Xinshun 1730

Chapter 864 Relative Benevolence and Righteousness

"I'll remind you again."

"Western trade and the development of Ezou are all about money. It's okay if you have it. If you don't have it, your life will be a bit tighter. It didn't happen before. Didn't it come like this in the past dynasties? But have you ever heard that there can be no water transportation in the past dynasties? ?”

"This rice is different."

"This is similar to the fact that the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company have armies, the right to wage war, and administrative power. But our Western Trading Company must never have an army, and must not have the right to wage war. "

"It's different, special."

"Threesomes must have my teacher, and it's also true that I learned from foreigners. But just like taking history as a mirror, you have to learn it thoroughly, not just copy it, and make things like Handan learning to walk, carve a boat, ask for a sword and wait for a rabbit."

"Western Trading Company, being able to spend military expenses to 'please' the imperial court to send troops to fight, is the biggest concession."

"This rice trade can be turned into a government-business comprador, which is already the biggest concession."

"The more important the matter, the more conservative the court will choose."

"Don't you guys think that's better, let the imperial court think that's better. The imperial court has been in contact with the comprador system, but the joint-stock system is still a new thing, especially when it comes to the issue of rice that is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, we can only choose the most conservative means."

After finishing speaking, Liu Yu said again: "Besides, if it becomes a joint-stock system, do you think that it's about Caomi, do you shareholders still have a say? Then what's the difference between this and the government-run farming?"

"You guys, I'm not humiliating you. You businessmen always think that good things are your own. You want to make money but don't want to take responsibility. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

"Are you going to do it? If you don't do it, I'll find someone else. Don't think that I'm just talking about it. Funding is not a problem at all. No one is willing to lend to small farmers. But there are large plantations and plantations with stable prices. Some people Willing to borrow."

These big businessmen just wanted to bargain and see if they could get better terms.

Or maybe it is true as Liu Yu said, the business atmosphere and environment of the Songjiang Mansion over the past ten years has really made these businessmen a little forgetful, so they don't know their surnames.

Seeing that Liu Yu was a little dissatisfied, Lin Yunwen hurriedly came out to smooth things over.

"Calm down your anger. Calm down. It makes us think less."

"There are quite a few nephews in the family present. It is a good thing to ask them to take care of Nanyang's property. As for farming, I don't know how to do it. If there are people who are willing to be the head of the farm, they will know it."

"It's just that, will the imperial court forcefully give us disaster victims?"

"For example, there was a catastrophe in the Yellow River in a certain year, and there were millions of victims. Will the imperial court let us distribute some victims, even if we have no shortage of people, the imperial court will force us to do so?"

Liu Yu stretched out two fingers, his face was more serious than ever.

"First of all, this kind of thing won't happen. I guarantee you."

"Secondly, as Nanyang gradually develops, it will only dislike the lack of people, but not the large number of people. When the Western trade develops, instead of growing food, people will be needed to grow coffee, cotton, and indigo."

"At that time, you will only dislike why the Yellow River flooded once this year, and why there was a severe drought in the Huaihe River this year?"

What these businessmen were waiting for was Liu Yu's words "I will protect you".

Hearing these four words, they were also relieved, thinking that Liu Yu is now in his prime, and it is the time when the emperor's grace is mighty.No matter how you look at it, there will be three to fifty years.

It is impossible for the imperial court to come forward to guarantee anything, and the imperial court has no habit of guaranteeing.But Liu Yu's personal statement is still acceptable. With years of reputation, the businessmen are also relieved.

As for looking forward to a disaster, although that is an insult to the heart, in fact, if Nanyang really develops, it is not certain whether it is thought so in the heart.

In order to reassure them, Liu Yu cupped his hands again and said: "Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, he is extremely wise, and can distinguish good from bad, loyal and traitorous. He has also experienced the relocation of Ceylon, so he is not someone who does not know the truth of the people. "

"A dead person is bound to die. You don't have to be afraid of someone using the dead person to make a statement. From the perspective of the reclamation of Taiwan and the emigration to Ceylon, some people in the Central Plains of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River will not accept the water and soil... half and half."

"But speaking of it, it's not about how much subsidy each recruiter gives, but that you spend money to hire people to work."

"If you pay as much subsidy for recruiting people as you want, most of you can kill them all at sea to cheat the subsidy. But hiring people to work is different."

"So, you can also rest assured that the imperial court will not punish you for relocating and reclaiming half of the people who died."

"Other than that, if you have any worries, just ask."

Hearing that Liu Yu even considered this, the merchants had nothing to worry about.

Although the specific details have not been discussed yet, they have roughly considered what to do with their years of experience.

The land certainly cannot be reclaimed in the first year.

Farming costs money.

This all requires investment.

Including the purchase of cattle, ironware, farm tools, and seeds.To build a house to live in, although Nanyang is not cold, at least it must be sheltered from the rain.

As for how to make money, that is also simple.

Rice is expensive, so those who work don't eat rice.

Plant something like cassava, sweet potato, potato, jackfruit, etc. for the workers to eat.

Isn't that what Japan does too? The rice is sold, and then cheap food is bought.

As for finding someone, they don't have to do it themselves.

As long as the industry is established, someone will buy people in the disaster area or everywhere.

For example, if a loan shark owes ten taels of silver, it is completely unaffordable for the tenant farmers.At that time, pay ten taels of silver to pay off the debt, pay the human traffickers an intermediary fee, and go to work in Nanyang to pay off the debt.

Of course, this is not called a slave in Dashun.This is called contract labor.

Or, if the coastal area is hit by a disaster, there will definitely be a dedicated industrial chain in the future.Human traffickers carry food and go to the disaster area to pick people up, which is similar to visiting a cattle and horse market.After picking the right people, prepare food along the way, or send these people to the ship, collect the money and leave; the ship will send them to Nanyang, and just take over there.

Calculated at such a cost, it must be profitable, and it is still a lot of money.

Thinking about it again, it is indeed as Liu Yu said, if Nanyang develops in the future, I am really afraid that the Yellow River will not flood.

Even if we grow cotton and indigo in the future, we must first ensure the food problem.The food is guaranteed, and the cost of transporting people there in the future will be lower.

After calculating again, the average cost is 30 taels of silver per person, based on the fixed price of rice in the imperial court of [-] tael and [-] stone, it should be able to pay back in one or two years.

It will all be profitable in the future.

They also know in their hearts that they are different from small farmers.

The so-called crops are not harvested and planted every year.

But for small farmers, not harvesting this year means bankruptcy, which means selling the only land they have, or borrowing usury.

And for them, if they don’t collect it this year, they will lose money at most, and they will not be forced to sell the land to raise money; if they accept it next year, they will earn back the money they lost last year.

Moreover, according to the normal rice price in Nanyang, the income from growing rice may be lower; according to the comprador price set by the imperial court, it is not low.

But this is Caomi, maybe it will lose its head.Then first guarantee the output of Caomi, and after that, grow whatever makes money in the future.

Presumably, the imperial court will allocate some land to them, and it will definitely not be small.As long as the grain rice can be guaranteed and the tax-free land allocated, the imperial court will turn a blind eye to what to plant in the future.

Some people even thought of some ways to deal with possible long-term workers fleeing from the experience of the sugar cane plantations and sugar factories in those years.

The Nanyang Sugarcane Plantation relied on the Dutch to arrest and serve hard labor without a residence permit, forcing those people to accept low wages.

Now that Dashun is going to Nanyang, and the policy is obviously to encourage going to Nanyang to ease the conflict between people and land, this will not work.

But the businessman thought of Liu Yu's saying that taking history as a mirror is not just learning in Handan, and he wants to master the essence, so he thought of the essence.

I just wish I couldn't be armed like the Westerners, otherwise, if I had guns and cannons in my hands, I would attack those Nanyang people, burn them and loot them.

In this way, the two sides will become enmity.In this way, even if the long-term worker wanted to run, there was no place to run - if he ran outside and was caught by the feuding Nanyang locals, he would die.

Isn't this the essence of using the sugarcane field and being held by the Dutch for hard labor?To do business, you should apply what you have learned and grasp the essence.

This is also the normal thinking of businessmen. They will not first consider how to increase wages so that others will not flee; instead, they will first assume low wages and profits, and then consider how to make people have to accept it.

Liu Yu is also very clear about their virtues.

It's just that the premise of controlling Nanyang is population.

In economics, there is an invisible hand.It is said that with the development of Nanyang, there will naturally be more people underground in Nanyang, and various plantation economies will develop.

However, the invisible hand inherently has a lag.

Coupled with the transportation and trade of this era, it is often calculated in years.

It can only be artificially intervened, using the rice problem to quickly enrich the population of Nanyang, and prepare for the demand for economic crops such as plantation economy and cotton dyeing under the guidance of the upcoming Western trade.

Caomi is also the only feasible means of "state intervention" that Dashun can use.

Although the life in Nanyang may be very bitter, it is better than the fate of starvation, disaster, uprising and massacre in the Huanghuai area.

It is mainly a few densely populated poverty-stricken areas, which are in an awkward position.

There is no way to go to Kenmeng, go to the northeast, or go to the Western Regions, and you can only go to Nanyang.And this is not Fujian and Guangdong. It is impossible to go to Nanyang spontaneously, so capital can only dominate.

Although cruel, there is no other way.

Under the current conditions, there is only one kind of true benevolence and righteousness that can save them, and that is the wages of working in factories, which can support them without having to go to Nanyang.And even if the initial industrialization has reached the era of steam spinning, it is estimated that it will not be much better. There are plenty of female workers who are paid for ten taels of silver for three or four years.

The only ones who can save them in the future are themselves. Industrialization is only to create a material basis for them to save themselves.

However, the first step of Dashun's industrialization must take Nanyang as an opportunity to open up external markets.Otherwise, in the absence of an external market, domestic dumping will impact the small peasant economy, and Dashun will inevitably undergo a rapid and comprehensive reaction.

The court and the emperor are not stupid at all, they know what the foundation of a stable country is.

The matter of Caomi was a huge concession made by the emperor because of the governance of the Huaihe River and considering many issues such as the resettlement of the people, the reduction of burdens and the increase of taxes.

No matter what, this matter must be done by taking advantage of the situation. After passing this village, there will be no such shop.

Seeing that most of these businessmen have accepted it, Liu Yu said: "It's best to settle this matter quickly. Once it is done, it must be the first to catch people's attention and do it beautifully first."

"What is beautiful? Once the money is in place, the rice will be sent to the capital soon. You must buy it in the first year. Since you have to do this, you have to make preparations this year."

"That's why I'm looking for you first. The money in your hands can be turned around. You can also rest assured that the Western Trading Company has such a large space. It is impossible to eat alone and share the share. So don't worry about this Western Trading Company. The problem of buying shares in the trading company leaves you with a pit that is far worse than your worth. No matter how much cash you have deposited in advance, there is no chance to invest it all."

"Not to mention that those people in the capital are also eagerly waiting to buy shares. I even left a large share for the Dutch. There are tens of millions of taels in total, and one cent is not much."

(End of this chapter)