New Shun 1730

Liu Yu kept his head down and said nothing. He looked like he was thinking hard, but in fact he was thinking about how to continue to deceive the emperor next, and to change the situation within the scope of the imperial power.

I think he should still be in his new term for the time being, and the emperor is in good health, so the temporary beating should be fine.

He had thought about Japan countless times.

Japan lacks all kinds of resources and its handicraft industry is very weak. It relies on the country's lock-down to ensure that precious metals are not leaked out.

The deformed domestic economy of Dashun, with only a million people at most with spending power, could not support a preliminary handicraft factory revolution, and the unprecedented impacts it would bring would probably scare the emperor out of his soul. , you have to find an outlet.

If Japan’s small-scale peasant economy does not go bankrupt, Dashun’s small-scale farmers will die. The cruelty of primitive accumulation would not only frighten the emperor to the point of peeing, but also frighten the Confucian scholars into retrogression.

Old seeds cannot grow new fruits. He wants to plant new seeds, but these words must not be said to the emperor.

Since ancient times, it is not unreasonable to emphasize agriculture and suppress business. Judging from the speed at which commerce enriches money, if we don't emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, the dynasty will not have a three-hundred-year cycle at all, and it may be over in a hundred years.

Just like the control of Mongolia by Shanxi merchants in history, in just a few hundred years, everyone in Outer Mongolia owed an average of twenty taels of silver to Shanxi merchants, and one-third of the sheep of all tribes had to be sold. Only then can you pay off the interest for the year.

The special national conditions of Dashun make it impossible to rely on the so-called invisible hand, because the invisible hand will flow all the silver to cellars, land, and loan sharks instead of to physical handicraft factories.

Dashun’s domestic demand is a joke.

External demand mainly consists of porcelain, silk and tea, but Europe is not stupid either: Britain has high tariffs on tea, France drinks less coffee and less tea, and Dashun is temporarily unable to get the UK to give up the 200% tea tariff. Unable to destroy the monopoly, the East India Company relied on smugglers to transport tea to Britain.

Coupled with the development of European porcelain and the progress of the French silk industry, the market for Lao San products has actually been basically saturated.

Southeast Asia.

Dashun's on-off policy is like a retarded one, but the Europeans control the entry of Chinese merchant fleets into ports in Southeast Asia and impose high tariffs to ensure the interests of various East India companies. For the time being, it is a high-investment, low-return direction.

Internally, the self-sufficient natural economy does not have a sufficient internal market; if the self-sufficient natural economy is violently broken, Dashun will face a large-scale peasant uprising. If it cannot withstand it, it will be the most violent retro reaction.

Farmers would rather return to the feudal system and experience Confucian retro utopia as farmers than go to the cruelest pre-steam era factories with nothing.

Moreover, Dashun cannot accommodate so many bankrupt farmers. At this time, the world's market cannot accommodate an initially industrialized eastern province, let alone Dashun as a whole.

I took a look around and took a look around. I wanted to ensure that the initial handicraft revolution would not frighten the emperor into reaction, but also to ensure that I could accumulate some foundation before taking action on Japan.

In terms of justice, there is an excuse for Ryukyu to pay tribute on both sides.

On orthodoxy, a group of old-fashioned remnants who came to Japan in the late Ming Dynasty advocated orthodoxy. The emperor was very unhappy in Japan.

In terms of difficulty, there is a shogunate system. The Kamakura shogunate fought tooth and nail to win the Mongol invasion, but ended up being ruined. For the Edo shogunate, there was no need to consider whether to protect the shogunate or to protect Japan.

In terms of short-term gains, Liu Yu had just deceived Japan into carrying out coinage reform. The Edo shogunate had a large amount of precious metals obtained from coinage. If it might not have been able to get so much money a few years ago, it could really make a loss now.

In terms of long-term gains, as long as Japan relaxes trade restrictions, Jiangxi porcelain can definitely completely overwhelm Japan's fledgling porcelain, and silk fabrics can also completely overwhelm Japan's silk industry.

As for the wool textile industry, Westerners imagined sheep in oil paintings, but the Japanese laughed at them and said they must have never been to Japan; for the cotton textile industry, Liu Yu did not know where cotton could be grown in Japan; for the iron smelting industry, Japan was short of iron ore. , has also imported large quantities of iron rods from the Netherlands before.

Regarding the colonial system, Liu Yu sent over the method of promoting sweet potatoes, so that Japan could have more rice as "commercial grain". In the early stage, precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper can be absorbed for primitive accumulation, and in the later stage, they can be exchanged for rice to ensure the stability and cost of coastal industry and commerce.

In terms of management costs, Southeast Asia is in chaos without a strong government. Japan has a relatively strong government that can ensure that the interests of "Chinese people" in Japan are not harmed. Moreover, the system of the Edo Shogunate allowed Japan to have a unified market across the country, which was extremely beneficial.

Liu Yu has weighed these pros and cons countless times.

It's just that even if the emperor said that he was "sincere" and infinitely gracious, he couldn't tell the truth.

To be honest, the emperor might not understand.

Or, if you can understand it, you will understand that the imperial power will end in this way.

He can only tell lies.

Since the emperor seemed to be sincere, Liu Yu responded in accordance with the emperor's mentality.

"Your Majesty, I have said it before. Japan's affairs seem difficult, but are actually simple. Under the Japanese shogunate system, the shogunate does not dare to fight a big war with us. If they can lose money, they will ensure the rule of the shogunate. They are willing ”

"The shogun will fight us with all the banners. After the fight, who will be able to suppress the daimyo princes?"

"Besides, if the shogunate's name is unjust and unreasonable, and they are holding the Japanese king in order to order the daimyo, then the shogunate will not only not be at odds with us, but will instead ask us to help suppress the resistance of the daimyo from all walks of life."

"The shogunate is the best guardian of Japan under the Celestial Empire. The only concern is the intervention of the Dutch. However, if the King of Austria has no male heir, Europe will be in chaos, and the Dutch will definitely not dare to intervene."

"I dare not say that there will be no other changes in the future, but what I can guarantee is that Japan will pay an indemnity of five million taels, liberalize trade, impose hundreds of thousands of taels of tariffs on Japan every year in ten years, and invest your majesty's internal funds into shares. The income can also increase by several hundred thousand taels.”

"Furthermore, if Japan pays tribute, Your Majesty can report it to the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Ryukyu is a loyal minister of the Celestial Dynasty. It is also the duty of the emperor to rescue Ryukyu."

"After much thought, I can see that there are only advantages and no disadvantages."

Li Gan didn't dare to say he understood anything else.

But the shogunate didn't dare to take out all the flags and fight with Dashun in the field. Li Gan understood it very well. How could the emperor not understand this routine?

Listening to Liu Yu's analysis, it seems that there is really no difficulty. As long as the navy can win and Japan has coastlines everywhere, it can land wherever it wants. With the combat effectiveness shown by the Qingzhou Army in the Western Region, it is indeed not difficult.

People are greedy and greedy. Li Gan was thinking about Japanese trade and asked: "But the Netherlands has been trading with Japan since the beginning. If Japan switches off trade, the Netherlands and other Western countries may benefit." . In this case, isn’t it true that China is sending troops, people, and money to benefit other countries?”

Liu Yu originally wanted to talk about this issue.

"Back to Your Majesty, I have investigated the Dutch trade with Japan. Before Dashun, the Dutch trade with Japan required merchants to transport goods to Batavia, and later to Taiwan. In this way, the Fujian merchants benefited, and the Dutch Shipping raw silk to Japan is much more expensive than shipping it directly to Japan from Fujian merchants.”

"At that time, a small part of the Dutch relied on Fujian merchants for transshipment. Another part of the goods shipped to Japan were spices. Others were homespun cloth shipped from India and woolen goods from Western countries."

"The world will be stable after tomorrow, and our country will open customs and allow foreign merchants to trade. The Dutch get their goods directly from Zhangzhou and other places. Except for the original spices, the Dutch no longer transport woolen cloth from their own country, nor from India shipped homespun cloth. These shares were replaced by cotton cloth, raw silk, sugar, etc. from this dynasty.”

"So, the matter is actually simple. As long as we follow the British example, all goods shipped to Japan must be produced by China; all ships going to Japan must be headed by Chinese merchants; all Western goods going to Japan must be After collecting customs duties at the port of China, it is then shipped to Japan.”

"Japan only opened two or three ports and strictly ordered Japan to continue to maintain a closed country and not trade with other countries. The fleet sailed to intercept. Once the Dutch were found to have violated the regulations, the goods were seized. They also threatened to cut off trade and double the tariff."

"Nowadays, the East India Company has been established, or the Western countries that have trade with our country include Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain."

"Among them, Sweden and Denmark can be ignored. France, Portugal, Spain, etc. are all hostile to the Netherlands. Britain and the Netherlands are allies, but Britain has more conflicts with the Netherlands in Southeast Asia. If our country conflicts with the Netherlands, it will also happen that Europe is the Austrian throne. When the fight breaks out, the Netherlands has no help.”

"It is difficult to sell Western goods in Japan. Other countries have no trade in Japan, so as long as the Netherlands is defeated, treaties can be signed with Britain, France, Spain and other countries. This will make the Western countries recognize that Japan is the Chinese dynasty The vassal also made it admit that it could not trade with Japan, otherwise it would cut off trade with its country. "

"Except for the Netherlands, all Western countries have no trade with Japan and will definitely abide by the treaty in a short period of time."

"The Netherlands occupied Southeast Asia, monopolized spices, and found an excuse to go to war with the Netherlands, which was also very profitable."

"Imitating the Dutch methods, His Majesty can monopolize spice income from internal funds or the government treasury, and he can earn more than one million a year."

"When we start a war with Japan, we immediately declare that Western countries are not allowed to transship goods to Japan. The Dutch value profits and will inevitably take risks. If they are caught, the righteousness will be mine."

"In Batavia, there are tens of thousands of overseas Chinese remnants of the Celestial Empire, all of whom are devoted to the Celestial Empire and want to appease the Emperor every day."

"Once a war breaks out in Europe over the Austrian throne, the Netherlands will not be able to increase its troops in Southeast Asia. The army is only three thousand, and the navy only has many merchant ships. Our government can defeat the Netherlands in one go."

"By then, if there is a war in Europe, Britain will attack both France and Spain in Luzon. Naturally, it will want to prevent our country from siding with France. If we see our fleet, we will also give in, for fear that our country will take the opportunity to start a war."

"The Netherlands cannot survive alone, but this can be done. Once the Netherlands is defeated, the remnants of the Celestial Empire in Batavia can rule on the spot, monopolize spices, and sell them to the West. The Dutch can sail tens of thousands of miles and kill more than half of them along the way, which shows the profits of this spice. ”

"I don't dare to talk nonsense, but if this can be done and returned to the household government, the national treasury will have more than seven or eight Henan taxes every year."

"This is what my old minister said: Time waits for no one. If you miss this opportunity, you will regret it for the rest of your life. If you delay it for a few more years, Britain will get India, and I am afraid that it will start a war with the Netherlands and Britain will have to intervene. By then, it will be difficult to fight. Although the British territory is not large, but With an annual income of more than 20 million taels, it is not a small country. If it conquers India, it will not be difficult for it to surpass the Celestial Empire. "

"Your Majesty, please make up your mind. The fact that I am allowed to enter the Western Region has proven that I am not the kind of person who talks nonsense."