open sea

Chapter 1503
What Liu Ruguo did in Ireland and England is not a revolution.

It is a rebellion with Chinese characteristics and a reform of the old regime.

It is more thorough just because it happened overseas and there is no concern of clan blood.

Unlike the later revolutionaries, they used advanced production relations that were more tailored to local conditions to break the system of the old society in order to carry out industrialized production.

But it has the same essence, that is, the reason for class struggle is not whether the individual is good or bad.

On the land of England, what kind of production relations are advanced in this era?
It was the old aristocratic big landlords and the new aristocratic big merchants who merged land, lent usury, bought and sold people, and raised sheep in enclosures.

Only in this way can a country with a land of only 13 square kilometers but a population of more than 500 million be able to accumulate strength and increase exports in the shortest possible time, and compete with the European overlord for the vast new continent.

Liu Ruguo couldn't see this, he could only see it, because the old aristocrats merged with the new aristocrats' land, opened handicraft factories, and lent usury, so that there were a large number of farmers in England who lost their land and could not make a living.

At the beginning, those farmers joined the Royal Navy of England for a meager military salary, and later they died and fled after being defeated and captured one after another, and some of them joined his Suncheon Anmin Rebellion Army.

Liu Ruguo's pursuit is not advanced either. His slogan is not wealth or social progress, but that everyone has clothes to wear and everyone has food to eat.

And this is precisely the simplest and greatest justice of this era.

It’s not that the feudal landlords are bad, the feudal aristocracy or the new bourgeois aristocracy are bad. People, there are good people everywhere, and there are bad people everywhere.

However, the total number of means of production is limited, and the total number of means of production enjoyed by competition between countries is limited, and the distribution to individuals must also be limited.

Rich people have more, so they are naturally charitable; poor people have no way to be charitable.

And as a feudal landlord, he could not always be kind and charitable. In this era of frequent natural disasters, it was impossible to maintain the status of a landlord without land annexation or lending.

Because you don’t lend money to other people, and you don’t annex other people’s mergers. When you encounter a disaster year that you can’t bear, you can only sell the land to others, and the landlord will return to the owner farmer, and the owner farmer will return to the tenant farmer.

When people's grievances boil, they can only be redistributed.

Perhaps in this piece of land, the people's grievances are already boiling, but the farmers who lost their land because of sheep enclosures have no ability to make their own voices.

Perhaps England's original land annexation has not reached the level of public discontent.

But now, it doesn't matter anymore.

Because of the war, the war has caused more people to lose the space they need to live. Whether they want to or not, they must choose sides on the land that has been occupied and on the land that the two sides have repeatedly fought for.

There is no middle ground.

The Suncheon Anmin Rebel Army continued to march forward, and within half a month of occupying Manchester, General Zhao Can took Liverpool first, and then ordered Uesugi Jingsheng to move north to attack the Yorkshire Dales.

Liverpool is not a big place, but a small town with more than a hundred households. Even if the surrounding villages and towns gather together, there are only a thousand households.

But it has a good position in Zhao Can's eyes.

"This is very good. We can build a seaport and shipyard, go straight to Alan, and sell the lime, marble, copper, tin, lead, and silver from the mountains."

Standing beside Zhao Can was Meng Xin who had retreated from the front line, nodding his head half understanding.

"Zhu Xiaoen and Baihuo in Alan are both rich, and there is a mature shipyard over there. If we sell our stuff, we can buy a ship later. We have our own fleet, and when we have a ship, we can do business with Chang Sheng of the Dongyang Military Mansion. go."

Zhao Can didn't elaborate on anything, because he couldn't understand anything detailed.

In exchange Meng Xin stared wide-eyed: "Then general, what am I supposed to do here?"

Meng Xin has seventeen first-level meritorious service, can speak and speak Chinese, and is catching up with the advice of the prefect Tang Xianzu and the commander-in-chief Ying Ming to England to promote more Irish sergeants, directly promoted from Musketeer to Hundred Households.

Transferred to Liverpool, the name of this place is Eel Harbor Hundred Households, which belongs to Yamakita Thousand Households.

Because Liverpool's original name was the eel pond, which guards the Mersey River, and there are many eels in the Mersey River.

The people living in the vicinity are all under the management of Baiyu Port, and they belong to the official positions that the military and government have grasped.

"Our Shanbei Thousand Household Office will be promoted to guard in the future, and five of the ten Hundred Household Offices will be promoted to the Thousand Household Department. Eel Port has a large land and a large number of people, so it is the easiest to be promoted to the Thousand Household Department."

Zhao Can was still talking about the car wheel, he had never been a member of a hundred households, nor had he been a member of a thousand households, he was a general since he followed Liu Ruguo in Ireland, he was not very good at fighting, and he had no experience in governing the country.

It is difficult to give Meng Xin decent advice on what Baihu should do.

He thought for a while, and after careful consideration, he said a wise saying: "Anyway, the land can't be barren, and if it is barren, plant something."

In fact, this is not a suggestion from the general to Baihu, but more like a suggestion from a senior farmer and martial artist to his son.

This group of people, or the semi-independent warlord regime Suncheon Anminyi Army under the concept of Greater China, whether it is Liu Ruguo or Zhao Can, they all have the same life.

Life is tough, and half of his life faces the loess. No matter whether he reclaims the wilderness or rises from the pole, he can't forget his craftsmanship.

The biggest crime in their eyes is seeing the land desolate, and they all believe that there is food in their hands and they will not panic. This simple concept is very popular among the rebels.

Even in war, for them all units of measurement in war are food.

In this chaotic world in England, if there are no more people, you can recruit again. There is no shortage of recruits everywhere to make a living, but if the food is gone, the battle will be lost.

"Food is the most important thing. There are potatoes in Alan. After the port is built, and the fleet comes over, I ask someone to buy them and plant them when I come back."

Zhao Can looked at the direction where the Mersey River merged into the sea, and taught by example to his young apprentice from Alan: "For us, there are only three things in the world, food materials, medicinal materials, and building materials."

Meng Xin tried to think of something that did not belong to the three categories, but in the end, instead of thinking of it, he thought of the opposite lime.

It is not only a food material, but also a medicinal material, or a building material, the real trinity.

"There are only two kinds of living ones, the ones that can be eaten directly; the ones that need to be cleaned up before they can be eaten."

Meng Xin, who had just thought about it for a while, could no longer agree with this statement. It was precisely because the ingredients and medicinal materials covered such a wide range that he could not think of anything that did not belong to these three categories.

Then I fully agree with the general's words.

After all, he has seen the military doctor in the Suncheon Anmin Uprising Army who came out of the Eastern Banner Army, and there is nothing in the world that cannot be used as medicine.

If so, grind it out.

Looking at Meng Xin's longing eyes, Zhao Can really felt that he couldn't teach anything, so he simply said: "Later, the prefect Tang will send a tutor to the Baiyu Port Baihu Office to build a Chinese language school. You should learn more and ask Just sir."

"Don't be burdened in your heart. There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. What is the left eye jumping for money, and the right eye jumping for money?"

Meng Xin frowned, and said uncertainly, "Is there a disaster?"

Zhao Can smiled: "Fuck it, you have the final say, it's up to me to jump the right eye."
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Note: My fate is up to me——"Wu Zhen Pian" Zhang Boduan, the real person of Ziyang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)