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Across the country, the front pages of all official and privately owned newspapers were carrying the enthronement ceremony, military parades, and other related or subsequent events, such as the use of the royal family, etc., which also covered up the contradictions that had already arisen in the middle of February.

The last decree issued by Chen Hui before his abdication -- the stepped agricultural tax -- has already shown its effect after more than a month of fermentation.

In the case of Wang Zhizheng's family, he has a previous family background, and Wang Zhizheng's income from many years in the army, although most of the latter's military salary has also been exchanged for acres, and now he has shares in military and civilian companies in Jiangsu, Hubei, and Shandong provinces, but those shares can make money, and the shares of military and civilian companies are also hard currency in the market. And most of the dividends he receives every year are for the Wang family to buy land, even if the price of acres in the Jiangnan market is twice as high as the land price of military and civilian companies.

The world is peaceful, and the land price in Jiangnan has risen amazingly.

Therefore, the Wang family, which now has 200 acres of mature land in Dantu, has reached the apex of the small landlord class in an environment like Jiangnan.

Compared with the days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Wang family under the rule of Chen Han did not live too comfortably. But it hasn't been a few years since such an An's birthday, and Chen Hui's sudden 'field restriction order' made Wang Zhizheng and his father Wang Zongquan have a headache, but there is nothing to be done, his little arms can't resist his thick thighs, and he can only slip away and become a 'farmer' by himself.

The application report was typed, and less than ten days later, Wang Zhizheng received a notification letter from the post office. On this day, Wang Zongquan went to the county seat to get the operation license of the farm, turned a corner on the way home, and went to his in-laws' house to see his grandson with a gift. As soon as the donkey cart stopped in front of the Tian family, Wang Zongquan had not yet gotten out of the car, when he heard a cry and angry scolding coming out of the Tian family's compound.

"Master Tian, Master Tian, please, please...... our family of seven people, there is only one me on the farm, and that salary can feed the family to eat and drink. You count my dad as well, you know, my dad is a veteran, he's only forty-five, and he still has the strength, at least he can work for another ten years. "If Tian Wanglai really let his father go in and work for ten years, the Zhao family's life will be peaceful. Ten years later, his sons have grown up. A man in his twenties knelt at Tian Wanglai's feet and cried a handful of snot and tears, "Master Tian, the salary of one silver dollar and three buckets of grain a month is really not enough for our family to chew, you are trying to force us to death......"

"Master Tian, please, please......"

A middle-aged man in his early forties in front of the man was Tian Wanglai, with a look of annoyance, he pointed his finger at the man kneeling on the ground, "Zhao Si'er, let me tell you, I just want a half-sized boy on the farm, and I won't want your father's lame man." You will die of this heart. ”

"You don't think the wages are enough, Lao Tzu's silver is blown down by the wind? Hurry up and get out, you owe Lao Tzu Yin Zi money Lao Tzu hasn't asked for it yet, let's go! If you bother me again, I will deduct your salary from your money. ”

Tian Wanglai was really annoyed by Zhao Si, and he saw Wang Zongquan, saw his father-in-law arrive, and Zhao Si'er was crying in his yard, he felt ashamed. I wanted to leave a room before, after all, they were all from the same village, but now they are about to turn their faces, and the threat of Hongguoguo is up. Seeing Zhao Si's frightened look, he didn't dare to cry anymore, Tian Wanglai's angry stomach was instantly like drinking a bowl of herbal tea, and it was refreshing. "By the way, don't you think you don't have enough money? I will be kind, and then show you a way to live, Guanzhuang Bridge is running a factory, silk reeling and weaving, let your mother and your aunt hurry up to sign up. ”

"I made more than you did that year."

After unceremoniously rejecting Zhao Si's initial request, Tian Wanglai still wanted Zhao Si's wife and wife to enter the factory to make money for him. In the past two years, the sales of textiles such as cloth and silk have been getting better and better.

Whether it is exported by foreigners, or sold by domestic sales, or whether Chinese people buy it and sell it to the outside world, it is how much they sell. Although the prices of all kinds of textiles are falling, especially cloth, with all kinds of new machinery, the production cost and time of cotton cloth have been greatly reduced, that is, the quality is slightly less than the old method. But for many people, the lack of product quality is completely tolerable compared to the cheapness of the price.

At present, China is importing Indian cotton in large quantities, and on the other hand, it is squeezing the British out of the Chinese market with textiles that are much cheaper than their European counterparts. Although the sales of British cotton cloth in China are very low! However, China's woolen imports from Britain have been in a surge.

Although few Chinese merchant ships crossed the Andaman Islands, they frequently traveled to and from the South Seas, Siam, Annam and Japan, greatly consolidating their influence in the South Seas and greatly opening up the market!

Although Jiangnan is a place with a thriving literary style, it is also the most economically prosperous area, and the local business atmosphere is also very strong. There are very few pure landlords, although land is the foundation of many rich and noble families in the south of the Yangtze River, but that is like the role of agriculture in a country, without agriculture is unstable, but can not rely on agriculture for all their livelihoods. The transfer and development of business is the choice made by many Jiangnan gentry for thousands of years!

Such a choice did not only appear in the Qing Dynasty, but also in the forward count, since the time of the Two Song Dynasty, as well as the time of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Suzhou and Hangzhou have become the world's feet, and Huguang has become the world's feet, and cash crops have replaced grain as the theme of agricultural production in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, a large number of textile factories and silk reeling factories are now blooming all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the profitable landlord class in the south of the Yangtze River is flocking to the top. The Tian family is also one of them.

Because of this, labor has become a significant factor.

The textile industry is not a slaughterhouse, and the small-scale peasant economy of male farmers and women weavers does not know how much solid influence there is in the country, and there is no need for textile mills to use all male weavers, or they want to use all male workers and there are not so many people for them.

At the beginning, although the officials and craftsmen of the Jiangnan Three Weaving Mansion were all male workers on the surface, but in fact? It is better to say that a small bag foreman, each person in the post for the official bureau before most of their own looms, they receive raw materials and ICBC from the bureau, hire workers into the bureau to use the official machine weaving, to ensure the smooth completion of the official weaving task, but also to run their own weaving industry. The weaver women at the head of the house are absolutely half the sky.

In this era when the silk loom has not been innovated, China's silk weaving industry has always been using a very traditional production method, one machine with three people, one person winding, one person weaving, one person through twisting. The loom is completely made of wood, and the hand pushes the foot, and the jacquard does not use the faucet, and one person carries it by hand, which is very cumbersome. The silk weaving industry also offered a large amount of rewards, and the eyes of the big silk weaving industry were red when they watched the production capacity of the cotton textile industry soar under the stimulation of new machines. However, because of the particularity of the silk weaving industry, now, not to mention the mature power silk loom, even the improvement of the silk reeling machine has no clue.

The power silk loom in history did not appear until the second half of the 19th century, and I don't know when it will appear in the time and space that has changed throughout history.

After Zhao Si heard Tian Wanglai's words, his face was blue and white, flat-headed people's families, in this era, letting women go out and show their faces is the biggest negation of a man. Although there are already quite a few female workers in society.

And the main thing is that there are mixed men and women in the textile factory, there are often gossips and colored meat jokes flowing out, and the textile factory in Guanzhuang Bridge is not the first one in Dantu County, Zhao Si has heard it before, and he doesn't want his wife and daughter-in-law to jump into it from the bottom of his heart......

Wang Zongquan listened to such words beside him, why didn't he understand what Tian Wanglai was going to do. This guy is going to do things according to the farm manual. Ask for money, don't be famous!

When the imperial court was propagating the word "farm", it also issued a farm management manual, which used specific data and examples to demonstrate the huge gap between the farm economy and the tenant economy. Using the form of 'hired labor' to develop farms, the so-called 'hired laborers' are no different from long-term workers in Wang Zongquan's view, and the income of the farm is indeed much greater than that of tenants in the unit of 100 acres of land.

I can't say that it is directly doubled, and it is almost the same. The difference is only that the former has a lot of care.

Wang Zongquan also got the farm management manual, but he threw it into the bottom of the box in a blink of an eye. He does not earn money without conscience, nor does he lack this bit of silver.

In terms of Wang Zongquan's family's 200 acres of land, generally speaking, it is about 20 to 30 households, and this number refers to all the tenants of his family, not the kind where a family rents 10 acres of land, the east family has 5 acres, and the west family has 5 acres. In this era, there were still a certain number of yeoman farmers in the rural areas of Jiangnan, or some ordinary people still held some land in their hands, and they had three or four acres of land at home. Of course, these three or four acres of land are not enough for their family, but they do not need to rent the landlord's land completely.

The imperial court stipulates that the land rent cannot exceed 30%, then it is considered 30%, and the remaining 70% of the income, as long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, it can make a family of more than five people eat and drink. In the past two years, not only the lives of military dependents like the Wang family have been better, but the lives of ordinary people have also eased.

But now is it really to be hired according to the method in the manual? Did 200 acres of land take 20 long laborers? Now the seedlings are thrown for farming, which is much less troublesome than transplanting. At most, when the rice is harvested, hire a few more short-term workers.

But how can the wages of twenty long-term workers in a year take care of the livelihood of twenty families?

The imperial court's method is to force the big family to be scattered.

In Jiangnan, in the whole world, the maintenance power of the clan depends not only on blood, but also on economic benefits that can be seen and touched. If a wealthy family or patriarch in the clan rents acres of land to people of the same clan, the rent is half as low as that of tenants with foreign surnames, which is the source of the most basic cohesion of a clan. This is also the reason why many landlords and wealthy households have a strong voice in the clan, and even the reason why many landlords have 'basic power'.

But now?

If the land of large households is not divided into small households of less than 100 acres, then in order to avoid huge losses, they can only register farms. And after reading that manual, I thought with my toes that this kind of 'economy' was more beneficial to the landlord. Even if 'reason' temporarily suppressed the greed of the rich landlords in the clan, they continued to distribute their land to people with foreign surnames of the same clan or neighbors in the same village to cultivate, just wearing the skin of a 'farm', just as Wang Zongquan intended to do.

One year, two years, three years and four years, they can continue this ancient tradition in a short period of time and maintain the cohesion of the clan. But if the time goes by, or the news of the farm making a lot of money keeps coming......

Taking Wang Zongquan as an example, if Wang Zongquan heard the news that Tian Wang came to make a lot of money on the farm, if he did not have Wang Zhizheng behind him, would Wang Zongquan himself be able to resist this temptation? So the question is, how long can the rulers of each clan endure it?

When they can't bear it, it's time for a clan to be finished. Even if they first absorb the benefits of people with foreign surnames and then eat the flesh of their own people, it will only delay the time of division between them. The conflict of interests between the two sides has already determined the ultimate fate of the 'Ancient Clan'......

Perhaps the 'clans' of the new era will be resurrected from the corpses of the past, but the clans of that time are completely different from the clans of the past. That might be more of a big family!

Tian Wang was very happy to see Wang Zongquan's visit. Hurriedly let Wang Zongquan to the hall.

"My family, I don't want to do things badly. But isn't my family's situation different from yours? Tian Wanglai knew that Wang Zongquan was a new bottle of old wine, and he only planned to make a show. Wang Zongquan's reputation will not be damaged in the slightest, and he will be greatly praised, and he is a typical example of being poked in the back by the villagers.

If Tian Wanglai had another way to go, he wouldn't want to do so.

"I also have three sons and two daughters. You have read the "Inheritance Law" of the imperial court, and the boss can only keep half of the family property in the end. When I die, if our family's belongings are separated like this, the Tian family will just be a rich family in the countryside. "Of course, there are many loopholes in the inheritance law that can be exploited, but that is not something that Tian Wanglai can see.

Tian Wanglai is extremely envious of Wang Zongquan's in-laws, he has a competitive son, not only is he a military doctor, but he also has a great background in marrying a daughter-in-law, and he earns more than the Wang family's income every year, and he also gave Wang Zongquan a word early, and the family's property is all left to his brothers.

Wang Zongquan's family has a lot of property, but he only has two sons, and his own family has little property, but he has four sons. "In-laws, I have four sons." Is it their own interests or reputation that matters? There must be many people in China who choose the latter, but there is always a 'Tian Wanglai' who chooses the former.

In this way, the annual income of the family's field can be doubled, at least by half. This is a lot of money for the Tian family.

Chen Ming, of course, knew that there would be people who would choose 'Tian Wanglai', so that a group of laborers could be squeezed out, and these proletariats would either enter the factories or be recruited by the reclamation company.

It's spring, and the big forces of Lanzhou and Beijing will start fighting in a few days. Immigrants are needed throughout the Northwest and throughout the Northeast. China still has vast land to develop and utilize, and the latter is the pressure relief valve of the whole system.

Wang Zongquan had a meal at Tian's house, hugged his grandson and talked to his daughter, and returned home.

Wang was very surprised to see her husband come back depressed, his son Wang Zhizheng's identity as a military doctor is not ordinary, and the entire Dantu County knows that his daughter-in-law has a background, and the county magistrate is also polite to his man, where is the husband angry?

"Let's be in-laws, Tian Wang, which farm are we going to build. When I came back today, I went to Tian's house to blame him, and his tenant was kneeling in the courtyard crying. ”

"What? Is the Tian family really going to engage in that 'farm'? He's not afraid of being poked in the back? ”

"Or else? The Tian family has less than 150 acres of land and has four sons. ”

Wang's mouth pursed, and he said disdainfully: "No matter how many sons there are, it is also a bad conscience." (To be continued.) )