"There are so many ways out, why do you have to be tied to the land?" Wang Yu said with a smile, "They can choose to go to work in the factory, or they can choose to immigrate overseas, where the income is not higher than farming?" ”

But in fact, the way for peasants who lost their land to go to the city to work and emigrate overseas is not as simple as Wang Yu's understatement, Wang Yu himself is also a businessman, and the partners of his Nanyang Company are all businessmen and big capitalists, and the thing to consider must be how to use capital to create higher profits, which is doomed, they want to exploit the surplus value of the workers, and every copper plate they earn is full of the blood and sweat of farmers, workers, and overseas natives. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

From Nanjing to Shanghai, along the Beijing-Shanghai railway, there are a number of new towns, each town is a prosperity, on both sides of the railway and the river, a number of factories have sprung up like mushrooms, ships full of coal go straight to the factory gate, and trains full of coal go directly into the factory, providing power for the factory machines.

Billowing black smoke billows out of the forest-like chimneys, obscuring the sky and the sun, seriously polluting the environment. Although the sky has not yet turned gray, it is expected that the environmental pollution will be extremely serious in the near future.

In the vicinity of Shanghai's old town, from the Yuyuan Garden City God's Temple to Huaihai Road, beautiful parks have been built, and beautiful villas have appeared around the parks, each of which is detached, with its own garden, lawn and swimming pool, and luxurious horse-drawn carriages come and go. Further out, there are luxury apartment areas, most of these luxury apartments are five- to six-story buildings, ranging from two-bedroom and two-living rooms to four-bedroom and three-living rooms, and the top floors of some apartment buildings are still built like villas in the sky.

The detached villas were inhabited by the shareholders and senior managers of the Nanyang Company, the big bosses of the Jiangnan Company, the rentier class transformed from the Jiangnan gentry, and the big capitalists, big businessmen, and bankers of various transportation enterprises. As for those who live in luxury apartments, there are middle managers of the company, senior skilled workers, engineers, etc.

Huaihai Road and Nanjing Road, on both sides of the street are lined with shops, glass windows with a dazzling array of luxury goods, as well as various magnificent bank buildings, commercial buildings, theaters, red light districts, etc.

Along the Huangpu River, various office buildings, hotels, stock exchanges and other buildings appeared.

However, behind these prosperous scenes, there is a large influx of landless peasants into Shanghai, and it is not easy to find a job.

People who can't find jobs have to queue up at the immigration office, but the immigration department gives priority to refugees from the north who have been displaced by the war, and most of these southern farmers who have been evicted from the land are not eligible for immigration quotas. In the end, they had to work as coolies at docks, stations, etc. However, the coolie industry is controlled by various gangs, and a part of the hard-earned money earned every day has to be handed over.

More than 100 years later, there was a man named Marx in Europe, who wrote the history of blood and tears in the development of capital: in the West, sheep eat people, and in the East, silkworms eat people.

In fact, not only silkworms eat people, but also the peasants in Jiangnan have been squeezed out of their land by unscrupulous landlords who grow mulberry trees and tea, and even in Huguang and other places where grain production is the mainstay, a large number of peasants have lost their land and are forced to take ships down the Yangtze River to Shanghai to make a living.

Of course, there are also many peasants who join various gangs, and because of the fierce fighting, they are fortunate enough to become the small leaders of the gangs, until they become the boss. But most of the people who joined the gang did not end well, either they were killed in street fights, or they did not make a name for themselves in their lives, and when they were old and weak, they could only leave the gang, become beggars or thieves, and eventually spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Of course, Wang Yu could not let Li Sixing see the dirty scene behind the prosperity, and what he showed to the officials of the mission was always the prosperous and powerful side.

After having money, this money is naturally used to develop the armed forces, and it has been proved that a court like the Song Dynasty that is rich but militarily weak can only be a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered.

It's still a troubled time, and it's a shiny era of military uniforms. Walking on the streets of various towns, you can see soldiers everywhere walking through the streets with their heads held high. In the south, the status of military personnel is higher than that of civilian officials, especially those who have made great contributions, and becoming a soldier has become a dream career for every young person. The Qiongzhou Army has changed from the initial shortage of soldiers and begging the common people to become soldiers, to the current careful selection and merit-based admission, and it is no longer possible to enter if you want to.

Even if you enter the army, you have to undergo rigorous training, go through rigorous selection and elimination, and finally pass the pass to stay and become a member of the military.

Wang Yu showed Li Sixing not only the army, but more importantly, to let the officials of the mission see the shipbuilding plan.

"What a big ship!" As soon as they walked into the Shanghai shipyard and saw the new ironclad ship being built, Li Sixing and his embassy officials were shocked by this huge ship.

"It's just as big as a hill! How much material does this ship have? At least 10,000! An official said.

Although the ship has not yet been completed, but the keel has been laid, the shipbuilders are building a frame on the keel, the outside has not yet been covered with wooden planks, it can already be seen that the ship is huge, the length of the ship is at least eighty meters long, the width is sixteen meters wide, there are three cabins below the main deck, and there is a three-story bridge above the main deck, in this era, it is definitely the largest warship, if the steam engine technology has not been leaked, then it will be difficult for Western countries to build a bigger ship than this ship for another hundred years.

"You built such a huge ship just to conquer the South Seas?" Li Sixing asked.

"Exactly!" Wang Yu nodded and said, "The Great Buddha of the South Seas is entrenched in Manila, building a strong castle and a number of forts to defend it. If it is an ordinary wooden-hulled battleship, it is easy to suffer losses in the case of bombardment with the same battery. With this ironclad ship, there is no fear of their batteries. ”

In addition to the ironclads under construction, there are two ironclads moored on the dock next to the Shanghai shipyard, the superstructure of which has been dismantled, and the chimney has been removed, revealing a large opening. Underneath the large mouth is the power compartment. Workers are dismantling the steam engine, which had been installed and was not powerful enough.

On the railroad tracks in the "Boom Boom" shipyard, a strange-looking car traveled along the tracks and stopped when it reached its destination.