Xinshun 1730

Chapter 210 Navigation Ordinance
Liu Yu kept his head down and didn't speak. He looked like he was thinking hard, but he was actually thinking about how to continue to deceive the emperor in the next step, and to steal the day and day within the scope of the imperial power.

Thinking that he should still be in the new term for the time being, and the emperor is quite healthy, the temporary beating should be fine.

Regarding Japan, he had thought about it many times.

Japan is short of various resources, and its handicraft industry is very poor. It is entirely dependent on the country's isolation to ensure that precious metals do not flow out.

Dashun's deformed domestic economy has a maximum of one million people with spending power. It simply cannot support a preliminary handicraft factory revolution, and the unprecedented shocks brought about by it may scare the emperor's soul away. , You have to find a vent.

If Japan's small peasant economy does not go bankrupt, the small peasants in Dashun will die.The cruelty of primitive accumulation will not only scare the emperor to pee, but also scare the Confucian scholars into retrograde.

Old seeds can't grow new fruits, he wants to plant new seeds, but these words must not be said to the emperor.

Since ancient times, it is not unreasonable to emphasize agriculture and suppress business.In terms of the speed at which commerce enriches money, if we do not emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, the dynasty will not have a 300-year cycle at all, and it may be over in a hundred years.

It's like the Shanxi merchants' control of Mongolia in history. In just a hundred years, if it is counted, each person in Outer Mongolia owes Shanxi merchants 20 taels of silver on average, and one-third of the sheep of all tribes need to be sold. , to pay off the interest for the year.

Due to the special national conditions of Dashun, it is impossible to rely on the so-called invisible hand, because the invisible hand will flow all the silver to cellars, land, and usury, instead of physical handicraft factories.

Dashun's domestic demand is a joke.

The external demand is mainly based on porcelain and silk tea, but Europe is not stupid: Britain has high tariffs on tea, France drinks less tea from coffee, and Dashun is temporarily unable to make Britain give up the [-]% tea tariff. The East India Company, unable to break the monopoly, relied on smugglers to transport tea to Britain.

Coupled with the development of European porcelain and the progress of the French silk industry, in fact the market for the third class has been basically saturated.

Southeast Asia.

Dashun's switch policy is generally mentally retarded, but the Europeans control the entry of Chinese merchant fleets in Southeast Asia and impose high tariffs to ensure the interests of various East India companies. For the time being, it is also a direction of high investment and low return.

Internally, the self-sufficient natural economy does not have a sufficient internal market; if the self-sufficient natural economy is violently broken, Dashun will face a large-scale peasant uprising.

Farmers would rather go back to the enfeoffment system and experience Confucian retro utopia as farmers, rather than go to the cruelest pre-steam factory with nothing.

Besides, Dashun can't accommodate so many bankrupt farmers, and the world's market at this time can't accommodate a preliminary industrialized eastern province, let alone Dashun as a whole.

Take a look around and look around, not only to ensure that the initial handicraft revolution will not scare the emperor into reaction, but also to ensure that a little foundation can be accumulated, so that Japan can be attacked.

In terms of righteousness, there is an excuse for Ryukyu to pay tribute on both sides.

On orthodoxy, a group of old-fashioned adherents who went to Japan at the end of Ming Dynasty advocated orthodoxy in Japan, and the emperor was very upset.

In terms of difficulty, there is a shogunate system. The Kamakura shogunate fought desperately to win the Mongolian invasion, and ended up in a complete mess. The Edo shogunate does not have to consider whether it is to protect the shogunate or protect Japan.

In terms of short-term benefits, Liu Yu just fooled Japan into reforming the minting of coins. The Edo shogunate had a large amount of precious metals obtained from minting coins.

In terms of long-term benefits, as long as Japan liberalizes trade restrictions, Jiangxi porcelain can definitely completely overwhelm Japan's fledgling porcelain, and silk products can also completely overwhelm Japan's silk industry.

As for the woolen textile industry, Westerners imagined that there were sheep on oil paintings, but the Japanese laughed and said that they must have never been to Japan; in the cotton textile industry, Liu Yu didn’t know where cotton could be grown in Japan; in the iron smelting industry, Japan’s iron ore was very scarce. , had also imported a large number of iron rods from the Netherlands before.

On the colonial system, Liu Yu sent the method of promoting sweet potatoes to the past, so that Japan can have more rice as "commercial grain".In the early stage, gold, silver, copper and precious metals can be absorbed for primitive accumulation, and in the later stage, rice can be exchanged to ensure the stability and cost of coastal industry and commerce.

In terms of management costs, Southeast Asia is a mess without a strong government.And Japan has a fairly strong government that can guarantee that the interests of the "Chinese people" in Japan will not be damaged.Moreover, the system of the Edo shogunate has enabled the emergence of a unified national market in Japan, which is extremely beneficial.

Liu Yu has already weighed these pros and cons many times.

It's just that even if the emperor said that he "confided his heart" and had unlimited grace, it was impossible for him to tell the truth.

To be honest, the emperor may not understand.

Or, if you can understand it, you will understand that this kind of imperial power will come to an end.

He can only tell lies.

Since the emperor seemed to be confiding in his heart, Liu Yu answered according to the emperor's state of mind.

"Your Majesty, I have also said before that Japan's affairs seem difficult, but they are actually simple. Under the Japanese shogunate system, the shogunate dare not fight us. If they can lose money, they will guarantee the rule of the shogunate. They are willing. .”

"The shogun will fight us with all the banners. After the fight, who will be able to suppress those famous princes?"

"Besides, the name of the shogunate is not right and the words are not right. If the king of Japan is used to make the daimyo, then the shogunate will not only not turn against us, but will ask us to help suppress the resistance of the daimyos from all walks of life."

"The shogunate is the best guardian of the land in Japan. The only concern is the intervention of the Dutch. However, if the king of Austria has no male heirs, Europe will be in chaos, and the Dutch will definitely not dare to intervene."

"I don't dare to say that there will be no other changes in the future, but what I can guarantee is that Japan will pay 500 million taels of compensation, liberalize trade, and levy several 10 taels of tariffs on Japan every year after ten years. The income can also increase by several 10 taels."

"Moreover, if Japan pays tribute, His Majesty can report to the Taimiao. Ryukyu is also a loyal minister of the Celestial Dynasty. It is also the duty of the emperor to save Ryukyu."

"After thinking about it, there are only advantages and no disadvantages."

Li Gan didn't dare to say he understood anything else.

But the generals of the shogunate didn't dare to take out all the banners to fight Dashun in the field. Li Gan knew it all too well. How could an emperor not understand this routine?

Listening to Liu Yu's analysis, it seems that there is no difficulty at all.As long as the navy can win and Japan is full of coastlines, you can land wherever you want. With the combat effectiveness shown by the Qingzhou Army in the Western Regions, it is indeed not difficult.

People are not greedy enough to swallow elephants. Li Gan thought about Japan's trade and asked: "But the Netherlands has traded with Japan since its inception. If Japan switches trade, the Netherlands and Western countries may benefit. In this way, isn’t it true that the Celestial Dynasty sent troops, people, and money to benefit other countries?”

Liu Yu wanted to talk about this question.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I have investigated the Dutch trade with Japan. Before Dashun, the Dutch traded with Japan, requiring merchants to send goods to Batavia, and later to Taiwan. In this way, the Fujian merchants benefited, and the Dutch Shipping raw silk to Japan is much more expensive than shipping it directly to Japan from Fujian merchants.”

"At that time, a small part of the Dutch relied on Fujian merchants for transshipment, and the other part of their goods to Japan was spices. There were also some homespun cloth from India and woolen cloth from Western countries."

"In the future, the world will be stable, and we will open the customs and trade with foreign merchants. The goods of the Dutch are directly obtained from Zhangzhou and other places. Except for the original spices, the Dutch no longer ship woolen from their own country, nor from the India delivered homemade cloth. These shares were all replaced by cotton cloth, raw silk, sugar, etc. from the dynasty.”

"That's why, this matter is actually simple. As long as you follow the example of Britain, all goods shipped to Japan must be produced by the Chinese Empire; all ships bound for Japan must be headed by Chinese merchants; all Western goods bound for Japan must be After China collects customs duties at Hong Kong, it will be shipped to Japan."

"Japan only opened two or three ports, and strictly ordered Japan to continue to lock the country and not trade with other countries. The fleet sailed to intercept. Once the Dutch were found to violate the regulations, the goods were seized. And they threatened to cut off trade and double tariffs."

"Now the East India Company has been established, or the Western countries that have trade with us include Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain."

"Among them, Sweden and Denmark can be ignored. France, Portugal, Spain, etc. are all hostile to the Netherlands. Britain and the Netherlands are allies, but Britain has more conflicts with the Netherlands in Southeast Asia. If our dynasty conflicts with the Netherlands, it will happen that Europa is the throne of Austria. When there is a big fight, Holland can't help."

"Western goods are difficult to sell in Japan. The rest of the countries have no trade in Japan, so as long as they defeat the Netherlands, they can sign treaties with Britain, France, Spain and other countries. Make the Western countries recognize that Japan is the Celestial Dynasty The vassals also made them admit that they cannot trade with Japan, otherwise they would cut off trade with their country.”

"Except for the Netherlands, the Western countries have no trade with Japan, and they must abide by the treaty in a short time."

"The Netherlands occupies Nanyang, monopolizes spices, and finds an excuse to go to war with the Netherlands, which is also very profitable."

"Similar to the method of the Netherlands, His Majesty's internal funds or household government treasury can monopolize the income of spices, and you can earn more than one million a year."

"War with Japan, and immediately declare that Western countries are not allowed to transship goods to Japan. The Dutch value profits, so they must take risks. If they are seized, it will be up to me."

"In Batavia, there are tens of thousands of overseas adherents of the Celestial Dynasty, all of whom have their hearts attached to the Celestial Dynasty, and want to appease them every day."

"Once Europe goes to war over the Austrian throne, the Netherlands will not be able to increase its troops in Southeast Asia. The army is only [-], and the navy has many merchant ships. We can defeat the Netherlands in one go."

"At that time, if there is a war in Europe, Britain will not only attack France, but also Spain in Luzon. Naturally, it will prevent me from standing on the side of France. If they see my fleet, they will back down, for fear that I will take the opportunity to start a war."

"The Netherlands can't stand alone, this matter can be achieved. After the defeat of the Netherlands, Batavia's remnants of the Celestial Dynasty can rule on the spot, monopolize the spices, and sell them in the West. The Dutch can sail tens of thousands of miles, and more than half of them are killed or injured along the way, which shows the profits of the spices. .”

"I don't dare to talk nonsense, but if this matter can be done and it belongs to the household government, then the national treasury will have more than seven or eight Henan's taxes every year."

"It is an old minister who said: Time is not waiting for us. If you miss this opportunity, you will regret it for life. If it is delayed for a few years, Britain will win India. I am afraid that it will go to war with the Netherlands and Britain will intervene. It will be difficult to fight at that time. Although the British territory is not big, but With an annual income of more than 2000 million taels, it is really not a small country. If it wins India, it will not be difficult for its annual income to surpass that of the Chinese Empire."

"Your Majesty, please make up your mind. Chen Ping's admission to the Western Regions has already proved that Chen is not the kind of person who talks nonsense."

(End of this chapter)