This unspeakable lie is the contradiction between imperial power and China.

Liu Yu was convinced that the imperial power would not allow a Chinese version of the East India Company to have the power to have an army, taxes, and even the power to establish a government abroad.

The dynasty is not an inseparable whole, and there are different classes and interests. After a brief Nanyang requires a large investment, as for whether it is profitable, it depends on where the butt sits.

The Emperor's pioneering spirit, seduced by profit, would one day reach an unacceptable threshold.

After this summons, Liu Yu walked around the capital alone a few times, wanting to feel a little different from a few years ago, but there were not too many, and there were no immediate and visible changes.

The biggest change was that Dashun began to officially ban Christianity and announced a break with the Holy See.

If they continue to believe in orthodox Catholicism, the missionaries will be sent to Macao and banned from preaching in the mainland; Or, like Taoist priests and monks, they can continue to believe in foreign religions, but they do not listen to the so-called "holy oracles" of the Holy See in such customs as worshipping ancestors, worshipping Confucius, and bowing down to the emperor.

The two Catholic churches around the once lively Forbidden City are no longer noisy. For most people who are not religious at all, this change is not too uncomfortable.

Presumably, for a long time, religion still spread in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

Religion is the mental anesthesia of the poor, and it is also the last resort for some weak people to fight against clans, and in the future, in Fujian, Guangxi, and other places where these clans are powerful, it will inevitably spread into disasters.

Dashun has been slowly divided.

the small peasant society of the North; the Confucian doctor landlord in Jiangnan; further south, the clans and the cultists confronted each other; Different economic bases will also give birth to different ideological soils, just like the original dispute between Southern Confucianism and Northern Confucianism, I am afraid that there will be some new interpretations in the future.

He lingered at the door of his Western teacher, Dai Jinxian, for a while, and finally did not step in. I wanted to talk to Dai Jinxian about the ban on Dashun, but after thinking about it, this kind of thing is almost incomprehensible.

Maybe Dashun will produce a few talents to change the Catholic demon into the same religion as the monks and Taoists, maybe not, but this is not something he can control.

Walking around the reins, Liu Yu suddenly found that he couldn't find a few friends of the same age in the capital, even fox friends and dog friends.

Either he followed Qi Guogong to study abroad and did not return, or he had already served in various ministries or joined the army. Even Tian Ping, who he is very familiar with, is now sent to Songjiang to work in the customs.

Just like when he first came to this world many years ago, the whole capital was a little strange to him. He was a little nostalgic for the rumbling cannons of Weihai and the white sails of warships.

I have the navy in my heart, and I am like an arrow in my heart, but I can't get out of it for the time being.

He still has to wait for a group of people, that is, a large number of concubines who have studied arithmetic and geometry, but they can't get into the Wude Palace, and they can't attack the identity of the sons of the good family.

This is the preparatory teacher he conceived of teaching natural knowledge through self-study and starting anew. With his fame and the previous precedent of presiding over the enrollment of Jinghai Palace's official school, Liu Yu still has appeal.

I waited until May, participated in several court meetings, and finally waited for the money allocated by the court and the personnel recruited.

It's time to leave the capital.

Tian Zhenyi didn't secretly run out to say goodbye, Liu Yu told her what happened in the palace, and the two tacitly agreed not to do anything out of the ordinary, such as meeting in private.

Fortunately, summer has arrived, and Qi Guogong and the others should be back soon, and the long wait has finally come to an end, and the mood is still very good.

All the way to Weihai, the scene that was already a little different from the capital resurfaced in front of him, and Liu Yu felt much more comfortable.

Just like Bianjing in the Song Dynasty, the wealth of the whole country is concentrated there, providing a different kind of prosperity.

It's the same with Weihai.

the annual military salary and investment of the imperial court; almost monopolized the massive capital injection of trade with Japan; The construction of military factories and various workshops has made this place present a kind of abnormal prosperity.

A city with a population of only a few tens of thousands, with a budget of 100,000 taels transferred here every year, coupled with the abundance of funds for trade with Japan, is a bit lighter to say that it is deformed.

Next to the dry dock, a Newcomen steam engine that the French bought from Europe at a high price was carrying water in thick black smoke.

The first warships to enter service are moored there, and workers are cleaning the bottom of the ships for barnacles and shellfish of all kinds.

Asphalt bought from Nanyang is boiled in a large cauldron to give off a pungent taste.

The bulky Newcomen steam engine laboriously drained the water from the dry dock, mixing the air with the smell of smoke and pungent asphalt, giving Liu Yu's nostrils a sweetness that others could hardly experience.

"Cigarette rolls! Match! ”

The sailors who went ashore to rest received their salaries, and the children who carried boxes around selling cigarettes and matches from the workshops knew that these sailors were the most willing to spend money, and gathered around the sailors to shout and sell.

The sailors, who did not have a family, generously bought two packs of cigarettes, and several people bought a few matches and shook them into the city.

The dense number of brothels, restaurants, and grocery stores in the city all show that there is a large group of people who have money to spend.

On the way to the docks, a newly built cannon is being loaded onto a ship for transportation south.

The maritime merchants of Dashun were allowed to carry some cannons to guard against pirates, and the cannons here were of good quality and were very popular among the maritime merchants in the south.

Outside the military factory, a new batch of workers is being recruited. The overall situation of Dashun's military reform has been decided, and a large number of orders for flintlock pistols and bayonets can be foreseen to usher in a wave of great development in the next few years.

After Wendeng experimented with the system of apportionment and perpetual tenants, it also promoted the movement of population. Many Wendeng locals went to Weihai in search of a job in the workshop, and not everyone could take the turn of Yongdiantian.

More and more landlords also chose to move to the cities under the policy of compulsory permanent tenants, or invested in shares in military factories, or opened various shops.

Occasionally, a few horse-drawn carriages would carry flat glass to the homes of wealthy families, some of whom had begun to experiment with glass that was more transparent than window paper in the main hall.

Liu Yu was sure that this deformed prosperity would continue for some time, and as long as the imperial court placed the home port of the fleet in Weihai, it would be more prosperous than elsewhere.

The "buying and selling" of people, which is more deformed than this deformed prosperity, is also carried out at this deformed port. People who have bought them cheaply or cheated from all over the world are waiting to board the ship to meet their unknown fate.

The legend of the distant whale sea is very cold and cold, and it is as far away as the horizon, but in the depictions of those human traffickers, it is clearly a peach blossom paradise.

There are not only long-term workers bought by the locals, but also some are bought to reclaim the wasteland, the grain does not need to be transported away, it can be traded in Vladivostok, and you can directly come to Weihai to exchange silver with the bills.

In addition to the people being transported out, it was the monsoon, and the ships of the French East India Company also brought a group of various craftsmen hired by Liu Yu at his expense.

They were all lured here with high salaries and promises of allowing them to buy shares, or artisans and technicians sent by the French semi-official level.

The French captain who specialized in transporting people and the machinery that Liu Yu spent money to buy was already familiar with Liu Yu, and after a short polite exchange, he took out a piece of information about Europe that Liu Yu had ordered with money.

According to the map-style industrial and commercial intelligence collection, the direction to be collected is written by Liu Yu in advance and a sum of silver is paid.

It's not a secret, it's just that no one notices in this direction. He wrote the directions, and it was easy to collect.

flipped through the contents of the intelligence book, Liu Yu frowned slightly, there was a message on it that made him feel a little uneasy.

Local businessmen involved in the cotton textile industry in Britain are holding a huge petition to hope that the British government will relax the restrictions on the cotton textile industry.

The beginning of the industrial revolution at the technological level has not yet arrived.

At the policy level, I am afraid that the UK will have to lay a good foundation in the next few years.

The enclosure movement in Britain is to raise sheep in enclosures.

The basis of the British textile industry is wool, not cotton, which is a major commodity exported by the United Kingdom and the backbone of the British handicraft industry.

However, with the expansion of the East India Company's trade, Chinese and Indian cotton cloth, with low prices, excellent quality, and good dyeing, frantically impacted the British woolen textile industry.

The cotton cloth was good and cheap, and the British handicraft industry was greatly affected by the foreign goods of the East India Company.

Thirty years ago, the woolen textile industry began to march on a large scale, rally, and petition, and finally Britain issued a decree: absolutely forbidden Chinese, Indian, and Persian textiles to enter Britain.

However, the relationship of the East India Company was very hard.

Laws and regulations are laws, policies are policies, there are policies, there are countermeasures, and the sale is still not delayed at all, making the British wool textile industry difficult.

More than a decade ago, the South China Sea bubble exploded, Britain's finances went into serious trouble, industry and commerce were affected by the bubble explosion and the reform of the gold standard, and exports were even more difficult.

After the bubble burst, a more stringent policy was introduced, and in order to protect the local handicraft industry, the import of cotton cloth was strictly prohibited to the greatest extent.

Even the British were strictly forbidden to wear cotton cloth, not only imported, but also not allowed to wear cotton cloth.

In contrast to the free trade advocated by the Anglo-Saxons in later generations, Britain at this time was a "closed" country, and it was similar to Dashun.

It's just that Dashun wants free trade and can't import, while Britain is subjectively only allowed to export and not import.

However, the merchants of the East India Company had long been keenly aware of a problem: the decree said that cotton cloth was not to be worn, so if cotton cloth was mixed with linen and wool, was it still cotton cloth?

If the cloth is 90 percent cotton cloth and the remaining 10 percent is linen or wool, then this cloth should be called cotton, linen and wool blended fabric, not cotton cloth, so there is a loophole in this decree.

With this loophole, some blended fabrics mixed with linen, cotton and wool began to be produced in Britain as a way to evade the law.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary was the East India Company.

By forming a number of empty textile mills, cotton cloth from China and India was shipped to England and sold under the name of "blended fabrics".

The whole world is the same, as long as there is a small loophole in the law, capital will poke this loophole into a big hole, and it is the same reason that Liu Yu is allowed to transport rice to Japan with some goods.

As the effects of the South China Sea Bubble gradually dissipated, and with the smuggling of a large amount of cotton cloth sold in the name of blended fabrics, some workers related to cotton textiles in Britain began to fight for legitimacy from this loophole.

Businessmen in Manchester and Lancashire have lobbied on a large scale since this year, hoping that the government will relax the cotton policy, and that Manchester's linen and cotton blends will be qualified to be sold in the UK.

Judging from the newspapers collected by the French, this time the lobbying was basically successful.

As long as this policy is relaxed, the policy foundation of the British cotton textile industry will be laid.

The British have invented the shuttle, but this thing has no impact on the textile industry in Jiangnan.

In the short term, it was the East India Company that benefited. With this opening, they will be able to transport Indian spindles to Britain and directly transport the embargoed cotton cloth, which must be risky.

But since Manchester's mixed fabrics, textile weaving, spinning is spinning, weaving is weaving, India's spindles can supply the demand after the invention of the shuttle, and after the policy allows cotton textiles.

After seeing the news, Liu Yu was a little anxious. Since there is still hope of "winning in order to win", he must think about how to go forward.

It should not be possible to follow the British.

The Jenny spinning machine is an artifact in the UK, but not at all in Dashun.

Because the yarn spun from this thing is not suitable for pure cotton cloth at all, but suitable for mixed cloth of linen, cotton and wool. The yarn spun from this thing is easy to break, and tougher hemp and wool are needed as warp threads and cotton as weft threads.

Moreover, the United Kingdom does not allow pure cotton products for the time being, and Manchester and Lancashire still take advantage of the policy loophole, believing that their textiles are not pure cotton but mixed cloths, and pure cotton cloth is still prohibited in the United Kingdom at this time.

Dashun cotton cloth is cotton cloth, linen cloth is linen cloth, there are few such mixed cloth, and the Jenny spinning machine that is easy to break is equivalent to a waste in Dashun, and it is of no great use.

What is really useful is the spindle worsted spinning machine, and the emergence of the spindle worsted machine has made it possible to industrialize pure cotton products.

However, we all know that Jenny spinning machine is easy, but this spindle worsted machine is difficult, at least Liu Yu doesn't know how to do this thing, and he doesn't understand the principle.

The Jenny spinning machine was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, so it was widely spread.

But in fact, if this thing is put in Songjiang, it will be scolded to death by the weavers in Songjiang: the yarn spun by this thing is so fine and so easy to break, use this thing to weave cloth?

However, the more low-key, and more suitable for Dashun's spindle worsted spinning machine has not been widely circulated, and there is no "golden idea" that can inspire thinking to let people know what this thing is about.

Moreover, when the spindle worsted machine was invented, Napoleon had moved from Corsica to France, and he couldn't copy this thing if he wanted to.

But there is one thing, Liu Yu can be sure that he can't copy the road of Jenny's spinning machine, but must always keep an eye on the British patent.

Let's see if there are any early water-powered spinning machines in the past few years, and then dig people up with heavy money and continue to improve.

After pondering for a while, Liu Yu felt that this road of "striving for victory" could not be followed by the established plagiarism method. Still have to think about a different path...... For example, first bypass the light industry, wait for plagiarism, and put energy and large investment on the pre-technology "hydraulic boring machine" of the steam engine.

This thing can not only dig cylinders, but also drill cannon barrels, and take a path diametrically opposed to the British light first and then heavy, the market drives demand, and demand promotes progress: the road that is heavy first and then light, contrary to the law of market demand.