Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1408 Potatoes and Centripetal Force

Counting from the time when these reluctant migrants, who were dissatisfied and resentful, crossed the mountain pass and came to this prairie with an average annual rainfall of 450 millimeters, five years passed in a blink of an eye.

The original dissatisfaction and resentment gradually faded with time and development.

On the formerly barren land, a new county named "Xin Yizhou" has a large scale, and the two simple cities named "Xin Shaocheng" and "Xintai City" were just as the surveying and mapping team said. What the locals call "the elbow of the river" was built.

Here you can indeed see the snow-capped mountains right in front of the west window, and indeed there are boats at the door that can follow the river to the bay on the east coast.

But in the end, the imperial court chose "Xin Yizhou" as the name of the county. It is inevitable that there is some self-deprecating meaning only in terms of the name.

The ancients said: Before the world was in chaos, Shu was in chaos first;

The distance from here to the Pacific Ocean, where Dashun is located, is separated by a mountain that almost collapsed the migrants at the beginning, so the traffic at this time is inconvenient after all.

More importantly, the economic production here has almost nothing to do with Dashun, and even has little to do with Dashun's economic zone on the west coast. On the contrary, it has an economic relationship with the French, Spaniards, and British in the east. The connection is stronger.

The court gave such a name, and there is always some evil behind it.

It was around the Mid-Autumn Festival in the autumn of the fifth year after the first batch of migrants crossed the mountain pass. In a workshop in Xintai City that smelled of alcohol, the Wang brothers, who were full of fear for the future when they crossed the mountain pass, He has become one of the shareholders of the brewing cooperative here, and is arranging tasks for the long-term workers who come to work here.

The long-term workers who are new to work can be regarded as the hometown of Wang Long brothers. Although they are far away, they are all people who moved because of the Yellow River.

The imperial court has been rigorously implementing the "orthodox colonial theory" of Liu Yu's counter-cultivation of old horse learning, and now the counter-practice of the Dashunshi School has achieved great success.

Through this practice, the industry and commerce in Xinyizhou has flourished. Of course, the premise of this development is a steady stream of "wage laborers" and "state-owned administrative land that distorts prices."

Every newcomer must obtain money through labor in industry and commerce.Then use these currencies to buy land.

And when every new person who came here got enough currency to buy land, another group of new people was sent here relying on the previous wave of immigration funds to buy land.

In the brewing cooperative where the Wang Long brothers belonged, the new batch of immigrants who landed from Fenglin Bay and arrived here have a different mentality from the original immigrants.

They are full of hope, thinking that as long as they work hard for five or six years, they will be able to accumulate enough money to buy land, so as to realize the happy life expected by a group of cattle, wives, and children on a [-]-acre land.

"The work here is actually not tiring. It's planting potatoes in spring, digging cellars in summer, harvesting potatoes in autumn, and helping with wine making in winter."

"I dare not say anything else, the food here is definitely better than when I was back home. Look at me, didn't we have nothing when we came here? After working hard for a few years, don't we have everything now?"

"I've been busy harvesting potatoes for the past few days, and I have to work at dawn in the morning. But don't worry, we have all the food and drink ready. We are also a wine-making cooperative, and we can manage enough wine..."

Wang Long encouraged the newcomers in this way so that they could quickly adapt to the busy work of harvesting potatoes.

It's just that their large farm and brewery use the name of "cooperative".But in fact, to be precise, it is more like a "collective Junker estate".

Because the capital and real estate in this "cooperative" belong to the people who belong to the cooperative's native place.In fact, a large amount of labor is not done by the labor force within the cooperative, but by a large number of penniless, poor wage laborers who migrated here from Shandong.

As Engels said: The potato wine industry is to Prussia what iron and textile industries are to England.Relying on the shochu industry, on the one hand, the middle landlord class was formed, and their young sons became the main material for selecting officers and bureaucrats, which was another extension of the life span of the Junkers; on the other hand, a relatively rapidly growing semi-serf class, and they will supplement the large number of "basic teams" in the army...

In Xinyizhou, the potato shochu industry also had a status similar to that of Prussia later.Although the basis of Junker's birth was the primogeniture system, Dashun has always adopted the law of equal inheritance among the people.However, because the land here is vast, but it is state-owned, and the purchase of land is restricted. The common people have to divide their families into males to grant land and buy land. Therefore, in terms of inheritance law, there is a tendency towards one-son inheritance. sliding tendency.

Of course, the imperial court is also promoting this kind of development intentionally or unintentionally. The purpose is to create a group of special landlord classes as the basis for ruling here-may grant additional land to some people. It is a group of meritorious veterans, or even a group of people who came earlier like Brother Wang Long.

Because of the situation here, it is impossible for the tenancy system to appear, or the tenancy system cannot be implemented.

Therefore, the potato shochu industry has become the economic basis for Dashun to create a group of weird things similar to Junkers here.

The Indians drank heavily, but they could neither have enough surplus crops nor the technology to make wine.

The French need wine because the price of brandy in France is too high, and because of protectionist policies, France cannot produce the only cane molasses wine that can compete with potato schnapps.

The fur trade, the ginseng trade, all of which require alcohol.

The "Irish shepherds" in the remote areas of the thirteen states brewed whiskey from grains, and Dashun made shochu from potatoes and the transportation downstream was convenient. Before the introduction of Hamilton's policy of eliminating petty bourgeois in history, First, I was killed by Dashun's potato shochu.After all, the cost of grain wine is much higher than that of potato wine.

The popularity of furs, ginseng, and European-fashioned beaver fur hats made alcohol, especially the cheap Dashun's potato shochu brewed in Xinyizhou, the best deal for French fur traders.

As Lao En commented:【The shochu region...is also the core of the Prussian monarchy...the brewing industry emerged as the real material basis of modern Prussia.Without winemaking, the Junkers in Prussia would perish... The Junkers would be dispersed and become separate peasant estates, yeomen...]

This principle is also established in Xinyizhou County in Dashun.

Without the liquor industry, Dashun would only have scattered self-cultivating farmers in Xinyizhou.The scattered self-cultivating farmers, especially those who are far away from the homeland but have to bear taxes, are the group of people with the most severe separation tendency.

The core of Dashun's "conservatives" in Xinyizhou is also the core of the "orthodox myopic colonial theory" after Dashun's inversion. , needing the protection of Dashun's fleet and local military force, a group of landlords supported by Dashun to transform into an industrial capital.

Take the Wang Long brothers as an example. As the first batch of pioneers, the treatment given to them by the imperial court was to allocate a large amount of untradable land to their early 600 people in groups of 20 households.

In the early days, through the formation of cooperatives, a group of 20 households carried out agricultural production and brewing handicrafts.Through imperial court support, they were provided with capital and technical support, relying on potato shochu and the vast wine market urgently needed by the North American fur trade, and quickly completed the transformation of capitalist agricultural production.

They became the pillars of Dashun's orthodox modern colonial law implemented in the plain area east of Dashishan Mountain.

They produce shochu, hire immigrants to grow potatoes and work, and Dashun provides a steady stream of cheap wage laborers.

As for, who paid the money?
In detail, it's actually quite interesting.

Those who work for them receive wages.

Their wages come from selling wine to French fur and ginseng merchants.

French fur ginseng traders bartered wine with Indians.

And a large part of the ginseng fur that was exchanged—part of the fur and almost all of the ginseng—was sold to Dashun.

And the people who bought furs and ginseng in Dashun couldn't be poor.

So, it sounded a bit like taking off your pants and farting - just like what the radicals said, isn't this the same as the emigration paid by the wealthy class in Dashun?Wouldn't it be enough to directly equalize the land and collect taxes for immigrants?

However, this kind of pants fart has to be taken off.The reason why Dashun had to get rid of it was that Dashun was a feudal dynasty and could not accomplish what the radicals envisioned.

According to Ilyich's method, there are two typical ways of agricultural capitalization: the Prussian way and the American way.

The Prussian road is the feudal aristocratic landlords who forcibly occupied the land, making thousands of farmers go bankrupt and completing their own transformation.

The American road is the small-scale peasant economy, polarization, and natural mergers...but relying on a large amount of land in the west to reduce the huge impact of land mergers, so that on the basis of private ownership, the transformation is finally completed by mergers.

The basis of the Prussian road is the feudal aristocracy and personal attachment under feudal law.

The basis of the American road is the small peasant economy, homesteaders, capital, mergers, and the nationalization of land in the west.

Although Dashun is in Xinyizhou, it is making wine, growing potatoes, supporting the transformation of landlords, and so on.

But in fact, Dashun is here, of course not taking the Prussian road.

It's an accelerated version of the American road, small farmers' economy, polarization, and natural mergers. This speed is too slow. Since the ultimate goal is to complete the capitalistization of agriculture, shouldn't it just be accelerated?
polarized?Too slow, support directly.

Natural merger?It doesn't make sense, a large amount of state-owned land is vacant land, which can be given directly.

Bankruptcy of the small peasant economy, creating wage laborers?Based on the current population of Xinyizhou, when there is a contradiction between man and land and the bankruptcy of the small peasant economy, what will happen?Isn't that just a wage earner?Send it here in batches directly from Dashun.

Moreover, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, even within the scope of Tianxia, ​​the situation of land ownership and personal dependence has been completely different in the suzerain-vassal system.

To put it simply, if we only consider the degree of ownership and personal attachment, or the resulting consciousness.

Considering only the consciousness shaped by the system, North Korea and Japan may follow the Prussian road; only Dashun cannot follow the Prussian road in terms of ownership, personal attachment and other issues.North Korea has yet to complete the transition to private ownership of land and the legalization of land sales. It will be the first time in history that North Korea officially recognized land sales, and it will be ten years later.

(End of this chapter)