Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1137 "Gentle" Colonists
Small conflicts can be adjusted.

If the main conflict is right, Dashun's side will have more confidence when the fight really starts.

Waiting for the emperor to tour the south and parade the army is considered to have completed the last step of mobilization.

Of course, it is good to be able to pay to support the fight to the end.

If you really want to kneel halfway, there are people who don't want to lose, use some feudal power to teach them not to kneel.

Because of the military meritorious service and the blending of the officer corps, these emerging bourgeoisie have to face another huge pressure.

It's easy to say if you win.

The cake is getting bigger, you take a bite, I take a bite, it's fun, and finally a nest of snakes and rats.

If you lose, it's hard to say.

Most of the officer corps and military meritorious officials are going to kill them. After all, the cake is so small, if you can't enjoy it, you have to see who has the biggest fist.

If you really lose the fight and get mixed up in the port trade, waiting for others to pick up the goods, who are you?Why do you come to eat such a big piece of fat?

Going out to do business, colonize, and do business, the court found it difficult.

If you really want to open the port and wait for others to buy it, it's not difficult at all, but this group of people can't turn to them. A group of people in blue official uniforms in the capital are waiting to be fed.

In these years, Liu Yu can be regarded as speaking daily and monthly, telling them that these emerging classes must live out their values ​​in order to survive.

A ready-made example is the big salt merchants in Yangzhou before, yesterday the fire was cooking oil, and the building collapsed in a blink of an eye.

Why?

Substitutable, but too fat.

Why are those private salt dealers and small contractors not affected?

Because they have lived out their own value and cannot be easily replaced.

The same goes for foreign trade.

The more pioneering, the safer these big fat sheep will be.

Because the irreplaceability of the bourgeoisie in this era is the best force for external expansion.

If one sacrifices one's strengths and takes oneself's weaknesses, leaving the aggressive bourgeoisie inappropriately to become a comprador of feudal vassals, then one's fate will be the same as that of Yangzhou salt merchants.

Only by firmly supporting external expansion and external development can we be safe.

Because the imperial court can't actually do the things of external expansion, external development, expansion of trade, and external immigration by itself.

Liu Yu has also told them more than once that if they really get to the point of port trade, relying on the privilege of the imperial court to sell goods there, these people will not be able to turn.

The dukes, marquises, earls, emperor's clan, princes and grandchildren in the capital, which one can't do the job of squatting at the door of the house as a comprador?
It is impossible for these people to go to India to sell goods, go to Persia to bargain, go to South America to bribe, go to Europe for smuggling, attract immigrants from Southeast Asia, and recruit Haihan people.

Of course, there is no permanent banquet.

When Dashun really gains control of the sea and trade dominance, monopoly companies will become a reactionary force.At that time, it will naturally be the same as the Yangzhou salt merchants.

But now, they can go a little further.

Of course, the profit-seeking nature of capital cannot be changed.

However, in terms of education and influence on people, in a dynasty like Dashun, where deformed plutocrats have a large amount of capital in their hands, sober people can sometimes influence the trend and capital flow.

This time Liu Yu talked about these issues with this group of people again in the name of "arranging funeral affairs", and everyone nodded, saying that they would always remember it.

Asked what should be asked.

All that needs to be said.

Liu Yu also knew that when he waited for the real battle, he might not be in Songsu anymore.In any case, this time I can retire in the Privy Council, but I will definitely not be able to touch the military power again, let alone command this decisive battle.

As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while.

After tossing and tossing myself for these years, the most important moment is the moment when Dashun goes to war a few years later.

He really hopes that when the time comes, these people will be able to become an extremely hard-nosed, long-sighted imperialist bourgeoisie, and fight for themselves as a marginal member of the ruling class. And the reactionaries who have the ability to suppress all progressive forces, not a bunch of short-sighted waste.

At the very least, when Dashun really issues national bonds, they can offer lower acceptable interest rates than they expected, which proves that they may still become the dogs of the imperial power.

Being a dog is a big step forward compared to being a big fat sheep.

Looking at this group of people, Liu Yu said in his heart: "My only expectation is that you can transform from big fat sheep to dogs. But what I say doesn't count, and you have to fight for it yourself. This is the end of the matter, I wish you good luck, After this battle, we will divide the road into east and west, and each side will go to one side."

After praying in my heart, I looked at my pocket watch and saw that the time was almost up, so I said, "That's it, let's all leave. People from Jinghai Company, please stay for a while, I have something to talk to them alone."

The rest of the people were also very knowledgeable. After leaving, they each got into the carriage and dispersed.

A few people from Jinghai Company followed Liu Yu to the nearby Museum of All Nations.

Walking to a room inside, there was a person waiting at the door, it was Meng Songlu who came from Jiangbei.

Although Quan Zheshen also came along with him, and although Quan Zheshen also handed over the greeting card, and although Quan Zheshen was also allowed to pay his respects, it was not this time, he was still waiting outside.

When Meng Songlu saw Liu Yu, he hurried over to salute. After waiving the salute, the guard opened the door and walked to the room inside.

After entering, Meng Songlu was very surprised.

There are various animal furs, strange specimens, and several maps hanging on the wall, as well as some wooden armor and stone spears that are obviously used by some barbarians.

Unspeakably weird.

It will be opened to the outside world in the future, but it has just been built now. Meng Songlu has never seen such a battle before. He knows that it is impolite to look around at this time, but he can't help but keep squinting.

I just suppressed the wonder in my heart, and didn't make a sound.

The people of Whale Sea Company were surprised by this. These things were all obtained by their company.

These emerging classes in Songsu all know Liu Yu's strange hobby, collecting strange animals, stones, plants and the like.

He likes the smell of soot and the roar of machinery, and is ridiculed in private as "Xingguogong's eccentricity".

The king of Chu had a very thin waist, and many of the palaces starved to death.

Compared with those strange flowers who installed steam engines in good Jiangnan gardens, gave some specimen furs, and so on, the group of people in Whale Sea Company were quite normal.

It's not surprising that there are too many gifts.

Except for some special things, such as white tiger skins and other things with special meanings, I don’t know how many other weird things were given away.

After a while, Liu Yu asked bluntly: "You know how to read a map, right? Do you know what a scale is?"

Meng Songlu knew that Liu Yu had always ridiculed them, and this sentence sounded a bit like a mockery, but he didn't dare to feel uncomfortable, so he could only reply: "My mentor practiced the education of dividing the fast, and the knowledge of map is also a Fasting, so I have learned."

After finishing speaking, Liu Yu picked up a pointer, clicked on the hanging map and said, "This is Honolulu."

Meng Songlu knew that Honolulu must be very far away, but he glanced at the very obvious Korean Peninsula and Japan, and then looked at the place Liu Yu was pointing at, and couldn't help but take a breath.

Although the heart knows it's far away, but it doesn't want to be so far away?
But after being a little surprised, he still stabilized his expression and said: "In the past, Zhang Bowang and Ban Ding traveled thousands of miles with their feet. Now with the help of sails, compared with the ancients, it is not far away."

Liu Yu nodded slightly, quite satisfied with the person in front of him.

After all, although he mocked their school a lot, compared to the rest, this was finally an attempt to do something serious.

I have seen it once or twice before, and I have some impressions, so I pointed to the people of Whale Sea Company and said: "This is your sponsor."

"Propagating the holy religion and making it a vassal is your business."

"As for sponsors, they have their own requirements. In everything, you can't do without money. I just want to match you up. This is also the last decision I made in Songsu. It has a lot to do with it, and His Majesty knows about it. , if the words are fulfilled, this is really a great achievement.”

Meng Songlu was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted his "gold master".

Seeing Liu Yu indicating that they can say whatever they want, the people from Jinghai Company didn’t talk nonsense, and just said: “Your Majesty gave us the franchise right, taking the strait between Kuwu Island and Ezo as the line, and at this latitude To the north, it is all our business, and we get the benefits of furs and minerals."

"Now we have a small problem. There is not enough food. Songjiang is too far away, Ezo is not close, and the route is too stormy."

"What has troubled us in the past few years is the scurvy of the employees. And there is also an urgent need for some whole grains. We can't just eat meat. Only eating those strange meats is really unbearable."

"This Honolulu was discovered not long ago. The climate on the island is suitable, but the Yi people there don't produce much, and the communication is not smooth. Every time we exchange some taro, coconut and other things from there, we can't exchange much."

"It's not that I haven't thought about spending money to fight, but after all the calculations, it's too expensive. And after the killing, there is a lack of labor. I'm not addicted to killing. I still hope to be a safe haven from here, and I can get grains and fruits. .”

"Now the company is on the coast of Fusang, with more than [-] people. There is no food in the place where sea animals are hunted. The local barbarians have to fish for their livelihood in the short summer, and they want their women to stop fishing and live in the short summer. Digging up rhizomes and picking berries to relieve employees from scurvy is extremely unrealistic."

"Yes, I am willing to contribute. You can spread the holy religion by yourself, we only need a few years later, the grains, dried meat, drinks, etc. here can meet the needs of tens of thousands of people in the company."

The people from Whale Sea Company are basically telling the truth.Of course, there are also things hidden.But Liu Yu knew what they were hiding.

It is nothing more than that the fur has been made too hard in the past few years, and the fur output has a downward trend.And the expedition team sent by Liu Yu found a gold mine there. The news was tightly sealed, but some people still got the news.

Companies want to transform.

The premise of transformation is that there is sufficient food.

Historically, the Russians tried to use the San Francisco area as a food base to supplement food in Kamchatka and North America.

However, the climate in the San Francisco area is not very suitable, and it also involves diplomatic relations with Spain. The Russians have been in San Francisco for 50 to [-] years, and they have not even reached the scale of [-] cows per year.

Dashun didn't want to have conflicts with the Spaniards too early, so it was still in the north for the time being, away from the Spaniards.

It is Dashun's choice to first make Honolulu a vassal and then use it as a transit point to recruit people to dig gold on a large scale.

It is also Dashun's advance layout for the Americas before the First World War that may last for many years.

Labor is too expensive, and it is not easy to transport individuals there, and it would be too wasteful to die.Moreover, hunting requires skills, and it takes two or three years of study to be basically qualified. The company does not mention future transformation, but only says that the current death cost is too high, and it is really unbearable.

If the population of Honolulu can be used to turn it into a logistics supply base, it can solve many problems.

It's not that the company hasn't tried before, finding a group of people to grow food on the coast of the Americas.

However, the purpose of the company recruiting them to grow food is to take almost all the food at the lowest price and supply it to the hunters.

And there are indigenous people in the area, so they have to shoot.

As a result, people in several villages revolted.

With guns, agricultural tools, cattle and horses, and food, he defected to the Indian tribe and ran away.

He said bluntly: "This place is so fertile, where can I go? Into the depths of the forest, one person cultivates a lot of land, how can it be happier than being a cow and horse here?"

The company didn't care to scold these people for not having the spirit of the contract, and agreed to spend a lot of money to transport them there, and how much food would they have to pay each year, but these people didn't abide by the contract?
It’s a painful experience, and I understand that the fucking farmers are transported there, unless tens of thousands are transported at once, and the remaining grain is enough to eat and sell.

Otherwise, transport hundreds of people and expect them to bring out almost all the food. There are dense forests and fertile soil, and there are cattle, horses, seed farm tools, and blacksmiths, carpenters, and women in the village. If you don’t run away, it’s hell .

So after thinking about it, I think Honolulu is more reliable.

Otherwise, it is necessary to prepare enough manpower to force the local tribe not to fish and dry in the short summer to store food for the tribe, but to use them as slaves to dig roots and pick wild fruits.

Obviously, this method is not suitable for Dashun at all.

It's not that the people on Dashun's side are kind, but let those tribes prosper, catch sea otters with their skillful skills, and then exchange them with six or seven big blankets. How profitable is it?
Catching sea otters is all technical work, unless those who have no handicrafts at all and cannot get blankets, sugar and other goods by themselves, the Rakshasa who competed with them before used the trick of catching people as slaves and forced labor.

If you have nothing to change, don’t you have to grab it?
But robbing and coercing them as slaves is cheaper for the Raksha people, because their food has to be shipped from Siberia, and they can't get blankets and the like at all.

But for Dashun's Jinghai Company, after a little calculation, it became clear that robbing and coercing slaves would cost money, obviously more expensive than exchanging blankets.

Spending money to raise gunmen is much more expensive than wholesale broken blankets from Songjiang for sea dragon skins.

Moreover, they are forced to work in summer and have no chance to catch migratory fish. The tribe starves to death in winter, so who will catch sea otters?Isn't this exhausting the water to catch fish?
(End of this chapter)