Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1012 Enclosure
"Beauty is second to none."

The young man from the "Shaofu Supervisor" laughed, and deliberately raised his voice: "Now Tieniu doesn't need to rest for twelve hours a day. As long as there is coal, he can always carry the brine without getting tired."

"Just mentioning brine alone is ten times better than the previous bull."

"And that's one of the reasons for planning the development."

"There is a saying: gas comes out from the west, and brine comes out from the east. Although this is not absolute, sometimes a well is drilled, and there is indeed only brine but no gas; and sometimes a well is drilled, only gas but no brine."

"Nowadays steam engines are extracting brine, and the brine is increasing several times a day. The gas wells that used to have only gas but no brine, which were worthless in the past, are now very useful."

"And every time a well is dug, it is a gamble. Now the capital is strong, and the shareholders share it equally."

"In the past, individuals worked alone, and in terms of individuals, there were gains and losses."

"Nowadays, capital is guaranteed to make money."

"I don't need to elaborate on the truth, but if the capital is generally not profitable, then it is impossible to gather so many people to gamble in the past few years."

These words are indeed on the spot.

From everyone's point of view, it is true that some people may have lost their fortunes in drilling wells, and then did not get half a catty of brine.

From a more macro and concrete capital perspective, if the expected profit rate and average rate of return are not so high, it is impossible to attract so much capital to come here.

Now the individual capital is gathered together to form a large capital, so that every investor can obtain a basically predictable average return.

There is no overnight riches.

Of course, there was no destitution overnight.

Relying on the imperial court to come forward to integrate, various factors of production were brought together.

Those who had technology before may lack capital; those who had capital lacked technology.

The significance of the court's intervention is to combine capital and technology, including land, but the land issue is resolved by violent means.

The young man from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce mentioned the key point, and the businessmen nodded in agreement.

He had already made up his mind about investing, but now that he saw this example, he turned his attention to Yin Niu Congyun, the prefect of Xuzhou.

Now, technology and capital have all been solved.

So, what about the land?

Niu Congyun didn't know what these people were waiting for, and said seriously: "For the land matter, the yamen has a general regulation."

"There is a wasteland in the wasteland."

"Farmland has a saying of farmland."

"The land that was occupied in advance is neither cultivated nor well. This is another way of saying it."

"The only exception is the Yanjing that existed before. Those who take the initiative to buy shares are a matter of your internal shareholding, and I have no control over them. And those who are unwilling to take shares, don't force them. Those who are willing to join can join, and those who don't want to join Yes, you will slowly crush them in the future."

"This kind of thing, the imperial court does not come forward. In commercial competition, there are profits and losses, bankruptcy and bankruptcy, it is natural. As long as it does not violate the "Da Shun Law", you can do whatever you want."

The determined regulations were given, and the businessmen burst into cheers.

If the land is enclosed, the money will be paid according to the good land, not to mention 40 years, even 400 years, which is cheaper than the previous monopoly land rent.

As for those small salt wells who are unwilling to take a stake, or can't reach an agreement at all, these businessmen are not prepared to talk at all.

What is there to talk about?

In the future, the imperial government will conduct commercial sales, undertake production according to its ability, and increase the salt tax, making it easy for those small households to go bankrupt.

Now all the big businessmen with capital have invested in the shares, and those small households will not be able to borrow money even if they want to expand their business in the future.

It is simply too easy to go bankrupt without violating the "Law of the Great Shun".

From the perspective of these big businessmen, I am afraid that some Qingtian masters will uphold the traditions of the past dynasties, or have a strong tendency towards petty bourgeoisie after the unification of Confucianism. All Qingtian masters must naturally be oriented towards small producers.

Forty percent of what they do is genuine, and [-] percent is genuine reactionary.

The businessman thought to himself, as long as the governor does not act as the kind of lord who is weak but reasonable, and makes those small handicraftsmen who do not take shares go bankrupt and become abjectly poor, and the proletarian laborers who come from the salt well at home to sell their labor, they will not be like iron eaters. How difficult are bamboo shoots.

For at most ten years, there will be no handicraftsman or petty bourgeois in the preservation of the southern Sichuan salt industry, and all will be reduced to abject poverty.

So these merchants who were most afraid of the Lord Qingtian all knelt down and shouted at Niu Congyun: "Master Qingtian!"

Niu Congyun smiled wryly and said, "People in Song Dynasty said: "Rule the world with scholars and officials, not rule the world with the common people. Then I made it clear."

"As for now... Now I am the Lord Qingtian of you big capitalists, but I will not be the Lord Qingtian of those small producers, nor the Lord Qingtian of the local land tyrants."

"Small peasants, small producers, big businessmen, and gentry see the Lord Qingtian differently. In the world, there seems to be no one who can make small farmers, tenants, small producers, big capitalists, and landlords all regard Qingtian Lords .”

"I can only choose one."

After a wry smile, Niu Congyun thought about the "Regulations on Enclosure" he made, and knew that this matter would definitely cause an uproar in Dashun.

When he was in southern Jiangsu, he read more translated Western political and historical books, and he knew the difference between Dashun and the UK, and he also knew how many people would criticize Dashun for enclosing land.

Dashun is different from the UK.

There is basically no public land in Dashun.

Mountains, rivers and lakes are considered public land in a sense, but the tradition since ancient times is that mountains and lakes cannot be restrained.Whoever bans Shanze will have a reputation similar to King Li of Xia Jie, Shang Zhou and Zhou Li.

In the UK, apart from the kind of land enclosure where capitalists charge higher prices to drive out tenants, there is another kind of land enclosure that is public land.

The capitalists demanded a higher price and let the landlord drive away the tenants.

This is a good solution.

In Dashun, it is not a problem at all. The difficulty is how the capitalists can rent land at a high price, because the capital cannot pay a higher rent than the tenants.

The other is enclosing public land, which involves the difference between Dashun and British land ownership.

For example, a small farmer in England has his own arable land.In addition to the cultivated land, there is also a large area of ​​village communal land.

These commons may be pastures or woods.

With one mu of land, one cow can be raised and then grazed on the public land.

Therefore, the problem with the British enclosure is that even if the enclosure is public land, the living standards of small farmers will inevitably decline. They could go to the public land to graze cattle and cut grass, but now rely on their own arable land, enough to eat shit?

The British enclosure is relatively simple compared to Dashun.

Because of the existence of public land, it is possible to enclose land through public opinion.

The commons are both yours and mine.At that time, the minority will obey the majority, and of course it is the majority that owns the land.

It is useless to agree to enclose the land, even if you object.

Once the public land is enclosed, you have no place to graze, mow, and feed your livestock. You can no longer live. You can either sell the land as an agricultural laborer, or sell the land to the city. It is all voluntary.

Dashun is different.

Dashun is a standard land private ownership empire.

The standard extreme kind.

Neither commons.

The land is not owned by the court, but privately owned by each common people.

In this case, everyone has the right to decide on their own land-if there is land.

So, in this case, it is very difficult to occupy land such as mining and road construction.

In the UK, the minority obeys the majority and encloses the commons. The commons are not yours or mine, but everyone's.

The land here in Dashun is all privately owned. What’s yours is yours, and what’s his is his.If the railway is built according to the plan, how will the land occupation be calculated?
What if people just refuse to sell the land?
Niu Congyun is very politically sensitive and has seen the dawn of the new era, so he knows very well that in the future, there will be more and more incidents like this kind of salt well enclosure in Dashun.

Building roads, building railways, opening coal mines, opening copper mines, opening iron mines, etc., etc., etc., all of these inevitably involve the issue of enclosure.

The introduction of the "Regulations on Land Enclosure" will surely become the starting point for future Dashun enclosure events.Including other places, if they want to do similar things, they will definitely use his enclosure regulations as a reference.

Before, he joked with Ma Haochuan, saying that he would definitely be on "Wei Xin Traitor Points to Record". At that time, he was very modest and said that he would be at the bottom.

Now it seems that is really humble.

As soon as the rules for enclosing the land come out, the ranking will definitely rise in the future.

Even if they can't enter 36 Tiangang, then they must be among the top few of Disha.

This regulation itself can indeed only be a notoriety.

Because, it’s like enclosing land in a salt well. The landlord does nothing and can collect 5 to 30 taels of rent a year. Why would he be willing to sell the land forcibly at a price of [-] taels per mu?

What if you don't sell it?
Apart from relying on the army and government servants, is there any other way?

There are many reasons for the failure of the Green Crop Law, but the most stupid one is that the court foolishly lends money by itself.

I don’t even think about gentry lending money and forcing people to hang and sell their wives. .

And the enclosure is the same.

As long as the court comes forward, it will be very ugly.

But if you don't show up, this matter can't be done at all.

Do you really want the people who eat salt to pay the salt tax and also add the land rent of the landlords to the salt?
Niu Congyun also thought that this matter was originally caused by Duke Xingguo, and it is supposed that Duke Xingguo should bear the contradictions brought about by development and take the blame on himself.

But Liu Yu in Songjiang Mansion is either engaged in maritime trade or light industry. He neither builds railways nor digs mines, and encloses land for large-scale construction, which is also "needed by the court"-such as building a naval base, Fort, is this the same as letting a group of capitalist merchants build factories?

In the end, all the troubles he caused had to be resisted by himself, the prefect of Syria who was blamed by the emperor.

In the future, if people died in road construction or conflicts occurred due to mining, even if they were not in the capital of Syria, or even in Sichuan, they would all have to find themselves.

I am the instigator, this cauldron is indispensable.

Therefore, when Niu Congyun formulated the regulations for this enclosure, he also thought carefully.

Now that it is said, Dashun has its own national conditions here.

Then, the Syrian state government also has its own government affairs here.

The profit of salt wells is so high that the capital would rather bet tens of thousands of taels of silver with no profit for ten years to dig wells.

Therefore, in his enclosure regulations, the price of land compensation is very high.

Of course, it is relatively high. An average of 40 taels of silver per mu of land, plus future dividends, is much higher than the price of cultivated land.It is definitely lower than the high rent of collecting salt rent by sitting on the ground and returning the salt to the landlord for 30 days and a half.

The advantage of this charter is that "I have my own state affairs here."

Will such a high compensation price affect the development of industry and commerce?

No matter, anyway, it will not affect the salt industry in the Syrian state capital.

If other places want to build railways, open coal mines, etc., then they will introduce their own land enclosure policies, let alone imitating me.

If you give compensation of 50 taels per mu of land, you can say that you are learning from me.

But you said that the compensation of 50 taels per mu of land would not be able to repair roads or open mines at all. The landlord took the land enclosure regulations of the Syrian state government and hoped to follow this, but the rate of return for opening mines and factories was not as high as that of well salt. Such a high land price is really impossible, so it has nothing to do with me.

And this kind of careful thinking can be regarded as protecting the small farmers here.

The imperial court doesn't understand the matter between landlords and peasants.

The imperial court couldn't understand the matter between landlords and capitalists.

Since the emperor insisted on letting himself test the waters, he had to understand that he was just the prefect of Xuzhou. If he really wanted to promote business, landlords and capitalists in the future, Tianyou Palace and Pingzhang Army would be in charge of state affairs.

Although it can be regarded as the beginning of his own land enclosure, he still needs to save one hand for later defense.

(End of this chapter)