New Shun 1730

When the expedition members trapped in the yard saw Liu Yu again, they were very calm.

Several people inside exchanged money with each other, probably because they had made a bet before, betting whether Liu Yu would come to see them again.

Since they were members of the expedition team, they were mentally prepared for this boring life.

The bitter journey on the sea was even more boring than being in the yard. No matter how magnificent the vast sea was, you would vomit after seeing it too much, so you would naturally not be bored with this kind of house arrest life with food and drink.

Cherikov, who was caught by Liu Yu as a traitor, was not inside. As the leader of the expedition team, Bering took the initiative to greet Liu Yu.

"Liu, how long will we be here?"

"Soon, soon. I have already talked about you in the negotiations with the Russians. Your family members will come soon. As for you, you should be able to go to the sea soon."

Although he said so, Liu Yu had no confidence at all.

He had deceived Bering by saying that Dashun had the heart to explore the unknown world and would fund Bering to form an expedition team to find the mysterious southern continent.

In fact, Liu Yu didn't want to do it for the time being.

At least before the forces of Western countries were defeated in Nanyang, finding Australia at this time was obviously a gift to Westerners, a standard way to make wedding clothes for others.

His idea was to take three steps.

The first step was to explore a route from Shandong to Korea, to Japan, and then to Vladivostok.

The second step was to rely on this route to train a group of sailors and shipbuilders who were proficient in Western soft sailing ships. A big hole was made in the small Tanegashima Island left by Japan's isolation.

The Russians' navigation technology was average, but Bering was not a real Russian, but had formally studied at the Amsterdam Naval Academy.

Finally, the problem of Nanyang could be considered.

The main reason was that going to Nanyang now was insufficient in military strength and unprofitable.

If you only wanted to trade, Westerners would take the initiative to send money to your doorstep. Before having a navy strong enough to fight against the British and Dutch fleets in Southeast Asia, the problem of Nanyang did not exist because it was meaningless.

This is a vicious circle:

If trade is fully opened, Western ships will flock to it. Whether it is ocean-going technology or offshore warfare, merchants in Fujian and Guangdong are no match for the organized East India Company.

If the country is completely closed, a large number of smugglers will emerge, and Westerners will also support them to get the goods that Westerners urgently need, but official exchanges will also be cut off.

The pirate situation in the late Ming Dynasty was actually caused by this reason: the Dutch could not get the goods because the Portuguese were in Macau and the two sides were fighting. The Jesuits had influence in China and would definitely not say good things about the Dutch. In addition, the Dutch were addicted to piracy and occupied Penghu by force, making it even more impossible for them to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch were poor and did not have silver from American silver mines. Once raw silk could be sold for 240 in Manila, it could only be sold for 150 in Batavia.

Manila is close, Batavia is far, and Fujian merchants are not the Dutch's wild fathers, so they naturally would not go to Batavia to help the poor and send warmth.

This led to the Dutch raising a group of pirates to rob the route to Manila, forcing merchants to trade in Batavia, and the heyday of Southeast Asian pirates in the late Ming Dynasty.

China's situation is very special.

China does not need Western goods.

Even after the first opium, without opium, British goods still cannot squeeze out the small peasant economy of men farming and women weaving.

After the establishment of the United States, there was no goods to be transported to China except silver and American ginseng. They could only dig ice blocks from the north as ballast stones and cover them with sawdust to keep warm. As a result, in Guangdong and other places throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many of the American ice blocks eaten in the summer were from the ocean. Even if American ginseng was dug to extinction in North America, it would be impossible to transport it here by ship. Selling some ice blocks across the Pacific Ocean was better than loading stones as ballast.

Completely open trade, relying entirely on private forces, Fujian merchants could not compete with the organized East India Company.

The East India Company had guns, troops, and organizations.

And the key question is, who to sell the goods to?

Before the customs were closed, they could still sell to Manila and Batavia for silver.

Now that the customs have been opened, Fujian merchants are no match for them in terms of freight costs and local ruling advantages. Why do they compete?

Western countries can go directly to the customs to get goods and send them back to Europe. Why do they need a group of middlemen?

Do you really think the East India Company is gentle, respectful, frugal and modest? Once the customs are opened, free trade can be carried out. By supporting a group of pirates and issuing a few privateering letters, the East India Company can force all the Dashun sea merchants to go bankrupt.

Even the Southeast Zhejiang School, which hopes that the court will support industry and commerce, only supports mergers, planting cash crops, and developing handicrafts, but does not support building a navy, because it is useless and costly.

This is the biggest difference between the budding bourgeoisie in Dashun and Western Europe. If you can't figure this out and think that it is just a matter of opening up trade, then you are just trying to find a sword by carving a boat.

Britain, the Netherlands... have to develop navigation because no one will take the initiative to send money to their doorsteps.

The bourgeoisie in Western Europe wanted to make a profit, so their doctrines must have emphasized the navy; on the other hand, the budding ideas of the Dashun regime must have not emphasized the navy, but rather focused on annexation and enclosure of land, converting rice to mulberry, reducing commercial taxes, encouraging private mining, forming associations to discuss politics, and focusing their energy on suppressing the massive number of refugees caused by the pain of labor.

The profit-seeking nature of the bourgeoisie and the short-sightedness of daring to sell the noose to hang themselves doomed their budding roots: the commercialization of land will inevitably bring about refugees, and the problem of refugees depends on immigrants from Southeast Asia. Official immigration requires money, and construction is not profitable. And the navy, which was losing money, held on.

But if the rich want to make money, they can just wait for people to buy goods at home. Why should they imitate those poor Westerners and run around? Tea raw silk porcelain, whether you want to buy it or not, others will rush to buy it if you don't buy it. If you go to Europe with a 50% mortality rate, what can you bring back that can be sold for money? Transporting a boatload of wool and woolen cloth and trying to sell it to the people who are men farming and women weaving, is this money that has nowhere to spend? Or go to the Americas to transport hibiscus cactus, or to Africa to transport unicorn giraffes to bring good fortune to His Majesty?

There are those who have money but no motivation to sail, and those who have the motivation to sail and immigrate have no money. On the British side, the rich had the power to sail and transport porcelain and silk back to make money, while the poor were forced to sail either as sailors or as indentured servants.

As for taking my money to give to refugees so that they can immigrate to Southeast Asia and build a navy, of course I will not give the money. If no money is given and the refugees are unwilling to die, they have no choice but to start all over again. Keep budding. The British dared to encircle hundreds of thousands of people into workhouses, and 70% of the people in Ireland starved to death. How dare you do this, Dashun? You, Li Zicheng, can equalize the land and avoid grain, and become the emperor. Are we, Wang Zicheng and Zhang Zicheng, willing to die of hunger in An'an?

This is determined by different economic bases.

Therefore, the Nanyang issue cannot be led by the private sector, nor can it be independently expanded. It can only be an official-led navy.

With strong Leviathan will, execute a route that will not see any profits or even lose money in a short period of time.

Liu Yu knew this very well.

Without an officially-led navy, the Nanyang issue is a mirror image.

The officially led navy needs money, a lot of money.

But Dashun wanted money, but he didn't need a navy at all - he only needed a customs office, and Westerners could fight each other for the right to send money.

Therefore, if you want to build a navy, you can only use Japan as a breakthrough point.

Taking advantage of Tanegashima's long-standing relationship with East Asia, we smashed the small window of Tanegashima into a big hole. While solving the court's copper shortage problem, we also raised enough money and trained a group of sailors, so that the emperor could see that the navy was Can bring money.

Without practical benefits, it would not convince anyone, and it would be impossible for the court to spend a lot of money to train the Nanyang Navy.

Thanks to the shogunate for seclusion, and thanks to the island country's abundance of copper and silver, for providing such a gap to break the situation. Both are indispensable.

As for the Nanyang issue, we can only wait for changes in Europe and then work together vertically and horizontally to solve it once and for all.

The Dashun court had a certain understanding of the outside world, but it was still far from being able to unite vertical and horizontal forces and exploit European conflicts for profit as Liu Yu did at Lake Baikal. We can only open our ears to listen to the world, but we have not yet opened our eyes to see the world.

The strength... is even worse. Even if the Seven Years War starts and Europe is in chaos, Dashun's current navy is not even qualified to fight in Nanyang.

We cannot rely on the army to unite with the British and Prussians to attack Russia, and make a small contribution to the Tatar British "The emperor ascended the throne, came from all over the world for 250 years, established British rituals and granted princes, and established five uniforms to distinguish the near and far". A bitter cold place.

They must take advantage of the chaos of the Seven Years' War to collapse the country, sell kidneys to support France, and also join forces with France to suppress British power in Southeast Asia and India.

Therefore, in this national policy line, Bering and others who can be the seeds of the navy are very important.

How to persuade Bering is somewhat difficult.

Bailing heard Liu Yu say "It's coming soon, it's coming soon", so he could only complain to Liu Yu.

"Liu, I am 47 years old this year. For a navigator and explorer, 47 is a very old age."

"You know the outside world. The earth is only so big, and there are not many opportunities left for us explorers."

"Except for the northern routes to Asia and America, the only remaining continent is the southern continent. I hope history will remember my name and leave a piece of land named after me."

"The relationship between us is an employment relationship. If you can't support me in my adventure, then I can only choose to leave. Even if my life ends in a hard journey at sea, I shouldn't be doing nothing here."

"The achievements of geographical discoveries belong to the whole world. But the reputation of geographical discoveries belongs to individuals. You don't think that I chewed boots and weeds in Siberia just for those silver coins, do you?"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Of course, of course. I understand. I think it will be soon. Maybe we can not worry about the southern continent. We can first explore the route from Asia to northern America. I am arranging people, Recruit some shipbuilders. You should know that our ships are different from yours, and you can wait a little longer. 47 years old is not too old."

Of course he was lying.

Bai Ling believed it. He had no contact with the others, and his understanding of Dashun was through the window of Liu Yu.

At least the Dashun seen in this window is a vigorous, proactive person who understands the vastness of the outside world.

Although it is still unknown what Liu Yu's identity is, Bering and others speculated that Liu Yu might be a duke or marquis. Such a status should be credible.

After deceiving Bai Ling, Liu Yu continued to deceive.

"Mr. Bering, Dashun's expedition may be a huge fleet. Just like Peter's reforms, Dashun's navy may not be strong now, but as long as there is determination, it can be trained. I heard that you participated in the Great Northern War and fought against the Turks in the Black Sea."

"So, I hope you can write a book about some sailing skills and naval battle experience while waiting."

After that, he said to the rest of the expedition team: "The same goes for you. You should know that there will be no naval battle between China and Russia. This is not the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea. . You don't need any moral condemnation like treason. "

"Write it and you can get money. Anyway, you are idle. Whether it is geometry, navigation and mapping, hydrology, naval tactics, sailor's manual... everything can be exchanged for money. Of course, I think you should all know Latin. "

"Whether you plan to stay here for adventure in the future or take a ship back to Europe from Macau, money will always be useful. "

The members of these expedition teams were carefully selected, and many of them had experience studying abroad. Latin, as the cultural language of the West at that time, they should all know it.

After these people agreed, Liu Yu promised to send them paper and pen soon. He repeatedly assured Bering that Bering could return to the sea in two years at most.

Anyway, if he couldn't do it within two years, there would be no point in keeping him.

After fooling these people, Liu Yu finally stepped into the courtyard where Hannibal was under house arrest, and had a headache.

Where should he start to fool Hannibal into writing down what he learned?

Money, this guy should have no shortage of it.

Love, it is definitely not as good as Peter's adoptive father's love.

Official, he just needs to return to Russia and get a lieutenant general as a guarantee. Once the puppet czar died, the conservatives, who couldn't even figure out how to use the emperor to control the princes, could make a foreign widow with no foundation dissolve the Privy Council and seize power overnight. Hannibal would definitely be reused if he went back.

Righteousness, as Peter's adopted son, Shun and Russia had just fought a war. Not to mention sacrificing his life for justice, he helped the Shun Dynasty write the line soldiers' manual...

Color, where can I find a black girl who knows Latin or Russian and believes in Orthodox Christianity?

Name, he is not Bering, who can fool people by leaving his name in the history of geographical discoveries.

Fear, not to mention that he is not qualified to deal with prisoners of this level, he looks like a fearless person.

This is a guy who is stubborn and unyielding.

It seems that the Shun Dynasty will not be able to send people to France in a short time, so don't fantasize about unrealistic things. Even if they are sent, they will be cold when they come back ten years later. Attacking Junggar is the only opportunity that can motivate Dashun to reform the army. They have to fight well and show cost-effectiveness to make the court accept it.

None of the missionaries who came here graduated from regular military academies. They all said "Amen" but did not understand the command of the army lieutenant.

They could only find a way to pry open Hannibal's mouth.