New Shun 1730

Speaking of demands, these people are very excited.

Although what Liu Yu wants to say must be to encourage the upcoming world war for markets and colonies.

But once this kind of thing is mentioned, it will eventually involve the relationship between capital and the regime.

History always repeats itself.

In the original history, there were three small things related to capital companies, which were not big, and basically understood what these emerging classes were.

The first one was the Russian American Company in the original history, which was the successor of the group of people who had not yet been established but had conflicts with Dashun over the Aleutian Islands and Alaska over the issue of fur competition.

At that time, in order to get the support of Britain, France and the United States on the Balkan issue and the Greek issue, Russia gave up part of the interests of the Russian American Company. In addition, after the death of the company's founder and major shareholder, the Tsarist Russian government took the opportunity to invest in a part of the shares. It was not a dry share, but it was losing money every year.

Maybe the Russian court thought that the company was not worth much, so it traded with Britain, France, the United States, etc. As a result, the company suddenly became chaotic. No matter how stupid the Tsar was, he could see the trick: since it was losing money and not making a profit, why was it so chaotic?

In the end, the government asked for an audit.

Then, the Decembrists broke out in an uprising.

One of the leaders of the Decembrists who was eventually sentenced to death, Ryleyev, was the general secretary of the Russian American Trade Company and actually presided over the daily work of the company.

The general management office of the Russian American Company in St. Petersburg, No. 72 Moika Street, was the uprising headquarters of the mutinous nobles. After the mutiny failed, the company's head burned a large number of company files.

Of course, this is definitely not the main reason for the Decembrists. But it is certainly not reasonable to say that there is no relationship at all.

After all, the Tsar himself commented on a company executive who participated in the mutiny, "You guys are really fucking good." In Russian, company and this group of people are the same word. It is similar to the homophonic pun in Chinese.

The second thing is that the British East India Company continued to develop, and the British government established a "parallel East India Company".

Shortly after its establishment, the shareholders of the real East India Company used the method of shadow shareholding to completely control the parallel East India Company, continued to maintain the company's full monopoly, and always insisted on the policy that everyone above 500 pounds is equal, and if you have 10,000 shares, you have one vote, to prevent the government from holding control.

After that, should we protect the East India Company, release the tea tax, collect the window tax, and collect taxes in North America? Or not protect the East India Company? In the end, many problems were triggered and a series of consequences were caused.

Including the release of the high tea tax in Wuyi, Fujian, which led to the Boston Tea Party, which caused North American smugglers to suffer huge losses and resist.

The third thing is the original history of Huainan and Northern Jiangsu salt reform reclamation. The official silver of the Governor of Liangjiang was lent to the Xingken Company, causing a deficit, but then the Governor was changed to check the accounts, and finally instigated the Governor of Jiangsu to support the Xinhai Revolution, and then all the accounts were burned.

These three things actually reflect the power of the merchant class.

Whether it was the Russian-American Company that seized Alaska, the salt reclamation that laid the foundation for the vast fertile land in northern Jiangsu, or the East India Company that seized India.

These are all power.

But once this power gets out of control, it dares to do anything.

It seems that, to put it in a good way, when the imperial power tries to share the interests of these merchants, they will definitely find a way to resist, and they will use various unexpected ways.

Money, most of the time, is better than slogans.

However, the situation of Dashun is really special.

Although the fire is boiling now, these emerging classes of Dashun also have to face the significance of the emperor's southern tour and review of the army and navy as mentioned by Cheng Tingzuo.

They are worried that the court will see that they are making too much money, and will take action to control, seize, or increase taxes.

After all, the monopoly right of the buying system is not a lifetime authorization, but a payment once a year. Whether it will be contracted to you next time, or whether the contract price will be the same next time, it is uncertain.

Seeing that the emperor was about to come to the southern tour, only God knew what these emerging classes really thought.

Because these emerging classes lived in Dashun and were in the special environment of Dashun.

Therefore, they never had the worldview of the merchants in the Netherlands and other countries, that is, trying to build a new idea of ​​"the freedom of capital is sacred, reasonable, divine, and self-evident".

It's not that they don't want to, but it's obviously unrealistic and they don't dare to think about it at all.

It's one thing to have the current situation and hope that the current situation will continue.

It's another thing to have the current situation and think that the current policies and laws are sacred, inviolable, natural, self-evident, etc.

To be honest, they are not very satisfied with the current Dashun policies such as financial control, land control, currency exchange, investment restrictions, etc.

But they really don't dare to think that these things restrict them, that is, they want to directly shout slogans to overthrow all these things that restrict them.

Because they knew very well that if they did so, it would be like going against the imperial power, the literati and the small farmers, and they would die without knowing how they died.

Therefore, their attitude towards the imperial power was very subtle.

They were afraid that the imperial power would see them making a fortune, intervene too much, and plunder their wealth.

But they had to rely on the extension of the imperial power, and look forward to the emperor's wisdom to protect their hard-won situation.

This was very different from the situation in Europe.

In these trades, because Liu Yu needed help in the court, a lot of noble forces and good family forces were mixed in. This made these external monopoly trading companies create a special kind of Dashun. The "book" of the upper class.

"Books" can be shaped and are closely related to economic foundation and tradition.

Although Liu Yu talks about free trade all day long, what he says is completely different from his approach of fully supporting monopoly companies.

Relatively speaking, the "Classics" believed by the Dashun nobles and the upper class Liangjiazi are more inclined to the French side.

That is, Yusti’s article advocating mercantilism, “Two opinions of the business aristocrats who hold different opinions from the military aristocrats or whether the aristocracy’s business is beneficial to the country.”

The ideas inside are of course more radical and twisted, but they provide a special "sacredness" for Dashun's military aristocracy to do business.

[Domestic trade, annexing land, plundering people, buying low and selling high are the behaviors of "profiteers\