Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1537, Fight against clan forces

"Liu Jin, Liu Jin~"

Wang Shouren had just sent the chief envoys of Huguang and Jiangxi away, and Wang Shouren hurried to find them.

"what's up?"

Liu Jin looked at Lao Wang, he seemed to be really anxious, which is rare, you must know that Lao Wang has always been a very calm and composed person, and few things can make him flustered of.

"Help me figure out a way. If Jinling can't recruit any more workers, thousands of factories, large and small, in Jinling will basically go bankrupt."

"I was so anxious that I went everywhere to recruit workers, but no one wanted to come to Jinling to work. No matter what I said, it was useless."

At this moment, Wang Shouren was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

No workers are willing to come to Jinling to work. All the large and small factories in Jinling are facing a severe shortage of manpower. The investment in a factory is huge, ranging from tens of thousands of taels to millions of taels.

If this fails to recruit people, such a huge amount of money is basically in vain, and many people will face a huge crisis.

Of course, not only these factory owners and workshops are facing a huge crisis, Jinling is also facing a huge crisis.

"If these factories cannot start work, then the whole of Jinling will fall into a rapid shrinkage, factories will stop working, construction sites will stop working, and shops will close."

"This year, Jinling's tax revenue and population will drop sharply, and urban development will suddenly come to a standstill."

Wang Shouren was so anxious that he didn't even have time to take a sip of tea.

"Hurry up and find a way to help. This Jinling can't just fall down like this. It must be saved. This is the third largest city in Ming Dynasty and the center of gravity of Nanzhili."

"What can I do? I can't force everyone to work in Jinling."

Liu Jin spread his hands helplessly and said.

In fact, on a larger level, whether there are people here in Nanjing does not have much influence. If the worker does not go to Nanjing, he will go back to Songhu, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, etc. Anyway, he will go anyway. Looking for a job to earn money to support the family.

The water still flows in the pond of Daming, it doesn't matter where it flows.

For what happened last year, Nanjing should also be punished as it should be, and everything has a cause and effect.

Now is not the future, the people of the future have no choice but to wrong themselves to become those capitalists, but now it is different, the common people of Ming Dynasty must wrong themselves.

If Nanjing is not happy, I will go to Songhu. If Songhu is not happy, I will go overseas. If it is really not good, I will stay in my hometown. Anyway, now that the population is passing by, the conflict between people and land has been greatly eased. There is plenty of land for you to plant.

Without pursuing too much, the family lives a daily life in their hometown, which is also the life of most ordinary people, and they can live a carefree life.

There is no need to be wronged, to suffer such grievances and sufferings.

"Ah~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Old Wang sat down and sighed helplessly.

He knew that there was really no other way at the moment, and Nanjing had no choice but to do so.

"Okay, let's talk about the things in Jiangnan."

"The sooner it's done, I'll go back to the capital sooner."

Looking at Old Wang, Liu Jin said: "This Jiangnan is the stronghold of the old-fashioned faction. They are always opposing our New Deal and want to go back to the past."

"The matter in Nanjing is still a trivial matter. If it gets to the extreme, there may be a bigger disaster. So we still have to find a way, if we completely attack the conservatives in the Jiangnan area."

"You are from Zhejiang, and you have been an official here in Nanzhili for many years. Tell me your opinion?"

"Clan power!"

Hearing what Liu Jin said, Wang Shouren said it without thinking.

"In the entire south of the Yangtze River, including Zhejiang, and even in southern provinces such as Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, etc., the clan power is much stronger than that in the north."

"Often there are only a few surnames in a town. In these places, the king's law is not as strong as the patriarchal law. The royal power does not go to the countryside, and the clan forces control everything in the local area."

"Maybe in other places, because of poverty, although the clan power is strong, it cannot form a strong conservative power like Jiangnan."

"The Jiangnan area is rich in things and people. It has been a prosperous and prosperous place since ancient times. Therefore, a large clan is often able to build its own private schools and academies, and has the resources and financial resources to train scholars."

"This is also the reason why the literary style in the Jiangnan area is at its peak. In the final analysis, it is because of the affluence here that it has the conditions to cultivate scholars and can produce a large number of talented scholars."

"There are many scholars in the Jiangnan area, and there are many officials in the court. There is also a strong relationship with the same family, fellow countrymen, and the same year. They naturally embrace each other, and they have gone through the situation where Jiangnan scholars occupied half of the Ming Dynasty."

"The clan cultivates its own clansmen to study and become officials. Naturally, it is not for nothing, and they must be rewarded. When they become officials, they will naturally find ways to give back to their clan and seek benefits for the clan. This will form a big clan, just like before. This is the case with Huizhou merchants and salt merchants.”

"If this cycle cannot be broken, there will be a steady stream of existences similar to Huizhou merchants and salt merchants here, who will steal the wealth of the entire country through their power. Now sweep these big families, but there will be new families soon Appear."

Wang Shouren said very seriously.

His Wang family is actually the best example.

The Wang family is a big family in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province. It is well-known. His father, Wang Hua, is the number one scholar. His ancestors have always been a scholarly family, and there have been many scholars.

In order to understand the operation mode of the factory, Wang Shouren was able to easily raise a large amount of money to set up the factory, and the entire Wang family was behind this.

The management in the factory is also done by the children of the Wang family, and the Wang family's commercial firms, colonies, plantations and other places are also handled by the children of the family.

He, Wang Shouren, doesn't need to manage it at all, but he can rest assured that he and his father Wang Hua are like two towering trees of the Wang family, supporting this huge family, so that all the children of the family can enjoy the shade.

So he is very familiar with these, and clearly knows that the operation mode of these families in the south of the Yangtze River is not much different from the Wang family in essence, they are all the same.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin also nodded solemnly after listening, which was similar to what he knew.

Historically, the Ming Dynasty reached the middle and late stages, and the party struggle was very fierce. The Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, the Donglin Party, etc., were actually all of the same species in essence. There was no difference between them. The only difference was who had more officials and more power. Big, with more power to speak.

"Then how to solve this problem?"

"It is difficult to fundamentally attack the clan power if the royal power does not go to the countryside. Even if the royal power goes to the countryside, the local clan still has the final say."

"Actually, you have done a good job overseas and outside the customs. The immigrants who migrated from various places live in disorder and chaos, completely eliminating the power of the clan."

"Overseas and outside the customs, the clan power does not have any foundation and soil, but in our Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for us to do this."

"Maybe all we can do is find ways to change their education methods."

"It can be done from two aspects. The first is to reduce the number of people admitted to the Jiangnan area for scientific examinations, to crack down on traditional private school education, to ban a large number of private schools and academies run by clans in various places, and to send children to new schools."

"The new schools cannot take the imperial examination, which cuts off the way for them to gain power through the imperial examination and then give back to their families. After a long time, it will naturally be difficult to form a strong clan power, and it will be similar to clans in other places."

"The second is to promote the development of urbanization, move a large number of people from the countryside to the cities, and gather a large number of people in the cities, which will naturally break the influence of the original clan power and break down the huge clan into countless individual."

"About this point, we don't need to do anything. It is already developing naturally. The emergence of a large number of factories, workshops, and commercial firms will naturally attract a large number of people to work and settle in the city."

"What we need to do is to let go of the restrictions on household registration, allow the free flow of people, and just abolish some systems that originally restricted the flow of people."

Wang Shouren's thinking was very clear, and he hit the nail on the head.

"Good, good~"

Liu Jin's eyes lit up after listening.

The two points that Lao Wang said have been well verified in later generations.

Compulsory education will be implemented in future generations, and all children must study. No matter you are in a remote or affluent place, if everyone studies together, a large number of talents will emerge from each place, and there will be no situation where one place dominates.

There is also the development of urbanization in later generations. A large number of rural people flood into the city to work, buy houses and settle down, and the next generation will study and grow up in the city.

It is undoubtedly a huge and heavy blow to the local clan forces.

In the city, everyone came from all corners of the country, and they were all scattered. Whether they could become a clan power or not, it had nothing to do with their own clan.

However, in townships and rural areas where a large number of young and strong labor forces have been left, the power of the clan has been greatly weakened. In the past, there were some activities such as temple fairs, singing operas, visiting gods, visiting Bodhisattvas, repairing genealogy, and worshiping ancestors every year.

However, as a large number of young people went to the city to work, no one participated in these activities. In the end, it became more and more bleak and cold, and the words of the elders in the clan did not work anymore. , who will pay attention to you?

Clan power, which has existed for thousands of years, has disappeared in the new era, and it no longer has any sense of existence, nor can it form any great influence on society.

　Are there any people participating in the traditional activities in your hometown now?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)