For the next two months, Chen Jian took the passage papers, rode a horse or a boat, and walked around. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In two months, the means of transportation at this time can not go too far, but this is a large island, and it is convenient for ships to pass.

In addition to some forts or fortress areas, Wang Zhe, who followed Chen Jian, was very handy, drew a lot of drawings, and Chen Jian also took a lot of black and white photos, and at the same time did not forget to measure latitude and draw maps.

Jian Chen did not go far, but only went to four places, and stayed in each place for half a month.

A very ordinary county, a port city, a rural area, a mining area.

Every night, he recorded what he saw and heard without any personal feelings, neither good nor bad.

From the rich to the poor, from the plain ports to the nearby mountain mines, Chen Jian has seen many things.

Prices, fertile land, labor intensity, taxes, bribery, rural autonomy, and control of displaced people...... Relying on the passage documents licensed by Qi Hou, Chen Jian saw it very clearly.

Qi Hou is also a believer, neither censoring what Chen Jian wrote, nor applying grease and whitewashing, except for some places that he really can't go to, he is completely liberalized.

At the end of August, the wind direction had changed a bit, and the cargo was ready, Chen Jian said goodbye to Qi Hou and prepared to return home.

When he went back, Qi sent four boats, hoping to follow Jian Chen on a new route that had not yet been taken, and followed him, but Jian Chen did not refuse.

It is said that in addition to these four ships, Qi Hou also sent more people to take a more normal route, taking the books written and printed by Chen Jian to the capital of China, and the personnel who went there were not low.

The way back was not the way he came, Chen Jian went south from the port, and took another way back to Mincheng with the help of the wind, but agreed to send two interns to follow the four boats from the sea near Mincheng to the sea route back to Qi State.

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For four months, from May to September, Chen Jian knew nothing about what was happening in Mincheng, and this was the speed at which information was disseminated.

In the four months since he left, a lot of things have happened in Mincheng, and many changes have quietly taken place with the brewing of time.

The ginning machine, which has been popularized since last winter, has caused a great sensation in the rural areas of Min County, and this year the cotton planting area in Min County has increased a lot.

Some large plots of land, leased by the owners to some wealthy operators, decisively seized the opportunity of the ginning machine to promote cotton in large quantities.

Landowners are not necessarily cultivators, and there are two types of landlords. Business landlords or rentier landlords.

The former will hire a large number of hired laborers, relying on their own technology and seeds, cattle and horses, equipment and other capital, to cultivate their own land according to market prices, and the hired workers will only work for them.

Such commercial landlords generally choose to improve their own land, build small-scale water conservancy projects, fallow horses and adopt more labor-saving tools. The premise is that the land owned by these people must be large, and these people can be said to represent the advanced productive forces in the rural areas.

The other is rentier landlords, including some manor owners and nobles in the north.

Or lease the land into small plots, collect only rent, and make a fortune by renting and usury, without having to care about your own land.

Or the ownership of the land is not private but the fief of the nobility, and they will find a way to tie the peasants to the land, and while the land is distributed to the peasants for cultivation, the ownership of the land is not the peasants', and the peasants need to do a lot for the landowners.

Either way, it's something that must be destroyed, it's backward and ugly.

Under the premise of profitability, a large number of operational landowners seized the business opportunity and planted cotton.

Some ordinary small-scale yeoman farmers were organized with the help of members of the Mexican Party, and Chen Jian also invested a lot of money.

Those with little land will lease the land to the voluntary cooperatives they have set up and work on their own, earning 30 percent more than last year according to the lint purchase price that Chen Jian promised and which is still very profitable.

If there is more land, it is a guaranteed order to ensure that the minimum income is the same as planting food crops, and if it is higher than this minimum purchase price, you can choose to sell it.

With the help of market gatherings, cotton ginning workshops, and cooperation with millers, the Mexican Party soon spread in the countryside near Min County.

Without preaching any reason, both formal members of the party and hired hired laborers were just a profession, and the reputation of helping farmers to get rich attracted a large number of sympathizers and curious people, who began to get close to the previously vague name of the Mexican Party.

If the winter cotton purchase can fulfill Chen Jian's promise, this closeness can attract more people and preach something seemingly useless.

These people are still a group of idealistic utopians, full of passion but not yet knowing what the future holds, seeing this kind of work in the countryside as an ascetic practice, to obtain a kind of self-satisfaction and self-realization.

They don't know whose interests they want to represent, and they don't even know that some interests are conflicting and conflicting, but they shout loudly that they want to be better for everyone - it is impossible and no one can be better for everyone, but Chen Jian did not say anything from beginning to end, but let these people do what they think is beneficial to more people, and then usher in countless divisions, and finally understand which side they want to stand on - this faction is infinitely divisible.

It may take a long, long time for them to understand that they are not pursuing the path of saint sanctification, nor the puritan path of asceticism, but they can afford to wait with enough time.

Moreover, in the beginning, utopia was also a kind of progress.

In addition to these people with a religious mentality, there are many more realistic people with interests in their eyes who also have their eyes set on profitable cotton.

The ginning machine is clearly in front of you, and it is already profitable to grow cotton on a large scale, and the more you plant, the more profitable, in this case, it has been discovered...... There seems to be some relative shortage of labor.

After all, Min County is located in the southeast, and the county is not as good as the hinterland, coupled with various industrial and commercial developments, canal construction, etc., the labor force on the farm seems to be somewhat insufficient.

By having children, another seven or eight years can always make up for it, but under the benefits, these people seem to be in a hurry.

In July, a group of large farmers and the capitalists who ran the farms got together to draft a request that the county council would submit to the National Assembly.

The "Request for Relaxation of Restrictions on the Movement of the Poor" has been signed by more than 100 people, and although the state control is relatively relaxed, various previous laws and regulations still restrict large-scale migration.

All the poor were allowed to work in the county, and were not allowed to leave the county without permission, otherwise they would be arrested for hard labor and then repatriated to their place of origin, which was also for the convenience of management.

However, the current situation is that Min County was originally developed late, and the industrial and commercial development was too fast, and there was a temporary relative shortage of labor, after all, the population is not a very large county.

This request will certainly not be allowed, at least not in the current situation, and the county council will not be able to make such a decision.

Because this shortage is temporary and relative, it is only because of the temporary increase in the price of hired labor caused by the reduction of labor, not the real shortage of people, but the lack of cheap people, if there is a group of slaves at this time, they will definitely firmly support the slave system.

This year's weather is very good, the cotton is growing very well, and the Moxican Party has collected a large number of materials for planting cotton, including various soil methods to remove cotton bollworms, apply some struvite fertilizer, etc., it looks like it will be a bumper harvest year.

In addition to cotton, other industries related to Chen Jian are also developing step by step.

The more than 40 people who were learning the new technique of drilling wells at the Lanxiang Technical School opened three wells at the request of Chen Jian, and the depth of these wells was only thirty or fifty meters.

There are also some situations in the middle, a few times crooked, the drill bit fell down a few times, but in practice continue to accumulate experience, with the principle of Zhuo Tube Well as the basis, to enrich only some details.

And in the oil seedling field that Chen Jian bought, there were a few people left.

Zhao Si spent money to form a dynamic social organization of the hooligan gang, came to the oil seedling field with great momentum, took out the contract documents that Chen Jian had purchased, and let the group of people who used primitive methods to get oil there leave.

The hooligans are powerful, and those people dare not provoke, and Zhao Si is even more desperate.

A lot of pits were dug around the field, and bamboo sticks were buried in them that could pierce your feet; On some of the necessary roads, I got off the fateful trap of wild boars...... Then Zhao Si and the others went back to Mincheng to drink.

Soon after, several people were disabled due to broken feet, two were hung from trees in a desperate trap, their tendons were cut by thin wire, and their limbs had to be amputated due to ulceration due to lack of blood flow.

After suing him, Chen Jian was also a big businessman in Nan'an, and he had a very good relationship with the magistrate, so he made money early.

There is no money that can't be done, and besides, there are loopholes in the law to exploit, where can that group of people win the dynamic social organization of Chen Jian, who colluded with officials and businessmen, in lawsuits.

How to judge this kind of thing is not based on one mouth.

Zhao Si only said that he wanted to hunt wild beasts there, and Jian Chen entrusted him to manage that land, and he didn't say that he would not let him eat wild meat and dig traps.

So it was an accident, a loss of money.

Those who were mutilated claimed that Zhao Si did it on purpose, which was clearly a long-term plan.

So this is not an accident, not only to lose money but also to sentence.

The magistrate did not hesitate and directly ruled that it was an accident and that he had lost money.

The public judgment is absolutely free of favoritism and is just and bright. People are naturally willing to believe that Chen Shanren didn't know about it, but such hooligans did it privately, and they didn't even get into a storm, because this is in Nan'an, Chen Jian is deep-rooted, and he has the right to speak.

After this incident, the oil seedling field was much cleaner, and the people who were originally fishing for the oil slick had no way to make a living, so they had to run to dig the river.

The construction of the canal has also been fruitful, and it seems that it can be roughly completed before the Chinese New Year, after all, it is not too long, and the various building materials have been reformed a lot.

The elevated aqueduct that struck the imagination has also been basically completed, the amount of work is not too large, and the person who presided over the construction is a veteran of the construction of the fortress drainage canal.

In addition to the canals, there were several miles of wooden rails, as well as expensive and tentative two-mile cast railroad rails. Cast iron, not wrought iron, not rolled or rails, just cast iron.

Everything looks in order, but Mincheng, the center of Min County, is a bit depressed.

The consequences of the bursting bubble of the orchid craze gradually appeared, Chen Jian siphoned off more than 100,000 yuan of working capital on the grounds of maritime speculation, the money brought by the profitability of cotton flowed to the cotton fields, the rumor that the fundraising of trading company venture capital would be opened again after Chen Jian's return, and the large amount of money that had been made public due to the construction of the canal had been made public to go to Nan'an and buy land at the mouth of the Min River......

All these have temporarily shrouded Mincheng in a half-dead posture, although it will not be long before this posture will prosper again with the expansion of production, but now it looks a little depressed.

The only thing that can bring life may be those on the dock who have put their money into the risk of shipping, looking forward to Chen Jian's mast and the profits from the dividends.