New Shun 1730

Just like the stimulus that gave Emperor Dashun the final blow to make him decide to spend money to continue expanding his navy, it was George Anson's battleship fleet Centurion sailing around the world to attack the Philippines.

This made Liu Yu's prophecy that he had been muttering before "use India as a springboard and India's cannon fodder endless" changed the emperor's original prediction from "because what he said before was right, so this time it is probably right". In order to "have nothing to do with what he said, after thinking about it myself, it is indeed very possible that the disaster of the island barbarians that Xu Guangqi mentioned back then was probably not just due to the dispute between Catholicism and Protestantism."

Siraj's pilgrimage to the capital planted the seed of a man who dared not resist; the rest of the Bengali aristocracy also planted the seeds of failure in resisting due to Du Feng's construction of the capital.

After all, something is still needed to make people really understand something and believe what they want to believe.

Now that the conditions have been met, Dashun is unspeakably gentle for the time being.

After just asking Siraj to search his house, don't forget to reimburse Dashun's military expenses.

Later, Niu Er, who was outside the military, also mentioned another thing that needed to be done as soon as possible, which seemed not a bad thing to Siraj.

"The imperial court believes that the current situation in Bangladesh is complicated and taxation is in a mess. This matter requires sending people to inventory the fields in Bangladesh."

"But before that, Duke Xingguo believed that all the previous British affairs were caused by customs duties. Therefore, the imperial court's intention was to help the Jiedushi to build the customs."

"Whether it is import or export, 3.5% of the water is pumped to and from China. This part of the water pumped will be directly attributed to Jiedushi Zhidu."

"When Bengal arrived, it was in dire straits. The army was weak and internally unstable. The British had plundered the treasury and the palace was in ruins. It was time to spend money."

"Secondly, the customs duties have been settled in advance to avoid many troubles in the future. The previous conflict between the British and the Jiedushi was also caused by their massive smuggling with the Mughal tax exemption order."

"The Celestial Empire is different from them. Smuggling is strictly prohibited. Everything must be done according to the rules. Customs must be set up. Expenses for inspection ships, customs salaries, etc. must be paid from the customs tax bank."

"However, since Jiedushi is unable to control the customs at this time, the imperial court will help build the customs. However, since the court is doing things, it must be dignified. The customs duties belong to the Jiedushi's court. This is okay. "Guaranteed."

This problem, in Siraj's view, is indeed not a problem.

Bangladesh still has a lot of good stuff on hand.

Rice, jute, raw silk, silk, and saltpeter are all bulk commodities.

The tariff of 3.5% may not seem high, but if you can really get it, it will definitely be a lot of money.

Although there are no pure allusions in Bengali or Shiite stories about buying bones for a thousand dollars, there are certainly similar stories.

In Siraj's view, following one's will is no small feat.

If you don't draw much from the treasury, you will have no luck with your wealth. It's like buying bones with a lot of gold.

I'm afraid, maybe he didn't come to Bangladesh at all? But since the lame man's descendants could come from the north and become the emperor of India, it seems not unreasonable for the Chinese dynasty to come from the southeast and come to become the emperor of India, right?

Siraj's idea is generally in the right direction.

Not taking much from the treasury, and having no luck with the wealth, this kind of behavior can be regarded as a sign of great ambition everywhere.

Coupled with India's special national conditions, it is common to take turns to be the emperor.

Indeed, it is no small matter to follow one's will.

But it's just that I really have no interest in this Indian emperor's crown.

The main world is dynamic, but Siraj sees things in a static light.

Judging from the current situation, it is difficult for Siraj, who has traveled to Dashun, to understand what he wants from Bengal.

The reason he couldn't understand was because what Dashun actually wanted was Bangladesh's means of production.

That is, the means of production such as cultivated land under physical conditions such as precipitation, existence of dry season, temperature, Ganges waterway, etc.

Not many cotton farmers are growing in Bangladesh now.

However, in the northeast of Dashun, except for the Shenyang area, which can grow a little cotton, most places have to consider whether there is enough food to eat.

And the vast Songliao Plain cannot grow cotton; the Western Regions can grow cotton, but it lacks a grand canal or a railway.

Many things currently produced in Bangladesh are of no use to Dashun.

But the problem is that the basic conditions are here, unlike in Heilongjiang, where we have to grow soybeans. In Bangladesh, you can grow rice, mulberry trees, and cotton.

The most important thing, or in other words, the group of people and beneficiaries who are most interested in Bangladesh's war of aggression is to bring Bangladesh into the capitalist production system and completely transform Bangladesh according to the wishes of the bourgeoisie.

They are going to starve to death tens of thousands of textile workers in Calcutta, collapse the handicraft industry in Bengal, and completely replace the cotton in Bengal.

This is certainly no small ambition.

What is the comparison of being an Indian emperor, or collecting some money, and transferring some jewels from the treasury?

In short, his ambition is not small, and he is definitely right.

However, Siraj had a misunderstanding about what this "big ambition" was.

Of course, this is not his fault, but because he simply cannot understand the true trend of the new era. Even Britain and France, which are closer to capitalism, have blocked the new era on sugar and tobacco, and are fighting around the Caribbean for this goal. How about Siraj in Bangladesh?

From the perspective of an old feudal world system, Siraj would certainly be overjoyed if he became a vassal state of Dashun and brought India into Dashun's original world tribute system. good thing.

However, what Siraj saw in the capital was mostly an illusion.

Many people in Dashun today are trying to dismantle the old world and create a new world system. This new world system is not maintained by tribute, feudalism, monarchs and ministers, blood ties, marriages, etc., but by a world market and a worldwide division of labor.

If we have to find an ancestor for this system, of course it can be said to be a new era version of the vassal issue in Guanzi's Qingshengshu.

In fact, there are many people in Dashun who understand this set of things very well. Especially with the rise of textual criticism and simple learning, it is no longer easy for Confucian classics to produce results. Many textual criticism studies have spread to hundreds of schools of thought in order to produce results. After reading the water thesis, it will be easier to understand what Japan, Korea, Nanyang, and Kanto are bound to by Dashun's so-called Songsu system.

This is naturally classified as domineering.

However, when Siraj went to Dashun for a walk, what he saw was the kingly way of the world.

For him, aiding the poor, preserving sacrifices, preserving the ancestral temple, and safeguarding the restoration were truly the pure royal ways.

Especially the fact that the lion did not ask for money, but took the initiative to help him establish customs. This is simply unimaginable.

Then, after much deliberation, it turns out that he only has a small amount of money and a big ambition.

It is said that if you want to conquer India, you must first conquer Bengal; if you want to conquer Bengal, you must first conquer Ceylon. Now I'm afraid it's time to take Bangladesh to show the kingly way of Dashun.

Of course, in fact, no one who believes in the royal way goes to sea.

This is not a simple ideological issue, but domestically, there are still a lot of unresolved problems. For example, Confucian scholars such as Ida Junta are politically correct but no one is willing to practice the "the best benevolent government in the world" that they just talk about.

As for those who went to sea, went to Ceylon to train troops, went to Bangladesh to fight, and even went to Gibraltar to attack the fortress, they were basically people who came from Liu Yu's new learning system, and the idea of ​​a royal paradise did not exist in their minds at all.

Niu Er now mentioned that he would help Siraj with tariffs, but that was just to prepare for Siraj to be used as a puppet in the future.

Dashun definitely does not have the ability to penetrate into all aspects of Bengal for the time being, let alone Bangladesh. In Dashun itself, the imperial power does not extend to the county.

In the future, if Siraj is to be deprived of his financial certificate rights for land taxation, he will have to think of ways to find some money for him.

Historically, China did not have a central government that handed over land tax. It only wanted customs duties and salt tax but no land tax.

Liu Yu was very clear about this and was convinced that such a regime was exactly what Dashun needed to build in Bangladesh.

If the tariff money is handed over to the old ruling class of Bangladesh such as Siraj, and then the radical land rights reform is completed in which "tax collectors" become "big landowners", then the comprehensive compradorization process in Bangladesh will have a huge impact on the country. Very beneficial.

This is a dual management that is in line with Dashun's interests and in line with Dashun's ruling habits.

Those messy issues such as Islamic law, religion, public security, local management, and suppression of uprisings were left to the comprador regime headed by Siraj.

As for the land tax, Dashun directly communicated with the large landowners after the radical land rights reform. The imperial power still did not extend to the counties, and the Bengal squires served as the fragile link between the imperial power and the farmers.

Customs duties, etc., were handed over to Siraj's regime, but the tax rate was fixed at 3.5%, and the people who managed the customs were people from Dashun, as well as the middle and upper-level Bangladeshi people who needed to be won over.

For Siraj's comprador regime, the more imports and exports, the more money he gets.

The cotton, raw silk, jute, etc. that Dashun needs are the majority of exports; conversely, the cotton, ironware, etc. sold by Dashun are also the majority of imports. Both sides eat tariffs, and the more trade there is, the more income there will be.

For Dashun's former tax collectors and future big landowners after Bangladesh's radical land rights reform, they became more and more inclined to grow cotton and convert rice into mulberry.

If land rights reform is not carried out, those tax collectors will only collect taxes and will not have ownership of all land and other means of production. It will be more troublesome to dismantle the old foundation of Bangladesh.

Relying on Siraj to maintain the upper class, he created a comprador regime for the upper class of Bangladesh. Apart from the military and diplomacy, this regime can also have all the other internal organs.

Rely on those big landowners to secure the middle and lower classes and create a land ownership base for rapid transformation, enclosure of land for cotton cultivation, and expulsion of small farmers.

It is impossible for Dashun to implement Dashun's laws in Bengal.

On the one hand, it conflicts too much with Hindu law and Islamic law.

On the other hand, the ownership basis of Dashun law is private ownership that recognizes land deeds and allows free buying and selling of land, which is seriously inconsistent with the conditions of India.

Not to mention India, the legal ownership basis of Dashun is not suitable for North Korea. Because North Korea still has a state-owned land system and aristocratic family ownership similar to the royal land system, it will take at least twenty years in history for the first private land sales contract to be recognized as legal by North Korea.

Besides, it is really unnecessary. As long as these two reforms are completed in Bengal, Dashun can get what it wants.

Moreover, Dashun cannot figure out how to control the grassroots and directly tax small farmers in its homeland, and it is even more unwilling to do it here. After all, Dashun has already stepped half a foot into the industrial revolution stage that requires raw materials and markets, so it can adopt this model of guarding the land.

Also, Dashun is not Britain, and has no interest in India's human resources. It can't use up its own.