New Shun 1730

The coal flew very fast, but Liu Yu was also born immediately. This kind of ability was also the foundation of the feudal military nobles' livelihood, so he easily avoided it.

The guard next to him rushed over like a wolf, and the guard next to him also quickly controlled the crowd.

After dodging the coal, Liu Yu smiled when he heard the scolding. It would be quite boring to use this kind of fragmented colloquial speech to find trouble by insulting family members. Just do it if you want to, it's boring to find such excuses.

The other party scolded him freely, but Liu Yu felt relieved, knowing that this was not a serious assassination.

The people who were working with Xiangzi not far away turned pale with fright. They did not expect that this honest and honest man would be so crazy that he would do such a thing.

Niu Er and others also hurriedly surrounded Liu Yu, and the guard hurriedly said: "My lord, this person may have more gangs. Nowadays, explosives are used to mine in the west of Beijing. Please leave this place where thieves are everywhere."

Liu Yu thought to himself, forget it. If there were any variant of the Minben sect, or a retro Confucianism of the traditional Minben sect, what would fall around him would not be coal, but bombs.

Nowadays, the coal mines in western Beijing have begun to use more powerful explosives. If there is any political purpose, how can there be such a movement?

The person was under control. Liu Yu walked over and looked at the other person. It was difficult to judge the age of the other person for a while.

Xiangzi originally made a living by driving camels to transport coal. He used to be an apprentice for others, and then he did it himself. This kind of work was exposed to wind and sun.

Now I am carrying coal at the station again. The sweat on my body is mixed with coal black, and it is really difficult to tell my true age. It’s okay to say thirty or forty, because that’s what the working people in their thirties are like at this time; it’s okay to say fifty or sixty, because the fifty-sixty-year-old people Liu Yu saw in his previous life may not be the same. So old.

For example, how old you are is not the same thing as how old you are. This also changes with the changes of the times.

"Why did you attack me?"

Liu Yu did not use the word "assassination", but only used the word "attack".

Xiangzi's head had calmed down after being caught, but it was too late to regret now that the matter was over, so he continued to curse and tell his story.

Upon hearing that this was the case, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Since this was the case, there was no need to worry. Even those who followed Liu Yu, who were actually sent by the emperor, also thought that if Duke Xingguo was really stabbed, they would be in big trouble.

Now it sounds like it was just a whim of Shiohu when he was in northern Jiangsu a few years ago, or a petition made by the emperor during his southern tour, so this matter can be big or small.

I also thought that since Duke Xingguo didn't need to assassinate him, but to attack him, he still had a kind heart. It would be better to be angry and travel three thousand miles away than to have his head chopped off.

This is how it is in these days. Not everyone is the same. Smashing ordinary people is not even a fight, but hitting nobles is very different. So much so that being exiled for three thousand miles can be regarded as a kind of "good intention".

After Liu Yu heard the curse from the other side, he suddenly asked: "Are you married?"

Not only Xiangzi, but also the guards around him were confused by this question, wondering what the question was?

Xiangzi didn't expect the other person to ask such a question. He was at a loss for a moment. He had been holding back all the curse words he was going to say for a long time, but all of them were stuck. He could only say calmly: "No. Traitor, why do you ask this?"

"Oh, your situation reminds me of something... I know a man, this man, he is a shoemaker. Due to the development of some factories, his shoe-making business has become increasingly bleak. But even so, He still thinks about saving money to start a shoe-making factory in the future, but his son is very promising, so he doesn't think so. "

Having said this, Liu Yu did not continue.

Niu Er and others on the side felt itchy in their hearts. They all had practical training in Weihai. They knew that Liu Yu's talk about such things would often make people think deeply, but this time it stopped suddenly, which was really uncomfortable.

Niu Er thought to himself, what on earth did his son think? According to what the Duke said, his business was bleak and it was useless to save money to work in the factory. But what does a promising person look like?

I couldn't figure it out for the moment. Looking at Liu Yu, I felt that it was probably just a temporary feeling. Although I wanted to know the rest of the story, I didn't dare to ask again.

At this time, the officials from the station had also gathered around. Liu Yu waved his hand and said: "It's no big deal. I will bend the law for personal gain and sentence him to exile and send him to North America. Isn't he willing to continue doing delivery work? Send him to North America to be raised. Dog, say hello to the skinners in North America, it doesn’t matter whether you use a dog or a camel.”

Dashun has added some new punishment methods in recent years. The so-called exile in North America is not as simple as simple exile.

Instead, they have to work there. Generally speaking, the construction period is six years, and they only provide food and drink but no money. Sending a dog to North America is considered a harsh punishment, because the place where dogs are used to transport goods is covered in ice and snow, which doesn't sound like a good place.

But generally speaking, the exiles in Dashun are basically not exiled to places that are more suitable for farming.

Historically, the British's method of conquering Oceania was to send prisoners there to work as slaves with serious immigrants. Although in theory Dashun can also learn this way, without slaves, but with strategies such as the escaped slave method, and rapid development.

But the reality is not that simple. Instead, it will lead to a large number of people choosing to flee and become bandits, which will be troublesome to eliminate. It's really not necessary.

Now that he said this, all the officials also agreed. Liu Yu didn't take it seriously and signaled what to do.

After the chaos here dissipated, Niu Er thought about what Xiangzi had just said, and couldn't help but shook his head and said: "This matter is just a replica of the Yangzhou Rebellion. Since the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the coal in the west of Beijing has been Use a camel.”

"Transporting coal by railway may hinder the livelihood of the poor. This sentence cannot be said without conscience."

"It's just that the Duke's reforms in Songsu should still understand what is right and what is wrong. Does this mean that this is just the price of change?"

Liu Yu chuckled and did not comment on Niu Er's "price", but said: "This man has worked for half his life, and finally saved a camel, ready to make money by transporting coal. From one camel to several Ten horses, and own a camel business. If it were you, you would have been working hard for many years, and you were about to be promoted to lieutenant general, but it was announced that all those with non-imperial examination backgrounds would be abolished."

"Actually, he blew up the railway with explosives, or just bought me a gun. It's understandable, and he has to praise him as a hero. Right?"

Here Liu Yu was secretly teasing people like Menzi who came from a practical academic background. They still had the mentality of scholars in the Song and Ming Dynasties who should be superior to others and be superior to others, saying that their ideas were similar to those of these small producers.

But this is the difference in outlook. To Niu Er, this kind of teasing seems like an affirmation.

As for whether he is considered a hero, Niu Er also organized a slave labor uprising in Java, so he has no objection to this.

What exactly does change look like? People like Niu Er, who have personally experienced it in Java and watched the whole process of Songsu's reform, must have a better understanding of change than those who sit at home and study.

His understanding of change is just four words: life and death.

Just like when he carried out land reform in Banten, the local nobles who didn't want land reform could just raise an army to resist, but as long as they won the battle, there would be no change.

Just like Liu Yu was engaged in salt policy reform and waste salt reclamation in Songsu. If he did not want to abolish salt reclamation and salt policy reform, he could have raised an army to resist. In fact, a salt workers' uprising did break out, but he lost in the end. Therefore, Huainan's Caodang became a cotton-producing area; Yangzhou declined; and Haizhou's large salt drying fields continuously produced salt to supply the southern provinces.

These people of the Practical School generally had the same view on the uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. If you don’t want to pay excessive taxes and starve to death, then resist.

The only difference lies in which side you look at it.

A hero may not necessarily be a good person.

"Water Margin" has been circulating for such a long time. The difference between a hero and a good person is quite clear to Dashun people.

Now Liu Yu said that if these people throw bombs at him, he can be called a hero, and Niu Er seems to be true. According to the folk standards of heroes in Dashun, a large number of the corpses of hanged foreigners hung on masts to dry in Nanyang can be counted as heroes.

Those people who rent land for temple farming, those who have not saved any camels and rely on people to work with camels, those who cannot farm in Nanyuan and still need to maintain the Royal Nanyuan, those who rely on sea firewood to get some oil and salt money, those who used to The kiln owners who invested in small coal mines but were driven bankrupt by large capital mines... In Niu Er's view, resistance is reasonable. The question is whether the progressives he considers can have enough power to suppress their resistance.

If we are more realistic, then the current situation is what they consider "progress", is it recognized by the imperial power?

Dashun's imperial power was so strong that the emperor's attitude could determine the direction of many things.

The emperor's support means crushing those forces that oppose moving forward.

If the emperor objects, it will hurt the people, harm the people, and leave the poor without a job to make a living.

However, what the imperial power fears most is precisely a clear goal. Once this goal clearly exists, then the imperial power itself loses its sanctity. Only such a clear goal is sacred in the eyes of those people.

Heaven and God cannot be seen or touched, so the sanctity of heaven is the sanctity of imperial power.

A specific goal, or even smaller, a railway or a factory, these are all visible and tangible. So when these tangible things are sacred to these new schools of practical learning, the so-called imperial power is actually just a powerful inertia.

Even more so, once this progressive trend of thought becomes the mainstream, the sacred nature of imperial power can only exist as a vassal of the sacred nature of the progress of the times.

This was a huge threat to the imperial power itself. Therefore, the emperor can do some things and do some technologically progressive things; but he will never allow some kind of progress or some kind of fairness to be sacred.

What is important to the emperor is that you can do this because I asked you to do it.

And it absolutely cannot be that, because it is right, you have to do it.

Even though, it was done in the end, and it seemed like the result was not much different.

Therefore, in the current situation, Niu Er's statement that "transporting pounds of coal by railway will hinder the livelihood of the poor" is correct in itself. In the final analysis, it is the emperor who laments that even though he knows that this statement is true, he still supports the construction of the railway. But who knows what will happen in the future?

The stories of Shang Yang, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng are there. Who knows what will happen in the future?

He didn't care much about the fate of these people. He hoped to get some answers from Liu Yu such as "it is right and necessary to do this".

For example, he said, "These are all necessary costs."

But Liu Yu avoided this question and gave him the answer that these people's resistance was reasonable. It's just that they are a little weaker.

If this is the case, when someone opposes or counterattacks in the future, will we still have to hold on to this idea of ​​life and death, and that failure is due to lack of ability and strength?