Xinshun 1730

Chapter 911 Nanyang Development ([-])
The trafficker said helplessly: "If this person dies and has no offspring, who is going to go? It's all like this. If he doesn't go to Nanyang, how many people will live?"

The county magistrate said, "Isn't the imperial court preparing 60 shimi for relief? It's not so easy to starve to death. It's better to die than to live. If there is a way to survive, who is willing to die?"

"Why don't you go back and talk to the Duke? I guess it's not like this county, but it's the same in other places."

The county magistrate has made up his mind, he will not be the guarantor in this matter.

Anyway, that's how this county is. My county magistrate is not very greedy, and also has a bright future. As an official in this kind of disaster-prone county, as long as he is stable, he can pass the evaluation.

Now the victims are not eating his rice, not even the rice from the righteous warehouse in the county.The rice from the county that I ate temporarily, and the straw rice that the court intercepted, will be replenished next year.

He was in no hurry anyway.

This matter, who promoted it, pushed it to whom.

Otherwise, the imperial court issued a clear statement: Those who go to Nanyang will be exempted from debts.That's fine too.

The traffickers did not let go when they saw the county magistrate, knowing that this matter was not that simple.I also believe that this incident is definitely not unique to a county, and it may happen everywhere.

After thinking about it, I had to say: "Then I will hand over this charter to your lord, and your lord will tell these disaster victims these days. First, count the ones you want to go, and then separate them. Wait for me to come and choose."

"Then I'll go back to Songjiang Mansion first. Where is Guogong, should I go back and talk about it?"

The county magistrate nodded and said: "Don't worry about that. I also know that going to Nanyang is an act to save the poor, so I have to do it with my heart. The Duke may go to the state shepherd, or to the governor, or to the Jiedu envoy directly." , after all, there is a provision, and it is easy for me to handle."

The traffickers had no choice but to know that it was not an option to rely on this way, so they asked the county magistrate again and again, and hurried back to the prosperous Songjiang Mansion.

Hundreds of miles away, one is prosperous and beautiful, and the other is like a ghost. Rao, these human traffickers have all been on the battlefield, and they are not used to it for a while.

When the trafficker asked to see Liu Yu, Liu Yu was busy discussing and formulating matters about the bank. After listening to the general explanation, he only cursed a damn word, so he could only put down the matter in hand.

Migration is not a simple matter of a few words, saying that Nanyang is good, and it is so simple that everyone swims there all at once.

The disaster in Jiangsu this year is bigger than before. People were collected from various counties, food was guaranteed along the way, sent to the port, cleaned centrally, and vaccinated.

Then people from different counties and different villages have to be dispersed, and try to avoid groups with the same surname in the same village.

These all need to be arranged in advance.

This is an unprecedented "merchant disaster relief". As the Duke of the state, he has to use his official status to greet everyone.

He had to deal with the affairs of the court twice in three days, and was busy preparing for the purchase of rice next year. Don't officially abolish the rice next year. As a result, something happened to the rice in the first year.

I was already irritable at first, but when I heard it, I thought it was a simple matter, but I got stuck on it, and my mood suddenly became extremely irritable.

None of the traffickers who came back from northern Jiangsu... or even from southern Jiangsu went well.

It's just one sentence.

Officials certainly don't care if the court changed the poll tax.

However, the imperial court pretended to be in charge of all the people. In fact, most of the people still belonged to a special "enfeoffment" system and could not be moved at all.

There is indeed a catastrophe this year.

It is true that when a person dies, the debt is gone.

However, the imperial court made disaster relief with great fanfare, and the emperor even directly granted relief for three years.

For a while, people can't die, and after being saved, they will make a lot of money.

Just those people who are most willing to leave must be poor, and they have long been tied up in debt.Those who can survive and do not owe debts are unwilling to go to unknown places.

When Dashun was founded, it reduced rent and interest, but over the years, it has returned to the level of land rent that Japan's feudal lords envied.

After listening to the questions given by the various human traffickers, Liu Yu felt irritable, so he could only suppress his anger in front of them, and said: "I don't worry about this matter."

"In this way, you go back first and count first. Whether you are in debt or have disputes in the field, as long as you are willing to go, as long as you are qualified, you should register first."

"I'll do the rest."

"Time waits for no one. The wind is just right in November, and it won't be until March next year. You are all from the navy. You know that in April, Nanyang will be the rainy season. Now that there is no hair, even if it is hot there, it will be too late." It is necessary to build a shelter from the wind and rain. Before the end of the year, people must be sent there. This matter cannot be delayed.”

"You guys go ahead and do it first. But don't...uh...don't be hard-pressed. After all, you are from the Navy. When the time comes, the gentry from several counties will jointly sue me for being domineering and condoning your domineering. I will have a lot of trouble again. "

These officers who have retired for various reasons are not high-ranking officers, and belong to battalion and company level officers.Said it was the Navy, but most of them were from the Marine Corps, and most of them were picked out of the disaster victims.

In fact, none of them had a good temper, and most of them were murdered from the sea of ​​blood and corpses, and they were given such a job because they lacked arms and legs.

Liu Yu could only tell them carefully, don't disagree with each other at that time, show the atmosphere on the battlefield, take out the gun and give them twice, then it will be a bunch of shit again.

Hearing Liu Yu's advice, several human traffickers couldn't help muttering, "Nanyang is better. It's easy to do things over there. You can either do it with a gun or a knife..."

Liu Yu pouted, thinking, isn't this nonsense?Otherwise, why do I have to go outside?Land reform can be done in a place like Banten, but in China it will cause a lot of trouble.

If I can solve the domestic problems, I have something wrong, do I have to go out?As long as the domestic problems are resolved, just the size and the internal market, there is no need to worry about this and that?

"Okay, it's not in Nanyang anymore, and it's not in Japan either. The Celestial Dynasty has its own national conditions here, so don't talk about this or that."

"Go now, time is tight, and I won't keep you."

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Once you start this, it will be easy to talk about in the future. Although you are no longer military officers, you are just human traffickers who get paid to work for others, but you also have to know that it is a big deal to do this in private. Benevolent, righteous and charitable deeds; if you want to say a few kilometers, it was the Celestial Dynasty who opened up the land in Nanyang and you also contributed."

"go Go."

All the traffickers got up to thank them and came out, not daring to delay the business, and they all returned to the originally arranged "area".

As soon as these people left, Liu Yu walked around the room a few times with his hands behind his back, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Indeed, I thought it was simple.

The system of contracted labor in later generations was able to prevail because the head of the contractor paid the money and hired people.In the future, the wages of the contractors will be paid to the contractors, and most of the recruited female workers are "losers who are kept at home", so it is better to sell them for a few dollars.

Now when going to Nanyang, all the recruits are young and strong laborers.This walk is basically taking away the whole family.Those who really rule the countryside will definitely not let people go.

The basic unit of Dashun is the family, including debts and so on.

And even if there is no debt, or if the debt problem is solved by yourself, it is estimated that there will be troubles such as parents committing suicide in the river so as not to be a drag on their children, and mothers throwing dead babies to ensure that they are eligible to board the boat to escape the sea of ​​suffering.

Right now, this matter is difficult and difficult to say, and simple and easy to say.

The easiest way is the particularity of the Dashun system.

Although it is said that the local officials have connections with the local gentry, and they are insiders.But because of the system of being responsible to the top, as long as the top has something to say, the bottom can talk about it.Officials don't care about the so-called friendship. After all, they are not feudal lords, but officials. After working for a few years, who the hell knows who?

If I want to deal with this matter roughly, I can just go to the higher-level officials directly.A word from the higher-level officials will be suppressed below.

However, if you really want to talk about it, this matter is essentially the first confrontation between the bourgeoisie in Dashun and the landlord class in Dashun.

Who should pay for this money?

Theoretically, who should hire people should pay the money.Since the emerging class hired people to develop in Nanyang and settled the debts in advance, it is not impossible to make people work to pay off the debts.

This is a reason.

Another reason is that the money owed is not reasonable at all.Did you grow the food?Did you reap the wheat?If you don't work, why should you take the fruits of your labor for free?Just don't have to pay back, burn the IOU, and it's done.

But for this reason, Liu Yu definitely dare not say it at this time.

If you don’t dare to say it, then you have to base your theory on it.

Based on the existing theory, no matter where the lawsuit goes, the emerging class should give up the money, and then just work for a few more years to pay off the debt.

But the problem is that the death rate in Nanyang is high, and they know this in their hearts.

When Batavia was built, the annual death rate was almost 60.00%. Group after group of people came and group after group of people died.The death rate did not drop until the city was built, the swamp was cleared, and the urban system was established.

Now that the plantation is being redeveloped from scratch, the death rate is bound to be ridiculously high, especially if some people from the Huanghuai area, who are regarded as the north, go to Nanyang.

This makes it impossible for the emerging class to accept this seemingly reasonable condition: to pay off the debts for the hired workers, and the hired workers will have to work for another ten years. It seems that the emerging class has made a profit.

As a result, as soon as the person arrived, he contracted malaria, dengue fever, fever, hemorrhagic fever, cholera, measles, rubella, dysentery, etc., and died. Isn't this compensation?

If they don't accept it, they can continue to procrastinate.

This is not like setting up a Western trading company, where you seem to know how to make money, and if you are late, you will have no chance.

But the opportunity is there, and many people can't wait to see whether others are making money or losing money before following up.

Liu Yu managed to use various means to create such a craze, and he had to maintain it.

Now there is a struggle.

Of course, Liu Yu must be on the side of the emerging class now.

Whether it makes sense or not.

He has to make an appearance, at least a gesture: Don't be afraid if there is a dispute, I am facing you.I have you covered.Be more courageous and take bigger steps.

Without such a gesture, things will be even more difficult in the future: when the emerging classes look at it, oh, it seems that it is safer to buy land and stockpile it for the imperial examination heir.

The struggle between the two sides has only just begun.

If the industry develops in the future, there will be no struggle between the two sides under the bonded labor system; this kind of development of Nanyang requires young labor and the disintegration of the old rural system, and there will be a struggle between the two sides.

If this matter is to be solved by rogues and let the emerging classes see themselves on their side, then there is only one way left.

"Come here, prepare the chariots and horses. I'm going to Jinling to pay a visit to Jiedushi."

(End of this chapter)