Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1194 Wooden Cow and Horse ([-])

The emperor's logic in doing things is the kind of person who is basically not a Dashun person, so it may be difficult to understand.

For example, some Dashun people who are no longer Dashun people find it difficult to understand, why should the three halls be built during the calamity year and the war?Why do we still want to maintain a basically useless Nanyuan instead of reclaiming Nanyuan?And what happened in later generations, why did the garden be repaired during the Sino-Japanese War...

Etc., etc.

Then the construction of a few railways is not to promote economic development, but to send people to maintain them like Nanyuan. Even if it may not be used once in three to five years, it is normal.

It is normal for the emperor, especially for the emperor, who may have an extra 3000 to [-] million taels of income every year, to transport troops, food, or disaster victims when needed.

In Liu Yu's opinion, Li Gan was actually a pretty good feudal emperor.

This kind of goodness is similar to that of other people's dogs, which can be trained to go to the toilet to defecate, open the door by themselves, help the owner to buy vegetables, and so on.You can't just curl your lips and say: What is this?I was able to do it when I was seven or eight years old, is that good?Who doesn't know how to go to the toilet to poop at the age of seven or eight?

Therefore, it is meaningless to evaluate the feudal emperors as good or bad.This is based on human standards. When looking at cats and dogs, sometimes people will unconsciously bring human thinking into dogs, and even see dogs shit, and feel that people shit too, so dogs are actually human thinking.

In terms of China's size, trade advantages, technological advantages, and international geographical advantages at this time, if a qualified modern Chinese regime does not mobilize efficient organizational forces to occupy North America and Oceania within 30 years, then It can be said that it is pure waste, and the passing line has not been reached.

Dashun’s status in world trade before the industrial revolution was nothing more than a layer of window paper.

The British East India Company wants to engage in production in Bangladesh, but it can actually promote the development of Bangladesh's textile industry to a certain extent. This can only prove that the ruling class in China at this time in history is a bunch of waste.

The working people have created such a great advantage with their hands, and the ruling class is too useless to grasp it.For those who know the original history, there is nothing more ironic and wry than seeing the fact that the British East India Company was in Bangladesh to buy goods.

In this era of rapid change, the saying is true: the trend of the world is mighty and mighty, those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish.

In this time of rapid change, yesterday's radicals may become conservatives today, and reactionaries the day after tomorrow.

In fact, Niu Er is no longer a Dashun person.It's just that he doesn't know it himself.

Because even the immigration and land occupation he envisioned were not considered from the traditional feudal dynasty's "expanding territory" at all.

His thinking on land occupation by immigrants is essentially how to deal with the transformation of industrialization he imagined.The purpose of occupying land is to increase the amount of resources per capita, to ensure that under the further rapid transformation, the common people will have food to eat and will not rebel.

4 mu of land per capita, or 40 mu of land per capita, which one is more likely to starve to death?This, generally speaking, does not require any advanced knowledge to make a judgment.

Including his suggestion of taxing India, they are not considered from the perspective of a traditional empire ruling the border areas.

Enlightenment movements are taking place in both Dashun and Europe, but the two sides have chosen two completely different lines.

What Europe chooses is that consciousness is higher than matter; while Dashun upholds that matter determines consciousness.But in essence, it is still determined by the material base and per capita resources of both sides.

For Dashun, there should not be too many ideas such as morality, preaching, utopia, and rule of three generations.

In the Enlightenment Movement in Europe, Dashun actually had two faces, more like a combination of the Soviet Union and the United States in later generations.

Voltaire's praise is to create an utopia, to design a new world naively, and to desire an idealization of "other civilizations".

Montesquieu's irony is to borrow Chinese irony, and the Chinese system in "The Spirit of Law" is also a metaphor for the church.

Diderot's elaboration of the dispute between Confucianism and Buddhism also made a separation between Buddhism and Confucianism, the primitive god of nature, and used Buddhism to satirize feudal superstition.

Good or bad, it's all about her.

But no matter whether it is satire or praise, after all, it is based on a "superstitious atheist" relative to the higher civilization of Europe.

In this advanced civilization, they have the concept of deism, worship filial piety, fairness, morality, recognize natural human rights or do not need to recognize at all, especially important is [no need to rely on God’s revelation when it comes to people], people are People don't need God's right to be human, and they don't need divine revelation.

This enlightenment, of course, is of great significance to Europe.

But in Dashun, and the process, it is actually useless.For example, such things as divine enlightenment and the power endowed by gods, in Dashun, they are simply things that don't match the lips of the donkey.

Dashun recognizes the conclusion, but does not recognize the reasoning process. This is the characteristic of Dashun's practical learning atmosphere at this time. This is normal, and most practical students have never read the volume "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"; at this time, gravity is still going to the Inquisition in Portugal, and it has just been translated by Voltaire and his mistress in France. In French, the story of Apple is only beginning to circulate on a large scale, which is also normal.

The degree of religious influence is different, and the focus of the so-called enlightenment is also different.Each has its own characteristics.

In the same way, it is really hard for Dashun people to accept the reasoning process from the scholastic philosophy, the breakthrough apocalypse, to the power bestowed by heaven on people.

It is much easier to explain clearly than the reason that rebellion is justified.

Can the things that are being discussed in the French cafe solve the major events that can be foreseen on Dashun's head?
In other words, can the things discussed in the French cafe allow Dashun to achieve the balance of power between the bourgeoisie and small producers versus the feudal aristocracy?Can Dashun be allocated according to the per capita resource allocation of 2600 million people and 3.5 million mu of cultivated land?
For example, there may be a big breach at any time, and the Yellow River will be diverted directly to the north. Can this be solved?
For example, the population continues to multiply, and the yield per mu is actually much higher than that after the British Agricultural Revolution, but there are still perennial famines and frequent starvation. Can this be solved?
For example, can it solve the problem of land merger?

Like Niu Er, who came from practical studies, was influenced a lot by Liu Yu, and is a typical enlightener from Dashun. Their understanding of the world is crude, but they have a vague concept that they are not aware of:
That is: Shang and Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Han, Sui and Tang, Song, Ming... Whether it is taxation system, property system, land ownership system, industry and commerce, currency, it is constantly changing.

They are convinced that material changes will produce changes in taxation, property, land ownership, currency, and even government affairs and the selection of officials that adapt to the new era.As for what will happen, they only vaguely believe that according to historical traditions, at that time, there will be differences between Zhou and Han, Han and Tang, Tang and Song, and Song and Ming.

They have been subconsciously instilled and influenced all the year round, and they subconsciously believe that ideas and systems are built on a material basis.

They are not the Leibnizian optimists of the European Enlightenment, but more inclined to rational fanatic progressives.

It is not the same as the traditional people-oriented doctrine upheld by the group of thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty.

The ideas of Dashun’s group of practical schools are very complicated, and the only reason why they can be collectively called a “school” is their vision of the future from the perspective of pure productivity.

In terms of production relations, the messy ones are more chaotic than the rainbow.

To some extent, they are actually a bit like the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, without a specific organization.The difference is that the Donglin Party recognizes moralism, while the Xinxue Practical School recognizes the perspective of productivity.

Although the question the emperor is asking now is strange and somewhat surprising, it is essentially the difference between the old forces and the new era.

Before coming here, Liu Yu and Niu Er had said that they would say whatever they wanted.

But it does not include such unexpected problems.

The key to this question is not to answer whether to build the railway or to immigrate first, but whether to build the railway should give enough benefits to the merchant class, whether to allow them to control the railway, or whether to let the merchant class take over the railway Becoming something like some of the private canals that have sprung up in the South.

In other words, the most perfect answer to this question is to think that this is a problem.

If this is not a problem, then there is an answer, and that is to let capital enter the market to repair the railway, isn't it solved?

Only by acquiescing that Songsu's capital cannot be allowed to enter the market and get involved in the railway issue is this a "dilemma".

It is a dilemma that only exists under the default "a certain approach is not advisable".

The Emperor doesn't want an answer.

Rather, it is a consensus and a matter of course that "a certain approach is not advisable".

This proves that the people of the New School of Practical Studies are not completely on the side of Songsu Capital, on the contrary, they are full of vigilance against them.Just use them as tools, not as their vassals.

Therefore, Niu Er's answer, whether it is "the railway should be built first" or "immigration should be first", is correct.

There is only one wrong answer, and that is "government-run immigration, capital road construction, this question can have the best of both worlds."

After thinking in silence for a while, Niu Er gave an interesting answer.

"In my humble opinion, I think this matter can be alleviated by dividing the seriousness into seriousness."

"It is necessary to build a railway from the capital to Zhangjiakou first, so that Mongolian wool can enter Tianjin, so that the industry and commerce can be stimulated, and the Mongolian people in the frontier will no longer have the tendency to control their strings and bend their bows."

"Then build a road from Kaifeng to the Kanto. It is convenient for the people to migrate. It can not only strengthen the border, but also reduce the population. And the rice and wheat in the Kanto can be transported to the Kanto. If there is a famine, it can be used for relief."

"After that, you can fully emigrate overseas."

Hearing this answer, Liu Yu wiped his sweat silently in his heart, thinking that it scared me to death, but this answer is okay.

(End of this chapter)