Xinshun 1730

Chapter 880

The Jiedu envoy of Guangdong really saw the dangers of opium, and tortured a living person into a ghost who is not as good as a pig or a dog after being addicted.

He said that there is a threat of extinction, and we should prevent it from happening.

"well said!"

Liu Yu was waiting for this sentence, and immediately praised it, setting the basic tone of how to evaluate the opium smuggling issue.

Because the tone of the evaluation of opium smuggling is not just "the danger of extinction".

There is also a tone of evaluation called "silver outflow".

But Liu Yu didn't want the keynote of silver outflow to be used on the opium issue.

If the silver drain is the problem, the solution is not just banning opium.

There will be people who diverge their thinking and think that if they grow, the silver will not flow out?

No one can say for sure what will happen in the future, even if things go wrong in the future.

Therefore, now is the early stage, and it is time to set the tune to death: the control of opium has nothing to do with the outflow of silver and the lack of salary for raising soldiers.

The reason for the governance is purely that this thing can turn people into ghosts, and there is a risk of national destruction and extinction.

Only by killing him in this way at the beginning and forming Dashun's political correctness can we guard against going the wrong way in the future.

Of course, if you want to say that this thing is not useful at all, that is not true.In this era, there are no medicines or painkillers. They can’t cure diseases, but they can pretend to be cured so that people don’t feel pain.

It's just that if you have to make a choice, you would rather make people hurt to death than open this hole.Once the mouth is opened, it will be chaotic as soon as it is released. With the current grassroots management capabilities, it is impossible to control the abuse of opium for medicinal purposes. It is better to directly ban it to death.

"Since you have all seen the harm of this thing with your own eyes, in a few days you can join me in the petition to the Son of Heaven to prepare for the harm of this thing. No matter what the reason is in the future, don't allow it to spread."

"Let this thing be famous, as stinking as unfaithful and unfilial killing parents and mothers."

"In the future, Guangdong will be a barrier for the entry of this thing. You should set many rules to prevent deadlock."

Liu Yu added that Jiaolaobutu and the officers in the navy had no objection, and the Guangdong Jiedu envoy also felt that this matter would not do him any harm, and he also saw with his own eyes the horror of those people after inhaling it. Out of consideration for the community, he also nodded.

"Even if the Duke doesn't say anything, the lower officials are going to play the Son of Heaven to explain the great harm of this thing. Moreover, this thing is quite expensive. If Westerners smuggle a lot, even if there are gold and silver mountains in the Heavenly Dynasty, they will be slowly sucked away. .”

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "This is superfluous. Gold and silver are small things; national species is a big thing. Since there are big evils, why bother to talk about these small evils? Just say that one person is bad, and say that he killed his father and mother and conspired against him. , then add a sentence of extravagant life to bathe with milk, then it is unnecessary."

The Guangdong Jiedu envoy didn't know what Liu Yu's purpose was, and insisted that it was superfluous.But thinking that Liu Yu said clearly that this was superfluous, I thought to myself that since you said so, you just don't write it.

But in theory, if you want to say that this is superfluous, that is not necessarily the case. If a person commits a crime, it cannot be said that his major crime is enough for top-level punishment like Ling Chi, and the rest of the minor crimes will not be mentioned?
Thinking this way in my heart, I felt disapproving, but I didn't want to provoke Liu Yu's displeasure for no reason at this time, so I said, "That's right. What the Duke said makes a lot of sense. Then there is no need to mention the opium matter, which should be severely punished. What about the remaining lesson plans and population matters?"

This stopped Liu Yu a little bit.

Liu Yu first talked about opium when he came up, because in fact, his real purpose of coming to Macau this time was to prepare for trade and future wars.

Opium is too harmful, he hates it deeply, and it involves a kind of complex that others don't know, which is unique to him, a fake Dashun person.

Therefore, it is necessary to be strict.

However, the only thing he really wants to deal with is the three things of teaching plans, opium, and human trafficking.

As for lesson plans and human trafficking...

Liu Yu was a little uncomfortable expressing his opinion, so he could only prevaricate.

How should I put it, the key to the teaching plan is not here, but whether it can be famous in the future, relying on the disposition of people in the world to hate the poor and love the rich, and shape the theory of superiority of civilization.

Macau will be recovered in a few years, and it will be enough to block it in the future.

In the political environment of Dashun, no matter who comes to power in the future, as long as his brain is not rusty, even if he is a slightly qualified feudal emperor, the relationship between China and the Vatican will not be good, and there will be no formal official exchanges.

Even if it is a feudal emperor, he will not allow a group of people under his rule to listen to another emperor, unless the Holy See disbands itself and no longer controls the old church members all over the world.This has nothing to do with openness and conservatism, but only with the religious tradition of exterminating Buddhas and slaughtering the Yellow Turban Taoism.

As for human trafficking, this matter...in fact, it is best to turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Contract slave labor, or contract long-term labor, will be the main means of Dashun's overseas immigration for a long time.

Chinese slave labor in history was no better than black slaves during transportation.There are also cases where Chinese slave labor was transported to Peru, Chile, etc., and 400 of the 10 people in a ship died after arriving in the place, and this is not an isolated case.

If you don't want to do this, the only way is to organize immigration officially.But that's not realistic.

As in the case of the Americas, the cost of immigration is still very high due to technical limitations in this year.France has been in Canada for 100 years, and a total of 100 people have immigrated. They can rest and recuperate, and they can make a living. Up to now, there are only 7 to [-] people in more than [-] years.

Britain's immigration policy is not official, either the persecuted Puritans, or the poor who could not survive after the enclosure were transported as indentured slaves, or people hired by various colonial companies.

After all, the rich don't want to go and the poor can't.

In terms of immigration, the imperial courts of various countries do not have the money to do it now. It is not too late to survive the era of steamboats and railways, and the Northeast is farther north.It is too late for Nanyang and overseas.

Nanyang is counted as inside, so it can be controlled.In the Americas, is it possible that they really don't care at all?Don't want to move some people and grow the group?
Within a few decades, Dashun's industry will not be able to accommodate enough population, at least there will be no shortage of industrial population.

If you want to spread the ethnic groups all over the world outside Nanyang, it is more realistic to acquiesce in population trading.For example, with the progress of Dashun, the development of the Americas will also accelerate under the demand for a large amount of raw materials, and European capital will try to mine some commodities that Dashun can use in South America.

For example, things like copper ore and saltpeter, these will be things that Dashun urgently needs.

Mining requires labor.

The labor price in Dashun is still cheap.In times of disaster, three steamed buns can deceive a person.

It still has to rely on capital investment and then buy labor to move a large number of people there.

Looking at it now, this is also impossible.

Who is to say that the Dashun court is incompetent? It takes a lot of effort to collect 3000 million yuan in taxes a year.

In history, after the Meiji Restoration changed the samurai class in the small country in the east, it could also receive 8000 to [-] million taels purely on the agricultural tax.

You have to have money to do things.

In later generations of China, it was only after the Meiji Restoration's seizure of power from the old class was completed that it was able to collect money.In the era of the Nanjing government plus tariffs and excessive anti-resistance days, it was equivalent to 3 million US dollars. Less than two years after the completion of the liberation land reform, it could reach the equivalent of 40 billion US dollars.

What to do if you have no money.

The people are the same people, the land is the same land, and even the agricultural tax is the main one, and a lot of import duties are reduced.

However, the power at the disposal of the country has increased by more than ten times in an instant.

There is no need to talk about spiritual strength, organizational strength, and national awakening. Just talk about the fiscal revenue. How can you lose against Japan, which had a fiscal revenue of less than 31 million U.S. dollars before September 8, 40? 10 billion versus [-] billion.Not even talking about self-reliance, taking advantage of the Great Depression to develop industries, just talking about buying finished weapons. At that time, guns were only a few dollars a piece?
If the central government cannot collect money, it is impossible to accomplish anything.

The Ming Dynasty was very rich, but the central treasury had no money; Dashun was stronger than the Ming Dynasty, so that was limited. The amount of money the central treasury could collect now...except for raising soldiers, it would not move a few civilians.

Liu Yu also didn't have enough skills to clean up the landlord class in Dashun by himself, concentrate wealth by removing middlemen, and carry out official immigration with a truly centralized organization.

With Dashun's current population and the number of acres of land, if the landlord class can be abolished, the financial potential of agricultural tax plus monopoly trade should be around [-] million taels per year on the premise of ensuring that the people's lives are better than before.

Not much more, and this is when the living standards of the vast majority of the people are higher than they are now, and their burdens are lighter than they are now.

If the household government can collect [-] million taels a year, not talking about anything else, just talking about official immigration, official organization of reclamation, and official organization of real border, Southeast Asia can be filled in a few years.

However, reality is impossible.

In reality, the government is unable to immigrate, so it can only rely on mercenaryism and treat human labor as commodity capital.

The areas where Nanyang is determined to be the basic base, such as Ceylon, West Java, etc., of course, should try their best to recruit as many homeowner farmers as possible, so as not to make it so ugly, lest there will be another riot and a resurgence of volcanic uprisings.

The imperial court needs to spend some money and some thought.

And for places that are temporarily unable to make a basic market, let's acquiesce in population trading.

It is necessary to control the human trafficking, but it cannot be too politically correct, and it is just a formality.If you insist that you are a long-term contract worker and not a slave, you can be like this.

The earth is so big, it is determined that there will be no new continents.The limited land belongs to whoever occupies it, so it doesn't matter how this era passed.

Let’s talk about the future in the future, and let the people pass by first.

In the future, there will be uprisings, doves occupying magpie's nests, armed uprisings in the future, or the establishment of ethnic groups, all of which require a population base.

In the future, it doesn't matter if you can be criticized, insulted in the history books, or even left in a bad reputation for thousands of years.

That being the case, there are three things to do in total, two of which can be taken away, so the typical case of being caught is naturally only opium smuggling.

Strictly speaking, it is not all three things, but specifically refers to the opium issue.

The envoy of Guangdong Jiedu asked about the population and teaching plans. Liu Yu hesitated for a long time, so he had to shirk and say: "Let's deal with the opium thing first. There are two other things that have other opinions. Don't worry, I will have my own opinions at that time."

"However, as long as you get the confession of smuggling and the British and Portuguese, you must rather believe it than believe it. It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go... The chambers of commerce, business halls, The company, its warehouses, warehouses, and merchant ships were all seized."

"It's not necessary. What if someone is entrained? First detain them, put a seal on them, and release them after the official confirms that they are indeed innocent."

"If the Portuguese make noise, or have any opinions from the military leaders or the council, arrest them. They are not qualified to talk to me. The British side will let the person in charge of their company talk, and the Portuguese side will ask Goa to send people to talk. They could have talked to the officials of Xiangshan County, what status are you and I, wouldn't talking to them hurt the court's face?"

(End of this chapter)