Chapter 521: The New Agricultural Cooperative in the Eighteenth Century
In just three days, several checkpoints in Yatake Mountain were broken through by refugees, and the military soldiers stationed there suffered heavy casualties.
After the news came out, the Kumamoto clan was shocked, and the Sagara clan was also frightened. As a few soldiers who had a chance to escape returned to the government office to report, the incident in Ashikita Town seemed to have wings and spread quickly to all parts of Kitakyushu.
Those farmers who were crying for food in the winter and had no way to ask for help began to flee with their families under the cover of night.
In the following ten days, the night post roads in Kitakyushu were filled with people and shoulders. By the time the Kumamoto clan reacted and sent out an army to intercept, more than 30,000 people had already crossed Mount Yatake and entered the Three Prefectures.
And behind these people, more and more refugees came from Hyuga, Bungo and even Bunzen, with the potential to start a prairie fire.
With so many farmers fleeing their homes, the Kumamoto clan and other clans immediately became hairy. Their mud legs ran away. Are they going to let the samurai masters farm in the spring?
The current feudal lords of the Kumamoto Domain are the 9th generation head of the Hosokawa family, and the 8th generation head of the Higo Kumamoto Domain, Hosokawa Shigemasa. This person is currently in Edo to take charge of the affairs of the family. In addition to sending people to Edo, the elder Hosokawa Nagaoka Korei who is responsible for looking after the feudal clan
The household was in a hurry, so they immediately sent their men to negotiate with Beihai Town.
However, after the people of the Kumamoto clan arrived in Hishikari County, envoys from the Akizuki family, the Sagara family, the Naito family, the Tachibana family, the Kurujima family, the Mori family, and the Inaba family also arrived one after another, and they stayed in the small guest house in Hokkai Town.
It was overcrowded. All the families in the surrounding area came to visit, and you may not be able to see so many people at one time even if you go to Edo.
After meeting the officials of Beihai Town, these envoys kept saying the same thing over and over: "Give the people back to us!"
"Everyone, because there are too many people breaking through these days, we have not been able to prevent them. Now they have all run into the mountains. But don't worry, give us a year, oh no, half a year, and wait until we find the people and examine them one by one.
When it’s over, let them go back.”
The speaker was a man in his forties. He was wearing a Northern Navy military uniform without a rank mark. He was short in stature, had short hair that was about an inch long, had rosy cheeks, and had a beard on his chin.
This person is the former leader of the agricultural machinery team of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Beihai Town. He was one of the seven dwarfs under Zhao Xin... Bah! He is Wan Zao, one of the Seven Samurai.
Speaking of Linggao Jinshan being in such an important location, Zhao Xin was really worried if he didn't leave one of his own. In addition, because Linggao Jinshan mining uses a lot of machinery and equipment, Wan Zao, who has been operating tractors in Beihai Town for several years, was finally selected.
, became the local township chief.
Wan Zao's snot-nosed son Wan Haiyang is now a student at the Beihai Navy Junior Military Academy, while his wife continues to act as the housekeeper of "Prince Zhao's Mansion" in Beihai Town, coming in and out of Zhao Xin's house all day long.
The envoys from other domains were okay, but the three families of Hosokawa, Sagara, and Akizuki became anxious immediately. Half a year? Half a year later, whether or not I will be here will not be announced!
After such a big thing happened, when the news reached Edo, there was no way to escape if the shogunate gave them a beating. A reprimand? That was impossible! If not, they would have to cut the seal and change it. For the Tokugawa family, this was
After being humiliated by Sendai Clan and Hokkai Town in the past few years, we are in need of a few chickens to scare the monkeys! Besides, we can take the opportunity to expand the shogunate's territory, so why not do it.
"Sir, I have always been respectful to your department in the past two years, and I have done nothing wrong. I beg you, for the sake of the fact that we are all from the island country, please return the fugitives to us! Otherwise, I will be held accountable by Edo in the future.
Maybe it will be changed! Wuwuwu~~~"
The envoy sent by the Hosokawa family started to cry after speaking, and the envoys from other families also felt sad.
As a farmer who was once oppressed and couldn't survive, Wan Zao, who was sitting in the main seat, really wanted to look up to the sky and laugh wildly at this moment. Mom, God is really wise! You samurai masters are also in this day! If you want to take people back, you can't.
None!
In fact, he immediately reported the situation to Beihai Town on the first day the refugees arrived, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs responded quickly. All the refugees who escaped must be sent to the Ajiugen foothills in Deshui County, where they will stay for a short period of time.
After resting, they will be picked up by ship; the plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is to naturalize these people first, and then send them to various settlements in Siberia after Heilongjiang thaws in spring.
The reason why farmers who fled the country are not allowed to stay is to keep the secret of Linggao Jinshan. Since Beihai Town started mining in the Linggao mining area, as Zhao Xin's largest source of wealth, the entire twenty miles around the mining area has been classified as a restricted area.
Several drones patrol the air 24 hours a day. Within the fence surrounded by barbed wire, there is a camera every 50 meters and a sentry tower every 200 meters. Anyone who approaches the barbed wire without authorization will fire a warning shot before moving forward.
will be shot to death.
The workers working in the mining area are all from Beihai Town, and their families live in Beihai Town. The working period is one year. The salary offered by the civil administration to the workers is very high, the lowest is 80 North Sea dollars per month, and the food and accommodation are the same as those in the army.
The standards are the same. The only requirement is to be strict with your words, and you must sign a confidentiality agreement after recruitment. If you violate the rules, your whole family will be sent to the coal mine in Ezochi.
In the past two years, the shogunate and surrounding vassals have sent hundreds of spies, including people from the Sendai clan. They all wanted to find out what Beihai Town was doing here, but in the end, no one could return alive.
Manzo suppressed a smile and said in a deep voice to the Kumamoto clan's envoy: "Everyone, this matter is still your responsibility. People go to higher places and water flows to lower places. If you don't give the people a way to survive, don't blame them.
They resisted. However, this matter is not without a solution."
When everyone here heard this, they all looked up at Wan Zao. He raised his hand to signal, and an assistant behind him distributed more than a dozen pamphlets to the envoys of each vassal. Everyone took them and took a look, and saw a few words written on the cover.
The big word: "Agricultural Cooperative Combination Method-Trial Version".
Huh? Everyone hurriedly opened it and saw the first article of Chapter 1 General Provisions which stated that this measure aims to increase agricultural productivity and improve the economic and social status of farmers by promoting the development of agricultural cooperative organizations, with a view to realizing the development of the Kyushu region.
prosper.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this time, Wan Zao said: "Everyone, take a good look at it today, and we will talk about it tomorrow."
So the envoys from various vassals took the booklet back and read it hard all night. Although the words in the booklet were all straightforward, because there were many new terms, some of them were confused after reading it. Of course, there were also some people.
I can see the ambition of Beihai Town.
Late at night, the messenger from the Maori family turned over the brochure several times and finally understood. Then he broke out in a cold sweat. "Oh my God! They are planning to control the entire agriculture of Kyushu Island in their own hands.
ah!"
That's right, when six years have passed since the "Tianming Famine" and the impact of natural disasters on agriculture has come to an end, another plan of Zhao Xin is also ready to be implemented.
Don't get me wrong, he has no intention of seizing power because it is meaningless. If he drives away a bunch of rice bugs, he may still be replaced by a bunch of rice bugs. What he wants to do is to control the grassroots countryside and complete the control of the island country by controlling agriculture.
Total control of the economy. And Kyushu was the experimental field he chose.
In the past few years, although Hokkai Trading Company has put a large amount of Hokkai dollars into the island country market, they were basically circulated in large commercial cities such as Ishinomaki Port, Edo and Osaka, and relied on commodity dumping and large loans to achieve profits, making it difficult to penetrate.
Enter the daily life of ordinary people in the island country.
The problem is that the shogunate is not stupid. If Beihai Town extorts gold, the price of gold and silver in the "Liangbaiya" will definitely change. The method adopted by Matsudaira Sadanobu is to limit the number of imported goods in Beihai Town and increase the price of "gold bar" and "silver bar".
The circulation ratio controls the exchange.
Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong had been discussing this matter for less than half a year, and they both turned their attention to the countryside.
According to the shogunate system of the island country, the payment method of farmers' annual tribute rice is the "village tax system" that is paid by the whole village. Farmers, based on the village, will hand over the annual tribute rice to the agent at a designated place in one go. Annual tribute rice
After all was paid, the feudal lord would keep the portion that belonged to himself and his family, and distribute the stone and rice to each samurai in the retainer group step by step according to the agreed amount of enfeoffment, and then use the remaining portion and the large amount of money reserved for finance.
Part of the "Kurayashiki" shipped to Osaka is sold.
Because the annual tribute of each village is fixed, there is room for manipulation. For example, a piece of land in a certain village with three towns, three turns, nine acres and twenty-four steps is on the government's land account, and the tribute rice payable is 33
8 buckets of stone, 2 liters, 7 in 7 spoons, 2 tons of rice.
In the plan drawn up by him and Chen Qingsong, Beihai Trading Co., Ltd. will serve as the initiator of the "Agricultural Cooperative Association" and fund the establishment of the Agricultural Cooperative Association. The natural villages under each vassal will be sub-associations, and all farmers in the village will be members of the sub-association.
, everyone has shares, which cannot be transferred.
The government offices of each domain cannot interfere with what crops farmers plant each year and how they grow them. Everything is decided by the General Assembly.
When it comes time to pay the annual tribute, the Agricultural Cooperation Federation will directly convert the rice bid price from Osaka and Edo that year into money and pay it to the government office of each domain. As for what is specifically planted on the land and how much the harvest is, it will be a dime with the government office.
It doesn't matter.
Correspondingly, the transportation and circulation of agricultural products will be completely controlled by the Federation, and the Kurayashiki established by the feudal lords in Osaka specifically for selling rice will be thrown out of this circulation process. As a result, the Federation will control the distribution of agricultural products.
Pricing power. In the past, the pricing of Kyushu's agricultural products was controlled by Osaka's Kurayashiki, but with the strength of Hokkai Trading Company, the rice merchants themselves would come to purchase goods.
As a result, on one side, a large amount of Hokkaido dollars poured into the pockets of feudal lords and samurai, who would exchange these currencies for daily necessities in the market, whether for official duties or in daily life; and on the other side, there were rice merchants and other agricultural product brokers.
People paid a lot of gold and silver to buy from the General Assembly.
And because Kyushu is an island, this "agricultural cooperative combination" plan also includes fisheries.
Not to mention how the envoys from the Kyushu Island vassals will report to their elders after returning. Compared with the high spirits of Wan Zao's return home, Zhao Xin has already arrived at Red Rock City, where he will meet with the Russian envoy from afar.
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Red Rock City, also known as Krasnoyarsk. As the New Year's bell rang in 1791, the towns in Eastern Siberia that had been ruled by Tsarist Russia for more than a hundred years changed their names.
For example, Yeniseysk was changed to "Pingshi", which takes its meaning from the ancient name of the Yenisei River "Qianhe". The image of the Qian hexagram in the Book of Changes says, "A gentleman benefits the few by gathering more, and he calls things equal and gives."
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Irkutsk was renamed "Baikal" according to the old name of Lake Baikal, and the North Sea Special Region was also renamed "Baikal Province"; Yakutsk was changed to "Big River" according to the translation of the Evenki name Lena River.
", Nerchinsk returned to its old name "Nerchinsk", which means "cold" in the Evenki language. In fact, the names of many places in Siberia come from the Evenki language, either big rivers, big rivers, or seas.
As for Kyakhta, there is no need to change its name. When the Northern Navy sends troops to Outer Mongolia, it will be directly merged into one town with the trading city more than 100 meters away.
How could Zhao Xin not make trouble when it came to changing place names?
After careful consideration, he changed the name of Tulum, an inconspicuous village, to "Jewish Autonomous County of Bai Baier Province". When the news was announced, the Jews under Beihai Town went crazy with joy. Just a few days after its establishment,
At the end of January, the Provisional County Council sent people to meet Zhao Xin despite the wind and snow, and presented a letter of allegiance signed by all Jewish residents, stating that they would completely obey the leadership of Beihai Town in the future. His Highness Zhao will do whatever he says, which is called chasing the rabbit.
Never chase chickens.
Of course, Zhao Xin was not fooled by the Jewish ecstasy. He once again reiterated the warning that Jews are not allowed to conduct financial lending business in a private capacity. Of course, it is still okay to work for Beihai Town and get a stock certificate similar to Shanxi merchants.
In fact, it is true that the Tsarist Russian Jews of this era are engaged in loan sharking as an "instinct" passed down from their ancestors, but it is still far from being allowed for these people to get involved in the modern financial industry of Beihai Town. The main reason is that their education level is too poor and their literacy
The rate is not high.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The meeting place between Beihai Town and the Tsarist Russian mission was chosen in the newly built stone library in the city, and the residences of the mission staff were arranged in the original Lu
The courtyard where Miantsev died.
Although he had heard some stories about Zhao Xin from Earl Jin and Earl Jacobi, Count Orlov was still stunned for a moment when he saw Zhao Xin and his staff. Nothing else, these enemies saw
He looked too young. The well-tailored military uniform and the newly modified face made Sheng Haizhou, Li Rui, Jiuzang and others behind Zhao Xin look rebellious from top to bottom.
These young officers reminded Orlov immediately of his days as commander-in-chief of the navy when he planned the expedition against the Ottoman Empire.
"Hello, Count Chesmansky." Zhao Xin, wearing a camouflage cold-proof suit without military rank, smiled and extended his right hand.
Twenty years ago, Count Orlov was awarded the Order of St. George, First Class by Catherine II, and received the title of "Chesmansky". From then on, he was respectfully known as Orlov.
Count Smansky.
Orlov, who was wearing a silver wig, also smiled, stretched out his hand and shook it a little harder, then let go and said to Zhao Xin: "Your Highness, it's an honor to meet you. I have to say that you are now a household name in St. Petersburg.
, even Her Majesty the Queen has mentioned you many times. She said that you are the most respectable person in her life."
Hehe, respect? Zhao Xinxin said, I'm afraid he is itching his teeth with hatred. Anyone who loses millions of square kilometers of land will be unable to eat or sleep at night. From the end of the "Battle of Usoliya" to the present, Tsarist Russia has used
It took more than three months for the negotiation team to be dispatched, which was a very swift move.
He then shook hands with other members of the mission. When it was the mission's turn to translate Agafonov, the man spoke in a somewhat jerky Beijing Mandarin: "Your Highness, hello, I am...
..."
"Haha, have you been to Beijing too? Is Beijing fun?" Zhao Xinxin said that he met another Russian who had been to Beijing. He said that Father Ma and Father Fei now speak much better Mandarin than this one.
"Well... it's wonderful. I miss the life of studying in China very much." Agafonov said to himself that His Highness's Russian is actually better than my Chinese. Who did he learn it from?
After everyone sat down, Zhao Xin said in a tone that could not be refused: "Have you all had a rest? I know your purpose of coming, so there is no need to say more polite words, let's get started."