New Shun 1730

When it comes to writing books, Li Xi's heart skipped a beat and he felt very uneasy.

He had read books and received traditional education. He had read the Biography of Wang Mang.

[Wang Mang built Mingtang, Biyong, and Lingtai, built thousands of houses for scholars, built markets, and always had full warehouses. The system was very prosperous. He established the "Book of Music" and increased the number of doctors, five for each book. He recruited more than eleven professors from all over the world who were proficient in one art, and those who had rare "Rites", ancient "Book", "Mao Shi", "Zhou Guan", "Erya", astronomy, prophecies, bell rhythm, lunar orders, military tactics, and "Historical Chapters" and knew the meaning of the text, all of which came to the official car. He recruited talented people from all over the world, and there were thousands of them who came. They were all ordered to record their stories in the court, and the generals corrected the differences and said that there was a different opinion...]

From the perspective of Dashun at that time, learning from history, we can't help but read the history books from the pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty. According to Liu Yu, it was an era of rapid progress in productivity and great changes in social systems.

From Li Li's point of view, although he may not fully understand the connection between productivity, production relations and social system, he also vaguely feels that the situation in Dashun is now a bit strange.

Who did Wang Mang rely on to succeed?

He relied on... Confucian scholars who were actually marginal in political status at that time. The real political protagonists at that time were military nobles and royal family members.

In other words, Wang Mang used the "marginal people" at that time.

He built tens of thousands of houses for scholars at that time and treated them well.

With the development of textual research on the Dashun side, many people inevitably proposed that the "Li" was mostly forged by Liu Xin at that time in order to create legitimacy for Wang Mang's coming to power and reform.

Therefore, Wang Mang's reform was a very special "usurpation of the throne", which was different from the previous and later ones.

If we really compare it, it is really like the situation in Europe now and in the future: military nobles control politics, scholars are in a marginal position, put forward political ideals, and use these political ideals as a cohesive force to push people up.

This is very different from the pure military coup and rebellion that followed. Wang Mang was an emperor elected by the people, but the scope of the people was a little small, mainly those who held the right to speak and the right to public opinion.

The flavor is more similar to Yan, Ge, or something else. But it is definitely completely different from the Cao Wei replacing the Han Dynasty and the Xuanwu Change.

Wang Mang's reform was reactionary. It was a complete reaction in productivity and production relations. It was also the only political practice of Confucian retro thought after blast furnace iron, ridge farming, crop rotation, and productivity of about 100 kilograms per mu, proving that his thoughts were desirable in terms of morality and eternal justice, but too reactionary in political economics.

And now, the situation in Dashun is also very different from the past.

A group of "marginal people" who read books are marginal roles in the politics within Dashun.

A group of new "Zhou Li" and "ancient books" with social thoughts and political ideals are constantly spreading.

A group of powerful classes are eager for a system that is more suitable for them.

A group of people hold the elitist ideas of "Saint-Simonism" which evolved naturally from the perverted classics, and divide the "classes" at this time into real guides, vested interests, and others. Moreover, many practical schools believe that they, the real scholars, can replace the vested interests and lead Dashun forward with this elitist thinking.

Therefore, at this time, "writing books and establishing theories" inevitably has a bit of Liu Zijun's spreading ancient classics, passing on "Yi Li" and "Shang Shu", and establishing "Zhou Guan" as classics to create momentum for reform.

Nowadays, the practical literacy population with a superior mentality wants political status; the bourgeoisie wants benefits and better protection of their interests; some idealists are thinking about solving the problems of universal poverty and small farmers.

The fact of external expansion, billions of land in Fusang and the South Ocean, the current situation of the contradiction between small farmers and poor people and land to the extreme, and the optimism that some reforms in the developed regions have already shown results, an undercurrent is actually surging inside Dashun.

And this undercurrent cuts in from a strange angle in Dashun.

The problem of people and land.

The problem of people and land can be a problem of annexation, or it can be deliberately avoided, or even directly raised to the problem that the per capita grain possession is not enough to eat.

This problem is just a cover for Dashun at this time.

When land cannot be increased, the perspective can only be cast on annexation. For example, the poem "Annexation" was regarded by the old party as Wang Anshi's ambition before he became famous. Another thing is that in the situation of the Song Dynasty, external expansion was not very realistic. If you can't win, what's the point of expansion?

Time has come to Dashun.

The contradiction between people and land is already very scary.

The spread of crops such as corn in the southwest has caused the population in the southwestern mountainous areas to surge; crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes are "magic objects" even for disaster relief. Originally, 30% of people died after a disaster, but now only 10% may die.

Therefore, the land issue has always been the most important issue here. In other words, land and agriculture are the industries with the highest productivity and total output value here at this time.

The original space for discussion is nothing more than limiting land and equalizing land.

But with the external expansion of Dashun and the initial success of Fusang land reclamation, the issues raised by land as a wedge became complicated.

In general, the land issue is still being discussed.

However, now the population-land issue is more of a cover.

Immigration increases land, so where does the money for immigration come from?

Infrastructure facilitates immigration, so where does the money for infrastructure come from?

Develop Fusang and relieve pressure for reclamation. So how to solve the problem of boat tickets?

Immigration comes to solve the conflict between man and land. Given the population of births, how many people must be "sent" out a year? With such a large scale, where does the money come from?

In the end, the core issue became one of money.

Then the land issue, as an introduction, naturally leads to the economic issue.

When it comes to economic issues, it is inevitable to talk about productivity, production relations, and class. This thing is the same as universal gravitation. Newton did not "invent" universal gravitation, but discovered universal gravitation, which means that universal gravitation existed before Newton. In the same way, things like productivity, production relations, and classes don't mean that Dashun doesn't talk about it now, but they don't exist at all.

In Dashun at this time, this is not a question of specific policies, but a question of which class should play the leading role.

For example, the emperor went completely crazy and wanted to "protect his feudal relatives and protect the Zhou Dynasty with vassal vassals". Well, with the situation in North America, you can't make a distinction between country and country. Even if you want to make a difference between country and country, you have to have people from the country, right?

It's easy to say that "Chinese people" came from Shaanxi to Qilu.

It’s hard to say whether “Chinese people” went from Weihai to Jinshan.

This cannot be run on two legs. Ships must be built, food and water must be prepared, shipbuilding and logging, tar and canvas and other related industries must be established, sailors and captains must be trained, etc.

In the final analysis, it is still an economic issue.

That is to say, no matter which one you play, in this era, the problem is caused by the land issue and the conflict between man and land. In the end, it is just an introduction and a wedge. It still has to come to "which class plays the leading role" and which "Eastward Movement" will come from. The problem of class dominance.

Many things are not solved as soon as a policy is issued.

Let’s take the later North American Homestead Act as an example. The Homestead Act is “the sale of state-owned land to individuals.” But the problem is that before this, the good land has been almost surrounded by railway companies, lumberyards, financial capital, etc. Before the Homestead Act, capital had already enclosed land everywhere. It’s not that a fierce man descended from heaven, Lincoln clicked on the Homestead Act online, and immediately started the Westward Movement. The reason why there was no success before was because the people in the past were fools and did not order the Homestead Act.

Dashun does not have a clear "Homestead Law", but there is a very clear encouragement to colonize the Western Regions. Not only is it tax-free for several years, but seeds are also provided. So will anyone go? How many people are going? How many people can go? How many people can afford to go? It can even be said that before Dashun, policies were given to real border issues, including how many immigrants from the interior were to be immigrated, and how many acres of wasteland were to be reclaimed, and they were given false official positions, but in fact they still talked about it because it was unprofitable.

Migration costs and transportation costs are issues that must be considered in Dashun.

So, who will play the leading role, which class "led" Dashun's eastward movement, and led Dashun's resettlement and reclamation plan? This is a top priority that must be discussed.

Still the same sentence: Chinese and Chinese people seem to be the same, but in fact they are different. If we look at the "living space" and "future space" of ethnic groups, then all we do now is to take off our pants and fart.

There is no need to do anything or worry about anything. Liu Yu has already obtained a buffer period of several decades through war and drawing lines. By migrating slowly and "spontaneously", the Chinese can still occupy racial advantages around the Pacific.

However, this advantage cannot solve the poverty problems and conflicts between people and land in China's southwest, central plains, northwest, north China and other areas not close to the sea.

Therefore, this is the reason for the "undercurrent" within Dashun - these people consider the problem from the perspective of China and want to solve the problem of the survival of the majority of people in the political entity of Dashun. The problem is not based on the somewhat abstract future living space of the Chinese nation.

It is precisely because of this that the contradiction between man and land, land issues, etc. have arisen, which have triggered economic thinking and discussion, and the question of "which class should play the leading role in this era" as Liu Yu said.

That is to say, the problem of "betting the future on industry and commerce" mentioned by Liu Yu and Li Huan.

Now, someone needs to stand up and use a style similar to that of the French Physiocrats - [The Physiocratic system becomes the expression of a new capitalist society that carves out a path for itself within the framework of feudal society], " Inherit the "real school".

Dashun has the characteristics of Dashun, but what we are talking about here is to take the essence. Under the current situation of Dashun, use something similar to the Physiocratic School covered in a skin that conforms to the country's traditional cognition to open up a path within the old framework.

The old frame is only so big and will eventually come to an end. But now, Dashun is still far from the edge of this old frame. At least in the frontier areas and colonies, it's still early.