Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1470 The Final Farce (Seventeen)
It is precisely because Li Yan wanted to "create this condition".

So it is also doomed that the construction of this kind of infrastructure road, capital is not willing to come.

In fact, the reason is very simple.

It is to "create" this condition.

So, obviously, this condition is not yet met, otherwise why create it?

Since this condition is not met, the railways must be regarded as "wild lands" at this time. Even if they are not counted, they must be sparsely populated and inconvenient for transportation.

Therefore, in the short term, there is no profit.

And after waiting to create this condition, it will probably be profitable ten or twenty years later.

However, generally speaking, capital will not take the initiative to plan for things that will happen ten or twenty years later.

Therefore, the problem of road construction and infrastructure construction in Dashun has become very troublesome.

For example.

There is no shortage of capital for Liu Yu to reorganize the salt river transported by the King of Wu, or the canal connecting the Minjiang River from Wuyi Mountain, etc.Because it is profitable, businessmen are of course willing to invest, and the rate of return is generally not low.

In these places, to put it bluntly, even if you build a bunch of railways and canals, it still cannot solve the biggest problem of Dashun, that is, the problem of people migrating to Yili and Heilongjiang.

That is to say, from the level of the whole country.

Where infrastructure is needed, social capital cannot be raised.

It is easy to raise social capital, and... it is not that it is useless, but that it is not very meaningful from the perspective of Dashun as a country.

Ideally speaking, it is best to solve it with national finance and labor, just like building the Grand Canal.It would be best if the tax system could be changed, the law on labor recruitment could be implemented, and labor could be hired with money.

But in fact this is not realistic.

The current financial revenue of the Dashun court is definitely much higher than that of 30 or [-] years ago, including internal funds.

But at the same time, Dashun's financial expenditure has also increased.Moreover, many financial expenditures cannot be cut.

For example, the navy and sailors retired registration subsidies, granting land in the Southern Ocean after the service period, overseas garrisons, Indian garrisons, the conquest of India, and so on.

In addition, there is a big expenditure on repairing the Yellow River.Digging river channels, although it is said that immigration is the real problem, but it does not mean that immigration is solved, and digging rivers does not cost money.

Where there is no need to "create" that kind of conditions, the invisible hand can solve the problem-it doesn't matter about repeated construction, disorderly development, etc. The British canal and railway problem is just such a disorderly repetition. Some people go bankrupt and others make money. .For the time being, the cyclical problems of capitalism will not cause big troubles in Dashun.

And where it is necessary to "create" that kind of condition, relying on invisible hands cannot solve the problem.

The place where there are already conditions is not the place where Dashun really has a headache; the place where there is no condition is the place where Li Yan needs to think about creating conditions and let the capital arrest people to cultivate them.

Even if it is said that the owner of this capital is the imperial court itself, even if it is said to migrate to continue the small farmers' family farms.

But if the transportation problem is not solved, when the empire has reached the expansion limit of the pre-steam age, even taxation is a problem, and it is impossible to complete the cycle of immigration-reclamation-taxation-re-immigration.

After all.

Dashun made it this far.

It is one thing that the west coast of Fusang is all Chinese land.

It is another matter for the people in Kyushu to migrate rapidly and solve the problem that the per capita land has reached the verge of collapse.

The former is really simple.

There is gold from the West Coast, gold from Australia, and the population that has migrated over the years, as well as the fact that Dashun won the First World War and moved the "ocean frontier" to the Cape of Good Hope.

In essence, the Chinese already have a population advantage in Australia and North America.

Protestants on the east coast of North America were blocked east of the Appalachian Mountains by the French and Indians.That is the only population that can compete with the North American immigrants of Dashun, and they are blocked in the east of the Appalachian Mountains, and the Chinese in North America will have no pressure in a short period of time.

Not to mention Australia.

Therefore, from the perspective of 200 or [-] years, the matter of being all Chinese land has actually been completed now.

However, the latter is different.

The latter requires violent, super-large-scale migration.To ensure that the number of people migrating every year reaches one million, it is possible to slightly solve the problem of the contradiction between man and land.

Otherwise, when the time comes to complete the transformation, it will definitely be extremely painful.

In the simplest terms.

Is it based on the national entity of Kyushu, the Central Plains?

Or is it based on the consideration of the Chinese blood relatives?

Simplify even more.

If we follow the former way of thinking, then are those people in Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi, etc. who are unlikely to obtain the "benefits of colonization in the ocean age" human?

Do we need to consider the suffering they will inevitably face in the future?

If not, or rather, don't consider them.

Well, in fact, it doesn't matter if Dashun has reached this point.

Whatever you want, whether you want to die or wait for death, Liu Yu has already obtained the final dividend of the age of great voyages and completed the final division of the so-called "New World". to absolute advantage.

But if it is, or rather, consider them too.

Then, we must continue to toss.

Moreover, it was obvious that Liu Yu couldn't move anymore, so he had to find someone who could continue to struggle and take this last blow.

The old horse said: [The new era cannot be opened until all the superstitions of the past are broken]

Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has done "very well" in this matter - it has completely broken the people's superstitious belief in the imperial system, and because of its alien attributes and innocence, the process of breaking it greatly accelerated.

Of course, there are also flaws.That is to say, some fantasies such as "if it is the emperor of my own family" are left behind, but this kind of fantasies is not a big problem. After the "superstition" of the traditional imperial system was completely broken by the Qing Dynasty's irrelevant people, it is impossible to go back.

Now, Dashun really needs someone to pick up the stick and complete the historical journey of destroying old things.

Moreover, this stick must stand from the perspective of "doing personnel affairs and caring about small farmers", at least pretending to be so.Only when the bubble finally bursts can the broad masses of the people completely dispel their illusions about the holy king and the good emperor.

As in the words of "Stepan Razin": "Yes, I am guilty, I admit that I am guilty. But my guilt is not because of rebellion. My guilt is that I am a fool, beep, to believe There is a good emperor, but he thought it would be good to change to a benevolent emperor!"

Of course, after Liu Yu leaves, Dashun will complete this historical journey. In addition to getting rid of these superstitions about old things, he must also complete the early transformation and rapid industrial development, especially the heavy industry in the steam age. The foundation is laid.

Double duty.

Obviously, now it seems that Li Yan is the "best candidate to bear the last big scapegoat of the traditional imperial system", but among the princes, he is the closest one in terms of economic and policy thinking.

The prince is not good at it.

It's not just because of Chu's radical policies.

It's because Liu Yu had a deep talk with the prince before, and found that the prince really didn't even touch the fur of crooked methodology.

For example, the problem of road construction.

The prince is not saying that he does not support road construction, nor does he mean that he does not support shipping.

On the contrary, judging from the prince's radical reforms in Chu, the prince is not opposed to supporting infrastructure construction and improving transportation efficiency.

But the way of thinking is completely different from that of Li Yan.

Li Yan's thinking is very clear, which is to follow Liu Yu's rhythm and practice the old horse's knowledge-surplus value does not come from circulation, but it is realized in circulation.Right now, the reclaimable wasteland that Dashun already owns has the conditions to generate surplus value. The biggest deficiency is to solve the circulation problem.And if the circulation problem can be solved, the conditions for realizing the surplus value can be met, and capital can be urged to go there, using the surplus value as a temptation, and quickly let the millions of "relatively surplus population" in Dashun become a capitalistic society. "wage laborers" in the system.

To solve the problem of "circulation", we need to engage in infrastructure and transportation.

If we want to engage in infrastructure and transportation, we must develop heavy industry.

If we want to develop heavy industry, we have to think about where the capital comes from, and solve the problem that the invisible capital is unwilling to concentrate on these industries with large investment and slow return.

The prince also supports road construction, and his thinking is more like "it is good to build roads, so we need to build roads."At most, it is convenient for suppression, disaster relief, and frontier defense.

This gap is huge.

It's not that what the prince thinks is wrong, it must be right. It can't be said that it is wrong to say that it is convenient for disaster relief or border guards.

What's more, it is convenient for suppression, deployment of troops, prevention of rebellion, disaster relief, frontier guards and so on. This is what Liu Yu and the old emperor used to fool around.

That is to say, the set of things that cover the conditions required for the development of capitalism under the guise of feudal imperial power.

but.

The prince is talking about skin.

Li Yan finally talked about bones.

Just like the "skin and bones" of the Physiocrats who had begun to rise in France at this time.

[The feudal appearance of the Physiocratic system—completely like the aristocratic tone of the Enlightenment Age—will inevitably make many feudal lords become fanatical supporters of this system that essentially proclaims the establishment of a bourgeois production system on the ruins of feudalism and communicators]

Is it possible for the feudal aristocrats to fanatically support and even spread the bourgeois production system?

Of course it is possible.

However, in order to continue to go down, the real person in charge must understand what the essence of this set of things is.

Aristocratic and feudal lords can follow a flock of geese in a daze, but those who "let the geese" have to understand where they should go, instead of becoming part of the flock of geese.

Since Li Yan has already talked about "bone".

Then, Liu Yu asked Pi instead.

Then he asked: "So, what Your Highness means is that apart from the Yellow River incident, the three things that the imperial court should do most in the next 20 years seem to be that one is the railway from the capital to Heilongjiang; The railway in Luntai; the third is a large wooden boat with sails and steamers that can reach Fusang in two or three months."

"The rest, such as coal mines, iron smelting, and coal stations on islands along the way, are all auxiliary."

"Everything should focus on these three things."

Liu Yu didn't ask questions like "how to fix it" and "where does the money come from".

Didn't ask about details.

Instead, ask something that sounds generic.

Seeing that Liu Yu didn't ask where the capital came from, Li Yan asked about this instead, and said, "If Duke Guo said that, you can actually say that, that's what I mean."

"Xijing crosses Longxi to Luntai. It is not only for relocating people, but also for guarding the frontier. The Raksha Kingdom should be the enemy in the future, and we must guard against it. The Western Regions and other places have been in chaos for hundreds of years and the border troubles are restless. They should also be on guard."

"As for using troops elsewhere, there is no need to think about it."

"If Japan, North Korea, etc. have coastal areas, then things will be easy to handle."

"The same is true for Annan and Myanmar. Since it can be transported by sea, why do you have to go through the vast forests and mountains?"

"The Southwest is reformed and the soil is returned...Since ancient times, there has been no major patient in the Southwest. Besides, there are Yangtze River, Sichuan, Sichuan, Hunan and Chu, all of which are in the hinterland. There is food and people, which is easy to say."

"And if it is a snow-covered plateau, it will be easier. First, you have already got Bangladesh, and it is easier to advance from there; second, even if you attack, you can only have 5000 people."

"That's why, the only way from Xijing to Luntai alone needs to be solved. Even if we don't consider relocation of civilians, but only consider the use of military affairs and border settlements, it must be done."

"Not to mention the large wooden boat with sails and steamers that can reach Fusang in two or three months."

"In this way, I will use the railway from the capital to Heilongjiang to try to talk about its advantages and many advantages in relieving the difficulties of people and land. I also ask the Duke to correct it."

Li Yan paused for a moment, and chose a very remote entry point as the opening question for this question.

"The Duke should know that since the reform, the migratory population in the Liaohe River Basin has increased day by day. It can be said that it was something that was unimaginable 30 years ago."

"Before this dynasty, due to the lessons of the previous dynasty, the imperial court encouraged emigration, but the number of migrations in recent years has not been too much."

"However, since the changes in Songsu, immigration has increased greatly."

"The reason lies in the 'beans'."

"But this is also an appearance, and in the final analysis, the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. Planting beans is very profitable, so there is capital to enclose land for planting beans and hire more people. Every year along the Liaohe River The upper one, no less than 20."

"But in the past few years, the speed of population migration has slowed down significantly."

"It's not that there is no market for soybeans, but that the land is convenient for transportation and close to the Liaohe River. The population is increasing and the land is being reclaimed. There is really not much room for growth."

"As for remote places and places that are not suitable for transportation, even though there are still many wastelands, the capital is not willing to go. If the capital is not willing to go, it will be difficult to take the people to relocate and cultivate."

"If there is a disaster, the imperial court pays for the relocation, and often has to move to a place far away from the Liaohe River and where transportation is inconvenient. The transportation is inconvenient, and most of the people are self-sufficient. Even with regular taxes, it is extremely difficult."

"There was no money at the beginning, and they couldn't collect money, because they had no money in their hands. After the new migration, everyone has land. Who will sell this food to?"

"Secondly, it is useless to expropriate in kind. Expropriation in kind, transportation difficulties, wear and tear along the way, and people working hard, it is better not to levy. Or, even if expropriated, it is still used locally for ordinary use."

"Yes, the number of people migrating across the Guandong in recent years has dropped sharply compared to before."

"But if you think about it carefully, the potential is huge. If the operation is good, the transportation problem is solved, and the railway is repaired, I think it will not be possible to attract capital to colonize the land with the benefits of beans, and immigrate 50 million a year. question."

"This bean market, as long as it is operated properly, it can greatly increase."

"The direction of this great increase is at three o'clock."

"One, Nanyang."

"Secondly, the country of Wa."

"Thirdly, places in Su and Lu."

"In the case of Southeast Asia, we have to talk about driving the Netherlands, fighting India, and even the decisive battle in the Atlantic Ocean."

"Nanyang wants beans, fat first and then eat."

"The people of the Celestial Dynasty went to Nanyang. After migration, they still remembered the taste of their hometown. Nanyang is not suitable for the growth of soybeans. It is necessary to buy Northeast beans."

"Of course, eating is a small thing."

"Big head, you're still gaining weight."

"Before, the Dutch planted sugar in Nanyang, and there was a problem."

"In terms of sales, first came the retreat in Japan, second came the chaos in Persia, and third came the prevalence of Caribbean sugar in Europe."

"In terms of competition, and because of the low price of sugar in Bangladesh, Nanyang Sugar does not have much advantage."

"Nowadays, in terms of sales, Caribbean sugar is beyond the control of the dynasty and cannot compete. But Japan and Persia are all within the sphere of influence of the dynasty and have no competitors."

"In terms of production competition, since this dynasty controls Bangladesh, can it still allow Bangladesh's sugar to develop? As long as a little trick is imposed, or taxes on Bangladeshi sugar cane, or tax exemption on Nanyang Sugar, within a few years, Completely destroy the sugar plantations of Bengal.”

"In this way, in fact, as long as the imperial court takes measures and puts more control on commercial trade, then Nanyang Sugar will be the only sugar producing area from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan."

"To grow sugarcane, you need fertilizer. Bean cakes are the best for fertilizing fields. So, in fact, the imperial court only needs to use some means to destroy the sugarcane plantations and sugar extraction industry in Bangladesh..."

"Of course, the boom in sugar in Nanyang gives Northeast Beans a chance to thrive—as long as the transportation problem is solved, capital will surely flock in, cross the Songliao watershed, cultivate and grow beans, and recruit people to work."

"I said that the three directions of the soybean increase, the Nanyang increase, and the focus is on destroying India's sugar industry and sugar cane plantations."

"Once the sugarcane plantations in Bangladesh are destroyed, let alone the Nanyang sugar industry, and only talk about the relocation of people from the northeast, more than [-] people will be able to engage in farming and planting beans every year."

"That's why, even if the railway in the northeast is being built, the focus of the imperial court should be on India. If you can't see through the key point, even if the road is built, it may not be able to succeed."

"Therefore, the trade must not be interrupted, the navy must not be abolished, and India's military pay for conquests must not be abolished. It must be investigated."

"Besides Nanyang, there are Wa Kingdom and Sulu. Among them, there are other sayings."

(End of this chapter)