Xinshun 1730

Chapter 906 Nanyang Development ([-])

If you are poor, you will change.Change makes sense.The general rule is long.

Liu Yu, who had already dealt with the affairs of Macau briefly, said the same words as Fazaklei wrote in his diary with the wealthy businessmen he invited to visit Nanyang next to the new stronghold near Longya Gate in the Strait of Malacca.

In the distance, a large number of Dutch prisoners of war are building a new castle fortress.

Dashun is a country of benevolence and righteousness, and they were not arrested for hard labor.It's that they have to earn their own boat tickets to go back,

Relying on sailboats to send people back to the Netherlands from Malacca these days is not a small amount of money.

They are not employees of the Dutch government, and of course the Dutch government will not pay the money.

They are employees of the East India Company. The problem is that although the East India Company has not been dissolved legally, it has gone bankrupt. How can there be money to send them back?
That being the case, it is natural to work here to make money.The Dutch call it a debt slave, and Dashun calls it labor to earn a boat ticket, which is almost the same.

Dashun did not choose the old Malacca as the center of Nanyang Protectorate, but chose a nearby place called Longyamen and Lion City at this time.

There are also profound practical factors in choosing this place.

In the final analysis, it is still a word of "change".

With the increasing tonnage of merchant ships in Dashun, from the original [-] to [-] tons, which can be called a large ship, to the current large merchant ships such as the Free Trade, which can easily exceed [-] tons, it originally emerged in Malacca at the mouth of the Malacca River in the era of small ships. It's a bit behind the times.

There is a natural deep-water port near Longyamen, and the Malacca River is not the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, which can communicate with the upstream basin and integrate trade areas, so the advantages of Malacca will no longer exist.

Moreover, there are broken islands in the south of the channel here, which is very suitable for building a fortress area guarding the strait.

Dashun at this time is definitely not as good as the sun never setting during the Celestial Dynasty. It can take out 1000 million ounces and about 6000 million taels of gold to make this place the so-called "Oriental Gibraltar".But the emperor gave two to three hundred thousand taels of silver, and it was still possible to get the port first.

This will be used as the base of the forward fleet, and the old Malacca city will be used as an ordinary military town, and the fleet will not be stationed.

Because when Dashun conquered Malacca, it was discovered that the broken place was not suitable as a fortress area at all. The river mouth separated the military area and the urban area, which was really easy to attack.

Here the Dutch prisoners of war are still building the port fortress, while the cruiser of Dashun has started routine patrols and anti-smuggling in the strait.

The businessmen invited by him, seeing the cruising warships and the dangerous terrain of the strait, felt much more at ease about investing in South Asia.

Since the imperial court spends money on projects here, it means that the imperial court will not give up easily.They didn't know anything else, but they often heard Liu Yu talk about how much the coastal defense fortress and military port fortress group cost. This is not the kind of fort that can be easily given up.

They also knew that Liu Yu invited them to Nanyang this time, and even after such a big incident happened in Macau, Liu Yu did not stay in Macau and still came to Nanyang, just to allow them to invest in Nanyang.

In the past few days, they have also seen the fleet, the army, the reorganized Guiyi Army stationed there, and the large-caliber fortress guns that the imperial court has been transporting here.

However, whether it is beneficial or not is the key.

"Poverty leads to change. Change leads to success."

"I also know that this kind of poverty is not that poor. If you want to talk about that kind of poverty, you must not be poor. But if you want to talk about another kind of poverty, there is another way to say it."

"Actually, I don't need to say anything about the court's policy attitude. You all know it in your heart. Suppressing mergers is a long-term national policy."

"Now the Songjiang Mansion is going to try the real one-whip method, which will be converted into the tenth tax of the average yield per mu. You should also know what it does."

"In short, the imperial court is convinced that with the poll tax spread evenly into the mu, if the previous taxation method is followed, the land price is too low and the rent is too high, and the annexation must intensify."

"You all have money, especially rich. The imperial court is afraid that you will spend all your money to buy land. At that time, the poor will have no place to stand, and you will be connected."

"But here we go again. You have made money from trading. The amount of trade is always limited. The rest of the money you earn is spent desperately eating delicacies. How much can you eat? Building houses, and the rules of etiquette cannot be overstepped. , and how much can it cost?"

"Money has to go somewhere. If you still have the old idea of ​​buying and hoarding land when you make money, then you don't know how to change."

"Doing things in the sky, don't do it, go against the sky."

"My God, what is God?"

Those who were tipped off by Liu Yu in advance, and the court was going to let them contract the rice, actually already had a bottom line in their hearts.

Nanyang is not full of lush forests as they imagined. On the contrary, there are still some flat terrains in North Java, Malacca and other places.And many of them are savannahs and grass swamps, not all the dense rainforests they imagined.

The land around here is very good. Although it is not as fertile as Java, it is extremely flat and slightly muddy.

Take the minimum contracted [-] mu as an example, how big is [-] mu of land?
A square that is 5 miles long and 5 miles wide is [-] mu.It is more than enough to run around [-] mu of land in one hour.

They don't consider other developments for the time being, but the grain that the imperial court paid for them to contract must be profitable.

With 12 mu, three or four crops a year, plus the volcanic ash land like Java, how can [-] mu of land produce a hundred thousand shi of rice a year, which is [-] taels of silver.

After the investment is developed, it is enough to employ 500 people.Especially after the Dashun Academy of Sciences promised to make a simple steam thresher and other equipment, it is more than enough.

Of course, this thing is not that kind of harvester. It just saves the process of hammering rice ears with a flail. It cannot be moved and can only be used intensively. It is also suitable for this kind of plantation model.

The merchants also knew that the imperial court could agree to Liu Yu's Caomi buying system only for the convenience of management.

Collecting 600 million shisao rice from 600 million people is completely different from taking millions of shisao rice point-to-point from hundreds of big businessmen.And when there is a canal, 400 million yuan is often transported, but in fact more than 4000 million yuan is collected in a mess.

Now that the businessmen have seen the situation in Nanyang with their own eyes, they know that it is a guaranteed business.

As for development and investment in other directions, they are still considering it.

Liu Yu said again: "Actually, there are various modes of hiring workers. Of course, the Celestial Dynasty does not allow slaves, but you can engage in contract long-term labor."

"Three things in Macau, it is true that barbarians buy slaves. But the key is not 'slaves', but 'barbarians buy'. Do you understand?"

These people nodded quickly, and said: "The Duke said that, we feel at ease. To be honest, for example, I hired someone to eat and drink for seven or eight years, and promised to give him some farm tools and a few pieces of land. ...For fear that someone with a heart will really count it, they will say that this is considered a slave."

Liu Yu said with a smile: "Don't worry about that. Only those who sell their whole life at once are called slaves. How can they be called slaves if they are sold by days, months, and years? They are obviously hired workers. I don't want to do it." Now, you can go. If you leave, you will starve to death and have to come back. You didn’t force me to come back, so how can you be called a slave?”

A wealthy businessman said yes.I thought that since the imperial court meant this, it would be easy to say.

After reassuring these businessmen, Liu Yu said again: "When doing business, especially big business, you must know the general trend of the world. Just like you are frying Liaodong soybean futures in Songjiang Mansion, you must send someone to Liaodong is staring at it. Is it a bumper harvest? Reduced production? No harvest? Hail?

"The same goes for going to Nanyang. Just remember that the imperial court is now also a critical time when poverty leads to change, change leads to success, and success leads to longevity."

"It won't change anymore."

"Isn't it because the people have been suffering for a long time to control the Huaihe River, control the water, and reform the tax system?"

"The theory of Juntian and Jingtian has been talked about for thousands of years. In recent years, it has become even more popular. But if it can be done, the imperial court has already done it. Why wait until now?"

"If you can't equalize the fields and mine fields, then there will be more people, but the land will not increase. What do you think the imperial court will do to emigrate to Nanyang?"

"The imperial court began trying to spread the poll tax into the mu tax more than ten years ago, and what it is doing is exactly what it is today. Without the trouble of the poll tax, the local government would like you to transport all the local landless people away."

"The imperial court hopes, the local officials support, what else do you have to worry about?"

He didn't make empty promises, but turned a corner and said some facts. In fact, this is a completely illogical thing, and he has to pretend that there is internal logic in it.

Let these businessmen follow his guidance and infer that the imperial court will definitely be more relaxed on the Nanyang issue.

And what Liu Yu said is very clear, the imperial court does not have so much money for official immigration, and the limited fiscal revenue money must stabilize the basic market.Is Nanyang the basic market?It is definitely not the basic disk, and it is impossible for the imperial court to spend too much money on it.

This seems to be logical, and the businessmen who did say it nodded frequently, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that it was indeed the case.

In fact, Liu Yu grasped their pulse, even now Dashun also has a situation of excessive capital in Songjiang Prefecture, and they urgently need a place to invest their capital.

Of course, it depends on the imperial court's ability in land policy and whether it can solve the strange situation of "low land prices".However, Dashun's attitude of suppressing mergers all the time also made Songjiang Mansion's excessively concentrated capital really have no good places to go.

Dashun has not experienced 20 years of economic crisis, and there is no such thing as tulip bubble, South China Sea bubble, or Mississippi bubble—but even if there is, it is useless. Investors don’t have a long memory at all. Don’t they have a long memory—so now they are actually in urgent need of a capital investment direction, and it is a large amount that can accommodate tens of millions.

Otherwise, it is hard to say what kind of strange speculative thunderstorm incident, and then make it look like the accident in Britain and France in 20 years, and it will be frightened to dare not open joint-stock companies for decades, then it will be a waste of time.

The speed at which industry and commerce accumulate capital is simply too fast.This speed is simply unbearable for a dynasty dominated by the small-scale peasant economy. If mergers are not suppressed at all, the capital-enriching speed of the overdeveloped industry and commerce will directly shorten the cycle time by half.

It was almost to the point where Liu Yu felt a little shocked.

Trade with Japan, trade with Europe, Nanyang trade, shareholding and development of northern iron mines, development of Ezo, glass manufacturing, whale sea hunting, whale seals and other animal-derived oil processing industries... tens of millions of taels of European and Japanese silver every year The inflow, the enrichment of millions of silver in the two countries' internal storage, excluding the emperor's and his, most of them went into the pockets of these people.

In history, the group of people in the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou often lasted for 30 to 3000 years, and a family could have a total asset of nearly [-] million taels of silver at most.

Compared with Thirteen Banks, Dashun has many more trade channels and investment channels, including Japan, and some new industries such as glass-making alkali-smelting iron and other industries. The speed of capital enrichment is even more astonishing.

Originally, there was only European silver in history, and it was passively stolen from the money of second-hand dealers.Now it is forcing Japan to switch and moderate investment in emerging industries, which can be said to be directly doubled.

Dashun does not have thirteen lines, but the problem is that the so-called full free competition will definitely lead to monopoly in the end, and it is these individuals who make a lot of money in the end.

Moreover, after the introduction of the joint-stock system, there was less involvement, and it became a joint commercial bank in one step. With strong capital, how could retail merchants beat it?
These people who "grasp the trend of the times" actually controlled the export before Dashun established the Western Trading Company.

The establishment of the Western Trading Company only allowed them to change from sitting at home and counting money to going out to sell goods and getting the sea freight profits.

Now is the time to direct these capitals to where they should go.Relying on the so-called invisible hand, in Dashun, it is very easy to annex domestic land.

Now Liu Yu has really realized why the emperor suppressed the powerful, moved to Maoling, emphasized agriculture and suppressed business.

The manifesto says that the bourgeoisie has created more and greater productive forces during its class rule of less than 100 years than all the productive forces created by all previous generations.

In the case of Dashun, the gold and silver accumulated by industry and commerce in less than 20 years is enough for the landlords who save more money by farming and selling grain to buy land for 100 years.

However, since the Qin Dynasty, land can be bought and sold. After the land equalization system completely disintegrated, I am afraid that the emperor will have to face such a big problem: under the premise that the land can be bought and sold, how to prevent big businessmen from collecting all the land for themselves? hand?

But land can be bought and sold freely, which is a big problem, and Dashun didn't dare to move at all.

Besides, I couldn't move.

Various schools of Confucianism have given many plans, ranging from well fields to equal fields to public lands to redemption.However, if you look closely, they are all bullshit, and none of them are operable.

It is estimated that this is also the reason why the idea of ​​"if you can get well, you can get well, but if you can't, you can get equal" has never faded.Obviously, the level of productivity is not up to standard, but half a foot has been stepped forward in the land system thousands of years ago.

Since it is impossible to solve the problem of increasing productivity and allowing capital to go to industry, it is better to go back and return to the minefield era as the ultimate ideal.

Besides, even if the industry starts, as long as the land can still be bought and sold, wouldn't there still be a lot of money to go to the land that can preserve its value the most?
This time Liu Yu invited these businessmen to come to Nanyang to discuss the development of Nanyang, but he was really forced to do nothing.

If he doesn't solve this problem, the emperor will help him solve it—since he's so fat, and since he's worried about going up the land annexation, I draw out my knife and cut some flesh, won't it be solved?

(End of this chapter)