Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1221 Great Loyal Minister
Of course, the transformation of Shandong requires the commercial grain and fertilizer bases in Nanyang and Northeast China.Before the advent of chemical fertilizers, or in other words, before the saltpeter in Chile or Bangladesh was available, soybeans in the Northeast were the best economic crop fertilizers.

Fertilizer elements can be efficiently transferred by virtue of photosynthesis and uptake of nutrients by rhizobia and roots.

The significance of colonial expansion at this time is even more useful.

If India's cotton textile industry is killed, Songsu's cotton textile industry will develop greatly; if India's flue-cured tobacco leaves are killed, Shandong's tobacco leaves will develop greatly; .

The sorghum rice and wheat in Kanto can also provide stable food prices during the transition period in Shandong.

As for rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and long-term tenancy, these cannot avoid the impact on the small peasant economy, but only boost the resistance of small peasants under the impact of transformation.

Moreover, in fact, it is not very difficult to do this.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you wanted to equalize the land, I would vote for the Qing Dynasty; during the Anti-Japanese War, if you wanted to reduce rent, I would be a traitor.It's normal.

Without external forces, even if there is opposition, it will not be so uncomfortable.And in itself, the slogans that Liu Yu shouted seemed to suppress mergers, and they were also politically correct in the feudal dynasty.

Except for a period of utterly reactionary whiteness, even if it is a feudal dynasty, it doesn’t matter whether it is done or not, but slogans such as rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and support for farmers and workers are still acceptable, and they are considered politically correct, and will not was shot.

The group of ancient Confucianism is much more radical than Liu Yuke, and they want to directly nationalize land and add land granting system.At the very least, everyone is still thinking about the Zhouli system of three generations of governance. The clear nationalization of land plus land granting system naturally has a certain sanctity, at least in words.

Of course, you can't rely on your mouth.

In fact, the premise of this difficulty is not too great. It is also the students under Liu Yu’s free learning system guided by the development of practical learning guided by the opportunity of external expansion in the past 20 years.

There are a large number of "scholars" who are not of gentry origin and who have not studied the Thirteen Classics—although the mainstream society does not recognize them as worthy of being called scholars, you are also worthy of being called scholars?But judging from the definition of a scholar who can read, count, and understand agriculture, they actually count.

Moreover, Liu Yu was a soldier trained in Weihai, and there were quite a lot of practical students from Leiden.

In the end, the problem of the Yellow River must be resolved, no matter from which angle you look at it.

Even if viewed from the most ruthless and purely productivity-only perspective, the flooding of the Yellow River has caused tens of millions of acres of arable land to be unrelieved for 30 years, that should also solve the hidden dangers of the Yellow River.

It's just that what he said seems to be the traditional idea of ​​suppression and annexation to disguise his real purpose. Liu Yu can be sure that the emperor can't tell the difference.

Because in these years, Liu Yu has created a big illusion: the new era is bound to the Songsu model, and there is only such a model.Including Kanto and Nanyang, they are all variants of the Songsu model, especially the land system does not suppress mergers but encourages mergers.

Although Liu Yu spends his whole day burying the ground and waiting for the sword, the emperor is still the emperor.

He still can't tell the difference, or in other words, he still doesn't have the concept of capitalism in his mind: Landlords can only grow tenants, reduce rents, and lower interest rates, and the rate of return on investment in land is greatly reduced. , watching silver depreciate day by day?
In this era, one of the important meanings of the existence of the country and the regime, if there is no ability to specialize in equal losses, then various policies should be used to guide where capital should go.

In this regard, Britain has done very well, because it has done very well, so Liu Yu's teeth itch with hatred.

The reason why Liu Yu was unhappy with the "Manchester Act" and the Oriental Cotton Cloth Prohibition Order was that the British government was guiding capital to invest in the cotton textile industry. Textile industry development.

Although France is a little bit worse and has various problems, in fact, Dashun is the easiest to empathize with France's problems.

It can be said that France’s honey law and rum prohibition law have affected the development of France’s overseas colonies; but on the other hand, it is also conducive to protecting the interests of traditional domestic agriculture and winemaking such as brandy, wine, and ale. Otherwise, sugarcane Under the impact of wine, the local traditional planting and wine making industries will find it difficult to survive and a large number of them will go bankrupt.

It is not enough to just look at these things on the surface. Dashun has its own problems, that is, characteristic industries will basically not be affected, the high-end luxury goods industry is unique in the world, and low-end consumer goods have double advantages in quality and price.However, Dashun's land yield is too high, and cultivated land is the first priority for capital hedging, which makes Dashun's development very uncomfortable.

In other words, the story of the United Kingdom is that the United Kingdom has used policies to protect its cotton textile industry and is guiding capital investment in the cotton textile industry; the story of France is that France is using laws to prevent the sugarcane wine industry from impacting domestic traditional industries; Dashun's policy should be tailored to local conditions. It should be to use policy to guide capital, not to go to the more than one billion acres of domestic arable land, and to find something other than land.

If this problem is not solved, it will only lead to the most drastic measures in the end, leaving you no chance to invest in land at all.To the extent that the sale and purchase of land is strictly prohibited, what else can you do with your money besides doing business?

Therefore, even if it is improved, it does not mean that building a railway or building a factory is called an improvement.

Improvement refers to making policies to reduce interest rates and land yields so that land can be invested in industry and commerce without violating the most basic land ownership system.

If you can't do this, you can't even call it an improvement.

Liu Yu's reform in Songsu is an improvement, and the essence is to use various methods to reduce interest and land rent income under the state of super-economic exploitation, so that the money can go where he wants to go.

What Liu Yu now proposes to do in Shandong is also an improvement, because he does not touch Dashun's private land ownership system, but uses the violent mechanism of the court to forcefully achieve the effects of rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and long-term tenancy, so as to promote capital flow. industry and commerce.

The posture is different, but the essence is actually the same.

It's just that once the posture is changed, the emperor can't understand it, and it feels familiar.After all, let alone the emperor, it is the elite of Dashun's Practical School. Many people just observe the elephant, and then draw shadows to describe the state of the elephant. Even the blind person may not reach the level of touching the elephant.

As for the ancient Confucian school, it is purely reading scriptures according to the scriptures and learning its shape, which just seems to be that they want to solve the land problem.But solving the land problem is their goal, and the reason why Liu Yu and they can't pee in the same pot is that the land problem is just a means for Liu Yu.No matter how gentle the royal way in the scriptures is, such things as industrialization are not described in the Thirteen Classics.

Now that Liu Yu had finished talking about the "traditional suppression of mergers" he was going to do, the emperor finally let go of his vigilance a lot.

Liu Yu hit the rails again while it was hot: "This matter is not only an attempt, but also a historical lesson for future generations. I believe that the Yellow River embankment can only be done if the people's hearts and power are available. If the people's hearts and power are available, it will only take three years. There is no need to rush."

"Besides, whether it is available or not, we still need to try it. Please use Qingzhou Prefecture and Wuding Prefecture as a pilot point first. If it works, you can push it to the north and south of Xinhe Road."

He didn't want to supervise a province at all, but wanted to supervise a government affairs as a state official, and at most he would rely on Laizhou and Dengzhou, which had many different situations.

Qingzhou Mansion is not big, but it has everything you need.

In theory, there is sandy land with yellow clay that is more suitable for planting flue-cured tobacco, in Zhucheng.

There is Boshan, which is relatively easy to mine in Shandong, and the quality of the coal mines is very good.

There are iron ore and copper mines that are more convenient at this time, and they are also near Linzi.

It is very close to Jiaozhou Bay. As long as the railway is repaired, it can be transported quickly even with the current broken steam locomotive.

It is also very close to the northeast soybean producing area.Moreover, there are seas on both sides, and food prices can remain stable as long as there is a strong government.

Although Shandong's economic center of gravity is in the southwest and northwest of Shandong caused by the canal economic belt, a thousand-year-old city like Linzi has been a bit miserable in recent years.

But once the direction is found, Liu Yu is convinced that it is enough to achieve immediate results, and the economic structure of Shandong will soon be rewritten.

Geographically, it is the closest place to Laizhou and Dengzhou, two pioneering areas that have basically completed the transformation of small farmers.

Politically, a model can also be quickly established and sufficient experience accumulated.Moreover, it should be said that Qingzhou Prefecture is a good place to try to improve, at least it is easier than the current southwestern Shandong area.

Because of the problem itself, it was caused by the problem of the Yellow River.

Liu Yu chose Wuding Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture. In fact, it means that the Yellow River may take one of the three rivers, Daqing River, Xiaoqing River, or Tuhai River, into the sea.

As for which one to choose, it can only be determined after surveying and mapping.

It is impossible to go south, because there are Mount Tai and Shandong hills blocking it, and it is impossible to choose from the south.

And to the north, that is what the emperor absolutely does not want to see. Of course, the emperor does not want the Yellow River to go to Zhili, and it is definitely better to go to Shandong than to go to Zhili.

Once selected, there are still things to do to plan ahead.

Including the reconstruction of the previous post road.

The original Daqing River, Xiaoqing River, Tuhai River, and other issues such as river transportation and salt transportation must be deployed in advance.

For example, if the Daqing River is selected as the river channel captured by the Yellow River, then the Xiaoqing River and Tuhai River will be treated in advance; and vice versa.

Moreover, a series of problems such as salt administration, grassland, land reclamation, and transfer of salt production in the selected river area must be resolved in advance.

Indeed, Yellow River control can only be a systematic project, and given that Yellow River control, salt industry, and civil affairs were all separated in the canal era, in fact, even if the DPRK and China reached a consensus on the diversion of the Yellow River, it is possible to grasp this matter. Few people have this comprehensive experience.

This request was simpler than the emperor expected.After considering what Liu Yu said, the emperor said, "If Qingzhou is successful, then Jinan, Caozhou, and Dongchang are still needed. As for Tai'an and Yanzhou... Ai Qing will not interfere."

"Furthermore, if you deal with salt in the Qingzhou Mansion, the Confucian Mansion will smelt salt... these things, Aiqing should not take care of them. They have their own system, so don't provoke many discussions. The Yanzhou Mansion is too involved. Aiqing really wants to reduce the rent. Qufu can’t even cut interest rates, otherwise the whole world will talk about it.”

"Among Qingzhou, Wuding, Jinan, Dongchang, and Caozhou, things in Jinan seem to be the easiest. Dongchang and Caozhou are the hardest, and they have to solve many things after the canal is abandoned."

"Before the war in India, it was difficult for the DPRK and China to invest so much money. It seemed simple to only go to Qingzhou in the early stage. I also know that even if you do things with great benefits, you still need money and people in the early stage."

"Except for the railway, I have allowed merchants to invest. Besides, what else do you want?"

(End of this chapter)