Xinshun 1730

Chapter 996 Overfulfilled
Once the way is shown, the rest will be played by ear.

Each family went back to prepare by themselves, and discussed in private, so that nothing would happen.

For example, you really gave the money stipulated by the court for collecting the soil basket, but I didn't give the money at all and took it for nothing and then went to the court to collect the money, which is not good.

As the saying goes, don't worry about scarcity but inequality, if you want to deduct money, you can deduct it together, but I can't do it and you can't do it.

Soon, the autumn rains in Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers came to an end, and the mighty corvee labor began to be carried out by Dashun and the whole country.

Good luck this year.

Maybe God sees that the people in Lianghuai have been miserable for almost 600 years, and I can't bear it for a while.

In autumn, there is no autumn flood, no typhoon, and no tide.

It really means that the world and the earth are the same force.

From Gaojiayan in Hongze Lake to the sea, on the vast land of three hundred miles, taking advantage of the end of the autumn rain and the approaching dry season, under the old system of Dashun, it was almost the limit of the mobilization force of the whole country. come out.

Naturally, Liu Yu would not miss such a good opportunity.

He invited some Westerners to take a hot air balloon to overlook such a spectacular scene.

Although he knows that those who really know how to do things and know the limits of the Dashun court will be counterproductive.This will clearly show the limit of Dashun's mobilization power.

But now there is no one who really knows how to do it.

Westerners who truly understand all the policies, systems, and operating logic of the Dashun court do not exist at this time.

So in the eyes of these people, this is like a Dashun show of force and intimidation.

Liu Yu said that this is only a province in Dashun, and Dashun has more than ten or twenty such provinces.That is to say, Dashun's extreme mobilization power is ten or twenty times that of the current spectacular scene.

For a moment, AIA was astonished.

Surprised and inexplicable, he called Dashun invincible.

Especially some Dutch people who represent the financial capital of the Netherlands, after reading it, they quickly raised their expectations of the Dashun government's ability to repay the national debt.

The credibility of Dashun National Bonds is also rated the highest.

If the interest rate is 5.00%, and if both China and the UK need loans, they will choose to lend money to Dashun instead of the UK.

What you see while floating in the sky is always different from what you see on the ground.

On the river section contracted by the gentry such as Wang Jiansheng, the people who really worked hard on the ground have only known two things so far.

The first thing is that the imperial court wanted to build a canal, and asked the common people to weave earthen baskets. Each family had to weave one basket per head, and handed it over to the master, who then transported it to the river section to be repaired.If you don't hand in the basket, you have to pay 30 Wen for the basket.

The second thing is that there is really food here. There are sorghum rice and sweet potato nests every day. The most important thing is that there is enough pickles every day, half a large pickled radish per person.

These common people who lease the land are very envious of those stove households who cook salt.

Although the surveying and mapping students scattered by the imperial court gave reports with the emotion of "tears in tears" [The kitchen households are poor, and the most eaten dish is shrimp paste with maggots.I will never eat dried shrimp paste again in my life, and I writhed on it, but they didn't care, saying that as long as it doesn't have a long tail, you can eat it, and you can pick out the one with a long tail]

[They don’t wear pants or clothes at all in summer, and they don’t have the consciousness to go to the toilet at all. They even urinate everywhere in the place where the brine is taken. All of their feet and legs are the color of copper, as dry as tree bark].

But, at least, for these people who rent the land, the salty and maggot-filled shrimp paste is enough, and it is not light in the mouth.

Now that I have achieved salt freedom, how can I be unhappy?
Generally speaking, they are basically satisfied with their current jobs.

And the source of satisfaction stems from Liu Yu's deliberate leak policy.

This deliberate leaky policy is doomed for every extra day of work, the country gentry will earn an extra day of food stamps.Just finish the job within the allotted time.

Of course, if you can't finish it, you will be punished extremely severely, and you may even go bankrupt or even be thrown to the border of the Western Regions.

But if they work quickly, it will be no good for them. If they finish the work one day earlier, they will lose one day's grain price difference.

The people organized by the gentry dug forward bit by bit according to the amount that could be completed every day, taking advantage of the dry season.

People from the imperial court rarely come here. Apart from counting heads, they also draw lines in advance, or check the depth and width, and check the progress every once in a while.

The working people go to and from work on time every day.

In the morning, breakfast is ready in the kitchen.

Corn mush mixed with boiled sweet potato cubes.Holding the cooked corn paste, go to the side to get three nests, stack them together through the depression of the nests, and add a piece of pickled radish to the pit of the last nest.

Poor people don't need a table to eat.

He held a huge sea bowl in one hand, and he could still hold the nest in the palm of his hand.He lowered his head to take a sip of the hot cornmeal paste, took a bite of the nest, and carefully bit out a piece of pickled radish from the nest with his teeth, feeling indescribably comfortable.

After eating, they will take all kinds of tools, a group of more than a dozen people, and start digging.

It's all dry loess, and it's easy to dig up.Women and children will also come here to work in order to earn these nests. They usually carry earthen baskets.

At noon, it is either sorghum rice or wowo.In the evening, there will be extra meals, and each person will be given a piece of soybean meal left over from oil extraction.Sometimes, when people are not paying attention, they will secretly grab a handful of soybean meal that is fed to cows, horses and donkeys, hide it in their clothes, and secretly make snacks at night.

The people who come here are basically very satisfied, because they have to work even during the slack season on weekdays, and they often have no money to work for the master's family.

In the imagination, the tenant and the host should have a contractual employment and lease relationship.

But the problem is that it is nonsense not to talk about the equal employment and lease relationship of the ownership of the means of production.

Theoretically, when the farm is slack, the host asks you to build ditches and rammed earth walls. Who says you have to go?But if you don't go, don't even think about renting land next year.

It's like a temple renting out land to see a daughter-in-law. In theory, everyone has an equal lease relationship. If you like it, no one forces anyone. You don't have to rent it for the daughter-in-law.But don't rent and drink wind?

Now there is no land lease here, and you can go to Nanyang.

But unless the family can't survive at all, and their own land is gone, who is willing to leave their hometown?

Although the young crop loan is also available, in fact, there are only two choices for these land renters.

Or, take a loan from Qingmiaodai, pay back all the rent owed to the owner's family, and get the clearing documents, and go directly to Nanyang to work to pay off the debt of Qingmiaodai.

Or, continue to borrow from the usury of the owner's family, and you can rent the land next year to continue to maintain the basic life.

Someone had persuaded Liu Yu a long time ago, saying that if you do this, you will lose money, because you have no land in your hands.Liu Yu was "stubborn in his own opinion", and the squire's counterattack also hit the point: if you borrow a loan from young crops, don't even think about renting land.

Or, continue to be a tenant.

Or, go to Nanyang.

And borrow young crop loans, work hard, and strive to become a self-employed farmer or a small landlord?

This third way does not exist at all.

This is especially true with the news that the imperial court wants to build the Huaihe River.Whoever sells the land is stupid.Seeing that if it is repaired, the ninth-class field will become a second-class field. At this juncture, the land is sold?

Therefore, those who have land, but at the same time have to rent land, hope to bear with it, and it will be fine in the future, and rent land first to make do with it.

Those who have no land, either go to Nanyang with all their heart; or they really dare not borrow green crop loans and continue to be tenants.

If you choose to continue to be a tenant, you have to perform some feudal obligations for the master from time to time, such as digging ditches and ramming walls.

Tenants are not as good as long-term workers.

Some long-term workers have ways of harming the owner's family, or they are doing foreign workers, or they are a little bit bad when planting, so the landlord will win over the long-term workers.

And the tenants... how can they harm the master's family?

Under such circumstances, those who come to work here are quite satisfied with the days when they can eat dry rice in the morning and realize the freedom of salt.

It is said that the court returned the money.

As for their understanding of the great significance of building the Huaihe River, it can be said that they did not have it at all.

The purpose of building the Huaihe River is to save Anhui from the perspective of the general situation of the country.

Hongze Lake is getting higher and higher, and the suffocating upper reaches of the Huaihe River will cause disasters as soon as it rains; and the reason why Hongze Lake is getting higher and higher is that it used to collect water to wash sand. Bunch of water to wash the sand.

And compared with the Yellow River to raise the speed?That's really comparing treasures with the Dragon King, and comparing fate with the birthday star.

However, this meaning does not exist for the people in northern Jiangsu.

The disaster in Anhui is none of our business?

The meaning to the local area is to turn the flood into a water conservancy, and make the original inferior land become irrigated land.

However, the land is not his own, why should he work so hard?

It's nothing more than the corvee conscripted by the imperial court. This time, he actually eats a lot and pays back the money.Anyway, if you don’t go, you have to go. If you go, you can get food and money. This is the only motivation.

In their opinion, the benefits they can get from building river channels are that the tools issued by the imperial court are good.

Although the tools had to be handed in, it might not be easy to steal these few taels of good iron back home.

However, the tools issued by the imperial court, the shovel handle and the stick with the hoe handle, are really good.

I don't know what method was used to make it really round.

When it is almost dry, you can break it on purpose, put half of it in your trouser legs, and use it as a rolling pin, which is a good thing.

It's a pity that this small fantasy of taking advantage was quickly shattered. Some pioneers did similar things, but the squire told him to pay back the original price and deduct it from the draft money.

Now it is clear that a month is a copper coin of one tael of silver, which is equivalent to 800 Wen. If the loss of silver is taken into account, it is 720 Wen, and one day is 24 Wen.

At that time, it will be directly deducted from the fundraising money.

The working people also knew that the imperial court said that one tael of silver was paid for a month, but they didn't know that what the imperial court said was the official price comparison of one thousand taels for one tael, and the actual wages were calculated in copper coins.

Cut off the last bit of thinking about taking advantage, and then only work every day is left.

Fortunately, we work in autumn and winter, and the epidemic is not prevalent.

Theoretically, when contracting, all workers were required to drink boiled water.

This time the imperial court really spent their money.

Some nearby forests and grasslands specially reserved for the saltworks were also allocated to this side.

According to the number of workers, the forest and grassland of each river section can be guaranteed in theory for heating, cooking and boiling water.

But... firewood can also be sold for money.

That is to say, I haven't mastered the technology of stir-frying mixed noodles here, otherwise I will definitely choose the more trouble-free fried mixed noodles with cold water.

Despite this and that, the channel of the Huaihe River into the sea is still being formed day by day after strict calculations and a surplus of labor.

There was no major epidemic in autumn and winter, and few people died.

Although they are all coarse grains and noodles, there is no rat poison in this food, and it will not kill people.Although each person eats two and a half catties of miscellaneous noodles, one or two bean cakes, and half a pickled radish per day, such heavy physical labor will still make people hungry at night, but it is not the kind of hunger that scratches the heart, and it will pass after a little patience.

In some places with high platforms and slopes, the imperial court will also send professional people to blow up these high platforms and slopes with some new explosives from the Academy of Sciences.The lots contracted by the gentry are relatively simple places, neither involving the river crossing gates that require technology, nor the sea inlets that need to consider the problem of silting into the sea.

On the whole, the tradition of carnival among the grassroots gentry was continued.However, the business that can only be done in winter has been done step by step, and nothing has gone wrong.

Liu Yu, who was not on the front line, was looking at the statistical report sent over there.In one large river section alone, an average of 32 catties are exchanged for food coupons for coarse grains, bad grains, and old moldy rice in the black market every day.

And it keeps growing.

The average life expectancy is low in this year, and old moldy rice causes cancer, but as long as the life span does not survive the onset of cancer, the cancer will not catch up.Although northern Jiangsu is better than southern Jiangsu and is not considered a high-incidence area for schistosomiasis, ordinary people are definitely not eligible for cancer.

Looking at the statistical data reported in various newspapers, Liu Yu didn't know whether to cry or laugh. It really can be regarded as "remarkable results".

According to this ratio, it may not be enough to line up and shoot all of them as he planned.

But shooting one after another must have exceeded the task.

(End of this chapter)