"And they said yes?" , Chen Jialuo leaned back in the chair and listened to Shi Shuangying's report, his fingers rhythmically tapping on the table, as if thinking about some important issue.

"Yes, but looking at those people looks like they're cutting their flesh!" , Shi Shuangying hesitated and reminded, "Chief helmsman, these people can't be trusted, we still have to watch out for them." ”

"Well, for the time being, we still need their financial resources and connections to set up the factory!" The most important thing at the moment is to complete the initial industrial upgrading, replace the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy with industrial production, and don't think too much about it for a while, "You have to arrange people to keep an eye on them, and if there is any abnormality, you can arrest people first and then hand them over to the relevant departments for interrogation!" If they can adapt to the development of the times and quickly complete the transformation from landlords to capitalists, if they still want to rely on the land to live a life of lying down and making money, then don't blame Honghua will turn his face and deny people. To paraphrase a cheesy phrase, the gears of history have begun to turn, and anyone who tries to go against the tide of the times will be crushed.

The capitalists have the original sin when they complete the accumulation of original funds, and the landlords are not completely innocent in the process of accumulating wealth. Some are rewards obtained as leading the way and doglegs after the Tartars enter the customs; Some relied on the proceeds of corruption to buy land after becoming officials, and in the process of purchasing, it was indispensable to collude with the government and force them to buy and sell; Some are through the trade of tea and other Fujian specialties to earn profits after the purchase of land, this at first glance seems to be the rule, but a little thought will understand that the transfer of funds from commercial operations to the land, on the one hand, lost the opportunity to promote commercial development, on the other hand, intensified the intensity of land annexation, is also not a good thing for the people, more importantly, this is a trend of regression, just like the future generations of high-tech companies will use their own profits to do real estate development in general, at first glance he may obtain more stable profits, But in this way, the opportunity to catch up with advanced companies is lost. Imagine that these Fujian businessmen did not use their funds for land purchases, but for factory construction and trade route expansion. What will the future of Fujian look like?

To put it mildly, the land made these people accustomed to lying down and earning money, whether it was an official or a businessman, their life was the same as that of those chartered men in the urban villages in later generations. The charter wife is average, although the personal life is rich. However, it has not contributed to the progress of society and the development of productive forces. At the same time, because of their family's interests, they will become natural conservatives, spontaneously resisting all changes that can change the existing situation, trying to maintain their rotten parasite life for thousands of years. In later generations, those charter guilds resisted all policies that affected their rent collection, such as the transformation of urban villages, the construction of low-rent housing, and so on. Now it is to oppose land reform and resist industrialization.

But now the times have changed, in the past, these landlords occupied the means of production, monopolized culture, and had violent power, no matter which family or surname the emperor came to power, he had to cooperate with them, and together with them to rule and exploit the peasants at the bottom of society, and select officials from them to govern the world. The Red Flower Society's violent institutions are powerful enough to crush them, and they have their own talent training institutions, and there is no need to select talents from among them to manage government affairs on their behalf. The agrarian revolution now underway has deprived them of their greatest reliance. As individuals, there may be innocent people among them, but as a class, they should definitely be eliminated from history! At present, the Red Flower Society has given them a way out, and it depends on how many people can complete the transformation of social class from this change in historical trends.

The next development is still difficult and bumpy, many landlords are used to a good life, can not stand the hardships of factory management, chaotic and busy for a while, the factory will be handed over to others to take care of themselves, go home and lie down to rest; Some of them did too much to bully people, and they either beat or scolded the factory workers, and they were soon sued by the government and arrested and imprisoned; Some do not understand the scientific way of management. I have to point fingers, which makes accidents frequent in the factory.

Fortunately, Lin Zhennan has the strong support of the Red Flower Society here, and he is a person with an active brain and is willing to listen to the experience of others with an open mind, and his mill was quickly completed and put into production. The Safflower Society duly provided them with a large amount of wheat, and the high-quality and cheap flour produced by the Lin family mill soon entered Fuzhou, defeating the primitive stone-ground flour.

Lin Zhennan was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately took out the money to buy several technologies and patents for the production of daily necessities again, and built several factories in a row, which were named Lin Family Workshop. The soap, matches and other materials produced by them soon entered Fuzhou and spread to Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi and other places, and the Lin family inadvertently became one of the richest people in Fujian.

With Lin Zhennan's role model, other landlords also began to re-examine the factories they had exchanged for their land, and for a time the whole of Fujian was full of roaring machines and black smoke, and the idyllic tranquility of the past thousand years was shattered.

Black smoke obscured the sky, the roar of the machine replaced the shepherd boy piccolo, the pungent black sewage flowed into the river, and the big fish and small fish floated to the surface with their white bellies. As for environmental protection, let's put it aside! After the unification of China and the expansion of colonies, it is natural that heavily polluting enterprises will be transferred to other countries, and as for now, it is still important to develop productive forces!

Of course, what the Safflower Society gave to those landlords and other non-governmental people was only some civilian goods, and the steel, munitions and other industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood were still in the hands of the Safflower Society itself. The development of a new rifle on the side of Gao Zhisi has entered the final stage, and in just over a year, the rear-loading rifled rifle will become the standard equipment of the Red Flower Society's army. Progress was also made in the development of artillery, and the Napoleonic cannon was initially finalized and began to be ready for production. More stable, higher-flying hot air balloons have become widespread, and a new branch of the military has been created to be responsible for the operation of hot air balloons. The designers of the navy eagerly absorbed all kinds of ship design knowledge from the West, and the design of the first-class capital ship belonging to the Red Flower Society became their biggest dream.

Changing with each passing day. Unlike Fujian, the Qing court in the imperial capital fell into a gloomy fog. (To be continued.) )

PS: Happy National Day, everyone, the last monthly pass and reward are all smashed!