Chapter 827 Where is the Road (Part II)

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"Isn't there a way to fix it?" Shen Jing looked at Shen Mo worriedly.

"If people don't wean themselves from the land." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "There is no other way than to change the dynasty." ”

"So, the land is still the original sin?" Shen Jing is worthy of being a person with wives from eight countries, and he even understands the words in the Bible.

"The land is not the original sin, human greed is, but since it is the original sin, not only can it not be abstained from, but it will continue to expand. Land is a very inefficient means of production, and the wealth it can generate is also limited. If everyone is fed on the soil, and the powerful want to satisfy the ever-expanding aspirations, they have to take the food of the weak, and eventually make the latter unable to survive, and when they can't bear it anymore, they will rebel, and then the dynasty will be replaced, redistributed, and the next cycle will begin. Shen Mo looked at Shen Jing and said, "So, can you understand?" ”

"I'm a little dizzy, but it's okay." Shen Jing said: "Then how can we quit this dependence? ”

"In fact, the southeast coast has already done well." Shen Mo smiled and said: "Haven't you heard that there are a few in our hometown, and they make a lot of money doing business outside, so they buy all the land, right?" ”

"I'll buy some of them, but most of them will be used to expand my business." Shen Jing suddenly said: "You mean to encourage industry and commerce?" ”

"Since ancient times, 'Shinong Industry and Commerce', industry and commerce have been ranked in the last two, but these last two are the representatives of progress." Shen Mo said: "People have always regarded agriculture as the foundation and industry and commerce as the last industry, but this concept is wrong. Industry and commerce bring more wealth than inefficient agriculture, and they are not limited by land. Moreover, the prosperity of industry and commerce can allow high-ranking officials and nobles to shift their focus away from the land, and can also absorb labor, giving the common people a chance to make a living without relying on the land. All in all, encouraging industry and commerce is a good way to counteract the harm of land annexation. ”

"Why can't so many dynasties think of it before?" Shen Jing has his own judgment, if Shen Jing's method of silence is very strange, he has nothing to say. But it's very ordinary, and he doesn't believe that people before him could not think of it.

"On the one hand, agriculture can tie people to the land, while industry and commerce will increase the flow of people; Moreover, the peasants were far more tolerant of tyranny and excesses than the workers and merchants. ”

"Why?" Shen Jing asked.

"For farmers, as long as they have something to eat, they can endure it. And for businessmen, as long as there is no profit, it cannot continue. Shen Mo said lightly. The reason why he wanted to take the time to give Shen Jing a basic economic lesson today was not because he was guilty of confiding, but because he wanted this guy who didn't like to read to understand the burden on his shoulders and know which direction to work towards. How to reproduce the population and keep the people fed and clothed became the first task of the new dynasty. At this time, agriculture is undoubtedly the best choice, and industry and commerce, which should be built on the basis of developed agriculture, will compete for grain and land, and will also make people become impure, of course, not liked by the rulers. ”

"Then you encourage industry and commerce, and you are not afraid of being disgusted by the emperor and ministers?" Shen Jing asked worriedly.

"This is what I mean by the time of day," said with a silent smile: "First, in the two hundred years of Chengping, my Ming Dynasty's industry and commerce have been very developed, and secondly, it coincides with the 'Age of Discovery', a steady stream of silver has been mined, and then transported to our country to buy goods, Xing Industry and Commerce can make huge profits, and earn foreigners' money, which is not damaged in the country, this is already the consensus of the government and the opposition." You see that those officials who were born in the big clans of the southeast, most of them have businesses in their families, how can they oppose the development of business? He said with a faint smile and said, "Besides, I don't need to bring it up." People are profit-seeking, and now the return on investment in industry and commerce is more than ten times that of land, and everyone in the southeast has flocked to it. Even those big landlords have 'changed rice to mulberry', just to get a piece of the pie. Besides, I have almost no business taxes in the Ming Dynasty, and the top ten passes in the world are all on the river, which is better than nothing. At this time, what the imperial court has to think about is what if the southeast doesn't grow grain? How can we make the treasury fill up with it...... and so on. ”

"What does this have to do with Luzon?" Shen Jing asked.

"I've just said so much," Shen Mo looked at him and said, "What do you mean by adding three Zhejiang territories to Daming?" "Although there are many earthquakes and tsunamis, the sunshine is strong and long-lasting, the rain is abundant, and the land is fertile.

"If I can make Luzon my use, I can grow certain crops as planned." Shen Jing is actually a genius in some aspects, Shen Yín thought for a moment: "Then it can play a good role in regulating and supplementing the country." "If mulberry trees are planted on a large scale in Luzon, the domestic silk will be worthless, and the trend of changing rice to mulberry will be slowed down, thus ensuring food production. If grain was grown on a large scale in Luzon and purchased by the imperial court in large quantities, food shortages in the country could be avoided, and the people would not at least starve to death.

There are also more profound effects, such as the long-term abundance of food supply and low food prices, which will lead to a decrease in the attractiveness of land, and more and more people will abandon land in favor of more profitable industries and businesses to make a living; Of course, it will also bankrupt a large number of xiǎo landlords and so on...... There are many complex chain reactions, and even silence cannot be predicted.

But Shen Mo firmly believes that the development and colonization of Luzon is a good thing to delay a series of sharp social contradictions, and as for the adverse reactions, there will definitely be them, and if they appear, they will be solved.

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"Actually, it is not difficult to understand this, if Luzon can be used by me, the benefits are obvious. But why did I try everything I could to sell it, but the big ones just didn't want to eat this piece of féiròu? Unconsciously, Shen Mo and Shen Jing walked out of the huā field and came to the village, shì Wei fetched water to wash the feet of the two, and while taking off his shoes full of mud, he said to Shen Jing: "There is no other reason, Luzon is far away from the ocean, which makes them feel unreal. ”

"Indeed, if Luzon is next to Daming, you see that they will not go crazy." Shen Jing agreed.

"So your work is of great significance, and if you do it well, it will definitely shine in the annals of history, and someone will make a statue of you." Shen Mo smiled: "Let it become in line with the order of my Ming Dynasty, create the best conditions for the first batch of pioneers, and let them get rewarded as soon as possible...... When the boatload of grain and the mountain-like raw silk are transported back, I believe that there will be people who will be moved. ”

Shen Jing was also moved by him, and when a man is alive, he should build an immortal career and shine in the annals of history, which is more attractive to him than NV people. I started gearing up and imagining what I was going to do in the future. It really made him think of a big problem: "Whether it is growing grain or mulberry, it requires a lot of labor...... Since you say that there is a large vacant land there, it must be underpopulated. It is difficult to cook without rice, and it is difficult for a good man to solve the problem of no one to farm! ”

"Not bad." Shen Mo nodded and said: "Labor is a big problem, but I have already found a way to get you fifty or sixty thousand labor......" He said very vaguely, and the reason why he didn't dare to go into detail was because among them, there were black slaves bought through the Franco, agricultural workers recruited in the southeast, and dangerous elements from the provinces who gave him nòng. The complexity of the composition of personnel is like the water in Liangshan back then. Shen Mo didn't dare to elaborate, let's fool Shen Daguan first.

In fact, behind this is a difficult conceptual problem. That was the attitude of the imperial court towards the people, that is, it would rather starve them to death in their own province than allow them to run to other provinces, let alone overseas. And with the complete end of the earthquake that lasted for several years, the Central Plains finally regained peace, and those displaced people who fled to the south gave up their work in the factory and began to return to their hometowns one after another...... It is useless to raise wages in the factory.

There is a shortage of people in all walks of life in Jiangnan, and they can earn a living at home, and it is even more impossible for people to leave their hometowns.

The Chinese who have gone to Nanyang now are basically ordinary people from the coastal mountainous areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and the land is barren and scarce, and they cannot survive at home, so they can only cross the ocean to Luzon and Borneo to make a living.

The homeland is difficult to leave, this is the Chinese's heaven xìng, until they can't live, it's really difficult to get them out of the house.

For this point, Shen Mo is not too sure, he can only let Shen Jing do the demonstration first, people die for money, birds die for food, as long as they see the opportunity to get rich, there will always be people who will be moved.

And there's one more thing, I just can't say...... Vaguely, he probably had the impression that in about twenty or thirty years later, the Xiǎo Ice Age, which lasted for one Jiazi, would cause long-term meteorological disasters to the entire northern temperate region, and a large area of farmland would be seriously reduced or even extinct.

Asia and Europe, which are located in the same northern temperate zone, are also facing severe and prolonged food shortages, which have caused farmers in both the East and the West to flee their long-dependent lands under the pressure of exorbitant taxes. However, in the West, because of the great success of the Great Voyage, farmers came to the New World by boat, kicking off the prelude to the vigorous global colonization.

In China, these bankrupt peasants who could not survive in their hometowns and had nowhere to make a living became 'exiles', and then in the process of wandering, characters such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were produced, and finally sounded the death knell of the Ming Dynasty.

The same predicament, the abrupt ending, all other reasons are false, after the peasants go bankrupt, whether there is a way out is the most important thing.

So Shen Mo must do this well no matter what, turn Luzon into a demonstration field, a guiding light, and then try to push the people down this road.

If all this is done in vain, then he will make Luzon his own retired peach huā source, and never let his descendants become slaves of the Tunguska savages...... Of course, this is not enough for outsiders.

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talked with Shen Jing all night, and did everything he could think of in detail. The next day, he was asked to go back to Shanghai and wait for the official order of the imperial court...... Although Shen Mo had not officially raised this matter in the imperial court, after Xu Jie left, there was no one who could really stop his will...... If he insisted on doing it.

And the development of Luzon is his obsession. If he had the chance, he would even go and inspect it himself. But now he doesn't have the time, he must go back to Beijing immediately, where there is a huge power vacuum, waiting for him to fill it, and no one can replace him.

As for what happened to the stall in Shanghai after Shen Jing left? Shen Mo also told the truth that Shanghai would be upgraded to a government and taken over by his students...... Shen Mo is ready to use Shanghai and a series of coastal open ports as a big classroom for training core officials. Let them go there to open their eyes, change their minds, make it possible for them to understand themselves.

The most difficult thing in the world is not to put other people's money into your own pocket, but to put your own ideas into other people's heads.

The next day, Shen Jing was sent away in the morning, and Shen Mo quietly left Hu Zongxian's hometown in the afternoon.

Although I am in a hurry to go back, I can't go back like last time, I can't go on a starry night, and I won't change my horse, otherwise I will have to be laughed to death by the world.

Silence can only travel hundreds of miles a day, and sleep overnight. When passing through Shaoxing, he deliberately went home to stay overnight, and was very happy to see his son come back, and he thought that Shen Mo was going to come to a 'three times without entering'.

The only regret was that Shen Mo was on the road again the next morning. Although Shen He was reluctant, he also knew that his son was now valuable, and if he stayed at home for one more day, he was afraid that he would attract officials from all over Zhejiang, so he could only reluctantly send him out.

After boarding the boat from Shaoxing and going to the Grand Canal, he no longer suffered from the saddle horse, and he could travel day and night.

On the first night after embarking on the ship, silent and idle, and not wanting to go to bed early, Suo Xìng came to the deck and looked at the moon in the sky.

The night was as cold as water, deeper and heavier, and when he felt a little cold, he was ready to get up and go back to the cabin. But I heard a beautiful and slightly poignant transverse flute sound on the river not far away.

'Flat Sand and Falling Goose ......' silently thought of the name of the song, and couldn't help but close his eyes and listen.

The guards on the ship, who were originally on full alert and full of mobile sentinels, were now attracted by the sound of the flute that sounded like that day, and they forgot to move for a while, and the ship was extremely quiet.

When the song was over, Shen Mo whispered, "Please come up to me." Then he went to the living room of the ship, and asked people to set up a table of wine and food, and waited for the arrival of the man.

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There is one more, don't be sleepy today! And on the last day, who still has a monthly pass!!