New Shun 1730

These immigrants, who are mixed with a lot of Yangzhou, Wu, and Huanghuai accents, are themselves part of Dashun's special development of the Northeast.

Due to the special situation in the Northeast, there is no pain of transitioning from a traditional economy to a commodity economy. On the contrary, from the beginning, this economy is an exogenous driving force. They don't feel the problems of the transition period at all.

More fundamentally, just like some scholars in later generations who studied the export structure of the Northeast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they came to the same conclusion: the Northeast, in essence, is using soil to exchange for currency, but using soybeans as a medium to transfer fertility elements in the soil.

In fact, Dashun's development of the Northeast at this time also adheres to this idea.

The main commodity is soybeans, which is essentially a process of transforming nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil with soybeans as a medium.

The value of soybeans in northern Jiangsu is not reflected by the starch synthesized by soybeans through photosynthesis. In other words, at this time in the agriculture of the Northeast, the carbohydrates added by photosynthesis are not very valuable.

The most valuable are nitrogen fixation, nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil absorbed by the roots.

The rice in Nanyang is sold for the sunlight energy in Nanyang; the bean cake in the Northeast is sold for the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium absorbed by the roots.

The nitrogen content of bean cake is 6%, which is twenty times that of manure 0.35%; the phosphorus content is 1.8%, which is also much higher than manure.

Relying on this undeveloped land, before the emergence of the fertilizer industry, it can support for fifty or sixty years, and it seems that there will be no problem for the time being. After it comes out, it may be feasible to rely on fertilizer to make up for it.

Although it is still selling resources in essence, it has indeed promoted the development of the commodity economy within the entire Dashun new system.

Those involved naturally cannot understand what supports the commodity exchange between the Northeast and northern Jiangsu.

But they are already accustomed to the economic foundation shaped by this commodity exchange, which has created a completely different lifestyle from before immigration.

Today, 60% of the developed land is in the hands of "big farmers". The so-called big farmers refer to those who own more than 500 acres of land.

The special labor conditions of hired workers for planting beans and harvesting have basically prevented the traditional, single feudal tenancy relationship from being formed, or the previously formed ones have been gradually disintegrated.

On the contrary, the dependence of farmers on commercial capital and financial capital far exceeds their subordinate relationship with landlords.

The "super-economic exploitation" relationship under the feudal tenancy state mentioned by Lao Ma has been greatly weakened, and the pure "economic exploitation" relationship of capitalist nature has been established.

This is reflected in these people, that is, they do not have complaints like "the rent is too high", but are more concerned about market prices and cloth prices.

Even if they talk nonsense, it is easier to pull the two feet and eight wide cotton cloth, whether it is pure cotton, and so on.

Because these things are closely related to their lives.

They do not have the possibility of men farming and women weaving, and all the necessities of life such as cloth have to be bought with money.

This is also an important reason why the paper money of Songjiang Prefecture can quickly occupy the market here and replace silver and copper coins.

Dashun could not collect much tax, and it was impossible to rely on official immigration. It could only rely on the commercial and financial capital rich in Songjiang Prefecture.

Using silver as a tax currency means that the court has given up the right to issue banknotes, and the right to issue banknotes is in the hands of financial capital and commercial capital. And here is the place where Dashun is most dependent on commercial capital and financial capital, and the characteristics of Dashun itself that it lacks silver and gold, making these paper money that can buy primary industrial products become the legal tender here.

The attitude of the court is indifferent.

Northeast, Jiangsu, and Nanyang use the same paper money. The paper money collected by the court can buy sorghum, soybeans, wine, silk, cotton cloth, ironware, salt, rice... Then, the court will naturally not object.

Because up to now, Dashun is still continuing the small government status of the previous dynasty, and it is neither able to manage too much nor manage it very well. The taxes collected are to ensure national defense, family inheritance, and water control, that's it. The collected taxes can buy things.

Since the management did not understand the grassroots well, an obviously suspicious person came to the leader of these horse sledge drivers in such a dignified manner. Taking advantage of the opportunity of chatting with the two-foot-eight-wide cloth, he toasted a glass of wine and made a request.

He hoped to take a sledge that was transporting bean cakes, honey and soybean oil to Shenyang, go to Shenyang together, transfer to Yingkou, and obviously plan to take a boat to the south after the ice breaks.

The person who made this request spoke with an indelible northern Jiangsu accent.

He was strong, wearing a sheepskin robe, with a short knife hanging from his waist and a clear scar on his face.

This spring, the queen was ill, so the emperor pardoned the world.

Since Liu Yu's reform in southern and northern Jiangsu, the group of Yangzhou people who were exiled to the northeast and Southeast Asia were sentenced to quite strange crimes at the beginning, which were beyond the scope of the ten unforgivable crimes.

Although they started a rebellion, they were definitely not treason; although they started a rebellion, there was no cult involved, so it was not unrighteous; in addition, the ancestral tombs of Dashun were not in the Huanghuai area, so they were not related to treason.

The remaining seven are even further away.

Therefore, these people are included in the amnesty for the queen's illness this year, and theoretically they can return home.

But even if we don't talk about judging people by their appearance, just say that after the amnesty, those who speak with a Yangzhou accent and are exiled here in the past are definitely not ordinary people who can think about returning to the south.

Most of those who were exiled and sent here back then either worked in workshops or worked in the fields. Their lives were relatively stable, but they certainly couldn't afford to go back home.

Those who have been able to save money in the past few years are either those who have made a fortune by robbing in the mountains after escaping and have now retired; or those who have gone to dig for gold and survived; or those who have dug up ginseng and killed their teammates and then embezzled it.

How can normal labor, part-time jobs, and hired labor farming save money to return home, or how can they be willing to go back?

It's just that after passing Sanjiangkou, Tongjiangzi is further down, and there are big towns along the way. This place is not like the north of the Songliao watershed, and there have been no major bandits and thieves in the past few years.

Since you are giving money, it's not a matter of origin for heroes, just know it in your mind.

We are all people who have come out to make money. If there is a chance to rob to make money, mine for gold and escape, or dig ginseng to kill teammates, who is willing to work hard and work honestly?

People still admire those who caught up with the amnesty and got their first pot of gold. Didn't those salt smugglers in the past also catch up with the amnesty of the change of the reign and become wealthy merchants that the court relies on now?

The leader of the car team also spoke with a northern Jiangsu accent, which was like meeting a fellow countryman in a foreign land, and it was inevitable that he was friendly. However, this car owner was not really exiled, and he came to the Northeast relatively early, otherwise he would not have been able to get the position of the car team leader.

This was a group of northern Jiangsu people who took the initiative to develop and absorb northward after the Nanyang development and capital began to enclose land.

The car owner took the money, was toasted with three bowls of wine and two pounds of meat, and agreed to it - the horse was the owner's, and this solicitation was extra income, and it was a waste not to make money. Anyway, there was no danger going forward, and a town a day.

"We're only going to Shenyang. Once we get there, it'll be easy to go to Yingkou. Now we have to ship all this year's goods before the ice is broken."

"Otherwise, in February or March, the ice will be brittle and the water will rise, so the ship won't be able to sail, and we'll have to wait until June."

"Brother, are you going back home?"

The man who wanted to hitchhike didn't deny it, and said bluntly: "That's right. This year's amnesty means that our group of people can finally go back home. While we can still move, we still have to go back home to take a look."

There's nothing to hide.

This place is still good. In some places, if you catch ten people and ask them, maybe two or three of them were sentenced to exile after being suppressed.

When the boss heard the words "go back home to take a look", he couldn't help but sigh. He was afraid that he would never be able to go back in this life. What can he do if he goes back?

Now he has settled down here, found a job in the caravan, managed a horse team of a hundred people, and transported goods for the business, and his life is not bad.

There is no worry about food and drink, and there is wine every day. Although it is a bit cold in winter, the kang and ground fire dragon have gradually become popular in recent years. This place is not like my hometown in northern Jiangsu. There are no salt fields and grass marshes here. The most abundant thing is firewood, so winter is actually easy to endure.

The memory of my hometown has long faded. Now I remember the pain I suffered when I started vomiting as soon as I got on the boat and wanted to vomit out all the bitter gall.

Thinking of this, the boss of the car raised his wine bowl and clinked it with the person who asked for a ride, and said, "Brother, do you have family in your hometown?"

The hitchhiker also clinked it, hummed, swallowed a mouthful of bitter wine, and sighed, "There are still two younger brothers, and I don’t know how they are doing now. If there is no one at home, I won’t go back. My parents have passed away a long time ago, so why go back?"

The boss of the car didn’t ask any more questions, just said to sleep tonight and leave early tomorrow morning.

The hitchhiker thanked him twice again and went to pay for the wine.

The hitchhiker said that he still had two younger brothers, which was true. As for whether there is no one else at home, in fact, there is still one, including a wife and children, but I don’t know if they are still alive.

The hitchhiker can be regarded as a standard victim in the pre-industrial revolution of Dashun. He committed a crime in the first year of Weixin.

He was originally a salt worker in the salt area, but unfortunately he was a salt worker hired by the market merchants. He was not a salt household with status and grass, but actually helped the market merchants to make private profits.

In the first year of Weixin, the salt area was reformed. His embarrassing status was worse than those salt households who sold and mortgaged grass.

Salt workers like him did not receive a penny of compensation. They were "black households" and "blind migrants". The dispute over grass had nothing to do with him.

He did not understand what division and disintegration meant. He knew that in the end, these salt workers hired by the market merchants would not have a hair, and could only come and go naked.

The reclamation company and the market merchants had negotiated and directly demolished the sheds that the market merchants had given to these salt workers to live in. The salt merchants only made concessions to the salt households who had sold their grass ponds. They would not pay the unemployed salt workers they hired a penny.

The salt merchants said, didn’t the Duke of Xingguo give you a way out? Go to the reclamation company to farm. Anyway, you are also selling your labor, so it doesn’t matter where you sell it.