New Shun 1730

As for what happened, it is an awkward epitome of Dashun's participation in colonial activities in recent years.

That is, capital is unwilling to go to places farther overseas that are suitable for growing crops.

For example, in America, how sick must capital be to ignore investments with higher returns and cross the ocean to grow crops in North America?

And the other side of the ocean, where capital is willing to go, is more painful.

With the solution of the approximate formula for the orbit of the moon and the drawing of the star map of the northern and southern hemispheres, Dashun used a solution that was completely different from the British marine clock to solve the longitude problem.

Although the engineering school took a step ahead.

However, the manufacturing cost of the marine clock was too high, the difficulty was too great, the requirements for craftsmen were too high, and the cost was high.

In the end, although the longitude method of the science school on Dashun's side was a step later, it was ahead in application.

With the successful drawing of the star chart, Dashun carried out the second wave of global exploration. The expedition ship sailed into the vast Pacific Ocean and began to draw sea charts with accurate longitude and latitude.

In the vast Pacific Ocean, the Honolulu Islands were discovered.

This significance, for Dashun, is both big and small.

As for immigration, the Northeast is not full yet. Why go there when you have nothing to do? That place is far away.

But if it is big, it is related to the war and trade between Dashun and Luocha many years ago.

After the war between the north and Luocha ended, Liu Yu adopted the immigration plan of "drawing a line to make a prison" for Jinghai.

That is, send people to block important river mouths and river mouths, and occupy the main traffic routes first.

At the beginning, he also served as the Jiedushi of Jinghai for several years, and the development of that place was also capital-oriented.

The development of commerce is profitable, which can promote the development of agriculture.

This is the logic of colonization.

It is exactly the opposite of the logic of the empire's agricultural development, promotion of handicraft differentiation, and commercial development.

For example, the reason for the increase in the number of immigrants in the Heilongjiang River estuary is that after the war with Luocha ended, Liu Yu encouraged whaling, hunting animal fur, and boiling fat and bloody commercial colonial activities during the period when he served as the Jiedushi of Jinghai.

As a result, the number of agricultural immigrants in the Heilongjiang River estuary area increased.

The development of commerce has driven the demand for food. The demand for food has made grain farming profitable. The profitability of grain farming has led to some capital bringing people to migrate northward.

The war in the north directly disrupted the pace of the Luosha people's eastward expansion.

With the development of Jiangsu, the huge demand for fur and oil has led capital to organize professional hunting teams to expand northward.

First, the capital of Dashun was in the north, the weather was cold, and the nobles liked fur, which was understandable.

If the capital was in the tropics, it would be difficult for the nobles to popularize fur without bringing up the trend of liking fur.

Second, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, perhaps because of the trade with the Jurchens, fur has become a must-have for the wealthy class, and the market has been opened.

In "Jin Ping Mei", many girls wear minks that cost 60 taels each.

Third, it is Liu Yu's policy of supporting France.

France lacked silver to trade with Dashun. Of course, most countries lacked silver. If Dashun had not cooperated with the Netherlands after it lost the spice Nanyang, the Netherlands would have had nothing to trade with Dashun.

In order to induce France to give up the fight for India and fight with Britain in North America, Liu Yu supported France's "Three Treasures of France" trade.

Ginseng, mink, and deer antlers.

The North American ginseng producing area happened to be a mink producing area. The influx of mink also further expanded the fur market, making the market acceptance continue to increase.

But...

The mink in the hands of the French was not the best.

The best fur was sea otter fur.

That is, the "sea dragon skin" that was seized during the house search in "Dream of Red Mansions".

Sea dragon skin is the top fur of Dashun, the most luxurious.

This is why the fur traders of Dashun and the Cossack fur traders of Luosha took two different paths.

The reason why the Cossack fur traders of Luosha expanded along the same latitude from river to river was not to expand the territory for the empire, but just to chase the sable.

Sables were killed all the way from west to east, which eventually led to the war between Luosha and Dashun in the "last habitat of sables", that is, the Heilongjiang region, more than 20 years ago.

After this war, the expansion of Luosha was curbed.

At the same time, because Liu Yu supported France, a large number of furs from the Great Lakes region such as sable skins entered Dashun, lowering the prices of sable skins and fox skins.

According to the statistics of Songjiang Customs last year, the price of a red fox skin has been suppressed to about one yuan and two cents.

This one yuan refers to the common currency for trade between the East and the West, the Spanish silver dollar, which contains 27 grams of silver, which is just a few coins of silver.

The price of sea dragon skin soared to 55 yuan.

At the same time, with the development of handicraft industry in southern Jiangsu, the demand for oil and fat is also increasing day by day.

With the support of the fur and oil industry when Liu Yu was the governor of Jinghai, and the influence of a series of developments, capital began to organize people to hunt those stupid but valuable animals.

Liu Yu served as the governor of Jinghai for several years and used the strategy of closing the door and occupying the land to drive immigration.

Then, around the second year of Weixin, the last sea cow in the world became extinct.

Because since the second year of Weixin, no hunting boats have "picked up" this stupid animal, which weighs five or six tons, and can earn three or four times the cost of hunting in the north just by getting one, and is known as "a good omen of good luck".

The reason for the extinction of the sea cow is hunting, but the more important thing is the price of "sea dragon skin", which has soared to 55 yuan per piece.

Sea otters eat sea urchins. Sea urchins eat aquatic plants. Manatees eat aquatic plants.

Hundreds of sea dragon skins are transported to Songjiang Prefecture every year, and the manatees will starve to death in the past 20 years.

The Cossacks of Luosha are not unwilling to covet this hugely profitable business, but they can't compete with Dashun.

Because Dashun not only hunts by itself, but also exchanges things.

The Cossacks of Luosha have long lamented: "For each fur, the Chinese pay the Tlingit five or six large blankets, plus some candies and preserved fruits, but we cannot pay such a sum. There is no other way except to rob."

"But in fact, in their Jiangnan region, they can buy a few large blankets without spending a few silver coins. As for candies and preserved fruits, in their Jiangnan region, you can buy a shipload of preserved fruits in a grocery store."

"Except for robbery and forced tribute, we cannot compete with those Chinese."

"However, the Chinese have implemented a monopoly system early on, and their capital group has formed a core monopoly company that fully controls the fur trade in the northern region."

"And we...Moscow Gang, St. Petersburg Gang, Constantinople Russian Trade Company, Persian Trade Company, Bukhara and Khiva Commercial Company...These companies that seem to have nothing to do with the Arctic, all Trying to seize the fur trade, there is no force to integrate them. "

"Faced with the Chinese companies that have achieved and completed the monopoly, the scattered forces make us unable to compete - in fact, in the Whale Sea area they call, as long as a ship is found at sea, a battle will occur. You know, a ship of fur is comparable to a ship of gold, whether in Songjiang, Amsterdam, or St. Petersburg - and the forces after their monopoly, whether it is the Moscow Gang, the St. Petersburg Gang, or those companies with strange names that have nothing to do with Arctic trade, have suffered a devastating blow. "

"We are no longer able to compete with them in North America. Chinese blankets, sugar blocks and brick tea have become the hard currency of the Tlingit people. "

It should be said that this is the biggest legacy that Liu Yu left to Dashun in that position during the years when he was the Jiedushi of Whale Sea.

The power of the Rakshasa people no longer has the opportunity to get involved in North America.

As for the reason... to a large extent, it is the formation of monopoly companies.

The integrated capital, against the bunch of "free competition" commercial companies in the Rakshasa country, has formed a crushing advantage like the East India Company's previous crushing advantage over individual merchants in Nanyang.

The meaning of a monopoly company is that in an orderly place, I am a company; in an unordered place, I am a pirate.

As for the few routes in the Arctic region, everyone sees each other everywhere. As long as they are not our own people, we will take action first.

The reason is also very simple.

No one is idle and has nothing to do, so they will sail to such a really desolate place.

Anyone who comes here must have goods on the ship.

No matter whether it is fur, whale oil, or grease, as long as you take action and grab it, you will definitely make money.

In the whale sea, no one is left alive.

There is no "diplomatic dispute".

Even after the robbery, no one wants the ship, for fear of causing trouble. Because the goods on the ship are much more valuable than the ship.

And in this place, it is really difficult to leave anyone alive.

The progress of Dashun's shipbuilding industry has enabled Dashun to have more suitable ships to rob furs from the Luosha people.

The Luosha people cannot build large ships here; Dashun can book large ships in the south.

The trade between Dashun and France has made fur a luxury item generally accepted by the wealthy class. But once the market for luxury goods opens up, they need to be divided into different grades. Buying fur is a consumer consciousness; buying mink, fox, or sea dragon skin is a special attribute of luxury goods. Who would buy mink or fox skin if they have money?

The development of the Dashun Navy has enabled a group of retired sailors to join the fur company and receive high remuneration. The special nature of the sailors has also led to Dashun's monopoly in the Whale Sea area. Normal farmers may still feel reluctant, but these sailors who have served in a confined space for ten years have no psychological burden in killing and robbing.

At the same time, a large number of sailors participated in the monopoly company of fur and whale oil, which made Dashun's trading company surpass the Cossacks of Luosha in terms of sailor quality.

There are only a few sea routes. In order to pursue profits and the high profits of five blankets in exchange for a sea dragon skin, Dashun began to expand to the Americas.

Capital is profit-seeking, and it goes there only when it is profitable.

The speed of hunting by the indigenous people is also slow. Although they can exchange, they are ultimately not as good as professional teams to hunt.

This leads to a problem, food shortage.

There is no shortage of meat, but no one can stand eating meat all day. They definitely want to eat some grains.

In the overall context, the completion of the lunar distance chart and the discovery of Honolulu made Honolulu's geographical location valuable for expansion.

Because it is closer to the sea dragon skin production area in America; it is much easier to go to Songjiang from Honolulu than taking the dangerous Arctic route.

However, the situation there is a bit special.

Those who engage in fur just hope that it will serve as a transit station and grain supply base. Although they have some interest in investing there, they definitely don't want to build a farm.

The Dashun side also urgently needs an assimilated Honolulu, and must be prepared to resist religion.

Don't even think about assimilating tens of thousands of people on the island by relying on capital that is basically profit-seeking, but it is possible to force out nationalism on the island. And once Christianity is introduced, it will be immediately infected by the blank faith.

In this case, the Yanli School, which is very suitable for the concept of colonial development, and the successors of the gradually religious Taizhou School, became the targets of Liu Yu.