Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 670 Flag Ding or Coating

In a farm outside Paris, Irene held the letter from her husband with tears in her eyes.

"Great, my dear is not dead." Irina couldn't help hugging her two children excitedly.

For so long, she thought her beloved husband Clement had died on the battlefield.After all, the two major defeats in the Battle of the Lowlands and Dunkirk caused many French families to lose their husbands, sons or fathers.Although Clement was just a civilian in charge of military supplies, he was also in the army, and his life and death were uncertain.

Now Yi Lianna knew that because her husband knew how to speak the Mandarin of the Qing Dynasty, that is, Ming dialect, he was placed in a French prisoner-of-war camp and began to be in charge of liaison and educate those French people to serve the Western Qing Dynasty.Regardless of her position, her husband is not dead, which is a good thing.

Her elder brother Jean Dann didn't care about these things. He asked his sister urgently: "Has he become an officer in the Qing army? Can you clear it up and arrange a job for me? After all, I can be a quartermaster for the French army." It is my job to do translation, now it is his turn to arrange for me!"

Elena looked at her brother who only cared about profits and no family ties, and was very angry: "Brother, it was because of you that Clement almost died. Is his situation good now? He was coerced by Xi Qing and did him Things you don't want to do may cause trouble at any time, but you are thinking about your own work! It's shameful."

But Dan was also very upset: "No job, no money, what does our family eat, my sister, why don't you think about it, once something happened in Paris, I took you and the children to the countryside, without me, you might I was killed by the thugs in the riots long ago! I am the pillar of this family!"

Elena knew that there was nothing wrong with letting Dan say it, but she hated this brother from the bottom of her heart, and hated the way he was full of interests.

In the afternoon, everyone in the farm was gathered for a meeting, even the elderly and children had to attend.Anxious Yi Lianna pulled the two children, she looked at her brother and sister-in-law, also nervous.The older brother made Dan hunched over, deliberately short, to look unobtrusive.

Jean Dan whispered sternly to his children and Elena's son: "Put your braids on quickly, do you want to be killed?"

The child was terrified, and Elena quickly fixed her son's fake braids and put on a hat.She looked at Jean Dane, the short-haired brother had already shaved off his temples and forehead, and put on a fake braid himself.

The village chief and an officer of the Qing army stood there, and beside them stood two rows of Qing army soldiers armed with live ammunition.

"Everyone be quiet, don't talk nonsense. Now, as the village head, I am here to announce the new arrangement of our village! We are already the citizens of the great Qing Empire. Long live His Majesty Qianlong! As the glorious people of the Qing Dynasty, we The village was assigned to Zhenglan Banner, and this will be the farm of Zhenglan Banner from now on."

The village head began to talk about the "New Deal", but the villagers below couldn't understand it.Because it's a new set of things that they've never experienced before.This village is like many ordinary French villages. The feudal landlords occupy most of the land in the village. There are a small number of self-cultivators, but most of them are tenant farmers who cultivate the land of the landlords.

However, during this period, the French feudal landlord system has actually loosened somewhat.The new agricultural production technology and mechanical agricultural production tools from Ming Dynasty have revolutionized the way of agricultural production.A large number of agricultural capitalists who invested in Ming Dynasty, joined forces with Ming Dynasty, or learned from the French capital of Ming Dynasty entered. They established new-style farms, hired labor with fixed salaries in an enterprise-like manner, and introduced production tools such as tractors and chemical fertilizers, making the original Due to the production situation of feudal landlords and tenant farmers, there is no way to compete with the new large-scale farms.

There used to be three very large landlords in this village, but they have been losing money year after year. No matter how they squeezed the farmers, they couldn't make money. Even when they were squeezed, some farmers simply ran away and went to work in those farms.The feudal landlords wanted to use personal restraint to deal with those new farms, but the agricultural capitalists were also difficult to deal with. They would also spend money to buy public power, so the feudal landlords also suffered from the ashes.

The last few landlords sold more and more land. Even two years ago, the largest landlord in the village had sold all his land and went to Paris as an apartment.At least buy an apartment building for rent, the income is much more stable than the local main.

Regardless of whether it is a Ming-funded or French-funded farm, it is all taken over by Xiqing at this time.The Eight Banners took it back one after another and turned it into a banner property.Villages that have not completed farmization, they have also begun to farm.

"...In short, our village is now a new farm of Zhenglan Banner. All the villagers are dressed in Zhenglan Banner and work for the farm. The land belongs to Zhenglan Banner. But as long as everyone works hard, they can gain stability. The rations and by-products will be better than before! No matter men, women, old or young, as long as they have a certain amount of labor, they must obey the orders of the farm management and work."

The self-cultivators in the village are the most distressed, and the land will no longer belong to them from now on.But the tenant farmers didn't care, they just changed the object of work, and they didn't have land anyway.Moreover, the Eight Banners farm is about a little better than the French feudal landlords in terms of harvest distribution, and they will be allowed to obtain a little private land.

Let Dan's family and Elena have their own labor tasks.Let Dan think of a way, bribe the village head and military officers, and find out some things about the Eight Banners system.

"...It turns out that as long as you raise the flag, you can become a flag-bearer, and you will be a truly superior person!" Dan's eyes lit up.

The Eight Banners Ding under Wenhe's transformation is no longer a hardcore crop.The Eight Banners of the Western Qing Dynasty is actually a set of routes to promote social elites into a man-made privileged class, which has nothing to do with blood relationship.Of course, the Eight Banners don't have to do menial jobs. They can be called petty officials in the yamen, they can join the army as officers, enter factories as cadres, and so on.Qi Ding enjoys a subsidy, and it is regarded as an assigned job, and has the opportunity to continue to be promoted.

And the coating is just a humanoid property with a flag and two feet.Although to a certain extent, the Western Qing Empire, which carried out bourgeois reforms, recognized that Baoyi was also a citizen and had certain personal rights, but as long as privileges existed, non-privileged people must be targeted to be exploited.

Make Dan want to be strata, not bottom class.

He turned to his sister and said, "Irina, my brother-in-law is in the army right now. Write him a letter quickly and ask him to work hard! As long as we strive to raise the flag, our family will stand out. We will You don’t have to do these farm work anymore, you can go back to the city and live a good life!”

Elena looked at Jean Dan's eagerness. She knew that her husband was having a hard time, but she thought of this family and obeyed her brother's words.

(End of this chapter)