Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1101 Industrial Revolution ([-])
Meng Songlu remembered that when Mr. Liu received this letter from Liu Yu, his face turned pale with anger.

I didn't eat for two days and sighed.

The letter is short, but there are plenty of ironic points.

First of all, they ridiculed this group of so-called practical schools, and took the road of talking with their eyes closed.

The real problem is how to feed the per capita hundred acres of land?

If this problem is the main contradiction, you still need to solve it?Leashing a dog in the yamen can solve it.

Whether it’s the 30-year redemption of Yan Yuan, the predecessor of your school, or Wang Yuan’s increase in private land tax, which makes private individuals voluntarily report to official land, at least they are still trying to think about how to solve this main contradiction.

It's good for you to close your eyes and ignore this main contradiction.

Run out to the clearing and play this ancient RPG.

Why, do you have the ability to turn the whole country into Huainan, a material base with less people and more land, convenient transportation, and smooth rain and no drought?If not, what do you mean by playing this kind of acting here?

Want me to reduce or exempt your land tax?Let me reduce the money and manpower you should spend on building the canal?There are no doors.

Go up if you can.

No ability, don't you have land?

Mortgage, loan.

I'm sorry, let's reclaim the land, how easy it is.

Or, you can learn from He Xinyin's method in Huang Zongxi's "Ming Confucianism Cases". When gathering, he will bring his younger brother thugs, riding Yongrong, and directly grabbing the arm of Fang Zhan who came to the party, saying: "borrow" me a hundred gold .

There are quite a few people who are trying to set up this township covenant together with you. They are all donated by gentry. Whoever has the money asks whoever wants it.

Can't your school fight?Learn from He Xinyin, just bring your younger brother, and just "borrow" money at the party, wouldn't it be good?

This letter made Meng Songlu and a large group of people very uncomfortable to come down, and the time for this letter was very disgusting.

It coincides with a time when infrastructure construction, water conservancy, canals, and irrigation are lacking here.Liu Yu deliberately used the money from the gentry's tax exemption and refund as an issue. Knowing that it was impossible, he deliberately disgusted people.

This incident itself is an irony: you continue to imagine 30 years of voluntary redemption, and the landlord voluntarily handed over the land to the tenants.There is everything in the dream. I want a tax refund, a gentry with free money, and I can’t get out of the construction of water conservancy. Keep dreaming.

Meng Songlu came back to Songjiang Mansion this time to borrow money.

However, after searching around, each friend was willing to borrow, and the gentry was willing to donate some, but it was only a drop in the bucket.

However, there are people who are willing to lend them.

As long as they are willing to use the land as collateral, a lot of financial capital in Songjiang Mansion took the initiative to come to the door and talk to Cheng Tingzuo: money is not a problem.

This is obvious: the canal from Funing to Nantong has been repaired, which can be used for both shipping and irrigation; the tidal dykes have basically been completed.These lands are about to appreciate in value.

As long as they are allowed to take the land as collateral now, they will have to pay back with the land if they cannot pay in the future.This can make a lot of money. Once the canal from Funing to Nantong is connected, the major infrastructure construction is basically completed, and the price of long-staple cotton is rising day by day. I am not afraid of borrowing money from these enclosures, but I am afraid that they are not short of money.

At the beginning of the reform of the salt administration, Cheng Tingzuo and others relied on their own influence and relationships with all parties to enclose 24 mu of land in Huainan by using the township contract concept of the Taizhou School and with the support of the younger disciples of thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Not too big, several big land reclamation companies all have more than 30 mu.

It can be said that this is a hodgepodge of fantasy from the end of Ming Dynasty to this time.

Liu Yu actually told them when they first circled, telling them that this place is actually not good, and that without a huge amount of capital investment, it is impossible to complete the land transformation.

Or, you can really go deep into the masses and mobilize the people to defeat nature.

Otherwise, with this money, you might as well take someone to sea.

Go to the vast land in the southern hemisphere and realize your "city of three generations".

The land there is fertile, and the climatic conditions are, to be honest, much better than the Caodang tidal flat area in northern Jiangsu at this time.

You are willing to go, Confucian scholars are willing to go, Liu Yu can personally sponsor a sum of money.A lot of people have been thrown there intermittently before, and a lot of cattle, sheep, horses and dogs have been bred.If you go there, you can definitely try the three-generation city of your moral township agreement. As a Confucian retroist, go, go and pursue your promised land.Restoring Yao and Shun's rule of virtue.

However, no scholar is willing to go.

People are definitely willing to go, but as far as the current situation is concerned, the cost is high, and it is impossible to move without capital.

If you want capital to pay, you have to release the big move that there is a gold mine over there.

But at least until the wasteland reclamation in northern Jiangsu is completely resolved and the Liaohe River Basin is fully commercialized, this big move cannot be released for the time being, and they have to lure capital to let them invest in the land in northern Jiangsu and northeast China.

So they messed around, didn't listen to Liu Yu, and insisted on enclosing 24 mu of grassland.

There is no follow-up capital investment, the organizational model is still the same as the Taizhou school, and the water conservancy facilities cannot be built. Do you still want to build a three-generation village in northern Jiangsu?

There are too many troubles here, and it is far from as good as it was originally imagined.

Now that Quan Zheshen proposed that he came here just to see the village community, Meng Songlu could only show bitterness.

Moreover, after receiving Liu Yu's mocking letter, even Cheng Tingzuo himself said that it was out of helplessness.

If it is really useful, he should go to a representative place, such as Henan, Anhui and other places.If this kind of representative place is done well, it will prove that it may be promoted to the whole country.Otherwise, not to mention not doing a good job in Huainan, even if it is done well, can the material conditions of Huainan really be transformed into the whole country?

And the reason why you can't go to those places is also very vulgar.

no money.It cannot afford to enclose 24 mu of land.

Besides, people don't sell land at all, whoever sells land is a prodigal.

So in the end, it really went back to the original debate between Meng Songlu and Meng Tiezhu in Haizhou: You can't even go through the first step of "If you can do well, you can do well, and if you can't do well, you can get equal". What's the use of thinking about the follow-up?

After a wry smile, Meng Songlu said bluntly: "Brother Zhao, to be honest, the place you are going to is organized by your mentor. But, to be honest, the effect is not very good."

"The reasons for this are really hard to explain. If you want to say that the subordinates oppressed, there is really no one; taxes and corvees are tithes in ancient times...the rest, whether it is digging rivers, water control, embankment repairs, etc., should really be spent and paid for. This power."

"When the land was enclosed, it was just to prevent each family from arguing. The three monks had no water to eat. Most of them were vertical to the sea. If you don't build water conservancy, you can't remove the salt; if you don't build seawalls, the tide will flow back. When the time comes, we will be flooded. It’s okay for me to say that if someone else’s cotton field is flooded, we will have to pay for it.”

Quan Zhe was shocked at first, and then greatly saddened.

Li Xinghu asked him to smuggle to Dashun, the first thing he had to learn was the Huainan retro attempt that he saw in those prohibited books.

I never thought that before I arrived in Huainan, I would see the real master first, and I would feel that the effect would not be good if I personally put myself into it, so I'm afraid...

"Brother Meng, don't you hear that the ancients said: "When the age is not coming, the time is still young. I am afraid that the pelican will sing first, and the husband will not be fragrant?"

"Brother Meng is in his time, so he should take advantage of his youth and do his best. Why do you have to lament more? If it doesn't work, you can change it."

"The wasteland reclamation in Huainan, except for you, the rest is the domineering method of Duke Xingguo. Is his domineering method really better than the king's way? Why don't you choose the good ones and follow it? The bad ones and avoid it?"

Meng Songlu smiled wryly, not knowing how to answer this question.

Those methods used by Liu Yu are not easy to learn here.It is not a technical issue, but a pure organizational capacity issue.

Regarding this question, Meng Songlu used a very small point to explain to Quan Zheshen why he couldn't learn.

"Brother Zhao saw the fallen corpses before, and he sighed with compassion. He even thought that the people in Wu had no compassion, but it was not the case."

"I said that if they last a few more days, life will be better. I also said the reason for the handling cycle of the freight terminal. Let me talk about another thing."

"Cotton is planted in northern Jiangsu, and it will be harvested in mid-autumn on August [-]th."

"When harvesting cotton, I'm most afraid of rain, and it must be harvested quickly. When planting cotton, how much to plant does not depend on how much land there is, but how much you need to consider. You can only plant as much as you can pick."

"When northern Jiangsu harvested cotton on August [-]th, it coincided with the time when the wharf was not busy."

"Western trade ships have already unloaded; the returning ships have to wait for the twelfth lunar month monsoon."

"The beans in Liaodong have just been harvested on August [-]th; the rice in Nanyang has already been shipped."

"At this time, there are few things on the wharf and so many people are not needed. So those companies that grow cotton in enclosures hire people here to pick cotton there."

"It was more troublesome in the past, but this year the canal from Funing to Nantong will be completed, and it will be more convenient to travel."

"Those who pick cotton use it when they use it; when they don't use it, they die or get cold, and it has nothing to do with the reclamation company that encloses the land and grows cotton."

"For those companies, there is as much land and cotton as they can grow."

"It's just picking cotton, not to mention the rest such as planting, fertilizing fields, raising land, fallow, and pasture."

"In the past, Duke Xingguo said that if the system of granting land to small farmers was adopted, each household would have an average of [-] mu, and it would be possible to have enough food and clothing. However, if cotton is grown, the land will be barren within five years."

"At that time, I thought it was a lie, but how did it take five years? We used to grow grain before, but later we tried to grow cotton. Every family's capital was weak. In the end, the family could only plant three to five acres, pick more than ten catties, and spin it. Chengbu, to be the Shuxiu for the children of each family to go to school."

"Cotton eats land, and the land will be exhausted in three years. Although there are bean cakes to buy, how can every family afford it? At the beginning of the enclosure of 24 mu of land, it cost a thousand gold, but it was equipped with some cattle and horses, and several families shared it. Several years. Come down, the fertile land will be exhausted; the more exhausted the land, the less likely it will be to fall fallow, and it will be even more impossible to plant grass to shade the sun and prevent counter-salt..."

These things are really not technical differences. Is there any technical difficulty in planting grass, laying grass and shading to prevent anti-salt?Something that can be learned immediately.

Quan Zhe keenly caught one of the good things, and hurriedly said: "Since it follows the ancient school system, it is always good for children to study, right?"

When he said this, Meng Songlu's face became even uglier.

Their school wants to carry out divided education, but what is the basis?What is the end?This still needs to be clarified.

The scriptures are the foundation, and practical learning is the end.

The problem is that the imperial examination does not test these things, the imperial examination is really not dominant, reading is useless, why not go to work early?Besides, their schools themselves feel that the imperial examinations are no good, and they don't teach professional scholar's essays at all.

The practical study is a test of miscellaneous studies, but the practical study is the book, and the classics are the end. If you want to study, you can be a clerk, and the paper is very good.How can a group of people who read scriptures most of the time when they were young compete with the group of people who were forced to learn arithmetic and natural general knowledge from the formal practical system over there to compete for places in agricultural schools, surveying and mapping, navigation, accounting, and technicians?

The imperial examination is not dominant.

The class of practical students has jumped up to become the middle class of ordinary citizens, which is not yet an advantage.

Not going forward, not backward, neither awkward nor awkward, naturally feel that reading is useless.

Meng Songlu sighed: "If it is not for the imperial examination to become an official, or to learn a skill and become a city citizen... Everyone is utilitarian, and how many people really want to understand the Tao of heaven and earth, understand the nature of the universe, and restore the virtue of a gentleman. What about reading?"

He couldn't help but think of the practical student named Meng Tiezhu who was arguing with him in Haizhou back then. After working in Funing for two years, he jumped straight away. A professional manager of a large plantation in Java, in charge of seven or eight hundred people, a huge garden.

This is a typical example of the "theory that reading is useful" promoted by newspapers in recent years, and he naturally knows it.

And it is indeed useful, thriving, and cannot be an official, but overseas colonies, northeast bean gardens, trade, etc. are developing rapidly, and can accommodate these second- and third-rate people who are practical and educated.

It is useful to study the scriptures specially, but maybe you will be a scholar all the way, and you will rush to a Jinshi.

It is also useful to specialize in practical learning, but you can't be an official, and you can still have a position as a subordinate, a technician, or a clerk.

The only thing is that this set of divided education they engage in is definitely useful from the perspective of educating people; it is useless from the perspective of employment.

There is a thousand or eight hundred acres of land at home, and I can study for self-cultivation; there is no mine at home, and I still eat sweet potatoes. How can I be so busy with self-cultivation? Who wants to learn something that does not have the benefit of copper smell?

This is even more embarrassing, even the desire to study can't compare to the utilitarian opposite, how can this be contested?
(End of this chapter)