New Shun 1730

The macro significance of education to the whole people, the whole country, and the whole world is naturally different from the view of a single family.

Moreover, education has only been started for a few years, and it is difficult to see any benefits. On the contrary, the annual tuition fees for the township school make the people in the township community very dissatisfied.

This is also a microcosm of the difficulties faced by the township community now.

This attempt to isolate the world from the outside world, where men farm and women weave, is unlikely to succeed.

After the reform of Jiangsu was basically completed, this place became the "last piece of pure land" in the Huainan Salt Reclamation Area.

The Confucian scholars in this township community are the "last scholars" in the Huainan Reclamation Area.

The external environment forced them to make a choice.

The previous rumor was that 50,000 acres of land was to be sold in exchange for the start-up funds of the township community to keep up with the mainstream development of Huainan.

The villagers did not know how much money this would cost, but the upper-level Confucian scholars in the township community knew it because they knew how much money those areas in Huainan had invested in the early stage.

Now, either we can take advantage of the canal to sell land to get start-up capital, copy the development model of the Huainan circle, but retain the land ownership of the township.

Or, we can only be wrapped up in the reformed Huainan area, which is becoming more and more difficult.

Where did the capital for the development of the circle come from? Just like those people's evaluation of Liu Yu's new economic policy, they said that the smugglers and pirates who could be hanged suddenly became the envied major shareholders of the company; the private salt dealers who traveled around suddenly had all their criminal records wiped out and became heroes who reformed the salt administration and resisted the salt monopoly of Yangzhou salt merchants.

But now that it is like this, it doesn't matter where the hero comes from, and it doesn't matter where the capital comes from.

Selling land to raise money for start-up capital, everyone is dissatisfied.

The township school collects education funds, everyone is unwilling.

Increase grain collection, purchase iron wheel looms, set up the township's own textile workshop, and take advantage of the great development of the textile industry that came with the canal. If grain is collected again, it will reach nearly 70% tax.

It's really unbearable.

But once you miss the opportunity of the opening of the canal and the great development of the textile industry along the river, there may be no next chance. If you miss this opportunity, you can only work for the buyers and earn some labor money.

Let go of the idea of ​​self-reliance of the village agreement, let capital enter the market, and implement the buying system, then the attempt of the Yanli School will be completely failed.

The control of the village community will fall into the hands of the buyers. If the buyers are slightly suppressed, people will suffer.

Relatively speaking, if the public opinion is released on the premise that they are unwilling to sell the land, the people of the village community will think that there is still a way to go.

Cancel the village school.

Keep the original village school education fund, and after the sale, use it as capital to purchase iron wheel looms and cotton yarn.

All children drop out of school, go home to help with the work, invest manpower in the land, and ensure that more land can be covered to improve the salt removal.

Finally, a good life with one loom for each family and 50 acres of land for each family is achieved.

And this is the bottom line that the initiators of the township community absolutely cannot accept.

If even education is given up, what is the point of tossing?

In fact, those who tried to make township agreements have already compromised a lot.

According to Wang Yuan's original idea, a variant of the well-field system was to be implemented.

A rectangular piece of land was divided into twelve pieces, each of which was 50 mu. The two middle pieces were public fields, and the rest were private fields.

The villagers collectively cultivated public fields and paid national taxes.

Then each household of villagers collected three feet of silk, one tael of silk, six feet of cloth, and half a catty of cotton from private fields. And then performed a certain amount of labor every year.

In theory, this idea would definitely not work in the world.

But it was feasible in the Huainan reclamation area.

Because the land in this place is really flat and square, and it was opened from a piece of wasteland.

However, at the beginning, just as the Yanli School itself gradually gave up the idea of ​​"re-levying the original color" taxation with the Dashun reform, this variant of the well-field system was also cancelled, and the public field was no longer used.

Moreover, after paying the eleventh national tax every year, the remaining funds such as education, water conservancy, and land improvement cannot be solved by each family paying six feet of cloth, half a pound of cotton, and three days of labor.

It is not enough.

A lot of compromises have been made. Rural education is almost the last bottom line of the Yanli School. If there is no bottom line, there will be nothing left in the end.

In itself, the reclamation of wasteland and the development of industry in Huainan are major events that require considerable capital investment.

Liu Yu had long advised them that this would not work. The land in Huainan is not cultivated land, and you dare not use violent equalization of cultivated land, so you will definitely fail if you do this.

In history, when Zhang Jian was reclaiming wasteland and establishing industry in Huainan, he was also short of money.

He had borrowed a lot of official silver from the Governor-General of Liangjiang before, but he could not pay it back in the end.

Zhang Renjun had a conflict with Zhang Jian. As soon as he became the Governor-General of Liangjiang, he clamored to check the accounts and asked Zhang Jian to pay back the money. In the end, the money was also solved through standard procedures.

The so-called standard process is "burning the account books", standard technology.

Zhang Jian instigated Jiangsu Governor Cheng Dequan to rebel. Not long after, a fire broke out in the Jiangsu Civil Affairs Office, and all the account books were burned.

Even so, it was still extremely fragile. During World War I, they made money for several years by taking advantage of the imperialists' dog-eat-dog fights. As soon as World War I ended, big problems arose.

Moreover, the capital required to develop Huainan was really beyond the reach of small farmers.

Zhang Jian relied on his status to acquire land at a low price; he also raised a large amount of stock capital; he also misappropriated the public funds of the Governor of Liangjiang and finally burned his books without having to pay back the money.

Even so, the cash flow that ultimately maintains the company's operations is also ripped from farmers.

After using their status to secure land at a low price, they then recruited people to be tenant farmers.

Before renting land, you have to pay a deposit of 6 oceans, and no interest will be paid on this money. And the rented land is also wasteland.

In fact, it is an interest-free loan, but the lender is a small farmer, and the company provides only a piece of wasteland that was originally acquired at a low price.

Basically, it is the large number of small farmers who can afford six yuan, interest-free loans and free labor through "illegal fund-raising" that can sustain the development of the reclamation area.

Finally, because of He Xini's tenancy system, the idea of ​​improving cotton seeds was completely reversed after his death. The tenancy system and small farmers took 30 years to even improve cotton seeds.

Even though this time was different from that then, capital was abundant and it was imperialism itself rather than being impacted by imperialist commodities, which made the Huainan Circle area develop quite rapidly.

But these are only favorable conditions for the emerging bourgeoisie in Dashun.

For this kind of rural cooperative, these favorable conditions are meaningless, but the money invested in the early construction still has to be spent and cannot fall from the sky.

In fact, the complaints and dissatisfactions made by Zhao Liben's second brother can be summed up in a very simple matter.

Or, not integrate into the reformed Jiangsu system.

Or, blend in.

Choosing to integrate is not to lead to a peach blossom land where chickens and dogs hear each other until old age and death, but it is a very simple problem of "primitive accumulation".

The capital and primitive accumulation in other areas came from the sea, trade, robbery, smuggling, salt monopoly and the blood sucking of the five provinces.

They don't have this condition.

They are not willing to simply maintain a primitive life at the bare minimum by men farming and women weaving. They also want to "educate after getting rich" to make the people rich.

So where does this primitive accumulation, initial capital, come from?

With only 50 acres of land in the hands of small farmers, even if the weather is good every year and there are no floods, droughts or locust plagues, how long will it take to save an iron wheel spinning machine?

Of course, this kind of thing is viewed from the perspective of the entire village community.

Personally speaking, after Zhao Liben listened to his brother's complaints, he didn't think it was a problem.

Because he ran away from the gold mine riot, brought back the gold, and cleared his identity.

The first pot of gold was completed in a special way.

And we caught up with this era of change and basically completed the class jump.

How to complete the class jump, the standard answer has been given in the story "Shi Runze Meets Friends at the Beach" in Feng Menglong's "Awakening the World".

"I bought a big house nearby to live in, started thirty or forty silk machines, rented a few rooms for my family and servants, and managed the family business perfectly."

This is the completion of the class jump.

But this process is clearly explained before: good people are rewarded. When digging a hole, a bag of gold and silver was dug out, which was worth about a thousand gold. Then he opened thirty or forty silk machines, and hired a few houses for his family and boys, and he became a capitalist from a small producer.

Of course, this is a fantasy story of Ming Dynasty.

The story of Dashun is basically the opposite. Those who got the first pot of gold were either pirates or smugglers, not many good ones.

The lowest level ones are like Zhao Liben, who organizes riots and steals gold.

However, this is the current atmosphere in these reform areas. Heroes do not ask where they come from, and capital does not ask where they came from. Zhao Liben did not dwell on the rural ethics.

So he told his wife and brother that he had obtained the money, and asked them not to make any announcement.

"In a few days, I will divide the money and leave it to you. I will take some money with me and go to Gaolang Port to find San'er. If I can find it, when I come back, we will go to Guandong together, buy some open space, get some cattle and horses, and go Grow beans over there and live a good life.”

"If I can't come back, or something happens on the road, you take your sister-in-law and leave here. I don't think this place is a good place, and you can't buy land with this money, so what's the use of staying here? My I also have some friends who I have known for a long time, and I will tell you the details of where to go when the time comes.”

"I committed a crime back then. If San'er hadn't sold himself to get a few taels of silver, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to see you. Although I have never learned about rural covenants, I don't need anyone else to teach me this truth, no matter what. Life or death, I have to go to Gaolangbu."

He said this.

Zhao Liben's younger brother suddenly had a thought in his mind, or maybe he had heard too much in daily life, and thought to himself: I have never learned this before, but I am born knowing this truth. Isn't this the "conscience" in the sacred science mentioned by Mr. Shengtang? ?

I also thought that if Saner sold himself and went to Ceylon, it was because his eldest sister-in-law raised him like a mother. He has never studied the teachings of the Holy Spirit. Isn't this also a "conscience that does not worry about self-awareness"?

At this moment, he had a mysterious understanding of what the gentlemen in the church were talking about about conscience and enlightenment.