New Shun 1730

For a moment, Liu Yu wasn't sure what the emperor meant, and he thought to himself that if it was compensation, he wouldn't even think about it.

Rakshasa was very poor and had no money to pay compensation.

Besides, the person in power now is still a "regent" with a shady name. If he doesn't lose money, is it possible that Dashun can still reach Lake Baikal?

That place is five or six thousand miles away from the rear. Even if Huo Qubing comes back to life, he still can't win - he has to attack the fort, fight in the field, guard against the Cossacks' food routes, be five thousand miles away from the rear, clear the country against a strong wall, and must To capture Irkutsk before winter comes and to annihilate all Russian mobile forces in Siberia in the field...if any of them is missing, they will be defeated.

There are only three or five scattered forts there like in the Heilongjiang River Basin.

Besides, Liu Yu felt that if he were the emperor, not only would he not have to pay compensation, but he would also have to spend another three hundred thousand taels.

A rebate of 50,000 yuan was given to the negotiating count, 150,000 yuan was given to the "Regent" Menshikov, and the remaining 100,000 yuan was used to allow Russia to retreat slightly on the south bank of Lake Baikal and allow Dashun to build a military base in the Selenga River Valley. fortress.

It's a pity that he already has the label of "old affairs of Song and Liao Dynasties". If he was given another 300,000 taels of "year-old coins" in return, the sense of immediacy would be too strong, and he would definitely be drowned in saliva when he came back.

But if it's trade, then there's another story.

"Your Majesty, I dare to ask this question. Is this money... reserved for the people? Or does it belong to the national treasury? Or does it belong to Your Majesty's internal funds?"

The emperor didn't show any pretense at all and just replied with two words.

"Internal money"

"As for internal funds... I have three strategies: upper, middle and lower."

As long as there are three strategies, the upper, middle and lower strategies, the upper strategy must have benefits but also greater risks, while the lower strategy is relatively stable but has the smallest risks.

"Let's talk about the middle strategy first."

"If the strategy is right, Your Majesty can sell the exclusive monopoly rights. Open up a treaty port with the Rakshasa Kingdom and allow merchants in Xijing and Shanxi to exclusively monopolize the trade with Rakshasa. Pay a certain amount of silver every year."

"Is there a but?"

"There are... firstly, there is little money; secondly, merchants must collude with the border troops; thirdly, merchants travel to Mongolia all the year round, and it is easy for Mongolian nobles to get into trouble; fourthly, merchants are very profitable, and they will work for whomever pays more, and they are also easily defrauded. Shacha heard about the truth and falsehoods of the country; the five principles will not be of any benefit to Nuergandusi. The merchants will definitely go to Hebei, Shanxi, and Mongolia, and will not go to Nuergandusi for the distance. "

"Furthermore... this is tantamount to bleeding the blood of the border troops, contributing to the efforts of the Beijing camp, paying for Jiangnan, and serving in Liaodong. The ministers and ministers of Qi are stigmatized, but all the benefits are given to those businessmen."

After hearing what Liu Yu said, the emperor was still a little shaken.

Because this middle strategy, apart from those "buts", is really the most worry-free and the simplest.

There is no need to worry about anything, as long as the chamber of commerce pays the money on time every year.

The key is that you don't need to go through the moves several times. You get ten points when you collect ten points, and there is no room for drift.

The lesson learned from the previous dynasty was that the Huangzhuang could not occupy too much land, and the land of Zhuming Huangzhuang had to be used to support a group of "old warriors with honors and honors" from the fifth battalion who were the basic members; and because of Taizong's legacy, eunuchs could not be reused. Many of the fourteen yamen and the like were also abolished, and the internal funds really could not collect much money.

"As you said, how much can you earn in a year?"

"It's hard to say. Now the Rakshasa people mainly want rhubarb and tea, but trade will definitely increase in the future. That's the first problem Wei Chen mentioned: lack of money. It's like this this year, next year, and it will still be like this a hundred years from now. They have a monopoly After that, outsiders can’t intervene in the up and down management, and it’s impossible to know the actual amount of trade.”

There is another more explicit question that Liu Yu did not mention. Even if the emperor wanted to fatten pigs and wait for the New Year to be slaughtered, it would not be easy to kill them. When the time comes, they are linked together and can really run away if there is a slight disturbance.

Before the Aurora cannon was fired, Shanxi merchants who were trading with Russia bought an entire street in Petersburg. I don’t want to stay here, I will join Rakshasa. The capital has not taken root and can escape at any time.

As for the trade volume, Liu Yu estimates that the trade volume with Russia will definitely increase every year.

Now Russia has a large demand for tea and rhubarb, and the government has a monopoly to meet the expenses of the huge army left by Peter.

But in the future, besides these things, Russians can buy many things from Dashun.

As American gold and silver arrived in Europe, there was a price revolution in Europe.

Rising prices, accelerated urbanization, and Western Europe's demand for food and meat prompted the re-serfization of Eastern Europe as an exporter of food and raw materials to Western Europe.

Peter I changed his destiny against fate, and later there were SSR figures like Catherine II and Stolypin. Even after the First World War, when the self-determination and independence of the nation surged, Lenin used universal class to fight against the nation. After seventy years of independence, Russia finally returned to the historical necessity of global trade that was destined in the eighteenth century - a raw material exporter.

This is fate.

Even if Peter I changes his destiny in Russia today, the historical trend is still difficult to reverse.

The rising food prices in Western Europe, the increasing demand for timber and livestock, and the spread of the technology of the Western European Agricultural Revolution eastward all made it very profitable for the nobles who imprisoned serfs, and agriculture showed abnormal expansion.

Grain prices are high, serfs are tied up to produce grain, grain is exported in large quantities, grain prices are higher, and industry and commerce lack manpower. The increase in grain prices leads to increased urban costs, making it difficult for industry and commerce to develop.

As long as trade is stable, cotton, woolen cloth, silk, raw silk, porcelain, rock sugar... and even "grey livestock" military uniforms can all be exported in large quantities.

Under the influence of the price revolution and re-serfification, even if cotton cloth was shipped from Hebei to Irkutsk, it was still cheaper than locally produced cloth.

Not to mention backward Russia, at this time, the homespun cloth of India and the local cotton textile industry of Britain, thousands of miles away, could not raise their heads. Asia's traditional handicrafts will not be completely defeated by Western Europe until a hundred years later, but now the traditional advantages are still there, regardless of cost or quality.

These are all money.

In fact, no matter whether the emperor asked the superiors, middle or lower officials about any strategy, Liu Yu would always say this.

As for whether it is upper, middle or lower, it just depends on how he says it.

Liu Yu wanted to test which one the emperor cared about most after he said so many "buts".

Since the emperor first asked how much money he could collect every year, if Liu Yu really wanted to, he could focus on the issue of "money".

But he still didn't say what he wanted to do most, but went around in a circle and said: "Your Majesty, if you take the next step, it will be against the ancestral precepts and restore the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty. It is a royal monopoly. The internal eunuchs are responsible for the eunuchs. Beijing, trade with Rakshasa goes directly into His Majesty’s internal funds.”

Liu Yu dared to say this, but the emperor did not dare to use it.

After all, Li Laiheng was Li Guo's adopted son rather than his biological son. Unless it was a bit difficult to follow Li Guo's instructions like "not using eunuchs but using female officials", the rest basically had to be followed.

If the twenty-four yamen of the previous dynasty were restored and eunuchs were sent out of Beijing to directly take charge of royal trade, the civil servants and ministers would definitely go to mourn.

"The worst option is never feasible. What about the best option?"

"If it's the best idea, we can open two ports for trade in the east and west with Rakshasa. Your Majesty uses internal funds as share capital, in the form of a Western exclusive company, and businessmen also contribute share capital. As for how to operate it, Your Majesty doesn't care. You only need to distribute dividends according to the share capital. That’s it.”

Liu Yu had previously paved the way for this matter in "A Brief Survey of Western Countries", and also briefly discussed the issue of Russian serfdom caused by the price revolution, proving that trade with Russia will definitely continue to grow, and it is not just rhubarb and tea.

This question can be explained in a simple way, and the emperor can roughly understand it. He was surprised that Liu Yu's way of analyzing the problem was extremely weird, but it made perfect sense when he thought about it carefully.

At this time, there was no time to think about it, and I heard Liu Yu continue to talk about the benefits.

"Therefore, the trade volume increases every year, and the annual income can also increase. In ten years, the profit from the Rakshasa trade alone should be around three to four hundred thousand taels."

"Furthermore, Your Majesty has rewarded the Mongolian nobles with silver, and they have nowhere to spend it, so they must buy goods. With the opening of ports on the western front, merchants can go north along Mongolia from Hebei and Shanxi. Along the way, they can earn back the silver that the court gave to the Mongolian nobles. ”

"Three of them, Your Majesty can also send people to follow them and go deep into Mongolia, so that they can keep track of the movements of the Mongolian nobles at any time."

"Fourth, the Mongolian nobles cannot be nomadic, and their lives are becoming increasingly corrupt. There will definitely be times when they are short of money. At that time, lending money to them can not only earn interest, but also control them. If necessary, in the name of demanding debts, collect their tribes Pasture.”

"Fifth, the bustle in the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. Smuggling is difficult to stop. It is better to follow the trend than to follow the trend."

"Sixth, in the future expedition to Junggar, we can also use the power of these merchants to help transport grain."

"Seventh, merchants have more profits, Shanxi has less land, and Xijing is suppressed from annexation, so most of the money is concentrated. If the government is in urgent need of money, it can also follow the example of the Westerners and issue national bonds, which can be slowly repaid with equity dividends in the future. Prepare for emergencies.”

"Eighth, such as tobacco, liquor, etc., if everyone in the Mongolian tribes is drunk and smoked, a lot of money can be sold every year and the crowd can be weakened."

"Nine... such as the pots and pans used by the herdsmen on daily basis, are wholesaled to the Mongolian compradors, so that they can sell them at a profit within the territory. In this way, the Mongolian poor can be relieved of their resentment towards the Han merchants, who only hate them The leader is oppressing the people and being unkind, so that in the future, the leader will use businessmen to gain profits and instigate conflicts between the two ethnic groups in order to seek self-reliance.”

"In the future, we will use class struggle...well, we will give favors to the poor people in the name of supporting them. Then the herdsmen will all know that the Han officials are good but the leaders are evil, and the Han merchants are benevolent but the compradors are violent. In the future, they can also slowly reform the system. . Or they could take over their fiefdoms and transform them into officials, and distribute their pastures to dozens of small tribes.”

Those four words that I was used to saying almost slipped out of my mouth, but fortunately, in order to help Dou Sheng Xiaomin, my heart was beating wildly and I was sweating all over.

"Within twenty years of this, there were footprints of Han merchants everywhere on the Mongolian Plateau. Where was the well, where was the river, where was the grass, where was the sand, and even the personality, property, hobbies, and family affairs of the leaders of the tribes. , you can know everything.”

"In addition, it is difficult for the Rakshasa people to penetrate into Mongolia. The borders are open and strictly controlled. The Boy's Army spies are accompanying the caravan. Even if the Rakshasa people still have dissatisfaction with Mongolia, it is difficult to influence them. No matter whether the Yellow Sect is orthodox, it will still be Being closer to and more familiar with the caravans we meet every day, it would be easier to say if we owe a debt."

"Control Mongolia with business, benefit the people with kindness, and weaken the chiefs with luxury."

"Although our dynasty's strategy to control the Mongols came from the Later Jin Dynasty, it was very different from the Later Jin Dynasty."

"Those who founded the captives used the Manchu and Mongolian families to control the Han Dynasty, in order to attach importance to their nobles; those in our court should benefit the people and control the old nobles, and slowly rein in their hearts. In the past two thousand years, the Central Plains' twenty-level nobles, broken Qianmo, The wisdom of abolishing the support of scholars, fictitious fiefdoms, opening of imperial examinations, and suppressing annexations is to control the middle by borrowing the power from above."