New Shun 1730

The Privy Council of Dashun, or the real decision-making circle of Dashun, has basically corrected the war form that Dashun will face after years of adaptation.

This cognition believes that Dashun is rubbish in the whole world, that the mobilization capacity of countries around the world is very limited, and that the delivery capacity of countries is also very limited. It can only rely on a small number of elite standing troops to play overseas games - including Dashun itself.

If Liu Yu is used to evaluate, it is still a long time before modern times. The modern world war with full mobilization is different from the world war at this time. Instead, it is a seven-year war mode, which is more similar to the situation under the balance of nuclear weapons.

For the rulers of Dashun, domestic rule is one thing and overseas war is another.

This overseas war mode also includes the border area issues of Dashun.

Dashun has limited delivery capacity at sea, and in fact, its delivery capacity in the border areas such as the Western Regions and Snow Mountains is also very limited.

But the enemies in these directions either have limited delivery capacity or poor war capacity.

This also makes the rulers of Dashun think that overseas wars and border issues are similar war situations.

Go to war with a small, limited number of elite troops.

Even Dashun's main competitors would basically adopt similar means of war.

With limited troops, 3,000 or 5,000, no more.

Go to war in India, North America, South America, East Asia, Africa and other places.

Maybe, 3,000 people can decide who North America belongs to; maybe, 5,000 people can decide who India belongs to.

The same is true for the domestic border areas. A small-scale 3,000 to 5,000 elite standing army, long-distance mobilization, and rapid attack can basically solve many problems in the border areas.

As for overseas, Dashun naturally cannot carry out extensive mobilization, and the concept of mobilization does not even exist at all.

But the opponents are not much different: British sailors are conscripted and thieves are assigned to the army; Prussia has to find human traffickers to buy soldiers. The status of some soldiers is similar to that of the late Ming Dynasty. They are serfs of officers and do private work for officers to make money; Dashun recruits disaster victims, which is slightly better than thieves.

The concept of mobilization after industrialization is completely different from now. The only difference is the training method, whether they can eat enough, and the length of training - although they may laugh at the British sailors who may have to pick up drunks from pubs and capture strong men, and their salary is pitifully low - but the salary is pitifully low, but there is no food at all, the salary is not paid, the gunpowder is not willing to be trained, and even the hunger cannot maintain a training every ten days, which is completely different.

From the perspective of future generations, the military situation of the world at this time is garbage, thieves, and strong men.

But the thieves are also divided into different levels. The thieves who eat enough food can train every two days, and the thieves who eat empty salaries and have no caloric training at all, are very different.

Fortunately, Dashun has a clear understanding of the impending war. Or it can be said that because of the need to always maintain an elite fast field force due to problems such as the Western Regions and the Snow Mountains, as well as the inertia left by Liu Yu's own training, Dashun still maintains a Marine Corps with a very good training level.

Not many.

Strict training.

In order to adapt to the "First World War" that was about to break out, this kind of war mode with inefficient delivery and three to five thousand people fighting everywhere at sea.

In fact, the seeds of this army building idea had been planted when Liu Yu was training troops.

The new army of Dashun has always emphasized the coordination of battalion and regiment levels, rapid formation changes, rapid mobility, switching formations, and conversion of columns and horizontal teams.

It is not based on the mode of arranging lines and engaging in a large-scale battle of 200,000 people. There is no chance at all, and there is no one around who can fight.

The seeds planted at the beginning were not only for the future, but also subtly influenced the staff of the Privy Council.

Finally, after analyzing the actual situation, it was concluded that "the advantage is mine" and "the advantage is great". Because from the beginning, the new army of Dashun was built for a large-scale war with the maximum delivery capacity of three to five thousand people.

The following wars were all like this.

The scale of the war against Japan and the expedition to Southeast Asia was also three to five thousand people.

Dashun's strategy was also very clear, which was to wait for the war to start, and then do random things everywhere until the British national debt exploded.

Dashun had neither interest nor ability in the decisive battle of the English Channel.

But the ability to rob a ship today, attack a fortress tomorrow, and harass the escort fleet the day after tomorrow was not only there, but also sufficient, especially after the popularization of navigation, astronomy, and calendar.

From a financial perspective, if Dashun did not end, France would definitely lose.

After all, France was known as the Little Ming Dynasty. The 400,000 nobles in the country were exempted from preferential treatment. The gentry did not pay taxes and serve as officials. Although they paid blood taxes, it was just that. The tax was much lower than that of the United Kingdom, but it was all pressed on the bottom, and they had to perform corvée labor to build infrastructure; the United Kingdom had only more than 200 fifth-level nobles in total, and they could collect taxes such as window taxes that were obviously aimed at the assets of the middle class and the nobility. They also had the efficient ability to make money similar to the Song Dynasty's monopoly on salt, tea, and sugar taxes, which was much stronger than France.

Dashun also had a lot of bad problems. After cutting off Jiangsu, the annual fiscal revenue was surpassed by Britain.

But Britain's taxation was really a gamble on the country's destiny at this time.

The current annual revenue, interest expenditure has reached 51%, this is when Britain can borrow 3.8% interest - before Dashun got involved in European affairs, Britain could borrow 3%, but after Dashun got involved in borrowing and the Dutch East India Company changed its name and rebuilt, it has been pulled to 3.8%. After all, the money at this time is not printed, but the total amount of real gold and silver is so much.

Of course, it is much better than France, which can only borrow 6% by begging for help; Dashun can basically only borrow 8% in its homeland even if everyone is "patriotic".

However, after all, Dashun's previous "national debt" model was "zero deposits and lump sum withdrawals" from salt merchants. Now it is different. In theory, it has the qualifications to issue national debt.

The emperor reviewed the fleet in the Songsu area, which has experienced more than 20 years of changes. He was not promoting "the court has the ability to default on debts and you can only cry helplessly", but "the court has the ability to repay debts".

Of course, this is actually the same thing.

But the perspective of merchants on the problem is completely different from the past.

The First World War, which was about to break out, was also a comprehensive test of the new imperial government form that the Dashun Emperor had envisioned: "internal and external division, imperial power in the center, people from the Central Plains, money from overseas, Confucian scholars serving as prime ministers and nine states following the Ming system to strive for stability, and sons of noble families serving as generals to fight outside the region."

Anyway, winning or losing doesn't matter.

This is not the Western Regions or Liaodong. If you lose, the other side may raise the flag and enter the pass.

If you lose, at most you can retreat to Malacca, and close the Malacca, Sunda and other straits. Malacca is open to trade, and the court will fully operate exports to the outside world, and you can play by yourself.

The money does not need to be from the treasury. The money from the treasury will go through the normal cabinet process, and it should be used to control floods and provide disaster relief.

The basis of this judgment is that the Dashun decision-making circle and the Privy Council believe that Dashun has the ability to send 5,000 people to Africa at most.

So, even if we lose, even if the opponent is gifted and has quickly overcome the problem of harassing Luzon and having to ask Dashun to open the port to replenish supplies and sailors, even if the opponent can send 5,000 people, what's the use?

I can only send 5,000, how can you send more than 5,000?

Since there are no major consequences if you lose, and you will not be severely punished for defeat, why not give it a try?

Once successful, it will be extremely beneficial to the imperial power.

That is, you can divide and rule, grasp the balance, create opposition, jump left and right, and scare the inside with the outside and scare the outside with the inside.

And once successful, the future imperial power will have at least three ways to go.

The first way is to be an emperor supported by self-cultivating farmers and small producers. Self-cultivating farmers and small producers love the emperor the most because they are bullied by the upper and threatened by the lower.

The second way is to be the backbone of the chaebol, because no one is in charge, the old forces can beat the shit out of the emerging class and eat it up, and the emerging class can only rely on the imperial power.

The third way is to share the world with the literati and continue the old way.

Liu Yu's original "innocent" heart and the sadness of the universe, the emperor read the history books and understood that there is no dynasty that lasts 400 years. The old way of sharing the world with the literati is 300 years at most.

The emperor can already see the end of the third way.

So, in fact, the emperor is very similar to Cheng Tingzuo, Quan Zheshen and others, all of whom are "trying to find a way".

It's just that whose way is very different.

Some people are looking for a way to make the nation rich and strong.

Some people are looking for a way to save the nation from extinction.

Some people are looking for a way to teach the world.

Some people are looking for a way to make the imperial power last forever.

Some of these roads overlap, some fork, some contradict, and some run in parallel.

The last time the emperor toured the south, Dashun was still a stagnant pool, and the logic of the tour was to continue everything in the past. The logic of repairing the Huaihe River and repairing the Grand Canal was basically the same.

This time, the emperor's southern tour can be seen as a huge ripple in the stagnant water of Dashun.

The emperor no longer took a dragon boat to travel the canal, nor did he stay mainly in Yangzhou and Huai'an.

Instead, he would go straight to Songsu in June, a hot season with many Western merchant ships.

In the last southern tour, Li Gan's main identity was the emperor of Dashun.

And this time, Li Gan's main identity was the emperor of Dashun Empire.

The two seem the same, but in fact, there was a difference when he did not stop the reform of Jiangsu and finally completed the reform.

There is only one emperor.

There are a lot of emperors and kings in the world.

Cheng Tingzuo thought that the emperor's southern tour this time was still in the identity of the emperor, which was determined by his vision.

But in the vagueness, he actually really understood the meaning of Liu Yu's letter.

They laughed at the meaninglessness of their efforts in Huainan, and said that if they really wanted to try reform, they should go to places like Henan and Shaanxi, where they could find out what the countryside was like, what the relationship between peasants, tenants and gentry was, and whether their imaginary benevolent government could work through reform.

This is the traditional meaning of Tianxia.

Encourage them to send people to Honolulu, make it a vassal, and spread the holy teachings.

This is a mixed meaning of the old Tianxia view and the new Tianxia view.

Meng Songlu was right. Going to Honolulu was not to do Ban Dingyuan's work, but to expand the mentality of feudalism. It was an active attempt by Korea and Japan to take Confucianism as orthodoxy.

It was to expand the scope of the old Tianxia, ​​because the previous Tianxia actually only included Dashun, Korea, Japan, Ryukyu and Vietnam.

Are the Sulu pirates who hijacked ships in the South Seas under the banner of "holy war" and the group of "tributary states" known as the Algiers of the East really within the scope of the world that Confucian scholars believe in?

And at the beginning, the content of providing loans to help the transformation of the townships.

is the content of the new world view.

That is, the new world of world trade, new markets and business connections, and the great competition between countries in the form of monopoly companies, wars, hijacking, massacres, occupations, bombardments, tariffs, trade, industry and commerce.

The cotton cloth produced after the transformation of the townships may appear in Kanto in exchange for soybeans and sorghum; may appear in Korea in exchange for paper and ginseng; may appear in Japan in exchange for silver and gold; may appear in the South Seas in exchange for spices and sugar; may appear in Africa in exchange for ivory and exotic animals; may appear in South America as a bribe to the Spanish governor; may appear in Europe to enter the smuggling market.

The old world has little impact on the townships.

On the contrary, outside the old world, a naval battle, a land battle, a siege, a technological advancement, a spinning wheel accidentally kicked over by a weaver, a young gambler betting all his money on war, an accidentally discovered gold mine, a famine in Bengal, will have a great impact on the transformed villages and communities, far greater than the turmoil in the old world.

The disasters in Shaanxi, and even closer to Henan and Anhui, may have little impact on the transformed villages and communities, or even no impact at all.

On the contrary, if the British Parliament on the other side of the earth announces the cancellation of the "Cotton Cloth Prohibition Order", the frequency of meat eating in the transformed villages and communities may increase significantly. Of course, this is assuming that the villages and communities are transformed into textile cooperatives, rather than accepting the package purchase system.

It should be said that at this time, the emerging class engaged in the textile industry in Jiangsu could understand Defoe's jubilant editorial on the "New Cotton Cloth Prohibition Order of 1721" and his great hatred for China, which was 80,000 miles away; they could shout "Long Live the Emperor" three times in the face of the future foreign expansion war of Dashun; and they were excited about the opening of Incheon to Korea and the increase in military cloth revenue.

However, it is probably difficult to understand the teachings of etiquette and laws.