New Shun 1730

As more and more people from the practical learning school went to the South Ocean and North America, some things that had been discussed many times during the "Great Awakening" in the late Ming Dynasty could no longer be covered up.

At the beginning, many people ridiculed the Confucian retro-radical reformists, saying that they "don't even know arithmetic, and mathematics is also one of the six arts of a gentleman, and they still claim to be Confucian scholars... According to your ideas, one household has 50 acres of land. Do you think there are so many acres of land in the world?"

At first, Yan Yuan was too radical and was accused of "harming the business of rich households and seizing their land, which is not the right way."

Then Li Zhen and others improved this radical idea, and then Wang Yuan finally came up with a relatively complete "30-year redemption" plan.

If we say that before the level of science and technology was reached, this idea was utopian and even somewhat reactionary - Li Zhen could not solve the contradiction between too many people and too little land. The problem that he himself did not solve in his idea was that "it might be difficult for industry and commerce to accommodate such a large population"; and reactionary means that behind this set of plans, there are also very strict hierarchical systems of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, and that only farmers have land and that industry and commerce cannot take land.

Well, now, many problems can be solved in theory at the technical level.

For example, the land in Australia may be worse, but the land in North America is really good. No matter how bad Maple Bay is, it is better than places like Gansu with little rain, and better than the little flat land on the southwest mountains where corn can be grown.

For example, industry and commerce, with the development of industry, Li Zhen felt that his idea was utopian during his lifetime. The problem of "industry and commerce cannot accommodate too many people" has also seen the dawn of solution.

When technology, or the level of productivity - navigation, shipbuilding, navigation, mathematics and astronomy, which are also productivity - has reached a theoretically feasible level, why not do it? This will make many people wonder.

The contradiction between people and land in Dashun is about to reach an irreversible point.

Historically, after the Yellow River burst, farmers in Shandong and Jiangsu would often arm themselves to fight around Weishan Lake, which lasted until the 1960s.

Not to mention the conflicts between natives and Hakkas, the expulsion of Miao people and the landownerization of Mongolian nobles caused by reclamation of Mongolia, which led to the uprising of herdsmen and the killing of tenants, as well as the White Lotus Rebellion, which had a great impact.

Songsu is not the Netherlands, and it can't be the Netherlands.

The general "world" thinking of Dashun makes those who go one step ahead still think of the world, and it can't be the Dutch and Spanish model.

This world naturally includes people from Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Gansu and other places.

Jiangnan is a people, and people from other places are also people.

Therefore, some radical ideas are inevitable. Since he has the world in his heart, he will naturally look to a place in the temperate zone, the northern hemisphere, with a humid and flat climate, the lowest temperature in winter is only minus 2 or 3 degrees, with maple trees, birch trees, poplar trees, wheat, corn and vegetables, rivers, very suitable for water conservancy dam irrigation, and a small population and a lot of land.

Even if, in fact, this thing is being done, such as the current method of setting up a stage for gold mines and immigrants performing.

But many people think it is still too slow, why not seize the day and solve this problem with the most violent means? In other words, use the most violent and radical means to reduce the pain of the new era giving birth from the mother of the old era?

It is different from what some people imagine, and even completely opposite.

Since Mi Ziming sent Swedish prisoners of war back to Gothenburg, the exchanges between Dashun and Europe have gradually deepened. The more he knows about Europe, in this era of "primitive accumulation"...

It's good to learn from others' experience.

It's good to learn from history and from the barbarians.

Even the so-called learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians.

These people of the Dashun School of Realism, after reviewing and attacking, the direction of attack was directly in the direction of "strengthening centralization", not the other way around.

Inheriting from the Ming Dynasty.

Some things, whether they are alluding to historical studies or expressing one's aspirations through the past, in short, many people use the events of the Ming Dynasty to express their own ideas.

It is said that the court of the previous dynasty did not even have the right to issue banknotes. After the silver reform, the moment when silver was determined to be used as tax, it was equivalent to handing over the right to issue banknotes to the big merchants on the southeast coast. Not to mention the West, even in Japan, the shogunate also had the right to issue banknotes - issuing copper coins, but collecting taxes in silver, which is not called the right to issue banknotes. Because copper coins are not subsidiary coins, but are similar to the relationship between domestic and foreign currencies, the exchange price fluctuates according to the exchange rate, and is not a fixed amount of subsidiary coins, so in fact, there is no right to issue banknotes, but it is "free" to give the right to issue banknotes to merchants. Isn't this bullshit?

It is said that the court of the previous dynasty could not even manage the customs. With such a large trade volume, copper coins could be converted into silver. The tax collection capacity was far behind that of the United Kingdom.

It is said that countries like Prussia know how to use fiscal subsidies to subsidize the textile industry, but here, there is no economic policy at all, relying entirely on free development. They don’t even have the brains to learn from the French Ministry of Finance to organize silk production and export to obtain fiscal revenue.

It is said that in order to control the monopoly of tea, the Netherlands did not hesitate to use various means to strangle the Ostend Company and slaughter the British East India Company. Here, tea is a specialty, but they don’t know to monopolize the tea export tax.

In this era of primitive accumulation, the Dashun people opened their eyes to the world at this time, and saw only four words.

"National power".

This is completely different from the time when we looked at the world again after the European Spring of 1848. At that time, primitive accumulation had been completed, and the bourgeoisie of various countries had basically come to power. Even in the next few years, China's handicraft industry could barely compete with the mechanical industry that was blocked by ocean freight.

That was what we saw at that time.

Now, this is what we see.

Because, after all, even the genuine "The Wealth of Nations" would not appear until a few years later, and after it appeared, it was not British policy, but anti-British policy.

At this time, looking outward, all we could see was mercantilism, strengthening centralization, and strong intervention - as long as mercantilism does not "take the words literally", we should know that the "light commerce" in "heavy agriculture and light commerce" is not a relative relationship.

Combined with the tradition that has always been there, many radicals in the practical school believe that the strength of "learning from the strong skills of foreigners" should be removed from the shell and taken from the core.

For example, the strength of Britain lies in its ability to levy taxes to support such a large fleet. A small island country was able to build a fleet of the same size as Dashun by taxation.

So, the core of this is not that Dashun wants to build a larger fleet, but that "it wants to use the means of raising money and building ships by Britain to promote immigration." Since Britain can concentrate its efforts on major events and build such a fleet, then Dashun can't concentrate its efforts on large-scale immigration by learning from the barbarians?

"Learning from the barbarians" in different eras is different. Just like at this time, learning from the barbarians is impossible to learn from free trade, openness and tolerance, because the barbarians themselves don't have these things at this time, how can they learn?

How can they learn from something that doesn't exist at this time?

So it is more appropriate to learn at this time than to learn later. What is learned later is the superstructure after getting rich; what is learned now is the superstructure of how to get rich.

Even if you don't need to distinguish carefully, look through the phenomenon to see the essence, and only look at the phenomenon, you won't be fooled.

And learning things such as heresy trials, the unity of church and state, and witch trials is really unnecessary.

There is a very extreme Confucian school in the local area. Yan Yuan and others clearly proposed to "physically eliminate" the pagans - those over 60 years old can be given a light sentence out of respect for the elders; under 60 years old, even monks and Taoists must be physically eliminated if they do not return to secular life.

So, if we want to communicate with foreign countries, we must learn something.

Then, in addition to military technology and science rather than engineering, I am afraid that what we can learn at this time is to concentrate our efforts on major events, find ways to collect taxes, find ways to use a large amount of tax revenue to do some things that need to be done, strengthen control, strengthen supervision, strengthen centralization and administrative efficiency.

In short, Liu Yu was originally a radical in Dashun.

However, now, some radicals in the practical school think that Liu Yu is too conservative, a conservative, or even an old conservative.

"Xingguo Gong is old..."

This sentence, which is circulated among the radicals in the practical school, is not a statement of a fact about age, but has its special meaning.

Just like these people who are looking for gold and exploring and mapping on the west coast of North America at this time.

In this day and age, it is impossible for children from wealthy and powerful families to learn exploration and mapping. Because the places they have to go are either snow-capped plateaus, vast deserts, tropical rainforests, or foreign lands full of indigenous people.

Only children without money will learn industries such as mapping to make a living.

And it just so happens that the children of these poor families are sent to various places for surveying and mapping, and can see the vast plains, fertile land, and thousands of miles of potential land overseas.

What would they think?

When they think about their parents' little land and how they live, they naturally think that the top priority of the court now is to concentrate on immigration and realize the wish of "a family of five and a hundred acres of land".

But what is Liu Yu doing?

He is doing things slowly, whether it is in Shandong or guiding the North American gold digging immigration method at this time, in their opinion, it is too slow. I always feel that Liu Yu is doing things now, compared with the vigorous and resolute work in Songsu and the salt and water reform, he is probably really old.

Even out of inertia, many people would still stand up to support the court's approach at the first time, and even be willing to say things like "this is a necessary price."

This idea gradually sprouted in the minds of the younger generation of practical school.

Specifically, as the prospecting team went up the river to find gold mines, they saw the dense jungle, fertile land, and enjoyed the warm but not too hot summer, which made their impulse stronger.

Many surveyors have been to Southeast Asia and even Africa.

If they were asked to choose, would they prefer Southeast Asia or the west coast of North America? This is self-evident. Anyone born in a temperate zone likes distinct four seasons, and loves maple trees far more than coconut trees, and tigers and leopards far more than malaria and fever.

The young people in the prospecting team have also learned simple economics, although it is a simplified version of a simplified version.

So they also know that with the vast ocean separating them, it is not possible to imitate the Southeast Asian model - the Southeast Asian model is to force development and promote immigration by the state. For example, the transfer of grain to rice plantations in Nanyang was equivalent to the imperial court using the grain tax in Jiangnan and the loss collection after the abolition of canal transportation, etc., to invest in Nanyang and support the large-scale development and immigration of Nanyang.

The premise of the Nanyang model is that Nanyang rice is indeed cheaper than Jiangnan rice.

This model cannot be used in North America. Unless North America can grow silver grass and gold trees, the Nanyang model cannot be used.

So they also understand that the method of using gold mines as a platform is correct.

But the problem is that many people are thinking: Why must we make money? Why must it be driven by the economy? Why not use the special economic power of the state to directly distort and carry out settlement and immigration for non-profit purposes?

This is why they think that Liu Yu is old and conservative. Some people even think that the Holy Son of Heaven is also old, and what if the future prince is more conservative?