Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1195 Wooden Cow and Horse ([-])

Hearing this answer, the emperor hummed in satisfaction.

He did not doubt Liu Yu, mainly Liu Yu's reform process in Songsu, and he has always avoided his reform from involving the inland provinces.

Of course, the thinking of the two sides is different, but the emperor did not understand the difference in ideology.

Just like the differences between Liu Yu and the Yan-Li school on the land issue, both sides seem to be either the land equalization school or the state-owned land school, but in fact the ideas of the two sides can be said to be completely opposite.

After this kind of inadvertent test, the emperor basically had no dissatisfaction with the Indian question raised by Niu Er.

Now that Liu Yu had guaranteed the vote, saying that the British would not be able to increase their troops in a short period of time, because of institutional problems, the British side could not make such a decision.

Then, if you delay for a while, it won't be a big problem.

As for what to do after conquering India, Niu Er's thinking was generally accepted by the emperor.

The main reason is that Niu Er used Dashun's easy-to-understand perspective to roughly introduce some issues such as India's taxation system and land ownership.

And the emperor also understood what Liu Yu said, the contradiction between Dashun and India, the contradiction between Dashun and Britain, and the difference between the two.

Therefore, the Indian issue is really no longer a simple taxation issue.

How to prevent future Indian governors from standing on their own?
How to bring India into the Dashun system?
This goes back to the learning of weight and weight in Hegemony.

It is necessary to carry out a comprehensive and thorough economic transformation of India and make India a producer and consumer of raw materials. Only in this way can India be bound to the world system of Dashun.

Otherwise, if there is no comprehensive transformation, then India prefers to mix with Europeans, because what they produce is exactly what Europeans need; The merchants who received the goods had to eat shit, so they naturally refused to follow Dashun.

Therefore, in consideration of stability, it is natural to make India a kind of "India spins yarn and Dashun weaves; India reels silk and Dashun weaves silk; India jute and Dashun sacks; India grows rice and Dashun eats rice; India is short of cloth, Dashun sells cloth" model.

The deeper this pattern is, the more stable India will be within Dashun's world system.

According to Liu Yu, even if Europeans grow cotton, wouldn't it be beautiful to grow cotton in North America?Closer and more land.At that time, it will be impossible to put away the closer North American cotton and go all the way to India to buy cotton, right?

Conversely, India's industries are fully integrated with Dashun's industrial handicraft industry, so if Dashun doesn't want these things, who will they sell them to?
The old cloth merchants and weavers were either starved to death or shot.

The new silk reeling workshop owners and cotton yarn merchants are compradors with a heart for Dashun.

This is the solution to the root cause.

The solution to the symptoms is to use Dashun soldiers instead of Indian native soldiers, and maintain a stable system of retired land grants. No matter who is the governor in India, he will not have the capital to support himself.

As long as the emperor's head is out of the range that can threaten the dragon chair, it is generally still awake.

As long as there is no problem in the core area of ​​​​the world, the emperor will be fine.In the rest of the world, there is still no power that can be the emperor.

This kind of remote place, as an important part of the division of internal and external affairs envisioned by the emperor, does not need to have so many worries.

Sui said: "That Siraj was young and frivolous, and he didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth. Now he has nowhere to go. Since he came to pay tribute, I must enlighten him."

"However, for the time being, we should try our best to keep a low profile. Now that he is in Tianjin, he should come to the capital first and stay temporarily."

"The Privy Council still needs to do more research on the affairs of India. How to do it specifically needs to be asked and thought about. As for the overall taxation and other countermeasures, since it is a foreign matter, it does not need to be discussed in the court. However, your report, It makes a lot of sense, whether you can do it or not, you should go to the Privy Council to discuss more these days."

"You don't have to worry about Siraj's affairs. Since you have come to the Celestial Dynasty, you have to follow the laws and regulations of the Celestial Dynasty. The Li government will make arrangements for you. If you are not in his position, you will not seek his own government."

Having said that, Niu Er thought that since he was brought back anyway, the staff of the Privy Council must have made an attack plan early on.Since the emperor said that his ideas are very reasonable, it is difficult to say whether he will be used in the future, but at least he has dedicated himself to the future.

Afterwards, the emperor asked some miscellaneous things, and he didn't continue to ask whether it was about railway construction or immigration, so he let the two retire.

Coming out of the palace, Niu Er didn't inquire about India any more.

The Privy Council has the rules of the Privy Council, his rank, and the reason for going to India this time to do business, so he can know the Indian plan.

As for combat matters, Niu Er felt that there was no need to make any comments on his own.

Back then in Java, everything went according to plan and went very smoothly.

He felt that the overall situation was settled, and the emperor didn't seem to object to his own thoughts. He was in a good mood, so he thought about going to see the railway, which was a big thing in his mind.

"Duke, I'm going to check the railway from Mentougou to the capital. I guess this kind of thing must come back and forth. When you come here, you need to load coal, and when you go back, it's mostly empty. I wonder if you can take it?"

"In the past, when I was studying the Three Kingdoms, every time I read "Going up the mountain and going down to lead, each according to his own convenience; people don't work, cattle and horses don't eat", I thought, if Zhuge Wuhou's method of wooden cows and horses is handed down to this world, it should be What a wonderful thing?"

"Although you can't see wooden cows and horses now, but after listening to the duke talk about steam cars, you can actually see them in your lifetime. I really have mixed feelings in my heart."

Liu Yu didn't want to worry about whether he was building a railway or emigrating in the palace just now, so he said with a smile, "What do you mean by all kinds of flavors? Normally, you should be in high spirits?"

Niu Er smiled wryly and shook his head, "The Duke of Songsu in Songsu and the official in Java, what they did and the process, I'm afraid you have to use mixed feelings to explain clearly."

Liu Yu laughed, and said: "Forget it, I have nothing to do today, so I will go to Xizhimen with you to have a look. Anyway, there is nothing to do in the Privy Council, so I have nothing to do every day."

After all, he found chariots and horses in the distance and headed for Xizhimen.

The train is definitely not allowed to enter the city. It is related to Fengshui, safety, and some other strange obstacles. It is not bad to be able to repair to Xizhimen.

On the way, Niu Er asked, "But I don't know if it's expensive to build a railway?"

"Heh... It's hard to say. The 60-mile railway cost 63 taels of silver. If you break it down, you can get 1 taels of silver per mile. It's not much, but it's not much. If you can get an extra 3000 to 1 million a year Two, no matter how good the terrain is, it is not impossible to repair it at [-] taels of silver per mile."

Niu Er secretly clicked his tongue, thinking that it seems that it is indeed a little expensive.But thinking about it again, it seems that it is not expensive.

It's not that he hasn't seen railways before. A lot of cast iron tracks have been repaired in some places before, and they are pulled by horse-drawn carriages.There is no need to consider too much load, so even though we haven't reached the railway from Xizhimen to Mentougou, we know that it will definitely cost more.

It's just that, for the more than 60-mile railway, just those rails, no matter whether they are cast iron or wrought iron, they are all solid iron.

A mile of railroad tracks might cost 200 to [-] jin, but to build a [-]-mile track, the iron alone would cost more than [-] million jin.

Although there are not many, it also shows that these industries such as iron smelting and coal mining have already developed, and it is actually easy to produce 300 to [-] million catties of iron at once.

Although it is said that this railway cannot only be calculated for economic accounts, matters related to the capital cannot only be calculated for economic accounts.This is true whether it is Nanyuan or coal.

He asked roughly what the railway was transporting now, and learned that in addition to coal, it also transported lime, cement, and timber.

This railway can be regarded as the first official railway in Dashun. Although the power of the locomotive is actually mediocre, the cost is not too much after all, so it cannot be just an economic account.

But after it is repaired, the economic account will naturally have to be settled.

It was originally intended to supply coal for the capital, and the route was not long, and it was convenient to add water and coal along the way.

In addition to coal mines in the Mentougou area, there are also lime mines near Yexi, which have a large output.

These things are what the capital needs.After all, the capital is a consumer city. It needs heating, minting money, dead people to put lime, and house repairs.

Whether it is coal or lime, as long as the price goes down, more and more people will use it.

The purpose of the imperial court choosing to build this railway was not for money at the beginning, but mainly for maintaining stability.The purpose is to ensure the coal demand in the capital and prevent fuel soaring. The capital must not be chaotic.

Even though the emperor was thinking about using India's taxes to build some railways that were not economical at all in the way of building post stations.

But Liu Yu's attitude towards this kind of thing has always been to seduce capital's willingness to invest.

The railway track was almost finished, and the lime kiln over there was merged with the original small lime kiln.

A simple industrial complex of coal, lime, and cement has been formed, surrounding the capital, a special consumer city, which has attracted the attention of many people.

The [-]-mile road only needs to run for about four or five hours, and does not require much manpower. Many people have already discovered the business opportunities in it.

If the load is bigger.

If the sixty miles, it only takes three or four hours, or two or three hours to run.

At that time, there will definitely be many people willing to build it.

Dashun has a natural advantage, that is, the lack of water in the north, so the canals are very dense in the south, but the canals in the north are scarce after all.

As for the Yellow River, the sediment is so large that there is really no chance of building a canal.

There are many canals, and the willingness to build railways is small.

In view of the emperor's attitude, Liu Yu felt that there was still a solution to this matter.

As long as the railway proves to be profitable, in some places where the emperor thinks that the railway can be built, the emperor can choose a way to die.

Find a way to fool the emperor, let the emperor ask the businessman to borrow money, or the businessman participates in the stock but has no management rights, and can get dividends in the future.

It's just like what he gave "granting land to the Southern Ocean after the troops stationed in India retire".

As long as the emperor, or officials who want to take advantage of it, wait until the dividends are distributed in the future, thinking about "why should I pay back the money borrowed by my own ability"; or "why should I give the money to others?" That can solve many things.

If there is no conflict, then create conflict.It seems uncertain now, who knows if the one who will go up in the future, or if the situation changes, will do such a thing.

Even if the emperor had a weird idea about this matter, it didn't mean that there was no solution.You still have to find a way to ponder the emperor's mind, follow along, and lure him to death step by step.

Otherwise, in the future, the relaxed India with all capital management will go to build roads, and I will really cry without tears.That place will wake up sooner or later, and it is impossible to assimilate at all. If it really happens like this, it is really a legacy of my family's money to others.

(End of this chapter)