Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1496 Final Chapter Ninety Three Years (Fourteen)

The voices of fierce debate kept echoing beside Liu Yu's coffin, using some of Liu Yu's words, which was a unique spectacle in Dashun these years.

Dead people can be "canonized".

Because it is impossible for the dead to climb out of the coffin and interpret the scriptures.

So after confirming the news that Liu Yu was indeed dead, the Practical School in Dashun couldn't wait to use Liu Yu's words as their own arguments to argue about the future.

Everyone knows that the current situation in Dashun is not stable.

If you keep doing this, something big will happen sooner or later.

Since they are already in the court, these people naturally hope to solve this problem in an improved way.

The improvement of Dashun does not mean improvement and improvement, the more the improvement, the cooler it is, but the contradictions of the improvement until now.

The old contradiction, the contradiction between the landlords and the peasants, is getting bigger all the time.

The new contradictions were also accompanied by Li Yan's coup d'état and subsequent tactics, which pulled up the industry, and then completely intensified the new class contradictions in the pioneering areas.

Li Yan believes that the appetite of capital can be satisfied.So sticking to the mainland's banknotes, through strict control, and the promise of external expansion, I feel that I can feed them.

But in fact, it is not enough to feed.The more you feed, the stronger you become.

If it is strong, it will want the mainland market.

Thirty years ago, the emerging class that supported Li Yan believed that Li Yan was the guardian of the capitalist system.

But now, they believe that this person has hindered the capitalist system, especially seriously hindered the purchase of land, the liberalization of the mainland market, and so on.

In "Teahouse", Cui Jiufeng said that Qin Erye started a business, [but his little business, hmph, foreigners stretched out a little finger, pushed him to the ground, and never got up again].

Qin Erye started his business in Beijing and Tianjin.

In fact, in Dashun at this time, the reasoning is the same, it's just that the ones pointing their fingers are not foreigners.

The textile industry in Jianghan area has just begun to sprout.

However, the raw materials are in the hands of Songsu Capital; the gold and silver currency of Dashun and the silver inflow of foreign trade are all in Songsu.

Whoever engages in the textile industry in the Jianghan area, Songsu Capital can push him to the ground with a finger, and never get up again.

Dashun's situation is different from that of later generations.

Dashun has no shortage of raw materials, nor does it say that the origin of raw materials has been controlled by imperialism.

But now that Dashun itself is an imperialist, Dashun does not need and cannot allow Jianghan and other places to grow cotton in large quantities to meet industrial needs in order to hold back industrialization.

On the contrary, cotton from India and Java is of good quality and cheap under the plundering system of commercial capital.The cost of sea transportation is here. Jianghan's cotton planting industry has not actually started, but it has been washed to death by Indian and Java cotton.

In addition to the food problem, the Dashun court did not encourage Jianghan to grow cotton, and the crown prince made a fuss about the rice ban in Hunan and Chu, which was really scary.

Therefore, the textile industry that started in the Jianghan area relies on the Chuanchu market and the Indian Javanese cotton transported from the Yangtze River.

In this case, if the currency barrier is completely eliminated, domestic "tariffs" will be cancelled.

So, if you are a capitalist, would you choose to build a textile factory in Hankou and transport raw cotton from Songsu?Or will they choose to build a textile factory in Songsu and sell cotton cloth there?

This is a question that does not need to be considered with the brain.

Let's say that.

In the era of woolen cloth, it made sense for the British to herd sheep in enclosures and eat people.

If the blacks have already started to eat watermelon and pick cotton in the southern states, and the British are still going to enclose land to grow cotton, then it is definitely not enough brains.

Therefore, after Dashun won the first battle, it was impossible for the tragedy of "people eating cotton" to be staged inside Dashun.

It is absolutely impossible for Dashun to encourage cotton planting—under the small-scale peasant economy and small-scale land ownership system, planting cotton is not easy.Strong organizational strength is required to improve cotton seeds, eliminate old cotton seeds to prevent degradation and hybridization, and so on.This is why in the Beiyang period in history, some local officials lamented that if they wanted to improve cotton seeds, they had to wait for thousands of miles of farming in Chidi after the catastrophe to promote it.

Dashun does not encourage it.

The short-staple cotton grown by small farmers was already unsuitable for commercial use in the pre-machine age, because short-staple cotton would lead to insufficient yarn toughness under the condition of insufficient technology, and it was impossible to make wide-width cloth unless the troublesome process of starching was used. of.

Therefore, after the victory of World War I, the cotton planting industry in Dashun died.

This is also the reason why Indian cotton yarn can trigger a wave of development in Dashun's internal handmade cotton cloth.

Because Dashun is in India... as Lao Ma said, where commercial capital dominates, it will inevitably show a system of robbery.

If those things were done within Dashun, the rebel army would have burned the Forbidden City long ago.

Not just cotton.

In history, Sheng Xuanhuai once speculated in raw silk, and the reason for the final collapse, in the final analysis, is one sentence: In the world, China is not the only one that produces silk.

The principle is the same here.

With the advantages of sea transportation, all kinds of raw materials for light industry can be obtained almost in the first-mover areas, and the prices are very low.

On the one hand is the transportation cost.

On the one hand is the model of plantation and large-scale production.

Also, the reason why colonies are called colonies is because the colonists did not serve the people of the colonies, but plundered them.

Raw materials are raw materials.

Things like tea leaves are tea leaves.

This is not the same.

The court of Dashun could hold on to the tea so that it would not flow out. Anyone who tried to grow tea in Nanyang, Ceylon, and India would be killed if caught.

However, they support and encourage colonies to grow cotton, raw silk, rice, bananas, oil palm, jute, etc.

Nasan's beet pimple problem, when it comes to the competition between the local planting industry and the colonies, which side to stand on is not a problem in Dashun.

In Dashun's beet lump problem, the thinking about the concentration of large industries in advantageous areas is a question that people in Dashun think about.

And this is actually another problem: there must be a sugar mill around the beet pimple, and a lot of industries driven by the sugar industry, which accommodate a lot of employment.Otherwise, these people will be washed away by cane sugar and lose their jobs.

On Dashun’s side, strange methods were used, which caused the same and similar problems: inland protection taxes were imposed on light industrial products, and internal toll taxes were exempted from raw materials such as raw cotton, raw silk, and cotton yarn, thus creating the original pattern of handicraft centers in various provinces. Basically unchanged, and sprouting and thriving.

After all, after Liu Yu left, the group of people who followed Li Conglong all experienced a series of sequelae caused by the water transportation problem to Dashun: the decline of the original industrial and commercial center, and changes in the economic structure. These sequelae affected Dashun 50. It will take many years to heal.

The problem now is that this pattern is artificially maintained by means similar to the Grand Canal.

As long as the ridiculous-sounding "domestic tariff" is abolished, Dashun's economic structure will undergo drastic changes again.

And as the person who opposed the direct cancellation said, such a huge change is not on the scale of a million waterworkers in the abolition of water transportation, and the impact will be greater.

Not that cancellations are bad.

Rather, he is not playing games with this thing, which can be solved by clicking a button; let alone defining that this is progress and that is hindering progress, so that those who are about to be run over by the wheel of history can close their eyes and wait to die.

Even if he took three, he faced the problems of small farmers and workers, and he had to write a pamphlet "On the Elimination of Poverty" in a pretentious manner, proposing a way to accommodate the unemployed in farming and making up data.

Dashun does not mean that there is no such thinking.

What's more, this doesn't need to be learned from others at all. Immigration, reclamation, reclamation, migration, strengthening borders, and alleviating conflicts between people and land, this thing Dashun doesn't need others to inspire.

Rather, it is just like taking the third party under the banner of solving the problem of small farmers, but in fact it is backed by big capital. In the end, the words are like farting. What is said here is that "the widespread poverty in the country invades China to get that little market." Sickness", when he came to the stage, he went to beat the two crows with his backhand.

Dashun is actually like a bird here.

Before Liu Yu left, Li Yan talked with him at night, talking about the relocation problem and the conflict between people and land, which will be resolved in the future.

However, in fact, including the development and resettlement north of the Songliao watershed, they are selling state-owned land at a low price in order to repay Conglong’s achievements, create opportunities for capital, and primitively accumulate.

It's not that you can't immigrate like this, but the number...compared to the population in Dashun, the number is still too small.

For example, North America.

In the past few decades, Dashun's population has reached 500 million. The French are so frightened that they dare not even use Dashun's six-foot rail.

The problem is, it has been several decades, and there are still mountains of gold and silver. Counting the local population, three to five million people in a few decades... It is enough for Dashun to gain a population advantage in North America, but it is not enough for the contradiction between people and land in the interior.

In other words, it is useless to rely solely on the "Homestead Law" for large-scale immigration; it is also useless to rely solely on the development of steamships.

If you really want to do this, you have to rely on the imperial court to subsidize a lot of money.Everyone must at least subsidize a boat ticket, right?North America's westward movement, without mentioning the advantages of railways and capital expansion, only talked about the most basic small farmers' caravans, and it is not impossible to go there.

The question is, on Dashun's side, should small farmers drive caravans across the Pacific Ocean?

Furthermore, the concepts of "peasant" and "peasant" are different.

Henan has now reached an average of 3.13 mu of land per capita. The extreme shortage of land per capita has made landlords unscrupulous in collecting rent: they love renting but not renting.

In some places, 65% of the rent has been held back.In this case, let alone crossing the Pacific Ocean, let alone caravans, it is a question of whether some sharecroppers and short-term workers have a flatbed truck pulled by someone at home.

Indeed, Dashun's currency reform is effective.

It solves the problem of exchanging silver and copper coins, or solves the painful situation where local currency is used by the people, foreign currency is used for tax payment, money merchants, financial capital and tax collection agencies are squeezed together, and the burden on farmers is reduced to a certain extent.But with 3.13 mu of land per capita, even if you reduce it, he will have a hard time.

Even if you say that you don’t collect taxes, in some places in Henan that have been repeatedly breached by the Yellow River, suffered from floods and droughts, and are salinized, the pure chemical fertilizers are now far away. With 3 acres of land per capita, how much can the production capacity be?

Things have come to this point, and it is not something that can be solved by the development of industry and commerce.This is not to say that the development of industry and commerce is wrong, but that it is right from a macro perspective, but in terms of specific methods, methods, reality, current situation, and long-term perspective must be considered.

Dashun's main problem now is not at all whether to let go of the internal currency gate or not to let go of the internal currency gate.This is fundamentally different from the situation when Liu Yu didn't leave.

It can only be said that a group of people surrounded Liu Yu's coffin and continued to carve their boats and swords.Obviously, the people on Dashun's side are not fools. This behavior of scrambling around the coffin for swords is actually deliberately avoiding the key issue of Dashun's current predicament - money.

Only when there is money can the court pay to promote migration.The technical conditions for this kind of migration have been met, especially the construction of the Fusang railway has been started.

But this kind of migration must be on the scale of "millions, or even millions per year", otherwise it will be useless in alleviating the contradiction between people and land.And if it's not for the purpose of alleviating the conflict between people and land, but only for the ethnic space of blood-related ethnic groups, then Dashun died 30 years ago, and it doesn't matter much.

In other words, assuming that each person subsidizes the migration cost of the ferry ticket as 100 taels, then Dashun needs to spend [-] billion taels a year to do this.

Who pays for the money?

Why do you say that the current issue of Dashun is not an issue of internal currency at all, because... Historically, in 1850, when the first industrial revolution was about to reach the second industrial revolution, the markets all over the world had already been involved by Europe , so how many industrial populations can the world "support" in total?
Not to mention the whole country of Dashun, Shandong and Jiangsu, what is the population of these two provinces?
However, internal currency barriers are a problem that Dashun has to solve, especially those people who have been to Paris and witnessed the possible drastic changes in Europe. Something big happened.

History, in the end, advances through struggle.

Dashun let go of Zikou and Chaoguan, Dashun must die, and he will die very ugly.Because this will completely plunge the inland into a situation where even small landlords cannot survive, and the countryside will collapse completely.

And Dashun's death will have a future.Because of its own shortcomings, Dashun could not solve the problems of farmers and land, nor could it concentrate resources to complete the "Great Eastward Movement" that Liu Yu had envisioned long ago.

(End of this chapter)