Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1054 Platform
Of course Lin Min was incapable of solving the Yellow River problem, so he could only deal with it.

As a result, Dashun's highest management organization in Jiangsu Province is in a very strange state.

The highest official with a justifiable name is Lin Min, Jiangsu Jiedu envoy.

But in fact, it was Liu Yu who was in charge.

Liu Yu's name is not right and his words are not going well.But he represents the extended power of imperial power.

He is responsible for the policy management of Jiangsu, not because he is the Xingguo Duke of Dashun, but because he is the emperor's favorite minister.

In other words, this person can be Liu Yu, Zhang San, or Zhao Si, as long as the emperor trusts him.

Liu Yu had his own shogunate team, but none of his shogunate team had a formal official position.

However, the Jiangsu Jiedushi could only take the second place, issuing orders and managing subordinate bureaucrats justifiably.

This kind of situation is not a day or two, but the secret conversation between the emperor and Lin Min left Lin Min with no choice but to listen to Liu Yu on major matters.

This time when the two returned to Jiangsu, they also brought a team of soldiers under Liu Yu's direct jurisdiction.

Regarding the emperor's arrangement, Liu Yu was outspoken.

"These soldiers are used to suppress civil uprisings."

When the two were patrolling the Huainan tidal flat along the Fangong Dike, Liu Yu told Lin Min bluntly what these soldiers were for, looking at the reclamation company that was busy building houses and transporting people in the barren beach area.

"Press who?"

Liu Yu smiled and said nothing, and led the team to the office of Tongzhou Land Reclamation Company in Nantongzhou.

The manager and a group of board members who are responsible for organizing a series of matters of land reclamation are waiting here, waiting for the official approval of land reclamation permit.

After the grand welcome ceremony, Liu Yu did not hesitate to tell them these people directly.

"This time waste salt reclamation is a land enclosure movement."

"For Yanhu, those grassy yards don't belong to them at all."

"If they're willing to accept the decision to give money and fend for themselves, that's great. It doesn't matter what you do with these lands in the future."

"If they don't want to, but want some land instead."

"That's easy. You exchange one mu for two mu, and after you reclaim the beach, you will allocate it to them."

"I'll do the math. As far as their planting methods are concerned, they will definitely go bankrupt within three years at most. At that time, they can take back the land at a lower price."

"You have turned all the grass into fields, which means you have cut off their livelihood from frying salt."

"First, they don't have the capital to set up salt farms, and second, you have taken over all the grass yards where they cook salt. Even if they want to make a living by cooking salt smugglers, it is impossible for them."

"I reckon that there will definitely be people who make trouble. The imperial court is on your side, making minor disturbances, arresting prisons, and sending Nanyang plantations; if someone dies, then they are no longer ordinary people, and they must strike hard."

"I don't want to hear how miserable these salt farmers are, and I don't want to hear those tragic stories. Anyway, sooner or later they will change their careers, and the large salt farms will kill them sooner or later. Let's die sooner."

When he said this, everyone present was overjoyed and even praised the court's policy.

It should be said that this is the most suitable place for the land enclosure movement in the basic market of Daming inherited by Dashun at this time.

And rodeo has never been so glamorous.

Progress, sometimes very bloody.

In fact, even if Liu Yu didn't say anything, these big land reclamation companies have thought of how to "reasonably" gather the land together.

As Liu Yu said, if it were not for the big capital model, small farmers would not be able to reclaim the salt land here.

With this in mind, the strategies of these big land reclamation companies are very simple.

For example, if salt households don’t want land, they don’t even want to change careers, especially some farmers who have channels.

The capitalists of these land reclamation companies finally waited for the policy brought by Liu Yu.

That's very simple.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the salt households were compensated with 100 Wen for one mu of pasture.

If you don't sell it, you have to sell it.

After forcibly enclosing them, take the money and leave.

If you don't leave, just demolish the house and smash the pot.

If they are willing to accept the land, it will be even simpler.

Give them a very favorable condition. On average, each household can lease 25 mu of land, which is already quite a lot.

Moreover, the 25 mu of land was reclaimed by the reclamation company in the early stage.

If they accept, then as Liu Yu said, the land will have to be taken back within three years at most.

Because, if it is to grow food, this is a low-yield area at all, and it will go bankrupt in less than three years.

And if you grow cotton...

First, will these salt households grow cotton?
Second, even if you know how to plant, can you afford the model of the Great Reclamation Company, which has one acre of cotton fields and two acres of grass covered with anti-salt?

In a maximum of three years, these land allocated to small farmers and not maintained by the company will be almost abolished.

Anti-salt again, exhaustion of soil force.

At that time, whether to sell or not, voluntary.

Now that Liu Yu is giving them a platform, they will naturally be more unscrupulous when enclosing land.

Which land can be circled and which land can't be circled, of course, this is also determined.

It's not that these capitalists are kind-hearted and benevolent people who took the initiative to enclose the large wasteland east of Fan Gongdi.

They want to enclose the cultivated land that has been reclaimed, but the question is, do they dare to go?

If you dare to go to a village to enclose land, you can be beaten to death directly, and a large-scale uprising breaks out. This amount of money is not enough to compensate.

The killing of people by the first land reclamation company that gave Liu Yu a headache before was very typical.

Land reclamation companies have encircled land, and a large number of unowned grasslands have also been encircled.At that time, several salt households, led by the owners of the salt farms, opposed them to enclose the grasslands.

Because they have to cook salt and cook private salt to make a living.

It's not a question of whether it's legal or not, or even whether they're good or bad.

The situation is here, normal cooking salt can't support their livelihood at all, these grasses without owners are the root of their cooking salt.They cook private salt also to make a living.

And this mode of cooking salt can basically be determined. The so-called "independent" small salt households must rely on salt merchants.

Basically, the merchants in the salt market are powerful and occupy a large area of ​​unowned grasslands. Whoever owns these grasslands belongs to whoever is strong.

Under the protection of these salt merchants, salt households produced both official and private salt.

The nominally unowned wasteland in the land enclosure is owned by the folk law.And those barren beaches and weeds were reclaimed after they were enclosed, which was tantamount to cutting off their livelihood of cooking private salt.

There are many straws used to cook official salt.In order to facilitate the control, the imperial court generally knows how much grass you should dump and how much salt you should pay.

But relying on official salt alone is a miserable life, and after serving in the market, cooking private salt, life can still be lived.

It is also obvious that small producers do not want to become agricultural laborers.

The conflict between the two sides broke out like this.

Those who fought and fought on both sides were the salt households and the agricultural laborers who were recruited from Haimen at a high price and knew how to grow cotton.

The behind-the-scenes forces are the emerging capital, and the original merchants and landlords.

The conflict at the beginning was very simple. Yanto pulled out the boundary board of the enclosure company, and then the two sides began to fight.

After the top.

On the side of Yanhu, the sheds of agricultural laborers were burned down.

On the side of the hired workers, the houses of those salt households and the utensils for boiling salt were smashed.

Then hit, and then die.

Then Liu Yu notified the local county magistrate with a word, and then the local county magistrate asked those salt merchants for evidence: Do you have evidence to prove that those weeds are yours?You can pay taxes?
The straw for cooking official salt is taxed. Although the tax is low, it is also taxed.After paying the tax, you can say that you have the right to use this grassy land, which is bound to the "stove".

This iron pot for boiling salt binds a certain range of grass.The owner of the iron pot will change, but the grass that is bound to the iron pot will not change.

In fact, the merchants in the salt market are also local tyrants, and they also have friendship with the county magistrate.

However, the first level of government officials crushed people to death, and Liu Yu handed over the words, which obviously favored these wasteland reclamation companies. What can the county magistrate do?
In the end, it was sentenced to fight, and the reclamation company compensated some money for burning and burying, and that was it.

After the turmoil passed, the issue here essentially became a dispute over "Whether Huainan should reclaim wasteland or boil salt".

This needs to be finalized by the court.

Once it is settled, Huainan will reclaim wasteland and no longer cook salt, so the scope of enclosure will be larger, and all the pastures of Yanhu will be enclosed to grow cotton.

Dashun's national conditions are here, and the final decision is made by the emperor.

To put it bluntly, millions of waterworkers, the canals are all abolished, so it's so glamorous?There is no uprising, resistance?
They have killed so many, and they are not far behind Yanhu.

Moreover, most of the salt households accepted land reclamation, and most of them survived extremely hard.

Lin Min said that Liu Yu's methods were brutal, and that's what he was talking about.Liu Yu didn't bother to make a distinction, so he just made a one-size-fits-all approach.

He neither has enough grassroots governance ability to distinguish one by one, nor does he have enough time to get enough cotton fields for southern Jiangsu before the outbreak of "World War I".

This time, he brought the army directly, so it was even simpler and rude.

Of course, the waste salt in Huainan has to be developed step by step, bit by bit.

The most suitable land for growing cotton should be circled first.

For the rest, relying on the low-priced salt from the large-scale sun-dried salt farms in Haizhou, all the salt-cooking households were directly forced to go bankrupt.

As long as Haizhou sun-dried salt can obtain a license to sell in Huainan District, even if all Haizhou salt is taxed, the private salt cooked in Huainan will undoubtedly die.

But although it is necessary to circle bit by bit, the overall strategy remains the same. Liu Yu is determined to give these land reclamation companies a platform.

Cultivated land is not encircled, and I dare not enclose it. I can't afford to provoke it.

Grass field, Tongtong circle.

The price is clearly marked, and you have to accept it if you don’t accept it.

Either, take the money and leave and go to the factory, go to the saltworks, go to Nanyang;

There is no other choice.

If you resist, you will directly go to the army under the name of the executioner of later generations.

Since it was decided to expand the salt field in Haizhou this time and put the Hubei salt area under the responsibility of Huaibei Salt, the scope of the enclosure this time will be much larger.

It is equivalent to enclosing the entire grassland needed to provide Hubei's salt.

More than [-] people and tens of thousands of households are involved. If nothing happens, it will be hell.Not every salt household is willing to give up their small industry and actively embrace this so-called "progress".Moreover, there are a large number of salt market owners behind it.

Lin Min, the little Jiangsu Jiedu envoy, really couldn't hold back.If he dared to do this, he could be directly sued to death.

(End of this chapter)