Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 416 A Seemingly Moderate Strategy

At dusk, the samurai Xun returned to the mansion. Sun Xiangfu was there, so he naturally wanted to entertain him. While eating, he also happened to talk about business.

"Zhengming thought that those guys would agree to the conditions you proposed?"

The samurai Xun did not have the slightest liking for these local tyrants. They looked down on the samurai who were born in merchants, and the samurai even more disliked these aristocratic families who used plundering methods to entrap the common people.

Therefore, since the samurai Xun took office, he rarely interacted with them. After listening to some intelligence data explained to him by Sun Xiangfu, he was not surprised, not only in Shannan Road, but also in Guanzhong and Anbei. In addition, in any area of ​​the Tang Dynasty where there are local powerful forces, there is such a large discrepancy. Most of the local officials are these people with family backgrounds, and they usually cooperate with each other to seek common interests. The situation on Shannan Road is a little more serious.

"If they dare to hinder the imperial court's major policies, His Majesty will dare to raise an army to destroy them after the spring begins. However, they are not stupid, and they are only seeking benefits. Therefore, there is a high possibility of agreeing."

The samurai Xun nodded and said, "Then, what the old man has to do is to find a way to control those labors in the hands of the court after they agree to the conditions?"

Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "It's not in the hands of the imperial court. Those common people don't trust the imperial court very much at present. They are under the management of the imperial court to get to where they are today. You just need to maintain their Rights and interests are enough, I believe that when they see benefits, they will naturally become more courageous, and only when they become more courageous, coupled with the protection of policies, can they dare to break free from the control of these tyrants."

"You mean step by step, take your time?" Samurai Xun's IQ is not low, and he understood Sun Xiangfu's meaning in just a moment.

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Yes, local tyrannical forces are deeply rooted. If you practice killing methods or high-pressure policies, it will inevitably cause backlash from all over the world. You have been an official in the local area for a long time, so you should know their nature.

Now that the imperial court is about to start a war with the outside world, if there is chaos inside, it will easily lead to catastrophe.

So, although Your Majesty sent me to solve the problem in Shannan Road, in fact, all the local powerful forces in the world are watching this place. This is the first step of the imperial court's new policy towards the whole country. We must be gentle. "

It doesn't matter if the local tyrants want the land, the imperial court will give you the land at a low price, or even give it to you for free. What the imperial court wants is the right to govern the people. You get rich locally.

But if you compete with the imperial court for civil rights, the nature is different. This is rebellion, and the imperial court cannot tolerate it.

Judging from the current situation, Sun Xiangfu has accurately grasped the needs of local tyrants. According to their past development route, these local tyrants have always needed land. The country is now less war-torn, and the population of their clan In the rapid increase, if these tribesmen want to live a good life, they need more fields that can produce economic value.

There is no way, in the farming society, the field is the root of the economic value of the output.

What the tyrants in these places value is usually the development and reproduction of their own people. As for the serfs, they are all people with foreign surnames. Their life and death, rich or poor, have little to do with the development of their own people.

So what if the imperial court granted them citizenship rights?When there is no food to eat, they still need to come to their own door to be slaves, because their past experiences let them know how bottomless these ordinary people are when they have no food to eat, so they are not worried about them getting out of control.

Sun Xiangfu gave them land as an exchange condition. There is another reason. Too much land was replaced by the five surnames and seven families. Many people who originally planted these lands in the Central Plains were moved to the north Land, these vacant fields, the imperial court simply can't grow them, because there is no manpower.

Instead of letting it go to waste and return the farmland, it is better to use it to deal with these small and medium-sized families that are still rooted in the Central Plains. At the cost of expanding the land holdings of the small and medium-sized families, in exchange for the implementation of the New Deal and the freedom of the people.

Immediately afterwards, it is to promote industry and commerce. As long as the labor force of the people is made valuable, the land will become tasteless.

The situation will be quite different when the survival of the common people is not limited to farming, but if they engage in industry and commerce, it will make them richer, then the entire social structure will be reshuffled.

Aristocratic farming families and local tyrants will become poorer and poorer, while ordinary people engaged in industry and commerce will become richer and richer.

Sun Xiangfubu's situation is huge, almost overturning the entire social structure. However, on the surface, it is quite gentle, because the entire evolution process needs at least two or three years of development before it can become a trend.During this process, the imperial court only did one of the most basic things, which was to protect the rights and interests of citizens.

The imperial court will not remove these common people who have obtained their rights and interests. Apart from their basic rights and interests being guaranteed, in fact, they still need to make a living by working for the local tyrants, because the imperial court did not distribute them The land policy even directly dealt with the vacant land at a low price to these powerful families, so that the common people had no way to return to self-cultivation.

Sun Xiangfu's approach will set an example for other regions, which is a great thing for those tyrants, and they may take the initiative to fight for such benefits. In this way, the work of various reform inspection teams It's easy to do, those local tyrants not only don't make things difficult for them, but treat them as guests and deliberately please them, who wouldn't want it!Ordinary people without land are slaves to be exploited by them!

However, they will soon find that after the gradual development of industry and commerce, they will not be able to keep these people at all, and the fields can only be left for them to grow.

"Old man, where do we start?"

Samurai Xun also very much agrees with what Sun Xiangfu said, which is another reason why he reported to Li Shimin for advice when he could clearly solve the problem. There is trouble.

"First of all, it is a publicity about the rights and interests of citizens. While the reform and inspection team of the imperial court is reforming, you must supervise the officials under the local yamen and tell these people what rights they have in the future to the greatest extent. Then, concentrate on developing our waterway transfer company. , as well as some industries I designed for you."

As Sun Xiangfu said, he took out some of the things he had written on the boat during this period, and pushed them to the samurai Xun who was on the opposite side of the case.

The biggest output of the Jianghan Plain is fish and rice. Now, the land has been given to the aristocratic family. Then, in terms of rice, except for the new fields formed by building embankments, most of them are basically given away. The rest is fish. Of course, it can be extended to look at aquatic products, or wetland products.

Sun Xiangfu, who came from later generations, knows that this place can produce duck necks, salted duck eggs, preserved eggs and other food for more than one billion people in later generations, and it is also the most developed area of ​​aquaculture in the country.

Therefore, these industries must be launched.

In addition, it is the planting of aquatic plants such as lotus root, lotus seed, and water chestnut, and the large-scale production of canned fish and dried cured fish.

Of course, these industries can only play a supporting role in local development, and what can be solved is at most the employment problem of tens of thousands of people.

The real big head is in the waterway transshipment company, which requires a lot of manpower to establish docks, store warehouses, manage shipping, and ensure operations.

Where is the manpower coming from?
In addition to those water bandits who were recruited, they were recruited from among the people who had obtained new household registrations but had no land.

Moreover, once the waterway transshipment company is established, the number of vendors needed will greatly increase. With external communication, there will be more labor output. People who can barely get two meals know that they only need to work four hours a day to get two full meals by boat to Guanzhong, and when they can still get regular wages, will they not want to go?

Moreover, those aristocratic and powerful families cannot restrict their freedom in the future, because the new citizenship household registration system gives them the right to go out freely.

The samurai Xun was also quite serious when it came to business, so he didn't raise his head until Sun Xiangfu was full and ready to leave.

"The ability of Zhengming's hair growth, the old man has only seen it with his own eyes today. If you follow the practice in your booklet, within two or three years, there will be no poor and hungry people in the entire Shannan Road."

"Ying Gong is admirable. It is easy to have an idea, but it is difficult to implement it. Just these initial embankments, planning of wetlands, and construction of docks are a test of people's organizational skills. In fact, it is much more difficult than expected."

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult, Meier will help Daddy."

At some point, Wu Meiniang, who was holding a pot of hot tea, also appeared in the living room. Presumably, she knew that her father had returned, and wanted to please her in advance, so as not to be punished too harshly later.

"Huh, you girl, you are lawless. Do you know how worried you are for your father and your mother when you sneak out? It must have caused a lot of trouble for your uncle Sun outside, and you won't give your uncle Sun a lot of trouble." Pour tea to apologize."

The samurai Xun deliberately put on a face, and there was not much majesty at all. Wu Meiniang also nodded apologetically, lifted the small teapot, and carefully added some tea to Sun Xiangfu's teacup. When the warrior was young, she stuck out her tongue at Sun Xiangfu playfully. It seems that after staying with her on the boat for a few days, this girl is not afraid of him at all.

Pretending to enjoy himself, he took a sip of the tea that Wu Meiniang poured for him, and Sun Xiangfu said with a smile, "Lingqianjin is extremely intelligent, maybe in a few years, she will really be a great helper to Mr. Ying!"

Hearing this, the samurai Xun's face was a little dark, and his voice was slightly sad, "It's a pity that it's a girl, the old man's two bastard sons, hey, don't mention it!"

The nine sons of the dragon are different. Under the poor education of the warrior Xun, Wu Meiniang can grow into a generation of empress completely by talent. It can be seen that she is extraordinary. Sun Xiangfu still can't understand the pain in the warrior Xun's heart. It seems that when Wu Meiniang grows up, perhaps, the political stage of the Tang Dynasty can already allow women to intervene.

"Xiao Mei Niang, if you really want to help your father, you have to study harder and don't be playful!"

(End of this chapter)