Chapter 981: Social Change

After getting a general understanding of the local agricultural development situation, Fan Dimen asked Zhang Xin: "So are these local peasants now working for you or for the landlords?"

Zhang Xin explained: "According to the different ways of cooperation, the labor relationship between the employee and the landlord is also different. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 There are some landlords who completely entrust the land to us for farming, and they only collect a certain percentage of the land use fee from the annual harvest, which is equivalent to a joint venture with us, but basically do not need to bear the risks in the process of operation. In this way of cooperation, the cost of labor is borne by us, and it is natural that we are working for us. The Huang Zixing you saw yesterday at the Nanhai Restaurant, the land under his name was handed over to us to take care of in this way. Another way of cooperation is that we provide technical support, and the manpower is provided by the landlords themselves, and these farmers are still working for the landlords. ”

Fan Dimen thought for a while and said: "Then presumably the latter way of cooperation will be more beneficial to the income of the landlord." ”

Zhang Xin nodded and said: "Of course, but on the one hand, the risk from planting to harvest needs to be borne by the landlord himself, and on the other hand, the local labor price is actually rising year by year, and the cost of the landlord to cultivate the land will also increase." In addition, we will also give more preferential treatment to the landlords of the first type of cooperation, such as arranging their children to study in Sanya, which is not an opportunity that everyone can enjoy. ”

Fan Dimen thought about Huang Zixing's excited expression at yesterday's banquet, and he could somewhat understand the attraction of this condition to the landlords. After all, Sanya is the base camp of the Haihan people, and it is very likely to become the capital of the Haihan Kingdom in the future, and it is definitely worth making some economic sacrifices for the rural rich people who want to change the fate of their families and enter the upper echelons of society.

In terms of the social structure of the Far East in this era, if you want to change from a pheasant to a phoenix, you either have to study hard to take the entrance examination and become an official, or you have to think of ways to marry the upper echelons of society. Although the latter approach may seem a little less technically difficult, it is a different case in Haihan.

First of all, there are actually only a few hundred Haihan people at the top of the pyramid in the Haihan social structure, and less than half of them may have the need to start a family, and the number of targets is very limited. Secondly, the Haihan people are also well-known for their pickiness about marriage, not only requiring the woman to have a clean background, look like a flower and be healthy, but also have a certain cultural foundation, and pure illiteracy basically has no chance to become the companion of the chiefs.

After some screening under various conditions, there are really not many people who are qualified to fight for this opportunity, but it is easier to go to study in an institution run by the Haihan people. After all, Haihan's rigid need for cultural people is obvious, as long as they are literate and loyal to the executive committee, they can have great hope of being absorbed into the Haihan Yamen to do things.

In the past, it seemed that serving the Haihan people was not a good job to honor their ancestors, and many people loyal to the Ming court would secretly denounce it as treason and disobedience, believing that it was a sign of disloyalty and filial piety. However, with the growing strength of Haihan, the number of people who still hold this view is gradually decreasing, especially after the news of the founding of Haihan came out, the trend of public opinion has also changed significantly. In the past, the positions in the Haihan Yamen were often denounced as "eagle dogs" and "lackeys", but now that the Haihan is about to build a country, even if it is a miscellaneous officer, it can be associated with the founding heroes, which has a completely different meaning. In the future, who is the master in this Haihan country, people who are not blind and have no bad brains will naturally be able to distinguish clearly.

Entering the Haihan Academy for further study, becoming an official, and changing the social status of the family is undoubtedly a very realistic shortcut for the landlord class whose family is well-off but suffers from no upward channel. However, it is true that Haihan institutions of higher learning are not places that everyone can go to, either they have outstanding achievements in the past, such as the fame of the Ming Dynasty, or they can only try to get the recommendation of local officials in charge of cultural and educational undertakings. Haihan linked these upward paths to a daily attitude of cooperation in exchange for the cooperation of the landlord class in land policy. In today's environment of social change, it is difficult to refuse such trading conditions.

Although there are still some landlords who insist on hiring peasants to cultivate the land on their own, with the gradual change of the main production relations in society, they will also realize that their behavior is contrary to the trend of social development, and if they do not make changes to adapt to such social changes, they will sooner or later become the objects of social abandonment. Those who can seize this historical opportunity to follow the trend are very likely to become the first beneficiaries after the establishment of the new regime, and take this opportunity to become the supporters and guardians of Haihan.

Van Dimen was not very interested in how much rice could be harvested from the Haihan-led farming, and the East India Company had neither the ability nor the interest in organizing such large-scale food production in Batavia, but he was more interested in understanding how the Haihan, in the process of changing the land policy, had neutralized the hard-line resistance of the landlord class that should have erupted.

From Zhang Xin's description, Fan Dimen believes that he has found part of the reason, that the Haihan people do have their own uniqueness in the application of political means, which can make a considerable part of the landlord class choose to exchange interests rather than confrontation, and over time these people will naturally be assimilated into the Haihan interest community.

However, what Fan Dimen didn't know was that the landlord class that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty ruled area did not fail to rebel, but tried to use violent means to resist the rule of the Haihan Dynasty were all arrested and killed in the previous few years, and the group of people with the most resolute attitude of resistance had already been treated by the Haihan as a typical example, the most famous of which was the relevant personnel who were dealt with after the Danzhou assassination in 1631, and since then no one has dared to talk about the intention of resisting.

After using violent means to eliminate the die-hards, and then using the conditions of interest to lure the remaining people into submission, such a combination of punches has indeed achieved extremely good results in the northern Qiongbei region. Although there are still many diehards in the countryside of Danzhou who are unwilling to follow Haihan's land policy and agricultural development plan, few people dare to jump out and openly oppose it, and they are honestly smoothed out little by little by the situation.

This book was first published in Genesis, and the following will be re-edited later for anti-theft

After getting a general understanding of the local agricultural development situation, Fan Dimen asked Zhang Xin: "So are these local peasants now working for you or for the landlords?"

Zhang Xin explained: "According to the different ways of cooperation, the labor relationship between the employee and the landlord is also different. Some landlords entrust their land to us for cultivation, and they only collect a certain percentage of the land use fee from the annual harvest, which is equivalent to a joint venture with us, but they basically do not need to bear the risks in the process of operation. In this way of cooperation, the cost of labor is borne by us, and it is natural that we are working for us. The Huang Zixing you saw yesterday at the Nanhai Restaurant, the land under his name was handed over to us to take care of in this way. Another way of cooperation is that we provide technical support, and the manpower is provided by the landlords themselves, and these farmers are still working for the landlords. ”

Fan Dimen thought for a while and said: "Then presumably the latter way of cooperation will be more beneficial to the income of the landlord." ”

Zhang Xin nodded and said: "Of course, but on the one hand, the risk from planting to harvest needs to be borne by the landlord himself, and on the other hand, the local labor price is actually rising year by year, and the cost of the landlord to cultivate the land will also increase." In addition, we will also give more preferential treatment to the landlords of the first type of cooperation, such as arranging their children to study in Sanya, which is not an opportunity that everyone can enjoy. ”

Fan Dimen thought about Huang Zixing's excited expression at yesterday's banquet, and he could somewhat understand the attraction of this condition to the landlords. After all, Sanya is the base camp of the Haihan people, and it is very likely to become the capital of the Haihan Kingdom in the future, and it is definitely worth making some economic sacrifices for the rural rich people who want to change the fate of their families and enter the upper echelons of society.

In terms of the social structure of the Far East in this era, if you want to change from a pheasant to a phoenix, you either have to study hard to take the entrance examination and become an official, or you have to think of ways to marry the upper echelons of society. Although the latter approach may seem a little less technically difficult, it is a different case in Haihan.

First of all, there are actually only a few hundred Haihan people at the top of the pyramid in the Haihan social structure, and less than half of them may have the need to start a family, and the number of targets is very limited. Secondly, the Haihan people are also well-known for their pickiness about marriage, not only requiring the woman to have a clean background, look like a flower and be healthy, but also have a certain cultural foundation, and pure illiteracy basically has no chance to become the companion of the chiefs.

After some screening under various conditions, there are really not many people who are qualified to fight for this opportunity, but it is easier to go to study in an institution run by the Haihan people. After all, Haihan's rigid need for cultural people is obvious, as long as they are literate and loyal to the executive committee, they can have great hope of being absorbed into the Haihan Yamen to do things.

In the past, it seemed that serving the Haihan people was not a good job to honor their ancestors, and many people loyal to the Ming court would secretly denounce it as treason and disobedience, believing that it was a sign of disloyalty and filial piety. However, with the growing strength of Haihan, the number of people who still hold this view is gradually decreasing, especially after the news of the founding of Haihan came out, the trend of public opinion has also changed significantly. In the past, the positions in the Haihan Yamen were often denounced as "eagle dogs" and "lackeys", but now that the Haihan is about to build a country, even if it is a miscellaneous officer, it can be associated with the founding heroes, which has a completely different meaning. In the future, who is the master in this Haihan country, people who are not blind and have no bad brains will naturally be able to distinguish clearly.

Entering the Haihan Academy for further study, becoming an official, and changing the social status of the family is undoubtedly a very realistic shortcut for the landlord class whose family is well-off but suffers from no upward channel. However, it is true that Haihan institutions of higher learning are not places that everyone can go to, either they have outstanding achievements in the past, such as the fame of the Ming Dynasty, or they can only try to get the recommendation of local officials in charge of cultural and educational undertakings. Haihan linked these upward paths to a daily attitude of cooperation in exchange for the cooperation of the landlord class in land policy. In today's environment of social change, it is difficult to refuse such trading conditions.

Although there are still some landlords who insist on hiring peasants to cultivate the land on their own, with the gradual change of the main production relations in society, they will also realize that their behavior is contrary to the trend of social development, and if they do not make changes to adapt to such social changes, they will sooner or later become the objects of social abandonment. Those who can seize this historical opportunity to follow the trend are very likely to become the first beneficiaries after the establishment of the new regime, and take this opportunity to become the supporters and guardians of Haihan.

Van Dimen was not very interested in how much rice could be harvested from the Haihan-led farming, and the East India Company had neither the ability nor the interest in organizing such large-scale food production in Batavia, but he was more interested in understanding how the Haihan, in the process of changing the land policy, had neutralized the hard-line resistance of the landlord class that should have erupted.

From Zhang Xin's description, Fan Dimen believes that he has found part of the reason, that the Haihan people do have their own uniqueness in the application of political means, which can make a considerable part of the landlord class choose to exchange interests rather than confrontation, and over time these people will naturally be assimilated into the Haihan interest community.

However, what Fan Dimen didn't know was that the landlord class that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty ruled area did not fail to rebel, but tried to use violent means to resist the rule of the Haihan Dynasty were all arrested and killed in the previous few years, and the group of people with the most resolute attitude of resistance had already been treated by the Haihan as a typical example, the most famous of which was the relevant personnel who were dealt with after the Danzhou assassination in 1631, and since then no one has dared to talk about the intention of resisting.

After using violent means to eliminate the die-hards, and then using the conditions of interest to lure the remaining people into submission, such a combination of punches has indeed achieved extremely good results in the northern Qiongbei region. Although there are still many diehards in the countryside of Danzhou who are unwilling to follow Haihan's land policy and agricultural development plan, few people dare to jump out and openly oppose it, and they are honestly smoothed out little by little by the situation. (To be continued.) )