Xinshun 1730

Chapter 882
Although hard-hearted, ordinary people are not puppets manipulated by others, they are real people, and they have their own ideas.

From the very beginning, Liu Yu knew in his heart that from the day he built the navy in Dashun and transferred the trade center to Songjiang Mansion, the peasant uprising in Lingnan had entered the countdown.

Hundreds of thousands of people who made a living because of trade transshipment were unemployed, and the "middle class" who used to use Susi lake silk to rub Cantonese satin and wide yarn in the handicraft industry also fell into poverty.

From the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou's status as a trade center remained unshakable until countries established commercial offices in Songjiang Prefecture.

After more than a hundred years of inertia, a large number of people living in the trade center, after the trade center was transferred to Songjiang Mansion, survival must be a problem.

This is a huge social turmoil in the Lingnan area, but it is not obvious, and ordinary people cannot see the huge impact of the northward movement of the trade center.

However, Dashun's central finances are not in trouble now, and the army has just undergone military reforms. It should be said that this possible uprising is bound to be impossible.

Although the Huanghuai area has also undergone changes from the abolition of water to the sea, as the key area of ​​the imperial court's rule, after the emperor made up his mind to govern the Huaihe River, there should be no large-scale uprisings.

Land mergers require male labor to live in tenants. If they can’t support children, they must give priority to drowning female babies. The ratio of males to females in the Huanghuai area is almost 130 to 100.

The bachelors rebelled, but they really had no worries at all. When they were hungry, they ganged up to eat the rich, and went home after grabbing something.

Serving the people in peacetime and gathering as an army in times of disaster, the combat effectiveness is not very strong.

As long as Dashun's central finances don't collapse and there are tens of millions of taels of silver in hand, even if the Yellow River is diverted, there will be no major accidents in the Huanghuai area.

With this little money in the hands of the imperial court, there is actually no way to deal with the "millions of water workers" in two places at the same time.

Letting the Lingnan area go, and placing limited finances in Huanghuai to ensure the stability of the Central Plains is a "good" move from the perspective of feudal dynasty rule.

After all, the emperor is just an emperor. If there is an uprising, he must be slaughtered.

After the massacre is over, take in the remaining ones, and take advantage of the large number of deaths in the war to ease land conflicts—just do a simple calculation, assuming that one immigrant needs 100 taels of silver, and 100 years of silver is enough to arm a line soldier. 100 million taels of silver can immigrate 1 people, but if it is an armed army, killing and suppressing 10,000+ people is not a problem.

Slaughtering 10,000+ young and strong, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled will not be able to do anything, or starve to death, or die on the way to escape. Add up all kinds of miscellaneous things together, and easily solve more than 100 million people.

This is an account that can be settled with a little calculation.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu was still very emotional.

The prosperous uprising may not even be evaluated in the history books of later generations as "a heavy blow to the rule of the feudal dynasty".

Perhaps the only "meaningful" result that can be obtained is to let the emperor deepen his recognition of the contradiction between man and land and the basis of economics, and strengthen his determination to expand and immigrate abroad.

And the root cause of all this, to a certain extent, Liu Yu felt that it was caused by himself.

Dashun is different from Manchu.

The Lingnan Uprising in the late Qing Dynasty was partly due to the northward shift of the trade center to Shanghai, as well as the impact of foreign commodities on the old economy.

is passive.

The reason for being passive is that you can't beat it.

If you can't beat it, it means it's decayed to the top.

The corruption to the top made it difficult to pacify the uprising, and eventually the centralization collapsed, and no one was able to rebuild the centralization, which laid the foundation for the subsequent warlords from all walks of life to fight for the new Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

It also led to the objective conditions for the armed separatist regimes of workers and peasants to survive in the cracks in the future.

However, Dashun took the initiative.

The reason for taking the initiative is that the navy has been established, so there is no need to worry about being robbed of water transportation, and the country is in full swing.

The prosperity of the country means that the ruling ability is very strong.

Strong ruling ability means that it is very easy to quell the uprising, there will be no situation after the Yellow Turban and the Yellow Nest, and the central government cannot collapse.

The fact that the central government does not collapse means that the reactionary forces are still strong, and it will be more difficult to overthrow them in the future, and there is no chance of armed separatism at all.

This prosperity is unsustainable, because the most fundamental land issue has not been resolved.If the land issue is not resolved, the ruling foundation of the dynasty is the small-scale peasant economy. Once the power of the emerging class threatens the stability of the small-scale peasant economy, Dashun, which has a huge financial foundation, will make a reaction with a thunderbolt.

Lingnan and Huanghuai are the two most prone to problems.

However, from Liu Yu's point of view, it was not the right time.

If the Queen drags it on for three to fifty years, until the power of the emerging class has the strength to wrestle the wrists, and then detonates these two points, and directly collapses the Dashun Dynasty, it may be easier.

However, among the two most likely detonation points, one is stabilized by the large amount of internal money brought to the emperor by Zhi Huai and Liu Yu; the other is likely to explode within a few years, and within a few years Not only will the power of the Shun court not be weakened, it may even reach its peak, and it can be calmed down with ease.

In the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the problems were piled up together, too many, and they exploded in a concentrated manner, which was difficult to solve.

On Dashun's side, various problems that might have caused Dashun's court to collapse were dispersed and resolved in batches.It will not affect Dashun's rule, and the strength of the emerging class is seriously insufficient at this time.

Liu Yu also had no way to say to the large number of unemployed people in Lingnan: For the future of the nation, you have to bear with it and wait for the emerging class to grow up in 30 to [-] years before revolting.You are the pioneers of the king, severely hitting and shaking the power of the old ruling class, thus paving the way for the emerging class to step onto the stage of history.

The opium dealers' shameless and unreasonable complaints to Liu Yu reminded Liu Yu that from now on, many things will be different from before.

And he also realizes that he is now caught in an almost unsolvable vicious circle: if he wants to move forward, he needs the support of the emperor; the premise of the emperor's support is that the emperor believes that everything is under control; To master it, Liu Yu needs to continuously strengthen the emperor's power, at least let the emperor really feel that his own power is being strengthened; the emperor's power is strengthened, and it will seriously threaten the changes in the future...

So uncomfortable now.

I, who has been trying to dig a grave for Dashun, has forced out the resistance forces that may threaten to shake Dashun's rule one by one. They will not explode all at once, but in batches and in times of prosperity. Solve it in order.

The situation in Dashun is so special, I am afraid that the confrontation between the old and the new in the future will be bloodier, crueler and more difficult than the original history.

In the past few years, there has always been a sense of powerlessness and a fragile defeatism from time to time, which will permeate his heart from time to time.

A few words of this opium dealer today, talking about the decline of the Lingnan trade route, once again made him feel an indescribable sense of painful powerlessness.

The officials accompanying him couldn't help feeling strange seeing Liu Yu's silence there.

Guangdong Jiedu thought to himself that although the opium dealer's words sounded self-justifying, they were not worth arguing at all.Duke Xingguo also came here with strong winds and waves, and killed tens of thousands of people. Not to mention the war, there are more than ten thousand Nanyang Tang people who died because of just one immigrant from the Lion Kingdom.

What is Duke Xingguo thinking?But definitely not because of a few words from this opium dealer, right?
All of a sudden, the Guangdong Jiedu Envoy seemed to have figured it out all at once, and secretly said in surprise: No!

This guy is talking nonsense, he must die for his sins, so there is no need to mention it.

But what he said about the Dayuling business road, in recent years, many unemployed refugees have become bandits.

I'm afraid it's not because the Duke is worried, if something happens here in the future, so that there will be chaos everywhere, and someone will follow the story of "Refugees"?
At that time, all the reasons for the civil uprising in Lingnan will be attributed to the Duke?To push it down?
He quietly glanced at Liu Yu who was thinking silently, and felt more and more that this was the case.

Thinking about it again, I feel even more frightened.

Xin Dao said that this opium dealer does not have a local accent, but he is so stubborn.Speaking words is not something that ordinary traitors can say.

Could it be... Could it be that there is a fight between gods and gods?Or is there someone behind this person?Originally, he was doing business in Guangzhou, but after the rise of Songjiang Mansion, he couldn't squeeze through, so he did such a thing?

Even what to say when you were caught was instigated by someone?
It would be troublesome if they shouted during the execution, or if there were any problems in the continuation of the trial.

Although I am a small military envoy, although I can be regarded as a big official in the frontier, compared to those real big men in the court, I really can't afford to provoke anyone.

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it might not be possible.He also didn't know that Liu Yu was thinking about world affairs, and he thought that what he was thinking about was the intrigue of the court, and after a little flustered, he made up his mind.

"Duke? Duke?"

A few soft calls awakened Liu Yu who was frowning silently, and the frown that was originally frowning was forcibly unfolded in the irritated depression in her heart.

"Guogong, what this thief said is simply unreasonable. You don't have to worry about it. It is a natural law that all the trade routes are returned to Songjiang Mansion. Before gathering in Guangzhou Mansion, it is against the natural law. This natural law is not manpower."

"Besides, if you really can't survive, you can justify doing chaos. But this thief is selling opium, so what he said makes no sense, it's just an argument."

"This kind of person, why does the Duke need to argue with him? The official thought that someone cut off his tongue so that he would not have time to talk nonsense."

Liu Yu was startled slightly, and said disdainfully: "How can there be any reason for his nonsense? I only need a few words to make him speechless..."

But the Jiedu envoy of Guangdong gave Liu Yu a light tug, and the two of them went to a place where there was no one else, and then whispered: "Duke, I'm afraid the speaker has no intention, but the listener does. The hateful thing about his nonsense is not that he sells it Opium, but to attribute all Lingnan affairs to the Duke."

"Although I just said that this natural law is not human. However, it is one thing to drown people if it is like a big river bursting; it is another thing to actively dig a river and drown people."

(End of this chapter)