New Shun 1730

Guangdong Jiedushi truly saw the dangers of opium, and tortured a living person into a ghost who was worse than a pig or a dog after becoming an addict.

He said that if the species is in danger of extinction, we should be on guard against the slightest change.

"Well said!"

Liu Yu was waiting for this sentence and immediately praised him, setting the basic tone for how to evaluate the opium smuggling problem.

Because the evaluation tone of opium smuggling is not just "a threat to the survival of the species".

There is also an evaluation tone called "silver outflow".

But Liu Yu didn't want the silver outflow to be used on the opium issue.

If the outflow of silver was the problem, the solution was not simply a ban on opium.

There will be some people who think divergently and think that if they grow their own money, won’t the silver stop flowing out?

No one can predict what will happen in the future, even if things go wrong in the future.

Therefore, now is the early stage, and it is time to set the tone: controlling opium has nothing to do with the outflow of silver and the lack of pay for troops.

The reason for governance is simply that this thing can turn people into ghosts, which will lead to the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species.

Only by insisting on this right from the beginning and forming Dashun's political correctness can we be prepared to take the wrong path in the future.

Of course, it's not true that this thing is useless at all. In this era, there are no medicines or pain relievers. They cannot cure the disease, but they can pretend to cure the disease and make people feel no pain.

If you just have to make a choice, you would rather hurt someone to death than open this mouth. Once an opening is opened, it will be chaotic as soon as it is released. With the current grassroots management capabilities, there is no way to control the abuse of opium for medicinal purposes. It is better to ban it directly.

"Since you have all seen the harm of this thing with your own eyes, you can join me in signing a report to the Emperor in the next few days, ready to explain the harm of this thing. No matter what the reason is in the future, it cannot be allowed to spread."

"Let this thing have a reputation as stinky as being unfaithful and unfilial, killing your father and killing your mother."

"In the future, Guangdong may have entry barriers for this kind of goods. You should set many rules to prevent deadlocks."

Liu Yu added that Jiao Laobutu and the navy officers had no objections. The Guangdong Jiedushi also felt that this matter was not harmful to him, and he also saw with his own eyes the horror of those people after inhaling this substance. He nodded out of consideration for the country.

"The Duke of the country didn't say anything, but my subordinates were ready to report to the emperor to explain the serious harm of this thing. Moreover, this thing is quite expensive. If Westerners smuggle too many, even if the heaven has gold and silver, it will be slowly sucked away. ”

Liu Yu heard this and said hurriedly: "This is just superfluous. Gold and silver are trivial matters; national origin is a big matter. Since there are great evils, why bother talking about these small evils? Just say that a person is bad and that he kills his father and mother and commits rebellion is a great evil. , and then add a sentence about living a luxurious life and bathing in milk, then there is no need. "

The Guangdong Jiedushi didn't know what Liu Yu's purpose was, and he couldn't say it was superfluous. But thinking that Liu Yudu clearly said that this was superfluous, I thought that since you said that, you just didn't write it.

But logically, if you want to say that this is superfluous, that is not necessarily true. If a person commits a crime, it cannot be said that his major crime is enough to receive the top punishment of Ling Chi, and the rest of the minor crimes will not be mentioned, right?

Thinking this in his mind, he felt disapproving of it, but he also didn't want to offend Liu Yu for no reason at this time, so he said: "That's right. What the Duke said makes sense. Then there is no need to mention the severe punishment for the opium matter. What about the remaining lesson plans and population?”

This somewhat confused Liu Yu.

Liu Yu first talked about opium when he came up, because in fact, his real purpose of coming to Macau this time was to prepare for trade and future war.

Opium is so harmful that he hates it deeply, and it involves a knot that is unique to him, a fake Dashun person, that others don't know.

Therefore, it is necessary to be strict.

However, among the three issues of teaching plans, opium, and human trafficking, the only one he really wanted to deal with seriously was opium.

As for lesson plans and human trafficking…

Liu Yu was a little uncomfortable expressing his position, so he could only explain it.

How to put it, the key to the lesson plan is not here, but whether it can build a reputation in the future and shape the theory of civilizational superiority by relying on the temperament of people in the world who despise the poor and love the rich.

Macau will take it back in a few years, and it will just be a blockade in the future.

In the political environment of Dashun, no matter who comes to power in the future, as long as he is not mentally rusty, even if he is a slightly qualified feudal emperor, the relationship between China and the Vatican will not be good, and there will not even be formal official exchanges.

Even if he is a feudal emperor, he will not allow a group of people under his rule to listen to another emperor, unless the Holy See itself disbands and no longer controls the old believers in the world. This has nothing to do with openness and conservatism, but has to do with the religious tradition of destroying Buddhism and slaughtering the Yellow Turban Taoism.

As for human trafficking, this matter... In fact, it is best to turn a blind eye.

Indentured slave labor, or long-term indentured labor, will be the main means of overseas immigration in Dashun for a long time.

Historically, Chinese slave laborers were no better than black slaves during transportation. There were also cases where Chinese slave laborers were transported to Peru, Chile and other places, and only 10 of a shipload of 400 people died after arriving, and this was not an isolated case.

If you don’t want to do this, the only way is to officially organize immigration. But this is not realistic.

As far as the situation in the Americas is concerned, in these days of technological limitations, immigration costs are still very high. France has been in Canada for a hundred years, and has immigrated a total of 10,000 people. There is a lot of time to recuperate and recuperate, and now there are only 60,000 to 70,000 people in more than 100 years.

Britain’s immigration policy is not official. Either the persecuted Puritans, or the poor who could not survive after the enclosure were transported there as indentured servants, or they were hired by various colonial companies.

In the final analysis, it was the rich who did not want to go and the poor who could not go.

As for immigration, the courts of various countries now have no money to do it. It is not too late to wait until the era of steamships and railways, and the northeast and the north. It is not too late then. It is too late to go to Nanyang and further overseas.

Nanyang is considered as internal, and it can be controlled. As for America, is it really not allowed to do anything? Don’t try to move some people and expand the ethnic group?

Within a few decades, Dashun’s industry will not be able to accommodate enough population, at least there will be no shortage of industrial population.

If you want to make the ethnic group spread all over the world outside Nanyang, it is more realistic to acquiesce in the trade of population. For example, with the progress of Dashun, under the demand for a large amount of raw materials, the development of America will also increase, and European capital will try to mine some commodities that Dashun can use in South America.

For example, copper mines, saltpeter and other things, these will be what Dashun urgently needs.

Mining requires labor.

The labor price in Dashun is still cheap. When there is a disaster, three steamed buns can deceive a person.

It still depends on capital investment, and then buy labor to move a large number of people there.

Now, there is no way.

Who said that the Dashun court was incompetent? It took a lot of effort to collect 30 million taxes a year.

In history, the small country in the east could collect 70 to 80 million taels purely by agricultural taxes after the Meiji Restoration changed the samurai class.

You can only get things done if you have money.

And later China was able to collect money only after completing the Meiji Restoration to seize power from the old class. In the Nanjing government era, the tariffs and the excessive issuance of anti-Japanese war were equivalent to 300 million US dollars. In less than two years after the completion of the land reform after the liberation, it could reach the equivalent of 4 billion US dollars, while fighting against the US and suppressing bandits and building at the same time.

How to get things done without money.

The people are still the same people, the land is still the same land, and even the main agricultural tax is still, and there are a lot of import tariffs.

However, the power available to the country increased more than tenfold in an instant.

There is no need to talk about spiritual power, organizational power, and national awakening. Just talk about fiscal revenue. How can Japan lose with 4 billion against 1 billion, whose fiscal revenue was less than 800 million US dollars before the September 18 Incident in 1931? Even without talking about self-reliance and taking advantage of the Great Depression to develop industry, just talking about buying finished weapons. At that time, guns and cannons were only a few dollars each?

If the central government cannot collect money, it is impossible to accomplish anything.

The Ming Dynasty was very rich, but the central government had no money; Dashun was stronger than the Ming Dynasty, but it was limited. The money that the central government can collect now... Excluding the money for raising soldiers, it can't move many people.

Liu Yu did not have enough ability to clean up the landlord class of Dashun by himself, and to concentrate wealth by eliminating middlemen and carrying out official immigration with a truly centralized organization.

With the current population and land area of ​​Dashun, if the landlord class can be abolished, and the people's lives are better than before, the fiscal potential of agricultural tax plus monopoly trade should be around 200 million taels per year.

No more, no less, and this is when the living standards of the vast majority of people are higher and the burden is lighter than now.

If the household government can really collect 200 million taels every year, let alone official immigration, official cultivation, and official border construction, Southeast Asia can be filled in a few years.

However, this is impossible in reality.

In reality, the government is unable to immigrate, so it can only rely on profiteering to squeeze people's bones and marrow, and treat people's labor as commodity capital.

For areas in Nanyang that are determined to be the base, such as Ceylon and West Java, of course, they should try their best to get some self-cultivating farmers and people, and don't make it so ugly, so as to avoid another riot at that time and the great gathering of volcanoes again.

The court needs to spend some money and some thoughts.

For places that are temporarily unable to be the base, then acquiesce to the population trade.

Human trafficking needs to be controlled, but it cannot be set up as too high a political correctness. It is just a formality. Insist that they are contract workers, not slaves, and that's it.

The earth is so big, it is certain, there will be no new continent. Limited land, whoever occupies it will belong to it, so don't worry about how this era passed.

Let's talk about future things later, just get people in there first.

Waiting for the future, whether it is an uprising, or a cuckoo occupying the magpie's nest, or an armed uprising in the future, or the establishment of an ethnic group, all require a population base.

In the future, you may be criticized, insulted in history books, or even infamous for thousands of years, but it doesn't matter, after death, you know that everything is empty.

In this case, there are three things to do in total, two of which can be formalities, so the typical case of being caught is naturally only opium smuggling.

Strict and severe, not all three things are like this, but specifically refers to the opium problem.

When the governor of Guangdong asked about the population and religious cases, Liu Yu hesitated for a long time and had to shirk responsibility: "Let's deal with the opium case first. There are other explanations for the remaining two cases, so don't worry about it. I will make my own arguments when the time comes."

"However, as long as we get the confessions of smuggling and the British and Portuguese, we should rather believe it than not believe it. It is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one go... All the chambers of commerce, trading houses, companies, warehouses, warehouses, and merchant ships involved in the confessions should be sealed up."

"It's a false accusation. What if there are smuggled ones? Detain them first and seal them up. After I am sure they are innocent, I will release them."

"If the Portuguese make a fuss, or their military leaders or council have any opinions, arrest them. They are not qualified to talk to me. The British side asked their company leaders to talk, and the Portuguese side asked Goa to send people to talk. They can only talk to the officials of Xiangshan County. Who are you and I? Wouldn't it be a loss of face for the court to talk to them?"