Xinshun 1730

Chapter 916 Nanyang Development ([-])

Many years later, when Lianghuai and northern Jiangsu gradually got rid of the plight of extreme serfdom, and people were no longer eager to go to Nanyang, a ballad called "Death Song of Nanyang Waves Without Direction" was sung.

When the first group of people who experienced the hardships of going to Nanyang heard this song, they would always think of the afternoon that gave them hope.

I advise you not to go to Nanyang, Nanyang is just like the altar of ghosts.Thousands of people go and no one turns, knowing life and death is difficult.

It is difficult to make money and eat shit with all kinds of truths at the end.The intermediary only said that Nanyang is good, and making money is like water.

The mouth is like a watch, and relatives and friends can't believe it.He deceives people to come and go everywhere, only earning intermediary money in his heart.

Thousands of intermediaries will die without a chance, and their bodies will be torn to pieces.How many people believed in his talk and abandoned the tomb and ancestral tomb.

A bachelor can still do it alone, without a parent or family.Juan fixed auspicious days and good days, abandoned the house and left the hometown with tears.

Nanyang is far away thousands of miles away, and working hard pays for the boat.The price of the boat for the family and women is doubled, and each Lu Yin remembers it in his heart.

The big ship is still at the port, waiting for the good weather and good weather.There are also people who wait until February and March, during which time they can eat, live and work.

It's easy to send each other off with the wind, and it takes less than ten days to reach Nanyang.You will know the tragedy when you set foot on Java, and you will see three hundred couplets of graves first.

Everyone intends to find a way out, either by hiring a worker or working for a long time.It can be compared to selling cattle and horses in my hometown, opening my mouth to look at the teeth and knocking on the sickle.

The price of young and strong people is slightly higher, and it costs two dollars a month.If you are over [-] years old, a year is only half a year.

I don't have a tent to let mosquitoes bite, and I don't have to be cold.If you want to change your clothes and pants, you can only buy cloth wraps on account.

Counting from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, I still owe the employer money.If you want to leave, but you haven't paid back the debt, you can make another two or two dollars a year.

On New Year's Eve, 30 people worshiped their ancestors, and they thought of being cut by a knife in their hearts.No relatives, no children, so I spent the new year at the master's house.

From the first day of the first day to the fourth day of the fourth day, one thousand will be deducted for the fee.Robbery is just the same, and it is the same everywhere in Nanyang.

People say that Nanyang rice is made from rice, and the tears are salty when you eat it yourself.There is no [-]-grain rice in one meal, and it is all filled with cassava and pumpkin.

Cassava heartburn is hard to eat, but I can still swallow my throat.If you eat too much, you will be afraid of being bloated to death, but if you eat too little, it will be difficult to work hard.

If the wife and daughter have nothing to do, they have no choice but to pick up guests in exchange for money.The wild husband enters the house and the husband picks it up, and only the tortoise sits outside the house.

Thousands of people, both men and women, are planted every year.There were thousands of mistakes at the time, and people should not be trusted to venture into Nanyang.

Li Ling strayed into the state of Shan Yu, and he cherished the Han country all the year round.I am also like this so far, with black hair mixed with white hair.

Desperate to escape without entanglement in my heart, I have been working year after year.Three years of ship payment and ten years of debt, ten years old and still owe money.

If you go home and say Nanyang is good, it must be Hua Niang's cousin!Tell the folks and elders not to believe that Nanyang is good.

Every time a child insisted on coming, he would lock the house with broken sticks and legs to return.Every sentence in a tragic song is true, and none of it is a lie!

Of course, this is a ballad that was written a long time later, and it only sang a simple fact: when they went to Nanyang, they were essentially debt slaves, but Dashun was not allowed to have slaves, so they cannot be said to be slaves.

It is actually a bit exaggerated to say that the debts of the three-year ship payment have been paid for all my life, but it can only be regarded as a slightly exaggerated rhetorical method, which is far from spreading rumors.

Employers always have various ways to make you owe money.

Previously, there were many means in the Bangka tin mine, and they were all "excellent" management experiences that could be used for reference.Although the Batavia Sugar Factory did not have the issue of a residence permit, as long as the thinking was right, they could always diverge their thinking and come up with new methods.

If you can save money every year, it can be regarded as the accountant is blind.

There is hydrocyanic acid in cassava. They don't know the reason, but they know that cassava cannot be eaten too much, and they will die if they eat too much.

But now, they don't know what cassava is, and they don't care if eating it will kill them.When I was starving, the rotten sweet potatoes I picked up in the cesspit were completely black, and the bitterness made me retch, and I didn't even say that I would die after eating it.

At this moment.

These disaster victims do not know what kind of fate awaits them in Nanyang.

It's just that with the eloquent language of those "human traffickers", the eyeballs that have been dulled by despair and perennial natural disasters have regained their human brilliance.

Of course, the "human traffickers" at this time are not the same kind of people as the "intermediaries" that appeared many years later when the small farmers were stabilized.

But these words said at this time are no different from those words that will be said in the future, which are called "must be the words of a flower girl".

"Go! Nanyang is a good place. The rice there can be planted three seasons a year, as long as you sprinkle some seeds, you can harvest."

"You don't need to think about this season or that solar term at all. You are here, there is a cold in spring, and if you miss the solar term, this year is over. But when you come to Nanyang, you don't need to remember any solar term or date."

"I will work for three years after I go there, and I will pay for the boat ride. After three years of work, the debt has been paid off, and if I want to continue working at that time, I will continue to work in the plantation."

"If you don't want to do it, then work for a few more years and save up capital. Buy some land and grow something yourself. As long as you have the strength, one mu of land there is worth ten mu here. Is it possible that you can still starve to death?"

"Besides, if you work for a few years, the master will save money for you. At that time, I will give you a piece of land that is guaranteed not to starve to death. Hey, you can build a small house by yourself...Nanyang is so warm, broken tree leaves It’s better to be sheltered from the rain than here. After we’re done, we’ll grow something for ourselves to eat. If we’re short of money, we’ll continue to work on the plantation for a few years.”

"Have you ever eaten coconut? Have you ever eaten jackfruit? Have you ever eaten mango? There are mountains all over Nanyang. Even if you go to the mountains to pick this up and eat it, you won't be hungry. The fruit of jackfruit is like white sugar... Uh, you guys have never eaten white sugar, have you ever eaten that corn stalk? It’s much sweeter than that..."

"Go there and work hard for a few years. I have a house, a wife, and land. Even if I can't marry our Han girl, I can find a local barbarian girl, and I won't worry about it."

"Yi girls can also give birth to babies. They have all the holes they should have."

The human traffickers were spouting about the various benefits of Nanyang, without any superb skills, and only grasped two things.

just now.

future.

eat now.

hope for the future.

It is a luxury to be full now.

There is hope for the future.

Many years later, when "Song of the Death of Nanyang Waves without Direction" was sung, the social situation and life of small farmers in the Lianghuai area were very different from what they are now.

And now, even as it was sung in the wave death song later, for the people here, it is a life full of hope.

At least, stronger than now.

From birth to now, the last time these people felt the feeling of "hope" was when they were hungry and cried when they were young, and their mothers would breastfeed themselves.That may be one of the few days in their lives when most of their hopes are fulfilled.

Since then, until today, it is considered that a flame called hope has been ignited in my heart again.

They don't care if it's coconut or jackfruit, or even the slightest bit about how it tastes much sweeter than corn stalks.

In their imagination, it may be acorns, persimmons and the like.Whether it is really delicious or not, as long as it is full of mountains, you will not die of hunger.

And there is no winter there, so there is no need to consider the four seasons.It doesn't have to be like this, one autumn rain, one spring cold, there is not much left of the year's harvest.

To be alive is stronger than anything else.

More importantly, as long as you go to Nanyang, the usury owed to the master here will be written off.This point is guaranteed by the government. Although the debt is written down, according to the "Law of Dashun", the maximum amount is twice as high as the account, and it will be repaid in the future.

But everyone is thinking about paying back the money?What a fart!
This is enough for them to be willing to go to Nanyang.

Although according to their superficial knowledge, they feel that the world is as black as crows, but the master over there may not be much better than here.

But thinking about it, this place is fucking like this, how could it be any worse?You can't eat people and drink blood, can you?
Not far away, the magistrate of Funing County looked at the victims who were encouraged to go to Nanyang, but he was thinking of another thing.

He is a man with some conscience, and he thinks that it is good for these common people to have a way of life.

Now the imperial court is exempted, and it is said that in the future there will be an in-depth whipping method to recruit laborers to work.

Other county magistrates still have to think about how to collect this year's national tax.He has worked here for five years, and he has not been exempted for one year, but the tax has also been halved.The fact that the county magistrates have done so much that they have not practiced tax collection also shows the tragedy of this place.

Now it is a good thing for these people to go to Nanyang to find a way of life without paying the county government.

But after the good thing happened, the Jiedu envoy wrote a letter to the Fu Yin and the Fu Yin wrote a letter to him, expressing that "the debt of the tenant and the master should not hinder the matter of going to Nanyang."

Neither the Jiedu envoy nor the governor clearly stated that these debts were written off.

The words "unstoppable" were given. It seems that each county is required to play its role, but how can each county play it?Isn't it just recklessness?
One end is the Duke of the State, the Governor, the Jiedu Envoy, and the Governor; the other end is the local gentry.

There is no need to choose which side to choose.

It's nothing more than a high-ranking official who crushes people to death. They only say that they can't be hindered, but they don't say what to do. This is also normal in the officialdom, and the county magistrate has long been used to it.

The only thing I'm really worried about is that this year's debts will be forgiven, and next year the gentry will stop lending. I'm afraid something big will happen.Fortunately, what can be counted on, that is, the reputation of the Duke, can really make this young crop loan.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that my black hat will be lost.

If nothing happens, everything will be fine.good for everyone.

When something happened, Fu Yin said that I would let you not hinder and solve it by yourself, but I didn't say that you would make the gentry refuse to borrow money; after the Fu Yin said, Jiedushi can also say the same.

One end is betting that Liu Yu kept his promise, and he has to take responsibility; the other end is tens of thousands of ordinary people, who have suffered for a long time.

Being able to take on this seemingly low-risk responsibility is already considered a good official in the officialdom.

The traffickers were there to deal with the disaster victims and ordinary people, and the county magistrate had to deal with the gentry in the county who had debts and tenants with these people.

All those who are related are invited to come here, the magistrate of Funing County only persuaded: "These things are just your donations."

A few gentry looked at the simple huts for the victims to shelter from the rain, and thought to themselves that we paid some money for the huts where these people sheltered from the rain. Why did we donate twice?
Besides, the court rewarded the donations.This time the money is obviously not coming back. If you say that if you are alive in the future, you will definitely pay back the money.
Officials don't know that some things can be done once, but they can't be done a second time.I did it this time, and I will call it an official house in the future!

Although I thought so in my heart and complained a lot, I didn't dare to say it after all.The centralization of the imperial court has not yet collapsed, and it can still manage this place. A major case just happened a few years ago, and the attitude of the imperial court is very annoying in the eyes of these gentry.

But since the imperial court has money and soldiers in their hands, they can only bury this resentment in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)