Dong Shuheng wishes that the economic situation of the northern industrial states in the United States would be as bad as possible.
Because economic problems are sometimes the catalyst for war.
Whenever people cannot find a way to solve an economic problem, they will resort to force - the most primitive way to solve problems.
This is clear when we look at several world-class wars. The economic crisis is the fundamental reason for the outbreak of these wars.
In the early stages of an economic crisis, people will still look for economic solutions to solve problems.
But later they discovered that these problems could not be solved by relying solely on simple economic measures.
In a situation dominated by capital, the root cause of the crisis is still the greed of capital.
Capital is like a greedy glutton, constantly relying on instinct to devour everything and strengthen itself.
Relying on economic means can only find new targets for capital to devour. As long as capital itself does not move, the crisis will not be resolved.
The growth of industrial capital requires the production of goods and their sale.
When goods cannot be sold, the expansion of capital will be hindered, and a crisis will occur at this time.
At present, many countries cannot solve these problems.
They will attribute the problem to the fact that their market is too small.
So because of the competition for the market, a war broke out.
The war in Kansas at this time was ultimately for the same reason.
Industrial capital in the north needs a market. Manor capital in the south has a market, but needs more means of production, that is, land.
Slaves are also one of their means of production.
Now the northerners want to compete with them for land and at the same time ask them to give up their slaves. Isn't this depriving them of their means of production?
It is said that cutting off someone's wealth is like killing one's parents. This is sworn hatred!
Isn't this kind of contradiction something that only war can resolve?
As long as there is capital in this world, such chaos will continue to occur.
Capital must grow, catalyze people's needs, and continuously transform various resources on the earth into commodities.
Let people consume, thereby making itself stronger.
In the process, it seems that people's living standards have been improved.
People's lives have become more convenient.
However, these are all based on damaging the earth's environment.
At the same time, people have also fallen into the life of capital and seem to enjoy all kinds of conveniences.
But in fact, it has become a link in the life woven by capital.
On the surface, people's material life has become richer, but their spiritual world is constantly being constrained.
Just like the capital in the American North now wants the land to be controlled by free people, who can buy the goods they produce.
They wanted to liberate black slaves and wanted black slaves to become workers in their industrial production.
They are the cheapest workers, and reducing production costs is also one of their pursuits.
The manor capital in the south, by exporting raw materials to Europe and importing industrial products, formed a stable and profitable market union.
By sending raw materials to Europe, they can get a piece of the pie of European capital.
The cooperation with Norinco Capital cannot bring them such benefits.
Because the industrial capital in the north does not have its own market and its own profits cannot be guaranteed, how can it still be distributed to the south?
If those northern capitals control the South, they will definitely try their best to squeeze the South, lower the supply price of raw materials, and then dump industrial products to the South.
Historically, after the Civil War, Lincoln adopted similar methods to those used by Dong Shuheng now.
That is to make your own cake bigger.
They vigorously developed the west and invested in a lot of infrastructure.
A large number of immigrants moved to the west to cultivate land.
These immigrants for reclamation require a large amount of production means, and a large amount of infrastructure also requires a large amount of materials.
This greatly promoted the industrial development of the northern United States.
In addition, the South had surrendered at that time, and the market in the South was also opened.
Raw materials produced in the south can also be transported to the north unimpeded.
Overseas, they gradually controlled Hawaii, controlled the Pacific routes, and opened up the markets of Japan and the Qing Dynasty.
These all contributed to the economic development of the North after the Civil War.
The Renaissance Army's large-scale development outside the customs is similar to the United States' development of the western region.
It is different from immigrants from the Far East and Southeast Asia.
The scale of development outside the customs is even larger.
At that time, after the Qing army entered the customs, Shengjing was set up as a companion capital outside the customs to take charge of affairs outside the customs.
A large number of the Manchu and Qing people who were originally outside the Pass were moved to the interior of the Pass.
These Manchu and Han Eight Banners were placed in the capital and dozens of major cities across the country.
The Qing court hoped to consolidate its rule.
This resulted in a sudden reduction in the population outside the customs.
Later, in order to prevent the threat brought by Tsarist Russia from the north, three general offices, Heilongjiang General, Jilin General, and Shengjing General, were set up to manage the land outside the pass.
But apart from the officers and soldiers stationed there, there was not much population outside the pass.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty rose up in this place, so they had to prevent another one of their own from appearing.
As a result, the Manchu Qing Dynasty sealed off the city and did not allow the Han people in the city to move outside the city.
After the Qing army entered the pass, the area outside the pass became even more desolate.
After the Fuxing Army settled in Xinjing, the first decision they made was to immigrate and develop outside the customs.
This is of course an opportunity brought about by the Yellow River bursting its banks.
But politically, we still have to completely put an end to the Manchu Qing's desire to make a comeback.
Although the Manchus who originally lived in the Pass had changed their surnames to Han, they lived among the crowd and were no different from the Han people.
Dong Shuheng did not intend to embarrass the ordinary Manchus. Except that the original royal nobles were sent to labor reform to hone their life skills.
The other Manchus are now ordinary people under the rule of the Fuxing Army.
However, if there is no development outside the customs for a day, some people will think of going outside the customs to revive the Qing Dynasty.
There are even rumors in the market that before Dorgon entered the customs, he stored a large sum of gold, silver and jewelry outside the customs.
If one day the Manchus were driven out by the Han, they could still return to the outside world and use this money to make a comeback.
Dong Shuheng knew that this was nonsense. If they were really defeated and retreated outside the customs, what use would it be to have gold, silver and jewelry on hand.
Currency must circulate to generate value.
Without people and materials, what’s the use of gold, silver and jewelry?
Dong Shuheng believes that talent is the most critical at all times. Naturally, your own land must be occupied and managed by your own people.
Taking advantage of this diversion of the Yellow River, Dong Shuheng successfully mobilized millions of Shandong people to migrate.
Why were people moved from Shandong to outside the customs?
This problem is like the fact that most of the people who entered Guandong in history were Shandong people.
Historically, after the Qing army entered the customs, especially during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the north maintained good weather for decades.
Especially in Shandong, there is a bumper harvest every year.
The people at that time were so simple, and they had to have more children if they could have enough to eat.
In this way, by the Jiaqing period, the population of Shandong alone had reached more than 30 million.
With the current efficiency of agricultural production, it is naturally impossible to feed such a large population.
In addition, the Taiping rebellion did not have a deep impact on Shandong.
So after Dong Shuheng took control of Shandong, he discovered that the population here was really large.
Most of the immigrants Dong Shuheng absorbed before were refugees from Anhui and Henan.
There are not many people coming from Shandong, which makes Shandong still very crowded.
In addition, Shandong region and Liaodong region face each other across the sea, and there is only a narrow strait between them.
Historically, Shandong and Liaodong were sometimes placed in the same administrative region.
Also, although the climate in Shandong is not as cold as outside Guanhai, it is not far different.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng decided to emigrate from Shandong on a large scale outside the customs.
After more than a year of hard work, the number of people who have successfully taken root outside the customs has reached more than five million.
Plus the population who immigrated to the Far East and Yuehu area.
In the past few years, the number of people immigrating from Shandong has exceeded 10 million.
But this has not yet reached Dong Shuheng's goal.
The intake of people outside the customs is still very large.
Even if you don’t want to over-exploit and retain a lot of virgin land.
There must be at least 20 to 30 million people in order to have a foundation for development outside the customs.
Dong Shuheng set off from Vladivostok and took the overland route, escorted by cavalry all the way west to Jilin Prefecture in Jilin Province.
This city was developed on the basis of the original residence of Jilin General Mansion.
It was originally a capital city with a certain foundation as a city, and the surrounding land was also extremely fertile.
Many of the first immigrants settled in this area.
According to the standard of one hundred acres per family, these immigrants from Shandong became the small landowners they originally envied as soon as they arrived here.
But when they saw their home land, these people felt helpless.
Because all the land allocated to them was raw land. Fortunately, the government gave them a year's rations.
Shandong people are all able to endure hardships. Since it is their own land, they must take good care of it.
Every fifteen households here are divided into a village and control nearly two thousand acres of surrounding land.
The five villages form a natural village and are managed by the government.
Ten villages form a town and have a town hall. There are also some public facilities in the town.
The land here in Jilin is cut up by some low mountains, and this distribution can just fill the gaps between these mountains.
The land allocated by the government is close to rivers and lakes, so there is no need to worry about irrigation.
This was their first batch of immigrants, and the land allocated to those immigrants who came later was not so good.
Songjiang Town, Jiaohe County, Jilin Prefecture is located on the bank of Songhua River.
The Songhua River originating from Changbai Mountain has abundant water and the land on both sides is fertile.
To the west of Songjiang Town is Laoye Ridge, and to the south is the Songhua River. The Jiaohe River flows into the Songhua River from north to south from Jiaohe County.
This is a standard immigrant town, with ten villages and fifty villages, a total of 750 farmers, and a population of more than 5,000. There are also some townspeople engaged in commerce and handicrafts living in the town.
Li Yansong's family lives in Shishangtun, Yongxing Village.
This year is the first autumn harvest for their village and the entire town.
In the first year they came here, they didn't make it in time for spring plowing.
Li Yansong has hunting skills. When he came here in the first year, he took the people in the village to hunt on the land allocated to them and replenished the bad supplies.
Later, the village developed him into a militia and appointed him as the village chief.
Li Yansong was assigned a flintlock gun.
With a gun in his hand, he didn't panic. After having the gun, Li Yansong took the young men from the village into the mountains and brought back a large amount of prey.
The furs brought to the town can be exchanged for money, and the meat goes into the bellies of the villagers.
The work of reclamation was very arduous, and the food provided by the government alone could barely make ends meet.
With Li Yansong taking the lead, the immigrants in Shishangtun lived better than those in the surrounding villages.