Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1141 The Final Arrangement ([-])

Words are just ordinary words.

But the scene described in the words is really scary.

But Meng Songlu also knew that Liu Yu was not scaremongering.

In fact, the impact of the abandoned canal has only been completely eliminated in Jiangsu Province so far, thanks to the transformation of hundreds of thousands of idlers and hired workers, and the rapid expansion of foreign trade.

From Gyeonggi to northern Anhui, the legacy of the abandoned canal has only been suppressed, but it has not been resolved.

Peasant uprisings were terrible.

In the peasant uprising, if industrialists and merchants and river workers are mixed in, the matter will be even bigger.

The incident of the Yellow River bursting, along with the rise of shipping, no longer needs to avoid diseases and avoid medical treatment.

Dashun's options are actually really limited.

Liu Yu said, or many people in the court said that the Huaihe River can be cured if the canal is abandoned and replaced by sea transportation.

Those who dare to say these words are above the temple and far away from the rivers and lakes, adding up to no less than ten thousand.

But, if I say that I can cure the Yellow River...

There is no one in Dashun who dares to say this.

can't be cured.

This is a reality.

Jiangsu is already half of the world's fiscal and taxation.

The Huainan reclamation area provides the largest long-staple cotton production in Dashun.

The close relationship between Xuzhou coal and Songsu industry and commerce, and the close relationship between industry and commerce and imperial taxation.

These are very realistic things, as Liu Yu said: When the canal is abandoned, the traditional Yellow River flood policy of protecting the north but not the south will come to an end.

Dashun will not choose to let the Yellow River flood south.

The rise of shipping made the relationship between the Dashun court and Songsu closer.When the sea is prosperous, the money is in place, and the food and rice are in place, then whether it is suppression or relief, there is room for manipulation.

This sentence does not need to be so straightforward.

The subtext is that if the Yellow River bursts north from Henan, the imperial court may acquiesce in its taking Ji water into the sea instead of thinking about restoring the old course of the Yellow River.

In recent years, Liu Yu's reforms and the budding development of capitalism in Jiangsu made Dashun's policy of dealing with the aftermath of the Yellow River breach actually have a certain tendency.

The Liaohe Plain in the Kanto region can provide the food needs of millions of people.

I dare not say anything else, sorghum rice is enough.

Abandoning the policy of protecting the north but not the south means that the victims basically appear in northern Henan, southwestern Shandong, northwest Shandong, and southeastern Hebei.

People in these places, if the court has the heart, can organize them to break into the Guandong.

The Liaohe River Basin is a place favored by capital because commercialized soybeans can be grown there.

There is still a lot of land outside the Liaohe transportation line.

Thanks to the fact that Jiangsu has brought the Liaohe River Basin into the commercial production system over the years, sorghum, a by-product of soybean crop replacement, can provide a certain amount of food for immigrants.

This general direction makes the matter of "immigration" itself a priority option for solving the post-disaster problems of the Yellow River.

"Immigration" is the preferred option.

Where to "immigrate" is just a subordinate option of this priority.

Once things really happen, if the west coast of the Americas has a certain immigration base, then it is not too strange to emigrate to the west coast of the Americas.

Of course, the premise is that food can really be provided there to maintain the survival of the immigrants in the first few years.

In fact, even though Liu Yu said it so solemnly, he still hid a lot of things, and these hidden things were generally caused by his distrust of the court.

He would rather believe in the power that can guide capital than in the consciousness and conscience of feudal rulers.

Because there is no need for the big event of the Yellow River bursting, Liu Yu kicked over the industry and commerce in the Lingnan area, leaving many problems. If the feudal rulers really have national awareness and conscience, they should organize immigration to Nanyang.

But so far, it has not been done. Instead, it has adopted the method of continuously suppressing small-scale uprisings, because it is cheaper.

The reason why the Yellow River is really about to burst can influence the feudal rulers to make "conscience" immigration actions, to a greater extent, because places such as Southeast Shanxi, Northwest Shandong, and Southwest Shandong are too damn close to the capital, and they are afraid of major incidents.

Therefore, when immigrating to the west coast of America and occupying a pit, Liu Yu is more willing to guide the power of capital, and regards the power of the imperial court as an additional option.

Since we have to rely on capital, we need to create a comfortable environment for capital.

Black slaves were expensive on the east coast.

But at this time on the West Coast, it's worth nothing.

Because on the east coast, a slave can create a value of 130 yuan per year.

The things grown are sold in the European market.

Slave owners don't just buy some slaves and become self-sufficient feudal manor owners.It was the Spanish colonies that did this; the North American colonies were market-oriented.

For Dashun, the situation is even more special.

Dashun Capital tried to immigrate to the west coast, but failed.

Because the material basis, legal conditions, land control and other things cannot be copied in the past.

When they got there, the squeeze was severe, and the people revolted and fled.

The squeeze is light, and capital will find itself doing charity.

Now, what maintains Dashun's development on the west coast of America is not the grand ideal of expanding the national production space.

It's just the extremely vulgar and copper-smelling sea dragon skins for 55 yuan a piece, otter skins for 8 yuan a piece, seal dog skins for [-] yuan a piece, and marine mammal fat that can be exchanged for a pile of silver for a boatload.

The development of local industry and commerce in Dashun, the consumer demand of the middle and upper class, the luxury of furs and luxury goods led by the honorable class, and the fur rewards from the Liangjiazi Reclamation Legion in the Northwest and Northeast are the distant, tens of thousands of miles away, Dashun on the west coast of America. root cause of development.

However, this trade cannot last long.In less than ten years, Dashun wiped out the sea cows.

The non-renewability of the fur trade, and the particularity of fur—this shit, unlike cotton cloth, has to mend holes in winter and autumn. Fur may not break after ten or eight years of use, and it may even be Be a family heirloom.

Relying on the fur trade to engage in immigration, 5 to [-] people are at the top of the sky, and it is impossible to have more.

So, when the fur trade is no longer likely to increase substantially, what is the next point that will detonate capital investment immigration?
It can only be gold mines and silver mines.

Otherwise what else?
Capital ran to the west coast to grow grain, relying on sailboats, crossed the Pacific Ocean by wind and waves, and competed with the rice that is ripe every year in Nanyang and the excellent soybeans in Kanto?
This will definitely not work.

But if gold and silver mines are produced, then growing grain will be profitable.

Historically, the opportunity for the Chinese to develop in Hawaii was the start of the American Civil War.

The Chinese are keenly aware of the favorable period for southern trade products such as sugar and coffee, so they decisively invest in plantations, develop the sugar industry, and make a fortune.

Moreover, it is not just the Chinese, but the overall movement of capital, which directly detonated the collapse of the old economic foundation in Hawaii.

A large amount of capital entered the market, buying land, reclaiming wasteland, planting, and recruiting labor.

Within a few years, the population was rapidly disproportionate.

So, for Dashun, how to attract Dashun's capital to enter Honolulu?Admission to the West Coast of the Americas?

Simple, all you need is an opportunity to "open up a plantation" and "hire people to cultivate and make a profit", and capital will flock to it.

Just like the Liaohe area, Dashun has a phobia at the end of the Ming Dynasty. After so long, the number of immigrants is not as good as Liu Yu's tossing in Jiangsu to commercialize soybeans in just a few years.

The development of the Americas is Liu Yu's last plan under the mission of going out of town in Songsu.Just like the Whale Sea immigration plan he made for the time of the Whale Sea Jiedushi, it is a long-term plan, but the first step must be taken.

In short, three steps.

The first step is to let Meng Songlu and others go to Honolulu to support the unification of the chiefs and obtain a stable political environment.

Through their practical knowledge, they can boost Honolulu's productivity and infiltrate Honolulu's political high-level.

The time he gave Meng Songlu was two to three years, but in fact he could accept three to five years.

In the second step, the fur company transformed and went to dig gold in the Yukon River region.

Honolulu was used as a logistics supply base and a food base to support the gold rush from the mouth of the Yukon River to the interior of the Yukon River.

For Dashun, there are very favorable conditions.

Because the mouth of the Yukon River is in the Pacific Ocean.

Today there are no railways, and estuaries and rivers are the best lines of transportation and expansion.

Taking advantage of the situation of the First World War, the ginseng and mink fur issue caused by Huifa was used to induce Britain and France to compete in North America.

Dashun watched the show in the early stage, and when France couldn't hold on, they exchanged it with India, and Dashun ended.

While watching the play, news of gold in the Yukon Valley was released, attracting capital to arrest people from Dashun to dig for gold.

And digging for gold can bring a wave of investment in planting and reclamation in Honolulu and the west coast of America.

Digging for gold makes growing food profitable.

If you don't dig gold and grow food on the west coast, you have a sick mind.Capital is to make a profit, and food is to be used as a commodity. If no one consumes it, why grow food?

Digging for gold is not just digging for gold, but a gold digger who drives farmers, blacksmiths, handicraftsmen, bricklayers, etc.

The third step, that is for the future, to see how the first battle is played.

Before the end of World War I, Dashun will not expand in the direction of San Francisco, and Liu Yu will keep the name "Golden Mountain" strictly secret.

Because of the First World War, Dashun basically wanted to completely abolish Britain and Portugal, and completely drive the forces on both sides to the west of Persia.

This also means that Dashun will definitely be an ally with Spain for a period of time.

During this period, on the west coast of America, the only way to avoid conflict with Spain.

However, once the First World War is over, most of Europe will be bombed, and Dashun can directly turn his face and deny anyone.

At that time, with the population base and immigration base laid down by Honolulu and the Yukon River Gold Mine, the initiative will be in Dashun's hands.

Is it instigating a colonial uprising?

Or to be the aid of the most powerful imperial reactionary forces of the Spanish Empire in America, in exchange for land?
This is still to believe in the wisdom of future generations.

In short, Dashun, the most valuable area in San Francisco, is impossible to touch, and Liu Yu will never let it go. If it is released, it will be used as wedding clothes for people.

Fur - Honolulu agriculture - Yukon River mining, these two lines are the pillars of Dashun's development of the west coast.

In fact, not too many people.

After the First World War, there could be 50 million people in Honolulu plus the West Coast plus the Yukon River or the gold diggers in Seattle, farmers, farm laborers, etc., and the rest is easy to say.

Huang He felt sorry for her children, holding back until the First World War was over before breaking out. It was only logical that Dashun chose to move a large number of people from Shandong, Henan, and southern Hebei to the west coast.If the centralization of Dashun had not collapsed at that time.

If it collapses, it doesn't matter, the profit-seeking nature of capital will complete this mission.

So Meng Songlu's business is very critical.

He wants to fulfill the food demand that can support Dashun to dig gold in the Yukon River within a few years.

Therefore, the use of local labor is the best choice.

The land tax, slaves, well fields, public fields, etc. sent by "Zhou Li" will allow the local rulers to have enough food that can be exported to ensure that Dashun needs to dig gold for immigration.

At this time, a class-differentiated society with a clear ruling class can provide both stability and considerable grain exports. The ruling class will collect the grain from the bottom and use it as a commodity.Just like the Lee family’s North Korea continued to export rice to Songsu at this time, in fact, the per capita grain possession was much lower than that of Dashun.

There are so many things to buy in Honolulu. Iron farm tools, cloth, silk, guns and cannons all have to be exchanged for grain.

To put it cruelly, when gold digging starts and the capital finds it profitable to cultivate, viruses such as smallpox and syphilis can basically kill the locals in Honolulu to only 30 to [-].

At that time, even if the capital did not want to immigrate from the distant Dashun, it would not do.

Because there is no one nearby, we can only choose to recruit people from Shandong, Henan and other places to supplement the scarce labor force.

Now transport people to lose money in the past.Once you can mine gold, you can earn money by transporting people there.The abnormal industry increases the population; the population increases, and normal commerce also appears.

It's just that Liu Yu couldn't tell Meng Songlu these cruel realities clearly.

It's better to throw out a great meaning, the threat of the yellow disaster, and the potential of millions of disaster victims, and tie this matter of external expansion and colonization with the traditional world society.

In any case, flood control of the Yellow River and relief from floods are the traditional major events of the world.All of this can make Confucian scholars like Meng Songlu feel that they are doing something very meaningful and in line with the righteousness in their hearts.

Conversely, if it's for digging for gold, it probably sounds more vulgar.

For those who have faith, let them do something, it is best to make them feel that what they do is meaningful.But my meaning, not your meaning.So tell my meaning with your meaning.

(End of this chapter)