New Shun 1730

The current situation.

Especially after those who came back from the Atlantic Ocean with Liu Yu's coffin brought back what they saw and heard, the situation was already quite bad.

It cannot be said that a single move affects the whole body.

It can only be said that Dashun, a stitched monster created purely by Liu Yu's stitching, now has its own consciousness in each stitched part, and it is urgent to determine who will become the main body to devour the rest of the flesh.

When it was stitched, it could be used as a makeshift.

However, after being stitched for so long, it has really reached the point where it can no longer hold on.

Still taking Tianjin as an example, even if Tianjin is already considered a developed region, and its industry and commerce are already quite developed.

But around Tianjin, a small place, there have been no less than dozens of quarrels in the past 20 to 30 years.

And it can be said that each time, it concerns the fate of thousands of people.

It even made Li Xi's rule more and more unsustainable.

Just this one place.

For example, the cotton textile industry.

With Li Xi's rise to power, railways were built, the capital was still in Beijing, and the railways began to extend northward.

At the time of Liu Yu, the Practical School was still small, and there was an old force inside that was deliberately abstracted by Liu Yu and created as a hostile force - or, in the three crooked scriptures, the second class defined in Saint-Simon's elitism: the group of people who should give way to people who are more in line with the times but do not give way.

Therefore, in the face of this abstract enemy created by him, the Practical School was generally united.

In addition, he was able to control the situation at that time, not only by talking nonsense, but mainly by external expansion and immigration to Fusang, which was also controlled by his prestige.

Waiting for him to run away, then chaos, and Li Li to come to power, the Practical School was torn apart all of a sudden.

In itself, there are three crooked scriptures. In addition, the revival of the Hundred Schools of Thought, each taking out of context and taking what they need, I annotated the various philosophers.

After Li Li came to power, he certainly needed to win over some people to stabilize the situation in the capital, etc.

With the completion of the railway and its extension to Mongolia and the Northeast, new problems soon emerged.

Originally, it was Songsu's textile industry that provided cotton cloth needed in the Northeast and trade goods needed in Mongolia.

The tea, the biggest part of the trade between Luocha and Mongolia, was also controlled by Songsu.

Now, the stage railway from Beijing to Hankou has been built, and the former prince has made a reform foundation for the rice ban in Hubei.

The coal, iron and other mechanical manufacturing industries around Tianjin have the advantage of being closer to the market.

Also, during Li Li's rise to power, some of the new nobles who followed him were not in Songsu, but lived in Beijing.

So, let's talk about it.

In this case, why doesn't Tianjin develop the textile industry? Why does it still use tea from Fujian? Why not use Hubei tea to transport and sell it directly to Mongolia and Luocha by rail?

In other words, with the Yellow River as the boundary, why should the interests of the north be occupied by the group of people in the south?

The process of Li Li's rise to power was not so traditional. He had the support of Songsu Capital, the support of the military nobles of Gyeonggi Practical Learning, and naturally the support of Gyeonggi Capital Group.

After the commotion, you can only make up for it from other places.

After beating Japan and India, Tianjin's textile industry also developed rapidly - but this development was entirely dependent on Java and Indian cotton.

Although Li Li was a smooth talker, he still understood the concept of maintaining a close internal trade.

This was a dispute between the north and the south.

Soon, there were other disputes, which became more and more chaotic.

The unification faction believed that after the abandonment of the canal transportation, the connection between the capital and Jiangnan could only rely on sea transportation. Although the naval bases were all in Bohai, it was not safe after all.

With the basic completion of the Yellow River Qinghe project, the court should build a railway from the capital to Jinling.

First, if there was something wrong at sea, it would be convenient to mobilize troops.

Only when there are soldiers in hand and they can go at any time can we maintain the system. Otherwise, everything is nonsense. Besides, Your Majesty, you know how you came to power and how you relied on the navy to cut off the connection between the economic center and the capital, right?

Secondly, there are indeed many problems left over from the areas where the canal transportation was abandoned and the Yellow River was diverted.

It is not good to revolt today, rebel tomorrow, and leave the mother without children.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a railway parallel to the Beijing-Hankou and close to the original canal.

Of course, it costs money to build a railway.

And the moneybags are against it.

The reasons must be varied.

Economic accounts and political accounts are definitely not the same thing.

And there are many interests involved.

For example, the interests of sea transportation: if you build a railway, sea transportation will be affected?

However, basically, when opposing, they will definitely not say that their interests are damaged, but must say the opposite.

Of course, saying the opposite is definitely right.

That is, from the abolition of canal transportation to the present, sea transportation has always been used. The canal transportation has been abandoned, and the sea transportation has been on the rise for decades. Now there are steamships to help. Even if the railway from Beijing to Jinling is built, it will not be economically profitable? It will take dozens of years to recover the cost?

If we borrow money, how much interest will be paid?

If we don’t borrow money, this railway will definitely be relatively uneconomical in economic terms.

Since it is using the silver from the treasury, wouldn’t it be better to build an east-west railway with this money? Or build a railway from Xijing to Kaifeng?

Even if we don’t build the railway, wouldn’t it be better to use it to relocate people to Fusang and relieve the hunger of hundreds of thousands of people?

This is only one aspect of the obstruction from the shipping group. In fact, there are many voices of opposition from the Yangtze River shipping, the tea transportation between Beijing and Hankou, and the Jiangnan capital that is uneasy about the court.

In addition to these oppositions out of interests.

Another major help for Li Li to come to power is a group of radicals in the practical school, or rationalists. They are really ready to "establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, inherit the lost knowledge of the past sages, and open peace for all generations."

The power of this group of people is still quite large.

They think that it is understandable to build railways to Songliao, Mongolia, and the northwest region.

In order to facilitate the relocation of people, this is in line with their vision of the future.

Well, now that these things are done, the court's finances have finally recovered and there is money, why should this road be built?

It's not that it shouldn't be built.

It's that things have priorities.

Now, shouldn't building a railway through the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions be ranked before building this road?

If this road is built, can it facilitate the relocation of people?

The navy is not useless now, and it has already reached the Cape of Good Hope. Now the construction of the railway from Tianjin to Jinling can be put aside.

There are so many things to do.

Besides, this road can be operated by businessmen.

The money of the court is better spent on the blade.

However, the business side immediately gave feedback: no one will pay for it.

This road is not like the one to the Songliao watershed. It can be paid for by land appreciation and expand trade, which is very profitable.

Now that shipping is booming, there is already the Jinghan Road in the west, and the shipping in the east is completely under their control. I haven't heard of any extraordinary value along the way.

What is the annual interest?

At that time, if the fee is low, the annual interest cannot be paid.

If the fee is high, won't everyone go to shipping, and there will be no goods to sell?

In short, if it is to be built, the court will build it, and merchants are unwilling to raise money. Unless the court sells some state-owned land as compensation.

In other words, it is okay to raise funds for the construction. If the state-owned land is not sold for compensation, it is possible, but with an additional condition:

Just like when the railway to the north of Songliao was built, additional conditions were added at that time. Shareholders could buy state-owned land in Heilongjiang at a low price to open soybean plantations, and the court guaranteed to expand the soybean market, defeat the Indian sugar industry, expand Japan's demand for soybean fertilizer, etc.

So, now it is also possible to add an additional condition.

For example, if the railway from Tianjin to Jinling is built, the court will relax the restrictions on banknotes and allow merchants to raise funds to build east-west railways.

East-west railways are railways from developed areas to inland markets. As long as the court relaxes the restrictions, merchants are willing to invest.

When this idea came out, the radicals thought that since this was the case, it would be better to use the radical policies in Jiangsu and Shandong in the inland areas.

Force the redemption of the land of landlords and gentry, force it to be used as industrial investment, and build east-west railways.

In this way, three birds with one stone.

First, concentrate resources, reform the per mu tax, collect taxes, and build ships for thousands of years, collect taxes and subsidies, and send people to Fusang for reclamation.

Second, once there is a disaster in the mainland, food can be quickly transported through the east-west railway, thus ensuring the efficiency of disaster relief.

Third, it also directly solves the current state of Dashun. Directly use this tough measure to force the landlords to use their money as industrial bonds, and also change the imperial examination system and restore the ancient school system.

In other words, just around the city of Tianjin, many policies are messy and difficult to implement.

This is not to say that Li Li has accomplished nothing.

In fact, he really did the things he talked about with Liu Yu at the beginning of his term. But after he did it, he found that he could not move an inch.

A single hair moves the whole body.

As Liu Yu said before, I am not afraid of tossing, I am afraid of not tossing.

As long as I toss, there will be problems.

Li Xi was not promoted to the throne because of his promise to small farmers. He was promoted to the throne because of his promise to big capital, military nobles, lower-level officers, long-term soldiers, the navy, and some "scholars" of the practical school and the retro Confucian school.

After he came to power, he forced the industrial development of Dashun, but also aggravated social contradictions.

After waiting for a fierce run in front and consolidating his position, he found that he could not move a step behind - except for external expansion.

But the problem is that in this era, external expansion has reached the limit of Dashun.

For example, many places in North America are vacant. Dashun does not lack land or people, but lacks the process of people running to the land.

For example, Japan. That's it, what else can be done? There are already six officials and four civilians, how big a market can there be?

For example, India. Agricultural taxes are collected. The problem is that India also needs military, navy, and administrative expenses. Counting these expenses, there is not much real surplus left.

So it fell into a vicious circle.

Don't consider the problems in the interior, and want to expand the external market?

Or, learn from the British colonial model, and not even a nail can be produced in Fusang. However, this means that capital will not immigrate at all, and Dashun has to pay for it all, and it has no money.

But, immigration is given priority, and capital plays the leading role, then Fusang will set up its own trade circle around America. With the help of the weird colonial land law left by Liu Yu, the relationship between workers and capital is forcibly fixed. There is no shortage of resources or labor, so Dashun can't sell its hair, which is equivalent to not expanding the external market.

Same.

It is impossible to rob cheap raw materials in India and make India a huge consumer market.

The internal population has been rising rapidly due to problems such as smallpox prevention, Yellow River repair, and grain transportation on the Beijing-Hankou Railway. When he came to his senses and wanted to solve internal problems, he found that he had no idea where to start. After all, he is the emperor and wants to play checks and balances. I am afraid that all the old imperial examination talents will be exhausted, and the method of checks and balances will be useless. How can he be the emperor at that time? It is nothing more than changing a group of people who read different scriptures to rub?

Are the landlords and gentry so active?

In short, Liu Yu fought a war before he ran away. And all the fruits of victory before the first war, which were easy to eat, have now been basically divided up.