Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1134 I just want to be a dog
Talking about appeals, these people can cheer up.

Although what Liu Yu wants to say, he must beat the blood and drums for the upcoming world war for the market and colonies.

It's just that once this kind of thing is mentioned, it will still involve the relationship between capital and political power.

History keeps repeating itself.

Originally, in history, there were three small incidents related to capital companies, which basically made it clear what these emerging classes were.

The first one is the Russian American Company in history, which is the descendant of the group of people who have not yet been established at this time, but have already had conflicts with Dashun over the issue of fur competition around the Aleutian Islands and Alaska.

At that time, Russia gave up some of the interests of Russian and American companies in order to obtain the support of Britain, France and the United States on the Balkan issue and the Greek issue.In addition, after the death of the company's founder and major shareholder, the Tsarist Russian government took the opportunity to buy a part of the shares, which were not dry shares, but suffered losses and no profits every year.

Maybe the Tsarist Russian court felt that the company was not worth much, so they used it to make deals with Britain, France and the United States. As a result, the company suddenly became troubled. sharp?

Eventually, the government called for an audit.

Then, the Decembrist uprising broke out.

One of the leaders of the Decembrists who was finally sentenced to hang, Ryleyev, was the general secretary general of the Russian-American Trading Company and actually presided over the company's daily work.

The general management office of the Russian-American company in Petersburg, No. 72, Moyka Street, is the uprising headquarters of the mutiny nobles.After the failure of the mutiny, the head of the company burned a large number of company files.

Of course, this is certainly not the main reason for the Decembrists.But to say that there is no relationship at all, it is certainly not justified.

After all, the Tsar himself commented to a company executive who participated in the mutiny that "you guys are really fucking good".In Russian, "company" and "group of people" are the same word.Similar to the homophonic stalk in Chinese.

Second, the British East India Company continued to develop, and the British government established a "parallel East India Company".

Not long after its establishment, the shareholders of the True East India Company completely controlled the parallel East India Company by means of shadow shareholding, continued to maintain all the monopoly power of the company, and always insisted that everyone above 500 pounds is equal and you have [-] shares It is also a one-vote policy, which prevents the government from gaining control.

After that, is it the protection of the East India Company, the tax on tea, the tax on windows, and the collection of taxes in North America?Or not to protect the East India Company?In the end, many problems were stimulated, leading to a series of consequences.

Including the liberalization of the high tea tax in Wuyi, Fujian, which caused huge losses for North American smugglers and the Boston Tea Party.

The third is the original history of Huainan and Subei salt reclamation. The official bank of the Governor of Liangjiang was lent to Xingken Company, resulting in a deficit, but then the governor was changed to check the accounts. In the end, the governor of Jiangsu was instigated to support the Revolution of [-] anyway, and then all the accounts were burned. .

These three things actually reflect the strength of the merchant class.

Whether it was the capture of the Russian-American Company in Alaska, the salt reclamation that laid the foundation for the fertile land in northern Jiangsu, or the capture of the East India Company in India.

It's all power.

But once this power is out of control, it dares to do anything.

It seems that, to put it bluntly, when the imperial power tries to share the interests of these businessmen, they will definitely find ways to resist, and they will use various unexpected ways.

Money, most of the time, is better than slogans.

However, Dashun's situation is really special.

Now, although the flames are burning, the rising classes in Dashun also have to face the significance of what Cheng Tingzuo said about the emperor's southern tour to review the army and navy.

They are worried that the imperial court will see that they are too profitable, and they will take control, seize, or increase taxes.

After all, the monopoly power of buying and selling system is not authorized for life, but paid once a year. Whether it will be contracted to you next time, or whether the price of the next contract will be the same price is not certain.

Seeing that the emperor is about to come to the south for a grand parade, I am afraid that only God knows what the true thoughts of these emerging classes are.

Because these emerging classes live in Dashun and are in the special environment of Dashun.

Therefore, they have never produced the worldview of those businessmen in the Netherlands and other countries, that is, trying to construct a new idea of ​​"freedom of capital, which is sacred, reasonable, divine, and self-evident".

It's not that they don't want to, but it's obviously unrealistic, and they don't even dare to think about it.

It's one thing to have where you are and want it to stay.

It is another thing to have the current situation and think that the current policies and legal rights are sacred, inviolable, justified, self-evident, etc.

To put it bluntly, they are not very satisfied with Dashun's current financial control, land control, currency exchange, investment restrictions and other policies.

But they really didn't dare to feel that these things restricted them, they just wanted to put out slogans and overthrow all these things that restricted them.

Because, they know very well that once they want to do this, it is tantamount to going against the imperial power, the scholar-bureaucrats and the small farmers, and they don't know how to die.

Therefore, their attitude towards imperial power is very subtle.

I am afraid that the imperial power will see them make a fortune, intervene too much, and plunder their wealth.

They had to rely on the extension of the imperial power, and looked forward to the emperor's sageness to protect their hard-won situation.

This is very different from the situation in Europe.

And these trades, because of Liu Yu's need for help in the DPRK and China, have mixed with a lot of noble forces and good family forces, which has made these foreign monopoly trading companies create a special kind of Dashun. The "scriptures" of the upper class.

"Books" can shape and have a close relationship with economic foundation and tradition.

Although Liu Yu yells about free trade all day long, what he yells about him and his practice of supporting monopoly companies with all his strength is simply the opposite.

Relatively speaking, the "scriptures" believed by the nobles of Dashun and the upper echelons of Liangjiazi are more inclined to the French side.

That is, Yu Siji's article "Business Nobles Who Hold Different Opinions from Military Nobles or Two Opinions on Whether Nobility Doing Business is Beneficial to the Country" that advocated mercantilism.

The ideas inside are of course quite radical and distorted, but they provide a special kind of "sanctity" for Dashun's military aristocratic class to do business.

[Domestic trade, annexation of land, plundering people, buying low and selling high, that is the behavior of "profiteers"]

[As for foreign trade, it is the business of "politicians".Because the prosperity of foreign trade is inseparable from the prosperity of the country]

The scholar-bureaucrat class pays attention to farming and studying far away.

Traditionally, the status of the merchant class is humble, and this cannot be solved by shouting a few slogans about the unity of the four peoples.

Thousands of years of tradition can be solved by a few laws and slogans, which is a dream come true.

Under thousands of years of tradition, doing business is indeed a "cheap" industry.

This book "Business Aristocrats with Different Opinions from the Military Aristocrats or Two Opinions on Whether the Aristocrats Doing Business is Beneficial to the Country" has the greatest effect on Dashun's side, not advocating mercantilism.

Dashun does not need to deliberately engage in mercantilism, because silver and gold always flow here.

But..."domestic trade is a profiteer and a cheap business, and the tradition is right"; "foreign trade is the business of politicians, and it is closely related to the prosperity of the country."

The key is that these things make "business", or "foreign trade", a "low business", have a special meaning.

Separate the internal businessmen from the external business.

Since it is impossible to fully reverse the consciousness of "businessman's cheap business", then deconstruct and separate commercial behavior into external and internal.

This, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of Confucianism in Songsu, basically come from the same line of thinking.

And this is exactly the meaning of the scriptures.

Just like the relationship between Protestantism and capitalism, the teachings of Protestantism make capitalism open up and have sanctity.

These things are also in line with Dashun's traditions, making Dashun's foreign trade free from the traditional shackles of humble industry and creating a special sanctity.

I do it for the sake of getting rich.

It's vulgar, and in the traditional sense, very cheap.Although scholar-bureaucrats love money, they don't talk about it.

I did this for the sake of the country and the community.

That's pretty high.

I did this for the sake of the country and the community, and made a fortune by the way, and the more I got rich, the more I would do for the country and the community.

That's very high.

Similar to the Protestant side, I worked hard to make money, kill people, and get rich in order to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities God gave me, which is almost the same.

After all, this is not about God.

It is about the country, the country, and the world.

The "sanctity" of Dashun's foreign trade was formally established at this moment, with its own "scripture" system.

This scripture does not teach how to trade, there is no need to teach this.

This scripture turns the "vulgar" business into a sacred one. It is for the community and for the country.

This, together with Dashun's own meritocracy, completes the sublimation of the theme, and abstracts a community and country. At the same time, with Dashun's foreign exchanges, the concept of country gradually becomes clear.

Within the scope of the old world, in the prosperous age, it was difficult for the country to be clear.Except in troubled times.

Within the scope of the new world, who I am has a clear meaning.

In itself, this kind of thing needs to deepen the impression, and you need others to know who you are.Traveling to Southeast Asia, conquering Japan, overseas competition, and foreign trade have gradually made the concept of "I" clearer.

In fact, it is to expand the scope of the world.

This has turned the unification of prosperity in the old world into a struggle for supremacy among nations in the new world, and the "I" has become clearer and clearer.

Of course, Dashun did not go to war with other countries in the Atlantic Ocean.

But Dashun condemned the British cotton cloth prohibition order today, muttered that the Spanish governor accepted bribes and failed to do things tomorrow, and faced the competition of cotton cloth obtained from India by smugglers the day after tomorrow. , This is fucking white money.

imperial power.

A union of military aristocrats and foreign merchants.

Half of the elites of the New Practical Studies were in the middle and lower ranks of the army, and half were in coal mining, iron, iron, machinery, gun casting, military industry and other industries.

Songsu's comprehensive export-oriented economy is half of the world's tax revenue.

This is a path that Dashun is taking that is completely different from the simultaneous pioneering countries such as the UK, the Netherlands, and France.

To a certain extent, at this time Liu Yu asked the heads of these emerging classes what their demands were.

To sum up, most likely, they hope to treat the imperial power as a dog, and hope that the emperor can make this status quo of being a dog policy, legal, clear, and institutionalized.

At least, at this time.If I grow up a few more years, maybe I will also think about things such as mutiny, revolution, and controlling public opinion, but it is definitely not now.

Now they are very clear, they just want them to be vassal dogs, clearly institutionalized.

(End of this chapter)