Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1396 Forced to live a good life
However, the difficulty of immigration is very high.The difficulty here refers more to the willingness of immigrants.

It should be said that the Luxi area at this time is not very enthusiastic about immigration.

from a cultural-historical point of view.

On the one hand, this is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and the past dynasties did not like to migrate here, preferring to stay at home.

Not just keeper.

It is even more about guarding ancestral graves, parents, ancestral houses, and ancestral halls.

On the other hand, the textile industry here is relatively not bad. Basically, the small life of the owner farmers is pretty good.

The issue of the textile sideline has both historical and geographical factors.

Historically, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a saying that "the most powerful crossbow can't pierce Lu Jin".Of course, it was definitely not cotton at that time, but whether it was ramie, tussah, or linen, in short, the foundation of the textile industry lay here.

In stories such as Meng's mother moving three times and Zeng Shen's filial mother, there is probably a mother who "educates her son as a textile industry".

Since the Yellow River burst in the Song Dynasty, the flood here has gradually decreased.Then in the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu forced the promotion of cotton planting, completely replacing ramie and so on.The climate and soil in the Luxi area are extremely suitable for growing cotton, and cotton planting soon developed.

After Yongle moved the capital, the Grand Canal flowed again.

In the era when there were no railways and roads, the Grand Canal was the lifeblood of economic communication between the north and the south, and the Luxi area was along the canal...

Of course, because of fiber pulling, river engineering, and water assistance, the common people must have some burdens.

But looking at it dialectically, because there is such a "traffic artery", the textiles in Luxi area can also be circulated quickly.

Even if it is said that in the past few years, Dashun "cut flesh and gouge out sores" and abandoned the canal water transportation-abandoning the canal water transportation does not mean that the canal was blocked by doing nothing.But you must know that as the Yellow River hits the plains, it is just that there is no cleaning, water tanks, water diversion, water transport governor, high annual water transport maintenance fees, etc., and the canal will be silted up within a few years.

From the original national traffic arteries, it has become a section of local traffic arteries.

It will definitely have an impact on the textile industry.

But, as the saying goes, social consciousness lags behind social existence.

From the Song Dynasty to the South of the Yellow River, to the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, and to the early years of Dashun, the western Shandong area experienced wars, uprisings, resistance, and massacres.

Dashun's land equalization policy has not been thoroughly and comprehensively implemented.But in North China, especially Henan, Shandong and other places, due to various factors, the average land area per mouth in the western Shandong area was about 25 mu when Dashun was founded.

Under such conditions, the status of male labor is much higher than that of female labor.

It's a very simple truth, there is no such right or that right.In the case of 25 mu per capita, the value that a young male labor force can create is higher than that of a female in the agricultural era.

Therefore, such a social existence has created such a social awareness: women need to "show their labor ability" when looking for a husband's family.

This display is reflected in the marriage customs: when women get married, they must prepare a large amount of Lubu dowry.Including the back, the surface of the mattress, the door curtain, the clothes and so on.

To prove that "I am qualified as a wife, I have the ability to work, and my hands are very skillful, and I can weave a lot of cloth".

Male farming.

female weaving.

Driven by this kind of atmosphere, and the fact that it is suitable for growing cotton, there is a saying here: arranging flowers and drawing clouds is not a skill, and spinning and weaving can last forever.

Of course, with the succession of Li Gan, social stability, recuperation, climate warming and other factors superimposed, the population surged.

The social reality is that only relying on men to work on the three acres of land per capita can no longer meet the needs of feudal oppression such as taxation, local taxation, copper and silver exchange, and labor, which increases the proportion of women's labor value in the family. —When the per capita land was 25 mu, men farmed and women weaved, and family labor was not counted as money, and it was not included in social labor, so the value creation of men and women to the family may be 3%; now the era of [-] mu per capita, probably That is, six and four, seven and three.

But on the one hand, social consciousness is lagging behind social existence, and it still continues the foundation of consciousness laid down when the land per capita was 25 mu.

On the other hand, it also makes it really difficult for women to support their families if they lack Lu Bu's skills.

In this atmosphere, even if we say that the Grand Canal is no longer a national transportation backbone.

However, the life of ordinary self-cultivating farmers here is basically passable.

If it is said that immigrants are placed in the context of the Yellow River North, there must be a lot of followers.

On the one hand, the original economic and trade system collapsed; on the other hand, the Yellow River was flooded, and the agricultural foundation basically collapsed.

At that time, if you stayed in your hometown, you would really have to go hungry.At that time, talking about immigration was naturally easy.

But the embarrassing thing is that now, the Yellow River has not breached, so it is necessary to prevent problems before they happen.And the self-cultivating farmers here can basically make do with their small lives.

Coupled with the serious complexes of resettling the land and relocating, the difficulty of leaving the homeland, guarding the ancestral graves, etc., it is really very difficult.

In the simplest terms, the reclamation around Anshan Lake has been carried out for hundreds of years.The ancestral graves of many families are here.

Now Liu Yu said that this place should be reproduced in Onozawa and Liang Shanbo, and this place should be flooded.

It is equivalent to flooding someone's ancestral grave.

Here, if there is no resistance, then you can really only find such a place in the fabricated "China".Anyway, in reality, if people want to flood their ancestral graves, in real China, there will definitely be big troubles.

Of course, the main reason is not traditional culture, nationality, or peculiarity.

This is a common problem.

Very simple and very realistic stuff.

Taking Europe at this time as an example, who are willing to immigrate?

In France, what are those who are willing to immigrate and leave their homes?
A Huguenot.

That was the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the heresy that was killed to the point where the Seine was blocked.

That was the "Edict of Fontainebleau" directly declaring that this group of people is rubbish, to be removed, and illegal.

If French farmers are willing to immigrate, they will not go to Canada. They have to rely on mixed-race Acadians or "red-skinned Frenchmen" to play the leading role.

Spain is willing to immigrate, who is that?

It's Jewish, it's Protestant.

Spain, Portugal, there are also Inquisitions.The militarized organization of the Jesus Company and other religious groups, even the Lisbon Earthquake, thought it was a sham. Who made the Portuguese Catholics degenerate with impurity and morality?

Who is the British willing to emigrate?

It is the Separatists, the Congregationalists, the Calvinists, and the Presbyterians. These people are in the UK, and it is good if they are not dead.

It is the Irish and Scots, especially the Irish and Scots, who have directly entered the plantations of Northern Ireland and experienced the massacre that killed a quarter of them. If they can run, they will definitely run.

And what about the "German bumpkins" that Franklin thought would tarnish North American ancestry?
It was the Thirty Years' War, which killed two-thirds of the population; it was the Protestantism and the Old Church killing each other; it was Prussia as a large military camp, and the soldiers were the company commander's labor slaves...

During the North American War of Independence, poor Hessian mercenaries went to North America, and the North American gentry directly offered a price: 30 acres (180 acres) of land per person, surrender.A large number of Hessian mercenaries can be pulled away in an instant, and many Hessian mercenaries still have to "thank you for the ticket issued by the British government, thank you".

As long as life can be lived, as long as it is not slaughtered by scourges, as long as it is not so difficult to say that it is impossible to live or even precarious, who would want to leave their hometown?
The whole world is like a bird.

That's the problem.

The economic stock in Luxi area is still very high.

Compared with the Jiaodong area... There is a saying in later generations that people in Jiaodong say that Luxi is the "Tibet" of Shandong; before this time, Jiaodong was the "snowy plateau" of Shandong.

Canals flowed before.

The entire Ming Dynasty of the Yellow River did not leave Shandong.

Alluvial soil left by the Yellow River.

Cotton planting promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Di moved the capital, the traffic on the north-south trunk line was very convenient.

There are various factors here.

In addition, the north is Gyeonggi, the east is the Jiaodong mountainous area, and the west and south is Henan, which is more densely populated than this. The migration conditions are not favorable.

Now, all of a sudden, it's time for forced relocation.

Regarding migration, one can see people's attitudes towards migration from a story widely circulated among the people:

Said that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to let them migrate, and said that he was unwilling to migrate, so he went to gather under the big pagoda tree in Hongdong.As a result, everyone went under the big locust tree. In fact, the court lied to people and made all those who came under the big locust tree move away.

This is of course just a story, but in this story, what is the attitude of the people towards immigrants?What is your attitude towards the court?It can also be seen.

In theory, there are two ways to make the people of Luxi willing to move away.

Or, regardless of the Yellow River, wait for the North of the Yellow River to be destroyed, and directly turn Luxi into a yellow flood zone. Within 30 years, the land will be salinized and the canals will be completely silted up.

Or, let go of internal currency barriers and let Songsu's textiles directly kill the small peasant economy in the Luxi area.Relying on the three mu of land per capita, it is impossible to survive. Lu Jin, a female laborer, completely lost the market in the face of the impact of Songsubu and Indian cotton, causing serious people's livelihood.Then, maybe everyone is willing to accept migration.

The former has been in the Shandong area for about 30 years, and the population has not grown or even experienced negative growth.

The latter rushed to suppress such things as 40 green forest twisters, white lotus Tang Sai'er and the like.

But these two situations are what Liu Yu wants to avoid as much as possible.

Otherwise, there is no need for him to fiddle with the Yellow River here, and there is no need to go to World War I to find overseas markets for Songsu Capital and beg them not to rush to eat domestically.

Since it is impossible to do ideological work well, and it is impossible for the Dashun court to complete the land equalization reform and have enough money and organizational power to solve the problem of the Yellow River, then he can only play a white face and use some coercive means to complete this. thing.

Now that his harsh words have been released, Anshan Lake is the key area of ​​the first group of immigrants, so there are not many options available.

In the story, it always seems to be beautiful: as long as you draw a big picture and say that the overseas land is vast, everyone will immigrate happily, and they are very happy.

In reality, how can there be so much beauty.

Those who believe in that kind of beautiful story, and those who believe that if they trade with Europe early, the Europeans will be very happy and eager to trade, are the same idea.Just as they don’t know about the cotton cloth prohibition order and the “China Commodity Fear Theory” of free trade; they also don’t know how and why the early European immigrants in North America went to, and they even really thought that they had a pioneering spirit and national character. or something.

Hume in the 18th century knew that if there were no barriers from the sea and no East India companies from various countries would be supervised by the government and not allow transitional compradors, the whole of Europe would only be able to use Chinese goods until China sucked up all the silver in Europe.Defoe wrote a "small composition", saying that because of the impact of oriental commodities, people were in dire straits, mourning was everywhere, unemployment was common, and Great Britain was about to end, but it was in 1720.

Louis XIV in the 17th century knew how easy it was to immigrate?Don't say that the land is enough, it is for those who are willing to go, the finance pays for the dowry, and the king honors the title of "King's Daughter".The solution given by Colbert is to "intensify the scourge of heresy in the country, but allow the heresy to go to North America", to force people away, to force others to leave by harming people, instead of giving benefits.Colbert believes that it is more effective to force people to leave by harming them than to ask them to go by offering benefits.
Liu Yu didn't want to take the method of harming people and forcing people to leave, so he has been pressing Songsu's products not to go to the domestic market;

But this also means that this matter is very difficult.

Reasonable, understand.

Including the state herdsmen and county magistrates with unsightly faces, Liu Yu didn't need to talk too much about the truth. They understood the truth of taking precautions and curing diseases.

However, in practice, it is extremely difficult.This is not something that can be explained clearly by reasoning.

Hearing Liu Yu's words that he would not hesitate to suppress it, Zhou Mu of Dongping Prefecture could only plead for the people: "Duke, it's no secret that the Yellow River will be destroyed sooner or later, and all people of insight in the world know that sooner or later it will happen. I also know the many reasons and benefits of it.”

"However, Northwest and Southwest Shandong have been prosperous since ancient times, and they are far from being comparable to poor places such as Jiaodong. Of course, it is true that rich places do not want to leave their hometowns, since ancient times."

"In addition, the people here..."

Zhou Mu of Dongping State sighed and said: "The imperial court has been reformed for 30 years. The advantages here are not touched at all, and the disadvantages are all taken up here. After the abolition of water transportation in the northwest of Shandong, the place where thousands of merchants gathered in the past is now depressed and dilapidated... ...I was a county magistrate in the northwest of Shandong Province before I was dismissed, and I have experienced it personally, and there is no false statement."

"Now, we are going to cross the Yellow River and occupy the cultivated land. The people have nothing but resentment towards the imperial court. At this time, adding fuel to the flames will cause major incidents. If there are people with a heart, they will make noise during the period, and the corpses will be scattered all over the field and blood will flow into rivers. "

"The lower officials only hope that the Duke should not be impatient in doing things. Please also think about it. After 30 years of reform, the Luxi area has gradually changed from a rich land to a barren place. The resentment of the people is a last resort, so don't use the knife. "

"Many people say: the Duke of the state killed too much. The salt in the Huaihe River was reformed and killed; the waste water was taken to the sea and killed; even Songsu opened a port and abandoned Guangdong, and the husband of Wuling was killed and buried."

"It's just, please think it over. Everyone has grievances. In the future, if they go far away and are separated by oceans, how can they return their hearts to the court? I'm afraid of separation, and follow Zhao Tuo's story."

Liu Yu heard the words, but laughed and said: "You got the priority wrong. What I want is the Yellow River, not the Fusang. What the court wants is the Yellow River, not the Fusang. It doesn't matter whether you learn from Zhao Tuo or follow Jinghai. Besides, the imperial court has its own arrangements and other arrangements."

"There is still a 50-year window for Fusang, so there is no need to worry. I have to emigrate to occupy land for Fusang. What about the Yellow River? Can the Yellow River really wait 50 years? This matter must be urgent."

"Now it's a prosperous age, if you don't do something in a prosperous age, you won't be able to do it in the future."

"This matter has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, and I don't want to argue about benevolence and righteousness. What I want, and what the court wants, is to make this matter happen. After it is done, whether it is right or wrong, I will leave it to future generations to say."

"This matter needs to be debated, so it's settled."

"In a nutshell, rich households moved to the east of the Kanto to reclaim land. They were allowed to recruit local poor people to take them as tenants, employees, and workers. They were exempted from tax for five years. They recruited 200 people to accompany them and supervise them for tribute students."

"Medium family, move first."

"Inferior family... I have already reported to the imperial court. Now that the Europa war is over, Western trade has set aside a share, and a certain amount of cotton cloth has been set from here to help the common people make a living. Women weaving, selling in the West, compulsory share, and living It is enough; the men serve as slaves, add grain and rice to two and a half months of silver, dig rivers and build embankments."

"The fleet is patrolling India, and India's cotton cloth share is half in Songsu and half in Luxi. Now the imperial court is still supervising the Western Trading Company, and it can still control the disorderly expansion of the industry. This share is vacant and can be done. In West Africa, I still like the strong coarse cloth here."

"This thing, if you don't say you die, I live. There is no way, the textile workers in Bangladesh and Mumbai, they can only die. If they don't die, the people here have to die."

(End of this chapter)