Li Zhongren is not afraid of Liu Guangzong, the commander of Luojiang County.

On the one hand.

He himself is a councilor of Luojiang County and a major taxpayer in Luojiang County.

If Liu Guangzong wants to make some political achievements in Luojiang County - according to the standards of the current Ming court, collecting more taxes than before is good political performance.

Now the promotion of officials in the Ming court has a bit of "GDP only" meaning.

The gap between the rich and the poor and the concentration of land and wealth are very serious.

"Councilor Li, of course this official knows that you have a reason, and what you do is not against the law of the country, but the law of the country is nothing more than human favors, this Wang Asheng is also from Daqiao Town, a native of his hometown, why can't you talk about some human feelings."

"Lord Liu, I Li do things, pay attention to etiquette and legality, I Li is now a trader, as long as it does not violate the law of the country, then naturally how to make a profit. If I rent the land to him, will he have the capital to invest? There is no capital to invest in this land, and a good land will be ruined in a few years, and he can't eat enough, and I can't collect a few of them. Now it's good for me and him, whether it's going to Chengdu or Shanghai, you can find a job, now Shanghai is short of workers, we Sichuan people have been there a lot recently, no matter how bad, go to the Northeast, there will be a hundred acres of land, it's better than staying in your hometown to suffer. To tell you the truth, my three sons, I plan to let the eldest inherit the family business, and the second and third go to the New World. ”

Li Zhongren's words are true.

Because Li Zhongyi brought a letter back from the New World.

The New World is a great place.

The natives of that place are very stupid, and the territory is fertile, which is better than Sichuan.

Now, the average household is 120 acres of land.

And as long as you know a little bit of writing, you can basically become an official!

It's also a bitter tear to say.

Li Zhongren himself is a top student.

But none of his sons inherited his scholarly genes.

The eldest son is sixteen years old, and his grades in school are hard to describe.

The second son and the third son like to dance with knives and guns, and have no interest in reading at all.

Therefore, it is hopeless to count on Sichuan, to participate in the imperial examination and become an official in China.

But went to the New World.

With Li Zhongyi's care, the second and third children who are coarse and well-versed in literature and ink, it is still very easy to find an official in the Jinshan Governor's Mansion.

Because Li Zhongyi has now become the six-pin tuntian official of the Tuntian Division of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion.

The speed of promotion is also very fast.

Liu Guangzong shook his head.

The second and third eldest of the Li family went to the New World.

Can it be the same as Wang Asheng's family to go to the Northeast, to the South Seas, or even to the New World?

The second and third elders of the Li family will go to the New World, and they will definitely prepare sufficient funds for them, and the boat they take is not a very crowded immigration ship with poor sanitary conditions, but a passenger ship of the New World Passenger Transport Company, and the tickets are very expensive, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

With start-up capital.

The eldest and second of the Li family went to the New World, and life was much easier.

Even according to the [New World Enclosure Law], the Li family can still hire a group of people to go to the New World Enclosure Land!

In addition, the second master of the Li family was an official in the New World.

The second and third elders of the Li family went to the New World to start a business, not to make a living.

And a poor family like Wang Asheng's.

I can't afford to pay for the boat from 10,000 miles away.

There will also be no start-up capital.

So they had to go to the collective farms and were assigned to the most dangerous places to explore.

in the Northeast.

In the land south of the Heilongjiang River, collective farms have already begun to be abolished.

New collective farms have been arranged in the plains north of the Trans-Khingan Mountains.

Although it belongs to the Ming Empire on the map.

But there are many indigenous peoples.

The savage tribes of the jungle could attack the Han collectives at any time.

In the South Seas, new collective farms were built on the island of Guinea, also to fight against the local natives.

Collective farms also began to be established in the Western Regions and in the agricultural lands of Tangnu and Ulianghai.

These places are frontiers, close to some nomadic tribes, and not very peaceful.

In a word.

If a person like Wang Asheng wants to join a collective farm, he can only go to the most dangerous place - the collective farm, which has to fight, basically the same as a military household.

In places that are not dangerous, there is no need to set up collective farms.

Wang Asheng knelt on the ground with a look of despair.

What kind of world is this?

You can't even farm with peace of mind.

The evil capitalist system has once again closed a poor peasant family to a dead end.

He fell to the ground, unable to cry, and his tears were dry.

Liu Guangzong, who was sitting in the public court, opened his mouth, his face was pale, and his eyes were filled with tears.

At this moment.

Liu Guangzong really wanted to hang a seal and leave.

to make a humble protest against the way of this mortal man.

Lord Liu is a good official.

He gritted his teeth.

It was decided to send this story to the Central Capital through a song.

Although he knew that the emperor would not see this story nine times out of ten.

But he still has to write, he still has to say.

The Holy Son of Heaven, rule by hanging the arch.

Living with people's livelihood is the right way.

How can we force the peasants of the world to travel thousands of miles to explore the great northeast, northwest, South Seas, and the New World?

If he has the opportunity, he will die in front of the palace.

I want the Son of Heaven to suppress mergers, suppress and drive tenants, and live with the people!

And to do all this, you still have to be an official.

Liu Xianling, who had lofty ideals, took a deep breath, looked at Wang Asheng who was lying on the ground and sighed.

Instead, Li Papi snorted coldly: "Wang Asheng, don't blame me, this field is mine and not yours, I want to take it back and plant it myself, and I will also give you the rent you owed before, I am benevolent and righteous, and go to Guanwai, to Nanyang, to the northwest, to the New World is the way out, go, there are more than 100 acres of land, much more comfortable than in Sichuan, like you are penniless, how bad is it to break through." ”

Wang Asheng raised his eyes, stared at Li Zhongren, and said viciously: "Li Papi, what you said is light, why don't you go?" Traveling thousands of miles, nine deaths and one life, if it was so easy to get more than a hundred acres of land, people would have squeezed their heads a long time ago."

"Isn't it a squeeze now? Not to mention anything else, don't you know how many people have left in our Bridge Town in the past two years? If you want to be rich and noble, but you don't dare to win, you deserve to die in poverty for your family. Hearing Wang Asheng call himself Li Peel, Li Zhongren's face also darkened.

"Don't make any noise!"

Liu Guangzong was a little angry by the two guys from Daqiao Town.

"Wang Asheng, going to the collective farm is not nine deaths, it should be said that nine lives and one death." Liu Guangzong smiled bitterly.

In fact, nine deaths and one life are also exaggerated.

Now the medical industry of the Ming Empire is very developed, at least antibacterial drugs are enough.

Therefore, the ratio of loss rate on the road is not high.

Of the 100 people, about three or four died.

Because Luojiang County wants to assist immigrants, they can get a rebate of more than ten yuan when they are delivered to their destination.

So Liu Guangzong is still clear.

And the officials who escorted it couldn't have made people die so much.

There are many deaths.

The cost of travel and food along the way will be lost.

Immigration companies pay on a capitation basis.

The dead don't want it.

"I have an eighty-year-old mother, if I travel thousands of miles, how will my mother be?"

Liu Guangzong was a little embarrassed: "Then don't take the old mother and hand it over to the clansmen to raise, and the county government will subsidize one or two, how about it?" ”

Wang Asheng kowtowed and said: "Thank you Lord Liu, the adults are very gracious, the grass people have no teeth and are unforgettable, as the old saying goes, parents are here, don't travel far, the little ones can't be unfilial sons, and the little ones go to Chengdu to find a living errand." ”

Liu Guangzong nodded: "It's rare to have a piece of filial piety, so let's do it, the official has a classmate who opened a cement factory in Chengdu, the official sees you as a filial son, so he recommends you and your eldest and second child to go to where he works, your second child is sixteen years old, not child labor, each of the three people has three cents a day, nine cents a day, and more than 20 yuan a month, which is enough for you to support a family." Also, the spinning mills in Chengdu will recruit female workers, so you can let your daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law try it. ”

When Wang Asheng heard this, he kowtowed again and again to thank him.

Workers in Chengdu are not paid very much.

But Wang Asheng had two sons and two daughters.

Except for the youngest daughter, who is only thirteen years old and counts as child labor.

The rest are over the age of 16 and can be paid as adult workers.

Female workers are paid a little lower, only two cents a day.

Girl workers are paid only a dime a day.

That's it.

Wang Asheng's family of five if they can find a job.

He and his two sons, nine cents a day.

Daughter-in-law and eldest daughter, four cents a day.

The youngest daughter has a dime a day.

Do a day with a piece of four.

That's really not a low income.

And the factory generally manages two meals.

That is, if there is nothing to spend.

This money is purely earned.

The family rents a house and raises an old mother.

I can save more than ten or twenty yuan a month.

Although the cost of living in the city is high.

But compared to being a tenant, in fact, going to the city to beg for a living, it is actually better than being a tenant.

What happened in Sichuan, of course, Emperor Zhu did not know.

But in fact, he knows very well what is happening in the Ming Dynasty now.

The traditional small-scale peasant economy is gradually disintegrating.

The countryside of the Ming Dynasty began to transform into a new era.

The process of transformation is painful.

Especially those farmers at the bottom who are actually bearing the cost of the transition.

The Ming Empire was different from all previous dynasties.

The dynasty established by Emperor Zhu is influencing this ancient country in the most profound way.

Decaying dead wood and old bark from old trees are falling.

The new shoots that replaced it did not know if they could bring a real new life to this ancient tree.

At this moment.

Emperor Zhu received some ministers from Korea at his Jiangbei Palace.

The North Korean ministers, dressed in red robes, knelt on the ground, many of them still sobbing quietly.

"Your Majesty. Pyongyang was breached. ”

The Korean war in the central capital came to the Jiangbei Palace and cried to Emperor Zhu.

It was Zhao Jiakun who was talking, and Zhao Jiakun was really a little old and tearful now.

This was apparently frightened by the news coming from North Korea.

Emperor Zhu's face was very calm.

The recent international situation has been too favorable for the Ming Empire.

There are no forces around that can threaten the core interests of the Ming Empire.

The war also gradually faded away.

The Ottoman Empire did not continue to send weapons to the Russian Empire in exchange for the Ming Empire.

They signed the [Istanbul Treaty].

The Ottoman Empire leased the Isthmus of Suez and the port of Iskenderun to the Ming Empire for 99 years.

Meanwhile.

The Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire signed the [Ming-Ottoman Tariff Agreement].

Each side grants the other the most favored nation status – goods from both countries can enter their respective markets with minimal tariffs.

However, this treaty was clearly unilaterally beneficial to the Ming Empire.

Because the Ming Empire is now the world's factory.

They export too much stuff.

And the Ottoman Empire basically had nothing to export.

Oh.

When they have something to export – say, when the oil of the Arab region starts to become valuable.

Giving the lowest tariff on imported oil is beneficial to Daming.

The Ottomans were a closed and large empire.

Now the market of this country is completely open to the Ming Dynasty.

Other words.

It is not far from the time when the goods of the Ming Empire used the Ottoman Empire as a transit point and entered Europe on a large scale.

Another important significance is that the Ming Empire finally got a port in the Mediterranean.

Once the Indian Ocean fleet of the Ming Empire entered the Mediterranean.

Then the Ming Empire will have the ability to use force to influence European countries!

However, it was not easy for the fleet to enter the Mediterranean.

The Strait of Gibraltar between the Iberian Peninsula and West Africa was so narrow that it was in the hands of the Spaniards.

The navy had to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and sail thousands of miles north to reach it.

Such a long expedition, breaking the blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, is too difficult just to think about.

It would be much more convenient if the Suez Canal could be opened.

Emperor Zhu thought about it for a hundred years, while watching the performances of these North Korean officials with cold eyes.

After the North Korean officials finished their performances.

Emperor Zhu coughed and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the problem of North Korea is not in the military, but in politics, and in the monopoly of wealth and power by two classes of wealthy families. ”

"Ministers wait for ten thousand deaths."

Emperor Zhu hasn't finished his words yet.

A group of North Korean officials hurriedly began to kowtow.

The DPRK has come to the current situation, and it is certainly inseparable from the two classes.

However, these people are not worried that Emperor Zhu will really take advantage of them.

After all.

If the fourteenth prince of the Ming Dynasty wants to be the king of Korea, he still can't do without these people.

Emperor Zhu, however, seemed to have little interest in the kowtowing of officials.

He continued: "The core problem of North Korea lies in the privileges and land annexation of the two classes, the two classes do not pay food, do not serve, and monopolize the official positions of the DPRK, so that there is no way to rise at the bottom, as for the land annexation, seventy or eighty percent of the land in the whole of Korea is in the hands of a few large households, such a serious concentration of land, it can really be said that Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!" ”

The ministers below had their heads on the ground, not daring to speak, but their bodies began to tremble.

Listen to what this means.

Son of Heaven, I'm going to use the knife to the two shifts.

"Since the Ming Dynasty is the father of North Korea, then I am naturally responsible to the Korean people, since the root of the North Korean problem is here, it is impossible to turn a blind eye, the two classes need to cancel the privileges and give the Korean people an equal share of the land of North Korea! If you agree, follow my fourteen sons, and when Korea is pacified, there will be a prince, if you don't approve, now go back to the Donghak Party. ”

(End of chapter)