New Shun 1730

Lin Min said that Liu Yu's methods were rough, and this was not a taboo. Who in the court didn't know about it?

The emperor didn't care about these things at all. As for the emperor, according to the standards of later generations, it was not unfair to shoot him.

The previous emperor Xianzong rehabilitated Yu Qian, and his evaluation was quite good. Didn't the "Xianzong Shilu" also record that [they led the Han and Tatar official troops to arrest them in different ways... At that time, there were refugees who had been in the family business since Hongwu, and they had never done evil. When the soldiers entered, they cut off all the grass...]

Grass cutting means cutting grass, and the grass should be burned too much. Didn't he do this because of this great merit, and was awarded the title of Prince Taibao and posthumous title of Xiangyi.

Dashun is coming soon. Lingnan, where the trade center has changed and the conflicts between natives and immigrants, will sooner or later have trouble.

Before, Liu Yu sent people to Southeast Asia with a mortality rate of 50%, and this crime is not much less.

Liu Yu was very clear about his own position, the general backstage, the general leader, and the general black hand of the emerging capitalists in Dashun.

It was precisely because he believed that he could not solve the land problem at all, and the top-down reform was bound to be incomplete, and there had never been any savior.

He could only create conditions and build a foundation, waiting for the awakened people in the future to raise the banner of justice with surging power, abandon the shackles of small peasant limitations under the leadership of the new class, bury the Li Dynasty and the old era together, solve the final land problem, and complete industrialization based on the foundation accumulated before.

The emperor was also very clear about his own position, the feudal leader.

Now it is Xinshun, the black hand holding the overlord's whip; it is not the serf halberd that rolled up when resisting.

The emperor still couldn't understand what Lin Min's subtext was? If reform is needed, the livelihoods of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou who rely on the salt industry will be greatly affected.

The court does not have enough money to ensure that their lives will not decline as before, and something will definitely happen.

The emperor knew Liu Yu's "Five-Year Plan to Peace the Huai River". After the great success of the Huaibei salt industry reform, the emperor had already made up his mind about abolishing salt and reclaiming wasteland.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

The emperor is now used to spending the gold and silver brought by customs and trade, and it is difficult for him to shrink.

The proportion of land tax in the legitimate income of Dashun in recent years, excluding the seizure of property and tribute, has been decreasing year by year, and now only accounts for about 70%. Salt tax, tariffs, and messy purchase fees account for the rest.

This does not prove that Dashun's industry and commerce account for a high proportion of total production, but only proves that Dashun's land system is extremely unreasonable and land tax revenue cannot be collected much.

Moreover, the cotton issue has indeed become an important issue restricting Dashun's immigration to the Northeast.

The Northeast is not the Western Regions, and cotton cannot be grown.

Vladivostok had reported good news before, saying that it was possible to try to grow rice in the Northeast by improving the white and red rice from Japan.

The emperor was a little skeptical about the news sent in the name of "Auspicious Harvest". After ordering people to investigate thoroughly, he realized that rice could actually be grown in that broken place?

Overjoyed.

This is a big deal.

Before, after crossing the Songliao watershed and going north, it was actually impossible to grow corn. It had been tried before, but failed.

And Liu Yu's expansion to the north relied on the captured Cossacks and the promotion of rye.

Basically, he relied on rye and potatoes to squeeze north.

Decades ago, in the distant America, an incident called the Salem Witch Trials occurred.

After the expansion of Dashun to the north, a similar incident occurred because of its reliance on rye and potatoes. Of course, it was not called a witch, but something like a great immortal possessing someone, which made people panic.

The reasons were similar, rye ergot poisoning, hallucinations and manic convulsions. Even if someone explains this thing, it is not very useful. The best way is not to eat rye. It would be best if you can eat rice.

After being overjoyed, the emperor quickly turned to worry. If you can grow rice... In addition to being happy, you must hurry to migrate to the north to block the way for North Korea to expand and escape to the north.

Koreans can also grow rice.

The lessons of the previous dynasty have left the emperor with lingering fears, and he will never allow a similar Jurchen rise to happen again.

To continue to migrate to the north, a large amount of cotton is needed, and it must be cheap cotton that can be easily transported to coastal port cities.

With the development of the commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River, the Northeast region has also been driven.

South of the Songliao watershed, around the trade of soybeans, wheat and other grains, an economic belt relying on the Liaohe River and sea transportation and grain commercialization has gradually been established.

From Tongjiangzi to Yingkou, it is said that "800 miles, masts are connected, and there are thousands of ships", and a series of towns have emerged.

Although these towns were built by the river, once the railway era began, these prosperous towns would experience decline like Huai'an and Yangzhou at that time. But at this time, water transportation was still the only stable way to transport bulk trade goods.

Sailing in summer and using the ice on the water surface as a free natural highway in winter, coupled with the planting of new crops, the popularization of cotton, the development of Jiangsu industry and commerce, the opening of ports in Japan, etc., the south of the Songliao watershed has basically become the base of Dashun.

And north of the Songliao watershed, Dashun followed Liu Yu's idea and took the way of "drawing a line to make a prison" by sea transportation, occupying the seaside, estuary and other places along the river little by little.

After these years of immigration, the cost of immigration has been greatly reduced.

People can work as hired laborers, long-term workers, or tenants. The larger the population, the lower the cost of immigration.

Not everyone can afford to wear mink.

Cotton cloth and cotton jackets and trousers are the mainstream equipment for immigrants, and three or five kilograms of cotton can only fill a pair of cotton trousers that can keep out the cold. One acre of land now produces only a dozen kilograms of cotton.

Dashun had conquered many places before, and Korea and Japan opened ports to a limited extent. And whether it is Korea or Japan, it is impossible to grow cotton.

The demand of immigrants in Northeast China, the demand of cotton cloth in Korea and Japan, and the demand of overseas exports in Songjiang Prefecture all made Dashun urgently need a cotton producing area.

After Dashun took over Nanyang from the Dutch, Dashun's cotton cloth quickly squeezed out the market of Indian cotton cloth, which also caused a surge in cotton demand.

These are the reasons Liu Yu gave to the emperor to change the economic structure of Huainan.

The logic of the reason is: First, it is a wasteland.

Secondly, the development of Liaodong region and the rise of shipping, as well as the import of rice from Nanyang, made Dashun's food crisis less urgent.

Liaodong can grow grain, but not cotton.

Therefore, the grain from Liaodong, Nanyang, and Ezo can be used to promote cotton planting in Jiangsu. In this way, there is no need to worry that the people will grow cotton and mulberry and have nothing to eat.

Liu Yu even directly implemented tax exemption for grain imports, which caused grain prices to fall day by day. As the place where seaborne trade is most severely impacted, the problem of "low rice prices hurting farmers" has become increasingly apparent.

What should we do if low rice prices hurt farmers?

Either, a powerful state machine will come forward to regulate and sell at a fair price.

Or, if low rice prices hurt farmers, cotton can be grown and exchanged for rice, so that the common people can benefit from the low rice prices without being hurt by them.

After thinking about how powerful the state machine of Dashun could be, the emperor really chose to grow cotton. Dashun had no ability to regulate rice prices.

Of course, the emperor also had some small ideas. Jiangsu had become Dashun's money bag.

As Liu Yu said before, opening coal mines north of the Yellow River and using Haizhou to transport to Songjiang Prefecture to control Jiangsu was similar.

Food is more important than coal. The emperor thought that it would be a good thing if Jiangsu could not be self-sufficient in food. At that time, if there was any movement, the food would be cut off and the people would be sure to behave themselves.

Moreover, the grain needed by the capital now came from Ezo, Nanyang, or Liaodong. After the canal was abandoned, relying on the sea transportation capacity, the amount of grain produced in Jiangsu was not very important to Dashun.

After overcoming this inertia of looking for a sword on a boat, many of the remaining truths were figured out.

Liu Yu's reform had his own three views and logic of productivity and production relations.

The emperor certainly could not agree with this set of three views, but he supported Liu Yu's reform ideas because Liu Yu had a set of logic chains specifically used to "be loyal to His Majesty, strengthen the imperial power, and benefit the stability of the country."

The reasons he gave to the emperor were completely inconsistent with the real reasons why he did this.

Of course, the emperor could not be completely unguarded against Liu Yu. Trust is trust, but what should be guarded against still needs to be guarded against.

The emperor could rest assured that Liu Yu would do his best in Jiangsu, because he had his own plans and was prepared to control the overall situation.

He changed the reign to Weixin.

This change of reign, in addition to showing the determination to change, also had a small byproduct.

The emperor could legitimately hold the imperial examination.

Changing the reign to hold the imperial examination was so legitimate that it couldn't be more legitimate.

Holding the imperial examination did not require the selection of talents according to the standardized examination method.

The emperor could formulate the topic and select a group of talents that the emperor wanted through this imperial examination.

These talents did not learn new things, but were formally selected through the imperial examination. The imperial examination was also an imperial examination.

The emperor had already thought of the topic.

The pros and cons of abolishing the canal.

The pros and cons of salt policy reform.

Whether to collect salt tax or not, and the significance of national taxation.

The topics formulated for these imperial examinations were a big pit.

It seemed that the emperor wanted to use the imperial examination method to start a few days of discussion among the literati and officials. Was this right or wrong?

In fact, in the eyes of the emperor, the opinions of the scholar class about sea and canal transportation and no salt tax are shit.

He is only afraid of two kinds of people.

Landless small farmers.

Similar to miners.

The emperor has a very definite answer in his mind. The special examination has these questions to select some talents that meet the emperor's ideas, and then throw these special examination talents to Jiangsu.

Why not use new talents? Must we choose from the imperial examination?

Because new talents cannot be officials, and there are already many people who come from the Wude Palace, which is temporarily unbalanced. And it is difficult to say whether those who come from the orthodox imperial examination can quickly adapt to a series of changes in Jiangsu Province.

He wants to squeeze in some people who come from the special examination to balance it.

Before, I told Liu Yu not to let the government die with the person, and let Liu Yu sort out a team framework and then formalize it.

Then, the formalized people certainly cannot be Liu Yu's shogunate team.

The emperor is going to throw all the people selected by the special examination to Jiangsu as assistant officials, to learn more, see more, and think more.

After Liu Yu finished the dirty and bloody work, he could return to Beijing to "rest". At that time, the people who came from the special examination, who were really promoted by the emperor and supported the reform but had different "Tao" from Liu Yu, could take over.

Whether it was Nanyang or Jiangsu, the emperor used this method.

And it was used openly, and Liu Yu understood it at all.

Both sides understood and fully understood that this was to reap the fruits and seize power in the future, and it was tacitly understood. This is called trust between the monarch and his subjects.

Relying on Liu Yu's initiative to give up military power, relying on the 20,000 good family soldiers stationed in the Songjiang Prefecture camp, relying on the expansion of the navy and the growth of officers promoted by the emperor, relying on the replacement of the main fleet officers of the two major military ports of Weihaiwei and Lushunwei, relying on this clear move of blood replacement, relying on Liu Yu's only having a shogunate but not being able to open a government, but acting on the power of the monarch, the "trust" between the monarch and his subjects was fully able to support the "five-year power to pacify the Huai River".