New Shun 1730

If only the Songsu Jiangnan area is considered, the vacant industrial share on the Indian side should not be allocated to Qilu at all. It should fully support the industrial development of Songsu, rapidly increase the number of textile factories through trade with Europe and West Africa, and fully accelerate the local transformation and deepening of the capitalist system.

But if the entire Dashun situation is considered, then the vacant industrial share on the Indian side must be allocated to Qilu. With the adjustment and control of the court, the difficult days of digging rivers and building embankments can be overcome.

However, even so, the decline in living standards in a short period of time is visible to the naked eye.

Indeed, compared with the beginning of the founding of Dashun, the per capita land area in Luxi has sharply decreased. After a hundred years of recuperation and population growth, the contradiction between too many people and too little land has indeed become more serious.

But the wisdom of the working people is infinite. On the one hand, women are engaged in sideline textiles, and on the other hand, the dialectical view of too many people and too little land has indeed relied on the wisdom of the working people to alleviate it.

The two-year three-crop system, of course, requires restrictive conditions such as the end of the Little Ice Age.

However, the factor of population growth must also be taken into account.

If a laborer cultivates 30 to 50 mu of land in his family, and you ask him to do the two-year three-cropping method, he really can't bear it. The workload is too much.

Along with the increase in population, population factors have also led to the rapid popularization of the two-year three-cropping system in Shandong.

Winter wheat-summer soybean-spring sorghum; or winter wheat-summer corn-spring millet model began to be promoted.

Because the per capita land has decreased, the labor force has to invest more labor in limited means of production.

And the larger population also makes the extremely tiring and labor-intensive planting method of two-year three-cropping within the labor limit.

When the per capita land is 25 mu, even if you have the technology of two-year three-cropping and the climate after the Little Ice Age, you can't play two-year three-cropping without tractors and harvesters. It's too rushed. Once it rains on the planting and harvesting days, it's impossible.

When the per capita land is 5 mu, the technology of two-year three-cropping can be quickly popularized. On the one hand, it is forced out, and on the other hand, it can really be done.

Therefore, although the per capita land area has decreased, life is really just about tolerable. Of course, this kind of passable life is just passable life. It is very fragile. If there is a little disaster, it will be over. And basically, the family has no savings at all.

Moreover, the labor intensity of three crops in two years and rushing to plant and harvest can really make people collapse.

At this time, some upper-class people and military officers in North America complained about the "lazy" farmers in North Carolina, saying that they basked in the sun during the slack season and were busy for a while in a year. However, this kind of laziness is exactly what many farmers want.

The "farmers" in the dream of being farmers that European workers longed for decades later were definitely not the "farmers" in the North China Plain who were bent over in the hot weather around Grain in Ear, harvested wheat, and then rushed to plant beans without sleeping, and then planted sorghum in the second year. They had to collect the sorghum stalks and stack them up as firewood at home, otherwise they could not even cook meals.

Of course, at this time, Dashun could definitely mock the "per mu yield" of the whole world, and it was really a mockery of the whole world.

Even now, Shandong can mock the "per mu yield" of Shandong 150 years ago.

But this "mockige" is based on the fact that people worked very hard. In fact, during the Jiajing period, the two-year three-crop system lacked sufficient labor, and it was still a semi-rough labor with one harvest per year.

It can be said that the two-year three-crop system is a technological advancement that maximizes the use of solar energy, increases the yield per unit area of ​​land, and the average per mu yield is the highest in the world. Before Chilean saltpeter and island guano were put into plantations on a large scale, the rich relied on bean cakes to fertilize the fields, and the poor relied on beans to fix nitrogen. There was no operation in the world with a higher per mu yield than this.

But it should also be clear that if there were "a family of five and a hundred mu of land", in the era of ox plowing, it would be impossible to have the strength to do two-year three-crop, and there was no need to do it.

Just like, would the French exclaim at the Dutch's feat of draining swamps to plant land? No, the French would only think, isn't this a brain problem? Isn't it tiring? How good is it to plant land in dry meadows? Why do we have to go to such great lengths to drain the swamp?

Assuming that the crops are harvested three times in two years, the yield can be increased by 1.5 times.

Calculated based on 30 mu of land with three crops in two years.

If we exclude taxes, levies, apportionments, silver and money exchange, fire consumption, etc., and only count the gross output, it can be basically regarded as the same as the wheat yield of 120 mu of land in North America.

Because in North America, 10 mu of 120 mu of land must be used as grassland, and the rest must be rotated and fallowed to plant legumes, etc. In addition, there is a firewood field for individuals, so they don’t have to burn straw to cook. Without straw, they can’t even cook.

However, the labor intensity, living comfort, and the appeal of the word "farmer" are completely different between the two.

Not to mention that taxes, levies, labor service, floods and droughts, firewood and grass, etc., are impossible to eliminate.

The agriculture of some counties in Shandong and Henan collapsed completely. Historically, it was not until the Yellow River burst its banks in 1855 that large areas of salinization, desertification, and the covering of the cultivated soil layer due to flooding and siltation were covered.

Now, agriculture and small-scale peasant economy in North China are on the verge of collapse, but have not yet collapsed.

This is the most difficult time point.

Going forward, we can transform. As long as the per capita land reaches 20 acres, and the system of men farming and women weaving collapses, it will not be impossible to survive, but at most it will be difficult to live.

Looking back, when the country actually collapses and the so-called "prosperous age" is over, if we want to carry out large-scale immigration, large-scale projects, large-scale water conservancy... Unless a central government with incredible organizational power appears again, there will be no chance.

But unfortunately, everyone is reluctant to immigrate now.

Especially the Anshan Lake area.

Because Dashun abandoned canal water transportation, the significance of Anshan Lake as a "water tank" disappeared.

When making a water tank, protecting the water tank is the first priority. Reclamation? Enclose the lake? If you catch it, it will be leveled.

Now that water transport has been abandoned, Anshan Lake is half dead with siltation. The imperial court's Caodang water transport patrol team has also been abolished. People around the lake have reclaimed wasteland around the lake. The area of ​​cultivated land has increased compared with before the water transport was abandoned.

Because Dashun is not a religious country, nor is the social atmosphere, it has created its previous glory.

But similarly, because Dashun is not a religious country, everything must be based on interests and practicality, so there is no way to use the story of the "Promised Land" or the attachment of "Exodus" to get many people to cross the ocean. , trusting the guidance of the "prophet".

Therefore, even if Liu Yu and bureaucrats at all levels explained the truth to the heavens, drew beautiful cakes, and talked about how good it would be to go there, there were still very few people who responded and great resistance.

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Generally speaking, in stories about the changing times, most will choose the perspective of a middle-class family.

Only by going up or down can we experience the ups and downs of the world and the destiny of the middle class in the era of change.

The reason why Liu Yu chose to divide the immigrants was that the first batch to be moved were the middle-income families in the rural areas of western Shandong. The reason was not so ups and downs.

Mainly the wealthy households and gentry, who did not have a strong will to rebel, gave them benefits, even hidden benefits similar to the "Fugitive Slave Law", and allowed them to coerce the tenant farmers to move to Guandong.

As for the bottom layer, no matter how bad it is, it can't be any worse.

As for these middle-class families, first of all, even if they do not have fame, they may be very close to the scholar, and at least they are educated and literate. Secondly, digging rivers and building embankments is not a good job, and the lower class may be able to tolerate it, or even I feel that the living standard has not dropped much. After all, it is already at the bottom and it will not drop any further. For these middle-income families, digging rivers and building embankments will undoubtedly be a hard life, and their emotions will be even stronger.

After all, generally speaking, even if they are forced to do hard labor... As for young men who are caught in troubled times, middle-class families will choose to pay some money and hire people.

The Wang family near Anping Lake is a typical example of such a middle-class family.

The family has not yet been separated. The old man is over sixty years old this year. He is called Wang Cheng. He is married to Mrs. Liu and is still alive.

She has four sons and two daughters who are married off and belong to other families.

The names of the four sons are also common and vulgar: dragon, tiger, leopard, and Biao, and they live together.

Old house with main hall.

Perhaps the biggest difference from the middle-class families in the western Shandong area after the Yellow River Battle in the North is that there is no boat that is always "hiding from water" on the roof.

Furthermore, because the Yellow River has not flowed from this side for hundreds of years, the old houses here do not have layers of siltation on their foundations.

The family has 40 to 50 acres of accounted land, and 78 acres of unaccounted land by the lake to cultivate and raise livestock.

All four sons are married and have children.

Before the migration was made public, everything at home revolved around the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and sisters-in-law.

The old man gave an extra half a watermelon to the eldest brother's family, the mother-in-law secretly gave two feet of cloth to the third brother's family, the second sister-in-law bought a catty of peaches yesterday but didn't give it to my child... that's all.

Self-sufficient, small-scale peasant economy, no separation of households, single life, mother-in-law is in the hands of the father-in-law, the mother-in-law is in the hands of the father-in-law, the family spins and weaves for their own use, and occasionally sells it for cotton.

This is reflected in the fact that Dashun has been undergoing changes for 20 to 30 years, and has even fought in Europe. However, in fact, changes in the outside world have little impact on such a family.

It cannot be said that changes have no impact. For example, if water transportation is abolished, this will have an impact. At least, their family no longer has to do water transportation every year, nor does it have to build the dam of Anping Lake to store water for the canal.

This is one of the few influential parties.

As for the rest, whether Songsu had begun to use steam engines, or Dashun defeated the British fleet in Gibraltar, or Dashun's cotton cloth replaced Indian cloth in West Africa, etc., these had no impact on their family.

The days went on as usual, as always.

Until the news of the migration came, the peaceful days were shattered and all the familiar life collapsed.

At this time, the eldest son Wang Hu was kneeling in front of his ancestral house, pressing his hands on the longevity coffin that the old man had made long ago, and persuaded: "Dad, it's useless. We just carried the coffin to the Yamen, and it was useless. A few days ago, the county There was already a commotion here, and a group of people carried the coffin but refused to leave. What happened? Why don't we call the sons of each family and give them a beating?"

"My arms can't hold my thighs. I'm the prince of the dynasty. What can the county magistrate do? Dad, it's useless to go. You don't know. They are all in the county with soldiers. They are all fierce and fierce. They are all from the north. Bing, that was a real fight.”

Sixty-year-old Wang Cheng slapped the table, his beard was raised angrily, and he cursed: "Is there really no king's law? In the play, it is said that Jin Wushu is bad and Donglu Tatar is bad. I think it's them. If you want to conquer the world, you don’t want to force people to move out, right? You don’t want to seize the Yellow River, right? I see, this Dashun Dynasty is about to end! Traitors are in charge, and there is no distinction between loyalty and treachery!”

Although he is not a scholar, he has read some books. His younger brother has been a scholar, but he is just a scholar without any help. But since I have read some books and know some words, I have the most basic understanding of "treacherous ministers who are ruining the country".

He had never seen what the Donglu Tatars were like with his own eyes, so it was inevitable that he would have some thoughts that they might not do anything worse than this.

Wang Long heard his father say this and hurriedly said: "Dad, you can just say this at home, but don't go out and say it... If you ask me to say it, if you can't resist it, just obey it. What else should I do? Say it. When we get there, it’s a small village between 16 and 50, with 120 acres of wasteland per ding, tax exemption for several years, and no labor..."

Wang Cheng scolded: "Listen to his fart. There is no one in Guandong. It's so cold that you have to hit it with a stick to urinate. I don't believe it. There is such a good place in the world, but no one lives there? Are you leaving?" Let’s go, I won’t go, if he insists on forcing me to leave, I will hang myself in my ancestral home!”