According to Zheng Sen's concept, the organizational form of Taiwan's social grassroots should gradually change from the village of small peasants in the feudal economy to the plantation of capitalism. Although the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion seem to be farming, in Zheng Sen's opinion, they are indeed fundamentally different. The small peasant village is completely independent of the outside world, it can live its own life behind closed doors, and it has nothing to do with it. However, the plantation is very dependent on the external market, it is more efficient to obtain profits, and at the same time, any changes in the outside world will affect it, so the plantation is naturally more closely connected with the outside world, and the subjective willingness to intervene in external affairs is also higher. Therefore, on the whole, the organization of the plantation economy is significantly higher than that of the traditional agricultural society.

"It's just that those who have immigrated here now just want to repeat the way they live in Taiwan that was destroyed in their old home. Fortunately, they are now short of women, which is a big problem that the traditional village model cannot solve. We must be good at using this to guide those villages in Taiwan to the path of the plantation. Sitting in a carriage bound for a certain village, Zheng Sen thought.

"The eldest son." A voice came from outside the car window, it was the voice of an officer escorting beside him, "The front is almost to Gangxi Village." ”

"Oh, I see." Zheng Sen nodded, lowered his head and looked at the rather shoddy map in his hand, according to the map, bypassing the small hill in front of him, Gangxi Village should be reached.

This is the last village in Zheng Sen's inspection, and it is also the village that goes deepest into the interior of Taiwan and has the highest geographical location. Under the supervision of the officers, the soldiers also increased their vigilance, because this was already an area where headhunters often operated.

However, Shengfan did not come to attack, and the group arrived at Xigang Village smoothly.

"Ade, you taught them how to get rid of mosquitoes in this village last time, right?" After getting out of the carriage, Zheng Sen asked Liu De, who was wearing a military uniform and following beside him.

"Major General, this is it." Liu De replied, "It's not easy in this Xigang village, you have to farm the land, you have to prevent the birth of mosquitoes, and you have to kill mosquitoes on the other side - but they still do a good job." Since the end of May, there have been no new cases. You see, the young general, over there, it was originally a forest, only a few dozen steps away from the village, and now it has been cleared. ”

Zheng Sen nodded. Liu De pointed to the place where there was still smoke and said, "Major General, there is their paddy field over there, and they have been following the deployment of the Major General to repel mosquitoes." ”

At this time, Village Chief Zhang and the others also stood on the side of the road to greet them. Zheng Sen didn't actually inform them before he came. However, because he had already been to several villages before, Village Chief Zhang and the others were actually not unprepared.

Seeing Zheng Sen, Village Chief Zhang and a few people hurriedly came forward to kneel down and salute Zheng Sen: "Grass people Zhang Sandan knocks to see the young general!" ”

"Get up, all of you." Zheng Sen said, "Take me into the village first." ”

Village Chief Zhang stood up and took Zheng Sen and them into the village. It can be seen that the village is still well prepared, the roads are quite clean, and there is no excrement on the road. Zheng Sen nodded slightly. Then he said to the other person who was following him, "What do you think of this place?" ”

The man replied, "This village is relatively high, and the sunny side of the hill on the edge of the village is very good. ”

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A few days later, the village chief Zhang received a notice that his village had been given a quota of six women. Let Village Chief Zhang hurry up and bring people and money to bring those women back.

Six women is a little less for a village with more than 400 men, and more than two-thirds of them are unmarried young men, but it is a lot compared to other villages. Village Chief Zhang naturally has nothing to dislike. But what made him even happier was such a piece of news: the young general saw that there were too few women in the village, so he planned to continue to buy more women, but this sale needed money, and this money couldn't be paid by the major general, right? Therefore, if you want to buy a wife in the village, you need to prepare enough money yourself.

To be honest, in Taiwan, Village Chief Zhang really hasn't used much money, he just hands over the grain that should be handed over every year, and some iron tools will be sent down to plough cattle or something, anyway, they are all tenants of the Zheng family, so what money do you need? There is a lot of grain in the village, but there is really not much money. For this reason, Village Chief Zhang really had some drums in his heart.

When he arrived in Beigang, Village Chief Zhang was first arranged to live in a large house with a group of people. The conditions are very average, sleeping in a Chase bunk, but it is very clean. Village Chief Zhang has also lived a lot of hard times before, and sleeping on the Chase bunk will not make him embarrassed. And he found that the people who were arranged to live here were all village chiefs from various immigrant villages, and many of them were his old friends, and they lived in the Chase Shop just to catch up with the past.

When we talk together, the most talked about is of course about women. As soon as he learned about it, Village Chief Zhang found that there were really more women in their village. And all the village chiefs agreed that there were still not enough women.

"Hey, I heard that as long as we pay for it ourselves, the young owner can help us buy it." One person said.

"That's a good thing, but where do we get the money?" Village Chief Zhang hurriedly said.

"I heard that the young owner also collects grain, and he can exchange grain for money." One person replied.

"That's not bad, but everyone in your village has a lot of food?" Village Chief Zhang frowned and asked, compared to other villages, their grain production has always been not much.

"How much is a bucket of silver?" Some people also asked about the price.

"I don't know, but I don't think it's worth much." One person said.

"Old. Hu, tell me why? ”

"When we first arrived in Taiwan, our own grain had not yet been grown, and our owners provided us with food. At that time, where did the owner's food come from? Bought from Matsue? ”

"Old. Don't sell it, hurry up! "Someone is getting impatient.

"Well, I have a brother who works on the ship. He told me that the proprietor's grain was bought in Champa, that is, in Nanyang. Although the city is far away, the grain is very cheap, and it can be loaded on a ship and transported to Songjiang, and it can be sold at the price of Songjiang, which can earn three or four times the profit. If the price of our grain is high, then it is better to go directly to the Champa side and buy it. I estimate that the price paid by the proprietor can be slightly higher than the price of Champong, which is very conscientious, after all, transporting grain from us to Songjiang is still able to save some freight than transporting it from Champong. "Old. Hu said slowly.

Old. Hu's words made many people who planned to sell grain in exchange for women quite discouraged, if the price of grain is according to the price of Han land, even if it is lower, and after working hard for a few years, it is still possible to buy women, but if it is according to the price of Zhancheng, even if it is a little higher, how high can it be? I'm afraid it's hard to talk about buying a woman.

"This grain is worthless, so why buy women?"

"It's not impossible. The owner beckoned people to go into the mountains to cut wood, and the bid was not low. In addition, I heard that the proprietor is interested in growing sugarcane and opium poppy in Taiwan, both of which are more valuable than grain. ”

"I know what the sugar cane is, what is this poppy?" Village Chief Zhang hurriedly asked.

"I heard it's the same drug." Old. Nonsense.

"Old. Hu, how do you know so much? Someone asked.

"I arrived a day before you, and I've been wandering around here, and I've met my brother, who went on a trip to the South Seas the other day, and went there to buy women. That's what he said. I guess they'll talk to us about it tomorrow. ”

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And old. Hu expected the same, the next day someone brought these village chiefs to the port, first let them catch the lots, there is nothing special about it, anyway, the Nanyang women are too dark, not beautiful, and the age difference between these women is not big, they are all in the stage of being able to give birth.

Village Chief Zhang drew lots in fourth place and picked out six women. And then it's just watching other people draw lots, and it's basically all about this one morning. In the afternoon, the proprietor sent someone to tell them that he had something to inform them. The village chiefs gathered together on the school field in Beigang City to listen to a military master's speech.

"Folks, we know that everyone is full of food now, and the most important thing is to find a woman to inherit the lineage, right? So, today, I, Lao Hong, will tell you about this woman. ”

As soon as they heard that this was the case, everyone immediately fell silent.

"It's not that difficult to say that you want a woman, as long as you can come up with the money, and you're worried that there won't be a woman?" Hong Xu continued to shout, "It's just folks, it's not easy to grow silver in this kind of field. So today, I, Lao Hong, will introduce you to some ways to make money.

If you want to say that the fastest way to make money, there are two things now, one is to go into the mountains and cut wood. As long as you are willing to go, work hard, and work hard for a year, you can earn enough money to buy a Nanyang daughter-in-law, if you do a good job, work for two years, maybe a daughter-in-law who can speak Chinese can earn money.

The second way is to grow sugar cane and poppy. We now buy sugar cane and raw crows at high prices. Slice. As long as you are willing to plant, we can lend you seeds, and we can also send a master to teach you how to plant. When it's ripe, we all take it back at the predetermined high price. If you plant well, you can earn the money of a Nanyang daughter-in-law in two years, at most three years. That's pretty good, don't you? And the other thing that comes to this approach is that it's a long-term deal, and we need these things all the time.

The last way is to be a sailor and a soldier for our Zheng family. As long as you are in good health, become a sailor, a soldier, fight a war, and win the reward silver, it is enough for you to buy a Nanyang daughter-in-law. But it is estimated that at that time, you will no longer look down on those Nanyang daughters-in-law, because as long as you have been a soldier or a sailor for three years, we will guarantee that we can tell you a daughter-in-law of the Han family, a pure Han person! This is the fastest way, as long as one year, you can have a Nanyang concubine, as long as three years, you can have a Han daughter-in-law. As long as you have worked for five years, there are also tax-free benefits! During the period of being a soldier, all the rent of the family's farming is paid at half of the people in the family who are not soldiers, and after five years of service, even if they go back, they will always pay this proportion! When you go back, you can talk to the people in the village. If you want to know about logging in the mountains, you can go here and ask the Chen Guang brothers here, if you want to grow sugarcane and poppies, you can go over there and ask Wang Ren and Wang Yi brothers, if you want to be a sailor or a soldier, it's simple, you go back and let them go directly to Beigang to sign up. Do you know all about it? Okay, that's all Lao Tzu will talk about, if there is anything else you don't understand, you can ask Chen Guang and Wang Ren for yourself. ”