Xinshun 1730

Chapter 986 Stop

While the speculators in Songjiang Mansion were preparing to make money from the court, the emperor in the capital was thinking about how to make money.

During this period of reform, the emperor was devastated.

At this time, looking at Liu Yu's sixth memorial on the reform of the salt administration, I couldn't calm down, and didn't know what to reply to Liu Yu for a while.

At first, Liu Yu didn't pay much attention to the reform of the salt administration.The emperor knew this in his heart, and he might support it in his heart, but he didn't take the initiative to mention it. At most, he belonged to the silent minority in the court. Gai is at odds with the mainstream opinion of the reformists in the court.

The emperor had thought for a long time that the reform was not that simple, and it was only delusional that it could be carried out with just a single order.

But it is true that the difficulty of reform is underestimated.

Not only the implementation of the reform, but also the changes in details brought about by the reform, supporting policies, and the scope of the salt industry areas in Hunan, Hubei, Henan, and Jiangxi that are almost to be re-divided.

There are also changes in the positioning of provinces, changes in the key taxation areas of the imperial court, and re-approval of the salt transportation and anti-smuggling routes of each salt tax area...

Every day, we have to face a huge amount of memorials, from Beijing officials, from local governments, from the army, and from the internal affairs office.

If you don't change it, you don't know. There are so many problems that you don't know until you change it.

Of course, most of them are details, and the significance of the existence of the six governments is also reflected.

Now the emperor's real worry is that he doesn't know how to reply Liu Yu's sixth memorial.

After the establishment of the Privy Council, there were strategic staff and tactical staff. Liu Yu's memorial was still the way of strategic staff in the eyes of the emperor. There were not many details discussed, mainly about the general outline of the court's reform.

For the previous five consecutive memorials on the reform of the salt administration, the emperor's approval of Liu Yu was all praise: or it was said that Qing had a general plan, or it was said that he had a sudden insight.

Including the entry of Sichuan salt into the two lakes, the transformation of northern Jiangsu into agricultural areas, etc., there is no problem.

But the sixth letter made the emperor a little uncertain whether to support or oppose it.

Roughly speaking, Liu Yu's sixth memorial is still about the development of industry and commerce.

It puts forward a reference, saying that the development of the British glass manufacturing industry and wool textile industry has driven the coal mining industry, and the development of the coal mining industry has led to the heavy steam engines of the naval docks imported by Dashun.

The general meaning is to revolve around Sichuan's salt cooking industry and drive Sichuan's industry and commerce, especially heavy industries such as coal mining.

There is nothing wrong with this line of thinking.

Coal, anyone who is an emperor in Beijing knows its importance.

Whether it is Meng Yuan, Daming, or Dashun, if the emperor does not know how important coal is, then the emperor will soon come to an end.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, when Zu Dashou's adopted son gave Hou Jinxian the strategy of besieging the capital, he said that as long as the canal grain and Xishan coal were cut off, the capital would collapse soon.

For the emperor of Dashun, the most intuitive thing is that the coal mines in Mentougou and other places have been tightened in the past few years, and the fuel panic broke out in the capital immediately. When coal is the most expensive in winter, it reaches a catty of rice for a catty of coal. the point.

The reason for tightening control is not the so-called dragon veins of metaphysics.

Increased control, which led to the coal panic in the capital a few years ago, is precisely the reason why the emperor did not know how to reply to Liu Yu's sixth memorial today.

Simply put, eight words.

One catch and it's over.

Once it is released, it will be chaotic.

And Liu Yu's way of thinking about industry and commerce is precisely to let go.

Not only to let go.

And let it go completely.

Overkill to put.

However, the emperor had lingering fears about "release".

In the 23rd year of Chenghua in the previous dynasty, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites suggested that the capital should abandon charcoal and use coal out of consideration that the trees around the capital were the best natural repellent against nomadic cavalry.

Mining is encouraged.

In less than seven years, Hongzhi seven years, some people went to Shushu, telling the horror of letting go of the mining industry.

【Luring and plundering the children of good families, or taking in lost children, driving them into the kiln, carrying coal in and out every day, cutting off their way back, like falling into a pit.Anyone who escapes will be hunted down and killed]

As for the black coal kiln, it is very easy to understand.

And Dashun almost revisited the issues about coal in the capital during the Chenghua and Hongzhi years of the Ming Dynasty.

Lack of fuel, this place will freeze to death without fuel in winter.

Mining is encouraged.

Let go of control.

then……

[The miners all sent people hundreds of miles away to lure poor people into the caves to mine coal, and promised to pay a lot of money.At night, you will sneak into the place where you live and eat, and build a high wall of stones, with thorns, so that people cannot go over it.]

[Two meals for a solar eclipse, nothing else.Those who are stubborn or want to escape will be killed with giant stiles and thrown into the waste pit, and the bones will accumulate more than seven feet.]

To put it simply, something happened. A case was solved a few years ago, and the impact was too great, because a "thousand people's pit" was dug out.

Hundreds of cheaters, beggars, or other people were tricked into digging coal, and after being exhausted to death, they were thrown directly into the waste pit.

Those who were destined to escape escaped and reported it. When the people from the imperial court went, they were shocked.

After all, officials in this line of work haven't fought a war for many years. Where have they seen such a battle?The corpses piled up in the pit were sorted out by mobilizing the bureaucrats of the capital, and the bones of about three acres of land were placed.

What is germination?What is primitive accumulation?Counting from the incident in the seventh year of Hongzhi, this is called bloody accumulation.

But this kind of germination, this kind of primitive accumulation, Dashun really can't tolerate it, it's too scary.

For a while, there was a lot of public opinion, and officials made a lot of comments, and then they introduced policies and increased control.

The three old feudal dynasties: Baojia, Guandu, and printed rosters.

Then there was the situation that "a catty of coal is equal to a catty of rice". Although the officials who reported it habitually used exaggerated rhetorical methods, it was definitely not cheap.

The emperor knew very well what the reason was, and stepped up supervision. The officials in charge saw the situation of the predecessor in the previous thousand-man-pit case, and they should understand that it is a small matter whether to increase mining or not, but it is a big matter if such a murder case occurs again.

The former dawdled at most and couldn't get promoted; the latter lost his head directly and complained to the common people, and someone had to come out to appease the anger of the common people.

Since the 23rd year of Chenghua in the previous dynasty, the coal mining industry in Beijing has experienced such a cycle.

Let go—the bloody primitive accumulation is immediately staged like a textbook—catch—the price of coal has risen, and the millions of people in Beijing can’t support winter consumption—let it go—play—catch—expensive—let it go.

From the point of view of normal people, in Mentougou next to the capital, such a big incident happens every now and then.

The place where the emperor is far away from the mountain is high, if you really let go, what will happen?

Facing Liu Yu's sixth memorial, the emperor did not reply with approval like the previous few times.

Instead, after reading all of Liu Yu's logic, below, I replied to the first question with a red pen.

"I love you, let the merchants compete to promote the industry and commerce in Sichuan."

"I have a question, if there is competition between merchants, whoever has the lowest cost will earn more and sell better."

"If the cost is low, then the Qianren Pit cases in the capital will occur frequently. This is also a consideration."

"Secondly, A has three meals a day and pays enough wages; B colludes with lawbreakers, arrests villagers, lures them into the well, and lowers costs."

"As time goes on, I fear that B will be rich and A will be poor."

"The whole world is like this, isn't it encouraging evil?"

"Capital seeks profit, and must use all means to do evil. Good will perish, and evil will prosper. This is not the right way."

"Ai Qing said that textiles, glass and other things are all good for me."

"However, mines are the darkest place in the world. Murder and confinement are already in confined places, and non-woven glass and other things are all in densely populated places."

"Like the story of Xishan in the past few years, if he was abused in the textile factory, he would have escaped. But in the mine, there is nowhere to escape."

"Gold digging in Liaodong, coal mining in Xishan, mercury in Gansu... These things happened frequently."

"If capital is thriving, the evil must be better than the good, so we must pay attention to it."

After Zhubi's reply, the emperor turned around twice, sat down again, put on his glasses, and re-read Liu Yu's sixth memorial.

This sixth memorial is not only a summary of the previous five memorials, but also a plan for Dashun's strategic transformation and re-arrangement.

The starting point is the reform of the salt administration.

The transformation of northern Jiangsu from a salt area to an agricultural area is not to be mentioned.

The subsequent entry of Sichuan salt into the two lakes will be the focus of the entire strategic layout adjustment on the western front.

And within this layout, there is very standard Liu Yu's logic, the logic hidden by Liu Yu that the emperor can't feel - pretending to help the court, but actually creating conditions for capital growth.

Taking history as a mirror, it must be clear that the coal industry developed first, then the steam engine, and finally the improvement of the steam engine.

The appearance of the steam engine was for pumping water in coal mines.

The United Kingdom was founded on the textile industry. Why did Dashun have to industrialize the textile industry as the first step?Whether it is a Jenny machine or a mule machine, it is a dead end in Dashun, and this road cannot be copied.

Then, the development of light industry will promote the progress of heavy industry, and as long as this light industry meets two conditions, Dashun can also popularize the use of steam engines in another way.

These two conditions are:

[-]: This industry needs power, and there are ready-made machines. It only needs to change the power source from cattle and horses to iron cattle and horses.

Two: This industry needs energy, and it needs energy very much. Without energy, it is impossible to develop, and this energy needs to be mainly demanded by burning heat.

The first condition is to promote the development of the steam engine.

The second condition is to promote the development of the coal mining industry.

Pushing these two conditions down can also promote the development of heavy industries such as iron smelting, railways, and cement.

At the beginning, many steam engines in Britain were used either in coal mines or in glass manufacturing to grind glass and scrap materials.The glass manufacturing industry just meets these two conditions.

Of course, for Dashun, it is best not to have a situation where "millions of waterworkers depend on food and clothing".

So, obviously, the most suitable one is well salt from Sichuan.

The first two crucial conditions are not mentioned, and because of the strength of the Lianghuai salt area, there are no "millions of water workers" in the well salt industry.

The millions of water workers in Lianghuai were resolved by Liu Yu's behind-the-scenes pushers.

That is, the development of the navy, the capture of Nanyang, the abandonment of canals, and the abandonment of transportation guarantees and sand washing can repair the Huaihe River. If the Huaihe River can be repaired simply this year, then the agricultural conditions in northern Jiangsu will be directly solved.

So that the salt people in northern Jiangsu can transform into farmers.

Or, go to Nanyang and go to the plantation to cut sugarcane.

Therefore, Liu Yu's sixth memorial, which made the emperor hesitate, was derived from this idea: let go of the mining control in Sichuan.With the profits from the salt of the two lakes, those who opened salt wells were raised; with the demand for coal from salt wells, those who opened mines were raised; with the demand for mining, people who opened iron were raised.Form a cycle to quickly popularize the technologies of the Academy of Sciences that "do not compete with the people".

Of course, what Liu Yu said was that Sichuan, as the axis of Tibet, Southwest, and Miao, must have a strong industrial and commercial foundation. With a larger base, they can withstand the toss-no matter how bad it is, if there are Wang Zicheng and Sun Xianzhong in the future, the Li family can run back to their hometown Qinchuan, and follow the example of Hangao in winning Qin Nang, Sichuan and Shaanxi and take the old things in the world.The heart of a pure child, loyalty to the emperor and love to Li, are beyond words, and every word can be learned.

(End of this chapter)