Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1458 The Final Farce ([-])

At the very beginning of the conversation, Li Yan didn't know what Liu Yu meant.

He thought it was just an "academic" question.

Just talking about free trade.

In fact, one of the reasons that led him to deliberately take off the blindfold and put on glasses was that before the outbreak of World War I, Liu Yu chose to go to Shandong to repair the Yellow River.

Before that, it's not that Li Yan didn't have his own little thoughts.

In terms of connections, I have been in the starting area for so long.

In terms of guns, he has been in charge of Dashun's navy for many years.

In terms of prestige, those who are good fighters have no great reputation, and those who are good at planning have no great achievements. The one who won a series of battles in the Atlantic Ocean and won the West African trade and European trade for Dashun is himself.

Xiao He's first achievement, but in later generations, the one remembered by people is the Marquis of Huaiyin.

How could he not have his own little thoughts?
However, before World War I broke out, Liu Yu finally broke through the problem that Dashun had been avoiding all these years—the possibility of the Yellow River North.

I ran to repair the river.

The Master said: A gentleman is reserved and does not fight, and a group does not belong to the party.

Wen Zhonggong said: It is natural that gentlemen and gentlemen make friends of the same way, and villains and villains regard the same interests as friends.However, the minister said that a villain has no friends, but a gentleman does.When they share the same benefits, it is hypocritical for them to be regarded as friends by the party for a while; if they see the benefits and strive to be the first, or if the benefits are exhausted and make friends, they will turn against each other and harm each other, even though their brothers and relatives cannot protect each other.Therefore, it is a hypocrisy for a minister to say that a villain has no friends, and that he is temporarily a friend.A gentleman is not the case, what he guards is morality, what he does is faithful, and what he cherishes is fame.If you use it to cultivate yourself, you will benefit from the same way; if you use it to serve the country, you will work together and help each other, always as one. This friend of a gentleman is also a friend of a gentleman. The world is in order...

Of course, at the end of the former dynasty, some nasty things happened such as shaving the hair and putting it on the table.

However, in the prosperous age, there are still some people who think about the country and the country after all.

In fact, Liu Yu's direct descendants are not many, and both the court and the middle school are aware of this.In many cases, some personnel issues are deliberately avoided.

Naturally, there are many opponents and enemies of Liu Yu.

However, even if it is said that the descendants of the Yan Li School, who usually complain and ridicule each other with Liu Yu, can only support when faced with the problem of repairing the river.Some people even went to Shandong with "bring their own dry food".

After all, the matter of the Yellow River is a major event.

How big it is depends on how you look at it.

Just looking at a wave of floods, I feel that 10 people will drown.

In fact, it is not, and it cannot be viewed that way.

A breach is a breach.

The Yellow River is the Yellow River.

The course of the Yellow River is the course of the Yellow River.

There is no Yellow River channel, and the water of the Yellow River is not fixed in the North China Plain. If you go to Hebei today, come to Shandong tomorrow, take the Daqing River the day after tomorrow, and take the Xiaoqing River the day after tomorrow, then the Yellow River is still the Yellow River, but there is no fixed channel.

I understand that "the river course is the river course, and the Yellow River is the Yellow River".

Then, you also know that if the breach really occurs, it will not be a "little" matter of drowning 10 people.

Instead, it will directly lead to the salinization of cultivated land in the North China Plain, the collapse of small farmers, land degradation, uprisings, plagues...

Even, the substantive class base of the Dashun court - the small peasant class in North China - will collapse.

At that time, it will not be a matter of one million people at all, but it may be a major event that will affect decades and have far-reaching effects.

The Yellow River issue has never been challenged in Dashun.

Before the water transportation was changed, everyone knew that something was going to happen, and everyone pretended not to know that something was going to happen.

After the canal transportation was changed, everyone knew that the Yellow River could be repaired, but everyone knew that it was a mess - digging the river was easy, and things like people along the way, land acquisition, Shandong Salt Industry, etc., could not be solved by the Shandong Jiedu Envoy.The level of the feudal official is not enough, so he has to be an important minister of the court; the level of the important minister of the court is enough, but he doesn't want to make a fuss about these messy things, let alone leave the center.People from Tianyou Hall can't go, there are not many military nobles who can do this.

In the end, Liu Yu stood up before the First World War.

Everyone was happy.

Li Yan also put away those thoughts.

Because, how can the Yellow River Project be completed?

In other words, in the feudal dynasty, what was needed to complete the Yellow River Project?
Answer: We need a unified empire, we need the Heavenly Blessing Hall of the Six Governments and the Privy Council, we need resources, food and finance allocated by various provinces, we need hundreds of professionals in water conservancy engineering, and we need millions of laborers.In short, a group of "conservatives" of the empire are needed to stabilize the empire and prevent troubles.

At least, until the course of the Yellow River is repaired, there will be no troubles.

Dashun has done many great things before.

For example, the reform of the southwest.This is not to say that it is not big, nor can it be said that there is no need for a unified empire.

However, as far as the dynasty is concerned, the matter of reforming the southwest and returning the land to the flow, and the course of the Yellow River, is not a matter of the same level after all.

At such a time, Liu Yu's selection to stir up the mess of the Yellow River is also a bit of a "political statement"-supporting the smooth transfer of the throne and supporting the prince.Whoever makes trouble will smash his dog's head.

Of course, there are not many real direct descendants of Liu Yu, especially the direct descendants who are personally dependent and bound.

However, the truly capable people in the practical school also hold this "conservative" attitude in this matter.

That is to some extent, the meaning of "gentleman group but not party".

They are the "Conservatives of the Empire".

In other words, they are "whoever sits on the dragon chair supports whom".

This group of "conservatives" don't care about coups, as long as they don't talk about the kind of comprehensive reaction that will go backwards and harm their interests, then they don't care.

If you want to be able to engage in Xuanwumen, you will be in chaos for three days. These "conservatives of the empire" don't care.

After three days, if you dare to sit on a chair, they dare to celebrate.

But if you don't have the ability to engage in Xuanwumen, you will end up with Jingnan or something.

I'm sorry.

The world is in chaos, and the Yellow River cannot be repaired.

Dayi is on the "conservative and stable" side. Whoever dares to pull the team, now supports the repair of the Yellow River and recognizes that the repair of the river is the group of practical imperial conservatives who belong to Dayi, who will directly lead troops to screw their heads off.

Basically, Dashun these years, or the money bags and guns left by the old emperor for succession, are all conservatives of the empire, not princelings.

The princelings are for the purpose of gradually taking power after the succession, but the guns and money bags reserved before the prince gradually took power, there is not a single princeling, all of them are conservatives like this.

What are the conservatives in Dashun at this time?

Xiao Gui and Cao Sui.

Support external expansion, support the division of internal and external rule, support the temporary suspension of imperial examinations, and support the selection of colonial officials from practical learning.

In short, support the status quo, support the policies and systems at this time.

That is, the radicals of 30 or [-] years ago.

They are the beneficiaries of Dashun's reforms and foreign wars over the years.

Including, in this wave from the conquest of the Western Regions to the First World War, most of the people who climbed up during Dashun's biggest wave of feudal lordship except at the beginning of the founding of the country.

The general characteristic of this group of people is that they have handed over real power, but they also have prestige in the army.

There are also some people squatting in the Privy Council of the General Staff that has degenerated into a nursing home for the elderly.

Can fight.

Can engage in economics.

Rebellion, no.

It's okay, it's fine.

Of course, if you want to say that as soon as the new emperor comes to power, he will kill the heroes before his butt is warm... They may not wait to die, but the problem is that the new emperor's general brain is not so bad.What's your level, do you think you're the world that you beat out of a single bowl?Or do you have tough connections like the old emperor?

Therefore, in Li Yan's view.

Since Liu Yu expressed his position by "repairing the Yellow River", or expressed his position on behalf of the emerging military nobles.

Well, unless it is Li Yan's own brother, as soon as he comes on stage.

Without further ado, first kill a wave of those who were knighted during the windy period; then announce that their reform attempts in Hubei were too scary and all retreat; then announce that raising the navy is too expensive and all disband; and then announce the division of the Southern Ocean for veterans Policies cost too much money, boat tickets are too expensive, cancel them all...

Then, Li Yan felt that if this was the case, he would have a great chance.

Otherwise, there is probably no chance.

Therefore, now that Liu Yu is back in Beijing, let's talk with him about his views on "free trade".

Li Yan can only be regarded as a purely academic question.

Therefore, he naturally avoided the problems of Dashun's domestic market.

Instead, in his capacity as a navy, he talked about his thoughts on "free trade" as a new law of the world and expanding the concept of Tianxia.

Li Yan felt that Dashun could actually be the emperor of the earth if he worked hard.

Replace "Zhou Li vassal" with "free trade".

Each country has a division of labor and each performs its duties. Ruochu is in charge of Baomao, and Qi contributes fish and salt.

Compared with this time, it is Shun as the Son of Heaven, and other countries either produce grain, or produce white paper, or dig silver, or do market, or grow sugar cane, or rub cotton yarn, or conquer disobedient officials for Fang Bo, or work for barbarians. The world strikes together.

Each performs its duties and divides its ritual utensils.

In the Sixth Division of the Son of Heaven, there is a quota for the ships of the princes.

Free trade is a new gift.

The financial businessmen of various countries are the doctors of Su Feng.

Those who violated the law of etiquette were conscripted by the emperor, imitating the story of World War I that forced Britain to disband the East India Company, cancel the tea tax and the ban on cotton cloth.

Those who violate the division of labor will be conscripted by the emperor, and Xiao Dashun will destroy Mumbai, Surat, Dhaka and other places. The story of weaving, telling you to rub cotton yarn and not to weave cloth, you should rub cotton yarn and not to weave cloth. If you want to upgrade, you can use local finance The comprador Sufeng doctor is an internal response, and he will get rid of it quickly.

Li Yan was talking from the perspective of the navy, or Dashun, a tool for obtaining commercial hegemony.

This kind of thinking, in the Atlantic, has actually basically taken shape.

However, obviously, this is not what Liu Yu wants to hear.

(End of this chapter)