New Shun 1730

The difficulty of Dashun's external expansion now is to walk on one leg.

Capital holds the sword.

Who will hold the scriptures?

Relying only on the sword, some places are not easy to deal with.

That kind of place is different from the development of Liaodong.

In Liaodong, although the small peasant economy was smashed by Liu Yu, the culture was completely copied and pasted.

Some things that are "unthinkingly known", such as national identity, ethnic identity, and traditional identity, do not need to be considered at all.

There is no need to worry too much about the direction of Oceania.

With the star chart, there is a foundation for triangle jump. There have been some preparations and foreshadowing before. As long as the news that there are mountains of gold and silver there is released, a wave of operations similar to the Mississippi Company can be carried out, which can not only solve the funding problem of the war with Britain, but also occupy it by the way.

Digging gold makes farming profitable, and making food a commodity can make capital in Dashun capture people and send them there.

That place is tightly closed, and there will be no big problem in a hundred years.

It should be enough for Dashun to lead the new culture of the industrial age.

Honolulu is different.

A big problem of Dashun's external expansion is that the rich people are unwilling to go, and the poor people want to go but cannot.

Therefore, Oceania can only rely on "gold and silver mountains" to attract capital and capture people.

The development of America can only rely on furs, occupy the points first, and wait until the steamship can cross.

Places that rely on furs are not suitable for farming.

Capital has no interest in places suitable for farming.

Not to mention the width of the Pacific Ocean is too wide.

Even if it is the much narrower Atlantic Ocean, the reason why the Virginia Company's stall was yellow was that it was thinking about farming at the beginning. If it hadn't made money from growing tobacco, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Given this distance, Dashun's capital would lose its pants if it went to the west coast of America to farm.

And can the people who really lack land and can't make a living afford a ticket to America? Not to mention whether there are regular routes, even if there are ships, the ship owner doesn't do charity, how much does it cost to go there? How much money can you make by just going to Southeast Asia with a ship and the ability?

Honolulu has aboriginals.

There are quite a few of them.

It is about 200,000 to 300,000 or 1 million. It is hard to tell the exact number.

The land in Honolulu is very fertile and very suitable for farming.

But the religion there is a blank slate.

Let's put it this way. If only capital is allowed to go there to make trouble, once Christianity is spread there, it will not take a few years for religion to be washed away.

Not to mention those blank slates, even Dashun, Korea, and Japan, if the government did not intervene and the state power was directly involved, there would be big trouble.

What does capital care about what you believe in? It's OK as long as you can make money.

Honolulu is not very meaningful to the Dashun court at this time.

It is very meaningful to China.

At this moment, the fur traders and those who invested in the monopoly of the Whale Sea Fur Trading Company have the greatest benefits.

Because in winter, those who hunt fur in the Arctic can choose to spend the winter there.

Also, because the land there is fertile and relatively close, it is very suitable to be a grain producing area, providing grain for fur companies.

At the same time, it can also serve as a transit station for furs and trade goods.

Of course, because the kerosene industry has not yet developed at this time, whale oil is still the best lighting fuel at this time.

Especially since the industrial revolution in Dashun has already broken out, some workshop and factory-based industries are in urgent need of lighting materials. This place is also very suitable as a supply base for whaling.

And this place is too far away from Dashun’s homeland, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect a strict ban on religion like in Dashun’s homeland.

The world has been connected by sailing ships, and the speed of communication is much faster. Maps, technology, and longitude methods, these things cannot be kept secret.

Once the missionaries get there first, even if Dashun’s capital is stuck in place one step ahead, it is likely that it will soon turn to the Protestant set of things that have adapted to the development of capitalism.

Relying only on the sword and not on the scriptures, the sword may eventually be taken away by the scriptures, especially in such a place far away from the homeland.

It doesn’t matter whether Dashun is alive or dead. Importantly, Chinese immigrants to America could only rely on furs, gold from San Francisco, and silver from the old Silver Mountain.

As an excellent transit station, Honolulu still had about a few decades to form a special relationship between Honolulu and Dashun before the westward movement of European colonists.

Whether it was vassalage or cultural identity, it could not be solved by force alone. Dashun's ability to deliver there was limited, and it was obviously a money-losing commodity for the court.

The reason why Liu Yu wanted to find this group of people was to try to persuade them to go there, because to some extent, this was the pure idealistic Confucian scholar that Dashun could find most easily.

Moreover, the situation in Honolulu was particularly suitable for them to deal with.

Although those people were relatively backward in civilization, they were not too backward, and they were basically a class society.

In addition, the islanders themselves had primitive hair-binding customs, and the style of the early class society was somewhat similar to that of the Shang Dynasty, but it seemed to have gone a little further than the Shang Dynasty.

The leader was a class.

Under the leader was the scholar class.

Because they lived on the island, the Shi class included warriors, cultural workers, dancers, priests, and medical officers, and shipbuilders were also considered Shi.

Below the Shi class was the civilian class. They were mainly responsible for planting, fishing, etc.

Below the civilian class was the slave class, which was not very large in number.

Basically, the Zhou Li that some people dream of is definitely closer than the Dashun side in terms of economic foundation.

Historically, the upper class of Honolulu had resisted Christianity, and the reason was similar to that of some scholars and officials of Dashun.

"All precepts can be kept, but the one thing that cannot be taken as a concubine is difficult."

The upper class on the island is polygamous, and because they reject monogamy, the upper class refuses to believe in Christianity.

In addition, the island is very serious about male superiority and female inferiority. Basically, it is still the logic of men farming and women weaving, men outside and women inside. Although it is a primitive stage, regulations such as men eating and women not allowed to sit at the table have also appeared.

The cultural logic is also that men are yang and women are yin; men are strong and women are weak.

Because the economic foundation is here, they have to rely on farming, fishing, shipbuilding, and war to make a living. Since the class society has already taken shape, then under this economic foundation, male superiority and female inferiority are inevitable.

Under this circumstance, the infiltration of the upper class by the Confucian scholars of the retro school should be more reliable than that of the Christian missionaries. At least there will be no opposition from the upper class because of the request for divorce and abstinence from alcohol.

In addition, the land system and cultural customs are relatively more suitable for their retro attempts. Retro is definitely not possible in Dashun, as the economic development is completely different from that in ancient times, but it may be possible there.

Through knowledge, it is very easy to become a scholar class under the chief, and it is still very likely to help create a Confucian tributary state that is distorted into the caste system of the Korean country.

After all, the collapse of the old era still depends on the change of the economic foundation.

And Honolulu's economic foundation and land system have no chance to change in a short time.

Because to change, capital penetration, land privatization, mergers, plantations, farms and other things are needed to disintegrate the past economic foundation.

Historically, what disintegrated Honolulu's original economic foundation was the westward movement of the United States and the trade between the United States and Guangzhou.

What finally disintegrated all this was the outbreak of the American Civil War, which created a huge gap in the sugar and coffee markets in the north. A large amount of capital poured in to grow sugarcane, extract sugar, and grow coffee, which disintegrated the original economic foundation.

And for Dashun, this situation is difficult to happen.

After all, if Dashun capital wants to grow coffee and sugarcane, it will not come here to grow them. It is much more convenient in Nanyang.

There are many places in Nanyang where sugarcane and rice can be grown. The distance is close and the profit is higher. Dashun’s capital will go there if it is sick, disintegrating the local social structure.

Therefore, as long as the west coast of America has not developed, capital will not invest in agriculture in this place. And in the short term, it is impossible for the west coast of America to develop.

Many things that the retro Confucian scholars are obsessed with, such as the well field, the kingly system, the official system, the scholars and the people, etc., can be tried on the island. It is not a seamless connection, but it is definitely more compatible than doing it in the southern Jiangsu area of ​​Dashun.

Moreover, it should be that for a long time, the fur traders of Dashun only need a winter port and a limited grain supply area.

Honolulu will maintain a semi-static social structure for a long time.

It should be said that some ideas of the retro Confucian scholars still have a strong cultural appeal to the primitive society where the class has just emerged, such as Honolulu.

Especially the upper class, and the rejection should not be too high.

Maybe they can witness the process of changing human sacrifice to human figurines, which will help them deepen their understanding of the great progress of the Zhou Dynasty and Shang Dynasty, and also help them understand some things recorded in the ancient books of the pre-Qin Dynasty that may not be understood at this time.

In the letter, Liu Yu also said it clearly.

It is meaningless to conquer this place only by sword. Therefore, I hope that these Confucian scholars can make some attempts.

Transform them.

Assimilate them.

Make them vassals.

Implement the laws of the Three Dynasties and advance the well-field system.

Of course, the words are still more polite.

But after reading this letter, Meng Songlu can still deeply feel the sigh of his teacher before.

Although it was not stated explicitly, the meaning of the letter was still full of sarcasm.

Putting it all together, it can actually be summed up in one sentence: Let them find their own position.

In the future, you may be able to fantasize and daydream.

In the past, you can try to change it and lean towards the present.

However, the most critical moment is now, at this moment, you should rest for the real problems. You can't solve them.

As for now, you can only be a vassal of the background of the times, after compromise, integrate into the reform, seize the opportunity of the development of the textile industry in the era, and solve a bunch of problems in this small village community where there is no conflict between landlords and tenants and where idealistic Confucian scholars gather.

The words are very polite, but the more polite they are, the more depressed and suffocating I feel after reading them.

It seems to be saying that spreading the holy religion to that island and making it a vassal is the most likely and practical way for you to "make contributions" in reality.

As for other things, I am not optimistic.