New Shun 1730

Zhao Liben didn't think about "knowing without thinking".

It's just that the life in these years has expanded his horizons, making the world around him in the past expand to five thousand miles.

He has never been to Gaolangbu in Ceylon.

But the Huanglongfu in the storytelling, although this Huanglongfu is not the same Huanglongfu, after all, he has been to a Huanglongfu far away, with a completely different climate, and even saw the refugees of North Korea in the gold mine.

As for Gaolangbu in Ceylon, it seems to be similar.

In short, if you are alive, you must see the person, and if you are dead, you must see the body.

I was deceived by the so-called labor dispatch traffickers at the beginning, and I almost died there, and I don't know if my third brother can survive.

As for everything here, there is not much to miss.

He can't feel the world from a very macro perspective, but from his own feelings over the years, compared with the stories he heard from his parents and friends in the past, he also vaguely feels that the world is changing.

In this era, which is different from the past, in several places such as Dengzhou Prefecture in the south of Jiangsu Guannan, strict identity control has been abolished. Having money means that you can choose different lifestyles.

You can buy land, open a small stove, or run a small oil mill, or even run two or three looms for your family to work on. Even if there are no slaves, you can eat steamed buns every day. It should be possible.

Compared with the millions of people in the vast areas from Huainan to Huainan in Jiangsu Province who were passively involved in the tide of the times and had no choice but to accept all the reforms, Zhao Liben is undoubtedly a lucky person who has turned a disaster into a blessing.

However, if an individual has such luck, his family will rise to heaven, and his younger brother can follow him to leave the village.

However, for the people in the village here, there is no choice.

Leaving the village means losing the qualification of "granting land" and losing the dream of land that their ancestors valued most.

Moreover, after leaving, there is nothing, and life may not be better than now.

But as more and more stories from the surrounding areas spread here, people's hearts were finally scattered, and the religious church and holy learning seemed unable to unite.

For the organizers of the township community, they wanted to avoid the reform in Jiangsu, but in the end they only delayed it for five years. Five years later, with the completion of the canal, they had to consider the future of the township community.

A few days later, Meng Songlu led Quan Zheshen to the township community.

The Confucian scholars who studied agriculture in the township community were distributing some saplings among the various baojia.

The elderly Cheng Tingzuo was also there. Meng Songlu hurried over with Quan Zheshen. After briefly explaining Quan Zheshen's background and the many problems of this loan trip, he looked at the saplings and asked curiously, "Sir, what are these?"

"Xingguogong allocated money and distributed it in the Huainan reclamation area. It requires that both the reclamation company and our township community must plant a batch of neem trees, and there are nurseries to provide saplings. Some apple seedlings were also distributed, but these are not mandatory. Only neem trees, the seeds can be used to extract oil, and the bark can prevent the damage of snails and roundworms. It is required that a certain number of neem trees must be planted everywhere to replace the tung tree with a higher oil extraction rate, for its medicinal use, and then remove the damage of snails and roundworms."

Looking at the people who were receiving saplings in the distance, Meng Songlu couldn't help but say a good word for Liu Yu's reform.

"It has been said since ancient times that the power of the court is no less than that of the county. The reforms of the Duke of Xingguo in Huainan, apart from other things, include the improvement of cotton varieties and the promotion of neem trees to eliminate insects. Compared with the past villages, it is indeed more than a hundred times more convenient. If Mexican cotton can be promoted throughout the country and the harm of snails and roundworms can be slightly curbed, just for this matter, the Duke of Xingguo can be said to be a wise man."

Cheng Tingzuo also praised and hummed, but only hummed, then took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Meng Songlu, saying: "This is a letter that the Duke of Xingguo sent to me when he sent people to distribute saplings this time. Take a look."

After that, while Meng Songlu was reading the letter, he chatted with Quan Zheshen for a few words.

He is old and has a high reputation in recent years. He stands at the same level as Li Yi and criticizes the Christian thought in Li Yi's learning. He also professionally points out from the perspective of Confucian scholars that Li Yi's theory of nature has Gaozi's theory, which may not be the right way.

Cheng Tingzuo is a professional, and the problems he pointed out do exist. Although Quan Zhe is not a Chinese, he is a Confucian scholar and a junior. Although it is said that a disciple should not hear the master's faults, his knowledge is still shallow. After a few words from Cheng Tingzuo, his mind was shaken, and he felt that the Confucian scholars of a big country are indeed different, and they are indeed not comparable to the small land of the Eastern Frontier.

On the other side, Meng Songlu, who was reading the letter, read Liu Yu's letter to their school word by word.

After reading it, he sighed deeply.

There are a lot of contents in the letter, but in summary, there are only a few contents.

However, the Yanli School itself is a broad "Zhou Li" political school, not a scripture school, and it can still communicate with bureaucrats like Liu Yu on many things.

Even if there are disputes, the underlying logic of some discussions is basically the same, so it is not completely a situation where you say it is a gatehouse and I say it is a hip axis.

"Sir, have the others read the letter from the Duke of Xingguo?"

Cheng Tingzuo nodded and said, "Yes. The hegemonic tactics are too strong, but since the conspiracy has been carried out, there is nothing anyone can do."

Meng Songlu could only smile bitterly when he heard the word "hegemonic tactics". Quan Zheshen, who was standing aside, had no idea what the two were talking about, but he also kept his manners and did not ask. Although he had a very good feeling about this township and felt that this was his ideal future, it seemed that now was not the time to ask about this. Perhaps something had gone wrong with the township.

Liu Yu's letter really made some things very clear.

He started by telling the story of the immigration to Ceylon.

He said that he forced the Dutch to deal with the Javanese because the rise of sugarcane in the Caribbean caused a crisis in the monoculture industry due to the oversupply of sugarcane.

He also used force to oppress the Dutch so that they dared not to slaughter them.

So they had no choice but to accept the practice of moving the Tang people to Ceylon.

After the move, they repaired the water conservancy, which consumed the people's strength and made the people complain bitterly.

When the water conservancy was basically completed, the rice fields were basically self-sufficient, and the Tang people were full of resentment, China and the Netherlands went to war.

So they got tens of thousands of Guiyi troops.

The Dutch were considered tyranny; the court was considered benevolent.

Now, the situation here is similar. The canal, seawall, and basic water conservancy have been basically completed.

But your township has reached its limit, but the most basic infrastructure has also been completed.

With the canal built, cotton production areas, wheat rotation grain production areas, and gradually developing overseas markets, with such huge advantages, as long as capital is injected and the transformation is completed, with textile as the main industry and planting as the secondary industry, the township community can become rich.

In other words, this is the best time to reform the township community. If it continues to drag on, there will only be more and more problems.

Money is not a problem.

Liu Yu said in the letter that he could definitely borrow.

Even more, he is not a loan shark, and he does not necessarily have to be profit-oriented.

But in this situation, he definitely cannot borrow, because the situation of the township community makes him very dissatisfied, and he does not think this is a good direction.

Inherent problems, such as where to find so many idealistic Confucian scholars in the country, where to find such a township community that does not need to solve the land conflicts of landlords, etc., are not mentioned.

Just say that since you are the "Zhou Li" school, whether Zhou Li is a fake book or whether Wang Mang deliberately raised it for the reform, this is not mentioned.

But Zhou Li is not only about agriculture, but also about industry and commerce.

Of course, the old specialized craftsman system is not feasible. With the development of the textile industry and the new era of the workshop system, you should come up with something to suit the development of the times.

If it is feasible, he can provide financial support.

Moreover, taking advantage of the opportunity of the completion of infrastructure and the development of the cotton industry, the reform can be said to be immediate. As long as the funds are in place, the new looms or spinning wheels are in place, at most two years, and there is policy support for cotton yarn, at most two years, it can be developed.

The resistance to reform will also be reduced a lot, because after all, the people can't understand the difference between the past and the present, let alone the difference between repairing the canal and opening up the market and the process of repairing and opening up.

As long as it lasts for one or two years, it will be recognized by the people and a model will be established.

A rural model of combining agriculture with industry and commerce.

Of course, in the letter, Liu Yu also criticized his own reforms, saying that no matter what, their school of thought is worthy of recognition for conducting education in the township community and making the people have their own fields without annexation.

Liu Yu himself also said that his reforms have shaped some emerging big cities.

But for the rural issues, he did take the path of eliminating tenants instead of solving rural issues. No one can say what the future will be like, but it is certain that the many advantages of Jiangsu after the reform may find a different solution to the rural issues.

As for what this model will look like, that is the choice and exploration of their school, but it is definitely not okay now.

However, one thing is certain, that is, taking advantage of the development of Jiangsu's cotton textile industry is the only correct way.

Otherwise, once this opportunity is missed, it will become more and more ugly in the future.

As for whether they can break through the past rut on the issue of ownership, even if it becomes a fantasy, it can be regarded as lighting up a little hope for the future.

If the letter only wrote these things, it would be fine, at least it gave the township a possibility to solve the existing problems.

But obviously, Liu Yu's letter could not have only written these contents.

After the routine ridicule, some disputes between Liu Yu and their school in the past were mentioned, and there were also some personal attacks and ridicules on Cheng Tingzuo.

It is said that Cheng Tingzuo wrote a poem to guard against the disaster of Western island barbarians.

I also know about the Luzon incident, where Westerners implemented Western systems and reversed ethics and so on.

Then, why don't you Confucian scholars go out? The world is so big, as the ancients said, if the invaders can go, I can go too, why don't you have the ambition to spread the holy way to the world?

There are still some barbarians who "eat raw meat and drink blood" in the world, why don't you go there to spread the holy way? If you can succeed, the merit will be a hundred times greater than tossing in a village. Because you toss and turn, and finally found that you can only be subordinate to my reform, and everything is subordinated to the successful reform, including if you develop the textile industry in the village.

Of course, if you really have the heart to spread the holy way, now there is a ready-made opportunity.

Although I don't believe in your power, this matter is not easy to handle with the power of capital. And it involves some future problems, so if you have such a mind, it is the best.