Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 87 Garlic you are ruthless, drive away the tide of tenants 【Seeking follow-up】

"Your Majesty, due to the drop in the price of rice, many landowners feel that it is a loss to grow rice, so they plan to take back their farmland and plant garlic or sugar cane instead."

Speaking of this, Luo Fangbo looked at King Zhu Ming with some complaints.

You said so too.

This life-renewing water is a good thing.

It's also expensive.

There are even many merchants in the north who come to buy and smuggle them back quietly.

This is really a lifesaver.

In later generations, the wind and cold that can only be regarded as a minor cold can easily kill a person in this era.

And this life-saving water really has the meaning of curing all diseases.

Such as dysentery and the like, it is cured by medicine.

Medicine is good medicine.

But it pushed up the price of garlic.

Coupled with the big price reduction of rice.

Many landlords began to change rice to garlic.

This kind of garlic is not easy to collect rent, and the purpose of growing garlic is to make money. Renting the fields to tenant farmers is not a very efficient business method.

Instead, hiring people to build a plantation-style farm can save costs and allocate resources better.

Capitalist production relations are of course more efficient than the tenant economy in the agricultural era.

But it is also more cannibalistic.

Especially when things like evictions happen continuously, if one of them can't be handled well, it will be a lot of fun if there is some trouble.

"Your Excellency, this land belongs to the landlords, so we have no control over what they want to do." Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said, "It's not that this king didn't give small peasants a way out. They went to the railway company to build roads, or went to Lanfang to cultivate. But it’s a good way out.”

Luo Fangbo shook his head when he heard this.

This King Ming is good at everything.

It's just that I really don't seem to care about Xiaomin.
You are a good king of Ming, and you will be the emperor of Ming in the future.

How can you stand on the landlord's side?

A group of people walked along the field ridge at the foot of Lianhua Mountain.

Zhu Daohua looked at the surrounding scenery very naturally.

Lianhua Mountain was developed into a scenic spot in later generations.

It is indeed a beautiful place.

"Huanxiang, what village is ahead?"

Zhu Daohua asked a middle-aged scribe in his 30s.

Huanxiang is his name, and his name is Song Xiang.

The reason why Zhu Daohua knew this person was because he had heard of the title of "Eight Sages of Meizhou" when he traveled to Jiaying Prefecture.

This Song Xiang is from Jiaying Prefecture. He came to Guangzhou to study, and was admitted as a scholar in the Qing Dynasty.

Originally, according to the original history, Song Xianghui passed the examination in the 56th year of Qianlong to Jieyuan, and then became a scholar in the fourth year of Jiaqing.

But now the Ming army occupies Guangdong.

Mr. Song, a famous scholar in Guangdong Province, seems to have no hope of becoming an official in the Qing Dynasty.

But it's not bad now.

In the eyes of many people, Song Xiang of Jiaying Prefecture has also become a "close minister of the emperor".

Now he is Zhu Daohua's secretary, responsible for transcribing oral instructions, writing royal edicts and other secretarial work.

Although the official position is not high.

But it is very envious of many students studying in the Government Affairs University.

"Your Majesty, this is Gangwei Township in Panyu, and Daling Village is ahead."

"Whose land is here?"

"It belongs to the Chen family of Yimen in Daling Village."

"They all belong to their family?"

"Your Majesty, Chen from Yimen is a big family in Panyu, and there are hundreds of males in each house. Part of Daling Village is the family land of Chen Yimen, and some are private fields belonging to each house. More than half of Ling Village is owned by the Chen family."

Song Xiang said.

Although he is from Jiaying Prefecture, he came to Guangzhou Mansion very early to enroll in Yuexiu Academy.

Chen Tingxuan, the eldest son of the Chen Family in Yimen, is his classmate, so he still has some understanding of the affairs of Daling Village.

Just when several people were talking.

Then I heard bursts of crying coming from the front, walked a few steps forward, and saw a large group of people gathered to watch the fun.

"It seems that the expulsion of tenants has happened again."

Song Xiang frowned and said.

"Look at it."

Zhu Daohua stepped forward with his hands behind his back.

Zhu Daohua and his party came without attracting attention,

After all, Zhu Daohua was only visiting in low clothes, and the guards behind him were also dressed as servants.

The short-barreled firearms are all hidden under the robe.

Zhu Daohua is not close yet.

I heard crying in front of me.

Although the vernacular in the suburbs of Panyu is slightly different from the accent in Guangzhou.

But it is relatively easy to understand.

"I can't, I can't, Housekeeper Chen, what will my family eat after you drove me away?"

A middle-aged farmer sat in the field, crying and shouting.

Next to him was a stout woman with thick hands, feet, thick neck, trying to pull him up.

"My family has never had a short rent."

Butler Chen also said helplessly: "Xu Sanjin, it's not that I won't rent it to you, it's because my head said that this kind of rice is losing money, and I have to take it back and hire someone to grow garlic."

"If you continue to rent rice to you, the owner's family will lose money. Can you do this business?"

"I can't live anymore, I can't live anymore." Xu Sanjin was still sitting on the ground and crying.

Seeing that Xu Sanjin couldn't communicate, Steward Chen had no choice but to look at the strong woman next to him.

"Ms. Xu, look at your old man a little bit. I can't help it. You should find your own way to survive. Working as a worker on a construction site or going to Lanfang is a way out."

Steward Chen shook his head and said.

"Oh, what kind of world is this?"

"Yes, yes, I heard that the county magistrate doesn't care about this matter."

"Well, in the Qing Dynasty, there was no expulsion of tenants."

"Then Steward Chen is right. I heard that the wages for repairing the railway are quite high."

"The road won't last long, what if it doesn't work? It's better to farm."

"Then go to Lanfang. I heard that Lanfang's land is all wasteland. After five years of planting, it will be yours."

"There are a lot of barbarians in Lanfang. You have to learn how to use a musket before you can go. I'm afraid you will die if you go there but never come back."

The onlookers were discussing.

Luo Fangmei also showed worry.

The tenant farmers were expelled and had no food or clothing.

If not handled well.

If it gets messed up, it will be a big trouble.

She looked at Zhu Daohua, and found that her husband didn't seem to intend to stop this kind of thing.

When Zhu Daohua saw this scene, he thought of three words: sheep eat people.

Sheep cannibalism happened in England.

With the opening of new sea routes, the rapid expansion of international trade.

The wool textile industry was brought up in England.

The rapid development of the wool textile industry has gradually increased the demand for wool, and the price of wool on the market has begun to soar.

Therefore, sheep farming has become more and more profitable compared with agriculture.

At this time, some wealthy nobles began to invest in sheep farming.

Raising sheep requires a lot of land.The nobles drove away the farmers who rented their land, even demolished their houses, and occupied the land that could raise sheep.

For a time, grasslands divided by wooden fences, hedges, ditches and walls could be seen everywhere in the UK.

Farmers who were driven out of their homes became homeless wanderers.

This is the enclosure movement.

This is almost the same as today's situation that the pharmaceutical industry needs garlic, which pushes up the price of garlic, causing a large number of landowners to take back their fields to grow garlic.

"Chen Xiucai is here, Chen Xiucai is here."

"Let it all let go."

"Chen Xiucai, Chen Xiucai, your family's second room is driving Dian, you have to go and talk to your ninth uncle."

"That's right, Yimen Chen didn't do this kind of thing before."

Just when the big guy was yelling.

A young official wearing a green official uniform, a square cap, and a short-barreled firecracker on his waist hurried over.

The official system of the Ming Dynasty basically followed the previous dynasty and was divided into nine ranks.

The style of the official uniform is similar, with some improvements, and the hem is not so long to facilitate movement.

The official uniforms of officials of each rank differ mainly in color.

First to fourth rank, scarlet robe; fifth to seventh rank, green robe; eighth and ninth rank, green robe
Now Chen Xiucai of the Chen family in Yimen, Chen Zhongliang, is the youngest of the third house of the Chen family. He was selected as a scholar at the age of 17, and he is a well-known genius boy.

But embarrassingly so.

Chen Zhongda, who had been selected as a scholar early on, failed to get the first place in the trial, and now the nickname of the genius boy Chen Xiucai is becoming more and more ironic.

However, as Daming occupied Guangdong.

This Chen Xiucai soon got the official of the Ming Dynasty - a nine-rank cabinet colony department dispatcher.

The so-called dispatch officer is a miscellaneous official who has no fixed official position and is dispatched wherever manpower is needed.

Now this mung bean official with small quail embroidered on his patch has been assigned a hard job: to take the head and go to Lanfang for reclamation.

The specific is to recruit people here in Guangdong. After recruiting [-] people, board the ship and go to Nanyang, and hand over the people to the local officials of the reclamation department.

This is really not a good job.

First of all, it is difficult to recruit people.

If it weren't for being the dispatcher for half a year, it is said that there will be 10 extra points in the big exam next year.

The thirteenth young master of the second room of the Chen family in Yimen would not have done this kind of job that would have been done by officials in the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Xiucai has been wandering around his hometown for more than two months, but he hasn't recruited many.

But with the end of the autumn harvest.

His recruiting has become much smoother-this is also due to the resignation of the tenant.

Chen Xiucai is obviously very experienced in handling this matter.

He walked forward, looked at the Xu family woman, and paused slightly.

Honestly.

He is not afraid of Xu Sanjin.

Rather, he was quite afraid of his daughter Xu Hongxia.

They are all from Daling Village.

Chen Xiucai was beaten up once by Xu Hongxia when she was a child, which left an indelible shadow on the heart of the young Thirteenth Young Master.

This Xu Hongxia is a well-known old leftover woman in Daling Village.

It's nothing to look big and thick.

Greater strength is still a great advantage in farming families.

Just a bad temper.

No one can control the splashing.

The young and old in the Chen family sometimes walk around when they see her.

The surnames of Chen and Xu are at the end of the post.

Although the Xu surname is not as prosperous as the Chen surname, it is also the largest family in Daling Village, and the number of people is also much larger than that of the Chen family.

Although the house of Xu Sanjin's family has declined, it has been reduced to the point where it becomes a tenant for the Chen family.

But the young masters of the Chen family dare not bully the Xu family casually.

This is the characteristic of the clan.

Even if Xu Sanjin is poor and his family is not prosperous, this house will basically be extinct in his generation.

But he is a member of the Xu family, and you can look down on him on weekdays, but if you dare to kill his girl, the Xu family will definitely not agree.

Therefore, Chen Xiucai was beaten when he was a child, and at most he could only ask his own brothers to beat him back, but he couldn't do anything with the power of the Chen family—it's okay to bully people from other places, but it's okay to bully people from the same town. It's not practical anymore.

In fact, Chen Xiucai was too embarrassed to beat him back.

The other party is all female.

I haven't seen Xu Hongxia for a long time, this thirteenth aunt of the Xu family is getting stronger and stronger.

Suppress the vague sense of fear brought about by the shadow of childhood in my heart.

Chen Xiucai stepped forward.

"Xu Sanjin, what are you crying about? You don't even ask about it. Guangdong is full of tenant farmers. There is no way, now rice is losing money, and you can't even pay the land tax!"

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