Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1414 The Last Step of the Yellow River Problem ([-])
Generally speaking, what Dashun did in matters such as water labor, salt reform, Xijiang shipping, and Wuyi tea porters can be regarded as the upper-middle level of the feudal dynasty.

But in the case of the Yellow River, it can indeed be regarded as the ceiling of the feudal dynasty, and even a bit of breaking the ceiling.After all, dynasties that are not feudal dynasties also raked the Yellow River, slaughtered Jiangxi and Fujian, used Hankou as experimental data for incendiary bombing, and suggested that foreign barbarians drop atomic bombs on their own cities.

But after all, that's the way it was in the feudal dynasty, even if it's a ceiling, that's all there is to it.

The imperial court couldn't afford that much money at all.

In other words, the taxes and oppression borne by the people of Dashun are not just figures on paper.

Regardless of whether it is Daming or Dashun, just looking at the paper data of the imperial court, the tax rate is indeed not high.But even in later generations, when the three-to-five withdrawals are coordinated, the nominal "regular tax" is not high.Not to mention the feudal dynasties, below the self-cultivating peasants, corvee, state taxation, local apportionment, dike repair, water transportation, high interest and usury, merchants control the right to issue money and engage in the exchange rate of copper coins and silver, incompetent official regulation can not calm the merchant class in the autumn harvest Seasons drive down food prices...blah, blah, these are burdens.

Theoretically, if there really is a "conservation law" in a "perfect state", it seems that the rich will contribute money and the poor will contribute to building embankments.

However, theory is theory and reality is reality.Wang Anshi's many reforms are good in theory, but not to mention the labor law, that is, the Young Crops Law, which will not be able to solve the small farmers' loan collateral, and the extremely high probability of bankruptcy of small farmers that cannot be repaid, and the state-owned capital refuses to go to the countryside. The problem of unwillingness to go to the countryside.The North Korean country is now implementing a variant of the young crop method, and Leng Shengsheng has developed a system of repaying grain for state-run usury.

The ruling foundation and organizational strength of feudal dynasties are difficult to solve.And spiritual power is even more impossible to appear in the feudal dynasty.

So in the end, regarding the Yellow River issue, even though Dashun's approach had pierced the ceiling of the feudal dynasty, the whole process was still completed by extreme oppression.

From a financial point of view, Dashun’s ability to solve this problem is due to the increase in tariffs and industrial and commercial taxes in Dashun, and also because Dashun “obtained” hundreds of millions of acres of plain farmland in North America. One hundred million mu is not an exaggerated rhetorical method. In fact, it is a little rhetorical to say one billion mu or two billion mu.

Only in this way can we suppress the radical faction of practical learning, and use a similar and muddy compromise method to achieve this without moving the interior, not making major internal changes, and equalizing the benevolent government.

The problem of the Yellow River is the problem of the Yellow River.

Migration in national space is a problem of national space.

In the First World War, Liu Yu's deployment in North America has won the nation a window of at least 50 years.

Relying on gold mines, if you are not in such a hurry, you can take your time, go there on your own, intervene slightly, gather naturally, etc., you can still get the population advantage after 50 years.

However, this is meaningless to those who are alive at this time.

Therefore, the problem of the Yellow River is difficult to solve, and it is not easy to solve it.

The key is to clear out the no-man's land from Kaifeng to Lijin, which is thousands of miles wide and more than ten miles wide.

After getting out of no-man's land, digging pits, digging rivers, and repairing dikes are difficult, but they can be fast or slow. If you don't follow Sui Yangdi's words to do big things, take your time and use the Daqing River or the Xiaoqing River. The river course is not a big problem.

Fortunately, it should be said that thanks to the Ming system and the imperial court's attitude of "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen", the oppression of the bottom-level people is not light at all.

This squeeze lowers the threshold expectations of the common people.

Liu Yu relied on the method of differentiation to forcibly relocate wealthy landlords to the Kanto, allowing the self-cultivating peasant class to make a transition, and allowing poor and lower peasants to obtain land production materials, which finally stabilized the situation.

If the previous grassroots had not been squeezed so hard, what Villandry saw at this time would not be the simple faces full of hope for the future.

In short, this matter is also good for the future.

If you really take the route of the so-called national space, rely on free migration, gold mines and so on.Seriously, Europe has only played private ownership for a few years?Have only been playing for a few years with private money making Deng Tong's method?How many years have you been playing a powerful feudal town?If we really follow this line instead of Liu Yu taking advantage of the situation, the west coast will be even more magical than the east coast, even more magical.

Tyrants, landlords, first comers, contradictions between natives and offenders, settlements, Wubao, trilogy, private ownership of gold mines...

You don't need to look at other places, just look at the things in Nanyang in history, and you can know a little bit.

For example, the world that sells rice will fight bloody battles with gold mine owners in order to monopolize food prices.

For example, the Bangka Tin Mine issued its own "internal consumption coupons" of low-quality lead money to ensure that every laborer could not earn money to go home. The feudal cyberpunk company style.

For example, when the Ming Dynasty was still alive, Macau organized a victory parade, and the Chinese celebrated the separation of the "motherland" from the Spanish union.

For example, use the Chinese ban of the Dutch to frighten compatriots, and if they dare not work and make trouble, they will report to the Netherlands to arrest them for hard labor.

Wait, wait, if Liu Yu didn't use the incident of the Yellow River to solve the North American problem incidentally, but laid the foundation and left it alone, then what happened on the West Coast in the future would be a hundred times more magical than what happened in Nanyang in history.

As for now, with the help of the Yellow River incident, Liu Yu finally intervened in the west coast of North America, where the imperial court was actually least interested, and established order here.

But the process was brutal after all.

Brother Wang Long and other owner farmers have moved here for five years.

And this group of hired workers for them has only moved here not long ago.

Don't look at the land that they feel hopeful and touch what seems to be within reach.

But when I was in Dashun before, I was squeezed hard enough, it was almost squeezed to the limit, and I was stuck on the edge of "one eye of the Mo Dao stone man".

Relying on the fact that Fusang has land, these people have almost no money to build the Yellow River and dig dams.There is enough food, sorghum rice, and pickled vegetables, but there is hardly any money.

Fortunately, relying on the vacated share of the Indian cotton cloth industry in West Africa, and the collapse and chaos of several social transformations in Mumbai, Surat, Dhaka and other places, the share of cotton cloth here in world trade has been transferred to a part of Shandong .

It is rare to dig embankments to repair Heteng Lake.

Women who spin and weave sell Lu brocade to West Africa.

With the help of the natural climate in the western Shandong area, it is suitable for growing cotton, and the simple railway transportation from Jinan to Jiaodong has been basically completed, as well as the increase in cotton freight in other areas.

Finally, the situation was stabilized. Although there were still complaints, they finally survived the initial difficult stage.

The excavation of the new channel of the Yellow River has officially begun, and the original adjustment lake in the Liangshanbo area has basically been completed, and everything is starting to go on the right track.

Of course, God gave me face. The weather has not been smooth in the past few years, but it is true that there have been no large-scale uncontrollable floods.

Coupled with the fact that the canal was abolished before, the so-called "the management of the Yellow River must first abolish the canal" is correct.After the abolition of the canal, the flood control capacity of the lower reaches of the Yellow River has also stepped up to a higher level.

Finally, there was no trouble, and the work had already started, and the Yellow River broke its embankment and broke its north.

The gold mine to the west of Dashishan finally announced the existence of Jinshan before the bubble company's mentality that it was really going to explode into a bubble endured.

In the five years before this, Liu Yu relied on the fundraising of the bubble company, and the money was still in the immigration. Finally, before the bubble was about to burst, he relied on Jinshan to stabilize the emotions of the shareholders and did not make it into the second. The financial operations of a John Law.

For the Dashun court, the five-year bubble operation also "wasted" a large amount of national debt interest.Relying on the advocacy of the bubble, many people chose to sell government bonds at a low price to obtain cash. Dashun repurchased a wave and changed hands, erasing a lot of interest.

But for the immigrants, the cash support that the Dashun court can give is not much.The main force is still relying on the power of private capital to complete the immigration through Dashun's control and planning.

At the end of the five-year period, the stage after the bubble is about to explode if no real money is given... In fact, to put it bluntly, the Dashun court sold the migrants in the no-man's land along the Yellow River into laborers, "pigs" young".It's just that the buyer is just an investor from Dashun, who wants to buy people to mine, build houses, open a brothel, etc.

It's just that this kind of selling is a bit clever.

Dashun was completed by adding the "variant Wangtian system" to the "Guanshanhai" on the west coast of North America.Although the payer is actually an investor of Dashun, it has changed hands with the laborers, so its essence is similar to the darkness of selling labor and selling "pigs" in history.

Historically, Old En called these sinful darkness "[hidden] coolie slavery".

The key lies in the word "concealment". If you don't look at the essence, you can't see what it is.

In this case, the Dashun court was the party that "sold people".

Even though the Dashun court didn't seem to get any money.

But in fact, if all the corvee work is counted as money according to the complete land acquisition compensation and labor law, in fact, four to five billion taels may not be enough to complete the Yellow River Project.

That is to say, the Dashun court did not get the silver in its hands, but in fact it did. It got the silver through the operation of "selling people", but the silver was "taken from the account" and not entered into. It's just spent out of the treasury.

Therefore, even if it is said that the operation of the Yellow River matter can be regarded as the "benevolent government" and "people-oriented" at the ceiling level of the feudal dynasty.But it is the ceiling of a feudal dynasty. In essence, the official Dashun court is participating in this [hidden] coolie slave trade, and relying on the money from selling people, it saves the cost of relocation and compensation from the treasury.

However, because of the previous squeeze, the conflict between people and land has begun to sharpen, and the population of the Central Plains has surged and other issues.In this trade of coolie slaves, the mentality of most migrants is full of hope and relatively acceptable.

The situation in North America is like this. The unique agricultural environment, coupled with the consciousness cultivated by the small-scale peasant economy for more than a thousand years, is really full of hope.

And this is why Liu Yu believes that Samuel Adams is the number one expert on rebellion in the Christian cultural circle at this time—don’t talk about concrete life, but abstract freedom; don’t talk about specific interests, talk about abstract concept.Abstract the enemy as a sinful concrete entity, but don't talk about the details, you must avoid the details, especially the discussion of the details.

Of course, this is not suitable for immigrants from Dashun because of cultural factors.

Even if it is the most religious Yellow Turban in history, great virtuous teachers must know something concrete, at least not too abstract.

For example, Shi Fushui.

Therefore, on the whole, the immigrants here are relatively stable at this time.

Not even just stability, but a state of mind full of vitality.

Even if it is said that this matter is essentially a kind of covert coolie slavery.

This has little to do with the so-called ethnicity. It is purely due to the fact that the agricultural technology and blast furnace iron technology here are too early, the end of the Little Ice Age and the arrival of North American crops to the east, the population explosion, the ecological collapse of North China, and the sharp decrease in per capita land. caused by conditions.

For example, in Hinton's description of the miserable countryside in the old days, because of the leaves of a tree, a group of people killed each other just to grab a handful of leaves.All the magical hell-like scenes have become commonplace.

Although this is not the case in Dashun for the time being, the life at the bottom is indeed not as good as that of doing hard work and growing potatoes here.

Villandry was not from Dashun, nor had he ever lived in the Central Plains.It was impossible for him to understand the emigration enthusiasm of the people of Dashun, nor could he comprehend this kind of immigrant wave that he found a little inconceivable from the material level.

After all, he was born in North America.

Matter determines consciousness. He has never understood since he was a child. Why do some people have no land?Isn't it true that as long as you are willing to work, you will have plenty of land?
It is even more incomprehensible why some people are willing to migrate here for the mere land of 3 Apenters.

Even if I grow up, I gradually understand some truths rationally.But it is still difficult for him to understand something with the consciousness engraved in his bones.

After asking some about the labor and suffering of the laborers here when they were in their hometown, Villandry asked again: "So, you said that when your wife was in her hometown, she was gathered to produce cotton cloth to subsidize her family. But, I don't see any cotton growing here. So what is your wife doing now?"

Although, according to Dashun's customs, it is quite impolite for outsiders to ask one's wife what she is doing now.

But since he smoked a good cigarette from others, the hired worker rubbing the dregs was not too upset, and replied: "Now this place is also raising sheep and growing flax."

"I heard that a flax combing machine was brought from the Raksha Kingdom, and it was used in Kanto before. My wife is now in the factory, learning how to weave flax and wool."

"I heard that there was no cotton before. Since we can spin cotton, it is not difficult to weave linen and wool."

"She weaves and I work. In the future I will plow and she will weave. There will be good days in the future."

Villandry nodded, becoming more and more incomprehensible about this matter.

France is a country with strong mercantilism.

Not to mention Britain in history, the so-called steam engine brought by Margarni's visit to China was purely based on the outline of an enlightened nation that led human progress free of charge without knowing the British policy at all.

If you bring technology out, you will be killed if you grab it.Even before the wool was shipped out privately, it was the first time that the hands were chopped off, and the second time it was directly hung on a cross to dry.

Samuel Slater, the "father of the Industrial Revolution" in the United States, learned the technology abruptly by relying on his brain, disguised himself and found someone to forge the identity of the farmer, and then brought the hydraulic textile technology to North America.Including the food habits in some areas of the United States, mutton was rarely seen, and it also had a great historical relationship with the mercantilist policy of the woolen industry.

Of course, the color of mercantilism throughout Europe was very strong at this time.

The strong color of mercantilism means that the meaning of the existence of the colony is a pure dumping ground.

However, from what these people said, it seemed that Dashun's policy in North America was to completely encourage industrial development without setting many restrictions.

At least, it seems that in the future this place will not only make wine, but also engage in textile industry.

Although cotton cannot be grown here.

But the Dashun court began to encourage sheep raising and flax planting here.

This also made Villandry, a Frenchman, feel quite incredible.

One is, what's the point of developing a colony if its industries are self-sufficient?

The other is that he feels that the self-sufficiency of the colony will not promote the tendency of the colony to separate?
Still, if that's not taken into account, then it's clearly a good thing.

Judging from the experience of wine, if Dashun also starts to engage in the woolen and linen industry here, then the price of textiles in North America will also drop rapidly.

The fur and ginseng trade with the Indians, the first is wine, and the second is textiles.

In this era when Dashun's cotton cloth began to sell well in Europe and became notorious as mourning cloth in West Africa, the level of Dashun's textile industry is absolutely trustworthy.

Even now, it seems the industry is just getting started.But apparently, with the precedent for the trade on the Atlantic coast, Villandry is sure that his company will soon not need to buy blankets from mainland France.

In fact, the reason why he couldn’t understand it was consistent with the Dashun School’s evaluation of the British policy that regarded primitive accumulation as an end rather than a means.

For Dashun, the North American market is not even considered a weak point.

As for the immigration policy of North America, since it chooses this modern standard colonial technique, its purpose is to bypass the merger and development of the natural economy and directly implement the capitalist system in one step.

What Dashun hopes is to move a large number of the "surplus" population inside to North America.This in itself is Dashun's attitude towards North America, a relief valve, not a colony under the mercantilist policy.

Although it sounds counter-intuitive.

But in fact, the policy makers of Dashun believe that “the larger the population of Fusang, the more resettlement is needed; on the contrary, the smaller the population of Fusang, the less resettlement is needed”.

From the perspective of policy makers, what Fusang will become in the future is not of concern.

After the gold and silver are dug out, how can the number of immigrants be increased and how come.

As for what will happen in the future, whether they will be separated, whether they will follow Zhao Tuo's story, etc.

From Dashun's point of view, it doesn't matter.

The people in Dashun took history as a mirror and were very sober.Centrifugation is inevitable. When the world is in chaos in the future, it is designated here that something will happen.

That's why it was named "Xin Yizhou" in a "bad way".

The purpose of immigration, from the very beginning, was not to expand the so-called blood relationship, but to complete the transformation of Dashun and the core area of ​​the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.

That's it.

This kind of transformation does not lack the market or primitive accumulation, but what is lacking is a pressure relief valve.

It is counter-intuitive to want to relieve pressure quickly - the faster North America develops, the more stable the capitalist system, the more developed the industry, and the larger the population, the stronger the ability of immigrants to relieve pressure.rather than the other way around.

(End of this chapter)