New Shun 1730

For the time being, Dashun's policy in Xinyizhou was generally successful.

Because the market is small, large-scale agricultural capitalization is temporarily impossible to achieve.

And because the land is vast, it is impossible to force all capitalist farms and manors.

Therefore, this very special way was adopted.

On the whole, it is mainly self-cultivating farmers.

And the core position is based on capitalist farms and agricultural product processing industries.

Just like now, the transportation tools and transportation capacity are here.

Indeed, Xinyizhou is on the 450 mm precipitation line, and it is rainy and hot at the same time. The land is fertile. Later generations are famous for wheat and rapeseed production areas.

The problem is, who can we sell wheat and rapeseed to now?

The transportation situation is here. Downstream is the east coast of North America and the thirteen states. Going there to sell grain? What is the difference between this and pulling a truck of salt to sell in Haizhou or Zigong?

Therefore, the floating capital has no interest in the mergers here for the time being.

The policy of Dashun is to support a small number of large farms and Junker-style cooperatives to produce strong liquor.

The cornerstone of stability is the self-cultivating peasant economy under the land grant system.

The centripetal and farting-like monetary circulation relies on such capitalist large farms.

There are three premises for this policy.

First: Can small peasant families make wine?

Yes.

Can the cost be compared with large workshops with division of labor?

No.

Therefore, small peasant families may be able to make their own wine, but don't think about participating in this business cycle. There is no room for them to survive.

Even if Dashun does not issue alcohol monopoly or regulatory policies, or tax tilt policies, the private brewing of small peasant families cannot compete with large factories.

Second: A large number of wage laborers are needed.

This is the simplest.

Third: A specialized market is needed.

And this specialized market can only be the French.

Because Dashun won the First World War and won free trade for the thirteen states of North America. Cheap rum, or cheap French honey, filled the Thirteen States.

And France was also the winner.

France did not need to engage in free trade, so France has always adhered to the brandy protection policy. And the brandy protection policy means smuggling.

Either the French in North America take the honey rum from the Thirteen States.

Or the French in North America have to take the potato liquor from Dashun.

And from the perspective of cost, transportation, river direction, ginseng producing areas, beaver skin producing areas and other distribution, choosing the potato liquor from Dashun Xinyizhou is the most economical choice.

Even if there is no trade agreement between Dashun and France, relying only on "free trade", Xinyizhou's potato liquor policy will actually win. Moreover, in the Sino-French negotiations after the end of World War I, Dashun got the privilege of selling liquor in North America, because France knew that it could not control it anyway.

The potential of potato liquor is very huge.

When evaluating the rise of Prussian liquor, Engels described a classic "process", which can be said to be the bad money driving out the good money, or that potato starch was the cheapest choice for making alcohol at the time.

[In order to make "exquisite" and cheap liqueur, people mixed about a barrel of really exquisite Jamaican liqueur, three or four barrels of cheap and crude Bobis liqueur and two or three barrels of Prussian potato alcohol], which was cheap, so the real liqueur was defeated.

[In non-Prussian northern Germany, people who know a little about wine are reluctant to buy French white wine from Hamburg, because everyone knows that this wine is sweetened with lead sugar there]. The vodka characteristics of potato liqueur make it very convenient to counterfeit and blend, because there is no impurity. So, isn't white wine sweet? Then add some grape juice and a little lead acetate to it, and after blending, it will definitely taste like French white wine. Adding sugar won't work, you can taste it as soon as you taste it, the blended taste is not right, you can only add lead acetate. As for the poisonous lead acetate? What does it have to do with me? As long as you can make money, that's fine. If you make real French white wine, you will definitely go bankrupt. Anyone who doesn't use lead acetate to blend will go bankrupt.

[After 1848, after the French bourgeoisie gained a brief rule, French industrialists and businessmen began to understand that there was an extremely magical power hidden in the barrels of Prussian potato alcohol. They began to forge brandy in their own country instead of shipping the real thing abroad; in particular, people used a strong mixture of Prussian potato alcohol to improve the brandy for domestic consumption]

All of this shows one thing, or it can be inferred that at least in the mid-19th century, using potatoes or sweet potatoes to make wine was the lowest-cost way to obtain alcohol in the world at that time.

Dashun chose to grow potatoes and make wine in the upper reaches of the North American rivers. It dare not say that it can completely bankrupt the traditional winemaking industry in Europe, but it is no problem to completely obtain the market in North America, especially in North America outside the thirteen states.

After all, France's protectionist policy made the molasses left over from French sugar production very cheap. After Dashun won free trade for the Thirteen States, at least on the east coast, potato liquor could not gain an advantage due to distance and transportation issues.

The French government also knew that it could not stop it. Even if it could control the estuary, the east coast, and the bay, could it control Dashun coming from the west?

Since this is the case, it also means that French wine will basically not participate in the North American fur trade. Of course, the French government has obtained the monopoly of North American fur ginseng and other trades through Dashun, which is also a profit. France does not have the ability to eat alone.

Thus, a very strange trade line appeared in the world.

Every summer, Catholic Spanish cowboys, employed by the French fur trade monopoly company, drove a large number of cattle and horses from the Great Lakes to Xinyizhou.

Here, they exchanged for shochu.

When the rainy season ended in August, a simple fleet that could almost be regarded as a one-time fleet from Xinyizhou would be filled with wine here and transported along the river to the French trading post downstream.

The cowboys' task was to take care of the cattle and horses when they came and to release the boat when they returned. It was just a round trip.

The French then used these shochu to exchange for fur and ginseng.

The next year, furs and ginseng were transported to Amsterdam, and exchanged for Dashun's textiles, silk, porcelain, etc. in the Dashun concession trade zone in Amsterdam.

Dashun's merchant ships then transported ginseng and furs from Amsterdam back to Dashun and sold them to the wealthy class, landlords, nobles, and emerging classes of Dashun.

The wealthy class, landlords, nobles, and emerging classes of Dashun - including the feudal lords of Japan, of course, were also very enthusiastic about ginseng, especially after Liu Yu killed Korean ginseng, American ginseng became Japan's only choice - which was equivalent to paying the money to the French.

The French used this money to engage in animal husbandry on the east coast, and then drove the cattle and horses that Dashun urgently needed to cultivate here to the reclamation area.

As time went by, the animal husbandry here in Dashun also developed. This made the trade of cattle and horses for shochu gradually require the French to pay with the silver earned from selling ginseng to the wealthy class of Dashun.

After all, Dashun can engage in animal husbandry, while France cannot engage in winemaking in the area under its control.

This is because of the protection of France's grape industry.

It is also because the basis for Dashun to do all this is cheap wage workers, and France lacks such people in North America.

The liquor factory, or potato farm, which makes money by selling liquor, then pays part of the money as wages to immigrants who come here to work.

When the immigrants save enough money, they spend it to buy a piece of their own land from the court.

The court then uses this money to complete the migration of immigrants in the Yellow River area.

The migration of immigrants has enabled Dashun to always guarantee enough cheap labor in Xinyizhou, and has also enabled the capitalist agriculture represented by Dashun's potato liquor to continue, and has an overwhelming advantage over the entire North American region.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Dashun "learns from history" and directly eliminates the land problem of the thirteen states of North America, and directly implements the land nationalization policy in North America in one step.

Therefore, although Dashun's agriculture in North America is like the Prussian road, it is actually the American road in an accelerated state.

However, because of the natural centrifugal nature of self-cultivating farmers in the reclamation colonies and the anti-capitalist chronic disease of the petty bourgeoisie in the reclamation colonies, Dashun chose to support a group of "conservatives" as the centripetal force here.

And this group of conservatives must be linked to land, industry and commerce.

This kind of linkage requires the support of Dashun's local military forces, otherwise, their interests here will be eaten up by Europe.

The other is that the basis for their existence is the local labor force of Dashun and Dashun's formal colonial techniques.

It's very simple. Without Dashun's modern colonial policy, who will dig potatoes? Who will make wine? Who will plant potatoes?

Relying on those self-cultivating farmers who have completed the land grant, have at least 120 acres of land at home, and three or five cows, to give up their good lives and come to your farm to pick potatoes? Make liquor?

Russia can enforce a system of forced regular service in serf factories. Do you want to try this with the self-cultivating farmers of Dashun? We will smash your winery.

So, [capital is not an object, not money. It is a social relationship between people established with objects as the medium].

It is not an object.

It is a social relationship.

In terms of the land conditions, climate conditions, agricultural conditions, and population of Xinyizhou, it is impossible for such a social relationship to exist normally. He does not have the material conditions for such a social relationship to exist.

And all this is a social relationship created by the state power and colonial policy of Dashun.

In other words, all the big farmers, capitalists, and factory owners in Xinyizhou can only be centripetalists and unifiers.

Because the economic base determines the superstructure. The basis of their existence and the basis on which they can deprive others of their labor results is this social relationship distorted by the state power of the Dashun Empire.

Without Dashun, their big farms and factories will be ruined tomorrow due to the lack of wage workers.

This is the same reasoning as Engels's evaluation of the Junkers on the issue of potato and schnapps: [… Then, the Junker landlords will be dispersed and become independent peasant classes, self-employed farmers…].

However, Prussia's problem is the market and industry, because Prussia is not short of people; while Dashun lacks people. Although they are both connected by potato and schnapps, the elements needed to maintain this "social relationship" are different.

In other words, if the centripetal and conservative factions that Dashun has shaped here lack the national strength of Dashun, they will be like the Prussian Junkers who lack potatoes and schnapps, and will soon be dispersed and become peasants and self-employed farmers. They have to stand firmly on the attitude of unity, and the butt determines the head. For them, this industry can be potatoes, schnapps, or something else, it doesn't matter what industry it is, but it's the same. Potatoes are just a representative, but potatoes are not to Dashun as potatoes are to Prussia.