New Shun 1730

As for whether the emperor supports this matter or not?

Of course he supports it.

The emperor does not have to pay, and he can get 5% of the gold to "contribute" to the inner treasury after the completion, plus 15% of the treasury income.

Liu Yu still used the "differentiation" method that he is good at to select the first batch of immigrants.

The construction of the Yellow River channel is a super-large project, a huge project comparable to the Grand Canal and the Great Wall.

The Yellow River channel affects millions of people.

Of course, it can be solved in 20 or even 30 years.

But how to solve it requires "differentiation".

The first batch of immigrants, that is, the group of people who "enjoy" the land without digging gold as "contract workers", must meet two conditions from the company's perspective.

They must know how to farm and raise livestock.

They must be down-to-earth and hardworking.

Therefore, this requires that this first batch of people should not be landlords who collect rent, nor tenants who are so poor that they don't even have livestock.

From the perspective of "stability", it coincides with the company's perspective.

There are three kinds of people who are affected by the Yellow River.

Big landlords.

Self-cultivating farmers, middle peasants, and small landlords (small landlords at the level of Dashun are counted as 50 to 60 mu of land, 70 to 80 mu of land).

Tenant farmers and semi-tenant and semi-poor peasants.

Big landlords are the most vocal in opposition, but they are loud but ineffective, and they are also the least willing to rebel.

And they are the least numerous, so it is easy to deal with them. They can issue a bunch of "industrial and commercial coupons" for people who have no iron mines in Zibo. They can take them or not. If they make trouble, they will be arrested.

Tenant farmers and semi-tenant and semi-poor peasants are the most numerous, but they are also the easiest to deal with.

Simply put, they give hope for the future and meet the current survival.

For the current survival, they can dig river embankments and build railways, and they can earn more money than when they were tenant farmers.

For the future hope, they promise to work in the gold mine for five years in the future. Not only will they have a salary, but they will also have 3% of the gold income of each gold mining team. In the future, they can buy land in Fusang, be tax-free for five years, and have no corvée in the future.

The most difficult to deal with are the self-employed farmers.

They originally had land, 20 to 30 mu, which was not much, but they could make a decent living.

Of course, there were not a few people, because the Dashun Dynasty was founded only a hundred years ago, and Shandong was a place that was severely harmed by the Qing Dynasty, so some families could still ensure their survival and make a living by farming.

If they can make a living, they will be reluctant to move.

At the same time, they are more down-to-earth and hardworking - tenant farmers and poor farmers. You are not poor because you are lazy. But ordinary self-employed farmers have proved their farming level and ability to make a living, which can basically guarantee their labor skills and ensure that their class will not slip.

Generally speaking, if there are 20 to 30 mu of land, there will basically be a livestock in the family, and they have the most basic experience in raising livestock.

Moreover, they basically have wives and children, and their wives are generally more capable of living. At the very least, they will not have the situation of "eating white steamed buns every day when the wheat harvest comes, and asking for noodles everywhere when there is a shortage of wheat" - although it sounds simple, isn't this a basic plan for living? If you have noodles, you have to mix them with vegetables. You can't be a landlord in the harvest season and a beggar in the shortage of wheat. But in fact, this is quite difficult, and not even every woman can master the living skills.

Moreover, generally speaking, if there are 20 or 30 acres of land at home, you ask them to go to the mine to dig or work in the factory, they will definitely not want to go.

At least in history until the second industrial revolution, the great dream of many workers in developed countries was to save enough money to become farmers.

So, they are the most difficult to deal with and the most likely to cause trouble, but they are also the best first batch of pioneers and reclamation candidates - in addition to skill points, there is another characteristic, self-cultivating farmers are the easiest to maintain order.

Therefore, the first group of people who went to North America to open up wasteland and cultivate land were the "self-cultivating farmers in the Yellow River New Channel area" selected by Liu Yu after investigation and research.

In fact, this is a case of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, because in theory, the court wants to build a new river channel, and the money for land acquisition and immigration must be paid by the court.

But the court can't afford it, so it can only borrow from the gold mine, and spend the money of the company's shareholders.

If we debate this matter, it's not easy to say: the court certainly said that the franchise of the gold mine was given to the company, but can we also debate and ask, why are the land, minerals, and forests in North America owned by the court? Why can't private enterprises be allowed to do it if the court says so?

So Dashun didn't argue, and directly used violent tools: I said yes, that's it. I said private enterprises are not allowed to do it, so private enterprises are not allowed to do it. If you have any opinions, go and talk to the forest light infantry and the naval cruiser.

Guan Shanhai, a traditional art.

If they had the ability, they could just make the Forbidden City famous. For example, after the French Revolution, they immediately announced the abolition of the monopoly, and the right to trade in the East belonged to all French people, and everyone could freely go to the east of the Cape of Good Hope to trade. If the emerging class on the Dashun side made the Forbidden City famous, they could naturally declare the same thing: the gold mines in Fusang belonged to all Dashun people, and everyone could freely go to Fusang to dig gold as long as they had sufficient capital. Whoever dug it would own it, and they didn't have to pay taxes or fulfill the obligation of resettlement.

But since they didn't have such ability, Liu Yu also felt that this group of bourgeoisie couldn't do anything, so they could only obey.

Here, they were fooling around with high returns, low risks, high returns, endorsed by the court, and endorsed by Liu Yu's personal reputation in trade over the years.

And with the help of Dashun's investment frenzy 40 years later than Europe, and the inexperience of not having suffered losses from the three major bubbles of tulips, the South China Sea, and the Mississippi, they quickly raised a large amount of funds.

There was no dividend in the first five years, can there be dividend after five years?

If it were someone else, they would not dare to say this, they were not sure.

But Liu Yu dared to say this, very sure: San Francisco, at least 12 million taels of gold; Old Silver Mountain, at least 100 million taels of silver.

It was in time to start digging in the fourth year, in the first few years, he would not go directly to San Francisco.

Instead, he first occupied the estuaries of various rivers and built a few villages in places suitable for reclamation - this is not a waste of money, this is all purposeful, long-term, and pre-set. Who said that you must farm next to the gold mine to dig gold?

Just release some gold mines every year to boost market confidence and tease everyone.

In five years, about 100,000 or 200,000 people can be moved there. Agriculture is guaranteed, and it will be easy to immigrate again. The more people there are, the easier it is. When there are enough people to engage in some manufacturing, it will be even easier.

Liu Yu's positioning of the west coast of North America is not the positioning of Britain's colonies: a place of raw material production and a place for commodity dumping.

His position is very clear; a pressure relief valve.

Not to mention the pressure relief valve of the entire Dashun, at least it is the pressure relief valve for the new channel of the Yellow River in Shandong.

If this matter is not completed, if Dashun really explodes, it will take 30 to 50 years, after fierce struggle, for the regime to reunify again, to complete this matter. Without 30 to 50 years of chaos, it is impossible to reunify, and it is impossible to repair the Yellow River during the chaos.

Liu Yu doesn't care whether Dashun explodes or not, but he still hopes to wait until the Yellow River waterway is basically completed before exploding. Otherwise, it will really kill people. It is not so simple for the Yellow River to burst. Change the river channel. If there is no river channel, it will flood, destroy agricultural areas, and swing back and forth until it rushes out of the river channel.

As for people who go there, they can develop as they like and toss as they like. If Dashun explodes in the future, you can build a country yourself, and it doesn't matter.

Dashun can neither rely on raw materials from the west coast nor on the market on the west coast, at least not in the next 30 years.

As far as the current technological level of Dashun is concerned, as long as the money is in place, immigration is not difficult.

Agricultural-related technologies, including plows, hoe carts, ridge cultivation, composting, blast furnace iron, etc., were all completed two thousand years ago.

This is completely different from the group of people in the Virginia Company who did not know how to farm at all, and even said that their mother country was still at the level of 90 kilograms per mu of agricultural technology.

Ocean currents, monsoons, sea charts, navigation, lunar distance angle method, these technology points have been completed before Dashun participated in World War I, otherwise Dashun would not be qualified to participate in World War I and would not be able to hijack ships efficiently.

In the Battle of Longitude, Liu Yu bet on the science school, and now it seems that he has defeated the British engineering school.

It is too troublesome to make a marine clock, and it cannot be mass-produced now; for the marine almanac, find two or three hundred "brain laborers" to compile it every year and know how to look up the table.

Liu Yu also solved the island transit stations and midway supply stations along the way by solving the Macau problem.

The Macau problem was a cover-up to suppress the Portuguese sandalwood trade, thereby seizing the market for Honolulu's sandalwood.

Dashun imposed many restrictions on Portuguese sandalwood by taking advantage of the Macau problem.

After several waves of tax increases, arrests, fines, and burning, a wave of sandalwood price increases within Dashun was created. Because the original supplier was harmed by Liu Yu, Honolulu immediately ushered in the "Spring of Trade" and quickly filled the huge sandalwood market within Dashun.

Liu Yu did not believe in Buddhism, and he had no interest in sandalwood. But with these things, the Pacific transit station centered on Honolulu has begun to take shape.

At the very least, it can guarantee functions such as avoiding hurricanes, providing drinking water, wintering, providing food, providing fresh vegetables and fruits to resist scurvy, and reducing the mortality rate of Pacific routes.

The capacity of transportation tools is a simpler issue.

In order to participate in World War I, Dashun had a lot of shipbuilding capacity.

After World War I, Dashun could not continue to expand its navy, and it was just right to transform into a merchant ship to meet the trade needs of Persia, India and other places.

The previous shipbuilding capacity was still there, and there were skilled shipbuilding craftsmen accumulated for more than 20 years since Liu Yu's training in Weihai and the introduction of French battleships.

There was a wood tar industry introduced from Sweden and launched in the Northeast.

There was a canvas industry that used the trade in Nanyang and India as raw materials.

There were shipbuilding wood processing plants in Nanyang and the Northeast.

There was no need to follow the scale of battleships and make high-standard battleships at 30 pounds per ton. If you give money, you can immediately explode the capacity and build a bunch of transport ships that can run in the Pacific.

Of course, there was no shortage of sailors, alternate captains, and ocean-going technicians. Dashun had always been over-training talents before. A lot of people who were actually capable of being captains were all squatting on the ship as trainee captains. There were five or six trainee captains on a ship, which was certainly not lacking.

Simply put, as long as you have money, there is no problem.

All the technology points have been basically selected.

All the details such as the transfer stations have been completed bit by bit before.

Liu Yu sent people to the west coast of North America to "find gold" for show. Whether there is gold on the west coast, do you still need those prospecting teams to confirm it? Of course he knows that there is gold on the west coast.

Moreover, he has an official status and credibility.

In fact, before the First World War was really over, the Treaty of Versailles was not signed, and the prospecting team's search for mining areas was not completed, the immigration of Dashun to the west coast of North America had already begun.

The first batch of 1,500 self-cultivating farmers and middle peasants selected from the Yellow River channel planning area had long been stuffed on the ship and sent there to grow grain.

This year is the second batch, and this time 5,000 households were directly immigrated, because the first 1,500 immigrants, including fishing, farming, hunting, etc., were enough to ensure the basic survival of the second batch of 5,000 households.

In addition, the Whale Sea Company had been "inefficiently" developing on the west coast for 20 years, and there were also some basic small villages and towns such as Fenglin Bay, which could also provide a batch of commercial grain.

This second batch of 5,000 households seemed to have nothing to do with Dashun's participation in World War I, nor with the Treaty of Versailles that was about to be signed.

In fact, the relationship was huge.

Because Dashun won the First World War.

Therefore, only social existence can change social consciousness, and a large amount of funds will enter the legendary "bubble company" of Fuso Gold Mine in the form of stocks and bonds, instead of being buried in the cellar or buying land.

And the money of these 5,000 immigrants was gathered by the resources mobilized by this "social consciousness".

Without winning the war, without the great development of industry and commerce, relying only on Liu Yu's red mouth and white teeth, but not getting this money, and being able to guarantee "no dividends for five years, no veto power of the board of directors during the five-year official supervision period", there are still people who invest money in it.

Of course, companies such as Dashun Jinghai Company, whose main profits come from furs such as sea otter skins, are definitely not willing to immigrate on a large scale.

However, although the economic strength of Dashun Jinghai Company is far stronger than that of European fur companies such as HBC. But Dashun is not Britain. In Britain, these fur companies can make laws and prevent reclamation.

In Dashun, this is shit.

At the very least, it won't happen that the British East India coerced the British Parliament in 1942 to extend the monopoly to 1983.

No company in Dashun can be so powerful: I ask you to sign the monopoly for another 40 years, and you, the emperor, the six governments, the Tianyou Palace, and the Privy Council, must sign it for me quickly. If you don't sign, I will kill you.

Dashun does not allow such a powerful company to exist.

Not only the emperor does not allow it. The Tianyou Palace and the six governments do not allow it either.

This is a major advantage of Dashun's rapid immigration.