Xinshun 1730

Chapter 743 Batavia's New Deal ([-])

It can be said that the emperor basically knew nothing about economics, but the emperor himself had full confidence in going to Nanyang.

Therefore, the emperor felt that once the matter of going to Nanyang was resolved, Liu Yu would be given a duke, so that Liu Yu would never touch the gun again.

The emperor needs two hands.

One hand is the barrel of a gun.

One hand is a money bag.

The emperor's purse is not the household government minister, it is the imperial court's purse, not the emperor's purse, there is a huge difference.

Liu Yu's age is also quite embarrassing.

Born a few years earlier, the emperor would be able to boil Liu Yu to death with all his strength, and when the time comes, he will be suspended for three days, and he will be infinitely mournful.

If you were born a few years late, don't use it, leave the kindness of knowing you to the prince, or use it as a money bag, or as a gun barrel, it doesn't matter.

It happened to be smaller than the emperor without embarrassment, but not so small that he could leave it to the prince as a gun barrel and a money bag.

So the emperor was going to take Liu Yu away before leaving.

Once the Nanyang matter is resolved, Liu Yu will not be able to touch the barrel of the gun at all, and Liu Yu hopes to support the money bag.

Stay till the end, leave enough inheritance for the prince, and then take Liu Yu with you.

Many Westerners who had contact with Liu Yu and had some knowledge of Dashun's government thought that Liu Yu was Dashun's behind-the-scenes foreign minister. In fact, this was a completely wrong perception.

According to the emperor's attitude, the Western countries are tens of thousands of miles away, so it's my business?

Going to Nanyang requires diplomacy with other countries, but the purpose of diplomacy is going to Nanyang, and the purpose of going to Nanyang is to make money.

Therefore, to be precise, Liu Yu's identity is more like the emperor's financial advisor behind the scenes.

Household government money is the third kind.

Diding silver, salt tax, internal gateway business tax.

The emperor's money is trade, the transfer of monopoly rights, and new industrial taxes.There are not many Dashun Huangzhuang, the lessons learned from the previous dynasty, there are many places where the emperor wants to spend money, forcing the emperor to find a way.It wasn't that the emperor didn't want to be the largest landlord in the country, but the fact that Dashun started his business meant that the emperor was doomed not to acquire too many Huangzhuang, not to mention the consideration of the people, at least it felt unlucky.

The emperor obviously did not intend to hand over the income from going to Nanyang to the household government, and he also felt that the household government did not understand it.

Therefore, this time when Liu Yu went to Nanyang, he was more likely to receive imperial orders, and he had a lot of authority on issues related to the economy.

The emperor didn't know what to do with many policies, but he basically agreed that he would support what Liu Yu did, at least take a look at it first, and would not directly veto it.

The emperor was not going to discuss many things about the emperor's own money bag through the court meeting.Discussions will definitely involve quarrels, and they will engage in the Confucian political correctness of the Celestial Dynasty. Talking about political correctness, there is really no way to refute it.Even if the emperor himself didn't believe it, he had to pretend that he believed it.

The emperor's own ability is also limited, and it is impossible to understand everything. For such things that he has never encountered before, he is more willing to leave it to Liu Yu to make a breakthrough, see the situation, and decide later.

This is also Liu Yu's confidence to tell Niu Er to just let go and do it.

Facing Lian Fuguang and the others this time, Liu Yu directly used the mausoleum relocation order as a metaphor, which can be regarded as an ultimatum that cannot be changed.

It's useless to ask anyone to intercede, and they can't find anyone with status in the court.

After patiently clarifying the details of what the court planned for him and the others, even Fuguang and the others were still upset, but they were more or less acceptable.

According to what Liu Yu said, their real estate will be auctioned off, and they will be asked to live in Songjiang Mansion with their money and property.

There, you can continue to invest, continue to do business, and even invest in setting up plantations in Nanyang, but you can't move your family to other places.

And relatively speaking, Songjiang Prefecture is one of the few prefectures and counties with the most special policies in Dashun at this time.The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River is quite rich, and it is not a wild land, let alone a poor place like Shaanxi, like Qianmaoling.

Liu Yu also talked about a series of commercial activities involving private capital such as trade with Japan, rice transportation, and the development of Yezo, which sounded okay.

Of course, it would be best if they could not go or leave Nanyang, where their roots are.

But this is obviously impossible. Even Fu Guang knows when to advance and retreat. Although he is still uneasy about the future, he has no choice but to thank him and accept it.

Liu Yu reassured: "You guys are rich, so it's different where you go? Jiangnan is a good place, there's no shortage of gourmet beauties, it's not as hot as Batavia, and it's easy to get sick, and there are opportunities to invest and make a fortune, how can you not be strong?" In Batavia?"

"I might as well tell you that there is no benefit for you to stay. Firstly, it is impossible to pay taxes, and secondly, the imperial court does not allow many industries you have worked on. Then what do you think you can do if you stay? There is no place to buy, and the trade is estimated to be increasingly depressed in Bacheng in the future."

"The sugar industry, I think it has been difficult in the past few years. It will be better in the future, you can invest in Songjiang freely, and you must raise shares to start a business."

"Does the imperial court love your money? Of course it does. But the imperial court is not the kind of miser who keeps money comfortably, and asks for money for spending."

"Some things, as long as the goal is achieved, what is the difference between the court spending money and your spending money? It is nothing more than some loss-making business. You can't invest money. For example, let you go to the Western Regions to buy land and hire people to immigrate. Are you going? Definitely not going."

"But go to Jinghai to immigrate, fish and catch shrimps, produce seafood, and sell them to Japanese people. Do you invest money? If you can make a profit, you must be willing to invest money."

"But for the imperial court, what they want is more and more immigrants from the Whale Sea, so that the imperial court can control it. You pay, and the imperial court pays. For the imperial court, of course I hope you will pay."

"It's also like setting up workshops to accommodate refugees to do things. Of course, the imperial court does not want unemployed refugees to spread everywhere, but the imperial court is either government-run or incorporated into the army following the Song Dynasty system. Not very good."

"So don't worry about it, and don't think that this is a sheep feeding a tiger's mouth. I really want to eat you, so I can eat here. Why go to Songjiang to eat?"

"Besides, if you go to Songjiang, you will know that there are many people who are several times richer than you. What is your industry? Many people in Songjiang are engaged in monopolizing trade with Japan and transporting grain rice. Which one is not as good as you? You have a lot of property? They are not afraid, so what are you afraid of?"

Either to comfort, or to intimidate, or to reason, Liu Yu tried not to use such a rude way to solve this problem.

If it is too rough, although the purpose of relocation can be achieved, the purpose of making them trust the imperial court and invest boldly instead of buying land, farming and studying after the relocation will not be achieved.

Confiscating one's home for a crime is easy, but it is difficult to say how much of the gold and silver copied out was used in the emperor's hands to prosper the property.

Even Fu Guang was still worried, so he could only say at this time: "If that's the case, we are willing to follow the imperial court's arrangement. The rest of the land and the like can be sold. But this ancestral house, please honor your hand. I just I hope to arrange for some old family members to watch over here and pay homage to them from time to time."

Liu Yu smiled and said: "You don't have to think about being exiled, and it's not that you are not allowed to come back. The imperial court has long stipulated that those who are extremely wealthy and registered can go to sea, but they must return within two years. The so-called, if you can run away, the monk can't run away from the temple, I have confidence."

"At that time, most of the money in your hand will be exchanged for stocks and bonds. If you go elsewhere, it will be waste paper, and you will take the initiative to keep it for a long time."

"If you really want to run away, you have nowhere to go. Right. Go to Europe. Although you understand Dutch, you are outsiders after all. Not to mention that you voted for the imperial court and took Batavia, there is no such thing. If you go there, you will be oppressed."

"Letting you move out, I have considered it a long time ago, and your resistance to moving away will not be too great. As long as you clarify the policy of the imperial court, you will avoid all kinds of dark speculation and anxiety, in fact, it is really nothing."

"You said before that you are not powerful. You are not completely wrong in saying that, after all, you are not the kind of powerful in the Han Dynasty, with tens of thousands of land. You mainly do business, and most of the assets in your hands are turnover, cash, and debts. As for the land, under the rule of the Dutch, you will not have much."

This is on point.

These people are not considered the landlord class. In fact, they do not have much real estate such as land.Including sugar factories and the like, they have not made much money in the past few years, and they have all been chartered out and changed hands.

They can be regarded as a special class under the colonial rule. They are compradors, but they are not; they are dog legs, which seems ugly.

In short, most of their income is dependent on the rule of the colonial government.

Liu Yu wanted to make a drastic move on the land issue in Java, and it wasn't these Chinese, but the local aboriginal nobles, who had little to do with these wealthy Chinese.

Liu Yu talks about the sprouting of capitalism all day long, and Liu Yu can be regarded as "pushing the seedlings to encourage growth".

Even Fu Guang didn't expect that a court official like Liu Yu could think of this level. Seeing that what Liu Yu said was reasonable, he finally felt a little relieved.

"Marquis Jing is right. I really don't have much property. As for the sugar factories and the like, they don't make any money now, so it's okay to sell them at a low price."

"Since Jinghou knows these details, I feel at ease. If we go to Songjiang Mansion and there are really investment channels, we will of course be willing to make a fortune. According to Jinghou, it can be regarded as contributing to the imperial court and achieving the imperial court's goal. For the purpose, we also made money, such a good thing made us overthinking before."

"I'll go back here, and submit the land deeds of our respective fields, sugar factories, etc., and everything is subject to the imperial court."

I said so, but I thought in my heart, I can’t do it if I don’t listen. Looking at the posture of the court, it would be good to let us take the money. What else do you want to produce land?
It is said that it is an auction, if the imperial court takes it back to the government, will it be possible to cry and want to go back?It's better to be acquainted, take the initiative to hand it over, if you can give some money, you can give it; if you can't, then sell your favor and send it to the court.It's better than being crushed to the Yamen at that time, charged with a crime and taken away.

He, Jiabidan, made such a statement, and the rest of Lei Zhenlan could only make a statement with Lian Fuguang, saying that he would go back and get all the land title deeds, and move to Songjiang Mansion in accordance with the court's decree in a few days.

Before leaving, Liu Yu said another word that reassured them completely.

"If you do it, you have to do it quickly. Since the imperial court won Nanyang, the spices and the like must be sold. Maybe they will follow the Dutch way and set up a monopoly company, which will be raised in Songjiang Mansion at that time." .If you go late, I'm afraid you'll miss this opportunity."

(End of this chapter)