New Shun 1730

"Okay, let's get it done as soon as possible. I'm here just in time. After that, we'll get a house to rent. I'll go to the Southern Ocean and build your house first. Work hard for a few years. , everything is available. Then the ship you mentioned to the Southern Ocean also departs from Shanghai?”

"Yeah. I heard it's in Shanghai. I'll find out if I go there and ask around. I don't know exactly how much the ferry ticket is, but it seems like twenty or thirty taels per person? But I know how much the land is. It seems to be five For two silver dollars, you can get 300 acres of land tax-free for the first five years. After five years, it seems like it will be taxed at 20 cents per acre of land, right?”

Zhao Liben thought about it and said with a smile: "This person is much more valuable than the land."

"Yes, it is said that there are very few people going there. But if more people go there in the future, I am afraid that the number of land allocated will also be small. It will be beneficial to go early. The court also said that it is not allowed to buy slaves from foreign countries and go there. , and there are no such things as the Fugitive Slave Law and the Fugitive Law, which are very strict. However, long-term contract workers are allowed, but they cannot exceed six years at most, and the long-term contract workers must be Han people, but no one is buying long-term workers now. , pay for it.”

Zhao Liben said: "That's right. With twenty or thirty liang of a ship ticket for a long-term contract worker, with this money, it is better to buy land in Guandong and grow soybeans. In the Southern Ocean, even if you grow food, it will be difficult to sell it. You can’t make any money, so it’s suitable for people like us who want to live a small life with a hundred acres of land and three to five cattle and horses.”

It is actually difficult to calculate how much it costs to immigrate to the Southern Ocean.

Some things have their own internal laws.

Such as the African slaves and Irish who immigrated to North America.

It was the trade between Europe and America that made slaves profitable.

When the population increases and the Irish people enrich America, they can become indentured slaves in exchange for shipping tickets.

As for whether slaves are more valuable, or free laborers who are indentured servants after expiration are more valuable, there are classic cases.

When planters in the Americas did something dangerous, they would definitely hire Irish people instead of expensive private property slaves.

The problem Dashun faces now is not whether slaves or indentured workers, or free laborers.

But he was strangled to death at the first step.

The cost of trade between Oceania and Dashun was too high, at least before the advent of steam ships, which was completely unrealistic.

Even if Liu Yu had not clung to the basic distinction between progress and reaction and refused to restore slavery, even if Dashun had completely regressed and allowed slavery now, it would be useless.

The labor of an American plantation slave was integrated into world trade and destined for the European market.

And even if Dashun is reactionary and returns to slavery and engages in slavery in Oceania, who has money and nowhere to spend it, so why buy some slaves?

Like slaves in Haiti, growing sugar cane.

Dashun can't even eat the sugar cane in Nanyang, so why not go to Oceania to grow sugar cane?

Or, go to Oceania to grow food? That's really money to spend.

Capital is willing to wait for this place to develop before investing; but if you ask them to invest and build an empty land to expand the market, it is just a dream.

Therefore, before the gold mine is released, this kind of immigration can only be of an official nature.

And it can only rely on leftovers from the official solution to India's problems and the retirement of soldiers prepared for India's war preparations to seize the opportunity.

Of course, when it comes to this matter, there are many things involved, and both Liu Yu and the emperor actually have their own thoughts.

The main thing is to see who is thinking one step ahead.

As Dashun began to popularize the longitude and latitude measurement using the lunar elongation table method at sea, Dashun's sea route has become very accurate. Basically, it is only a minute or two, or thirty to fifty nautical miles, at most, which is not a big problem.

Liu Yu had also spent money to move some farmers to Oceania a long time ago. The number was not large, but livestock such as cattle, horses and sheep were already bred there.

This was different from the Mayflower, the Virginia Company, or Arthur Philips' convict fleet.

On the Mayflower, there were Puritan heretics; the Virginia Company employed urban refugees; and Arthur Philips's convict fleet was mostly filled with prisoners.

Will they farm?

Is farming a craft?

Actually, yes.

A group of urban handicraftsmen are not very good at farming.

The first few groups of people Liu Yu moved over were all good at farming, raising cattle, sheep and horses.

The climate conditions there are almost there.

Grain production has also completed a breakthrough from zero to one. In terms of grain, there is no need for assistance from the mother country.

It looks like the condition is very good.

But how much does immigration cost?

Ocean currents, monsoons, windless zones, these things destined Dashun to go to Oceania at this time, and he could only rely on triangle jumps.

This kind of triangular jump voyage takes about half a year, that is, 4 to 6 months.

After all, this is not selling slaves, this is sending a group of veterans who have served for more than ten years. Too many have died. A group of veterans who have served for fifteen years are really not good men and women.

A supply stop is required at Triangle Island on the way.

Navigation comfort with a relatively low fatality rate is required.

It's impossible to stuff them inside one after another like a slave ship. If you really want to do that, you might as well deceive the retired soldiers, sail the ship halfway, and throw it all into the sea - just like Badawi back then. Like the rumors of the Asian uprising, the Dutch deceived the Chinese to go to Ceylon, but actually sailed the ship halfway and threw the people into the sea.

Such a voyage and such a sailing distance make a ship of about 800 tons only able to accommodate about 400 people.

If it is a capital investment, profits need to be considered. Is there any cargo worth shipping back from Oceania? At least, there is none at this time.

The ship will be empty when it comes back.

In other words, it is roughly equivalent to the sailing cost, loss, average interest on capital, wages of crew members and sailors, etc. for trade to Europe.

If it is a commercial operation, how much money does one person charge to actually encourage capital to flow into this shipping industry and open up a special route to Oceania immigrants?

Those who can afford this ticket cannot choose to go to Oceania as self-employed farmers.

Those who want to go to Oceania as self-employed farmers absolutely cannot afford this ticket.

Therefore, in the end, this matter can only be led by the government to invest, or run by the government, or contracted by businessmen with official money.

Of course, the status of Dashun’s soldiers is seriously abnormal now.

After all, the last time soldiers were basically treated as human beings was in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. After that, it was either bandits or soldiers. This time was just an accidental phenomenon, not a normal and traditional thing that should be taken for granted.

How long this abnormal situation can last is a big question mark.

In order to prevent India from becoming a feudal state and to prevent the Indian governor from becoming independent, Dashun would definitely not choose to let the generals recruit soldiers in India on their own.

If Dashun wanted to rule India, it could only recruit soldiers on its own. Even if everything went perfectly, it would require about 20,000 new and old soldiers to be replaced every year.

And the replacement of these 20,000 new and old soldiers was based on the quota of "one man and five people" in ancient books.

In total, the resettlement of retired soldiers from India every year needs to consider the scale of 100,000 people every year. Wife, children, parents, are also people.

100,000 people, farm tools, seeds, transportation, six months of food supplies...

This money is not much, but not little.

Whether you can afford it is one thing.

Whether you are willing to pay this money is another.

Based on Liu Yu's observation of the prince over the years, it can only be said that he has also prescribed the right medicine.

Now there is nothing to worry about. It can make the ruler feel at ease and free from worries, and it does not let the ruler know how much money will be spent.

After all, the money has to be paid by the court.

The court cannot perform magic and cannot make money.

The money can only come from taxes, but who collects taxes? How much tax will be collected in the future? This is certainly a science, and in fact it is often a fuse.

Now the efficient operation of Dashun's external conquest and expansion and trade relies on a keen helmsman and strict rule of man, as well as a large number of rational egoists under the tide of the times and the opportunity of class leap.

Once some core things are replaced or the leap channel is closed, it will rot quickly.

It can be predicted that one day in the future, there will be ministers who will give some "loyal advice" to the new emperor: for example, the resettlement of retired soldiers is a pure waste of money, for example, the previous policy of Xingguo Gong consumed the country's money and grain, such as the policy of redundant soldiers, for example, the military pay for soldiers is too much, etc.

By then, maybe someone will really think about selling all these retired soldiers as contract slaves, which will not only save the court a penny, but also make money.

After all, a normal mind is a rare thing for the literati in the old times.

Moreover, people like Du Feng are rational and selfish now, because they have a bright future ahead of them and can seek a title. In the future, when things stabilize, there will be no such opportunity. How can you make money without drinking the blood of soldiers, eating empty salaries, and not selling thieves to the army as contract slaves?

Dashun made sufficient preparations for conquering India.

The more fully prepared, the bigger the pit left for the emperors behind.

In the rising period, generals and ministers have a goal, and the pie is getting bigger and bigger. The more selfish you are, the more honest and capable you must be, just like Wu Qi, who shared the hardships with the soldiers and sucked the poisonous sores to achieve his own fame and achievements.

During the stable period, there were a group of arrogant soldiers and generals who had conquered India; a group of newly rising military nobles; a group of soldiers stationed in India waiting to retire; a group of bureaucrats in the stable period after the expansion who had no great chance of advancement and could only think about making money by drinking the blood of soldiers; and the old generation who kept the place in place, some died, some ran away, some did bad things; the pie had to be redistributed...

Liu Yu had no doubt that even if the shrewd and experienced ruler at that time was put in that position, he would still have a headache and be at a loss.

He had buried many mines, and this one was not bad, but the ancients said: Accumulation of earth makes a mountain, accumulation of water makes a deep abyss. Therefore, without accumulating small steps, there is no way to reach a thousand miles; without accumulating small streams, there is no way to form a river or sea.

Of course, in addition to burying mines, the same principle applies to serious matters, and it is necessary to accumulate earth to form a mountain.

It should be said that so far, Dashun's preparations and mobilization for conquering India have been completely completed.

All issues, including the military service system, preventing feudalization, tactical preparation, strategic direction, preheating of national debt, capital mobilization, Ceylon population layout more than ten years in advance, food supply, agricultural recovery in Ceylon, and the need for cotton planting in Bengal for the outbreak of the industrial revolution, have already had a general direction or been basically solved.

The rest is waiting for the outbreak of war between Britain and France and the death of the ambitious young prince of Bengal.

However, before the outbreak of World War I, Liu Yu took advantage of the opportunity when the emperor was reviewing in Songsu and envoys from various countries gathered to attack the Vatican and Portugal. He made a big news that was as significant as the outbreak of World War I in the eyes of later generations.