The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

These three people are the core souls who opposed Yan Song's [Daming Disaster Relief Immigration Plan].

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Chapter 1773 Landlord class, basic social contradictions [4]

"Tomorrow, we must stop Yan Song from transporting our Ming people abroad!" Li Sancai said angrily.

Few people know that the Donglin Party is actually the "salt bearer" of the big landlords.Li Sancai himself is a big landlord with ten thousand hectares of fertile land, mainly in his hometown of Shaanxi.

"Yeah, I am a good Ming Dynasty. Why do I have to colonize the land of my ancestors instead of planting it? It depreciates the value of my hometown's land, ahem!" a famous royal censor, Yong Ji, cursed emotionally.

"Yes, my original land in the southeast was worth more than a hundred acres, but now because of Yan Song's vigorous expansion of overseas colonization, the value of the land keeps falling. Damn it!" Lin Run also said indignantly: "This Yan thief is really against us gentry Landlord, how much hatred there is."

There is no love for no reason in the world, and there is no hate for no reason in "[-]".

Why do these people jump out to fight against Yan Song, knowing that Yan Song is powerful?

Because Yan Song's overseas colonization plan hindered their vested interests.

Opponents such as Li Sancai, Wang Yongji, and Lin Run are basically big landlords in Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

Everyone knows that there is a reason why the ruling class of the feudal dynasty is called the landlord class.

These officials have a natural and essential connection with the big landlords.It can even be said that the scholars who can be admitted to the top of the list are likely to have a family background that is not simple, and the proportion of the landlord class is very high, even surpassing the middle class of today's high-scoring candidates...

Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the main form of wealth was land!

Your family has 100 mu of land, a small farmer.

Your family has 100 lands and employs 100 farmers, small landlords.

Your family has 10000 hectares of land, [-] hectares of fertile land, employs [-] farmers, and is a big landlord.

This is the foundation of feudal dynasty rule.

People's enthusiasm for buying land in the past is similar to the enthusiasm for buying houses in the 21st century a few hundred years later.

For the Chinese, where there is land, there is wealth. This concept, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is deeply rooted.

For these feudal landlords, the rent is certainly a benefit, but it is only a small benefit.Just like buying a house and collecting rent today, who makes money by renting?

They all point to the appreciation of the house!

At the beginning of the war and the period of national revival, these big landlords bought land one after another. At that time, the land was still cheap, less than 10 taels of silver, which was an acre of high-quality paddy fields.

But as the economy recovers, the population multiplies, and the land becomes more valuable because there are more people and less land.

Today, the land in the south of the Yangtze River costs hundreds of taels of silver per mu!

Even some densely populated and economically prosperous areas, such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, no one will sell you 200 taels of silver!

Because it is all the land of a big family, it is not sold at all.

The value of these lands is also the most valuable capital of the landlord class.

If you want to ask the big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River how much cash your family has, it may not necessarily be more than a businessman.

But he is saving land and houses.

Today, if Yan Song wants to immigrate on a large scale, it is tantamount to cutting off the lifeblood of these landlords.

Someone asked, why?Did Yan Song ask for your land and house?

This is because the reason why these lands are so valuable is because there are so many people and so little land!

Things are rare.

The population of Daming is 1.6 million, and it is still multiplying and growing, but the arable land will basically not increase.

Scarcity is the reason for the infinite appreciation of land in Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

But what if Yan Song immigrated all these farmers?

Is that land still scarce?

North America, Australia, Southeast Asia...

The infinitely vast land cannot be planted...

What kind of scarce product is the land of Ming Dynasty?

Yan Song used foreign land, infinitely increased the land supply, and made the land depreciated in disguise in the hands of the landlords of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, in the rural areas of Hangzhou, there used to be 100 million farmers with 100 million mu of land. Everyone wanted to buy one mu of land, and the landowners would naturally appreciate in value and enjoy huge wealth.

But now Hangzhou farmers have been immigrated to North America by Yan Song, and each farmer automatically gets 100 mu of land, plus a Japanese wife...

Landlords in Hangzhou, not to mention that no one buys land from him, even finding someone to farm the land is a problem!

This is the contradiction between the landlord class and Yan Song—similar to the [basic contradiction] and [class contradiction] mentioned by Marxism....

Li Sancai, Wang Yongji, and Lin Run gathered together, and the more they discussed, the more serious their expressions became.

"My problem is very serious..."

"My family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and employs thousands of private farmers. But now, Yan Song is making a big publicity in my hometown, saying that if he immigrates to North America, he will give a hundred acres of land, two houses, and his wife as a gift. As a result, more than half of them ran away~ It’s impossible to recruit people now!” Li Sancai gritted his teeth.

"My family is similar. The old man wrote to say that there are only a dozen or so bonded laborers left in the [-] hectares of land in the family. They are all old and weak and can't go to North America. Now the land is not planted. My father and younger brother, You have to drive the cows to the fields yourself...囧!" Wang Yongji looked sad and angry.