Xu Fugui can be said to be the old tenant of the Li family in Daqiao Town.

This Xu Fugui is a typical destitute class.

There is no property at hand.

In fact, the annual harvest is not enough to repay the interest of the Li family's usury.

So he farmed for the Li family, which is basically equivalent to working for nothing, but he can barely starve to death.

Xu Fugui has a stupid woman who fled when he was in trouble with the White Lotus Sect.

The brain is very unbright, it looks like it was stimulated by something to become like this, and it looks quite ugly, but as a tenant, he has no capital to choose what his daughter-in-law looks like.

So Xu Fugui, who was twenty years old at the time, married this stupid daughter-in-law who looked like she was in her thirties and almost forty.

At that time, people in the township thought that Xu Fugui, the old daughter-in-law, could not give birth to a baby.

But I didn't expect that there were four children in five years.

Survive two.

Although the eldest daughter is ugly, her brain is very bright, and her hands and feet are also nimble.

The youngest son may have inherited the stupidity of a stupid daughter-in-law, and he is not very good at talking, but fortunately, he can do some work.

Originally, the days passed like this.

Facing the loess with his back to the sky, farming, paying debts, paying taxes, and dying.

His son continued Xu Fugui's life.

The result?

As a result, the world has changed.

The current imperial court doesn't care about expulsion at all.

When Li Zhongyi walked in, he saw this old peasant in his forties, but with a face that was crisscrossed and ravines, as if he was lying on the ground and crying.

Because Li Zhongren and Master Li have decided not to exploit him anymore, and he has very kindly forgiven his family's Hades debts.

But just look at Xu Fugui's appearance.

He really wants to continue to be exploited.

Because if it weren't for those few acres of thin fields, their whole family would have starved to death today.

Oh.

Now it is said that there are other ways out, such as going to the Northeast, going to the South Seas, and what new continent there is.

But Xu Fugui has never left Daqiao Town in his life, and the farthest place he went to was to go to the old farmers who bought and sold local products on the bazaars of Daqiao Town.

Northeast.

Nanyang.

Newland.

These are places that are too far away, too strange, and even too frightening.

If you go to those places, who knows if you are dead or alive.

"Big brother, this. It's not good. ”

Li Zhongyi, who was preparing for the Sichuan Xiucai exam, looked unbearable.

To say that the emperor is still extraordinarily gracious, he gave the Sichuan people one more chance to take the exam.

At the end of this year, Sichuan Xiucai tested.

In the middle of next year, the national unified Xiucai examination will not be conducted separately by province in the future.

So.

This year's Sichuan Xiucai Test is a great favor for Sichuan people.

Anyway, in the past few days, all Li Zhongyi heard in the academy was the voice of thanking the emperor for his favor.

This Confucian student.

Give a red date to appease.

Emperor Zhu gave the Sichuan people one more chance to take the exam.

Chuan's heart is determined.

"I can't do it if I don't drive it away."

Li Zhongren pulled the abacus beads.

has changed from a Confucian student who asks for the people's life to Li Papi.

"Look at it, what did the five acres of paddy fields look like by him? A few hoes go down, the land below is compacted, the soil looks like there is no fertility, it must be that there is no fertilizer, the soil overdraft is too serious, and the canal has not been repaired, all rely on the sky to eat, a year to plant five acres of rice, can have two or three acres of harvest is good, one acre of land on one or two stones of rice, what can be done? ”

"Tomorrow I will go and buy two cows, hire a few more people, shovel all the ridges of the field, level the land, and build a canal to divert water from the river.

The Li family has a total of 20 tenants.

Most of them owe the Li family usury.

Marrying a wife and having children is a red affair and a white affair.

It all costs money.

What money can this tenant have, he can only borrow from the landlord.

The interest rate is, of course, very high.

But that's only usury in name.

In fact, the money lent out is not expected to be repaid - of course, if the interest rate is not high, it is possible to pay it back.

Thirty years of mortgage can be repaid.

Not to mention this.

Most of them repay the interest every year, and in the end, the interest repaid exceeds the principal, and the principal has not been repaid a penny.

So in general.

The usury lent by the landlord to the tenants was used to get the tenant farmers.

Since everyone is in the same village, there is a bottom line for exploitation – the bottom line is not to let the tenants starve to death.

One or two households can starve to death.

But if they all starve to death.

Who will farm the land is another story.

The dog jumped over the wall when he was in a hurry.

Who dares to guarantee that the twenty tenants will not be scattered, and when the time comes, people will be in a hurry and desperate, and a small family like the Li family will definitely not be able to hold on to it - not to mention the Li family, those bigger wealthy families will not be able to hold it.

But now.

The two policies of the Ming court allowed Li Zhongren to break through that bottom line.

The first is the restriction that people over the age of 30 cannot take the imperial examination, which made Li Zhongren give up studying, and changed from a scholar to a landlord.

The change in identity made Li Zhongren's life goal change from being an official to farming and making a fortune.

The second is that the development of the Northeast and the South Seas by the Ming Dynasty gave those destitute peasants a last way to live, and they couldn't do their best.

These two articles.

let Li Zhongren complete the transformation of his identity.

From the gentry landlord class to the agricultural capitalists, the use of wage labor to manage the land and agriculture is fundamentally different from the tenancy system of agriculture.

Capitalists.

From head to toe, of course, every inch of flesh and blood on the body, every pore dripping with blood and filth.

Can you expect the capitalists to be great benevolent people when they are engaged in primitive accumulation?

This Western capitalist country, which one did not have bloody bones on hand at the time of primitive accumulation.

Whether it is the bottom of the country or the indigenous people of the colonies.

The bloody primitive accumulation is in fact based on blood and tears.

Daohua University, Guangzhou.

In the classroom with the sign "China Endeavor Association".

Several young people wearing "Dao birch suits" and shaving their hair into the standard hairstyle of the Ming Army were gathering and discussing.

"Zhong Yin, how's the situation? What is the origin of that Lan Xiang? Why is it that we are just going to do it here, and we are doing it there? ”

The young man who was talking looked a little ugly.

The other young man next to him also had a somewhat gloomy face.

"I found it out, that Lan Shen was done by Wu Wanghai and Wu Xinzhong."

"It turned out to be these two dog thieves!"

The young man at the head slammed the table, his face furious.

"The matter of running the college entrance examination training class and the technical school was ordered from above, and we only ran a new China, and the technical school has not yet had time to open."

Another young man, who had not spoken, sighed.

As soon as you hear the name, you will know that this China Endeavor Association is the "royalist" in the student organization in the university town.

There are a lot of people joining.

But the core is only three people.

Headed by Tao Shu, the son of Tao Biquan, the chief university scholar of the current university scholar's office.

Tao Shu, the word Zilin, is a native of Hunan.

And the other one is Guan Tianpei, the son of Saiguan Public Relations and Loyalty, a ship instructor at the Daming Naval Academy.

Guan Tianpei, whose name is Zhongyin, is originally from Jiangsu, but was born in Guangdong since he was a child.

The rest is from Zhang Weiping of the Zhang family in Panyu, Guangzhou.

Zhang Weiping, Zizishu, a native of Panyu, Guangdong.

All three are young people in their twenties who have received a complete "new education".

and Du Rusong, Wu Xin, and others naturally can't pee all the way.

The "China Endeavor Association" is, in today's terms, a rather radical "far-right student organization."

The proposition is naturally the same as that of Emperor Zhu, and it is obviously more radical.

Guan Tianpei frowned, and said: "Brother Zilin, this is for us to set up a new training school to absorb scholars over the age of thirty, and now it has been sideways."

"It doesn't matter, it's nothing more than to give those who are over 30 years old a way out, and at the same time to grow new learning, that's all." Tao Shu said, "Our purpose in running this training school is to bring private funds in, but now someone has just done it first." ”

"But it is Wu Wanghai, Sun Wen and others from the "Democratic Republican Research Association" who run this school, will it?" Zhang Weiping said with a worried face.

"The ass decides the head, and when the students who come out of the new school need to rely on the new school to make a living, most of them will naturally speak up for their ass." Tao Shu said.

Guan Tianpei smiled slightly, and said: "There are only eighteen people in their "Democratic Republic Research Association", known as eighteen Arhats, but in fact, there are only three or four people such as Wu Wanghai and Sun Wen who are more active. If they want to run a school, they must go to major schools to recruit people to be teachers, so let's mobilize our people to go to Lanxiang to be teachers, hehe"

"Borrow chickens to lay eggs! Good strategy! ”

Tao Shu and Zhang Weiping's eyes suddenly lit up, and they stroked their palms and praised kindness.

There are only 18 Arhats in the Society for the Study of Democracy and Republic.

But the China Endeavor Association has thousands of members.

And they are all college students who are quite active in Huangpu University Town.

So.

Mobilize the people of the China Endeavor Association to go to Lanxiang to become teachers.

You run the school.

But brainwashed people. Uh, the teacher is my person.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Zhongdu, Beicheng Tianzi Courtyard.

Inside the living room.

Lu Jiye, general manager of the New China Education Group, which belongs to the Daming royal family consortium, was holding a report and said to Zhu Daohua.

"Your Majesty, as of the end of January, we have enrolled a total of 15,000 junior college students, belonging to textile, steel, shipbuilding, chemical, construction, pharmaceutical, agriculture, mining, finance, commerce, porcelain, animal husbandry, machinery and other industries, in addition to some English, law, accounting, physician and other college students."

"Fifteen thousand? Did the enrollment go well? ”

Zhu Daohua asked.

"Smoothly, many of those scholars who have passed the age have chosen to take the junior college examination."

Zhu Daohua nodded.

Now the capitalist development of the Ming Dynasty has met the calm of talents.

If you only rely on a few schools such as Huangpu University Town, Zhongdu University Town, and Shanghai's new university for training, you have to train until the Year of the Monkey.

This is far from meeting the needs of the market.

Therefore.

Accelerated specialist training is a must.

"It seems that there are a lot of benefits to the upper age limit of this imperial examination." Emperor Zhu smiled, and then looked at the Jinyi guards on the side, commanding Gong Zhuman.

"That Lan Shen, how many people have been recruited?"

"There are almost a thousand people, and in addition, the background of that Wu Wanghai has been found out, he may be the descendant of the Marquis of Jinghai in Fujian in the former Qing Dynasty."

"No wonder he's so rich." Emperor Zhu nodded.

"Your Majesty, do you want to?" Gong Zhuman made a head-killing gesture.

Although it is said that Emperor Zhu must be polite.

But he will take a man's life.

It's definitely easy.

"No need, no need, just a little person." Zhu Daohua waved his hand, "Just continue to monitor, there are so many noble figures in the former Qing Dynasty, can they still be killed one by one." ”

"What about the Democratic Republican Research Society?"

Emperor Zhu frowned.

Emperor Zhu didn't take this research meeting to heart.

College students.

It's a bit offbeat, secondary two, it's too normal.

Emperor Zhu didn't have this open-mindedness.

But

It's worrying.

There is actually a person in it whose surname is Sun Mingwen Zhongshan, who is still a medical student.

It's really unsettling!

"Mr. Wu, there are still quite a lot of people who have signed up, and a thousand people will be recruited soon."

At this time, Emperor Zhu was a little uneasy, and even wanted to send Jinyi Wei to check on Sun Wen's quality Sun Wen Sun Zhongshan, and at this time he respectfully stood in front of Wu Dajun to report his work.

Gentleman Wu's eyes were lost in a line.

A thousand people.

The tuition fee is three hundred.

That's 30,000 dollars.

The upfront cost of running this college is 10,000 yuan, plus the recruitment of 20 teachers, and the salary for one session a year is about 10,000 yuan.

Other words.

Even if it covers the upfront investment.

The first batch of enrollment.

Not only has the cost been earned.

Also net 10,000!

In each future issue, the net profit is 20,000!

This does education.

It's much more profitable than making a newspaper and selling advertisements!!

"It's good to recruit all of them, how is the teacher's situation?"

"Many of the teachers who came to sign up to be teachers were from the China Endeavor Association."

Speaking of which.

Sun Wen's face was a little unpleasant.

His Democratic Republican Research Society has very few applicants.

But that China Endeavor Club, there is still a threshold to enter.

Even so.

There are also many college students who are quite longing.

The democratic republic has no market in the Ming Dynasty now.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is so awesome, and it will not suffer any century-old national humiliation in later generations.

In this case.

There is no urgency to save the world.

Moreover, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty has not actually brought about the reckless military force that many people have seen in the phenomenon of dragging down the finances of the imperial court.

On the one hand, of course, the finances of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of previous dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty was a quasi-industrialized country built on the basis of industrial and commercial prosperity.

There is the Royal Bank of Daming as the central bank.

There are many financial means, fiscal means to ensure their financial health.

On the other hand.

Of course, it was because of the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, which in fact brought benefits to both the industrial and commercial classes and the peasants in large numbers - although the peasants did not necessarily emigrate voluntarily, but they did provide a reasonable way out.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if they want to influence us, we can influence them too."

Wu Xinzhong said in his mouth.

But my heart blossomed.

Anyone who cares knows that behind the China Endeavor Association must be the emperor.

It was the emperor's preparation to support the new students to gradually enter the court.

In the future, the court structure will definitely become an antagonism between the old and the new factions, rather than the current struggle for power between the Guangdong Party and the Hunan Party, which will definitely be swept away.

Wu Xin Center has the intention of being an official.

The imperial examination is not good

Maybe.

Can you become an official through elections?

Getting close to the China Endeavor Association is also an opportunity for Wu Xinzhong.

(End of chapter)