New Shun 1730

The words are just ordinary words.

But the scene described in the words is really scary.

But Meng Songlu also knows that Liu Yu is not exaggerating.

The impact of the abandoned canal has actually only been completely eliminated in Jiangsu Province so far, relying on the transformation of hundreds of thousands of idle workers and the rapid expansion of foreign trade.

From the capital to northern Anhui, the legacy of the abandoned canal has only been suppressed, but not solved.

Peasant uprisings are terrible.

If industrialists and river transport workers are involved in the peasant uprising, the matter will be even bigger.

With the rise of sea transportation, the Yellow River bursting is no longer a problem to be avoided.

Dashun’s options are actually very limited.

Liu Yu said, or many people in the court said, if the canal is abandoned and sea transportation is prosperous, then the Huai River can be controlled.

There are no less than ten thousand people who dare to say these words, both in the temple and in the rivers and lakes.

But, if you say that I can cure the Yellow River...

There is no one in Dashun who dares to say this.

It can't be cured.

This is a reality.

Jiangsu already accounts for half of the world's fiscal revenue.

Huainan Reclamation Area provides the first long-staple cotton production in Dashun.

Xuzhou coal has a close relationship with Songsu industry and commerce, and industry and commerce have a close relationship with the imperial court's taxes.

These very realistic things are also as Liu Yu said: when the canal was abandoned, the traditional Yellow River flood policy of protecting the north but not the south was declared over.

Dashun will not choose to let the Yellow River flood to the south.

The rise of sea transportation has made the relationship between Dashun and Songsu closer. With the prosperity of sea transportation, money and grain, there is room for operation whether it is suppression or relief.

This sentence does not need to be said so bluntly.

The subtext is that if the Yellow River breaks from Henan to the north, the court may acquiesce to its seizure of the Jishui River into the sea, rather than thinking about restoring the old course of the Yellow River.

And Liu Yu's reforms in recent years and the budding development of capitalism in Jiangsu have actually made Dashun's post-break policy for the Yellow River burst have a certain tendency.

The Guandong region and Liaohe Plain can provide food for millions of people.

I dare not say anything else, but there is enough sorghum rice.

The policy of abandoning the protection of the north but not the south means that the victims basically appear in northern Henan, southwestern Shandong, northwestern Shandong, and southeastern Hebei.

If the court is willing, people from these places can be organized to go to Guandong.

The Liaohe River Basin is a place that capital likes because commercial soybeans can be grown there.

And there are still a lot of land outside the Liaohe transportation line.

Relying on Jiangsu's efforts to bring the Liaohe River Basin into the system of commercial production in recent years, sorghum, as a by-product of soybean replacement, can provide a certain amount of food for immigrants.

This general direction makes "immigration" itself a priority option for solving the post-disaster problems of the Yellow River.

"Immigration" is a priority option.

Where to "immigrate" is just a subordinate option of this priority option.

Once the incident really happens, if there is a certain immigration base on the west coast of America, then immigrating to the west coast of America will become a not-too-strange statement.

Of course, the premise is that there can really be food there to sustain the survival of immigrants in the first few years.

In fact, even though Liu Yu said it so solemnly, he still hid many things. These hidden things were generally caused by his distrust of the court.

He would rather believe that he could guide the power of capital, and he did not believe in the consciousness and conscience of the feudal rulers.

Because there was no need for the Yellow River to burst, the industry and commerce in Lingnan were kicked over by Liu Yu, leaving many problems. If the feudal rulers really had national consciousness and conscience, they should organize immigrants to Southeast Asia.

But so far, they have not done it, but have taken the approach of constantly suppressing small-scale uprisings because it is cheaper.

If the Yellow River really bursts, it can affect the feudal rulers to make "conscientious" immigration actions. To a greater extent, it is because the southeast of Shanxi, northwest of Shandong, and southwest of Shandong are too damn close to the capital, and they are afraid of something big.

Therefore, when it comes to immigrating to the west coast of America and occupying a pit, Liu Yu is more willing to guide the power of capital, and regards the power of the court as an additional option.

Since we have to rely on capital, we need to create a comfortable environment for capital.

Black slaves are very expensive on the East Coast.

But at this time, they are worthless on the West Coast.

Because on the East Coast, a slave can create 130 yuan of value every year.

The things grown are sold in the European market.

Slave owners did not buy some slaves out of nothing to do and become feudal estate owners to be self-sufficient. This was done in the Spanish colonies; the North American colonies were market-oriented.

Now the situation is even more special for Dashun.

Dashun capital tried to immigrate to the West Coast, but failed.

Because the material basis, legal conditions, and land control cannot be copied in the past.

When they got there, the people revolted and fled if they were oppressed too much.

If the oppression was not too light, capital would find itself doing charity.

Now, what keeps Dashun from expanding on the West Coast of America is not the grand ideal of expanding the national production space.

It is just the extremely vulgar and money-smelling sea dragon skin at 55 yuan per piece, otter skin at 8 yuan per piece, seal skin at 1.5 yuan per piece, and the fat of marine mammals that can be exchanged for a pile of silver in a ship.

The development of Dashun's local industry and commerce, the consumption demand of the middle and upper classes, the love of fur luxury goods by the noble class, and the fur rewards from the reclamation corps of good families in the northwest and northeast regions are the fundamental reasons for Dashun's development of the distant west coast of America, which is tens of thousands of miles away.

However, this kind of trade will not last long. Dashun wiped out the sea cow in less than ten years.

The non-renewable nature of fur trade and the special nature of fur - this broken thing is not like cotton cloth, which needs to be patched when worn in winter and autumn. Fur is likely to last for ten or eight years without breaking, and may even be a family heirloom.

Relying on fur trade for immigration, 30,000 to 50,000 people are the limit, and it is impossible to have more.

So, when the fur trade is no longer likely to grow significantly, what is the next point to trigger capital investment immigration?

It can only be gold and silver mines.

Otherwise, what else can it be?

Capital goes to the west coast to grow food, relying on sailing ships to cross the Pacific Ocean and compete with the rice that is harvested three or four times a year in Nanyang and the excellent soybeans in Kanto?

This is definitely not possible.

But if gold and silver mines are found, then growing crops will be profitable.

Historically, the opportunity for Chinese to develop in Hawaii was the outbreak of the American Civil War.

The Chinese were keenly aware that there would be a wave of favorable periods for southern trade goods such as sugar and coffee, and they decisively invested in plantations, developed the sugar industry, and made a fortune.

Moreover, it was not just the Chinese, but the overall trend of capital that directly triggered the collapse of the old economic foundation in Hawaii.

A large amount of capital entered the market to buy land, reclaim wasteland, plantations, and recruit workers.

Within a few years, the population ratio was rapidly unbalanced.

So, for Dashun, how to attract Dashun's capital to enter Honolulu? Enter the west coast of America?

Simple, just an opportunity of "opening plantations" and "hiring people to cultivate land is profitable", and capital will flock in.

Just like the Liaohe area, Dashun had a phobia of the late Ming Dynasty. After so long, the number of immigrants was not as many as the number of people Liu Yu had in Jiangsu in just a few years to commercialize soybeans.

The development of America was the last plan of Liu Yu's mission to govern Songsu. Just like the Jinghai immigration plan he set for Jinghai Jiedushi, it was a long-term plan, but the first step must be taken well.

In short, three steps.

The first step was to let Meng Songlu and others go to Honolulu to support the unification of the chiefs and obtain a stable political environment.

Through their practical level, boost the productivity of Honolulu and infiltrate the political high level of Honolulu.

He gave Meng Songlu two or three years, but he could actually accept three to five years.

The second step was to transform the fur company and dig for gold in the Yukon River area.

Honolulu was used as a logistics supply base and food base to support the gold rush from the mouth of the Yukon River to the interior of the Yukon River.

This was very favorable for Dashun.

Because the mouth of the Yukon River was in the Pacific Ocean.

Now there is no railway, and the estuary and river are the best transportation and expansion lines.

Taking advantage of the situation of the First World War, the ginseng and sable fur issue caused by the previous Huifa war led to the competition between Britain and France in North America.

Dashun watched the show in the early stage. When France could not hold on, it exchanged India and Dashun was defeated.

During the show, the news that there was gold in the Yukon Valley was released to attract capital to capture people from Dashun to dig gold.

Digging gold can bring a wave of investment in planting and reclamation in Honolulu and the west coast of America.

Digging gold makes growing grain profitable.

Not digging gold and growing grain on the west coast is a mental illness. Capital is to make a profit and to treat grain as a commodity. If no one consumes it, what is the point of growing grain?

Digging gold is not just digging gold, but a gold digger drives farmers, blacksmiths, craftsmen, bricklayers, etc.

The third step is a matter for the future, depending on how the First World War is fought.

Before the end of the First World War, Dashun will not expand in the direction of San Francisco, and Liu Yu will strictly keep the name "Jinshan" confidential.

Because of World War I, Dashun basically wanted to completely abolish Britain and Portugal, and completely drive the forces of both sides to the west of Persia.

This also means that Dashun must be an ally of Spain for a period of time.

During this period, on the west coast of America, it can only avoid conflicts with Spain.

However, once World War I is over, Europe will most likely be bombed, and Dashun can directly turn its face and disown people.

At that time, with the population base and immigration base laid by Honolulu and Yukon River gold mines, the initiative will be in the hands of Dashun.

Is it to instigate a colonial uprising?

Or to help the most powerful imperial reactionary force of the Spanish Empire in America in exchange for land?

This is still to believe in the wisdom of future generations.

In short, Dashun will never touch the most valuable San Francisco area now, and Liu Yu will never let it go. Letting it go will be like making wedding clothes for others.

Fur-Honolulu agriculture-Yukon River mining, these two lines are the pillars of Dashun's development of the west coast.

In fact, not too many people are needed.

After the First World War, there were about 400,000 to 500,000 people digging for gold in Honolulu, the west coast, the Yukon River, or Seattle, including farmers and hired farmhands. The rest would be easy to deal with.

The Yellow River had pity on its children, so it held back until the end of the First World War before bursting. It was only natural that Dashun chose to move a large number of people from Shandong, Henan, and southern Hebei to the west coast. If the centralized power of Dashun had not collapsed at that time.

If it collapses, it doesn't matter. The profit-seeking nature of capital will accomplish this mission.

So Meng Songlu's trip is very critical.

He has to meet the food demand that can support Dashun to dig gold in the Yukon River within a few years.

So using local labor is the best choice.

The land tax, slaves, well fields, public fields, etc. in "Zhou Li" will allow local rulers to have enough food that can be exported to ensure the needs of Dashun's gold digging immigrants.

At this time, a society with class differentiation and a clear ruling class can provide stability and considerable food exports. The ruling class will collect food from the bottom and use it as a commodity. Just like the Lee Dynasty of Korea constantly exported rice to Songsu at this time, the actual per capita food possession was much lower than that of Dashun.

There are many things to buy in Honolulu, iron tools, cloth, silk, muskets, and cannons, but they all have to be exchanged for food.

To put it cruelly, when gold mining began and capital felt that reclamation was profitable, viruses such as smallpox and syphilis would basically reduce the local population of Honolulu to only 200,000 or 300,000.

At that time, even if capital did not want to immigrate from the distant Dashun, it could not.

Because there were no people in nearby places, they could only choose to bring people from Shandong, Henan and other places to supplement the scarce labor force.

Now it is a loss to transport people there. When gold mining can be carried out, it will be profitable to transport people there. The deformed industry increases the population; with the increase in population, normal business will also appear.

However, Liu Yu cannot clearly tell Meng Songlu about these cruel realities.

Or throw out a great significance, the threat of the Yellow River disaster, and the potential possibility of millions of disaster victims, and tie this matter, which is obviously foreign expansion and colonization, to the traditional world society.

In any case, the Yellow River flood control and flood relief are all major events in the traditional world society. All this can make Confucian scholars like Meng Songlu feel that they are doing something very meaningful and in line with the righteousness in their hearts.

On the other hand, if it is for gold digging, it will probably sound vulgar.

For people with faith, let them do something, and it is best to let them feel that what they do is meaningful. But my meaning is not your meaning. So I have to express my meaning with your meaning.