Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1401 Migration Road ([-])
Since it is said that we want to talk about eating, drinking and sleeping, it is inevitable to ask. After going to Fusang, is the problem of eating and drinking sure to be solved?Is the food distributed by the imperial court enough to eat?

Mr. Private School cannot solve these problems technically, but can only solve them from "faith" or "logic".

In terms of belief, he believes that the mainstream consciousness is generally people-oriented, and the imperial court should prepare enough food to prevent people who reclaim land from starving to death.

Logically, it is simpler.If the imperial court just wanted to vacate the land, wouldn’t it be enough to force the people back and then kill them, or not go to Fusang at all after being transported to the sea, and throw them into the sea halfway to drown?

Immigration also costs money, and it is not possible to jump across the ocean directly.The biggest cost is not land, agricultural tools, or seeds, but the "boat ticket" money for migration.The biggest cost has been paid, how could it be possible not to make proper preparations and increase the death rate in vain?
He thought so.

In fact, what he thought was really good.

It's just that when he was thinking about logical issues, he was already thinking very darkly.

In fact, Liu Yu's choice of emigration focus, many ideas, are much darker than this, it is hell.

Liu Yu knew that there was gold in San Francisco.

However, the direction of the first wave of emigration and agricultural migration was not around San Francisco, but the surrounding areas of Vancouver, Maplewood Bay at this time, and Seattle in later generations.

First, it is more suitable for farming.

Secondly, in the future, crossing the mountains to the east will lead to the three provinces of the Canadian prairie in later generations. The agricultural conditions of the godsend land-dry meadows and swampy meadows are not difficult to develop.The three prairie provinces of Canada in later generations are standard dry meadows.

Of course, neither of these two reasons is "hell".

The real hell, is the third reason.

What is Dashun's current colonial policy in North America?
It is the standard modern colonial theory.

What is the essence of this doctrine?
Administrative intervention distorts land prices.Every immigrant is a potential "wage laborer". Through the wages he earns, he buys the land after the price is distorted, and realizes a family farm life with a herd of cattle on a hundred acres of land.

These potential wage laborers are preparing for the development of capitalism.

Then, conversely, that is, it is necessary to develop some non-agricultural industries, real industries, so that this "standard modern colonial theory" can make sense.Otherwise, why would we need so many wage laborers?

Similarly, it must be ensured that the industry here is profitable and has market transactions, so that the industry can develop.

Farming and fishing... that's the primary industry.

This cannot accommodate too many people.

Therefore, we have to create a secondary industry.

As a result, investors are willing to pay to hire people from Dashun, or to "arrest people" to work with this ticket.

At first, Liu Yu chose gold and silver mines.

That's sure to be fine.

After starting, how to quickly develop the industry and form an industrial city?
What should be the commodities of this industrial city?
Where is the market for the commodities produced in this industrial city?

Liu Yu is targeting the supporting industries in San Francisco.

There are not many trees in San Francisco.

Mine, dig for gold, dig for silver.

Build a house, open a hotel, get a place to live.

This requires infrastructure.You also need wood.

Obviously, a wooden house must be the most cost-effective in the gold mining area of ​​San Francisco.

Wooden houses have a characteristic, love to catch fire.

This is not to say that Liu Yu is going to set fire on his own initiative.

Rather, this matter, if he does not intervene.

Well, once the gold mines in San Francisco started mining, a large number of wooden houses were built in a mess.Moreover, in terms of cost performance, wooden houses are definitely the first choice.

Liu Yu will not force the "bubble" companies to build brick houses, so they will definitely choose wooden buildings for their own interests.

And wooden buildings, plus the "barbarism" or "vigor" of the chaotic neighborhoods and mining areas.

Assuming that the gold mines in San Francisco can be mined for 30 years, then these 30 years are basically certain. According to the probability, there will be at least seven or eight large-scale fires.

This is inevitable.

Can't help it.

If it burns, it must be rebuilt.

Rebuilding requires wood.

Most of them will have to be burned after they are built.

Most of them still have to be built after burning.

Therefore, the Maple Bay area, including the later Bay Areas of Vancouver and Seattle, can find the start of their "secondary industry" - the wood processing industry.

It can even be said that in Liu Yu's plan, the initial development of non-agricultural industries in the Maple Bay area, and the necessity of "wage laborers" depended on the repeated burning and rebuilding of San Francisco in the south.

In this way, at least seven or eight industries can be driven.

For example, to mine gold in San Francisco, you need food, right?

Food has to be shipped to San Francisco, right?
Is it necessary to build a ship to transport food?
The house burned down, so you need wood, right?

After the wood is felled, it needs to be processed, right?

After going around in this way, relying on the precious metals in San Francisco, a simple "business cycle" was built.

Here, Liu Yu only needs to "raise your hands high" and not add too many obligations and chains to the "bubble company".

It is not mandatory for foam companies to build houses according to standards, to use brick and tile houses, and so on.

A little looser supervision, it can be said that there will be a small fire in three years and a big fire in five years.

Isn't this precious metal flowing?
Once the precious metals flow, won't there be capital going to Fenglin Bay to do wood processing, shipbuilding, and transportation?Because it is profitable.

Since capital has come to do this, doesn't that mean that "wage laborers" have become popular?It is impossible for local people to do it. You have a herd of cows, a hundred acres of land, and a wife and children on a hot bed. Do you carry a saw to the deep mountains and old forests to earn some money for logging?

Since the "locals" are unwilling to do it, or in other words, those who came earlier are unwilling to do it, then it is necessary to arrest people from Dashun to work here.

And since they came to work, they were paid.

To receive wages, you have to think about buying land in the future.

Buying land increases the amount of the "immigration fund".

Once the amount of the immigration fund has increased, you can continue to immigrate.

If you continue to emigrate, you can ensure that when the first batch of people earn wages to buy land and quit, the second batch will come again—after earning enough wages, the master will stop serving and buy official land to become farmers. Wouldn’t it be great? ?
In this way, wouldn't this set of "modern standard colonial techniques" be turned around?
Isn’t the conflict between the two kinds of private ownership, and the contradiction that the latter private ownership must eliminate the former private ownership, resolved technically within a certain range?
Once this set of things is turned, it can operate spontaneously.

From the beginning of shipbuilding, transportation, and wood processing, there were more and more people, and gradually developed industries such as clothing, pantyhose, iron smelting, machinery, tools, animal husbandry and slaughter, and leather manufacturing.

The more people there are, the smoother this capitalist operating system will be.

The more agricultural population, especially the agricultural population with a lot of land, the bigger the consumer market will be.Clothing, food, housing, transportation, food, drink, lasagna, singing and dancing, drama, and iron machinery can all be provided by wealthy owner farmers.

Anyway, in Liu Yu's view, Dashun cannot rely on the market here, nor on the raw materials here, and only exists as a pressure relief valve.

It’s not a bad thing to build up your own market circle here. After all, Dashun just wants to send more people there, not a market that is worthless in a hundred years, and it doesn’t want to engage in outdated old mercantilist colonization at all. system.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that Liu Yuming knows that the court will not supervise, San Francisco will inevitably be built out of order, will inevitably choose wood as a building material, and will inevitably catch fire frequently-this necessity is in line with economic principles Yes, because of the climate in San Francisco, there is no need to build a brick house, but the wood one saves money?The company is to make profits, not to build a model city, so it is natural to choose wooden buildings.

Sometimes, though, economics, that's what happens.

Burn down and build, build and burn; or dig a hole and then bury it, sometimes this is a "good thing" and is conducive to economic development.

Since Dashun has embraced gold and silver, it must follow the logic of the flow of gold and silver.

Therefore, under the background that Liu Yu clearly knew where there were big gold and silver mines, he focused the first batch of immigrants on Fenglin Bay.

In addition to the early gold panning in the Yukon River and the small-scale gold panning in Haida Gwaii, the Maple Bay area has a certain scale of agricultural population.

The land here is fertile, the climate is suitable, and the land can be said to be "unlimited supply", as long as you have the ability to grow it.

Therefore, the agricultural labor force here, on average, is not a problem for one person to support five people.

And at this point, Dashun can be described as "path-dependent", or "know the road with ease".

When Liu Yu was engaged in Whale Sea immigration, that set was already played very purely - no mandatory collection of food, but control of consumer goods.You have food, but you have to wear clothes, right?Have to eat salt?Need to buy iron?If the child wants to eat candy, you can't rub it out of the ground by yourself, right?

With a little control, food can be concentrated.After the grain is collected, hundreds of households of resettlers who came earlier than the [-] households of owner-cultivated farmers in Dashun can complete the first year of reclamation.

It is relatively easy to cultivate here. After all, it is neither a swampy meadow like the Great Northern Wilderness, nor a dry desert with little rain, nor a tropical rainforest with overgrown vegetation. It is a standard temperate forest and grassland area, and it is quite convenient to cultivate.

I dare not say that it is as easy as North Carolina, where you can harvest corn by just sprinkling some corn, but it is definitely easier than the group of people squatting in the small plains of the river valley north of the Songliao watershed to reclaim wasteland.

Moreover, great voyages are great voyages, and colonization is colonization.Indeed, whether it was Dashun or Daming before, they lacked a little in terms of navigation skills.It is also true that in this era, the colonization and reclamation of the New World is preceded by great navigation, but at the beginning of Dashun, the lack of technology trees is navigation and navigation, and what is lacking is not the pre-reclamation agricultural technology.

(End of this chapter)