New Shun 1730

"Earlier, after Wang Quanbin had conquered Shu, he wanted to take Yunnan with his military power and advance with his plans. Taizu of the Song Dynasty learned about the disasters of the Tang Dynasty based on Nanzhao. He drew the Dadu River with a jade ax and said: This is not mine. Therefore, Yunnan Three There will be no access to China for a hundred years.”

"It only takes many years before and after, and the boundaries of the world and the size of the circle are changed again and again."

"Today, the world is not as big as it was before, let alone when the jade ax was used to draw boundaries. If he is incompetent and suffers the people, what if he is one of the prefectures of the heaven? If there is a great righteousness in the future, he will relieve the people of the world and free all nations. The harm is not unreasonable."

"You talk nonsense about the world and talk about the four directions, but your vision is limited to the Central Plains, Japan, Korea, and Annan. You realize that it cannot be applied to the eighty thousand miles, so you take the initiative to reduce the world to the small Jiuzhou. This and the jade ax demarcate the world. What’s the difference?”

"From your point of view, Minghua Yunnan is actually wrong? Is it the royal way to find the Duan family to restore their country and make them pay tribute?"

"The world in your heart is so big and your influence on the world is not even as good as these merchants. You are really like summer bugs. In terms of merit, these merchants in front of you have immigrated hundreds of thousands to the sea of ​​​​whales and thousands of miles to the north. There is no more misfortune. You can't even understand the community. At this time, you should be aware of your shame and act bravely to decide the matter in Honolulu, but you are not talking about kings and hegemons here. "

"What happened in Honolulu is a major matter involving millions of people after a natural disaster, with many people and little land. Can you do it? You can do it. This is a great cause of great justice, great merit, and great virtue! If you can't do it, I will find someone else to explain it to you!"

Meng Songlu's face turned red after being ridiculed. He didn't know that Liu Yu was taking the opportunity to test his mental endurance. After all, traveling thousands of miles away to do unprecedented things requires more than just a little passion.

His face flushed hotly for a while, and he felt even more confused inside.

I thought that according to what Quan Zheshen said, many of North Korea's policies are indeed harmful to the people. So, in this case, is it right or wrong for Dashun Ruo to march there and support the counties instead of supporting the new king?

I also thought that even if Dashun did not implement the policies of the prefectures and counties and continued to increase the opening of ports for trade, the Lee family of Korea would not practice benevolent and righteous policies. In the end, someone raised his voice and called for the people to win the grain. Is Dashun a positive or negative in this matter?

The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and I became even more confused for a while.

After a long while, I shook my head to get rid of the thoughts in my mind that were momentarily chaotic and almost collapsed, and muttered: "The students are still willing to go."

The word "still" conveys one part stubbornness and one part helplessness.

Liu Yu secretly laughed in his heart, and did not add any more irritation. He said in a gentle tone: "Since you talk about practical learning, you need to know what 'real' is. When it comes to this matter, since someone has provided money to support it, you should listen to what they want." Really, what's going on?"

Although he is not even as good as a scholar in Confucianism, he also knows that the "realness" in his mouth is not the same thing as the "realness" spoken by others.

This reality is not that reality.

But for the people of Jinghai Company, their cultural level is there, and they are immersed in the world view that has been subtly influenced by Liu Yu over the years. Their understanding of the word "real" is naturally the same as Liu Yu's. .

Although I have doubts about whether the person Liu Yu selected is reliable, I feel that this person is still a bit dull in reading.

But when I think about this matter, I can only trust Liu Yu, and I can only ask Liu Yu to come forward to coordinate and handle it. I can only suppress the doubts in my heart and show my kindness to Meng Songlu.

Then from their "real" perspective, this matter became even more "dirty".

To put it simply, according to Liu Yu’s influence on the “Three Views” and the way of explaining the world’s operation, the company found that it was difficult to find a leading party when the class society was not too clear and a national city-state was formed.

And if we can't find a leading party, it will be difficult to control an area with a population of hundreds of thousands.

This is different from the Spanish conquest of South America in the story, which relied on intervening in the war in South America. And there is also a country there, but domestic conflicts occur frequently, so it is possible to use small things to make a big difference.

It is much easier to reorder where there is order than to create order where there is no order.

Now, the company can buy some taro, coconuts, etc. from the island, but it is seriously unable to meet the grain, fruits, etc. needed for the company's transformation.

The locals actually had to make sure they were full before taking out food, which made the company very unhappy.

Food is different from other things.

For example, the sea dragon skin that the company exchanges in the north is not food, but a by-product of the local tribe's "food", so commercial exchange is easier.

However, the people on the island are not productive enough, and it is difficult to feed themselves. They also have to ensure that they are full first, and there is not much food to buy.

Under such circumstances, if a royal state can be established according to the "Book of Rites of Zhou" and use the method of a royal state to levy tithe on the people, it will ensure that the feudal landlord class, especially the king of the chiefdom, the leader of the big landowners, will If there is food confiscated by violent agencies, the amount of food available for export can be increased as quickly as possible.

This is much faster and saves a lot of money than investing in construction and developing productivity there, which will eventually lead to more food than you can eat.

With the overwhelming technological advancements such as sailing ships and muskets, it only takes two or three years to establish a good relationship with the local chief and support him to do something big and unify the entire island.

Teach him step by step how to tax, how to feudal land, how to enjoy royal power and wealth, and how to learn to live a luxurious life.

If it goes quickly, in three years, there will be enough commercial grain needed for the company to transform and dig for gold.

How can we expand trade if the class differentiation is not serious enough and the exploitation is not strong enough?

Only when the upper class learns to exploit the people first and has money to consume Dashun's cloth, guns, luxury goods, silk, etc., can we boost Dashun's exports to Honolulu as a whole and Honolulu's grain exports.

The company's people also made it clear that in the future, it would have nothing to do with them to make the local people's lives prosperous and educate them after they become rich.

They pay the money, as long as they can guarantee that they can buy enough grain within three to five years and can buy it in the future.

There will be no shortage of funding.

As for using practical learning to promote water conservancy, teaching agricultural reclamation, etc., if you are willing to do it, you can do it, and the company will not prevent you from doing it.

Everyone gets what they need, isn't that just right?

You talk about justice, I talk about profit.

During this period, the company stated that as long as the Duke of Xingguo came forward to say how much money, how many people, and how many guns were needed, the company was willing to pay the money. Because the company has already set a rough line, the money is earmarked for special purposes, and the shareholders' authorization does not need to be asked again. Liu Yu has also calculated that the money is enough, and has also said hello to the court.

The "reality" said by this group of people in the company, or the "reality" under their worldview, makes Meng Songlu, who is already confused, even more confused.

But thinking along these fallacies, it seems that it is not unreasonable. If I really have the heart, I can be the governor of the county, develop water conservancy and farming, and enrich the people and teach them. This can also be regarded as a great contribution to the world, right?

It seems that the two are not completely contradictory?

He suppressed his confusion as much as possible and finally agreed to it affirmatively, but the reason was "If we want to develop water conservancy and cultivate land, we also need to exchange the iron and agricultural machinery we need with the Celestial Empire. It will sound better if we change the way we say it."

The people in the company were not interested in changing the way they said it, but they still nodded and said, "You are right, indeed, it will sound better if we change the way we say it."

"Now that this matter has been decided, let's hurry up. The rest of the talents that Xingguogong has found are also in place. We must set sail in the summer and use the ocean currents to deliver food, spirits and other supplies to the hunting area before winter comes."

The people in the company are now rich and powerful, and how much money they have made can be roughly calculated from the account books.

Historically, from 1804 to 1824, not counting the furs sold by the Russians in Kyakhta and Guangzhou, the furs that Americans transported from Honolulu to Guangzhou in 20 years amounted to about 2 million pieces, which was roughly more than 10 million in Spanish dollars.

That was when the purchasing power of silver in the world soared due to the South American uprising.

Nowadays, the fur traders of the Whale Sea Company, such as Dashun, have been more aggressive in recent years, with annual sales of about one million yuan.

Excluding costs, it is still stable to earn two standard battleships a year.

Some of this is consumed locally in Dashun, and the other part of high-end goods is also exported to Europe.

With huge profits, the company is of course willing to pay a sum of money to solve the development bottleneck and transformation needs faced by the company at the lowest cost.

Although Liu Yu has already stated that the court may not be able to monopolize the trade in Honolulu in the future.

But the so-called "the one who is close to the water gets the moon first".

Even if the franchise is no longer purchased in the future, if the political power of Honolulu can be supported and stabilized, the company can still take the lead by taking the shadow investment method with the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first in the future huge profits of Honolulu.

Investing now is also for future profits. However, this kind of long-term investment still needs someone to hold their ears or use a whip to command them, otherwise it is difficult to make such a long-term investment decision.

Liu Yu had the whip in his hand and coordinated. Since he had made such a long-term decision and the money had been spent anyway, he naturally hoped that it would bring more benefits in the future.

Although it seemed that they were the least related to the war that Dashun was about to participate in among many foreign colonial trade companies, in fact, as long as they were properly operated, they could still pay.

In fact, as long as there was progress in Honolulu before the war.

Liu Yu only needed to promise privately that he would destroy the sandalwood resources in East Timor after the war, then it would be no problem to ask them to subscribe to a national debt of hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels.

Anyway, East Timor, Tahiti and other places all produce high-quality sandalwood. Capital is definitely willing to spend some money, do some power-for-money transactions, and use administrative orders and military forces to destroy Nanyang sandalwood in exchange for profits from the East Yang sandalwood trade.

However, considering the disgusting virtues of the ruling class, it is estimated that Meng Songlu will sooner or later collapse again, which is almost inevitable.

Most likely, within three to five years, he will see the ruling class of Honolulu drive its people to the mountains to cut sandalwood to maintain trade and obtain a luxurious life through head taxes, labor service, corvée system, etc., which will lead to a famine with a collapse of traditional agricultural production and a sharp decline in population.

The timing is just right.

By then, the capital of Dashun can only frantically capture people from Shandong and Henan to fill the shortage of labor and develop planting industry, instead of thinking about finding labor locally. Even if the cost of capturing people from Henan and Shandong is higher, it is still profitable.

As long as Meng Songlu teaches the upper class of Honolulu about the kingship, corvée, feudalism, land, and baojia; and the upper class of Honolulu feels how wonderful a luxurious life is, the agricultural collapse caused by the corvée of sandalwood is inevitable.

The more retro and conservative, the better. If it is not retro, it is mostly because of the mismatch of productivity, resulting in acclimatization.

Liu Yu naturally would not tell Meng Songlu about this inevitable tragedy and the ugliness of the ruler.

Anyway, there are plans for the long term and plans for the short term.

Among the major chaebols in Dashun's foreign trade and colonization, the Jinghai chaebol is the least interested in World War I.

But they can still use the sandalwood issue to pull them in. Originally, they had no conflict with Britain and Portugal, the two established enemies of Dashun.

But if there is no conflict, no contradiction, they will create and construct contradictions, and use Meng Songlu's Zhouli education belief and sandalwood as an intermediary to intensify the sandalwood trade contradiction between the Jinghai chaebol group and Portugal, which are not related at all.

Even to some extent, their interests make them more inclined to go to war with Luosha, Spain, and France.

Since they are the chaebol group with the least interest, it is estimated that they can contribute at least 1.8 million taels of silver at that time, not to mention the remaining chaebols that are naturally bound to World War I.

In this day and age, the delivery capability is insufficient, and fighting a war is not about mobilizing the whole nation and awakening the nation, but simply about money.

If there is enough money, the chances of winning are high. If the war is delayed until the British national debt explodes, then it will be a sure win.

At this point, among the major financial tycoons of Dashun, the group with the least interest in war, and even the capital groups whose interests had no conflict with Britain and Portugal but rather had many conflicts with Spain, France and Russia, were tied to the war chariot by Liu Yu.