Xinshun 1730

Chapter 102

When the members of the expedition team trapped in the yard saw Liu Yu again, they were very calm.

Several people inside exchanged money with each other, probably because they had made a bet before, betting whether Liu Yu would come to them again.

Since I am a member of the expedition team, I have long been mentally prepared for this kind of boring life.

Journeying at sea is even more boring than being in the yard. No matter how magnificent the vast sea is, you will vomit if you look at it too much. Naturally, you will not feel bored with this kind of life under house arrest with food and drink.

Chelikov, who was caught by Liu Yu as a traitor, was not there. As the captain of the expedition, Bering still took the initiative to say hello to Liu Yu.

"Liu, how long are we going to be here?"

"Soon, very soon. I have already told you about you in the negotiations with the Russians. Your family members will come here soon. As for you, you should be able to go to the sea soon."

Having said that, Liu Yu has no foundation in his heart.

I lied to Bering, saying that Dashun had the heart to explore the unknown world, and would help Bering form an expedition to find the mysterious southern continent.

In fact, Liu Yu didn't want to for the time being.

At least before Nanyang defeated the forces of Western countries, finding Australia at this time was obviously a gift for Westerners, and it was standard to make wedding clothes for others.

His idea is to go in three steps.

The first step is to explore a route from Shandong to North Korea, to Japan, and then to Vladivostok.

The second step is to rely on this route to train a group of sailors and shipbuilders who are proficient in Western soft sailing ships.Poke a big hole in the small Tanegashima island left by Japan's seclusion.

The sailing skills of the Russians are average, but Bering is not a real Russian, but has formally studied at the Naval Academy in Amsterdam.

Finally, the issue of Nanyang can be considered.

The main reason is that going to Nanyang now has insufficient military strength and no profit.

If you just want to trade, Westerners will take the initiative to send money to their doorstep.Until you have a navy strong enough to counter the Anglo-Dutch squadrons in Southeast Asia, the Nanyang issue doesn't exist because it's pointless.

Here is a vicious circle:

The trade was completely open, and Western ships flocked to it. Whether it was ocean-going technology or distant sea warfare, the merchants in Fujian and Guangdong were no opponents of the organized East India Company.

Complete retreat, a large number of smugglers will emerge, and Westerners will support them to obtain the goods that Westerners urgently need, but the official level of communication has also been cut off.

The piracy situation in the late Ming Dynasty was actually the same reason: the Dutch could not get the goods, because the Portuguese were in Macau, and the two sides were at war. Pirates are addicted to occupying Penghu, and it is even more impossible to trade with Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch are poor again, without the silver from the American silver mines. Once raw silk can be sold for 240 in Manila, it can only be sold for 150 in Batavia.

Manila is close, while Batavia is far away. Fujian businessmen are not the wild fathers of the Dutch, so naturally they would not go to Batavia to help the poor and send warmth.

This led to the Dutch raising a group of pirates to rob the route to Manila, forcing merchants to trade in Batavia, and also the prosperous era of pirates in Southeast Asia in the late Ming Dynasty.

The situation in China is very special.

Western goods are not needed in China.

Even after one crow, if opium is removed, British goods still cannot squeeze the men and women weaving under the small peasant economy.

After the establishment of the United States, there was no cargo to be shipped to China except for silver and American ginseng. We had to dig ice blocks from the north as ballast stones and cover them with sawdust to keep them warm.So much so that in Guangdong and other places, throughout the late 18th century and early 19th century, many of the American ice cubes that were eaten in the summer were from the ocean. Selling some ice across the Pacific Ocean is also better than filling the warehouse with stones.

Fully open to trade and relying entirely on private forces, Fujian merchants could not compete with the organized East India Company.

The East India Company had the guns, the army, the organization.

And the key question is, who will the goods be sold to?

Before retreating, it could be sold to Manila and Batavia for silver.

Now that the switch has been opened, Fujian businessmen are not rivals in terms of freight costs and local dominance, so why should they compete?
Western countries can go directly to the customs to get the goods and send them back to Europe. Why do they need a group of second-hand traffickers?

Is it true that the East India Company is gentle, courteous and thrifty?Once the customs are opened, free trade is allowed. Just support a group of pirates and issue a few private plunder certificates, and the East India Company can force all the Dashun maritime merchants to go bankrupt.

Even the School of Southeast Zhejiang, who wanted the court to support industry and commerce, only supported mergers, planting cash crops, and developing handicrafts, but did not support building a navy, because it was useless and expensive.

This is the biggest difference between the budding bourgeoisie in Dashun and Western Europe. If you can't figure this out and think that it can only be solved by opening up trade, then it is a standard way to seek a sword.

Britain, the Netherlands... had to develop navigation, because no one took the initiative to send money to their door.

If Western bourgeois want to make profits, their theory must attach importance to the navy; on the other hand, the sprouts on the Dashun side must not attach importance to the navy, but to annexing and enclosing land, changing rice to mulberry, reducing business taxes, encouraging private mining, and organizing associations to discuss government affairs , Focus on suppressing the massive refugees caused by labor pains.

Bourgeois profit-seeking and short-sightedness of daring to sell their own noose to hang themselves are doomed to fail to sprout: the commercialization of land will inevitably bring refugees, and the problem of refugees depends on immigrants from Southeast Asia. Official immigrants need money and construction to make money. And the navy that lost money held on.

But if the rich want to make money, they can just wait for people to buy goods at the door of their house. Why do they have to run around like those poor Westerners?Tea raw silk porcelain, buy it or not, if you don’t buy it, others will rush to buy it, only this one, there is no semicolon.Going to Europe with a 50% mortality rate, what can be sold for money?Carrying a boatload of wool and woolen fabrics and trying to sell them to the men farming and women weaving, does this mean they have money and nowhere to spend it?Or go back to the Americas to transport hibiscus cactus, go to Africa to transport unicorns and giraffes, and present auspiciousness to His Majesty?
Here, the rich have no motivation to sail, and those who have the motivation to sail and emigrate have no money.On the British side, those who have money are motivated to sail and transport porcelain and silk back to make money, while those who have no money are forced to sail as either sailors or contract slaves.

As for taking my money to the refugees, allowing the refugees to emigrate to Nanyang and build a navy, of course I will not give money.No money was given, and the refugees refused to die, so they had to start all over again.Continue to sprout.The 10 people who dared to enclose land in the UK entered the workhouse, and [-]% of the people in Ireland starved to death, try this in Dashun?You, Li Zicheng, can share the land without food, and become the emperor. Are we, Wang Zicheng and Zhang Zicheng, willing to be An An and starve to death?

This is determined by different economic bases.

Therefore, the Nanyang issue cannot be dominated by the people, and it is impossible to rely on independent expansion. It can only be the government-led navy.

With a strong, Leviathan's will, implement a route that cannot see gains or even lose money in a short period of time.

Liu Yu knew this very well.

Without an officially-led navy, the Nanyang issue is a mirror image.

The government-led navy needs money, a lot of money.

However, Dashun wanted money, but it didn't need a navy at all—it only needed a customs, and Westerners could fight each other for the qualification to send money.

Therefore, if you want to build a navy, you can only use Japan as a breakthrough.

Taking advantage of the relationship between Tanegashima and East Asia since ancient times, the small window of Tanegashima was smashed into a big hole. While solving the problem of copper shortage in the imperial court, at the same time, they raised enough money and trained a group of sailors so that the emperor could see that the navy was Can bring money.

There is no real benefit, no one can be convinced, and it is even more impossible for the imperial court to spend a lot of money on training the Nanyang Navy.

Thanks to the shogunate for closing the country, and also thanks to the island country for its abundance of copper and silver, which gave such a gap to break the situation.Indispensable.

As for the Nanyang issue, we can only try our best to wait for changes in Europe, and work together to solve it once.

The Dashun court has a certain understanding of the outside world, but it is still far from being able to unite vertically and horizontally and take advantage of Liu Yu's borrowing of European contradictions in Lake Baikal for profit.You can only listen to the world with your ears open, but you have not yet opened your eyes to see the world.

The strength... is far worse. Even if the Seven Years War broke out and Europe is in chaos, Dashun's current navy doesn't even have the qualifications to play soy sauce in Nanyang.

You can't rely on the army, unite the British, and generals to fight against Russia, and make a small contribution to the Tatar British "the emperor ascended the throne, the four directions came to the court for 250 years, the British ceremony and the feudal lords, and the five uniforms were divided into distances and nears." land.

It is definitely going to take advantage of the chaos of the Seven Years War to try to collapse the country, sell kidneys to aid the law, and also unite with the law to kill the British forces in Southeast Asia and India.

Therefore, in this national policy line, Bering and others who can be the seeds of the navy are very important.

How to persuade Bering is somewhat difficult.

Bai Ling could only complain to Liu Yu when he heard Liu Yu say "soon, soon".

"Liu, I am 47 years old this year. As far as a navigator and explorer is concerned, 47 years old is a very old age."

"You know the outside world. The earth is only so big, and there are not many opportunities left for us explorers."

"Except for the northern routes of Asia and America, there is only the southern continent. I hope history will remember my name and leave a piece of land named after me."

"The relationship between us is employment. If you can't support me in my expedition, then I can only choose to leave. Even if my life ends up in a bitter journey at sea, I shouldn't do nothing here."

"The achievements of the Great Geographical Discovery belong to the whole world. But the reputation of the Great Geographical Discovery belongs to the individual. You don't think I gnawed boots and ate weeds in Siberia just for those silver coins?"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Of course, of course. I understand. I think it will be soon. Perhaps, we can not worry about the southern continent, we can explore the route from Asia to northern America first. I am arranging people, Recruit some shipwrights. You should know that our ships are different from yours, and expeditions require ships. You can wait a little longer, 47 years old is not too old."

Of course he was lying.

But Bai Ling believed it, he had no contact with the rest of the people, and he only knew about Dashun through Liu Yu's window.

At least the Dashun seen in this window is a vigorous, pioneering, and understanding of the vast outside world.

Although they still don't know what Liu Yu's identity is, Bai Ling and others speculate that Liu Yu may be a duke or marquis, so what he said with such a status should be credible.

After deceiving Bai Ling, Liu Yu continued to fool around.

"Mr. Bering, Dashun's expedition may be a huge fleet. Just like the reform carried out by Peter, maybe Dashun's current navy is not strong, but as long as there is determination, it can be compiled. I heard Said you fought in the Great Northern War, and fought against the Turks in the Black Sea."

"So, I hope that you can write some sailing skills and experience in naval battles into a book while you are waiting to break the time."

After finishing speaking, he said to the rest of the expedition team: "You are the same. You should know that there will not be a naval battle between China and Russia. This is not the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea. You don't need any treason or anything like that." Moral condemnation."

"Write it out, you can give money. You are idle anyway. Whether it is geometry, nautical surveying and mapping, hydrology, naval tactics, sailor drills... everything can be exchanged for money. Of course, I miss you They should all know Latin."

"Whether you plan to stay here to explore in the future, or take a boat back to Europe from Macau, money is always useful."

The members of these expeditions were carefully selected, and many of them had the experience of studying abroad. As the cultural language of the West at this time, they should all understand Latin.

After these people agreed, Liu Yu promised to send them pens and papers soon.He assured Bering again and again that within two years at most, Bering would be able to return to the sea.

Anyway, if it can't be done within two years, it's useless to keep it.

After fooling around with these people, Liu Yu finally stepped into the small courtyard where Hannibal was under house arrest, feeling a headache.

Where should I start to trick Hannibal into writing what he has learned?
This guy shouldn't be short of money.

Love, definitely not as good as Peter's adoptive father.

Officer, he just needs to go back to Russia and become a lieutenant general.Once the little puppet tsar dies, the group of sand sculptures of the old school, who can't even play with the emperor, can make a foreign widow with no foundation dissolve the Privy Council overnight and seize power. As long as Hannibal goes back, he will definitely be reused.

Yi, as Peter's adopted son, had just fought a battle between Shun and Russia, not to mention sacrificing his life for righteousness, but he could help Dashun write the military drill code...

Where can I find a black girl who understands Latin or Russian and believes in the Orthodox Church?

Name, he is not Bering, he can use the history of the great geographical discovery to fool him.

Scared, not to mention that he is not qualified to deal with prisoners of this level, it seems that he is not afraid of death.

This is a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, and doesn't eat soft and hard.

It seems impossible for Dashun to send people to France in a short time, so don't fantasize about unrealistic things.Even if it is dispatched, when I come back ten years later, the cucumber dishes will be cold.The attack on Junggar was the only opportunity to give Dashun the motivation to carry out army reforms, and he had to make a good show and be cost-effective in order to be accepted by the court.

Among the group of missionaries who came, none of them graduated from a regular military school, and all of them were full of amen, but they didn't understand the lieutenant's password.

He could only find a way to pry Hannibal's mouth open.

(End of this chapter)