New Shun 1730

In general, what Dashun did in matters such as the canal workers, salt reform, Xijiang shipping, and Wuyi tea porters can be regarded as the upper-middle level of the feudal dynasty, which is always pretty fucked up.

But in the matter of the Yellow River, it can really be regarded as the ceiling of the feudal dynasty, or even a bit of breaking the ceiling. After all, a dynasty that is not a feudal dynasty also dug up the Yellow River, slaughtered Jiangxi and Fujian, used Hankou as experimental data for incendiary bombing, and suggested that foreigners drop atomic bombs on their own cities.

But after all, the feudal dynasty is just like this, even if it is the ceiling, it is just that.

The court simply cannot afford so much money.

In other words, the taxes and oppression borne by the people of Dashun are not those paper numbers.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Dashun, just looking at the paper data of the court, the tax rate is indeed not high. But even in later generations, when the three-five levies were coordinated, the nominal "regular tax" was not high. Not to mention the feudal dynasty, below the self-cultivating farmers, there were corvée labor, national taxes, local levies, dike repairs, grain transport, high-interest usury, merchants controlled the right to issue banknotes and manipulated the exchange rate between copper coins and silver, incompetent official regulation failed to stabilize the merchant class in the autumn harvest season, and so on, etc., these are all burdens.

Theoretically, if there is a "recruitment law" under the "perfect state", dike repairs and the like would be the rich paying and the poor working, which seems to be possible.

However, theory is theory, reality is reality. Many of Wang Anshi's reforms are good in theory, but let's not talk about the recruitment law, even the Qingmiao law, later generations could not solve the problem of small farmers' loan collateral, the extremely high probability of small farmers' inability to repay, and the unwillingness of state-owned capital to go to the countryside. The variant Qingmiao law that the Korean state is now using has become a kind of state-owned usury repayment system.

The ruling foundation and organizational strength of the feudal dynasty are difficult to solve. And spiritual power is even more impossible to appear in a feudal dynasty.

So in the end, even though Dashun's approach to the Yellow River issue has broken through the ceiling of the feudal dynasty, the whole process is still completed by extreme oppression.

From a financial perspective, Dashun was able to solve this problem in this way because Dashun's tariffs and industrial and commercial taxes increased, and also because Dashun "obtained" hundreds of millions of acres of plain arable land in North America out of thin air - these hundreds of millions of acres are not exaggerated rhetorical methods. In fact, saying 100 million acres or 20 billion acres is only slightly rhetorical.

In this way, the radical faction of practical learning can be suppressed, and this matter can be accomplished by a compromise method similar to muddying the waters without moving the internal affairs, making major changes, and equalizing the land and benevolent policies.

The problem of the Yellow River is the problem of the Yellow River.

The migration of ethnic space is the problem of ethnic space.

In the First World War, Liu Yu's layout in North America has won at least 50 years of window period for the nation.

Relying on the gold mine, if you are not so anxious, you can go there slowly, go there on your own, interfere a little, and gather naturally, etc., and you can still get the population advantage in fifty years.

However, this is of little significance to those who are alive at this time.

Therefore, the Yellow River problem is difficult to solve and difficult to solve.

The key is to clear the uninhabited area from Kaifeng to Lijin, which is thousands of miles and more than ten miles wide.

After the uninhabited area is cleared, digging pits, digging rivers, and repairing embankments are difficult, but they can be fast or slow. If you don’t learn from Emperor Yang of Sui and insist on doing big things, take it slowly and use the original river courses of Daqing River or Xiaoqing River.

Fortunately, it should be said that thanks to the succession of the Ming system and the court’s attitude of "gentlemen stay away from the kitchen", the oppression of the lower-class people is not light at all.

This kind of oppression has lowered the threshold expectations of the people.

Liu Yu relied on the differentiation method to force wealthy landlords to migrate to Guandong, let the self-cultivating farmers leapfrog, and let the poor peasants obtain land production materials, and finally stabilized the situation.

If the grassroots had not been so exploited before, what Vérendry saw at this time would not be the simple faces full of hope for the future.

In short, this matter is also good for the future.

If you really take the so-called national space route, relying on free migration and gold mine attraction. To be honest, how many years has Europe been playing with private ownership? How many years has it been playing with private money and Deng Tong's methods? How many years has it been playing with powerful vassal states? If it really takes this route, instead of Liu Yu taking advantage of the situation, the West Coast will be more magical than the East Coast, even more magical.

Powerful, landlords, first comers, native-guest conflicts, settlements, Wubao, troops, private gold mines...

You don't need to look at other places, just look at the things in Nanyang in history, and you can get a rough idea.

For example, the Tiandihui, which sells rice, fought bloody battles with gold mine owners to monopolize food prices.

For example, the Bangka Tin Mine issued its own "internal consumption coupons" of inferior lead money to ensure that every worker could not earn money to go home, which was a feudal cyberpunk corporate style.

For example, Macau organized a victory parade when the Ming Dynasty was still alive, and the Chinese celebrated the separation of the "motherland" from the Spanish union.

For example, the Dutch ban on Chinese people was used to scare compatriots, and if they dared not to work or make trouble, they would be reported to the Netherlands and taken away to do hard labor.

Wait, wait, if Liu Yu did not use the Yellow River incident to solve the North American problem, but laid the foundation and ignored it, then what happened on the west coast in the future would be more than a hundred times more magical than what happened in Nanyang in history.

As for now, by taking advantage of the Yellow River incident, Liu Yu finally intervened in the west coast of North America, which the court was actually least interested in, and established order here.

But the process was still cruel after all.

The self-cultivating farmers such as the Wang Long brothers have moved here for five years.

And this group of workers who worked for them had just moved here not long ago.

Don't look at it now that they are hopeful and touching the land that seems within reach.

But when I was in Dashun before, I was squeezed hard enough, almost to the extreme, and I was stuck on the edge of "one eye of the Mo Dao stone man".

Relying on Fusang's land, these people had almost no money to build the Yellow River and dig dams. There was enough to eat, including sorghum, rice, pickles, and pickles, but there was almost no money.

Fortunately, relying on the share vacated by the Indian cotton industry in West Africa, despite the collapse and chaos of several social transformations in Mumbai, Surat, Dhaka and other places, the share of cotton here in world trade has been transferred to part of Shandong .

It is rare to dig embankments to build rivers and lakes.

The women spun and weaved cloth and sold Lu brocade to West Africa.

With the help of the natural climate in western Shandong, it is suitable for growing cotton, and the simple railway transportation from Jinan Prefecture to Jiaodong has been basically completed, and there are also increased controls on cotton freight in other areas.

The situation was finally stabilized. Although there were still complaints, we finally survived the initial difficult stage.

The excavation of the new channel of the Yellow River has officially begun, and the original regulating lake in the Liangshanbo area has been basically completed, and everything is starting to get on track.

Of course, it was God who gave us face. Although the weather has been smooth in recent years, there has indeed been no large-scale uncontrollable flood.

In addition, the canal was abandoned before, so the saying "to control the Yellow River, we must first abolish the canal" is correct. After the canal was abolished, the flood control capabilities of the lower reaches of the Yellow River also improved to a higher level.

Finally, there was no trouble that things had already started and the Yellow River burst its banks to the north.

The gold mine west of Dashi Mountain finally announced the existence of Jinshan before the company's mentality of being stuck in the bubble was about to explode into a bubble.

In the five years before this, Liu Yu relied on raising funds from bubble companies and spent all his money on immigration. Finally, before the bubble was about to burst, he relied on Jinshan to stabilize the mood of shareholders and avoid second-rate success. The financial operations of John Law.

For the Dashun court, the bubble operation in the past five years also "squandered" a large amount of national debt interest. Relying on the promotion of bubbles, many people chose to sell government bonds at low prices to obtain cash. Dashun repurchased a wave of bonds and changed hands, erasing a lot of interest.

But for immigrants, the cash support that the Dashun court could provide was not much. The main force still relies on the power of private capital and Dashun’s control and planning to complete this immigration.

The period after the five-year period is over and the bubble is about to explode unless some real money is provided... In fact, to put it bluntly, the Dashun court will sell the migrant people in the no-man's land of the Yellow River into laborers and "pig" young". It's just that the buyer is an investor from Dashun, buying people to mine, build houses, open brothels, etc. there.

However, this kind of selling is a bit clever.

Dashun was accomplished by adding the "variant king field system" to the "official mountains and seas" on the west coast of North America. Although the payer was actually an investor in Dashun, it changed hands with workers, so its essence is similar to the darkness of selling laborers and "piglets" in history.

Historically, Lao En called these crimes and darkness "[hidden] coolie slavery."

The key lies in the word "concealed". If you don't look at the essence, you can't see through what this is.

In this matter, the Dashun court was the party that "sold people."

Even though the Dashun court didn't seem to have received much money.

But in fact, if all corvée work is counted as money according to the complete land expropriation compensation, recruitment laws, etc., in fact, to complete the Yellow River Project, four to five billion taels may not be enough.

In other words, the Dashun court did not get the silver in its hands, but it actually got it. It got the silver through the operation of "selling people", but the silver was "taken out of the account" and not entered. It's just money that goes into the treasury and then spent.

Therefore, it can be said that the operation of the Yellow River can be regarded as the ceiling level of "benevolent government" and "people-oriented" in the feudal dynasty. But it was the ceiling of a feudal dynasty. In essence, the Dashun court officials were participating in this "hidden" coolie slave trade, and relying on the money from selling people, they saved the cost of relocation and compensation from the national treasury.

However, due to previous heavy oppression, the conflict between man and land has become acute, and the population in the Central Plains has surged. This makes the mentality of most migrants in this coolie slave trade full of hope and relatively acceptable.

This is the situation in North America. With its unique agricultural environment and the awareness cultivated by more than a thousand years of small-scale farming, it is really full of hope.

And this is why Liu Yu believes that Samuel Adams is the number one expert on rebellion in the Christian cultural circle at this time - don’t talk about specific life, talk about abstract freedom; don’t talk about specific interests, talk about Abstract concept. Abstract the enemy into a sinful concrete entity, but do not go into details. Be sure to avoid details, especially discussions of details.

Of course, this is not suitable for immigrants from Dashun. This is a cultural factor.

Even if it is the Yellow Turban, which has the strongest religious flavor in history, the great virtuous teacher must know something concrete, and at least it cannot be too abstract.

For example, cast talisman water.

Therefore, overall, the immigration here is relatively stable at this time.

Not even just stability, but a state of mind that is full of vitality.

Even if it is said that this matter is essentially a kind of hidden coolie slavery.

This has little to do with the so-called nationality. It is purely because the agricultural technology and blast furnace iron technology here were developed too early, and the material conditions under which the Little Ice Age ended and North American crops came to the East, the population exploded, the ecological collapse of North China, and the per capita land decreased sharply.

For example, the miserable villages in the old times described by Han Ding, because of the leaves of a tree, a group of people killed each other just to grab a handful of leaves. All the magical scenes like hell have become commonplace.

Although Dashun is not so bad for the time being, the life of the bottom is indeed not as good as doing hard labor and growing potatoes here.

Vérendry is not a Dashun person, and has never lived in the Central Plains. He cannot understand the enthusiasm of the Dashun people to immigrate, nor can he understand this immigration wave that he finds somewhat incredible from a material level.

After all, he was born in North America.

Material determines consciousness. He has never understood since he was a child why some people have no land? Isn’t it that as long as you are willing to work, there is plenty of land?

It is even more incomprehensible why someone is willing to migrate here for a mere 3 Apontes of land.

Even if he gradually understood some truths rationally after growing up, it was still difficult for him to understand some things that were engraved in his bones.

After asking about the labor and suffering of the workers here in their hometown, Virendry asked again: "So, you said that your wife was gathered together to produce cotton cloth to supplement the family income when she was in her hometown. But here, I didn't see anyone planting cotton. So, what is your wife doing now?"

Although, according to the customs of Dashun, it is quite impolite for outsiders to ask their wives what they are doing now.

But considering that he had smoked a good cigarette from someone else, the hired worker who was rubbing the wine residue was not too unhappy and replied: "Now we are also raising sheep and growing flax here."

"I heard that a machine for combing flax was obtained from Luosha Country, and someone in Kanto used it before. My wife is now in the workshop, learning how to weave flax and wool."

"I heard that there was no cotton before. Since you can spin cotton, it is not difficult to weave flax and wool."

"She weaves cloth and I work. In the future, I will farm and she will weave. There will be a good life in the future."

Vérendry nodded, and he didn't understand this matter anymore.

France is a country with a strong mercantilism.

Let alone Britain in history. The so-called steam engine brought by Macartney during his visit to China was purely a fantasy of an enlightened nation that led human progress for free without knowing British policy at all.

If you take technology out, you will be beheaded. Even before, wool was shipped out privately, and the first time was the hand was chopped off, and the second time was directly hung on the cross to dry.

Samuel Slater, the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" in the United States, learned the technology by force, disguised himself and found someone to forge the identity of a farmer, and then brought the water-powered textile technology to North America. Including the food habits in some areas of the United States later, lamb was rarely seen, which also had a great historical relationship with the mercantilist policy of the woolen industry.

Of course, the whole of Europe was very mercantilist at this time.

The strong mercantilist color means that the significance of the existence of colonies is simply a dumping ground.

However, after listening to these people, it seems that Dashun's policy in North America is to fully encourage industrial development without setting many restrictions.

At least, it seems that in the future, not only will there be winemaking here, but also textile industry.

Although cotton cannot be grown here.

But the Dashun court began to encourage sheep breeding and flax planting here.

This also made the Frenchman, Verendry, feel quite incredible.

One is, if the industry of the colony can be self-sufficient, then what is the significance of developing the colony?

Another reason is that he thinks that the self-sufficiency of the colonies will promote the tendency of the colonies to separate.

However, if these are not taken into consideration, then this is obviously a good thing.

Judging from the experience of wine, if Dashun also starts to engage in the woolen and linen industries here, then the price of North American textiles will soon drop rapidly.

The first trade with Indian fur and ginseng is wine, and the second is textiles.

In this era when Dashun's cotton cloth began to sell well in Europe and achieved the notoriety of the cloth of sorrow in West Africa, the level of Dashun's textile industry is absolutely trustworthy.

Even now, it seems that this industry has just begun. But obviously, with the precedent of trade on the Atlantic coast, Verendry is sure that his company will soon not need to buy blankets from mainland France.

In fact, the reason why he can't understand is consistent with the reason why the Dashun Realist School evaluates Britain and says that Britain's policy is to take primitive accumulation as an end rather than a means.

For Dashun, the North American market is not even a chicken rib now.

Since the immigration policy of North America has chosen this kind of modern standard colonial technique, its purpose is to bypass the annexation and development of the natural economy and directly establish a capitalist system in one step.

Dashun hopes to migrate a lot of "surplus" population in the country to North America. This is Dashun's attitude towards North America, a pressure relief valve, rather than a colony under mercantilism.

Although it sounds a bit counterintuitive.

But in fact, the policy makers of Dashun believe that "the more people Fusang has, the more immigrants are needed; conversely, the smaller the population of Fusang, the fewer immigrants are needed."

What Fusang will become in the future is not of concern to policymakers.

After all the gold and silver are dug up, how can we increase the number of immigrants?

As for what it will become in the future, whether it will separate, whether it will follow the story of Zhao Tuo, etc.

From the perspective of Dashun, it doesn't matter.

The people of Dashun have learned from history and are very sober. Separation is inevitable. When the world is in chaos in the future, something will definitely happen here.

Therefore, it is very "bad taste" to give it the name of "New Yizhou".

The purpose of immigration, from the beginning, is not for the so-called expansion of blood relationship, but to clearly complete the transformation of Dashun and the transformation of the core area of ​​the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

That's all.

This kind of transformation does not lack markets or primitive accumulation now, but lacks a pressure relief valve.

And wanting to relieve pressure quickly is very counterintuitive - the faster North America develops, the more stable the capitalist system, the more developed the industry, and the more people there are, the stronger the ability of immigrants to relieve pressure. Rather than the other way around.