Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1143 The Final Arrangement ([-])

"Earlier, Wang Quanbin, who had pacified Shu, wanted to take Yunnan because of his military power, and advanced with pictures. Song Taizu learned from the disaster of Tang Dynasty based on Nanzhao, and drew the Dadu River with a jade axe, saying: This is not my own. It is Yunnan 300 Years don’t know China.”

"It's only been a few years before and after. The boundaries of the world and the size of the radius have been changed again and again."

"Nowadays, the world is not as big as it used to be, let alone when the jade ax was used to draw the boundary. If he is incompetent and suffers from the common people, what about the prefectures of the Celestial Dynasty and one of them? It's not impossible to do the evil."

"You talk about the world and talk about the four directions, but your vision is only the Central Plains, Japan, Korea, and Annan. You feel that it cannot be applied to [-] miles, so you take the initiative to reduce the world to a small Kyushu. This is the boundary with the jade axe. What's the difference?"

"From your point of view, it is wrong to brighten Yunnan? To find the Duan clan to restore the country and order them to pay tribute to the vassal is the kingly way?"

"The world is so big in your heart, and your influence on the world, you are not even as good as these merchants. You are really indescribable summer insects. In terms of merit, these merchants in front of you have immigrated hundreds of thousands of whales, and they are far away from the north. There is no more trouble. You don’t even understand the township society. At this time, you should realize your shame and be brave, and decide the matter of Honolulu, but you are not talking about kings and hegemons here.”

"What happened in Honolulu is related to millions of people after the natural disaster, with a lot of people and little land. Can you do it? If you can do it, it's a great righteousness, great merit, and great virtue! If you can't do it, I'll find someone else and say something else!"

With a sarcasm all over his face, Meng Songlu blushed, unaware that Liu Yu was taking the opportunity to test his psychological endurance. After all, going thousands of miles away and doing unprecedented things did not just rely on a little passion.

His face blushed hotly for a while, and his heart became even more confused.

I thought that according to what Quan Zhe said, the many policies of North Korea do hurt the people.Then, under such circumstances, if Dashun marches there, the prefectures and counties, instead of supporting the new king, is it right or wrong?
He also thought that even if Dashun did not follow the policies of the prefectures and counties, but continued to increase the opening of ports and trade, the Lee family of North Korea did not practice benevolence and righteousness.In the end, someone raised their arms and shouted, and the common people won the scene, so is Dashun positive or negative in this matter?

The more I think about it, the more chaotic my heart becomes, and I become more confused for a while.

After a long time, I shook my head to get rid of the momentary confusion and nearly collapsed thoughts in my mind, and said in a low voice: "The students are still willing to go."

The word "still" is seven points stubborn and three points helpless.

Liu Yu secretly smiled inwardly, and didn't provoke any more, and said in a soft tone, "Since you are talking about practical learning, you need to know what 'truth' is. As for this matter, since someone has paid for it, you should listen to what they want." Really, what is going on."

Although he is not even as good as a scholar in terms of Confucianism, he also knows that the "truth" he talks about is not the same as the "truth" that other people say.

This reality is not that reality.

But for the people of Jinghai Company, their cultural level is there, and they are immersed in the world view under the subtle influence of Liu Yu over the years. The understanding of the word "real" is naturally consistent with Liu Yu .

Although I feel that the person Liu Yu chose is reliable, I already have doubts, and I feel that this person is still a bit dumb when he reads.

But thinking about this matter, I can only trust Liu Yu, and I can only let Liu Yu come forward to coordinate and handle it, and I can only suppress the suspicion in my heart, and show my favor to Meng Songlu.

Then standing under their "real" three views, this matter became even more "dirty".

To put it simply, according to the "three views" influenced by Liu Yu and the way of explaining how the world works, the company found that it is difficult to find a leading party under the premise that the class society is not too clear and a country and city-state are formed.

Without a leading party, it is difficult to control an area with a population of several 10.

This is different from the Spanish conquest of South America in the story, which relied on the South American war to intervene in one side.And there is also a country there, but domestic conflicts occur frequently, so it is possible to make a big difference with a small one.

It is much easier to restore order where there is already order than to create order where there is no order.

Now, the company can buy some taro and coconuts from the island, but it seriously cannot meet the food and fruit needed for the company's transformation.

The locals actually had to make sure they were full before selling food, which made the company very upset.

Food is different from other things.

For example, the sea dragon skin that the company exchanges in the north is not food, but a by-product of the "food" of the local tribes, so commercial exchange is easier.

On the other hand, the productivity of the people on the island is insufficient, and they are full enough to eat themselves, and they must first ensure that they are full, and there is not much food that can be purchased.

Under such circumstances, if a royal state can be established according to the "Zhou Rituals", and the royal state collects ten taxes on the people to ensure that the feudal landlord class, especially the chieftain king of the big landlord, If there are grains confiscated by violent agencies, then the amount of grain available for export can be increased in the fastest time.

This is much faster and saves a lot of money than investing in construction, developing productivity there, and finally making food more than we can eat.

Relying on the technological advancements crushed by sailboats and muskets, as long as they have a good relationship with the local chief within two or three years, they will be supported to do great things and unify the whole island.

Teach him how to collect taxes, how to feudalize the land, how to enjoy royal power and wealth, and how to learn how to live a luxurious life.

If it is fast, in three years, there will be enough commodity food for the company's transformation to mine gold.

Class differentiation is not serious enough, exploitation is not strong enough, how can trade be expanded?
Only by letting the upper class first learn how to exploit the people, and have the money to consume Dashun’s cloth, muskets, luxury goods, and silk, can it boost Dashun’s exports to Honolulu as a whole, and also boost Honolulu’s export of grain.

The people in the company also made it very clear that it has nothing to do with them to make the lives of the local people rich in the future, and then teach after getting rich.

They pay money, as long as they can buy enough food within three to five years, and they can buy it in the future.

There will be no shortage of funding.

As for water conservancy projects based on practical learning, farming by professors of agriculture, etc., if you want to do it, you can do it, and the company will not hinder you from doing it.

Everyone gets what they need, isn't it just right?

You speak righteousness, I speak profit.

During this period, the company stated that as long as Xing Guogong came forward and said how much money, how many people, and how many guns were needed, the company was willing to pay the money.Because the company has set a rough line, the money is earmarked for special use, and there is no need to ask for authorization from shareholders. Liu Yu also calculated that the money is enough, and greeted the court.

The "truth" that the group of people in the company said, or the "truth" in their worldview, made Meng Songlu, who was already confused, even more confused.

But if you think about these fallacies and heresies, it seems that it is not unreasonable. If you really have the heart, you can be the ruler of the county, promote water, improve farming and enrich the people, and then teach. This is considered a great contribution to the world, right?
It seems that the two are not completely contradictory?

Suppressing the confusion in my heart as much as possible, I finally agreed affirmatively, but the reason was that "if Xing water conservancy reclamation, it is also necessary to exchange the required iron and agricultural machinery with the Celestial Dynasty. Another way of saying it sounds much better."

The people in the company were not interested in changing the term, but they still nodded and said, "You are right, indeed, it sounds much better to change the term."

"Now that this matter is settled, let's hurry up. The rest of the talents that Xingguo is looking for are also in place. We will set sail in summer, borrow ocean currents, and send supplies such as food and spirits to the sea before winter comes. Hunting area."

The people in the company are rich and powerful now, how much money they have earned can be roughly calculated in the account book.

Historically, from 1804 to 1824, not counting the furs sold by the Russians in Kyakta and Guangzhou, but only the furs that the Americans transported from Honolulu to Guangzhou in 20 years, there were about 200 million pieces, calculated in Spanish dollars, Roughly more than 1000 million.

That was accompanied by the soaring purchasing power of silver all over the world caused by the South American Uprising.

Now Dashun, the fur dealers of the Whale Sea Company, have gone wild in recent years, and their annual sales are around one million yuan.

After excluding the cost, it is still stable to earn two standard battleships a year.

Some of them are consumed locally in Dashun, and some of the high-end products are also exported to Europe.

With huge profits, the company is of course willing to pay a sum of money to solve the development bottleneck and transformation needs of the company at the lowest cost.

Although Liu Yu has said that in the future, the trade in Honolulu may not be monopolized by the imperial court.

But the so-called close to the water first gets the moon.

Even if the franchise is no longer bought in the future, if the Honolulu regime can be established and stabilized, the company will still be able to gain dominance by relying on the advantage of being close to the water and taking advantage of the shadow investment method for the huge profits of Honolulu in the future.

Invest now, but also for future profits.It's just that this kind of long-term investment still needs someone to hold their ears or direct them with a whip, otherwise it will be difficult to make this kind of long-term investment decision.

With the whip in hand, Liu Yu made such a long-term decision under coordination, and the money was spent anyway, so he naturally hoped that it would bring more benefits in the future.

Although it seems that among the many foreign colonial trading companies, they have the least relationship with Dashun's upcoming World War I, but in fact, as long as they operate properly, they can still make money.

In fact, as long as it was before the war, Honolulu made progress.

At that time, Liu Yu only needs to promise privately that East Timor's sandalwood resources will be destroyed after the war, so it will definitely be no problem to ask them to subscribe for a national debt of as much as 10 taels, or even a million taels.

Anyway, East Timor, Tahiti and other places all produce high-quality sandalwood.Capital is definitely willing to spend some money, do some power-for-money transactions, use administrative orders and military power to destroy Nanyang sandalwood in exchange for profits from the Oriental sandalwood trade.

However, considering the stinky virtues of the ruling class, it is estimated that sooner or later Meng Songlu's faith will collapse again, which is almost inevitable.

Most likely, within three to five or seven years, he will be able to see that the ruling class in Honolulu will use poll tax, labor service, corvee system, etc. to drive the people of the country to go up the mountain to cut sandalwood to maintain trade and obtain a luxurious life, which will lead to a crisis. The collapse of traditional agricultural production and the sharp decline in the population caused by the Great Famine.

The time card is just right.

At that time, Dashun's capital can only frantically arrest people from Shandong and Henan to fill the shortage of labor and develop the planting industry, instead of thinking about finding labor locally.Even if the cost of arresting people from Henan and Shandong is higher, it is still profitable.

As long as Meng Songlu taught the upper class in Honolulu such things as kingship, corvee, feudalism, land, and Baojia; and the upper class in Honolulu felt how beautiful a luxurious life is, the collapse of agriculture caused by corvée in Honolulu was inevitable.

The more retro and conservative the better, if it is not retro, it is mostly because of the mismatch of productivity, which leads to acclimatization.

Naturally, Liu Yu would not tell Meng Songlu about this inevitable tragedy and the ugliness of the ruler.

Anyway, there are far plans, and near plans.

Among the big chaebols of Dashun's foreign trade and colonization, the Whale Sea chaebol was the least interested in World War I.

But it is still possible to use the sandalwood problem to lure them into the group.Originally, there was no conflict between them and Dashun's two established enemies, Britain and Portugal.

But if there is no conflict, there is no conflict, so they create and construct conflicts. With the help of Meng Songlu's religious beliefs in Zhou etiquette and sandalwood as an intermediary, the contradictions between the Whale Sea chaebol group and Portugal's sandalwood trade intensified.

Even to some extent, their interests make them more inclined to go to war against Rakshasa, Spain, and France.

Since it is the chaebol group with the least interest, it is estimated that it will contribute at least 80 taels of silver by then, not to mention the remaining consortiums that are naturally bound to World War I.

In these years, the ability to deliver money is insufficient, and the comparison of war is not the mobilization of the whole people and the awakening of the nation, but simply fighting for money.

If you have enough money, the odds are high.If it is delayed until the British national debt explodes, it will be a sure win.

So far, among the big chaebols in Dashun, those who have the least interest in war, and even the capital groups whose interests have no conflict with Britain and Portugal but have many conflicts with Western France and Russia, have also been tied to the war carriage by Liu Yu.

(End of this chapter)