They must work for their employer!

From the beginning to the end of the year, there is rarely any time to rest and breathe.

What I usually eat are bran, beans and a small amount of highland barley, and porridge cooked with rice flour. Only when heavy physical labor is required, can I eat various steamed buns made of whole grains and a small amount of soup boiled with bones.

Under such a high-intensity labor frequency, even a young and strong person may not be able to sustain it.

Usually within three to five years, it will completely collapse.

The deeds signed by these people and the cotton farm in Xihe are all for a period of three to five years.

If you are under 20 years old, you will be signed for five years, and if you are over 20 years old, you will be signed for three years.

In other words, by the time the contract period is completed, these people will basically no longer be able to engage in heavy manual labor.

They are like farm tools in a cotton farm.

Use it for a few years and replace it with a new one when it breaks.

The cost that Mianzhuang needs to pay is extremely low.

Just a few hundred iron coins a month!

As a scholar-official who read Confucius and Mencius' books on benevolence and righteousness, and grew up under the guidance of Zhang Zai's words and deeds.

To be honest, You Shixiong really has a hard time enduring such a thing!

However, reason told You Shixiong.

This cotton-field manor economy, which he regarded as absolutely evil, was the basis for maintaining the current prosperity of Xihe Road.

At the same time, those cotton farm estates are also saving the lives of thousands of innocent people!

If there were no cotton field estates.

Those hungry Tubo people, Qiang people, and Dangxiang people may have all died of hunger long ago!

no way!

Be afraid of comparison in everything!

The Cotton Field Manor on Xihe Road is very bad.

But compared to the serf manors of Tubo and Western bandits in the Qing and Tang dynasties, these cotton field manors were like Buddhist kingdoms on earth.

Why?

Because at least they can eat enough here - no matter whether they eat bran, beans and a small amount of rice, porridge cooked with flour, or something else.

At least, they can eat.

Moreover, there is no need to wear shackles or shackles, and you can still have a place to live.

The most important thing is: you can still receive wages every month!

With this money, they can buy things, and they can also save it to ask for a wife when they go out in the future.

You Shixiong watched when wages were paid in the cotton farm.

Qiang people, Dangxiang people and Tubo people all gathered in front of the manor's overseer.

They eagerly took the iron money issued to them from the hands of the overseers.

Some people even shed tears and knelt down to thank the overseers and the "good people" who gave them a way to survive.

No one is willing to go back to Qingtang, Dangxiang, and be slaves to the leaders, warriors, or Zanpu, living like livestock, starving, and dying.

So, You Shixiong fell silent.

Zhao Xingze looked at him with a smile. After a long time, You Shixiong sighed: "Zhishi, you should know that such a thing cannot last long."

Zhao Xi laughed noncommittally and said: "Uncle Jing should also know that since the Three Kingdoms, Tuntian Manor or Wubao Manor has always been the fastest way to restore vitality."

"Therefore, this is the most suitable method for Xihe!"

Of course he would not admit that he, the envoy of the economic strategy and pacification system, would also be a big cotton farmer on Xihe Road next year.

Now, his people have reclaimed thousands of acres of land in Xizhou, Huizhou, Lanzhou and other places, hired hundreds of workers, and planted pasture, beans, highland barley and other products.

Just wait until next year to plant kapok.

He has already seen the kapok in the Xihe cotton fields, and he knows that this is a hugely profitable industry.

A piece of Jibei cloth is now sold in Bianjing City, and the price ranges from seven or eight guan to 20 guan depending on the quality.

One acre of cotton field can pick at least dozens of kilograms of cotton and weave at least a dozen pieces of Jibei cloth.

So, where are kapok grown here?

It’s obvious that he is growing copper coins!

You Shixiong lowered his head feebly and said, "As the envoy said, I will handle this matter properly."

He knew it in his heart.

The water depth on Xihe Road is unfathomable, and there is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!

Don't say that it was a little powerful person like him who sent Xizhou to know the state.

Even if Zhao Xi, the economic and strategic pacification envoy, wants to change, he may not be able to do anything!

What's more, the 'customer employees' in the cotton farm have no objections themselves.

They are now immersed in the happiness of having full stomachs and earning wages.

Little does he know that he is actually just a tool of Mianzhuang and a consumable.

"My mentor..." You Shixiong closed his eyes and recalled the time when he was studying in Hengqu.

Mr. Zhang Zai, sitting at the top, asked him and other disciples: "What is Confucianism?"

The teacher's eyes seemed to have penetrated time and space, looking at him from Hengqu Academy back then to him now.

Therefore, in You Shixiong's mind, his mentor Zhang Zai's voice with a slight Kansai accent exploded like thunder, making him shudder: "Establish a heart for the world, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and

Peace for all eternity!"

Things that he followed Zhang Zai to allocate land to the villagers of Hengqu, and guided them in building water conservancy, digging canals, and dredging rivers all came to mind one by one.

He is a disciple of Zhang Zai.

He was also a scholar-bureaucrat who firmly believed that Hengqu's ideals would be realized.

However, the reality of Xihe Road is not only rapidly moving away from the well-field system of three generations of saints.

Moreover, it is falling rapidly into the abyss.

Like an indescribable, indescribable monster that is approaching day by day.

Sooner or later, this place will become a moral hell with only interests and no benevolence!

Yes!

You Shixiong already had such a premonition.

In the future of Xihe Road, I am afraid there will be no room for benevolence and righteousness.

The benefits brought by kapok will dominate everything here.

However, You Shixiong is You Shixiong after all.

He is an extremely strong-willed person, so far from being depressed.

On the contrary, a strong fighting spirit was born in my heart!

He also quickly found a goal for himself.

In other words, he had this goal in mind very early on.

This goal is to let Guanxue flourish on Xihe Road!

Use your mentor's moral articles to educate the wealthy Qiang and Di people in Xihe.

If it succeeds, it will not only promote the knowledge of the mentor, but also solve Xihe's problem.

the reason is simple.

The wealthy Qiang and Di people here in Xihe really have no benevolence, justice or morality.

But this is because most of them have never accepted the teachings of saints.

As long as they can accept the teachings of saints and hold themselves to the moral standards of saints.

The customs of Xihe will definitely take on a new look.

So, this is fertile ground!

He already knew this on the first day he came to Xizhou.

In the entire Xihe Road, no great scholar has ever come to give lectures.

Most of the Qiang and Di tycoons in Xihe have never read the articles of saints.

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Chapter completed!