New Shun 1730

Looking at the expressions of the Kapitan, Lei Zhenlan and other local bosses in Nanyang, Liu Yu knew that the allusion of "Maoling" might be a bit too scary.

Even in winter, it is still very hot here. Now these people are like eggplants hit by frost, making the air even more stuffy and difficult to breathe. For a long time, these people did not speak. Liu Yu had no choice but to say: "Don't be nervous. Didn't they say outside that the first article of the three-article agreement is that all previous things will be forgiven."

"If the court wants your little property, won't they do whatever they want without adding the first article of the three-article agreement?"

"Others need to have a legitimate reason to do things. I am just like the saying "How can I allow others to snore beside my bed?" I will not beat around the bush with you directly. I just don't want you local snakes to stay in Nanyang, and I am too lazy to find some high-sounding reasons. It's that simple."

Lian Fuguang said helplessly: "Your Highness, Marquis Jing, please tell me clearly, what exactly is the court going to do?"

They were unsure, mainly because they had no idea what the court was going to do.

In fact, Liu Yu insisted on dealing with them, which had nothing to do with their having been the Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan of the Netherlands.

In Liu Yu's view, this was not a big deal.

This is different from the surrender of the Mongols to become officials when they attacked the Song Dynasty, or the shaving of their heads to submit a petition when the Later Jin succeeded.

Java is not an ancient country, and the imperial court has never ruled it, and even ignored it. Under such circumstances, it is really difficult to force people to have the integrity to not follow the barbarians.

The reason why they had to deal with them and move them away was not only the needs of the imperial court, but also the reasons of Lian Fuguang and others.

Reasons such as local tyrants were just for Lian Fuguang and others.

Lian Fuguang and others were extremely wealthy.

Dashun wanted the so-called capitalist sprouts to continue to grow and develop, so of course they needed extremely wealthy people.

However, the investment direction and profit-making direction of Lian Fuguang and others in Java and Batavia were completely different from Liu Yu's needs.

How did the Lian family become prosperous?

They made their first pot of gold by buying and selling "piglets", that is, Chinese slaves.

After getting their first pot of gold, he transformed and worked in plantations for a few years. If he had been working on plantations, the sin of the first pot of gold would not have been mentioned at all. Working on plantations was fine, after all, it was an industry.

But with the decline of Batavia, the overall weakness of the Netherlands, the sugar crisis and other factors, Lian Fuguang's main income after that was basically the following:

Tax farming. In fact, it was similar to buying an official position as a county magistrate. If you didn't make 20,000 yuan, you were incompetent.

Printing money, mainly the worthless lead coins circulated among the Chinese outside the city. The Dutch could control Batavia, but not outside Batavia. The copper coins of the Dutch East India Company were not gradually circulated outside Batavia until the Red River Massacre.

Contracting the purchase of spices in rural areas.

Lending.

Smuggling.

Selling people.

Casinos.

And when his father was a Wuzhi fan, he made a fortune by using the forced donations to charity organized by the Wuzhi fan workhouse.

Rich and wealthy people are not necessarily capitalists in the embryonic stage of capitalism.

In Liu Yu's opinion, Lian Fuguang definitely doesn't count.

Even if someone like Lian Fuguang opened a mine, set up a plantation, bought land to grow rice and sell rice in Java, Liu Yu would never think of moving them away.

But he doesn't deserve to be labeled a bourgeois for what he does.

Now that Dashun has gone to Southeast Asia, at least, tax farming must be abolished, printing money is out of the question, and smuggling and selling people are certainly not allowed.

In fact, if they stay in Southeast Asia, they can only be forced to transform, and it is impossible to make money in the same way as before.

However, they have all completed the original accumulation of the first pot of gold. As for how they accumulated it, there is no need to go into detail, and bygones are bygones. In this era, how many clean first pots of gold are there.

Liu Yu hopes to guide them to invest the first pot of gold they earn in the places where he wants them to invest.

And within the court, or in the direction that Liu Yu persuaded the emperor, some people in the court gradually realized the benefits of private capital.

From the initial control of Mongolia by business, to the war against Japan, to the development of Ezo and the immigration of Whale Sea, the court could not afford to pay for forced immigration.

Just like immigration to the Western Regions.

Because of inconvenient transportation and unprofitable capital, the court had to pay for immigration. Since the end of the war in the Western Regions, the emperor had a very painful understanding of how much immigration would cost.

However, Ezo and Whale Sea, which are almost as remote and wild, have a profitable, relatively convenient sea transportation, and can sell goods. Although the immigration time is later than that of the Western Regions, the immigrant population has gradually exceeded the immigration to the Western Regions in recent years.

The court did not spend a penny, which made the number of Chinese in Ezo and Whale Sea increase day by day, which is a real benefit in the eyes of the emperor.

In addition, although Liu Yu has always been very careful not to touch industries such as textiles that may have a huge impact on small farmers, some industries such as mining, metallurgy, smelting, glass, which have basically no impact on small farmers, have also gradually developed in recent years.

Every year, it brought a lot of tax revenue to the court. For example, industries such as glass, etc., adapted from the British experience: Britain levied taxes on raw materials, Dashun levied taxes on finished glass, ironware, etc., and large workshops were relatively difficult to evade taxes, which really made the court see the benefits.

All of these require a large amount of private capital investment.

The emperor certainly considered the threat of merchants, so he called Liu Yu's plan "raising pigs in a pigsty".

Taking advantage of the special geographical location of the Yangtze River estuary, as well as the advantages of the developed navy and shipping, with the Yangtze River estuary as the center, capital radiates to the surrounding areas.

Investors are "circled" in Songjiang Prefecture.

Outside Songjiang Prefecture, the court also stationed a field army.

As long as the naval fleet has a favorable wind, it can directly bombard Songjiang Prefecture from the Weihaiwei military port within ten days.

In addition, the headquarters of the trade company with Japan and the attempt to collect stock stamp duty were all first carried out in Songjiang Prefecture. After nearly 20 years of development, the business and investment atmosphere there is already quite strong.

Therefore, the emperor hopes to adapt the practice of the "Order to Move Maoling" and let the wealthy people in Nanyang, with their original accumulation, go to Songjiang Prefecture to "circle".

You can invest and start industries, but no matter how you jump, the 20,000 field troops stationed nearby and the dozens of warships of Weihaiwei can ensure that everything is safe.

This can be regarded as a tacit compromise between Liu Yu and the emperor.

The emperor allowed to try the power of private capital; Liu Yu gave the emperor a reassurance: once the emperor did not want the strong navy and the field troops after the military reform, they would all be destroyed overnight.

The current technology is not so advanced, and giant state-owned enterprises cannot be established; to engage in the official economy of the Song and Yuan dynasties, Dashun has neither free official craftsmen nor the ability to restore the old system of the Song Dynasty.

Now the court is gradually expanding, and many places need money. Just like the Northeast and Ezo, if there is no one after conquering, what is the difference between conquering and not conquering?

The reform of the land system in the southwest and the immigration filling in the western regions are of no interest to private capital because there is no money to be made.

But in the Northeast; Nanyang; and even in Songjiang, Tianjin and other places where the court can fully control, the population is dense, and the labor force is abundant, private capital is still willing to invest money in handicraft factories because it is profitable.

The emperor wants to make Songjiang Maoling.

Maoling is not far from Chang'an.

Songjiang, after the navy of Dashun can ensure that the abolition of the canal and the change to the sea will not be threatened by the sea and that the Westerners can be defeated in Nanyang, is actually not far from the capital.

To be more gloomy, Liu Yu estimated that the emperor had probably thought about it: if the court is in a situation like the late Ming Dynasty where there is no money, all the pigs in the "pigsty" can be killed for meat. If it is worse, the chickens can be killed for eggs; if it is worse, forced to borrow money.

As long as the court still has money and a navy, there will be food, soldiers, and it can continue to rule.

Apart from these extremely dark ideas, the emperor also wanted to abolish the canal and change to the sea in the future. Some people wrote to him to propose to abolish the two-yuan system and change to the yuan system, to continue foreign trade, to accommodate more landless farmers in industries mainly based on foreign exports, to continue to develop the Whale Sea with private capital, and even to build railways in the future after visiting the Academy of Sciences so that the soldiers of the Dashun Jingying could suppress uprisings in various places at any time...

All these ideas, plus the fact that the emperor felt that he should be able to live for about 20 to 30 years, and that the treasury had gradually filled up with real money in recent years, so he wanted to make Songjiang the Maoling Mausoleum.

However, in Liu Yu's view, it would be better to make Songjiang the Amsterdam of the East.

Liu Yu always felt that Dashun had no shortage of capital for primitive accumulation. Whether it was the big landlords, the wealthy people in Nanyang, or those engaged in overseas trade, they had all been completed through various clean or dirty means.

What was lacking was a stable and profitable investment direction and the guidance of the overall social atmosphere.

What the court should do now is neither to let it go nor to run a government-run monopoly.

If it is left alone, the most value-preserving and most profitable investment direction in Dashun is still buying land and lending at high interest rates.

If it is left alone, within ten years, a huge amount of overseas wealth will pour in, and land annexation will be more intense than in previous dynasties.

For a government-run monopoly, Dashun's organizational ability and current technical conditions are simply not enough. Because for the emperor, if it is a government-run monopoly, it is better to monopolize foreign trade - strictly prohibit private trade with the West, and the emperor will send people to monopolize trade with European countries, which is both trouble-free and profitable.

The emperor has to see that Liu Yu has been correct again and again in matters from military reform to navy to the conquest of Japan, which makes him have to try some of Liu Yu's opinions more.

But if there is no foundation laid in the past twenty years, if the emperor just wants to make money, it is really easy.

In the East Asian trade, Japan closed its borders, which gave Dashun a monopoly opportunity. It could not guard the long coastline by itself, but when it arrived in Japan, the shogunate helped to watch it; in the West Asian trade, it had already taken over Nanyang, and it could not control the coastline from Liaodong to Guangdong, but it was easy to close the door and open trade in Malacca and Sunda, and all the money went into the emperor's pocket.

In addition, Liu Yu's military reform and the completion of the navy made the emperor believe that the "pigsty pig raising" model would not threaten his family's rule for the time being, which made Dashun's policy towards private capital drift in a weird direction.

The court guided and supported policies, neither laissez-faire nor all government-run, and appropriately transferred some industries, such as the monopoly of trade with Japan, grain transportation, mining and metallurgy, to qualified private capital groups.

The reason why this policy is weird is that if it is slightly inaccurate and drifting, it is impossible to produce "compradors", but it is easy to drift to "chaebols".

Compradors and chaebols are two pieces of stinky dog ​​shit. But if we compare the worst, the chaebols are somewhat better than the compradors.