Xinshun 1730

Chapter 999 is different from the past
"Now this dynasty is in a prosperous age, and the world is in peace. The business with police at the border is very different from the business in the prosperous age."

Although just a few years ago, the catastrophe of sea tide and yellow flood affected more than [-] prefectures and counties and nearly one million people were homeless. The cooks in salt stoves ate shrimp paste with raw maggots as a delicacy, at a quarter of the price of black slaves. You can deceive Nanyang, Subei, where more than [-] civilians were buried alive a few years ago, come to Beijing.

But when Liu Yu opened his mouth, he said "it's the time of prosperity".

And the Shaanxi businessman had no objection, and felt that it was true.This year seems to have not heard of human cannibalism, Yi Zishi, and human flesh twelve cents a catty. It's just that 45 people usually die in disaster years everywhere. How can we not have a good year?

They started their business by war, and their ancestors were the first bucket of gold from the military supplies of the castle border barracks.Now that the Mongols have been completely trapped and surrendered, the north no longer needs a large number of frontier troops. Some profitable businesses in the past were really difficult to do.

The trading in Shengping was really different from the past.

This businessman is also smart, thinking that the machines that Liu Yu led them to see yesterday were either related to salt or mines.

When there is war on the border, grain is transported, and when the world is at peace, salt is sold. These are the two most profitable businesses.

It’s just that he is a bit smart, and at most he dared to think that the imperial court might want to reorganize the Sichuan Salt to prepare for the southwestern reform of the soil and the strict control of the western Sichuan plateau to secure the passage to Tibet.

But they really dare not think that Dashun's reform will take such a big step this time, even thinking of assigning the Xiangchu monopoly sales area to Sichuan Salt.

"What the Duke said is true. The business during peacetime is very different from the business when there are police at the border. We are not afraid of the Duke's admonition. To put it bluntly, we are looking forward to the Emperor Wu opening the border. My ancestors This is how we managed to build our family business. Therefore, we are really happy to rebel against western Sichuan and reform the land and Miao barbarians before the imperial court."

"The move to enter Sichuan, as the Duke said, was withdrawn in Lianghuai after being beaten in disgrace; the second was the imperial court's use of troops in the southwest. We followed in as before to quell the old things of the alliance and barbarians."

"Now that we Qin merchants are entering Sichuan, the merchants in Sichuan only say that we are not qualified to worship Guan Erye, but should worship Sima Cuo and Zhonghui Deng Ai. I just feel that we have robbed them of their business."

"It's not true. It's like some Western tricks to deceive people. They were first spread in Fujian and Guangdong. When Fujian and Guangdong can't deceive people, if you come to Qin and Jin, you can still deceive people. If you are in Qin and Jin, you can't deceive people." If they are not, they will either enter Sichuan or go to Liaodong.”

"The same is true for us, because our ancestors sold salt. Although we were inferior to Huizhou merchants in various ways, we were driven away from Jiangnan. But if we can't win Huizhou merchants, can we still not win Sichuan merchants? We are proficient in selling salt. After all, people from Sichuan have never experienced the Lianghuai salt industry, their methods are crude, and they are still learning, so they cannot compete with us."

He followed what Liu Yu guessed he meant, and said at this time that he was trying to see the world, and said with a flattering smile: "If the imperial court wants to cheer up the salt in Sichuan, it doesn't have to use people from Shu, it's common to use people from Qin, or even worse." it is good."

Hearing this, Liu Yu smiled and said: "You will see the stitches. This matter, the imperial court meant that it is not good to eat alone. You have seen the machines of the Academy of Sciences before, and you know that the Songjiang Mansion has a lot of seas in the past few years. trade."

"If it was in the past, the court really wouldn't dare to say something."

"Nowadays, it can be said that the imperial court now needs technology and technology, and capital and capital."

"You also know in your heart that whether it is Qin Shang or Huai Shang, they all just followed the trend. The only one who creates the power of the world is the imperial court."

"To put it bluntly, if the imperial court wants to support someone now, just find a big businessman in Sichuan. Lack of money? Lend capital; Lack of technology? Help install steam engines. Have you ever fought? You all know that you don't rely on your own ability The world is unparalleled, just caught up with the trend."

"In the past, the imperial court could only provide outlets."

"Now, the imperial court has the ability to support chaebols. Support whoever you want to support."

"I want to support Songjiang Prefecture. Within 20 years, Guangdong's foreign trade will decline. Sichuan Salt is even more so. I'm not alarmist, am I?"

The Shaanxi businessman nodded repeatedly without any expression of disbelief.

Convince yourself.

After all, Liu Yu was telling the truth.

The imperial court...or in other words, the power possessed by the imperial court, which many people in the imperial court do not know, has really reached the point where it can support several chaebols.

Salt itself is the easiest way to foster chaebols. As an extension of the monopoly power under the feudal imperial power, among the big salt merchants that have appeared since the previous dynasty, which one has no shadow of the imperial court behind it?

However, because the Lianghuai salt merchants and the Shanxi and Shanxi salt merchants of the previous dynasty took the initiative to move closer to the imperial court, they themselves became part of the imperial court by relying on the imperial examination.

But now, the imperial court that Liu Yu mentioned is more like a monster that is independent from the old one in the past, a brand new one, detached from the outside world, and beginning to have sanity.

The behavior of the previous court was unconscious.

For example, the opening of China and France led to the great salt merchants, and the great salt merchants gradually entered the imperial court through the means of imperial examinations and became part of the imperial court consciousness.

The whole process, the court in the abstract sense, was unconscious.

There is neither the awareness of actively cultivating a group of large salt merchants in China and France, nor the awareness of actively absorbing these large salt merchants as the ruling core.

But now, the imperial court in the abstract sense, the awakened psychic monster, is conscious.

In a conscious situation, take the initiative to cultivate a group of controllable chaebols.

To the Shaanxi businessmen, Liu Yu was really not trying to scare them, but just telling the truth.

What do Shaanxi businessmen have?

Do you have technology?

No.

The technology is made by Sichuanese craftsmen.

Have land?

No.

Otherwise, there is no need to rent land.

So what do Shaanxi businessmen have?

have capital.

There is almost completely unregulated capital in Dashun.

As for the "imperial court" that Liu Yu mentioned, what is there now?

It's just that what Shaanxi merchants don't have, the imperial court has.

There are merchants in Shaanxi, and the imperial court seems to have no shortage.

Liu Yu said that he was supporting "Sichuan Merchants", but to the ears of Shaanxi businessmen, there was something in Liu Yu's words - standing behind Liu Yu was not Sichuan Merchants Capital, but another capital group.

In the same way, the "competition" Liu Yu mentioned, after watching the steam engine, the businessmen in Shaanxi understood that they couldn't compete.

Even under the most perfect rules and systems conceived by businessmen, it cannot be contested.

Those of them who made their fortunes by relying on war logistics, especially the first batch of entrepreneurs, rather than the follow-up Jiaoliang dandy, are very clear: their own struggle can only be attached to the process of history, not the huge wealth accumulated by their geniuses. family business.

Therefore, they are also very clear that it is too easy for the imperial court to support a group of new chaebols.

For example, now Liu Yu went to Zigong, took a few laps, wrote down the list of all the merchants who operated the salt well there, and then drew lots.

He closed his eyes and caught one, named Wang Ermazi.Then say, it's up to you.

Lack of money?give loan.

Lack of technology?Academy of Steam Engine Support.

lack of relationship?People supported by the imperial court don't have to think about relationships.

It is inevitable that Wang Ermazi will become the richest man in southern Sichuan within five years at the most.

Liu Yu spent 20 years building the foundation for Dashun.

These 20 years of foundation building were not done in vain.

Since the establishment of the foundation, many officials who have fallen behind the times actually don't even know that the power that the imperial court can mobilize now is almost several times that of 20 years ago.

Especially in offshore areas, the resources that can be mobilized are more than four or five times more than that.

It's just that this power is hidden a bit.

Just like rice in Siam, is Siam a province of Dashun?no.

Is the rice in Siam the rice in Dashun?
Nor is it.

But is Siamese rice a resource that Dashun can mobilize?
obviously.And as long as Dashun's navy continues to rule east of Malacca for one day, it will always be.

The same is true for the power that is held in the hands of the imperial court now, which people in the old era could not see clearly.

Another example is the maritime group that trained a large number of sailors and was able to sail to Europe and sell goods in Japan. Whether the ship, the sailors, or the self-defense cannons on the ship, are they from the Dashun court?

No.

But when the imperial court needs them, are these merchant ships, sailors, cannons, and captains the forces at the imperial court's disposal?
Yes.And now, even if Dashun's navy is completely wiped out, within three years, it will still be able to build a top five fleet in the world with full crew, sufficient sailors, merchant ship captain and first mate who have trans-ocean sailing experience.

It is not only the resources that are collected into the national treasury that can be mobilized by the state.

As for the Dashun 20 years ago and the previous dynasties, the resources that could be mobilized all the time, after the collapse of the land equalization law, are actually only the resources of the national treasury and "salt".

After the Ming Dynasty's military household system collapsed, there was actually only one "salt law" left in the national defense mobilization force.

Liu Yu's "foundation" for Dashun in the past 20 years, the foundation built is not reflected in the treasury revenue, or even at all.

Looking at the treasury revenue, it is not obvious that Dashun has become stronger.

Instead, Dashun's mobilization ability and disposable resources directly opened up the generation gap with neighboring countries.

Relying on the advantage of size, that is not called generation difference.

It is this generation gap that makes Dashun's salt administration reform so radical.

Because the economic base determines the salt policy of Dashun, and the salt policy of Daming is not the same at all.

The defense mobilization of the Ming Dynasty can only rely on fiscal revenue and salt administration to allocate resources.

Dashun's salt government has already been ranked among the top three in Dashun's national defense mobilization system.

There is a saying that the Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck.

Those who can feel this change are those in the center of the imperial court; the other is these big businessmen.

Businessmen can't see clearly and can't control things like mobilizing forces.

But they can intuitively understand a sentence.

"Seeing him rise from a tall building."

The high-rise building of the Songjiang Prefecture Maritime Group was built with their own eyes, and they could even hear the rattling sound.

So at this time, the words Liu Yu and the Shaanxi businessman said had a different taste from before.

In the past, when officials of the imperial court talked to businessmen, it was a struggle between power and money, and it was suppressed by power.

But now, what Liu Yu said was a dialogue between capital and capital, and Quan didn't even need to come forward, or even bother to do so.

The businessman had to accept the previous mode of speaking, and he was unwilling to accept it, thinking that one day his descendants would become officials through the imperial examination, otherwise they would always be dwarfs.

Now, it is Liu Yu who stands within the rules that the businessman likes, directly breaking the defense of the Shaanxi businessman.

Standing within the rules of the businessman, Liu Yu voluntarily gave up the power that the businessman did not have to speak.

And the power that he didn't use first is the most powerful power in the hands of the Duke of his dynasty.

Songjiang capital and steam engine are powerful forces in Liu Yu's eyes, but they are not the most powerful forces in the eyes of Shaanxi businessmen at this time.

The most powerful power in Liu Yu's hands, in the eyes of Shaanxi businessmen, is the red gate of his house, the gilded bronze animal head, the main hall with seven pillars, the plaque made by imperial edict, and the deep blue color of the water to the extreme. apparel.

That shabby blue dress is worthless. If you count it with money, wealthy merchants can buy it from Yilipu to Xi'an. There are tailors in Xijing who can make it, but they just can't wear it.The mansion that broke the state is worthless. Dashun can afford to build such a state mansion. The rich merchants only count the money, no less than two or three hundred, but they can't even build a gate.

This is the strongest power that Liu Yu possesses in the eyes of Shaanxi businessmen.

But Liu Yu didn't use this power, but used the rules that businessmen like, the rules of competition, capital, and technology, directly breaking the defense of Shaanxi businessmen.

(End of this chapter)