New Shun 1730

What is the benefit that is easy to eat?

For example, the land north of the Songliao watershed is suitable for growing beans, and in fact, Dashun has already taken over the markets of Nanyang and Japan. With the completion of the railway, agricultural production of a capitalist nature can be directly established north of the Songliao watershed.

What is the benefit that is not easy to eat?

For example, many lands in North America are suitable for growing grains such as rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and beans, as well as watermelons, cotton, and flax.

The problem is that in order to make these lands profitable, you have to prepare a lot of things for these lands.

Under the existing conditions, you need to prepare a huge consumer market, otherwise these things cannot be sold. Surplus value must be realized in circulation. How can there be profit without surplus value? In order for this huge consumer market to appear, you may have to immigrate millions or tens of millions, because without people there will be no consumption.

This is called the benefit that is not easy to eat.

Once the railway is built, capital will take the initiative to go to the Songliao watershed to enclose land and grow beans.

But, you tell capital that if the population of North America reaches 30 to 50 million, your land in North America will be valuable. It is better for you to buy land in North America at a high price first, and then you can pay to immigrate there. In this way, when your great-grandchildren have many children in a hundred years, your family can exploit the surplus value, and the land will appreciate.

Even if the reason can be explained, but the capital is calculated a little bit, what will it be in a hundred years? This annual return on investment, or average profit, as long as it can reach 10%, how much will it be in a hundred years?

That is 151,574 times. One tael of silver becomes 150,000 taels, what can I do with this money? I am buying a piece of land in Fusang now, even if I buy 100 acres of land with one tael of silver, it is extremely cheap. Then 100 years later, this 100 acres of land can be sold for 150,000 taels of silver? Is this ke La made of gold? Or is this stone made of gold?

Indeed, Dashun does have the habit of buying land for investment, and the whole world is very enthusiastic about it.

But in fact, it is still the same question that Mozi asked back then: Is it for use? Is it for love?

People who buy land, do they love the land? Love the ke La? Love the fragrance of the soil? Love the furrows? So you are keen on buying land?

Or is it because you want to use the land as an asset. Because as an asset, land is the most valuable and has the highest rate of return?

Well, since it is capital, we have to ask: Fusang's land and Dashun's land, you can find a piece of equally fertile land, even the river next to it, and even the accumulated temperature and precipitation are the same. But are the social conditions outside these two pieces of land the same?

Or, let's take the simplest example of thinking from another's perspective.

Now, suppose that a big landlord in a certain place in the Central Plains owns 4,000 acres of land. The court said, let's do this, your land belongs to the court, and I will give you 10 times, no, 100 times the compensation, and give you 400,000 acres of land on the Fusang grassland, that is, this piece of land 30 miles long and 30 miles wide, all given to you.

Does this landlord want it?

Let's not talk about anything else, even if you take people with you... the law is the ruling tool of the ruling class, and this tool needs the state's violent organs to enforce it. In the Central Plains, the 4,000 acres of land belonged to the landlords. The Dashun court had to uphold the "law", and all private land ownership seemed sacred and inviolable. So even if the gold and silver treasures left by the family were dug out from the cellar, and a thousand people were moved there, saying that it was the same as the Central Plains system, 60% of the rent... Do you think these tenants would hang him? In fact, what sacredness of private land ownership do the tenants hang? It's just a division of land, so what? Can the Dashun court send troops to maintain the sacredness of private ownership? If they dare to come, we'll fight them!

Historically, North America began to welcome a large wave of immigration in 1865. Because the Civil War had just ended, there was a shortage of labor, the Homestead Act, etc., so the "Contract Labor Law" was introduced - this thing can be understood as a "contract slave" system. The factory owner pays the freight, and when the freight is deducted from the wages according to the contract and interest, it is considered free.

Many people praised that this policy was so wise, triggering a wave of European immigration, and bringing about rapid population growth and industrial development in North America.

However, this is completely empty talk.

Without mentioning various material conditions, let's just talk about the simplest one: without the cheap steamship tickets of Gurnard Company and the transatlantic steamship journey shortened to 12 days - this seems to be the simplest one among all the conditions, then this policy is a nonsense.

If there is no such condition, and you still want to develop industry, then there is only one way left, which is to abolish the "Homestead Act" and force farmers to go to factories instead of going west to be self-employed farmers.

Of course, this does not mean that you only need to light up a steamship technology, but that the steamship is just the most simple and crude one among many material bases and social conditions, which can be rubbed out with effort.

And the remaining conditions are not rubbed out with effort at all.

These problems have caused the current situation of Dashun being very difficult to go.

For example, in this very difficult situation, just pick a point at random to explain why it is difficult to go.

For example, in later generations, dating back to the beginning of the Opium War in 1840, how many people of noble character and lofty ideals, how many heroes and heroes, fought and sacrificed for their ideals, and finally restored light?

There must be millions of people, right?

So, starting from 1840, what kind of mentality did these millions of heroes have when they fought?

Against the Manchus, restoring Han territory, and killing the Yama demon?

This, just throw it away in Dashun, an emperor of Shaanxi, this reason is really useless.

Anti-foreign invasion?

Well, in Dashun, if you want to rebel against the foreign barbarians, you have to go to the Thames Estuary to rebel.

For the rise of China?

Well, although Dashun is a suture monster now, he can still be called the steamroller of the 19th century and the world's number one power, right?

A living space for the Chinese?

This one is even more useless. As I said before, the problem now is that even if Dashun dies immediately, fifty years after the world has been in chaos, the Chinese have completely occupied an absolute population advantage in the Pacific Rim region, from Australia to North America. But the Chinese have an advantage, and it basically has nothing to do with the more than 200 million people in the mountainous areas of the southwest, the arid areas of the northwest, the areas where widespread conflicts between man and land occur, and the ecological collapse areas of North China - two-fifths of the world's population at this time, if comprehensive Industrialization, comprehensive prosperity, prosperity with the whole world, universal industrialization around the world, that makes no difference.

Therefore, in the end, there is only one option left, which is to fight for the liberation of all mankind.

Of course, before the emergence of scientific societies, there were all kinds of messy reactionary societies, utopian societies, religious societies, petty bourgeoisie societies, etc.

In addition to traditional factors, before the emergence of scientific theories, the only option left in Dashun is pure "university under heaven".

The question is, how can we achieve universal unity?

In the past, Confucianism was fighting over whether it was from the inside out or from the outside in.

However, social awareness lags behind social existence.

No matter how much we fight for this set of things, the social basis for its creation is the era of small-scale peasant handicraft industry.

Nowadays, times have changed, and most people know that this set of things is actually unworkable, especially with the development of textual criticism. Many people believe that books such as Zhou Li and Zhou Guan were probably written by some people to advocate Wang Mang's restructuring. The... er, "novel" setting.

Sitting at home with Yan Yuan, Li Kuan and others, the two of them came up with a complete set of "official system", "land law", "school system", "tax policy", "military system", etc., which were almost the same. Son.

But now, the only thing in Dashun that can support this "beautiful vision of the future world" is actually Liu Yu's set of things.

However, the problem is that in order to prevent being exterminated, the new school only taught "techniques" and not "Tao". Most of the content of "Tao" was subtle and in fragments.

This is also a certain necessity caused by social conditions.

Just like say.

The legal revolution was a group of thinkers at the top and civilians at the bottom, with many lawyers and other middle-level people serving as the link between thinkers and civilians.

Therefore, Saint-Simon would say that the slogans of the French revolutionaries were just as empty and rhetorical as the slogans of the reactionaries they opposed.

Hua Ge, on the other hand, is the local philosopher king, facing a group of illiterate farmers in the mountains and valleys who have basically never been out of the mountains.

Therefore, the style is popular and easy to understand, even for semi-literate people.

The situation Liu Yu faced at the beginning was that Dashun allowed saints, but they had to be saints who had died for more than two thousand years.

The imperial power is strong.

It was in the middle of the dynasty and the rest and recuperation was over.

In addition, taking history as a mirror, there are also things like "retrospective semi-sage opinion leader" An Hangong, and "one person can change the world's learning" Wang Jinggong.

Therefore, Liu Yu could only do things as a "courtier".

As for the status of "subject", it is destined that in the new school, many words cannot be said, many things can only be said in fragments, and the most is natural order. The upper limit is fixed.

Can this fixed upper limit support the "beautiful vision of the future world"?

If Liu Yu has never really seen the future world, such a certain upper limit cannot support the beautiful fantasy of the future world. At best, it is just a fantasy - there is only skill but no way, which means that there is no way to do it on his own. Logic deduces the final result.

The problem is that Liu Yu has really seen the future world, so even if the upper limit of death is only magic, he can still describe a beautiful future world that is similar, does not sound far away, and seems feasible.

Therefore, when Dashun, the suture monster, was already destined to have a rejection reaction, why did the emperor bring Liu Yu's bones back for burial with great fanfare?

There is a saying in later generations: If the king of heaven kills the father, it will be in vain. Pack up the parcel and go home, still doing long-term work.

So what if the “Heavenly Father” dies of illness or natural death early on, but the “Heavenly King” can still receive guidance, and there is evidence that it is still the “Heavenly Father” who is guiding?

If we say that Dashun’s Practical School has a complete set of methodology and logical thinking.

Then, the founder is not easy to do. I love my teacher, but I love the truth even more. Using methodology and logical thinking, I can deduce the subsequent correct results.

In other words, if Dashun’s Practical School is learning a set of scientific theories that can obtain subsequent results through logical deduction and application of methodology, then this set is of no use.

But the problem is...Liu Yu is more like...a prophet.

Rather than a great thinker and philosopher.

It's like, he can solve a solid geometry problem beautifully, but he doesn't even teach many basic theorems of geometry.

He is just a prophet.

A prophet who "has foreseen the future" and can "use the words of this time to describe the future" and whose thoughts are fragmented...a prophet.

That’s all.

Because there is no fundamental theorem, Dashun has come to this point, and the ambitious people are confused and don’t know what to do. The husband has his own reasons and the wife has her own reasons.

At this time, naturally many people think that if the "prophet" of my practical school is here, there must be a way.