Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1098 Industrial Revolution ([-])

But since it is practical learning, after all, it still falls into changing "teaching and then getting rich" into "getting rich and then teaching".

When Quan Zheshen and other Xinghu school's young men smuggled across the Middle Earth to find the answer to save the nation and survive, Li Xuan also told them.

It would be best if we could find a way to "integrate the Dao with the instrument".

If you can't find it, then you have to learn the tool, the big deal is to unify the Dao, and wait for future generations.

The DPRK has relatively strict control over the smuggling of these Confucian scholars, but Dashun actually has a very loose control, and even welcomes the DPRK to learn some knowledge about growing rice.

Liu Yu also said that North Korea could be allowed to send overseas students to study agronomy, improve planting techniques, and provide more rice for the modernization of Jiangsu.

As for other skills, Liu Yu's attitude is also indifferent, because it is useless to learn them.

Therefore, when the passenger ship arrives in Shanghai, the disembarkation inspection is very loose, at most it is a formality.

When Quan Zheshen came to Songjiang Mansion, it was not the busiest time for Dashun's foreign trade.

Ships to Europe do not leave until the first lunar month; ships from Europe do not arrive until after the Dragon Boat Festival.

But the pier was not deserted at all, the bustling crowd was in a hurry.

Soon, however, he felt as if he had been offended.

After walking a few steps, someone shouted at him: "Brother, do you want to stay? Do you want to have a good time and relieve your fatigue? The new Gaoli Jieyuhua..."

Quan Zhe frowned, and replied: "Goryeo is the old name. The former Emperor Taizu gave the name Chosun, and Anke is named after Goryeo again? How can this important event of positive and negative alternation be misplaced?"

The solicitor was taken aback, he had been working here for five or six years, and this was the first time he heard someone struggling with this issue, thinking what the hell is this?After muttering a few curses, he stopped talking to Quan Zhe.

Quan Zhe glanced at the sky above the smog-shrouded city in the distance, asked, and learned that the regular passenger ship to Nantong Tiansheng Port would not leave until the day after tomorrow.

They first found an inn to live in.

He came from two classes of aristocrats. He studied Sinology since elementary school, and he also learned Mandarin in the Jiaoliao area in Incheon.The money in his hand is also a banknote in lieu of silver commonly used in Jiangsu Province.

If you are rich, you can read Chinese, and you can speak Chinese, then in this kind of place, there is no problem with basic necessities of life.Even if you can't speak, as long as you have money, you can do the same.

The place where I live is not far from the pier, it is very prosperous, and there is no curfew at night.

The place where I live is a building with brick and wood structure.The ones installed were glass windows. He had seen glass windows in North Korea. A few years ago, the Korean royal family exchanged rice for more than [-] pieces of glass at one time. Originally, this thing was banned as a luxury item, but in the banned After the extravagant order is cancelled, if everyone does not abide by it, it will be meaningless.

After these years of soaking, he has not seen anything that surprised him for the time being.

When I got up early the next morning and went out, I saw a flatbed cart pulled by mules in the distance.

Behind the mule's buttocks was a shawl made of rags, which was dirty and filled with mule dung.

On the flatbed truck, there were some dead bodies in a mess.

The two strong men probably loaded the corpse into the car, and they were carrying a curled up stiff corpse there.

The person who carried the corpse was obviously already commonplace. The person who carried the leg had a cigarette in his mouth.It may be because the smoke is a bit choking to the eyes, squinted, and said something in the local language while lifting it.

Quan Zheshen never expected that he came to the Kingdom of Heaven with the mentality of witnessing prosperity, and the first thing he saw when he woke up after a night's sleep was such a scene.

There were many pedestrians on the road, all looking hurried, but they didn't stop at all. They didn't even shake their heads when they passed by the mule cart full of corpses.

Just this short scene gave Quan Zhe a feeling.

The Kingdom of Heaven seems to have changed from Xia to barbarians. Has the moral corruption of the people in this most prosperous area reached this level?Not even the slightest bit of compassion?
Although the teacher said that what he saw in the countryside around Seoul was that dozens or even hundreds of people often starved to death, but after all, the teacher still has a heart of compassion.

I can also write poems to express my sadness.

However, the people who looked at this place, together with those who carried the corpses, were already numb to this point.Is this the future you are looking for?

With an indescribable emotion, he approached the flatbed cart carrying the corpse, and glanced at the people on the cart, as if they had frozen to death at night.

Although it is already April, the nights are mostly not warm.

The dead man was only wearing a pair of ragged trousers, and a ripped bag, which seemed to contain a little food.

Seeing this situation, Quan Zheshen couldn't help sighing, and blurted out a few lines of poetry.

"I don't know if your surname is unknown, where is Qingshanzi's hometown?"

"The days of flies invading carrion are noisy, and the crows call for lonely souls to hang on to the setting sun."

"One inch short brown back, a few grains of rice begging for food..."

Halfway through the recitation, someone suddenly added: "This is exactly the smell of wine and meat in Gaomen, and there are frozen bones on the road."

Quan Zhe turned his head sharply, and saw a 27-year-old Confucian student standing behind him, wearing a Confucian scarf and blue shirt.

He hastily cupped his hands in salute, and said to the opposite side: "Just now I heard that Xiongtai wrote a poem of compassion. I haven't heard such feelings for several years. Everyone thinks it's normal. I think it's the first time to come to Xiongtai?"

Seeing that the person on the opposite side was dressed as a Confucian scholar, Quan Zhe immediately relaxed.The workers on the wharf all spoke local dialect, and the owner of the shop was not an educated person. The Confucian scholars all over the world belonged to a family, and they could be regarded as having memorized the Analects of Confucius. Whether it was Yumen Pass or Edo City, they could always find their friends.

"It's the first time here."

"Oh, I can't complain. At Xiamengsonglu, listening to Xiongtai's accent, it seems to be from Dengzhou Prefecture?"

Quan Zhe didn't dare to make mistakes, so he had to answer with his fake identity, only saying that his surname was Zhao, and he had never had any fame.

"But I don't know why Brother Zhao came here? Is it for studying? Or doing business? This is not a place to talk. If Brother Zhao doesn't mind, there is a tea shop next to it."

Quan Zheshen had a good impression of Meng Songlu, and seeing that he was dressed as a Confucian scholar, he was even less suspicious, so he said to bother him, and went to a nearby tea shop together.

Although it was very early, there was already a lot of people inside.

As soon as I entered, I saw a few children holding newspapers shuttled between the tables and chairs, shouting: "The Chinese navy wiped out another group of pirates in Sulu, and hanged more than [-] people. The evidence that the pirates provided weapons is convincing, and the Nanyang Governor asked the British Governor Bengkulu to strictly restrain him."

"The canal from Funing to Nantong is progressing smoothly and is expected to be open to traffic before the Dragon Boat Festival. All ships are exempt from toll taxes."

"The first batch of Liaodong soybean futures has been delivered this year..."

"Since this year, Sichuan salt has been used in the west of Ezhou. The last salt area in Huainan was used to reclaim wasteland..."

Everyone at the table was discussing something about trade, and Quan Zhe didn't quite understand, so he followed Meng Songlu to a private room.

After sitting down, Quan Zhe wondered: "I see that this place is so prosperous, and I have always heard that southern Jiangsu is the most prosperous in the world. How come people are so familiar with fallen corpses?"

Meng Songlu shook his head and sighed: "It's a long story. In a county in Shanghai, the population has increased several times since Xing Guogong's reform. Yangzhou, Huai'an and other big cities have all been ruined, and tens of thousands of people have come here to make a living."

"Since you've come here, the easiest thing to do is dock labor. However, you don't know."

"The hard labor at the wharf only started to get busy after the Dragon Boat Festival. After the first month, there are sometimes jobs and sometimes no jobs."

"There is a saying in the market: when you are busy, you can hardly find strength; when you are idle, there is nothing to do."

"Every year after the first month, until the end of April, there will always be a few dead every day. They are new, and they have no relationship, no contacts, and no place to live. If the money is spent or stolen by thieves If you leave, you will only starve."

"If not, you can only go to the poorhouse. However, going to the poorhouse means going to Nanyang to work in the plantation, and not everyone is willing to go. After all, going to Nanyang is not a good thing. The climate It's hot, and the miasma is heavy. If we can survive until the Dragon Boat Festival, it will be easy to talk about when the cargo ship arrives."

"After the Dragon Boat Festival is over, there will be a lot of cargo ships from North Korea, Japan, Liaodong, Southeast Asia, and the West. This kind of periodicity is beyond human power."

"Brother Zhao is a newcomer, and I only see the prosperity of this place. If you go further inside and reach the Suzhou Creek, you will know what kind of livelihood the people flocking here have."

"They just built wooden sheds by the river as a place to live and work nearby. Then there was a big fire last year. For one day, the banks of the Suzhou River were covered in ashes, and more than [-] people were homeless."

"Capital now also finds that building houses is beneficial. However, those who are profitable are mostly the gates of large courtyards. They are wealthy businessmen and wealthy households from Yangzhou, Huainan and other places who can afford them. The common people can only build wooden houses. , or use cotton stalks as sheds.”

Quan Zhe felt an indescribable joy in his body and mind, thinking that there is such a dark place in the kingdom of heaven, far from the three generations of prosperity as imagined.

In order to suppress the strangeness of this kind of secret joy, he still sighed: "The words of Du Gongbu are still in my ears even though they are thousands of years away."

Mentioning the name of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, the two chanted in unison: "There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, which will shelter the world's poor and happy people!"

However, after Meng Songlu finished reading this poem, he couldn't help but shook his head and said, "It's hard! It's hard! Now that Jiangsu's tax system has been reformed, it is not allowed to increase taxes at will. All taxes are owned by the public, and then divided into local treasury and national treasury."

"Mr. Xingguo has always had a problem with the scholar-bureaucrats. In fact, he may not really want to solve this matter. But because of the fire in the poor huts in Suzhou Creek last year, he summoned the gentry in the province and said that the tax cannot be increased. If you really have sympathy If you want to live up to the principles of Confucius and Mencius, you should use the tax-free money to renovate residential buildings. He also quoted Du Gongbu’s poem at that time, the so-called An De Guang Mansion with thousands of houses will shelter the world’s poor and happy people.”

"However... just like the Yangzhou salt incident that day, it was a big joke."

"When the reform of tax refunds after tax refunds was first exempted, Mr. thought that there might be today, and said that sooner or later, Duke Xingguo would use tax refunds to humiliate the gentry. Now it seems that it is true."

"As for the financial receipts, I have been busy with business these past few years. As brother Zhao heard just now, the newspaper said, the canal from Funing to Nantong."

"Nowadays, the finances of all states and counties have to be concentrated in the provinces, and the expenses have been quite tight in the past few years. Fortunately, this year has passed, and several major canals have been completed, and the seawall has been completed. Will it be better in the future?"

(End of this chapter)