Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1127 Self Positioning

Now Dashun’s difficulty in expanding externally is to walk on one leg.

Capital takes the sword.

Who will get the scriptures?

Only relying on the sword, in some places, is not easy to handle.

That kind of place is different from the development of the Liaodong area.

In the Liaodong area, although the small peasant economy was smashed by Liu Yu, it was completely copied and pasted culturally.

Some things that are "known without consideration", such as national identity, ethnic identity, and traditional identity, do not need to be considered at all.

In the direction of Oceania, there is no need to worry too much.

With the star chart, there is a foundation for the triangle jump, and there are some preparations and foreshadowing before. As long as there is news of gold and silver, and a wave of operations similar to the Mississippi Company, it can solve the funding problem for the war with the United Kingdom. , by the way, I also took that account.

Only by digging for gold can farming be profitable, and food can be turned into commodities, so that capital can catch people in Dashun and send them there.

That place is tightly sealed, and within a hundred years, it will not be a big problem.

It should be enough for Dashun to lead the new culture of the industrial age.

But Honolulu is different.

One of the big problems in Dashun's external expansion is that the rich are unwilling to go, and those without money are unable to go there.

Therefore, Oceania can only rely on "golden mountains and silver mountains" to attract capital and arrest people.

The development of the Americas can only rely on fur, occupy the points first, and wait until the steamship can cross.

The place that relies on fur is not suitable for farming.

Capital has no interest at all in places suitable for farming.

Don't say that the width of the Pacific Ocean is too large.

Even in the much narrower Atlantic Ocean, the reason for the yellow stall of the Virginia Company is that it was thinking about farming at first, but if it hadn't been for the money it made from growing tobacco, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Just at this distance, Dashun's capital ran to the west coast of America to farm, and could pay for the underpants.

And the people who really lack land and can't survive, can afford a boat ticket to America?Not to mention whether there are regular routes, even if there is a ship, and the owner of the ship does not do charity, how much does it cost to go there?How much money do you earn if you have a boat, have the ability, and run around Nanyang casually?
Honolulu has aborigines.

There are still many.

About two to three million to one million, the distance is hard to say.

The land in Honolulu is very fertile and very suitable for farming.

But religion is a blank slate there.

Let's just put it this way, if only the capital is allowed to make troubles, once Christianity is spread, it will take a few years for the religion to be wiped out.

Not to mention those white boards, even Dashun, North Korea, and Japan. If the government did not intervene, the state power would directly end, and big trouble would happen.

What do you believe in capital?Just make money.

Honolulu, for the Dashun court at this time, is actually not very meaningful.

For China, it means a lot.

At this moment, those fur traders and those who invested in the monopoly Whale Sea Fur Trading Company benefited the most.

Because of the winter, those who hunt fur in the North Pole can choose to spend the winter there.

Also because the land there is fertile and the distance is relatively closer, it is very suitable for a grain production area to provide grain for fur companies.

At the same time, it can also be used as a transfer station for fur and trade goods.

Of course, because the kerosene industry has not yet developed at this time, whale oil is still the best lighting fuel at this time.

In particular, the industrial revolution in Dashun has broken out, and some factories and factories are in urgent need of lighting materials.It is also very suitable as a supply base for whaling.

And here is too far away from the mainland of Dashun, it is obviously unrealistic to expect such a strict prohibition of religion in the mainland of Dashun.

The world has been connected by sailing ships, and the speed of communication is much faster. Maps, technology, and longitude methods, these things cannot be kept secret.

Once the missionaries get there first, even if Dashun's capital is stuck in the position one step earlier, I am afraid that it will soon turn to the Protestant set of things that have adapted to the development of capitalism.

If you only rely on the sword and not the scriptures, you may eventually take the sword away by chanting the scriptures, especially in such a place far away from the mainland.

It doesn't matter whether Dashun is alive or dead.The important thing is that Chinese immigrants to America can only rely on furs, gold from San Francisco, and silver from Old Silver Mountain.

Honolulu, as an excellent transit point, still has about several decades to form a special relationship between Honolulu and Dashun before the westward movement of European colonists.

Whether it is suzerain vassal or cultural identity, it cannot be resolved by force alone.Dashun's delivery capacity there was limited, and it was obviously a money-losing product for the imperial court.

The reason why Liu Yu wanted to find this group of people, and tried to persuade them to go over there for a try, was because to a certain extent, this was the easiest way for Dashun to find pure idealistic Confucian scholars.

Moreover, the situation in Honolulu is especially suitable for them to do it.

Although those people's civilization is relatively backward, they are not too backward, and they are basically class society.

In addition, the islanders themselves had primitive hair-tying customs, and the style of the early class society was somewhat similar to that of the Yin Shang, but it seemed to be a little bit ahead of the Yin Shang.

Chiefs are a class.

Below the leader is the scholar class.

Because they lived on the island, apart from samurai, culture, dance, priests, medical officials, shipbuilders and craftsmen of this class of scholars were also considered as scholars.

Down from the scholar class, it is the commoner class.Mainly responsible for planting, fishing and so on.

Down below the common people is the slave class, not many in number.

Basically, from the "Zhou Li" that some people dream of, it must be closer than Dashun in terms of economic basis alone.

Historically, the upper class in Honolulu had resisted Christianity, and the reason was similar to that of some scholar-bureaucrats in Dashun.

"All the precepts can be kept, but the matter of not taking concubines is difficult."

The upper class on the island is polygamous, and because they reject monogamy, the upper class refuses to believe in Christianity.

In addition, men are superior to women on the island. It is basically the logic of men farming and women weaving, and men outside and women inside. Although it is in the primitive stage, regulations such as men eating and women not allowed to sit on the table have also appeared.

The cultural logic is also that men are yang and women are yin; men are strong and women are weak.

Because the economic foundation is here, people have to rely on farming, fishing, shipbuilding, and wars to make a living. Now that the class society has taken shape, under this economic foundation, it is inevitable that men are superior to women.

In this case, relatively speaking, the Confucian scholars of the ancient school should be more reliable than the Christian missionaries in infiltrating the upper echelons there. At least there will be no opposition from the upper echelons because of demands for divorce and abstinence from alcohol. Happening.

In addition, the land system and cultural customs are relatively more suitable for them to try retro.It is definitely not possible to go retro in Dashun. The economic development is completely different from that in ancient times, but it might be really possible there.

Through knowledge, it is very easy to become a taxi class under the chieftain, and it is still very possible to help create a Confucian tributary country that is distorted into the caste system of the Korean country.

After all, the disintegration of the old era depends on changes in the economic foundation.

However, Honolulu's economic foundation and land system have no chance to change in a short time.

Because to change, capital infiltration, land privatization, mergers, plantations, farms and other things are needed to disintegrate the past economic foundation.

Historically, what disintegrated the original economic foundation of Honolulu was the westward movement of the United States and the trade between the United States and Guangzhou.

What ultimately disintegrated all this was the outbreak of the American Civil War, which left a huge vacancy in the sugar and coffee markets in the north.A large amount of capital poured in to plant sugar cane, squeeze sugar, and grow coffee, which disintegrated the original economic foundation.

And for Dashun, this situation is very difficult to happen.

After all, if Dashun Capital wanted to grow coffee and sugarcane, it would not come here to do so. It is much more convenient in Nanyang.

There are many places in Nanyang where sugar cane and rice can be grown, and the distance is close, and the profits are higher. Dashun's capital will only go there if it is sick, and the local social structure will be disintegrated.

Therefore, as long as the west coast of America has not been developed, capital will not invest in agriculture in this place.However, if the west coast of the Americas wants to develop, in the short term, it is impossible.

Many things that the Confucian scholars of the retro school never forget, such as well fields, royal system, government-made, scholar-officials, etc., can be tried on the island, not to mention the seamless connection, it is definitely more suitable than in the southern Jiangsu area of ​​Dashun .

Moreover, for a long time, all the fur traders in Dashun needed was a winter port and a limited supply of grain.

Honolulu will remain a semi-static social structure for a long time to come.

It should be said that some of the ideas of Confucian scholars of the ancient school still have a strong cultural appeal to primitive societies like Honolulu, where classes have just emerged.

Especially the upper layer, and the degree of repulsion should not be too high.

Maybe they can also witness the process of changing human sacrifices to human figurines, which will help them understand the great progress of the Shang Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty, and also help them understand some things recorded in the ancient books of the pre-Qin period that they may not understand at this time.

In the letter, Liu Yu was quite clear.

It is meaningless to conquer this place by sword alone.Therefore, I hope that Confucian scholars like them can make some attempts.

Transform them.

Assimilate them.

vassal them.

Practice the law of three generations and enter the system of mine field.

Of course, the words are more polite.

But after reading the letter, Meng Songlu could still deeply feel the sigh from his teacher before.

Although not stated explicitly, the meaning of this letter is still full of irony.

Adding together the front and back is actually one sentence: let them find their own position.

In the future, you may be able to fantasize and fantasize about it.

In the past, you can try to change it and rely on the present.

However, the most critical thing is now, at this moment, the practical issue, you should rest.You can't solve it.

As for this time, I can only be a vassal of the background of the times. After compromise, integrate into the reform, seize the opportunity of the development of the textile industry in the era, and bring together a small township that has no conflicts between landlords and tenants and idealistic Confucian scholars. Heap problem, solved.

The words are very polite, but the more polite they are, the more depressed and suffocated it looks.

It seems to be saying that spreading the holy religion to that island and turning it into a vassal is the most likely and practical way for you to "make meritorious service" in reality.

As for the others, not optimistic.

(End of this chapter)