Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1140 The Final Arrangement ([-])

With these years of pioneering and the development of navigation skills, the idea of ​​trying to establish a prefecture and a feudal system tens of thousands of miles away is not so shocking when it is said.

Thirty years ago, when I heard such a thing, I thought it was a dream.

Fifteen years ago, when I heard such a thing, I might have found it difficult, but it was not impossible.

But now, hearing such things, I feel that it is not very difficult, and the difficulty may even be far inferior to many things that Ban Dingyuan did back then.

Advances in technology have made the world bigger.

But at the same time, technological progress has also made the world smaller.

Although there were many ideological conflicts between Liu Yu and their schools, what Liu Yu was most worried about in his early years was their retro-inclined feudal utopians.The one who knows you best is often your enemy.

Dashun's "Zhouli" school, to some extent, corresponds to the Protestant Puritans, the Orthodox Old Ceremony School, and the Catholic Jesuits' Paraguay Diocese.

A retro-conservative who has a certain remnant of the idea of ​​mutual assistance in a simple primitive village society, but is also integrated with the specific conditions of the country.

Historically, Confucian scholars felt that the Western Han Empire hindered them from building a world of great harmony and kicked off the First Han Empire, and they were considered a group with certain political ideas.

No matter what, they really believe that there can be a practical system, culture, system, and morality to realize the beautiful world in their hearts.

From the perspective of religious culture alone, Protestants, especially Puritans, Old Ritualists, and even Wahhabis are all ultra-conservatives.

Dashun's "Zhouli" and "Shangshu" schools are actually similar.

Of course, the histories of different countries are different, and the performance of conservative retro will be different in the end.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Shun Dynasty, there were many factions that demanded cultural purity. For example, Huang Zongxi proposed to burn miscellaneous books and novels.However, it is clearly stated that monks and nuns under the age of 60 will not return to the vulgar, and the Northwest Christians will not quit the religion. All of them will be killed and killed, and the military status will be raised separately to the second place of the four peoples. This family has no semicolon.

When Liu Yu found them, he really felt that they were really capable of doing some practical things compared to those nonsense.

So although you have to give money, you still have to tell them some "righteousness" in the end, so that they can do it in a down-to-earth manner.

So Liu Yu talked with Meng Songlu about another great significance of his visit this time.

He didn't say it directly, but first brought out the problem of flooding in the Yellow River, and the sharp sword above the head of the "Yellow River breach" that has never been bypassed after the abandoned canal in Dashun.

It's not that Liu Yu is looking forward to the Yellow River's breach, but that there are some things that are independent of human will.Dashun can't build dams, water diversion projects, etc., and it will be a matter of time before it breaks north.

"I remember that your school has no differences with me on the matter of water control. Li Gangzhu, Wang Kunsheng, etc., all talk about promoting sea transportation and abolishing canals."

"Li Gang said: Sea transportation must be restored, not only for the transportation of rice and grain, but also for training troops at sea and preventing pirates. If the sea transportation is resumed, the south of Huitong River can be dismissed. If the south of Huitong River is abolished, the Huaihe River can be governed. The Huaihe River can be cured, and the Yellow River can be cured."

"On this point alone, the imperial court's thinking on governing the Huaihe River, the Yellow River, and the sea over the years is consistent with yours. Isn't it?"

There are indeed many policies of the imperial court over the years that make their schools feel very uncomfortable.But there are indeed many policies that are consistent with their school of thought.

Canals, shipping, Caomi, Huaihe River, Yellow River, this is a systematic project.

There are generally two factions.

There are not many factions that govern the rivers and Huaihe by sea, but their school is undoubtedly the school that clearly supported this idea before.

Speaking of this, Meng Songlu didn't care much about Liu Yu's mockery of them before, and instead said: "What the Duke said is right. The imperial court's promotion of sea transportation and governance of the Huaihe River is indeed a benevolent government. It's just...just, this What does it have to do with students going to Honolulu?"

Liu Yu sighed and said: "It's a big deal. Dayu controlled the water, saying that blocking it is worse than sparse it. However, at that time, the population was sparse and everywhere could be sparse. Although Dayu's idea is definitely right now, it is absolutely impossible to do it in reality. It’s better to block it than to ignore it.”

After quietly satirizing their school's idea of ​​digging tributaries to divert water everywhere, he continued: "In the future, if the Yellow River is in trouble, in your opinion, how should we relieve it?"

Without waiting for Meng Songlu to answer, Liu Yu said again: "In other words, if the Yellow River floods in the future, 3000 million taels will be used for disaster relief. Is it best to buy 3000 million taels of grain and rice to resettle the people? Or use 1000 million taels of grain and rice, and use 2000 million Wan, is it best to move the people to Nanyang, Kanto, and Fusang?"

Just a casual sentence made Meng Songlu's whole body tremble, as if someone had poured a large ladle of ice water on his head, and it penetrated to the bottom of his heart.

"Duke Guo said... the imperial court has a wish to immigrate to Fusang?"

"If it can be done, relief alone will really treat the symptoms but not the root cause. And if you can immigrate to a distant place, it will be of great benefit."

"If there is a natural disaster in the future, it is really the best policy to immigrate after the relief."

The problem of more people and less land has always been the biggest problem lingering on their heads.Some "wonderful" ideas put forward by Li Wei, Wang Yuan and others have their roots here.

On the one hand, they do not believe that industry and commerce can accommodate the remaining population. This is very realistic, whether it is Li Shi or Wang Yuan. Therefore, they have to propose many strange land granting policies under this reality that they think is unsolvable.

On the other hand, they also have a realistic understanding of what the yield per mu is.

If the improved seeds, water conservancy, and chemical fertilizers of future generations are the support.If the yield per mu is [-] jin, and a family of five just wants to fill their stomachs and not go hungry, twenty mu of land is enough, and two or three mu of land per capita must be enough.

Now, the yield per mu is just there, and the soybean yield per mu is forced to be higher in future generations than the yield of corn and wheat per mu at this time.In such a situation, a family of five or six would need fifty acres of land to survive.

Dashun's current official land statistics must be problematic.

But Dashun didn't want to pursue this issue carefully.

The reason is simple, the official statistics of the number of acres of land are subject to taxation.

There is also a large amount of land that is not taxed and is quietly planted with sweet potatoes and pumpkins to make ends meet.

In some places, it's almost too much to be confused.

To say that now Dashun has won the three grain production areas of Ezo, Kanto, and Nanyang, with fewer people and more land, which can provide enough commercial grain. The per capita grain possession is definitely much higher than it was more than 20 years ago.

But per capita is... quite amazing.

No matter how much rice there is per capita in Nanyang, with the current traffic situation, it is still not enough to go to Shaanxi per capita.

At this time, it is actually meaningless to calculate the national average.

Because Dashun is too big, the provinces that do not rely on the sea and the canal water network area seriously lack the means of transporting grain.

Meng Songlu is keen on immigration to solve the conflict between people and land. After all, when he argued with Meng Tiezhu last time in Haizhou, Meng Tiezhu ridiculed their idea of ​​"reverting to the patriarchal legal system, the first son inherits the tax payment and the second son goes overseas". It is after throwing away the taunt that it seems to be really useful.

Of course, if the court came forward, it would definitely be the best policy if the "immigration rate" was not added.

Liu Yu said again: "Since you agree with this idea, I will say it directly."

"Immigrating to distant places, including the imperial court's farming, needs support from the mainland for at least three to five years. Do you understand this? It doesn't mean that after spring, autumn will be self-sufficient and food will be sufficient."

In this regard, Meng Songlu is not the kind of person who is obsessed with studying, and it is not that he does not understand the reality at all.

Even if he was naive before, when Liu Yu advised them to say "there is not enough capital, don't enclose such a large land, reduce it by half." After he didn't listen to this advice, a bunch of problems in the township community were enough for him to understand that immigration and reclamation are really important. What's more, it's not something that can be done by writing a few strategies in a book.

"Xing Guogong's words are very true. Indeed, immigrants need a certain amount of support. Didn't Xing Guogong talk about the British Virginia Company? After emigrating, most of them died in a few years, and they were hungry and ate people in winter."

Liu Yu nodded and said, "That's exactly what I meant. Honolulu's location is superior. For military strategists, it's the hub of the ocean."

"In terms of reclamation, it will be an important transit point for the Chinese immigrants to Fusang in the future, and also an important grain base in the early stage. If the imperial court can directly spend money to buy grain in Honolulu and transport it to the immigration area on the west coast of Fusang, then immigration is realistic and feasible. "

"If it can't be done, it's not a dream, but a long preparation for 50 to [-] years."

"If there is only the Celestial Dynasty family in this world, that's fine. But in fact, there are already quite a few Europa people in the land of Fusang."

"There are Frenchmen in the north, Anglo-Liese in the middle, and Spaniards in the south."

"Three or fifty years from now, what will happen is unknown."

"This Honolulu has a population of several hundred thousand, and the land is fertile. If we can educate them with practical knowledge, so that they can learn how to plant, plow, store, harvest, thresh, etc... I think they want guns, steel, and small commodities. , cloth, etc., can only be exchanged for that grain.”

"If Honolulu can export 100 million shi of commodity grain every year, then the efficiency of court immigration will be much faster."

"Once the Yellow River bursts in the future, something big will happen. How many disaster victims the imperial court can remove depends on your activities in Honolulu."

"In other words, in the flooded area of ​​the Yellow River, the lives of millions of people, and even the fate of their descendants, will suffer from the lack of land and the flooding of the river, depending on your activities in Honolulu."

"If you do well in Honolulu, you can use the best strategy for immigration in the future."

"You made a bunch of shit in Honolulu, and you failed to achieve the goal of making Honolulu a commodity grain base. Even if the imperial court intends to adopt the policy of immigration, it will be powerless. Immigrate to the past, follow the story of the Virginia company, and people cannibalize each other?"

"You have to know that even if shipping by sea is convenient and cheap, if you ship the rice in Songjiang Mansion and cross the Pacific Ocean, then the price is not affordable by the imperial court."

"You need to know. In today's world, from the top to the bottom, from the emperor to the people, no one thinks that the Yellow River can burst. But the problem is that this kind of thing, although the river can be controlled, after all, manpower is exhausted and unpredictable. Once A breach would be a catastrophe."

"Let me make it clear that the acquiescence of the canal being abolished, protecting the north but not the south, is meaningless. If something happens in the future, it will be a big event."

"The huge problems of the abandoned canal, waterworks, and commerce along the way have only been suppressed temporarily and have not been completely resolved. At least there are no less than a million people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court, or the people whose families have been ruined by the imperial court's abolition of the canal are worse than one day. The people of Japan are all over the road. Once something happens to the Yellow River, if the imperial court can’t solve it with the above measures, blood will flow like a river.”

(End of this chapter)