86_86695 "Under normal circumstances, the population grows in a geometric progression, while the means of subsistence can only grow in an arithmetic progression. Therefore, after the development of society reaches a certain stage, it will inevitably lead to famine, war, and disease. In this situation, decisive measures must be taken to curb the birth rate if hunger, war and disease are to be avoided. ”

However, there is an insurmountable counter-example to my theory. China's population growth is also growing in geometric progression. However, the development of science and culture in China is taking place in a leapfrog way. ”

"China, which has continued to hold world hegemony for thousands of years and continues to lead the development of the world, is one such special case. It seems that all the patterns have gone aberred in China. This situation haunts not only scholars of the past, but also scholars of today. ”

—Malthus, Preface to The Theory of Population, 1798

If you want to say how disappointed Yang Shouye is, that's not true. Of course, this kind of cleverness and cleverness, Yang Shouye has never lacked. However, no matter what kind of social environment it is, this kind of cleverness and cleverness may be able to make people take advantage of some small advantages and obtain some small benefits. However, this kind of cleverness and cleverness cannot have any real big impact on people's lives.

Although Yang Shouye is only in his twenties, he has played these little cleverness and cleverness countless times since he was a child. Correspondingly, the disappointment of using these little cleverness and clever guides, Yang Shouye is also quite familiar. So, he doesn't feel like he's really missing out on a huge opportunity to make money.

In the period of reform and opening up in modern China, there was a popular saying, "Hold the bold to death, starve the faint to death." ”

This sentence actually tells the truth that when there is really a chance to change people's fate, often only those who are bold, not afraid of failure, and have the ability to act can survive and succeed under the law of the jungle.

A person like Yang Shouye, he is a little clever at most. Let's take for example the matter of buying grain from the Revival Society and selling it. Actually, he was just thinking about it. He is a timid guy who lacks the ability to act, even if the Fuxing Society does not prohibit the sale of grain, he will also retreat at the thought of the trouble and difficulty of transporting grain from Songzi County to Hangzhou City.

In fact, both inside and outside the Revival Society, there is no such thing as a bold guy with a strong sense of action who wants to die. They are all very perceptive people, and they are all aware of how precious the value of food is in this Ming Dynasty, which is prone to disasters. All of them had tried to dump Revival food out of the country.

However, both those inside and outside the Renaissance Society were judged to be enemies of the people by the Renaissance Committee and the People's Delegation. All of them became part of the gallows.

As the saying goes, listen to people's advice to eat enough. Although I am very afraid of the kind of revival that Mao Ermao said, there are some terrifying rules. However, Yang Shouye is not a person who does not listen to persuasion. Since Second Uncle Mao and Second Aunt Mao introduced to him in detail that there are such and such benefits of becoming a worker in the enterprise of the Fuxing Association, then Yang Shouye naturally had to follow their advice.

That night, Yang Shouye used his own money to experience the benefits of the revival meeting again in the Songzi canteen of the revival society. He only used two green receipts to eat a big bowl of mashed potatoes, a head-sized Sanhe noodle steamed bun, a big bowl of stewed cabbage on a chicken rack, and a big bowl of free fish soup in the cafeteria.

After eating, Yang Shouye, who returned to the hotel, decided to throw himself into the arms of the Revival Association. Because he made a simple calculation. According to what Mao Ermao said, after joining the revival association, he first received training in the new battalion of the production and construction troops. During this time, the new barracks not only took care of food, clothing, and housing, but also had a salary of twenty steel hammers every month.

Twenty steel hammers, which sound like only forty coppers, seem like a very low wage. However, according to the calculation that one steel hammer can buy two catties of grain, even in the lowest-paid bootcamp stage, he can earn forty catties of millet every month.

Forty catties of millet, this is more than thirty catties of white rice. It is in the city of Hangzhou that you can earn more than 30 catties of white rice a month, which is a good thing that only appears in legends.

(During the reign of Tianqi Chongzhen, due to the frequent natural disasters and the increase in taxes imposed by the imperial court, the price of grain in the Jiangnan area was basically maintained at the level of ten taels of silver and one stone.) One stone is equal to about 170 catties. A tael of silver is equal to a thousand copper coins. In this way, a city of millet will be sold for about sixty copper coins during the Chongzhen period of the Apocalypse. This comparison shows how low the price of food for the people in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Revival Society is, and how well the workers are treated by the Renaissance Society. ）

When Yang Shouye went to the labor bureau to register, a new batch of victims had been transported to Songzi County.

At present, the population under the direct control of the Revival Society has reached nearly 200,000. Even if the Baxing Army is the best of the best, after four years of development, the total number of people has exceeded 30,000 and reached the scale of 60 battalions. There are more than 60,000 workers in the more than 30 industrial enterprises of the Renaissance Society. There are more than 50,000 agricultural production and construction troops specializing in farm work, and more than 40,000 production and construction troops specializing in railway construction.

The above 180,000 people are all people who have undergone literacy education, received systematic military training and political education, and are fully controlled by the Renaissance Society.

The reason why the Fuxing Society was able to master such a large population in four years is that, on the one hand, the Fuxing Society has carried out farm transformation in the entire Songzi County, using high-quality seeds, primary chemical fertilizers and a large number of agricultural machinery, carrying out intensive, specialized and modern agricultural production, explosive production and storing a large amount of grain, the main reason is that the Xiaoice climate is breaking out on a large scale around the world.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is that all kinds of floods, droughts, colds, hail, locusts, earthquakes, mudslides and other disasters are sustaining and large-scale outbreaks throughout the country, and at the same time, various mutinies, civil uprisings, rebellions, and uprisings are also constantly breaking out. In the year of the Apocalypse alone, there have been two large-scale breaches in the Yellow River. All kinds of natural disasters* occur not only in the North, but also everywhere in the South.

These calamities, which are very desperate for all, objectively provide sufficient population resources for the development of the Renaissance Society. It was only in the case of some restraint that the Fuxing Society absorbed less than 200,000 people outside the Huguang area in four years. In fact, the Fuxing Association has taken the opportunity of disaster relief and relief to the people, and has already extended the tentacles of land reform to all prefectures and counties under the Jingzhou Prefecture.

The Renaissance Society controlled a large amount of land and population in these prefectures and counties, and on the one hand, it eliminated the local landlords and carried out land reform. The land was distributed to the peasants and base villages were established. On the one hand, a series of farms and breeding farms have been established using a large amount of surplus land and the exploitation of wasteland.

Interestingly, although it did not touch the county offices of the prefectures and counties other than Zhijiang and Songzi. However, because Fuxing will take a small part of the huge commercial income and contract the imperial grain and state tax for the entire Jingzhou area. Therefore, even though the Fuxing Society has developed into the largest landlord in Jingzhou, it basically controls about 80% of the land in Jingzhou. However, the officialdom of Huguang felt that Zhang Hong, the governor of Jingzhou Prefecture, who had been mastered by the Fuxing Society, had outstanding ability and superb means.

They all believe that under the situation of frequent disasters in various places and constant military and civil chaos, Zhang Hongneng is really a talented person who governs Jingzhou Mansion and is calm. If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Hong had been rumored to have taken refuge in Wei Zhongxian and framed Zhang Wenda, the party cadre of Shangshu Donglin, he would already have a reputation as a complete eunuch. Zhang Hong, a cadre who is good at managing government affairs and has the skills of the people, will also be appreciated and promoted by many bigwigs in the court.

In fact, feudal society is so absurd. One place is to directly pull the flag and rebel, and there is no half a month and a month, and the local officials don't want to hear the slightest instruction from the imperial court.

Let's talk about the Revival Society, in the vast countryside of Jingzhou Prefecture, they fought landlords, divided land, built farms, and trained militias, and so on. The county magistrates of the local states and counties didn't know that the people who contracted the grain tax in their counties had changed their identities. They all thought that the world was peaceful under their rule.

Even later generations, when looking at the historical materials of this era, because they were people of the industrial age, could not understand how dull and numb the officials of the agricultural society at that time were. The train from Zhijiang County to Jingzhou Fu Wharf has been open for a year. Most of the adults in Jingzhou Mansion didn't know that there was such a thing.

Only in the notes of individual rural literati at that time did there be some mention of the "steamer". However, these accounts are also clearly imaginary, and no field research has been done. Much of what is written is also absurd.

On the second day after signing up, Yang Shouye was arranged to enter the new batch of production and construction recruits, and received recruit training with a group of disaster victims from Henan.

As a grassroots military attache in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shouye actually found out half a month later that he was undergoing military training with a group of homeless people. It scared him enough.

Someone trains as a private soldier, and it's not a big deal. In the city of Hangzhou, even the larger merchants will also train some family members to be used exclusively for commercial security work. The big businessmen and big landlords even often seconded people from the general army to help them train their families. Generally speaking, a big businessman with hundreds of armed family members is not a big deal.

However, it is really very rare for the Revival Society to conduct military training for more than 3,000 people at once.

Even so, Yang Shouye did not think about this matter in terms of rebellion. He just thinks that this big businessman called the Revival Society is really bold.

In fact, although Yang Shouye is not a real farmer, as a person in an agrarian society, it is not an easy process to adapt to the industrialization training of people in the revival society. In fact, Yang Shouye has the strength, spirit, and time to think independently.

After getting up at five o'clock in the morning, lining up to wash your face and brush your teeth in the shortest possible time, you should start exercising early. From five to seven o'clock, two hours had to run five or six laps around the boot barracks, about a distance of five or six miles.

After that, from seven o'clock to half past seven, you will listen to the pre-dinner commentary and have breakfast. After returning to the dormitory to tidy up housekeeping, at eight o'clock, it was time to go out for morning exercises. Kicking the right step, walking in the queue, standing in a military posture, tossing down, it is a morning's time. At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, I had to receive a pre-meal lecture in the cafeteria and have lunch.

After a one-hour break at noon and a short nap, it will start at one o'clock in the afternoon to start platoon training and stabbing training. There are many people who are unwilling to carry out stabbing training, unable to accept stabbing training, and are tossed and diluted by all kinds of dirty blood and disgusting things during training. However, after the care of the instructor and the edification of the little black house, everyone became active and positive.

Yang Shouye also entered the small black house once. After coming out, he swore to God that he would die in training, and he would never want to enter the small black house again in his life.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had to be in the cafeteria for pre-dinner lectures and dinner. This is the end of the military training that has been tossed for a day.

But don't be glad. Because even at night, you don't want to be idle. From six o'clock in the evening to nine o'clock in the evening, these three hours are the time for cultural classes. Ten words must be learned every day, ten numbers must be learned. At this stage, there are many people who can't keep up.

When it comes to the stage of learning to form sentences, learning to write, and learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the continuous sitting system becomes terrifying. The comrades-in-arms of a team (class) (everyone understands the meaning of the word "comrades-in-arms" at this time) must help each other. Otherwise, if there is a person who can't keep up with the progress, the whole team (class) will have to work hard together in the small dark room.

After 9 o'clock in the evening, it is time to brush your teeth, take a shower and have a team (class) meeting. To be honest, if the superiors do not have a special designated team (class) council, everyone spends most of their time consolidating cultural knowledge.

At ten o'clock in the evening, turn off the lights and go to bed. Yang Shouye, a somewhat clever and clever guy, often fell asleep completely as soon as his thinking began. I want to think about the time on my mind, and I don't have zài at all.

Truth be told, it was in the face of natural disasters and famine that threatened their lives, and the people of these agrarian societies survived by luck. However, as a pure agricultural society, human beings are also very difficult to adapt to this industrialized, collectivized, and organized life.

Not only Yang Shouye himself feels that although he can eat enough, dress well, live comfortably, eat meat every day, and take a hot bath every day, although the life of being able to take a hot bath every day is beautiful, the repetitive, monotonous and mechanical depression of this life is also difficult for everyone to accept for a while.

Among the people in Yang Shouye's team (class), there was a young educated victim who had passed the Xiucai examination in the past, but did not get in. He just couldn't stand such depression and depression, and after a training session, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a bayonet, hoping to end his life and escape from such a life.

However, Yang Shouye saw with his own eyes that the hygienist of his team immediately rushed to the scene, took out a sharp knife (scalpel) from a small iron box, and stabbed the unlucky guy a few times (flaw detection). After that, Comrade Hygienist, like a tailor, sewed the unlucky man's belly again.

At that time, everyone had already been trained in bayonets that sprayed blood everywhere for half a month (the bayonet target was equipped with a skin bag containing all kinds of blood). However, when they saw that the hygienist dealt with the unlucky guy like a pig or a dog, many people still vomited on the spot.

The most terrifying thing is that after a week, that unlucky guy returned to the boot camp and continued to train with everyone. The team (squad) leader said meaningfully: "Our revival army is not afraid of casualties, how can we save how to die, if you don't believe it, just try." The words really made Yang Shouye creepy.

The revival is really too strict. The upper part is in charge of the sky, the lower part is in charge of the earth, and the middle is not to mention the air, even if it is death, it is also controlled by the Revival Society. Revival doesn't want you to die, you don't even want to die. For this point, Yang Shouye has a clear understanding completely.

On the other hand, there is more to the life of the Revival than just depression and depression. There are also times of joy and happiness.

For example, when singing, Yang Shouye likes a song called "Unity is Strength" very much. For example, when watching a play, he liked very much the Sun Monkey who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace and beat the Jade Emperor Lao'er to crawl (Wang Shuhui's version of "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace") and the Zhishen who kicked the son of a court official into a eunuch Lu (Wang Shuhui's drama "Chicken" Flying "Egg" Hitting Gao Yanei based on "Water Margin"). Another example is when there is a grievance meeting.

Yang Shouye really likes the grievance meeting. Whether it is the grievance meeting of the team (squad), or the grievance meeting of the whole company, or even the grievance meeting of the whole battalion. Yang Shouye found that only in the revival association could he unscrupulously confide in everyone about his grievances and depression.

the pain of being oppressed by various gentry and superiors in ordinary days; the despair of being treated as an outcast in times of crisis; has no money and no food, and is sad to be scolded by the so-called subordinates when he is hungry; When I was working in the city of Hangzhou, I was helpless when I was exploited and oppressed by various shopkeepers and shopkeepers. He can pour out all the grievances and anguish at the grievance meeting.

Here, no one will laugh and ridicule themselves, no one will reprimand and scold themselves. Here, everyone is a victim of humiliation, oppression, exploitation, and plunder. Even the unlucky guy who committed suicide did not act differently, and he was also in tears, telling that he was bullied and blackmailed by the county school teachings, and how his own people took away all his family's fields.

Yes, life in the revival is hard. However, life in the revival is also very pleasant and comfortable