Qiming 1158

Chapter 1349 We can't fight, can't we lie flat?

Compared with Quanzhou, Guangzhou has not inferior urban construction and exotic customs.

In Quanzhou, there are many merchants from Korea, Japan, the Middle East, and Europe, while in Guangzhou, there are many merchants from Southeast Asia and even India. The two have different focuses.

Su Yonglin inspected the municipal administration of Guangzhou here, inspected the traffic conditions and agricultural production conditions in this area, and took the initiative to talk to citizens in the city, and also went out to talk to farmers in surrounding villages, and even to fishermen at sea.

After some in-depth understanding, Su Yonglin found that the situation in Guangzhou is not the same as in Hangzhou, Quanzhou and other places.

After the Ming Dynasty gained control of Guangzhou through the Second Ming-Song War, it also implemented the policy of restoring agriculture, encouraging farmers to cultivate farming, but the effect was not obvious, and the number of citizens did not drop significantly.

After Su Yonglin's on-the-spot inspection and reports from local officials, Su Yonglin found that this was a problem caused by late development.

Because the development is late and the population is small, the contradiction between the population and land in this area is not very big, and the main population is concentrated in the Pearl River Delta. The extent of malignant involution in that area of ​​Quanzhou, Hangzhou.

Of course, this is by no means a fairyland on earth, and the class contradictions are equally acute.

There is indeed a lot of undeveloped land, but most of the land that has been developed is in the hands of tyrannical landlords. Ordinary farmers choose to open up wasteland or choose to work in cities.

Developing land does not mean that you can start farming with a fire today.

From a wasteland to a fertile field that can grow food, there are many processes to go through, such as turning the soil, draining water, weeding, and fertilizing. There are many steps, and it takes at least two to three years to serve the land. Very big.

Landlords and tyrants have the strongest capital and should have taken on this job, but they don't, they don't want to bear the cost of reclamation, they want to prostitute for free.

So they colluded with the government to snatch the land that the homesteaders had worked so hard to cultivate, forcing the homesteaders to bear the cost of reclamation, and they enjoyed the success.

The peasants couldn't fight against the tyrannical landlords who were pushed by the government, and could only be forced to leave their homes and find wasteland to reclaim. The fertile fields have become fertile, and food can be produced.

As a result, the landlords and gentlemen came again with a smile.

Over time, the homesteaders found that they could not keep the land they finally cultivated, and all the input costs were wasted, and it was impossible to turn around and become rich.

So they gave up their struggle, lay flat, and entered the city of Guangzhou to make a living, instead of being farmers.

As a result, the development process of the Lingnan Land has slowed to a halt. Before new leeks enter the area and are naively reclaimed, the level of development in this area will remain flat for a long time, making it difficult to continue.

Except for a very small number of [good gentlemen] who will spend some cost to organize farmers to reclaim wasteland, most landlords and tycoons will not waste time and effort in reclaiming wasteland.

As long as there are homesteaders, they can use their power to do business without capital.

Why do you have to work in the field when you can make money lying down?

After the peasants were exploited by the landlords and almost lost their motivation to develop the wasteland, the landlords and tyrants would not spend money to develop the emperor, but began to rot.

Let's all lie down together and do nothing. Anyway, it is impossible for us to pay, and it is impossible for us to pay in this life.

This state is superimposed on the natural environment of the Lingnan area, and it has been ignored by the central government for a long time.

This situation actually brought a lot of trouble to the Ming Kingdom.

When the Ming Dynasty took control of Guangzhou, it first sorted out the land obtained in the war and prepared to distribute it to peasants for cultivation. First, a group of new villages was established as a demonstration area, and then a land revolution was launched, calling on the peasants to stand up against the landlords.

However, they found that among the large number of citizens in Guangzhou, there were not many people who were willing to go back to work as farmers.

Many citizens are more willing to do business and go overseas, but they are unwilling to return to farming and farming.

Although doing business overseas is risky, the rewards are also high.

Some people are lucky, their income is much higher than that of being a farmer, and some people are more lucky and smart, and they make a lot of money by going overseas to do business and live a good life.

Guangzhou Port is prosperous in commerce and trade, and the cargo throughput is the only one in the world. As long as you go to the port, as long as you are a working population, you can always find a job, and the income is not very low.

Save a little bit, save some money, and after a few years of hardship, you can start a small business by yourself, or open a shop to sell food and drink, and you can also make money.

Then you can get married and have children.

It is not difficult for folks to marry in such a place, not to mention that many poor people sell their children and daughters at low prices. It is not difficult or uncommon to buy a daughter-in-law to go back to inherit the lineage.

This day can go on.

And being a farmer...

You Ming Guo said it nicely, the land is ours, the ghost knows when you will take the land back and make it yours again.

It is even more impossible to reclaim wasteland. It is impossible to reclaim wasteland. In this life, you will never reclaim wasteland. You can only fish, do business, and do business without starving to death.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to drink water, we rely on the vast ocean, and we will not starve to death.

We’ve heard a lot of nonsense about dividing land. That’s what those landlords did back then.

Unless you take away the sea, that's your skill.

When many officials and members of the Renaissance Society went to do ideological work for the citizens, they encountered such a situation. They were stunned by the yin and yang of the citizens and expressed their full sense of distrust, so they had no temper at all.

For this reason, they have already scolded those darn old landlords to the eighteenth generation of their ancestors in their hearts.

But the scolding is scolding, and the work of persuading farmers and farming in Guangzhou is still very difficult to do.

Until Su Yonglin arrived in Guangzhou, the government had not launched a large-scale agrarian revolution, and the reclaimed land in its hands had not been fully divided, let alone organized manpower to open up wasteland and expand production.

Only the Renaissance members and the garrison can help reclaim the wasteland at the request of the government. Others cannot recruit professional farmers unless they spend money to hire manpower, let the citizens help with farm work in the form of labor, and pay daily wages.

This situation is not good at all.

So after Su Yonglin arrived in Guangzhou, at the seminar on agricultural issues, some people even suggested that the industry should be reorganized. The land should not be left so desolate. No matter how much money you make in business, it is not as important as the food grown in the land. It is absolutely not unreasonable to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce.

Therefore, the urban population should be restricted from engaging in industry and commerce, and the law should be used to drive them back to the countryside to become farmers.

Su Yonglin was stunned by this thought.

He wondered why officials in Guangzhou would come up with such an idea.

Then came the rage and the rage.

(End of this chapter)