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Especially in the morning, you need to put on an extra layer of robes, otherwise you will still feel a little chilly.
It was in this kind of cold morning that Emperor Chongzhen ran out after gathering all his cavaliers and came to a small town near the Dalan Namur River, intending to see how to move to Nur What is the life of the people in Gandusi?
This small town is not big, as can be proved by the reports submitted by Liu Xingzuo and Jin Yiwei.
What kind of big town can a small town with less than [-] households be considered?At best, it is just a bigger Zhuangzi.
However, because the land in Nurgandusi is not valuable, it is not easy to form a small town with more than 1000 households, and we cannot expect too much.
Raising the horsewhip in his hand, he pointed at the people who were working outside the town. Emperor Chongzhen said curiously: "Even though this town is a little smaller, why do only so few people come out to farm? Does it mean that other people don't take farming as their goal?" born?"
Liu Xingzuo bowed and said: "Your Majesty, most of the people living in this small town are former craftsmen, and they don't make a living by farming here on weekdays. They all lease their own land to others for farming."
Land contract?The embryonic form of rural cooperatives?
After a bunch of messy thoughts flashed through his mind, Emperor Chongzhen said, "What about the rent? No one is willing to rent their land to others for nothing, right?"
Liu Xingzuo said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, most of the people in this village are people who migrated from the Guan. There is a [-]% rent situation.”
Only then did Emperor Chongzhen hum, nodded and continued to ride his horse towards the town.
If [-]% of the land rent is placed in later generations, it would be a black heart, but in Daming, [-]% of the land rent is simply synonymous with conscience.
After all, even though Chongzhen opened up countless territories and moved countless people out, coupled with the emergence of various new technologies, the number of people willing to farm land decreased, but the land rent was still maintained at [-]%. Above, [-]% is already unimaginably low.
After walking forward for a while, Emperor Chongzhen turned his head and asked, "I didn't read it wrong just now, did I? Why are there still hair slaves and Japanese slaves? Are these barbarians honest in their work?"
Liu Xingzuo bowed immediately and said, "Return to Your Majesty, these hair slaves were bought through Jiannu's hands.
At the beginning, Weichen and Xiahou bought many Mao slaves through building slaves. Those who built the palace had been cleaned up because they knew the terrain of the palace. The rest were not involved in the construction of the palace. After castration, they were sold to the people. .
As for those Japanese slaves, they were captured from Ezo to Sakhalin Island and sold to the people here.
As for the work of these savages, the Japanese slaves are willing to work hard. After all, the people of my Ming Dynasty are kind-hearted, as long as they work hard, they will be able to feed them well.
It’s just that those Mao slaves always wanted to make trouble because they didn’t have any alcohol to drink, thanks to those Japanese slaves who took the initiative to suppress them, and because of this, the Japanese slaves here in Nurgandusi are more popular than the Mao slaves, and the treatment is also better. better. "
Emperor Chongzhen continued to be ignorant. It is understandable that the sons of the sons will make trouble. Unless they have alcohol, these guys who can make a bear cry will be very unhappy. If they are unhappy, they will make trouble, even if they have been castrated. .
It is also understandable for the Japanese slaves to take the initiative to suppress Maozi - the female slaves have always believed that whoever has the biggest fist is the father. Once the father is in trouble, these slaves will charge forward and be more active than anyone else.
However, Nurgan Dusi had taken the lead in using barbarian labor, which greatly exceeded Emperor Chongzhen's expectations.
Theoretically speaking, the economy of the south is more developed than that of the north, and the places where manpower is needed are much higher than that of the north. Therefore, in Emperor Chongzhen's view, the south should use barbarian labor earlier than the north, not to mention this It is Nurgandus, which is further north than the north.
However, the fact is just the opposite. The south has not yet started to use barbarians, but Nurgandusi has used them first!
After thinking for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen came back to his senses.
There are indeed many places in the south that need to use barbarians, but the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Communications have already divided up the barbarians. They are either used to build railways or lay asphalt straight roads. Where can the surplus go to the people?
On the other hand, Nurgandusi has a unique geographical location. The Ministry of Railways has not planned many railway lines in Nurgandusi, and it takes much less time and manpower. Hands flow into Daming.
There are too many savages left, the Ministry of Railways will naturally choose the fat and the thin, and select some strong ones to be transported back to Daming by railway to repair the railway.
It is also impossible for Liu Xingzuo to raise so many barbarians—the barbarians can eat and drink, so why raise them?It's not that I want to rebel.
Liu Xingzuo, who felt that he couldn't afford to support so many barbarians, found a group of horse boys to discuss for a long time, and then simply sold these barbarians to the common people, and each barbarian was priced at ten taels of silver.
The people of Daming who immigrated to Nurgan Dusi are happy. Even if there are only two people in a family, they will have 20 taels of silver to settle down. The house is allocated by the government. The rations needed for the year were also given by the government.
In this way, the 20 taels of silver in my family is basically useless, unless it is to buy some chickens, ducklings or something, or to buy some food to improve life, otherwise there is really nowhere to spend it.
Well now, what does it mean to be able to buy a barbarian laborer?This is similar to spending ten taels of silver to buy a large animal. Although laborers eat the same food as humans, the food is less than that of large animals, and they can understand human language. This is a good deal no matter what!
The common people who have money in their hands and can't spend it, and Liu Xingzuo, who has barbarians in his hands and plans to sell barbarian labor, are like dry wood meeting fire, pheasant meeting hooligans, and the two sides have confirmed their eyes, and the opposite is the person they are looking for.
The people happily took the laborers home to work and cultivate, and Liu Xingzuo also happily counted the Chongzhen treasure banknotes.
After having figured out this joint in his mind, Emperor Chongzhen stopped being entangled, and continued to walk unsteadily towards the town.
Lin Yuanwai was considered a prominent figure in the town, but he had studied for several years but failed in the imperial examinations. In a rage, he begged for orders and ran to Liaodong. The government of Gandusi valued him, and he became the head of the town of Dalan Namur River, and he can be regarded as a prominent figure.
After Emperor Chongzhen once again borrowed his identity as a distant relative of the British government, he visited Lin Yuanwai's home in the name of going out for fun.
Lin Yuanwai is also very optimistic about this polite son in front of him, especially his status as a relative of the British government will give Emperor Chongzhen a lot of points. I'm afraid Lin Yuanwai is going to marry his daughter to Emperor Chongzhen.
After chatting for a while, Lin Yuanwai said again: "Compared with Daming, Nurgan Dusi is indeed a place of bitter cold. Since Mr. Li is here with you, you must taste some delicacies here. "
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and cupped his hands and said, "If that's the case, then I'll have to work harder for Lin Yuanwai."
Member Lin murmured, and waved his hand to signal the butler to go down to prepare the food and drink. Then he took out a small box from his arms, pushed it in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and said with a smile, "Mr. Li, do you want to try it?"
Emperor Chongzhen picked up the small box with some doubts. After opening it, he took a look, and immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
How did cigarettes appear in Ming Dynasty?Although there is no filter tip, is the appearance of this thing a coincidence or someone deliberately?Are there other traversers?
Murderous intentions flourished in his heart, but on the face he became more and more intimate: "I learned from Haojialin that Xiaosheng is not allowed to smoke these things in Xiaoke's family."
Lin Yuanwai nodded regretfully, and said regretfully: "It's a pity. Nurgan Dusi, like Liaodong, is a place of bitter cold, and it is even worse.
If it is better in spring and summer, once it is the end of autumn and winter is about to enter, the weather can freeze people from the inside out. Therefore, the people in the land of Nurgan Dusi like to drink strong alcohol and tobacco. Just to keep warm. "
Emperor Chongzhen asked with the look of a curious baby: "Tobacco? Xiaosheng has seen that thing before, but when did it become like this?"
Member Lin put on an inscrutable look, and said with a smile: "Speaking of tobacco, Jiangnan first appeared.
I don't know who got the tobacco smoked by the barbarians in the west, and imitated their method to roll up the tobacco and smoke it, but replaced the outer tobacco leaves with paper, which is less powerful, similar to the tobacco that the Ming people used to smoke. "
Emperor Chongzhen took the small box and looked at it over and over for a long time, but found no similarities with the cigarette cases of later generations, so he asked impatiently: "How much silver is a box of this kind of thing? How many cigarettes are there in a box?"
Member Lin suddenly felt rejoiced that Mr. Li was married. If he married his daughter to such a fool, the family business would be wiped out sooner or later: "Money? Mr. Li is joking, this tobacco is only a few pennies It's just a box, how can I buy it with silver.
I'm not sure how many sticks there are in this box. It's roughly the same as before, and they're all calculated by weight. It's hard to say how many sticks there are at fifty cents a catty. "
Only then did Emperor Chongzhen feel relieved a little.
If some bastard came over to engage in the tobacco business, it would probably be divided into sticks like cigarettes in later generations, and sold by the box, instead of selling by the catty as it is now.
Probably some guy who got lucky with shit figured it out.
While thinking about it, the housekeeper of the Lin family had already returned, bowed towards the member of the forest and said, "Master, the food and drink are ready."
Lin Yuanwai nodded, got up and said to Emperor Chongzhen, "Mr. Li, please?"
Emperor Chongzhen also stood up with a smile, and followed Lin Yuanwai to the living room.
The food in the Lin Mansion was nothing special. In the eyes of ordinary people, it was already an incomparably rich food and drink, but in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it couldn't even get an ordinary evaluation.