Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1253 The Price of Restoration
It was like giving Emperor Dashun the final blow to make him decide to spend money to continue expanding his navy. It was George Anson's battleship fleet, the Centurion, which sailed around the world to attack the Philippines.

This made Liu Yu's prophecy that "using India as a springboard, Indian cannon fodder will never run out" that Liu Yu had been muttering before changed from the emperor's initial "Because what he said before is right, this time is probably right" to In order to "have nothing to do with what he said, after thinking about it myself, it is indeed very possible that the calamity of the island barbarians that Xu Guangqi talked about back then may not be due to the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism."

Through the pilgrimage trip to the capital, Siraj planted a demon that dare not resist; the rest of the nobles in Bengal also planted the stencil that resistance will fail because of Du Feng's construction of the capital.

After all, it takes something for people to really want to understand something and believe what they want to believe.

Now that the conditions have been fulfilled, Dashun's side is temporarily indescribably gentle.

After just asking Siraj to ransack the house, don't forget to reimburse Dashun's military expenses.

Afterwards, Niu Er, who was not in the military, also mentioned another thing that needs to be done as soon as possible, which seems to be not a bad thing in Siraj's opinion.

"The imperial court thinks that the situation in Bangladesh is complicated and the taxation is in a mess. It is necessary to send someone to check the fields in Bangladesh."

"But before that, Lord Xingguo thought that the British affairs before were all caused by customs duties. Therefore, the intention of the imperial court was to help Jiedu envoys build customs."

"Whether it is import or export, 3.5% of the water is pumped to and from China. This part of the pumped water is directly returned to Jiedushi Zhidu."

"Bangladesh is in ruins, the army is weak, the interior is unstable, the treasury has been robbed by the British, and the palace is dilapidated. It is time to spend money."

"Secondly, the tariff money has been fixed in advance, so as to avoid many troubles in the future. The previous conflict between the British and the Jiedushi was also caused by their smuggling with the Mughal tax exemption order."

"The Celestial Dynasty is different from them. Smuggling is strictly prohibited, and everything must be done according to the rules. Customs must be set up. Expenditures for patrol ships, customs salaries, etc., all have to be paid from the customs tax bank."

"However, since the Jiedushi is unable to control the customs at this time, the imperial court will help to build the customs. However, since the imperial court does things, it must be decent. Tariffs belong to the Jiedushi's court. This is okay. surety."

This problem, in Siraj's view, is indeed not a problem.

Bangladesh still has a lot of good goods in its hands.

Rice, jute, raw silk, silk, and saltpeter are all bulk commodities.

The [-]% tariff may not seem high, but if it is really received, it must be a lot of money.

Although there are no pure allusions in Bengali or Shiite stories, there are naturally similar stories.

In Siraj’s view, Dashun’s ambition is not small.

The treasury is not taken much, and the wealth is not fortunate, which means buying a bone with a lot of money.

I'm afraid, could it be that they didn't come from Bangladesh at all?But since the lame descendants were able to kill from the north and become the emperor of India, it seems that there is nothing unreasonable about the Chinese dynasty killing from the southeast to become the emperor of India, right?

Siraj's idea is generally in the right direction.

The treasury does not take much, and the wealth is not fortunate. This kind of behavior can be regarded as a manifestation of his ambition everywhere.

Coupled with India's special national conditions, it is common to take turns to be the emperor.

Indeed, Dashun has a lot of ambitions.

But it's just that I'm really not interested in the crown of the Indian emperor.

The main world is dynamic, while Siraj looks at the problem with a static eye.

Judging from the static situation at this time, Siraj, who has traveled to Dashun, finds it difficult to understand what exactly he wants from Bangladesh.

The reason why he couldn't understand it was because what Dashun actually wanted was the means of production in Bangladesh.

That is, the means of production such as cultivated land under material conditions such as precipitation, the existence of dry seasons, temperature, and the waterway of the Ganges River.

There are not many cotton growers in Bangladesh now.

However, in the northeast of Dashun, except for a little bit of cotton in Shenyang, most places have to consider whether there is enough food to eat.

And the vast Songliao Plain cannot grow cotton; the Western Regions can grow cotton, but lacks a Grand Canal or a railway.

Dashun naturally cannot use many things produced in Bangladesh.

But the problem is that the basic conditions are here, unlike the Heilongjiang area, where soybeans have to be grown.In Bangladesh, rice, mulberry and cotton can be grown.

What Dashun wants, or in other words, the group of people and beneficiaries who are most interested in the Bangladesh war of aggression, is to bring Bangladesh into the capitalist production system and to completely transform Bangladesh in accordance with the wishes of the bourgeoisie.

Going to starve to death the tens of thousands of textile workers in Calcutta, collapse the handicraft industry in Bangladesh, and completely change the cotton in Bangladesh.

This is of course no small ambition.

What can be compared with being an Indian emperor, or collecting some money, and drawing some jewels in the treasury?
In short, his ambition is not small, and he must be right.

It's just that Siraj misunderstood what this "no small ambition" is.

Of course, this is not his fault, but because he simply cannot understand the real general trend of the new era.Even Britain and France, which are closer to capitalism, have blocked the new era on sugar and tobacco, and fought around the Caribbean for this goal, let alone Siraj in Bangladesh?
Looking at it from the perspective of the old feudal world system, if it becomes a vassal state of Dashun and brings India into Dashun's original tributary system, Siraj will of course be overjoyed good thing.

However, most of what Siraj saw in the capital was an illusion.

Many people in Dashun are trying to dismantle the old world and create a new world system.This new Tianxia system is not maintained by tribute, feudalism, monarchs and ministers, blood relationship, marriage, etc., but by a world market and a large division of labor around the world.

If we insist on finding an ancestor for this system, it can certainly be said to be a new era version of the vassal issue in Guanzi's weight-or-weight technique.

In fact, many people in Dashun can understand this set of things very well, especially after the rise of textual research and Pu Xue, Confucian classics are no longer easy to produce results, and many textual studies have crossed the schools of thought to produce results After the water paper, it will be easier to understand what Japan, North Korea, Nanyang, and Kanto are bound to by Dashun's so-called Songsu system.

This is naturally classified as overbearing.

However, when Siraj walked around Dashun, what he saw was the kingly way of the world.

For him, helping the poor, preserving the sacrifices, restoring his ancestral temples, and restoring them are pure kingly ways.

In particular, it is unimaginable that the lion did not open his mouth to extort money, but took the initiative to help him establish a customs.

Then, after much deliberation, there is only a thousand gold bones, and his ambition is not small.

It is said that if you want to get India, you must first take Bengal; if you want to get Bengal, you must first take Ceylon.Now I am afraid that the time has come to show Dashun kingly with Bangladesh.

Of course, in fact, none of those who believed in the kingly way went to sea.

This is not a purely ideological problem, but domestically, there are still a lot of problems that have not been resolved, such as Ida Juntian and other Confucian scholars who are politically correct but no one is willing to practice the "the most benevolent government in the world" that is just talking about it.

And those who went to sea, went to Ceylon to train troops, went to fight in Bangladesh, and even went to Gibraltar to gnaw at the fortress. They were basically people who came out of Liu Yu's new learning system, and the idea of ​​a kingly paradise in their minds did not exist at all.

Niu Er now mentions that he will help Siraj to get tariffs, but that is just to make some preparations for Siraj to be a puppet in the future.

For the time being, Dashun definitely doesn't have the ability to go deep into every aspect of Bangladesh, not to mention in Bangladesh, the imperial power in Dashun itself does not come down to counties.

In the future, if we want to deprive Siraj of his land taxation rights, we have to think about ways to find some money for him.

In history, China is not a central government that has not handed over land tax, only tariffs and salt tax but not land tax.

Liu Yu is very clear about this, and is convinced that such a regime is exactly what Dashun needs to support in Bangladesh.

If the tariff money is handed over to Siraj and the old ruling class in Bangladesh, and then the radical reform of land rights from "tax collectors" to "big landlords" is completed, then the comprehensive process of compradorization in Bangladesh will affect the big Shun is very favorable.

This is a dual management that is in line with Dashun's interests and conforms to Dashun's ruling habits.

Those messy issues of Islamic law, religion, public security, local management, and suppression of uprisings were handed over to the comprador regime headed by Siraj.

As for the land tax, Dashun directly communicated with the big landlords after the radical land rights reform, and the imperial power still did not go down to the counties, and the Bangladeshi gentry served as the weak link between the imperial power and the peasants.

Tariffs, etc., were handed over to Siraj’s regime, but the tax rate was fixed at 3.5%, and the customs were managed by people from Dashun, as well as the middle and upper classes of Bangladesh who needed to be wooed.

For Siraj, the comprador regime, the more imports and exports, the more money he gets.

The cotton, raw silk, jute, etc. needed by Dashun are the bulk of the exports; conversely, the cotton cloth and ironware sold by Dashun are also the bulk of the imports.Both sides eat tariffs, the more transactions, the more income.

For the former tax collectors and future landowners of Dashun after the radical land rights reform in Bangladesh, they are more and more inclined to grow cotton and replace rice with mulberry.

If land rights reform is not carried out, those tax collectors will only collect taxes, without ownership of all land and other means of production, and it will be more troublesome to disintegrate the old foundation of Bangladesh.

Rely on Siraj to maintain the upper class and create a comprador regime of the upper class in Bangladesh. Except for the army and diplomacy, this regime can also have all the internal organs.

Rely on those big landlords to settle the middle and lower classes, and create a land ownership base for rapid transformation, enclosing land for cotton cultivation, and driving out small farmers.

It is impossible for Dashun to implement Dashun's laws in Bangladesh.

On the one hand, it conflicts too much with Hindu law and Islamic law.

On the other hand, the ownership basis of Dashun law is the private ownership that recognizes land deeds and allows free trading of land, which is seriously inconsistent with India's water and soil.

Not to mention India, as far as Dashun's legal ownership base is concerned, the capital of North Korea is not acclimatized.Because North Korea is still a state-owned land system similar to the royal land system and aristocratic family ownership, it will take at least 20 years in history before the first private land sale contract recognized by North Korea as legal will appear.

Besides, it is really unnecessary, as long as these two reforms are completed in Bangladesh, what Dashun wants can be obtained.

Moreover, Dashun doesn’t understand that the regime controls the grassroots and directly collects taxes from small farmers, and it doesn’t want to do it here. After all, Dashun has already half-stepped into the stage of the industrial revolution that needs raw materials and markets. Long pattern too.

Also, Dashun is not the UK, and has no interest in India's human resources.I can't use up my own.

(End of this chapter)