Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1471 The Last Farce ([-])
Li Yan talked about the issue of emigration from the Northeast, but he talked about Southeast Asia and India.

And the core of these words, in a language more familiar to Liu Yu, can actually be explained clearly in a few sentences.

[Use the power of the state to accumulate and organize social forces, like a greenhouse, to promote the conversion process from the feudal mode of production to the capitalist mode of production, and shorten its transition period... such as the colonial system, it is like this]

[Protection system, tariffs, protection taxes, export subsidies, forced subversion of industries in their territories...forcibly manufacture manufacturers in their own country.All European countries have to conspire with each other in order to find a way to seize this invented franchise...For example, England forcibly subverted Ireland's wool manufacturing industry; it is also like learning from Colbert's doctrine, using treasury investment as the original accumulation of its own industry]

What Li Yan said is what Lao Ma said about the [protection system].

People in later generations have a one-sided and superficial understanding of the protection system.

Because social existence determines social consciousness.

The social existence of later generations is that after World War II, the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America have won staged victories against colonialism, aggression, and imperialism.Even India, which is often a joke, is no longer a colony, but has its own national strength and can protect its own tariffs.

Under this kind of social existence, the awareness of the "protection system" is nothing more than the addition of tariffs, government subsidies and the like.

However, at this time, in the 18th and 19th centuries, when colonialism prevailed, [protection system], as Lao Ma said: England destroyed Ireland’s wool manufacturing industry, and it was a protection system; European countries used Colbert’s doctrine, It is also a protection system to directly use the heavy taxation of the treasury as the original accumulation of the country's industry; the protective tax is a protection system; the administrative orders of Britain, France and other countries directly intervene in the issue of cotton cloth clothing, which is also a protection system.

in other words.

In the era of colonialism.

It is also a kind of [protection system] to destroy competitive industries in the territory by means of violence, administrative means, and military intervention.

It's just that, for future generations, those countries that were insulted, damaged, colonized or semi-colonized have stood up one by one.

The method of directly destroying the country's industrial production capacity by military means, administrative means, and violent means will not work.

Therefore, this led to a misunderstanding of the four words [protection system], thinking that the protection system is as simple as adding tariffs and giving some subsidies to the country—for example, the destruction of Japanese semiconductors in later generations can be regarded as this kind of [protection] The "classic form" of the system].

Therefore, this goes back to what Lao Ma said - in the pre-industrial era, commercial hegemony can drive the development of industry.And commercial hegemony is determined by military expansion, war preparations, and shipbuilding, mainly naval warfare.

In the 30 to [-] years before Dashun, he frantically built ships, expanded his army, went to Nanyang, and won the first battle.

Before going to Nanyang, the cotton textile industry in Surat had already collapsed, which led to the rapid development of Songsu cotton textile industry.

This is military hegemony, which brings commercial hegemony.And commercial hegemony is a typical example of driving the development of the country's industry.

Because a large part of the development of the cotton textile industry in the Surat area originated from the commercial and military hegemony of the Netherlands in Southeast Asia.

When Dashun went to Nanyang and ended the commercial and military hegemony of the Netherlands, the cotton textile industry in Surat, which was developed by relying on the Dutch hegemony in Nanyang, was naturally over.

Of course, if this matter is analyzed in detail, it is not the same as the "Bengal sugar cane" issue mentioned by Li Yan.

The core of the collapse of Surat's cotton textile industry caused by Dashun's voyage to Nanyang is different from the sugar cane problem in Bangladesh that Li Yan is now talking about.

Surat, not a Dutch colony.

Then why does the Netherlands have to go to Surat to buy cotton cloth instead of the Dashun Songsu area?
Is it because Songsu cotton cloth is not as competitive as Surat cotton cloth?

no.

It is because the Netherlands has limited cash flow in the Southeast Asia region.The spices he mastered... To put it bluntly, the Chinese smugglers—of course, in other words, the business warriors of the Ming Dynasty who fought against the tyrant's monopoly decrees for freedom and free trade—could take the spices of Emperor Yongle The monopoly is gone, how can you deal with the Nanyang merchants in Dashun with your strength in the Netherlands?Regardless of other things, if you want to sell spices in China at a high price of 1500% profit like in Europe, don't even think about it.

It is impossible to exchange enough funds for Dutch spices in China.And the Netherlands needs cash, including Japan's small gold and silver, to buy Chinese tea, raw silk, porcelain, etc.

However, in Surat, the power of the comprador class can give birth to a business model in which you get the goods first, I will give you the spices to offset part of the money, and you can sell part of the spices for money.

simply put.

The Netherlands' own industrial production capacity is rubbish.The level of the local cotton textile industry is shit.Clothes in Nanyang cannot be sold at all.

Therefore, the Netherlands’ use of its commercial and military hegemony did not drive the development of local industries, but the development of the cotton textile industry in Surat, India—an opportunity for industrial development in Southeast Asia.

With Dashun going to Nanyang, Dashun replaced the Dutch commercial hegemony in Nanyang, so that the cotton textile industry market suppliers in Nanyang were changed to Songsu area.Moreover, Dashun did not use tariffs, protection taxes and other policies too much, because the competitiveness of the cotton textile industry in the Songsu area is certainly not weaker than Surat, India, even if it does not surpass it.

That is to say, after Dashun gained the commercial hegemony in Nanyang, it can use tariff protection, protection tax and other policies.

But it was not necessary. Instead, "formal free trade" was adopted, because Dashun's cotton textile industry already had advantages.

but.

The key is.

Dashun gained commercial and military hegemony.

It is possible to pretend to be free trade without tariff protection and protection tax.

But if the country's industry is in a weak position, because of the existence of commercial hegemony and military hegemony, it can be used by turning around.

simply put.

If you don't go to Nanyang, Dashun "can only do free trade". If people don't engage in free trade, they can only watch.Because free trade is a two-way street.

But after going to Nanyang, Dashun "could implement a protection system, but it is not necessary; but when necessary, because it went to Nanyang, it can be implemented at any time."

I can kill, but I don't kill, I want to be a good person.

I am extremely weak and can't kill anyone, so I don't kill anyone.

It's two different things.

In itself, Dashun's cotton textile industry has an advantage, so even if it gains commercial and military hegemony, it is nothing more than "calling for free trade".

However, the sugar industry is different.

Compared with India's sugar industry, Dashun's sugar industry does not have that great advantage.

Moreover, the Indian market and the Persian market must also be considered, so that India's sugar industry itself has advantages in transportation costs and internal circulation.

In fact, to be honest, planting sugar cane is really not a textile industry.For example, in the textile industry, if I work on a mule spinning machine, then I will take off directly. With dozens of times the efficiency, who will compete with it?
As for planting sugarcane, given the current conditions, you can't come up with a "technology" that can increase efficiency dozens of times at once.

If the amount of sugar cane per acre of land, how much sugar can be squeezed, and the climate given by God are similar, the gap is really not that big.

Thus, the "advantages" of [colonization], [commercial hegemony], and [protection system] emerged.

Historically, the cotton textile industry in the UK was so poor, how did it kill the cotton textile industry in India?

The conditions in Ireland are good, so how did the Irish wool textile industry be destroyed?
Why are the conditions in the southern states of North America so good, but until the 21st century, some places in the southern states still did not have the habit of eating mutton?How did this social habit of not eating mutton develop?What is the historical reason behind it?Is it just because people there insist that lamb is not as good as fried chicken?
In fact, this is the same thing as what Li Yan said about destroying the Indian sugar industry.

Military hegemony is in hand, tariff control is in hand, and violent agencies are in hand.It is in the hands of Dashun, not India's anti-imperialist and anti-colonial country. Then play a little high-end [protection system], destroy the manufacturing industry in the territory, escort the manufacturing industry in the country, and build a greenhouse to protect the capital of the country. Thrive, isn't that easy?

This matter is so easy.

so that.

It was easy to understand, Li Yan felt that there was no need to talk to Liu Yu about the details of how to destroy India's sugar industry.

Because Li Yan felt that talking about how to eliminate India’s sugar industry was so easy under the de facto hegemony and colonial system that it seemed like he was talking about how to teach dogs to eat shit.Talking about "teaching dogs to eat shit" with Liu Yu, Li Yan was afraid that Liu Yu would look down on him, and afterward he would preach that "the seventh prince has no focus on politics, does not distinguish between the serious and the important, and does not know the priority". Big bad.

The [protection system] mentioned by Lao Ma has many ways to play.To put it simply, playing "industrial subsidies" is the most LOW of the [protection system] that Lao Ma said.

As long as I can control other countries' politics, tariffs, tax rates, and at the same time station troops in other countries, why should I play the most LOW "industrial subsidies"?
Only if I can’t control the politics of other countries, can’t open the gates of other countries with a single gunboat on the coast, can’t garrison troops in other countries, and can’t control the tariffs of other countries, then I need to play the lowest level of [protection system] such as industrial subsidies.

Through this [protection system], the destruction of India's sugar industry not only means the start of a new round of Nanyang migration, but also means that the bean cake fertilizer needed for the development of the Nanyang sugar industry will make those in the Northeast who "temporarily do not have The land with the social relations of capitalism has the conditions. Once the road construction is completed, the capital will quickly rush to the north of the Songliao watershed, absorbing the "stripped-off means of production" at a migration speed of 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands per year. wage laborers".

Of course, the significance of Li Yan's remarks is not that he proposed a plausible immigration plan.

More importantly, it lies in Liu Yu's "methodology of crooked scriptures", or "reverse practice of old horse knowledge".

[Colonial system, national debt system, modern taxation system, protection system, to achieve the synthesis of the system...and become the midwife of the old society that breeds the new society]

For example, Dashun won the First World War and brought India into its sphere of influence.

So, is this just for the sake of collecting more land taxes and for the achievements of opening up territories?
Obviously not.

Someone needs to be clear about using the power of the country to breed a new era.

At least, Li Yan's way of thinking is this kind of "midwife" way of thinking.This is the most important thing—colonization is not for the purpose of expanding territory, taxation is not for increasing treasury revenue, and tariffs are not for treasury wealth.It is to use these things, whether intentionally or not, to use the thinking of the new era to understand and use all of them.

Take India for example.

If it is only for the purpose of conquering, ruling, expanding territories, and collecting taxes and taxes, then Dashun is still a traditional empire.This is no different from those conquerors who couldn't get along in Central Asia and went over the mountains from Afghanistan to conquer India.

But if it can change India's production relations, collapse industries or support industries, change India's economic structure and industrial structure.Then, Dashun has entered the threshold of "modern empire".

The key to modern empires is not empires, but modern times.

(End of this chapter)