Chapter 154: The Officials of the Old and the New (II)
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Because it is a two-level administrative structure of the county, the county is not a county under the three-level structure, and the status of the distant mountains is not low.
He witnessed Chen Jian's first few years in Nan'an, and also reached a tacit relationship with Chen Jian. He understands that everything in Nan'an now is supported by Chen Jian, and once Chen Jian falls, Nan'an's prosperity will become depressed within a year.
Most of Nan'an is already tied to Chen Jian, especially the standard oil workshops, canals, chemical workshops, and glass and steel ingot workshops that are political achievements.
These things, if someone else takes over, they will collapse, and he knows very well that not everyone can grasp the things inside.
At the beginning of this petition, he had already acquiesced and even decided to make a political speculation.
He has carefully analyzed the pros and cons.
The crime of rebellion could not be placed on his head, and under the chaebol republic, there were many reasons for rebellion, but there was no crime of rebellion in the northern Hou Boguo.
Secondly, rebellion is not easy to happen, the county guard has no military power, and the logistics of those who have military power are in the hands of the central government.
Again, when the counties were divided, they were prepared in advance, not to draw straight lines, but to split the counties into pieces. Whether it is a dangerous place, or rich fish and rice, etc., they are all disassembled, the county map is strange, or long or cut into, no county has the capital to do things alone, and the county guards are also very sober.
Now those who have ambition are showing their powers.
A certain county in the north used the redistribution of land after reunification to curb the powerful and powerful, produced yeoman farmers in batches, scooped up political capital, and incidentally created public opinion propaganda. This person is the county guard in the mouth of Sun Zhan, Chen Jian's "guide" in the drama, and he is everywhere based on Ji Xia's behavior back then. Sometimes on the side of the yeoman farmers, sometimes on the side of the big landowners, sometimes on the side of the small craftsmen, sometimes with the contractors and the big businessmen, the skillful means can be praised by the majority.
First, he took advantage of the opportunity of the redistribution of the land of the old aristocracy to create a large number of yeoman farmers with real estate and voting rights, and gained prestige, which was actually an established policy, but he implemented it relatively perfectly.
Subsequently, the council, which instigated a large number of wealthy merchants, speculators, and workshop owners, passed a resolution that was extremely unfavorable to the yeoman farmers, and with the help of the yeoman farmers' anger, the council was re-elected, replacing some entrenched local figures, but secretly supporting a new group of wealthy merchants and workshop owners.
Secretly instigating the cottage industry to revolt, causing panic among contractors and wealthy merchants, the backhand crushed the small craftsmen, but left the panic after-effects of the previous rebellion to the contractors and wealthy merchants, making them believe that only they could stabilize the situation and gain their support.
In this seemingly chaotic county, under his political maneuver, the council has basically been reduced to an ornament, forming a situation where no one else can trust him except trust him.
And this county guard is indeed talented, and the development of the county is also extremely good, so his prestige is extremely high. In addition, many dramatists, novelists, and the like often praised and constantly advocated the concept of the supremacy of royal power, which was very popular with yeoman farmers, and it can be said that it was in the limelight for a while.
However, the Yuan Mountain is in Min County, and it is only a county order, so it started much later than this person.
Moreover, Min County is a migrant city developed because of the development of the Gulf Peninsula, the power of the council is already strong, and Nan'an County is a place with a lot of minerals.
Originally, with his identity, the road to the future has been paved, but at the end is a county guard, and when he is old, he may be able to enter the capital, but he will never be able to enter the decision-making circle.
The appearance of Jian Chen made him see another opportunity, especially after seeing the wealth that had been rapidly accumulated in just a few years, which made him believe in this. Now the richest county in Min County is Nan'an, including Mincheng is now a depression, but Nan'an is still increasing its population and taxes, and the people have a very good voice.
It is true that political speculation is risky, but the greater the risk, the greater the benefit.
Now that the stage has appeared, the timid will never be qualified to realize their ambitions, while the bold can use every possible springboard to fulfill their long-cherished wishes.
After the banquet with Chen Jian, Yu Yuanshan thought clearly, since the "senior" in the north could play tricks and use yeoman farmers as a pillar, he couldn't compare with this. So why not go the other way and use the new supporters of industry and commerce as a breakthrough yourself? This is a path that others have not tried, but it is precisely because others have not tried that you have a great chance.
The supporters of industry and commerce are certainly not supporting those old guilds, those people will not be able to support themselves, anyway, they are already deeply rooted, and it is possible to turn the tables around only by replacing some support that is still a seedling but looks like it will thrive in the future.
In Nan'an, he saw such an opportunity, especially the so-called ideas of rule by inaction, laissez-faire, and appropriate government regulation, which was quite novel and at the same time really made a lot of painstaking research.
After seeing more, the more he watched, the more frightened he became, thinking about the things propagated by the Mexican Party, and then thinking about some of the guilds that were crowded across Mincheng, as well as some new things such as the Xue Gong and the newly built technical school and the Institute of Science and Practical Technology in Nan'an, which made him see another way.
For example, Chen Jian's glass workshop, as far as flat glass is concerned, there are only two kinds of people in this workshop. Workshop owners and hired laborers.
In the old guilds, there were four types of people. Guild leaders, glassmakers, apprentices, and ordinary workshop owners.
Chen Jian's glass workshop was extremely shameless, ignoring the rules of the previous guild and the glory of those craftsmen, and the old guild was scattered and scattered.
The glass workshop of the old guild cannot be shameless, because it is necessary to maintain the inheritance of master and apprentice with things such as filial piety, respect, and honor, and maintain the stability within the guild with kinship, master-apprentice status, etc., at least on the surface.
Yu Yuanshan finally understood that those guild rules seemed to be warm, but they were just to protect the interests of the guild leaders, and the more shameless and ruthless Chiguo who didn't take these glory and reputation as things was left to trade silver coins, and the Chen Jian-style workshop would squeeze all those old things through.
The world is all for profit, the world is for profit, no matter how simple the truth is, it is much stronger than the friendship between master and apprentice in any guild - the only thing to do is to gamble, bet on Chen Jian's workshop, whether other industries can be expanded, so that other industries do not need to inherit masters and apprentices and the like, and the gap between apprentices and those who have worked for five years is not very big. As long as this can be done, then it is self-evident who will win in the future.
He didn't know what the odds of betting on were right, but he knew that once he was right, he would be the person who knew the new workshop and the new era the most among all the officials - and what was the contradiction in the new era? What problems will arise in the new era that did not arise in the old era? What should I do if something goes wrong?
He was watching, and Nan'an and Minjun were also giving him demonstrations.
He was studying, and every day he had to spend time reading some of the Moxican Party's pamphlets, as well as the new pamphlets on rights, economics, and the like that the trustees brought from the capital every few months.
He is not afraid, because he understands that the more he sees and experiences more, the more skillful he will be in dealing with it in the future.
Looking through the history books, all the characters who have left their names in history, there is no one who is afraid of wolves and tigers, such people are destined to be mediocre, it is impossible to leave their names for eternity, and it is impossible to do something impossible to counterattack in a gradually stable situation.
In Nan'an, he was the first to see kerosene lamps, glass plates, explosives, wooden rails and railways, and chemical acids and alkalis, and learned about the wealth brought to Nan'an by taxes.
In Nan'an, he was the first to notice the almost pervasive activities of the Mo Party in Nan'an, where there were people at the bottom.
The bottom, which was basically abandoned by the regime. The reason is simple, it is too much to make ends meet, and the management cost is too great. He watched from the sidelines, watching the continuous activities of the Mexican Party in Nan'an, and understood in his heart the current situation in Nan'an...... Unless the National People's Assembly announces the ban on the Mexican Party, whoever is replaced by the Nan'an County Order must understand who to side with.
After the canal was built, he personally went to preside over the completion ceremony, because someone had already calculated an account for him before he went: once the canal was opened, all the coal used in Fujian City would go out of Nan'an, and the freight would be halved, and the rest of the coal mines would be difficult to survive. With an annual land dividend of 20%, the benefits of the riverside land can be sold, and within two years, it can be compared to a small county dominated by agriculture.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Standard Oil workshop, Chen Jian had promised that the stock could be traded and traded after three years, and if he was in Nan'an, the place of trading would be in Nan'an; If he has risen to Minjun, then the place where the stock is traded is in Mincheng. Moreover, this standard oil is only the beginning, if the rest of the industry and commerce can use this model to raise capital, with the convenience of the canal to transfer ore, Mincheng can regain its glory in a few years, and even suck away a large number of unemployed people in neighboring counties.
After the ginning machine appeared, he was also worried about a large number of people losing their jobs, but it was completely different from what he imagined, and he borrowed some means to alleviate these unemployed people...... In less than a year, cotton is profitable, and a large number of grain to cotton will need more labor, as long as the time is mastered, it can fully accommodate these unemployed.
ā¦ā¦ All kinds of problems did not appear in the old era, and if it were that he knew nothing, I am afraid that it would be difficult to deal with them.
He feels that he is very lucky, he is very close to the tide of the times, and he can observe all this more closely, learn from it and make continuous progress.
Those old roads, in terms of seniority, have been arranged, and they can't climb over by themselves.
So, in that case, why not bet your life's ambitions on this new path?
He doesn't care about the political demands of the party, but he knows that there are many solutions to these political demands. He didn't care what was going on at the bottom, but he knew that the inkers could make him understand what to do if he encountered something like this in the future.
Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, reading the booklet of the ink-colored molecules, you can know what they want to do.
Using each other, with the help of the actions of the ink molecules, can it be demonstrated that Nan'an is stable and Mincheng is incompetent.
is already different from those old people in Mincheng who shirk the blame, even if those people in Mincheng are still young, they are already old.
He believed that he and the "senior" in the north were trying to touch the new era - to keep the republican tradition unchanged and adopt a new method of governance to ease the contradictions? Or is it an enlightened absolutism that breaks with republican traditions and moves towards the perfect monarch?
These two roads are horizontal, and the older generation has no way to compare with them, just look at where the newer ones are betting on them.
With the bet on maintaining the republican tradition, he had to rely appropriately on the Mexican Party to replace the perfect monarch to ease future conflicts.
For this reason, he closely followed the movements in Mincheng, and also got the news he wanted to know from Chen Jian.
He only did two things, but these two things were impressive.
The first thing is to ask Chen Jian in the name of the county to borrow 10,000 silver coins to buy the grain that Chen Jian transported from upstream, and on December 24, he sent someone to transport the grain to Mincheng.
In a letter he wrote to Mincheng, he said that the price of grain in Mincheng could not be allowed to soar, although there was not much grain, but he also took the risk to intercept some businessmen to "force" purchase, all for stability, all for the overall situation.
In fact, he knew that the price of grain in Mincheng was about to fall, and there were still many grain ships upstream that were going down the Min River.
But the grain he sent to Mincheng was the first official grain at a low price.
After that, the price of grain plummeted, and it was also after he hyped up the grain that he had shipped, as for whether it was because his 10,000 silver coins of grain played a big role...... Many people in Mincheng feel that it is still related.
The second thing was that some mine owners in Nan'an, who had already prepared to betray the Coal Industry Alliance, took the initiative to rush to Mincheng on the day of the meeting on December 24.
It is still the overall situation that is important, and it is necessary to agree to the request of the hired workers to maintain the stability of Mincheng first, so that the workshops in Mincheng can run again.
In fact, he knew that the bottom line of these hired workers was not to sign a treaty with the mine owners, but to petition the council to fundamentally solve the problem that the union was not allowed by the guild.
However, the coal mine owners who put the overall situation first under his "persuasion" were the first batch of coal mine owners who took the initiative to go to Mincheng to settle the dispute, and they were also the first batch of mine owners who defected and felt that they could cooperate with the miners.
Just two things, no need to do more.
Reasonable and legal, within the bounds.
The attitude is clear, and the overall situation is important.