Xinshun 1730

Chapter 909 Nanyang Development ([-])
Whether it is from the future profitability, the special merchant status of the Dashun regime, the "Jewels come first" of salt merchants, or other reasons.

In short, the development of Nanyang has become something these businessmen have to do.

Liu Yu's reputation is still there, so it's good to earn money.

If you lose... If you lose, you will only pay for it.

Compared with the continuous return of millions of taels of salt merchants every year, Liu Yu estimates that tens of millions of taels of capital can be invested in the development of Nanyang this time.

In addition to the specialized counterparts such as coffee and other Western trade products, or rice under the comprador of the imperial court, Liu Yu also took the lead in completing the integration and communication of upstream and downstream industries as much as possible.

Of course, such a large-scale investment cannot be as random as a headless chicken.

Here, a large number of practical students are still needed to carry out massive calculations, as well as the forecast of future trade led by Liu Yu.

Purely by the invisible hand, great things must be done.

For example, if you grow a lot of coffee, you can’t sell it if you grow too much; or if it’s easy to sell now, but there will be another war in Europe soon, and Dashun doesn’t drink coffee in Dashun, then it’s a waste.

Another example is planting some palm hemp, but the result is not enough to keep up with the naval expansion plan, and it will be short again at that time.

There are also some rubbers that seem unprofitable now, but will in fact be very valuable within a few years; or the cinchona tree industry that is closely related to the top-secret Dashun India plan.

There are also madder and indigo that are closely related to the color of military uniforms; the export volume of madder red and indigo blue soared after the European war between England and France...

and many more.

These all require advance planning.

It can take more than ten years to rely on invisible hands to go bankrupt and turn to new industries.Especially in the reality that a foreign trade takes two years as a cycle, it will take longer.

However, although it does not rely on invisible hands, the imperial court does not fund government-run operations.

First, the imperial court has no money to make this kind of long-term investment for several years, and second, Dashun's administrative efficiency and grass-roots control power will make a mess if it is run by the government.

The merchants contributed capital, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce led by Liu Yu was responsible for formulating the plan, with a certain margin of freedom.

At the same time, they do not carry out the compulsory acquisition of the Dutch East India Company model, but allow them to sell themselves, and even engage in futures like Liaodong soybeans or Japanese rice.

In the next few days at Longyamen, Liu Yu basically took the pages of books piled up in sacks and distributed them.It is not only to clarify the purpose, scale, and planning of these industries; it is also to find an opportunity to teach these businessmen a little "political economy" course.

Merchants will do business.

But I really don’t necessarily understand economics, especially in the extremely special environment of Dashun, which is so popular in overseas trade, that I can collect money while sitting at home. What is the level of these businessmen? Liu Yu thought in his heart. Also really bottomless.

So far, including this time, Dashun has already had two "capital transfers under the guidance of imperial intervention".

Once was the development of Whale Sea and Ezo.

By forcing Japan to switch, the trade in Northeast Asia has been revitalized, and the rapid immigration of Ezo has been completed by relying on the best-selling seafood of Ezo in Japan and the commercialization of rice in Japan.

The progress of kerosene driven by the glass manufacturing industry, the oil and soap ordered by the Navy, and the subsequent export of glycerol stearic acid products to the West have promoted the large-scale marine mammal capture industry in the Whale Sea, and have also revitalized the food commodities in Vladivostok and other places change.

About 800 million taels were invested in the capital transfer from Jiangnan to Northeast that time.

Investors in Jiangnan and Gyeonggi have already recovered their costs.

The seventy-eight million taels of investment also contributed to the increase in subsequent immigration, resulting in a rapid drop in immigration costs.

It can be said that with such a scale of population immigration, if it is an official immigration promoted by the imperial court, there will be no less than 5000 million taels.

If there is no business revitalization, it will be the same as the villages Liu Yu saw when he went to Yongning Temple: dogs cannibalize people, but they are poor and have no money to use.

On this point, Liu Yu and the emperor settled accounts.The results of immigration in the Jinghai Ezo area in recent years is the important reason why the emperor can agree to the development of Nanyang by the imperial army opening the way and the businessmen following up.

Because the immigration to the Jinghai area was carried out almost simultaneously with the immigration from the Western Regions.

However, immigrants from the Western Regions can only be led by the government and are not profitable.

Under the strong contrast of the court expenditure and the immigrant population, it is too shocking.Because of success, and the contrast at the same time, and the contrast is too strong, the emperor dared to try to take a step forward.

Advances in navigation made capital transfer and flow possible.

In fact, it also put an end to a strange disease in the Ming Dynasty: Jiangnan merchants and gentry groups stick together and engage in Jiangnan standardism.

The advancement of navigation technology also made it possible to transform the waste water into the sea.This allowed the emperor to boldly let the emerging capital groups in Jiangnan toss without worrying about the North-South split after the Grand Canal was cut off.

The scale of capital investment transfer this time is much larger than last time.The one-year comprador fee for the imperial court's grain rice alone has caught up with the investment in the development of Whale Sea and Yezou.

And this huge capital investment, and because of the plantation model, has made it possible to try to issue banknotes.

Of course, it cannot be oriented to the whole country. Instead, it will be based on Nanyang, Songjiang Prefecture as the base, Tianjin and other places to set up the method of exchange and deduction first, and gradually spread it.

A great number of hired laborers came into the plantations, and they had nothing.

For those who invest in plantations, most of the things that Baiyin wants to buy can be bought in bulk in Songjiang Mansion.

Some of the daily necessities needed by Nanyang are locally produced, but most of them are purchased in bulk from Dashun.

This particularity makes it possible to try banknotes that connect plantations, Songjiang Prefecture, navy, and emerging industries first.

If it is a spontaneous immigrant from Fujian and Guangdong, this kind of paper currency is obviously difficult to accept.

Dashun's conquest in Nanyang will focus on economy and currency, supplemented by military affairs.

These are all in the Nanyang Development Plan.Moreover, with the development of Nanyang, as the origin of raw materials, the imperial court will easily accept paper money as taxation: money can be spent, the bulk items you want to buy can be bought, and no matter how bad it is, it can be exchanged for silver.

The Bank of England originated from issuing national debts to the government; the Bank of Amsterdam originated from large-value trade payments; French banknotes originated from dishonoring national debts.

Dashun didn't even learn the law.

National debt, Dashun does not exist at all, and cannot afford it.

For overseas trade, Dashun is a purely surplus country, and there is no need to exchange bills at all.

As for the national issuance of banknotes imitating Song Jiaozi and Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Dashun's finances are in a mess, with such a large basic disk, so many money is transferred into the national treasury a year, and there is not even enough reserve funds.If this does not depreciate to take off, it is really unreasonable.

The bank that Dashun wants to set up...in fact, it originated from foreign trade. It just tried to take the "central bank's money-issuing power" from the European merchant ships to its own hands.

After the monetization of silver and the silverization of taxation were completed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, foreign trade has actually become the bank for issuing banknotes in Dashun.It's just that the note-issuing bank has been concretized now.

In essence, it is cut off from the small peasant economy of the old era.

Take the emerging industry, emerging industry, emerging commerce, emerging navy, and emerging Nanyang rice as the basic disk for circulation.

The plate now seems to be large enough to ensure stable circulation.

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October.

As in previous years, Jiangsu suffered another disaster.

Since the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River in the fifth year of Shaoxi in the Song Dynasty, there have been few years without disasters.

Little and little.

Many changes have taken place in history, but the weather cannot be changed by people.

According to the original history, according to historical records, this year, there were 20 floods in Lianghuai, Lusi and so on. On November 11, Funing and other 3 states, counties, and Wei were hit by floods. On November 20, Changshu and other 11 states, counties, and Wei were hit by a tide.At the beginning of the month, 15 states, counties, and Wei, including Shangyuan, were hit by drought.

Autumn, heavy wind and rain, overflowing sea.There are many folk fields in the Jianghuai River and Huaihe River.There are nearly 12 refugees in Shanyang and Taoyuan counties alone.The reason for such statistics is that the county magistrate set up a porridge market and counted the heads.

In fact, almost every year is a disaster year.

In the second year of Shi Zai, it was still a year of famine, with severe drought and epidemics. Even in a wealthy place like Wuxi, "everywhere in the country and city is sick, and tens of thousands of people died."

In the third year, there was no drought, and there was no influx from the tide, but there were bigger waves.The Yellow River burst.

Words such as "more than 20 dead", "pillows of the dead", "[-] refugees", "preparing rice and silver for disaster relief", it should be said that there must be almost every year.

at this time.

On the banks of the Sheyang River in Jiangsu.

This place was originally a sea, but after the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River in the fifth year of Shaoxi, the mud and sand pushed the coastline 180 miles eastward, making this place a piece of land.

No one would lament the vicissitudes of life at this time, including the county magistrate who was born as a scholar.

Tens of thousands of hungry people squatted on the ground dumbly, trying to stay as still as possible, even a little movement is difficult in a hungry state.

Only after the relief porridge is ready, they will stand up to get a bowl of porridge.

The victims are emotionally stable because they are used to it.

Come to this once every few years, damn it, live it, just resign yourself to fate.

Many people were drowned in the flood, but the tens of thousands of disaster victims gathered did not cry at all.

It's just a few family members who died, it's a normal thing, why cry?

In the congee market not far away, the county magistrate of Funing was welcoming several guests, but it sounded like there was some quarrel.

"Half-aged children are fine, no matter how young you are, we definitely can't have them. We also definitely can't have old people. People are looking for people to work, not to raise parents for others. Let me tell you clearly, people want to have them all. For a bachelor whose parents are both dead, this is the cheapest way to save money. If it weren’t for the Duke’s mandatory requirement of a certain number of women, no women would want to have them.”

"The boat is so big. For every old man on board, there must be a young man. This is not negotiable. It's not a question of whether you can support the old people there, but it costs money to transport people on the ship."

"Nanyang, it's far away from here. It's much farther than going to the capital from here. It will be a little more troublesome to put one more person on the boat. Then you say that if a person dies on the boat when he is old, should he throw it away or not?"

"Throwing, it's unreasonable. Children must be buried in the ground for peace. I didn't jump out of the rocks. In our navy, we almost had a mutiny in the past because of people's death. .”

"But, if you don't throw it away, what should you do if it's broken, smelly, or contagious?"

The county magistrate of Funing nodded helplessly, knowing that this was indeed the case.

The person who came to "receive the population" was Youxun, he didn't pay homage to officials, and he also came from the battlefield. I heard that it was because of his hand injury, so he arranged such a job.

The county magistrate of Funing welcomed the relocation.Now that the poll tax is mixed with the land mu, if there are too many of these people, it will be all troubles and no benefits.

Relief for disasters almost every year, being a county magistrate here is hard work, working hard, arranging the problems of the victims, and giving priority to promotion.It is not impossible to be greedy for money and food for disaster relief, but the price is a bit high.The same amount is a dismissal elsewhere; mobilizing disaster relief funds is death.

There are more victims, and it really doesn't do any good for him, the county magistrate.

The imperial court is basically "exempted every year" for this place, and there is no need to consider the situation of "the young and old have run away, no one is farming, and the fixed land tax cannot be paid, so they are not allowed to leave".

Where is Nanyang? The county magistrate only had a general impression, knowing that it was in the south.But where exactly, and how far is it, he got it by reading the sage books and taking the imperial examination, so he doesn't know about it, but he knows it's quite far away.

Thinking about being so far away and still having to catch up with the wind, it is true that bringing one more person who cannot work is to occupy an extra space.

"Okay then, I'll talk to them. Tell me, what are the conditions for working there?"

(End of this chapter)