Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1009

Dashun is a standard feudal dynasty, and the ruling class is of course not those who mine, cook salt, or engage in industry and commerce.

But Dashun has a very special feature, which not only made Liu Yu complain all day long and insulted him as a tinkerer, but also allowed Dashun to support a group of new chaebols in some special industries.

That is, the land rent in Dashun is too high and the domestic demand is sluggish, so the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the landlord class is not very direct and sharp.

The reason is that Niu Congyun told the emperor that there would be no British-style enclosure movement in Dashun.

The land rent has reached its peak, and unless an acre of land can produce four or five taels of silver, capital can rent the land at a higher rent than tenants and let cotton eat people.

And since this cannot be done, capital is not interested in domestic land for the time being.

With the same money, you can get ten times as many plantations in Nanyang, and the labor cost is extremely low, so why do you have to have an irreconcilable conflict with the landlord class in China?

Although this contradiction is not direct and sharp.However, Liu Yu, the spokesperson of the emerging class in Dashun, is still full of malice towards the landlord class, because land rents have driven up interest rates, and excessively high interest rates and land yields have severely curbed capital flow to industry and commerce.

It's just that this contradiction is hidden. Based on the relationship between the gentry class and the industrial and commercial class in Dashun, on the overall level, the contradiction is not very sharp, and there is even a tendency to collude.

The contradiction between the two sides is more reflected in the matter of Liu Yu's Nanyang rice in Songjiang Mansion.

A large amount of Nanyang rice has entered, and the industry and commerce are very happy, because the textile industry has called a break and called a "rice sticker". If the price of rice is too high, capital will pay higher wages, because at least the basic necessities of life for workers must be guaranteed. .

Landlords are very upset about the large amount of Nanyang rice coming in, because what they charge is rent in kind. The lower the rice price, the lower their income, which seriously affects their land rent income.

In addition, the overall contradiction between the two parties has not reached the point of irreconcilability.

Only, the salt well is different.

The high land rent of Yanjing makes the capital very unhappy.

Yanjing can really earn income far exceeding the current average interest rate of Dashun, so capital is happy to pour in.As a result of the influx, the contradiction between capital and landlords became irreconcilable.

In Dashun, looking at the class contradiction between landlords and capital, only looking at cultivated land, can only be seen through the logic of land rent and interest, which is not intuitive.

The ruling class of the Dashun court were not businessmen.

But, of course, not these landowners with salt well fields.

Dashun didn't dare to carry out a comprehensive land reform of arable land, but he still had the guts to make a move on these salt well landlords.

Niu Congyun is not afraid of causing trouble, because the emperor's words have been given to him before he left.

It is not a big problem to kill a few people, or even dozens of people.

The key is to solve it as soon as possible, and meet the demand for salt production as soon as possible, so as to provide objective taxation for the court, then all accusations will not be important.

Now that Ma Haochuan is here with the army, Niu Congyun doesn't have to worry, because he was angered by these people, and some "righteous men" beat him to death.

So he waited for the army to arrive, and after setting up the formation, Niu Congyun said, "Since I want to manage the salt industry in the Syrian state capital, I will explain the policy clearly today."

"In the future, if you need to dig a well in the land in the salt-producing area, you can dig it directly. The company will compensate you for 40 years of land benefits, not counting salt, but rice planting. Among them, 20 years will be directly paid in cash, and the remaining 20 years Make shares at a discount and receive annual interest every year."

"The rent for salt wells is collected by the imperial court. If you want to collect it, you can collect it. If you don't want to collect it, you can find it from the salt tax."

"Don't kneel here now, it's serious to go back and prepare the title deed."

"The matter is over, if there are troublemakers again, arrest them!"

After all, these people are still there.

Ma Haochuan didn't say anything, he just asked the soldiers to hold the butts of their guns, and drove these people away.

For a while, there was a loud cry, like bandits entering the village, jumping like chickens and dogs.

After driving these people away, Ma Haochuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Brother Niu, if such a method is included in the scriptures, it will definitely be included in the line of treacherous ministers. I am afraid that my reputation is no different from that of the former mine supervisor. Xingguo You have done a lot of things in southern Jiangsu, but your methods are gentle, so you should learn more."

Niu Congyun laughed, shook his head and said, "Mr. Xingguo is a gentleman who cooks far away. He presided over the development of Nanyang. In just a few years, due to unacceptable water and soil, hot climate, and malaria, more than [-] people have died. His methods are gentle. ? The good citizens of the dynasty who died in his hands, including the Ceylon incident, cost no less than one hundred thousand. Where am I now? It’s just a few families crying.”

"In the future, if someone compiles "Wei Xin Traitor's Dian Jiang Lu", then the King of Tota must be Xing Guogong. Most of us are also listed in Dian Jiang Lu, but I'm afraid... just like Xu Xianqing and Wan Yanyang in the previous dynasty. In the last few."

"Now you and I are both grasshoppers on the same rope. On my side, I still have to rely on Brother Ma. The reasoning is useless, and I have to rely on the butt of the gun."

Although the words were a little joking, the two of them also had some hidden worries in their hearts.There is no official in the world who cannot fail, even if Duke Xingguo is now in the royal family, if the two of them are included in the "Record of Only New Traitors and Generals" together in the future, I am afraid that they will be implicated.

At that time, the old and new accounts will be settled together, and I am afraid that Dashun will also cause chaos between the new party and the old party in the Song Dynasty.

Ma Haochuan sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, since His Majesty ordered you and me to come here, we must continue to do things. You and I are actually the same. If your Majesty asks, if you really don't want to climb up, just be a conservative The elm lump is the evaluation of a mediocre person by His Majesty, isn't it enough?"

"I just sigh that you and I both want to climb up. After talking so much, I just got this job. Now I understand what it means to forget to shrink your hands when there is more behind, and there is no way to turn back in front of you."

"No matter what Brother Niu thinks, I crawled out of the dead people in western Sichuan, and now I have finally climbed to the defense envoy. It is impossible for me to stop. I am only [-] years old. gone."

Niu Congyun also laughed and said, "Who is not? Go, go, go! A traitor is a traitor."

The two revealed a little bit of their thoughts to each other, and they made up their minds to support each other until the end.

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Two days later, the business leaders of the Sichuan Luzhou Gang, Tea Horse Gang, and Mianzhou Gang, who had already heard the news, came to the Xiqin Guild Hall in person to serve tea.

The merchants of the Mianzhou Gang also staged a play of "pleading guilty to the thorns", deliberately coming naked with thorns on their backs.

The reason for this is that not long ago, there were some conflicts between the Mianzhou Gang and the Shaanxi businessmen.

The pawnshops in Pingwu County, Sichuan are basically run by businessmen from Shaanxi.It is even said that now about [-]% of the pawnshops in Sichuan Province are run by people from Shaanxi.

It is conceivable that opening a pawn shop and lending usury are all ridiculous.

What happened in general was very common. It was nothing more than a Shaanxi pawnshop in Pingwu County lending usurious loans, and then forcing the local family to sell their wives and daughters to pay off the debts.

It's pretty normal in this day and age.

Originally, Sichuan businessmen were quite dissatisfied with Shaanxi businessmen who brought huge amounts of capital into Sichuan.

When something happened in Pingwu County that forced a local powerful family to sell their wife to pay off their debts, the businessmen of the Mianzhou Gang also took the opportunity to stir up trouble.

In addition, on weekdays, it is true that there are no hooks for giving birth to a son, and many people have been forced to death by lending money.

Therefore, the local Sichuan merchants, gentry, and villagers in Pingwu County were instigated, and the public was indignant, telling Shaanxi people to get out of Pingwu.

As soon as the Pingwu incident broke out, villagers from surrounding Zhaohua, Guangyuan, Zitong, Jianzhou, Shiquan and other places gathered to respond.

No. "Anyone who belongs to Shaanxi will be expelled."

In Dashun, this incident is called the "Mianzhou Married Wife Incident".

After the Mianzhou gang expelled the Shaanxi people, they monopolized the pawnbroking industry in Mianzhou.

As for whether it is really giving back to the village and not cheating the fellow villagers, then I don’t know.Maybe the pawnshop opened by a Sichuan businessman gave the villagers low interest rates?Or maybe Sichuan merchants don't lend usury to Sichuan people?
But all in all, between the Mianzhou gang and the Shaanxi businessmen, because of the wife-marrying incident, a deep bond was formed between the two sides.

It's just that, now that Chuanyan wants to deal with a joint venture, the previous enmity doesn't matter.

Pawning, after all, did not sell salt to make money, especially after the court announced that it would cancel the high land rent, of course the Mianzhou gang hoped that the two sides would laugh away their grievances.

The head of the Chamber of Commerce in the West Qin Guild Hall warmly received these Sichuan merchants, and personally untied the Sichuan merchants from the Mianzhou Gang who came to plead guilty, and put on their own clothes.

What should go is still going to go. After drinking the tea from others, he indicated that this matter will be written off in the future.

The leader of the Shaanxi Business Gang knew it in his heart.

At the beginning in the capital, Liu Yu insisted that they pay for the construction of the Three Gorges Waterway, and insisted that they must set aside more than [-]% of the shares to the local Sichuanese, in order to unite all the forces that could be united.

Whether you are close or not is divided into classes.

Now that they have to deal with the landlords of the Syrian state capital, these merchants who are planning to invest in Yanjingye have let go of their old grievances.

The reason why Shaanxi businessmen agreed to pay for the construction of the Three Gorges so easily was that they did not know that the imperial court was actually planning to "introduce salt from Sichuan into Chu, supply salt in Huaibei, and reclaim land in Huainan".

The reason is also related to the wife-marrying incident that year.

If this time, the rich local businessmen in Sichuan were not widely recruited, what would happen to this matter today?
It turned out that Sichuan merchants contributed money and efforts, and instigated it in the middle, and characterized this matter as "the people of Qin seized the property of the people of Sichuan", which may make it difficult to end the trouble.

In the end, it may lead to great conflicts between Sichuan people and Shaanxi businessmen, and it may be very difficult to gain a foothold.

The Shaanxi businessman doesn't think he has done something wrong, what about usury?With a kind heart, he will sell his wife tomorrow, and he will sell his wife later, so is it possible that this pawn shop will not open?Don't let usury go?
Since he felt that he was right, he now received these Sichuan businessmen with the attitude of a winner and a mentality that adults do not remember the mistakes of villains.

Regardless of what's going on internally, in the eyes of Sichuan businessmen, Shaanxi businessmen are "high-spirited and bright". It is Shaanxi businessmen who "actively" took the money to repair the Three Gorges waterway, and took advantage of the background of Yunnan copper and Guizhou lead water transportation to win Sichuan. monopoly on salt.

Moreover, Shaanxi businessmen "actively" reserved [-]% of the shares for Sichuan businessmen. Isn't this convincing?

If you look at it this way, it was Deng Aizhonghui who said that these Shaanxi businessmen were not qualified to build Guan Erye's temple.Now, he is fully qualified to offer sacrifices to Guan Erye's temple. He is righteous, and he is really a mother.

(End of this chapter)