Xinshun 1730

Chapter 859

Liu Yu didn't dare to get involved in the issue of water control, he couldn't control God.

But if he wanted to guarantee the 600 million shi of food needed by the capital, the garrison, and the field army, he could shoulder this responsibility with a pat on his chest.

Although it is said that it is infinitely enjoyable to struggle with the sky, and it is also infinitely enjoyable to struggle with people.

But in the end, it is more fun to fight with people to ensure Caomi than to fight with the sky and the earth to control the water.At the very least, you can control your own destiny, but you can't control the flood by yourself whether there will be a heavy rainstorm that occurs once in a century.

Over the years, the emperor still trusted Liu Yu very much.I feel that if Liu Yu pats his chest to guarantee something, then he must be confident. From the Raksha border war back then to this trip to Nanyang, this has been confirmed.

It's just that the emperor always felt that Liu Yu would sometimes use some means of "killing first and playing later" or "force the court to obey".This has become a habit of thinking.

Hearing that Liu Yu proposed such a policy that sounded "very reasonable and very beneficial to the court", the emperor almost subconsciously thought about the possible impact of this matter?Maybe it will "force" the court to make future decisions?
After thinking about it for a long time, I feel that at most it is forcing the imperial court not to abolish the navy, and must ensure a navy with an absolute advantage in Nanyang.

Other than that, I can't see anything else for the time being.

When Mi Ziming was appointed as the Governor of Nanyang before, Mi Ziming said that there should be a distinction between "inside and outside".The lack of industrial development in Nanyang and the disorganized islands make it difficult for Nanyang to have a strong separatist force.

Because although Nanyang has teak, shipbuilding is not only a technical job, but also a gold swallowing beast.

With a fleet of more than ten battleships, a centralized central government is needed, tax guarantees from dozens of provinces are needed, a strong handicraft industry is needed as a support, a complete set of canvas and cable sawmill industry is needed, and a logistics department under the Ministry of the Navy is needed Integration of management offices... All in all, Nanyang does not have such conditions.

A very recent example that Dashun is familiar with is the Netherlands.Nanyang is several times richer, ten times more nautical, and a hundred times more traditional in ocean warfare, but the result is that even a fleet of battleships cannot be assembled now.

In Liu Yu's words, it was called seeing the youngest battleship in the Netherlands who was about the same age as his father in Amsterdam, thinking that the Netherlands once traveled across the world, and there was really "sorrow of separation", which made people cry and couldn't help laughing.

Therefore, it seems that as long as there is a fleet in Tianjinwei, Weihaiwei, and Lushunwei, three places that are very close to the capital and where the army field troops can control the port fortress at any time, there is really no need to worry that Nanyang will threaten the imperial court. m stable.

Don't worry about rebellion and separatism.

The rest is easy to talk about.

The emperor secretly thought that the method of keeping the rules is really different from ordinary people. If he is said to be smart, he is not.With more exposure to the means of western colonization and colonization, the thinking is very different from that of the people in the DPRK and China.

But what I'm afraid of is not that he is so smart, if he is really so smart, it's okay.Ruo Hanbai, Li Yue, Ruo Zhougong and Wuhou are all very human beings, rare in a hundred years, and cannot be reproduced.

What I am afraid of is that "the near water and the roof first get the moon" can come up with such a method.

Westerners are already proficient in using this method of colonial expansion. Westerners don't need to be close to the water. I'm afraid they are water above the colonial expansion.If they have smarter people... If they have the intelligence of the champions who came from the imperial examinations, if they have such a way of thinking, the method they come up with is probably better than that of Shou Chang. This is the top smart person among Westerners. There is such a way of thinking... Sure enough, the enemy is still on the ocean, not the northwest and northeast.

In any case, the navy will continue to be built.

Malacca should be Shanhaiguan.India, on the other hand, should be in the northeast, isolated from Rakshasa and Shanhaiguan.This is what must be done.

That being the case, he wanted to "force" the imperial court to continue building ships to ensure rice in the South Seas.

This is no problem, and the rest is indeed a good strategy, which is very beneficial.

Kill three birds with one stone and kill multiple birds with one stone.

"What Ai Qing said is really refreshing."

"Let's do the math. If you raise 30 troops, the monthly salary is two taels, plus food... Ai Qing has high requirements, not only for food, but also for food. This year, you will get 500 million taels of silver."

"An extra 500 million taels will be spent every year, and it's still the same every year."

"This money used to not go to the household government. The local magistrate apportionment and forced labor can solve the problem. But now it goes to the household government, and the court has to spend money."

"The household government's stalls are getting bigger and bigger, but the revenue has not increased much. I am afraid that the household government will not agree. If it is funded from within, it will not be the case after all, and it needs to be institutionalized."

When it comes to institutionalization, it means that the money has to go from the household government to the treasury Taicang.

As for the government treasury Taicang, there is a distinction between inside and outside the world, so the money has to be obtained from within the celestial court.

The emperor was also asking Liu Yu's opinion on Liao Hanhui's "Huai River tax increase" issue.

Liu Yuben was not very keen on this. He felt that the fundamental problem of not changing the ownership was just tinkering.

Moreover, the cost of tax collection is there, and the emperor has the means to collect it: a large number of new students, with a good family from the Wude Palace in his hand, parachuted into the Huaihe River and Huaihe River with enough talent reserves, checked the acres of land, and placed enough grassroots tax collectors , to control.

In the long run, the problem of "new student degeneration" will definitely occur, but in the short term, a seemingly contradictory huge result can indeed be achieved-increasing taxes while reducing the burden on the people.

These things, the emperor is well versed in the method of balance, so it is naturally impossible for him not to think of them.

So Liu Yu said: "Your Majesty should discuss with the imperial court about the household government. But before the Huaihe River is governed, it is impossible to increase the tax, and the exemption is almost the same. I think that the money will still come out from within three to five years. It is appropriate. The world is not just the two Huaihe Rivers. The money of the household government cannot see the bottom."

"Reformation of the southwest and return of natives to the Northwest, and immigration to the northwest, these two things cannot be done by the minister's own means. It is impossible for private capital to invest money here. Merchants are seeking profits. Things in the southwest and northwest still have to be promoted by the imperial court."

"What I'm good at is the Whale Sea and the South Seas, which are places where businessmen can profit."

"As for the extra 500 million taels a year, is it considered a redundant army... I think that if you have something to do, it is not a redundant army."

"If the Huaihe River can be governed, where else can it be governed besides the great rivers? This is similar to the navy."

"If you don't use it, you're redundant. If you use it, it's not."

The emperor hummed, and wondered if the navy was redundant, I knew it well.In the future, if you really get the benefit of Nanyang's body poison, the prince may not be so dull, so you don't have to worry too much about it.

After thinking for a while, the emperor asked again: "If the rice is really sent to Nanyang and Taiwan, Ai Qing thinks, how many people can be relocated every year? How many victims of disasters can be resettled?"

Liu Yu had already made up his mind.

Since private capital participated in the South Seas and "relief with work", in fact, it is enough to consider the quantity according to the thinking of the slave trade.

In fact, the spices in Nanyang are almost at their peak. After the four-fluid theory of the human body has ebbed in Europe, spices are not used so much.

Rice plantations, indigo plantations, cotton plantations, coffee plantations, these things are the key to the future development of Nanyang.

Judging from the situation of sugar factories and sugarcane plantations in Nanyang before, even if there is a special situation of "residence permit", I am afraid that after the plantation is established, those who work in the plantation will not have an easy life.

The voyage of the slave trade is very long, and it is not close to Dashun to go to Nanyang from Lianghuai.

The source of the population is either disaster victims, or those who owe usury loans and are "sold" to Nanyang to pay off their debts.

Of course, there are no slaves in Dashun, only long-term contract workers who may not pay off their debts for a lifetime, and they are indeed not slaves in a legal sense.But...whether it is in essence or not, Liu Yu still knows in his heart.

Judging from the efficiency of loading a thousand people on a slave ship, if the imperial court really sent rice to Nanyang, it would not be a problem to resettle 30 to [-] people in the first year.

The death rate is high, and the Huanghuai region must not adapt to the harsh environment of Nanyang. With the addition of mosquitoes, malaria and fever, 30 people will die, and there will be [-] to [-] alive in the next year.

There will be 30 people in the first year, and about [-] will be added every year from the second year. Waiting for the follow-up development, the population will increase, and the trade will expand, and it will definitely increase gradually.

Mining, growing coffee, growing cotton, cutting trees, etc., will also take four or five years to develop.

After calculation, Liu Yu said: "Except for the first year, [-] per year can be guaranteed in the future. It will gradually increase in the future."

"For these 10 people, the imperial court doesn't need to pay for relief. And most of the young and strong were picked away, and the rest of the old and weak...well, it is unlikely to 'rebellion'."

"Counting the imperial court's money into the Xiang army, the pain of the transformation of the abandoned canal should be under control."

"It is false to say that there are a million water workers, but if it can really solve 60 to [-], it will be almost the same."

The emperor nodded. Over the years, he had seen a little bit of the power of "private capital".

Immigration to the Western Regions, private capital does not participate at all, and there is no profit.The imperial court spent so much money that the emperor panicked.

Be kind, the cost of a person's migration is about 100 taels, or even 150 taels, before they can settle in Ili.

Although with the increasing number of settlements and self-sufficiency in food, the cost of migration has gradually decreased, but the money is also spent frighteningly.

If there are fewer people, it is useless, and if there are too many people, it cannot afford to spend.

In the previous Whale Sea Development and Ezo Development, the imperial court did not pay a dime, and even charged a purchase fee.

The result is that because of the profit, in a few years, there are more than tens of thousands of people in Whale Sea and Ezo.

The bottom line is that ships can easily travel from Ezo to Japan and then to Tianjin.And the boat cannot run from Gansu to Yili.

Now Liu Yu said that he would guarantee about [-] yuan a year, and the court would not spend a penny—theoretically, the money for buying rice should be earmarked for its own use, even if it is not given to Nanyang, it must also be spent to buy rice; or directly expropriate rice , then rice is not money - this indeed solves many problems after the canal was abolished.

But the emperor still asked a crucial question.

"How can Aiqing guarantee that the 600 million yuan per year will be used to develop Nanyang? Instead of being used to buy land in Jiangnan?"

"I'm worried, will the money that was intended to alleviate the human and land problems and slow down the damage of the merger actually promote the merger?"

"A businessman seeks profit, how to ensure that the money is used where the court wants it to be used? What if the 600 million yuan per year does not go to Yangnan, but goes to southern Jiangsu, so that they buy and hoard land?"

(End of this chapter)