Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1335 Intimidated by the Philadelphia Conference ([-])
Thinking like this, but not speaking out, looking for trouble for nothing.

People like them who need to participate in Dashun's foreign trade and external exchanges, the set of things they have accepted from their new studies, can't help but confirm each other with reality.

What Dashun is doing now has an impact in Europe, and it is actually possible to imagine the future of Dashun.

Although it may be a bit exaggerated when Defoe said that because of the import of oriental cotton cloth, wailing was everywhere, and weavers could not make a living.

After all, at that time, the East India Company was still subject to the restrictions of the domestic parliament, and at that time, the issue of laws and regulations had to be considered [in order to employ more poor people in the country].

But now...

It can only be said that for those who run textile factories in Dashun, don't say that the poor in the UK has nothing to do with me?Even Dashun's own poor people who can maintain their family life by men farming and women weaving, they don't necessarily want to take care of them.

The trade ambassador is not all worried or sympathetic to the poor, but more concerned about whether these new things, factories, etc. can survive the resistance of the hungry people who don’t want to be safe if the domestic market is directly opened up and all currency customs are cancelled.

Especially... Especially it seems that the court has decided to locate the origin of cotton in India.In this way, even if some places want to develop their own textile industry, they have no advantage because they are farther away from raw materials, and eventually fail miserably.

As for the tea from Wuyishan that can only be sold in Songsu, how is it different from the "Law on Enumerating Commodities"... He is like a mirror in his heart, there is no difference, but he doesn't care about it, and he doesn't think it is a thing that relies on "" Debate" can be resolved.

Fujian, after all, has a different relationship with the thirteen states and the United Kingdom, and the ability to control it is also completely different.In the final analysis, matters in North America still depend on the barrel of a gun, otherwise it is useless to talk about breaking the sky.

Whether the Dashun court did it right or not is an endless public case.At the beginning, the trade center was transferred to the mouth of the Yangtze River, resulting in the unemployment of tens of thousands of people on Wuling Commercial Road and Xijiang Shipping. The imperial court still chose to suppress with less money instead of spending money to immigrate after collecting taxes.

The entire court of Dashun knew about it, so there was no way to mention it now.In other words, as long as the emperor doesn't die, or the emperor doesn't want Duke Xingguo to fall, then whoever brings up this matter is just asking for trouble.

Now the princes are pretending to be stupid here, knowing that from the court’s point of view, the "Law of Navigation" and "Law of Enumerating Commodities" are for the convenience of tax collection, but they insist on talking about Dashun’s production capacity. North America will never have such a situation In this way, the trade ambassador just pretended to be stupid, and just didn't talk about it.

Thinking of this, he said: "As your Highness said, in terms of production, there is absolutely no problem. Now the thirteen states in North America need all the ones from England, and the price is as low as [-]%. In terms of silver, it is definitely lower than the British side."

"However, the more reason for this is the difference in the price of silver on both sides. It is true that some industries can now use steam engines and even various equipment, which is ten times more efficient. But more are still done by hand. Even if they are all done by hand , and have to cross the ocean thousands of miles, but still be able to sell it... There is also a hidden worry. If two or thirty years later, Europa silver pours into this dynasty, the price of silver in this dynasty will also fall, and the price of grain will also rise. It will not be good at that time gone."

Li Yan said with a smile: "I'm not worried about this. Of course, the ancients said: When the sky is not cloudy and rainy, the mulberry soil will be pierced, and the households will be prepared."

"But don't worry too much."

"I understand what Duke Xingguo means. He still intends to concentrate capital, so that the silver that Europa brought in can be concentrated to develop technology and open factories."

"Now it depends on the price of silver, but in the future it will depend on efficiency."

"What you worry about, I don't worry about."

"What I am worried about is that in the future when the control is loosened, a large amount of silver from Europe will go to buy land, hoard land, and not set up a factory according to Xing Guogong's idea, and then something will happen. At that time, it will accumulate for a few more years. If the merger is not suppressed, the foreign money from Songsu for a year may buy half of Jiangxi's land?"

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. It can't be loose or tight. The troubles of this dynasty are still in the suppression of mergers."

"I look at the affairs of the thirteen states in North America, hey... the land is privately owned and can be bought and sold, there is no enfeoffment of nobles, merchants can speculate on the land, priests are in charge of education, and self-cultivating good families are the main ones... Now that the dynasty sends troops, France also wants to Keeping North America, the road to the west will be blocked in the future... Its interior has been liberalized for the small sect of obscenity. If it cannot take the key step of the Xingguogong's saying that the industry and commerce are mainly farmers and supplemented by people, with the population increasing and immigration gradually Many, in the future it is unavoidable to say, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, the year is Jiazi, the world is prosperous" Yo!"

Speaking of this, Li Yan couldn't help laughing out loud, and said with great interest: "Look at it, this time the factions on their side are going to separate religions and debate scriptures, and those who follow the lower sects will definitely want to promote yellow scarves, The White Lotus Rebellion."

The trade ambassador basically agrees with this judgment.

Even the rest of the high-level navy people here are also recognized.

As members of the New School, they were also the first to look at the world, and they always looked further afield.

It's not arrogance, nor is it self-deprecating. It's just that the Calvinist Puritans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to North America more than a hundred years ago, and the set of things they created is more familiar than the European set.

As far as Europe has anything to learn about trade right now, there really isn't much to learn.

how to learnWhat to learn?
Do you want to learn from the United Kingdom and implement the "Law of Enumerating Commodities", or learn from France's use of labor to build roads and suppress rum to protect the domestic wine industry?

There is really no need to learn these things.

Moreover, this set of things has always been politically wrong in the Confucian world on the Dashun side, and it has been politically wrong since the Han Dynasty.

As for from the perspective of the empire, looking at the turmoil between North America and the United Kingdom, including the "minting and printing of money" that Franklin was fighting for in London at this time, Dashun's opinion can only be that of the United Kingdom. They don't know how to manage a country yet.

On the issue of the Salt and Iron Conference that year, there was a debate about whether private coinage was allowed.The Han Dynasty saw the consequences of allowing localities to mint their own coins.

Although private minting of money is allowed, it can be regarded as political correctness after the Salt and Iron Conference.However, in fact, all dynasties and dynasties who still have the ability to manage it have always been very vigilant about this matter.

Including the former Ming Dynasty, when discussing "use copper coins" or "use silver".The faction opposed to silver made it clear: using silver as currency is equivalent to the court giving up the right to mint coins to merchants, and sooner or later something will happen.

There is a saying that stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade.

In other words, by taking history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs.

The situation in Europe, after all, is far from what they are familiar with.Including France, although France is nicknamed "Little China in Europe" in terms of centralization, there are still huge differences with Dashun in terms of land system, taxation system, private ownership of land, and industrial and commercial control.

Instead, I look at the situation in North America, whether it is the land system, private ownership, disorderly development of industry and commerce, or land hoarding by businessmen.

I really feel that I can attack jade for the sake of stone.

The group of Calvinist Puritans in North America initially envisioned the first version of the city on a hill, which was purely a city that abolished hereditary nobles, had no king, and was not threatened by foreign enemies, the Huns, or the flood of the Yellow River... Dashun is very familiar with it. A special adaptation of that set.

Owner farmers, small producers, private ownership of land, allowing land trading, "visible sages" are in charge of enlightenment, businessmen quickly accumulate wealth and become richer than the country, religious ranks of scholars, farmers, businessmen... The productivity level is cattle farming, ridge farming, blast furnace iron...

This group of people should not be too familiar with this set of things. They know better than this group of people in North America. If the land is reclaimed, the western pioneers are stuck, and the population increases again, the technology will be stuck in the process of ox plowing and manual rubbing. Can't break through, what will this set of things eventually become.

At this time, no one in the whole world understands better than Dashun that "Cow plowing ridges and blast furnace iron" is a set of things such as "private ownership of land, self-cultivating farmers, grades of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and free land trading" below the level of productivity.

Really do not have.

Including North Korea, which claims to be "Little China", Dashun is far behind. The basic issues of economic law, such as the most basic land system, private ownership, and land sales, are far inferior to North America and Dashun. picture.Not to mention Japan, it is true that they all read "The Analects of Confucius", but on the issue of "ownership", there are thousands of differences.

If the western border is really stuck, and the technology has been stuck at the level of cattle plowing blast furnace iron, it is estimated that in a few years, even the bottom-level inheritance law will spontaneously advance in the direction of "separation and equal distribution".

Everyone present felt this way, and the trade ambassador also said: "This is true."

"Mergering is very difficult in Europe. If it is Rakshasa, the serfs and aristocrats of the village commune will grant land to others; if it is Shinra, manors will share the land and farmers will share the land. They cannot be bought or sold, and there is no one who can combine them."

"Only in North America, mergers are so common these days."

Thinking of this, the trade ambassador couldn't help laughing and said: "If you grow tobacco like in the central states, you have to borrow money to make money. And if you borrow money, you may not be able to pay back the money. If you don't pay the money, the lender will have to take the land As far as I know, there are quite a few lenders who have acquired more than tens of thousands of acres of land.”

"It's just that there is still good land in the west. If it's gone, isn't it either equalizing the land and exempting grain, or dividing the land and renting it to ensure stability and food?"

"Yes, in my opinion, what Duke Xingguo said is right. France must be stuck in North America and cannot retreat. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Four Kingdoms are easier to deal with than me occupying the west coast and competing with them for land. "

"That's the way it is. The extra people have to 'go to the West Gate'. I'm afraid the descendants of the Yin people here can't stop it, just like the Mongolians can't stop us from reclamation."

"When there are too many people, they need food and land. It is not a system of strips of land, nor is it a system of entrusting wells and fields, but a system of private land sales. Sooner or later, it will come to this point."

"For the sake of the land in the future, the border cannot be stable. One more country, one more point of restraint. Millions of self-cultivating farmers and good families are the real enemy."

(End of this chapter)