Chapter 206: Make it clear that you won’t give him face
Cheng Shijie naturally did not agree with Song Xiance's so-called land reform. If low-quality wasteland was sold to rich people and they were transformed into fertile land after management, this would be the ideal side. However, in fact, the political officials of the Liaodong Management Committee will sell the best farmland as wasteland to rich people.
Human nature is inherently evil.
Human nature is also greedy.
Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance and said: "Your idea is good, but it won't work in Liaodong. If it is in the future, this method can be adopted."
"future?"
"That's right!"
Cheng Shijie said: "In the future, the more land we land can be sold to landlords in the pass at low prices who cannot survive. These small landowners have already tasted the benefits of farming. They will use any means to obtain land, through marriage, or As an official, given our situation in Liaodong, if these landowners come over, no matter how bad they are, they can make a fortune, right?"
Song Xiance wanted to use land to attract landlords from the Central Plains who could not survive in the Central Plains. He had this idea. He used the land to attract landlords from the Central Plains to come to Liaodong. The arrival of these landlords would definitely greatly enhance the talents under Cheng Shijie's rule.
However, Cheng Shijie really didn't like the talents in Song Xiance's eyes. Landowners were the class closest to the gentry. They were too heavily influenced by the idea of officialdom. They would definitely spare no effort to become officials. The real purpose is to prosper their respective families.
"How to solve the land problem?"
“There is no need to solve the land problem for the time being!”
Cheng Shijie said: "These landowners from the Central Plains can open factories, but for commercial use, they can only use them to build factories. The land that they have transformed into fertile farmland will be purchased for them as commercial land or agricultural land!"
In this way, Liaonan urgently issued the "Liaonan Land Use Regulations", which stipulates that commercial land can only be used as factory or factory land, and cannot be used for agricultural production. The commercial land that has been managed can be used conditionally according to the actual situation. of replacement land.
In this way, Guo Changxi's 150 acres of land in Guangningwei was exchanged for 600 acres of land in Shuangchengwei at a ratio of one to four.
Even if Guo Changxi saw his own land with his own eyes, it was still a little unbelievable. Although Guo Changxi was a cloth merchant, in fact, he was a farmer in his father's generation. However, his father was born not long after Guo Changxi, because the land was sold to Guo Changxi. As a result, their grandfather’s thirty acres of land were gone.
Without land, they could only rely on Guo Changxi's mother to make a living by weaving. Later, with the help of his father and third brother, the Guo family slowly spent more than 20 years and became a large or small family in Guide Prefecture. Cloth merchant.
Guo Changxi has five sons, plus his parents, wives and concubines, nephews, nieces-in-law, and grandsons, making the family a total of seventeen people.
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, it was not a family of three. It was normal for a family of four generations to have dozens of people. However, in southern Liaoning, the situation of such large families has improved. In order to get as much as possible When many families come to Liaonan, they will declare land according to their actual situation. As a result, it is very common for a family to get four to five hundred acres of land.
When the seventeen members of Guo Changxi's family arrived at Shuangchengwei, they finally arrived at their farm, led by employees from the agricultural reclamation company.
The farm is naturally a large open space covered with weeds. According to the length and width and the boundary markers, the farm numbered Hudong 1003 belongs to Guo Changxi.
"Dad, does this piece of land belong to our family?"
"Of course!"
"Our family has more dirt than Li Laocai's family!"
Guo Changxi looked at his five sons and said: "We must live a good life now. We are a family together. We will work hard in the future. In a few years, we will buy a family property like this for each of the eldest, second and third sons."
Money is charming. In the past, when there was nothing, a family could still work together. But with money, it is not necessarily the case. Guo Changxi has seen many such examples. In remote areas, small things in the fields can be done with a knife, let alone these few days. A hundred-acre farm, plus those big animals in the barn.
Guo Changxi's farm is a replacement, so the agricultural reclamation company will give Guo Changxi a certain amount of compensation based on a ratio of one to four. First of all, Guo Changxi has four cattle in Kuanhe Farm, but he has sixteen cattle in Hudong Town, including The two cows are pregnant and will give birth to calves soon.
Guo Changxi is very lucky. Although his land is 600 acres, which is quite big, the key is that there is a pond the size of 180 acres. If you just raise some fish and shrimp in the pond, you can't finish it. Not to mention that you can raise ducks and geese in the pond. Compared with potatoes in the field, are duck eggs not fragrant, or are fish not delicious?
As the family walked around the farm, Guo Changxi grabbed a handful of land and smelled the smell of the land. He knew that these lands were good land, and he would not suffer any loss from the replacement. It can be said that he made a lot of money.
Guo Changxi looked at the old family and said: "We are probably going to sleep in tents today. The Shuangcheng Executive Committee will come to build a house tomorrow. We don't need to pay for building the house. They are all responsible for it. Our farm will not have to pay taxes next year. No matter how much we earn, it is our own, and we will only pay 10% after three years. If someone in the family joins the army and becomes a professional soldier, there will be another piece of land, and it will be tax-free for five years and half tax for ten years. "
Guo Changxi's eldest son Guo Honghai said: "Dad, how can I become Ning Haijun? I heard that they gave Ning Haijun fifty acres of land..."
"Fifty acres of land belongs to Jinzhou. If it were here, it should be 150 acres!"
"so much?"
"However, it is difficult to become a professional soldier. However, new immigrants like us cannot join the army. After three years of immigration, if you reach the age of 18, you must perform military service in accordance with the regulations. If you do not perform military service, the farm will be taken back."
Although Liaonan has various benefits for new immigrants, the punishment for those who break the law is also very severe. Cheng Shijie believes in using heavy codes in troubled times. The Liaodong Administrative Committee was established soon. Strict laws must be used to let all citizens have a clear understanding of the Administrative Committee government. The Administrative Committee government protects law-abiding citizens. If someone violates the law, then he will be punished. Everything you have will be lost.
Early the next morning, the construction workers from the Twin Cities Executive Committee came. He thought that the house would take many days to build. Who knew that their construction speed was very fast. When they came, they brought a large number of wooden structures. Just drive the stakes in place and start assembling the house.
With the help of Guo Changxi and his family, this small wooden house was built in just one day. The area is not larger than the house Guo Changxi built in Kuanhe. It is about one hundred square meters and is divided into five rooms. Living room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bedrooms.
There were too many people in Guo Changxi's house to live in. After the workers from the executive committee left, Guo Changxi looked at the house in front of him that still smelled like logs, and began to build his own house and build adobe walls.
Guo Changxi used five wooden main houses as the starting point and surrounded the cowshed not far away with adobe to form a large yard.
Peasants in the Ming Dynasty were all-rounders because they needed to perform corvées and could do many jobs, such as building bridges and paving roads, digging ditches, building city walls, or building imperial tombs.
In just over half a month, Guo Changxi's family built an adobe house with more than 20 rooms. The family finally had a place to stay.
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Agriculture is the lifeblood of a country. If there is a problem in agricultural production, the entire country will have big problems. The saying "food is the first priority for the people" is no joke.
Nowadays, there are constant natural disasters in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and agriculture is on the verge of collapse. It is impossible not to think about unrest, and unrest means war, and war means rivers of blood! The Ming Dynasty, whose national destiny has lasted for nearly three hundred years, has entered a countdown. Regimes that cannot allow the people to have enough to eat will be overthrown without mercy. This is an iron law.
If we want to solve the problem of food, in addition to building ditches and cultivating improved seeds, the most important thing is chemical fertilizers. However, making chemical fertilizers requires sulfuric acid, and this problem has returned to its original point.
Cheng Shijie discovered that the sulfuric acid was actually caused by the Zhang Chen family. Yes, in the Zhang Chen family's in-laws' family, the relatives of the late husband Zhang Dongfang wanted to seize Zhang Chen's family property. Zhang Chen's bodyguard Hao Wuniang took action in anger. Zhang Chen's accountant Mr. Feng Huiyun used sulfuric acid to destroy the corpse and eliminate traces, and then the sulfuric acid came into Cheng Shijie's sight.
Zhang Chen's case was forcibly saved by Cheng Shijie using the "Ning Haijun Military Family and Martyred Family Protection Law". Of course, this was mainly a matter of customs and habits, and many people simply accepted this result.
Just like the case of a certain Kuo Kuan who avenged his mother's murder in later generations. This case was placed in the Ming Dynasty. Not only was Kuo Kuan not guilty, but he might be rewarded with a filial piety arch.
Sulfuric acid, a by-product accidentally produced by the Fang family magicians when refining alchemy, can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, when sulfuric acid has already appeared. As for how this thing appeared, I have to mention a group of guys who are not doing their job properly and have whims.
It is too difficult to refine an elixir and offer it to the emperor in exchange for glory and wealth. Why not just refine it into gold? Many alchemists are superstitious about turning stone into gold. They throw pieces of ore into the alchemy furnace in an attempt to make gold. The most common method is to throw pyrite into the alchemy furnace. It is too difficult to turn stone into gold.
The sulfur content of pyrite is very high. During high-temperature smelting, a large amount of acid gas, namely sulfur dioxide, is emitted. When sulfur dioxide dissolves in water, it will generate sulfurous acid. When further oxidized, it will generate sulfuric acid, which is a good thing.
This thing is even more useful than gold. Unfortunately, everyone does not appreciate it. They hate it and gnash their teeth, complaining that this sour and unpleasant liquid burned out their alchemy furnaces. No one did research, so sulfuric acid was never used in the right place and was just buried.
The trend of alchemy in the Ming Dynasty was also quite strong, especially in the Chenghua and Jiajing dynasties. These two emperors wanted to become immortals and wanted to be immortals.
With more people making alchemy, naturally more people are tossing out sulfuric acid. At this time, everyone has slowly discovered some uses of sulfuric acid. They no longer throw it away casually like before, but try to sell it for money. To put it bluntly, the sulfuric acid that was once hated by the Fang family warlocks now has certain uses. Some people have begun to specifically refine this stuff, but everyone still does not realize its huge value.
In order to expand the production capacity of sulfuric acid and increase the output of chemical fertilizers, Cheng Shijie could only search for warlocks who knew how to make alchemy from all over the world. Hearing this news, Zhu Weiti was very dissatisfied.
Her father, Zhu Changluo, died after taking elixirs. The emperor died before he had been in office for a month.
Zhu Weiti lost her father and did not want to lose Cheng Shijie again. Although Cheng Shijie and her were not yet married, in Zhu Weiti's eyes, Cheng Shijie was indeed the best good man in the world.
During this time, Zhu Weiti often went out. In southern Liaoning, some people scolded corrupt officials, some were dissatisfied and scolded eunuchs, some scolded gentry, and some even scolded the emperor. Of course, he did not directly scold the emperor himself, but scolded the emperor for being fooled by villains. Yes, I respect the superior.
However, in southern Liaoning, no one dared to speak ill of Cheng Shijie, otherwise he would definitely be beaten. Once several scholars from Jiangnan complained, saying that Cheng Shijie was vulgar.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, the scholar who cursed Cheng Shijie was directly given gold.
When Zhu Weiti found Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie was busy with a group of warlocks. He was still more than a hundred steps away from Cheng Shijie, and Zhu Weiti was almost vomited by the smell of sulfuric acid in the air.
"what is this!"
When Cheng Shijie heard this, he followed the voice and said: "Leave quickly, the smell here is too strong!"
Only then did Zhu Weiti realize that Cheng Shijie was actually wearing a mask-like thing. This thing was a gas mask from the Ming Dynasty. This thing was so ugly!
There's nothing special about this thing. It's just a piece of leather that can cover half of your face and a bamboo tube. The bamboo tube has a filling made of charcoal powder, sawdust, and Sanhe soil, which can play a very good filtering role.
Yes, it is the original gas mask! During the First World War, this thing would definitely not be able to prevent any poisonous gas, but it was enough to deal with the acidic gas emitted by sulfuric acid. It's just that it looks so ugly, especially the bamboo tube, which looks like a pig's nose. It's as funny as you want it to be.
"Husband, what are you doing here?"
"Get out quickly!"
"No!"
Zhu Weiti rarely wanted to see what Cheng Shijie was doing.
Cheng Shijie had no choice but to find a mask and handed it to Zhu Weiti.
Zhu Weiti is not afraid of being ugly. She believes that if you marry a chicken, you can follow a dog, and if you marry Cheng Shijie, then even if you become a thief, Zhu Weiti will follow the same path and end up in trouble.
While Cheng Shijie was watching the production of phosphate fertilizer, the news that Morimoto Kazuku was beaten up by Ning Haijun Navy also reached Zheng Zhilong's ears.
This made Zheng Zhilong very unhappy. Although Morimoto Kazuki was not his person, he was still his dog. It was up to the owner to beat the dog. Cheng Shijie was clearly not giving him face.
Zheng Zhilong was angry, and the consequences were serious.
PS: I got off work too late today. I’m very tired and can’t write anymore. Get up earlier tomorrow morning.
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