New Shun 1730

From the time these reluctant, dissatisfied and resentful migrants crossed the mountain pass and came to this prairie with an average annual rainfall of 450 mm, five years passed in a flash.

The dissatisfaction and resentment at the beginning gradually faded with time and development.

On the once barren land, a new county called "Xin Yizhou" has already grown in size, and two simple cities named "Xin Shaocheng" and "Xin Taicheng" have been built in the place that the locals called "the elbow of the river" as the surveying team said.

Here you can indeed see the snow-capped mountains in front of the west window, and there are indeed boats at the door that can go along the river to the bay on the east coast.

But in the end, the court chose to call this place "Xin Yizhou" as the county name. Just talking about the name, it is inevitable that there is some self-mockery.

The ancients said: The world is not in chaos before Shu is in chaos; the world has been settled, but Shu is not settled.

After all, there is a mountain range that almost caused the migrants to collapse from the Pacific Ocean where Dashun is located, so transportation is inconvenient at this time.

More importantly, the economic production here has almost nothing to do with Dashun, and even has little to do with Dashun's economic zone on the west coast. Instead, it has closer economic ties with the French, Spanish, and British in the east.

The court gave such a name, and there is always some bad taste behind it.

It was around the Mid-Autumn Festival in the autumn of the fifth year after the first batch of migrants crossed the mountain pass. In a workshop filled with the smell of wine in Xintai City, the Wang brothers, who were full of fear for the future when they crossed the mountain pass, have become one of the shareholders of the wine cooperative here, and are arranging tasks for the long-term workers who came to work here.

The new long-term workers are also the fellow villagers of the Wang Long brothers. Although they are far away, they are all people who migrated because of the Yellow River.

The court has been strictly implementing Liu Yu's "orthodox colonial theory" of reversing the old Ma's knowledge. Now the reversal of the Dashun School of Reality has been accomplished.

Through this reverse training, the industry and commerce of the new Yizhou has developed vigorously. Of course, the premise of this development is the continuous flow of "wage workers" and "land with distorted prices by state-owned administration".

Every newcomer here must obtain currency through labor in industry and commerce. Then use this currency to buy land.

And when every newcomer here obtains enough currency to buy land, another group of newcomers are sent here relying on the immigration funds of the previous wave to buy land.

In the winemaking cooperative where the Wang Long brothers are located, the new batch of immigrants who landed from Fenglin Bay and arrived here have a different mentality from the original migrants.

They are full of hope and believe that as long as they work hard for five or six years, they can save enough money to buy land, thus realizing the happy life expected by self-cultivating farmers with hundreds of acres of land, a group of cows, a wife and children, and a warm bed.

"The work here is not tiring. It's just planting potatoes in spring, digging cellars in summer, harvesting potatoes in autumn, and helping to make wine in winter."

"I can't say anything else, but the food here is definitely better than when I was in my hometown. Look at me, didn't we have nothing when we first came here? After working hard for a few years, don't we have everything now?"

"We will be busy harvesting potatoes these days, and we have to work at dawn. But don't worry, food and drink are all prepared. We are also a cooperative for making wine, so we have enough wine..."

Wang Long encouraged the new fellow villagers in this way so that they can quickly adapt to the busy work of harvesting potatoes.

It's just that their large farm and wine workshop use the name of "cooperative". But in fact, to be precise, it's more like a "collective Junker manor".

Because the capital and real estate in this "cooperative" belong to the people in the hometown of this cooperative. And a large amount of labor is actually not completed by the labor force within the cooperative, but by a large number of wage workers who have nothing, are extremely poor, and migrated here from Shandong.

As Engels said: the potato and liquor industry is to Prussia what the iron and textile industries are to England. Relying on the liquor industry, on the one hand, a middle-class landlord class was formed, and their young sons became the main material for selecting officers and bureaucrats, which was another extension of the life of the Junkers; on the other hand, a relatively rapidly growing semi-serf class was formed, and they supplemented a large number of "core teams" in the army...

In Xinyizhou, the potato and liquor industry also had a status similar to that in Prussia later. Although the basis for the emergence of the Junkers was the eldest son inheritance system, Dashun has always been an equal inheritance law among the people. However, because the land here is vast, but it is nationalized, and the purchase of land has restrictions. The general civilian class must divide the family and buy land according to the male adult, so in terms of inheritance law, there is a tendency to slide in the direction of one son inheritance.

Of course, the court is also promoting this development intentionally or unintentionally, with the purpose of creating a group of special landlords as the basis for exercising rule here-some people may be granted additional land, these people may be military nobles, may be meritorious veterans, or even may be a group of people who came earlier like the Wang Long brothers.

Because of the situation here, it is impossible to have a tenancy system, or it is impossible to implement a tenancy system.

Therefore, the potato liquor industry has become the economic basis for Dashun to create a group of strange things similar to Junkers here.

The Indians are alcoholics, but they can neither have enough surplus crops nor the technology to make wine.

The French needed wine because the price of French brandy was too high, and because of protectionist policies, France could not produce the only sugarcane molasses waste wine that could compete with potato liquor.

Fur trade and ginseng trade both required wine.

The whiskey brewed from grain by the "Irish shepherds" in the remote areas of the Thirteen States was killed by the potato liquor brewed from Dashun and the convenient transportation downstream before Hamilton's policy of eliminating the petty bourgeoisie was introduced. After all, the cost of grain wine is much higher than potato wine.

The popularity of fur, ginseng, and European-style beaver hats made wine, especially the cheap potato liquor brewed by Dashun in Xinyizhou, the best trading item for French fur traders.

As Lao En commented: [The liquor area... is also the core of the Prussian monarchy... The brewing industry appeared as the real material basis of modern Prussia. Without the brewing industry, the Prussian Junkers would perish... The Junker landlords would be dispersed and become independent peasant classes, self-cultivating farmers...】

This principle is also true in the new Yizhou County of Dashun.

Without the liquor industry, Dashun would only have scattered self-cultivating farmers in the new Yizhou. And scattered self-cultivating farmers, especially those who are far away from their homeland but have to bear taxes, are the group of people with the most serious separatist tendencies.

The core of Dashun's "conservatives" in the new Yizhou, and also the core of the "orthodox myopic colonial theory" after Dashun's rebellion, are this kind of variant Junkers created by relying on the liquor industry - a group of landlords who participate in world trade with liquor, need the protection of Dashun's fleet and local military forces, and are transformed into industrial capital supported by Dashun.

Take the Wang Long brothers as an example. As the first batch of pioneers, the treatment given to them by the court is that the early more than 600 people were allocated a large amount of untradable land in groups of 20 households.

In the early days, through the establishment of cooperatives, 20 households were grouped together to carry out agricultural production and brewing handicrafts. Through the support of the imperial court, they were provided with capital and technical support, and quickly completed the transformation of capitalist agricultural production by relying on potato liquor and the vast North American fur trade, which was urgently needed for the liquor market.

They became the pillar of the orthodox modern colonial law of Dashun, which was implemented in the plain area east of Dashitou Mountain.

They produced liquor, hired immigrants to plant potatoes and work, and Dashun provided a steady stream of cheap wage workers.

As for who paid for this money?

It is actually very interesting to talk about it in detail.

Those who worked for them received wages.

The wages came from their sale of liquor to French fur and ginseng merchants.

French fur and ginseng merchants exchanged liquor with Indians.

And a large part of the ginseng fur and other things exchanged - part of the fur, almost all of the ginseng - was sold to Dashun.

And those who bought fur and ginseng in Dashun could not be poor people.

So, it sounds like a bit of a fart - just like the radicals said, isn't this equivalent to the wealthy class of Dashun paying for immigration? Then why not just distribute the land equally and collect taxes and settle the immigrants?

However, this kind of taking off pants to fart, has to be done. This has to be done because Dashun is a feudal dynasty and cannot accomplish the things that the radicals envision.

According to Ilyich's classification, there are two typical ways of agricultural capitalization: the Prussian road and the American road.

The Prussian road is that the feudal nobles and landlords forcibly occupy the land, causing thousands of farmers to continue to go bankrupt and complete their own transformation.

The American road is small peasant economy, polarization, natural annexation... but relying on the large amount of land in the west to reduce the huge impact of land annexation, so that on the basis of private ownership, the transformation is finally completed by annexation.

The basis of the Prussian road is the personal dependence under the feudal aristocracy and feudal law.

The basis of the American road is the small peasant economy, self-cultivating farmers, capital, annexation, and the nationalization of land in the west.

Although Dashun is in Xinyizhou, it is also making liquor, planting potatoes, and supporting the transformation of landlords.

But in fact, Dashun is certainly not taking the Prussian road here.

It is an accelerated version of the American road, with small peasant economy, polarization, and natural annexation. This speed is too slow. Since the ultimate goal is to complete the capitalization of agriculture, why not just accelerate it?

Polarization? Too slow, just support it directly.

Natural annexation? No sense, a large amount of state-owned land is vacant, just give it directly.

The small peasant economy is bankrupt, creating wage laborers? With the current population of Xinyizhou, when there is a contradiction between people and land and the small peasant economy is bankrupt, it will take a long time? Isn't it just a lack of wage laborers? Just send them here in batches from Dashun.

Moreover, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, even within the scope of the world, the situation of land ownership and personal dependence is completely different in the vassal system.

In short, if we only consider the degree of ownership and personal dependence, or the consciousness generated by it.

If we only consider the consciousness shaped by the system, Korea and Japan may take the Prussian road; only Dashun cannot take the Prussian road in terms of ownership, personal dependence and other issues. Today, North Korea has still not completed the transition to private land ownership and legal land transactions. It was not until ten years later that the first official recognition of land transactions in North Korea's history took place.