Free trade?

Liu Yu had a very familiar feeling, so soon the ships of Western countries were involved in the sea border of the Dashun Dynasty?

Liu Yu remembered that when he was in the Western Regions, the Western merchant Jason had said that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely come to the Shun Dynasty to do business, but now less than half a year has passed, even if Jason can rush back to his country, he will not have time to organize a fleet to fulfill his promise. That is to say, these people are simply a bunch of interlopers.

"It's also a good thing to have a cultural exchange of goods and culture, so that they can live in the National Post House for a while, and as for the opening of a treaty port, it will be slowed down for the time being."

Liu Yu didn't want to make hasty decisions, and many things could only be discerned after careful consideration. Liu Yue is not clear about the level of scientific and technological development of Westerners, but the aggressive heart of these Western careerists, Liu Yue is very clear and clear, and the Oriental values of peace and self-neutrality are contrasted, the expansion of the early capitalist society has increased the ambition of Westerners.

It is not an exaggeration to say that all of them are warmongers.

"What if Westerners want to sell goods in Chang'an City?" Sui Yu continued to ask.

"What's in it?"

Liu Yue frowned, and said in his heart whether it would be opium.

"Some industrial goods, and cloth, their cloth is very dense and the price is very low, and some traders on the eastern coast have been secretly doing business with these Westerners, mainly because their cloth is good and cheap."

Liu Yu nodded twice to show that he understood that the Orientals used old looms for weaving, while the Westerners had entered the steam age and used steam looms. Westerners have more cloth. Naturally, they wanted to ship their fruits abroad and sell them. By the way, they exchanged the supplies they needed from other countries.

This is a terrible sign.

That means that the industrial revolution of Westerners has begun. If the Shun Dynasty does not immediately carry out the reform of science and technology, it will inevitably go behind the Westerners and be suppressed.

"They don't stop what they're going to sell for the time being, but they send someone to keep an eye on them, and report to me as soon as they have something out of the ordinary. In addition, no matter what goods they buy in our Shun Dynasty, they also need to get the approval of the Department of Commerce and Trade, and no merchants are allowed to do business with these Westerners. ”

Liu Yuben is cautious. Prevent Westerners from plundering some of the Oriental techniques, especially "muskets", from the Great Shun Dynasty.

"It may not be possible to ban it." Sui Yu was a little embarrassed, "Merchants pursue profits, even if they know that the consequences of the road are serious, but I am afraid they will not be able to stop the greed of the merchants." ”

Liu Yu nodded and said: "I'm afraid that strict restrictions alone will not help, staring at this group of people, if anyone is lifted from them, they will also see it more clearly." ”

Sui Yu was the young eunuch of the Department of Commerce and Trade, and she came to Liu Yu for advice when she could not make a decision about the Westerners' request for trade. And Liu Yu ordered it down. All she had to do was do it.

After talking about the Westerners going to the Shun Dynasty to do business, Sui Yu reported the recent income and expenditure of the Department of Commerce and Trade. Because the war had just ended, and it coincided with the snowstorm in Guanzhong, which had not been encountered in a century, the expenses of the imperial court were very large. Liu Yu has always been paying attention to these figures, because Liu Yue wants to start a war against the south, and now Liu Yu can only think that the country should indeed have to recuperate, and he can't afford to fight this battle.

"Miss Sui, do you think that our Dashun Dynasty will have to recuperate for a few years before it can return to the situation it was four or five years ago?"

Sui Yu thought for a while and said: "The short is three or five years, and the long is one or two decades, depending on whether the world is smooth." ”

Liu Yu sighed: "I'm afraid I can't afford to wait, is there any way to speed up the recuperation?" ”

This question directly asked Sui Yu, it is a matter of slow work and meticulous work to recuperate, and Liu Yue has to "pull seedlings to grow", which is not in line with reality, but may also cause some consequences.

"The little woman doesn't know if there's any way to speed it up."

Liu Yu is actually thinking these days that if the Dashun Dynasty can be more prosperous and powerful, in addition to reducing taxes, it is a good way to vigorously develop agriculture, build water conservancy, support the development of handicraft industry, and open up new transportation routes. But these are just articles on paper, which require manpower, material resources and time to back them up, and will not see immediate results.

To achieve immediate results, is to develop science and technology, for example, to study hybrid crops, and then develop some new crops such as Nanyang sweet corn, in terms of commerce, to replace the old backward technology with a steam engine, only by treating one person as a few people, in order to have a surplus of labor, in order to complete the capital expansion of the Great Shun Dynasty.

Studying these is like a fantasy for Liu Yu, not to mention the uncivilized and ignorant people in this era. The best way to do this is to pick up ready-made ones.

"Those Westerners, I will send someone to receive them, if they want to open up the free trade between the two countries, then our conditions are also very simple, we need them to provide some of their skills, only in this way, we can further develop amicably on the basis of mutual benefit." Liu Yu thought about the wording and said, "Just say that, see how their hunger reacts, and tell me when you come back." ”

In these years, people's understanding of patents is not deep, Liu Yu must "cheat" all their advanced techniques from the hands of these Westerners, and then organize some intelligent handicraft technicians to learn, and learn from each other's strengths to improve. In the case of a foundation, it is not very complicated to improve. Just like the steam engine, a Watt only invented the steam engine, but his descendants ushered in an era of steam. Without Watt, the age of steam might not have arrived, and it might have been delayed by hundreds of years.

Watt has made indelible contributions to the development of science and technology in the world.

Sui Yu seemed to understand what Liu Yu was going to do, but she didn't know how the Westerners weaved high-quality and inexpensive cloth, and she didn't understand why Liu Yu was so cautious about trade with Westerners, and she also asked for their "skills". In Lang Huaxia, people still have a kind of arrogant thinking, thinking that as long as it is Fanbang, it must be backward to the point of drinking blood from Ru Mao, even Sui Yu also thinks that Westerners are almost the same kind of people as Fanbang.

Originally, after talking about the affairs of the Westerners, I didn't expect Liu Yu to bring the topic back again, and Sui Yu immediately remembered one thing: "The Westerners seem to have proposed to preach in the territory of the Changshun Dynasty, as for what kind of religion they want to preach...... The little woman didn't know, but the Ministry of Rites was already working on it. ”

Liu Yu said angrily: "Then why did the Ministry of Rites never mention this matter." ”

Sui Yu said: "Probably because they haven't reached a consensus yet, they haven't conveyed ......."

Liu Yu turned from slight anger to thin anger and slapped the table.

Originally, the development of mystical religion in Chang'an City was already a headache, but now the Westerners are coming to mix again, isn't this a troublemaker? Liu Yu was most afraid that Westerners would use their beliefs and values to mislead the people of the East, in such an imperial country, if the faith was changed, it would not be far from the chaotic country. (To be continued......)