New Shun 1730

Of course, this kind of currency reform cannot be achieved overnight, and needs to be done slowly. At least we have to wait until the gold and silver mountains here and in the Southern Ocean are mined to their peak before we can fully roll it out.

But North America still has to take a step ahead. Otherwise, after the gold and silver on the West Coast are mined, the overall shortage of gold and silver in North America will not change. Even with a large trade surplus before 1750, the East Coast still could not keep up with the development speed of population, cultivated land area, plantation industry, and various British-supported handicrafts. The increase in currency could not keep up with the growth of total social product, and it was always in a state of insufficient currency. These histories, of course, need to be learned from on the West Coast.

This is also one of the reasons why Dashun basically relaxed the industrial control and taxation issues in Xinyizhou: what happened on the East Coast of North America and the pits that have been stepped on, there is no need to step on it again here. The result of the East Coast's requirement to pay taxes or international trade in silver is that big merchants hoard silver, and handicraftsmen holding paper money, especially the urban class, go bankrupt, revolt, and quickly participate in the separatist movement.

Even if it is said that the new Yizhou has been supporting factories from the beginning and compressing the living space of family handicrafts. However, even in later generations, some industries are based on families. At this time, the restrictions were only some industries such as textiles, winemaking, mining, etc. that were more suitable for the factory system; and blacksmiths, carpenters, florists, etc., could not be industrialized and standardized in those days. The French had gone through and the French experience proved that standardizing a large number of industry handicrafts in those days was a dead end.

And a normal functioning society, especially a city, could not be without these citizen class handicraftsmen, that is, the craftsmen and teachers at that time, who were extremely sensitive to currency issues. For the time being, there is no big problem. It is basically a kind tax here, but with the increase in population, it is imperative to reform the kind tax to a monetary tax. Then, from the beginning, we should not use gold and silver but directly use paper money to prepare for the follow-up.

Liu Yu knew what capital was like. The people of the practical school also understood it after working at the grassroots level for a few years. As long as the shipping industry was not controlled by the court or was decided by North America, the labor force shipped here would be cheap, not shipped wherever Dashun needed to change.

It was time to tie up the currency as a chain to prevent this situation.

In New Yizhou, this reform was to temporarily learn from the East Coast, using grain, crops, alcohol, etc. as anchors, and issuing paper money directly linked to the currency of Dashun from the physical tax.

On the West Coast, this reform started with accelerating gold mining, which kicked off the gold rush on the West Coast and provided enough gold and silver for future currency reform.

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Different from New Yizhou.

In Jinshan, the only two real industries here are mining and salt making.

The salt making industry is a bit special, so the entire town is built around the gold mines here.

In addition to the real industries, the rest of the industries are service industries.

Brothels, taverns, tailor shops, casinos, restaurants, hotels, etc., all surround the gold mines in Jinshan.

This place only started to develop on a large scale last year, because last year, the bubble company was about to burst when there was no more gold, and it was also the time to distribute dividends after five years of supervision.

The immigration here was carried out at a speed that shocked the Spaniards in the south.

Historically, the Russian American Company of Russia had villages, colonized and cultivated land here. With the gold rush, the Russian company was soon completely destroyed here. Not a grain of food from the village was transported to the fur area in the north, but all ran to San Francisco; and the gold rush immigration wave started in San Francisco also made "the one who is close to the water gets the moon first", whoever is closer to here and has a larger population, this place belongs to him, so Russia's claws to California were completely interrupted because of insufficient population.

The policy of Dashun here certainly cannot be used as a lesson from history, because this is something that has not happened yet. But Liu Yu personally can probably use the four words "learn from history".

Therefore, in the early stage, the number of immigrants from Jinshan was not large, and there was no fanfare to say that there was a gold mine here.

Instead, a large number of people were moved to Fenglin Bay.

The agriculture, logging, shipbuilding, etc. of Fenglin Bay have gradually developed after these years of reclamation. Although the gold mines around Fenglin Bay are not as good as those in San Francisco, they are also considered large mines in Dashun. The gold mining industry has also gradually developed to maintain the confidence of the people.

When agriculture, logging, shipbuilding, etc. gradually developed, it was not until last year that the heavy news broke out: a super large gold mine was discovered in Jinshan.

So, the hot bubble company immigrated 10,000 people here at one time.

It was almost here that the large gold mine was announced, and then the population comparison with the Spaniards in the south took advantage.

After the shock of the Spaniards, they did not say anything and did not make any substantial moves.

Just like during the Quadruple Alliance War, the conflict between France and Spain in western North America was only forty or fifty people, and millions of square kilometers of land were determined.

The immigration of tens of thousands of people directly dispelled the Spanish people's jealousy.

Without the previous preparation and foreshadowing, it would be unthinkable to immigrate so many people at once.

With the previous preparation and foreshadowing, the immigration of tens of thousands of people did not cause any pressure at all.

The food and timber of Fenglin Bay were continuously transported here from the sea.

The layout of Dashun on the west coast is very interesting.

As Liu Yu believed, the development of Fenglin Bay was based on the repeated burning and reconstruction of Jinshan. Therefore, knowing that there were gold mines in San Francisco, he took advantage of the bubble tide of trust and franchise companies to immigrate to Fenglin Bay.

The purpose was to break the state of "local and regional self-sufficiency" and lay a good foundation for the flow of currency as much as possible.

The early layout of Jinshan was also to promote this circulation, at least to create a trade shipping route that was in circulation before the discovery of gold.

Therefore, Jinshan did not dig gold before, but dried salt.

When Jinshan was not called Jinshan, the salt of Fenglin Bay was all from Jinshan. Because the climate of Fenglin Bay is not suitable for drying salt. Of course, boiling salt is no problem, and a large amount of wood can be used, but this is not necessary.

Therefore, when Fenglin Bay was reclaimed, Jinshan was drying salt.

By the time the big gold mine was "found" in Jinshan, the route from Fenglin Bay to here was already familiar, and the timber, grain, etc. from Fenglin Bay were transported here continuously.

Grain is not to be mentioned.

The timber was processed in the hydraulic sawmill in Fenglin Bay, and houses can be built directly here.

If there were no previous arrangements and the industry did not form a "relative advantage" in advance, it would be very likely that self-sufficient wood processing and grain planting would be developed here.

In that case, there would be neither the efficiency of rapid gold mining nor the efficiency of increasing immigration.

Historically, the population here surged from 500 to 150,000 in less than 20 years; similarly, at least 10 million taels of gold were mined here in less than 20 years.

Of course, this mining activity will not be finished so quickly, because its nickname is Jinzhou, and its next door nickname is Yinzhou, where there are silver mines with a total value of at least 400 to 500 million taels of gold.

This is the peculiarity of trade circulation and value means. If all the gold in Jinshan was in the hands of the Dashun Treasury, even if there were 150 million taels of silver, according to the minimum cost of 100 taels per immigrant, the maximum number of immigrants on the Dashun side would be 1.5 million.

But if this model of government supervision and business operation is adopted, the number of immigrants will be much greater than the number of people that the Dashun Treasury can directly move with 150 million taels of silver.

Moreover, the Dashun Treasury actually cannot take out 150 million taels of silver; and the radical idea of ​​"the emperor is a holy monarch, equal land, select the wise, curb the wealthy and wealthy gentry, equal land and tax, and eleven major migrations" is not only unrealistic, but also extremely reactionary feudal society, and even sliding towards a military state.

Some people in later generations described the gold rush in the western North America: because it is far away, it is romantic enough; because it is close, it can be reached.

For the Dashun side, these two are not involved.

It is neither romantic nor easy to reach.

The premise of romance is free mining, and whoever digs it gets it. Otherwise, it will become a gold mining company and wage labor, even if there is a certain degree of profit-sharing system, it will not be romantic.

And it is impossible to expect to be "close enough" and spontaneously grow from 500 people to a big city of 150,000 people in 20 years as in history.

Therefore, the Jinshan gold mining area lacks romance and is only gray.

Those who dig gold in the ground are contract workers, and even if they dig gold, it is not theirs.

And the temptation of gold is bound to lead to many things that are bound to happen in gold mines.

Hiding gold.

Cutting meat to hide gold.

Stuffing gold in the buttocks.

Fleeing with gold.

Accidental death after swallowing gold.

Mine accident.

Being caught.

Hanging.

Caesarean section.

Digging intestines.

Cutting meat to examine injuries.

Arrest.

Drinking.

Fighting.

Explosion.

Revenge.

This is the mainstream atmosphere here.

Of course, the so-called "romance" of the Western Gold Rush in history, apart from those romantic stories such as "spending money to buy eggs and smashing them all, smashing eggs to win a thousand gold smiles", the mainstream is similar to this: vendettas, uneven distribution of spoils, bandit robberies, dungeons and caves, etc.

The lack of wild, anarchic, and everyone-on-everyone romance is not a big deal.

Gold Mountain, in this gray tone, has developed rapidly, filled the population, and ushered in a new wave of immigrants this year.

Or, to be more precise, a new wave of indentured labor. Or, [hidden] slaves.