"Huh", a middle-aged coachman in a white shirt sat in front of the carriage, grabbed a thick reins in his hand, and parked the carriage firmly outside the Guanghua Gate.

"A few gentlemen, Chang'an City has arrived, entered Guanghua Gate, and then walked three or five miles to the north, which is the forbidden courtyard of the imperial palace."

The middle-aged coachman turned around and said with a smile, "Large three-wheeled carriages are forbidden to pass in Chang'an City, so I can only send three to Guanghuamen today, and a few gentlemen please bear more." ”

"It's not far from the city, so it doesn't hurt if we get out of the car and walk there."

The curtain of the car was opened, Tang Jingsong and two men in their twenties walked down from the car, and then took out a few banknotes from their bodies and said: "The fare for three people, one yuan and five jiao, master, you have collected it." ”

"Hey, thank you, gentlemen, this is looking for your change."

The wrinkles on the coachman's face were squeezed together, and while taking out two dimes-sized banknotes from the cloth bag wrapped around his waist, he smiled and said, "No more, no less, there are exactly two pieces of change, please put them away." ”

"You don't need to change money, the master's skills in driving the car are good, and he didn't let me and the other three of them suffer from bumps along the way, you can take these two dimes."

"Thank you, sir."

Seeing that the three people on the opposite side were all brightly dressed, not like people who lacked money, the middle-aged coachman happily put the two pieces of change back into the cloth bag, with a smile on his face all the time.

"I'm not afraid of the jokes of the three gentlemen, I have been in South America for seven or eight years, at the beginning of the work in the state farm, four years of construction, two years of compulsory labor expired, and more than 20 familiar guys came to Chang'an City, did a car to make a living, came to Chang'an City for four or five years, the original guys have found a way to make a living, all switched to other businesses, and still in Chang'an City within a radius of 100 miles back and forth to catch the car, only I am alone.

Alas, when I was young, I didn't learn the skills of my body, and when I was approaching middle age, I was still the same as I was more than ten years ago, driving the carriage back and forth. ”

"Driving a carriage is also a craft, I see that the master is skilled in driving the car, with this craft, it is not easy to be rich and expensive, but in the prosperous place of the capital, it is not difficult to mix a bite of food."

Tang Jingsong was idle, so he simply said a few more words to the other party.

"It's not difficult to earn money for food, but if you want to save money, it's much more difficult to ask someone to marry a daughter-in-law."

The coachman shook his head, a look of shame on his face

"After the Spring Festival, I am thirty years old, and all the money in the family adds up to only three or four hundred Han yuan, which is far from the expenses of marrying a daughter-in-law.

The business of catching a car is getting worse and worse, and today I was lucky, I met three gentlemen to take care of it, and opened a big order, but after the Spring Festival, people who came and went to the capital returned to the usual scale, and it was difficult to make money at that time. ”

Why is that? According to the following observation, the wheels of the carriage to and from Chang'an City have been replaced with rubber pneumatic tires, with this pneumatic tire, when rushing to catch the car, the carriage bumps are reduced, and the driving speed is faster, compared with the previous wooden wheel carriage, the pneumatic tire carriage should not be more popular? Why is the business of driving cars not doing well? ”

A young man beside Tang Jingsong asked.

"This little gentleman is right, since the change of rubber pneumatic tires, the car is indeed much more convenient and faster than before, but because the threshold of the car industry is low, and there is no need to be proficient in skills, so every year there are hundreds of new immigrants into the car industry, they have just arrived in the mainland, in the Far East Continent is used to living a hard life, can endure hardships, willing to work hard to solicit customers, so compared with them, the old coachman who has stayed in the country for seven or eight years, four or five years, because the family has a part of the savings, less than some desperate to make money, When it comes to soliciting, it's hard to compete with newcomers. ”…………

Ending the conversation with the coachman, Tang Jingsong led the two young people to book a table of wine in the inn in the city, and then the three of them sat together, discussing what they saw and heard along the way while eating.

"Jifu, Linshu, how do you feel along the way?"

Tang Jingsong sat at the top and asked with a smile.

"The country is peaceful and the people are rich, and compared with the hard life of the people in the Central Plains, the Han Kingdom in South America can be called a paradise on earth."

The expression of surprise and envy on Qiu Fengjia's face was undoubtedly revealed, and after praising the South American Han Kingdom, he also expressed his own opinions: "Just through chatting with the coachmen outside Chang'an City, I think that the South American Han Kingdom is rich and rich, but the people live a worry-free life, the price of grain and meat is cheap, and they can live a meal of meat and vegetables in three or five days without spending a lot of energy. ”

"In Jifu's opinion, how should we govern the most appropriately?"

"In the following opinion, the Han state of South America should follow the example of the Lucian Empire, and the government should take the initiative to nationalize all the land left by the Argentine whites after their departure, as well as the uncultivated fertile land, and then grant land of varying sizes according to the merits of officials and generals in the previous wars.

For ordinary overseas immigrants, the government can take the form of leasing to overseas immigrants to lease the ownerless land and uncultivated land to overseas immigrants at a low price, and at the same time collect a certain amount of land rent and grain taxes every year, so that new immigrants can obtain food through labor, and the central and local governments can also collect a large amount of land taxes from overseas immigrants, which is beneficial to both the country and the people. ”

"Jifu's thoughts are exactly the same as the reforms carried out by the Lucia Empire, and I think you have learned a lot about Lucia's reforms recently."

Thinking of the reform of the land system carried out by Tsarist Russia, Tang Jingsong speculated.

"Lucia is the largest country in the Europa continent, and I believe that there are many things to learn from the reform of the Lucian Empire, especially the reform of the land system, which is very consistent with the current situation of the Han Kingdom in South America."

"Has Jifu ever considered what these landless people would do if the new immigrants had no land of their own, and in a few decades or a hundred years, when the country was in turmoil?"

"As long as the number of immigrants is restricted, the Han country in South America is vast and sparsely populated, and the people are not worried about starvation, there will be no people who will risk killing their heads and rise up to rebel."

"Haha, Jifu, your idea was put on hold twenty years ago, and it was not the most effective way to concentrate resources on the development of the country, but now it is not very appropriate."

He Ziyuan, who sat on the side and rarely spoke, poured a glass of spirits and said excitedly: "Industry, industry is the only truth for the peace of the people and the prosperity of the country!" Any conservative, stubborn backward ruling class will be vulnerable to big industry!

Brother Jifu! Do you know what is the fatal flaw of the Lucian reforms that you endorse? ”

"Please also ask Brother Lin Shu for advice."

"Industry is the only way for a country to become rich and strong, and education is the foundation for the development of industry, and in order to raise government funds, the Lucian Empire held the land that should have been distributed to the people, and then took the form of leasing land to extract profits from the peasants at the bottom.

I do not deny that the reform of the Lucia Empire is the easiest and fastest way to accumulate primitive capital, but it is also the most stupid way, the people are not cattle, sheep and livestock, the Lucia government can now sacrifice the interests of the people at the bottom for the sake of industrial development, and in the future, the officials who rely on the interests of the people will intensify their efforts to force the people at the bottom to a desperate situation, and the huge power that erupts under despair will blow up the entire Lucia Empire to pieces!

I have never believed that scholars can have the ethics of saints, as long as they are given the opportunity, they will always change ways to extract benefits from the people, and in the reform system of the Lucian Empire, do the landless people have a way to protect their own interests? No, not a single one!

The only way to protect the people's own interests is for the peasants to have their own land, to have the right to dispose of the land on their own, and to speak out to the central government and fight back against local corrupt officials! ”

He Ziyuan's young face showed a rare fanaticism in this era: "It is completely impossible to expect those Eight Banners magnates in the Forbidden City to understand these truths, only in South America, a newly industrialized country, can it be possible to achieve the rejuvenation of the Han nation again!" ”

"Lin Shu, you are still the same as a few years ago, and your temperament has not changed."

He Ziyuan is a young talent that Tang Jingsong is very fond of, long before he went to Annan, he admired the other party's talent and knowledge, and therefore, Tang Jingsong specially entrusted people to invite He Ziyuan and another highly appreciated imperial examination junior, Qiu Fengjia, to the Han Kingdom in South America, intending to recommend the two of them to Emperor Li Mingyuan, but seeing He Ziyuan's fanaticism for the so-called big industry and national rejuvenation many years ago, Tang Jingsong couldn't help but have a doubt, whether it was right or wrong for him to invite He Ziyuan to South America?

Different from the radical and idealistic He Ziyuan, Tang Jingsong has a passion for serving the country at the same time, but also has a sleek and flexible character, under the influence of this character, after entering the South American Han officialdom halfway, Tang Jingsong's career is getting smoother and smoother, from a small bureau-level official in 1882, gradually rising to a vice-ministerial-level member, and the official occupies the important position of vice minister of foreign affairs, and because the foreign minister Hu Yaji is too old and will retire next year, Tang Jingsong is very likely to defeat many competitors in the competition for foreign minister. Gain the high position of the overall length.

Inviting young and promising young talents to serve the country is a way for Tang Jingsong to strengthen his position in Li Mingyuan's heart, but it is difficult for him to predict whether a group of idealized young people will suffer setbacks in the officialdom after taking power, which will affect his own career and future?

People will change with the change of time, He Ziyuan didn't realize that the previous idol who abandoned the official and ran away from Annan in anger would have a sophisticated and sleek side, and Tang Jingsong didn't expect that he seemed to be an ordinary recommendation,

changed the historical trajectory of a hot-blooded young man, and also allowed him to achieve more great achievements in another land.

He Ziyuan, born on January 23, 1865, was born in Shunyulu, Xingwozi, Shima Town, Xingning City, Guangdong Province. In 1881, at the age of 16, he participated in the Jiaying Prefecture Academy Examination, won the first place in the first class, and was admitted as a student, and then went to Xingning County to perform his duties. In 1883, he was promoted to inspector because of his "youth, fairness, and good morality", and supervised the county's education work full-time. In March 1884, He Ziyuan set out from Guangzhou, at his own expense, took a freighter to the United States to travel, inspect basic education and tea trade, at that time it was the climax of the anti-Chinese trend, 300,000 Chinese and their families were taken back to the mainland by the Han State, and the 40,000 or 50,000 Chinese who chose to stay were bullied by whites in the United States, and witnessed the inferior status of the Chinese overseas.

In August of the same year, He Ziyuan returned to China by boat, and the following year, he founded the first Western-style six-year "Yunandong Primary School" in his hometown, served as the principal, and personally taught students, offering courses such as Chinese language, arithmetic, history, geography, drawing, singing, gymnastics, and labor.

In February 1888, Tongren School was founded. In May 1888, Tongren School was reported for teaching rebellious ideas and was closed by the Qing court.

In June, He Ziyuan felt that the national strength was declining and the officials were corrupt, so he contacted the anti-Qing organization in Guangzhou, and in October, through the intelligence base set up by the Han State in the mainland, He Ziyuan and his friend Qiu Fengjia went to South America by boat to join Tang Jingsong, who served in the Han government.

After entering the Han Kingdom in South America, although the abundance of life of the local people was completely different from that of the Central Plains, what He Ziyuan was most concerned about was the impact of the industrialization of the Han Kingdom on life.

Pneumatic tires used in bicycles and horse-drawn carriages, Chinese-made films, cameras, soda ash that are famous in the Western world, and three state-built shipyards on the Atlantic coast that can build their own ironclad giant ships,

Witnessing the earth-shaking changes in society and people's lives due to industrialization, He Ziyuan regretted more and more why he still had illusions about the Qing court and wasted precious time on the nobles of the Eight Banners of the Qing court.

Seeing the great achievements of industrialization, we also saw the incidental effects of industrialization, such as the gradual replacement of low-skilled industries such as horse-drawn carriage coachmen, and the lack of competitiveness of coachmen and dock coolies because they could not read a single word, and could only be robbed of jobs by newly arrived immigrants.

Although various phenomena have led to some social problems, these problems are within the controllable range, and they have little impact on the overall situation of the country's industrialization development, and will not lead to drastic changes in society.

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