The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 622 Production and Destruction

Peiping.

Thirty miles east of Zhuo County.

Wang Dabing, who is nearly 30 years old, has become a captain. When he was a boy, he and his friends often talked about his ambition to be a general when he grew up, but he no longer talks about it.

But if he still had this idea in his mind, he would joke about it when he was a child. When asked about it, Wang Dabing didn't say much about it.

It was dark.

Ximei is already busy around the stove.

Two guests came to the home. They were scholars from the capital. They came to Peiping for research and stayed at their home. Not only was it entertaining the guests, but their husband was leaving home and returning to the west thousands of miles away.

The pregnant Ximei worked very quickly. Today, the heads of the other seven households in the area will also come to bid farewell to their husband. In order to entertain the guests, Ximei needs to cook a large table of dishes.

The children at home are still sleeping.

Unlike other families, because Wang Dabing had been fighting in the Western Expedition for several years, the young couple only had two children. The youngest of Wang Dabing's younger children had four children, so Wang Dabing worked hard and Ximei became pregnant with another child.

But this time when I give birth to a baby, I'm afraid Wang Dabing won't be around anymore.

Not long after, the mother-in-law and sisters-in-law who lived in the next house came to help. They had just steamed a pot of steamed buns, and uncles were already at the door, including several heads of households in the area, and Faxiao, who had been close to Wang Dabing since childhood.

Although Wang Dabing spent little time in his hometown as an adult because he joined the army, as a child, Wang Dabing was the local child leader and many people came here.

see.

Those friends of Wang Dabing went back very conspicuously and asked their wives to help, and brought tables, chairs, and some food.

The area is also a semi-closed society.

In normal times, if it was not for business, there would not be so many people coming from each family. Only the heads of each family would come. But it was different today. Wang Dabing's house was particularly lively.

Military households now have plenty of money and no longer care about petty gains, and the atmosphere has improved.

Being generous depends on money.

So economics determines many things, including overall moral standards.

"I heard that Da Wa is going to Samarkand?"

"There's going to be another war."

The old man shook his head and said, "That's not it. Where is the eldest son going to move to?"

Wang Dabing's old father was already sitting at the table with several elderly people. They didn't need to do anything, as they naturally had their own children doing the work.

These old men have great style.

There are eight households in each well.

Peiping was the first to implement the Katai system. Although Zhuozhou was not as early as those around Beiping City, it was not too late. The buildings that initially emerged have now grown to about twenty.

There were about forty or fifty people in the village back then. The boys and girls got married and got married. Although there was no household division, the new group of children became lively.

Including Ximei also gave birth to two children. Because Wang Dabing followed His Majesty the Emperor in the Western Expeditions for many years, he was delayed in having children, so that their couple had relatively few children in the local area.

Today, the population in the area has reached more than 120 people, including about [-] children and teenagers.

The young people gathered with Wang Dabing and stayed with the old people.

Everyone looked at Wang Dabing.

Wang Dabing smiled and said: "The health department has been advocating it, and the military has also been advocating it. In this case, I signed up."

"Wei Suo advocated it, but we won't let go. How dare Wei Suo force it?"

An old man spoke big words.

According to the advice of the Wei Institute, men in every household who start a family must live in separate households.

These men who were separated from the family could not inherit the family's acres, but the family wealth could be shared. However, they would be arranged to go to new land and obtain new acres.

Not many people want to leave their hometown.

Life in Peiping is colorful, including school. Leaving this Peiping and going to a strange borderland is like living in two different worlds. Military households who often read newspapers know the difference.

Coupled with the fact that the big family owns a hundred acres of land, it can still be maintained for now, so not many people responded to Wei Suo's call.

Wang Dabing smiled and did not argue with the old man.

People are like this.

"If you go to Samarkand, the court will give you benefits, right?" Someone asked curiously.

Wang Dabing nodded and explained: "Three hundred acres of land will be allocated."

"Three hundred acres?"

The crowd said in surprise.

"You can grow three hundred acres, but your two boys can't work hard enough. Your wife still has one in her belly. You have to go to the military camp. Are you going to let the land go uncultivated?"

"There are military households who will help each other."

"Isn't it cancelled?"

"It was established over there again, but it's not like the previous name, but we still call it that." Wang Dabing explained carefully, and then said: "But the three hundred acres of land are not all good land like the mainland."

Fertile land is rare, with more hills and deserts.

Half farming and half pastoral.

"How can the Military Household Mutual Gang help?"

"The Military Households Mutual Gang has recruited a lot of hired farm workers in the local area. They only need to give them food and a little wages. These expenses are deducted from the harvest in the fields, plus the maintenance expenses of the Military Households Mutual Gang and the payment. The rest of the taxes and taxes paid to the imperial court are your own.”

"Isn't that a landlord? He is better than any landlord."

Someone laughed.

"You kid, don't act like your Uncle Zhou," an old man joked.

At that time, some military households in the Beiping area had insufficient labor force, so the maintenance government opened a loophole to allow military households to use Korean and Japanese female workers.

Some of these tricks, Lao Zhoutou in their area is very happy with it. There are two Korean female workers in the family, and they often quarrel over this. If it weren't for fear of fines, Lao Zhoutou's wife would have gone to the toilet long ago. He was told to go.

The fine was not paid to the family, but Lao Zhoutou's wife was reluctant to part with it.

In the kitchen, Ximei stir-fried the spoon and made a lot of noise. It seemed that Ximei was dissatisfied, and people laughed happily.

Two scholars were invited to the table by the old people.

The children are already up.

The children of workers are disinclined to learn, naughty, and aggressive. The children of military households also dislike studying and often play truant.

After the children of each family got up, they mounted their own horses and left home in twos and threes to go to the social school in the health center. Those older children either lived in the state school or were no longer studying.

They were all stuffed with hot buns by their mothers.

A breakfast that lasted a full hour.

People bid farewell to Wang Dabing in person.

Wang Dabing and his second brother rode horses to the train station in the city. After Wang Dabing took the train out of the military camp, his second brother would lead the horse home.

It is common for a family to have two or three horses.

The two brothers talked a lot on the road.

Livestock were not allowed to enter the platform. After Wang Dabing separated from his brother, he entered the platform alone.

He is an active soldier, and he has a military badge hanging on his waist, which is very eye-catching. The platform provides half-price train tickets, which can go to any place in Ming Dynasty as long as there is a track.

"When most people are unwilling, the court's policies will be implemented easily."

"uncertain."

Two scholars were discussing.

The two of them were wearing Chinese uniforms, with a red peach blossom sewn on the upper left breast pocket flap. If someone was knowledgeable, they could tell which department the two came from based on the color and shape of the peach blossom.

Research Division.

The Research Department is a very large department with a variety of organizations, including the worker-peasant population distribution project team.

The two stopped arguing about this issue and started talking about the situation of local military households.

"When the acres were divided back then, a lot of empty land was left. Now each military household relies on scraps from land reclamation to supplement the land, but this is contrary to the idea of ​​His Highness the Crown Prince."

Each household has five to six people and one hundred acres of land.Farming about seventy acres ensures the existence of nature, leaving space for wild beasts to live, and allows people to understand the principles of competition with nature, so as not to degenerate into a civilized species that even cockroaches dare not step on.

Coupled with the use of agricultural machinery, it not only ensured the economic foundation of military households, but also allowed military households to strengthen their physical fitness, greatly improve agricultural efficiency, and finally have the ability to consume, forming a cyclical system of economic development.

The former is the necessary economic foundation for agricultural society to enter industrial society. So now the average land is less than seven acres. When the new generation grows up, their reproduction will greatly reduce the number of acres.

Society is changing and does not move forward forever, just like a boat on a river.

It might have been like this ten years ago, with awe in the world, but it might be like that ten years later, in decline.

"The agricultural population still accounts for the largest proportion of Ming Dynasty society. If the problem of the agricultural population cannot be solved, the foundation of economic development will lead to bankruptcy."

"The policy of separating military households in the area has become an urgent matter."

"I'm afraid that this move will make most military households dissatisfied. Even His Highness the Crown Prince would not dare to make a rash decision on this matter."

His Royal Highness has done many things.

Whether it was targeting nobles, private merchants, or even suppressing the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, each of them was an unbelievable move, but each one of them made His Highness the Crown Prince suppress.

What does it rely on?
His Royal Highness has great prestige among military households.

The picture of swallows hanging in the main hall of every house is the greatest source of support for His Royal Highness.

Why wouldn't even the emperor compete with His Highness the Crown Prince? In addition to the deep love between father and son, His Highness the Crown Prince's prestige is so great that it has even surpassed Emperor Taizu, and military households are His Royal Highness's base.

Although Emperor Taizu was very harsh on the founding heroes, the treatment he gave to the founding heroes was very high. Each of them had successors who would inherit their glory. It can be said that it was a bit too good.

Therefore, Emperor Taizu's base was still the founding nobles.

Armed force was mastered through nobles.

But His Highness the Prince chose to decentralize power and combat the blood-sucking trend of the powerful forces towards the people, so he also needed his base, which ultimately fell on the military households.

"Although there are many soldiers like Wang Dabing, the number of military households is too small."

"ten years."

"In about ten years, the current consumption capacity of military households will be emptied by the coming of age of the new generation, and the area will lose its original role in regulating the economic system."

The two scholars completed their research in Peiping and returned to the capital.

The phenomenon in Peiping is enough to summarize the military household organizations in various places.
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The population of Shaanxi Province has recovered to 500 million.

Enter the Western Region Province through the Hexi Corridor, as well as the Yili Province.The population of the Western Region Province also exceeds 100 million, while the population of the Yilibari Province is currently less than 50.

According to the imperial court's plan, the total population of the Western Region Province and Yilibali Province should reach 200 million, and the current gap is still 50.

Also try to understand the inside and outside.

The Han people mainly gathered in Samarkand Dusi and Bukhara Dusi.

In places like Tashkent Xuanweisi, Bali Heixuanweisi, Mulu Xuanweisi, Mashhad Xuanweisi and other places, the main population is still local people, with an estimated population of more than [-] million, and hundreds of large and small kingdoms.

Most kingdoms are currently nominally subordinate to the Ming Dynasty and make annual tributes to the Samarkand capital, imitating the Timurid Khanate period.

The Ming Dynasty stationed a total of 5 troops in the area, of which less than 30 were relocated.

When Timur was alive, the population of the entire Timur Khanate was about 850 million. Of course, such a large population was not in the territory under actual control, but the total population of various large and small kingdoms.

Including Central and West Asia, and even parts of Eastern Europe.

At present, the Ming Dynasty's footsteps stop in Central Asia, radiating as far as Mashhad, the doorstep of West Asia. To maintain the Ming Dynasty's rule in Central Asia, the Ming Dynasty needs to relocate at least 50 people to be able to do so.

At this stage.

Because Ming Dynasty implemented Wanghua in the local area, fierce conflicts occurred.

Even the governors of the Delhi Sultanate were ready to threaten the Ming Dynasty's rule in southern Central Asia. After Timur captured Delhi, although they had no choice but to withdraw due to local resistance, the governors of the Delhi Sultanate also became independent one after another. Became warlords of all sizes.

Compared with the unified Sudanese Kingdom, such a warlord-autonomous kingdom is more difficult to govern. Therefore, the current main direction of the Ming army is still to govern the Samarkand region.

The leaders of Almaty launched a surprise attack on the local Ming army camp.

When the Ming army marched westward, they considered two routes, one along the Ili Valley and the other along the Tianshan Valley, passing through the Tianshan Grand Canyon, and finally chose the Ili Valley.

Almaty is the gateway to the Ili Valley and the Tianshan Valley.

The Siberian Cossack army that later set out from Omsk, Russia, built a castle at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains and named it Zailiysky. A year later it was renamed Verny. In the second half of the [-]th century, it became the administrative center of the Central Asian Viceroyalty of Tsarist Russia.

It is Almaty, which is also the largest city in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is a vast and sparsely populated country, with a total area of ​​nearly 300 million square kilometers, but a population of only over 900 million.

Its population distribution is often very concentrated, mainly in the Ili Valley. In Almaty alone, there are more than 200 million people living in it.

During the Han Dynasty, the Protectorate of the Western Regions was established, and the Central Plains Dynasty began to rule today's Xinjiang region for the first time. At that time, because the Ili Valley was also suitable for farming, the Almaty region also became the rule of the Han Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Turks came to the Ili Valley, merged with the local Wusun people, and became the rulers of the Ili Valley.

Later, the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks and re-established the Anxi Protectorate and the Anbei Protectorate. Almaty was still under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The climate in Central Asia is very dry and rainless, which makes Central Asia a "natural pasture" for nomadic peoples.

Just like the natural dividing line between the Central Plains countries and the grassland nomads in ancient my country, areas with such a climate are definitely not suitable for the development of farming culture and farming nations.

However, Central Asia is slightly different from the Mongolian grasslands. That is, in the sporadic oases and narrow areas near rivers in Central Asia, there are actually some areas suitable for farming.

Therefore, farming in the Almaty area has provided considerable productivity for the area, and it is also the richest place in the surrounding areas.

Of course the Ming army would not miss this place.

There are more than 1 migrated Han people living in Almaty. They have cultivated acres after acres of land with the help of supplies from the mainland, systematic organization, and advanced agricultural tool technology.

Military household mutual gangs are organizers of local productivity.

In addition to bringing a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, they also recruited a large number of local people to provide food and wages to the local people to supplement the shortage of labor force among the Han people.

Systematic management brings high-efficiency labor results.

Soon local chiefs felt threatened.

The Han people are very good at farming.

Their acres were doubling every year. Steam trucks and steam engines served as power, and plowshare-like machines placed in the ditch and pulled by ropes made the ditch-building project more efficient.

In a few years, the Han people built a lot of infrastructure, especially water conservancy projects, diverting water from lakes and planting trees.

They divided the fields into large areas.

It was stipulated that each household should raise a specified number of cattle and sheep, which could not exceed the load of the land. Through water conservancy projects, more acres of land were opened up, and the Military Households Mutual Help Association absorbed the local poor.

In less than ten or twenty years, the local leaders will be threatened by the Han people and their living environment will be threatened.

If the contradiction in Mashhad is a contradiction between civilizations, then the contradiction in Almaty is a contradiction between ecological environment and productivity.

Advanced civilization and backward civilization compare productivity.

There is no doubt that advanced civilization will defeat backward civilization.

Therefore, the expansion of Chinese civilization has been unswerving since ancient times. It did not mainly rely on war to conquer places, but gradually eroded them through production and digestion.

When productivity competition fails, there will be war.

Chinese civilization does not like war.

Because productivity is the unbeatable means.

Therefore, it can often be seen from history books that the Central Plains dynasty often had very low demands on each ministry, and it was enough for each ministry to remain stable.

Traditional farming is more laborious than industry.

A nation that can grow flowers from barren land, even if it turns into industrial struggle, must be excellent and great. This is the result determined by the attributes of civilization.

There are pros and cons to everything.

People pursue stability and dislike disorder.

The local Ming army's policy of making friends with them made them passive. The leaders of Almaty launched a surprise attack, killing dozens of people in the settlement, snatching away all the supplies in the settlement, and finally setting off a fire.

When the Ming army arrived, they saw only ruins.

Huo Zhen, the general from Senan Province, was extremely angry.

This is his defense zone.

His Majesty the Emperor was about to arrive at Yilibaili Province, which was only three thousand miles away. Huo Zhen didn't know how His Majesty the Emperor would punish him, but he showed a vicious look.

(End of this chapter)