Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 344 There is a way out, there is a chance.

Xu Fugui can be said to be an old tenant of the Li family in Daqiao Town.

This Xu Fugui is a typical poor class.

There is no property at hand.

In fact, the annual harvest is not enough to repay the interest of the Li family's usury.

So he farmed for the Li family, which was basically equivalent to doing nothing, but he was lucky if he managed not to starve to death.

Xu Fugui has a silly woman who escaped from the troubles of the White Lotus Sect.

His brain is very dull, and he looks like he has become like this because of some kind of stimulation. He is also ugly, but as a tenant, he has no capital to choose what his wife looks like.

So Xu Fugui, who was twenty years old at the time, married this silly daughter-in-law who looked to be in her thirties or forties.

At that time, people in the village felt that Xu Fugui, an old wife, would not be able to bear children.

But unexpectedly, the family gave birth to four children in five years.

Two survived.

Although the eldest daughter is ugly, she has a bright mind and quick hands and feet.

The youngest son may have inherited his stupid daughter-in-law's stupidity. He is not very good at talking, but fortunately he can do some work.

It was like this day by day.

Facing the loess and back to the sky, farming, repaying debts, paying taxes, and dying.

His son continued Xu Fugui's life.

The results of it?
As a result, the world has changed.

The current imperial court doesn't care about expulsion of tenants at all.

When Li Zhongyi walked in, he saw this old farmer in his 40s, but his face looked like he was 60 or [-] years old, crying on the ground.

Because Mr. Li Zhongren and Mr. Li have decided not to exploit him anymore, and he kindly canceled his family's Hades debt.

But just look at Xu Fugui's appearance.

He really wanted to continue being exploited.

Because without those few acres of Susukida, their whole family would starve to death without today.

Oh.

Now it is said that there are other ways out, such as going to the Northeast, going to Nanyang, and what else is the New World.

But Xu Fugui has never left Daqiao Town in his whole life, and the farthest place he has been to is the old farmer who went to the market in Daqiao Town to buy and sell some local products.

northeast.

Nanyang.

New World.

These are places that are too far away, unfamiliar, and even frightening.

Going to those places, who knows whether it is dead or alive.

"Brother, this... this is not very good."

Li Zhongyi, who was preparing for the Sichuan Talent Examination, showed a look of impatience.

It should be said that the emperor was extra merciful, giving Sichuan people an extra chance to take the exam.

At the end of this year, Sichuan Xiucai tried.

In the middle of next year, there will be a national unified scholar examination, and there will be no separate examinations for provinces in the future.

Thus.

This year's Sichuan Talent Examination is a great blessing to Sichuanese.

Anyway, all Li Zhongyi heard in the academy these days was the voice of thanking the emperor for his kindness.

This Confucian scholar.

Give a red date to appease.

Emperor Zhu gave Sichuanese one more chance to take the exam.

Chuan's heart is set.

"If you don't drive away, you can't."

Li Zhongren pawed at the abacus beads.

He has changed from a Confucian student pleading for the people to Li Papi.

"Look at the five acres of paddy fields he planted. After a few hoes, the ground below is hardened, and the soil doesn't look very fertile. It must have not been fertilized. The soil is too overdrawn, and the water canal It’s not repaired, and it depends on the sky for food. If you plant five acres of rice a year, you can reap two or three acres of rice, which is considered good. One or two stones of rice for one acre of land, what can you do?”

"Tomorrow I will buy two cows, hire a few more people, shovel out the ridges, level the land, and build a canal to divert water from the river. There are many strong men in the old Zhang's family and the farmer's family. Long-term workers, and other tenants are driven away."

There are a total of [-] tenants in the Li family.

Most of them owe the Li family usury.

Marrying a wife and having children is a matter of red and white.

It all costs money.

What kind of money can the tenant have, he can only borrow money from the landlord Laocai.

Interest is of course high.

But that's usury in name only.

In fact, the money borrowed is not expected to be repaid-of course, if the interest rate is not high, it is possible to repay it.

The 30-year mortgage can be repaid.

Let alone this.

Most of them repay the interest every year, and the interest repaid in the end exceeds the principal, and the principal has not been repaid.

So in general.

The usury that the landlord lends to the tenant is used to manipulate the tenant.

Since everyone is in the same village, there is a bottom line for exploitation—the bottom line is that the tenants cannot starve to death.

One or two families can starve to death.

But if they are all starving to death.

Who will farm the land is another matter.

The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry.

Who among the twenty tenant tenants can guarantee that they won't be separated, and when the time comes, they will be desperate, and a small family like the Li family will definitely not be able to support it-let alone the Li family, those who are bigger I am afraid that even the wealthy households will not be able to afford it.

But now.

The two policies of the Ming court allowed Li Zhongren to break through that bottom line.

The first is the restriction that people over the age of 30 cannot take the imperial examination, which made Li Zhongren give up studying, and changed from a scholar to a wealthy landlord.

The change in status changed Li Zhongren's life goal from being an official to farming and making a fortune.

The second is that Ming Dynasty's development of the Northeast and Southeast Asia gave the poor peasants the last way to survive, and there was no need to work hard.

these two.

Let Li Zhongren complete the change of identity.

From the gentry and landlord class, it has evolved into an agricultural capitalist-using hired labor to manage land and agriculture, which is fundamentally different from agriculture under the tenancy system.

Are capitalists?

Of course, from head to toe, every inch of flesh and hair on the body, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things.

Can you expect capitalists to be great benevolent people during primitive accumulation?

Which of these Western capitalist countries did not have bloody corpses on hand during primitive accumulation.

Whether it is the bottom of the country or the natives of the colonies.

The bloody primitive accumulation is actually built on blood and tears.

Guangzhou, Daohua University.

In the classroom with the sign of "China Endeavor Association".

A few young men in "Daohua costumes" and with their hair shaved into the standard hairstyle of the Ming Dynasty army were discussing together.

"Zhong Yin, how's the situation? What's the background of that Lan Xiang? How come we just started doing it here?"

The young man who was speaking had an ugly expression on his face.

The other young man next to him also had a gloomy expression.

"I found out that Lan Xiang was run by Wu Wanghai and Wu Xinzhong."

"So it's these two thieves!"

The leading young man suddenly patted the table with an angry look on his face.

"The establishment of the college entrance examination training class and the technical school was ordered by the superiors. We only established a new China, and the technical school has not had time to open yet."

Another young man who had been silent all this time sighed and said.

The Chinese Endeavor Association, as soon as you hear the name, is the "royalist" among the student organizations in the university town.

Many people joined.

But the core is three people.

The leader is Tao Shu, the son of Tao Biquan, the chief scholar of the current University Scholars Office.

Tao Shu, courtesy name Zilin, was born in Hunan.

And the other one is Guan Tianpei, the son of Guan Gongguan Shouzhong, the sailing instructor of Daming Naval Academy.

Guan Tianpei, courtesy name Zhongyin, was born in Jiangsu, but was born in Guangdong since childhood.

The remaining one is Zhang Weiping from the Zhang family in Panyu, Guangzhou.

Zhang Weiping, styled Zishu, was born in Panyu, Guangdong.

All three are young people in their 20s who have received complete "new learning education".

Naturally, he and Du Rusong, Wu Xinzhong and others couldn't urinate together.

This "China Endeavor Association", according to the current statement, is also a very radical "extreme right-wing student organization".

The proposition is naturally the same as that of Emperor Zhu, and it is obviously more radical.

Guan Tianpei frowned, and said, "Brother Zilin, the boss told us to set up a new training school to recruit scholars over the age of 30, and now someone has stepped in."

"It doesn't matter, the higher-ups are nothing more than to let those scholars over the age of 30 have a way out, and at the same time to strengthen the new school, that's all." Tao Shu said, "We set up this training school for the purpose of driving private funds to enter. Now it’s just that someone has done it first.”

"But this school is run by Wu Wanghai, Sun Wen and others from the "Democratic Republic Research Association." Will it be possible?" Zhang Weiping said with a worried face.

"The ass determines the head. When the students who come out of the new school need to rely on new learning to make a living, most of them will naturally speak out for their butts." Tao Shu said.

Guan Tianpei smiled slightly, and said: "There are only 18 people in their "Democratic Republic Research Association", known as the Eighteen Arhats, but in fact Wu Wanghai, Sun Wen, etc. are only three or four people who are more active. Well, their brand of "Democratic and Republican Research Association" is afraid that it will not be able to hang up for a day. If they want to run a school, they must go to various universities to recruit people to be teachers. Well, let's mobilize our people to become teachers in Lanxiang go, hey"

"Borrowing chickens to lay eggs! What a strategy!"

Tao Shu and Zhang Weiping's eyes lit up immediately, and they applauded each other.

There are only eighteen arhats in the Democratic Republic Research Association.

But the China Endeavor Association has thousands of members.

And they are all very active college students in Whampoa University City.

so.
People from the China Endeavor Association were mobilized to become teachers in Lanxiang.

The school is run by you.

But brainwashing people. Uh, teachers are my people.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Zhongdu, the Northern Courtyard of the Son of Heaven.

In the meeting room.

Lu Jiye, the general manager of the New China Education Group, which belongs to the Daming Royal Consortium, was holding a report and said to Zhu Daohua.

"Your Majesty, as of the end of January, we have recruited a total of 1 specialist students in industries such as textiles, steel, shipbuilding, chemistry, construction, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, mining, finance, commerce, porcelain, animal husbandry, and machinery. Some students of English, law, accounting, doctors and other specialties."

"5000 people? Is the enrollment going well?"

Zhu Daohua asked.

"Successfully, many of those scholars who have passed the age have chosen to take the college entrance examination."

Zhu Daohua nodded.

Now the development of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty has encountered a calm of talents.

If you only rely on training from a few schools such as Huangpu University City, Zhongdu University City, and Shanghai’s new universities, you will have to train until the year of the monkey.

This is far from meeting the needs of the market.

therefore.

Accelerated specialized training has become a must.

"It seems that the age limit of the imperial examination has many advantages." Emperor Zhu smiled, and then looked at Gong Zhuman, the commander of Jinyiwei, who was at the side.

"That Lan Xiang, how many people did you recruit?"

"There are nearly 1000 people. In addition, the background of Wu Wanghai has been investigated. He may be a descendant of Fujian Jinghaihou in the former Qing Dynasty."

"No wonder you are so rich." Emperor Zhu nodded.

"Your Majesty, do you want it?" Gong Zhuman made a beheading gesture.

Although, Emperor Zhu must be polite.

But he was going to take a man's life.

Surely easy.

"No need, no need, just a small person." Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "Just continue to monitor. There are so many people who have been nobles in the former Qing Dynasty, how can we kill them one by one."

"What about the Democratic Republic Research Association?"

Emperor Zhu frowned.

Emperor Zhu didn't care about this seminar alone.

College students.

It's a little different, it's so normal.

Emperor Zhu didn't have this kind of mind.

But
It is worrying.

There was actually a man whose surname was Sun and whose name was Zhong Shan, and he was a medical student.

It's really worrying!

"Mr. Wu, quite a lot of people signed up, and 1000 people were quickly recruited."

At this time, Emperor Zhu was a little worried, and even wanted to send Jin Yiwei to check on Sun Wen's good-looking student Sun Wen, Sun Zhongshan, and stood respectfully in front of Mr. Wu to report work.

Mr. Wu's eyes were blurred into a line.

1000 people.

The tuition fee is three hundred.

That is 3 yuan.

The upfront cost of running this college is 1 yuan, plus the recruitment of [-] teachers, the annual salary is about [-] yuan.

In other words.

Even if the upfront investment is covered.

Admissions for the first term.

Not only did the cost of the operation have been earned back.

And a net profit of [-]!
Every issue in the future will have a net profit of [-]!

This is for education.

It is simply more profitable than making newspapers and selling advertisements! !
"It's good to recruit them all. How is the situation of the teacher?"

"Many of the teachers who came to sign up to be teachers are members of the Chinese Endeavor Association."

Speaking of it.

Sun Wen's expression turned a little ugly.

His Democratic Republic Research Association has very few applicants.

But the China Endeavor Association still has a threshold to enter.

even so.

There are also many college students who are quite yearning.

There is no market for a democratic republic in the Ming Dynasty now.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is so powerful, and it will not suffer from the century-old national humiliation of later generations.

under these circumstances.

There is no urgency to save the nation.

Moreover, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty did not actually bring about the militarism that many people imagined would drag down the court's finances.

On the one hand, of course, the finances of the Ming Dynasty are different from those of previous dynasties. The Ming Dynasty is a quasi-industrialized country based on the prosperity of industry and commerce.

There is the Daemyung Royal Bank as the central bank.

There are many financial means, financial means to ensure your financial health.

on the other hand.

Of course, it was because the expansion of the Ming Dynasty had actually brought benefits to both the industrial and commercial class and the peasants—although the peasants' emigration was not necessarily voluntary, it did provide a fairly acceptable way out.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if they want to influence us, we can influence them too."

Wu Xinzhong said in his mouth.

My heart was full of joy.

Anyone with a heart knows that the emperor must be behind the Chinese Endeavor Association.

It was the emperor's preparation to support the new students to gradually enter the court.

The future court structure will definitely become a confrontation between the old and the new factions, rather than the struggle for power between the Cantonese Party and the Hunan Party—parties that use their regions to report to the League will definitely be wiped out.

Wu Xin Center has the intention of being an official.

No imperial examination
maybe.
Can you be an official through elections?

Being close to the Chinese Endeavor Association is also an opportunity for Wu Xinzhong.

(End of this chapter)