Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 874, Daming on the Right Track
"woooo~"

The steam cultivator is constantly walking between the fields, emitting bursts of sirens and billowing black smoke. There are many people watching the excitement. Now everyone is not farming for the landlords, so in fact, they are relatively free, and they have time to watch the excitement. .

Liu Jin was listening to the conversations of ordinary people, and learned about the living conditions at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, it was very good.

It is no longer as simple as just eating enough, but now we are moving in the direction of eating well.

Pigs, cattle and sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, as well as seafood in the ocean, rice from Southeast Asia, white noodles from Liaodong, corn from Shandong and Shanxi, sweet potatoes from Henan, etc., all of these greatly enriched the dining table of the Ming people. Let them not only eat well, but also eat well and nutritiously.

As for everyone's life, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

In the past, everyone was firmly bound to one-third of an acre of land, facing the loess and back to the sky in the field from morning to night, exhausting themselves, while enduring the exploitation and oppression of the landlords and gentry, on the other hand Even if it is called Hongzhi Zhongxing, it is actually quite hard to endure the taxes and taxes of the imperial court.

Just like the small village before Liu Jin crossed over, everyone is poor, hungry, but tenacious survivors like weeds. Once there is a natural or man-made disaster or something, there will be flames of war immediately.

This is the former Ming Dynasty. The huge population maintained on the limited land has actually reached a very dangerous edge. The weather is better, and the common people can barely live on.

But once there is a famine, the common people will not be able to survive.

It's different now, everyone is unwilling to farm.

Young people go to work in factories, workshops, and commercial firms in the city. They are recruiting people everywhere, and there is still money to be paid every month for food and lodging. Although the current factories, workshops, and commercial firms are also very hard.

In the era when there were no legal working hours and holidays, when working in factories, workshops, etc., except for eating and sleeping, they were always doing things in them.

It's very hard, but it's simple, and you can get real money.

If you don't want to work in a factory or workshop, you can also learn to run a small business by yourself. If you make a little profit, you will live a pretty good life.

People who have the opportunity and are bold can also go to sea, become sailors, immigrate to overseas, etc. In short, there are many choices and opportunities, and there is no need to be confined to the original one-third of an acre of land.

As a result, on the North Zhili side, the closer to the Beijing-Tianjin area, no one is willing to cultivate the land here, and the landlords and rich people have to start changing their previous thinking.

Those who have a way and are willing to invest can invest in commercial firms, invest in sea-going ships, open their own factories, build workshops, etc. Compared with before, their wealth has shown explosive growth.

In the past, relying on the land, the annual income was actually very stable. How much grain could be produced from one mu of land was unimaginable.

But investing in commercial banks, building factories, workshops, and throwing ships into the sea is different. Wealth will explode as quickly as a blowout. Thanks to such a good era, those who are bold will be the first.

No matter how bad it is, these old rich landlords can also use their own land, mountains, etc. to start large-scale planting of cash crops, farming, etc.

For example, now that the price of cotton is soaring, everyone comes to grow cotton, and the demand for meat in the Beijing-Tianjin area is very strong, so everyone comes to raise pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, geese, etc.

From the gentry and landlords to the ordinary people are changing, constantly changing with the changes of the times, has gradually deviated from the track of the feudal era that lasted for thousands of years, and is moving towards the road of capitalism.

There is no doubt that Liu Jin likes to see such a change very much.

The shackles of the land on people are too strong.

The feudal history of China for thousands of years is actually a history built on the land, and the change, rise and fall of the imperial court followed the changes of the land.

The cycle of chaos cannot escape the changes of the land.

When the land is relatively scattered, it must be a relatively prosperous time, because in such a period, the common people have their own land, and life will be relatively easier.

However, with the passage of time, the land will inevitably be slowly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the common people will lose their own land, which is accompanied by the merger and concentration of this land.

Dynasties will inevitably gradually turn from prosperity to decline.

This has been the case for thousands of years of history, and even this kind of history has continued to the later generations before Liu Jin traveled. Before the reform and opening up, people were still tightly bound to the land.

If people's freedom, freedom of thought, freedom of work and life are not liberated, it will be difficult for society to make progress. Once people are liberated from the land, they will inevitably burst out with strong vitality and develop rapidly.

"The next thing to do is to constantly liberate the shackles on people, such as household registration restrictions, ideological restrictions, and the restrictions of traditional feudal power."

"Once he can break through the heavy constraints, Da Ming will take off completely."

"However, this is an extremely long process. The feudal power is still very strong, and it needs to be gradually figured out."

Liu Jin had already figured out how to go in his mind.

Of course, in fact, Liu Jin doesn't need to do anything, because Daming has reached this point, and there is no going back.

Now if there are still people clamoring to close the country and implement a sea ban, those who invest in commercial firms and sea ships will immediately send him to Australia or the Golden Island to mine.

Now if there are still people who say that they want to implement a strict household registration system, everyone in Ming Dynasty will definitely not agree to it. The dignitaries above have a large number of factories, workshops, commercial firms, plantations and so on.

These all need people, a large number of people, and some even plan to build private colonies overseas. They all need people. You still have to implement a strict household registration system and restrict personal freedom. Isn’t this courting death?
As for ordinary people, if you tell them to farm land for landlords early in the morning and in the dark like before, it will be impossible, and everyone will tear you to pieces.

Daming has already embarked on the right track, embarked on the road of the colonial era and the capitalist era, and will never go back.

"Broken ~ broken!"

"It's lying down!"

Just when Liu Jin was deep in thought, the melon-eating crowd watching the excitement shouted excitedly.

Liu Jin's thoughts were pulled back, and he looked over quickly. It turned out that the steam cultivator had broken down and lay on the spot.

"Let me just say that the machine is not very reliable. The machine has broken down several times. How long has it been since I bought it?"

"This machine is powerful, but it's not a solution if it keeps malfunctioning."

"Yeah yeah!"

Everyone was discussing with each other, some people gloated, some people just watched the fun and didn't think it was too much.

"Leave a way~"

Seeing this scene, Zhu Houzhao became excited. He rubbed his hands and shouted at the person in front of him, and soon a road opened up.

Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin also came in front of the steam cultivator, and saw the man who looked like a landlord sweating profusely.

"Why is this machine malfunctioning again?"

"This is a machine that cost more than a hundred taels of silver. It's only been a few days, and it has broken down several times. If I knew it, I might as well buy more cows and horses. At least it won't break down."

Landlord Liu said while wiping his sweat.

"Let me check, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Li Dashan, a loyal servant of Landlord Liu's family, is in charge of driving the steam tiller.

Li Dashan's father had received kindness from Landlord Liu back then, so he had been working in Landlord Liu's house all the time. Landlord Liu paid for Li Dashan's illness when he was a child.

Therefore, Li Dashan's family has always been doing things for Landlord Liu, which can be regarded as repaying the kindness of Landlord Liu's family.

"I'd better send someone to rule the Jingcheng Machinery Factory to fix it."

Landlord Liu nodded slightly, and said after thinking about it.

Here, Li Dashan is also constantly checking and checking. He has learned how to drive a steam cultivator and perform some simple maintenance, but his level is limited, and he can't figure out what's wrong after looking around.

"You are really stupid."

Zhu Houzhao, who was watching the excitement nearby, saw Li Dashan walking around the steam engine cultivator, but he still couldn't solve the problem, so he couldn't help but said.

"My little brother, this is a steam cultivator. Its structure is very complicated and it is difficult to repair."

Li Dashan wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Zhu Houzhao again, he was not angry, and said with a smile.

"Go away, go away~"

"Such a simple question will not, let me do it."

Zhu Houzhao rolled up his sleeves, picked up the maintenance tools and some parts of the steam cultivator, and began to check.

"can you?"

"Don't break my steam cultivator, it's more than a hundred silver."

Landlord Liu next to him looked at Zhu Houzhao and said.

"If it's broken, I'll pay you for a new one."

Zhu Houzhao said very confidently.

"That's fine, if you fix it, I'll give you five taels of silver."

Landlord Liu nodded slightly, and also spoke.

"Okay, let's just come out to earn some extra money."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he became even more excited.

It doesn’t matter to Zhu Houzhao whether he has money or not. He has plenty of silver, but it seems exciting to be able to earn five taels of silver by relying on his own knowledge and skills.

Holding a wrench, Zhu Houzhao also wandered around the steam tiller, and quickly determined the problem. He dismantled the problematic part of the steam tiller very skillfully, and then quickly repaired it. With just a stick of incense, the steam tiller plowed the land The machine will plow the land again.

(End of this chapter)