New Shun 1730

Niu Er and others didn't know what the emperor wanted the money for, but they knew that the emperor wanted the money.

If you are not in the position, don't meddle in other people's affairs.

Does the governor of Java need to consider the reform and immigration issues in the Huanghuai region?

Of course not.

What the governor of Java needs to consider is that when the emperor wants money, he can give it to him, and the emperor will be happy and get a promotion.

Just as the British "Lifanyuan" came to Java for investigation decades later, the conclusion was that "the problem of Java is land reform in the final analysis."

The rest of the problems under the land problem are minor problems.

Plantations, spice hills, sugarcane departments, sugar mills, head taxes, tax farming, etc. are all minor problems.

The land problem is a big trouble.

And the remaining minor problems are not small.

Take the sugarcane department, sugarcane plantation, and sugar mill issues that are most likely to stimulate the Guiyi Army.

The court confiscated the Dutch sugarcane plantations and sugar mills, and they must have contracted them out. You can't just tear down the sugarcane plantation, divide it into small plots, and grow rice with small peasant economy, right?

Then the question comes again.

Others may not feel deeply about what kind of people the contractors of the sugarcane department of the sugar factory are, but the Guiyi Army in Java has really experienced it personally.

Although the butt determines the head, the Guiyi Army has changed from slaves in the sugar factory to rebels, and then to soldiers recruited by the court. In the future, they may become "military households" after retirement. Their status has changed.

However, if the sugar factory of the sugarcane department is the same as before, I am afraid that many people will have some ideas.

When the weavers in Jiangnan went on strike, how did the court deal with it? They were convicted of "controlling the market" and were strictly prohibited from calling for a rest in unison in the future.

Who does the court support?

Will the people who will contract the sugar factory in the future have a close relationship with the government? Or will the workers in the sugar factory have a close relationship with the government?

This is also a big problem.

Because of the Javanese village system and the climate of several crops a year, the Javanese are not willing to work in sugar factories and sugarcane fields. It's not just the Javanese, nor is it that the Dashun people are hardworking, but in Dashun, if there is ten acres of land and three crops a year, who would go to the sugarcane field to cut sugarcane?

Therefore, the main workers of the sugar factory in the future will definitely be people from Fujian, Guangdong and other places in Southeast Asia. In addition, some technical jobs are also carried out by Chinese, and it really can't be done without Chinese.

In the Netherlands, the sugar crisis began in 1730. There was a relative overproduction and it couldn't be sold.

However, with the outbreak of war in Europe, the beginning of the melee, the gradual improvement of living standards in Europe, the tea brought by the Ostend Tea Incident flew into the homes of ordinary people, the large-scale popularization of coffee, the military sugar rationing caused by the war, etc.

Soon after the Red River Massacre in Batavia, there was another wave of high profits for sugar.

If Dashun can take over the market legacy of the Dutch East India Company and force Japan to open trade to increase trade volume, the rebound of sugar cane is foreseeable.

In this case, what should the policy be?

From the perspective of imperialism, if the treatment of Chinese employees is not lowered, how can the sugar contractors, the Dashun royal family and the trading companies invested by the nobles compete with the French black slaves in Haiti? How to compete with the low-caste "two-legged animals" in Bengal?

Moreover, since the court encourages immigration and is unwilling to spend more money, immigrants in Southeast Asia must have something to do, right? They must do something to eat first, right?

It is easy to say that they are willing to spend money, pay for immigration and pay for reclamation, but the question is whether the court can afford this money?

If the court really pays for reclamation, who will be willing to work in sugar factories and cut sugarcane in sugarcane fields in Southeast Asia?

The thinking of the industrial age is that workers are much better than farmers.

But in the dark moments before the industrial age, the life of small farmers was much better than that of hired workers.

Until the European Spring of 1848, all kinds of utopian societies, reactionary societies, and those who wanted to restore the old ways and agricultural patriarchal and industrial guilds under the banner of societies were still the strongest forces and the most able to seduce people.

To put it cruelly, the immigrants had a good life. The court paid for reclamation, and no one wanted to cut sugarcane.

Just like the classic example in Australia, the British invested and moved a full set of factories there. In less than three years, all the workers ran away - they were exhausted from working, wouldn't it be wonderful to be self-employed farmers?

Now the royal family wants money, so the way of thinking must be from the perspective of colonial companies. Those who can make money will certainly not be let go; those who can export for silver will certainly be encouraged and supported by policies.

In addition, there are actually many problems.

The Governor of Batavia in the Netherlands is more like the Sultan of Batavia. Pagans have to pay a head tax, but Muslims do not have to pay. This has always been a religious rule. Do these people collect head taxes? Will changing the tradition that has always been like this trigger a large-scale uprising?

Should the power of the old indigenous nobles in the ruling area, such as feudal labor for the peasants under their rule, be abolished? Should these indigenous nobles be eliminated to prevent middlemen from making a profit from the price difference?

How to solve the impact of the arrival of Chinese immigrants on the original village land system?

How to resolve the contradiction between the small peasant economy of Dashun and the village land ownership system in the Spring and Autumn Period here?

Just as the colonists have a dual mission, to destroy everything old, and to transform everything into new according to the needs of the colonists.

Dashun's voyage to Southeast Asia also has such a dual mission.

Destroy everything old.

Transform everything new according to the needs of Dashun.

The question is, for Dashun, what should the Nanyang of demand look like?

Each of these questions is a difficult problem.

Picking out a small problem at random is enough for someone engaged in social sciences, literature and history to write a grand master's and doctoral thesis many, many years later.

Liu Yu said that he wanted to take the exam to teach the second class Niu, which was really a bit overwhelming and really stumped them.

Because they have been subtly influenced by Liu Yu over the years, their way of thinking and perspective on the world have gradually become incompatible with Dashun's mainstream ideology.

The so-called "darkest hour before dawn" when the old era is about to pass and the new era is about to come is not just the people in Dashun who have been subtly affected. They are also confused.

Europe is also like a bird. People who really start to think rationally and understand the world from a new perspective must be confused and confused in this era.

The new ideas they have accepted subtly have affected their thinking. They can try to use new perspectives to explain the world and discover some problems in the world, but they cannot find ways to change the world and solve problems.

If they have not been influenced by new ideas, the problem is actually simple: if a blind man cannot see the world, then the world does not exist.

Let an honest official from the court and a good official praised by the people solve the problems in Java. I am afraid that the sugar factory will be demolished first; the sugar cane plantation will be divided into small plots of land and distributed to the people; he will make decisions for the people and suppress wealthy businessmen; he will curb the evil and ugly people. Capitalism sprouts...

But for Niu Er and others, the influence they have received in the past ten years makes them feel that this approach is pure nonsense. It is basically what Liu Yu often calls "reactionary", and it is similar to Fuzhou Rites, an idea that cannot keep up with the times.

"Reactionary" is not necessarily bad, because there must be a standard for what is good and what is bad. The key lies in this standard and what should prevail.

The sugar mills and sugar cane gardens were dismantled and divided into small plots for the people to grow rice. From the perspective of the ideology derived from Dashun's small-scale peasant economy, it is definitely correct.

But if we break away from the ideological standards derived from the small-scale peasant economy, is this right? Still wrong?

It was the Celestial Dynasty that chose the transformed Confucianism, rather than the Celestial Dynasty that rushed to bind Confucianism. The material base determines social consciousness, and the economic base determines the superstructure.

It seems that it is just a question of how to rule the Jisi region.

In fact, it is a silent confrontation between the old and the new ideologies within Dashun.

Niu Er and other people were born and lived in the old era, but they subconsciously accepted the new ideas in Weihai, which made them feel that this problem was really damn difficult.

A group of people discussed staying together, but in fact no results came out of the discussion, and they could not reach a consensus at all.

Even if we get rid of those thoughts that "the place where we sit has changed, our heads have also changed, and this is not the declaration during the uprising as fart", it is still difficult to reach a consensus.

The good news is that no matter who puts forward some ideas, there will always be people who think about it and point out the problems and errors that this method will cause.

Early the next morning, at dawn, the reveille bugle was blown. Little did he know that his fate was about to be bound to distant Ceylon and India when the Rebel soldiers got up to eat, relieve themselves, and prepare for formation.

Niu Er and others came to Liu Yu's side with dark circles under their eyes.

On the sea, the warship was ready to set sail. It was equipped with cannons, and there was no plan to use the Dutch cannon captured by Niu Er and others.

There are also supplies on the ship, and there is no need to spend time loading supplies from Cirebon onto the ship.

Li Huan wanted to lead the fleet towards the west to provide supplies and artillery support to the rebel forces who were encircling and annihilating the Dutch retreating army.

Liu Yu stayed on the shore and wanted to act with the Guiyi Army.

Looking at the second-class Niu with dark circles, Liu Yu couldn't help but laugh and said: "Well, people study in order to become officials and have to live in poverty for ten years. In order to become officials, you have to think clearly about Java. You haven't slept all night. ah?"

Niu Er did not raise any banners, patted his face that was still a little sober, and said with a smile: "What Marquis Jing said is really right. How many people would be willing to study sage books for ten years if they could not become an official? If you have time, wouldn’t you like to read novels and listen to plays?”

"Aren't we doing this for the sake of a future? The future is right around us now, but Marquis Jing wants to test us. This question is really difficult."

"We discussed it for most of the night last night, but we didn't come up with any results. It seems that everything is wrong and there are problems."

Liu Yu thought to himself, this is a good thing. When your beliefs are not firm and old ideas conflict with new ideas, you will naturally feel that nothing you do is right.

He took out a box of mint camphor from his arms, which is used to refresh and repel mosquitoes, threw it to these people, and said with a smile: "The key to this is to find the right question."

Niu Er touched some on his temples, rubbed some on his philtrum, threw the box to the person next to him, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, we found the right problem."

"Oh, what's the problem?" Liu Yu asked with a smile.

"The question is, what is the purpose of going to Nanyang?" Niu Er feels that it is not difficult to find the right question.

"So?" Liu Yu asked, still smiling.

"So? So we feel that it is one thing to stand from the perspective of the Holy Emperor; it is another thing to stand from the perspective of abstract China; it is different from the perspective of a big businessman; it is different from the perspective of slave workers , but it’s different; from the perspective of a person who wants to go abroad to farm, it’s a different perspective; from the perspective of the emperor and the trading company of a great businessman, it’s another perspective…”