New Shun 1730

These two lines of poetry did not seem to have much profound meaning. After all, in terms of temperament and matching the situation, they are not as good as the pattern of life and death.

After reading them, Liu Yu still did not mention the Yellow River, but turned to continue to ask with a smile: "I heard that you wrote many poems about nostalgia when you went north from Jiangyou and passed through Yangzhou? People all say that Yangzhou's thousand-year glory was destroyed because of me..."

Zhao Yi was shocked and said hurriedly: "To be honest, I was in Yangzhou just to pay tribute to the ancestral hall of the Shige Department..."

Some things are over after all.

Some historical problems left before the founding of the country, although not completely defined now, have finally gone the old way.

So there was no corpse in the tomb of clothes and hats back then, but now there are also magnificent imperial poems on the tablets.

The alliance with the Lu to suppress the bandits is history, and Dashun still needs loyal ministers now.

A distant steam whistle disrupted the slightly awkward scene. Even though the sound of the whistle was no longer shocking and everyone had gotten used to it, Liu Yu still turned his head and looked into the distance.

There was no primitive steam locomotive there, only the whistle could be heard, which was a bit harsh.

That was the railway from Jiaozhou Bay to Jinan Prefecture. The people who had built the road were now fighting on the new river embankment of the Yellow River and the Daqing River. The primitive trains continuously transported sorghum from the Northeast, rice from Korea, and wheat from Yezo to here, supporting the stomachs of the engineering workers and the bottom line of not going out of the one-eyed stone man.

The Jiaodong Peninsula had been pulled into the new system by Liu Yu. Although the old economic foundation had not yet been completely disintegrated, it was clear that the pain of transformation could be borne by the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Looking back at the new river embankment of the Daqing River that was being built, the Yellow River would take the Daqing River in the future, and the progress of the entire project was very optimistic.

It seems that if there were no accidents, the Yellow River's northward break in history, which led to the degradation of farmland, ecological collapse, saline-alkali deserts, and other problems that affected tens of millions of people in the following decades and even continued for hundreds of years, should not have happened.

Now, the Yellow River problem is really a "small problem".

Anyone can dig a river.

The previous problems have been solved one by one.

However, as Liu Yu had advised the emperor at the beginning, the "Westernization Movement" idea that fooled the emperor at the beginning - using technology to strengthen the imperial power and stabilize the country - is also becoming a reality step by step.

The Yellow River is a natural moat, the Huai River is a natural moat, and the Yangtze River is a natural moat.

The railway that runs through the north and south from the capital to Hankou, along with the mining of Fuso gold mines, the completion of Jiaoji Railway, and the progress of steam locomotives, a large amount of gold and silver began to favor this plan.

The "fool" that the province is divided vertically and horizontally, and even if there is a civil uprising, it cannot cross the provincial boundaries, has actually become a reality step by step.

Capital requires logistics and transportation conditions.

Just as Lao Ma once commented on the gold rush in the West, saying that it was more important than the February Revolution in France.

The most important thing happening in Dashun at this time seems so small, but it is also extremely huge.

The small steamer that the Academy of Sciences has tried has been successful.

The traffic from Songsu to Wuhan and even further up has actually been completely opened up.

Just as Hume commented on Chinese goods in history, saying that we should thank the sea, which is a natural tariff, and finally prevented Chinese goods from flooding Europe.

And now, the traffic from the first-developed areas to the hinterland of China and the heartland of the nine provinces has also been opened up.

The news of the small steamer can only be regarded as a small matter at this time. At least in the mainstream thinking of Dashun, since they have seen the steam locomotive, the small steamer is just a new thing, which seems to be nothing.

But Liu Yu knows that this is the big event on the front page of this year. Even if the emperor is dead now, this event should be the first big event.

The tentacles of capitalism can finally reach inland.

Perhaps, the current centralization of Dashun has not collapsed, and it can still rely on its own organizational ability, control over the local areas, prohibit trade, increase taxes and other methods to maintain the small peasant economy in the interior and delay the collapse.

But Liu Yu knew very well that Europe would be sucked dry sooner or later, and the European bourgeoisie would soon lead the revolution, because if it continued, the European economy would soon be unable to hold on.

In the Academy of Sciences, the mule spinning machine that Liu Yu had been thinking about had also been completed, but it had not yet been mass-produced.

The "Ren and Du Meridians" of the cotton textile industry are not steam engines, and in Dashun they are not even large looms, but mule spinning machines.

Once these two meridians are opened, Dashun's cotton textile industry will undergo a qualitative change.

The huge population, strong handicraft industry base, and the popularity of household iron wheel looms made looms not a decisive factor in Dashun's industrial revolution.

The mule spinning machine is the killer weapon to completely disintegrate the old era. With the small steamship and the Yangtze River waterway given by the God of Heaven, real chaos will soon occur.

Not just in Dashun, but in the whole world.

At that time, even if the emperor still wants to keep the small peasant economy in the interior from being impacted, the emerging class in the first-developed regions will face the chaos of the world, the revolution in Europe, the awakening of India, and the collapse of the external market. Will they agree?

It is hard to say what Liu Yu's mood is at this time.

He carefully wove a perfect noose for Dashun, and as time went by, the noose became tighter and tighter.

More than 70% of the industrial products in Songsu area are sold to the external market.

Dashun's cotton yarn, used in the textile industry in the Songsu pioneer area, was hand-woven by Indians at this time. The self-sufficient small peasant economy of self-spinning and self-weaving is not considered here, because it cannot be counted at all.

In view of the "natural tariff" effect of the sea at this time, world trade is basically based on the potential energy generated by the price revolution accumulated in Europe for more than 200 years.

It is not that Dashun's labor efficiency is not high enough, but how high should it be? Under the current level of logistics and transportation, it can cross the ocean for tens of thousands of miles and still ensure that there is "potential energy" to allow trade goods to flow?

This is not the later world, where a ship can easily load tens of thousands of tons of goods. Even in history, Britain relied on steamships and steam engines, but still had to wait until the Suez Canal was opened to fully gain textile advantages.

Now, the effect of the price revolution in Europe is gradually collapsing.

The development of North America has increased the total amount of goods in the world, and silver is gradually reappreciating.

Dashun's trade was like a glutton. Apart from the ginseng trade that Liu Yu deliberately left out, there was almost nothing that could get silver to flow out of Dashun.

The gold and silver mines in North America also allowed Dashun to start currency reform. Although the price revolution was not too obvious because of the large total volume, Dashun's prices were steadily rising, while European prices were steadily falling, in terms of silver.

In India, Dashun was steadily encroaching on India day by day.

Relying on Dashun's experience in water management and canals, and relying on Dashun's understanding of canals, Dashun's rule in India was not a complete robbery of killing the chicken to get the eggs, but was dredging India's transportation - this was not a kind and benevolent policy, but because Dashun's capital needed more convenient transportation to transport India's raw materials out.

Traditional Indian cotton textile centers such as Dhaka, Surat, and Mumbai were tragically transformed under the control of Dashun.

The weavers either died or turned to spinning.

For India, it was not just the European market that was taken away by Dashun.

The Nanyang market opened up by the Dutch, the Persian market that India has always had, and the East African market were all taken by the Dashun navy. It was too late for India's weaving industry.

And the spinning industry... began to flourish with the inflow of Dashun capital.

For Dashun, it was not just the textile mills in the advanced regions such as Songsu that needed Indian cotton yarn. Even ordinary small farmers, as long as the transportation was convenient, would prefer to buy cotton yarn to weave cloth, because it was cheaper than spinning cotton yarn themselves.

These scenes that seemed to be all good and prosperous were actually the noose that Liu Yu had tied for Dashun personally.

And the knot of this noose was the spinning frame.

Dashun's steam engine industry did not develop relying on the textile industry, but took another path.

The textile industry has not yet used steam engines on a large scale, but steam engines are no longer a new thing in Dashun.

The salt wells in southern Sichuan, the coal mines in the capital, the glass industry in Songsu, the railways for transportation, the blast furnace fans for blowing air, the power for forging iron... these are the support for the development of the Dashun steam engine industry.

The self-propelled spinning machine can be directly and seamlessly connected to the steam engine - it doesn't even need a steam engine, and the same is true for hydraulic power. The steam engine is steamed buns, rice, dumplings, and flower rolls, not hands.

Once it is rolled out, it will be very fast.

And Dashun can be sure that it is unable to interfere in Europe.

It's not that it can't fight. If it fights in Dashun, even in India or East Africa, Dashun can beat Europe to death.

However, if it is in Europe, with Dashun's current delivery capabilities, it will be beaten to death by the people singing the Marseillaise.

There is no technological gap between the two sides in terms of weapons.

Historically, Britain had India as a springboard, and Dashun could never use West Africa as a springboard.

The European bourgeoisie has begun to awaken. If it is absorbed by Dashun for a few more years, it will sooner or later choose patriotism. Burning cotton cloth and smashing porcelain will happen soon.

In India, more and more people are involved in world trade, planting cotton for Dashun, rolling cotton cloth, and providing primary processing of various raw materials.

Today, the emerging class of Dashun is really flourishing.

However, soon, the total collapse of the old world trade system will begin.

At that time.

Either commit suicide. Because now the emerging class is well fed and well fed, all from overseas markets, not only well fed, but also well fed.

Or, eat small farmers and take the domestic market.

This cannot be changed by a word from the emperor, nor can it be solved by the emperor's wisdom and power. This is the general trend of history.

Liu Yu has exhausted all his means. He knows what will happen in the future, and he can no longer solve anything.

Even, he knows very well that everything he does now is actually irrelevant.

Including repairing the Yellow River.

At this point, anyone can repair it.

Even if he is a top scholar in the imperial examination, he can do it.