New Shun 1730

"The court is not a businessman after all. There are some things that the court may not be able to handle well if it comes forward to handle them."

"The reverse is also true. Gentlemen seek justice, villains seek profit, some seek fame, and some seek wealth. From the perspective of a businessman, you think that the court should definitely handle it if it makes so much money. But how can the court only consider money when considering issues?"

After saying this, the wealthy businessmen also felt that there seemed to be some truth.

After all, the court is not a businessman, and it cannot always think about making money. This dynasty also has some meaning of governing the world with the wealth of the world, although it is only a little bit, and there is no feudal lord who uses the wealth of the world to support his descendants.

For the court, if some places spend less money, they will have to pay hundreds of thousands or millions more in the future. For example, disaster relief and river embankment repair.

For some places, even if they can't make money or even lose money, they will actually turn around in the long run. For example, immigration and border construction.

And the means of official management, the Jingdezhen Ceramic Kiln in the previous dynasty caused a big mess. Furthermore, the Dashun Dynasty no longer had a household registration for craftsmen, so the court did not have an official industrial and commercial force. In addition, the official operation of this era was prone to problems.

Before the court lacked copper for minting coins, the copper mines in Yunnan were not developed on a large scale, and the roads for transporting copper were not repaired. The court also organized a model of "the court pays money and merchants work hard". The court gave part of the money to merchants and asked them to go to Nagasaki for trade. After all, Japan had always refused to have official trade contacts with the Dashun Dynasty. The court was thinking about giving money to merchants to do it, and it could also save some of the profits that merchants had to make.

The result is imaginable.

Since then, the court has also understood that some things are well thought out and look good, but when they are actually done, the results are completely different from what they expected.

Dashun could not and had no ability to repeat the level of official economic control in the Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, these merchants believed it more. Attention was once again focused on the various development plans and returns on the scroll.

Liu Yu knew that after the South Sea Bubble burst in the UK, similar joint-stock companies were not allowed to be established for more than a hundred years. Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of the rope for ten years.

Dashun had to be more careful. It was a new thing, and many people in the court were cautious and skeptical. If something went wrong, and a large-scale financial incident or mass incident occurred, the UK would ban the joint-stock system for a hundred years, and Dashun would probably dig up the roots directly.

Therefore, most of the "big cake" here is still real.

After the "PPT" was fully displayed, the businessmen discussed it in whispers.

"If you ask me, what the Whale Lord said is right. The profit here is really big. You won't lose money in the early stage. Just rely on those fish and shrimps and aquatic products. If you sell them to Japan, you will get your money back in three to five years. It will be all profit in the future."

"Yes, a few days ago, I read a book introducing Japan. It is said that the King of Japan believes in Buddhism and has issued a mercy order for living things, prohibiting the eating of meat. This is just like monks. They are not allowed to eat meat, so they eat a lot of tofu. The Japanese buy a lot of things like salted fish. Japan has a lot of gold and silver, so it is indeed possible to make money in the early stage."

Some businessmen read books about Japan when they were free on weekdays. Some read them at the last minute after hearing the news of the development of Ezo.

No matter when you read it, it is better to read it than not to read it.

After discussing for a while, they all felt that there should be no problem, so they discussed the specific details again.

The whole plan is a similar immigration development plan with multiple growth, because there were hundreds of people who stayed there before, so it can be regarded as having some foundation. In addition, the large amount of food that Du Feng obtained by extorting and robbing Sendai ships during this expedition was also piled up in Ezo, so there was no shortage of food.

Selling it to merchants at a discount, there is no need to worry about the merchants reselling it. After all, the food trade in Japan cannot be done without Liu Yu's help, and shipping it back to the capital for sale will only result in a loss.

Relying on the foundation laid before, the first batch of immigrants is tentatively planned to be 3,000 people, including more than 500 fishermen.

These people have to build houses in the first year and cultivate part of the land to ensure sufficient food and clothing. As long as you work for the company for 15 years, you can get 20 acres of cultivated land and 80 acres of wasteland, plus some agricultural tools and seeds. Basically, you are a contracted slave, selling your labor force for the next 15 years at a time, betting on a future of one cow on 100 acres of land that you would never dare to think about in your hometown.

In the future, you will pay the land rent of 3 out of 10, which is higher than the per-acre tax of Dashun official fields, but lower than the tenant rent collected by landlords.

Starting from the second year, we will gradually increase the number of people, and ensure that the number of immigrants is about 7,000 to 10,000 per year in three to five years.

Ensure that there are more than 100,000 Central Plains immigrants in Ezo within 20 years.

Overall, it is the same as the "merchants pay for land reclamation and recognize the reasonableness of merchants' tenancy" in Japan.

However, Dashun may have allowed land leasing since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Similar practices will cause some discussions in Japan, thinking that this is the beginning of the collapse of rituals and music; but there will not be too many troubles in Dashun.

Merchants have also read the experience of the Virginia Company, and combined with the customs of Dashun, they basically recognize this model of "indentured slaves working and then dividing the land and collecting rent".

Liu Yu added: "The court will still supervise this matter in the future. You also know the court's methods and the status of merchants. As the saying goes, first understand and then don't argue. The court will make it clear what should be said. What can be done and what cannot be done."

"Since we are talking about limited liability and the company is personified, if an individual makes a mistake, it is his or her personal responsibility; if the entire company is personified and violates the law, the court will take action."

"You know some things. How to squeeze more money is what every businessman has to think about."

"For example, in some Western countries, in order to export grain, land is merged. After the merger, the people can only work as hired workers, and each person only has a small piece of private land. They grow potatoes in the private land, and the rest is to work in the fields to earn commissions from hired workers to maintain their lives."

"This situation can be understood in the West. After all, their laws are different. But in this dynasty, you also know "When Wang Jinggong was reforming the country, someone wrote a letter to the emperor to ban the vagrants. If this kind of thing really happened in this dynasty, someone would write a letter to ban it. "

"The court emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce. On the one hand, agriculture is the foundation of the country. On the other hand, it is also seen from all dynasties that merchants have no humanity and righteousness, and only seek profits. "

"Other things are fine, but we must be careful about the land. Therefore, the development of the Ezo will still be based on the model of renting and collecting rent in the future, but private individuals are not allowed to buy and sell, and they are not allowed to sublease. "

He cited an example of the great famine in Ireland that had not yet happened at this time. Anyway, no one can say that this thing has not happened at this time. Instead, the thing itself is smooth and easy to understand.

Fortunately, the Ezo is different from Ireland and Britain. People in Britain have lived there for thousands of years. Landlords take back the land for management, and they don’t need so many people, so they rush to the city.

In terms of population proportion, Britain had a population of only 8 million at this time. At the peak of enclosure, about 40,000 people were driven out every year. Some of them went to the Americas to make a living, and some went to workshops and factories to endure 16 hours of work every day, missing the days of being farmers.

40,000 to 8 million, about 200%. In Dashun, according to the 200 million population in the core area, one million people were driven out every year to become refugees.

Liu Yu could not guarantee other places, but in Dashun, anyone who dared to introduce policies could create a refugee population of one million a year... Not to mention Dashun, even if the industry and commerce of the whole world were added together at that time, it would be impossible to accommodate one million new jobs every year.

Some policies cannot be copied. The good thing about Ezo is that the indigenous people there basically do not need to be considered. You can develop a large-scale grain plantation model or a model of contracting land to pay rent and taxes.

The former is easy to cause a big mess. Merchants are not philanthropists and will not give good treatment to those agricultural workers who have nothing. If there is a real mess, I am afraid that the conservatives on the Dashun side will take the opportunity to make trouble.

The latter is actually similar in terms of profit. Liu Yu used the latter model in Vladivostok, but the problem was that he controlled the pricing power and export channels of grain, and could keep the grain price extremely low. It seemed that he collected 30% of the rent, but considering the monopoly of sales channels and consumer goods monopoly, it was actually about the same as 50% or even 70% of the rent.

Since the profits were similar, the conservatives in Dashun believed that the latter was more "benevolent", so it would be better to use the latter model first and engage in family farms rather than large farm plantations.

Facing these businessmen, Liu Yu spoke very thoroughly, and even explained the advantages and disadvantages of the two different models through the booklet.

With the development of handicrafts, these businessmen who had seen big scenes had certainly seen the model of "machine owners investing and machine workers working". The textile industry was replaced by agriculture, but it was still the same thing. Naturally, they understood what the large farm grain plantation model was, and they also understood that the biggest dream of all those who were "machine workers working" at this time was to have a loom, then make a profit from weaving, buy more looms, and become the "machine owner investor".

The camel Xiangzi in the novels of later generations is a very typical person. When he didn't have a car, he dreamed of having one. When he had a car, he dreamed of driving his own car. Most tenants at this time were the same, thinking about earning three or five more buckets, buying a few acres of land, and renting out the land to others in the future to become landlords.

In this era, no one dreamed of being a worker, but the lower class dreamed of a life of men farming and women weaving. Being a farmer was the most common dream of the lower class.

If you want to recruit people and recruit enough people who are willing to go, you can only adopt this model.

Seeing that Liu Yu even said "monopolizing channels and lowering grain prices", the businessmen smiled knowingly, thinking that there are people in the court who dare to tell the truth so directly.

This kind of person who tells the truth is easier to deal with than those who are all righteous in their mouths but all business in their stomachs.

Some people who were still waiting and watching, after these words came out, completely gave up and decided to do it.

After Jingjing listened to Liu Yu's talk about the system of developing Ezo and the distribution of rights and responsibilities after the company was personified, everyone no longer had any doubts.

Someone said, "Since Whale Marquis has made all the necessary preparations and this is the Whale Sea, why doesn't Whale Marquis become the company's... uh, what's it called, what Whale Marquis just mentioned... oh, right, the legal representative?"