Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1397 Forced to live a good life
If you only consider the Songsu Jiangnan area, the vacant industrial share in India should not be allocated to Qilu at all, and you should fully support the industrial development of Songsu, and rapidly increase the number of textile factories through trade between Europe and West Africa. Accelerate local transformation and deepening of the capitalist system.

But if we consider the situation of Dashun as a whole, then the vacant industrial shares on India's side must be allocated to Qilu's side.With the adjustment and control of the imperial court, the difficult days of digging rivers and embankments to occupy land were overcome.

However, even so, the decline in living standards in a short period of time is still visible to the naked eye.

Indeed, compared to the beginning of the founding of Dashun, the per capita land area in the western Shandong area has dropped sharply. After a hundred years of recuperation and population breeding, the contradiction between more people and less land has indeed become more serious.

But the wisdom of the working people is infinite. On the one hand, women are engaged in sideline textiles.

The two-year three-cooking system, of course, requires restrictions such as the end of the Little Ice Age.

However, the factor of population growth must also be taken into consideration.

For example, if a labor force cultivates [-] to [-] mu of land for his family, he really can't bear it if you ask him to plant crops for two years and three crops.The amount of labor is simply too great.

Along with the population increase, demographic factors have also led to the two-year three-crop system, which is rapidly popularizing in Shandong.

The model of winter wheat-summer soybean-spring sorghum; or winter wheat-summer corn-spring millet has begun to be promoted.

Due to the reduction of per capita land, the labor force has to invest more labor on the limited means of production.

And the larger population also makes the extremely exhausting and labor-intensive planting method of two-year three-cropping within the labor limit.

When the per capita land is 25 mu, even if you have the technology of two-year three-crop and the climate past the Little Ice Age, without tractors and harvesters, you can't play two-year three-crop.It's too late, and once it rains on the day of planting and harvesting, it will be impossible.

When the per capita land is 5 mu, the technology of two years and three crops can be quickly popularized.On the one hand, it was forced out, and on the other hand, it was really able to come over.

Therefore, although the per capita land area has been reduced, life is still almost passable.Of course, this kind of passing is passing, it is very fragile, and it will be over if there is a slight disaster, and basically the family has no savings at all.

Moreover, the labor intensity of three crops in two years and rushing to plant and harvest can really break people down.

At this time, some upper echelons and military officers in North America complained about the "lazy" farmers in North Carolina, saying that they were basking in the sun during the slack season and were only busy for a while a year.However, this kind of laziness is exactly what many farmers are looking forward to.

The "farmer" in the dream of being a farmer that European workers desire decades later is definitely not Dashun's kind of pouty and hunched over. The scorching weather before and after planting cuts wheat, and then rushes to plant beans without even sleeping, and then the next day Every year sorghum is planted, sorghum stalks have to be picked up and piled up as firewood, otherwise the "farmers" in the North China Plain who are two-year-three-crop and lack fuel.

Of course, at this time, Dashun is absolutely capable of mocking the world's "muyi", and it is really mocking the world.

Even in Shandong at this time, it is okay to ridicule Shandong's "yield per mu" 150 years ago.

But this kind of "sarcasm" is based on the fact of working hard.In fact, during the Jiajing period, the two-year three-cooking system still lacked enough labor, and it was still a semi-rough labor with one harvest per year.

It can be said that two years and three crops are technological progress, and the maximum use of solar energy has increased the output per unit of land area. The average yield per mu is the highest in the world. Households rely on bean cakes to fertilize their fields, and poor households only rely on beans to fix nitrogen. There is no operation with a higher yield per mu in the whole world.

But it must also be clear that if it is a "five-member family and a hundred-acre field", in the era of cattle farming, it is impossible to have the strength to do something for two years and three crops, let alone do it.

Like, would the French marvel at the Dutch feat of draining a swamp to farm?No, the French only think that there is something wrong with their brains?Don't you feel tired?How good is it to farm in dry meadows?Why bother to drain the swamp?

Assuming two years and three crops, it is simple to calculate, even if the production is increased to 1.5 times the original.

Calculated on the basis of [-] mu of land with three crops in two years.

If taxes, taxes, apportionments, money exchange, fire consumption, etc. are excluded, only the gross output is counted, which can basically be regarded as the same as the one-season wheat output of 120 mu of land in North America.

Because when it comes to North America, out of 120 acres of land, 10 acres must be used as grassland, and the remaining ones must be rotated and fallow to cultivate legumes and so on.In addition, there is a personal firewood field, and there is no need to burn straw for cooking, and even rice cannot be cooked without straw.

However, the labor intensity, life comfort, and the attractiveness of the word peasants are completely different between the two.

Not to mention, it is impossible to eliminate those problems such as taxes, taxes, labor, floods and droughts, and firewood.

Agriculture in some counties in Shandong and Henan completely collapsed. Historically, after the Yellow River burst in 1855, large areas of salinization, desertification, and cultivated soil were covered by flood irrigation and siltation.

Now, agriculture in North China, the small-scale peasant economy, is on the brink of collapse, but it hasn't collapsed yet.

This is the most difficult time point.

Going forward, we can transform. As long as the per capita land reaches 20 mu, the system of men farming and women weaving will collapse, and it will not be impossible to survive, at most it will be difficult.

In the future, when the so-called "prosperous age" is over, it will be impossible to start large-scale immigration, large-scale projects, and large-scale water conservancy... unless a central government with anti-organizational power reappears, it will be useless.

But unfortunately, everyone is reluctant to emigrate now.

Especially the Anshan Lake area.

Because Dashun abandoned the canal and water transportation, the meaning of Anshan Lake as a "water tank" disappeared.

When making a water tank, keeping water is the top priority.Land reclamation?Around the lake?Grab it and it will be flattened.

Now that the water transportation is abolished, Anshan Lake is half-dead with siltation, and the grassland water transportation patrol team of the imperial court has also been abolished. People around the lake have been surrounding the lake to reclaim wasteland.

Because Dashun is not a country where religion enters the brain, nor is the social atmosphere, so it has created its previous glory.

But at the same time, because Dashun is not a country where religion is in the head, everything has to be about profit and reality, so there is no way to use the story of "Promised Land" and the attachment of "Exodus" to send many people across the ocean , Believe in the guidance of the "prophet".

Therefore, even if Liu Yu and the bureaucrats at all levels broke the truth, painted a beautiful cake, and said how good it is to go there, there are still very few people who respond and great resistance.

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Generally speaking, in stories about changes in the times, most of them will choose the perspective of a middle-class family.

Only by being able to go up or down can one experience the ups and downs of the world and the destiny of the middle class in an era of change.

The reason why Liu Yu chose to divide the immigrants was that the first batch of immigrants were middle-class families in the rural areas of Luxi.

Mainly rich households and gentry, they are not willing to rebel, and they are given benefits, even hidden benefits similar to the "Fleeing Slave Law", allowing them to coerce tenants and move to the Kanto.

And the bottom layer, no matter how bad it is, it's not that bad.

As for these middle-level families, even if the family does not have fame, they may be very close to the scholar, at least they have been educated and can read some words; secondly, digging rivers and repairing embankments is not a good job. They feel that the standard of living has not dropped much. After all, it is already at the bottom and it will not fall much. For these middle-level families, digging rivers and repairing embankments is undoubtedly a hard life, and their emotions will be even stronger.

After all, generally speaking, even if there is labor... As for the young men arrested in troubled times, middle-class families will choose to pay some money and hire people to go.

A family surnamed Wang around Anping Lake is a typical example of such a medium-sized family.

The family has not yet separated. The old man is over 60 years old this year. His name is Wang Cheng. He married his wife, Liu Shi, and he is still alive.

There are four sons under her knees, and two daughters are married to other people's families.

The names of the four sons are also vulgar and vulgar: Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, and Biao, and they live together.

Old house with main room.

The biggest difference between them and the middle-class families in Luxi area after the Yellow River North Crusade in history may be the lack of a boat that is always "hidden" on the roof.

In addition, because the Yellow River has not passed here for hundreds of years, the old houses here do not have layer upon layer of foundation accumulation.

The family has [-] to [-] mu of land that is accounted for, and [-] or [-] mu of land that is not accounted for by the lake is cultivated and raised a livestock.

All four sons are married and have children.

Before the relocation was made public, the family affairs were nothing more than the matters of mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and sister-in-law.

The old man gave half a watermelon to the elder brother's family, the mother-in-law quietly gave two feet of cloth to the third family, and the second sister-in-law bought a catty of peaches for my child yesterday... nothing more than that.

Self-sufficiency, small-scale peasant economy, no separation of households, mother-in-law and father-in-law, spinning and weaving for personal use, and occasionally selling cotton for cotton.

This is reflected in the fact that Dashun has undergone reforms for 30 to [-] years, and has even fought a battle in Europe, but in fact, changes in the outside world have little impact on such families.

It cannot be said that the reform has no effect. For example, the abolition of water transportation will have an impact.At least, their family will no longer have to pay water transport corvee every year, nor will they need to repair the dam of Anping Lake to store water for the canal.

This is one of the few influential opponents.

As for the rest, whether Songsu has started to use steam engines, Dashun defeated the British fleet in Gibraltar, or Dashun's cotton cloth replaced Indian cloth in West Africa, etc., these have no impact on their family.

Life went on as usual, as always.

Until the news of the migration came, the peaceful days were shattered, and all familiar lives collapsed.

At this time, the eldest son Wang Hu was kneeling in front of the ancestral house, pressing his hands on the birthday material that the old man had made a long time ago, and persuaded: "Father, it's useless. It's useless even if we carry the coffin to the Yamen. A few days ago the county There has been a commotion once, a group of people carried the coffin and refused to leave. What happened? Didn’t they call the sons of each family and beat them up.”

"The arms can't hold the thighs. He is the Duke of the court. What can the county magistrate do? Dad, it's useless to go. You don't know. They are all in the county with soldiers. They are all vicious, and they are all from the north. Bing, that's a real fight."

The 60-year-old Wang Cheng patted the table, his beard raised up and down, and cursed: "Is there really no king's law? In the play, it said that Jin Wushu is bad, and the Eastern Barbarians are bad. I think they got it." The world didn't say they would force people to move away, did they? Did they say they wanted to tear down the Yellow River? I see, this Dashun dynasty is about to end! The treacherous ministers are in power, and they don't distinguish between loyal and traitorous!"

Although he is not a scholar, he has read some books. His younger brother was selected as a scholar, but he is still a scholar, and he didn't use any strength.But since I have read some books and know some characters, I have the most basic understanding of "traitorous ministers disrupting the country".

He had never seen what the Eastern Prisoners were like, so he inevitably came up with some thoughts that they might have done worse than this.

Wang Long heard his father say this, and hurriedly said: "Father, it's fine to talk about it at home, but don't go out and say it... If you want me to say it, if you can't resist it, just follow it. What should I do? Say it It’s over there, Dingkou from 120 to [-], [-] mu of wasteland per Ding, tax exemption for several years, and no labor...”

Wang Cheng scolded: "Listen to him farting. There is no one in Guandong, it is cold, and you have to hit it with a stick to pee. I can't believe it. There is such a good place in this world, and no one lives there? You want to go away." Go, if I don't go, if he insists on forcing me to go, I will hang myself in the ancestral house!"

(End of this chapter)