New Shun 1730

Amid the resentment between the father, son and brother, a guest knocked on the wooden door.

The private school teacher in the village, all of whom were relatives of the surname Wang, and who had taught Wang Long and his brother, came to the yard with two bottles of Guandong sorghum wine in glass bottles that had a very "industrial" feel.

When the father, son and brother saw the private school teacher, they knew that he was here to be a "lobbyist" again. But after all, they were all distant relatives in the village, and they had to kowtow during the New Year. It was not easy to drive them out, so they could only ask their wives to boil water and invite them to sit down.

When the wine was placed on the table, it was reasonable to say something like "Come if you want, why are you taking things?"

But this time he didn't say it, and the old man Wang Cheng was not in a good mood, and asked: "Is this wine also given to you by the higher-ups? Are you here to nag about moving again? If so, take it back, I won't drink this wine, it makes me sick."

The private school teacher stroked his beard and smiled: "If you say it is, then it is. The money given by the higher-ups allows us, the private school students, to "study" and to reason with you after we finish learning. This wine is indeed bought with the money given by the higher-ups."

Wang Cheng's face just changed, and the private school teacher said again: "But if you say it is not, then it is not. I have already delivered my words, and I have done my work. I have a clear conscience for the money I received. We must move, and it can't be changed whether we persuade or not. I came here with wine at this time because you are a well-known stubborn person, and I came to talk to you."

As soon as he said this , the father and son all heard it and asked curiously: "You want to move too?"

"Of course, I want to go too. It's said that there will be a teacher there. Even if the imperial examination is to be discussed later, it is not necessary to take the imperial examination to be able to read, right? I have studied for many years, but I am just a scholar, and I have long given up the idea of ​​passing the imperial examination. But when I went to Jinan Prefecture to "study", I heard those young people say that even if they didn't take the imperial examination, they had to be able to read. After hearing this, I decided to move there."

"I will get money and rice there, and when my son grows up, he will also be given land. Why not go?"

"Brother, you don't have to be stubborn, you might as well think about it. Your family is indeed living a good life. Isn't it only forty or fifty acres of land?"

"In the future, we will have to separate. By then, there will be four brothers, and each of them will have only ten acres of land. Then he There are four brothers, but no son? Ten acres becomes three acres, three acres becomes nine tenths, it can't be changed into land, right? "

"To put it bluntly, if the year is good, everyone is good. Whose land are you going to buy? If the year is bad, everyone is bad, how can you buy land?"

"I did receive money from the higher-ups to preach these things. But money is money, reason is reason, I think what they said makes sense. The Yellow River will be a problem sooner or later."

Hearing this, Wang Cheng was furious and cursed: "Yellow River, Yellow River! I have never seen the Yellow River flow through Shandong, my grandfather has never seen it, and my great-grandfather has never seen it! You say the Yellow River is scary, but the Yellow River doesn't flow through Shandong at all. No matter how scary the Yellow River is, what does it have to do with us?"

The private school teacher sneered and said, "How old are you? Even if we add our ancestors How many years has it been since the clan moved here? There are so many things you haven't seen. If you haven't seen them, then they are fake?"

"Why did Sima Gong write history? Why did all dynasties say that history is a mirror? A person's life is only a few decades, how can he understand a fool? Look through the history books, how many years did the Yellow River flow north? How many years did it flow south?"

After that, he slammed the two bottles of wine on the table, knocking on the glass bottles and said, "Have you seen this stuff before? Wait a few days, when we go over there, you will know. Look at the things over there, they are completely different from here. I have been there and seen them."

"Let's not talk about anything else. Do you think that corn, beans, sweet potatoes, and peppers are all from our ancestors and have always been there? I tell you, no, they are passed down from Fusang."

"I am not young this year, but I really hate that I was born twenty years earlier. This time I went to Jinan Prefecture to "study" and took a car to Jiaodong to see the four words "daily changes". "

The private school teacher sighed and shook his head and said: "I am not here to tell you these truths today. I am here to do something practical today. Sell the things at home if you can. Sell them now, and you can still get a few dollars. Otherwise, when you really have to leave, you won't be able to sell them for a penny."

"If you don't leave, they will really dare to demolish your house and dig up your land. Where can you go to seek justice?"

"Not to mention that if you go to the county government, Dalong will definitely be beaten with a stick. Even if you go to the capital and file a complaint, do you think the emperor doesn't know about this?"

"Besides, how big is your matter? There are many people with honors in Jiaodong who are engaged in permanent tenancy? But what is the result? Didn't they get their honors revoked? The master who is the god of literature couldn't make any progress, do you really think you can scare him by hanging yourself?"

"I'm telling you straight... This is what I learned from my 'study' in Jinan Prefecture. They told me clearly at that time: This matter can't cause any trouble, and they are not afraid of rebellion, because they can't revolt."

"North of the river, nothing has moved."

"South of the river, from Jinan Prefecture to Jiaodong and Leiden, people have been practicing permanent tenancy, opening factories, and building railways. Those who can really revolt will not revolt now."

"The only thing is that the river area is hundreds of miles wide, and people can make trouble as they please. It's useless."

"At that time, the lecturer said so. He said it very clearly, people are not afraid of trouble at all, and they are not worried about rebellion."

"In fact, let me say something unpleasant. They are eager for you to rebel. What's the point of you rebelling?"

"People in the south are working as permanent tenants, so they won't make trouble with you. People in the north are doing business as usual, and there is no more corvée service on the canal. Why would they rebel? If the people in the river and lake areas really make a fuss and rebel, wouldn't that be a handle for others?"

"When the time comes, just kill them all, and even save the money for migration. Do you really think migration doesn't cost money?"

These words were said coldly.

The words relayed by the private school teacher are actually a little bit of the art of ruling. And the reason why they were told this was mainly because they were scholars, and unsuccessful scholars.

These truths are actually an analysis of the situation, telling these unsuccessful scholars and potential leaders of the rebellious organization: the Yellow River channel will not cause a one-eyed stone man, so you'd better be clear-headed and don't lose your life in vain.

This private school teacher has studied and passed the imperial examination. But he figured it out early and felt that he had no hope of passing the imperial examination, so he just made a living like this.

Reading the books of sages, in fact, is not about governing the country, but a selection process. Emperor Taizong joked that this thing is just a decimal point compared to the rate of reciting ancestors, which is actually the same. Many things about governing the country, being an official, and governing are not learned from the books of sages.

But reading is always about literacy, and literacy is easy to learn principles. This private school teacher went to Jinan Prefecture for "further study", which can be regarded as a sudden enlightenment, because in Jinan Prefecture, someone spoke some simple principles directly and openly.

Don't be too blunt.

In short, the Songsu reform has been completed, and the northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui regions have stabilized due to road construction, coal mining, etc.

To the north is the capital, where the elite garrison of the court is located.

The canal was abandoned, and now there is no fear of rebellion in the canal area to "cut off the canal."

Even the digging of the canal was not done right away, but preparations were made in advance.

Let's not talk about the Leiden area, which was where Liu Yu trained his troops and started the transformation earlier. In addition, the sea route to Guandong later greatly eased the contradictions.

Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture were not in chaos at all, but were the beneficiaries of the reform.

Yizhou Prefecture, due to the development of Haizhou salt industry, expanded salt to the north, and at the same time changed the salt industry of Qingzhou Prefecture and Wuding Prefecture to the seaside of Yizhou Prefecture, which was also thriving and could not be in chaos.

Qingzhou Prefecture, which was engaged in permanent tenancy, planted flue-cured tobacco, opened coal and iron mines in Linzi and other places, built roads, and planted peanuts, had a good life in the past few years, and could not be in chaos.

Step by step, little by little, during the years when Dashun fought in India, Europe, and America, the reforms in these places were gradually implemented, like a noose.

Finally, they arrived at the selected Yellow River channel, as well as the most troublesome places, Caozhou Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, and Tai'an Prefecture, which were also the most affected by the reform of the grain transport.

When the noose began to tighten, it was already the end, and there was no power to resist.

Only at this time did they move, and they moved so decisively, with all kinds of coercion, without mercy, and without reason.

In the final analysis, it was "brave", knowing that there would be no chaos, at least not to the extent of Lianzhou and Lianfu, and there was no need to worry about all kinds of concessions for the sake of "grain transport stability".

Of course, the emperor also knew it in his heart.

The reason why the emperor planned to build a railway from the capital to Hankou in the south included the situation after the Yellow River was diverted: the railway from the capital to Hankou, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the railway from Haizhou to Xuzhou, the Yangtze River, plus the shipbuilding industry and fleet in Tianjin, Weihai and Lushun, had completed the division of the "imperial rebellion crisis zone".

Of course, the content of the private school teacher's "further study" in Jinan Prefecture could not possibly talk about the emperor's big division and the like.

Even if these principles are useful, they seem to be useful; if they are useless... if you don't want to rebel at all, it's meaningless to listen to them.

Although this private school teacher is also a private school teacher and lives next to the Liangshan Lake in history, he doesn't think he is Wu Yong.

Coming here today, as he said, he has done all the things he was paid to do. This time he came out of the feelings of fellow townsmen and clansmen to talk about something realistic.

To put it more simply: sell all the furniture, trees, pots and pans, and livestock that can be sold. Sell the chickens you raise if you want to, and kill and eat them directly if you don't want to.

This is the real realistic truth.

Besides, the private school teacher will also go to immigrate this time. After going there, it is mostly a semi-military farming style of villages and towns. There will be people from all over the country, and he also needs some acquaintances, otherwise he will be bullied when he arrives there.

The private school teacher has inquired a lot of information, and heard that there is a village-town format.

One hundred and twenty households form a village, and the land is divided according to the distance of the land, near, medium, and far. Basically, fairness is guaranteed, and each family has a distance.

In an ideal state, eight villages are surrounded, like stars surrounding the moon, and there is a town. There are schools, blacksmith shops, and hundreds of craftsmen in the town.

When people gather, if there are more than 120 people, they can continue to move eastward to form a new village. I heard that this model is learned from the experience of the Western Congregational Church. The people in the villages and towns apply for land grants and set up new villages and towns. It’s nothing more than that Westerners rely on churches, and taxes are also paid to churches, while here they rely on schools and government offices, and taxes are also paid to government offices.

It’s just that when you go there, people from all over the country are there. So after all, we are all from the same village and clan, and we can take care of each other after we go there.

The private school teacher was sure that after a few years, life there would definitely not be worse than here.

That was why he was so enthusiastic that he worked as a lobbyist to the point of paying for extra work out of his own pocket.

Otherwise, if life there turned out to be worse than here, the more he did now, the more hatred he would have in the future, and it would be counterproductive. At that time, he would be blamed for his whole life, or even stabbed by others for living too badly, which would be a big loss.

As for the ambition to benefit the world, although the private school teacher did not continue to study and seek fame, he still had some of it. He really believed that digging the Yellow River would benefit the world. However, people have to eat, drink, defecate, urinate, wear clothes, live and travel when they are alive, so he has ambition and believes it, but in the end, he still has to talk about eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

For example, now I want to persuade people to sell the things in their homes that can be sold. In the end, no matter where you are, gold, silver, and copper coins are still money. They can buy books, wine, meat, and clothes. Having a sense of the world is not inconsistent with eating, shitting, and wearing clothes.