Chapter 48: The Age of Acceleration
Lao Zhang doesn't like watching operas. Generally speaking, unless it is to flatter, he ignores cultural and entertainment skills. When a liberal arts student leader is still chanting poetry and pretends to be a college entrance examination, he will recite poetry and consider it as a college entrance examination. But if a liberal arts student leader likes opera, he has to learn two paragraphs of "Dingjun Mountain".
In Jiangyang Grand Theater, the drama has been staged at this moment, but Lao Zhang’s mind is not on this. Li Fengjie is the same. The two brothers just think that they are gathering to have a drink and have a chat while eating.
"The brothers from Changsun's family are all going to Jiangdong. The old man is very cunning. Such a cheap one will definitely not easily fall into the hands of outsiders. Fortunately, the eight counties have been added, and there is room for room for them."
When it comes to adding eight counties in Suzhou, Li Fengjie always feels a little annoying. Many of the heroes here in Jianghuai were immediately injected with chicken blood after asking for good news.
【 】 It’s impossible not to be excited, the county magistrate.
How many people have been the magistrate of the county magistrate for their entire lives?
"There are gains and losses."
Lao Zhang picked up chopsticks and held the beans, "It doesn't matter whether it's an official or making money. Instead of being entangled, it's better to dig a few more ditches and build a railway. Although the old man occupied Huqiu Mountain and became the king, it's also very beneficial. At least those who are mixed, digging ditches in Suzhou, and they dare not do anything."
"Yes, how can I compare to that old guy compared to making money?"
He smiled and shook his head. Before Li Shimin came to power, Changsun Wuji was a financial expert. After changing the Yuan Dynasty to Zhenguan, he quickly became "rich to rival the country". It is no exaggeration to say that if Yuchi Gong had not eaten Li Yuanji's possessions, it would be hard to say who the richest man in Chang'an was back then.
When he was the Minister of Personnel, the threshold set up by Lao Yin’s goods at the door of his house was whether he would come or not to give gifts.
After giving gifts, we will talk.
Those who are willing to give him gifts to Changsun Wuji mean that they are willing to stand on Changsun Wuji's side. To put it, this is considered "one of our own people".
As for talents and other things, how many people can be officials are worthy of money? If you don’t have the talent experience for a few years, you will have all kinds of talents.
There is a big difference between cultivating skilled workers in the officialdom and a factory.
"It's just... there are some things, and I'm also worried about it."
Li Fengjie lay on his back with one leg, resting his hand on his knee, and holding a wine glass in his hand.
"What is the matter?"
"In recent years, whether it is Jiangdong or Jianghuai, there are endless things to embezzle people's fields, with varying methods and diverse forms, and they can't even pick a single thorn. That is, the market is not bad at the moment. If a natural disaster occurs, and this will cover all the grain fields, it may happen if something big will happen."
The land annexation on both sides of the South Canal is simply the best. In order to soar the canal capacity, the two sides strictly control agricultural irrigation, which leads to a situation where ordinary small farmers have extremely low farmland income, and the food prices have not been lowered, so small farmers have a very difficult life.
When a large household acquires the land, as long as it is affiliated with the imperial taxation department or other transfer yamen, it can farm in the form of "special supply and exclusive supply" and can also use the water of the canal to irrigate.
The big households are not pure big households. They are often behind the official and business groups. Among them, there are countless collusion with the Transportation Office, and dozens of prefectures and counties on both sides of the South Canal are involved.
Will the chief officials of each state and county not know the corruption of the market? They know, but cannot solve it, and they dare not.
Small farmers with poor strength have to take away the land on both sides of the canal. In terms of form, it will not be a sale, but a lease contract.
As for whether this contract is signed every ten years or every twenty years, isn’t it a matter of having two words? If there is a place to endorse the land, it’s easy to use it to make a lot of things.
“There is nothing to do about this.”
Lao Zhang shook his head. Although the disasters were more or less the same as Zhang Deli Fengjing. For example, after the development of sea transportation, the importance and uniqueness of the canal transportation were naturally reduced. So for some bureaucrats in the court, it was not impossible to turn a blind eye and let "friends" lure water to irrigate the "own" fields.
So Lao Zhang said that he was powerless, and it was really useless to "clean" such interests, unless he used violent means to cleanse up such a bureaucratic group with self-moral constraints.
"Last year, the Jianghuai counties were the situation where Chuzhou and Yangzhou people's congress fought. There were at least six or seven thousand households who made a living by 'abandoned'."
Six or seven thousand households, that is tens of thousands of people. I don’t think so if I throw them to the entire Tang Dynasty.
But these are six or seven thousand households in Jianghuai. As "locals", they naturally cannot go to the ends of the world. They still understand the principle of "people leave their hometowns and are inferior".
Therefore, in order to make a living, most of them go south along the canal and then make a living near the Yangtze River.
It is rare that only those who are braver will cross the river.
“What about this year?”
"After the spring, hundreds of households scattered. Now many large shops in Jiangdu have set up banners. For example, in Heshang Town, Chuzhou, they have set up a banner of "River" to form a single body and watch over each other."
It’s not a question of being a gang, but it’s a mutual aid club, which is a bit of a bad idea.
But no matter what it is, for the outsiders who are grouped together, it is really a time bomb.
"In addition to Jiangbei, Jiangnan is also the case. For example, Liyang, there were many residents in the mountainous areas, but now they have been driven out by local large households. It is because the mountains are very good to grow tea, and the profit of opening tea gardens is extremely high. As for how the mountain people were originally resettled, it was probably the same as Jiangbei. They gave them a 'rental' every year, and they were given away."
"Wang Fuchou is just an outsider. If you want to restrain Changzhou local snakes, you can only compromise unless the court strongly supports it."
Old Zhang sighed, although Liyang did not return to Changzhou, but to Xuanzhou, most of the Liyang Township Party members were hang out in Changzhou, and few went to Xuanzhou or Runzhou. The financial owners of eating and living in Liyang tea gardens were from those Liyang fellow villagers who went to Changzhou to grow.
"Although the two sides of the Yangtze River are no matter how miserable it is, there will be no refugees. But if this continues, it will not take a hundred or twenty years. I am afraid that it will be like the surroundings of the capital. At that time, it will be uninhabited for a hundred miles."
It is acceptable to have a poverty-stricken belt around the capital, but a "no man's land"... is really a sāoāo.
In terms of the appearance of the powerful and powerful, there is really no moral difference between the powerful and the local powerful and powerful.
"If you want to give up this matter, you can just blow the magic snail in the newspaper for a few days. If you really want to turn the situation around, I am afraid that it is not the editor of your newspaper, but you will stab you twice."
Among the followers of Li Fengjie, there is no shortage of young men from local wealthy families. They can be gentle and elegant, or they can be jealous of evil. But one day someone wants to cut off their wealth and rations, and in the end most of them decide their heads.
Even if Li Fengjie is full of courage, how many times can he get mad?
"I'm just feeling a little bit. I'll never know how to really let someone become a hero in savior."
Hearing Li Fengjie say this, Lao Zhang nodded slightly and couldn't help but feel relieved.
In fact, it is already amazing that Li Fengjie can observe this phenomenon.
The future development of the times may be out of control, and this violent direction will generally only compress the three hundred years of dynasty cycle law within ten or twenty years.
Chapter completed!