"Call me big brother!" Diaphragm

"Big brother!"

"Big brother!"

"Okay! Big brother, please eat candy! ”

On the third day of the second month of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, when the northern students had already started school, because the cold winter had not subsided, Zhu Youxiao still took his family to take refuge in Fangshan for the winter.

As the crown prince, Zhu Ciran is in Fangshan, and because he has no playmates, he naturally begins to have fun for himself.

When Zhu Ciran on the dirt slope sprinkled sugar on a dozen five or six-year-old children below the dirt slope, the fifteen or sixteen children bowed their heads one after another, eating candy and calling for big brother.

Zhu Ciran, who has been called "Prince and His Royal Highness" all the year round, couldn't help but feel a little novel when he heard another title. Diaphragm

With the candy in his hand, he instantly bribed a group of children in Heishi Village, Fangshan County, and took them to play while walking.

As a nine-year-old person, running around with a group of five or six-year-old kids, this is laughable.

The people in Heishi Village had never seen Zhu Ciran, but they could tell from the silk that Zhu Ciran was wearing that this was a rich kid, so they didn't stop him.

In this way, Zhu Ciran took more than a dozen younger brothers to show off his martial arts and walked towards the outside of Heishi Village.

On the way, a younger brother picked up a straight and smooth wooden stick, and he was about to play tricks, but after being seen by Zhu Ciran, Zhu Ciran immediately shouted:

"Show me the stick."

As he spoke, he took out a handful of sugar, and when he saw the cane sugar, the child immediately handed the stick to Zhu Ciran as if he were offering a treasure. Diaphragm

Zhu Ciran took the wooden stick, instantly learned the appearance of Li Dingguo in his memory, and played a set of half-baked stick techniques.

"Big brother is amazing!"

"Big brother knows kung fu!"

"Of course!" Zhu Ciran was praised so flutteringly, he couldn't help but puff up his chest proudly, and then raised his stick and shouted: "From today onwards, you will be members of my stick gang." ”

A group of little children were playing on the concrete road, and when the horse-drawn coachmen passing by the coal carriage saw them, they all shouted at them: "Don't play on the road, it's dangerous." ”

"Good!" Zhu Ciran obediently took a dozen children down the cement road, walked on the dirt road, and kept beating the weeds with sticks.

"Big brother, where are we going?" Diaphragm

"Where are you going?"

A little kid asked, Zhu Ciran scratched his chin: "Is there any fun nearby?" ”

"Coal yard, there's nothing fun to do except the coal yard." A child sniffles.

"Good! Then let's go to the coal yard to play! When Zhu Ciran heard this, he immediately ran to the coal yard with a dozen children, and there were six or seven burly men not far behind them.

"The prince went to the coal yard to play? The palace knows that he is afraid that he will blame me and others. ”

"Well, I'll go talk to the prince......

The identity of these men is naturally Jinyiwei, and their job is to protect Zhu Ciran. Diaphragm

Zhu Ciran was playing in the village, but they felt that there was nothing, but they couldn't go to the coal yard.

Their task today is to send Zhu Ciran to the train station, and then take him back to the capital and send him to study in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

It's just that Zhu Ciran said on the road that he would play for half an hour before leaving, but it was delayed.

Now look at this posture, if he really wants to go to the coal yard to play with coal, it is a question whether the heads of these five or six of them can be saved.

Therefore, a man took the initiative to step forward, blocked Zhu Ciran's way, and said:

"Your Highness, Long live's will is that you must return to the capital today, and you have been playing for half an hour."

"So fast?" Hearing Jin Yiwei's words, Zhu Ciran smacked his mouth, although he was more skinny, but he was still more sensible, so he returned the wooden stick to the child before, and then divided the sugar on his body with them

"Alright, you can go find another big brother."

After that, Zhu Ciran walked back to the cement road, and a four-wheeled carriage also drove out at the corner at the end of the road.

"You leave two people to send this group of children home, although the soldiers and horses and the officials are very close, but the traffickers can't guard against it."

"Yes!"

The man ordered someone to send the children home, and at the same time got into a carriage to protect Zhu Ciran's safety in the car.

According to the man's instructions, the brocade guards left two to escort the children back, while the others followed the carriage towards the station.

It is less than 60 miles from Fangshan to the capital, and the Fangshan Railway Station is not far from the city, and it is actually seven or eight miles away from the coal area. Diaphragm

As long as you get on the train, you can basically return to the capital in an hour.

Feeling the bumps of the carriage, Zhu Ciran, the little black fat man, kept looking at the wilderness outside the window.

Especially when they passed a river, Zhu Ciran's face was pasted on the glass:

"Why is this river so much higher than when we came?"

Zhu Ciran looked at the river with a higher water level than when they came, and the Jinyi guard next to him could only explain when he heard this:

"Spring rains have fallen in various parts of the north this year, and officials in the Qin Tianjian have deduced that it may be the decline of the Xiaoice period, so the drought in the north has decreased."

"However, there is no spring rain in Huguang, Nanzhili and Jiangxi in the south this year, so I don't know if there will be a drought." Diaphragm

As Zhu Youzhen had predicted, the drought in the north subsided, but the drought in the south expanded.

However, thanks to the anti-corruption and cash-for-work efforts in recent years, as well as the intensity of tax supervision and the abolition of some miscellaneous items, the people in the south have at least saved a lot of silver and money.

Maybe this silver and grain can't last a few years, but it can always make the pressure on the court less.

Zhu Ciran didn't understand much of this, so he just said to the coal carts coming and going: "How much do these coal drivers get paid every day?" ”

"They are all employees of the Imperial Store, and according to the Imperial Store's wage to Fangshan, it should be fifteen Wen per day." Jin Yiwei said, explaining by the way: "It's three articles higher than the market." ”

"Oh oh......" Listening to Jin Yiwei's words, Zhu Ciran also took his heart.

In this way, after two quarters of an hour, they arrived at Fangshan Station. Diaphragm

Unlike Yanshan Station, Fangshan Station covers an area of five or six acres, and the number of trains is more, because it is the main producer of coal in Beizhili.

For Zhu Ciran's safety, Jin Yiwei chartered a carriage, so Zhu Ciran had no contact with the people, and could only take the train he had taken several times to return to the capital.

After arriving in the capital, he was escorted back to the East Palace of the Outer Court by the brocade guards.

Not surprisingly, he will have a day off today, and then go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate tomorrow to study, but ......

"Has Your Highness returned?"

"Wang Daban! I am back! ”

When Wang Chengen's voice sounded outside the Ciqing Palace in the East Palace, Zhu Ciran ran out without even putting on shoes, and shouted as he ran: "Did Li Dingguo get out of school?" "Ahh

He ran out of the palace and saw Wang Chengen wearing a bullfighting suit, and Wang Chengen also smiled in return:

"I haven't finished school yet, but today's lesson is to watch the spring planting, King Qi asked the slave maid to come to the East Palace, please go down and see the spring planting."

"Good! I'll clean it up! Hearing that he could go out to play, Zhu Ciran immediately came to his senses.

He quickly changed into a set of clothes, a cloth coat of blue clothes and blue pants, and the standard people's farm work attire.

After all, he played with Li Dingguo at his house for more than half a month last summer, although Zhu Ciran didn't work much, he still knew what clothes to wear when he went to the field.

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Ciran's appearance, couldn't help but smile, and then led him to get into the carriage of the Qi Palace, and drove towards Dongcheng.

Through the glass, Zhu Ciran looked out the window excitedly. Diaphragm

For the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen has brought many changes, but for the capital, Zhu Youjian has brought changes to it mainly in the area of health and infrastructure.

The four cities of Jingshi are paved with brick and stone roads and cement roads, the roads are extremely wide, each city has its own market, after the flow of people is evacuated, there is not much garbage, but it does not look as lively as before.

However, as a political center, what the capital needs is not an economy, but a kind of atmosphere that represents the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty.

The wide roads and houses are clean, and the streets are clean, which is the atmosphere of the capital.

This kind of hygienic side is staggering in this era, even if it is known as the state of etiquette, in fact, the health of the city can only be said to be average.

Westerners come to Daming and think that Daming is clean and tidy, mainly because they are incomparably dirty.

The current Ming Dynasty, in terms of the sanitation of the city in various places, has almost reached the level of later generations. Diaphragm

Many officials felt that Zhu Youzhen was a sanitation worker arranged to solve the work problem of the lonely, widowed, old and weak, but Zhu Youzhen's real idea was actually to put an end to the plague.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population plummeted, mainly due to hunger caused by reduced food production, followed by war, then various epidemics, and finally various problems.

In the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen had been preparing since he found Wu Youxing, and even popularized many epidemic prevention standards and tools for Wu Youxing.

Under his arrangement, it may be because the local disaster relief has been obtained, or it may be that there is no war, in short, in the current Ming Dynasty, various epidemics have not broken out, at least not temporarily.

In Zhu Ciran's memory, Daming seems to have always been so clean and tidy, he has never seen how Daming was hygienic before, so he naturally feels that it is nothing.

Therefore, in that hurry, he seemed particularly bored.

Fortunately, the distance out of the city was not far, and the carriage also arrived at the ten-mile plain outside the eastern city two quarters of an hour later. Diaphragm

When I stepped out of the carriage, I was greeted by the vast expanse of cultivated land and the many people working in the fields.

Walking down the slope, Zhu Ciran glanced around.

Spring is the sowing season, and if you work hard in spring, you will have a good harvest in autumn, so thousands of people bend over and work in the ridges with their trouser legs folded.

Although it was very hard, Zhu Ciran could still feel that their faces were full of happy smiles.

Although it was not autumn, for them, the heavy harvest seemed to be just around the corner.

"Why are you here?"

Zhu Ciran felt that he was being dragged by someone, and when he turned his head, he immediately showed a funny smile: "Of course it's Qi ...... My uncle called me! "Ahh

There are only a few people in the entire capital who dare to pull Zhu Ciran and those who are fine, and among them, the only one who can call him by this title is naturally Li Dingguo.

"Your Highness?" Zhu Ciran's words made Li Dingguo stunned when he heard this, and then he looked up.

Sure enough, he saw many Confucian scholars wearing Taoist robes on a ridge, and the leader was Zhu Youzhen, who was wearing a Taoist robe, wearing a net scarf on his forehead, and a square scarf on his head.

Around Zhu Youzhen, the crowd of people in the dark and unruly was, if nothing else, some important ministers in the court.

"Today is the day when the tractor demonstrates farming in the capital, you should be careful."

Li Dingguo retracted his gaze and reminded Zhu Ciran, and Zhu Ciran nodded frantically.

"Li Dingguo, Zhou Jiaoxi, let's follow those adults." Diaphragm

Before the conversation between Li Dingguo and Zhu Ciran ended, Zhou Boqian's voice sounded in the distance.

Zhu Ciran looked over and saw a line of government students dressed in coarse linen clothes, on the road in the field, closely following the team of important ministers in the distance.

The line of students was long, several miles, and there was no edge in sight.

"Who is this?"

Zhou Boqian looked at the little black fat man standing next to Li Dingguo, and was a little puzzled.

"My uncle's nephew." Li Dingguo scribbled an explanation, and then changed the topic: "Let's go, I won't be able to keep up later." ”

After that, he motioned for Zhu Ciran to follow, and then returned to the student team with Zhou Boqian. Diaphragm

Since today's students are all wearing coarse linen clothes, Zhu Ciran, a little black fat man, is perfectly integrated, and even more like a farmer than some peasant students.

Their every move was under the observation of Jin Yiwei, especially Wang Chengen, who had been watching them.

Compared with these people, Zhu Youzhen is not worried, he is leading many civil officials to the front at the moment, and what appears in front of him is a huge trial field composed of hundreds of tractors.

"There are 600 tractors here, which need to be operated by three people, and each tractor can cultivate 20 acres of land per day, consuming 1,000 catties of coal and 2,000 catties of water, if it is used to reclaim ......."

In the distance, the sound of tractors "clanging" is constantly sounded, these tractors are placed on the road, connected to iron cables, one person is responsible for adjusting the horsepower of the tractor, and two people use a plough to plow the land.

This may seem dangerous, but as long as the horsepower is properly controlled, even if the iron cable breaks, it will not hurt anyone.

Since the tractor needed to be placed on a smooth road, many ministers walked past the boxy machine and looked at it in amazement, especially after learning that it could plough twenty acres a day. Diaphragm

Needless to say, what does 20 acres of cultivated land represent in a day, 1,000 catties of coal at the current coal price are only one or two pieces of silver, and water basically does not need money.

That is to say, if a tractor is used to simply plough the land, excluding the cost of purchasing it, it only takes half a month to plough 300 acres of land.

Half a month's time is only fifteen taels of silver, and as long as it solves the most difficult matter of cultivating land, the remaining sowing work only needs less than 100 people, and 300 acres of land can be planted in a few days.

Since then, it has been easier to manage, and the land that once required at least 60 people to manage is now only 10 people to maintain.

For many officials of the gentry and the landowning class, the first thing that came to their mind was the question of cost.

The 300 acres of land were to be rented to 60 households, and 50 percent of the harvest was given to the 60 tenant farmers every year.

The 300 acres of land in the south normally have at least 500 stone meters, and 50% is 250 stones, at least 120 taels of silver. Diaphragm

According to the spring and winter ploughing land, the cost of this thing is only 30 taels of silver a month, and then ten people are hired to manage 300 acres of land, even if each person's annual salary is 3 taels, it is only 30 taels of silver.

The sum of the front and back is sixty taels of silver, that is to say, excluding the money for buying a machine, once they have a machine, the gentry can save at least sixty taels of silver every year.

Thinking about it this way, many officials know the importance of tractors in their hearts, and one official even said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness, if this is the case, the dynasty must promote this thing to reduce the burden on the people."

As soon as the official stood up and said, everyone cheered up, but Zhu Youzhen glanced at him and didn't bother to talk nonsense with him.

He walked straight past the official, which embarrassed the official, and some Yanshan officials also used this to mock:

"I'm afraid it's not the burden on the people that is being relieved, right? Liu Yuanwailang ...... "Lang."

"Hehehe......"

The Yanshan officials laughed at his thoughts, and Zhu Youzhen's attitude made many officials' faces hurt hotly, and they couldn't stop feeling uncomfortable.

"Your Highness, if this thing is used in the Guannei, I am afraid that tens of millions of tenant farmers will have to turn into homeless people."

Dong Yingju of the household department made a mockery of Zhu Youzhen and said the reason why Zhu Youzhen did not want to promote tractors in the Guannai.

To put it bluntly, the landlords are much more powerful than the capitalists, which is like slavery compared to feudalism, and to say that progress must be feudalism, because slavery is a blatant treatment of people as livestock, and feudalism will cover it up.

In different social systems, replacement is the trend of history.

The poorest and longest system in the world is the family communal ownership of primitive societies, followed by slavery and feudalism, capital, and finally communism. Diaphragm

The family communal ownership system, everything belongs to the head person, including everyone in the tribe, the defeated tribe is killed, there is no other way to choose.

When it came to slavery, although things were still lord's, the system at this time had begun to retain defeated captives, and the aristocracy appeared, and the nobles would not put all the defeated people to death, but gave them a chance to live, to be slaves.

The aristocracy, who transcended the primitive clans, held the land as a means of production in their hands, and made the peasants dependent on the land.

After that, feudalism appeared, the rising bureaucracy overthrew the aristocracy, the country was no longer divided into citizens and slaves, slaves began to be slowly abolished, and everyone's life was basically guaranteed, but it was still oppression.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were typical feudal countries, and the system was more sound than that of the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, so it was also known as the most complete period of the feudal system.

However, when the Ming and Qing dynasties were still playing with the feudal system, the capital system in the West rose.

Compared with feudalism, the capitalist system broke the geographical restrictions and introduced citizenship and private ownership, and advocated that capital has no borders, but in any case, under capitalism, the common people have their own voice, even if it is very weak. Diaphragm

As for the final communism, this is a concept that transcends the state and the people, emphasizing the integration of natural rights and natural persons, breaking the limitations of private ownership with "equality", and giving democracy and freedom to everyone.

These systems are coherent, and true feudalism will eventually lead to capital, and true capital will also go to communism, and what is behind communism, no one can know.

The Ming Dynasty had the limitation of feudalism, that is, most of the gentry and powerful focused on the land as a means of production, rather than creating new means of production.

Fortunately, there are still a small number of people in the Jiangnan area who are creating new means of production, so there is the germ of the capital system.

It's just that whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, it seems that whenever there is a bud of capitalism in the East, it will be interrupted by nomads, and it is not worth regretting that it was interrupted at the end of the Song Dynasty, but it is the most regrettable at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

What is not to be regretted at the end of the Song Dynasty is that before and after its demise, no one proposed how to improve its system, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, someone was improving it.

Although it is easy to make people look away, the people who follow Zhu Yuanzhang's system and then improve are actually Dashun, who is also a Han force. Diaphragm

However, Li Zicheng does not have Zhu Yuanzhang's courage, nor does he have Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition and ability.

Although he made improvements according to Zhu Yuanzhang's system and allowed Dashun to take a step forward on the basis of the Ming Dynasty, this step was very limited, and his strategic vision was seriously insufficient, so that he directly lost in the Shunqing War.

Every time he thought of this, Zhu Youzhen felt very sorry.

He did not think that Dashun would enter the capital system, but at least Dashun could become a dynasty of feudal transition to capital.

When the Dashun dynasty dies, it is likely that it will be a capitalist political group, and the Han people will not be so humiliated in modern times.

But in any case, in the end, no matter what system emerges, countries will eventually move towards communism.

Zhu Youzhen's time in Daming is not short, and he often recalls some world political events he experienced in his previous life, and repeatedly scrutinizes it. Diaphragm

There is no problem with the path of communism, the question is how the Ming or Qi countries, and even the Han people in the future, should go.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't expect a man to fall from the sky in a few hundred years, after all, such a chance is too small and full of uncertainty.

So he had to learn some lessons to make Qi Guo and Da Ming go more smoothly.

But......

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the group of gentry, haoqiang, and landlord-born officials behind him, and was slightly irritable.

To discuss the system with the insects from these interest groups, it is better to go back to the Qi palace and ask the few huskies sent by Guo Sangdai in Beishan if they can change to vegetarianism.

The gentry and landlord class will not honestly hand over their means of production, and in terms of system, they are destined to have an ideological collision with the future Ming system. Diaphragm

After learning about the role of the tractor, all the officials thought that it would be applied to their own fields, their families' fields, regardless of how many tenants would lose their jobs and how many families would go bankrupt if these things were applied to the Kannai.

Looking at their insect appearance, Zhu Youzhen wondered if he left, whether this group of people would keep the tractor for their own family.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen's face turned dark.

He glanced deeply at the group of officials, and almost all the thoughts in his heart were already firmly established by him.

He was sure that he could even say that he hadn't left yet, and this group of people would do something stealing.

Now the annual output of tractors is still small, and people can still order it, but when the number of tractors with annual output increases in the future, and it can't be clicked, will this group of people be so honest?

Honesty has never been a word that can appear in their group, and the reason why they are honest is because they are scared by themselves. Diaphragm

To solve this problem, Zhu Youzhen could only do his best to turn tenants into yeoman farmers, run their own small and medium-sized farms and ranches, or turn them into skilled workers.

To put it bluntly, it is to "eliminate" the poor and turn the poor into the middle class of the mainstay of the country.

At present, in the territory directly under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty, excluding the two supervision envoys of Xiaoxiyang and Leviya, in the territory of more than 20 million square kilometers of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of cultivated land that can be developed and utilized and has been developed and utilized is close to 2.2 billion mu, and the grassland is close to 12 billion mu.

If such a huge amount of grassland and cultivated land is developed and distributed to the lower class, then they can definitely rise to the middle class, as long as the cultivated land and grassland are not allowed to be bought and sold, and the property rights belong to the Ming court.

However, the problem now lies in the fact that nearly 7 billion mu of grassland and more than 1 billion mu of undeveloped cultivated land are distributed in the three provinces outside Guanwai, Nanzhou, Jiugang, and other places.

If the three most densely populated provinces in the south of the Yangtze River do not relocate, the rise of the bottom will never be possible.

Thinking of this, Zhu You was ruthless. Diaphragm

If the people in Jiangnan do not migrate under the severe drought, then he can only resort to violent means to relocate.

All parties in the world have their crimes, and their crimes can be checked by him......