New Shun 1730

In addition, there is another very big difference.

That is, the reforms and conquests before Dashun actually obtained food from the Northeast to Japan and then to Southeast Asia.

This made the situation encountered by Dashun in the developed regions of the reforms was "cheap rice hurts farmers", forcing landlords to transform.

Instead of the "high rice prices" caused by the French Physiocrats, which broke out again and again in nationwide chaos.

These two are two sides of the same coin of free trade.

They are essentially the same thing.

But the difference is quite big.

The former can be suppressed.

Liu Yu suppressed it, and the low rice hurt farmers, and he suppressed the grain price, which greatly promoted the industrial and commercial development of Songsu area.

The latter cannot be suppressed.

Low grain prices, at most, will cause dissatisfaction.

High grain prices, so high that people can't afford to eat at all, that will cause a big incident.

Even if we say that these two things are the same thing, both are free trade.

But the difference is so big that as long as we understand the principle that "people will die if they don't eat", we can jump out of pure economics and understand the difference between the two.

Moreover, there is one more point.

France’s surroundings… Let’s put it this way, France did not get the overall advantage of industry or handicrafts in the surrounding areas.

The development of handicrafts and urbanization in European countries has led to the continuous rise in grain prices, and has also created the current situation where French speculators are constantly tossing grain prices.

And around Dashun… handicrafts, or industries, none of them can compete.

Let’s not mention Korea, let’s not mention Japan. Nanyang… even the needles and threads in Nanyang were basically monopolized by Chinese relying on local production after the end of the Ming Dynasty.

India, the only country that can compete with Dashun, is just a geographical concept. After Aurangzeb died, Dashun won the battle, and with what Lao Ma said [the robbery system after commercial capital gained ruling power], it directly destroyed India’s handicrafts.

Let’s put it this way.

The handicrafts in the interior of Dashun were actually very strong, so strong that even the textile industry in northwest Shandong before the reform was the best in the world in 1700.

The handicrafts and industries in the developed coastal areas are stronger than those in the inland areas because of factors such as raw materials, transportation, relative advantages, grain prices, and labor costs.

This means that after the reform, Dashun certainly agrees with free trade in the developed areas. Anyway, as long as there is no shortage of food, stable grain prices, a navy in hand, and Southeast Asia, Japan, Siam, etc. are all under control, what can go wrong? Moreover, Dashun itself has a very traditional and long-standing experience in state regulation of rice prices. It is nothing more than relying on canals and now relying on sea transportation. This difference is really not big.

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Originally in history, the reform of the French Physiocrats was purely "establishing an ideal country."

Then, at this time, the reform of the French Physiocrats, given the deepening of exchanges, the ideal country is not so easy to establish, and it is purely a case of imitating others.

In recent years, the Enlightenment scholars and Physiocrats in France have been learning from Dashun.

However, they don't understand what kind of monster the current Dashun monarchy is.

In fact, the current emperor of Dashun has two crowns on his head.

One is the holy emperor of the traditional small peasant economy and imperial examination system in the inland area.

The population here is about 300 million.

The other is in such a large territory as the first two provinces, Northeast China, Southeast Asia, Japan, Fusang, Korea, India, etc. The guardian of the capitalist system; the maintainer of the new heavenly dynasty system; the holy emperor of the comprador groups of various countries; the guardian of the interests of the "sufeng" in the new world order, including the Japanese, Koreans, Javanese, Indians, and the beneficiaries of the new order...

The population here is also about 300 million.

The reason why these two crowns are combined into one is compromise.

The outer crown is afraid that the inland will beat them with force; and the inner crown is afraid that the outside will beat them with money.

That's right, the benefactors and kings of all classes must take something from one class before giving it to another class.

However, the external crown relies on the misery of the Korean grain return system; the oppression of the Japanese tribute system; the blood and tears of Indian handicrafts; and the whip marks of the Nanyang plantations.

From the bayonet and the warship, things were taken from the outside, and given to a group of new classes that did not exist before but have now become a powerful force, feeding them and stabilizing their temporary hunger to eat up the domestic market.

Under the so-called "new etiquette" and "new world system" of Li Li.

His people are not just the people on the Dashun side.

They also include the bottom of other countries under this new etiquette, new world system, and fake free trade.

His ministers are not just the people on the Dashun side.

They also include those who sell grain in Korea, those who open copper mines in Japan, those compradors in port cities in India, those who crush European manufacturing in the Netherlands, and those who kill their own textile industry in North America... They are all "sufeng" ministers under the so-called new international order.

To a certain extent, the French Physiocrats are actually counted.

After all, they had to rely on them to defeat Colbert's industrial substitutionism and industrial protectionism in France.

However, they were too radical.

The repeated French "Flour Wars" were too scary.

After all, they ruined the reputation of the Physiocrats and the natural order in France.

In addition to the [Famine Conspiracy] and the increasing compression of the survival of French national capital, they directly caused anti-Dashun sentiment in Europe.

This is certainly not a good thing for Dashun.

Dashun had high hopes for the French Physiocrats School.

On the one hand, the Physiocratic School itself has a deep cultural imprint on China.

Whether it's Quesnay or Turgot, whether you say they "fabricated the Utopia" to "support the restructuring of East Asia", that's their own fault, because even if it's an Utopia plus "Reorganization of East Asia", after all, there is still This is an utopia, after all, we have to rely on the East.

This point is integrated with the strong idea of ​​"distant utopia to promote political reform in the country" in the French Enlightenment.

It can be said that this is Dashun's most successful cultural invasion in Europe in recent years.

On the other hand, this set of things of the Physiocratic School is indeed what Dashun needs. Moreover, they also use things such as "Tao follows nature" and "natural order" to build an ideal model of capitalist society.

Historically, it was the British victory in the Seven Years' War and the failure of Turgot's reforms that led to "The Wealth of Nations" gaining the power of the Bible from the "natural order" or "invisible hand".

Only the strong are worthy of receiving the scriptures.

But now, it is obvious that Dashun wants to grab the invisible hand and the Bible rights of free trade.

Here, it is natural to rely on things like natural order, Taoism, and inaction.

Free trade requires skills.

The current situation is that if the Heavenly Soldiers go to other people's territory to snatch their tariffs, they will be beaten to death, and their delivery capabilities are insufficient.

Then we can only rely on cultivating role models.

Moreover, this model cannot be a small country, but must be an influential big country.

The Netherlands is useless. Because the Netherlands originally had a golden age, was rich, was small, and was a financial center itself, so this thing is not convincing.

If France can succeed, then Dashun's new world system will really be established.

You see, after France adopted Physiocrats, it prospered... What kind of example is this? What kind of attraction?

But that's the problem.

Dashun is the celestial dynasty. How should I put it? He knows a truth.

That is, if people have no food to eat, they will rebel.

Not every dynasty can understand this truth.

When the moon is full, it will be waning, and when things are extreme, they will turn upside down.

This also makes Dashun quite conflicted.

Do you support the Physiocrats?

support.

Moreover, I very much hope they succeed - the Physiocrats believe that tariffs are meaningless and only increase the cost of living for domestic consumers; and land is the only source of value, so the tariff issue does not affect the accumulation of wealth in the country.

There are logical and rational inferences here.

The cornerstone of the Physiocratic School was the doctrine of pure products.

That is: [Wealth is material products, and the source of wealth is not circulation but production. Therefore, the production of wealth means the creation of material and the increase in its quantity]

[Among various economic sectors, they believe that only agriculture is productive, because only agriculture not only produces material products, but also can show an increase in the amount of material wealth in the use value of inputs and outputs]

[Industry does not create matter but only changes or combines the form of existing material wealth, and commerce does not create any material wealth]

For example, cotton is produced by the land.

And what about cotton? You just twisted cotton into cloth. Cotton already exists. You just changed the form of cotton. Can you call this creating wealth? Obviously not, you didn't create any wealth at all by rubbing cotton - this is the fundamental difference between Dashun's practical school and the French Physiocratic School, the value of land or the value of labor.

So, what follows from this?

It can be deduced from this that tariffs are meaningless, because industry does not create wealth, but only changes the form of material wealth. Wealth is created from the land.

So since industry does not create wealth, why do we need tariffs?

It makes no sense.

It also increases national costs out of thin air. For example, landlords have to spend more wages to hire people because the wages include tariffs on cotton cloth, etc.

This is a complete logical chain.

Of course Dashun liked this theory, and he liked it very much.

However, if the Physiocrats school tried to fiddle with another reform and started another wave of flour wars, then Dashun would be completely ruined.

Still the same sentence: [People create their own history, but they do not create it as they please, not under conditions chosen by themselves, but under conditions directly encountered, established, and inherited from the past. Create next. All the traditions of the dead ancestors haunt the minds of the living like a nightmare]

Dashun himself created a division of internal and external rule.

Coupled with the experience of Dashun's ancestors who have died in the past two thousand years, Dashun is too clear that it has become a "hoarding of goods", "merchants are completely free to control prices", "land is completely free to buy and sell", "handicrafts are widespread" "Unemployment", what will be the consequences?

By then, let alone Dashun’s desire to set an example of “physiocrats”, “free trade” and “natural order” in Europe.

I'm afraid it's completely the other way around.

France needs to set an example for Europe of "industrial substitution", "national capital", "protectionism" and "national industry".

If we really get to that point, I'm afraid it will turn into dominoes and produce a series of chain reactions.

The whole of Europe is turning to protectionism and Corbellism, and Dashun is on the verge of tears. Technology has reached the threshold. If countries really engage in protectionism and industrial substitutionism, it will be easy to catch up. Dashun will be in tears. We will completely lose the Atlantic market and shrink back to the east of the Cape of Good Hope.

According to Dashun's experience, the founding soldiers were all particularly capable of fighting. Dashun really can't afford military projection. Besides, even if they can send 30,000 to 50,000 people to fight a group of founding soldiers, isn't that to deliver food?

Moreover, there are also problems within Dashun now, and the Indian side is also in chaos.

At this juncture, if something happens again in Europe, the Dashun Dynasty will really be in big trouble.

It is not easy to shrink the Dashun strategy. If you go back, what will you do with those people who are bound to European trade?

This can involve millions of people. Is it necessary to liberalize the mainland market and allow goods from the first-mover regions to enter the mainland tax-free and without capital controls? If you dare to do this, it will be great fun.

Therefore, the trap that Liu Yu set at the beginning was a dead end. He could not retreat even if he retreated, so he could only force Dashun to show his teeth.

Therefore, it is necessary to carry Liu Yu's coffin, engage in death diplomacy, build up a lot of momentum, and return to China from the Atlantic for burial - through a gorgeous ceremony, awaken the memory of the entire Europe, the legendary man who used Physiocrats and natural order. The empire is so rich and powerful, you should use it too. Of course the transition will be painful, and of course there will be flour wars and famines. As long as the pain is over, it will be fine. You should not stop eating because of choking.