Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 259 Too Progressive!

"Your Majesty, your plan for agricultural collectivization"

Kant frowned, but thoughtful.

"It seems to be slightly similar to those socialist plans, but it is also very different."

"Collective labor, collective management, public ownership of land, and public ownership of some means of production are indeed some shadows of socialism. But in essence, these collective farms should still belong to the improvement of private ownership."

In the northern capital.

Mr. Kant, a famous otaku in history, has traveled to many cities and villages in China.

It examines Eastern social formations that are quite different from Western societies.

At the same time after returning to the northern capital.

Emperor Zhu actually came up with a "Pilot Plan for Collective Farms".

Mr. Kant was shocked when he saw this thing.

Too advanced, too progressive.

At this time, Kant had undergone a three-year investigation in the East, and his understanding of sociology and politics had changed considerably from that of the Kant in history.

Especially in politics.

People change with the environment.

It is different from the utopia of those utopian socialists in Europe.

This is obviously a plan with practical room for operation.

Daming is now an agricultural country. In such a huge country with a population of [-] million, agriculture is related to the survival of the country.

And in Kant's investigation.

The countryside of Daming is almost in ruins, with a huge population and very little land per capita!
Coupled with the high degree of land concentration, this military power is likely to be the largest in the world, the Ming Empire, and it is actually a hungry country.

Except for a few places such as the Pearl River Estuary, the Yangtze River Estuary, Lanfang, and Strait Free City.

Other areas are full of hungry sharecroppers.

Moreover, the mistakes of these sharecroppers to eat their stomachs are sweet potato leaves and sweet potato tubers, which are extremely high-yield crops.

So in the north of Daming.

There are malnourished people everywhere.

If this hungry empire continues to "involve" like this.

Once Zhu Daohua, the founding emperor, passed away.

Then his empire is likely to fall into chaos, split, or even die.
However, the Emperor of Restoration also seemed to be aware of the problems in his empire.

The method he chose was to transfer the contradictions: transfer the domestic contradictions to foreign countries, and use foreign land to feed his huge subjects.

This is actually a common practice among countries in this era, and with the powerful military power of the Ming Empire, they can do this too.

And the emergence of this collective farm plan shocked Kant.

no doubt.

The schemes of collective labor, profit sharing, voting autonomy, unified purchase and marketing, etc. are really genius.

This almost cut off the rentier class like the landlords directly, and the state directly connected with the peasant households.

"There will still be rentier classes, such as the "bureaucrats" at all levels of the Northeast Development Corporation." Zhu Daohua said with a sigh.

Elimination of exploitation is just a beautiful fantasy.

But under the current production conditions, this is obviously an impossible utopia.

Cut down the landlord.

It is institutions like the Northeast Development Corporation that are pressing on the peasant households.

It doesn't matter whether this organization is called a marketing agency or a company.
"However, it is obvious that the living conditions of the collective farm households under your rule will be greatly improved. This is actually a great progress. Moreover, it is inevitable that there are various classes in a country. Have you ever said that the state is a tool of class rule?" Kant laughed.

Zhu Daohua's expression changed, and he said: "The price for the improvement of the living conditions of my subjects is very likely to be the deterioration of the living conditions of some indigenous people and the people of Ming's enemy countries. This seems to be inexplicable. Unless one day the social wealth rich, all rentier and exploiting classes were wiped out”

Kant looked at the emperor of the Ming Empire.

He really didn't expect it.

This is obviously a dictatorial emperor, why is his mind full of exploitation, class, these things seem to be harmful to his rule.

The thoughts of the Eastern Great Emperor.

It's really a contradiction.

He scribbled down what Zhu Daohua said in his notebook.

Then there was a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, your experience is too legendary. Maybe in the West, no, there are many people all over the world who want to know about your past. Maybe I can write a biography for you." "

Zhu Daohua waved his hand: "It's too early to talk about this now. But if Mr. Kant wants to write, just write it."

"It's not as good as the name of the biography [The First Half of the Emperor Guangfu's Life]."

The first half of life?
Why does this sound so unlucky?

"Let's change the name, this name is not auspicious."

Zhu Daohua said.

Kant was stunned for a moment, and then he also reacted.

This is probably the influence of some Chinese folk Taoist beliefs.

Kant didn't understand this either, but he respected it.

According to the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be a follower of the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. This is a political need, and it is also the "ancestral family law" of the Ming Empire-this is what Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated.

Just when Zhu Daohua was discussing the progressive significance of "collective farms" with Kant.

Gu Song and Luo Fangbo are hosting a banquet for Dong Gao, an important official who was later marginalized by Qianlong.

"Brother Yalun should be of great use, at least the courage to appease the northern provinces should have fallen on Brother Yalun's shoulders, but now it seems that the emperor has other uses."

Dong Gao didn't care too much.

Dong Gao, who is only 53 years old this year, is naturally not like Liu Yong and Ji Yun, who are already over 70 years old, just slap their ass and leave and go back to their hometown. Dong Gao, who is in his prime, is of course unwilling to leave the officialdom like this.

And now that the Qing Dynasty has surrendered, and even the emperor has become a king of obedience, these Han officials under their hands naturally have no reason to be lonely officials of the Qing Dynasty.

He smiled and said: "At the beginning when the emperor was in the northern capital, he had already said that there was another important use. I guess it has something to do with the expedition to the west."

Gu Song smiled, and said: "That's right, the emperor has indeed arranged for an important mission!"

"Oh?" Dong Gao showed an interested look on his face.

Luo Fangbo said: "Brother Yalun, the emperor wants to use troops against Tsarist Russia. The main force is to conquer the westward battalion. The goal is to destroy Irkutsk and give Tsarist Russia a warning and a lesson. This is a great achievement!"

"Zhengxiying Battalion attacked Irkutsk?" Dong Gao frowned and pondered, "It may be difficult to do it with the strength of Zhengxiying Battalion alone."

"Whether it can be attacked and when it will be attacked and destroyed, let alone for the time being, the key is to ignite a fire in Irkutsk to draw the attention of Tsarist Russia, and not let them do bad things in the east!"

"Northeast?" Dong Gao was taken aback, "What is going on in Northeast?"

"Establish a collective farm! The emperor is going to move the disaster victims from the Central Plains to the northeast to farm the fields." Gu Song said.

Dong Gao nodded, he also heard about this.

This is a method introduced by the imperial court to alleviate the contradiction between the large number of people in the interior and the lack of land.

Specific terms were not announced.

But the big principles are certain.

A Northeast Development Corporation will be established first.

Responsible for providing seeds, cattle and other means of production to obtain the exclusive right to purchase agricultural products for ten years.

The land is leased to farmers by the imperial court on a long-term basis.

150 households form a collective farm, collectively cultivate, and share the benefits. At the same time, they must be equipped with muskets and be ready for battle at all times.

This kind of "armed immigrants" is similar to military households in guards.

However, military service is not required.

Just need to defend your own homeland.

Dong Gao made up his mind,

150 farmers.

There are at least 150 strong men.

150 guns.

Facing the threat of the indigenous savages of the Liao land who have no firearms, it is already enough to protect themselves.

As long as Tsarist Russia does not have large soldiers in the northeast, this collective farm can quickly expand in the vast northern Liaoning.

In addition, Le Bao's actions in the Western Regions also made the imperial court worry that the bannermen of the original Eight Banners would seek refuge with Le Bao, and simply dragged them all to fight against Tsarist Russia.

It seems that letting myself lead the westward camp to threaten Irkutsk is the court's plan to kill two birds with one stone
"The immigrant colonies have made great achievements in the present and will benefit the future. It's just such a large-scale immigration, and the cost is not small. Does the court have so much money?"

Luo Fangbo stroked his beard, and said with a smile: "The imperial court has no money, but the emperor has money. The Ministry of Finance has calculated and posted it. If there are five people in one household on average, include resettlement expenses, travel expenses, rations, seeds, farm tools, guns, and cattle. It will cost about 100 Mingyuan to wait for Lin Linzong. In the early stage, move 3000 million households first, that is 1000 million Mingyuan, the court will pay 2000 million, and the remaining [-] million will be paid by the emperor.”

(End of this chapter)