Xinshun 1730

Chapter 742 Batavia New Deal ([-])

Looking at the mournful expressions of these Nanyang land snakes such as Jiapidan and Lei Zhenlan, Liu Yu knew that the allusion of "Maoling" might be too scary.

Even in winter, it is still hot here.Now these people are like eggplants beaten by Shuang, making the air so stuffy that it is difficult to breathe. For a long time, these people did not speak, and Liu Yu really had no choice but to say: "Don't be nervous. Didn't the outside say Well, the first article of the three chapters of the Covenant means that everything that happened before should not be blamed."

"If the imperial court wants some of your family property, the three chapters of the agreement do not add the first article, so why don't you deal with you casually?"

"Others need to have a good reputation when they do things. I am like the saying 'how can others snore on the side of the couch', and I will not go around with you. I just don't want you local snakes to stay in Nanyang, and I don't bother to find some high-sounding ones. The reason. It's as simple as that."

Lian Fuguang said helplessly: "Your Highness, Marquis Jing, please tell me what the imperial court is going to do?"

They didn't know what to do, mainly because they didn't know what the court was going to do.

In fact, Liu Yu's insistence on dealing with them has basically nothing to do with them being Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan in the Netherlands.

In Liu Yu's view, this is not a big deal.

This is different from the Mongolian Yuan attacking the Song Dynasty and surrendering to become an official, or the later Jin Chengshi shaving his hair and putting it on the list.

Java has never been regarded as since ancient times, and the imperial court has indeed never ruled it, or even ignored it. Under such circumstances, it is really difficult for them to have the integrity of not following the barbarians.

The reason why they had to be dealt with and moved away was not only the needs of the court, but also the reasons of Lian Fuguang and others themselves.

Reasons like local snakes, that is to say, are for Lian Fuguang and others to listen to.

Lian Fuguang and others, they are extremely rich.

If Dashun wants the so-called sprout of capitalism to continue to grow and develop, of course it needs to be extremely rich.

However, Lian Fuguang and others in Java and Batavia, their investment direction and the direction of making profits are completely different from Liu Yu's needs.

How did the Lian family prosper?
Relying on buying and selling "piggies", that is, Chinese slave labor, he got the first pot of gold.

After getting his first pot of gold, he started working in a plantation for a few years.If you keep working on plantations, you don't need to mention the sin of the first pot of gold, and it's okay to work on plantations, industry.

But with the decline of Batavia, the overall weakness of the Netherlands, the sugar crisis and other factors, Lian Fuguang's main income after that basically consists of the following parts:
tax package.In fact, it is similar to buying an official as a county magistrate, with a tax package of [-], and if you don't earn [-], then you have no ability.

Printing money is mainly the worthless lead coin tokens circulated inside the Chinese outside the city.The Dutch could manage Batavia, but they couldn't control the outside of Batavia. The coins of the Dutch East India Company did not gradually circulate outside of Batavia until after the Hongxi tragedy.

Contracted purchase of spices in rural areas.

lend money.

smuggling.

sell people.

casino.

And when his father was a Wuzhi fan, he used the forced donation of money from the Wuzhi fan workhouse to make a fortune.

The rich and the rich are not necessarily the capitalists with the budding capitalism.

In Liu Yu's opinion, even Fuguang definitely doesn't count.

Even if people like Lian Fuguang opened mines, set up plantations, bought land to grow and sell rice in Java, Liu Yu would never think of moving them away.

But he really doesn't deserve to be labeled a bourgeoisie for what he's doing.

Now that Dashun has gone to Nanyang, at the very least, don't even think about canceling the tax package and printing money. Of course, smuggling and selling people are not allowed.

In fact, if they stay in Nanyang, they can only be forced to transform, and it is impossible to make money in the previous way.

However, they have all completed the primitive accumulation of the first bucket of gold. As for how to accumulate it, there is no need to study it carefully.In this era, the first pot of gold is not so clean.

Liu Yu hopes to guide them and invest the first pot of gold they earn in where he wants these people to invest.

And within the court, or Liu Yu's persuasion of the emperor's direction, some people in the court gradually realized the benefits of private capital.

From the initial use of business to control Mongolia, to the war against Japan, to the development of Ezo and the immigration of Whale Sea, the imperial court paid for forced immigration, and the imperial court simply couldn't afford it.

It's like immigrants from the Western Regions.

Because of inconvenient transportation and unprofitable capital, the imperial court can only emigrate with money.Since the end of the Battle of the Western Regions, the emperor had a very painful understanding of how much immigration would cost.

But the almost equally remote and wild Ezo and Whale Sea, because of their profitability, relatively convenient sea transportation, and the ability to sell their goods, although they started to immigrate later than the Western Regions, the immigrant population has gradually surpassed those who went to the Western Regions in the past few years. immigrants.

The imperial court didn't spend a single penny, which led to more and more Chinese people in Ezo and Jinghai. In the eyes of the emperor, this was a real benefit.

In addition, although Liu Yu has been very careful not to touch industries such as textiles that may have a huge impact on small farmers, some industries that have basically no impact on small farmers, such as mining, metallurgy, casting, and glass, have gradually become more and more popular in recent years. develop.

It brings a lot of taxes to the imperial court every year, such as glass and other industries, adapting the British experience: the UK taxes raw materials, Dashun taxes finished glass, ironware, etc., and large workshops are relatively cheap. It is easy to evade taxes, which really made the court see the benefits.

These require a large amount of private capital investment.

Of course, the emperor considered the threat of the businessman, so he called Liu Yu's plan "raising pigs in a pigsty".

Taking advantage of the special geographical location of the Yangtze River Estuary, as well as the advantages of the developed navy and shipping, and centering on the Yangtze River Estuary, let the capital radiate to the surrounding areas.

Investors "circle" in Songjiang Prefecture.

Outside the Songjiang Mansion, the imperial court also stationed a field force.

As long as there is a favorable wind, the naval fleet can directly bombard Songjiang Mansion from Weihaiwei Military Port within ten days.

In addition, the headquarters of trading companies to Japan, and the attempt to collect stamp duty on stocks, etc., were all pioneered in Songjiang Prefecture. After nearly 20 years of development, the business and investment atmosphere there has been quite strong.

Therefore, the emperor hoped to change the practice of the "Moving Maoling Order", so that the wealthy in Nanyang, with their primitive accumulation, went to Songjiang Mansion to "enclose" them.

You can invest, you can start a business, but no matter how you jump, the [-] field troops stationed nearby and dozens of warships in Weihaiwei can make the emperor safe.

This can be regarded as a tacit compromise between Liu Yu and the emperor.

The emperor allowed to try the power of private capital; Liu Yu gave the emperor a reassurance: once the emperor doesn't want the powerful navy and the field troops after the military reform, they will be destroyed overnight.

The current technology is not so advanced, and huge government-run enterprises cannot be established; in the government-run economy of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Dashun neither had free government-owned craftsmen, nor the ability to restore the old system of the Song Dynasty.

Now that the imperial court is gradually expanding, money is needed in many places.Just like the Northeast and Ezo, if there is no one, what is the difference between not being defeated?
Private capital has no interest in reforming the land in the Southwest and returning immigrants to the Western Regions, because there is no money to make.

However, private capital is still willing to invest money in Northeast China, Southeast Asia, and handicraft factories in Songjiang, Tianjin and other places where the imperial court can completely control, where the population is dense and the labor force is abundant, because it is profitable.

The emperor wanted to make Songjiang Maoling.

Maoling is not far from Chang'an.

Songjiang, in fact, is not far from the capital after the navy of Dashun was able to ensure that the waste water and the sea would not be threatened by the sea, and that it could defeat the Westerners in Nanyang.

Speaking in the dark, Liu Yu guessed that the emperor probably thought about it: If the imperial court had no money in the late Ming Dynasty, all the pigs in these "pig pens" could be killed for their meat.No matter how bad it is, you will kill the chicken to get the eggs; no matter how bad it is, you will be forced to borrow money.

As long as the court still has money and a navy, it will have food, soldiers, and continue to rule.

Excluding these extremely dark ideas, the emperor still thought about abolishing the water and changing the sea in the future, and some people wrote a letter proposing to abolish the two and change the yuan, continue foreign trade, and hope that the export-oriented industries will accommodate more landless farmers. I hope that private capital will continue to develop Jinghai, and even after visiting the Academy of Sciences, I am thinking about building railway tracks in the future so that the soldiers of Dashun Jingying can suppress uprisings in various places at any time...

All these thoughts, coupled with the fact that the emperor felt that he should probably live another 30 to [-] years, and that the treasury was gradually filled with real money in the past few years, so he thought about making Songjiang Maoling.

However, in Liu Yu's view, it is better to say that Songjiang Mansion is the Amsterdam of the East.

Liu Yu has always felt that Dashun has no shortage of primitively accumulated capital.Whether it is those big landlords, or the rich people in Nanyang, or those who engage in overseas trade, they have all been completed through various clean or unclean means.

What is missing is a stable and profitable investment direction, as well as the guidance of the overall social atmosphere.

What the imperial court is going to do now is neither letting things go, nor government-run monopoly.

Let it go, in Dashun, the most value-preserving and most profitable investment direction is to buy land and lend usury.

If left alone, in less than ten years, a huge amount of overseas wealth will pour in, and land annexation will be more intense than in previous dynasties.

The government-run franchise, Dashun's organizational capabilities, and the current technical conditions are not good at all.Because it is better for the emperor to engage in a foreign trade monopoly if the government-run monopoly is to be carried out-private trade with the West is strictly prohibited.

The emperor wanted to see that Liu Yu was correct again and again in matters such as Liu Yu's transformation from the army to the navy and then to the conquest of Japan, so he had to try some of Liu Yu's opinions.

But if there is no foundation laid in the past 20 years, if the emperor only wants to make money, it will be really easy.

For the Eastern trade, Japan locked the country by itself, which gave Dashun a chance to monopolize. The long coastline can’t be seen by itself, but when it comes to Japan, the shogunate helps to watch it; for the Western trade, Nanyang has been won, from Liaodong to Guangdong. China's coastline cannot be controlled, but once the door is closed, it is easy to engage in trade between Malacca and Sunda, and all the money will go into the emperor's pocket.

In addition, Liu Yu's military reform and the establishment of the navy convinced the emperor that the "pig pen raising pigs" model could not be seen as a threat to his family's rule for the time being. This made Dashun's policy towards private capital drift in a strange direction .

Guidance by the imperial court, policy support, neither laissez-faire, nor all government-run, some industries, such as the exclusive trade with Japan, rice transportation, mining and metallurgy, etc., were appropriately transferred to qualified private capital groups.

It is said that this policy is weird because it is slightly inaccurate and drifting. It is impossible to produce "compradors", but it is easy to drift to "chaebols".

Compradors and chaebols, two piles of stinky shit.But if it is bad, the chaebol is somewhat stronger than the comprador.

(End of this chapter)