New Shun 1730

Although he was ruthless, the common people were not puppets controlled by others. They were living people and had their own ideas.

From the beginning, Liu Yu knew that from the day he built the navy of Dashun and moved the trade center to Songjiang Prefecture, the peasant uprising in Lingnan had entered the countdown.

Hundreds of thousands of people who originally made a living by trade and transportation were unemployed, and the "middle class" who originally used Susi and Husi to rub Yue satin and Guang yarn by handicrafts also fell into poverty. In addition, the original contradiction between the host and the guest made it only a matter of time before they rose up to resist.

Since the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou's status as a trade center has not been shaken until various countries established trading houses in Songjiang Prefecture.

After more than a hundred years of inertia, a large number of people who depended on the trade center for their lives would definitely have problems surviving after the trade center was moved to Songjiang Prefecture.

This was a huge social turmoil in Lingnan, but it was not obvious, and ordinary people could not see the huge impact of the northward shift of the trade center.

However, now that Dashun's central finances are still fine and the army has just undergone military reform, it should be said that this possible uprising is bound to be impossible.

Although the Huanghuai region also experienced the change of abolishing the canal and replacing it with the sea, as the key area of ​​the court's rule, after the emperor made up his mind to control the Huai River, it should not have caused a large-scale uprising.

Land annexation requires male labor to live on the land. If they cannot feed their children, they will definitely drown female babies first. The male-female ratio in the Huanghuai region is almost 130 to 100.

Bachelors rebel, and they really have no worries. When they are hungry, they will join forces to eat the rich, and go home after robbing things.

They serve the people in peacetime and gather as an army in times of disaster, and their combat effectiveness is not very strong.

As long as the central finance of Dashun does not collapse, there are tens of millions of taels of silver in hand, even if the Yellow River changes its course, the Huanghuai region will not be in trouble.

The court actually cannot cope with the "millions of canal workers" in two places at the same time with this little money.

From the perspective of feudal dynasty rule, it is a "good" move to let the Lingnan region go and put the limited finances in the Huanghuai region to ensure the stability of the Central Plains.

The emperor is only the emperor after all. If there is an uprising, it will definitely be slaughtered.

After the massacre, the remaining people were taken in, and the land conflicts were eased by the large number of deaths in the war. It only takes a simple calculation. Assuming that it takes 100 taels of silver to immigrate one person, and 100 years of silver is enough to arm a line soldier. 1 million taels of silver can immigrate 10,000 people, but if the army is armed, it is not a problem to slaughter and suppress more than 100,000 people.

Slaughtering more than 100,000 young and strong people, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people will not be able to do anything, or they will starve to death or die on the way to escape. Adding up all kinds of things, it is easy to solve more than one million people.

This is an account that can be calculated with a little calculation.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu was still very emotional.

The uprising in the prosperous times may not even get a comment like "severe blow to the rule of the feudal dynasty" in later history books.

Perhaps the only "meaningful" result that can be obtained is to let the emperor deepen his recognition of the contradiction between people and land and the economic basis, and strengthen his determination to expand immigration.

And the root cause of all this, to some extent, Liu Yu felt that it was caused by himself.

Dashun is different from the Qing Dynasty.

The Lingnan uprising in the late Qing Dynasty was partly due to the shift of the trade center to Shanghai, as well as the impact of foreign goods on the old economy.

It was passive.

The reason for being passive was that they could not win.

They could not win, which meant that they were extremely corrupt.

The extreme corruption made it difficult to quell the uprising, and eventually the central government collapsed. No one could rebuild the central government, which laid the foundation for the subsequent warlords to fight in the new Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

It also led to the objective conditions for the armed separatism of workers and peasants in the future to survive in the cracks.

However, Dashun was proactive.

The reason for being proactive was that the navy was built, so there was no need to worry about being robbed of the canal, and the country was in its prime.

The country was in its prime, which meant that it had strong ruling ability.

Strong ruling ability meant that it was very easy to quell the uprising, and the situation after the Yellow Turbans and Huang Chao would not occur, and the central government of the court could not collapse.

If the central government of the imperial court does not collapse, it means that the reactionary forces are still strong, and it will be more difficult to overthrow them in the future, and there will be no chance of armed separatism.

This kind of prosperity is unsustainable because the most fundamental land problem has never been solved. If the land problem is not solved, the ruling basis of the dynasty is the small peasant economy. Once the power of the emerging class endangers the stability of the small peasant economy, Dashun, which has a huge financial foundation, will react with thunder and lightning.

Lingnan and Huanghuai are the two places where problems are most likely to occur.

However, in Liu Yu's opinion, it is not the right time.

If the queen drags it out for thirty or fifty years, until the power of the emerging class has the strength to wrestle, and then detonates these two points, it may be easier to directly explode the Dashun Dynasty.

However, of the two most likely detonating points, one was stabilized by the Huai River and the large amount of internal treasury silver that Liu Yu got for the emperor; the other is likely to explode within a few years, and within a few years, the power of the Dashun court will not only not be weakened, but may even reach its peak, and it can be easily pacified.

The situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that problems piled up together. There were too many of them, and they broke out in a concentrated manner, making them difficult to solve.

On the Dashun side, various problems that could have caused the Dashun court to be shaky were solved in batches. It did not affect Dashun's rule, and the power of the emerging class was seriously insufficient at this time.

Liu Yu had no way to tell the large number of unemployed people in Lingnan: For the future of the nation, you must endure it and wait until the emerging class grows up in 20 or 30 years before revolting. You are the vanguard, striking hard and shaking the power of the old ruling class, thereby paving the way for the emerging class to step onto the stage of history.

The opium dealers' shameless and unreasonable complaints against Liu Yu reminded Liu Yu that from now on, many things will be different from before.

And he also realized that he was now trapped in a seemingly unsolvable cycle: if he wanted to move forward, he needed the emperor's support; the prerequisite for the emperor's support was that the emperor felt that everything was under control; the emperor felt that everything was under control. Under control, Liu Yu needed to continuously strengthen the emperor's power, at least let the emperor truly feel that his power was strengthening; the emperor's power was strengthened, which seriously threatened the changes in the future when the road goes astray...

So uncomfortable now.

As a person who has been trying to dig a grave for Dashun, he has "accelerated" the resistance forces that may threaten to shake Dashun's rule and forced them out one by one. They will not break out all at once, but in batches and during the heyday of the dynasty. Solve them in order.

The situation in Dashun is so special. I am afraid that the future confrontation between the old and the new will be more bloody, cruel, and difficult than the original history.

In the past few years, there has always been a sense of powerlessness and a fragile defeatist mood that would permeate his heart from time to time.

Today, the opium dealer's few words, talking about the decline of Lingnan trade routes, once again made him feel an indescribable and painful feeling of powerlessness in his heart.

The accompanying officials couldn't help but feel strange when they saw Liu Yu being silent there.

Guangdong Jiedushi thought, although the opium dealer's words may sound self-defeating, they are actually not worth defending at all. Duke Xingguo also came through the storm and killed tens of thousands of people. Not to mention the war, more than ten thousand people from the Nanyang Tang Dynasty died as a result of just one immigrant from the Lion Kingdom.

What on earth is Duke Xingguo thinking? But it’s definitely not because of a few words from this opium dealer, right?

Suddenly, the Guangdong Jiedushi seemed to have figured it out all of a sudden, and he was shocked in his heart: No!

This guy is talking nonsense, he must die for his crime, there is no need to mention it.

But what he was talking about about the Dayuling trade route, it is true that many unemployed refugees have become bandits in recent years.

I'm afraid the Duke is not worried. If something happens here in the future, causing chaos among the people, and someone will follow the story of "Refugee Picture"?

When the time comes, will all the causes of the Lingnan Civil War be attributed to the Duke? To knock it down?

Then he quietly glanced at Liu Yu, who was thinking silently, and felt more and more that this was what happened.

Thinking about it again, I feel even more frightened.

I thought that this opium dealer had a local accent and was so tough-talking. The words he spoke were beyond what ordinary traitors could say.

Could it be...could it be that gods are fighting here? Or is there someone behind this person? He was originally doing business in Guangzhou, but after the rise of Songjiang Prefecture, he couldn't get through, so he did this kind of thing?

Even what to say when caught, was someone instigating you?

It would be troublesome if someone screamed during the execution, or if something went wrong while the trial continued.

Although I am a small military governor, I can be regarded as a big official in the border area, but compared to the real big shots in the court, I can't afford to offend anyone.

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might not be possible. He didn't know that Liu Yu was thinking about the affairs of the world. He thought he was worried about the intrigues in the court. After a little panic, he made up his mind.

"The Duke? The Duke?"

A few soft calls awakened Liu Yu, who was frowning silently, and the frown that was originally frowned was forced to open amid the irritability in his heart.

"My lord, the words of this thief are simply unreasonable. My lord, don't worry about it. It is a natural law that the trade routes all return to Songjiang Mansion. We gathered in Guangzhou Mansion before and acted against the natural law. This natural law cannot be done by human power."

"Besides, if you really can't survive, it would be reasonable to commit chaos. But this thief sells opium, and what he said makes no sense. It's just a strong argument."

"Why does the Duke need to argue with such a person? The subordinate thought that he had his tongue cut out to prevent him from talking nonsense."

Liu Yu was slightly startled and said disdainfully: "How can there be any truth in his bullshit words? I only need a few words to render him speechless..."

However, the Guangdong Jiedushi gave Liu Yu a gentle tug, and when the two of them walked to a deserted place, he whispered: "My lord, I'm afraid that the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. The hateful thing about his bullshit is not that it is sold. Opium, but everything in Lingnan should be attributed to the Duke of the country."

"Although I just said that this is a natural law, it is not human power. However, if a river bursts and drowns people, it is one thing; if it takes the initiative to dig a river and drowns people, it is another thing."