New Shun 1730

The use of a gun and a stick made Liu Yu hate his teeth.

But I also knew in my heart that it was best not to talk to him if he deliberately aroused his anger.

These heartbreaking words were meant for the emperor.

It may not be useful for the time being, but it's like a seed that may sprout one day. It's hard to say.

This was not the time to argue about these heart-wrenching words. Liu Yu felt a little heavy. He had to say that these people were really precise in their pinching.

Are you planning for a rainy day?

Or is it unfounded?

People's correct thoughts do not fall from the sky and must be judged by experience.

Just as the vassal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the chaos of the Five Dynasties caused the Song Dynasty to attach great importance to literature over military affairs; in the Yuan Dynasty, the incompetent rule with almost no government and the tragedy of Yashan made the Ming Dynasty cling to the red line of the Huayi debate.

The situation faced by Dashun is somewhat similar.

In all dynasties, there has never been a powerful enemy attacking from the southeast and subverting the world.

There is no prophet in the real world, let alone a prophet. He stood in the court with a crow cane and read out prophecies about the future.

Since there is no prophet, then if we take history as a guide, why build a navy that seems pointless and wastes money and people?

The only point that breaks the game is Japan, but it must not be broken at this time.

The court is full of leaks. Once the news spreads to Japan intentionally or unintentionally, not to mention that there will be problems in trade, even if Japan is eager to learn from the Dutch, it will be too late.

Britain needs a powerful navy to ensure the mercantilist interests of the Navigation Regulations and its own security; the Netherlands needs a navy to maintain its status as a sea coachman; Spain needs a navy to ensure communication with the colonies in the New World; France needs a navy to ensure communication with the New World colonies; A navy is needed, and colonies and other things are secondary. Britain must have France if it has it; Russia needs a navy to fight Sweden and fight the Turks in the Black Sea.

What does Dashun want the navy to do?

At this point, Liu Yu really couldn't give a satisfactory answer to the court.

He thought hard for a long time, but he couldn't think of a really useful reason that could convince everyone.

Because... Westerners came to attack China from tens of thousands of miles away. Isn't this just a foolish dream? How is that possible? In this way, it is basically a prophet or a witch.

But if we don't talk about these arguments that are like prophets and divination, they only talk about reality and cannot explain Ziwu Maoyou.

Regarding trade in Southeast Asia, excluding Westerners, is there any handicraft industry in Southeast Asia that competes with Dashun and requires high tariffs?

Merchants can buy everything that can be sold in Southeast Asia.

As for sugarcane cultivation on tropical islands, Qiongzhou has not yet planted it all, and there are not many people in Taiwan.

[I advise you not to go to Taiwan. Taiwan is like the gate of hell. Thousands of people have gone and no one can come back. Knowing life and death is difficult. I dare to go even to Jiachang. Taiwan is located in Mieren Mountain. Taiwan is part of Fujian Province, half Zhangzhou and half Quan. Half of the Cantonese people live in Cantonese, and the other half are raw and cooked. The raw ones live in the mountains and forests, and they specialize in killing people and taking them into the mountains... Never trust people to cross Taiwan. Every time a disciple fell in love with someone, he beat him to death with a stick and threw it outside. Every sentence on the paper was true and not a single one was false.]

This is the current situation on tropical islands, not the four-season climate of North America.

Malaria, mosquitoes, dengue fever, fever, not to mention one out of ten, but one-third of the mortality rate is not to mention.

Sometimes, it sounds a little arrogant to say, "The heaven and earth are vast and there are many things to offer", but at this moment, it is just a fact that is expressed humbly.

If there is no memory of the past life, at this moment, the words of the official and government minister are actually the words of the country, and Liu Yu is really worried.

Taking history as a guide, no regime has collapsed due to the invasion of the Southeast China Sea.

Based on realistic reasoning, the British Duke also made it very clear that the conflict between the previous dynasty and the Netherlands and Britain was because they did not liberalize trade.

Now that Dashun has liberalized trade, why do Western countries come to attack Dashun? Picture what?

The so-called colonies, again, the rich ones are not Luzon and Batavia, the rich ones are Spain and the Netherlands.

Occupying that place, in a sense, is not conducive to trade. Just like Zheng Chenggong was hesitating whether to capture Luzon, he had to consider the millions of taels of income from trade with Spain.

And whether Southeast Asia is a colony or not, it really makes no difference to Dashun. No small country in Southeast Asia dares to impose a trade embargo on Dashun. In other words, a very important part of the colonial policy prohibiting the development of local industry does not exist at all. Is there a handicraft industry in Southeast Asia that can compete with Dashun?

When there was a shortage of food, they went to Southeast Asia in exchange for silk porcelain; when they were short of spices, in order to make up for the trade deficit, the Dutch shipped shiploads of spices to Guangdong, hoping to repay the purchase price.

Dashun does not produce silver, but Dashun is a silver currency.

The central bank of Dashun is a European colonial gold and silver mine. The right to issue banknotes is in the hands of Europeans, and the person handling it is customs trade.

Have you ever seen government troops going to war against the central bank?

Dashun did not need mercantilism because the handicraft industry was so strong that free trade obtained what mercantilism wanted most, precious metals.

This is the case with the switch, but it is still the same with smuggling without the switch.

This natural mercantilism makes the navy really an embarrassing existence.

Forcing Japan to open its borders and seize the Spice Islands is a meaningful direction for the two navies, and it is also the only two direction with visible short-term benefits, but neither of these two directions can be said at this time.

At this time, if we say that the purpose of building the navy is to start a war with Japan or the Netherlands, we will inevitably encounter great opposition. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is militaristic.

Faced with the criticism and questions from opponents, Liu Yu could only focus on the direction of "preparing for a rainy day".

"In Fujian and Guangdong, there is little natural land. In the past, Guangdong still ate rice from Guangxi, but now most of the rice in Guangdong comes from Nanyang. The same is true in Fujian. There is a lot of wealth near the sea, and all the grain and rice come from Nanyang."

"One cannot live without food for a day. What if one day, those small Southeast Asian countries are suddenly not allowed to sell food?"

"How much do all of you in the court know about the countries in Southeast Asia?"

"Then the Netherlands, in order to be able to control spices, forced the local people not to grow a grain of rice, but only allowed to grow spices. In this way, the Dutch could exchange cheap rice for a large amount of spices."

"Westerners have penetrated deeper and deeper into Nanyang, and Nanyang has already become the rice bag of Fujian and Guangdong during the imperial dynasty. If Nanyang is controlled by Westerners, once they have harmful intentions, they will not allow the export of grain and rice, and Fujian, Guangdong and other places will How many people will starve to death? How many people will have no way to survive?”

"Sir, what do you say? It's not too late to build ships when there is a war. Even if the ships are built for war, by the time the ships are built, Fujian and Guangdong will have been abandoned. Who can bear such a responsibility?"

"If there is a navy, then wherever the navy goes, it will be the country. The Netherlands is 80,000 miles away in the South Ocean. As long as the navy can reach it, Batavia belongs to the Netherlands, and the spices belong to the Netherlands. In Guili The country is an ocean away from America, but if the navy can reach it, America’s cotton, indigo, sugar, tobacco, etc. all belong to England.”

"If our country wants Nanyang to always be the rice bag of our country, is it okay without a navy?"

After talking about the problem that most of the food in Fujian and Guangdong comes from Nanyang, Liu Yu added: "In ancient times, there was a story about a Chu people who was wading into the river. His sword fell from the boat into the water, and he suddenly agreed to the boat and said "This is where my sword fell. The boat stopped, and I entered the water to look for it. The boat has moved, but the sword cannot move. Isn't it confusing to look for the sword like this?"

"The ship is moving forward, and the world is constantly changing. The Japanese country has always been close to the Dutch, and even if there is a country-locking order, the Dutch are still allowed to trade."

"The Japanese nation has always been dissatisfied with the Celestial Dynasty and has always called itself the Land of the Rising Sun. The Imchen Rebellion cannot be ignored. If the Japanese nation learned from the Netherlands and built a fleet, I would like to ask the princes in the court, who can resist?"

"Have you ever seen a Western warship? If you haven't seen it, how do you know that the Chinese navy's broken ships can defeat them?"

"Just like before peace, if anyone said that they would carry 10,000 infantrymen across the Western Regions, they would be regarded as crazy. But what are the facts?"

Having said this, it is clear that there is no prophet in this world, but Liu Yu has to force his words to become this prophet.

At this time, the only way to build a navy was through divination.

The words of the prophet always sound nonsense at first, but when things happen, they will lament that they were foreseen long ago.

He has made great achievements and has average performance. When he speaks these words, there is always a different kind of power.

Seeing that the momentum in the court was suppressed, Liu Yu asked again: "If the world remains unchanged, our court will not need to change at all. With today's military strength, we will defeat the barbarians."

"But, let me ask you gentlemen, who can guarantee that our government will not change, and that the neighboring barbarians, small countries in Southeast Asia, and Japan in the East will not change?"

"If they change, who will take the responsibility?"

"A broken bones and ashes? Even if it is a broken bones and ashes, we still cannot bear this responsibility."

"Now, who can stand up and say: The neighboring countries, Eastern Japan, and Southeast Asian countries will definitely not change? Just bet that after death, the bones will be crushed, the descendants will be slaves, and the women will be turned into prostitutes. If I lose, set up a monument for me. , It is unreasonable to worry about the world; if you lose, how about putting you on the same side as Qin Hui and Wu Sangui, and writing a letter to cause trouble for thousands of years?"

The words were so intense, and they were in the court. Someone immediately scolded him: "Uncle Ying Suo, don't say such words in this court. Besides, who said that if there is no change, there will be no chance of winning?"

"I said so!" Among the ministers, Li Jiusi, the Duke of E, who had actually seen the fleet salvo, stepped forward and asked: "Which of you has ever seen what the Western fleet looks like? Who knows how this maritime battle should be? Outdated military books, Outdated ships are simply vulnerable. I saw it with my own eyes in Weihai. If the fleet is completed, even all the navies in the world will not be able to defeat it. "

"There's just no chance of winning."

After hearing Liu Yu's prophetic remarks, Li Jiusi finally couldn't help but stand up.

At this time, it seems that he is just shocked, but he still has the courage to say "in order to win"; if he waits until steamships become rampant in a few decades, he will only vomit blood and despair.

But even now there is still hope for victory. Li Jiu thought about the terrifying scene of fleet salvo that he went to Weihai that day, and he was really afraid that what Liu Yu said would become reality.

Not to mention the Western countries, who can guarantee that the countries in the East, Japan, and Southeast Asia will not "get the moon first" and change in advance?

When the time comes, the Qingzhou Army in Annan, Myanmar, will be armed with flintlock rifles and bayonets; and the sea will be filled with Western battleships. What will Dashun do?

Whether it is Annan or Japan, if they attack, they will always share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but what about these nobles? When surrendering, the nobles wanted to surrender but couldn't. They were the hardcore remnants of the previous dynasty and they needed to be eradicated.

Anyway...the money spent is from the treasury, and it is not for nobles to donate, so it is natural to stand up and support at this time.