Chapter 57, Land reclamation and education, the dissatisfaction of the literati!
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New Army soldiers cannot read much. They only received emergency training for half a month.
It is easy to grow sweet potatoes. The New Army soldiers and immigrants who joined the army dug their food in the soil, so planting and learning are easy.
Learn quickly.
Li Zicheng and a hundred people followed the soldier's instructions and cleared the fields.
These lands are prime fertile fields that were cultivated by the Jiannu slaves.
But the owner has been replaced by Akito.
Li Zicheng grabbed a sweet potato seedling, simply marked the spacing between the seedlings, and used a small hoe produced by Xishan Industrial Bureau to throw it on the ground to place the sweet potato seedlings.
Someone came behind me with a bucket to water it!
One hundred people planted quickly, and within half an hour they had planted an acre of land.
Looking at the results behind him, Li Zicheng laughed: "This assembly line planting and small tools are really good. A team of 100 people can produce dozens of acres of land in one day!"
An old man smiled and said: "It's just the seedlings that the imperial court spent tens of millions of taels to buy. They look really ordinary."
Li Zi explained happily: "I think this thing is very powerful. It's not like you haven't seen the rice that the government gave us. That food is enough for us to eat for three months. And the New Army said that there will be more food to be shipped in the future! Butler
They give us so much rice but no grain seeds, so you can’t just ignore us in the future, right?”
The old man nodded sheepishly: "That's right, I wanted to send him!"
During this period of contact, the old man thought that moving to Liaodong was the best decision, although he suffered a lot on the way to Xuanfu Town.
But when they arrived in Liaodong, the officials not only distributed them planting tools worth several taels of silver, provided them with free houses, but also provided them with free food to last for three months.
These grains, eaten raw with bran and wild vegetables, can last for more than half a year!
The government allowed them to open up wasteland, and they were exempted from taxes. After half a year, some food would be enough for everyone to live on.
I’m really looking forward to the days ahead!
Looking at the rows of sweet potato seedlings in the field, the old man and Li Zicheng looked forward to it.
In fact, Liaodong is more suitable for planting potatoes this season.
Because potatoes are cold-resistant than sweet potatoes, they are more suitable for Liaodong.
But there are too few good varieties of potatoes, and potatoes are grown around the capital.
Li Zicheng then began to work from sunrise to sunrise in Liaodong.
After staying for a while, he gradually fell in love with this life.
Working in Liaodong, as long as you are talented, you will be promoted quickly!
Li Zicheng was very capable and had a sweet mouth, so he was naturally highly appreciated and his position was promoted quickly.
Because of his outstanding performance, the number of people he managed gradually increased, and after working for a few months, he took root.
These days, I also made a few good friends.
One is named Zhang Xianzhong, and the other is named Gao Yingxiang. These guys are half fellow villagers with him, and they are responsible for several immigration areas next to him.
Among the few people, there are petty officials and honest men.
As for how to recognize it, it is also very simple.
Because the petty officials from Liaodong had many things to do after they came to Liaodong, they not only had to learn farming, but also held frequent mobilization meetings and study guidance meetings.
The instructor said that they should unify their action policies and personnel thinking.
The more meetings they held, the more naturally they got to know each other.
Although when he was studying, Li Zicheng accepted a lot of shocking remarks.
What are we human beings?
We are born with the right to live!
Why are we poor!
How should we solve poverty!
We have land, but what else can we do besides farming?
Why will our land become less and less and we will become poorer and poorer?
In short, One Hundred Thousand Whys is proposed from a bottom-level perspective.
Ten thousand why are we like this...
They were all digging for food in the fields, haha. Everyone agreed very much with what the New Army instructor said.
Li Zicheng's favorite song is a song about building the Great Wall with flesh and blood.
The more he learns and sings, the better he gets!
After receiving many studies and educations, Li Zicheng taught the knowledge he learned to the immigrant people under his rule.
The people very much agree with this idea.
not agree?
That means there is something wrong with your brain.
It should be treated!
In this way, Li Zicheng lived in Liaodong.
As time went by, he made more friends. He chatted and fell in love with Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang and others.
Everyone has a good temper and the relationship is getting better and better.
Later, Li Zicheng also met several people with good backgrounds.
For example, Zhu Luyou, the king of Jingjiang, is a descendant of the old Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty.
When Li Zicheng first heard that this man was the prince, he was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed.
Later, when we got to know each other, I felt like that!
Because these princes do the same job as him.
Also, there are quite a few Ming princes like Jingjiang Prince Zhu Luyou.
He stayed in Liaodong for several months and met more than thirty people.
These princes have no arrogance.
What they mainly learn are farming skills, planting skills, and management skills.
Li Zicheng once tricked them and heard them say that after the spring of next year, they would lead a large army towards the north. They would have to travel thousands of miles to reach the New World and open up wasteland.
The vassal kings said that they could establish vassal states in the New World.
King Jingjiang strongly demanded that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others follow him!
They are very excited.
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Time passes quietly.
Since the Ming Dynasty solved all foreign troubles, it has gathered its strength to carry out farming and relocation of people.
Thanks to a series of tax-free measures and the purchase of grain from Annan, Nanyang and other countries at all costs, the food crisis has been temporarily alleviated.
Although many civil servants felt that Emperor Chongzhen's order to make Ming minor officials become larger officials was too shocking.
But in a disaster year, special things need to be done, so the dissatisfaction of civilian officials was temporarily suppressed.
The first year of Chongzhen was a good start.
If the people of the Ming Dynasty are cared about by their rulers, more people will surely survive.
According to official history, the situation of the Ming Dynasty in the early years of Chongzhen was actually pretty good.
It's a pity that because Zhu Youjian, a little kid and a fool played the piano randomly, he killed Wei Zhongxian and then wantonly implicated the eunuchs who relied on Wei Zhongxian.
More faction officials were killed, which allowed the Donglin Party to rise again, causing the Donglin Party to become bigger and bigger. In the later period, there were constant party disputes!
The history of the world of Xiuchundao, except for the demonic reform of Chongzhen and his brother-killing, most of the others still progress according to the historical process.
Wei Zhongxian is still alive, and there are many eunuchs who rely on him, and there are many factions in the Ming Dynasty.
The factions in the Ming Dynasty also hated the Donglin Party.
There is no way, the Donglin Party members are the only one, so everyone can only stay together to keep warm.
This is called having foreign enemies in the DPRK and uniting our thoughts!
Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty who served in the court had many problems, they were frightened by the sharp knives of Wei Zhongxian and Chongzhen and did not dare to make mistakes.
Therefore, the court's decrees can still be issued.
Just because corrupt officials consume too much, Jin Yiwei and Dongchang Fanzi’s steel swords are almost killing officials!
There were more killings and more officials were recruited, but the administration became much clearer.
This is a good thing!
However, the gentry and businessmen frequently suffered losses during this period.
During the disaster years of the Ming Dynasty in previous years, what the gentry loved most was to annex land. Merchants naturally sold grain at high prices.
It's a pity that this idiot Chongzhen is too cruel.
A Ming Dynasty provides tax exemption for all, directly solving the problem of land annexation in disaster years.
Going to Liaodong to open up wasteland, one person could get fifty acres of land, which also caused the loss of countless tenants.
The big landowners definitely don’t want to lower the rent, but the tenants are not fools!
Rent is so high in disaster years.
We don’t even have enough land to pay taxes.
If you don’t lower the rent, why don’t we immigrate?
Anyway, the imperial court provides us with food seeds.
Each person who goes to Liaodong can get fifty acres of land. Immigration is a bloody profit!
In order to save these tenants, the gentry and large landowners had to reduce rents on a large scale.
The life pressure of countless people has been greatly reduced!
Some grain merchants are trying to raise grain prices.
But Chongzhen, a weakling, is doing evil tricks!
Because it is a disaster year, in order to allow more people in the Ming Dynasty to survive, food guidance pricing has been temporarily formulated. All grain merchants must not sell grain more than one-third of the official selling price.
This pricing power directly blocks the grain merchants' Ren and Du second line!
When the businessmen saw the grain pricing power proposed by the Ming Dynasty Weekly, they absolutely disagreed.
It's a pity that they can't withstand Wei Zhongxian's knife and the public opinion offensive of Ming Weekly!
Some people refused to accept it and were suspended from street lights.
I heard that some brave people threw away the ancestral graves of these people.
After a series of killings, the heads of hundreds of merchants and gentry who were collecting grain were dried.
Forget it.
We can't afford it!
Forget it.
What’s even more frightening is what happens next!
First, the Ming Dynasty Weekly made an effort.
These people's bad deeds, including land annexation and their family's absurdities, should be published and spread throughout the world.
Later, the New Army and the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty controlled these people and allowed these unscrupulous businessmen and gentry to tour the Ming Dynasty.
Daming suddenly became lively.
As long as these unscrupulous businessmen and gentry are escorted here, the streets will be deserted!
The businessmen and gentry felt numb in their hearts.
A bad guy who gave birth to a son without a pair of eyes!
Who was it that turtle grandson who came up with such an evil idea?
Literati and gentry found that their right to speak was at risk of being shaken.
As the gentry and literati were escorted to concert tours many times, the literati became increasingly dissatisfied.
But intimidated by the wolf-like and tiger-like front of the New Army soldiers, these literati only dared to mutter a few words behind their backs.
Then, the news that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty suddenly wanted to open the Great Enke spread all over the world.
The literati who heard nothing outside the window were overjoyed to prepare for the Encore exam.
Isn’t it just some immediate benefits?
Forget it, just throw it away.
As long as I become an official, I can gain weight!
