Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1427 The game of death

But Dashun has come to this point, in fact, he can't even do "not moving" or "not tossing".

Because, what does it mean to be motionless and not toss?
Go back?

That's not called being motionless, and it's not called not tossing, it's called reaction.

Reaction is also movement.

And keep the status quo?
But the world is constantly changing.

To maintain the status quo, the meaning of Dashun at this time is "the power of the emerging class, growing day by day, growing every day."

Because of the current situation, there is still a long way to go to specifically limit the development of Dashun's productivity.

Maintaining the status quo is tantamount to allowing the emerging classes in Dashun to continue to develop.

You are not moving.

But your internal organs are still moving.

To move is to move.

This is the so-called inability to even move or toss.

If you want Dashun to be motionless and not tossing in the true sense, unless you go back in time and go back to the time before you went to Nanyang.

From that moment until the end of the First World War, during that time, if Dashun chose to retreat reactionarily, he might still be able to retreat.

But the First World War has already been fought, and there is no way to retreat.

Because... Compared with the original self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, the capitalist system in the advanced areas is extremely fragile.

In the era of self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, unless there is a big silver shortage like the Thirty Years War, things in Europe are unlikely to affect the empire.

Even in countries that are close at hand, such as Japan, North Korea, and Vietnam, major internal incidents basically did not affect the stable operation of the empire based on the small-scale peasant economy.

Of course, in fact, when Ming completed the silver currency taxation reform, the empire was already linked to the world, and it was inseparable.

However, overall, it is stable.

Dashun's current pioneer areas include Songsu, Shandong, Jiaoliao, Kanto, and Nanyang. Compared with the small-scale peasant economy in the past, these places are vulnerable.

If there is a problem with soybeans in Kanto, it will directly affect the cotton fields in northern Jiangsu and the tobacco in Shandong.

If there is a problem in the situation in Europe, it will directly affect the various workshops, workshops, factories and handicrafts in Songsu.

Something happened in Nanyang, which may directly lead to food shortage in Gyeonggi.

There are some problems with sorghum planting in the Northeast, wheat plantations in Ezo, and rice export in North Korea, which may directly lead to a major uprising in the central Shandong area of ​​Jiaodong.

This kind of vulnerability is not only reflected in those capitalists, factory owners, plantation owners, cargo ship owners and others.

If it's just that they're fragile, it's not a problem at all.

It is more reflected in the tens of thousands of laborers who were forcibly pulled into it by Liu Yu.

Take the "fake men farming and women weaving" in Nantong area as an example. This kind of formal men farming and women weaving is not a real man farming and women weaving.

The male plows and grows cash crops.

Girl weaving is a contract buyer who sends Indian cotton yarn, which is woven into cloth by the iron wheel looms specialized in their cottage industry, and then sold.

Cash crops are turned into money, and the weaving process of labor is also changed into money.

Then use currency to buy all the basic survival guarantees needed for basic necessities of life.

This is not the same thing as those men farming and weaving, and women weaving and weaving for the whole family, and it is not the same stability at all.

Once there is a problem with the trade system built by Liu Yu with the world market as the core, it will directly affect the lives of tens of millions of people.

Decades ago, Liu Yu just changed the foreign trade center from Guangdong to Songsu, which directly caused the unemployment of tens of millions of people, and the unemployment of the Wuling porters in Xijiang Shipping and the Guangdong Embroidery Women Workers University.

And now, more than hundreds of thousands are involved?
Every day that time goes forward, thousands of people may be added; every year that goes forward, hundreds of thousands may be involved.

What's even more frightening is that Liu Yu has greatly improved Dashun's financial revenue.

Dashun's money-spending hands and feet are getting bigger and bigger, and the stalls are getting bigger and bigger.

And this money is not realized by equalizing land, limiting land, equalizing taxes, canceling preferential treatment and exemption, etc.

Rather, it is basically supported by this new system.

Dashun had already been tied up by Liu Yu, so he couldn't move forward or retreat.

Even if you want to go backwards, or even crazier, you can go backwards by killing Yingye...

So, where does the money for raising soldiers come from?

How could Dashun's old financial system support so many field troops now?

Furthermore, the New School is developing rapidly, and the hundreds of thousands of New School members are also bound to the development of world trade and industry and commerce.

Really go back, what do these people rely on for food?
These people's rebellions are different from ordinary peasant uprisings. These people have mastered the advanced productive forces at this time.

Although, at this time, compared with the imperial examination system, these people are still considered "marginal people", and they cannot even be regarded as "scholars".

But, well, fame is fame, profit is profit.

Although unknown now, but in the past few years of external expansion, they have received dividends, and the benefits are still in their hands.

That is to say, although the current status is not embarrassing or embarrassing, but you can earn money, have something to do, and you can also be an official in the colonies and pioneering areas.

Although the policies of the Dashun imperial court did not completely favor them, or even treated them very badly, making them look like "concubines", which were different from "regular wives" like the imperial examinations.

However, if you make do with it, how can you get away with it?
But if they do the opposite, not only will they lose their "status", but they will lose their real benefits.

Then it can only be reversed.

Therefore, to act in reverse, after Liu Yu put on the cloak of feudalism and strengthened imperial power, completed a series of reforms, and fought the First World War, to act in reverse is to die.

So, don't move in reverse.

Do not move.

In other words, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, okay?
Even if we don’t consider that the power of the emerging class is growing every day, the current expansion of the external market has not yet reached the stage where it will hinder the development of productivity, but will promote the development of productivity.

These macro changes are not considered at all.

Then, let's consider some of the most basic cruxes, land annexation, Xiao Guicao can't do it.

With the development of trade with Europe, the excavation of Fusang gold and silver mines, and the monopoly of trade rights in India and Persia, a large amount of silver flows into Dashun every year.

This provided conditions for Dashun to complete the currency reform.

This kind of currency reform does not mean the reform of abolishing the currency and changing the yuan.

Instead, it is necessary to directly solve the situation that the relationship between copper coins and silver is not the relationship between auxiliary currencies, but the relationship between domestic currency and foreign currency.

Moreover, Dashun will definitely do this matter.

Because even if you don't consider the new school.

Counting only those orthodox Confucian bureaucrats who came from the imperial examinations, they all realized the mess between copper coins and silver, and believed that this was one of the reasons for the poverty of the people.

And once the currency reform is completed, the so-called "Xiao Gui Cao Sui" will not be able to follow at all.

Because Liu Yu's current monetary policy actually hides extremely strong financial control.

It's a bit like "forced foreign exchange settlement".

Dashun itself does not produce gold and silver.

For foreign trade, it is the issuing bank of Dashun currency.

Foreign trade is also controlled.

The controlled foreign trade has allowed a large amount of silver to enter the treasury and issue banknotes of equal value.

And these banknotes are basically only circulated in the first-developed areas.If you want to trade domestically, you still have to settle it in silver.

Of course, small amounts can be changed at will.

If the amount is a little larger, you have to make it clear what the money is for.

Make sure you don't go inland to buy land as much as possible.

Banknotes have a scope of circulation, and exchange banks only exist in the first-developed areas. It is not easy to take banknotes to places far away from the first-developed areas to carry out land mergers.

Although, there will definitely be many loopholes, and loopholes can definitely be exploited.

But after all, it is troublesome, but taking advantage of loopholes to find loopholes is also a cost in itself.

In addition, after the First World War, the rate of return on railway construction, India, Fuso, and industrial development is very high for the time being, far from the stage of marginal benefits. At this time, the rate of return on investment is also higher than that of buying land and collecting rent.

Therefore, a large amount of money is either in the field of investment, or in the field of commercial transportation, or surrendered to colonies or newly colonized areas.

At least, for the time being.

And once Dashun completes the currency reform...

So, people in the Songsu area can't afford to go to Henan to buy land with money?

Originally, there were restrictions on copper coins, silver, paper notes, redemption, review, etc.

After the currency reform is completed, financial supervision is equivalent to throwing it away, and money flows around, and it is common throughout the country.

Not to mention the benefits.

Just talk about the bad.

The speed of this land annexation can't take off?

With so much silver flowing in every year, why not just run to the land?

Industrial development has limits.And the speed of accumulation is several times faster than before.

According to the previous rate of accumulation, the dynasty cycle may take two to three hundred years.

But with the current accumulation speed and the influx of silver, the speed of land annexation has taken off directly.

In the past, as a businessman, it was difficult to save tens of thousands of taels of silver.

It is even more difficult to get from 3 taels to 5 taels or [-] taels.

Now, catch up with the wind, catch up with the opportunity, ten thousand taels of silver, and increase the value to three to fifty thousand taels, don't be too fast.

More money.

Moreover, it can even be said that the first-developed areas will continue to do so, and wait for the Fuso gold and silver to be dug up. The first-developed areas will almost own 60% of the currency of the entire Dashun, or even higher.

To put it bluntly, waiting for the gold and silver in Fusang to be dug up is almost the same. With the previous low land price driven by Dashun’s policy of paying taxes per mu and labor labor, the gold and silver gathered in the Songsu area can theoretically buy half of the land. Dashun's cultivated land.

At that time, there will be a lot of things.

Such things as land purchases lead to soaring land prices, soaring land prices lead to land becoming an investment future, more capital enters land sales, more capital enters land sales and continues to drive up land prices... and the like will definitely emerge in endlessly.

These are problems that Dashun has never faced before.

Xiao Gui Cao Sui... The premise of Xiao Gui Cao Sui is the economic foundation and material conditions of the society. In 50 or 100 years, there will be little change.

But now, let alone other changes, let’s talk about the inflow of tens of millions of taels of silver a year, and the mining of Fusang Jinshan and Yinshan. Such a huge change, let alone 50 or 100 years, may change drastically in ten or twenty years.

How can this follow?
At that time, only the currency reform has been completed. If the bureaucratic group and the emperor in Dashun have any brains, they should prepare policies such as "restricting land".

And once this kind of policy is implemented, it will really bring out "big fun".

This is only a problem caused by the currency reform; and the currency reform is one of the reforms that Dashun has completed or is about to complete in recent years; and every reform, Liu Yu has almost planted similar bombs.

Therefore, even if it is the continuation of Xiao Guicao's casual policy, something will happen and it will end.

The reaction is going to explode.

If you don't move, you will explode.

So, what about moving forward?
Going forward, not to mention, the explosion is even more powerful.

Because, go further... If this kind of forward refers to "progress in the sense of bourgeois reform".

Then, the problem of the disintegration of the small peasant economy can be solved by Dashun's bird-like organizational skills?

Don’t let the small farmers disintegrate, and continue to follow Liu Yu’s model of relying on external accumulation to complete industrial development and relying on external markets to complete the trade cycle, and will inevitably encounter Liu Yu’s buried "European bourgeois revolution, the awakening of India, and the application of spinning machines lead to The revolutionary transmission caused by a series of problems such as the instant collapse of the Indian economy, the great uprising, and the collapse of the external market.

So go ahead, or die.

Moreover, the revolutionary conduction problem of the collapse of the external market caused by the awakening of Europe and India is only one possibility to be solved, and there are many possibilities to be solved.

To step back is to die.

Immobility is death.

Go forward or die.

No matter how you look at it, for the Dashun Dynasty, this situation set by Liu Yu is a death situation.

Therefore, Liu Yu, who had already decided not to manage the Yellow River course, gave up the credit to others, and even prepared to run away, decided to return to the capital.

The reason, of course, is a heart of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Such a great contribution is left to the next generation of assistants or successors selected by the emperor.

And actually...

It is ready to run away.

It is also the last time to chat with the emperor, prince, and princes.

Let's see if anyone among them has the possibility to solve this mortal situation, at least with some ideas; and whoever is self-righteous, thinking that he is saving the Dashun Dynasty, is actually preparing to accelerate the demise of Dashun.

After all, in theory, the most brilliant feudal ruler still has a theoretical possibility to solve this situation.

(End of this chapter)