New Shun 1730

This era has changed, not just in terms of the advent of the firearms era, gunpowder blew up the underlying logic of feudal warriors, military merits, and landlords.

There is also a deeper meaning.

That is, productivity is constantly improving.

As the Manifesto says: The productivity created by the bourgeoisie in its less than a hundred years of class rule is more and greater than the total productivity created by all previous generations. The conquest of natural forces, the adoption of machines, the application of chemistry in industry and agriculture, the sailing of ships, the passage of railways, the use of telegraphs, the reclamation of entire continents, the navigation of rivers, and the large population that seemed to be summoned from the ground by magic - which century in the past would have expected such productivity to be hidden in social labor?

In other words, from now on, the explosion of productivity will no longer be the stagnation of the iron and ox-plowing era, or even the lack of much development for hundreds or thousands of years.

Instead, it may be exponential growth, unprecedented.

So.

In the feudal era, because productivity was just like that, it remained almost unchanged for hundreds of years, and there was basically no possibility of change.

Therefore, the "one against a hundred" rule of feudal warriors, knights, priests, students, etc. can be maintained.

And now, productivity continues to expand.

Therefore, the metaphor of one table of food and one hundred tables of people has a solution.

That is: there will be more and more dishes, and eventually, all the one hundred tables of people will be able to sit at the table to eat.

However, even if it is the speed of light, it is not infinitely fast, and it takes time to get to a place; even if it is the flash in the game, there must be a CD mechanism, and it is impossible to flash infinitely and arrive instantly.

The problem of Dashun is that:

There is only one table of food now.

The new school is convinced that the future is bright and the future is beautiful, and in the future, all the one hundred tables of people will be able to sit at the table to eat.

But... how to deal with the process from one table of food to one hundred tables of food?

Or how to transition?

In theory, is there a solution?

Yes.

The first step is to make all the guests believe that there will be more and more dishes, and in the future, 100 tables will definitely be filled, and everyone can sit at the table to eat.

The second step is to give a steamed bun to each of the 99 tables and let them eat it first. Eat one table and sit at one table. Until the last person eating the steamed bun can also sit at the table to eat. You eat it first, I promise that the first person to sit at the table will not come to grab your steamed bun. Then don't turn the table over, okay?

The so-called "giving one steamed bun to each person" here means "equal distribution of land" and "limiting land".

Why must each person be given a steamed bun?

The reason is also very simple.

If you don't give out steamed buns, and even take away all the steamed buns on the table, then the 99 tables will directly turn the table over.

It's the same sentence.

The hateful thing about imperialism in the context of bourgeois revolution is not that small farmers go bankrupt and the small peasant economy collapses.

For the bourgeois revolution, the disintegration of the small peasant economy in their own country is also their own task. If they can't do this, how can they achieve great things?

The hateful thing about imperialism in the context of bourgeois revolution is that it prevents the development of the bourgeoisie in their own country.

The Xinmin Revolution was a bourgeois revolution. It was because the national assets of the country were gone and could not stand up, so others had to carry the banner.

The current problem is that the national capital of Dashun has stood up. Not only has it stood up, but it has also stood up very strongly, so much so that the "cloth sorrow" of the slave trade in West Africa is no longer Indian cloth, but Songsu cloth.

Then, with the movement of steam engines and the use of steamships.

If we ignore it, Songsu's first-mover advantage, along the Yangtze River waterway and the transportation capacity of steamships, Hubei's cotton textile industry can die directly. The small peasant economy can collapse directly.

Capital is profit-seeking.

Why should I go to West Africa when I can make money in Hubei?

Besides, West Africa is fucking occupied by those who went there first, and I can't squeeze in, so I can only eat Hubei.

Oh, for the sake of compatriots, please don't annex land, please don't sell goods to Hubei, please go to the external market instead of the near one? Will capital listen? Is there this awareness?

Capital is profit-seeking.

If we want to play free trade, and everyone needs to have a steamed bun.

So, since we are talking about free trade, there should be no restrictions on land transactions. We should continue the past status, and land deeds can be traded without any stagnation or restrictions.

Then we have to rely on various means to make the return on investment in industry much higher than hoarding land, buying land, and collecting rent.

Does Liu Yu have this ability?

Really not.

In fact, not only does he not have it, it is estimated that it is difficult for anyone to have this ability at this time to make the return on investment in industry higher than land speculation.

In Dashun, cultivated land has the meaning of "financial assets". It is not a simple logic of expanding production of means of production, but it has a very strong value-preserving, financial asset attribute.

In history, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, there were gentry who saw very clearly: buying land is the most value-preserving investment. No matter whether it is the Zhu family or the Li family, the flags on the city head change, the land of the Zhang family is still the Zhang family, and the land of the Wang family is still the Wang family.

This also involves the issue of asset security.

Don't say that Liu Yu doesn't have this ability to make the return rate of various industries so high. Even in the whole world, how many industries can have a higher return on investment and asset security than buying land?

Since free trade cannot do it.

Then use administrative means.

Directly cancel the sale of land, equal distribution of land, and land limit, so as to ensure that most people have a steamed bun in their hands.

This is the theoretical method Liu Yu mentioned:

The first step is to make all guests believe that there will be more and more dishes, and in the future, 100 tables will definitely be filled, and everyone can eat at the table.

The second step is to give each person at the 99 tables a steamed bun and eat it first. Eat a table and sit at a table. Until the last person who eats the steamed bun can also eat at the table. You eat it first, and I promise that those who come to the table first will not come to grab your steamed bun.

And these two steps...

Can Dashun do it?

Can Dashun understand it?

Does Dashun have the organizational ability, grassroots control ability, and unwavering determination to make 100 tables of dishes?

If Dashun has this ability, then these are not a problem at all. There are at least 6 billion acres of arable land in the Pacific Ocean. If it has this ability, it can carry out a large-scale migration and reclamation of tens of millions of people, just like playing.

It is precisely because Dashun does not have this ability that the problem is a problem.

With the productivity level of Dashun at that time, equipped with a super-strong ruling group that can reach the grassroots level, the entire country focuses on "shipbuilding and immigration", and it is easy to move millions of people a year.

However, the Dashun Dynasty obviously does not have this ability.

And this metaphor of "making 100 tables of dishes" is basically what the old emperor said to a certain extent.

"The swallows in front of the halls of the Wang and Xie families in the old days flew into the homes of ordinary people."

At least, from a technical point of view, the emperor who used natural fertilizers such as saltpeter in the West Garden and used a steam engine to pump water that did not need to be pumped when taking off his pants to fart can be regarded as having tasted the deliciousness of "that table of dishes" in terms of technology.

Whether it is out of Confucian ideals, out of the maintenance of rule, or for any other reason, it doesn't matter.

Having this idea, even if it is classified by Liu Yu as a variant of the Westernization Movement, can still be considered to be a bit kind and benevolent.

However, this is the same mistake that Zhao Yi made when he proposed the "Plan for the Parallel Flow of the Two Rivers in the North and South" to Liu Yu next to the new dam of the Daqing River a few days ago.

The Yellow River problem in Dashun has never been a simple river engineering technology problem.

It doesn't matter whether it is one river channel or two river channels that flow alternately for fifty years. Technically, there is no pressure.

Even in history, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, many knowledgeable people suggested that the northern channel of the Yellow River should go directly to the Daqing River and restore Liangshan Lake as a regulating reservoir. In the end, the Yellow River that broke did go to the Daqing River. It can be said that with thousands of years of experience in water management, there is no big problem in vision and technology.

However, the key to the Yellow River problem is not the "Plan for the Parallel Flow of the Two Rivers in the North and South".

The key to the Yellow River issue is the Western forces in Southeast Asia, the nomadic forces in the northwest, and the safety of the canal transport by sea. The guarantee of expelling Western forces, resettling or suppressing millions of canal workers...

Anyone who talks about the Yellow River issue without saying how to solve these problems can be regarded as a bastard's empty talk - who dares to go to Zhoushan and Songjiang to do business with armed merchant ships of Westerners who run to business? If the Western forces in Southeast Asia and Macau are not solved, it may be necessary to fight Zhenjiang to go through the canal; if the canal is not used, there is no need to go to Zhenjiang. As long as the Black Water Ocean Battle is won, it can be directly declared that the calf is finished, and the economic center is directly separated from the political center. And many problems such as the chieftains in the northeast, northwest, southwest, and the return of the Western Regions have not been solved, and dare to do their best to build ships and go south? What's the matter, there is also a Potosi silver mine at home, can you afford to attack from all sides?

Therefore, after understanding the Yellow River issue, Liu Yu felt that those "knowledgeable people" in Dashun were just talking nonsense.

It also made sense why Liu Yu sneered at the emperor's "benevolent heart" and "the king, Xie, Yan, and the people's home" at the beginning, thinking that it was just nonsense.

Jesus also talked nonsense about five loaves and two fishes. Isn't this simpler than your industrialization? Does it sound more filling?

The world is material.

People need to eat.

It's not that God said that there should be a fertilizer plant, and a tall building was built on the ground in an instant, and the fertilizer plant appeared, and there were skilled workers by making two clay figures.

It was not until the emperor said that according to the experience of the founding of the country, the people would rebel when they could not eat and the poor had no place to live.

Only then did Liu Yu slightly stop his previous ridicule.

Since the emperor realized that the world is about material things - of course, basically, many well-known emperors and reformers of feudal dynasties in the past dynasties had a simple understanding of this view.

The biggest "contributor" to the fact that Dashun's practical learning was valued and allowed to continue to develop was saltpeter.

Because the effect of natural fertilizers on fertilizing the fields was immediate.

The biggest problem that Dashun has always faced is that the population continues to increase and there is not enough food.

If Confucianism can solve this problem, there will be no great development of practical learning.

Practical learning has not actually solved this problem. At least, it is not possible to artificially produce fertilizers now, and only natural fertilizers can be used.

But at least, practical learning has lit up hope.

For a big country with a population of over 300 million and per capita land that is about to cross the red line, the so-called "science and technology" power can make the emperor abandon the cognitive consciousness of "strange skills and tricks", but instead fully support it and even become a technical supporter. It can only be fertilizer.

Even if this fertilizer is actually dug out from the ground, it is still a long way from artificial synthesis.

These days, if you give the emperor a diamond-studded pocket watch, he will think it is just a toy, but a gimmick.

If you give the emperor a bag of smelly urea, he will deeply understand the great power of "technology".

It is not because the emperor is a fool, but because the emperor is not a fool and knows the material basis of the empire.

If technology cannot solve the problem of per-acre yield, or at least provide a little hope, then for the feudal emperor, there is basically no need to develop technology. If technology cannot solve the problem of per-acre yield, then in the eyes of the emperor, you will die sooner or later, but it is just death today and tomorrow. Even if you can't break through 150 kilograms per mu of steam engine, you will fall into the problem of governance and chaos.

It is better to focus on the professional research of "assuming that the technology of maintaining stability and ruling under the technology of breaking through 150 kilograms per mu can continue for a few years".

Now, the emperor is thinking about his "Wang Xie Yan" who personally plows the fields and can fly into the homes of ordinary people.

However, the emperor can understand "fertilizer".

But it is impossible to understand what "industrialization" means.

Fertilizer and industrialization are not the same thing.

Steam engine and industrialization are not the same thing.

The emperor can understand fertilizer, the power of steam pumping water, and the benefits of spreading fertilizer...

But let alone fertilizer and steam engine, even African chiefs who fly all day long - flying is more technologically advanced - how many of them understand what industrialization means?