The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 278 Development Status of Luzon ([-])

The investment in literacy and education cannot be compared in the same breath!
With the current financial capacity of the Liberation Army, although it cannot provide comprehensive compulsory education, it is still possible to do large-scale literacy literacy.

Zhu Hongyu has always firmly believed that the more literate people, the higher the possibility of digging talents out of them!
It's a matter of probability!
Chen Wenbin opened his mouth and replied.

"His Royal Highness Jian Guo, the results of night school literacy are not bad!"

"A large number of rural people have acquired the most basic reading and writing skills in the past year of literacy."

"No matter how bad it is, I can still recognize a hundred or so characters!"

"Under the education of ideological education, most of the common people have a heart of loyalty. They know that their farmland, food, and clothing are rewards from the military government. They know that they must be loyal to the supervisor and serve the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Hongyu nodded in satisfaction.

Brainwashing, to put it bluntly, means constantly instilling concepts.

Tell a lie [-] times, and it will naturally become true!

Furthermore, the ideological education of the Liberation Army is not only about lying and deceiving people, the military government also makes out the facts.

Distributing resettlement land to the common people, borrowing seeds and agricultural tools, distributing rations, not collecting taxes for three years, reducing or exempting corvee taxes, abolishing miscellaneous taxes and fire consumption, etc. But all of them are good governance made by the military government.

It is true that the common people follow blindly and are easily led by others.

But the people are not stupid, they all know who is really good to them.

The implementation of various good policies of the military government has brought benefits to the people.

Coupled with the continuous indoctrination of ideas during night school literacy, the military government's ideological and educational work has been done well.

It really came to fruition!

Now Zhu Hongyu can guarantee that the 50 Ming people on the entire Luzon Island are of one mind.

As long as he gives an order, the absolute crowd will follow!
Chen Wenbin then reported.

"In addition to these, Luzon's industrial and commercial development is also very good!"

"The common people have reclaimed many plantations, planted sugar cane, rubber, medicinal materials, tobacco and other economic plants, and actively promoted the development of related downstream industries."

"In terms of the textile industry, according to His Highness Jian Guo's instructions, the size of the textile factory has tripled within a year, and many private capitals have chosen to participate in it."

"Also, our textile industry not only does textiles, but also makes garments, which can make more considerable profits and absorb a lot of spare labor."

"A large number of women have been liberated from their families. Under the organization of the Women's Federation, they work in garment factories and textile factories. They have the ability to support themselves!"

"In addition, the breeding industry and animal husbandry are also developing rapidly. Around Luzon, the government and private capital jointly funded and organized several chicken farms, duck farms, pig farms, cattle farms, etc... "

"In addition, after the people became rich in food, they spontaneously raised livestock and poultry."

"The price of meat in Luzon is now nearly one-third lower than before!"

"People's lives have been greatly improved!"

"In terms of heavy industry, on the one hand, it is the exploration and development of various minerals in Luzon. The military government has invested in the construction of several steel and iron factories!"

"And a hardware factory that can manufacture hardware tools in batches!"

"In addition, we have also built a number of soap factories, perfume factories, wineries, glass factories, etc... which have greatly improved the lives of Luzon people!"

"What's more worth mentioning is that thanks to the influx of a large number of Foshan craftsmen, our technicians have thoroughly understood the self-ringing clock technology of Folang Robot, and have already imitated the finished product, and are preparing to build a factory and put it into production."

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Listening to Chen Wenbin's report on the development of various industries in Luzon, the expression on Zhu Hongyu's face gradually filled with joy.

He knew from beginning to end that it is possible to feed the population with agriculture alone, but it is never possible to become rich!
If a country wants to be prosperous and strong, it still has to develop industry and commerce!
Of course, Zhu Hongyu is not only pursuing the development of industry and commerce under his own rule, he also has other purposes.

That is, through the development of industry and commerce, we will cultivate an emerging bourgeoisie who is loyal to itself!

Let the landlords and gentry under his rule realize that land annexation cannot make a lot of money, and if they want to make money, they still have to rely on industry and commerce.

When more and more landlords and gentry began to transform, they no longer merged land, but began to invest in the development of industry and commerce.

Who dares to say that they are not a bit more advanced than the landlord and gentry class, the emerging bourgeoisie?
The old Ming Dynasty, which represented the interests of the feudal landlord class, was subjugated by the Man Qing, which represented the interests of a minority military slave owner class!
The Ming Dynasty, which represented the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty and completed the Restoration Movement!

Who dares to say that this is not a bourgeois revolution?
Of course, in this bourgeois revolution, not only the emerging bourgeoisie will benefit and replace the landlord and gentry class to control the political power.

Ordinary people can also benefit!
Because the development of industry and commerce will bring more opportunities.

For those who have no ambitions and only want to be salted fish, this opportunity is a job opportunity, giving him a choice other than farming to support himself and his family.

But for those with big ambitions, there is an opportunity to rise!
With the development of industry and commerce, there are more and more new industries, and there are naturally more and more opportunities.

In any case, it is better than so many people taking the imperial examination together!
They're all so screwed up!
What's more, the development of industry and commerce will definitely reverse the expansion of the state apparatus and seize a larger market for itself.

During this process, bourgeois factory owners eat meat, and the workers and common people below can also drink soup.

Some people say that the lives of British textile workers in the [-]th century were not as good as those of Chinese farmers!

That's bullshit!

It was after the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution that Europeans began to plunder the world's resources on a large scale to feed back Europe from the nineteenth century.

The living standards of Europeans have risen substantially, and the average possession of meat, eggs, and milk ranks first in the world.

From then on, they surpassed the Chinese in height and became synonymous with tall and strong.

Before the nineteenth century, the Chinese were the tallest in the world!

Furthermore, Zhu Hongyu will not sit back and watch the unscrupulous capitalists excessively squeeze the workers.

The court of Ming Dynasty is not the court of capitalists!

In China, businessmen can never hold power!
If Zhu Hongyu can successfully fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and regain the Central Plains, as the founding king, his prestige will be enough to overwhelm everything.

Before he dies, Zhu Hongyu will definitely establish the ancestral law that will last forever, restrict monopoly, protect the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, build a social welfare system of Ming Dynasty, etc...

Protect the rights and interests of the bottom layer as much as possible!

Unlike the group of Western barbarians who only know how to pursue profit, the concept of "benevolence" is deeply rooted in the ideological realm of the Chinese.

No matter how much the Chinese attach importance to their interests, they will not show it nakedly like Westerners.

Anyone who wants to show some face!

If Zhu Hongyu wants to love the people like his son and take care of the rights and interests of the bottom, he cannot oppose it publicly.

Of course, if someone dares to play tricks with Zhu Hongyu secretly, Zhu Hongyu will let him know how painful it is to be hit by the autocratic iron fist!

(End of this chapter)