New Shun 1730

Anyway, this is the situation.

Cotton cannot be grown in the bean-producing areas of Northeast China, and it is also the place with the highest per capita demand for cotton and cloth. Huainan salt workers can go barefoot without pants; Northeast China at least needs a pair of cotton shoes, a pair of cotton pants, a hat and a jacket. This is not something that can be saved by "saving a little, cutting a little". Even if the capital of enclosing land to grow beans is used, the laborers who work must be guaranteed to survive in winter.

The Nanyang plantation is hot, but being shirtless is a privilege in the temperate zone. When working in tropical plantations, you have to wear clothes, otherwise you will die easily. Including but not limited to heatstroke, mosquitoes, bites, severe sunburn, etc.

It is possible for Hebei to grow cotton and develop textiles, which are popular in Guandong, Mongolia, and Henan. But Dashun is about to attack India, and there is no hope for Hebei to grow cotton and develop textiles, unless the textile industry here can no longer take it, it is possible to leak cotton to the North China Plain.

From the perspective of geography and shipping, the cotton textile industry in Guangdong seems to be likely to develop greatly.

But Guangdong was badly cheated by Liu Yu, and is now busy cleaning up the mess after the trade center moved north. The Pearl River shipping, the Wuling Ancient Road transportation industry, and the raw material of Yuejin, Lake Silk, were monopolized by Southern Jiangsu and no longer transported south. The silk weaving industry collapsed, and there were a lot of troubles.

If there were a few waves of uprisings, the remaining capital would definitely flee to Southern Jiangsu and Shanghai, just like the Yanghuai capital that was deliberately cheated by Liu Yu.

After all, capital has long legs.

Therefore, for a long time, there is no need to worry about the failure of the Jiangsu model and being slapped in the face.

While being shocked, Quan Zheshen also thought that this is not Jiangnan after all.

This is already like this, what about Jiangnan?

After being excited and shocked, Quan Zheshen suddenly thought of a question.

Since life here seems to be pretty good, why is the attempt of the township agreement and village community by Meng Songlu and others not very successful?

If life here can be good, why can't it be good over there?

When this question was asked, Meng Songlu was slightly stunned for a moment, and finally gave an answer that was quite characteristic of Southern Jiangsu after many years of reform.

After years of subtle influence, some economic ideas are still very clear around Liu Yu's set of things.

"Insufficient capital. Transportation was inconvenient before."

"Now the canal has been repaired, and water conservancy, seawalls, etc. have been basically completed. The most difficult days have passed, but now we owe a lot of money... We haven't completed the primitive accumulation. After the canal from Funing to Nantong was repaired and the infrastructure was built, everyone knew that things would get better soon. But all those who are willing to lend us money require us to use land as collateral in order to reclaim the land in the future."

"The people in the village here are men farming and women weaving, but they are not men farming and women weaving. The looms are not theirs, the cotton yarn is not theirs, and the woven cloth is not theirs."

"So I said, this is men farming and women weaving, but it is not."

" The infrastructure here was completed during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty. This hardship was suffered by the people of Wu during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen. The predecessors planted trees for the next generation to enjoy the shade. "

"And the infrastructure from Funing to Nantong, seawalls and water conservancy, etc., have to be undertaken by ourselves, and the predecessors did not leave anything. We only cared about the size of the enclosure at the beginning, and enclosed 240,000 acres. The capital was insufficient, and the vitality was greatly damaged in the subsequent infrastructure. "

"Waiting for the completion of infrastructure and the construction of the canal, there was no money to buy iron wheel looms. "

"Xingguogong's industrial support low-interest loans were strictly reviewed, and he directly came forward to deny it and resolutely refused to lend it to us..."

Speaking of this, Meng Songlu was also a little unhappy, thinking that this was unfair.

Those capitals that enclosed land in northern Jiangsu do not need to consider the issue of self-accumulation.

Relying on overseas trade, salt industry profits, etc., the primitive accumulation was completed early. Whether it is water conservancy or seawalls and canals, they are all early investments and money-losing goods.

But they can afford it.

After surviving the canal infrastructure construction period, the cotton fields in Huainan are about to take off.

The textile capital in Nantong will also go north along the canal from Funing to Nantong, constantly infiltrating and disintegrating, turning more of the men farming and women weaving along the canal into the strange model of men farming and women weaving.

The attempt of the village covenant at that time was a retro system.

It was a land distribution system, relying on the "universal love" advocated by Cheng Tingzuo and the Confucian family ethics as the unit, relying on the village covenant advocated by the village sages as the cornerstone, and the Taizhou school's aggregation meeting as the model, which was a strange thing.

Now that it has come to this point, what should be done next? There are great differences among the various schools of thought that have been involved.

Take the situation in the village that Quan Zheshen sees now. There are more than 400 households that have not been driven away and remain in the village. This is a big village.

More than 600 iron wheel looms have poured into the village, but these looms are not owned by the villagers, but by capital.

If the villagers buy them themselves, when will they be able to buy them?

Cheng Tingzuo had considered asking each household in the township and village to contribute money to buy a few looms. But this idea had a big problem.

Who would own the looms after they were bought?

Who would own the income?

Would the cloth be used internally or sold?

How much would the weavers get?

Each household was an independent family, so many contradictions would inevitably arise in this situation.

Some retro-styled people said that it would be better to imitate the early Ming model and implement the artisan household system. The township and village would provide people to become specialized artisans and complete a certain amount of weaving every month.

But when this idea was proposed, it was rejected internally.

In the excitement at the beginning, 240,000 acres of land were enclosed for trial.

Taxes were paid as usual.

The cost of water conservancy projects will be paid as usual. For canal excavation, the northern Jiangsu area will pay two-thirds of the money according to the enclosure area, and commercial capital investment is prohibited to prevent water charges in the future.

After the excitement, there is a lack of money everywhere.

Moreover, before the canal from Funing to Nantong is built and the enclosure of Huainan is basically completed, the commercial capital in Songjiang does not want to lend them money at all.

There are collaterals.

However, this collateral is pure trouble.

The reclamation company can get a loan, and it is very convenient to get a loan, because the land belongs to the reclamation company, and the workers are hired.

If the land is really reclaimed, just reclaim the land and manage it yourself.

And this township agreement village community is to grant land to the people so that the people can have permanent property.

When Huainan enclosed the land, it caused a lot of trouble because of the property rights of salt households.

Capital did not want to lend money to this troublesome village community at all.

If the land is not reclaimed and the farmers who stabilize the lives of small farmers cannot pay the money, will they be willing to work as hired workers with nothing?

By then, the riot will be troublesome enough.

Wearing shrouds to the county government office, cutting off flesh and fingers to show one's determination, who can bear this?

Don't say it's different. At the beginning, the salt households only had the right to use the grass marshes but not the ownership, but didn't they still riot for three to five years and the army was mobilized to suppress it?

However, with the completion of the canal, the enclosure of land in Huainan was basically completed, and the value of land increased sharply.

Capital considered the profits of the future acquisition of land and the troubles that might be caused by the acquisition of land. The profits beat the troubles, so now it is naturally willing to lend.

Liu Yu had given Cheng Tingzuo some advice before, saying that you can follow the example of other places in Huainan that have enclosed land and set up this kind of company model.

At most, you can be better to the people and give more profits to the people, which is better than the four-not-like you are now.

Or, more radically, all the property is shared.

If it is set up as a company model, at least it can gather capital, fertilize the land, plant cotton, develop textiles, accumulate capital bit by bit, and complete industrial upgrading.

Now it has become a weird model. It was said long ago that the small-scale peasant model of Huainan Salt Reclamation would only lead to land degradation and anti-salt in three to five years, but you just don't believe it.

And waiting for the arrival of the industrial revolution in the future, it will be almost at the same time as the completion of infrastructure, and you will have no capital to upgrade at that time.

Even if the canal is completed, capital will go north along the river and spread looms to the countryside.

But can the profit from raising funds to buy looms be the same as the profit from using other people's looms and receiving yarn from others?

That's how it was at the beginning, first upgrading from growing grain to growing cotton, and then from growing cotton to weaving. Is it necessary to make it so embarrassing?

And Liu Yu also made it very clear at the time that the capital of those who enclosed land in Huainan cannot be compared with you.

Those capitals were accumulated bloodily by plundering the salt profits of the people in the five provinces and by taking the dividends of the Dashun war against Japan and Southeast Asia.

Do you think the court really attacked Japan for the Ryukyu issue? Wasn't it just coveting Japan's silver?

The people of the five provinces paid for this money from salt, the people of Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia paid for this money from cloth, and the people of Europe paid for this money from porcelain, silk and tea. You don't have this money, so you will definitely be finished if you do this.

Of course, Liu Yu played a not very good role in this.

Theoretically, he could use his power and position, or in order to set an example, reduce the money that the township and village should pay for the five-year major infrastructure construction in Huainan, or even provide low-interest loans.

But this model is not what Liu Yu likes at all.

There were all kinds of ridicules, and they also ridiculed that they were playing retro acting for fun, so naturally they were unwilling to reduce or exempt a penny.

A group of people, within five years, have to accumulate capital from scratch for each family.

They also have to bear the overall major infrastructure construction in Huainan.

They also have to bear the northern expedition of textile capital accompanying the completion of the canal, pulling the canal area into the loom rural area.

If this can be borne, it will really rewrite all economic knowledge.

Anyway, this is what Liu Yu is happy to see, and it is the victory of capitalism over retro fantasy.

As for the prosperous areas around Nantong that Meng Songlu saw because of Quan Zheshen, it was indeed as Quan Zheshen said: the infrastructure was completed during the time of Liu Bi, the nephew of Emperor Gaozu of Han and the King of Wu.

Anyway, the people who built the canal have been dead for almost two thousand years, and the corvée labor of the court to build the river has never stopped. The predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoy the shade, which is different.

The people in this place naturally live a happy life.

The money for the infrastructure construction in Huainan was also used from the salt profits of the five provinces and the money of the people from overseas countries. Those big capitals who enclosed land and planted cotton were not difficult.

They did not have to do labor to dig the river. There were a lot of tenants who were driven out of the countryside and refugees after the decline of Yanghuai.

Meng Songlu and others just felt that this matter was unfair, but they did not have too much dissatisfaction with Liu Yu.

Three to five years of large-scale infrastructure, without basically hurting the people, a parallel "Fan Gong Dike" and a new canal from the Huaihe River to the Yangtze River were created. This achievement is always enough to be enshrined in the Fan Wenzhenggong Temple in various places in Huainan. Fan Gong Temples elsewhere are definitely not qualified, but the Fan Gong Temple in Huainan is mainly for the benefit of Fan Gongdi in later generations.

As for the decline of Yangzhou, their school's attitude is only slightly regretful. Otherwise, Cheng Tingzuo and Wu Jingzi would not have fallen out over the issue of salt reform and the issues of great and small righteousness.

Meng Songlu may not have noticed that his analysis of the economy has subtly formed a different analysis mode from the past.

He did not think there was anything abnormal, but tried to integrate this new economic analysis idea with the original Confucianism.

Anyway, Quan Zhe was going to the village to meet with the village community, instead of sighing after arriving there, "the country is nothing more than this".

It is better to take a look at these prosperous areas first, and feel the emotion of the prosperity of the previous country, and then take precautions and explain clearly the special situation faced by the rural communities.

Moreover, this in itself is also a reminder to Quan Zheshen: getting rich first and teaching later is the concept of the Master, which is proved by the Analects of Confucius.

If you want to be rich, dig a river first.

It not only provides transportation, but also provides water conservancy.

However, this itself is also a practical dilemma of Confucianism: taking Korea as an example, suppose that if you use light and heavy techniques to gather money, then build water conservancy, dig canals, and install irrigation. Right or wrong?

This again involves the disputes between schools of Confucianism since the Song Dynasty, or in other words, whether "Guan Zhong", the insinuated scholar in Dashun Confucian circles at this time, is benevolent or not?

In addition to the "Guan Zhong" who alluded to Xianxue, the real Guan Zhong was benevolent. This also involves tracing the way of the previous kings. Where can we pursue it?

Are you chasing Zhou Kong?

Or chasing after Confucius and Mencius?

Or chase after Kong Xun?