Chapter 107: The Value of the Wanderer
A lunch was basically Zhen Qian watching Lucia eating, which made Zhen Qian feel a sense of heartache, this is an international friend! The sky has eyes...... You also had a day of hunger and hunger, and finally Zhen Qian found satisfaction! No...... Is it guilt? My conscience is greatly good!
The stomach was cramping, but there was no one on his face, and he looked compassionate: "Eat slowly, don't choke!" ”
"Brother will love you well in the future!"
But to be honest, Lucia's royal blue lotus pleated skirt is really something to look at, the pink bandeau reveals half a round of snow white, and she is so thin that two lumps of nephrite are still proud, compared with the two little steamed buns of Xiao Nizi, why is the gap so big? With a delicate face and withered blonde hair, it won't take long for a living Barbie doll to be born in the Tang Dynasty under its own nourishment.
Of course, such a stunner can't be let go, I've seen a lot of Western beauties in later generations, but those are all in film and television dramas, you can only watch from a distance and can't be blasphemed, and the foreign girls you occasionally see on the street really can't get into the eyes of the law, and now I finally have a chance, don't develop a few Western beauties, I'm so sorry for myself. If you have the opportunity, let yourself see a few island countries again***** also display your internationalist spirit of fraternity, carry forward the fearlessness, have the courage to try new things, take care of the spicy hand, sacrifice me, and the sexual blessing is still yourself.
I am not a good person, I didn't have a chance before, I don't think about it in the future, and I can't see it in the future!
Good people will only be bullied by evil people, they don't want to be good people, at least they won't be a good person who is bullied by evil people, if you want not to be bullied by evil people, you must be more evil than evil people, so that all evil people see that they are afraid.
Zhen Qian had lunch and was ready to go shopping on the street, and when he came to see his shop, he could only rest assured that he could only understand it with his own eyes and ears, instead of calling a few shopkeepers to ask, so that he could listen to it and understand it, and he would not listen to it and believe it. Second, let's understand the dynamics of the county and feel the atmosphere of the entire county.
This habit was formed in the previous life, and it is still in this life.
There are indeed more displaced people in the county town than before, Wang You and Wang Peng blocked themselves in the middle from left and right, but they still couldn't avoid the harassment of the homeless begging.
Zhen Qian is now an emerging strong man in Luquan County, so he naturally has to have the consciousness of being strong, although he does not hug him from front to back, he also looks like a crab, taking a leisurely figure-eight step, and his nostrils are facing the sky and ignoring the surrounding homeless people.
Those who eat meat will become wolves, and naturally they will eat herbivores, and after eating crabs, they will also walk sideways, no! Now the momentum of the crab is not enough, after going back, eat a few more crabs, soft-shelled turtles, turtles can not let go, and make up for the spirit of Wang Ba.
"It's porridge...... The county government put porridge at the east gate, and it was gone when it was late! ”
In order to prevent the homeless people from making trouble, the county government took turns to release porridge at several city gates, purposefully driving the homeless people into the city.
Of course, the homeless people are not stupid, they can get a mouthful of food when they enter the county town, if it is cold in the wilderness, do they have to drink the wind and eat snow to satisfy their hunger?
The quality of a place is measured by the performance of an official, depending on whether the place is prosperous and whether the people are stable, as long as the IQ is a little higher than the bench, we all know that the appearance of the displaced people is not a good thing.
If there are displaced people, they can open warehouses and release grain, but the displaced people are not hungry people, they have lost their land, and it is okay to give relief for a day or a month, but it is impossible to let the displaced people eat and drink for nothing for a year, which is not the solution for the displaced people.
If you are not in your position, you don't want to be in charge, the sky is falling, and there are officials on top of you, take care of my!
There were many hungry and cold homeless people gathered at the door, ragged and clutched, clutching broken dishes in their hands, staring at the steaming soup kitchen with greedy eyes. One by one, the fierce and vicious officials waved sticks in their hands: "Line up, Tian Shenu will squeeze the sticks again!" ”
Many children ran back and forth in the snow barefoot, their black toes were festering but they didn't realize it, just to ask for an extra bowl of rice soup to satisfy their stomachs.
Surrounded by servants, a few brightly dressed rich men picked young and beautiful women like cattle, and the cries of scolding and begging for mercy were endless.
The cold wind blew, and Zhen Qian felt that the corners of his eyes were a little moist and cold, "Damn sand, aren't you a big villain?" How come you don't even have this kind of awareness! ”
You can't save them by yourself, especially in sensitive times, and you will only bring yourself to death.
"Wang You, go buy some women and children to come back, they won't be able to survive this winter......", at this time, if you don't take the opportunity to start and wait for when, Zhen Qian finally has the consciousness of a bully.
"Da Lang...... Zhen Dalang,...... Come with me to see Mingfu! ”
Hao Ren panted and squeezed over from the homeless people, grabbed Zhen Qian and dragged him to the city: "Why did you come here, this is a place where nobles can come, Mingfu asked me to look for you, don't let Mingfu wait!" ”
"Wait, what is the Ming Mansion looking for me?"
Zhen Qian didn't want to run around in the county office in a daze, in case he sold himself out of breath for thousands of years, wouldn't his brother's good time be wasted.
"Da Lang, your proposal to gather the displaced people to farm and graze their cattle, and let the merchants hire the displaced people has been approved by the Ming government, and I was about to ask if you have any other methods?"
Zhen Qian smiled bitterly, eager to slap himself a few times, isn't this nothing to look for? It is said that trouble comes from the mouth, and this is not a matter of coming to the door.
The official word opened his mouth, saying that if you are right, it is right, and if you are not right, Feng Wannian was sick and rushed to the doctor, this is a matter of the government, what is your own small ** involvement?
No matter how unwilling I was in my heart, I could only go to see Feng Wannian, Feng Wannian saw Zhen Qian and Hao Ren walking in, and he didn't have a polite sip ......of water, and asked with his head: "Virtuous nephew, now that the homeless people have poured into the county, the number has reached thousands, and the county government's relief to the homeless people is just a drop in the bucket. ”
Zhen Qian felt that Feng Wannian seemed to be talking about himself, just before he had bought more than 20 children and girls at a low price, and the price was not even the price of a sheep, so he still felt that he had lost a lot, he was too kind and loving......
Feng Wannian looked at himself with a desire to learn, which reminded Zhen Qian of the little teddy he raised at home before, I don't know if it's okay now?
Zhen Qian is caring, at least he can't see others suffer, especially letting beautiful women suffer and sending heavenly things violently! Even thinking about it all at once is a great sin!
"Uh...... This one...... Mingfu, the kid is just a small landlord, I'm afraid it is unreasonable to participate in national affairs? ”
Zhen Qian looked at Feng Wannian, careful that his liver fluttered and fluttered, it is not a good thing to be sharp and too smart, just like he never wanted to use smart people, Datang has already had one of his own.
"You are an official, not a small landlord, contributing to the court and sharing worries for Your Majesty, do you still push back? This official will now enlist you as the head of Luquan County, and be responsible for the affairs of the displaced people, and you can't shirk it, otherwise you will be dealt with as a person in the public who is ineffective! ”
This is Lalang matching!
I like it!
The more indifferent Zhen Qian is to fame and fortune, the more Feng Wannian wants to recruit himself, this is the fourth time, the first three times have been prevaricated by himself for various reasons, if it weren't for the fact that what he did was too shocking, he wouldn't have to go to Sendai Village.
Feng Wannian naturally has the power to recruit locals as officials, and now he uses the emperor to pressure himself, which shows that he is really in a hurry.
That's it!
Whoever allows himself to have a heart of compassion for heaven and earth will reluctantly show his hand to it, and let the feudal bureaucrats who have eaten the ancient food see what a commodity economy is.
In the last years of the dynasty, the serious annexation of land, coupled with other problems, led to a large number of people who were landless peasants, who had no place to stand and became homeless. In fact, this is an excellent development condition for industry and commerce. With the landless peasants, industry and commerce had a large number of hired workers.
Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of people in those mines at every turn, because those miners were landless and propertyless. In the late Ming Dynasty, the surging population of various towns was also because the fields in the countryside were greatly annexed, and many landless peasants could only flock to the city to find work and food.
Most of the systems implemented by the Tang Dynasty are the continuation of the Sui Dynasty, the Juntian system, the government military system, and the rent and yong modulation, all of which are based on the simplest ideas. Try your best to let the people of the Tang Dynasty die of old age on the land.
There is very little room left for business and commerce.
In these years, those engaged in industry and commerce are actually those wealthy families.
On the one hand, they occupy an academic advantage and engage in monopoly. On the one hand, they have an advantage in the personnel of the imperial court, and they have a monopoly on academics, and this officialdom is also their world.
On the other hand, they were large landowners, and at the same time had enough capital to run industry and commerce, which in turn supported their political position.
Ordinary people just do a small business, if you want to be bigger, not to mention that you will be fattened as a pig without a background, and most importantly, where do you come from?
Those wealthy families had hidden families who took refuge under their doors, and there were a large number of slaves, whether they were running salt ponds or digging copper and iron mines.
Although Zhen Qian is also an emerging wealthy family, after all, the background is still too shallow.
When I was in Sendai Village, I started some industry, all by relying on the surrounding villagers, on the Zhen family's more favorable conditions than others, and on the Zhen family's good reputation of benevolence. And at that time, the industry did not employ many people. Later, it became a little bigger, and Zhen Qian used slaves again.
But now the Zhen family's influence in Luquan County is getting bigger and bigger.
In addition to plowing soil and farming, in addition to engaging in some aquaculture and operating some shops, they also began to engage in processing and manufacturing, and even mining and iron smelting projects, and the demand for manpower was great.
This is the contradiction between the wealthy family and the imperial court.
The wealthy family has privileges, and they must expand, occupy land, lend money, do business, etc., not only annex land, but also compete with the imperial court for population.
The imperial court also needs a population.
Why did the ancient court like to suppress commerce?
First, most of the merchants were controlled by the privileged class, and the imperial court could not collect taxes, and secondly, the economic chambers of commerce competed with the imperial court for the agricultural population. If the peasants who were originally dependent on the land turn to industry and commerce in large numbers, this will undoubtedly reduce grain production and reduce the rent of land by the state.
After all, the farming technology of this era was backward, and the land needed to be cultivated by many people. If there is a shortage of manpower, food production will definitely decrease, and on the other hand, if the people are all dependent on the land, then the social structure is the most stable.
Where do you get the workers?
In the past, the wealthy families relied on the accumulated strength of the family and the maidservant to give birth to children from generation to generation.
Their greatest opportunity to expand their strength is often a disaster year. In the year of famine, when the land is not harvested, the people have to borrow grain and money from them, and they take the opportunity to lend, and then when the people cannot pay off their debts, they will collect the land. He even took advantage of the disaster year to buy children and daughters, and bought the people who could not support the victims.
Even in the end, there were some disaster years when I couldn't live anymore, and after losing the fields, the whole family simply attached themselves to these powerful people.
It is precisely because of this that the local power is getting stronger and stronger, and the land and population are increasing.
But this path is not applicable in the coming troubled times, and the displaced people are an extremely unstable group, moving from one place to another, like beggars in later generations, when they put down their dignity and reach out and start begging, they have become an unstable bomb.