"Excuse me, sir, why are you not optimistic about this matter?"
Li Jiuyuan asked further!
"Yes! Why aren't you optimistic, sir? Since the people of Zhejiang can resist the officers and soldiers trampling on the seedlings, of course we, the people of Jiangsu, can do the same!"
Yang Dingyuan was also very skeptical about Lin Xu's point of view!
Although Xu Changlin was silent, his eyes were also a little confused, with a hint of anxiety in his doubts!
"Because the situation in Jiangsu today is very different from the situation in Zhejiang last year!"
Lin Xu said in a deep voice!
"What is the difference?"
Li Jiuyuan continued to ask.
After actually speaking, Lin Xu stopped hiding and started talking. Of course, he was just discussing the matter and did not express any views against the court. Although he trusted these people in front of him,
But there’s no guarantee that walls won’t have ears!
"Last year, the imperial court wanted to implement the policy of converting rice into mulberry in Zhejiang. Although the original intention was to increase the revenue of the state treasury, it was also a thing that benefited the people. Because, if compared with the normal price of raw silk and the price of rice in the market,
An acre of mulberry field is 30% to 50% more profitable than an acre of rice field!”
"If done well, it will indeed be a good thing that will benefit the country and the people at the bottom!"
"It's just that people are generally very worried about this policy. They are afraid that if so many people convert rice to mulberry, the raw silk produced will be worthless, and it will have to be sold at a low price, or it may not even be sold at all!"
"If you grow rice, you won't have this worry, because the main purpose of growing rice is for food. It doesn't matter whether it can be sold or not. If there is any leftover, it will become old grain at most!"
"And once the rice is changed to mulberry, what will happen if the raw silk cannot be sold? You can't eat raw silk, right?"
"At that time, the Zhejiang government felt that the people were unwilling to convert rice to mulberry, and it was foolish to leave such a good policy but not implement it. Therefore, some radical officials did not hesitate to use the method of destroying seedlings to force the people to convert rice.
For Sang!”
"However, later on, when they saw that the common people resisted too fiercely, and even fought with officers and soldiers in some places, they were worried about making things worse and triggering a civil uprising, so they had no choice but to postpone the implementation of this policy!"
After saying so much in one breath, Lin Xu took a few breaths and continued: "However, our situation in Jiangsu this year is very different, because the main driving force of the imperial court is no longer to implement this policy, but because the imperial court
We have just signed a large order of one million pieces of silk with Nanyang. This order alone is enough to make a profit of several million taels of silver!"
"Therefore, in order to deliver the order before the end of the year, the imperial court produced silk at all costs!"
"As for changing rice to mulberry, it is just for the production of silk!"
"If there were other ways to produce enough raw silk, the imperial court would definitely not be willing to go to the trouble of forcing the people to change rice to mulberry!"
"In other words, as long as the imperial court doesn't think of other ways to raise raw silk, then no matter what, it will force the conversion of rice into mulberry!"
After hearing Lin Xu's words, everyone else fell into silence!
Because they are all smart people, they completely understood the meaning of Lin Xu's words!
After a while, Yang Dingyuan was the first to break the silence: "If we organize the common people to fight against the officers and soldiers trampling the seedlings, do the officers and soldiers still dare to kill the common people in broad daylight?!"
"Of course the officers and soldiers dare not do this! However, they can use some flexible methods. For example, they can find any excuse to label the people who are leading the trouble, and then tie them up and put them in prison! Once the leader is arrested
If you catch them, it will be difficult for the others to succeed!" This chapter has been completed!