New Shun 1730

Whether it is the future profitability, the special merchant status of the Dashun regime, the salt merchant's "jewelry first", or various other reasons.

In short, developing Nanyang has become something these businessmen have to do.

Liu Yu's credibility is still there, so it's good to make money.

Compensation... Compensation is just a reward.

Compared with the continuous returns of one million taels per year from salt merchants, Liu Yu estimated that he would be able to invest tens of millions of taels of capital at a time in developing Nanyang this time.

In addition to specialized Western trade products such as coffee, or rice under the imperial comprador, Liu Yu also took the lead in completing the integration and communication of upstream and downstream industries as much as possible.

Of course, such a large-scale investment cannot be as haphazard as a headless fly.

Here, a large number of practical students are still needed to conduct massive calculations and estimate future trade led by Liu Yu.

Relying purely on the invisible hand, great things must be achieved.

For example, if you plant a lot of coffee, you will end up with too much coffee and you won’t be able to sell it; or it may be easy to sell now, but there will inevitably be another war in Europe soon, and if Dashun natives don’t drink coffee, then it will be a waste.

Another example is planting some palm, rope and hemp, but it turns out that it is not enough to keep up with the navy's expansion plan, and it will be in short supply when the time comes.

There are also rubber products that may seem unprofitable now, but will actually become very valuable within a few years; or the cinchona tree industry that is closely related to the top-secret Dashun India plan.

There are also madder and indigo, which are closely related to the colors of military uniforms; during the European War, the export volume of madder red and indigo blue surged after the war between Britain and France...

etc.

These all require advance planning.

It can easily take more than ten years to go bankrupt and shift to new industries by relying on invisible hands. Especially in the reality that a foreign trade cycle takes two years, even longer.

However, although it does not rely on invisible hands, the imperial court does not fund government affairs.

Firstly, the imperial court does not have the money to make such a long-term investment of several years. Secondly, Dashun’s administrative efficiency and grassroots control will definitely be messed up if it is run by the government.

Businessmen contributed funds, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce led by Liu Yu was responsible for formulating the plan, maintaining a certain margin of freedom.

At the same time, they will not carry out compulsory acquisitions like the Dutch East India Company model, but allow them to sell on their own, and even engage in futures like Liaodong soybeans or Japanese rice.

In the next few days at Longyamen, Liu Yu basically took the pages piled up in sacks and distributed them. It can be regarded as explaining clearly the purpose, scale and planning of these industries; it can also be regarded as finding an opportunity to teach these businessmen some "political economics" lessons.

Businessmen know how to do business.

But I really don’t necessarily understand economics, especially in a very special environment like Dashun, which catches up with the trend of overseas trade and can collect money and hemp while sitting at home. What is the level of these businessmen? Liu Yu’s heart Really clueless.

So far in Dashun, including this time, there have been two "capital transfers guided by imperial intervention."

One was the development of Whale Sea and Ezo.

By forcing Japan to switch, Northeast Asian trade was revitalized, and rapid immigration to Ezo was completed by relying on Ezo's best-selling seafood in Japan and the commercialization of Japanese rice.

The advancement of lamp oil driven by the glass manufacturing industry, the oil soaps ordered by the Navy, and the subsequent export of glycerin and stearic acid products to the West promoted the large marine mammal capture industry in the Whale Sea, and also revitalized the food commodities in Vladivostok and other places. change.

At that time, about seven to eight million taels were invested in the capital transfer from Jiangnan to Northeast China.

Investors in Jiangnan and Gyeonggi have already recovered their costs.

This investment of 7 to 8 million taels also contributed to the increase in subsequent immigration, causing the cost of immigration to drop rapidly.

It can be said that with such a scale of population immigration, if it were an official immigration promoted by the imperial court, there would be no more than 50 million taels.

Without commercial revitalization, the villages would be like those villages Liu Yu saw when he went to Yongning Temple: dogs eating people, but too poor to have money.

On this point, Liu Yu and the emperor had settled their accounts. The results of immigration in the Whale Sea Ezo area over the years were an important reason why the emperor was able to agree to the development of Southeast Asia by having the imperial army open the way and merchants follow up.

Because the immigration to the Whale Sea area was carried out almost at the same time as the immigration to the Western Regions.

Immigration to the Western Regions can only be led by the government and is unprofitable.

In the strong contrast between the court's expenditure and the number of immigrants, it was too shocking. Because of the success and the contrast, and the contrast was too strong, the emperor dared to try to take a step forward.

Advances in navigation made capital transfer and mobility possible.

In fact, it also put an end to a strange disease of the Ming Dynasty: Jiangnan merchants and gentry groups stuck together to engage in Jiangnan localism.

The advancement of navigation also made it possible to abandon the canal and transform it into the sea. This allowed the emperor to safely and boldly let the emerging capital groups in the south of the Yangtze River do what they wanted without worrying about the split between the north and the south after the Grand Canal was cut off.

The scale of capital investment transfer carried out this time is much larger than that of the last time. The annual comprador fee for the imperial court's rice harvest alone has caught up with the amount of investment in the development of Whale Sea and Ezo.

This huge capital investment, and because of the plantation model, made it possible to try to issue banknotes.

Of course, it cannot be for the whole country, but with Nanyang as the foundation, Songjiang Prefecture as the stronghold, and Tianjin and other places first set up the exchange exchange method and gradually spread it.

A large number of hired workers entered the plantations, and they had nothing.

For those who invest in plantations, most of the things they want to buy can be purchased in bulk in Songjiang Prefecture.

Some of the daily necessities needed in Nanyang are locally produced, but most are purchased in bulk from Dashun.

This particularity makes it possible to try banknotes that first connect plantations, Songjiang Prefecture, the navy, and emerging industries.

If it is a spontaneous immigration from Fujian and Guangdong, this kind of banknotes will obviously be difficult to accept.

Dashun's conquests in Nanyang will be mainly economic and monetary, supplemented by military.

These are all part of the Nanyang Development Plan. And with the development of Nanyang, as a source of raw materials, the court will easily accept the use of paper money as tax: the money can be spent to buy the bulk items you want to buy, and even if it is not good enough, it can be exchanged for silver.

The Bank of England originated from issuing national debt to the government; the Bank of Amsterdam originated from large-scale trade payments; French banknotes originated from the swindling of national debt.

There is no way to learn from Dashun.

The national debt does not exist in Dashun and cannot be borrowed.

In overseas trade, Dashun is a pure surplus country, and there is no need to redeem bills at all.

As for the state's issuance of paper banknotes modeled on Song Jiaozi and Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Dashun's finances are in a mess. With such a large base, so few coins are put into the national treasury a year, and even the reserve fund is not enough. If this doesn't depreciate enough to take off, it would be really unreasonable.

The bank that Dashun wants to set up... actually originated from foreign trade. It just tried to get the "central bank's banknote-issuing power" from European merchant ships into its own hands.

After the completion of silver monetization and taxation in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, foreign trade had actually become the note-issuing bank of Dashun. It's just that this banknote-issuing bank has been concretely implemented now.

It is essentially cut off from the small-scale peasant economy of the old era.

Take emerging industries, emerging industries, emerging commerce, emerging navy, and emerging Nanyang rice as the basic basis for circulation.

The plate now seems to be large enough to ensure stable circulation.

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October.

Jiangsu, like previous years, suffered another disaster.

Since the Yellow River captured the Huaihe River in the fifth year of Shaoxi's reign in the Song Dynasty, there have been few years without disasters.

Very little, very little.

Many changes have taken place in history, but the weather cannot be changed by humans.

According to the original history, this year, there were 20 floods in Huaihe and Lusi. On November 3, 20 states, counties, and counties including Funing were hit by floods. On November 15, 19 states, counties, and counties including Changshu were hit by tides. At the beginning of the month, drought hit 15 states, counties, and counties including Shangyuan.

In autumn, there is strong wind and rain, and the sea overflows. Many folk farmhouses in Jianghuai River have disappeared. There are nearly 120,000 refugees in Shanyang and Taoyuan counties alone. The reason why there are such statistics is because the county magistrate set up a porridge farm and counted the heads.

In fact, almost every year is a disaster year.

In the second year of history, it was still a famine year. Severe drought intensified the epidemic. Even in wealthy places like Wuxi, "everywhere in the countryside and cities was sick, and tens of thousands of people died."

In the third year, there was no drought, and there were no incoming waves, but a bigger wave came. The Yellow River bursts.

It should be said that phrases such as "more than ten thousand dead", "the dead are lying on the ground", "two hundred thousand refugees", "preparing rice and silver for disaster relief" must appear almost every year.

at this time.

The bank of Sheyang River in Jiangsu.

This place was originally a sea. After the Yellow River captured the Huaihe River in the fifth year of Shaoxi's reign, the silt pushed the coastline 180 miles eastward, turning this place into a piece of land.

No one would lament the vicissitudes of life at this time, including the county magistrate who was a scholar.

Tens of thousands of hungry people squatted on the ground numbly, trying not to move as much as possible. Even the slightest movement was difficult in a state of hunger.

Only after the relief porridge is cooked, they will stand up and get a bowl of porridge.

The victims are emotionally stable because they are used to it.

It happens once every few years. You deserve to die, you deserve to live, just let fate take its course.

The flood drowned many people, but not a single cry was heard among the tens of thousands of victims.

It’s just a few family members dying, it’s normal, why are you crying?

In the porridge not far away, the Funing County Magistrate was welcoming several guests, but it sounded like there was obviously some quarrel.

"A half-year-old child is okay, but no matter how small it is, we definitely can't take it. We definitely can't take the old man. They are looking for people to work, not to provide for other people's parents. Let me tell you clearly, they are eager to take them all. For a bachelor whose parents are dead, this is the most economical way. If the government doesn’t force a certain number of women, no woman would be prepared to have one.”

"The ship is so big. For every old man on board, a young man must be taken off. This is non-negotiable. This is not a question of whether we can feed the old people when we get there, but it costs money to transport people on board."

"Nanyang is far away from here, but it is much further than going from here to the capital. It will be more troublesome to carry one more person on the boat. Then you said that if the person dies on the boat when he is old, should he throw it away or not?"

"Throw it away, this is unreasonable. Children must be laid to rest. I didn't jump out of a rock. In our navy, we almost had a mutiny because of whether people buried ballast sand or threw them into the sea when they died. ”

"But if you don't throw it away, what should you do if it gets broken, smells bad, or spreads diseases?"

The Funing County Magistrate nodded helplessly, knowing that this was indeed the case.

The man who came to "recruit people" was a man of great honor, but he refused to bow to officials. He also came from the battlefield. I heard that he was injured in his hand, so he arranged this kind of business.

The magistrate of Funing County welcomed the relocation of the people. Now that the head tax has been mixed with the land, there are too many of them, and it is all trouble and no benefit.

There are disaster relief almost every year, and being a county magistrate here is a hard job. You have to endure the days and arrange the problems of the disaster victims, and you can be promoted first. It is not impossible to embezzle some of the relief money, but the cost is a bit high. The same amount of money would be dismissed in other places; if you touch the disaster relief money, you will die.

There are too many disaster victims, and there is really no benefit for him as a county magistrate.

The court basically "exempts" this place every year, and even the situation of "the young and strong have all fled, no one to farm, and the land tax quota cannot be collected, so they are not allowed to leave" does not need to be considered.

The county magistrate only has a general impression of where Nanyang is, and knows that it is in the south. But where exactly it is and how far it is, he has no idea about it because he read the books of sages and passed the imperial examination, but he only knows that it is quite far away.

Considering that it is so far away and we have to catch up with the wind, bringing one more person who can't work will just take up more space.

"Well, I'll talk to them. Tell me, what are the conditions for working there?"