Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1203 Wooden Cow and Horse ([-])

The emperor does things with the logic of the emperor.It can also be said that there is an emperor's value system.

Railways, technology, steam engines, and even capital are all devices.

device, you can choose how to use it.

Where the butt sits determines how to use these devices.

From the very beginning when he decided to go to Nanyang and invade India, the emperor has been focusing on the money Liu Yu mentioned.

Spice money.

Indian taxes.

Collectively, it's all money.

According to a certain school of pre-Qin philosophers, there is a huge difference between love and use.

Does the emperor love money?Just like people who love figurines, wives, and paper, are they willing to sleep with money in their hands and listen to the sound of money clattering?

Or do you want to spend money?
Fetishism, commodity worship, and money worship are really of no interest to the emperor.

Because under the imperial power, he is the great leader who worships the god of monarchy. Why do he want to create a world that worships the commodity religion, and then rely on "self-struggle" to become the ultimate leader?

Isn't that idle?

Since the distinction can be made, then the emperor's covetousness of Nanyang money and Indian taxes is for use, not for love, so what are they used for?
Naturally, it is used to stabilize one's own rule.

The emperor asked the prince to read "On Salt and Iron", in fact telling the prince that Dashun is now like a big man, and these various court benefits other than agricultural taxes have supported a huge class of meritorious officials.

These things are not only the core tax source of the central government, but also the economic basis for the existence of the meritorious ministers.

Relying on those agricultural taxes, it is impossible to support a group of meritorious ministers, nor can it create an economic basis for the existence of meritorious ministers.

The meritorious minister works everywhere, and the premise is to have money.

Without money, there is no soil for meritorious officials to exist.

Unless the brain is rusted, let go of local power and let all the ministers who have done meritorious service go to the local area to serve as feudal towns, but this is essentially letting them get money, and they can't do anything without money.

The emperor asked the prince to read "On Salt and Iron", but what he really wanted the prince to understand was one thing.

After the death of Emperor Wu, why was there a discussion about salt and iron?
After the Salt and Iron Discussion, why did Wang Mang reform the system?
Also, in the book given, why did Liu Yu satirize the Netherlands and the British East India Company, not improving the mousetrap, but obtaining a franchised mousetrap?
Are these large "chaebols" in Dashun similar to some franchised industries in Western countries such as Britain, the Netherlands, and France?

Dashun has emerged a large number of meritorious ministers in recent years, a large number of frontier hungry wolves, and a large number of "capable officials" who are trying to make troubles in the frontiers and colonies. What is the economic basis for their existence?
Now the central finance, or the emperor's internal money, if it can be used as India's tax silver, how should this money be used?What kind of people do you raise?To solve what?Can the imperial power last forever?
Is Silver Wealth?

What is it that silver can buy what you want, and keep prices as stable as possible?
If a disaster occurs in Henan, Chuanchu and other places, is the silver of the imperial court the wealth that can be used for disaster relief?And if there is a disaster in Songsu and other places, is the silver of the court the wealth that can be used for disaster relief?

If they are not the same, what is the difference?

When all these emperors wanted to assess the content of the prince, it came down to a greatly simplified question of "which railway to build first", the emperor had to make one thing clear to the prince:

Before Dashun, it took over the Ming system.

Dashun claimed that he admired Li Tang.

But in fact, Dashun at this time is more like a variant, no matter the military merit system, the Langguan system, the expenditure of meritorious ministers, the proportion of central fiscal revenue, and the amount of land tax in fiscal revenue, but it is not the common people. The Han Dynasty with the knighthood system.

The key lies in that sentence: The benefit of salt and iron lies in the profit, not in salt and iron.The land of the Western Regions may be in the west, but it may not be in the south.

Don't just see its shape, carve a boat and ask for a sword, but don't get its meaning.

The reason why Dashun does not engage in iron monopoly is because the management and monopoly of fucking foreign trade is more profitable and easier to manage.Selling iron pots and farm tools is exhausting for a year, and you can't make a lot of money. Why do you have to specialize in this thing now?

The income from iron monopoly in the Han Dynasty can be completely compared to the export of silk, porcelain and tea at this time.

The iron of the past is not the iron of the present.

The essence of the benefit of salt and iron lies in the benefit, not in salt and iron, or in other words, advancing with the times, it should be like a well field, so that now the retro school is "well if you can, and if you can't, it will be equal, and the well will be equal." The pretext is also", to understand what the essence is, not the form of Ida.

If the crown prince doesn't understand, it is very likely that Dashun will also follow a path that will eventually lead to Wang Mang's reorganization of the land to the state-owned Tianmu, and the end of the world in chaos.

The emperor hoped that the prince would understand that the traditional conservative ministers were unreliable.

Songsu's group of newcomers are equally unreliable.

I hope the prince understands that he was vigilant when he saw the rapid spread of capital along the canal in the form of looms going to the countryside during his last southern tour.

Dashun does not produce silver. Silver is a foreign currency, but it is the legal tax currency and circulation currency of Dashun. Once the control is released, the foreign currency accumulated by Songsu will instantly make Dashun's land acquisition problem dozens of times .

And only relying on those old school ministers, Dashun only received 2000 million taels of silver a year, and the meritorious faction could go home and sleep completely, there was no stage for them to exist at all.

Because there is no money, Dashun can't make troubles, how can there be any meritorious service if there is nothing to do?
The meritorious ministers are gone, and in the end, the court has changed from fighting against each other to fighting against each other, then the dynasty is basically over.

Rotten into a ball of mud, slowly decaying.

The prince should understand that water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.

Xiaomin, you can overthrow the previous dynasty together when Emperor Taizu raised the flag of righteousness.

Small people, when the new era threatens the old, they may also stand most resolutely by the imperial power.

Water can carry heavy loads and capsize boats. Its essence is people-oriented, herdsmen.It is not the same thing at all, because it is to divide the water and the boat, and the water is not the boat, and the boat is not the water.

Of course, this is something in the way of ruling. The emperor felt that he still had time, and the prince should still be able to learn it.

As for the art of ruling, use the railway, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the navy to divide the world into several parts, so that the uprising in the west will not affect the Central Plains, and the riots in the east will not cross Jingchu. This is also the role of the railway in imperial power. meaning.

In the end, it can be said clearly where the first railway should be repaired.

The Yellow River bursts with regularity.

Beginning in the Song Dynasty, the Yellow River breached repeatedly within the range of Henan and Southwest Shandong.

Cao County, Heze, Lankao, and Yuncheng are just a few places. Basically, as long as there is a breach, this side must be rushed first.

The people of Dashun like to read "Water Margin" very much, but the people of Dashun actually don't know what is the eight hundred miles of water mooring Liangshan.

Because when "Water Margin" was written, the eight hundred miles of water mooring Liangshan really existed.

When the people of Dashun watched "Water Margin", because of water transportation, a levee appeared on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the water control strategy of "protecting the north but not the south" that has been acquiesced since Mingshun, the [-] miles of Liangshanbo has already became a legend.

This change is the choice of actual rule.

But under the reality at this time, if the Yellow River really decides to go north, will Dashun choose to let the Yellow River go south?

Let the Yellow River flood in Dashun's financial and taxation center?
This in itself is a choice with the same core as the "protecting the north but not the south" that was acquiesced in the past to protect water transport.It's just that the form has changed because of the change of reality.

Dashun has already begun to build something similar to Taihang Embankment, but this Taihang Embankment is on the south side of the river instead of north.

"From today's river, there is no way to change it. Although the god Yu can't make a contribution. The Nanhe can only move the sun and the moon, and there is no medicine to cure it. Even if manpower does not change it, the river will change itself."

This is basically on Dashun's side. After solving the canal problem and breaking the scar of taboo disease and avoiding treatment, people of insight have reached a consensus.

It's just that these people with lofty ideals are too "knowledgeful, courageous and courageous", thinking that if they have money, they might as well just dig a river channel from the north into the sea and artificially divert it.Anyway, even if the manpower does not change, the river must change itself, just dig it.

Dashun learned the lessons of the Song Dynasty, and did not think that manually digging a Yellow River channel was a project that Dashun could figure out now.It's too risky to dig a river blindly.

And as the emperor said, the Yellow River will not be idle and do the breach.

After Dashun solved the problem of watering rice in the canal, the efficiency of river management was higher than before.With the popularity of straw crops such as corn and sorghum, the materials for building dams are also more abundant than before.

Therefore, the emperor's judgment is justified.

That is: if in this case, the Yellow River bursts, then this is not just a matter of considering the Yellow River burst.

But obviously, Henan and other places must have encountered a major flood.

Small floods will not cause the Yellow River to burst.

At that time.

Upstream is flooding.

In the Heze area of ​​Kaifeng, it may be the Yellow River breach.

As for the problem of Hongze Lake in the Huaihe River, Dashun only managed to solve it a little bit. In fact, the water level is still high, and there is still a problem with flood discharge in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River.

In other words, once this happens, it will inevitably be a catastrophe that will affect large areas such as the Huaihe River, Anhui, Henan, Southwest Shandong, Southern Hebei, and Northern Shandong.

According to the experience since ancient times, generally speaking, floods in Henan are usually accompanied by floods in Anhui.And this time, the breach of the Yellow River must be considered, as well as floods in Shandong and southern Hebei.

The population density in the Central Plains is too high.

The transportation constraints of commodity grain production areas to the Central Plains are too difficult.

And Henan and Jingchu are the centers of the world. If there is chaos here, it is an inevitable reality that the surroundings will be chaotic.

There is also the experience of "when you are forced to do things at the end of the dynasty, you often can't do it even if you hang your hair".

Shaanxi and Gansu can cultivate Taotao and move to the Western Regions; Fujian and Guangdong can go to Nanyang; Shanxi can go to the west; In the Central Plains area alone, there is neither commercial grain input for relief, nor the direction of fleeing for reclamation. Once something happens, it will be a big deal.

In addition, the very obscure truth that ordinary people may not understand "the common people will not rebel if they have food to eat".

Therefore, the emperor felt quite naive about where the prince's first railway should be built.

Who can say when something will happen to the Yellow River?It's like the Lisbon earthquake a few years ago, is there anything accurate?

The first road did not think about running through the Central Plains and connecting Jingchu, but thinking about building it to Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Kanto and other places. How can this be a monarch who understands the railway era?
Even if the railway to Zhangjiakou was not built, the usury of merchants would still control Mongolia; even if the railway to Chengde Rehe was not built, Dashun's army would still suppress the north and dare not rebel.

It's not that it can't be repaired, but it's the icing on the cake for the rule of the imperial power.

In the Franco-Prussian War in history, the German General Staff's perception of railways was an efficient way for corps to maneuver, which would greatly change the mode of land warfare.

As far as Dashun is concerned, it is impossible for the understanding of the railway to go to the understanding of the Franco-Prussian War, because are there any enemies around Dashun that need to build a railway or they cannot win?Where it is possible to build railways, and where it is easy to build railways, you can win with the soles of your feet; where you cannot, or are difficult to build, it must be difficult to build roads, or it is impossible to build roads at this time.

Therefore, Dashun imperial power's understanding of the railway was bound to maintain system governance, facilitate relief, facilitate food transportation, and facilitate suppression from the very beginning.

The railway from the Jingxi Coal Mine to the capital continued this way of thinking in order to stabilize the fuel in the capital; and the first large railway that was really thinking about using Indian taxes to repair must also continue this way of thinking.

The emperor felt that what the prince lacked was an understanding of "vessels", an understanding, and an idea of ​​how to use them.This is not a good thing, because this thing can be taught, then new contradictions and new problems will arise in the future, and we will not be able to follow the picture, and there will be no ideas, so what can we do?Wouldn't he be dumbfounded by then?
The old school couldn't figure it out.

Practical and meritorious, too radical.

The new school, with its own ideas in mind.

An emperor does not have a consistent way of thinking, and when the time comes, he will feel that the father is right, and the mother-in-law is also right... In Li Gan's view, there is no problem with the Xining Reform, and there is no problem with the restoration of the old party afterwards.

The problem is that whether it is reform or restoration, the emperor has to be above the party and the officials.

To surpass, you need to have your own thinking, understanding, and understanding.Know what to do, know what to do.

I am the country, what I want to do, the new party, the old party, the conservative school, the practical school, the old-fashioned Confucianism, and the radical business school are all tools!
Otherwise, it will be played to death.

Dashun’s reforms were never made under Liu Yuzai’s state of ruling the world. From the beginning to the end, he was a tool in the eyes of the emperor, because the emperor knew roughly what to do, what things could be done and what things couldn’t be done. The minister's dispute is all a fart, it's just a matter of hearing.

Including before the formation of the system, in the eyes of the emperor, Liu Yu was just a eunuch like a gentry, who took advantage of the emperor's power to open a mansion outside, and carried out reforms as a shogunate of close ministers and favored ministers.It was neither the prime minister who opened the mansion, nor the one who was in charge of the Tianyou Hall. The difference is huge.

Neither will Liu Yu be removed, nor will the imperial examination be reformed, nor will those ministers who criticized Liu Yu be removed.

However, if the prince is as good as this, even if he takes away a few people who must be "taken away" before he leaves, I am afraid that there will be a chaos like Wang Mang's reform-as for the matter of Jingkang shame, Li Gan After thinking about it, I feel that even if I underestimate myself a lot, there is no such thing as a shameful political entity in this world, but I feel that the reformation similar to Wang Mang is getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)