New Shun 1730

At the dock of the bay, a large ship was transporting people to the shore via a small boat.

The ship was very large, and it was obvious at a glance that it should be a merchant ship converted from a warship.

In fact, it was indeed so. It was originally a British warship. After the war, it was sold at a low price, and Dashun bought a batch.

Although, from the long-term perspective of industrial development, this ship should not be bought at all.

If it had not been bought, Dashun would have won the First World War. The trade east of the Cape of Good Hope and the development of the Fuso gold mine would require a large number of ships, which would inevitably promote a new wave of development in Dashun's shipbuilding industry.

However, after the war, Dashun still bought a lot of British warships.

Because many people in the court of Dashun could not help but have the mentality of "I am already old".

Perhaps it was out of uncertainty about the future.

Perhaps it was out of fear of the unknown future.

Or perhaps it was out of inner pessimism or distrust of the younger generation.

In short, these people who had the mentality of "I am already old" facilitated this transaction and bought a large number of cheap ships at one time.

When these warships were bought, they naturally did not carry cannons. But after all, they were warships, with a good foundation and sufficient materials. With a little modification, they could be used as merchant ships for trade.

After being modified, a large number of warships were quickly put into the rapidly developing trade.

This ship carrying people was the product of this incident.

Fortunately, Dashun's navigation skills were well developed, the level of navigation skills was greatly improved, and the understanding of scurvy greatly reduced the mortality rate.

Relying on the ocean current trade wind route of the classic Manila galleon, it set sail from Weihai or Jiaodong, arrived in Japan, and rushed all the way here with the ocean current.

Even if there is a storm, there is no need to panic too much. As long as it does not sink, relying on the sextant and the nautical almanac, you can know where you are, where there are islands nearby for supplies, and how far away from the destination.

The voyage of this ship was very smooth and did not encounter any accidents. After the sailors are done with this wave, they can rest here for a while. The return journey is much simpler than coming, and it only takes two months to arrive, while it takes five or six months to come.

When they went back, they were basically empty ships.

Because it was not their turn to transport gold. The court had a special fleet to transport gold, and they had to prevent pirates and people from running away.

And when these ships carrying people arrived here, at most the sailors secretly carried some tea, cloth, etc., and sold them secretly here as a tonnage benefit for the sailors.

When they went back before, there was really nothing to load.

But this time, their route back was no longer the same as before.

This was also a byproduct of the end of the First World War: the negotiations between Dashun and Spain finally reached a communication and investment negotiation on the trade of saltpeter and guano on the west coast of South America. The price was that 20 years later, Dashun would completely return Gibraltar to Spain and recognize Spain's rule over Luzon.

More than 16,000 Catholics from Dashun were transported to South America in a form similar to "coolie labor" for mining.

It was also the first time that Dashun's capital invested in financial capital to build the world's first "foreign-funded" railway abroad, which was used to transport saltpeter and guano.

The development of Dashun in recent years has also led to a demand for chemical fertilizers in some coastal areas.

Whether it is the cotton industry in northern Jiangsu or the peanut and tobacco planting areas in eastern Shandong, they can afford this fertilizer and are willing to use it, and these fertilizers can indeed increase land output.

The common scene brought about by the development of central and eastern Shandong is the rapid polarization of the small peasant economy.

Loans, borrowing, tobacco planting, losses, bankruptcy, land sales, mergers, this set of combined actions has greatly shortened the land merger cycle in central and eastern Shandong.

The tragic stories of bankruptcy suicide, selling wives and children, borrowing to buy bean cakes, and then selling tobacco at a low price and having to use their only remaining land to repay debts are staged every day.

To put it in a positive way, this provided a steady stream of labor for the iron and coal mines in Zibo, soybean plantations in the northeast, and rice and wheat plantations in Ezo, and promoted the capitalist development in the coastal areas of Dashun.

At the same time, this land merger also promoted the use of fertilizers such as saltpeter, guano, and bean cake.

Some landlords who successfully merged began to transform and plant cash crops such as peanuts and tobacco. And they also had a certain amount of capital and could buy these fertilizers without borrowing.

Fortunately, the roads in central and eastern Shandong have been repaired, and it is convenient to run to Guandong if it is really not possible, or to work as farm workers in Ezo, and the industry and commerce have gradually developed. In general, it is still controllable-although there are things like suicide and selling wives and children almost every day, there is no large-scale peasant uprising, which can be said to be controllable at this time.

Southern Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu, Jiaodong, and Liaoning, these areas with the most convenient transportation and logistics in the era of shipping, and the areas most at risk of being involved in the capitalist system, have also taken the lead in realizing the application of "chemical fertilizers" in agriculture.

Although it is helpless, this is the reality.

Tenant farmers do not even have livestock, and even lack manure, so how can they have extra money to buy fertilizer, even if they know that fertilizer is effective.

And self-employed farmers... growing food and buying this kind of fertilizer is obviously unrealistic.

Planting cash crops... Let's put it this way, merchants, moneylenders, tobacco and peanut buyers, there are at least nine ways to make them bankrupt.

The Dashun government did not dare to fully promote the Qingmiao Law. The reason was simple: the bankruptcy rate of small farmers was too high. If they really lent money, would the court really confiscate the land, tear down the house, and arrest people?

This was the case with the Dashun government.

If you borrowed money at high interest rates and were forced to death, in the eyes of the public, it was natural to repay the debt. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, private ownership has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the resulting legal rights and consciousness are deeply rooted.

But if the court lent money and really wanted to collect the debt, it would be not far from an uprising.

Therefore, relying on the rapid polarization of the small peasant economy, the entry of capital, and the use of natural fertilizers to make the differentiation faster, the guano and saltpeter industry in South America also developed.

The Dashun ship that transported people to North America finally found a trade route that did not return empty, which greatly reduced the cost of transporting people.

Because in the past, the ship returned empty, and the freight had to be shared by everyone; but now, saltpeter and guano can be loaded on the return trip, so lower bids can be accepted to transport people.

Even so, the supervision of Dashun's immigration this time is still very strict. The official control covers all aspects, which has also created a lot of dissatisfaction.

Because Dashun is not short of people, and it can even be said that there is no shortage of people who are willing to sell themselves to go to Fusang to dig gold and finally get land.

If capital really comes freely, for the bubble companies digging for gold, even if they say that they don't transport Japanese and Korean slaves.

Then, Dashun's coastal areas want to find single people without parents, wives and children to go to Fusang to dig gold. Is there a shortage of people?

Obviously, there is no shortage.

Even going to Nanyang is acceptable, how can it be impossible not to accept going to Fusang in the temperate zone?

And now the contradiction between officials and businessmen has emerged.

The official, or Liu Yu's side, hopes to be more benevolent and give priority to transporting people in the uninhabited area of ​​the Yellow River.

And these people, without "free" screening, many have wives, children, and parents.

Transporting people, these wives, children, parents, etc. must also be transported, which greatly increases the company's employment costs.

After all, the biggest cost is the boat ticket.

If you stuff your wife in, you will have one less young and strong male labor force. You can't let women dig gold in the well. That's totally unrealistic.

The business side, mainly the bubble gold mining company, hopes to make more profits.

They said that they understand the righteousness and they also talk about the truth, but the court is too controlling after all. Since they are worried about moving outsiders, we can accept that we will not move islanders, people from Honolulu, Catholics, Japanese and Koreans...

These are considered to be in compliance with the righteousness.

But why do we have to spend a lot of money and move people from the uninhabited area of ​​the Yellow River?

Originally, one job was done by 1,000 people. On the coast of Dashun, or by finding human traffickers to broker contract workers, it would cost 1,000 people to get 1,000 unattached, young and strong laborers without wives, children or even parents.

Now, these 1,000 people may cost 2,000 people. Even if it is a child, doesn't it take up space on the boat? Even if you throw them out of the boat to feed the fish, the number of people has been determined when the boat sails, so it is meaningless to throw them out.

This contradiction is also the reason why the West Coast gold mine of Dashun cannot implement the "romantic" anarchic free mining policy in history.

And this contradiction between officials and businessmen is actually the reason why the emerging classes in Europe, Asia, North America and other places, or the bourgeoisie to be more specific, want to seize power at this time. To some extent, in some places, the Dashun court has become an obstacle to the bourgeoisie's profit.