New Shun 1730

From another technical perspective, there are actually two theoretical ideas.

One is to migrate and use the 60-70 billion acres of land in America and Australia to ease the pain of crushing.

The other is to distribute the land equally and ensure that the land cannot have financial asset attributes for a long time.

However, it seems that these are two ideas.

In fact, they are the same thing.

Only those who can distribute the land equally can afford to immigrate millions of people a year, and if they migrate less, the problem cannot be solved at all.

On the other hand, the financial resources, material resources, and grassroots control required for the immigration of millions of people a year can only be obtained by relying on the distribution of land equally.

Now, the reality is here.

North America still has 60-70 billion acres of land.

However, the Pacific Ocean is so vast that it takes at least six months to go there. In the middle, eating, drinking, defecating, replenishing logistics, reclaiming and waiting for recovery, sailors, sailors, canvas and wood... These things cost at least 100 taels of silver per person, at least.

According to the large-scale immigration of millions of people a year to relieve the pressure, the annual expenditure on immigration is hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

If the land is not evenly distributed, and the landlords, the middlemen who make a profit, are removed, where can they get the hundreds of millions of taels of silver?

So, in this reality, these two ideas are actually the same thing.

As for the industrialization problem of Dashun, the biggest difficulty in the current situation is not capital, not currency, not market, not technology, not labor force population, not raw materials, but all of these.

The biggest difficulty is still the ideal society and obsession of the first type of private ownership, and the struggle and resistance of the small peasant economy that does not want to be crushed.

This is why Liu Yu said that if the bourgeoisie of Dashun wants to succeed, they must at least have the ability to do this: come 100,000, kill 100,000; come 1 million, kill 1 million; come 10 million, kill 10 million.

Obviously, this is unrealistic.

This is the same "so-called theoretically correct nonsense" as the missionaries in the Ming Dynasty, who said that 20,000 Spanish regular troops could destroy the Ming Dynasty - you can support 20,000 people in the sailing ship era Transatlantic and Pacific expeditions, you can just go to the moon directly, what are you doing in the Ming Dynasty?

Since this is bullshit, then we must change our thinking.

That is what Liu Yu said, give them a steamed bun, don't starve to death, don't revolt, and carry it until a hundred tables are full of food.

On the surface, the emperor also has this idea.

But in fact, based on Liu Yu's understanding of the emperor, and the system of checks and balances established by Dashun at the beginning, and even the emperor's "differentiation between inside and outside" balance thinking during the reform process in recent years...

If the emperor is not deliberately testing anything, but is sincere when he is about to die.

Then, Liu Yu can roughly guess the emperor's thinking.

The premise of this thinking is that "equal distribution of land" and "limitation of land" are politically correct in Dashun, or in the ideal social conception of some scholars and officials.

That is, in terms of "righteousness", the court has the righteousness of "equal distribution of land".

There is righteousness.

Things can be done.

The difference between the two is huge.

Now, the emperor is convinced that he cannot achieve equal distribution of land in terms of ability.

If he did it, it might be like Wang Mang's reform, and the whole country would be in chaos. Moreover, it is very likely to collapse completely and die suddenly.

Therefore, under Liu Yu's idea of ​​"giving one person a steamed bun to last until a hundred tables of food are cooked", the emperor's idea can be roughly known.

The previous dynasty lasted for more than 200 years.

The emperor felt that according to this cycle, if everything remained unchanged and the rule continued as usual, plus many reforms, coastal industrial and commercial taxes, etc., Dashun continued the old way of ruling internally and lasted for 276 years, which seemed possible.

Now Dashun has been more than a hundred years since Xi'an.

Theoretically, the old system can last for more than a hundred years.

In other words, if there was no tossing from the beginning, then even if Dashun could last for 276 years, it would at least have a hundred years of national life now.

And the emperor thought that the poisonous wine meant that the tossing had begun, the development of industry and commerce was too fast, the speed of capital accumulation was too fast, and the speed of mergers would also soar after the currency reform.

If it is not resolved, then the country's life of more than a hundred years may only last a few decades - according to the traditional annexation and reincarnation thinking.

And now, it is still an extension of the idea of ​​different internal and external differences, or the extension of the two official selection systems of the check and balance thinking that started from the founding of Dashun, closing the interior.

The interior is still operating according to the old system. In theory, everything remains the same. In addition, with the cloth, food, silver, and military officers provided by the advanced regions, can't it last until 276 years?

Since it is said that in Liu Yu's view, the emperor's mind is filled with the deformed thinking of the Westernization Movement, and he is a technical school.

Then, the so-called antidote of the emperor is what the emperor said "Wang Xie Yan".

That is, the fertilizer and steam pumps he used in the field he personally cultivated in Xiyuan.

So, if Dashun continues the old thinking internally and can last until 276 years, then there are still more than a hundred years. Can this antidote be researched?

Before the "antidote" was developed - at least, from the emperor's purely technical perspective, this thing was the antidote - the development of the first-developed regions could provide tax revenue, gold, silver, materials, and troops, which would be convenient for both relief and suppression.

If it could be done, there is another issue involved.

That is, in terms of "righteousness", the traditional court had the righteousness of the act of "equal distribution of land".

Even in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when someone wrote a memorial to limit or equalize land during the Qianxiao period, they just ignored it and said it was "in line with the right path" instead of directly arresting and executing them on the charge of "collaborating with bandits".

Whether to do it or not is one thing.

Whether this matter is "righteous" or "politically correct" is another matter.

It's another thing to want to do it but not be able to do it.

In the future, if the antidote is developed.

That is to say, what the emperor believed was that fertilizers could be manufactured in batches, iron tools could be purchased cheaply and everyone could afford them, water pumps could be quickly spread to every river, and the Yellow River diversion project could be completely completed, etc.

By then, according to the inherent internal cycle, it will almost be time for reincarnation.

At that time, can the imperial court uphold the principle of "equalizing land", carry out internal reforms of equalizing land, limiting land, or redeeming land, and achieve the state of "only farmers own land" of the Confucian retro-style, for another 276 years?

At the same time, after completing the land equalization, we can make a backhand and use the power of small farmers to complete the government-run industries in the first-developed areas and restore the idealized social model of "Zhou Rites"?

In the eyes of the emperor, who is currently engaged in reforms such as land equalization, he lacks the strength and is prone to violent death.

Moreover, even if he doesn’t die suddenly, what will happen in the future?

The land system of the Tang Dynasty collapsed within a few years. I'm afraid that new problems will arise again by then.

Therefore, even if the reforms of land equalization, land restriction, or redemption can be completed, it will not be of much significance to the Dashun Dynasty.

And when the internal situation is really unsustainable, when the cycle of reincarnation is almost here, a change will be made, and at least it can continue for a while.

Didn’t the land equalization system of the Tang Dynasty last until the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty?

Likewise.

Just change it first, basically ending with violent death.

In the future, the first-mover areas will continue to develop.

At that time, with the funds, taxes, materials, grain, cloth, arms, and the talent pool of new practical students in the first-mover areas, theoretically there will be the power to complete the reform of equalizing land and limiting land.

Once the equalization of land and the restriction of land are completed, the imperial examination system will be reformed instead of abolishing the imperial examination system - retaining the imperial examination system, but reforming the content of the imperial examination and adding practical learning as an examination item.

First, use the first-mover areas to complete internal land equalization.

Then, with the help of Juntian's popular will, he can backhand suppress the business class in the first-mover areas. Once the internal stability is stabilized, the industries in the first-developed areas will be returned to the government.

By then, the yield per mu will be not just 800 jins, but even 500 jins per mu; iron tools will be cheap; transportation will be convenient; and steam will be pumped for irrigation to preserve water and drought...

Dashun, does it also have the fortune of 400 for the Han Dynasty and 800 for the Zhou Dynasty?

As far as the emperor is concerned, he still knows the cycle of two to three hundred years, and he does not expect it to last forever.

For the emperor, as long as he dies, he must cling to power.

But after he dies, he still hopes that the dynasty and his descendants will continue.

Now, the emperor had a firm grip on power.

Moreover, if there is no trouble, Dashun will basically be the national destiny in the next two hundred years, or even lower, because the population is exploding too fast.

So, in this case, it is very easy to understand that the emperor had such an idea with the help of past experiences and traditions like nightmares.

Although, this can be regarded as a kind of thinking of "after I die, the flood will come to the sky".

Anyway, as long as I don't die, I will firmly hold on to the imperial power.

And if I die, I may explode if I work like this, but I may also get the luck of 400 in Han Dynasty and 800 in Zhou Dynasty.

So, why not give it a try?

It sounds like it's theoretically possible.

But this feasible foundation, or core, is still the thinking of the old era.

This is still the way of thinking under the dominance of small-scale peasant economy.

It can even be said that it is still the standard feudal dynasty way of thinking.

Nothing more than:

Water conservancy projects and roller irrigation were replaced in the emperor's mind by the steam pumps he had seen.

The Grand Canal and water transport ships were replaced in the emperor's mind by the railways and maritime transport that he had seen.

The government-run weaving bureau was replaced in the emperor's mind by the fertilizer factory and steel factory he imagined.

The imperial examination system and the eight-part essay were replaced in the emperor's mind by examinations on subjects with practical knowledge.

The emperor has not seen the new era.

The emperor only saw railways, steam engines, and saltpeter fertilizers, some of the products of the new era.

But this does not mean that he can see what the new era will look like.

At the very least, the emperor did not have the concept of "workers" in his mind, and it was completely impossible to understand that one day in the future, workers would be the force leading the change of the times.

The emperor combined everything from the old with "Westernization technology" to imagine a new era in his mind.

In essence, this is not the same as space operas, fantasy cold weapon robots in the future world, extreme development of productivity that has flown out of the solar system, private ownership and families still exist, human beings are fighting in the fucking galaxy, and there is still something like an empire. many.

It's just adding some fantasy technology to the existing social relationships and social consciousness.

Therefore, the emperor thought it was feasible.

And Liu Yu has not only experienced technologies such as chemical fertilizers and steam engines. I have also seen the future era.

Therefore, Liu Yu was sure that it was not feasible.

Because the emperor forgot to consider one thing: new productive forces will bring new production relations, social consciousness, new contradictions, and new classes.

The emperor just added some technical fantasy to Dashun based on the original logic of the feudal dynasty.

To be romantic, the old emperor's idea is a kind of steampunk and space opera with Dashun characteristics.

However, technology exists as the "magic" of Victorian steampunk - an abstract force that transcends productivity, production relations, class and other categories.

In this fantasy, magic is just magic, and will not lead to changes in ideology, social relations, and production relations.

Like the advanced technology in space opera, it is just an abstract force that transcends society and will not lead to changes in ideology, social relations, and production relations.

It seems that the times are frozen in the present, with only technological progress, but nothing to do with people, that is, the changes in social relations in the sum of all social relations of this person.

In fact, it is also a special idea of ​​the "Westernization Movement".