New Shun 1730

The voices of heated arguments continued to echo around Liu Yu's coffin, using some of the words Liu Yu had said. This was a unique spectacle in Dashun these years.

Dead people can be "canonized".

Because it is impossible for a dead person to crawl out of his coffin by himself, interpret the Bible.

After confirming the news that Liu Yu was indeed dead, the practical school in Dashun could not wait to start using Liu Yu's words as their own arguments to argue about future events.

Everyone knows that the current situation in Dashun is unstable.

If you continue to do this, something big will happen sooner or later.

Since they are already in the court, these people naturally hope to solve this problem in an improved way.

The improvements in Dashun are not to say that they are improving and getting worse with each change, but that the contradictions of the changes have been superimposed until now.

The old contradictions between landlords and peasants are getting worse.

New contradictions were also accompanied by Li Huan's coup and subsequent tactics, which boosted industry, and then completely intensified new class contradictions in the first-hit areas.

Li Han believes that the appetite of capital can be satisfied. So they clung to the banknotes in the mainland, and through strict control and promises of external expansion, they felt that they could be fed.

But in fact, it is not enough. The more you feed, the stronger you become.

If it is strong, it will want the mainland market.

Thirty years ago, the emerging class that supported Li Yi believed that Li Yi was the guardian of the capitalist system.

Now, they believe that this person has hindered the capitalist system, especially seriously hindering land hoarding and land purchase, the liberalization of the mainland market, etc.

In "Tea House", Cui Jiufeng said that Mr. Qin was engaged in industry, [but with his small business, huh, a foreigner would push him to the ground with a little finger and never get up again].

Qin Erye is an industrialist in Beijing and Tianjin.

In fact, in Dashun at this time, the principle is the same, except that the ones holding out the fingers are not foreigners.

The textile industry in Jianghan area has just begun to sprout.

However, the raw materials are controlled by Songsu Capital; the gold and silver currency of Dashun and the inflow of silver from foreign trade are all in Songsu.

Anyone who engages in the textile industry in Jianghan area, Songsu Capital can push him to the ground with just a finger and never get up again.

The situation in Dashun was different from that in later generations.

There is no shortage of raw materials in Dashun, nor is it said that the origin of raw materials has been controlled by imperialism.

But now Dashun itself is imperialist. Dashun does not need and cannot let Jianghan and other places grow cotton in large quantities to meet industrial needs in order to suppress industrialization.

On the contrary, cotton from India and Java is of good quality and cheap due to the robbery of commercial capital. The cost of shipping is here. Jianghan's cotton planting industry has actually been wiped out by Indian and Javanese cotton before it even started.

Coupled with the food problem, the Dashun court originally did not encourage Jianghan to grow cotton. In addition, the prince made a fuss about the ban on rice in Hunan and Chu. This is really scary.

Therefore, the current textile industry in Jianghan area relies on the Sichuan-Chu market and Indian Java cotton shipped from the Yangtze River.

In this case, if the banknote closure is completely abolished and the domestic "tariffs" are eliminated.

So, if you are a capitalist, would you choose to build a textile factory in Hankou and transport raw cotton from Songsu? Or will they choose to build a textile factory in Songsu and sell cotton there?

This is a question that does not require thinking about.

Put it this way.

In the woolen age, the British herded sheep in enclosures and the sheep ate people, which made sense.

If black people have already begun to eat watermelons and pick cotton in the southern states, and the British are going to enclose land to grow cotton, then they are definitely out of their minds.

Therefore, after Dashun won the First World War, the tragedy of "cotton eating people" would not be possible within Dashun.

It is absolutely impossible for Dashun to encourage cotton cultivation - under the small farmer economy and small land ownership system, cotton cultivation is not easy. It requires extremely strong organizational power to improve cotton seeds, eliminate old cotton seeds to prevent degenerative hybridization, etc. This is why in the Beiyang era in history, some local officials lamented that if they wanted to improve cotton seeds, they would have to wait until the great disaster to spread the cotton seeds thousands of miles away.

Dashun doesn't encourage it.

The short-staple cotton grown by small farmers was no longer suitable for commercial use in the pre-mechanical era, because short-staple cotton would lead to insufficient yarn toughness if the technology was insufficient. Unless the cumbersome process of starching and washing was used, it would be impossible to make wide cloth. of.

Therefore, after the victory of World War I, the cotton planting industry in Dashun died.

This is also the reason why Indian cotton yarn can trigger a wave of development of handmade cotton fabrics within Dashun.

Because Dashun in India... is what Lao Ma said, where commercial capital occupies the dominant advantage, there will inevitably be a robbery system.

If the things we were doing were done inside Dashun, the rebels would have burned down the Forbidden City.

Not just cotton.

Historically, Sheng Xuanhuai once speculated on raw silk, and the reason for its eventual collapse was, in the final analysis, one sentence: China is not the only country that produces silk in the world.

The same principle applies here.

Various raw materials for light industry can be obtained in almost all the first-mover regions with the advantage of sea transportation, and the prices are very low.

One aspect is transportation costs.

On the one hand is the model of plantations and large-scale production.

Also, the reason why a colony is called a colony is because the colonists do not serve the colonial people, but rob them.

Raw materials are raw materials.

Things like tea leaves are tea leaves.

This is different.

The Dashun court could firmly guard the tea from flowing out. Anyone who tried to grow tea in Nanyang, Ceylon, and India would be killed.

However, the colonies were quite supportive and encouraging of cotton, raw silk, rice, bananas, oil palm, and jute.

The beetroot problem of Nasan, which is about which side to stand on when the local planting industry competes with the colonies, is not a problem in Dashun.

The thinking about the concentration of large industries in advantageous areas in the beetroot problem of Nasan is a problem that people in Dashun think about.

And this is actually another problem: there must be sugar mills around the beetroot, and a large number of industries driven by the sugar industry, which accommodate a large number of jobs. Otherwise, these people would be killed by sugarcane sugar and lose their jobs.

Dashun used a strange method to cause the same similar problems: imposing inland protection taxes on light industrial products and exempting raw materials such as raw cotton, raw silk, and cotton yarn from internal tolls, resulting in the original pattern of handicraft centers in various provinces basically unchanged, and sprouting and thriving.

After all, after Liu Yu left, the group of people who followed Li Xi to follow the dragon all experienced a series of sequelae brought to Dashun by the canal transportation problem: the decline of the original industrial and commercial center, the change of the economic structure, these sequelae affected Dashun for more than 50 years before they were cured.

And the problem now is that this structure is artificially maintained by means similar to the Grand Canal.

As long as the ridiculous-sounding "domestic tariffs" are abolished, the economic structure of Dashun will change dramatically again.

And as those who oppose the direct abolition said, such a huge change is not the scale of abolishing the canal transportation and the millions of canal workers, which will have a great impact.

It's not that the abolition is bad.

It's that this thing is not a game that can be solved by clicking a button; it's not that defining this is progress and that is an obstacle to progress can make those who are about to be run over by the wheel of history close their eyes and wait for death.

Even if it is Na San, he had to pretend to write a pamphlet "On the Elimination of Poverty" in the face of the problems of small farmers and workers, and proposed a way to accommodate the unemployed through reclamation agriculture with fabricated data.

It is not that Dashun does not have such thinking.

In fact, it does not need to learn from others at all. Immigration, reclamation, settlement, migration, strengthening the border, and alleviating the contradiction between people and land, Dashun does not need others to inspire this.

Rather, just like Na San, who claims to solve the problem of small farmers, actually relies on big capital behind him, his words are like farts. Here, he said "the general poverty in the country is a brain disease to invade China to get that little market", and then he went to fight Er Ya when he came to power.

Dashun is actually the same.

Before Liu Yu left, Li Li talked with him at night, talking about the problem of resettlement and the contradiction between people and land, which will be solved in the future.

However, in reality, including the development and immigration north of the Songliao watershed, it is completely a set of low-price sales of state-owned land to reward the merits of the dragon, create opportunities for capital, and primitive accumulation.

It is not that immigration is not allowed in this way, but the number... Compared with the population of Dashun, the number is still too small.

For example, in North America.

In the past few decades, the population of Dashun has reached 3 to 5 million, which scared the French so much that they dared not even use Dashun's six-foot rails.

The problem is that in the past few decades, there are still mountains of gold and silver. Counting the birth of the local population, 3 to 5 million people in a few decades... It is enough for Dashun to gain population advantages in North America, but it is useless to solve the contradiction between people and land in the mainland.

In other words, if you want to immigrate on a large scale, it is useless to rely on a "Homestead Law"; it is also useless to rely on the development of steamships.

If you really want to accomplish this, you have to rely on the court to subsidize it with a lot of money. Everyone should at least subsidize a ticket, right? The westward movement in North America, not to mention the advantages of railways and capital expansion, just the most basic small farmer caravan, is not impossible to go.

The question is, will Dashun let small farmers drive caravans across the Pacific?

Besides, the concepts of "farmers" and "peasants" are different.

Henan now has 3.13 acres of land per capita, and the per capita land is extremely insufficient, which makes landlords collect rent unscrupulously: rent or not.

In some places, the rent has been reduced to 65%. In this case, let alone crossing the Pacific Ocean or caravans, it is a problem whether some tenant farmers have a flatbed cart to pull at home.

Indeed, Dashun's currency reform is effective.

It solved the problem of silver and copper coins exchange, or solved the weird situation of people using local currency, paying taxes with foreign currency, and money merchants, financial capital and tax collection agencies squeezing together, which reduced the burden on farmers to a certain extent. But with 3.13 acres of land per capita, even if you reduce it, it will still be difficult for them.

Even if you say that you don't collect taxes, in some places in Henan that have been repeatedly breached by the Yellow River, ravaged by floods and droughts, and salinized, fertilizers are now completely out of reach. With 3 mu of land per capita, how much can be produced per mu?

Things have come to this point, and it is not something that can be solved by developing industry and commerce. This is not to say that developing industry and commerce is wrong, but it is right in the macro sense, but in the specifics, we have to talk about methods and methods, we have to talk about reality, we have to look at the current situation, and we have to look at the problem with a long-term perspective.

The main problem of Dashun now is not the issue of whether to open the internal currency gate or not. This is completely different from the situation when Liu Yu did not leave.

It can only be said that a group of people are still carving boats and looking for swords around Liu Yu's coffin. Obviously, the people on the Dashun side are not fools. This behavior of carving boats and looking for swords around the coffin is actually deliberately avoiding the key problem of Dashun to solve the current predicament - money.

Only with money can the court pay for migration. The technical conditions for this kind of migration are already in place, especially the railway in Fusang has been built.

But this kind of migration must be on a scale of "millions or even tens of millions per year", otherwise it will be useless in alleviating the contradiction between people and land. And if it is not to alleviate the contradiction between people and land, but just the ethnic space of blood-related ethnic groups, then Dashun died thirty years ago, and it doesn't matter much.

In other words, assuming that the cost of each person subsidizing the migration ticket is 100 taels, then Dashun needs to take out 400 to 500 million taels every year to do this.

Money, who will pay?

Why is it said that the current problem of Dashun is not the problem of internal currency, because... Historically, in 1850, when the first industrial revolution was about to enter the second industrial revolution, the world's market had been involved in Europe, so how many industrial populations could the world "support" in total?

Let alone Dashun, how many people are there in Shandong and Jiangsu?

However, internal currency is a problem that Dashun has to solve, especially for those who went to Paris and witnessed the possible drastic changes in Europe. They know very well that if something goes wrong in Europe, a large number of industries on Dashun's side that rely on the European market will have a big problem.

History, in the end, advances in struggle.

If Dashun opens up the currency, Dashun will die, and it will die very ugly. Because this will make the inland completely fall into a situation where even small landlords can't survive, and the countryside will collapse completely.

And only when Dashun dies can there be a future. Because of Dashun's own shortcomings, it can't solve the problems of farmers and land, nor can it concentrate resources to complete the "Great Eastward Movement" that Liu Yu had long envisioned.