New Shun 1730

Since we are talking about eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, we have to ask, after going to Fuso, will the problem of eating and drinking be solved? Will the food distributed by the court be enough to eat?

The private school teacher cannot solve these problems technically, but can only solve them from the perspective of "belief" or "logic".

In terms of belief, he believes that the mainstream consciousness is still people-oriented, and the court should prepare enough food to prevent the people who reclaim the land from starving to death.

In terms of logic, it is even simpler. If the court just wants to clear the land, then why not force the people to rebel and kill them, or transport them to the sea and not go to Fuso at all, and throw them into the sea to drown halfway?

Immigration also costs money, and crossing the ocean is not a direct jump. The biggest cost is not land, not farm tools, not seeds, but the "ticket" money for migration. The biggest cost has been paid, how can it be possible not to make proper preparations and increase the death rate in vain?

That's what he thought.

In fact, his idea is really good.

However, although he had already thought very darkly when considering the logical problem.

In fact, many of Liu Yu's ideas about the focus of migration were much darker than this, and were truly hellish.

Liu Yu knew that there was gold in San Francisco.

However, the direction of the first wave of migration and agricultural migration was not the surrounding areas of San Francisco, but the Vancouver of later generations, Maple Bay at this time, and the Seattle of later generations.

First, this place is more suitable for farming.

Second, in the future, crossing the mountains to the east will be the three prairie provinces of Canada in later generations. The agricultural conditions of the land given by God - dry meadows and swamp meadows, are not difficult to develop. The three prairie provinces of Canada in later generations are standard dry meadows.

Of course, these two reasons are not "hellish".

The real hell is the third reason.

What is the colonial policy that Dashun is currently adopting in North America?

It is the standard modern colonial theory.

What is the essence of this theory?

Administrative intervention distorts land prices. This makes every immigrant a potential "wage laborer" who can use the wages earned to buy land with distorted prices and realize a family farm life with a hundred acres of land and a group of cows.

These potential wage laborers are preparing for the development of capitalism.

Then, conversely, it is necessary to develop some non-agricultural industries and real industries so that this "standard modern colonial theory" can make sense. Otherwise, what are so many wage laborers for?

Similarly, it is necessary to ensure that the industries here are profitable and have market transactions so that the industries can be developed.

Farming and fishing... that belongs to the primary industry.

This cannot accommodate too many people.

Therefore, the secondary industry must be created.

Thus, investors are willing to pay to hire people from Dashun, or use this boat ticket to "catch people" to work.

At the beginning, Liu Yu chose the gold and silver mine.

There is definitely no problem.

After the start, how to quickly develop the industry and form an industrial city?

What should the commodities of this industrial city be?

Where is the market for the commodities produced by this industrial city?

Liu Yu is targeting the supporting industries in San Francisco.

There are not many trees in San Francisco.

Mining, digging for gold, digging for silver.

Building houses, opening hotels, and making places to live.

This requires infrastructure. And that requires wood.

Obviously, wooden houses are definitely the most cost-effective in the gold mining area of ​​San Francisco.

Wooden houses have a characteristic, they love to catch fire.

This does not mean that Liu Yu will take the initiative to set fires.

Rather, it means that if he does not intervene in this matter.

Then, once the gold mines in San Francisco begin to be mined, a large number of wooden houses will be built in a mess. Moreover, in terms of cost-effectiveness, wooden houses are definitely the first choice.

Liu Yu will not force "bubble" companies to build brick and tile houses, so they will definitely choose wooden buildings for the sake of profit.

And wooden buildings, coupled with the chaotic neighborhoods and the "barbarity" or "vitality" of the mining area.

Assuming that the gold mines in San Francisco can be mined for 30 years, then in these 30 years, it can be basically determined that, according to the probability, there will be at least seven or eight large-scale fires.

This is inevitable.

It cannot be prevented.

If it burns, it must be rebuilt.

Reconstruction requires wood.

After construction, most of the time it has to be burned again.

After burning, most of the time it has to be rebuilt.

Therefore, the Maple Bay area, including the bay area of ​​Vancouver and Seattle in later generations, can find the beginning of their "second industry" - the wood processing industry.

It can even be said that in Liu Yu's plan, the development of non-agricultural industries in the Maple Bay area and the necessity of "wage workers" are based on the repeated burning and reconstruction of San Francisco in the south.

In this way, at least seven or eight industries can be driven.

For example, if you dig gold in San Francisco, you need food, right?

Food must be transported to San Francisco, right?

Does transporting food require shipbuilding?

If the house burns, you need wood, right?

After the wood is cut down, it needs to be processed, right?

After going around in a circle, relying on the precious metals in San Francisco, a simple "business cycle" has been built.

In this, Liu Yu only needs to "show his kindness" and not impose too many obligations and chains on the "bubble company".

It is not mandatory for the bubble company to build houses according to standards, to use bricks and tiles, etc.

If the supervision is slightly loosened, it can be said that there will inevitably be a small fire every three years and a big fire every five years.

Won't the precious metals flow?

Once the precious metals flow, won't capital come to Fenglin Bay to engage in wood processing, shipbuilding, and transportation? Because it is profitable.

Since capital comes to do this, doesn't that mean that "wage workers" have become popular? It is impossible for locals to do it. You have a group of cattle, hundreds of acres of land, a wife and children, and you carry a saw to the deep mountains and old forests to earn that little logging money?

Since the "locals" are unwilling to work, or those who came early are unwilling to work, then people need to be captured from Dashun to work here.

And since they come to work, they are paid.

To get paid, you have to think about buying land in the future.

Buying land will increase the amount of the "immigration fund".

If the immigration fund increases, you can continue to immigrate.

Continuing to immigrate can ensure that when the first batch of people earn enough wages to buy land and stop working, the second batch will come again - when they earn enough wages, they will not serve the master anymore, and they will buy official land and become farmers. Isn't it wonderful?

In this way, won't this set of "modern standard colonial techniques" start to work?

The conflict between the two types of private ownership, and the contradiction that the latter type of private ownership must eliminate the former type of private ownership, have not been technically resolved within a certain scope?

Once this set of things starts to work, it can run spontaneously.

From the beginning of shipbuilding, transportation, and wood processing, more and more people have gradually developed clothing, pantyhose, iron smelting, machinery, tools, livestock slaughter, leather manufacturing and other industries.

The more people there are, the smoother this capitalist operation system will be.

The more agricultural population, especially the agricultural population with a lot of land that does not have to work hard for men to farm and women to weave, the larger their consumer market will be. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, defecating, singing and dancing, drama, iron tools and machinery, all of these can be provided by the wealthy self-cultivating farmers.

Anyway, in Liu Yu's view, Dashun can't count on the market here, nor on the raw materials here, and only exists as a pressure relief valve.

It's not a bad thing to create your own market circle here. After all, Dashun just wants to send more people over, not to seek a market that has no value in a hundred years, and doesn't want to do any outdated old mercantilist colonial system at all.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that Liu Yu knows that if the court does not supervise, San Francisco will inevitably build in disorder, will inevitably choose wood as a building material, and will inevitably have frequent fires-this inevitability is in line with the principles of economics, because of the climate in San Francisco, it is unnecessary to build brick and tile houses, not to mention how much more economical wood is? Companies are to make profits, not to build model cities, so they naturally choose wooden buildings.

However, sometimes, the economy is like this.

Burn and build, build and burn; or dig a pit and bury it, sometimes this is a "good thing" and is conducive to economic development.

Since Dashun embraced gold and silver, it must act according to the logic of the flow of gold and silver.

Therefore, when Liu Yu clearly knew where the big gold and silver mines were, he put the focus of the first batch of immigrants on Maple Bay.

In addition, the early gold rush in the Yukon River and the small-scale gold rush in Haida Gwaii have made the Maple Bay area have a certain scale of agricultural population.

The land here is fertile, the climate is suitable, and the land can be said to be "unlimited supply", as long as you have the ability to grow it.

Therefore, the agricultural labor force here, on average, one person can feed five people without any problem.

At this point, Dashun can be said to be "path dependent" or "familiar with the road".

When Liu Yu was doing the Whale Sea immigration, that set was already played very purely - no compulsory collection of food, but control of consumer goods. You have food, but you have to wear clothes? You have to eat salt? You have to buy iron? If your child wants to eat candy, you can't rub it out of the ground yourself, right?

With a little control, the food can be concentrated. After the grain is concentrated, the thousands of immigrants who came earlier than the 5,000 self-cultivating farmers that Dashun is going to move now can complete the first year of reclamation.

It is relatively easy to cultivate here. After all, it is neither a swamp meadow like the Great Northern Wilderness, nor a dry desert with little rain, nor a tropical rainforest with dense vegetation. It is a standard temperate forest-steppe area, and it is quite convenient to cultivate.

I dare not say that it is as easy as North Carolina where you can harvest by just sowing some corn, but it is definitely easier than those people who are squatting in the river valley plains north of the Songliao watershed to cultivate wasteland now.

Moreover, the great voyage is the great voyage, and colonial reclamation is colonial reclamation. Indeed, Dashun and Ming Dynasty were lacking in navigation. It is also true that the prerequisite for colonization and reclamation of the New World in this era is the great voyage, but from the beginning, Dashun lacked navigation and navigation technology, not agricultural technology before reclamation.