New Shun 1730

Minor conflicts can be adjusted.

If the main conflicts are correctly arranged, when the war really starts, the Dashun side will be more confident.

Waiting for the emperor to tour the south and review the army is the last step of mobilization.

Of course, it is good to be able to support the fight to the end.

If they really want to kneel halfway, there are people who don't want to lose, and use some feudal power to teach them not to kneel.

Because of the involvement of military meritorious officials and the officer corps, these emerging bourgeoisie also face another huge pressure.

If you win, it's easy to say.

The cake is bigger, you eat a bite, I eat a bite, and we are happy, and finally snakes and rats are in the same nest.

If you lose, it's hard to say.

The officer corps and military meritorious officials will probably bite them to death. After all, the cake is so small, and they can't be happy, so it depends on who has the bigger fist.

If you really lose, who do you think you are if you can only trade at the port and wait for others to pick up the goods? Why do you want to eat such a big piece of fat meat?

The court finds it difficult to go out to do business, colonize, and trade.

If we really want to open ports for trade and wait for others to buy, it is not difficult at all, but it is not the turn of this group of people. A group of people in blue and blue official uniforms in the capital are waiting to be fed.

In recent years, Liu Yu has been telling them every day and every month that these emerging classes must live out their value in order to survive.

A ready-made example is the big salt merchants in Yangzhou before. They were in a turbulent state yesterday, but the building has collapsed in the blink of an eye.

Why?

They are highly replaceable and too fat.

Why are those private salt dealers and small contractors not affected?

Because they have lived out their own value and cannot be easily replaced.

The same is true for foreign trade.

The more they are developed, the safer these big fat sheep will be.

Because the irreplaceability of the bourgeoisie in this era is the optimal force for external expansion.

If they give up their own strengths and take their own weaknesses, and give up being a good and aggressive bourgeoisie and become a comprador of a feudal vassal, then their fate will be the same as that of the Yangzhou salt merchants.

Only by firmly supporting external expansion and development can we be safe.

Because the court itself cannot do external expansion, development, trade expansion, and foreign immigration.

Liu Yu has told them more than once that if they really get to the point of trading at the port, it will not be their turn to sell goods by relying on the court's privileges.

Which of the dukes, marquises, earls, imperial clans, princes and grandchildren in the capital can't do the work of being a comprador at home?

But these people can't sell goods in India, bargain in Persia, bribe in South America, smuggle in Europe, attract immigrants from Southeast Asia, and expand the Han people in the sea.

Of course, there is no banquet that will not end.

When Dashun really gets the control of the sea and the dominance of trade, the monopoly company will become a reactionary force. By then, they will naturally be the same as the Yangzhou salt merchants.

But now, they can still go a little further.

Of course, the profit-seeking nature of capital cannot be changed.

However, in the era of Dashun, where a large amount of capital is controlled by deformed chaebols, sober people can sometimes influence the trend and capital flow in terms of education and influence on people.

This time, Liu Yu once again talked to this group of people about these issues in the name of "arranging funeral affairs", and everyone nodded, indicating that they would always remember.

All the questions that should be asked have been asked.

All the words that should be said have been said.

Liu Yu also knew that when the war really started, he might not be in Songsu. In any case, this time he could retire in the Privy Council, but he would definitely not touch the military power again, let alone command this decisive battle.

As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to raise an army and a moment to use it.

After all these years of tossing, the most important moment was the moment when Dashun went to war a few years later.

He really hoped that these people would become tough and far-sighted imperialist bourgeoisie, fight for a position on the margins of the ruling class, and become reactionaries with power, means, ambition, consciousness, and the ability to suppress all progressive forces, rather than a group of short-sighted trash.

At least, when Dashun really issues national debt, they can offer an acceptable interest rate lower than they expected, which proves that they may still become dogs of the imperial power.

Being a dog is a big step forward from being a fat sheep.

Looking at this group of people, Liu Yu thought to himself: "My only hope is that you can transform from a big fat sheep to a dog. But my words don't count, you have to fight for it yourself. Now that things have come to this, I wish you good luck. After this battle, we will go our separate ways."

After praying in his heart, he looked at his pocket watch and saw that the time was almost up, so he said: "In this case, let's all go. People from Jinghai Company, you stay for a while, I have something to talk to them alone."

The rest of the people were also very tactful. After saying goodbye, they got on the carriage and dispersed.

Several people from Jinghai Company followed Liu Yu to the nearby Universal Museum.

Walking into a room inside, there was a person waiting at the door, it was Meng Songlu who came from Jiangbei.

Although Quan Zheshen also came with him, and although Quan Zheshen also handed in a visiting card, and although Quan Zheshen was also allowed to pay a visit, it was not at this time, and he was still waiting outside.

When Meng Songlu saw Liu Yu, he hurried over to pay his respects. After the greetings were waived, the guard pushed open the door and walked into the room.

After entering, Meng Songlu was very surprised.

Displayed inside were various animal furs, strange specimens, several maps hanging on the walls, as well as some wooden armor, stone guns and the like that were obviously used by some barbarian natives.

Indescribably weird.

This building will be opened to the outside world in the future, but it has just been completed now. Meng Songlu has never seen such a formation before. He knows that it is disrespectful to look around at this time, but he can't help but keep squinting.

He just suppressed the exclamation in his heart and did not say anything.

The people from Whale Sea Company were surprised by this. These things were all obtained by their company.

These emerging classes in Songsu all know Liu Yu's strange hobbies, collecting weird animals, stones, vegetation and the like.

He liked the smell of coal smoke and the roar of machinery, and was teased in private as "Xingguo Gong's eccentricity".

The King of Chu had such a thin waist that many people died of starvation in the palace.

Compared to those weirdos who install steam engines in nice Jiangnan gardens and send some specimens and furs as gifts, this group of people from Whale Sea Company are relatively normal.

It's natural that I won't be surprised if I give you too much.

Except for some special things, such as white tiger skins and other things with special meanings, I don't know how many other weird things were given away.

After a moment, Liu Yu asked directly: "Can you read a map? Do you know what a scale is?"

Meng Songlu knew that Liu Yu had always ridiculed them, and this sentence sounded a bit like ridicule, but he did not dare to feel uncomfortable, so he could only reply: "My teacher practiced the education of separation, and the knowledge of maps is also the same." Zhai, so I have learned it.”

After that, Liu Yu picked up a pointer, clicked on the hanging map and said, "This is Honolulu."

Meng Songlu knew that Honolulu must be extremely far away, but when his eyes briefly glanced at the very obvious Korean Peninsula and Japan, and then looked at where Liu Yu was pointing, he still couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

Although your heart knows it's far away, you don't want it to be so far away?

But after being slightly surprised, he calmed down and said: "In the past, Zhang Bowang and Ban Ding could travel thousands of miles on foot. Now with the help of sails, they can't travel much farther than the ancients."

Liu Yu nodded slightly, quite satisfied with the person in front of him.

After all, although he ridiculed their school of thought a lot, compared to the others, this was finally an attempt to do something serious.

I had seen them once or twice before. I had some impressions, so I pointed at the people from Jinghai Company and said: "This is your sponsor."

"It's your business to spread the holy religion and make it a vassal."

"And sponsors have their own requirements. Everything can't be done without money, so I just think of it as a matchmaker for you. This can be regarded as the last decision I made with Songsu. This matter is very closely related, and His Majesty also knows about it. , If it is accomplished, it will be a great achievement.”

Meng Songlu was overjoyed and quickly saluted his "financer".

When the people from Jinghai Company saw Liu Yu indicating that they could say whatever they wanted, they didn't waste any time. They just said: "Your Majesty has given us the franchise right to use the strait between Kuwu Island and Ezo as the line, and at this latitude To the north, everything is under our control, and we can benefit from furs and minerals.”

"Now we have a little problem. We don't have enough food. Matsue is too far, Ezo isn't close, and that route is too stormy."

"What has troubled us in the past few years is the scurvy among our employees. And there is also an urgent need for some grains and grains there. We can't just eat meat. We can't survive just eating those weird meats."

"Honolulu was just discovered not long ago. The climate on the island is suitable, but the Yi people there don't produce much, and the communication is not smooth. Every time we exchange some taro, coconut and the like from there, we can't get much."

"It's not that I haven't thought about paying for the killing, but after all, it is too expensive. And after the killing, there is a shortage of labor. We are not addicted to killing, but we still hope to use this place as a safe haven and get grains and fruits. ”

"Now the company is on the coast of Fuso, with more than 30,000 people. In the place where sea animals are hunted, there is no food. The local barbarians have to fish for a living in the short summer. They want their women to stop fishing and spend the short summer. It is extremely unrealistic to dig up roots and pick berries to relieve employees of scurvy.”

"Yes, I am willing to invest. You can preach the Holy Religion on your own. In a few years, we only need the grains, dried meat, wine, etc. here to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people in the company."

The people at Whale Sea Company are basically telling the truth. Of course, there are some things hidden. But Liu Yu knew what they were hiding.

It’s just that the fur production has been too harsh in recent years, and fur production has been on a downward trend. The expedition team sent by Liu Yu discovered a gold mine there. The news was strictly blocked, but some people still got the news.

The company wants to transform.

The prerequisite for transformation is sufficient food.

Historically, the Russians tried to use the San Francisco area as a food base to supply food to the Kamchatka region and North America.

But the climate in the San Francisco area is not very suitable. Secondly, it involves diplomatic relations with Spain. The Russians have been in San Francisco for forty or fifty years, but they have not even grown a thousand cattle per year.

Dashun does not want to have conflicts with the Spaniards too early, so for the time being, it is still in the north, away from the Spaniards.

First make Honolulu a vassal, and then use it as a transfer station to recruit people on a large scale to mine gold. This is Dashun's choice.

This is also Dashun's advance plan for the Americas before a war that may last for many years.

Labor is too expensive, and it is not easy to transport people there. It would be a waste if one person died. Moreover, hunting requires skills, and it takes two or three years to learn to be basically qualified. The company does not mention the future transformation, but only says that the current death cost is too high and it is really unbearable.

If we can use the population of Honolulu to build a logistics supply base, it can solve many problems.

The company has tried to find a group of people to grow food on the coast of America.

However, the company recruited them to grow food in order to take away almost all the food at the lowest price and supply it to the hunters.

And there are indigenous people in the area, so they have to give them guns.

As a result, people in several villages revolted.

They took guns, farm tools, cattle and horses, and food and fled to the Indian tribe.

He said bluntly: "This place is fertile, where can't we go? Go deep into the forest, one person has a lot of land to cultivate, how can it not be happier than being a cow and a horse here?"

The company didn't care to scold these people for not having a sense of contract. It was agreed that they would spend a lot of money to transport them there, and how much grain they would have to pay every year, but these people actually didn't abide by the contract?

Instead, they learned from their mistakes and realized that if they transported farmers there, unless they transported tens of thousands of them at once, the remaining grain would be enough to eat and sell.

Otherwise, if they transported hundreds of people there, expecting them to take out almost all the grain, there were dense forests and fertile soil there, and they had cows, horses, seeds and farm tools, and there were blacksmiths, carpenters and women in the village. If they didn't run away, it would be a ghost.

So after thinking about it, I felt that Honolulu was more reliable.

Otherwise, we had to prepare enough manpower to force the local tribes not to catch fish and dry them to store food for the tribe in the short summer, but to use them as slaves to dig roots and pick wild fruits.

Obviously, this method is not suitable for Dashun at all.

It's not that the people of Dashun are kindhearted, but that those tribes are prosperous, and they can catch sea otters with their skilled craftsmanship, and then exchange them for six or seven large blankets. How much profit can they make?

Catching sea otters is a technical job, unless those who have no handicrafts at all and can't get blankets, sugar and other goods by themselves, the Luosha people who competed with them before would catch people as slaves and force them to work.

If there is nothing to exchange, don't you have to rob?

But robbing and forcing people to be slaves is cheaper for the Luosha people, because their food has to be transported from Siberia, and they can't get blankets and other things at all.

But for the Whale Sea Company of Dashun, a little calculation will make it clear that robbing and forcing people to be slaves will also cost money, which is obviously more expensive than exchanging blankets.

It is much more expensive to spend money to raise gunmen than to wholesale broken blankets from Songjiang in exchange for sea dragon skins.

Moreover, they are forced to work in the summer and have no chance to catch migratory fish. The tribes will starve to death in the winter. Who will catch sea otters? Isn't this just draining the pond to catch the fish?