From Chief to Ball

"However, can this kind of contract be carried out indefinitely? Let me tell you, it is impossible, even if it is forced by extreme measures."

"There is still a lot of plain land on the island, and it is impossible for us to implement this all-hired labor system, because we don't have enough cadres."

"It takes four years as a cycle. After four years, the people in the plantation here are familiar with the law, our organizational form, and understand each other. They will be asked to reclaim land elsewhere in the form of collective migration."

"According to a group of one hundred households, continue to divide a piece of wasteland collectively, and provide cattle and iron tools. According to the collective method, farmland or collective plantations will be opened up. In addition to the normal common tax, there will be no more management. Just plant a certain amount of rice, don’t be so strict.”

"However, grassroots organizations in villages must be established, including various women's organizations, production organizations, militia training organizations, etc. Large-scale stretches of land and plantations can save labor costs, and collective villages with hundreds of people are also easier to resist. risk."

"Our main income comes from monopolized maritime trade. We use commercial income to nourish agriculture, use agricultural production to ensure food for large workshops, and then return the proceeds with large workshops and mines to be built in the future. This method can be used here, but in It may not be available elsewhere, because there is no income from monopolizing maritime trade elsewhere, and this must be clarified in the future.”

"In the short term, in addition to the dividends of trading companies, there are two main sources of trade income on the island."

"One is deerskin. We must monopolize the deerskin trade of the aborigines. We must not allow others to intervene, and trading companies are also prohibited from directly purchasing it. Deerskin is the material used by the Japanese to make armor, and they need a large amount of deerskin."

"The other is sugar cane. It is foreseeable that the price of sugar cane will increase steadily in recent years. From a domestic point of view, the amount of sugar cane in the archipelago near the Viceroyalty of Spain cannot meet the domestic demand, let alone Europe. And with tea, coffee and other drinks As long as there is no war, the price of sucrose will rise step by step. Many of you will have the impression that the teeth of those British people were black because they liked sugar so much."

"The size of the sugarcane plantation should be maintained at this level. According to the four-year cycle, the refugees and poor people in Fujian will be recruited, and they will spend four years getting familiar with the work of the plantation and the organizational model here. The rest will be cultivated collectively. Let them plant sugar cane normally as income for small workshops in the village, but a certain amount of rice must be guaranteed.”

"Let's put it this way, part of the annual sugar cane income is used to hoard rice purchased from Thailand, Vietnam and other places. Sufficient food reserves must be achieved to prepare for more disaster victims and immigrants."

Speaking of this, some people raised their hands and said after getting approval: "If this is the case, the price of sugar will indeed gradually increase. Then after three years, the first batch of people who go out to collectively cultivate will have enough freedom and will no longer be forced laborers. , they will definitely choose to grow sugar cane."

Chen Jian nodded and said: "Yes, they will of course choose to grow sugarcane if they have enough labor and technology. However, after the establishment of grassroots organizations, they can choose administrative coercion and persuasion to ensure a certain amount of rice planting. This point cannot be too free. For sugar, the purchase and sale are unified, and the price can be lowered appropriately, or the price of other ironware, cotton cloth, or other commodities that we can produce can be raised, and the price can be regulated.”

"Three crops can be grown here a year, and with the large amount of high-quality struvite fertilizer on the nearby inaccessible islands, as long as there is no major disaster, the food problem can still be guaranteed. But it can't just be guaranteed on the island. In order to survive, we must understand what is the purpose of building this island, immigrating to reclaim wasteland, and training soldiers.”

"The following content, everyone is not allowed to record. It is strictly confidential, and it is forbidden to spread it outside."

Chapter 1 Arrangements before leaving ([-])

Most of the people present immediately stopped the pens and papers in their hands, and the people outside kept their guard. Some people were stunned, and they had already guessed a general idea, but they were not sure.

After everyone quieted down, Chen Jian made three reports on "The Land of the Ming Empire and the Tax-free Land of the Bureaucratic Class", "The System of Inequality among the Four Peoples" and "The Problem of the Powerful Gentlemen with a Sample in Quanzhou, Fujian Province" .

"Everyone, since we take human equality and human progress as our party's philosophy, we must get enough allies. For this reason, we not only need to fight for rights at home, but also need to set off a wave of opposition to feudal emperors and nobles worldwide. , priests, etc. the unequal revolution. Only when the idea of ​​equality and human progress penetrates into the hearts of every low-level people can we ensure the realization of our ideals. Not just at home, not just immigrants A paradise like the Great Wilderness City should be built alone."

"Of course, there are different forms in different places. We are here to lay the foundation for the future. Only the local people understand that launching a revolution that belongs to them in pursuit of their own beliefs is the only right way. This is a long and long journey. The process may take ten years, 20 years or even more, because the opposite side is a giant."

"But in ten or 20 years, we can cultivate batch after batch of people in Wangbei City who share our beliefs and fight for what they want. We can only pin our hopes on them instead of our salvation."

"When we succeed one day, there will be many more people in the world who agree with our dreams. Most of you here, I want to say that you are Mr. Mr. who teaches science, arithmetic, organization, planting, fighting and everything .”

"If you compare it to doing business and regard our purpose as the standard of profitability, I don't know where we can get higher profits than here-we only need to invest thousands of people, and we will get [-] million An ally who believes in the equality of all, looks forward to human progress, and believes in science and democracy."

"It's like the excuses of those who are selling slaves in China. It is a fool not to sell slaves when others are selling slaves. Then, when everyone is unequal, it is a fool to pursue equality, so what we pursue must be The whole world held together by ships is a matter, not a few of us."

"We will use one revolution after another to break the old world and old concepts, so that people in the world can agree with such beautiful things as equality, freedom, democracy, etc., and finally realize a world we want."

"At that time, those who agree with these will be normal people, and those who don't will be abnormal—rather than we are treated as aliens like now."

"As you can see, the Aboriginal people here never think that headhunting is a barbaric thing. When everyone grows up in this environment, what we think is abnormal will become normal."

"So our cause is not only in the country, but also in those barren lands, but also in all places in the world where there is inequality, oppression, ugliness and darkness. It is just because of different developments that we adopt different methods. Go for it in stages."

"From a purely scientific point of view, everyone in the world agrees with science. The larger the base, the faster the speed of scientific progress, and the better the world we pursue with science as a blueprint."

"Purely from the perspective of human nature, we can't bear to look at these unfair oppressions, and use a kind of romantic passion to devote ourselves to the world as a magnificent cause."

"What we are after is a new world, not a frog in a well hiding in a barren land. What we have to do is to sow seeds all over the world like dandelions in autumn, and move forward little by little."

"Since we are making seeds, we should be our husbands, that's all. As for the sacrifice, that is the price they have to pay to liberate themselves. If they are not willing to sacrifice, it is also their freedom to continue to endure."

"It sounds scary, it sounds scary, or it sounds passionate, but it's actually pretty boring to do."

"Because we are not going to charge, but sit in Wangbei City and teach students. The impulse to show up for our ideals may be difficult to realize."

"Actually, in the final analysis, it's just life. To live our ideal life in Wangbei City, there will naturally be people who want to follow in the footsteps here to realize their lives."

"What you have to do is to help the new group of people who grew up locally to build an organization, teach them what to learn, train these people's craftsman skills, gun tactics, mathematics, nature, and the most important worldview—— The need for an emperor, the right versus the duty, why tax exemptions, the hidden means of exploitation, the source of poverty and hunger..."

"And after breaking all that, how to build a nation of [-] million people who are equal, literate, math and science."

Speaking of this, Chen Jian smiled at everyone below, and said: "Actually, there is neither passion nor enthusiasm. For us, what we need to do is to live a good life, just like in Fujian County, Dahuang City and other places. Life is. Even, you are seeds, and the students you teach are just seeds. This...is our task at this stage."

The people below also laughed. They really didn't expect such a grand opening to get such a flat ending.

Yes, just living a good life, living in an ideal way, building, trying, and pursuing, that's enough.

Comrades from miners in Nan’an only need to change places, from Nan’an mining area at 28 degrees north latitude to Wangbeicheng mining area at 25 degrees north latitude, and then teach these young people from poor backgrounds like them how to mine, mine, and build wooden railroads , Support mine road, use detonator.

A young teacher of mathematics and natural knowledge from Lanxiang Technical School came here and spoke the same pronunciation of one, two, three, four, five, and used the fastest speed to familiarize himself with the specious words like a distorting mirror but with many identical words.For a normal salary, teaching the kids here what the world is like, while thinking that I'm changing the world.

Comrades from weaving and cotton spinning workshops only need to build a cotton workshop using Indian cotton from scratch here, and teach those women who are oppressed like them to make their own in a workshop that belongs to them and belongs to everyone. matters, earn your own money, and control your own destiny.

The pickets from the military training base only have to organize the young people here to train and teach them how to load and charge flintlock guns.Since the Spaniards and the Portuguese could train black slaves, there is absolutely no reason why these same people here cannot be taught.

Shipbuilders traveled thousands of miles to touch the high-quality teak wood brought from Thailand, dreaming of building a big ship with their names engraved on the hardwood on the side of the ship.The difference is just to tell the apprentices and interns who may teach in the future, all this is to protect such a beautiful life.

Everything else is life, not for the pleasure and satisfaction of the moment of martyrdom.After all, life is an eternal theme, and war is just a means to achieve this goal.

The only difference is that some people specialize in organization and ideological propaganda. What they have to do is to summarize the propaganda and organizational models to achieve this goal after this meeting, and according to what Chen Jian said in the A local organization with strict moral requirements based on cultural traditions is established here.

The fearless spirit of sacrifice for righteousness in traditional culture, the romantic morality of carrying forward the budding thought of petty bourgeois socialism in traditional culture, the people-oriented thought in traditional culture, and the survival and life of the people, etc., have been turned out of the pile of paper, Summarizing into a system instead of directly promoting unacceptable things that are far beyond the current era will only be counterproductive.

The gap between the times is not that big, there are not many things to catch up to, and the solution is simpler, because the time is still long and it is not time for the country to perish.

But if you want to do the two simplest things well, you can't count on the current feudal dynasty.

Such as immigration reclamation, such as universal education.

Immigrant reclamation requires organizational skills, money, fighting against barbarians, being able to use taxes at the grassroots level for immigration, breaking up clans, and establishing an independent kingdom through grassroots organizations in immigrant areas rather than family power.

The popularization of new education requires organizational skills, money, a new school model, new imperial examination content, the ability to use tax revenues for education at the grassroots level, the need to break cultural monopoly, and the need for tens of thousands of people who can learn mathematics and the seeds of natural enlightenment.

This is an era when immigrants can release domestic population pressure, this is also an era when there is no need to invest more than half of the national income in military defense, and this is an era when new crops are spread.

Even so, the process of pursuing all this must be bloody, cruel and vigorous.But for the "Gentiles" present, it is best not to participate, just live a good life and be a dandelion.

Chapter 1 Sixteen Arrangements Before Leaving ([-])

It is not without reason that the headcount is rolling. It is difficult to estimate how many tax evasion and exemptions there are, but the population of the royal family and the annual food and money required are shocking.

During the Jiajing period, taking Shanxi as an example, the local finances reserved 150 million shi for grain, but the clan clan in Shanxi needed to support 310 million shi.At that time, the clans across the country needed 860 million shi per year. Of course, it could not be all food, but it was still a scary one billion jin.

But now, that number has tripled.The national clan needs 300 million stones every year, which is about 30 billion catties per year.

Today's King Fu's fief was 400 hectares at the beginning with a swipe of the emperor's pen. It doesn't sound like much, but it is very interesting to convert it into mu - [-] million mu.And that's just one.