Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1198 Wooden Cow and Horse ([-])

The lump of coal flew very fast, but Liu Yu was also born immediately. This kind of ability was also the basis for the feudal military nobles to survive and survive, 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.

Dodging the coal and hearing the scolding, Liu Yu laughed.This kind of spoken words with fragmentary colloquial words, if you really use some reason to insult your family to find fault, it would be quite boring.Just do what you want, it's boring to find such an excuse.

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

The faces of the people who worked with Xiangzi not far away turned pale with fright, and they didn't expect that this honest and honest man would have some kind of insanity today to do such a thing.

Niu Er and the others hurriedly surrounded Liu Yu, and the guards hurriedly said: "Master, this person may have remnants. Nowadays, explosives are often used to open mines in the west of Beijing, so please leave this place full of thieves."

Liu Yu thought to himself, forget it, if there are any variants of the Minben School, or the old-fashioned Confucianism of the traditional Minben School, what falls around him is not coal, but bombs.

Nowadays, the coal mines in the west of Beijing have begun to use more powerful explosives. If there is any political purpose, how can there be such a small movement?
The person has been controlled, Liu Yu walked over to look at the other party, and it was difficult to judge the age of the other party for a while.

Xiangzi originally made a living by driving camels and transporting coal. He was an apprentice before, but later he did it himself.

Now he is carrying coal at the station again, his body is covered with coal black sweat, and it is really hard to see his real age.It is right to say thirty or forty years old, because working people in their thirties are like this at this time; it is okay to say five or sixty years old, because the people who were five or sixty years old in Liu Yu's previous life may not be so old. .

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

"Why did you attack me?"

Liu Yu didn't use the word "assassination" either, but only used the word assault.

The arrested Xiangzi had already calmed down, but it was too late to regret it, so he continued to yell and tell what happened to him.

When they heard that it was such a thing, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Since it 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, he would be in big trouble.

Now it sounds like it was nothing more than a whim in Yanhu 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.

He also thought, since the Duke of Xingguo didn't need to assassinate, but he said attack, which is still kind-hearted, it's better to be angry for a while, and travel three thousand miles, than to chop off his head.

This is the case these days, people are not all the same people, hitting ordinary people is not even a fight, but hitting nobles is very different.So that exile for three thousand miles is considered a kind of "kindness".

After listening to the cursing on the other side, Liu Yu suddenly asked, "Are you married?"

Not only Xiangzi, but even the guards around him were dumbfounded by this question, thinking what is this asking?

Xiangzi didn't expect to be able to ask such a question, so he was at a loss for a moment. He held back the words he was about to curse for a long time, but they all got stuck, so he could only mumble, "No. Treacherous minister, why are you asking this?"

"Oh, your situation reminds me of something... I know a person, this person is a shoemaker who makes shoes. Because of the development of some factories, his business of making shoes is getting worse. But even so, He still thinks about saving money to start a shoe factory in the future. But his son is very promising, so he doesn't think so."

That's all the words, Liu Yu didn't continue talking.

Niu Er and the others on the side seemed to be tickling their hearts. They all had practical studies in Weihai, and they knew that Liu Yu's talk of this kind of thing would often make people think deeply, but this time it stopped abruptly, which was really uncomfortable.

Niu Er thought to himself, what on earth is his son thinking?According to Guogong, his business is bleak, and it is useless to save money to work in the factory.What is it like to be promising?

I couldn't figure it out for a while, but when I looked at Liu Yu, I felt that it was probably just a momentary feeling. Although I wanted to know the following in my heart, I didn't dare to ask again.

At this time, the officials at the station had already gathered around, and Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "It's nothing serious. I'll just bend the law for personal gain, sentence him to exile, and send him to North America. Isn't he willing to continue to do the delivery work? Send North America to raise Dogs, say hello to those who beat leather in North America, whether you use dogs or camels, the difference is not much."

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

Instead, they are going to work there. Generally speaking, the construction period is six years, and only food and drink are not paid.Sending North America to raise dogs is a relatively harsh punishment, because the place where dogs are used to transport goods is icy and snowy, and it doesn't sound like a good place.

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

Historically, the way the British engaged in Oceania was to send prisoners there to serve as slaves to decent immigrants.Although in theory Dashun can also learn this way, instead of using slaves, it can be quickly developed with strategies such as escape from slaves.

But the reality is not that simple, but it will cause a large number of people to choose to flee and become bandits, and it will be troublesome to eliminate them.It is not necessary.

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

When the chaos here dissipated, Niu Er couldn't help but shook his head when he thought about what happened to Xiangzi just now, and said, "This matter is just a repeat of the Yangzhou Rebellion. Since the Yuan Dynasty, coal in the west of Beijing has been Use a camel."

"Transporting coal by railway may hinder the livelihood of the poor. This sentence can hardly be said to be wrong against conscience."

"It's just that the Duke's reform in Songsu should still understand what is right and what is wrong. Does it 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 up a camel, and he is going to earn money by transporting coal. From one camel to several Ten horses, open a camel trip by yourself. If it were you, you probably worked hard for many years, and you were about to be promoted to lieutenant general, and it was announced that all non-examination backgrounds would be abolished."

"Actually, he blew up the railway with explosives, or bought a gun to kill me. It's understandable, and I have to praise the hero. Right?"

Here, Liu Yu is secretly teasing these people with practical backgrounds, who still have the mentality that scholars in the Song and Ming Dynasties should be superior and be superior, saying that their ideas are not much different from those of these small producers.

But the difference in the three views lies here, this kind of funny, in Niu Er's view, it seems like a kind of affirmation,
As for whether he is considered a hero or not, Niu Er also organized a slave labor uprising in Java, so there is no objection to this.

What exactly is the change? Niu Er, who has personally experienced it in Java and watched the whole process of Songsu's reform, understands the change better than those who originally sat at home and studied.

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

Just like the land reform he carried out in Banten, the local nobles who don't want to reform the land can raise troops to resist, as long as they win, they can't reform.

Just like Liu Yu’s reform of salt administration and wasteland reclamation in Songsu, if he didn’t want to abandon salt reclamation and reform of salt administration, he could raise troops to resist. In fact, a salt workers’ uprising did break out, but he lost in the end.Therefore, Caodang in Huainan has become a cotton-producing area; Yangzhou has declined; and large-scale sun-dried salt farms in Haizhou have continuously produced salt to supply southern provinces.

People from the Practical School generally held 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 is where you look at it.

A hero is not necessarily a good person.

"Water Margin" has also been circulated for so long, and the difference between a good man and a good man is quite clear on Dashun's side.

Now Liu Yu said that if this group of people threw bombs at him, they could be called heroes, and Niu Er seemed to be right.According to Dashun folk standards of heroes, a large part of the corpses of the people hanged on the masts in Nanyang and hanged to dry can be counted as heroes.

Those common people who leased land for temples, those who did not save their camels and relied on others to work with camels, the sea households who could not plow in Nanyuan and wanted to maintain the Royal Nanyuan, who relied on seawood to get some oil and salt money, those who used to Kiln owners who invested in small coal mines and were bankrupted by big capital and large coal mines... In Niu Er's view, resistance is all reasonable. The question is whether the progressives he considers can have enough power to suppress their resistance.

If it is more realistic, then the current situation is that the "progress" they think is recognized by the imperial power?
Dashun's imperial power is very strong, so strong that the emperor's attitude can determine the direction of many things.

The emperor's support is to crush those forces that oppose moving forward.

If the emperor opposed it, it would hurt the people, harm the people, and make the poor earn a living without a job.

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 can be sacred in the eyes of those people.

Heaven and God are invisible and intangible, so the sanctity of heaven is the sanctity of imperial power.

A specific goal, or something smaller, such as a railway or a factory, can be seen and touched.Then, when these visible and tangible things are inherently sacred to these new schools of practical learning, the so-called imperial power is actually nothing more than a powerful inertia.

Even, once this trend of progressivism becomes the mainstream, imperial power can only exist as a vassal of the sanctity of the progress of the times in terms of sanctity.

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

For the emperor, the important thing is that you can do this because I asked you to do it.

And absolutely not, this thing, because it is right, so we have to do it.

Even if, in the end, this thing was done, and it seems that the result is not much different.

Therefore, in the current situation, Niu Er said that "transporting coal by railway will hinder the livelihood of the poor" is correct in itself.But in the future, who knows what will happen?

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 like "it's right and necessary to do this".

For example, he said, "This is a necessary price."

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

If this is the case, when someone opposes and counterattacks in the future, should they also uphold this kind of thinking that you should live and die, and failure should be due to lack of ability and strength?

(End of this chapter)