New Shun 1730

After explaining the court's attitude to these merchants, Liu Yu invited these merchants to see the garrison exercises at Longya Gate.

He was also telling these merchants to invest in Nanyang with confidence and without any problems. With the protection of these troops, there would be no situation where Dashun replaced the Netherlands and was replaced by others.

After ensuring the minimum security of investors, Liu Yu talked to these people about the model that Dashun was preparing to develop Nanyang.

In general, it was to use plantations as "cities" and the surrounding areas of plantations as "wilderness".

Because Dashun was very different from the Netherlands, Nanyang did not belong to the Netherlands before, but to the Dutch East India Company; but now, Nanyang belongs to the Dashun court, not the Nanyang Company in the true sense of Dashun.

In addition, the land issue in Nanyang is complicated. This is not North America, which has been massacred, but a place where even the villages have not been completely disintegrated and a large number of foreign populations are densely populated.

Therefore, the land issue must be solved by the Dashun court.

Whether it is buying, robbing, or cheating, it is not something these merchants can touch.

First, if these merchants are allowed to do whatever they want, it will definitely cause many conflicts. Merchants have no bottom line.

Second, it is not easy for these merchants to collide with each other. They don’t have an army, and they want to get land without an army?

Therefore, the court will use various methods to get land from Nanyang.

After getting the land, it will be divided into different blocks and leased to people who intend to develop Nanyang.

The lease period can be set to 100 years.

There are two main directions of population migration in Nanyang.

Spontaneous migration, such as Fujian and Guangdong, or relying on relatives and friends, or knowing people in the clan, this is not mentioned.

The court does not care about these people at all. If they are willing to come, they can come. When they come, they will be registered as citizens and pay taxes.

The other is hired people.

What Liu Yu is promoting now is this kind. He can’t control the former brought by clan ties at all.

In this way, huge plantations will be densely populated with hundreds of thousands of people.

These people also have to consume some of their daily lives, so vendors will appear with plantations as the center.

At least sell needles, thread, food, drinks, snacks, medicines and the like.

It is estimated that there must be a lot of taverns, brothels and the like.

With the plantation as the center, villages will gradually form around it. In these villages, people who have completed their term in the plantation will choose to farm nearby, or people from Fujian and Guangdong will migrate here spontaneously.

In short, with each large plantation as the center, a "starry sky" structure will gradually form in Nanyang, instead of the previous situation where there were many Chinese talents in several large cities, which will completely change the local ethnic ratio.

At the same time, absorb as many immigrants as possible to ease the contradiction between people and land within Dashun.

In terms of cost, the Huanghuai area is the cheapest. In places where disasters occur frequently and the population has long exceeded the carrying capacity of the land, it is very easy to recruit workers.

Not to mention the extreme point of waiting until the disaster year to give a steamed bun, just giving some money or promising to eat three meals a day is enough to recruit enough people.

In addition to plantations, some mining areas will also be contracted out, except for special gold and silver mines. The gold and silver mines were based on the model of the Yantai area, and a portion of them were taken away according to percentages under the supervision of the court.

Since Dashun wanted to gain a foothold in Nanyang, it must be aware of the huge difference between Dashun and the Netherlands, or the huge difference between Dashun and the Dutch East India Company.

The East India Company could force planting, but Dashun would not.

Because Dashun was not going to have an internal monopoly in Nanyang, of course outsiders, especially Europeans, were not allowed to buy spices in Nanyang.

Dashun was most familiar with the land tax system.

Compared with the forced planting system that purely pursued high profits, the land tax system that Dashun was most familiar with was the most suitable for Dashun.

Only in this way can the disintegration of Nanyang villages be completed at the fastest speed.

In an accelerated way, the village chiefs of the village community and the like seized the public land and became the first batch of landlords.

At the same time, because Dashun was not short of people at all, it was also necessary to consider how to accommodate the huge population in Nanyang.

Then naturally, this plantation system became the optimal solution.

The valuable and profitable coffee, cocoa, rubber, palm, coconut, cotton, indigo, madder, etc. in Nanyang should not be planted by force.

Instead, the original villages should be allowed to plant rice according to the previous tradition. They can plant whatever they want, and the court does not care.

Just pay the per mu tax on time.

These valuable crops will be planted in the plantations organized by Dashun Capital.

Of course, the Banten area, which has been determined to be the base, to carry out drastic land reform, and to completely wipe out the clergy and aristocracy, is an exception.

West Java will be the base of Dashun's military town in Nanyang, and the profit issue cannot be considered simply.

At the same time, because of the development of trade on the Dashun side, these crops in the plantations can be sold to Europe, and in fact, some can also be sold in the economically developed and wealthy coastal areas.

In addition to the needs of the fleet and the army.

As well as the raw materials necessary for industrialization such as cotton, indigo, madder, etc., it can be guaranteed that these large plantations will definitely be profitable.

Even coconuts can be used to extract oil, and a whole set of glycerin, soap and other industries developed in conjunction with the alkali industry. Instead of drinking coconut milk.

In short, the old-school bureaucrats in the court defined Nanyang as a place to accommodate the growing population. Now that the head tax has been abolished, the extra people are "worthless" extra people. In their view, they wish they could all get rid of them.

The officers and officials of the new school defined Nanyang as the place where raw materials are produced. They hold a different attitude between inside and outside, and will strictly investigate Nanyang's industry.

Cocoa processing, coffee processing, oil pressing, sugar pressing and other industries can be allowed.

However, a nail, a shovel, a musket, and a ball of needle and thread must be shipped from Dashun.

For Liu Yu, this large plantation model has another purpose.

If the first step of Britain's industrialization is the textile industry. In turn, it gave rise to the use and development of steam engines.

Then, the first step of Dashun's industrialization cannot be the textile industry, so another method must be found.

Steam engines are now available, but textile machines and spinning machines are not yet available.

But who says that steam engines must be used in the textile industry first before they can grow and develop?

Without textile machines, the steam engine is still a power source.

It can be used as a power source for blowers; it can be used as a power source for sawing wood; it can be used to squeeze sugar, process cocoa, squeeze oil, rub cotton seeds, and draw water.

Moreover, for example, for squeezing sugar, there were simple machines, but they were driven by oxen and horses. With the steam engine, it can be used directly, instead of having to make a textile machine after making a steam engine like the textile industry.

At the same time, Liu Yu had to consider the impact of the use of machines on the small peasant economy, so he dared not to make efforts in the textile industry.

However, most of the things produced in the plantations in Nanyang have no conflict with the small farmers in Dashun.

Due to the climate of Dashun, only a few places can grow these things, and basically they have not been grown yet.

The large-scale application of steam engines in Nanyang plantations can perfectly avoid the impact on the small peasant economy within Dashun.

Before India was taken, the industrial revolution led by the textile industry in Dashun was death.

That would be a visible impact that was more serious than the impact after the Opium War.

After all, it had to be shipped across the ocean at that time, and the labor cost in Europe was still high, plus the freight and 5% tariff.

Now this is produced at home, and the impact will be several times more. He dare not move.

Foreign industrial products will cause an impact. Could it be that domestic industrial products in Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture and other places have special magic and will not cause an impact?

Dashun has its own national conditions.

Since the monetization reform of silver has been completed in the previous dynasty, and the tax is collected in silver, the people are counting on that little cotton cloth to exchange for clothes and pay some taxes.

This is a time when tattered clothes can be pawned as money, and the little cotton cloth that the people rub by hand is sometimes really life-saving money.

If you can't move, don't move first. If you move, you must be prepared to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom-level peasant uprising when your strength is insufficient.

The national conditions of Dashun are here. The bourgeoisie wants to defeat the feudal landlords, the Li Dynasty. It does not depend on whether the bourgeoisie can overthrow the feudal landlords, but on who can solve the peasants' land problem between the feudal landlords and the emerging class.

This is also completely different from Europe.

The Li family of Dashun certainly cannot solve it.

But it can suppress mergers and acquisitions, emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, and destroy industry in a reactionary way. This is at least a solution.

Regardless of whether it will die in the future, at least it will not die now.

The emperor's idea is very simple: If I can't solve the peasant problem in the new era, then can't I just retreat?

Therefore, Liu Yu's idea is to promote the application of steam engines in places where the impact on Dashun's small farmers is the smallest, and cultivate a factory that makes steam engines.

Or, a factory for mechanical processing.

There are enough skilled workers, waiting to take over India, and you can instantly produce enough steam engines and various strange machines.

Don't cut the meat slowly with a knife. Take advantage of the moment when the natural disaster caused the collapse of the small peasant economy in Bengal to completely destroy the cotton handicraft industry and silk industry in India.

Anyway, the natural disaster is a natural disaster, and adding some industrial shocks will make it so. It is better to be hit by three cuts and then one cut than to be hit by three cuts and then one cut.

During this period, the steam engines required by a large number of plantations and Nanyang mining will also greatly promote the development of iron smelting, mining, coal mining and other industries.

And if you want people to use steam engines, you have to build plantations.

Foolishly learning from the Netherlands, forcing planting and paying land rent and tribute is a direct return to the medieval in-kind tax.

Moreover, can the scattered small farmers and villages afford steam engines?

At the same time, forcing planting will affect the income of plantations and provoke serious resistance, which is really unnecessary.

That little bit of profit is okay for a purely commercial country like the Netherlands.

Anyone with a little brain and a little industrial thinking will not do it.

It seems to be profitable at the beginning, but it is actually a big loss.

Dashun did not have a real Nanyang company.

For Nanyang issues, it did not need to be responsible to shareholders, but only to the imperial court.

The imperial court was not a shareholder, so it would not stare at the financial statements every day and would not pursue the immediate benefits.

As long as it did not lose money... and it was obviously impossible to lose money, the imperial court would not force planting. Instead, according to Dashun's inertia, it would definitely prefer to collect land taxes.

Of course, the imperial court would also support these industries.

Including the fact that the court just happened to throw a bunch of people who knew how to read and were knowledgeable, but could not pass the imperial examination to become officials here.

Before that, they were given special training in planting. Because they knew how to read before, it must be easier to train them than those who could not read.

A group of people who knew how to read but were marginalized by society and had no chance of passing the imperial examination to become officials, hanging around in big cities all day... It was not a good thing in the eyes of the emperor. If someone rebelled, they would not have to worry about the Confucian scholars who monopolized literacy being loyal to the emperor and patriotic and not participating, because there was a reserve group of literate rebels...

By the way, some retired officers could also be thrown here. Those who could manage a company would have no problem managing hundreds of people in the plantation.

For the court, some "redundant" population were relocated; a group of knowledgeable people who knew how to read but could not pass the imperial examination to become officials were thrown away; and some retired officers were given some benefits. It was also a three-pronged approach.