It was already dark, and Gu Lao Er finished his day's work and walked home from the textile factory. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Fanjiazhuang was completely different from the original small city, and now Fanjiazhuang has a population of nearly 300,000, which is a proper big city. After several expansions, the textile factory has moved to the new city in the south of the city, more than two miles away from Gu Laoer's villa. From the factory where he went to work to his home, Gu Lao Er had to walk for twenty minutes.

When passing by the vegetable market, Gu Lao Er bought a basket of twenty eggs and carried them in his hand.

"And follow the prince to break into the world, and slowly see the prosperity of the world..."

Gu Lao Er hummed the recently circulated Goolan song and slowly walked home. He now comes from a wealthy family, with five children. In his career, although he is not an executive in a textile factory, he is also a manager. His children have no worries about food and clothing around his knees, and he feels that he has been very successful in this life, and he is in a happy mood every day after waking up.

Even when he was busy in the factory, he was still smiling.

Walking to the door of the alley, Gu Lao Er saw his eldest son Gu Weisheng and two neighbors squatting there and discussing. The three of them held the "Tianjin Daily" in their hands, and they all had some excited looks on their faces.

Gu Lao Er walked up and asked, "Wang Yun, Cheng Chongdao, what's the strange thing in the newspaper today?" ”

Although Wang Yun and Cheng Chongdao also came to Fanjiazhuang early, they were never able to enter Li Zhi's factory to do things. Both of them worked for merchants in the city to earn some monthly money. Although the monthly income of the two was about the same as Gu Lao Er at the beginning, after ten years, the gap gradually widened.

After Gu Lao Er became a supervisor in the factory, his income suddenly increased a lot, and his monthly income far exceeded that of Wang and Cheng. And after Gu Lao Er was divided into the fields in Liaodong, his grange income even exceeded the monthly money, and the annual income was often one hundred taels, which made Wang and Cheng unable to match it.

With high income, high status. In the small alley of Gu Laoer's house, the neighbors all look up to Gu Laoer.

When the two saw Gu Lao Er coming, they stood up and said, "Brother Gu, the prince has ordered to mobilize the people of one town and eight provinces to go to Luzon and develop the Luzon Islands. ”

Gu Lao Er nodded, he had long expected this to happen. The prince sent Zhen Nanbo to conquer Luzon, naturally to encourage the people to enrich those islands. Otherwise, only the Malay natives live on the island, where is my Ming land?

Gu Lao Er nodded, shook his head again, and said: "The people of Fanjiazhuang are the richest people, how can there be any reason to go to Nanyang to open up wasteland?" I think what the prince should mobilize is the poor people in Jianghuai Province who are struggling to make ends meet. ”

Wang and Cheng looked at each other for a while, and finally Wang Yun said: "Brother Gu, what you said makes sense, and the two of us have been hesitating here. ”

"However, the prince said in the newspaper that not only do the civilians of Jianghuai Province need to act as peasants in Luzon, but also literate people like Fanjiazhuang need to be grassroots organizers."

"The newspaper said that if Bai Ding from Jianghuai Province went to Luzon, each person would be given 20 acres of paddy fields. But if the literate people of Tianjin and Shandong go to Luzon and pass the simple examination of the prince, they can become the chief or the first chief, and each person will be divided into fifty acres of flat and good land. ”

Cheng Chongdao praised and said, "Obediently, fifty acres, that is a good land that is easy to develop into paddy fields." How much is the rent for that year? I am now working in a restaurant, and I only earn more than 50 taels of silver a year. Fifty acres of paddy fields, according to the lowest calculation, one and a half stones per mu, leased to tenant farmers fifty percent of the land rent, that year down the land rent income is also more than eighty taels of silver. ”

"If you plant 20 acres of it yourself, your income will exceed 100 taels."

Hearing Cheng Chongdao's words, Gu Lao Er was also a little speechless. is Gu Laoer, the factory director, whose monthly income is only more than ninety taels a year. I went to Luzon to be the chief of the li, and I suddenly got more than 80 taels of silver in land rent, which is much more cost-effective than doing miscellaneous work in Fanjiazhuang.

Gu Lao Er thought for a while and asked, "However, everyone who went to Luzon was allocated land, where to find tenant farmers to plant these fifty acres of paddy fields?" ”

Wang Yun said: "Brother Gu, that's what the newspaper says. After the incorporation of Luzon into our town and eight provinces, all the land ownership of the Malays in Luzon was stripped away. The Malays no longer own productive land other than their own residential land. So in the future, these Malays can only be tenant farmers for us Han Chinese. ”

Hearing Wang Yun's words, Gu Lao Er was stunned. He didn't expect the prince to be so fierce that he would completely deprive the Malays of all their land at one time.

But it is also said that if the Malays are not deprived of the wasted land, how can the advanced Han Chinese develop the Luzon Islands?

"Those who divide 20 acres of paddy fields can grow 20 acres of their own, and they don't need to hire Malays as tenant farmers. Naturally, the Malays will be hired by those who are the chief of the first rank. Li Changjia grows 20 acres by himself, and rents 30 acres out, and the income is very high in a year. ”

Gu Lao Er thought for a while and said: "The Malays are very backward in technology, and they are still at the level of slash-and-burn farming, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. It is naturally a good place for us Han Chinese to go to Luzon to develop arable land. It's just that the Malays have always hated the Han people who developed Xintian in Luzon, and if the Han immigrants and the local natives fight for each other, I am afraid that there will be bloodshed. ”

Cheng Chongdao said: "Brother Gu, the newspaper also said that there may be this risk. However, the prince also made corresponding arrangements, and each person who went to Luzon to open up the wasteland gave a steel knife. The lieutenant chief and the first lieutenant can buy a standard rifle with fifty rounds of ammunition from the prince at cost price. ”

"In the future, the chief of Luzon was not only the village chief, but also an officer of the militia, and he wanted to organize the villagers to suppress the Malay counterattack. The Malay culture is very backward, and the newspaper says that the Malays can never own productive land, and can only work as tenant farmers and helpers for the Han Chinese. ”

"Later, there were three castes in Luzon, and the Han people were the higher castes. Malays are a lower caste. If a Han Chinese and a Malay woman had a mixed-race child, the mixed-race child would be of the middle caste. The Malay population on Luzon is very small, and we Han Chinese will account for the majority of the local population after immigration. Later, the task of the lieutenant and the first chief was to organize the superior Han to suppress the smaller Malays. ”

Gu Lao Er nodded when he heard the words of the two.

Wang Yun asked Gu Lao'er: "Brother Gu, you said that this Luzon, can you go?" ”

Gu Lao Er was not a person with ideas, he touched his beard, he hesitated: "This... I can't tell..."

Wang Yun and Cheng Chongdao were still thinking about asking Gu Laoer, who had the most status in the alley, to give an idea, but they didn't expect that Gu Lao'er couldn't make up his mind. The two looked at each other, disappointed.

Gu Weisheng, the son of Gu Lao'er, said loudly: "Uncle Wang, Uncle Cheng, do you still need to hesitate?" You only have an income of fifty taels a year now, and your income will double when you go there, do you still need to think about this? ”

Wang Yun said: "Gu family man, but none of us have practiced martial arts, what if we can't suppress the Malays?" ”

Gu Weisheng laughed, as if he heard a funny joke, and said: "If you can't fight, you can escape, and then go to Manila to find the soldiers and horses of Zhennanbo to suppress the Malays." The Malays are so backward, can they still beat the soldiers of the Tiger Army? ”

"I don't think the Malays are a strong nation, and in my opinion, they all tremble when they see the rifles of the lieutenant and the armor."

Wang Yun and Cheng Chongdao listened to Gu Weisheng's words, and their eyes lit up.

Gu Lao Er has no idea, but this Gu Weisheng is an assertive character.

"Gu Jialang is reasonable, he is worthy of being a person who graduated from middle school and wants to go out to be an official."

"I think we should be brave enough to break through!"