Chapter 41 Turning Agriculture into Work
"Lin Mu, it's always right to change the law, but you can't ignore the lives of the people, otherwise just a clear discussion can bury the careers of you, me and Duanwang."
Liu Jiangbai was ashamed of Lin Mu's words, but he knew the sinister of the court better than Lin Mu.
Lin Mu was silent, the so-called Qing Discussion is a kind of atmosphere of evaluating officials in the scholar class, and many times these comments can even influence public opinion in the DPRK and China, affecting the career of the scholar and the future of the prince.
Similar to the contemporary Qing Discussion, the Qing Discussion has a certain effect of agitating and promoting the Qing Dynasty in times of political corruption, but this also leads to the fact that scholars and doctors are selling their reputations and reputations, and the national righteousness is more important than the personal name.
Now Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang are worried about this, once there is a civil unrest under the rule of the two, they are afraid that they will be drowned in the saliva of the court officials, and the old guard will definitely take the opportunity to attack them.
"Neng Neng Shenfang is a big husband, Lin Mu, do you think that only you are jealous and hateful, and only you are unswerving in your determination to change the law? Let me ask you, if His Royal Highness King Duan and his official club were deposed at this time, who else can support your measures to change the law in the future? Liu Jiangbai took out his heart for Lin Mu this time.
"It's the lower officials who are reckless." Lin Mu suddenly wanted to urgently implement the law change measures, but he forgot the bad objective environment of the Hua Dynasty.
As Liu Jiangbai said, if the two of them were transferred out of Jiangning, there would be no one to support him behind him, and he misunderstood the two just now.
Thinking of this, he felt that he sometimes needed to review the way of thinking he had brought with him from the modern era, which was indeed beneficial in the implementation of various innovative measures, but it was a bit immature when it came to the court, after all, the Chinese Dynasty was a feudal court.
"Recklessness is a bit reckless, but Lin Shi said that he has just entered the official career, and it is normal not to understand the sinister officialdom, but Lin Shi's heartfelt words just now moved the heart of this king, if everyone in the Chinese Dynasty is like you shouting for the rise of the country, how can I have today?" King Duan's eyes were full of appreciation when he looked at Lin Mu.
Lin Mu was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that what he said angrily just now made Duanwang identify with him more, although the three of them had a quarrel this time, but I have to say that they really had a heart-to-heart today.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Mu said: "Your Highness, Liufu Yin, in fact, it is very simple to deal with this civil uprising, and there is no need to spend extra silver?" ”
"This official knows that you have a lot of ghost ideas, if you had said it earlier, you wouldn't have been in a hurry just now." Liu Jiangbai glared at Lin Mu.
Hehe laughed, Lin Mu asked: "Liufu Yin, may I ask if these troublemakers are yeoman farmers, semi-yeoman farmers, tenant farmers or hired farmers?" “
"Self-tenant farmers and hired farmers make up the vast majority, semi-homesteaders are very few, and homesteaders are basically none." Liu Jiangbai recalled the news sent by Liao Dang.
"That's it, the homesteaders have more than 10 acres of land or more, they don't need to rely on part-time weaving subsidies at all, and the harvest of the semi-homesteaders is not enough to eat, rent a part of the acres of land for farming, weaving is dispensable, and the tenant farmers rely on renting acres of land to cultivate, and at the same time have to pay more than half of the rent, life is difficult, the weaving of this point of livelihood is more important, and the hired farmers can't afford to rent the acres, completely rely on helping others, life is the most difficult, the silver earned by weaving is comparable to life, they are most concerned about this matter." Lin Mu analyzed them one by one.
"Well, you're analyzing the head-to-head Tao." Liu Jiangbai smiled.
Lin Mu continued: "Homesteaders and semi-farmers have a solid family and no incentive to gather crowds to make trouble, so the key to pacifying this civil unrest is tenant farmers and hired farmers, and both of them have one thing in common, that is, they do not have their own property, they can only survive through hard labor, if we can give them a great future, not only will they not oppose the change, but they will also become staunch supporters of the change." “
Hearing this, Liu Jiangbai and Duan Wangju both showed excited looks, and said in unison: "Come quickly, what is the great future?" ”
"Tenant farmers and hired farmers can basically only maintain food and clothing after a year's hard work, and even can't fill their stomachs, but the lower officials can keep them fed and clothed, and they still have money to drink a little wine, eat meat every three or five times, and even let their children read and write, such a great future they will definitely want, which is also what the lower officials want to do at present, turning agriculture into work." Lin Mulang said.
"Turning agriculture into work?" Liu Jiangbai and Duan Wang became more and more interested.
Lin Mu nodded, "Now the population of Shenzhou is 40,000, coupled with the serious annexation of private land, in fact, there are already more people and less land, in the long run, it will inevitably lead to the life of the people at the bottom becoming more and more difficult, provoking the people's uprising, if you want to solve this dead knot, you must vigorously develop industry and commerce, so that the landless people can enter industry and commerce, this is what the lower official said about chemical industry for agriculture, which is also the only way to solve this incident." “
Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang understood, and they basically understood Lin Mu's thoughts.
"So, you're going to recruit tenant farmers and hired peasants into your weaving mill?" Liu Jiangbai asked.
"That's right, not only the weaving workshop, the soap workshop, the carpenter shop, the military workshop, but there will be more workshops in the future, and the lower officials can guarantee that in the future, the workshops under the command of the Lin family will need millions of workers." Lin Mu's words were categorical, "However, the premise is that the lower officials' industries are not obstructed and can be implemented smoothly." ”
At this moment, there was silence in the study, Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang were shocked by Lin Mu's words, millions of workers, which they had never imagined.
King Duan was still a teenager, and he was excited by Lin Mu's words, "Lin Shi said, you can handle the matter of the people's change, if something happens, the king will give it to you, Liufu Yin, Lin Shi will talk about what you need, you just need to cooperate, as for that Liu Tongju, with this king, it depends on what storm he can make." ”
"Yes, Your Highness." Liu Jiangbai replied.
The matter of dealing with the civil rebellion was agreed, Lin Mu and Liu Jiangbai went out of Duanwang's Mansion together, and now Duanwang is responsible for the government affairs and military affairs of the entire Jiangning Mansion, and Duanwang is a workaholic, so he threw the matter to the two of them, and went to correct the official documents himself.
"Dalang, do you need any help?" Out of the Duanwang Mansion, the two wanted to weigh in their usual identities.
Lin Mu had already calculated just now, and he said: "Uncle Liu can inform me tomorrow when the people gather in the government, and then I will let them understand that they work hard to be tenant farmers and hired farmers, it is better to be a worker for me, and they will naturally have a choice at that time." ”
"This is simple, when the time comes, I will send patrols to protect you, someone is secretly provoking this matter, but I am afraid that someone will get involved in it." Liu Jiangbai's face suddenly became gloomy.
"Could it be that Liu Tongju in the mouth of His Royal Highness King Duan?"
"Well, this person is not a good person, you are from Jiangning, you must know his notoriety." Liu Jiangbai said.
Lin Mu quickly found the information of this Liu Tongju in his memory, and his eyes narrowed slightly.