Xinshun 1730

Chapter 860

Over the years, the emperor has been fascinated by some truths that are not very new, that Liu Yu dug up from the pile of old papers from the pre-Qin period and took them out of context.

For the concept of the profit-seeking nature of capital, there is a simple understanding similar to the understanding that everyone in the world is for profit.

Regarding this issue, the emperor's concerns are absolutely justified.

Whether it is now or in the future, China and foreign countries will always face a problem: the country releases water and distributes money, where it hopes the money will flow, but the money will not flow there.

On Dashun's side, it can be simply understood that Liu Yu hopes that money will go up to industry and commerce, but the reality is that money goes up to the land.

What the emperor was worried about was five to six million taels of silver a year. He clearly expected to develop Nanyang and solve the contradiction between food and people and land.

As a result, all these hot money were hoarded land, which actually made the conflict between people and land even more serious.

Liu Yu imagined forcing the small farmers to go bankrupt and forcing the common people to go to Nanyang.

But that refers to the Fujian and Guangdong regions, and at most Songjiang Prefecture can be added.

The most difficult step for the people who really need to go to Nanyang is how to survive to a place where there are boats and people buy people to go to Nanyang.

Whether it is Nanyang, or the new Kuwu in the southern hemisphere, the problems that Dashun has to face are always the same: those who have money refuse to go, and those who have no money cannot go.

To solve this problem, the best way is "the rich think that money can be made there, so they spend money to let the poor make money for them".

Therefore, Liu Yu's hope for the new Kuwu in the southern hemisphere is pinned on the gold mines, not on the good land that can be cultivated.The logic here is also very simple. No matter how good the land is, food cannot be sold for money, and it is only attractive to the poor.

Food that cannot be sold for money is just food, and it is not attractive to the well-fed rich unless the food can be exchanged for money.The only way for the continents in the southern hemisphere to exchange food for money is that the local gold mines need miners, the miners need to eat, and the purpose of growing food is to dig gold.

The hope for Nanyang is pinned on the development and sale of slave labor by wealthy businessmen, not on spontaneous immigration to become self-employed farmers.

The best way to stimulate the development of Nanyang in the short term is for the country to collect grain from Nanyang.And the direction that allows the country to collect food is only the rice needed by the capital and the garrison.

Dashun is a fake big government, with an income of 3000 million taels a year, so it doesn't have much ability to regulate the state.Caomi food is one of the few things that can be regulated.

But the emperor had some understanding of the reality, so he had to wonder if doing this could really do what people wanted?

Since the opening of fields and the destruction of well fields, the land system has been the standard private ownership.Land can be bought and sold.

If you don't want money to flow into land sales, there are two ways.

Or, land cannot be bought or sold.

Or, land yields decrease and the rest of the industry yields increase.

It is impossible to buy and sell land.As far as Dashun is concerned, it cannot be done.

Although the Great Confucians of the Northern School have always wanted to restore the well field, the method they gave was pure nonsense.And they are Ida for Ida, purely reactionary.

It’s not that Liu Yu doesn’t support the variant well field system proposed by the ancient Confucian school, but the variant well field system he understands is not for well fields and well fields, but to prevent small farmers from going bankrupt in the tide of the times and unable to make a living, leading to chaos and comprehensive reaction in the world.

The purpose of the mutant Ida is to develop industry and commerce, and when the industry and commerce develops enough to accommodate the million-level bankrupt population every year, I will be kicked out.

This is pure road divergence.

In terms of Confucian ideology, well fields are both a means and an end.

It is like a rushing river, and the ideology of Confucianism is like "the rule of three generations said that the river is wrong, it should be a big lake", so building a dam to block the water is both a means and an end.

The ideology accepted by Liu Yu is to dredge the downstream so that the river flows into the sea.However, just like the mother river, the special nature of Dashun makes this river too violent, with too much flow, and it cannot be dredged without damming it first.So building a dam is a means, the purpose is to dredge the downstream and ensure that the downstream can accommodate enough floods before the dam is removed.

So this is why after this ideology was introduced, China was infiltrated by Confucianism, causing many people to get close instinctively and understand it out of cultural instinct.But after completing the step of building the dam and going the same way, huge differences arose between the original fellow travelers.

This cannot be done by one person. It requires a group of people, millions of people with similar ideologies to form a group, and have a clear goal and long-term planning.

Certainly not realistic now.

Since it is unrealistic, then Liu Yu would rather cause floods than absolutely oppose dam building and engage in reaction.

The emperor's worries were based on the stability of the Dashun Dynasty.

The more stable the small peasant economy, the more stable the dynasty.

For the emperor, external expansion is a means, and the purpose is to make money.Making money is to make the dynasty more stable.

But Liu Yu has no interest in the stability of the dynasty in his bones, especially the stability of the dynasty based on the stability of the small peasant economy. Not only is he not interested, but he has been digging graves to bury Dashun.

But this cemetery is not so easy to dig.

Moreover, the issue that the emperor is worried about now seems to be only concerned about specific details, but in fact it is essentially a hidden worry about the development of industry and commerce.

The source of this hidden worry stems from the legality of the private sale and purchase of land.

The richer the merchants became, the richer they were, and the faster they made money, the more worried the emperor was. A large amount of industrial and commercial money was used to buy land, which exacerbated the problem of land annexation.

The worry that a large amount of capital is used to buy land stems from the high return rate of land.

The land price in Dashun is extremely low and the land rent is extremely high, all of which lead to the extremely high rate of return on land purchase.

Since businessmen seek profit, it is obvious that money will flow to buy land.It's not just the millions of grain rice that the emperor is worried about this year, but also any industrial and commercial practitioners.

The emperor did not consider it from the classic perspective of "everyone is doing business, who will farm the land", but purely from the perspective of "what if a businessman is so rich to buy land and merge".

Unless, land cannot be bought and sold, so that there is no other way for money to generate money except for the flow of money to industry and commerce.Otherwise, this kind of thing is very difficult to prohibit.

Go and reason with businessmen: Oh, don't hoard land to cause mergers, you should invest money in industry, only the development of industry and commerce can make the country prosperous and strong.

The businessman looked at the yield and risk of land, and then at the yield and risk of industry, and thought, can I go to you?

Relying on feelings and reason cannot solve the problem.

Now that the emperor is worried about this, Liu Yu can only tell the truth.

"Your Majesty is wise, what you worry about is extremely serious."

"Since this matter is caused by water control, please use water control as a metaphor."

"When money flows, it can be called capital, and capital is like flowing water."

"When it flows here, it will fork."

"On one side is the land within the Celestial Dynasty."

"On one side is the business and wasteland of Southeast Asia."

"In ancient times, water control was nothing more than blocking and dredging."

"It's the same with this."

"Those who are blocked, either merge, or use means to reduce the income from buying land...or shake the world, fighting for chaos in the world, and even the land cannot be bought or sold."

"If you don't, let the profits of business and industry in Nanyang be higher than the income of buying land in the country. Merchants will naturally go after profits."

"This blockage and dredging are all related to national affairs, and it is beyond the capabilities of one state and one government."

"Increasing taxes, reducing apportioned labor, this is blocking. I don't know much about the internal affairs of the celestial dynasty, and I have never been in charge of the government. It is beyond my ability."

"However, regarding the matter of industry and commerce, I am confident that there are still some means to ensure that the money will flow to Nanyang. It can also be guaranteed that part of the money will be spent in the way of resettlement of refugees and disaster victims."

"Your Majesty's concern is actually a huge matter. Although merchants hoard and buy land, why don't gentry and landowners everywhere stop buying and hoarding land? It may be beyond human power to solve this matter."

"Since it's beyond human power, I thought, why not find another way? Buying and hoarding land, is it because people love land? No, they just love money."

"Since that's the case, finding a way to make them have a better way to make money is the best way to treat the symptoms. As for the root cause, unless the ancient Confucianism revives the discussion of Jingtian, there is no solution.

"Is it because the people can't live because they don't have land? That's right or wrong, but to be more precise, they have no other viable means of earning a living besides land. If there are other means, they can either work, join the army, or go to sea. , there will be no land, and they will not starve to death."

"Since this is the case, it is also feasible to find a way for the people to make a living other than owning their own small land."

"Nanyang is vast, the land is fertile, and it is ripe for more than a year."

"It is not possible to mine fields, some things will happen sooner or later. However, dredging to Nanyang can also be postponed."

"I have the means to let them invest money in Western trade; I have the means to let them invest money in Nanyang."

"As for the more and more money is earned, the big profits will be made in the future, and then the land will be considered... I think that since the root cause cannot be cured, it is better to find a way to control the land in the coastal states under the condition that it must be the case by default. within the scope of the government."

"Even if it is merged, people can go to Nanyang to seek a living, and the coast is convenient. Or, it can also be rescued."

"Instead of pretending that it can be solved, and pretending to work hard but it's actually useless. It's better not to shy away from the disease, then admit that this matter can't be solved, and find a way to control it within a controllable range."

"In this regard, I have some ideas, and it may be controlled within the coastal or southern states and prefectures. But it still needs careful consideration."

The emperor's eyes lit up, and he thought that since he had a solution, it was easy to say.If it is only controlled in Jiangnan or coastal areas, it is really easy to solve.I am afraid that the money earned by these merchants will go to places such as Henan, Shantou, Tokyo, Hubei, and Shaanxi to hoard land and buy land, so that the people will have nothing to live and cannot go to Nanyang, so they can only rebel.

Since all parts of Fujian and Guangdong can travel to Southeast Asia and enter Taiwan, there are fewer rebels in these places.And even if they rebel, most of them will not succeed.On the contrary, in places such as Henan, Shaanxi, Anhui, etc., if the annexation is too heavy, big things will happen.

Liu Yu only said that this idea still needs careful consideration, and the emperor didn't ask any more.

After weighing the pros and cons of all parties in my heart, I had a tendentious idea, and it was finally finalized.

So he summoned Liao Hanhui to him, speaking earnestly.

"Qing heard it too."

"Water control is related to the navy, trade, Nanyang, water transportation, and even land, well fields, taxes... All of these are major issues for the community."

"No navy, no shipping."

"Without sea transportation, the river cannot be destroyed."

"If you don't waste the river, you can't control the water."

"If you don't have money, you can't control the water."

"Without a stable source of rice, water cannot be controlled."

"Can't resettle waterworkers, can't control water."

"The poor people after the dismantled canal cannot be dealt with, and the water cannot be controlled."

"Governing the Huai River is not about such an ancient achievement as taming the Yellow River. But behind it, there is also a lot involved."

"It is not empty words to say that it is the strength of the world for twenty years."

"I don't care for the people of Lianghuai. It might not be possible to do it before, but now I can do it. I must do benevolent and benevolent policies for the people of Lianghuai."

"You must remember how much you have been responsible for and how much you have been involved in the matter of Zhihuai. Don't let me down!"

"I have been waiting for this day since the establishment of the navy in the past. Now this matter is on your shoulders. I hope I have not misjudged the person."

When Liu Yu heard the words, he thought to himself, when you built the navy, you didn't think so far.

However, if you don't see it clearly, the emperor's words have already made Liao Hanhui kneel on the ground with tears in his eyes.

"Come here, get your pen and ink!"

With a shout, the emperor's imperial pen personally mentioned a word.

Wei Yu, I am like a fish!The thirteenth day of Jihai month.

After writing these words with splashed ink, the emperor just said lightly: "I will keep it for you, if it is really cured, Qing can also live up to this sentence."

"Duke Xingguo used to return to the Western Regions, which had been separated for thousands of years in the Tang Dynasty, and was conferred a title for his meritorious service. If you can return to the rich and prosperous Huaihe River and Huaihe River in the Song Dynasty for 600 years, how difficult is it to be a title?"

"In all dynasties, there has never been a knighthood for water control. I hope Ai Qing dares to be the first in all dynasties!"

Just a few random words in "Zuo Zhuan", Liao Hanhui didn't say that he couldn't afford it in fear, but burst into tears and cried: "Minister, I will do my best!"

Seeing this, Liu Yu on the side thought that the emperor was going to make a big gamble.According to this meaning, the reform of water transportation will also increase the tax reform, which must be suppressed by the success of the Huaihe River.If it succeeds, the prestige will rise to the sky, and everything will be accomplished; if it fails, the sky will give an early warning, and everything will be abolished.

Dashun is not bad at drawing pictures of refugees.

Now I can only pray silently, I hope God will give the people of Lianghuai a way to survive, if there is a catastrophic flood on the way of repairing, this day, the big hat of heaven and man sensing, and heaven’s early warning, it is estimated that the emperor will never dare to do anything. That's the first thing.

Liu Yu secretly prayed: "God, God, this is also a critical time for you to fight with Jesus. You have to give some strength. People can plan everything, and it depends on you whether it will succeed or not."

(End of this chapter)