New Shun 1730

This kind of thing can not only be learned from history by the Dashun people, but also is happening in reality at this moment.

The situation in the Northeast is similar to the land problem in North America.

In the southern part, mergers began to appear on a large scale; the self-cultivating farmers in the southern part were forced to move north.

One was favored by capital because of tobacco, and the other was favored by capital because of soybeans.

However, due to religious issues, the Dashun side was not so crazy.

One was slaughtering Indians.

The other asked the court not to let people go north to reclaim land because of the tribute of fishing and hunting tribes, or took the initiative to transform into landlords.

The Dashun court's approach is also the same old routine. Some leaders in the old forests transformed themselves from tribal chiefs to big landlords, letting land be reclaimed, selling land, and recruiting capital. Whether you are from the original tribe or the Han nationality from the south, you all work in the fields, just like the story of "Shao Lang and Dai Fu". Most of the farmers still have Shandong accents, because they are going to Guandong... There is a poem "praising" that says: Shao Lang came to the fort in disguise, and shouted in Shandong accent.

Now that Dashun has passed the Songliao watershed, it is also a similar situation: today the farmhands revolt, tomorrow the border troops suppress them, and the next day they flee to the mountains and forests. Soon, villages emerge one by one in the small plains of the valleys and river valleys.

This kind of river valley small plain villages are very common. Koreans, Solons, Han people, and Mongolians gather together. Koreans teach Shandong people how to grow rice, Shandong people teach Koreans how to dig vegetable cellars, and Solons teach them how to block the river mouth and catch salmon...

Therefore, Dashun is really familiar with the mess of reclamation in this border area.

Besides, not to mention the far north of the Songliao watershed, with the end of the Little Ice Age, the Mongolian nobles went to Chengde to cultivate the land, and transformed themselves into landlords and large farmers by recruiting poor people to cultivate the land. As a result, the shepherds and farmers fought each other, which was not far from the capital.

Since this matter is clear, the Dashun group is very clear about what the future will be like after the armed intervention and the closure of the western border, when the land does not increase but the population increases.

Reading the Bible, you can't really recite the five loaves and two fishes.

Private ownership plus land trading, population increase, and reclamation of land cannot be done. As long as there is no five loaves and two fishes, this matter will never be different because the scriptures read by Dashun are different from those read by North America.

Since this level is understood, the rest of the things are easy to say.

It's nothing more than the set of division, disintegration, pulling one faction and fighting another faction.

To sum up, cut it vertically:

It is to compromise with the merchant groups in the eastern coastal areas and confront the land groups that expand the border in the west.

Cut horizontally:

Win over merchants, plantation owners, and petty bourgeois craftsmen who have no conflict with Dashun's products, such as blacksmiths, bricklayers, brewers, and shoemakers.

Suppress land speculators, bankrupt self-cultivating farmers, and farmers who reclaim wasteland in the west.

There are actually only a few key points to grasp.

The petty bourgeoisie is the most sensitive to currency fluctuations and trade fluctuations, and is also the easiest to be exploited and incited. They cannot be allowed to rebel for the time being.

One is to put pressure on Britain, at least not to prohibit North America from printing its own paper money for the time being.

The other is to smash the British customs, especially to curb Britain's tendency to let the customs eat the emperor's grain and really check taxes.

As long as these two are not a problem, the petty bourgeoisie will not be able to rebel at all, and incitement is useless. They don't feel pain and can live a good life, so they won't give up their lives and go against Britain.

But this is precisely the most difficult part.

The trade ambassador is confident that Dashun will replace Britain and become a producer of consumer goods that North America cannot produce on its own.

But it was precisely because of this confidence that after communicating with Hancock and other merchants in the Bahamas, he felt that the currency problem in North America was indeed a big problem.

Again, Dashun was too far away. Selling cloth and porcelain was because Dashun had a high level of productivity. But with the transportation capacity at that time, it was impossible to load two ships of rice back from the southern states. This was not a question of whether to lose money or not, but it would be regarded as a brain problem: loading two ships of rice from Georgia, passing through India, Ceylon, and Nanyang, and finally arriving in Jiangnan, where rice is produced, and then selling rice?

If Dashun was in Europe, it would be as Hume said: food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all made in China. If industrial products are exchanged for raw materials, Europe will perish.

But now, it’s not possible. Dashun only wants silver, gold, and copper. There is really no other way.

Since Dashun was determined to divide North America, play the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Five-party Demarcation, it was necessary to solve the currency problem in North America while putting pressure on Britain for negotiations.

The trade ambassador told him what he was worried about and asked, "Your Highness, it is not difficult to summon North American gentry to Philadelphia for a meeting now. But, what to talk about, there is still one thing that needs to be solved."

"Free trade, selling tea, selling cloth, forcing Britain to abolish sugar tax, etc., these are all easy to say. But this can only win over some people."

"In other words, these are easy to win over people in the north and central regions. But people in the central and southern regions are not easy to win over."

"Their focus is not here."

"But they are very important. If the Celestial Empire wants to sell goods in North America and earn silver, then those people in the south are very needed. Because those people in the south can get a lot of silver from Europe, such as selling tobacco, selling indigo, and selling some things grown. Silver can flow into North America, so that they can use silver to buy tea, silk, porcelain, etc."

"When we sell goods in this dynasty, we only want silver, gold and copper. We don't want or accept anything else. It's impossible to exchange rice from Georgia for Southeast Asia, right? Who would do such a business?"

"We must give them an explanation at the meeting, so that they can support us. But I really don't know how to answer them on this issue."

"That day in the Bahamas, their merchants asked me this question, and I could only evade it at that time."

The new practical knowledge accepted by Li Xi and his group naturally understands these things and knows some general situations.

The trade ambassador talked about some details of the Bahamas talks, which made the matter even more complicated.

Smuggling, free trade, merchants' interests, etc., these are easy to talk about.

The only thing is the North American paper currency issue, which is really not easy to deal with.

Because the paper currency issue is not only related to the petty bourgeoisie, craftsmen, etc.

It is also related to the plantations in the southern states.

They also want to issue paper currency, the purpose is to pay back the money.

With the invasion of capitalism, they must have owed financial capital a lot of money, and they couldn't pay it back, so they thought about printing some money and using some paper to pay back the financial capital in England and Scotland.

Of course, it is impossible to pay back all the paper money.

At least, in history, the people on the plantation thought that they felt that their demands were not too excessive.

For example, a total of 15 million was borrowed and it was agreed to be repaid next year.

With interest, the total is 16 million.

Then print 5 million paper money here, and then ask financial capital not to be so anxious to collect the debt, you can postpone it for one or two years, and pay it back the year after next or the year after next.

Delay for three years, and pay back 10 million silver and 600 paper money. But normally, plus the interest for the three years of delay, the total amount to be paid back is 20 million.

But in this way, only 10 million precious metals were paid back.

This is equivalent to devaluing the debt by 50%.

The people working on the plantation must have thought this was a good idea.

But the problem is that people who work in finance are not fools, because fools cannot be financial capitalists. Since they are not fools, they must think that this method is not good.

So, this matter seems to be a simple paper currency issue.

But in fact it is not that simple.

For example, I take paper currency to pay back the money. The creditor does not want it, saying that it is paper money and wants silver.

Then I have to go to court.

How will the British High Court rule in the lawsuit?

This is not a simple moral issue, nor is it a simple right or wrong, or a matter of compromise.

If it is ruled that paper currency can be used to pay debts, it means that the British High Court will endorse North American paper currency.

In other words, the British government is using the government's credibility to endorse these over-issued paper currencies in North America.

In history, in order to endorse the over-issued paper currencies by the North American group, the French used bonds issued with real gold and silver to stabilize the currency value, and the endorsement was so heavy that the king's head was even carried in it.

Now the entire colony has issued about 18 million banknotes, without any anchor, and the southern states are preparing to print another 6 million to devalue the debt. How can the British government have the ability to endorse these more than 20 million banknotes?

Besides, the financial capital that lends money is not crazy. With the precedent of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which depreciated to 4%, who dares to accept banknotes?

So this matter is difficult to solve.

According to the logic of "law", "natural law", "sacred property rights" and "tradition", it is difficult to solve.

The only easy solution is the logic of revolution. Revolution is the highest rule and the highest natural right. You don't have to pay back the debt as long as you win.

This matter is the invasion of capital on the colonies.

That is, the resistance of local small producers, landowners, and some local landlords to capitalism, especially financial capital.

This is the difficulty.

These big financiers and capitalists who lend money are the ruling class in the UK who are allied with the Whig Party.

Even the King of England would not dare to ask North America to repay its debts with paper money.

Do you still want to be the king?

It is not enough to solve the currency problem in North America and only solve the problem of free trade.

In other words, if we cannot attract enough people to suppress the Western land speculation group that the Dashun wants to suppress, it will push a large number of petty bourgeoisie to the enemy side.

If we only solve the problem of free trade, big businessmen like Hancock will definitely not rebel: those who run to West Africa and the Caribbean for trade do not use paper money, they are all real gold and silver, they just don’t want to pay tariffs, and using paper money or not has little impact on them.

But for those small producers and petty bourgeoisie, it is like the sky falling. They have paper money in their hands, and they also use paper money to assist in daily transactions. Buying two kilograms of corn, a barrel of rum, etc., are all local products, and paper money can be used for transactions.

They don't have much silver currency.

If Britain requires that taxes and debts be paid in silver, those big merchants will definitely choose to hoard silver, because it is obvious that silver will appreciate against paper money.

This kind of thing happened in the Ming Dynasty.

North Americans are not made of special materials. It is impossible that paper money will depreciate, causing a large amount of silver to be hoarded, thus further exacerbating the tightening and further depreciating paper money.

This is inevitable. Similar currency problems, deflation, silver hoarding and other events have happened several times in the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

The situation in North America is a process of slow capitalist invasion. The capitalist system is a complete set, not a single isolated incident.

Capital first invaded the southeast coast, causing the population to move westward, so that land speculation in the west could be profitable.

The capital for land speculation in the west was also borrowed financial capital, otherwise where would there be so much money to enclose land?

If land mergers were not carried out in the southeast coast, how would people go west?

If people did not go west, how could the enclosed land be sold for money?

The land speculation company made money from the price difference. It spent 100 yuan to store the land, and then slowly sold it for 1,000 in the future to pay off the debt.

This is a chain of links.

It is not that private ownership of corn, and then selling corn to buy cotton cloth, is called capitalism.

If these two things, paper money and banning westward migration, are accomplished, they will be blamed on the head of London financial capital. They must come up with an explanation for them to accept.