Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1125 Self Positioning

Zhao Liben didn't think about such things as "knowing without thinking".

It's just that these years of life have broadened his vision, and expanded the world that surrounded him by five thousand miles in the past.

He has never been to Gaolang Port in Ceylon.

But the Huanglong Mansion in the storytelling, although this Huanglong Mansion is not the other Huanglong Mansion, after all, I have been to a far, far away Huanglong Mansion with a completely different climate, and I even saw Korean fugitives in the gold mine.

As for Gaolang Port in Ceylon, it's almost the same when I think about it.

After all, you need to see people when you live, and you need to see corpses when you die.

I was deceived by the so-called human traffickers who dispatched labor. I almost died when I went there, and I don't know if the third brother can survive.

As for everything here, there is not much to miss.

He can't feel the world from a very macroscopic perspective, but from his own feelings over the years, compared with the past stories he heard from his parents and friends, he also faintly feels that the world is about to change.

In this era, which is different from the past, strict identity control has been abolished in several places such as Dengzhou Prefecture in Guandong, Nanyang, Jiangsu. Having a sum of money means that you can choose a different way of life.

Or buy land, or open a small cooking pot, or set up a small oil workshop, or even set up two or three looms and keep the machines on your own. Even if there are no servants available, you can always eat steamed buns. did it.

Compared with the millions of people in the vast area from Huainan to Huainan in Jiangsu Province who were passively involved in the tide of the times and had no choice but to accept reforms, Zhao Liben was undoubtedly the lucky one who got a blessing in disguise.

It's just that if I have such luck, my younger brother can follow him to leave the village.

However, for the people in the township community here, they have no choice of their own.

Leaving the township community means losing the qualification to "grant land" and losing the dream of land that the ancestors valued most for generations.

Besides, after leaving, I have nothing, and my life may not be better than it is now.

However, more and more stories from the surrounding area spread here, and the hearts of the people finally dispersed, and the religious holy lore of the temple seemed unable to condense.

As far as the organizers of the township society were concerned, they wanted to evade reforms in Jiangsu, but in the end they only delayed for five years. Five years later, with the completion of the canal, they had to consider the future of the township society.

A few days later, Meng Songlu led Quan Zheshen to the village community.

Confucian students studying agriculture in the township community are distributing some saplings in various Baojia rooms.

The old Cheng Tingzuo was also there, and Meng Songlu hurried over with Quan Zheshen. After briefly talking about Quan Zheshen's background and many problems in this loan trip, he looked at the saplings and said strangely: "Sir, This is?"

"Xing Guogong allocated money and distributed it in the Huainan reclamation area, requiring both the land reclamation company and our township community to plant a batch of neem trees, and some nurseries provided saplings. Some seedlings such as apples were also distributed, but these are not Mandatory. Only the neem tree, whose seeds can be used to extract oil, and whose bark can prevent the damage of snail worms, requires that a certain amount must be planted everywhere to replace Tung Sapium, which has a higher oil extraction rate, for its medicinal use, and then remove snail worms harm."

Looking at the people receiving the saplings in the distance, Meng Songlu couldn't help but say a good word for Liu Yu's reform.

"Since ancient times, it has been said that the power of the imperial court is no less than that of the county. Xingguogong reformed in Huainan, among other things, the improvement of cotton seeds, the promotion of neem tree pest control, and implementation. Compared with the past villages, it is indeed a hundred times more convenient. If Mexico can Promoting cotton to the whole country and slightly curbing the damage caused by the snail roundworm, just for this matter, Duke Xingguo can be called a virtuous man.”

Cheng Tingzuo also praised and gave a hum, and then he took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to Meng Songlu and said: "This is a letter that was passed to me when Duke Xingguo sent someone to distribute the saplings this time. A letter. Just read it."

After all, while Meng Songlu was reading the letter, he chatted with Quan Zhe for a few words.

He is old and has a high reputation in the past few years. From the perspective of Li Zhen's peers, he has put forward some criticisms of Li Xuan's Christian thought in his studies, and pointed out Li Zhen's nature from the perspective of Confucianism. The theory of telling the son is probably not the right way.

Cheng Tingzuo is a professional, and the problems he pointed out do exist. Although Quan Zhe is not a native of the country, he is a Confucian scholar, and he is naturally a junior.Although the disciple didn't know the teacher's experience, but after all, his knowledge was still shallow, he was shaken by Cheng Tingzuo's few words, and felt that Confucianism in a big country was really different, and it was indeed not comparable to the small land of Dongfan.

On the other side, Meng Songlu, who was reading the letter, read Liu Yu's letter to their school word by word.

After reading it, he sighed deeply.

There are quite a lot of content in the letter, but in summary, there are only a few contents.

However, the Yan-Li School itself is a "Zhou Li" political school in a broad sense, not a school of scriptures, and bureaucrats like Liu Yu can still communicate with each other on many things.

Even if there are disputes, the underlying logic of some discussions is basically the same, and it will not be a situation where you say it is a gatehouse and I say a hip bone axis.

"Sir, have the rest of you read the letter from Lord Xingguo?"

Cheng Tingzuo nodded and said: "I see. The tyranny is too heavy, but the conspiracy is already done, and it is helpless."

When Meng Songlu heard the word "hegemony", he could only smile wryly.Quan Zhe on the side didn't understand what the two were talking about at all, but he kept his etiquette and didn't ask. Although he felt very good about this township community and felt that this was his ideal future, it seemed that the current It's not the time to ask this, it's probably something wrong with the township society.

In Liu Yu's letter, some things were indeed clearly revealed.

At the beginning, I told the story of immigrating to Ceylon.

He said that at the beginning he forced the Dutch and had to deal with the Tang people in Java, because the rise of sugar in the Caribbean caused a crisis in the single planting industry due to the surplus of sugar.

It also oppressed by force, so that the Dutch did not dare to slaughter.

So they could only accept the practice of moving the Tang people to Ceylon.

After the removal, the renovation of water conservancy consumes people's power, and the people complain bitterly.

When the water conservancy was basically completed, the rice fields were basically self-sufficient, and the Tang people were full of resentment, China and the Netherlands went to war.

So tens of thousands returned to the rebel army.

The Dutch are tyranny; the imperial court is virtue.

Today, the situation here is similar. The major infrastructure projects such as canals, seawalls, and basic water conservancy have been basically completed.

But your township society has also reached its limit, but the most basic infrastructure has also been completed.

Canal repairs, cotton production areas, wheat rotation grain production areas, and gradually developing overseas markets. With these huge advantages, as long as capital is injected and the transformation is completed, with textiles as the mainstay and planting as the secondary, the township will be rich.

That is to say, this is the best time for rural community reform.If you continue to procrastinate, the problems will only increase.

money is not a problem.

Liu Yu said in the letter that it is definitely possible to borrow.

What's more, he is not specialized in lending money, and he doesn't necessarily have to be profit-oriented.

But in this situation, it is definitely not possible to borrow, because the situation of the township community makes him very dissatisfied, and he does not think this is a good direction.

Inherent problems, such as where to find so many idealistic Confucian scholars in the whole country, where to find this kind of village society that does not need to solve the conflict between landlords and land, etc., are not mentioned.

Just to say, since you are said to belong to the "Zhou Li" faction, whether Zhou Li is a fake book or whether Wang Mang deliberately exaggerated it for the purpose of reforming the system is not mentioned.

But in Zhouli, it is not only agriculture, but also industry and commerce.

Of course, the special craftsman registration system in the past is not acceptable. With the development of the textile industry and the factory system in the new era, you should come up with a set of things according to the development of the times.

If feasible, he can provide a financial support.

Moreover, taking advantage of the completion of infrastructure and the development of the cotton industry, the reform can be said to be immediate.As long as the funds are in place, new looms or spinning wheels are in place, it will take at most two years, and cotton yarn supported by policies will take at most two years to develop.

The resistance to reform will also be greatly reduced, because after all, the common people do not understand the difference between the past and the present, let alone understand the difference between the process of building the canal and opening up the market, and the process of repairing and opening up.

As long as it lasts for a year or two, it will be recognized by the people and set up an example.

A rural model for the combined development of agriculture and industry and commerce.

Of course, in the letter, Liu Yu also made some criticisms of his own reforms, saying that anyway, their school's practice of educating the villages and communes so that all the people have their own land without annexation is worthy of recognition.

Liu Yu himself said that his reforms have shaped some new big cities.

But for rural issues, he really took the path of eliminating tenants rather than solving rural problems.No one can say for sure what the future will look like, but it is certain that Jiangsu may find a different solution to the rural problem with its many advantages after the reform.

As for how this model will be established, that is the choice and exploration of their school, but in any case, this is definitely not possible now.

But one thing is certain, that is, it is the only correct way to take advantage of the development of Jiangsu cotton textile industry.

Otherwise, once this opportunity period is missed, it will become more and more ugly in the future.

As for whether they can break through the stereotype of the past on the issue of ownership, even if it is a fantasy, it can be regarded as a little hope for the future.

If the letter is just writing these things, it will be fine, at least it will give the township community a possibility to solve the existing problems.

But obviously, it is impossible for Liu Yu's letter to contain only these contents.

After the routine ridicule, some past disputes between Liu Yu and their schools were mentioned, and there were some personal attacks and ridicules against Cheng Tingzuo.

It is said that Cheng Tingzuo wrote poems at the beginning to guard against the disaster of the western islands.

I also know about Luzon, where the Westerners implemented the Western system and reversed the rules and regulations.

So, you Confucian scholars, why don't you go out?The world is so big, and the ancients said that if Kou can go, I can go, why don't you have the ambition to spread the holy way to the world?
There are still some barbarians in the world who "drink blood like hair", why don't you go somewhere to spread the holy way?If it can be done, it will be a hundred times more successful than tossing around in a village.Because you have tossed and tossed, and finally found that you can only be subordinate to my reform, and everything is subordinated to the premise of successful reform, including if you develop the textile industry of the township commune.

Of course, if you really have the heart to spread the Word, there is a ready opportunity now.

Although I don't really believe in your power, the power of capital is not easy to handle in this matter.And it involves some future issues, so if you have such thoughts, that is the best.

(End of this chapter)