Xinshun 1730

Chapter 992 The Final Salt Reform Supporting Policy
Not long after these students arrived, the imperial court also issued an order. Liu Yu took the imperial court's order and went to the Songjiang Mansion camp. After conforming to the requirements, he seconded some engineers.

After gathering this group of students, the officer first asked the officer to take this group of people across the Yangtze River to the north.

On the Songjiang Mansion side, all kinds of logistics materials prepared by the imperial court for the construction of the Huaihe River also began to pile up.

Coupled with the materials, money, tools, rice and grain mobilized by the whole country for the construction of the Huaihe River, and looking at the students who went to survey and map, it seems that those people are all prepared for the construction of the Huaihe River.

Actually it is not.

If the Huaihe River is being built and the surveying and mapping are only started now, then it will be like shit pushing the door against the door before looking for the toilet. How can there be time?

In fact, these surveying and mapping students are also preparing for the follow-up of the salt administration reform.

In other words, it is the last supporting reform of the reform of the Yanzheng Canal from Huaihai to the whole world.

The emperor has agreed to some of Liu Yu's suggestions.

These surveying and mapping students are going to survey barren beaches and reclaim land.

The emperor wants to lay a black hand on Huainan and northern Jiangsu, let Liu Yu do the dirty work, Zheng Boke Duan, and lure the gentry to embezzle the money for river repair.

The original land has to be re-divided, and about [-] to [-] households on the court side have to be moved to the basic land of the newly-acquired sons of good families.

For the rest, they agreed with Liu Yu's opinion, imitating the story of Xiyi, imitating the method of Xiyi, and want to engage in company enclosure and reclamation.

This is the only place in Dashun "Kinai" that is suitable for the enclosure movement, because in many places small farmers cannot cultivate land, and there are large open spaces and grasslands and woodlands for boiling salt.

This can also be regarded as the fine legacy that Daming left to Dashun.

If Xu Guangqi's good wishes were followed to carry out the reform of the salt drying law, I am afraid that these pastures and woodlands would have been reclaimed fields long ago, and how could they enclose land without harming small farmers.

Not to mention that the small farmers here are willing to sell to wasteland reclamation companies at extremely low prices, even less than half a tael per mu of forest and grassland.

Fortunately, Xu Guangqi's proposals for reforming the salt administration were not used in the previous dynasty, but insisted on the system of boiling salt by salt households, otherwise it would be really difficult.

The reason why it is said that this is part of the reform of the Dashun salt administration is because the land reclamation company needs capital and a large amount of liquid capital to invest in it.

Only in this way can the millions of acres of wasteland in northern Jiangsu be developed.Historically, the land reclamation companies led by Zhang Qian planned to enclose 627 million mu of land. At this time, Dashun is estimated to be able to enclose around 400 million mu of land.

Capitalist land management is not a model for landlords to collect rent.

But it must be an economic vassal of southern Jiangsu.

Southern Jiangsu needs to extract oil and northern Jiangsu grows rapeseed; southern Jiangsu needs textiles and northern Jiangsu grows cotton; southern Jiangsu needs sugar extraction and northern Jiangsu grows beet;

Rely on the commercialization of land crops, earn profits, and work by hiring labor.

To improve the land, build seawalls, build canals, etc., all these require huge capital investment. After all, 400 million mu of land is not a small amount.

The reform of the salt administration, the abolition of the Lianghuai salt merchants, their money must go somewhere, right?
Don't even think about Haimao, they can't squeeze in.

Once Liu Yu's few heavy punches completely abolished the Lianghuai salt merchants, then their capital will find a place.

At that time, the development capital of the 400 million mu of land can be guaranteed to be sufficient.

Liu Yu wanted to eliminate the Lianghuai salt merchants, not their capital and their people.

This thing is used to sell salt to bribe, that is reactionary and retrogressive.

Investing in industrial and commercial reclamation is an acceptable and transformative progressive force.

Of course, in fact, the land that is planned to be enclosed this time seems to have many business directions in the future, but in fact they are all theoretical.The really meaningful choice is to grow cotton.

Planting sugar beets to squeeze sugar can be beaten by sugarcane from Nanyang, Taiwan, so my mother doesn't even know it.

Rapeseed is used for oil extraction, and the oil palm that can be imported by Nanyang is unknown to the father.

Only cotton makes sense.

The prerequisite for cotton to be meaningful is the development of European, African and American markets.

Only in this way can a positive cycle of investing in cultivation, earning money, and continuing to invest in cultivation be formed.

And this is closely related to the overseas trade of Songjiang Prefecture.

For this reason, before Liu Yu left Songjiang Mansion and crossed the river to go to northern Jiangsu to preside over the plan to lure snakes out of the cave, Liu Yu also specially took the time to meet with the technical representative sent by the Dutch JJVOUT & SONS smuggling group.

The technical representative showed Liu Yu a model sample of British cotton cloth that they planned to smuggle to Britain and North America.

Liu Yu shook the few bolts of British cotton cloth, stretched the cloth, took out a match and lit it, and there was a strong smell like burning hair protein.

The technical representative of the Dutch smuggling group saw Liu Yu's skillful movements and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, as you can see, there is no pure cotton cloth in Britain at this time. Their newly implemented "Manchester Act" only stipulates that blended cotton cloth is allowed. Textiles, the ban on cotton cloth has not been lifted. The cotton cloth luxury tax of 3p a yard is still levied on domestic cotton cloth."

"Their cotton cloth is a blend of wool, flax, and cotton. In fact, their spinning ability is very poor. If wool and flax are not mixed in, the cotton cloth cannot be strong, so they cannot compete with your country and your country. India's pure cotton competition."

"The level of craftsmen in your country is known to everyone on the earth. The craftsmen in your country can complete any pattern we require-as long as they don't embroider the letter 'ROOD' on the pattern as it is, but dye it red. "

Liu Yu smiled, thinking that this was the first joke that could be used as a joke during the relationship between the East and the West, and there will be more and more such jokes in the future.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the Dutch smugglers, Liu Yu thought to himself, this is really a godsend opportunity.

To cultivate fields in northern Jiangsu, we need to grow cotton, but the special soil quality and the previous saline-alkali conditions in northern Jiangsu make it necessary to use one mu of cotton, two mu of grass to cover the cotton field to prevent anti-salt, and three mu of alfalfa to grow land. The way.

Under such circumstances, the cultivation industry in northern Jiangsu would be even more profitable.

Originally, alfalfa was only raised on the ground, and it can be used to raise sheep, shear wool, and weave wool yarn.

All the huge reclamation areas in northern Jiangsu can be profitable.Otherwise, the profitability ratio is not so high.

It is profitable, and the dividends after deducting the provident fund can make people flock to it even more.Only then can more dividends be invested in water conservancy, soil improvement, and seawall repairs.

If this is the era of mule spinning machines, pure cotton can be used, and the income from farming in northern Jiangsu will drop greatly.

This rag has no effect on Dashun's livelihood.

After thinking about it, Liu Yu nodded at the representative of the Dutch smuggling group, put away the cotton cloth and said, "I support this great plan. But I need your technical support. Of course, it's not about weaving."

The Dutch smuggler hurriedly said: "Yes, of course you don't need any technical support in weaving. Then..."

Liu Yu posed a not-so-difficult question to the Dutch smugglers.

"I want a batch of merino sheep. I can get hemp seeds for fiber and efficient spinning techniques from the Russians."

"All I need is a batch of merino sheep, a group of excellent shearers, carders and all the technicians of a supporting wool spinning mill."

"We will solve the transportation problem. You only need to solve the problem of transporting them to Amsterdam, which should not be difficult?"

When the Dutch smuggler heard this, he hurriedly agreed: "This matter is too simple. Together with the British, you have destroyed the woolen textile industry in the seven provinces. The British have destroyed most of them, and you will leave the rest, Completely destroyed with your cotton cloth."

"Many good players in the textile guild are wandering the streets now. This is not a problem at all-if your ship is big enough, I can even send you a complete set of woolen spinning machines."

"Actually, the labor cost in your country, even if your country produces the same fine feather yarn as ours, and it is shipped to Europe, there is still 100% profit."

"As for the sheep, maybe 100 years ago you would have risked being hanged, but now it's not that difficult, as long as you need it."

Liu Yu reported a quantity, and the other party agreed very readily, and then asked: "So, when will your country's blended cotton textile factory specially used for export be built?"

Liu Yu calculated the time and said: "Within three years. This is a huge profit for you, and it is also a huge profit for us. Our interests are the same."

"And in the past three years, you should also do a market survey to determine the market size in the early stage-you should know that this kind of cotton cloth, let alone sold in China, even if it goes to India, there is no market at all."

"It's purely export-oriented, and it can only be done with Korber's reining in the economy, strictly controlling and controlling production volumes."

"I need a detailed investigation report. Not a simple estimate."

"Details, including the income of European classes, annual expenditure on food, expenditure on textiles, annual consumption, how much is acceptable for pricing, etc."

The Dutch smugglers had long seen Dashun Xinxing Group's strict handling of affairs, so they quickly agreed.The two parties agreed that in the next year, the sheep breeds and craftsmen needed by Liu Yu could be delivered.

And the two parties have also agreed that they will keep it secret.

Because this may make the French side feel uncomfortable. The woolen military uniforms of the Dashun navy are all bought from French woolen cloth. It seems that Dashun wants to replace them. I am worried that the French side will interfere with the transportation of sheep breeds and craftsmen. .

Before the smugglers left, Liu Yu gave some more gifts and left happily. Every gift could be exchanged for money when the ship returned to the Netherlands.

After the smugglers left, Liu Yu calculated the time.

The Huaihe River will be repaired this winter.

It will be completed next March.

The incident occurred in April, a major case was handled, and the land was confiscated by murder.

By the way, a surprise attack on verification reforms was carried out in April, and direct reforms were issued before the new year's salt trigger.

The battle with the salt merchants will last until autumn, and they will probably ask for mercy before autumn.

Then, before autumn, they can directly raise shares and prepare to cultivate northern Jiangsu.At the end of autumn, the salt merchants collapsed, and they would definitely choose to change careers, which happened to be able to absorb funds.

In winter, recruit laborers for reclamation, hire slack farmers, and build houses and the like.

Cotton and alfalfa can be planted in the next spring.For the time being, let's take the wool in the north as the top, that is, before the next autumn cotton harvest next year, this cotton textile factory specially smuggled to Europe will be set up.

The Heilongjiang River Basin can grow high-yield fiber hemp from Russia, and Vladivostok can be used as a flax rubbing area.

And the front-end supporting industry for this kind of blending has basically been completed. The foreshadowing of the first 20 years has made many things smooth now.

For example, the grass ash and soda industry developed due to the glass manufacturing industry in Dashun and the original soda production industry of sea salt calcination are necessary products for the combing and washing process in wool textiles.Without the soda industry, which was supported by the glass manufacturing industry in the previous 20 years, it would definitely not be possible.

Another example is the poor place in Raksha Country, where cotton growing is definitely not good, and sheep raising is probably not good enough, and the flax textile industry must be technically acceptable, it must be done, and there is no need to wear it.The technical exchanges between Dashun and Luocha Kingdom, and the communication between Liu Yu and the Russian Academy of Sciences, can quickly transfer good linen weaving technology from Russia.

The most important thing is to complete the cooperation with the Dutch financial capital and jointly destroy the Orange Group, the last hope of the Dutch craftsmen and guilds, so that there is a market for this secondary cotton cloth, and it can gradually accumulate and upgrade technology.

It is best for the Academy of Sciences to come up with this new era technology of broken cotton cloth and loose cotton yarn.

If you can’t get it out, you can also open up the market and accumulate capital by relying on Dashun’s outrageously low labor costs and accumulation of handicraft technology.

After calculating the various pre-sector industries, the rest, when returning to the capital during the Chinese New Year this year, and discussing with Shaanxi Capital Group about entering southern Sichuan, set up a project in the Academy of Sciences to solve the technical problems of mechanical textiles.

Looking at the timetable he had planned, Liu Yu kept it in mind and wrote a few letters for the merchant ships going to Europe to bring the letters to the people there.

Then, they crossed the river and headed for northern Jiangsu, preparing to fight the first battle of the Dashun reform.The part he wants to hit is not digging the river, but luring others to commit crimes.

(End of this chapter)