Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1049

Lin Min said that Liu Yu's methods were rough, this is not a taboo, who in the court doesn't know?
The emperor didn't care much about these things at all, the emperor set aside the standards of later generations, one counted as one, and it would not be wrong to shoot them.

The Emperor Xianzong of the former dynasty rehabilitated Yu Qian, and the evaluation was not bad. Didn’t the "Records of the Emperor Xianzong" also record [Leading Han and Tatar officials and troops, and apprehending them in separate ways... There are refugees from the time since Hongwu, and their family business has extended to their descendants. for the wicked.Soldiers enter, do everything they can...]

The grass shaving poultry, the grass shaving is also mowing the grass, the thatch must be overdone.Didn't he make great achievements by doing so, and awarded the prince Taibao and posthumous posthumous title Xiangyi.

Dashun is also coming soon. The trade center will change Lingnan, where there are contradictions between Canadians and locals. Sooner or later, something will happen.

Before, Liu Yu sent people to Nanyang with a 50% death rate, which is almost a crime.

Liu Yu is very clear about his position, the chief backer, chief boss, and chief black hand of Dashun's emerging capitalists.

Just because he believed that he could not solve the land problem at all, top-down reforms must be incomplete, and there has never been any savior.

We can only create conditions and build a foundation, and wait for the awakened people to use their surging strength to raise the banner of righteousness. Under the leadership of the new class, they will abandon the shackles of small peasant limitations, bury the Li family dynasty with the old era, and solve the final land issue. Industrialization has been completed based on the foundation accumulated before.

The emperor is also very clear about his own position, the feudal leader.

Now it is Xinshun, the black hand who hangs the overlord's whip; it is not the serf's halberd that rolled around during the rebellion.

Can the emperor understand Lin Min's subtext?If reforms are needed, the livelihoods of the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou who rely on the salt industry for their livelihood will be greatly affected.

The imperial court did not have enough money to ensure that their lives would not decline as before, and something must happen.

The emperor knew about Liu Yu's "five-year plan to flatten the Huaihe River". Regarding the matter of waste salt reclamation, after the great success of the salt industry reform in Huaibei, the emperor had already made up his mind.

It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

The emperor is now used to spending gold and silver brought by customs and trade, and it is already very difficult for him to hold back.

The official income of Dashun in the past few years does not include ransacking of homes and paying for service, but when including internal money income, the proportion of land tax has been decreasing year by year, and now it only accounts for about 70%.The salt tax, along with those customs duties, and messy buying fees, took up the rest.

This does not prove that Dashun's industry and commerce accounted for a high proportion of the total production, it only proves that Dashun's land system is extremely unreasonable, and the land tax does not collect much at all.

Moreover, the cotton issue has indeed become an important issue restricting Dashun's immigration to the Northeast.

The Northeast is not the Western Regions, and cotton cannot be grown.

Vladivostok reported good news before, saying that it was improved with Japanese white-haired rice and red-haired rice, and it is already possible to try to grow rice in the Northeast.
At that time, the emperor still didn't quite believe the news sent in the name of "Auspicious Jiahe".After ordering people to conduct a thorough investigation, I realized that rice can really be grown in that poor place?

Overjoyed.

This is a big deal.

Before crossing the Songliao Watershed and going further north, it was actually impossible to grow corn. I tried it before, but the planting failed.

And Liu Yu's expansion to the north relied on the capture of Cossacks and the promotion of planting rye.

Basically relying on rye and potatoes, squeezing north.

Decades ago, in distant America, something happened called the Salem Witch Trials.

After Dashun expanded to the north, because it relied on rye and potatoes, a similar incident happened.Of course it's not called a witch, but something like the upper body of a great fairy, which makes people panic.

The reasons are similar, rye ergot poisoning, hallucinations and manic convulsions.Even if someone explained this thing, it would not be of much use. The best way is not to eat rye, but it would be best if you can eat rice.

After being overjoyed, the emperor quickly turned to worry again.If I can grow rice... I am happy, but I have to seize the time to immigrate to the north, blocking North Korea's northward expansion and escape.

North Koreans can also grow rice.

The lessons of the previous dynasty have left the emperor with lingering fears, and he will absolutely not allow similar incidents of the rise of Jurchens to happen again.

To continue to immigrate to the north, a large amount of cotton is needed, and it is cheap cotton that can be easily transported to seaside port cities.

With the development of the commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River, the Northeast region has also been driven up.

To the south of the Songliao watershed, an economic belt for the commercialization of grain has been gradually established around the grain trade of soybeans and wheat, relying on the Liaohe River and sea transportation as transportation methods.

From Tongjiangzi to Yingkou, it is known as "eight hundred miles, sails and masts are connected, and tens of thousands of ships are transported", and a series of towns have sprung up.

Although the places where these towns were built were all along the river, once the railway era opened, these towns that are now prosperous will experience decline like Huai'an and Yangzhou at that time.But at this time, water transport is still the only stable way of transporting bulk trade goods.

Sailing in summer, making use of frozen water to create free natural highways in winter, coupled with the planting of new crops, the popularization of cotton, the development of industry and commerce in Jiangsu, and the opening of ports in Japan, etc., the south of the Songliao watershed has basically become the basic base of Dashun. up.

As for the north of the Songliao watershed, Dashun followed Liu Yu's thinking and adopted the method of "painting the land as a prison" by sea, and occupied the seaside, estuary and other places along the river.

After these years of immigration, the cost of immigration has been greatly reduced.

When people go, they can be hired workers, long-term workers, or tenants. The larger the population, the lower the immigration cost.

Not everyone can afford mink.

Cotton cloth and cotton jackets and trousers are the mainstream equipment for immigrants, and only three to five catties of cotton can be stuffed into a pair of cotton trousers that can keep out the cold, and an acre of land now only produces more than ten catties of cotton.

Before Dashun, there were many conquests, and North Korea and Japan successively opened limited ports.Neither North Korea nor Japan can grow cotton.

The needs of Northeast immigrants, North Korea and Japan's demand for cotton cloth, and Songjiang Prefecture's overseas export demand all make Dashun urgently need a cotton production area.

After Dashun took over Nanyang from the Dutch, Dashun's cotton cloth will quickly occupy the Indian cotton cloth market, which also makes the demand for cotton surge.

These are the reasons Liu Yu gave the emperor to change the economic structure of Huainan.

The logic of the reason is: first of all, it is a wasteland.

Secondly, the development of the Liaodong area, the rise of shipping, and the import of Nanyang rice made the food crisis in Dashun less urgent.

Liaodong can grow grain, but not cotton.

Therefore, the grain from Liaodong, Nanyang, and Ezo was exchanged for the promotion of cotton in Jiangsu.In this way, there is no need to worry that the common people will grow cotton and mulberry without food.

In fact, Liu Yu directly engaged in tax exemptions for grain imports, causing grain prices to drop day by day. Jiangsu, as the most severely impacted place by seaborne trade, has become more and more aware of the problem of "cheap rice hurting farmers".

What should I do if rice cheap hurts farmers?
Or, the powerful state machinery will come forward to regulate and make peace.

Or, the low price of rice hurts the peasants, planting cotton and exchanging it for rice, so that the common people can benefit from the low price of rice without hurting it.

After thinking about how powerful Dashun's state machine could be, the emperor decided to grow cotton. How could Dashun have the ability to control the price of rice.

Of course, the emperor also had some careful thoughts. Jiangsu has become Dashun's pocketbook.

As Liu Yu said before, opening coal mines in the north of the Yellow River and taking Haizhou shipping to Songjiang Prefecture to control Jiangsu is similar.

Food is more important than coal, and the emperor felt that it would be a good thing if Jiangsu could not be self-sufficient in food at all.At that time, if there is any movement, just pinch the food and be sure to be honest.

Furthermore, the rice grains needed in the capital now come from Ezo, Nanyang, or Liaodong.After the canal was abandoned, depending on the shipping capacity, the amount of grain Jiangsu produced was of no great significance to Dashun.

After overcoming this inertia of seeking swords, many of the remaining truths will also be figured out.

Liu Yu's reform has his own three views and logic of productivity and production relations.

Of course, it is impossible for the emperor to agree with this set of three views, but he supports Liu Yu's reform ideas, because Liu Yu has a set of logical chains dedicated to "loyalty to His Majesty, strengthening imperial power, and benefiting the stability of the country".

The reason he gave the emperor was completely inconsistent with the real reason why he did it.

Of course, it is impossible for the emperor not to be wary of Liu Yu at all, trust belongs to trust, what should be guarded against is still to be guarded against.

The emperor can rest assured that Liu Yu will toss about in Jiangsu, because the emperor has his own plans and his own preparations to control the overall situation.

He changed Yuan Weixin.

In addition to showing the determination to change this time, there is also a small by-product.

The emperor can justifiably open Enke.

Changing Yuan Kaienke is so legitimate that it can no longer be justified.

With Enke, there is no need for non-standard examination methods to select talents.

The emperor can formulate a topic, and through this change of Yuan Enke, a group of talents the emperor wants will be selected.

These talents are not new learners, but earnestly obtained through the imperial examinations. Enke is also a subject.

The emperor had already thought about the topic.

The advantages and disadvantages of the abandoned canal.

Pros and Cons of Salt Administration Reform.

Salt tax is still not collected, the meaning of national taxation.

These titles formulated by Enke are a big pit.

It seems that the emperor wants to use the Enke method to start a few days of discussion among the scholar-bureaucrats, whether these are right or wrong.

In fact, in the eyes of the emperor, the opinions of the scholar class on sea canals and river transportation, and no tax on salt are nothing but fart.

He is only afraid of two kinds of people.

Landless small farmers.

Similar to miners.

The emperor had a very definite answer in his heart. Enke asked these questions in order to select some talents who fit the emperor's ideas, and then throw these Enke talents to Jiangsu.

Why not use new talents?Do you have to choose from the imperial examination?
Because new learners cannot be officials, and there are already many people from the Wude Palace, there is a temporary imbalance.As for those who came from the orthodox imperial examinations, it is hard to say whether they can quickly adapt to a series of changes in Jiangsu Province.

He's going to tuck in some Enke origin, to balance it out.

I told Liu Yu before that I don't want people to die, let Liu Yu sort out a set of team framework, and then formalize it.

Then, of course, the regularized people cannot be Liu Yu's shogunate team.

The generation that Enke took, the emperor planned to throw them all to Jiangsu as the second assistant official, to learn more, watch more, and ponder more.

Waiting for Liu Yu to finish the dirty and bloody work, Liu Yu can go back to Beijing to "rest". People with different "Tao" can take over.

Whether it is Nanyang or Jiangsu, the emperor used this method.

And it is used clearly, Liu Yu also understands it at all.

Both sides understand and fully understand that this is for the sake of picking fruits and seizing power in the future, and they are tacit, which is called the trust of the monarch and his subjects.

Relying on Liu Yu's initiative to release military power, relying on the garrison of [-] good families in the Songjiang Mansion camp, relying on the expansion of the navy's army The officers promoted by the emperor grew up, relying on the replacement of officers in the main fleet of the Weihaiwei Brigade and Shunwei two military ports, relying on With this kind of clear trick of exchanging blood, relying on Liu Yu's reputation of only having the shogunate but not being able to start the mansion, but acting on the power of the monarch, the "trust" between the monarch and his ministers can fully support the "five years of Pinghuai power" "of.

(End of this chapter)