Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1475 Parting Warning ([-])

Continuing the conversation, Li Yan also discovered that Liu Yu no longer cared much about his discussion and explanation of the economy.

The words have already been said, but Li Yan tried to insinuate.

But the direction in which he hit the sidelines was a bit tricky.

"In the past, there were many rumors that before this dynasty, we first established the Rakshasa, then pacified the Western Regions, and then defeated the Japanese, and went to Nanyang. What we did was the water transport."

"The national power is limited, so there must be a sequence. Since the pre-Qin period, the north has been in great trouble for 2000 years."

"So the north must be determined first, and then the south can be moved."

"Dingwo, Pingnan, there is no danger at sea, so we can change to sea transportation and waste water transportation."

"Since the Ming Dynasty, many people have said: To control the Yellow River, you must first abolish the Cao Cao; to protect the Cao Cao, you must destroy the Yellow River."

"When the water transportation was abolished, it was finally known that what the original Duke did was to control the Yellow River."

"That's why, many people say that in the eyes of the Duke, the governance of the Yellow River will be the top priority of the imperial court in the future."

"But I don't know that the Duke thinks that if the treatment of the Yellow River is the top priority. Is the road construction I mentioned a second priority?"

This question sounds very common.

It's just that Liu Yu knew very well that this question was not unusual at all.

He said that controlling the Yellow River is the top priority, and asked whether road construction can be ranked second only to the Yellow River.

This is not critical.

The key is the bunch of prefixes in front.

That is, various preparations for the treatment of Huang.

In the process, external enemies were crushed, internal opposition was suppressed, and even the resistance of the people was suppressed in various ways.

In the "preparations for the control of the Yellow River" that Li Yan said from the beginning of the Northern Expedition to Rakshasa, he suppressed the salt workers' uprising, slaughtered the Huai River to obstruct the gentry, and the reform of the salt government forcibly took back the salt households' right to use the grassland. Wait for a series of actions.

If these are considered acceptable, then Liu Yu's Ceylon Trojan horse scheme is actually the most criticized.The whole process was regarded as a typical example of "overbearing" without benevolence and righteousness.

Why was the army strong enough at that time, but they didn't directly attack Batavia to relieve the people's upside down?

Why did the Dutch have to migrate the Javanese Chinese to Ceylon, and there were so many dead?
Because emigration costs money and the death rate is high.

Because the water conservancy facilities in Ceylon have collapsed, and if the Dutch want to use Ceylon as a base, they must use very cruel means to force the Chinese who migrated there to dig ditches, dig canals, and cultivate rice.

In the end, Dashun won the status of "savior", got the Dutch canal from the center to the south of Ceylon, got the restoration of farmland in the coastal plain of Ceylon, and let the responsibility for nearly 30% of the death rate fall on the Netherlands From the people, there are tens of thousands of "Rebels" loyal to Dashun, and the basic stability after Batavia lost its status as a mandatory transit port and the "capital" of the Dutch East India after going to Nanyang.

There is not much difference between this and Tian Dan who lured the people of Yan to massacre the people of Qi to arouse hatred, and designed to lure the people of Yan to dig up their ancestral graves to arouse the same hatred.

And this belongs to the "extraordinary" domineering.

The rest, such as the suppression of the salt workers' uprising, has a bad reputation in the mainstream evaluation of Dashun, but it is not criticized to the extent of "out of line" or "out of bounds" - this needs to be clarified about Dashun's The mainstream ideology uses the combination of king and hegemony, from the outside to the inside. It was born out of the reaction against the empty talk of the king's way at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which made some literati agree to use a certain degree of "hegemony".Therefore, the domineering "out of line" and "out of bounds" are the most "sensitive" things on Dashun's side.

Which behaviors are sensitive to and which behaviors are not sensitive; which behaviors are acceptable and which behaviors are not acceptable.It depends on the specific situation and historical factors.

Moreover, Dashun's allusions to historiography, his favorite insinuations are those things in the late Ming Dynasty and early Shun Dynasty.

This involves a fact that Li Guogao led his troops back to Huguang from Shaanxi with his meritorious service. As a result, Nanjing was broken, Yangzhou [-]th, Jiugong landslide, hair shaving orders, etc. all happened. This team came back from Shaanxi. The troops suddenly exploded with combat power, defeated Luck Dehun in the Huguang formation, and began to counterattack. The historical insinuation problem-your troops can stand against Azig from Shaanxi, and retreat all the way from Yulin to Huguang without dispersing, which shows that you have combat power. What are you doing?Why do you have to wait until you have shaved your hair, slaughtered the city, and Jiugong Mountain before appearing, and fought back with great righteousness?Another later criticized the Huaiqing counterattack, saying that it exposed the fact that the Dashun Army still had power, which led to Duoduo who went south to help, and criticized that it attracted the main force of the Eastern Captives back, resulting in an ugly situation and almost perishing the world, then you What does this criticism mean?Doduo slaughtered Yangzhou later. Do you criticize the Huaiqing counterattack, meaning that Doduo should have slaughtered the people of Yangzhou, destroyed Jinling, and forced Nanming to go to Japan to borrow troops and convert to God?
With the situation becoming clearer in the past few years, going to Nanyang is the past, and the past has become "history". Liu Yu may have the worst reputation under the mainstream evaluation system of Dashun, which is Ceylon A series of operations before and after the Trojan horse count.

Li Yan came up and talked about Liu Yu's thinking on governing the Yellow River, so is the matter of Ceylon a condition for Dashun to govern the Yellow River?
Obviously, yes.

To cure the Yellow River, the water must be abolished.To abolish the Cao Cao, it is necessary to ensure that there is no potential naval threat from the Tsushima Strait to Southeast Asia. Exiting Ceylon is obviously a prerequisite for the waste of the Cao Cao, and the waste of the Cao Cao is a prerequisite for the governance of the Yellow River.

Japan has a history of Japanese pirates, Catholicism has a history of overthrowing Luzon Lai in Macau, and Protestantism has a history of robbing Chinese ships and propping up pirates to block trade. Those few with previous convictions no longer have the ability to directly threaten Nanfang Mi to go to the Bohai Sea from the Black Water Ocean.

Li Yan is not talking about the Yellow River issue here, but the road construction issue.

It is just an abstract comparison between the problem of road construction and the problem of the Yellow River.

To put it simply, controlling the Yellow River requires a series of preconditions.

Even if all these pre-problems are solved, when it is really necessary to repair, there will still be problems such as land acquisition, migration, organization, logistics, food, compensation, and fundraising for the North American gold and silver mine bubble.

Neither one is so simple, and it is very difficult to do.

So, is it easy to build roads?

First of all, it is a matter of cultivating or not cultivating.

In recent years, the Practical School has actually faintly competed with the traditional imperial examination gentry school, which is a bit of a rivalry.The Practical School itself has become a group of "readers" that cannot be ignored.

Since you are a scholar, it is not as simple as just knowing a few words.They have their own crude political ideas, or to be honest, they are not judgmental.

For example, the Yellow River issue.

On this issue, I can't see anything.

After all, there is no difference between the Practical School and the traditional imperial examination school on the matter of building and controlling the Yellow River.

There is no doubt that the traditional school also supports river governance, and the practical school also supports river governance.

The problem of road construction is somewhat different.

To fix, or not to fix?

Is road construction the top priority after the management of the Yellow River and the problem of the Yellow River course?
Is the priority of this matter much higher than other matters?Is it true that in the next 30 to [-] years, the administrative focus of the Dashun court is to solve the problems of these infrastructure railways and canals?
This is different from treating the Yellow River.

Since Liu Yu took up the most torturous tasks of resettlement, relocation, land expropriation, solving the problems of Shandong Salt Fields and the reorganization of the Qinghe River and other problems in the Yellow River, there is no difference between "cure" and "death" in the treatment of the Yellow River.

At most, it is similar to Zhao Yi's opinion to Liu Yu: Is it a river?Or both the north and south rivers are preserved, the difference is 50 years each, with the north channeling the water and the south dredging the sand, and the south channeling the water and the north excavating the sand.

In other words, inside Dashun, everyone believed that the matter of the Yellow River would be the top priority in the next few years, or even ten years.

Everything should be centered on this matter.

Only in this way can many problems be solved and the whole country can make this matter come true.

However, building railways, building infrastructure, and even building canals are different.

Not to say that everyone thinks that this will be the key policy direction of the imperial court in the future.It should be compared to the attitude of Dashun's Northern Expedition to Liaodong at the beginning of the founding of the country, and put all the country's focus on this aspect.

Therefore, to cultivate or not to cultivate, this is the question in the first place.

There is a reason to repair.

There are reasons for not cultivating.

Li Yan thinks that it needs to be repaired, so he hopes Liu Yu will let him know.

This is one aspect.

Secondly, Liu Yu himself has great influence among the group of people of the Practical School. Can the Practical School think that road construction is the biggest thing in the future besides the construction of the Yellow River? Here, the radicals and retrospective schools are not considered for the time being. The idea that "equalization of land is the most benevolent government in the world" is bound to be "revolutionary", but continues to be considered on the basis of conservative "improvement".It's not that Juntian is not good or right, but that Juntian is the most benevolent government in the world, which is inconsistent with Li Yan.To put it simply, he can have a coup, a mutiny, Jingnan, Xuanwumen, and the snow in the capital, but he certainly can't be eighteen cavalry lurking in Shangluo Mountain to fight for thousands of miles, evening the fields, and turning the world upside down.

Therefore, when Li Yan asked this question, he meant to ask Liu Yu: Do you think, if one day there is a disagreement on whether to practice or not to practice, then do you think the practical school will follow me?
To repair, or not to repair, this is the primary question.

The second question is more complicated.

Assuming that the question of whether to cultivate or not to cultivate is resolved, then there will be an explanation on how to cultivate.

Here we don't talk about land acquisition, steel factories, mining, coal digging, supporting auxiliary industries and so on.

Just say the simplest.

To build roads requires money.

How come money?
Who pays?
Who does the road built belong to?

Whose benefit?

If it belongs to the imperial court, where will the money come from?

If the court is not expensive, how will the proceeds be distributed?

It looks like it's a small thing.

But actually, it's not trivial.

Because, first of all, it must be clear that before Liu Yu tossed a series of actions such as going to Nanyang, Dashun's annual revenue would almost be caught up by Britain, which had no India and no taxes in North America.

Even if expenses such as military support, disaster relief, stability maintenance, royal family, and official salaries are not taken into account, the financial revenue of the Dashun court is only in the early 3000 to [-] million taels. The Dashun court is actually a poor group.

Where does the money come from and who pays for it? For the Dashun court, this is a big and big issue that cannot be ignored.

And since it is a big event, as long as you cultivate, it will probably cause a big event.

Only when something happens can something happen.

(End of this chapter)