Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1059 Who is going to sue me ([-])

The Land Reclamation Company was ordered to quickly send someone to tell the few things Liu Yu said, and those Yanhu people who were still swearing to the death to defend their necessary conditions for survival.

Liu Yu also temporarily left these merchant contractors who chose to surrender here.Just ask them to keep the deed, and the transaction should not be carried out for the time being.

Lin Min knew that Liu Yu must have an opponent, and even guessed Liu Yu's opponent from Liu Yu's actions, so he said, "Duke, I thought that we should have an open and honest discussion between you and me. Don't talk about it." Morality, don't talk about the people."

Liu Yu did not object to this.

"I have exactly the same intention. If you and I can't work together, it's really a breach of His Majesty's entrustment."

He waved his hand, indicating that all the people here should evacuate first.

After everyone withdrew, Lin Min first expressed his concern.

"Guogong, among the many things in Jiangsu, the most important thing is to produce salt. Salt production is the foundation of the reform. I think, is Guogong a little bit at the bottom?"

Liu Yu said, "What do you need to do with the production of salt?"

"Capital, technology, hired labor, all three are missing, there is really nothing to manage."

"Now that the news has been released, do you think big merchants will miss this opportunity to buy shares and produce salt? Capital command is coming, but there is no need to worry about the shortage."

"There is no shortage of capital, the technology is already there, and hired workers are everywhere. Master Lin doesn't have to worry about this at all. And you and I don't have to worry about things over there."

"The factory has its own system, and the court has its own supervision. He produces his own salt, and you and I will handle the affairs here."

"The so-called change is a conflict of interests. Fighting against others is the most important thing. Mr. Lin should also tell me the truth. What do you think of the matter here?"

Lin Min knew that Liu Yu's words were true. Since he said that they don't need to take care of the salt factory, they can still produce normally.Well, indeed, the most troublesome thing is to deal with these salt households that are destined to be eliminated.

Behind these salt households, there is no one.

But some people like to talk about these salt households. In the past, when the salt households "eat maggot sauce, Ji Wuyi, and Nian had no money", no one really stepped forward to change their living environment.

However, once it is linked to reform, there will be overwhelming voices, speaking out and petitioning for the people.

And the real people... that is, those real salt households who are stupid, obedient, and dare not cook illegal salt, or who don't have any extra grass to boil illegal salt. They are basically illiterate, and naturally they have no voice.

Illegal salt is not something anyone can do if they want to, it's like a new barren beach with reeds, which has not yet been registered by the imperial court.

So, how can a wealthy businessman with a team, capital and influence get it?Or is it that the poor eat only that most of the meals are maggot-infested shrimp paste, which can be obtained by salt households?
Obvious.

To make money by cooking private salt, you need reeds that are not registered.As long as it is registered in the register, the imperial court does not have any actuaries, but at least it knows how much salt can be boiled from a hundred acres of reeds.

These salt households who have really benefited and are willing to reclaim wasteland cannot make a sound.

Facing Liu Yu's question, Lin Min could only say: "Duke, you and I are now grasshoppers on the same rope, and I can't turn back."

"I am a reformer of the salt administration, but the way I think is completely different from what you think. In fact, you and I have gone astray when we were in Huaibei."

"It's just that I've been tied up now, and I can't retreat. Your Majesty has also explained that this time is about a century-old plan for the country, and I must do my best."

"Things, I have to do it. However, the Duke's methods are brutal. The ancients said that one piece is one piece, one piece is the way of civil and martial arts. Excessiveness is not enough, and the mean must be reconciled."

"Your Majesty ordered me to save Jiangsu and supervise the salt administration. I think that's why. It should be because he was afraid that the Duke's methods would be too rough. He thought that he would do everything he could to subdue and stop the mouths of Yang and Huai Da Shang Wensheng. So he sent me here. Lieutenant, so as not to go too far."

Lin Min's worry stemmed from Liu Yu's handling of this matter.

At the beginning, Liu Yu forced those merchants to deliver the contract documents, and Lin Min thought that he was about to shed blood directly.

As long as you get the contract documents, you can directly go to the army to drive them away. If you don't obey or even resist, you will be arrested and sent to Nanyang Plantation.

Those who don't want to leave have lost their property, and most of them will become bandits. At that time, they can be arrested and shot in the name of "suppressing bandits".

However, Liu Yu did not do this directly.

Instead, notify the land reclamation company and ask them to notify the salt households that the owner of the contract has surrendered.

Lin Min was at a loss as to what Liu Yu was going to do.

But it is estimated that the methods will definitely be extremely rough.

After telling his worries and guesses, Lin Min was thinking about how to solve this matter so as to minimize the noise.

However, after listening to Lin Min's worry, Liu Yu smiled and said, "Master Lin, I once read a different book called "On Contradictions."

"This book is wonderful. It was originally a clear way to teach you how to identify problems, solve contradictions, and treat symptoms and root causes."

"But I studied it again and again, and found that if it is practiced against, it is also exquisite."

Lin Min also heard Liu Yu talking about contradictions more than once, and believed in his heart that there might really be such a strange book.

"Reverse practice?"

After thinking about this word for a while, Lin Min seemed to realize something.

"What the Duke means is that this book is to teach people how to see through problems. You need to see through the problems before you know how to solve them. This practice..."

Liu Yu said with a smile: "The so-called rebellion is fishing in troubled waters, pretending to be confused, deliberately avoiding, focusing on the last, and focusing on the second. There are no contradictions in the first place, so create contradictions to cover up the real contradictions."

"After all, first of all, you have to know what the real contradiction is, so that you can avoid and hide the real contradiction. But in fact, the training is to teach you how to solve it, and using it in reverse is infinitely wonderful."

Immediately, Liu Yu used the principles that Lin Min could basically understand to analyze the various contradictions in the salt reform issue this time.

The root of all the contradictions lies in the impact of the initial industrialization model of the large saltworks on the model of small salt households and small producers.

Under this fundamental contradiction, there are many resulting contradictions.

Let me clarify the main contradiction in this first.

Lin Min thought about Liu Yu's "reverse practice" and suddenly realized.

"The Duke's reclaiming wasteland in Huainan can also be regarded as covering up this fundamental contradiction."

"Creating something out of nothing, leading the contradiction between the small production model of Yanhu and the large salt field in Huaibei to a contradiction between the land reclamation company and Yanhu."

"If Huainan doesn't reclaim wasteland, maybe someone can see through the root of this matter and lead the problem to the Great Salt Field?"

Liu Yu smiled, and then analyzed the remaining contradictions that were derived or created.

In the end, he proposed two solutions after "counter-training".

"The first method is to lead the conflict between the land reclamation company and the original Yanhu to the contradiction within the Yanhu itself."

"Confront the salt households that have the property rights of grassland and the salt households without grassland property rights, and create infighting between them. Don't give them the opportunity to unite and oppose the large steam engine salt company."

"Fighting leads to internal friction, exhaustion leads to powerlessness, powerlessness leads to weak momentum, weak momentum leads to destruction."

"The second way is to carry the banner of benevolence and righteousness against benevolence and righteousness."

The first method after rehearsing is to let the salt households fight among themselves, and let the salt households with grass and those without grass fight first.

Lin Min felt that this method was easy to understand.

He even thought of Liu Yu's move to tell the reclamation company not to act rashly, and he seemed to have a vague idea.

As for the second method, the so-called carrying the banner of benevolence and righteousness against benevolence and justice, Lin Min was a little puzzled.

This matter requires the cooperation of Lin Min, the Jiedu envoy of Jiangsu, otherwise it will not be possible at all, and it will definitely make a lot of chicken feathers.

So Liu Yu said casually: "Master Lin, you have to think about it first, what are these salt merchants who oppose the land enclosure, what are they opposing? Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, why are they opposing?"

Lin Min thought for a while, then hummed.

"I understand the meaning of the Duke. The reason for their opposition is not to maintain their status as normal salt households."

"They are opposed to enclosing land, not against enclosing their grasslands. They are against land reclamation companies enclosing those 'ownerless' grasslands."

"They don't object to enclosing their vacant land because compensation is given. But they object to enclosing vacant land because they benefit from vacant land without compensation."

This book is not difficult to understand.

If every salt household is a normal and legal salt household, then the conditions given by the land reclamation company are very favorable compared to their original life of eating maggots.

Although, in fact, this condition was caused by the imperial court's relaxation of the policy of "no need to cultivate wasteland" after the Huainan salt administration was released.

Even though, the root of this condition is that the people who set the conditions believe that the smallholder economy is extremely weak against risks, and farming here requires technology, and it will inevitably go bankrupt within three years, and then the land can be recovered at a low price.

This is equivalent to the fact that the company spent almost no money and cheated the land.

Otherwise, it would be more expensive to give cash compensation.

Now the salt households will be compensated with 25 mu of land, without paying any money.When the water conservancy is being built, the salt households who have land can also use it, after all, they have to use it in the future.

After two or three years, when the land is exhausted, if you lend some money, the regular interest rate will be 36%. If you can’t repay the land, you may still earn a year’s interest in vain.The debt owed with interest this year, just works to repay it, and there is no need to pay wages.

The premise of all this is that it is very easy for small farmers to go bankrupt.Whether it is true or not is nonsense.Regardless of other places, the saline-alkali land in northern Jiangsu that has not yet been washed away by weeds, with Mexican cotton, floods, storm surges, and anti-salt, if a single small farmer does not go bankrupt in three years, it can only be said that the Queen Mother is him Mother.

But in the eyes of these salt households, they can get [-] to [-] acres of initially reclaimed land, and they can also organize village communities, rent farm cattle, and borrow the company's water conservancy facilities, which can be said to be very generous.

If you don't know how to grow cotton, don't be afraid, you can grow it yourself. Isn't that simple?

What if I accumulate a family business and finally annex a hundred acres of land and become a landlord?

Before, it was strictly forbidden to cultivate wasteland, for fear of delaying the production of salt industry and fearing that there would be insufficient grass to cook salt.

Now most of the opponents really want to analyze the essence. What they object to is not confinement of their grasslands, but the confinement of those "ownerless" grasslands.

Because 'no master' is just no master on the face of the court, but in fact it has a master.

These salt merchants, relying on their connections and financial resources, actually controlled the unowned grass yards and used them to boil salt.

The land reclamation company encircled these unowned lands, so that they had no chance to cook private salt, so they firmly opposed it.

After Lin Minli understood the root cause of the opposition, he had some clues to Liu Yu's idea of ​​carrying the banner of benevolence and justice against benevolence and justice.

Liu Yu said again: "If only these salt households are against this matter, it's actually very simple. Grab them and send them to Nanyang. Do things according to the contract and the previous school completion seal."

"However, the trouble with this matter is that some people will take the opportunity to make trouble. They will make a big noise with the excuse of 'taking the property of the people', 'competing with the people', and 'destroying the salt system'. And, obviously, people will Quite a few."

"For one thing, some scholars really have a sense of grandeur and compassion in their hearts."

"Secondly, they are the barking dogs raised by those salt merchants in Huai and Yang. They are scholars, with great energy, fame, and great righteousness. They use benevolence and righteousness, small people, people's property, and people's livelihood to suppress us."

"Do you dare to oppose the maintenance of the small producer model? Do you dare to oppose benevolence and morality? You dare not, and neither do I. This is political correctness."

"What should I do?"

"It's time to carry the banner of benevolence and justice against benevolence and justice."

(End of this chapter)