Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1434 "Space Opera"

From another technical point of view, there are actually two ways of thinking in theory.

One is immigration, using the 70 billion acres of land in the Americas and Australia to ease the pain of being crushed.

The other is to equalize the land and guarantee that the land cannot have the property of financial assets for a long time.

However, it seems that these are two ways of thinking.

Actually, it's the same thing.

Only those who can equalize the land can have the ability to emigrate several million a year, but if there is less emigration, the problem cannot be solved at all.

Conversely, several million immigrants a year, the financial resources, material resources, and grass-roots control power required can only be obtained by equalizing the land.

Now, here's the reality.

In North America, there are still 70 billion acres of land.

However, the Pacific Ocean is so vast, and it takes at least six months to go there, eat and drink in the middle, supply and logistics, reclamation waiting to be recovered, sailors, sailors, canvas and wood...the cost of these things is at least 100 taels of silver per person, at least at least.

According to the large-scale immigration of millions of people a year to relieve the pressure, that is to say, the annual expenditure on immigration is hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

Unequal land, remove the landlord as the middleman to make the difference, where can I get this hundreds of millions of taels of silver?
Therefore, in this reality, these two ideas are actually the same thing.

As for Dashun’s industrialization problem, it’s still the same sentence. In the current situation, the biggest difficulty is not capital, not currency, not market, not technology, not labor force, not raw materials, these are all there.

The biggest difficulty is still the ideal society and obsession of the first private ownership, and the struggle and resistance of the small peasant economy that does not want to be crushed.

This is why Liu Yu said that if the bourgeoisie in Dashun wants to succeed, they must at least have the ability to: come to 100, kill 100; come to 1000 million, kill 1000 million; come to [-] million, kill [-] million.

Obviously, this is unrealistic.

This is the same as "the so-called theoretically correct bullshit" when the missionaries in the Ming Dynasty said that 2 Spanish regular troops could destroy the Ming Dynasty—you could support [-] people in the transatlantic and Pacific expeditions Okay, you can go directly to the moon, what are you doing in Daming?

Since this is nonsense, then we have to change our thinking.

That's what Liu Yu said, give me a bun, don't starve to death, don't revolt, and carry it until a hundred tables are full of food.

On the surface, the emperor also thought this way.

But in fact, based on Liu Yu's understanding of the emperor, the system of mutual checks and balances that Dashun established at the beginning, and even the emperor's "different internal and external" balancing ideas during the reform process over the years...

If the emperor is not trying to test something on purpose, but if he is a dying man, his words are sincere.

Then, Liu Yu can roughly guess the emperor's train of thought.

The premise of this and the idea is that "equal land" and "limited land" in Dashun, or in the ideal society concept of some literati, are themselves a kind of political correctness.

That is to say, in terms of "righteousness", the imperial court had the righteousness of the act of "equalizing the land".

There is righteousness.

Things can be done.

The difference between the two is huge.

Now, the emperor is convinced that in terms of ability, he cannot equalize the fields.

If it is done, maybe Wang Mang will reform the system and the world will be in chaos.Moreover, it is very likely to completely collapse and die suddenly.

Therefore, under Liu Yu's so-called thinking of "one person sends out a bun, and lasts until a hundred tables are finished", the emperor's thoughts can be roughly known.

The previous dynasty lasted for more than 200 years.

The emperor felt that according to this cycle, if everything remained the same and the government continued as usual, plus many reforms, coastal industrial and commercial taxation, etc., it seemed possible that Dashun would continue the old rule internally and last for 276 years.

It has been more than a hundred years since Dashun started from Xi'an.

Theoretically, the old set can last for another hundred years.

In other words, if there is no trouble from the beginning, then even Dashun can last for 276 years, and now there is at least a hundred years of Guozuo.

The poisonous wine that the emperor thought meant that the toss had already begun. The development of industry and commerce was too fast, the speed of capital accumulation was too fast, and the speed of mergers would also soar after the currency reform.

If it is not resolved, then there may be only a few decades left for the more than a hundred years of Guozuo-according to the traditional thinking of mergers and reincarnation.

But now, there are still other extensions of ideas inside and outside, or variant extensions of the two official selection systems of checks and balances that started from the founding of Dashun, and closed the interior.

The internal system is still operating according to the old system. In theory, everything is business as usual, plus the cloth, food, silver and officer corps provided by the first-developed areas, can it last until 276 years?
Now that it is said, in Liu Yu's view, what the emperor had in his head was a distorted thinking of the Westernization Movement, which was technical.

Then, the emperor's so-called antidote is what the emperor called "Wang Xieyan".

That is, the fertilizers, steam pumps, etc. that he used in his plowing field in Xiyuan.

Then, if Dashun continues the old thinking internally, it can last until 276 years, then there are still more than a hundred years, can this antidote be researched?
Before the "antidote" is researched—at least, from the emperor's purely technical point of view, this thing is the antidote—the development of the first-mover area can also provide taxation, gold and silver, supplies, and troops. It is also convenient for suppression.

If so, there is another problem involved.

That is to say, in terms of "righteousness", the traditional imperial court has the righteousness of the act of "equalizing the land".

Even in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when I was a junior, some people gave memorials about capping and equalizing fields, but they just didn't do it, and they had to say that it was "in line with the righteous way" instead of being arrested and shot for "banditry".

Whether to do it or not is one thing.

Whether this matter is "righteous" or "politically correct" is another matter.

Wanting to do it, but not being able to do it, is another matter.

In the future, if the antidote is researched.

That is to say, what the emperor believed was that chemical fertilizers were produced in batches, cheap ironware was affordable for every family, water pumps could be quickly spread to every river, and the Yellow River diversion project was completely completed, etc.

At that time, according to the inherent cycle internally, it is almost time for reincarnation.

At that time, can the imperial court uphold the righteousness of "equal land" and carry out internal reforms such as equalizing land, limiting land, or buying and selling, and achieving the state of "only farmers have land" of the Confucian retrospective school, and continue for another 276 years?
At the same time, after completing the equalization of land, do a backhanded wave, relying on the power of small farmers, to complete the official operation of industries in the pioneering areas, and to restore the idealized social model of "Zhou Li"?
In the eyes of the emperor, reforms such as land equalization are now being carried out, and the power is insufficient and it is easy to die suddenly.

Moreover, even if there is no sudden death, what will happen in the future?
The land system of the Tang Dynasty collapsed within a few years.I'm afraid that new problems will arise again.

Therefore, even if the reform of land equalization, land restriction, or redemption can be completed, it will not be of great significance to the Dashun Dynasty.

And when the inside is really unable to hold on, when the cycle of reincarnation is about to come, a wave of changes can be made, at the very least, it can continue for a while.

Didn’t the land equalization system in the Tang Dynasty last until the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty?

same.

Just change it first, basically the ending of violent death.

In the future, the pioneering areas will continue to develop.

At that time, relying on the funds, taxation, supplies, food, cloth, arms, and talent pool of newcomers in the first-developing areas, theoretically, there will be the power to complete the reform of equal farmland and limited land.

Once the equalization of land and land restriction is completed, the imperial examination system will be reformed instead of abolished—the imperial examination system will be retained, but the content of the imperial examination will be reformed, and practical learning will be added as an examination item.

First use the starting area to complete the internal land equalization.

Then, with the help of Juntian's popular aspirations, he backhandedly suppressed the merchant class in the pre-developed areas.Once internal stability is achieved, the industry in the first-developed areas will be brought back to the government.

At that time, the yield per mu will be [-] catties instead of [-] catties; there will be cheap iron; there will be convenient transportation; there will be steam pumping for irrigation to preserve water and drought...

Dashun, does it also have the luck of four hundred for Han Xing and eight hundred for Zhou Cun?

As far as the emperor is concerned, he still knows the cycle of two to three hundred years, and he doesn't expect it to last forever.

As far as the emperor is concerned, as long as he has not died, he must hold on to power.

But after dying, he still hoped that the dynasty and descendants would continue.

Now, the emperor has a firm grip on power.

Moreover, if there is no tossing around, Dashun is basically the country's luck in the past two hundred years, and it may even be lower because the population is exploding too fast.

Then, since this is the case, it is very easy to understand why the emperor came up with such an idea with the help of those past experiences and traditions like nightmares.

Although, this can be regarded as a kind of thinking of "after my death, the flood will be overwhelming".

Anyway, as long as I don't die, I will firmly grasp the imperial power.

And if I die, it may explode after such a toss, but it is also possible that such a toss will have luck of four hundred for Han and eight hundred for Zhou.

So, why not make a fuss?
It sounds rough, theoretically possible.

But this viable foundation, or core, is still the thinking of the old age.

It is still the way of thinking under the dominance of the small peasant economy.

It can even be said that it is still a standard way of thinking of feudal dynasties.

Nothing more than:

In the emperor's mind, water conservancy projects and roller irrigation were replaced by steam pumps that he had seen.

In the emperor's mind, the Grand Canal and water transport ships were replaced by railways and sea transport that he had seen.

In the emperor's mind, the government-run weaving bureau was replaced by his imaginary fertilizer factory and steel factory.

In the emperor's mind, the imperial examination system and stereotyped essays were replaced by examinations of subjects with practical knowledge.

The emperor has not seen the new era.

The emperor only saw railways, steam engines, and saltpeter fertilizers, these are some products in the new era.

But this does not mean that he will be able to see what the new era looks like.

At least, in the emperor's mind, the concept of "workers" does not exist, and it is completely impossible to understand that one day in the future, workers will be the force leading the change of the times.

The emperor used all the old things, coupled with "Westernization Technology", to fantasize about the new era in his mind.

In essence, this is not the same as space operas, cold weapon robots in future world fantasy, extreme development of productivity and flying out of the solar system, private ownership and family still exist, human beings are fighting in the galaxy, and there is still such thing as imperial system. many.

It's just that some imaginary technologies have been added to the existing social relations and social consciousness.

Therefore, the emperor thought it was feasible.

And Liu Yu has not only seen technologies such as chemical fertilizers and steam engines.Know more about the future.

Therefore, Liu Yu is sure that it is not feasible.

Because the emperor forgot to consider one thing: new productive forces will bring new production relations, social consciousness, new contradictions, and new classes.

The emperor just added a bit of technological fantasy to Dashun on the original logic of the feudal dynasty of Dashun.

To put it romantically, the idea of ​​the old emperor can be regarded as steampunk and space opera with Dashun's characteristics.

It’s just that technology exists as the “magic” of Victorian Steampunk Cree—an abstract force that transcends the categories of productivity, production relations, and class.

In this fantasy, magic is just magic and will not lead to changes in ideology, social relations, or production relations.

Like the advanced technology in space opera, it is only an abstract force detached from society, and it will not lead to changes in ideology, social relations, and production relations.

It seems that the times are frozen in the present, only the progress of technology, but not about the person, that is, the change of social relations in the sum of all social relations of this person.

In fact, it is also a special kind of thinking of the "Westernization Movement".

(End of this chapter)