Chapter 055: Ming Dynasty Version of the New Countryside

As the summer heat draws hotter, the displaced people and tenant farmers organized by the Royal Agricultural Company are still working hard to reclaim the wasteland and repair the water conservancy, only to see that the wasteland is already full of sweet potatoes.

These reclaimed lands have been gradually distributed, and one by one the imperial villages have been divided. Each Huangzhuang has 100 households, and each household has 30 acres of land.

The settlements of each Huangzhuang have been planned and appear to be uniform, and the architectural distribution of each Huangzhuang is like a mold carved out. Wooden houses were built one after another, although they were relatively simple and inexpensive. But it's sturdy, and it's good for shelter from the elements.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and with the concerted efforts of many laborers, these wooden houses were built very quickly. Families of displaced people and tenant farmers lived in these houses.

It's just that this year's fields are all sweet potatoes, and these sweet potatoes are still publicly owned for the time being. It is not until these sweet potatoes are harvested that the land is officially cultivated for them.

In the Imperial Village, there is no clan power. The implementation of the armor protection system, the first chief, the chief of the first and the chief of the security one after another, began to organize the young people living in the Huangzhuang to continue to repair water conservancy, and other public facilities.

The displaced people and tenant farmers who have settled down are full of hope for the future. At this time, the emperor gave them rations, and they did not have to worry about starving at all.

The ploughing cattle have been put in place one after another, and the seeds and farming tools will be sent down. Stability and abundance are where hope lies. The emperor gave them resources and a guarantee of stability, and as long as they were willing to work, they could be abundant.

In addition to preventing crime, the chief and the chief must also ensure the hygiene of the Huangzhuang, and every household in the Huangzhuang must clean the house regularly. At the same time, each Huangzhuang is equipped with a public bathhouse for men and women, and the residents of the Huangzhuang are required to wash their hair and bathe regularly to ensure hygiene and prevent the occurrence of diseases and plagues. At the same time, every ten imperial villages will be equipped with a clinic, and minor illnesses will be charged as usual, and the consultation fees and medicine fees for major illnesses will be paid by the royal family.

For every ten Huangzhuang, an agricultural station is set up to guide farmers in agriculture and breeding production. The mode of production is different from that of ordinary landlords, and the tenant farmers have a higher degree of freedom in production, but the production of Huangzhuang is to obey the command and unify the work to carry out agricultural production. If they are sick and unable to work, they will be helped by the farmers who are also in Baojia to ensure the output of the land and help the injured and sick farmers to tide over the difficulties.

During the slack period, the labor force was organized to maintain the water conservancy facilities and obtain the construction of other public facilities.

This is a Ming Dynasty version of the 'new countryside' project, the purpose of which is to stabilize the land and make full use of the labor force.

The peasants in the North China Plain, the enthusiasm for production does make people feel not very optimistic, especially in the case of a growing population, many laborers are busy with farm work on the land, and many times they have nothing to do, and they gather in groups to chat and fart, and the day passes like that, nothing is done, and the labor force is wasted a lot.

It's like India in later generations, why is it so poor? It is because labor resources are not fully utilized, and many people are idle and have nothing to do, so they are poor. China's economic development is better, that is, the labor force of a large number of people is organized for production, which creates economic value.

The Huangzhuang system ensures the income of peasant households and provides adequate social security. At the same time, the labor force will be organized, and production will be unified when the farm is busy, and construction will be unified when the farm is slack, and only weddings, funerals, and holidays will be idle.

Huangzhuang has made regulations on the specifications of wedding and funeral events, and all Huangzhuang farmers' wedding and funeral events cannot exceed a certain cost and scale, so as to avoid comparing with each other and wasting money on this, so as to improve the farmers' ability to resist disasters.

In addition, there are many regulations, such as the prohibition of gambling, alcoholism, and domestic violence. Criminal activities such as theft and brawls themselves fall within the scope of prevention of the armor protection system.

In addition, each Huangzhuang will regularly organize a certain amount of military training, the main purpose is to prevent bandits, as for the fight against wild boar skin, Zhu Youxiao felt that these farmers were not needed, but professional soldiers, so this kind of military training did not need to be too frequent.

Under such a system, the life of farmers in Huangzhuang will be very stable. The continuous repair and maintenance of the water conservancy, as well as the royal relief and exemption from tenant rent, can not only fight against natural disasters, but also avoid the armor protection system. Hygiene, medical care are also available. The prohibition of gambling and the restriction of funeral and marriage specifications have also made the property of farmers be protected to a certain extent.

In troubled times, the importance is to calm the people, and if you want to stabilize the north, the people are the fundamental problem.

Zhu Youxiao also plans to set up a school in Huangzhuang so that children can go to school. However, Zhu Youxiao does not plan to copy Confucianism for the time being.

Confucian things are really a bit outdated in this era, and if you shout loyalty to the monarch or something all day long, it is like a slogan such as the XX spirit of later generations, and it is simply vulnerable in the face of interests. In this year, the Confucian culture has been 'enchanted', and the words of the Confucian sages have been constantly studied and studied, and then various explanations and angles have been constantly proposed. Moreover, it can explain many fallacies and heresies, and the trend of taking things out of context is prevalent in the world.

The Confucian culture of this year is no longer the original Confucian culture, but the Confucian culture at this time has evolved through the needs of successive rulers and the catering of Confucian literati in order to share the benefits of the rule. The rulers influenced Confucian culture, and the Confucian literati brainwashed the rulers, and they had long been strict with the 'crooked building', and had developed from Confucianism to 'Confucianism', religion usually has a certain extreme, and has a religious energy field, so that the clergy can cast some 'spells' that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. There are more scholars in the world, forming Confucian beliefs, and also forming their own energy field.

The religions of China, namely Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Among them, Taoism is developed from Taoist culture, but Taoist culture is centered on the idea of non-action, so it is difficult for Taoism to be extreme, so as to be defeated in the competition with Buddhism. In addition, since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism has been incorporated into the official religion by the imperial courts of successive dynasties because of public welfare activities such as Yicang and road repair and the significance of education, and it is often difficult for the folk religious elite to obtain the official establishment, so they turn to Buddhism and localize foreign Buddhism.

The reason why the three religions converge is mainly Chinese culture, which has been based on 'Taoist culture' since ancient times, and the theory of the five elements of yin and yang and the book of Hetuluo handed down by Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are all used.

Western countries were influenced by Christianity, and even severely intervened. In China, although it appears that the emperor was not influenced by religion, he was in fact heavily intervened by Confucianism.

Confucian literati, who opened their mouths and closed their mouths, were Confucian sages, who used the dogma of 'sages' to refute the emperor, or to restrain and guide the emperor's behavior. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of unhealthy trend was unprecedentedly high. Many literati used Confucian things to restrain the emperor, but at the same time they did not take it seriously.

There are many books, and these literati have long passed the hazy stage of 'worship' to the saints, and if they understand the deeds, thoughts, and so on of the saints, they will find that the original Confucian saints are just like that, but they have been continuously elevated by later generations. That's why the more you read, the more reactionary the phenomenon becomes, which is that things must be reversed.

Therefore, there is still some merit in Confucianism, but in terms of education, people should not be able to study this all day long, which will not only fail to achieve the effect, but will also backfire and have the opposite effect.

Zhu Youxiao wants to break the Confucian monopoly on culture and education now, but he can't do it for a while, so he can only slowly open the gap.

The first enrollment of the Royal College of Science and Technology is to open this gap.

Since the enrollment notice was posted in the northern provinces, states and counties, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the literati.

"Royal College of Science and Technology? What is this? ”

"Isn't it written? Studying farming, machinery, etc., the family doesn't know what to do this day, and what is there to study in strange skills. ”

"Yes! Insulting Sven. ”

A group of literati made speeches one after another, and there was not much reverence for the emperor in their words. Perhaps the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the most 'silky' among the emperors of all dynasties. I don't know if the concubines of the Ming Dynasty are all from the people, or Taizu is from the commoners' families, and the personality of the Ming Dynasty emperor is similar to the common people. Coupled with the high degree of local autonomy, the emperor's sense of existence was very low. The words were slightly disrespectful, and no one pursued them.

Although many literati sneered at the Royal Academy of Science and Technology, there were not a few people of insight in the world, and after more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the harm of the eight shares has long been known to many literati. In particular, those literati who had no hope of gaining fame in the examination, saw this enrollment notice, their eyes lit up, and they got certificates from the local government one after another, and rushed to the provincial capital to take the entrance examination.

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