Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 705 Great Voyage (24)
"The earth revolves around the sun?"

"Yes."

In Chang'e Academy, Song Yingxing has become a professor of geography and geography, specializing in astronomy and geography day after day.

His biggest achievement in recent years is the establishment of an astronomical model, which proves that it is a fact that the earth revolves around the sun.

The earth rotates around the sun. This hypothesis was proposed by Neo-Mohist scholars decades ago, but it has never been confirmed.

Not only that, Song Yingxing further deepened his research on mechanics and believed that the movement of all objects on the earth is affected by the geocentric center of the earth.

They have so many research achievements, thanks to the division of disciplines in Yan State.

In the Central Plains, except for a few special talents with personal interests, no one specializes in studying knowledge such as astronomy and geography. Because this kind of knowledge is not tested in the imperial examination system, it is not needed for officials, let alone daily life. superior.

Learning and researching science is an important way for free citizens of the Republic to be promoted to citizens. Therefore, even a free citizen who barely survives starvation will spend time learning some scientific knowledge in astronomy and geography.

There are already many free people who rely on studying astronomy and geography, taking imperial examinations, and being promoted to citizens.

Squeezing slaves and labor to the extreme while attaching great importance to technical and scientific talents were the characteristics of the Yan State in this period.

Exploit slaves to support technological talent.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. This saying obviously does not exist in the Republic.

Without squeezing slaves like you, where would the surplus value come from to open up wasteland and support talents?Without surplus value to open up wasteland and support talents, how can a country develop?

While the Central Plains was still trying to find ways to suppress land annexation and thus extend the life of the dynasty, the Republic did the opposite, encouraging land annexation, turning homesteaders into refugees, and forcing them to go overseas to open up wasteland.

Encourage land annexation → Homeowner farmers become refugees → In order to survive, they are forced to seek a chance of life overseas → There will be enough immigrants overseas to open up wasteland.

While the Central Plains Dynasty was still thinking of ways to turn the refugees into self-cultivating farmers, the Yan State went in the opposite direction and thought of ways to turn the self-cultivating farmers into homeless refugees.

During the Emperor and Chongqing period, land annexation was also suppressed for the sake of social stability.

However, during the reign of Emperor Shakti, the Wang nobles had gradually forgotten the painful lessons of the Great Uprising, and once again voted to pass the "Land Act", allowing land annexation to proceed freely.

Due to the huge demand for woolen cloth, much of the land that was annexed was used for sheep grazing.

This period is also known as the "Sheep Cannibalism/Enclosure Movement".

They would rather let the sheep graze than let the peasants cultivate the fields to feed themselves. This is the way of governing the country by the nobles of the Yan king's family.

"The rich can buy your land, so why don't you buy the rich's land in return? Isn't it because you are too lazy? Are you unwilling to work hard to make money?"

"The Republic is fair. No one takes advantage of others. All land sales are free and follow legal procedures."

"Those who complain about sheep eating people are all lazy people. The country does not allow them to annex their land. Others can annex their land, and they can also annex other people's land."

"Why can't he do it? Isn't it because he's too lazy?"

"The idea of ​​robbing the rich and giving to the poor is essentially a lazy idea of ​​getting something for nothing. He is unwilling to work hard to make money, but wants to rob other citizens' money."

As the Republic becomes more and more capitalized, relevant policies are increasingly pursuing economic benefits, regardless of the feelings of the people at the bottom, that is, they do not care about the grievances of the people.

Capitalization is a process. It does not mean that a capital system will be established suddenly one day, but it will gradually develop in this direction.

Hundreds of years ago, the Wang family could allocate fields to pioneers and provide them with protection so that their land would not be annexed by other pioneers.

However, now, it is impossible to divide the fields and land. If you go and grab the land of overseas indigenous people, whatever you grab will be yours. The country will not give you a share. Not only will it not be given to you, but there will also be rich people. Come and annex your land.

There is no protection. It would be a waste of money to protect you. There is no money to protect you.

You can compete with the overseas natives in a battle of wits and courage, and capture the overseas natives as serfs. If you win, you will be the landlord, if you lose, you will be ashes. It is very free.

This method of governing the country by the Wang family has led to hundreds of Yellow Turban uprisings in the Central Plains.But because the Republic has the Southern Continent and the New World as colonies to release population pressure, the impact of this method of governing the country has been greatly reduced.

The people of the Republic are not like the Yellow Turban Army who have no choice. They have a choice. What choice?That was sailing overseas to explore and become a plantation owner/landowner in the New World and Southern Continent.

"The hungry people who don't have enough to eat don't have to risk rebellion. They can board the immigration ships of the Republic, go overseas to make a fortune, and capture the indigenous people as serfs. In this way, we can transform from hungry people who don't have enough to eat to become Big landowners/plantation owners, from now on, we are also country squires!”

The Wang nobles understood that the people were not resisting injustice, but that the people resisting injustice were themselves.

Therefore, as long as they are given the freedom to enslave overseas natives, they will not be dissatisfied with the Wang nobles. On the contrary, they will be grateful to the Wang nobles, ally with the Wang nobles, and use the power of the Wang nobles to protect their own plantations to prevent themselves from being overthrown by the native serfs.

This is why the Wang family is assured that immigrants will be local owners overseas and allows them to freely recruit local warriors/domestic servants.

The Wang family is not worried that some landowners will separate and become independent, because doing such a thing is meaningless to overseas landowners/plantation owners.

When you open a plantation, you have to sell your products to guild merchants, and you also have to count on the army of the Republic to help you suppress the indigenous serfs who may rebel.

If you become independent, the raw materials you produce will be difficult to sell and can only be sold secretly through smuggling. Moreover, the Republic will not help you suppress the serfs. If you are cut into pieces by the serfs, no one will care about you.

Under this logic, unless a certain landowner is powerful enough to compete with the entire republic, he has no need to separate and stand on his own. For him, separatism is meaningless.

The Republic originally allowed you to recruit troops freely and openly, and allowed you to enslave serfs freely, so is there still a need for separatist rule?

After all, Yan State has some restrictions on overseas pioneers. For example, the number of rural warriors for each pioneer can not exceed fifty.

Private armies up to fifty were legal, and those over fifty were considered treason.

There will also be some restrictions on land developers. For example, merchants selling wine in China must have a business license and cannot sell it casually.

Moreover, brothel operations are also strictly supervised to prevent girls from being forced into prostitution.

The Xingfan Kingdom is even more free. You can sell the wine as you want without the approval of the government. Even if you add more toxic and harmful substances, you are free.

At the same time, brothels are also operated freely. As long as the brothels and prostitutes sign a "Prostitution Contract", the government will not interfere no matter how the brothels use prostitutes.

In the Kingdom of Stars, you can truly feel freedom.

Robbery, murder, arson, selling fine wine, and forcing girls into prostitution are all free activities, and the government doesn't care at all. It's even questionable whether there is a government in Xingfan Kingdom.

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The period of primitive accumulation of capitalism was a bloody and sinful period.

It is difficult for us to understand the meaning of this sentence just from books.

But the people of the Empire hundreds of years ago would not have liked capitalism at that time. On the contrary, they hated capitalism.

However, there are still many of us who want to follow the same path as the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets.

The Sun Never Sets Empire has the Southern Continent and the New World as pressure relief valves, and has a technological gap for overseas indigenous people. It can rely on this technological gap to freely enslave and exploit overseas indigenous people.

We don’t have colonies that can serve as pressure relief valves, and we don’t have a relative technological gap. If we follow the old path of an empire on which the sun never sets, we will only be dead ends!
Because, given our current national conditions, if we continue to follow the old path of the empire on which the sun never sets, we can only regard the vast rural areas outside the big cities in our country as colonies, and the generation gap between cities and rural areas as free exploitation.

Such a road?How can we not die!

To return to the path of the empire on which the sun never sets is just to seek a sword and seek death! ——"General History of the World·Song Dynasty·Li Qingzhao"

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The great era of capital has developed, bringing hope and dawn to the people of the Empire on which the sun never sets!
We Song people should also adapt to the current situation and develop our capital empire. ——"General History of the World·Song Dynasty·Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)