New Shun 1730

However, immigration is very difficult. The difficulty here refers more to the willingness to immigrate.

It should be said that the Western Shandong region at this time was extremely unenthusiastic about immigration.

From a cultural and historical perspective.

On the one hand, this is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius. Throughout the dynasties, people here did not like to move and preferred to stay at home.

Not just guarding the house.

They also guard their ancestral graves, their parents, their ancestral houses, and their ancestral halls.

On the other hand, the textile industry here is relatively not bad. Basically, the life of the homesteaders is pretty good.

The problem of this textile sideline industry has both historical and geographical factors.

Historically, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a saying that goes "A crossbow is extremely powerful, but its arrow cannot penetrate Lu's silk". Of course it was definitely not cotton at that time, but whether it was ramie, tussah, or linen, after all, the foundation of the textile industry was here.

In stories such as Meng's mother who moved three times and Zeng Shen's filial mother, there is usually a mother who "educates her son in the textile industry."

Since the Yellow River burst in the Song Dynasty, flooding here has gradually diminished. Later in the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu forcibly promoted cotton cultivation, completely replacing ramie. The climate and soil in western Shandong are extremely suitable for growing cotton, and cotton cultivation soon developed.

After Yongle moved the capital, the Grand Canal started flowing again.

In the era before railways and roads, the Grand Canal was the lifeline of transportation connecting the north-south economy. The western Shandong region is located along the canal...

Of course, due to fiber pulling, river construction, canal aid, etc., the burden on the people must be there.

But looking at it dialectically, because there is such a "traffic artery", textiles in the western Shandong area can also circulate quickly.

Even if it is said that in the past few years, Dashun "cut out the flesh and gouged out the sores" and abandoned the canal water transport - the abandonment of the canal water transport does not mean that it blocked the canal in idleness. But you must know that as the Yellow River impacts the plain, but without cleaning, water tanks, water diversion, water transportation governors, high annual water transportation maintenance fees, etc., the canal will be silted up in a few years.

The original national traffic arteries were mixed into sections of local traffic arteries.

It will definitely have an impact on the textile industry.

But, as the saying goes, social consciousness lags behind social existence.

Since the Song-Huang Henan Battle, to the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, and to the early years of Dashun, the Western Shandong region has experienced wars, uprisings, resistance, and massacres.

Dashun's land equalization policy was not implemented thoroughly and comprehensively. However, in North China, especially Henan, Shandong and other places, due to various factors, at the beginning of the founding of Dashun, the average land area in western Shandong was about 25 acres.

Under such conditions, the status of male labor force is much higher than that of female labor force.

It’s a very simple truth, there is no such thing as this right or that right. When the per capita area is 25 acres, the value that a young male labor force can create is higher than that of a female in the agricultural era.

Therefore, this kind of social existence has created this kind of social consciousness: women need to "show their labor ability" when looking for their husband's family.

This display is reflected in marriage customs: when women get married, they must prepare a large amount of ruble dowry. Including the back, mattress surface, door curtains, clothing cloth, etc.

To prove that "I am qualified as a wife, I have the ability to work, and my hands are very skillful and I can weave a lot of cloth."

Men plow.

Women weave.

Driven by this custom and the fact that this place is suitable for growing cotton, there is a saying here: "It is not a skill to arrange flowers and trace clouds, but you can spin and weave until you grow old."

Of course, with Li Gan's succession, social stability, recuperation, climate warming and other factors, the population surged.

The social reality is that men working alone on three acres of land per capita can no longer meet the family's needs for feudal oppression such as taxation, local taxes, copper and silver exchange, labor service, etc., causing the proportion of women's labor value within the family to increase - —Originally, when per capita land was 25 acres, men farmed and women weaved. Even if family labor was not counted as money and was not included in social labor, the value created by men and women for the family might be 82 percent; now, when per capita land is 3 acres, it is about That is, six and four are opened, and seven and three are opened.

But on the one hand, social consciousness lags behind social existence and still continues the foundation of consciousness laid down when the average land per capita was 25 acres.

On the other hand, it also makes it really difficult for women to support their families if they don't have enough Rube skills.

In this atmosphere, even if it is said that the Grand Canal is no longer a national transportation trunk line.

However, the average homesteader here can basically live a decent life.

If we say that immigration is placed in the context of the aftermath of the Yellow River Battle, there will definitely be a lot of followers.

On the one hand, the original economic and trade system collapsed; on the other hand, the Yellow River flooded and the agricultural foundation basically collapsed.

At that time, if you stayed in your hometown, you would really have to go hungry. At that time, it was easy to talk about immigration.

The embarrassing thing is that now, the Yellow River has not breached, so we must take precautions before it happens. As for the homesteaders here, they can basically make do with each other.

Coupled with the serious sentiments here about relocating, being unable to leave one's homeland, and guarding the ancestral graves, it is really a very difficult thing to do.

To put it simply, the reclamation around Anshan Lake has been going on for hundreds of years. The ancestral graves of many families are here.

Now Liu Yu said that he wanted to recreate Ohnozawa and Liang Shanbo here, and he wanted to flood the place.

It is equivalent to flooding other people's ancestral graves.

If there is no resistance, then we can only find such a place in the fabricated "China". Anyway, in reality, flooding people's ancestral graves in real China will definitely cause a big incident.

Of course, the main reason is not traditional culture, nationality, or uniqueness.

This is a universal problem.

It is very simple and very realistic.

Taking Europe at that time as an example, who are willing to immigrate?

In France, who are willing to immigrate and leave their homes?

It is the Huguenots.

That was the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, where heretics were killed to the point that the Seine River was blocked.

That was the "Edict of Fontainebleau" directly declaring that this group of people were garbage, to be eliminated, and illegal people.

If French farmers are willing to immigrate, they will not go to Canada, but rely on mixed-race Acadians or "red French" to take the lead.

Who are the people willing to immigrate in Spain?

It is Jews and Protestants.

Spain and Portugal still had the Inquisition. Militarized organizations such as the Jesuit Company and other religious groups even thought that the Lisbon earthquake was the fault of the living chickens. Who made the Portuguese Catholics impure and morally corrupt?

Who are the people that the UK is willing to immigrate to?

They are the Separatists, Congregationalists, Calvinists, and Presbyterians. These people are lucky not to have died in the UK.

They are the Irish and Scottish, especially the Irish and Scottish. They have directly entered the plantations in Northern Ireland and experienced the massacre that killed a quarter of the people. They would definitely run away if they could.

And what about the "German bumpkins" that Franklin believed would taint the North American bloodline?

That was the Thirty Years' War, which directly killed two-thirds of the population; that was the Protestants and the Old Church killing each other; that was Prussia, which was a large military camp and the soldiers were the company commander's labor slaves...

During the American War of Independence, the poor Hessian mercenaries went to North America, and the North American gentry directly offered a price: 30 acres (180 mu) of land per person, and they would have it if they surrendered. A large number of Hessian mercenaries could be taken away in an instant, and many Hessian mercenaries had to "thank the British government for the boat tickets, thank you" in their hearts.

As long as life can go on, as long as they are not slaughtered by disasters, as long as they are not really unable to survive or even in danger of death, who would be willing to leave their homes?

The whole world is the same.

That's the problem.

The economic stock in the western Shandong region is still very high.

Compared with the Jiaodong region... there is a saying in later generations that the people of Jiaodong say that the western Shandong is the "Tibet" of Shandong; and before this time, Jiaodong was the "Snowy Plateau" of Shandong.

The canal flowed before.

The Yellow River did not pass through Shandong throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The alluvial soil left by the Yellow River.

The cotton planting promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The convenient transportation of the north-south transportation trunk line after Zhu Di moved the capital.

Various factors are here.

In addition, there is the capital in the north, the Jiaodong mountainous area in the east, and Henan, which is even more densely populated than this, in the west and south, the conditions for migration are originally unfavorable.

Now, suddenly, forced migration is required.

Regarding migration, the attitude of the people towards migration can be seen from a widely circulated story among the people:

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to migrate, and said that those who did not want to migrate should gather under the big locust tree in Hongdong. As a result, everyone went under the big locust tree. In fact, the court lied to people and asked those who came under the big locust tree to move away.

This is of course just a story, but in this story, what is the attitude of the people towards immigration? What is the attitude towards the court? It can be seen.

Theoretically, there are two ways to make the people in western Shandong willing to migrate.

Either, ignore the Yellow River and wait for the Yellow River to burst north, directly turning western Shandong into a flood area, salinizing the land and completely silting up the canal within 30 years, causing the emergence of the twirling bandits and the green forest, and the people are living in poverty, then everyone may be willing to accept migration.

Or, open the internal currency gates and let the textiles of Songsu directly wash away the small peasant economy in western Shandong. Relying on the three mu of land per capita, it is impossible to survive. The Lujin produced by women's labor completely lost the market in the face of the impact of Songsu cloth and Indian cotton, causing serious poverty. Then, maybe everyone is willing to accept migration.

The former is for the Shandong region to have no population growth or even negative growth for about 30 years.

The latter is for the emergence of 400,000 green forest twisters and white lotus Tang Saier and other things, and suppress them.

But both of these situations are what Liu Yu wants to avoid.

Otherwise, he would not have to tinker with the Yellow River here, and there would be no need to fight the First World War to find overseas markets for Songsu capital and beg them not to rush to eat domestically.

Since ideological work is impossible to do, and the Dashun court cannot complete the equal-field reform and have enough money and organizational strength to solve the Yellow River problem, then he can only play the good cop and use some coercive means to complete this matter.

Now that his harsh words have been released, Anshan Lake is the key area for the first batch of immigrants, so there are not many options.

In stories, things always seem to be beautiful: as long as you paint a big picture, saying that overseas land is vast, everyone will happily immigrate and be extremely happy.

In reality, there is not so much beauty.

Those who believe in such beautiful stories have the same idea as those who believe that if they had traded with Europe earlier, the Europeans would be extremely happy and eager to trade. Just as they don't know the cotton ban and the "Chinese goods fear theory" of free trade; they don't know how and why the early European immigrants in North America went there, and they even really think that they went there with pioneering spirit and national character.

Hume in the 18th century knew that if there were no sea barriers and no East India companies in various countries were not regulated by the government and not allowed to transition to compradors, the whole of Europe would only be able to use Chinese goods until China sucked all the silver in Europe. Defoe wrote a "small essay" saying that because of the impact of oriental goods, the people were living in poverty, wailing everywhere, widespread unemployment, and the end of Britain was in 1720.

Louis XIV in the 17th century knew that immigration was not that simple. Not to mention that there was enough land, even if it was given to those who were willing to go, the government paid for the dowry, and the king gave the reputation of the title of "King's daughter", no one would go. Colbert's solution is to "intensify the persecution of heretics at home, but allow heretics to go to North America" ​​to force people to leave, using persecution to force them to leave, rather than giving benefits. Colbert believes that persecution is a more effective way to force people to leave than giving benefits to beg them to leave.

Liu Yu does not want to use the method of persecution, so he has been suppressing the products of Songsu from entering the domestic market; he has not thought about waiting for the Yellow River to burst before migrating.

But this also means that this matter is very difficult.

The reason is understood.

Including the governors and county magistrates who look unhappy, Liu Yu does not need to explain too much reason. They understand the principle of preparing for a rainy day and treating the disease before it occurs.

But in practice, it is extremely difficult. This is not something that can be explained clearly by reasoning.

Dongping Prefecture Governor heard Liu Yu say that he would not hesitate to suppress the rebellion, so he could only plead for the people: "Duke, it is no secret that the Yellow River will sooner or later break through the north. People of insight in the world all know that it will happen sooner or later. I also know many reasons and benefits."

"But northwest Shandong and southwest Shandong have been rich since ancient times, far from being comparable to poor places such as Jiaodong. Although it is said that there are lands to go to, people in rich places are reluctant to leave their hometowns. This has been the truth since ancient times."

"In addition, the people here..."

Dongping Prefecture Governor sighed and said: "The court has changed for 30 years, and this place has not been affected by any benefits, but has suffered all the disadvantages. Since the abolition of the canal transportation in northwest Shandong, the place where thousands of merchants gathered in the past is now in a state of depression and ruin... I used to be a county official in northwest Shandong, and I have experienced it personally, and I am not lying at all."

"Now, we have to go through the Yellow River and occupy the Farmland. The people have only resentment towards the court. At this time, adding fuel to the fire will inevitably lead to a major incident. If there are people with ulterior motives, they will stir up trouble during this period, and I am afraid that there will be corpses everywhere and blood will flow like a river. "

"I only hope that the Duke will not be impatient in doing things. Please consider it. After 20 to 30 years of reform, the western part of Shandong has gradually become poor from a rich place. The resentment of the people should not be resorted to unless it is absolutely necessary. "

"Many people say that the Duke is killing too much. The Lianghuai salt was changed and killed; the grain transport was abolished and the sea was killed; even the opening of Songsu and the abandonment of Guangdong, the affairs of the Wuling porters, the Duke was also in charge of killing but not burying. "

"But, please think clearly. Everyone has resentment. In the future, how can they return to the court when they go far away and are separated by the ocean? I am afraid that they will be eager to separate and follow the story of Zhao Tuo. "

Liu Yu heard this and smiled and said, "You are wrong The priorities. What I want is the Yellow River, not Fusang. What the court wants is also the Yellow River, not Fusang. Whether it is learning from Zhao Tuo or following Jinghai, it doesn't matter. Besides, the court has its own arrangements and deployments. "

"Fusang still has a window period of fifty years, so there is no need to rush. I am not occupying land and migrating for Fusang. What about the Yellow River? Can the Yellow River really wait for fifty years? This matter must be urgent."

"Now is a prosperous time. If you don't do things in a prosperous time, you won't be able to do them in the future."

"This matter has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, and I don't want to argue about big or small benevolence and righteousness. What I want and what the court wants is just to get this done. After it is done, whether it is right or wrong, let future generations say it."

"This matter needs to be debated again, so it's settled."

"In general, rich families move to Guandong and cultivate land, and are allowed to recruit local poor people to be tenants, hired workers, and five years Tax exemption, recruit 200 people to accompany, as tribute students and supervisors. "

"Middle-class families will move first."

"Lower-class families... I have already reported to the court. Now that the European war is over, Western trade will be divided into quotas, and a certain amount of cotton cloth will be set from here to help the people make a living. Women will weave and sell to the West, and they will be forced to share, which is enough to make a living; men will serve in the army, with a monthly salary of 2.5 silver taels plus grain and rice, digging rivers and repairing embankments. "

"The fleet will patrol India, and the Indian cotton cloth quota will be half to Songsu and half to Luxi. Now the court still supervises the Western trading company and can still control the disorderly expansion of the industry. This quota can be vacated and can be done. West Africa still likes the strong coarse cloth here. "

"This thing, either you die or I live. There is no way, the textile workers in Bengal and Mumbai, they can only die. If they don't die, the ones here will die. "