Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1124 Township Covenant Village Society ([-])

Education, the macroscopic significance of the whole people, the whole country, and the whole world, naturally has different views on individual families.

Moreover, education has only just begun for a few years, and it is difficult to see any benefits.On the contrary, it is the annual school fees that make the people in the village community very dissatisfied.

Zhen itself can be regarded as a microcosm of the plight that the Xiangyue village community is facing now.

This kind of attempt to isolate men and women from the world is unlikely to succeed.

After Jiangsu's reform was basically completed, it became the "last piece of pure land" in the Huainan Salt Reclamation Area.

The Confucian scholars in this township community are the largest along the Huainan Reclamation Area, the "last scholar".

The persecution of the external environment forces them to make choices.

It was rumored that [-] mu of land would be sold in exchange for the start-up capital of the township community to keep up with the mainstream development of Huainan.

The villagers don't know how much it will cost, but the Confucian scholars at the top of the township society know it well, because they know how much money was invested in the Huainan circle areas in the early stage.

Now, either take advantage of the opportunity of the construction of the canal, sell the land to obtain start-up capital, copy the development model of the Huainan area, but retain the land ownership of the township community.

Or, it can only be wrapped up in the reformed Huainan area, making it even more difficult.

Where did the capital developed in the surrounding areas come from, just like those people who commented on Liu Yu's new economic policy, saying that he was a smuggler and pirate who could be hanged, and turned into a major shareholder of the company that everyone envied; The private salt dealer turned himself into a hero with all previous convictions wiped out, and became a hero in the reform of the salt government to resist the monopoly of salt merchants in Yangzhou.

It's just that it's like this now, so heroes don't ask where they come from, and capital doesn't ask where they came from.

Selling land to raise money for start-up capital, everyone is dissatisfied.

Rural schools collect education funds, but everyone is unwilling.

Increase grain collection, buy iron-wheel looms, set up the township’s own textile workshops, and catch up with the great development of the textile industry that comes with the construction of the canal. If grain can be collected again, it will reach nearly [-]% of the tax up.

I can't stand it anymore.

But once the opportunity period of the opening of the canal and the great development of the textile industry along the river is missed, there may be no next opportunity.If you miss this opportunity, you can only work for contractors and earn some labor money.

Let go of the idea of ​​self-reliance of the village and the village, let the capital enter the market, and implement the contract purchase system, then the attempt of the Yan Li school will be a complete failure.

The control of the township society also fell into the hands of the subcontractor.A little pressure from the package buyer will make people miserable.

Relatively speaking, on the premise of unwillingness to sell the land, if public opinion is let go, the thoughts of the people in the township community still feel that there is still a way to go.

Cancellation of rural school.

Keep the original rural school education fund. After selling it, use it as capital to buy iron wheel looms and cotton yarn.

The children all dropped out of school, went home to help with work, and invested manpower in the land to ensure that more land could be paved for salt improvement.

Finally, a good life of one loom for each family and [-] acres of land for each family was achieved.

And this is the bottom line that the initiators of the township society absolutely cannot accept.

If even education is given up, then what is the fuss?
In fact, these people who tried the township contract have already compromised a lot.

According to Wang Yuan's idea at the beginning, it was to implement a variant of the well field system.

Divide a rectangular piece of land into 12 yuan, each piece is 50 mu.Among them, the middle two are public fields, and the rest are private fields.

The villagers collectively plant public land and pay the national tax.

Then each household collected three feet of silk, one tael of silk, six feet of cloth, and half a catty of cotton from private fields.Then perform a certain amount of hard labor every year.

Ordinarily, this idea is definitely not acceptable within the world.

But in the Huainan reclamation area, it is feasible.

Because the land in this place is really flat and square, and it started from a wasteland.

However, at the beginning, just as with the Dashun reform, the Yan-Li school itself gradually gave up the tax idea of ​​"recovering the true nature".

Moreover, after paying the taxes of the eleven countries each year, the remaining funds such as education, water conservancy, and land improvement cannot be solved by six feet of cloth, half a catty of cotton, and three-day hard labor for each family.

Not enough at all.

A lot of compromises have been made, and rural school education is almost the final bottom line of the Yan Li School.If you continue to compromise without a bottom line, there will be nothing left in the end.

In itself, reclamation and industrial development in Huainan is a major event that requires considerable capital investment.

Liu Yu had persuaded them a long time ago that this is not going to work, the land in Huainan is not familiar land, and you dare not engage in violent land equalization, so you will definitely screw up if you play like this.

In history, Zhang Jian was also short of money when he was engaged in land reclamation and industrial establishment in Huainan.

I borrowed a lot of official money from the governor of Liangjiang before, but in the end it was really not enough.

Zhang Renjun and Zhang Jian had conflicts. When he became the governor of Liangjiang, he clamored to check the accounts and asked Zhang Jian to pay back the money.In the end, the money was also settled through the standard process.

The so-called standard process is "burning the ledger", a standard technology.

Zhang Jian instigated Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, to do his best. Not long after, the Civil Affairs Office of Jiangsu "suddenly" caught fire, and all the books were burned.

Even so, it is still extremely fragile.During the First World War, I made money for several years by relying on imperialism to bite dogs and have no time to look around.Immediately after the end of World War I, there was a big problem.

Moreover, the capital required to develop Huainan is really beyond the reach of small farmers.

Relying on his own status, Zhang Jian encloses land at a low price; he also raises a large amount of shares;

Even so, the cash flow that ultimately sustains the operation of the company is also stripped from farmers.

After enclosing land at a low price by virtue of their status, they recruited people to be tenant farmers.

Before renting the land, a deposit of 6 oceans must be paid, and no interest is paid on this money.And the rented land is also wasteland.

In fact, it is an interest-free loan, but the lender is a small farmer, and what the company provides is a piece of wasteland that was originally occupied by low prices.

Basically, relying on a large number of small farmers who can afford six yuan, interest-free loans and free labor through "illegal fundraising", the development of the reclamation area can be maintained.

In the end, because of the tenancy system of Hexini, the idea of ​​improving cotton seeds was completely regressed after his death. The tenancy system and small farmers have been struggling for 30 years even for an improved cotton seed.

Even though it was different at this time than at that time, capital was sufficient, and it was imperialism itself rather than being impacted by imperialist commodities, which made the development of the Huainan circle area quite rapid.

But these are only favorable conditions for the emerging bourgeoisie in Dashun.

For this kind of village commune, these favorable conditions are meaningless, but the money for the initial construction investment still needs to be spent, and it cannot fall from the sky.

In fact, the complaints and dissatisfaction of Zhao Liben's second brother can be summed up in a very simple way.

Or, do not integrate into the reformed Jiangsu system.

Or, blend in.

And choosing to blend in is not to make friends in the Taohuayuan, but to never communicate with each other. It is a very simple "primitive accumulation" problem.

The primitive accumulation of capital in other circles comes from sea, trade, robbery, smuggling, monopolizing salt and absorbing the blood of the five provinces.

They do not have this condition.

They are not willing to simply maintain the primitive life of men farming and women weaving at a minimum, and they also think about "teaching after getting rich" so that the people can become rich.

So where does this primitive accumulation, the initial capital, come from?
Relying on the [-] mu of land in the hands of small farmers, even if the weather is good every year and there is no flood, drought and locust plague, how long can it take to save an iron wheel loom?

Of course, this kind of thing is viewed from the perspective of the entire village.

Personally speaking, Zhao Liben didn't think it was a problem after listening to his younger brother's complaints.

Because, he ran away from the gold mine riot, brought back the gold, and washed his identity.

The first pot of gold was completed in a special way.

And caught up with this era of change, basically completed the class leap.

How to complete the class leap, the standard answer has been given in the story "Shi Runze meets friends in the beach" in Feng Menglong's "Xing Shi Heng Yan".

"I bought a big house near the left to live in, opened thirty or forty silk looms, and asked for a few houses for my family and servants, and managed the family business perfectly."

This is the completion of the class transition.

But this process is clearly stated earlier: good people are rewarded, and when digging a pit, a bag of gold and silver is dug out, which is worth about a thousand gold.So he opened up thirty or forty silk machines, and asked for a few houses of family servants, from a small producer to a capitalist.

Of course, this is Daming's fantasy story.

Dashun's story is basically the opposite.Those who get the first pot of gold are either pirates or smugglers, there are not many good birds.

The lowest level is also like Zhao Liben, organizing riots and stealing gold.

However, the atmosphere in these reformed areas is like this now. Don't ask where the heroes come from, and don't ask where the capital came from. Zhao Liben doesn't want to talk about the morals of the village.

So he told his daughter-in-law and younger brother about the money he had obtained, and only told them to keep quiet.

"In a few days, I will divide the money and leave it to you. I will bring some money with me and go to Gaolangbu to find San'er. If I can find it, when I come back, we will go to Kanto together, buy some open land, get some cattle and horses, and go Plant beans over there and live a good life.”

"If I can't come back, or if something happens on the way, you take your sister-in-law and leave here. I don't think this place is a good place, and the money can't buy land. What's the use of staying here? There are also some friends who have made friends by fate, and I will tell you the details of where to go when the time comes."

"Back when I committed a crime, if San'er hadn't sold herself and scraped together a few taels of silver, I'm afraid I would never have seen you. Although I have never learned the township covenant, I don't need others to teach me this principle. Life and death, I have to go to Gaolang port."

He said so.

Zhao Liben's younger brother suddenly had a thought in his mind, or he had heard it too much on weekdays, and thought: I have never learned it, but I know this kind of truth by nature. Isn't this the "conscience" in the holy learning that Mr. Shengtang said? ?

Thinking about it, San'er sold himself and went to Ceylon because his elder sister-in-law raised him like a mother.He has never learned the principles of the sacred, isn't this also "conscience that does not consider self-knowledge"?

In such a short moment, he actually had such a mysterious understanding of the conscience and enlightenment that the gentlemen in the church talked about.

(End of this chapter)