New Shun 1730

Li Xi talked about the issue of migration to Northeast China, but he also talked about Southeast Asia and India.

The core of these words, in the language that Liu Yu is more familiar with, can actually be explained in a few words.

[Use the power of the state to accumulate and organize social forces, like a greenhouse, to promote the transformation process from feudal production methods to capitalist production methods and shorten its transition period... Such as the colonial system]

[Protection system, tariffs, protective taxes, export subsidies, forced subversion of industries in their territories... Forced to create domestic manufacturers. European countries are all trying to find ways to seize this invented franchise, and they are scheming against each other... Such as England forcibly subverting Ireland's wool manufacturing industry; also like learning Colbertism, using treasury investment as the original accumulation of domestic industry]

What Li Xi said is what Lao Ma said [protection system].

The understanding of the protection system by people in later generations is one-sided and superficial.

Because social existence determines social consciousness.

The social existence of later generations is that after World War II, the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America won a phased victory in their anti-colonialism, anti-aggression and anti-imperialism. Even India, which is often a joke, is no longer a colony, but has its own strong country and can protect its own tariffs.

Under this social existence, the awareness of the [protection system] is nothing more than adding tariffs and government subsidies.

However, at this time, in the 18th and 19th centuries, when colonialism was prevalent, the [protection system], as Lao Ma said: England destroyed Ireland's wool manufacturing industry, which was a protection system; European countries used Colbertism and used heavy taxes on the treasury as the original accumulation of their own industries, which was also a protection system; protective taxes were a protection system; administrative orders from Britain, France and other countries directly interfered with the issue of cotton clothing, which was also a protection system.

In other words.

In the era of colonialism.

Using violent means, administrative means, military intervention, etc. to destroy the competitive industries of the territories is also a [protection system].

However, in later generations, those countries that were originally insulted and damaged, colonized or semi-colonized, stood up one by one.

The method of directly destroying the country's industrial production capacity by military, administrative and violent means will not work.

Therefore, this is the misunderstanding of the four words "protection system", thinking that the protection system is as simple as adding tariffs and giving some subsidies to the country - such as the collapse of Japanese semiconductors in later generations, which can be regarded as the "classic form" of this "protection system".

Therefore, this goes back to the truth that Lao Ma said - in the pre-industrial era, commercial hegemony can drive the development of industry. And commercial hegemony is determined by military expansion, war preparation, shipbuilding, and mainly naval warfare.

Twenty or thirty years before Dashun, crazy shipbuilding and military expansion, went to Southeast Asia, and won a war.

Before going to Southeast Asia, the cotton textile industry in Surat had already collapsed and driven the rapid development of Songsu cotton textile industry.

This is a typical example of military hegemony bringing commercial hegemony. And commercial hegemony has driven the development of domestic industry.

Because a large part of the development of the cotton textile industry in Surat originated from the Dutch commercial hegemony and military hegemony in Southeast Asia.

When Dashun went to Southeast Asia and ended the Dutch commercial and military hegemony, the Surat cotton textile industry, which had developed by relying on the Dutch hegemony in Southeast Asia, was naturally finished.

Of course, if we analyze this matter in detail, it is different from the "Bangladesh sugarcane" problem mentioned by Li Li.

The core of the collapse of the Surat cotton textile industry caused by Dashun's going to Southeast Asia is different from the Bangladesh sugarcane problem that Li Li is talking about now.

Surat is not a colony of the Netherlands.

Then why did the Netherlands have to go to Surat to buy cotton cloth instead of going to the Songsu area of ​​Dashun to buy cotton cloth?

Is it because the competitiveness of Songsu cotton cloth is not as good as Surat cotton cloth?

No.

It is because the cash flow of the Netherlands in the Southeast Asia region is limited. The spices he controlled... To put it bluntly, the Chinese smugglers - of course, in other words, the business warriors of the Ming Dynasty who fought against the tyrant's monopoly laws for freedom and free trade - could destroy the spice monopoly of Emperor Yongle. How can you, the Dutch, with your limited power, fight against the Nanyang merchants of Dashun? No matter what, if you want to sell spices in China at the same high price of 1500% profit as in Europe, don't even think about it.

It is impossible for Dutch spices to exchange for enough funds in China. And the Netherlands needs cash, including Japanese small gold and silver, to buy Chinese tea, raw silk, porcelain, etc.

However, in Surat, the power of the comprador class can give birth to a business model of taking the goods first, I will give you spices to offset part of the money, and you can sell part of the spices to get the money.

In short.

The industrial production capacity of the Netherlands itself is garbage. The level of the local cotton textile industry is shit. Woolen cloth cannot be sold in Nanyang at all.

Therefore, the Netherlands used its commercial and military hegemony to not drive the development of local industries, but to drive the development of the cotton textile industry in Surat, India - an opportunity for industrial development with Nanyang as the market.

As Dashun went to Nanyang, Dashun replaced the Dutch commercial hegemony in Nanyang, so that the cotton textile market supplier in Nanyang was changed to Songsu area. Moreover, Dashun did not use too many policies such as tariffs and protective taxes, because the competitiveness of the cotton textile industry in Songsu area, even if it did not exceed that of Surat, India, was certainly not weaker than it.

That is to say, after Dashun gained commercial hegemony in Nanyang, it could use policies such as tariff protection and protective taxes.

But it was not necessary, and instead adopted "formal free trade" because Dashun's cotton textile industry had advantages.

But.

The key is.

Dashun gained commercial hegemony and military hegemony.

It can pretend to be free trade without tariff protection and protective taxes.

But if the country's industry is in a weak position, it can turn around and use it because of commercial hegemony and military hegemony.

In simple terms.

If it does not go to Nanyang, Dashun "can only trade freely", and if others do not engage in free trade, it can only watch. Because free trade is a two-way thing.

And after going to Nanyang, Dashun "can have a protection system, but it is not necessary; but when necessary, because it is in Nanyang, it can do it at any time."

I can kill people, but I don't kill, I want to be a good person.

I am extremely weak, and no one can kill me, so I don't kill people.

These are two different things.

In itself, Dashun's cotton textile industry has advantages, so even if it has commercial hegemony and military hegemony, it is just "shouting for free trade".

However, the sugar industry is different.

Dashun's sugar industry is not that advantageous compared to India's sugar industry.

Moreover, we must also consider the Indian market and the Persian market, which makes India's sugar industry itself have an advantage in transportation costs and internal circulation.

In fact, to be honest, growing sugarcane is not a textile industry. For example, in the textile industry, if I install a spinning machine, I will take off directly, with dozens of times the efficiency, who can compete with me?

As for growing sugarcane, under the current conditions, you can't come up with a "technology" that can increase efficiency by dozens of times at once.

How much sugarcane can be produced per acre of land, how much sugar can be squeezed, if the climate given by God is similar, the gap is really not that big.

Therefore, the "advantages" of [colonization], [commercial hegemony], and [protection system] are revealed.

Historically, how did the cotton textile industry in Britain, which was so bad, kill the cotton textile industry in India?

Ireland had good conditions, so how did the wool textile industry in Ireland die?

Why did the southern states of North America still not have the habit of eating mutton until the 21st century, despite such good conditions? How did this social habit of not eating mutton develop? What are the historical reasons behind it? Is it just because people there think that mutton is not as delicious as fried chicken?

In fact, this is the same as what Li Li said about destroying the Indian sugar industry.

With military hegemony, tariff control, and violent organs in hand. It was in the hands of Dashun, not in the hands of India's anti-imperialist and anti-colonial countries. Wouldn't it be easy to play a little high-end [protection system], destroy the manufacturing industry of the territory, escort the manufacturing industry of the country, and establish a greenhouse to protect the growth of the country's capital?

This matter is so easy.

So much so.

It was so easy that Li Li felt that there was no need to discuss with Liu Yu the details of how to destroy India's sugar industry.

Because Li Li felt that talking about how to destroy India's sugar industry was so easy under the de facto hegemony and colonial system that it was like talking about how to teach a dog to eat shit. If Li Li talked to Liu Yu about "teaching a dog to eat shit", he was afraid that Liu Yu would look down on him and later spread the word that "the seventh prince had no focus on politics, did not distinguish between the important and the unimportant, and did not know the priorities", which would be very bad.

There are many ways to play with the [protection system] that Lao Ma talked about. Simply put, playing "industrial subsidies" is the lowest level of the [protection system] that Lao Ma talked about.

As long as I can control the politics, tariffs, and tax rates of other countries, and at the same time station troops in other countries, why should I play the lowest level of "industrial subsidies"?

Only when we cannot control the politics of other countries, when gunboats cannot blow open the gates of other countries at the coast, when we cannot station troops in other countries, and when we cannot manipulate the tariffs of other countries, do we need to play with the lowest level of [protection system] such as industrial subsidies.

Through this [protection system], destroying India's sugar industry not only means the beginning of a new round of Nanyang migration, but also means that the bean cake fertilizer needed for the development of Nanyang sugar industry will make those lands in the Northeast "not yet equipped with capitalist social relations" have the conditions. Once the road construction is completed, capital will quickly rush to the north of the Songliao watershed, absorbing "wage workers who have been stripped of means of production" at a migration rate of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands per year.

Of course, the significance of Li Li's words is not that he proposed a seemingly reliable resettlement plan.

More importantly, it is Liu Yu's "perverse methodology" or "reverse practice of Marx's knowledge".

[The colonial system, national debt system, modern taxation system, and protection system have achieved a comprehensive system... and become the midwife of the old society that gave birth to the new society]

For example, Dashun won the first war and brought India into its sphere of influence.

So, was this just to collect more land taxes and to gain the merit of expanding the territory?

Obviously not.

Someone needs to be clear and use the power of the country to give birth to a new era.

At least, Li Li's thinking is this kind of "midwife" thinking. This is the most critical thing - colonization is not for the merit of expanding territory, taxation is not for increasing treasury revenue, and tariffs are not for the treasury to have money. Instead, we should use the thinking of the new era to understand and use all these things, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Take India as an example.

If it is just for conquest, rule, expansion of territory, and taxation, then Dashun is still a traditional empire. This is no different from those conquerors who couldn't make it in Central Asia and went over the mountains from Afghanistan to conquer India.

But if it can change India's production relations, collapse industries or support industries, and change India's economic structure and industrial structure. Then, Dashun has entered the threshold of a "modern empire".

The key to a modern empire is not the empire, but the modern times.