Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1421 It's over
These two poems don't seem to have much deep meaning when read. After all, when it comes to temperament and adapting to the situation, it is really not as good as the pattern of life and death.

After reading it, Liu Yu still didn't mention the Yellow River, but continued to ask with a smile: "I heard that you went north from the right side of the river and passed through Yangzhou. You wrote a lot of poems about the past? Everyone says that Yangzhou has a thousand years of splendor. , destroyed because of me..."

Zhao Yi was startled, and hurriedly said: "To tell the truth, I was sent down to Yangzhou, and I just paid homage to the ancestral hall of the Shi Ge Department..."

Some things are finally over.

Although some historical issues left over from before the founding of the People’s Republic of China are not completely qualitative now, they still follow the old path after all.

So there was no corpse in the tomb with clothes and hats, but now there are also imperial poems on steles.

The alliance with the captives and the suppression of the bandits is history, and Dashun still needs loyal ministers.

A steam whistle in the distance disrupted the somewhat embarrassing scene at this time. Even though the sound of the whistle was no longer shocking, and even everyone had become accustomed to it, Liu Yu still turned his head and cast it towards the distant place. place.

There are no primitive steam locomotives to be seen there, but the sound of whining flutes can be heard, which is a bit harsh.

It was the railway from Jiaozhou Bay to Jinan Prefecture. The people who finished the road were now fighting on the new embankment of the Yellow River and the Daqing River.And the original train, which continuously transports sorghum from Northeast China, rice from North Korea, and wheat from Ezo, supports the stomachs of engineering labor and also supports the bottom line of not being out of the Cyclops.

Jiaodong Peninsula has been brought into the new system by Liu Yu. Although the old economic foundation has not been completely disintegrated, it is clear that Jiaodong Peninsula can bear the pain of transformation.

Looking back at the new embankment of the Daqing River that is being built, the Yellow River will follow the course of the Daqing River in the future, and the progress of the entire project is very optimistic.

It seems that if there is no accident, the Yellow River Hebei War in history will lead to problems such as the degradation of cultivated land, ecological collapse, and saline-alkali deserts that will affect tens of millions of people in the next few decades, and even last for centuries. happened.

Now, the Yellow River issue is really a "small issue".

Anyone can dig a river.

The previous problems have been solved one by one.

However, just as Liu Yu said to the emperor at the beginning, the flickering of the emperor's "Westernization Movement" idea - to strengthen the imperial rule with technology and stabilize the country - has gradually become a reality.

A natural moat on the Yellow River, a natural moat on the Huaihe River, and a natural moat on the Yangtze River.

The north-south railway from Beijing to Hankou, along with the mining of the Fusang gold mine, the completion of the Jiaoji Railway, and the advancement of steam locomotives, a large amount of gold and silver began to be optimistic about this plan.

The "flicker" of vertical and horizontal division, and the inability to cross provincial boundaries even if there are civil uprisings, has actually become a reality step by step.

Capital needs logistics and transportation conditions.

As Lao Ma once commented on the Western Gold Rush, he said it was more important than the February Revolution in France.

The most important thing that is happening in Dashun at this moment seems so small, but it is incomparably huge.

The trial-produced small steamer of the Academy of Sciences has been successful.

The traffic from Songsu to Wuhan and even further up has actually been completely opened up.

Just as Hume commented on Chinese goods in history, he said that thanks to the sea, it was a natural tariff, which finally prevented Chinese goods from flooding Europe.

And now, the transportation from the pioneering areas to the hinterland of China and the heartland area of ​​the thoroughfare of nine provinces has also been opened up.

The news about the little steamer can only be regarded as a trivial matter at this time. At least from the perspective of Dashun's mainstream thinking, since he has seen the steam locomotive, the little steamer is just a new gadget, which seems to be nothing.

But Liu Yu knows that this is the major event that will make headlines this year, even if the emperor is dead now, this should be the number one event.

The tentacles of capitalism can finally reach inland.

Perhaps, Dashun's current centralization has not yet collapsed, and it can still rely on its own organizational capabilities, control over the local area, rely on trade bans, increase sub-taxes, etc., to maintain the small peasant economy in the interior and delay its collapse.

But Liu Yu is very clear that sooner or later Europe will be sucked dry, and the European bourgeoisie will soon lead the revolution, because if it continues, the European economy will soon be unable to sustain it.

In the Academy of Sciences, the mule spinning machine that Liu Yu never forgets has also been completed, but it has not yet been mass-produced.

The "Ren Du Ermai" of the cotton textile industry is not a steam engine, nor even a large loom in Dashun, but a mule spinning machine.

Once the two channels of Ren and Du are opened up, the cotton textile industry in Dashun will undergo a qualitative change.

The huge population, strong handicraft industry base, and the popularity of iron-wheel looms for household use made looms not a decisive factor in Dashun's industrial revolution.

The mule spinning machine is the big killer to completely disintegrate the old era.Cooperating with the small steamer and the Yangtze River channel bestowed by Haotian God, real chaos will soon occur.

Not just in Dashun, but in the whole world.

At that time, even if the emperor still wants to keep the small peasant economy in the interior from being impacted, the emerging classes in the advanced areas will face the chaos of the world, the revolution in Europe, the awakening of India, and the collapse of the external market. Will they agree?
It's hard to say what Liu Yu's mood is at this time.

He himself carefully weaved a perfect noose for Dashun, and as time passed, the noose became tighter and tighter.

More than 70% of industrial products in the Songsu area are sold to external markets.

Dashun's cotton yarn was used in the textile industry in Songsu Pioneering Area. At this time, more than 80% of it was rubbed by Indian hands.The self-sufficient, self-spinning and self-weaving small-scale peasant economy is not considered here, because there is no way to count it.

World trade, in view of the "natural tariff" effect of the sea at this time, basically relies on the potential energy generated by the price revolution accumulated in Europe for more than [-] years.

It's not that Dashun's labor efficiency is not high enough, but how high is it? Under the current level of logistics and transportation, it can span tens of thousands of miles across the ocean, and it can also guarantee the "potential energy" to allow the flow of trade goods?
This is not the future, where a ship can casually load tens of thousands of tons of cargo.Even in the history of Britain, relying on steamers and steam engines, it still has to wait until the opening of the Suez Canal to fully gain the advantages of textiles.

Now, the effect of the price revolution in Europe is disintegrating step by step.

The development of North America has increased the total amount of commodities in the world, and the value of silver has been reappreciated step by step.

Dashun's trade is like gluttony, except for the ginseng trade deliberately set aside by Liu Yu, there is almost nothing that can get silver in Dashun to flow out.

The gold and silver mines in North America also allowed Dashun to start the currency reform. Although the price revolution was not too obvious because the total amount was too large, Dashun's prices were steadily increasing, while European prices were steadily falling, measured in silver.

In India, Dashun is steadily encroaching on India day by day.

Relying on Dashun’s experience in water control and canals, and Dashun’s understanding of canals, Dashun’s rule in India is not a complete robbery, but dredging the traffic in India—this is not a benevolent government with good intentions, but because Dashun Shun's capital needs more convenient transportation to transport raw materials from India.

Dhaka, Surat, Mumbai and other traditional cotton textile industry centers in India have undergone tragic transformation under the control of Dashun.

Weavers either die or turn to spinning.

For India, it is not just the European market that has been taken away by Dashun.

The Southeast Asian market opened up by the Dutch, the Persian market and the East African market that India has always had, were all captured by Dashun's navy.India's weaving industry is already too late.

And the spinning industry... With the input of Dashun capital, it began to develop vigorously.

For Dashun, it is not just textile factories in Songsu and other pioneering areas that need Indian cotton yarn.Even ordinary small farmers, as long as the transportation is convenient, they are more willing to buy cotton yarn for weaving, because it is cheaper than rubbing cotton yarn by themselves.

These scenes of prosperity that seem to be all right are actually what Liu Yu said he tied the noose for Dashun himself.

And the knot of this noose is the mule spinning machine.

Dashun's steam engine industry did not rely on the textile industry to develop, but took another path.

The textile industry has not yet used steam engines on a large scale, but steam engines are not new in Dashun.

The salt wells in southern Sichuan, the coal mines in Beijing, the glass industry in Songsu, the railways for transportation, the blast furnace fans for blowing, the power of wrought iron... These are the supports for the development of Dashun's steam engine industry.

The mule spinning machine can be directly and seamlessly connected to the steam engine—it doesn’t even need a steam engine, and the hydraulic power is the same. The steam engine is steamed buns, rice, steamed buns, and Hanamaki, not hands.

Once spread, it will be very fast.

As for Dashun, it can be determined that it is powerless to interfere with Europe.

It’s not that you can’t beat it, if you play in Dashun, even in India or East Africa, Dashun can beat Europe to shit.

However, if it is in Europe, with Dashun's current delivery capabilities, the people who go there will be sung by the Marseillaise, and the shit will be beaten.

There is no technical difference between the two sides in terms of ordnance.

Historically, Britain had India as a springboard, and Dashun could never use West Africa as a springboard.

The bourgeoisie in Europe has begun to wake up, and if they are sucked by Dashun for a few more years, they will choose patriotism sooner or later.Burning cotton cloth, smashing porcelain, it will happen soon.

In India, more and more people are involved in world trade, growing cotton, rubbing cotton cloth, and providing primary processing of various raw materials for Dashun.

Today, the emerging classes in Dashun are really full of fire and flowers blooming like brocade.

Soon, however, the total collapse of the old system of world trade will begin.

At that time.

Or, commit suicide.Because now the emerging class eats well and eats well, all of which come from overseas markets, not only eating well, but also eating well.

Or, eat small farmers and take the domestic market.

This is not something that the emperor can change with a word, nor can it be solved by the emperor's wisdom and martial arts. This is the general trend of history.

All Liu Yu's methods have been exhausted.In the future, he knew in his heart that he couldn't solve anything.

Even, he is very clear that everything he does now doesn't matter.

Including, repairing the Yellow River.

Things have come to this point, anyone can fix it.

Even a person who was born as the number one scholar in the imperial examination can do this.

(End of this chapter)