New Shun 1730

This is exactly the key point of Dashun's North American strategy.

Apart from other things, Dashun is too clear about the ability of these "self-cultivating farmers" to expand borders and cultivate land.

Dashun took itself as a mirror and had a clear mind about the closed terrain of North America.

China cultivated all the land around it that was convenient for cultivation, and with the introduction of crops such as corn and sweet potatoes, even mountainous areas like Guizhou were not spared.

If there is no restraint, the terrain of North America will inevitably be divided and united.

Who can fight?

Can self-cultivating farmers fight?

Or can the manor serfs in Spain fight?

Dashun is very clear about this.

If there is no restraint in this closed terrain, there must be a country that can conquer it.

The temperate climate, two major rivers, and the private ownership of self-cultivating farmers are all things that Dashun knows very well. In the era of iron tools, ox plowing and ridge farming, it is indeed a capital to dominate the continent.

Dashun really doesn't care about Europe.

Neither the Netherlands nor the United Kingdom cares about it.

The only thing they were worried about was France, especially Spain, which was also a family of the same clan, and they were all Catholics.

So even if they formed an alliance with France this time, they would still drag France and never land in Britain to prevent France from dominating and achieving great things.

Dashun had already started to have a village population on the west coast of North America through the fur trade, but they went too late, and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean was far beyond the reach of the Atlantic Ocean.

Overall, the mentality of Dashun was purely a mentality of "if I can't get it, others can't get it either."

Of course, for Dashun, it is not without advantages to compete for hegemony in North America.

It can even be said that if you look at it clearly, the advantages are huge.

As the saying goes, misfortune is the foundation of blessing, and blessing is the foundation of misfortune.

Indeed, the Pacific Ocean is much wider than the Atlantic Ocean, and Dashun immigration is inconvenient, and it is quite inconvenient.

But, in the same way, the gold and silver mines in North America are all on the west coast, not on the east coast.

If the gold and silver mines in North America were to change direction, the good farmland would be on the west coast, and the gold and silver mines would be on the east coast, then Dashun would really have no chance at all.

If that were to happen, the east coast would be quickly filled up by Europe because of the gold and silver mines. With the increase in population, they began to move westward.

However, this is the reality.

There is arable land on the east coast.

There is gold and silver on the west coast.

If there were only arable land on the west coast, Dashun would have no chance at all.

The rich would not go, and the poor could not go. The round-trip tickets would completely ruin Dashun's last chance to carve up North America.

However, even if Dashun was more than a hundred years late, even if the Pacific Ocean was too wide.

However, the gold and silver on the west coast still gave Dashun a chance to catch the last train.

But this opportunity requires very delicate operation.

Otherwise, the opportunity will become a crisis. There are not enough people, and they will be overwhelmed by a wave of people.

With the current population of Dashun on the west coast of America, if Liu Yu had announced the discovery of a large gold mine on the west coast early...

That would be a lot of fun.

The millions of people on the east coast could directly kill the few people that Dashun had accumulated on the west coast. And across the Pacific Ocean, Dashun can only look on in the distance.

Therefore, how to resolve the crisis and seize the opportunity requires a very sophisticated layout.

From the beginning, Liu Yu engaged in Korean ginseng and pulled France into ginseng and mink fur trade.

Then Dashun Whale Sea Company went to catch sea dragon skins, and first dug gold on a small scale from the Yukon River, and then stuck in Honolulu and the west coast for the food needed to dig gold.

Including this time, they insisted on pulling North America to prevent North America and Britain from separating, all of which were turning crises into opportunities.

Not to mention France, Dashun did pull France to play the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in North America.

And Dashun was so "kind" that it insisted on the thirteen states not to separate Britain, which was full of evil intentions.

Contradictions can be suppressed for a while, but not for a lifetime.

The more you suppress, the bigger the problem.

The bigger the problem, the greater the contradiction between North America and Britain.

And this kind of contradiction is unsolvable.

This is the chronic disease of the colonization colonies mentioned by Lao Ma:

[The deprivation of the people's land is the basis of the capitalist production method. But the essence of the colonization colonies is that every colonist can transfer part of that land to his own private property]

[This is the reason for the prosperity of the colonization colonies]

[It is also the chronic disease of the colonization colonies - the resistance of the petty bourgeoisie to capitalist colonization]

This is why Liu Yu had to "kindly" leave the thirteen states to Britain. This fundamental contradiction can only be temporarily suppressed, but not eliminated.

North America is not worthy of being called capitalism at this time.

There is a shortage of currency to the point of using shells, corn, tobacco, and even paper money; self-employed farmers are everywhere; small producers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and masons are everywhere; British capital has basically controlled the southern states with loans... How can North America be called capitalism at this time?

And Britain has silver, capital, stock exchanges, speculators, financial capital, and even industrial capital.

The resistance of the petty bourgeoisie to colonial capital is inevitable.

The Dashun's move this time was just to suppress this resistance and ease this contradiction. The core things have not changed at all.

The core things are private ownership and land transactions.

Taking Virginia as an example, it is easy to understand what this contradiction is.

Virginia grows tobacco.

Tobacco consumes a lot of land. In the era without chemical fertilizers, if you plant tobacco for three years, the land will not recover without a ten-year rest.

The tobacco trade is controlled by big businessmen and big capital in Britain.

Planting tobacco requires capital investment.

This is the same all over the world.

Historically, when colonists planted flue-cured tobacco in Shandong, this situation often occurred: tobacco is expensive, so they plant tobacco; however, planting tobacco requires baking, picking, and investing much more capital than growing grain; so small producers can only borrow money, and after borrowing money, they hope that the tobacco can be sold at a good price and repay the principal and interest; borrowing requires collateral, and what can be used as collateral? The only collateral is land; but when the tobacco harvest season comes, the price fluctuates randomly, and the mortgaged land will be directly lost, and the mortgaged land will belong to the lender...

If this happens in Binzhou, Shandong, then the land is gone, and you go to work. Go to the tobacco fields to pick tobacco leaves or carry tobacco shreds to work - there is no land in Shandong. Even in the 1950s, there was a general mobilization in Pei County, and more than a dozen communes pulled out more than 60,000 young and strong men to attack Weishan Lake just to fight for land.

Isn't capitalism developed?

But this kind of thing happened near Binzhou in North America, so there is still a way out - there is still wasteland, go and reclaim it, and you can become a small producer after ten years.

However, land is not unlimited.

This leads to such a phenomenon, that is, capitalism erodes small producers.

London tobacco merchants make profits by manipulating tobacco purchase prices.

Scottish financial capital and usury lenders obtained land by lending to tobacco growers. If they can't pay back the money, they have to pay it back with land.

Local gentry such as Washington borrowed money from London financial merchants, or used their military status to speculate on land and occupy wasteland.

Wasteland is worthless.

However, growing tobacco requires constant new land, which requires the purchase of wasteland and virgin land for planting.

So, the worthless wasteland becomes valuable.

The land speculators earn their money back.

Why is it said to be a contradiction between the petty bourgeoisie and capitalism?

If there is no capitalism and trade system, and no financial capital and commercial capital from London.

Washington and others, are they crazy to spend money to stockpile a large piece of wasteland?

They are all self-employed farmers, small producers, and can get their own piece of land through reclamation. Can land speculation make money?

So a vicious circle is formed: small tobacco farmers in Virginia go bankrupt and the land belongs to Scottish financial capital. Of course, growing tobacco as a whole does not mean losing money, so some people will go west to buy new wasteland for reclamation, and the land speculation companies that hoard land will make money, so they will continue to move westward and occupy more land.

Land annexation on the eastern coast has begun.

Self-employed farmers who have lost their land began to move westward.

Land speculators moved further west and enclosed land in advance.

This model is just an example of the tobacco industry, and the impact of capitalism on the petty bourgeoisie is in all aspects.

These contradictions are impossible to disappear. Instead, they will become deeper.

Especially if Dashun and France are stuck in the west and north, and they are not allowed to continue to move west - of course, this kind of blocking relies on muskets, cannons, the help of Indians, and the vital fur trade.

Originally, the large amount of wasteland in the west allowed the petty bourgeoisie to survive. Moreover, the wasteland occupied by land speculators in advance is not sold at a high price, after all, there is still land in the west.

However, after the west was blocked.

The invasion of European capitalism starting from the east coast - under the ownership system of private ownership of land and the ability to buy and sell, will rapidly intensify the contradictions.

Dashun is absolutely clear about this point. If many anti-merger policies and various gold and silver paper currency controls and many land policy reforms in Songsu are relaxed, what will happen based on the large amount of silver that has come in from Songsu in recent years, Dashun is too clear.

Because Dashun itself is private ownership and land can be bought and sold, it is impossible for them not to understand this set of things.

Now, Dashun seems to be "so generous" that it even helped Britain to keep North America.

In fact, it buried a big bomb that will explode in the future.

It did not touch the fundamental chronic diseases and contradictions of the reclamation colonies at all, but just temporarily suppressed the contradictions and waited for a big explosion in the future.

And the explosion will give Dashun time to turn the gold and silver mines on the west coast into its own, and use this buffer period to ensure that there are enough people to defend.

As for how to explode, how to incite the explosion when necessary...

The people on the Dashun side really don't understand the Bible, nor do they understand this faction or that faction.

However, the people on the Dashun side are too familiar with private ownership, land annexation, merchant enclosure, land speculation, lending and land acquisition... and the petty bourgeoisie's resistance to capitalism.

Europeans are definitely not as good as Dashun in playing this set of things, because most of Europe at that time was still aristocratic land system, serfs, manors, strip fields, and share fields.

What did the old Europeans know about petty bourgeois ownership before the French Revolution?

What did they know about the first version of the City on the Hill, which says, "The tiller owns the land, every bit of labor pays off, the saints teach us, the farmers and workers are above the merchants, and the merchants and moneylenders are despised"?

The key is that Dashun is not ready yet.

It is better to bury this mine first and detonate it when needed.

Now, it is not a good thing for Dashun to incite North America to be independent.

France will really dominate, not to mention - because of France's weird industrial autonomy thinking; Colbert left behind a set of industries such as lacquerware and silk that conflicted with Dashun, and even lacquerware can be faked as Chinese goods. The craftsman base, as well as the silk weaving industry in Lyon; strict tariff protectionism and care for domestic industries, Dashun is more disgusted with France's domination of Europe than Britain.

Under the help and oppression of Dashun and France, Britain does not even have the ability to suppress.

Get North America out in a lively and peaceful manner, create millions of self-cultivating farmers and good families, no longer have the suzerain country to restrain them, open up wasteland and cultivate the border to the west, Dashun will cry in the west.