Chapter 1134 I Just Want to Be a Dog

Speaking of demands, these people are very excited.

Although what Liu Yu wants to say must be to encourage the upcoming world war for markets and colonies.

But once this kind of thing is mentioned, it will eventually involve the relationship between capital and the regime.

History always repeats itself.

In the original history, there were three small things related to capital companies, which were not big, and basically understood what these emerging classes were.

The first one was the Russian American Company in the original history, which was the successor of the group of people who had not yet been established but had conflicts with Dashun over the Aleutian Islands and Alaska over the issue of fur competition.

At that time, in order to get the support of Britain, France and the United States on the Balkan issue and the Greek issue, Russia gave up part of the interests of the Russian American Company. In addition, after the death of the company's founder and major shareholder, the Tsarist Russian government took the opportunity to invest in a part of the shares. It was not a dry share, but it was losing money every year.

Maybe the Russian court thought that the company was not worth much, so it traded with Britain, France, the United States, etc. As a result, the company suddenly became chaotic. No matter how stupid the Tsar was, he could see the trick: since it was losing money and not making a profit, why was it so chaotic?

In the end, the government asked for an audit.

Then, the Decembrists broke out in an uprising.

One of the leaders of the Decembrists who was eventually sentenced to death, Ryleyev, was the general secretary of the Russian American Trade Company and actually presided over the daily work of the company.

The general management office of the Russian American Company in St. Petersburg, No. 72 Moika Street, was the uprising headquarters of the mutinous nobles. After the mutiny failed, the company's head burned a large number of company files.

Of course, this is definitely not the main reason for the Decembrists. But it is certainly not reasonable to say that there is no relationship at all.

After all, the Tsar himself commented on a company executive who participated in the mutiny, "You guys are really fucking good." In Russian, company and this group of people are the same word. It is similar to the homophonic pun in Chinese.

The second thing is that the British East India Company continued to develop, and the British government established a "parallel East India Company".

Shortly after its establishment, the shareholders of the real East India Company used the method of shadow shareholding to completely control the parallel East India Company, continued to maintain the company's full monopoly, and always insisted on the policy that everyone above 500 pounds is equal, and if you have 10,000 shares, you have one vote, to prevent the government from holding control.

After that, should we protect the East India Company, release the tea tax, collect the window tax, and collect taxes in North America? Or not protect the East India Company? In the end, many problems were triggered and a series of consequences were caused.

Including the release of the high tea tax in Wuyi, Fujian, which led to the Boston Tea Party, which caused North American smugglers to suffer huge losses and resist.

The third thing is the original history of Huainan and Northern Jiangsu salt reform reclamation. The official silver of the Governor of Liangjiang was lent to the Xingken Company, causing a deficit, but then the Governor was changed to check the accounts, and finally instigated the Governor of Jiangsu to support the Xinhai Revolution, and then all the accounts were burned.

These three things actually reflect the power of the merchant class.

Whether it was the Russian-American Company that seized Alaska, the salt reclamation that laid the foundation for the vast fertile land in northern Jiangsu, or the East India Company that seized India.

These are all power.

But once this power gets out of control, it dares to do anything.

It seems that, to put it in a good way, when the imperial power tries to share the interests of these merchants, they will definitely find a way to resist, and they will use various unexpected ways.

Money, most of the time, is better than slogans.

However, the situation of Dashun is really special.

Although the fire is boiling now, these emerging classes of Dashun also have to face the significance of the emperor's southern tour and review of the army and navy as mentioned by Cheng Tingzuo.

They are worried that the court will see that they are making too much money, and will take action to control, seize, or increase taxes.

After all, the monopoly right of the buying system is not a lifetime authorization, but a payment once a year. Whether it will be contracted to you next time, or whether the contract price will be the same next time, it is uncertain.

Seeing that the emperor was about to come to the southern tour, only God knew what these emerging classes really thought.

Because these emerging classes lived in Dashun and were in the special environment of Dashun.

Therefore, they never had the worldview of the merchants in the Netherlands and other countries, that is, trying to build a new idea of ​​"the freedom of capital is sacred, reasonable, divine, and self-evident".

It's not that they don't want to, but it's obviously unrealistic and they don't dare to think about it at all.

It's one thing to have the current situation and hope that the current situation will continue.

It's another thing to have the current situation and think that the current policies and laws are sacred, inviolable, natural, self-evident, etc.

To be honest, they are not very satisfied with the current Dashun policies such as financial control, land control, currency exchange, investment restrictions, etc.

But they really don't dare to think that these things restrict them, that is, they want to directly shout slogans to overthrow all these things that restrict them.

Because they knew very well that if they did so, it would be like going against the imperial power, the literati and the small farmers, and they would die without knowing how they died.

Therefore, their attitude towards the imperial power was very subtle.

They were afraid that the imperial power would see them making a fortune, intervene too much, and plunder their wealth.

But they had to rely on the extension of the imperial power, and look forward to the emperor's wisdom to protect their hard-won situation.

This was very different from the situation in Europe.

In these trades, because Liu Yu needed help in the court, a lot of noble forces and good family forces were mixed in. This made these external monopoly trading companies create a special kind of Dashun. The "book" of the upper class.

"Books" can be shaped and are closely related to economic foundation and tradition.

Although Liu Yu talks about free trade all day long, what he says is completely different from his approach of fully supporting monopoly companies.

Relatively speaking, the "Classics" believed by the Dashun nobles and the upper class Liangjiazi are more inclined to the French side.

That is, Yusti’s article advocating mercantilism, “Two opinions of the business aristocrats who hold different opinions from the military aristocrats or whether the aristocracy’s business is beneficial to the country.”

The ideas inside are of course more radical and twisted, but they provide a special "sacredness" for Dashun's military aristocracy to do business.

[Domestic trade, annexing land, plundering people, buying low and selling high are the behaviors of "profiteers"]

[Foreign trade, on the other hand, is a matter for “politicians”. Because the prosperity of foreign trade is inseparable from the strength of the country]

The scholar-bureaucrat class values ​​​​farming, studying, and passing down the family tradition.

Under tradition, the status of the merchant class is low, and this cannot be solved by shouting a few slogans about the unity of the four peoples.

Thousands of years of tradition can be solved with a few laws and slogans. That is nonsense.

Under thousands of years of tradition, doing business is indeed a "cheap" industry.

This book, "Business Nobles Hold Different Opinions from Military Nobles or Two Views on Whether Nobility's Business is Beneficial to the Country," does not play the biggest role in Dashun by advocating mercantilism.

Dashun does not need to deliberately engage in mercantilism, because silver and gold will always flow this way.

But... "Domestic trade is a profiteer and a cheap industry, and tradition is right"; "Foreign trade is a matter for politicians and is closely related to the country's strength."

The key is that these things give a special meaning to the "cheap industry" of "doing business" or "foreign trade".

Separate internal businessmen from external commerce.

Since it is impossible to completely reverse the awareness that "businessmen are cheap", then we must deconstruct and break down business activities into external and internal ones.

This idea is basically the same as the deconstruction and reconstruction of Confucianism in Songsu.

And this is exactly the meaning of the scriptures.

Just like the relationship between Protestantism and capitalism, the teachings of Protestantism enabled capitalism to develop and acquire sanctity.

These things are also in line with Dashun's tradition, which makes Dashun's foreign trade get rid of the traditional shackles of humble industry and create a special sanctity.

I do this to make a fortune.

This is very vulgar, and in the traditional sense, very cheap. Although scholar-bureaucrats love money, they never say it.

I do this for the country and the country.

That's pretty high.

I did this for the sake of the country and the country, and I made a fortune by the way. And the bigger I get, the more I do for the country and the country.

This is very high.

Similar to the Protestant religion, I work hard to make money, kill people, and get rich in order to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities given to me by God, which is almost the same.

After all, there is no talk of God here.

It talks about the country, the country, and the world.

The "sacredness" of Dashun's foreign trade was officially established at this moment, and it had its own "scripture" system.

This scripture does not teach how to trade. There is no need to teach this.

This scripture turns the "vulgar" business into a sacred one for the sake of the country and making contributions to the country.

This, combined with Dashun's own meritocracy, completed the sublimation of the theme and abstracted a society and country. At the same time, with Dashun's foreign exchanges, the concept of country gradually became clear.

Within the scope of the old world, during the prosperous times, it was difficult to clearly define the country. Except in troubled times.

Within the scope of the new world, who I am will have a clear meaning.

In itself, to deepen the impression of this kind of thing, you need others to know who you are. Traveling to Southeast Asia, conquering Japan, overseas competition, and foreign trade also made the concept of "I" gradually clearer.

In fact, it means expanding the scope of the world.

This turned the prosperous unification of the old world into a struggle for supremacy among nations in the new world, and the "I" became increasingly clear.

Dashun certainly did not go to war with other countries in the Atlantic Ocean.

But today Dashun denounces the British ban on cotton fabrics, tomorrow mutters that the Spanish governor took bribes and failed to do things, and the day after tomorrow faces competition from smugglers for cotton fabrics from India. Some people are becoming more and more aware of this struggle for supremacy among countries - after all , this is all fucking free money.

imperial power.

A union of military nobles and foreign merchants.

Half of the new practical elites are in the middle and lower-level officer corps in the army, and half are in coal mining, iron smelting, machinery, cannon casting, military industry and other industries.

Songsu's comprehensive export-oriented economy is also half of the world's fiscal and taxation.

This is a path that Dashun has taken that is completely different from that of countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France, which started at the same time.

To a certain extent, at this time Liu Yu asked the leaders of these emerging classes what their demands were.

To sum up, most of them hope to act like dogs to the imperial power, and hope that the emperor can make this status quo of acting like dogs into policy, legalization, clarification and institutionalization.

At least, that's the case at this point. If he had grown up for a few more years, he might have thought about things like mutiny, revolution, and controlling public opinion, but that was definitely not the case now.

Now they are very clear that they want to institutionalize the current situation of making them vassal dogs.