, and he didn't study Confucianism and etiquette."

Duke Yi chuckled and said, "You think Han and Tang dynasties are good, so you think you can convince them by using Han and Tang as an example? Some people think that Han and Tang are not good, and they are all lessons from the opposite. Just like you think tall is good, I feel that others will say that you see why he is tall, so you have to learn and look good; but what if someone thinks it is better to be short?"

"I tell you to read more on weekdays, don't always read those miscellaneous books to be overbearing, you just don't listen."

"The books you read are different from the books others read. The same thing is completely different in your eyes."

"As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will win every battle. If you don't study, you only know yourself but not the enemy. It's not a good thing. It just so happens that you also came back from Weihai. Read more books in a few days. Even if you go to the West in a few days, the time on the ship Also read more books, read more scriptures and scriptures.”

"When reading, don't use the set in your mind to ponder whether it is right or wrong."

"It's about emptying your mind and treating you like a newborn baby, a child who just learned to read and write. Only by understanding what those books mean can you understand what they think."

After a lesson, Liu Yu couldn't say anything, so he respectfully said yes.

But I said in my heart, that's what I said, but I have been a human being in two lives, and my three views have long been fixed. It is not before puberty that I can change my three views by reading books. How can I be as pure as a baby at this time to understand the meaning of the book?
After the training, Duke Yi said again: "Forget it, I don't know if you can listen to it. Since your father-in-law asked you about Ezo, I won't talk about it. I don't care about Raksha, but I care about Ezo. thing."

After finishing speaking, the two old men looked at each other and smiled. Obviously, they cared more about Ezo than the Rakshasa border issue.

Seeing this, Liu Yu wondered, "It seems that father also cares about it?"

"Of course I care about it. The imperial court wants to develop the Ezo land, and it has to follow the Song and Yuan dynasties' "buy and buy" system, and rent it out with tax included. If it is like a trading company, it will be bought at a price. Now the capital is discussing this matter. A few days ago you In the country of Wa, I don’t know. Those who have money nowadays are all waiting and watching, wanting to know whether it is worth so much money, and they all have no idea.”

"Furthermore, the imperial court issued a ban again, forbidding nobles to hoard land, and strictly ordered to withdraw land. You are a knight, and your elder brother can also be a knight, and the family must leave some property for your remaining brothers. Like you said Yes, you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. Now that the imperial court is going to restart the buying system, you have to choose carefully.”

It may be that the name of monopoly is not very pleasant, after all, it is too classical, and it was classical until the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.Call it a question, the reputation is not very good.After much deliberation, I came up with the not-so-classic, Song-Yuan times, "Pumai" and "Maipu".

The artisan household system in the early Ming Dynasty gradually disintegrated with the development of the economy.

After Dashun established the Dingding, private capital gradually accumulated, and all kinds of artisan registrations were abolished. This method originated from "salt and iron monopoly, but the official administrative capacity is limited and cannot be fully supervised and controlled, and private capital has to be allowed to intervene in development". It had to be revived again.

The so-called "buy rush" and "buy buy" are the legendary "tax-inclusive system of the Song and Yuan dynasties".Putting it on the trading companies of various countries today, it can be regarded as a variant.

The state stipulates which can only be run by the government, but the government-run operation lacks capital, lacks management and control capabilities, excessive corruption, and insufficient officials. The administrative cost is too high, so some contracts are taken out.

Mountains, seas, rivers, and mines all belong to the imperial court in theory.

For example, a certain mercury mine in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was contracted to an individual, and the amount of mercury was given to the court every year according to the agreed amount, and the rest belonged to oneself.

At that time, the silver standard was not yet, and many were still taxes in kind.

Up to now, it is basically regarded as the silver standard, whether it is mercury, copper or iron, it is all converted into silver and contracted.

Songjiang's trading company has made a start.

Theoretically, the imperial court discounted the tariff and paid it to the trading company.The imperial court doesn't care how much you earn, as long as you pay all the annual monopoly fees.

This thing is a double-edged sword.

It is too slow to use it to manage agriculture and engage in agricultural tax packages.

But for smuggling, etc., which cannot be controlled originally, it is effective and can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of private capital.

Dashun has gained experience in the trading company, and the imperial court has also made a profit. This time, on the issue of developing Ezo and emigrating to Jinghai, he is also planning to try to set up an experimental area and try to restore the buy-and-pull system in the Song Dynasty.

Duke Yi roughly explained the discussion about the development of the Ezo land during the period when Liu Yu was away, and Liu Yu understood.

On the one hand, it was influenced by the success of the trading company, and on the other hand, it also borrowed from the Japanese method in Ezo, the merchant contract system.

So the imperial court also planned to contract out the fishery, land, mines, etc. of Ezo.

As long as the money is given, the imperial court basically doesn't care about it. The only condition is that only Chinese or Ezo people can be hired, and Koreans and Japanese cannot be hired.

The idea of ​​the imperial court is also simple, if you spend money, you have to think about making money.

If you want to make money, you have to develop.

If you want to develop, you have to find people.

If you want to find manpower, you have to immigrate from the native land.

If you want to immigrate from the mainland, North Korea has a fixed route there. The most suitable population for emigration is the large number of poor people in Huaibei, Shandong, and southern regions. Due to floods and other factors, there are a large number of disaster victims every year.

In the end, without spending a penny from the imperial court, there will be enough people around Jinghai, and the conflict between people and land in the Huaibei area will be alleviated.

It's a bit like a colonial model, and it's a very standard British North American colony model, contracting out to colonial companies and granting monopoly rights.

There are a number of prerequisites for replicating similar approaches.

One of them is "making money".

For example, the Virginia Company relied on tobacco to prop up Britain's first colony in North America; France relied on "purchasing" fur.

In short, businessmen and capital do not serve the poor, they only go there if they are profitable.

The prerequisites for this place in Ezo are the opening of Japan and the opening of Japan's grain trade, both of which are indispensable.

If there is one thing missing, no one will go to that dilapidated place even if it is free: the poor who want to go can't afford it; A class retreats.

After the rush to buy system is implemented, this can solve many problems.

Danmin, etc. who have abolished lowly status, can be hired to catch fish and catch shrimps there, and sell them to Japan.

A large number of poor and landless people in the Huaibei area can go to sea from the port in the southeast of Shandong, which is the shortest route.Can be hired to develop over there to ease the conflict between people and land.

It can solve the scarcity of Han people around Jinghai, the fear of being taken back in the future, and the encroachment of the population on the frontier by the eastward expansion of Tsarist Russia.

Of course, the most important thing is that the court does not need to pay a penny, and there is still money to be made.

Just like many immigrants who went to Nanyang, they really couldn't survive locally, so they had to run outside.Even so, many of them went to sea, "after going to work and pay the boat ticket", they were thrown into the sugar cane field, and they threatened to report the Dutch for not having a residence permit if they dared to run away.

It is unrealistic to count on official immigration.If Dashun had such a level of organizational power, it would have rushed out of Asia a long time ago to the level of immigrant development of millions of people.

Liu Yu's method of immigration before was basically like this, but before that it was just a small fight, this time the court wanted to make something big.

What's more gratifying is that it not only comes from the not-too-distant traditional "buy-and-pull" system, but also can learn from the experience of the Virginia company.

As for whether to make money, it must be money.

The fish and shrimps of Ezo are also high-quality goods in Japan, and these years alone cost a lot of money; and even if Japan listens to Liu Yu's "four evils" theory, the population will remain at the tens of millions level level, food prices will not be too low.

The reformers in the DPRK are not just Liu Yu alone, and given new ideas, there will naturally be someone who can use them.The emperor should also consider throwing all the money of the nobles to develop the frontiers, and at the same time use profits instead of annexing land in the country, killing two birds with one stone.

Although the rumors outside are quite good, everyone feels that it is very profitable.

But as the saying goes, whether it is beneficial to get the moon first, the two families still asked Liu Yu directly, so that they could know how much to invest and decide how much to invest.

What Liu Yu thought was, sure enough, in Dashun reform, if you want to move forward, you can only use the banner of retro... Fortunately, the history is long enough, and some new things can always be dug up and used under the banner of retro.Today we can dig out "buy pounce" to explain the story of the colonial company Naigu, and tomorrow we may be able to dig out other things.

(End of this chapter)