New Shun 1730

Liu Yu certainly looks friendly.

But in the previous question, if Quan Zheshen chose to debate the king and the hegemon, Liu Yu would have asked someone to take him away and send him back to Seoul on a ship.

A group of great scholars in the country couldn't debate with him, so how could they have the leisure to talk nonsense with such a young man.

There are two reasons why he allowed to meet Quan Zheshen.

One is that he thinks that no matter what country they are from, people with insight who feel the crisis of the changing times and seek strategies to save the nation and the people are indeed worthy of respect.

Another reason is purely because of the coal mines in the Pyongyang area of ​​North Korea.

In fact, the face of the coal mines is much greater than the spirit of the patriots who save the nation and the people.

Now Liu Yu is really not afraid of those who admire the strong. Not only is he not afraid, but he also likes those who admire the strong. Because Dashun is indeed strong now, the mentality of admiring the strong is very beneficial to Dashun.

Now Quan Zheshen actually wants to ask him about the strategy of enriching the people, which is really what he wants.

The industrial revolution of Dashun had just begun, and the use of steam engines began to increase slowly. Coal gradually became a major problem restricting the development of Songsu.

Historically, Shanghai had a problem of two whites and one black.

There are many reasons, but one thing is certain. If there were coal mines of the size of Datong around Shanghai, this black problem would never have happened.

It's just like no one would hoard salt next to the Haizhou salt field to make a fortune.

The lack of coal in the Songsu light industrial zone is certainly not a problem now, but the technology tree has basically reached it. It won't be long before the industry will usher in a major development, and the problem of coal must be solved.

As an industrial center and financial center at this time and in the future, Songsu has a huge demand for coal.

In fact, until the war between the two crows and the completion of the Suez Canal, 35% of the coal used in Shanghai still came from Cardiff.

The capital of Wales.

British ships loaded coal from Wales and really went around half the world. With the transportation capacity at that time, even if there were no tariffs and only freight was counted, it was outrageous that they could always occupy the first place.

The second is Australian coal.

Of course, Songsu now mainly uses Xuzhou coal, but after all, there were no steam cars and railways at that time, making coal prices a huge constraint on the development of Songsu.

It’s not a big problem now.

It will be a big problem soon, and it can even be said that Dashun will have a big problem if it wins the First World War.

Sea transportation is definitely the most cost-effective.

Look around.

It’s close to the sea.

There are rivers.

Dense population and abundant labor.

Cheap and sufficient labor.

Close enough to Songsu.

In the vassal trade circle of the Celestial Empire.

Under the control of the Dashun Army rather than the Navy.

The quality of the coal must be good and easy to dig.

It would be best to strengthen economic ties and promote economic integration within the old Celestial Empire system.

Then it’s really only Pyongyang, Pyongyang, Korea.

All conditions are met.

Except for the key issue of freight and sea transportation.

The key is the slavery system of the Korean Kingdom, which is simply tailor-made for the development of Dashun Songsu.

In the northeastern region of Dashun, it is still too expensive to mine coal for the time being.

The reclamation, soybean, wine, oil pressing, flax and other industries are booming, and labor is a bit expensive.

The reason why Guandong soybeans can be used as fertile fields in northern Jiangsu is not because of cheap labor, but because of per capita labor efficiency and the per capita labor land area that has almost reached the limit of border efficiency.

If you pay less, you will be happy to go to farm.

Forget about Shanxi coal. Now only the wool in Mongolia is qualified to go to Tianjin Port, and the freight along the way is too expensive.

It is not cost-effective to transport wool, let alone coal. Otherwise, Tianjin cannot only export some straw braids and high-quality camel hair. The transportation conditions are too poor unless the railway is built to Zhangjiakou.

Now the Dashun decision-making circle has not yet decided what to do with Annan and Korea, two special vassal states, and whether to make them counties.

But no matter what, two things are definitely needed.

Or a group of guides.

Or a close economic circle circulation connection.

In the southern part of Korea, cotton can be grown, paper can be made, and industry and commerce can be developed. There is no big problem.

If mining can be done in the northern part of Korea, it would be the best.

And the two complement each other.

There are two types of guides.

Idealists, for example, those who really believe in the concept of the world.

Profitists, who are happy to make money as compradors.

Specifically for the profitists, where do the profits come from?

Naturally, they come from their slaves.

The slaves of Korea are based on the one-drop-of-blood principle.

If one of the father or mother is a slave, then the child born is also a slave.

Of course, this was originally a rule of taking off pants and farting, because high castes and low castes do not intermarry.

But just like those "high castes" in Ceylon, the high castes in theory are the self-cultivating peasant class in reality.

Among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans in Dashun, farmers ranked second, and this theoretical high status was meaningless.

In feudal dynasties, as long as the self-cultivating peasant class could be stable, there would be no problem with the rule.

But the self-cultivating peasant class, in most cases, is sliding down, not jumping up.

The third caste of good people in the Kingdom of Korea, who cannot marry, can only find untouchables who are not in the class.

Although at this time, because of the shortage of "good people", the one drop of blood principle was changed to the matrilineal principle. It seems that it has only been changed for a few years.

But if you think about it, either this is just a change for fun.

If a good man finds a slave woman, the baby he gives birth to is still a slave woman, which is equivalent to no change.

On the other hand, if a slave man finds a good woman, this makes sense, but it is unlikely. In a patriarchal society, why would a good woman find a slave man?

Or, if it is not just a change for fun.

Then we can infer one thing: the centralization of the Joseon Dynasty has actually collapsed in theory. It is just because it is too close to the suzerain country and inertia is maintaining it.

Obviously, the reason for this change, and the premise for the change to be meaningful, is that a large number of good people have surrendered to the aristocratic class as slaves.

Or because of tax issues, there has been a large-scale phenomenon similar to the Ming Dynasty's "guiji surrender", and those forced by taxes would rather be slaves than good people.

So the Joseon royal family was forced to change the one-drop blood principle to the matrilineal principle, trying to control more good people.

It should be said that it is fortunate that the Joseon Kingdom is too close and too close.

Anything further away is not within the scope of direct interference.

Through the slave-to-mother law or the one-drop-of-blood principle, it is enough to infer that the power controlled by the king is getting weaker and weaker; the nobles who control a large number of people, land, and slaves would have been dog-footed kings according to the tradition of the Celestial Empire.

Under such circumstances, reforms will definitely cause major incidents.

And the more they are reformed, the more chaotic it will be.

Letting slaves become good people, isn't this taking food from the mouths of nobles and scholars?

Liu Yu estimated that with a series of situations caused by the opening of the port, the civil strife in the Kingdom of Korea may only last for a few years.

Nobles can be exempted from taxes and evade taxes.

Taxes are all placed on good self-cultivating farmers.

The opening of the port caused the bankruptcy of small farmers.

A large number of good people will definitely run to the names of nobles and scholars.

It's a very simple truth.

Assume the theoretical eleventh tax.

Originally, one million good people paid the theoretical eleventh tax.

Now these one million good people are running to the names of nobles and scholars to become slaves.

Then the tax of the one million good people will have to be borne by the remaining 300,000 or 500,000.

The court will definitely collect taxes for the whole area, given the administrative capacity at that time. How much tax should your county pay in theory? If there are fewer good people, the burden on the good people will probably be 3:1 or 2:1 tax, even if the tax is theoretically 11% lower.

Why don't you just run to the name of the nobles and scholars and become slaves, and be stupid enough to be a good citizen?

In theory, good people can take the imperial examination to become the second caste... But in theory, the prerequisite for taking the imperial examination is to study full-time and be literate.

For this theoretical caste privilege, pay 2:1 tax? Or give up this theoretical caste privilege and serve others as slaves?

For this matter, people on the Dashun side, who have read the history of the previous dynasty, are still clear.

Reform, reform, is basically Huang Zongxi's law.

In theory, new taxes replace old taxes.

In reality, it will probably become new taxes plus old taxes.

Now Dashun is forcing the Kingdom of Korea to open ports for trade.

The contradictions that might have been suppressed for 50 or 60 years before exploding are now likely to explode.

Even the chance of survival due to some achievements of reforms is gone after the opening of the port.

Besides, after the opening of the port, the people who collected intelligence from all directions were not idle. Liu Yu knew it in his heart.

It will explode in the next few years.

Liu Yu thought that it was time to train some guides.

Once the Kingdom of Korea exploded, Dashun would definitely send troops to intervene.

As for how to intervene, the initiative is on Dashun's side.

Is it to abolish the status of slaves, distribute land equally, not collect taxes for three years, make slaves become good people, measure land, and then establish counties?

Or stand firmly on the side of reactionary forces and pay for sending troops with more privileges?

It doesn't matter.

Dashun is not Han and Tang.

Private ownership of land is the foundation. After counties, it must be the same as the land system of Dashun. Dashun officials don't understand the state-owned land at all.

If we equalize the land today, a lot of them will be merged and bankrupted in three years, just in time to enter the coal mines.

In fact, the speed is much faster. Judging from Liu Yu's reform in Funing County, after the equalization of land, even with the Qingmiao loan, the speed of mergers and the polarization of the rich and the poor is still very impressive.

Of course, if we choose to make the county and the prefecture one, we need a group of elite guides.

They must be young.

They must believe in the concept of "the world" instead of the "nation".

They must support the equalization of land and believe that it is a benevolent policy and that Dashun's sending troops is to comfort the people and punish the criminals.

They must understand Chinese and be familiar with Confucian classics.

They must be able to quickly take over the local government during the county and prefecture process.

Obviously, Quan Zheshen is a very suitable candidate.

Young, radical, and admires the strong.

The teacher is also a great Confucian, with a high reputation in his country and a dense network of relationships.

However, the guide is plan A.

If Dashun adopts plan B, that is, sending troops to suppress peasant uprisings or aristocratic civil strife, it will stand firmly on the side of the corrupt forces and extort more privileges.

Then the guides in Plan A would be useless.

But it doesn't matter. Liu Yu is thinking about asking Quan Zhe to go back and get a few dozen people to "learn" the knowledge of enriching the people.

It doesn't cost much to support a few dozen people, even if they are treated like sergeants every day.

They can even afford to eat dog meat every day.

If we really adopt Plan B, things will be even simpler.

There is no need to learn from the ready-made experience.

Open a coal mine.

The nobles and scholars send their private slaves to work.

The salary or share of the profit will be given to the nobles and scholars.

The first type of the Korean nation cooperated with the Dashun capitalists, a classic model of comprador-imperialist cooperation, draining the blood of the bottom.

Or after the suppression, a bunch of "criminals" were sentenced to mining coal.

The world is dynamic, and it is not fixed whether Dashun will adopt Plan A or Plan B.

If there are already 70 or 80 elites who lead the way when Dashun sends troops, then the possibility of adopting Plan A will increase.

Now that Quan Zheshen has chosen not to talk about the kingly way and hegemony after Liu Yu's filtering and selection, but to ask for a strategy to enrich the people, it is easy to say.

There are only three strategies to enrich the people.

Equalize the land, and assign scholars and officials who are good at practical sciences such as agriculture and water conservancy.

Plant cotton in the south and sell it to Songjiang Textile Factory.

Mine coal in the north and sell it to Xinxing Steam Factory.

In the current situation, there is no way out of these three, and there is no fourth way. What else can be done?

Therefore, Liu Yu does not need to deceive Quan Zheshen, he can really give a strategy to "enrich the country".