New Shun 1730

Since it is mandatory to move women and children here, we must always consider the future of this place, not just mining, so that Dashun can solve its own problems to the greatest extent.

The typical Mediterranean climate here is not impossible to develop food agriculture. But the premise is that the population is sufficient, enough to build water conservancy projects, otherwise there is no hope.

In the Mediterranean climate, rain and heat are different periods. The weather is indeed hot in summer, which is very suitable for crop growth, but there is indeed no rain, so we can only rely on irrigation.

And irrigation means that there must be at least hundreds of thousands of people here to make such a siege. Building canals and water conservancy projects requires a sufficient population.

Just as in the east of Dashitou Mountain, Dashun took the name of New Yizhou, which is actually ready for separation in the future.

It is actually the same here.

The policy of Dashun has been determined, and everything here revolves around immigration. Even if it is digging for gold and silver, in the overall policy direction, it is only a means, not an end.

Therefore, in fact, there are not too many industrial restrictions here, and the purpose is still to develop the industry and absorb people to the greatest extent.

In fact, it is equivalent to allowing this place to separate in the future. After all, agriculture, minerals, climate, fresh water, land, forests, coal mines... There is nothing missing here, it's a matter of time.

Therefore, the land policy here is completely different from the Maple Bay area in the north.

The north of the latitude line of the north latitude is a small peasant economy, including those who work in the gold mine. In the future, they will participate in the land grant in the area north of the "county boundary".

The land near Jinshan is not allowed and is not prepared to allow small peasant economy.

To be precise, the policy direction is to carry out the "chaebol" system here-the court and the chaebols invest, support in the future, and sell state-owned assets to family business groups.

The industries are mainly cotton planting, textiles, wine, mining, metal processing, etc. Especially on the land issue, here directly saves the step of small farmers' differentiation and merger, and directly builds large farms.

The labor force is still mainly composed of immigrants from Dashun, or wage laborers forcibly created.

That is:

The land north of the dividing line is on the precipitation line suitable for growing wheat, where small peasant economy is the main industry, and state-owned land is sold, mainly small family farms.

The land south of the dividing line, considering factors such as climate, is neither suitable for small peasant economy nor necessary. Directly build a large farm, engage in contract labor, and then buy a piece of land in the north.

Of course, this requires a process and cannot be achieved overnight.

But the negotiations between Dashun and Spain provide enough possibilities for this plan.

In South America, Spain has enough population, poor productivity, and enough gold and silver, which also means a large enough market. However, Spain's local industrial production capacity is basically zero. Spain cannot resist Dashun's smuggling, so it can only accept Dashun's bilateral trade conditions and earn tariffs.

The land around Jinshan, especially the river valley area near the gold mine, is very suitable for large-scale cotton planting, and the quality of cotton will be very good.

However, in such a place, whether it is the climate or the precipitation, it is meaningless to engage in small-scale farming and cotton planting.

It can't be done. There are many problems in cotton planting after the salt reclamation in northern Jiangsu in history, such as renting, profit sharing, and land rent. There is no need to go through it again.

It is better to directly engage in large-scale farm planting, with contract workers as labor, a large number of women who migrated from Jinshan as textile workers and cotton pickers, the Spanish West Coast of South America as the market, and the copper mines, saltpeter, guano and other industries that are about to develop on the West Coast of South America as an opportunity to directly build the Jinshan area into the entire West Coast of North and South America, or the textile industry center west of the mountains.

Dashun does not want the market here, and allows all kinds of industries to develop here, and even foresees the separation of self-sufficiency and self-contained systems in the future.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as it can absorb millions or tens of millions of people in a few decades, everything will be fine.

If the road that was not taken in history is to be taken, it is not enough to rely on the Songsu area alone. At least Shandong, Jingji and other places must be pulled into the capitalist system, so as to form a violent advantage over the western regions.

That is, assuming that perhaps through reform and a violent revolution that sweeps the world, the industrialization of the coastal areas of North China and East China and the disintegration of the small peasant economy can be completed, even if there is an external market, it is necessary to ensure that the pain of transformation in the industrialized areas is bearable, then we can only rely on immigration.

Because, in the first industrial revolution, the world market can only accommodate a few million industrial workers, and it is impossible to have more. There must be a way to survive for those bankrupt small farmers who are both impacted and unable to find employment.

Self-cultivating farmers cannot earn any surplus value, so they cannot afford to spend money to hire immigrants to come here.

We can only rely on industries, large plantations and other economies that can earn surplus value to attract immigrants.

The original meaning is: the value that contract workers can create in eight years can still create enough surplus value for the employer after paying for the ship ticket, paying for the purchase of 120 acres of land in the north, and eight years of food and clothing.

Then, immigrants can continue to flow.

Of course, for now, at this moment, the only industry that can create so much value in eight years in Jinshan area is gold mining.

Capital is not stupid.

Therefore, with the level of the feudal dynasty of Dashun, the only thing they can do now is to try the chaebol system here.

That is, the Dashun court will first invest to build a batch of cotton fields and textile factories, which can be regarded as work-for-relief to solve the problem of occupying the uninhabited area of ​​the Yellow River.

After it is built and started, it will be sold directly to private individuals to support chaebol oligarchs, who will control the cotton fields, textile industry, metal processing, mining, finance, etc.

These people may be military nobles, royal children, imperial merchants, or rewards from the emperor - at least, make the "fiefdom" here meaningful. Otherwise, it is meaningless to enfeoff a piece of wasteland tens of thousands of miles away for military merit.

In the future, whether they are overthrown by the people, evolve into military Junker feudal chaebols, or maintain the strong feudal remnants here, it is not something we can control now, and it will ultimately depend on the people of the west coast of North America themselves.

Of course, it may also depend on the Dashun native side. Maybe in the future, the world will be turned upside down and the whole world will be liberated in the end.

But anyway, since the goal is immigration, and as many immigrants as possible.

In the case that the radicals of practical learning envisioned a set of ideas that were basically unrealistic, this method may be relatively the most efficient.

It is also the most consistent with Capital Theory in theory - although it is reversed.

As Marx criticized: In Europe, although workers are free, they are naturally subordinate to capitalists; in the colonies, this subordination must be created by artificial means.

All of Liu Yu's policies in Fusang revolve around this.

Marx said: A black man is a black man. Under certain circumstances, he can become a slave. Without this situation, he cannot become a slave.

A cotton spinning machine is a machine for spinning cotton. Under certain circumstances, it can become capital. Without this situation, it is not capital.

Just as gold itself is not currency... capital is a social production relationship, a historical production relationship.

The key here is "situation".

And Liu Yu's policy in Fusang is to create this situation, using the country's powerful means, rather than relying on spontaneous accumulation, annexation, differentiation, population increase, etc., to forcibly create this situation.

Relying on spontaneous accumulation, mergers and divisions, and population growth is not impossible, but too slow.

He can't wait.

He wants to make a Chinese in North China, under such circumstances, become an exploited employee in Fusang; make the land in the barren Jinshan Valley area, under such circumstances, become a means of production that can extract surplus value.

And ensure that capital can extract from these Chinese employees a value far exceeding the ticket and eight years of food and clothing.

Moreover, after paying for the ticket and eight years of food and clothing, the average annual income of the surplus value extracted must be greater than the return on investment from hoarding, buying, and renting land in Dashun.

To achieve this, Spain is the key.

Because Spain left two hundred years earlier, the population was enough to support a market, and Spain, as the issuer of the world currency in the early years, did not develop its own industry at all.

Spain's South America is the market that can do this.

If not, then warships, soldiers, and cannons are needed to force Spain to accept trade. Even, support the big landowners and mixed-race people in South America to separate from the motherland, so as to control the economy and dump goods to complete the last jump.

Of course, it also includes Dashun's demand for saltpeter, copper mines, and guano, promoting the prosperity of the west coast of South America, thereby expanding the market-even if Spain lacks population and labor, Dashun does not mind letting Catholics after the ban on religion be transported to Chile's saltpeter and copper mines as "contract workers".

And now, relying on World War I and Gibraltar, Luzon, tariffs and other issues, there is no need to completely let Spain accept free trade for the time being, and there is no worry about not being able to sell this productivity in the early stage.

What needs to be done now is to rely on state-owned capital to invest in the valley and build the industrial framework first. In the future, direct privatization, support chaebols, sell at a low price or "reward" to the chaebols, oligarchs, military nobles, etc. to be supported.

If you can't figure out the difference between Dashun's native land and Fusang's reclamation colonies, then it is impossible to complete the cause of rapid immigration.

The difference between the two has been made very clear by Lao Ma. The "situations" that the two sides want to create, the conditions that need to achieve this "situation", and the things that need to be supplemented for this "situation" are different.

If you can't tell the difference, you will inevitably fail.

It can even be said that anyone who fantasizes about relying on small-scale farming to complete Chinese immigration to North America is absolutely impossible in this era and under the limitations of this transportation technology, and can't afford the huge cost at all.

Therefore, some of this wave of immigrants did not all go to work in the gold mines.

Instead, some people were taken directly to places suitable for growing cotton and slightly farther from the coastline as soon as they got off the ship.

The textile factory is not in a hurry.

Because one of Liu Yu's policies for the Yellow River No Man's Land is to organize women to produce cotton textiles, relying on the West African market, or the triangular trade market, vacated by the destruction of the textile industry in Mumbai, Surat, Dhaka and other places, to alleviate the survival difficulties of expropriating land and digging rivers.

The women who immigrated here all know how to weave.

As long as the cotton there is planted, the people who move here the next year do not need too much training at all. They can directly transplant the textile workshops or the family iron wheel looms in Nantong area.

The Yellow River No Man's Land project has also been completed.

For men, years of river channel excavation and lake embankment construction have gradually enabled them to have a certain degree of organizational ability and become familiar with the mode of collective labor.

For women, years of textile production organization and unified sales have enabled them to have a certain degree of organizational ability and become familiar with the mode of gathering together to weave and sell wrists to earn wages.

For these people who immigrated here, the early development was relatively easier.

Behind this, of course, there was blood and cruelty. Even if it is said that Dashun was already the ceiling of the feudal dynasty on the issue of the Yellow River, it reduced the pain as much as possible.

But the world has been connected by sailing ships. To some extent, the pain that Dashun reduced on the Yellow River No Man's Land was also buffered by the corpses of textile workers in Surat, Dhaka, Calcutta, Lancashire and other places.

When some of the people who disembarked began to go to the valley to plant cotton.

Basically, Liu Yu's layout in Fusang was roughly over.

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If nothing unexpected happens, the scene of the entire Fusang region should be like this a few years later:

In Xinyizhou:

Because of the barrier of the Dashi Mountains, it is difficult for goods from the west coast to cross the mountain pass and trade with Xinyizhou.

Xinyizhou relies on the fur and ginseng trade, the shipping of the North American Great River and the Mississippi River, and faces the market in the direction of the Atlantic Ocean.

Brewing, grain, flax and wool textiles, coal mines, blast furnace iron, these industries began to devour the market in the direction of the North American Atlantic Ocean and continue to accommodate more migrants.

Because these industries need wage workers, and the population here is scarce, people still need to be pulled from Dashun.

In Fenglin Bay:

The good climate and the policy of purchasing family farms on state-owned land make this place the end point for resettlement of immigrants.

All immigrants who come to Fusang, if they do not cross the mountain pass to Xinyizhou in the first place, will eventually choose to buy their own land here and become a self-employed farmer.

Perhaps, soon, gold mines will be discovered in the bitter cold areas in the north, so a new wave of gold rush will start here. But this can no longer attract more immigrants, because there are many experienced gold diggers in Jinshan.

Just as Liu Yu had planned, Jinshan was burned down and rebuilt in fires again and again.

This made the wood processing industry in Fenglin Bay quickly become the cornerstone of the city.

The shipbuilding and transportation industries developed from the industrial chain of wood processing, grain base, etc. made this place the shipbuilding center of the Fusang Colony of Dashun.

The vast number of self-cultivating farmers settled here also made Fenglin Bay an important trading port.

Local food, cattle, horses, wood, fur, wine, etc., all need to be traded here.

Salt, textiles, saltpeter, etc. in the south also need to be traded here.

In Jinshan:

The mining of gold mines soon made this place a city with a population of more than 100,000.

The urgently needed food, wood, etc. here rely on the merchant ships of Fenglin Bay to transport here.

When the merchant ships returned, they carried salt and cotton cloth from here, completing a basic circular trade.

The cotton planting industry in the valley developed and became profitable.

The big landlords who were supported became the plantation owners here, and they needed to hire cheap contract workers from Dashun every year.

Every year when the cotton picking season came, a large number of miners' wives would come here to work as seasonal workers and pick cotton.

The use of cotton gins greatly improved the efficiency of separating cotton and cotton seeds.

The good climate here makes the cotton fluff here very long.

A large amount of cotton was transported to Jinshan, which became the textile center of the entire west coast of North and South America.

A large number of women are engaged in the cotton textile industry here.

The homespun cloth in the Luxi area was originally very rough and thick, very suitable for labor wear. After improvement, it was especially suitable as clothes for miners because it was rough and heavy. And the immigrants here were basically from Luxi, so this kind of cloth became the favorite of laborers, gold miners, and pioneers.

The cotton cloth produced here not only supplies local miners, but also self-cultivating farmers in Fenglin Bay in the north, because cotton cannot be grown there, similar to the cotton cloth trade of Dashun to the northeast.

More cotton cloth is transported to the south by cargo ships.

In Mexico, it is traded in the local market.

In Panama, it crosses the Atlantic Ocean through a narrow land route, and even begins to conflict with the cotton cloth participating in the triangular trade in Dashun.

In Chile, these cotton cloths are exchanged for saltpeter, guano, or copper blocks. These saltpeter and guano are transported back by ships that transport people, and become fertilizers for the advanced regions of Dashun such as Jiaodong, Jingji, northern Jiangsu, and southern Jiangsu.

Thus, a new triangular trade across the Pacific Ocean greatly reduces the cost of transporting people.

Merchant ships are full of people in Weihai or Jiaozhou Bay.

Transport the population to Jinshan, or go mining, or go to grow cotton, or go to weave cloth, or go to pick grapes.

The transport ship unloads people, and then loads Jinshan's cotton cloth, wine, etc., and heads to Chile in South America.

After being sold in Chile, it was loaded with Chilean guano, saltpeter, copper blocks, etc. and returned to Dashun along the classic Manila Galleon Current route.

The accumulation of gold and silver in Spain and the urgent need for struvite and saltpeter in Dashun made the triangular trade across the Pacific no longer unprofitable in one way, and it was no longer a matter of not knowing what to transport on the return trip.

As a result, the cost of transporting people has dropped again and again.

Perhaps, because of the economic control of the imperial court, no one could engage in the saltpeter trade unless it was a ship carrying people. Obviously, such control is very possible.

Moreover, this kind of control is completely achievable.

Because Spain has never been free trade. From the beginning, Spain's colonial policy was to strictly control. How could a saltpeter copper mine be allowed to be developed by capital on its own?

This became a situation similar to the trade between Dashun and Japan: both sides managed it together, Dashun had to manage it, and the Japanese shogunate also wanted to get the trade profits, so smuggling was greatly curbed.

But here, transporting people has become a prerequisite for engaging in saltpeter and copper block trade, so the cost of transporting people has also been reduced.

Even... transporting people is similar to the ice cubes in the cabin of the ship during the trade between France and Dashun. It is just idle, so it is better to decorate it.

The cost of transporting people has come down.

Fuso's agriculture and industry have developed, and the cost of living here has also dropped.

There are more and more people, and more and more goods are needed, so it becomes more and more profitable to open factories, and the population of Dashun is more and more needed to come here to supplement.

Or maybe, as the population continues to increase, another piece of bombshell news comes: Not far to the east, there is a huge silver mine there!

As a result, the eastward movement started from Jinshan.

The silver mines needed workers.

Silver mines require mercury.

Silver mines require explosives.

Silver mines also need food.

Dashun's policies in Fusang and its land policy that did not allow private enclosures meant that the gold and silver here could only flow back to Dashun itself.

Invest in railway, mining, metallurgy, machinery, textile, shipbuilding and other industries.

Or, invest in soybean cultivation in Tohoku, wheat farms in Ezo, and sugar rice in Nanyang.

Or to India, canals, cotton, dyes.

It may even be invested in North Korea's coal mines and iron ores.

Or perhaps, relying on trade with India and Europe; relying on the Fuso Gold Mine and Silver Mine; or even possibly the gold mines in the Southern Ocean.

Dashun finally completed the currency reform and realized the bistandardization of gold and silver, or the reform of gold standard and silver standard, so that copper coins and silver were no longer related to domestic currency and foreign currency.

The news of the discovery of new silver mines prompted more immigrants to come here, which greatly eased the contradiction between man and land in Shandong, making Shandong's per capita land finally reach the minimum standard that can be transformed with low pain...

Wait, wait...

Of course, none of this has happened yet.

This takes time. It cannot happen overnight.

Moreover, "everything is normal" is also needed - this normal includes the possibility of launching a war against Spain and forcing trade.

However, regarding policy, at this time, there is only this much that can be done.

The feudal dynasty of Dashun could not do more. If more can be done, then Dashun will really no longer be a feudal dynasty, and even the fact that Xiu Huanghe is so "gentle" in immigrating is already a bit unrealistic.

This is the final step in the Dashun Yellow River problem, and as for digging the river channel, it will be a long project.