Chapter 981 Social Change

After having a general understanding of the local agricultural development situation, Van Diemen asked Zhang Xin: "So are these local farmers working for you now, or are they working for the landlords?"

Zhang Xin explained: "Depending on the different cooperation methods, the labor relationship between employees and landlords is also different. Some landlords completely entrust us with the land to cultivate, and they only charge a certain proportion of the land use from the annual harvest.

It is equivalent to operating a joint venture with us, but there is basically no need to bear the risks in the operation process. Under this cooperation method, the labor costs are borne by us, and naturally they are working for us. What you saw at Nanhai Restaurant yesterday

That Huang Zijie, the land under his name was handed over to us for management in this way. Another way of cooperation is that we provide technical support, and the manpower is provided by the landlords themselves. These farmers are equivalent to still working for the landlords.

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Van Diemen thought for a while and then said: "Then the latter method of cooperation must be more beneficial to the landlord's income."

Zhang Xin nodded and said: "Of course, but on the one hand, the risks from planting to harvesting need to be borne by the landlord himself. On the other hand, the price of local labor is actually rising year by year, and the cost of cultivating the land by the landlord will also increase.

.In addition, we will also give more preferential treatment to the landlords in the first mode of cooperation, such as arranging for their children to study abroad in Sanya. This opportunity is not available to everyone."

Fan Diemen thought about Huang Zijie's excited expression at yesterday's banquet, and he could somewhat understand the attraction of this condition to the landowners. After all, Sanya is the base camp of the Haihan people, and it is very likely to become the capital of the Haihan Kingdom in the future, with access to the capital.

Studying in an institution of higher learning is definitely worth making some financial sacrifices for the rural rich who want to change their family's destiny and enter the upper class of society.

In terms of the social structure of the Far East in this era, if you want to change from a pheasant to a phoenix, you either have to study hard in a cold window, take the imperial examination and become an official, or you can only find ways to marry into the upper class of society. Although the latter approach seems

It seems that the technical difficulty is relatively small, but in Haihan it is a different situation.

First of all, there are actually only a few hundred Haihan people at the top of the pyramid in the Haihan social structure, and less than half of them may have the need to start a family. The number of targets is very limited. Secondly, the Haihan people are picky about marriage.

The degree is also well known to everyone. Not only does the woman have to have a clean financial background, be beautiful and healthy, but she also needs to have a certain cultural foundation. Purely illiterate people have basically no chance of becoming the companions of the chiefs.

After some screening under various conditions, there are really not many people who are qualified to fight for this opportunity. On the contrary, it is easier to study in an institution run by Haihan people. After all, Haihan’s urgent need for cultural people is obvious, as long as

If you are educated and loyal to the executive committee, you have a great chance of being recruited to work in Haihan Yamen.

In the past, working for the Haihan people did not seem to be a good job that would honor one's ancestors. Many people loyal to the Ming court secretly denounced it as an act of treason and disobedience, thinking it was a sign of disloyalty and unfilial piety. But as Haihan became more and more mature,

The number of people who still hold this view is gradually decreasing. Especially after the news of Haihan's founding came out, the trend of public opinion has also changed significantly. In the past, those who held positions in Haihan Yamen were often denounced as "eagle dogs".

"Stooge" and other nicknames, but now that Haihan is about to found a country, even if you are a handyman, you can be associated with the founding heroes, which has a completely different meaning. Who will be the best in Haihan in the future?

He is a master of human beings, and people with good eyesight and good brains will naturally be able to distinguish clearly.

Entering Haihan University for further study - becoming an official - changing the social status of the family is undoubtedly a very realistic shortcut for the landlord class who come from a well-off family but suffer from no upward path. However, Haihan University does

It is not a place that everyone can go to. Either they have outstanding achievements in the past, such as having already passed the Ming Dynasty exam, or they have to try to get recommendations from local officials in charge of cultural and educational affairs. Haihan will promote these.

The channel is linked to the daily cooperative attitude, in exchange for the cooperation of the landlord class in land policy. In the current environment of social change, such obvious transaction conditions are really difficult to refuse.

Although there are still some landowners who insist on employing farmers to cultivate their land, with the gradual changes in the main production relations of society, they will also realize that their behavior is contrary to the trend of social development. If they do not make changes to adapt to such social changes, they will

Sooner or later, they will become abandoned by society. Those who can seize this historical opportunity and follow the trend have great hope of becoming the first batch of beneficiaries after the establishment of the emerging regime, and taking this opportunity to become Haihan's supporters.

The guardian and the guardian.

Van Diemen was not very interested in how much rice could be harvested from farmland cultivation led by Hayhan. The East India Company did not have the ability or interest to organize such large-scale grain production in Batavia. He was personally more interested in getting

Understand how Haihan in the process of changing the land policy eliminated the strong resistance that would have erupted from the landlord class.

From Zhang Xin's description, Van Diemen believes that he has found part of the reason. The Haihan people are indeed unique in the application of political methods, which can make a considerable number of people in the landlord class choose exchange of interests instead of confrontation.

Over time, these people will naturally be assimilated into Haihan's community of interests.

However, what Van Diemen didn't know was that it was not that the landlord class who originally belonged to the areas ruled by the Ming Dynasty had never launched a resistance, but that all those who tried to use violent means to resist Haihan's rule had been caught and killed in the past few years.

, the group of people with the most resolute attitude of resistance had already been dealt with by Haihan as a typical example. The most famous among them were the people who were dealt with after the Danzhou Assassination Case in 1631. Since then, no one has been involved.

Dare to talk about your intention to resist.

After using violent means to eliminate the die-hards, and then using profit conditions to lure the remaining people into submission, this combination of boxing has indeed achieved extremely good results in the Qiongbei area. Although there are still many die-hards with rigid ideas in the countryside of Danzhou

They are unwilling to comply with Haihan's land policy and agricultural development plan, but few people dare to jump out and openly oppose it anymore. They can only be honest and smoothed by reality bit by bit.

For the East India Company, this actually does not have much reference significance. The Dutch have always been violent when opening up colonies in Southeast Asia. No matter whether they kill a wave first or not, they have never considered being like Haihan.

This slow-cooking method is used to govern the place. Of course, this is also closely related to the environment in which the Dutch live. The racial and cultural differences between them and the Southeast Asian indigenous people are difficult to overcome. If you do not use a sharp knife to cut the knot,

If we deal with it in a way, it will be difficult for foreign ethnic groups that do not have any advantages in population size to gain a foothold here. However, the Haihan people and the Ming Han people have the same ancestors and the same culture, so the difficulty of integration is relatively much smaller.

The reason why Van Diemen wants to study the ins and outs of this is mainly to understand the Haihan people's behavior and way of thinking about problems. During the period when his predecessor, Governor Cohen, led the East India Company, there were obviously many problems with Haihan's policies.

Serious mistakes were made. They did not pay enough attention to Haihan in the early stage and missed the opportunity to eliminate him in the bud. In the mid-term, they failed to predict the enemy and were defeated by Haihan several times in the conflict, which caused the East India Company's armed forces to be greatly damaged.

; In the later period, it failed to respond well and failed to make any substantial progress in the negotiations with Haihan, which seriously affected the East India Company's trade operations in Northeast Asia.

After taking office, Van Diemen faced many problems in post-war reconstruction, but he still took time to go to Hainan Island for inspection in order to master as much information about Haihan as possible so that he could understand Haihan in subsequent interactions.

To make a more accurate judgment on his intentions. Van Diemen does not seek to reverse the situation now and outdo Haihan, but at least he can not appear too weak in bilateral negotiations, especially in the future of cross-border trade in the South China Sea Trade Alliance, a commercial organization.

Being able to have a certain say in the process of formulating rules will prevent Haihan from being completely wiped out and unable to fight back at all.

Haihan's sophisticated performance in governance really surprised Van Diemen. The more he learned about Haihan, the more he felt that the strength of this group was unfathomable. In addition to extremely sophisticated trading methods and an almost invincible armed force

In addition, I did not expect that the Haihan people also have a clear plan on how to manage a country. Judging from the few stations visited so far, the foundation of Haihan's rule on Hainan Island is indeed quite solid, and the founding of the country can be said to be

A natural move.

After spending two days inspecting many towns and villages around Danzhou City, the inspection activity entered the next step, visiting local distinctive academies. Danzhou has always had a prosperous literary style and has the highest concentration of academies on Hainan Island.

The area can be regarded as the cultural center before Sanya opened as a port. Many academies have cultivated a large number of literate intellectuals in Danzhou, and many of them have joined Haihan in recent years.

Therefore, the executive committee has always attached great importance to the cultural and educational undertakings in Danzhou. This time, Ning Qi, the executive committee member in charge of cultural and educational undertakings in Haihan, visited Danzhou and specially arranged two days to inspect the local academies.

The first academy Ning Qi visited was the famous Bailu Academy in Danzhou. This ancient academy was built in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty alone, it had produced sixty or seventy candidates. This is almost

It is common for people to win the provincial examination every three years. Such impressive achievements have made Bailu Academy the leading educational institution on Qiongzhou Island. Many students even come here from the mainland to study.

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When Haihan first came to Danzhou, the academy was relatively reserved and was not willing to lower his dignity and cooperate with Haihan in culture and education. However, later Zhongming Academy, where Huang Zixing served as the headmaster, was used by Haihan to quell the rebellion and suppress the bandits.

After the name was uprooted, Bailu Academy, like many other local academies, chose to change its attitude and partially accept Haihan's arrangements in culture and education.

Haihan's arrangements for college teaching are mainly based on the needs of political propaganda, requiring that the study of Haihan's various major policies be included in addition to cultural classes. This requirement is not just as simple as arranging extracurricular homework for students to study on their own, but also

It is necessary to set up special courses in the academy, and Haihan will send special teachers from Sanya to teach.

This kind of course arranged by Haihan has a lot of practical content and is designed for young people. It is far more interesting than shaking your head and reciting the Four Books and Five Classics. After the course started, it quickly captured the attention of young students. And the work of writing the course

, was coordinated and directed by Ning Qi. He was a university teacher before time travel, and he has a good understanding of the thoughts of young people. Although the environment of this era is very different, some things are innate.

, for example, intellectuals’ interest in participating in politics.

The purpose of these scholars who entered the academies was not just to be able to read and write, but ultimately to gain a reputation in the imperial examination and then use this as a springboard to enter the officialdom. To achieve this ultimate goal, in addition to literary attainments

In addition, another indispensable quality is political awareness. The teaching content formulated by Haihan is to analyze some of the most influential policy programs and measures during the Ming Dynasty's two hundred years of rule.

, such as promulgating the "Da Ming Law", implementing maritime bans, enfeoffing vassal kings, etc.

Originally, no one dared to discuss these matters casually. If one were not careful, one would be accused of "discussing government affairs." However, in the courses arranged by Haihan, these policies were used as cases to examine their impact.

Analyze and elaborate on the pros and cons. This is undoubtedly a very attractive course for scholars who are interested in entering politics but seriously lack official experience. From this course, they can understand the process of formulating policies and laws by the Ming Dynasty.

As well as various analytical comments made from Haihan's perspective.

Haihan had no such scruples about things that others did not dare to discuss, and his angle of observation and depth of analysis were far beyond the knowledge of ordinary people in this era. The students of the academy were exposed to a whole new world.

This kind of targeted propaganda will not only make them aware of the limitations and shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty's political system, but also understand how Haihan used administrative measures to avoid repeating the same mistakes, and adopted many more sophisticated methods than those of the Ming Dynasty.

To achieve a political situation of peace at home and abroad. Although this kind of course has a strong political propaganda meaning, it is full of freshness for students. It is often difficult to get rid of its attraction after listening to the course once.
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