New Shun 1730

How many so-called "old conservatives" are there in Dashun now, or how much energy do they have?

This is a concept that is difficult to define accurately.

If those who support the diversion of the Yellow River to the north, support the stability of the regime to ensure the completion of the new Yellow River channel, support immigration to North America and Australia, and support the stability of the Dashun regime to ensure the railway plan from Beijing to Hankou are all considered "old conservatives".

This number is too large, and the energy is also very large.

However, in fact, the so-called "old conservatives" in Dashun are also extremely divided.

One of the factions is actually a group of "anti-thieves", and they are extreme "anti-thieves".

Because they believe that [there is, and only one way to shorten, reduce and limit the fierce dying struggle of the old era and the bloodshed and pain of the birth of the new era, and this method is to implement revolutionary terror].

Complete the transition between the old and new eras at the fastest speed and in a terrifying way, minimize the struggle of the old era, and minimize the bloodshed and pain of the new era.

This group of people is actually counted as the so-called "old conservatives" at this time.

However, they believe that in a short period of time, it is difficult to say who in Dashun is capable of such terror. So, basically, this group of people do not oppose "raising the name of the emperor", but now they tend to delay the time of "raising the name of the emperor" until the Yellow River channel is completed and the North American population is sufficient to compete with the East Coast.

As for Liu Yu personally, he himself is not a "Heavenly Kingdom-centrism" person, or even a believer in pure productivity.

From the perspective of pure productivity, Dashun, where the first industrial revolution has already begun, and Europe, which cannot even compare with India in the cotton textile industry, at this time, whose productivity level is higher?

Obviously, it is Dashun.

When he insisted on involving Dashun in the "First World War", he knew very well that it was either win or lose.

Win, Europe will have a revolution.

Lose, Dashun will explode.

But, from beginning to end, Dashun has been avoiding the issue of "unified market". Songsu's advanced productivity and strong capital are restricted in China, because the Dashun court cannot bear and dare not bear the result of the collapse of the small peasant economy in non-coastal areas.

Therefore, if they win, it means that the new class of Dashun can only expand outward.

And this outward expansion is aimed at India and Europe.

In the end, it will inevitably lead to the awakening, uprising and resistance of Europe.

Some things are obvious, like lice on a bald head, because in history, not to mention Britain, even France has already had an incident where the Carpenters' Association asked the French East India Company not to import lacquerware and other goods from the East.

Dashun's insufficient delivery capacity cannot achieve effective "imperialist" intervention, so the awakening and resistance of Europe is inevitable.

Europe is an important market, and the region with the highest "silver reserves" in the world at this time, and an important market for Dashun. Once Europe begins to awaken and resist.

Then it will definitely affect Dashun.

Similarly, there is the Indian issue.

That is, the huge contradiction between India's "hand-rubbed cotton yarn" and Dashun's "mechanical spinning", Liu Yu has always been laying mines. He has been suppressing and hiding the technology of mechanical spinning, and has been following the footsteps of the emerging class of Dashun - that is, shaping India into a cotton and cotton yarn production base.

Once Indian cotton and cotton yarn become the most important industries in India, then Dashun's counter-introduction of mechanical spinning will inevitably lead to huge chaos, that is, it will lead to a serious overproduction crisis in Dashun.

This crisis will drive the emerging class of Dashun to look at the protected domestic potential markets, that is, the already shaky and extremely serious contradiction between people and land.

It is impossible not to look. Europe awakens, India revolts, and the market continues to shrink. It can only look inside, otherwise it will explode.

That is, through the "awakening" of Europe and India, the contradictions of Dashun are born, and Dashun's "awakening" is promoted.

And because of the difference in per capita land between the East and the West, the awakening of Europe is the awakening of the national bourgeoisie as the main force. They want to resist Dashun's dumping, protect tariff autonomy, and safeguard the development of their own national industry.

When this "awakening" was transmitted to Dashun, Dashun had taken a step ahead in the industrial revolution and shaped a large number of industrial armies. In Dashun, the main force of "awakening" would be workers and small farmers.

Because Liu Yu was very sure that the emerging class of Dashun was really "giving you opportunities but you are useless", unable to lead the times, and unable to cope with the pain and dystocia of the birth of reform.

As for how long this time would take?

This is why he went to Shandong to rub the Yellow River after Dashun was determined to participate in the "First War". Even if the whole world knew that the Yellow River was a mess and no one wanted to get involved, even if many people knew that "the Northern Decision was an inevitable sword of Damocles".

This time was about thirty years.

Of course, Li Li could not know these things.

But he still made an inference from some of Liu Yu's actions that "the reasoning was wrong, the conclusion was not correct, but the time was basically correct".

That is, there were a large number of people in the practical school within Dashun, even if they agreed in principle that equal distribution of land was the first benevolent policy, they would choose to be conservative in a short period of time.

This is of course of great significance to Li Li.

If we say that the entire Practical School, as well as the industry, commerce, navy, officer corps, etc. within the influence of the Practical School, all agree that the land should be "equalized" now and focus on immigration.

So, as the prince who has the closest relationship with the Real School, Li Han will definitely have some ideas.

At least, he was blind in one eye, and for a while, he thought about wearing the skin of an unrelated ancestor who was "blinded in one eye by Chen Yongfu."

However, since Liu Yu went to Shandong to rub the Yellow River, he decisively chose to give up wearing this skin.

This has nothing to do with Liu Yu as a person, but with the group of the Real School. It doesn’t matter what Liu Yu thinks. The key is that some people who may not agree with Liu Yu will also choose to do it after Liu Yu’s accident, death, imprisonment, or ignorance. After being traced, they chose to finish digging the Yellow River channel and complete the immigration on the west coast of North America.

And this group of people is precisely the group of people with the most political energy within the Real School.

Li Han once fantasized about imitating his ancestor who was shot blind in one eye, but what he wanted to imitate was just the skin.

A coup, the subordinates conquer the superiors, the Xuanwu Gate, killing the traitors of the country, clearing the emperor's side, and the sailors wearing yellow robes will all work.

However, just like the ancestor in the story, it is impossible for him to do it when the Eighteen Horsemen hibernate in the mountains and persist in fighting.

Therefore, when the former had no chance, he immediately didn't even want to put on his skin.

He has said so much through this matter today, but in essence, it is more like his personal political declaration.

The subtext is: From today on, I am also an old conservative who "puts the overall situation first", "serves the long-term interests of the country", "benefits the future" and "stabilizes the situation for the development of China".

At this time when the war is about to end, the meaning of this political declaration is very profound.

He talks about Liu Yu every sentence, but in fact, he talks about himself every sentence.

He said that Liu Yu chose to rub the Yellow River and build a platform in the gold mine, which meant that he chose to live without chaos for thirty years, not to make major changes, not to cause chaos in the world because of equalization of land.

In fact, what he wants to say is: I think so, and I support thinking so.

In fact, the so-called "old conservatives" within the Real School of Dashun are indeed very powerful.

But this division method that only looks at the surface is actually full of fallacies.

It is the simplest matter of building a railway.

The so-called "old conservatives" within Dashun all support railway construction.

But in fact, the reasons for support vary widely.

The reasons Liu Yu gave to the emperor can be said to be the benchmark for "old conservatives":

That is, the Grand Canal without water.

Soldiers can be stationed in the capital and move thousands of miles within a month to maintain rule.

The government can allocate food, and within a few days, porridge and rice can be obtained in the disaster area, at least there will be no large-scale resistance and uprising.

With these two items alone, the starting point can be described as the most “conservative” among “conservatives”.

But in fact, those who support railway construction have many ideas and do not just pursue these two purposes.

Many of them are actually standard "potential rebels of the radical faction."

In a sense, when it comes to building railways, the so-called "old conservatives" are a political alliance of "reactionaries among reactionaries" and "radicals among radicals."

Politically speaking, among reactionaries, there is probably no one more reactionary than an emperor who wants to maintain imperial power and maintain his family and the world.

It is completely reactionary and cannot be reactionary anymore.

As for the radicals among the radicals, it is estimated that at this time there is no hope of achieving the Songsu Canal Economic Belt effect through the railway, dumping the domestic first-developed areas to the later-developed areas, and quickly destroying the old system. This group of people has become more radical.

It's extremely radical. It can't be more radical than this at this time.

As for the group of people who oppose railway construction, on the political stage in Dashun...

Whether it's a stick or a crying temple, in the eyes of the emperor at this time, it was actually just feudal coquettishness.

The twisted coquettishness of the feudal personal relationship after emasculation:

If you don't listen to others, they will say you are a bad person~

Hey, hey, if you don’t listen to me, I will write a diary to express my dissatisfaction when I go back~

If you don't listen to others, they won't do it for you~

For the emperor at this time, he was very clear-headed and comforted these coquettish people from time to time, but what he was thinking in his heart was: Damn it, the one who can rebel against me is the one who shouts the slogan of equalizing land. Just you guys, you really want to equalize yourself first and then rebel by equalizing the land? Let’s not talk about rebellion, let’s talk about the retro-revolutionary faction inside. The slogan they shout is that equalizing land is the most benevolent government. Do you really want to play like this? Whether you are crying or writing in a diary, don’t you know that if we really start to move, you will be the ones who will be punished?

Since you are no threat to me, just act coquettishly and have fun.

As for those people from the Practical School, the emperor also played very clearly: You see, you are marginalized people, this matter has nothing to do with me, it is all the old stereotypes who are against you. But since you have been excluded by the mainstream, I have promoted you, the officials of the Real School, all out of my personal favor.

From time to time, when the emperor was acting coquettishly in the face of the gentry faction, he would also point out the practical school of thought: Stop acting like a spoiled brat. If you continue to act like a spoiled brat, I will straighten these practical schools of thought and make you smaller.

Of course, the emperor would definitely not do this, but it is still effective to use this method from time to time.

As for who are the "old conservatives" within Dashun at this time, it is really difficult to say clearly.

But what is certain is that the so-called "old conservatives" of Dashun now basically control the guns and money bags of Dashun. Dashun's traditional regular taxes are not money bags, because they are collected and spent as they are, such as disaster relief, exemption of flood control and river repair. An empty money bag is not a money bag.

The real guns of Dashun are not fed by traditional regular taxes.

In fact, Dashun has basically established a positive feedback loop of "trade, tariffs, military support, and trade protection".