New Shun 1730

Of course, the transformation of Shandong is premised on the commercial grain base and fertilizer base in Nanyang and Northeast China. Before the emergence of chemical fertilizers, or before the saltpeter from Chile or Bangladesh was obtained, soybeans in Northeast China were the best cash crop fertilizer.

Relying on photosynthesis, rhizobia and the absorption of nutrients by the root system, fertilizer elements can be effectively transferred.

The significance of colonial expansion at this time is even more useful.

If India's cotton textile industry is killed, Songsu's cotton textile industry can develop greatly; if India's flue-cured tobacco leaves are killed, Shandong's tobacco leaves can develop greatly; if Japan is torn apart, peanuts, oil, tobacco, tussah silk, etc. can also develop greatly.

Kanto's sorghum rice, wheat, etc. can also provide stable food prices during Shandong's transformation period.

As for rent reduction, interest reduction, and long-term tenancy, they cannot avoid the impact on the small peasant economy, but only boost the resistance of small farmers under the impact of transformation.

Moreover, it is not very difficult to do this.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you wanted to distribute land equally, I would join the Qing Dynasty; during the Anti-Japanese War, if you wanted to reduce rent, I would become a traitor. It's normal.

Without external forces, even if there is opposition, it won't be so uncomfortable. And in itself, the slogans that Liu Yu shouted, which seemed to be to suppress annexation, were politically correct in the feudal dynasty.

Except for a period of extremely reactionary white period, even in the feudal dynasty, regardless of whether it was done or not, it was still okay to shout slogans such as reducing rent, reducing interest, and supporting farmers and workers, and it was considered politically correct and would not be shot.

The group of people who advocated retro Confucianism shouted much more radically than Liu Yu, and wanted to directly nationalize the land and grant the land system. At least in words, everyone still remembered the Zhouli system of the Three Dynasties. The clear nationalization of land and the grant of land system naturally had a certain sacredness, at least in words.

Of course, words are unreliable.

In fact, this is not a very difficult premise. In the past twenty years, the development of practical learning and students under Liu Yu's charity school system were guided by the external expansion.

A large number of "scholars" who were not from the gentry and did not learn the Thirteen Classics - although the mainstream society does not recognize that they are worthy of being called scholars, do you also deserve to be called scholars? But from the definition of being a scholar who can read, count and understand agronomy, they are actually considered.

Moreover, Liu Yu trained soldiers in Weihai, and there were many practical students from Leiden.

In the end, the Yellow River problem must be solved, no matter from which angle.

Even from the most ruthless and pure productivity perspective, the Yellow River flooding has caused tens of millions of acres of arable land to fail to recover for thirty years, so the hidden dangers of the Yellow River should be solved.

However, what he said seemed to be the traditional idea of ​​suppressing annexation to disguise his true purpose. Liu Yu could be sure that the emperor could not tell the difference.

Because in these years, Liu Yu created a big illusion: the new era is bound to the Songsu model, and there is only one kind. Including Guandong and Nanyang, they are all variants of the Songsu model, especially the land system does not suppress mergers but encourages mergers.

Although Liu Yu is always looking for a way out and waiting for the rabbit, he is still the emperor.

He still can't tell, or he still has no concept of capitalism in his mind: landlords can only rent for a long time, reduce rent and interest, and the return rate of investment in land is greatly reduced. Then will their capital all stay in the vegetable cellar and watch the silver depreciate day by day?

In this era, one of the important meanings of the existence of the country and the regime is that if there is no ability to monopolize the equalization of prices and transportation, then various policies should be used to guide capital to where to go.

In this regard, Britain did a good job, and because it did a good job, Liu Yu was so angry that his teeth itched.

The reason why Liu Yu was unhappy with the Manchester Act and the Oriental Cotton Cloth Prohibition was that the British government was guiding capital to invest in the cotton textile industry. The Manchester Act opened a gap for its domestic cotton textile industry, and high tariffs supported the development of the newly started cotton textile industry in the country.

Although France is a little worse and has various problems, Dashun is actually the easiest to empathize with France's problems.

It can be said that France's honey law and the law strictly prohibiting rum have affected the development of France's overseas colonies; but on the other hand, it is also conducive to protecting the interests of traditional domestic agriculture and brewing industries such as brandy, wine, and beer. Otherwise, under the impact of sugarcane wine, the survival of local traditional planting and brewing industries will be quite difficult and a large number of bankruptcies will occur.

It is not enough to just look at the surface of these things. Dashun has its own problems, that is, the characteristic industries will basically not be affected, the high-end luxury goods industry is unique in the world, and the low-end consumer goods have the dual advantages of quality and price. However, Dashun's land yield is too high, and arable land is the first priority for capital hedging, which makes Dashun's development very uncomfortable.

In other words, the story of Britain is that Britain used policies to protect its cotton textile industry and guided capital to invest in the cotton textile industry; the story of France is that France used laws to prevent the sugarcane wine industry from impacting domestic traditional industries; Dashun's policies should be adapted to local conditions and should use policies to guide capital not to run to the more than one billion acres of arable land in China, but to find something else to do besides land.

If this problem is not solved, it will eventually lead to the most drastic measures, leaving you no chance to invest in land. If the sale of land is really prohibited, what else can you do with your money except for industry and commerce?

Therefore, even if it is improved, it does not mean that building a railway or a factory is called improvement.

Improvement means making policies to reduce interest rates and land yields, and to make them go to industry and commerce, without violating the most basic land ownership system.

If you can't do this, you don't even qualify to be called a reform.

Liu Yu's reform in Songsu was a reform, and in essence, he was using all means to reduce interest rates and land rent income under super-economic exploitation, so that the money would go where he wanted it to go.

What Liu Yu is proposing to do in Shandong now is also a reform, because he does not touch the land ownership system of Dashun, but uses the violent organs of the court to force the effects of rent reduction, interest reduction, and long-term tenancy, so as to promote the flow of capital to industry and commerce.

The postures are different, but the essence is actually the same.

It's just that once the posture is changed, the emperor can't understand it, and it feels familiar. After all, let alone the emperor, even the elites of Dashun's practical school, many people are just observing the elephant, and then drawing shadows to describe the state of the elephant, and they may not even reach the level of a blind man touching an elephant.

As for the retro Confucian school, it is purely reading the scriptures and learning its form, which just seems to be like they want to solve the land problem. But solving the land problem is their goal, and the reason why Liu Yu and them can't pee in the same pot is that the land problem is just a means for Liu Yu. No matter how gentle the kingly way in the classics is, industrialization is not described in the Thirteen Classics.

Now that Liu Yu has finished talking about the "traditional means of suppressing mergers and acquisitions" he wants to do, the emperor's vigilance has finally been lowered a lot.

Liu Yu struck while the iron was hot and said: "This matter is an attempt, and it will serve as a historical lesson for future generations. I think that the Yellow River embankment project depends on the people's hearts and people's strength. If the people's hearts and people's strength are available, it will only take three years to complete. Therefore, there is no need to rush."

"Besides, whether it can be used still needs to be tried. I would like to take Qingzhou Prefecture and Wuding Prefecture as pilot projects first. If it works, it can be extended to the north and south of the new river."

He did not ask to supervise a province, but to supervise a prefecture as a duke, and at most add Laizhou and Dengzhou, which are close to it and have many different situations.

Qingzhou Prefecture is not big, but it has everything it should have.

There is a yellow clay belt sandy land in Zhucheng that is theoretically more suitable for growing flue-cured tobacco.

There is Boshan in Shandong, which is easier to mine and has very good coal quality.

There are iron and copper mines that are more convenient at this time, which are also near Linzi.

It is very close to Jiaozhou Bay. As long as the railway is built, even with the current broken steam locomotive, it can still be transported quickly.

It is also very close to the soybean producing area in Northeast China. Moreover, it is close to the sea on both sides, and the price of grain can be kept stable as long as there is a strong government.

Although the economic focus of Shandong is in southwest and northwest Shandong due to the canal economic belt, the thousand-year-old city like Linzi has been a bit miserable in recent years.

But once the direction is found, Liu Yu is sure that it will be enough to achieve immediate results, and Shandong's economic structure will soon be rewritten.

Geographically, it is the closest place to Laizhou and Dengzhou, two advanced regions that have actually basically completed the transformation of small farmers.

Politically, a model can also be established quickly to accumulate enough experience. Moreover, it should be said that Qingzhou Prefecture is a good place to try to improve, at least it is easier than the current southwestern Shandong region.

Since this problem itself is caused by the Yellow River problem.

Liu Yu chose Wuding Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture, which actually means that the Yellow River may have to take one of the three rivers, Daqing River, Xiaoqing River, or Tuhai River, to enter the sea.

As for which one to choose, it will be determined after surveying.

It is impossible to go south, with Taishan and Shandong hills blocking it, and it is impossible to choose from the south.

And going north, that is what the emperor does not want to see. The emperor certainly does not want the Yellow River to go through Zhili, and it is definitely better to go through Shandong than Zhili.

Once the selection is made, there are still things to be done to prepare for a rainy day.

Including the reconstruction of the previous post road.

The original river transportation, salt transportation, and other issues of Daqing River, Xiaoqing River, and Tuhai River must be deployed in advance.

For example, if Daqing River is selected as the river channel taken by the Yellow River, then Xiaoqing River and Tuhai River must be governed in advance; vice versa.

In addition, a series of issues such as salt administration, grassland reclamation, land reclamation, and salt production transfer in the selected river area must be solved in advance.

Indeed, the Yellow River control can only be a systematic project. In view of the fact that the Yellow River control, salt industry, and civil affairs were all separate in the previous canal era, in fact, even if the court reached a consensus on the Yellow River diversion, few people who could grasp this matter had such comprehensive experience.

This requirement was simpler than the emperor expected. After considering what Liu Yu said, the emperor said, "If Qingzhou is successful, then Jinan Prefecture, Caozhou Prefecture, and Dongchang Prefecture will also be needed. As for Tai'an Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture... My dear minister, please don't interfere."

"Furthermore, if Qingzhou Prefecture manages salt affairs, Confucius Mansion salt milling... These things, my dear minister, don't care, there are their own systems, don't cause a lot of discussion. Yanzhou Prefecture is too involved. If you really want to reduce rent and interest, Qufu can't be touched, otherwise the world will talk about it."

"Among Qingzhou, Wuding, Jinan, Dongchang, and Caozhou, Jinan seems to be the simplest. The most difficult ones are Dongchang and Caozhou, and they have to solve many problems after the canal is abandoned."

"Before the war in India, it was difficult for the court to invest so much money. It seems simple to only go to Qingzhou in the early stage. I also know that even if you make a lot of money, you will need money and people in the early stage."

"Except for the railway, I have allowed merchants to invest. In addition, what else do you want?"