Chapter 193, Cognitive Change
On the official road leading to Tianjin, the team of Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao is slowly advancing, because they have arrived in Tianjin, and it has been confirmed that there is indeed a penny and a pound of meat in Tianjin, so the three of them are not in a hurry now, but are riding slowly while digesting what they have seen and heard today.
What they saw here in Tianjin today is far beyond their understanding, whether it is the recruitment of the victims to build roads, the meat for the victims to eat, the fish and meat for a penny, or the spacious, flat cement road in front of them.
Before today, their world was still the same world, but now the original world seemed to be falling apart, and the terrible super earthquake completely shattered their original world.
Since ancient times, in the eyes of those in power, the disaster victims have been a burden, a trouble, and a group that is prone to accidents, because the victims need relief, which needs to consume the money and food of the imperial court, so it is a burden.
There are a lot of things to help the victims, and there are so many troublesome things of all kinds, so it's troublesome; Since ancient times, the victims of disasters who can't survive often learn from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, raise an uprising, or steal, rob, become a thief who cuts the path, and a thief who occupies the mountain as the king, etc., this is an extremely fragile and extremely easy to cause accidents, after all, when you can't survive, anything can be done.
Therefore, all dynasties have been extremely careful and cautious in dealing with the victims, and once the number of victims gathers too much, they will immediately try their best to disperse these victims to prevent people from starting up, and the smoke will immediately spread.
But now, on the Tianjin side, thousands of victims have gathered, but everything is in good order and there is no problem.
Here, the victims are not a burden, nor a trouble, let alone anything will happen, Liu Jin instead organized people to organize these victims to repair official roads, build houses, repair ports, and complete major projects.
Not only can it easily solve the problems of the victims, but it is also able to use these cheap labor to complete the big projects and projects that they want to complete.
Coupled with the promotion system given by Liu Jin, as long as you work hard, you can become a regular worker and become a manager, not only can you eat three meals a day, but also have a good salary every month.
In addition, many of the current stewards are victims who fled from the famine in the past, and these people are the best living typical cases, so that the victims know that Liu Jin is not a blank check, and naturally everyone will work hard and will not cause trouble.
The combination of many measures has led to a prosperous scene in Tianjin, which has continuously attracted disaster victims.
"Liu Jin's son deserves to be a son of a master, which is really admirable."
Riding a horse on a wide and flat cement road, this road is spacious, and the walking is divided into left and right, and all pedestrians, cars and horses walk on the right, so although the road is very busy, everything is very orderly.
Look at the trees planted in the middle of the road, when these trees grow up, they can provide pedestrians with rest and shade, everything has been thought out and arranged, which makes Li Dongyang have to express his admiration for Liu Jin.
"It's really remarkable, where he is, everything changes dramatically."
"In the era of famine, I lived by eating meat."
Zhou Jing also nodded, and couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke.
He doesn't say that he is rich and rich, but at least he must have read this book, but since ancient times, he has never heard of letting the victims eat meat to spend in the era of famine, he has never heard of it, and if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he would never believe it.
"Gong Xie, did you say that I was towards the Forbidden Sea..."
Zhou Jing didn't say all the words, there are some things, just click on them, smart people know what you mean, Li Dongyang and Zhang Mao are obviously smart people, they know what he wants to say.
It is nothing more than here in Tianjin, hearing that this fishing boat that goes to sea can catch more than 100,000 catties of marine fish in one day, such a huge harvest brought a huge shock to Zhou Jing, and directly subverted the cognition of the ocean in his heart.
In the past, Zhou Jing can be said to be very unfamiliar with the sea, and the imperial court has always implemented a policy of sea ban, and without the permission of the imperial court, a piece of sail cannot go to the sea.
Under such a strict sea ban, the development and utilization of the ocean is almost zero, and the ocean is almost dispensable for the Ming Dynasty, and even because of the occasional sporadic Japanese Kou (the Japanese Kou is actually a little bit since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the real flood is in the Jiajing period), it will also bring some trouble to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, for the ocean, the Ming court did not realize the importance of the ocean, and secondly, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, believed in the policy of agriculture, and was extremely disgusted with businessmen, and locked the people firmly on one acre and three points of land through various policies.
Under the system of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, not only is the sea banned, but even fishing is not allowed, and the only use of the sea may be to boil salt.
Now there is a famine in the three northern provinces, and the wheat grains that the people have worked hard to plant are not harvested, and they are hungry all over the ground, and they are easy to eat, but here in Tianjin, only one boat, hundreds of people, can get more than 100,000 catties of sea fish in one day.
This made Zhou Jing, Li Dongyang, Zhang Mao and others instantly change their perception of the ocean, and at this time, the ocean has become a granary in their eyes, an endless meat warehouse, which contains endless sea fish and endless meat.
"Maybe it's really wrong, if the sea ban can be lifted, this famine won't be a problem."
Li Dongyang thought for a while and nodded and said: "I have a sea frontier of 10,000 miles in the Ming Dynasty, and if the coastal places can go out to sea to fish, they can feed countless people, not to mention anything else, the famine in Shandong and Beizhili can be completely worry-free." ”
"Yes, although my Ming Dynasty is rich, it is the Middle Earth Divine State, and now Your Majesty is a rare saint of the ages, working hard, lightly and thinly, diligent and thrifty."
"But there are still countless people in my Ming Dynasty who can't eat enough, as for this meat, even if it is a landlord's house, it is impossible to eat it every day, but if the sea ban can be opened."
Zhou Jing nodded, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "There is no need to fully open the sea ban, even if it is just open to fishing, how many sea fish can we catch in the Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles of sea territory, there are countless living people, and more people can eat meat." ”