When Sun Lao asked Lao Wang why he was so free, Lao Wang smiled, because he knew that most of these Han people could not adapt to the kind of days of working in a step-by-step manner and at a fixed time.

Yes, now for the sake of silver, the Han people do have enthusiasm at present, but it must be temporary, and many people just have a comparison mentality.

This old fritter knows very well that for the Han people who are accustomed to the economic production mode of small farmers, as long as the problem of food and clothing is solved, planting their own land, having busy farming and leisure, and the small days of sunrise and sunset are the most desired by these Han people.

This is a way of life that has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the Han people for thousands of years, and it will not be changed overnight, even if it is useless to give more silver.

At first, Sun Lao was a little skeptical of this statement, but later facts proved that this point was indeed said by Lao Wang.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for many of them to go to work for a month or two, and then they returned to the fields, and Lao Wang explained to Sun Lao, who came to ask for advice, because the fields are the most familiar days for these farmers, and I promised that after the harvest of the fields, I will give you some shares, although the people in the factory earn more, but the expenses are also large, although we eat two canteens a day, but we also provide them here for free,

As soon as the gang settled the accounts, it was true that there was a little less money for working in the fields, but there was no agricultural leisure, and all year round, there were 956 classes from 9 to 5 every day, and they were particularly restricted, and they had to attend classes and assessments frequently, which made them dizzy, especially those who were a little older, they were not used to it at all, and they would be depressed every Sunday, and their lives were very uncomfortable.

Therefore, when the difference in the amount of money earned was not too great, the factory was not attractive to the peasants.

After all, the leisurely and idyllic lifestyle of small farmers has been deeply rooted in people's bones for thousands of years, and where is it so easy to pull over.

After hearing this, Mr. Sun felt that what Lao Wang said made sense, so the two had a more in-depth discussion on this topic and began to discuss the topic of the changes of the times.

According to the insider's Zhu Beiguo in his "Zhu Beiguo Diary", the discussion of this topic by the two old guys at that time had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

Lao Wang told Sun Lao that in the era before the tide of the commodity economy penetrated into every corner of society, small farmers could not change their way of life by raising their salaries, because they were very unaccustomed to being controlled by various systems and schedules, and in the eyes of those people, the days of losing their land were uneasy, and that kind of life was neither safe, comfortable, or even immoral.

In the history of the Old World, it was not all economic interests that changed the way of life of small farmers, but the living environment of the whole society.

To put it simply, if you want to get small peasants to work in the cities, there are only two ways to go: violent and market.

The violence is very simple, using all kinds of coercive and profiteering means to make them lose their personal freedom, forcing people to work in cities, factories, farms and even concentration camps, and turning them into slave laborers.

This way is ancient, and estate slavery is a practice of this way.

Of course, there is another method: the specific operation is very coquettish: first, in the name of equalizing the land and eliminating the difference between the rich and the poor, people are bewitched to lay down the country for themselves, and after winning the country, the land is recovered, and in the name of collectivism, these small peasants who have been played and confused are gathered together and become slave laborers in the name of collectivism. The Great Era's Social Transformation Movement. ”

However, this has led to a huge regression of social productive forces and a humanitarian tragedy, and the human tragedy created in the process of this movement cannot be brushed aside with a fluttering sentence of "difficult exploration".

As for the means of the market, although they are relatively milder than those mentioned above, they can be divided into two types, one is more violent and the other is relatively peaceful.

Let's start with the more violent ones: bankrupting the landowner or losing the land, forcing you to go to the city to work.

The latter, on the other hand, uses gentle means to make the output of the land more than they can afford, to force the landowners to change the nature of the land's use, and to turn people into city dwellers who have to work in factories in order to improve their own living standards.

As for the former, the example is what the British once did in the old world history, a "sheep eat man" enclosure movement, to "liberate" people who were bound by the land, and then drive them into the factories to work as workers.

The latter approach is akin to redemption and has been successfully achieved in the history of the Old World, in the history of the Old World.

Of course, there must be a key prerequisite for the use of moderate market methods: to activate the market, to develop business and industry, and to give people all kinds of freedom.

Because the result of activating the market and developing industry and commerce is that it can induce landowners to change the nature of the land, and when the profit of building a factory on your own land is greater than the profit of continuing to produce crops, you may change from a landlord to an industrialist.

Or because the means of livelihood have increased after the industrial and commercial activity, you, as a landlord, have to attract tenants to continue cultivating the land for you by lowering the tenant fee, until you finally find that the marginal return on all the land is so low that you have to give up the land tenant to make a profit.

In conclusion, there is no other way for most people to abandon their traditional way of life.

Lao Wang said to Sun Lao, what method we will use, this is a rather grand issue, please think about it.

Sun Lao was silent for a while, and only said one sentence for a while: In the face of the trend of the times, the fate of ordinary people is like a dead leaf in the waves...... Of course, at the time, this was just an obscure conversation between two old fellows, and it had not yet reached the ears of the others......

Obviously, later history proved that this group of traversers did not resort to the above-mentioned violent methods, but went with the flow, developed industry and commerce, and enlivened the market, thus allowing the inertia of this small peasant economy to persist for a long time.

Of course, the downside of this method of change is that it is slow, and it turns out that even the tenants who had been in these factories for a long time were gradually replaced by new immigrants and school graduates, and the original group gradually returned to the land.

There are a small number of Han people who worked in the factory until the end of their working period, although they (they) all earned enough money, and the people who were freed eventually got a large amount of land and Australian citizenship, but this group of people basically took the silver to the countryside to buy land and become landlords, and returned to rural life.

Of course, as time goes on, and a new way of life with Australian characteristics permeates every end of society, the next generation of these people will no longer cling to the old way of life like their ancestors, and they and they will finally become people who have been detached from the land......

Back in November 1657, because the Han people had been trained for a long time in various positions since August, after a few months, whether it was the daily glass production of the glass factory, or the daily production of various mines and brick factories and cement factories, there was basically no need for the traversers to go into battle to do rough work.

In particular, after the agricultural busyness was eased a while ago, there were 20 to 30 male laborers working in these factories every day, and in addition, the number of Han people who were mining stones in various mining sites once reached more than 100 people, especially in the coal mines, because it was a piecework system, the enthusiasm for labor was high, and the Han people did not care about any work and rest time, working ten to twelve hours a day, and there was no Sunday, and finally they earned more silver than the people who worked in the glass factory, and some people could even earn seven or eight taels of silver a month. Although there is no place to spend money on the island now, and food and clothing are also paid for by the owner, at least for the time being, the Han people's labor enthusiasm is extremely high.

For this reason, Xia Xiaoou suggested that the next time I go to sea, I should replace some daily necessities and open a store on the island.

This matter was immediately responded to by Han Letian, the former owner of the supermarket and the current ordinary crew member of the Nicole, and the Supreme Executive Committee considered that this was originally his area of expertise, so he handed over the project to him, of course, Xiao Han's boss must submit a written business plan, and then apply for funds from the "mutual fund" managed by Xia Xiaoou.