I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 207

Chapter 206
Cheng Shijie naturally did not agree with Song Xiance's so-called land reform. If poor-quality wasteland is sold to rich people, they will be turned into good land after treatment. This is the ideal side.However, in fact, the political officials of the Liaodong Management Committee will sell the good fertile land as wasteland to the rich.

Human nature is evil.

Human nature is also greedy.

Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance and said, "You have a good idea, but it won't work in Liaodong. If it's the future, you can take this approach."

"future?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "In the future, we will acquire more land, which can be sold cheaply to landlords who cannot survive in the pass. These small landlords have already tasted the benefits of farming. They will use any means to obtain land, through marriage, or As an official, in our situation in Liaodong, if these landlords come here, no matter how bad they are, they can still get some instruction, right?"

Song Xiance wanted to use the land to attract the landlords who couldn't get along in the Central Plains, so he probably didn't have the idea to use the land to attract the landlords from the Central Plains to Liaodong. The arrival of these landlords would definitely greatly strengthen the talents under Cheng Shijie's rule.

It's just that Cheng Shijie really doesn't like the talents in Song Xiance's eyes. Landlords are the class closest to the gentry, and they are too heavily influenced by the idea of ​​official status. The real purpose is to make their respective families flourish.

"Then how to solve the land problem?"

"There is no need to solve the land issue for the time being!"

Cheng Shijie said: "These landlords from the Central Plains can open factories, but they can only be used for commercial purposes, and they can only be used to build factories. The land that has been transformed into good farmland by them can be used as commercial land or agricultural land!"

In this way, Southern Liaoning urgently promulgated the "Liaonan Land Use Regulations", which stipulates that commercial land can only be used as factory or workshop land, and agricultural production is not allowed. The commercial land that has been treated can be used according to the actual situation and conditional replacement land.

In this way, Guo Changxi's 150 mu of land in Guangningwei was replaced with [-] mu of land in Shuangchengwei at a ratio of one to four.

Even if Guo Changxi saw his own land with his own eyes, he still couldn’t believe it. Although Guo Changxi was a cloth merchant, in fact he was in his father’s generation. The family's [-] mu of land will be gone.

Without land, he could only rely on Guo Changxi's mother weaving for a living. Later, with the help of his father and third brother, the Guo family gradually became a small cloth merchant in Guide Mansion for more than 20 years. .

Guo Changxi has five sons, plus parents, wives and concubines, nephews, nephews, daughters-in-law, and grandsons. There are a total of [-] members in the family.

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 a large family has improved. Land, after many families come to southern Liaoning, they will declare according to the actual situation. As a result, it is very common for a family to get four to five hundred acres of land.

When Guo Changxi's seventeen people arrived at Shuangchengwei, they finally came to their farm under the leadership of the employees of 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, this farm numbered Hudong No. 1003 belongs to Guo Changxi.

"Father, this piece of land belongs to our family?"

"Of course!"

"Our family has more soil than Li Laocai's!"

Guo Changxi looked at his five sons and said: "Let's live a good life now. Let's stay together as a family. We will work hard in the future. In a few years, we will buy such a family business for the eldest, second, and third children."

Wealth is fascinating. When there was nothing in the past, the family could still work together. With money, it is not necessarily the case. Guo Changxi has seen many examples of this. A hundred acres of farm, plus those big animals in the barn.

Guo Changxi’s farm was a replacement, so the Land Reclamation Company gave Guo Changxi a certain amount of compensation based on a ratio of one to four. First, Guo Changxi had four cattle in Kuanhe Farm, but sixteen cattle in Hudong Town. The two cows are pregnant and will give birth to calves in a short time.

Guo Changxi is very lucky. Although his land is said to be [-] mu, which is a big piece, the key is that there is a pond with the size of [-] mu. If you raise some fish and shrimp in the pond, you can't eat it all. Not to mention that ducks and geese can be raised in ponds. Compared with potatoes in the field, are duck eggs not fragrant, or fish not tasty?

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 the replacement would not be a disadvantage. It can be said that he made a lot of money.

Guo Changxi looked at the old family and said: "We will probably sleep in tents today. The Shuangcheng Executive Committee will come to build the house tomorrow. We don't need to pay for the house. They are all responsible. Next year our farm will not have to pay taxes. How much money we earn is our own, and we will only pay [-]% after three years. If someone in the family joins the army and becomes a professional soldier, then there will be another piece of land, and there will be tax exemption for five years and tax for ten and a half years. "

Guo Honghai, the eldest son of Guo Changxi, said: "Father, how can I become Ning Haijun? I heard that they gave Ning Haijun [-] mu of land..."

"Fifty acres of land belong to Jinzhou. If it is here, it should be 150 acres!"

"so much?"

"However, it is very difficult to become a professional soldier, but we new immigrants cannot join the army. After three years of immigration, if they reach the limit, they must serve in the military according to the regulations. If they do not perform military service, the farm will be taken back."

Although southern Liaoning has various benefits for new immigrants, the punishment for violators of the law is also very severe.Cheng Shijie believes in heavy codes in troubled times. The Liaodong Management Committee was established not long ago, and it is necessary to use strict laws to make all citizens have a clear understanding of the management committee government. The management committee government protects law-abiding citizens. If someone violates the law, then will lose everything that exists.

The construction workers from the Shuangcheng Executive Committee came early the next morning. 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. Lay the stakes directly on the spot and start assembling the house.

With the help of Guo Changxi's 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 a hundred square meters and divided into five rooms. Living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms.

There were so many people in Guo Changxi's house that they couldn't live there. After the workers from the executive committee left, Guo Changxi looked at the house in front of him that still smelled like logs, and started to build the house by himself, including the adobe walls.

Guo Changxi used five wooden main houses as a starting point, and surrounded the cowshed not far away with adobe to form a large yard.

Farmers in the Ming Dynasty were all-rounders, because they needed to serve corvee, such as building bridges and paving roads, digging ditches, repairing city walls, or repairing imperial tombs, they could do many tasks.

In just over half a month, Guo Changxi's family built an adobe house with more than 20 rooms, and 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 whole country will have big problems. The saying "food is the first thing for the people" is not a joke.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters continued in the north, and agriculture was on the verge of collapse. It was impossible not to think about turbulence, and turmoil meant war, and war meant blood flowing into rivers!The Ming Dynasty, whose national destiny has lasted for nearly 300 years, has entered the countdown. The regimes that cannot feed the common people will be overthrown without mercy. This is the iron law.

In order to solve the problem of food, apart from repairing ditches and cultivating improved seeds, the most important thing is chemical fertilizers, but sulfuric acid is needed to make chemical fertilizers, and this problem has returned to the original point.

Cheng Shijie discovered that the sulfuric acid was actually caused by Zhang Chen. That’s right, in Zhang Chen’s in-law’s family, the relatives of Zhang Chen’s deceased husband Zhang Dongfang wanted to seize Zhang Chen’s family wealth. Zhang Chen’s guard Hao Wuniang shot in anger. Huiyun used sulfuric acid to destroy the corpse, and the sulfuric acid came into Cheng Shijie's sight.

The case of Mrs. Zhang Chen was forcibly preserved by Cheng Shijie using the "Law on the Protection of Military Dependents and Martyrs of the Ninghai Navy". Of course, this is mainly a matter of customs and habits, and many people simply accept this result.

Just like the murder case of a certain Koukou who avenged his mother in later generations, this case was placed in the Ming Dynasty. Not only was Koukou not guilty, but he might be rewarded with a memorial archway of great filial piety.

Sulfuric acid, an inadvertent by-product of alchemists of the Fang family, can be traced back as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when sulfuric acid appeared.As for how this thing appeared, I have to mention a group of guys who are not doing their jobs properly and are whimsical.

It is too difficult to refine the elixir and offer it to the imperial family in exchange for glory and wealth, why not directly refine gold?Many alchemists are superstitious about the theory of turning stone into gold. They throw pieces of ore into the alchemy furnace to try to refine gold. The most common way is to throw pyrite into it for refining. It is really difficult to turn stone into gold.

The sulfur content of pyrite is very high. During high-temperature smelting, a large amount of acid gas will be emitted, that is, sulfur dioxide. When sulfur dioxide dissolves in water, it will generate sulfurous acid, and further oxidation will generate sulfuric acid. This is a good thing.

This thing is even more useful than gold, but it is a pity that everyone is ungrateful and hates it so much that they blame this sour and unpleasant liquid for burning out their alchemy furnaces.No one researched it, and the sulfuric acid has never been used in the right place, so it was buried like this.

The trend of alchemy in the Ming Dynasty was also quite strong, especially in the Chenghua and Jiajing dynasties. The two emperors wanted to become immortals and were crazy.

There are more people making alchemy, and naturally more people are making sulfuric acid. At this time, everyone has gradually discovered some uses of sulfuric acid, and they no longer just throw it away like before, but try to sell it for money.To put it bluntly, the sulfuric acid that was once hated by Fang family warlocks has been used to a certain extent, and some people have started to refine it, but everyone still doesn't realize its great value.

In order to expand the production capacity of sulfuric acid and increase the production of chemical fertilizers, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to search for alchemists from all over the world. Hearing this news, Zhu Weiti was very dissatisfied.

Her father, Zhu Changluo, died of taking pills, and the emperor died within a month of sitting.

Zhu Weiti lost his father, but he didn't want to lose Cheng Shijie again. Although Cheng Shijie and her were not married, in Zhu Weiti's eyes, Cheng Shijie was indeed the best person in the world.

During this period, Zhu Weiti often went out. In southern Liaoning, some people scolded corrupt officials, some were dissatisfied with scolding eunuchs, some scolded gentry, and some even scolded the emperor. Of course, they did not directly scold the emperor himself, but scolded the emperor for being bullied by villains. Yes, respect for the superior.

However, in southern Liaoning, no one has ever dared to speak ill of Cheng Shijie, otherwise he would definitely be surrounded and beaten.Once, several scholars from Jiangnan complained that Cheng Shijie was vulgar.

As a result, as soon as the words fell, the scholar who scolded Cheng Shijie was directly given a suit of gold.

When Zhu Weiti found Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie was busy with a group of warlocks, and there were more than 100 steps away from Cheng Shijie, Zhu Weiti was so smoked by the smell of sulfuric acid in the air that he was about to vomit.

"what is this!"

Cheng Shijie heard the words, and he followed the reputation: "Leave quickly, the smell is too strong here!"

It was only then that Zhu Weiti discovered that Cheng Shijie was actually wearing a mask-like thing. This thing was a gas mask from the Ming Dynasty. This thing is really ugly!
There is nothing special about this thing, just a piece of leather that can cover half of the face and a bamboo tube. The bamboo tube is filled with a mixture of charcoal powder, sawdust, and triad, which can play a good role in filtering.

Yes, it is the most primitive gas mask!When this thing was put into World War I, it would definitely be unable to prevent any poisonous gas, but it was enough to deal with the acid gas emitted by sulfuric acid.It's just that it looks too ugly, especially the bamboo tube, which looks like a pig's nose, which is as funny as it needs to be.

"Husband, what are you doing here?"

"Get out!"

"No!"

Zhu Weiti rarely wanted to see what Cheng Shijie was doing.

Cheng Shijie had no choice but to ask someone to find a mask and hand it to Zhu Weiti.

Zhu Weiti is not afraid of being ugly, she thinks that if you marry a chicken, you will marry a dog, and if you marry Cheng Shijie, then even if you become a thief, Zhu Weiti will follow the same path.

While Cheng Shijie was watching the production of phosphate fertilizer, the news that Morimoto Yijiu was beaten up by Ning Haijun also reached Zheng Zhilong's ears.

This made Zheng Zhilong very upset. Although Morimoto Ichijiu was not his person, he was his dog. It was up to the owner to beat the dog. Cheng Shijie made it clear that he did not give him face.

Zheng Zhilong was angry, and the consequences were serious.

PS: I got off work too late today, I am very tired, and I can't write anymore.Get up early tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)