Can you live forever

Chapter 41 The Millennium Family, Originating from the Path
In this report, compared with the workers' part that has already begun to be written, the essence of this report is Zhang Zhixiang's division of the existing social classes in the outline.

There are five in total: nobles, gentry, merchants, workers, and farmers.

Are there workers in the Ming Dynasty?

There are, not to mention the more than [-] workers that Zhang Zhixiang saw at the Longjiang Shipyard, there are [-] to [-] paper-making workers in Shitang Town, Qianshan County, Jiangxi.

The entire Qianshan County, as the capital of Jiangnan paper, has more than [-] paper workers.

In She County, Xiuning, and Wuyuan of Huizhou Prefecture, there were tens of thousands of manufacturing workers engaged in the Hui ink industry. The handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, and many industries had formed a huge scale.

Leaving aside those industrial workers, Yingtianfu has a population of 180 million, and there is no land for cultivation in the city. What do these people do for a living?
Hitting a worker is not a worker?
How many workers did Ming have? To judge this question, we must first look at how serious the land annexation was in Daming. The proletarians who lost their land could only go to the city to work in workshops besides being tenant farmers.

After all, landlords will not support idlers, they will squeeze the surplus value of tenant farmers to the greatest extent.

There is only so much land in the world. Even according to the unreliable statement of Wanli's 30-year history, there are 11.61 billion mu of cultivated land. According to the standard of granting land in the early Ming Dynasty, 8000 mu of man's calculation would require [-] million strong laborers, which is quite appropriate.

However, in the case of cattle, tenants generally need to cultivate more than [-] mu of land.

With a large amount of land merged and complete means of production, based on the arable land of Daming, less than 3000 million strong laborers are needed to complete the cultivation.

What are the rest of us doing?
Are you free?
China is a country of silk. Tens of millions of women are engaged in weaving work. Even if women weaving at home are not counted, then the many weaving bureaus and textile factories in the south of the Yangtze River, those professional weaving women workers should be counted, right?

What about the large number of workers engaged in mining and iron smelting?
The Ming Dynasty not only had workers, but also a huge number of them!The premise of business prosperity is the prosperity of all industries!

Daming's commodities not only need to supply itself, but also engage in world trade. There are countless gold and silver in the world waiting for Daming to exchange commodities, which is almost like picking up money.

At this time, how can there be fewer workers?

Wang Yuanzhi is condescending, so he can roughly estimate the value. According to the situation in the sixth year of Jiajing, there should be about 3000 million workers in Ming Dynasty, engaged in various industries.

Land merger → large labor surplus → industrial development → commodity trade → land merger.

This is a perfect closed loop.

They did this before, but Zhang Zhixiang summed it up clearly and wrote it down...

"He sees the world very differently."

Wang Jiangque looked at the content of the report and made a comment like this. Wang Yuanzhi nodded in approval and said, "Old Heavenly Master, Mr. Yangming taught well, and he learned even better."

"People in the world stick to appearances, but when they look at things, they can already see the essence."

"Condescending, you can see more clearly."

"How, do you still think he is stupid?"

Wang Jiangque smiled slightly, shook the manuscript paper in his hand, and said: "If you are not stupid, why do you write these things? All the smart people in the world are holding money in their arms."

"The path he wants to take is to make enemies of the smart people in the world."

"How not to be stupid?"

Wang Yuanzhi took the manuscript and put it back in its original place, and suddenly asked: "Jiang'er, you said that without money, how can the Wang family last forever?"

Wang Jiangque yawned slightly, revealing a bit of girlishness. She stretched her waist, showing a somewhat lazy demeanor, and said leisurely: "The Kong family in Qufu, the Zhang family in Longhushan."

"A thousand-year-old family is like this."

"A sage establishes a religion to transform all peoples. The Tao always exists, and the people always exist. A family with a thousand years of history must be the successor of a saint."

Wang Yuanzhi turned around suddenly, looked at his daughter and asked, "Is Zhang Zhixiang a saint?"

"I don't know."

She lightly dropped a sentence, ignored her father, and left straight away. The little girl didn't read any more books this day, but took a rare stroll in the garden and played on the swing...

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Zhang Zhixiang has never thought about saints. If he knew the conversation between the father and daughter of the Wang family, he would definitely answer: "Mr. Yangming is also a saint, and the three generations of the Wang family have fallen. Some of the more powerful saints almost lost their children when they were alive. "

"A true saint will not be passed down to the family."

This is a difference in philosophy. Before the two sides collide, there will be no result for the time being. Moreover, Zhang Zhixiang never thinks that he can be a saint. He just wants to do more things and contribute a meager amount of strength.

If Daming really has a saint who can turn the tide, it must not be a certain person, but a group of people.

The old celestial master once said that Zhang Zhixiang's heart is very quiet, but in fact it is here.

He never pursued fame and wealth, nor did he pursue self-improvement. If Wang Yangming aspired to be a saint since he was a child, Zhang Zhixiang wanted to be a person like an idol since he was a child because he had a more specific idol.

The man said that he was just a teacher.

Therefore, Zhang Zhixiang has never considered a sage as his goal in life. From the heart of birth, he wants to cultivate immortality and live forever, and from the heart of entering the world, he is willing to contribute a small amount of strength, that's all.

When Mr. Yangming said that Huiguang is also cultivating immortals, Zhang Zhixiang understood that the two things should not be delayed.

Just do it together.

Zhang Zhixiang didn't expect to collect any profound information when he visited the four workshops in the south of the Outer City today. He just wanted to know the real life of the people in Yingtianfu.

People's lives are hard.

But the mental outlook is actually good, not to the point of haggard and numb. People actually know clearly that they are alive and how to live a prosperous life.

As the old lady of the Chen family said, if you have good eyesight and can do embroidery, you can save money, marry a wife for your son, and save money slowly.

This is the way to be thrifty.

There are also people who live in the slums of Sifang in the south of the city, but do a good business in the city, earning a lot of money every day, and want to save money to buy a house in Yingtianfu and settle down.

The people's livelihood is full of vicissitudes, and the society is actually still alive.

But this vitality is based on the absence of natural disasters and man-made disasters. For example, the Huguang salt disaster in the first year of Jiajing, which was hit six years ago, has not dropped the price of salt so far, making people's already poor life worse.

Is it really a disaster that the salt production is not enough?It's nothing more than hoarding.

This is just an artificial exaggeration of the impact of the disaster. When the cold wave really comes and the disaster continues, the imperial court is unable to provide relief, and these low-level people will be devastated in the storm...

Coming out of a family in Nanpingfang, Zhang Zhixiang saw that it was getting late, so he paid Chen Wu's wages and prepared to go home.

Chen Wu didn't want it, so he talked about the two coins. Zhang Zhixiang said that it was for respecting the elderly, and asked Chen Wu to go to the doctor to see if he could get some medicine for the old man, or get a pair of glasses.

Spectacles had already taken shape as early as the Song Dynasty, and matured in the Ming Dynasty. When Zhang Zhixiang was on the street, he saw several glasses shops.

It's just that the price of this thing is not cheap.

The cheapest glasses cost two or three liang of silver a pair. Zhang Zhixiang knew that Chen Wu couldn't afford it, so he planned to give Aunt Chen a pair of glasses before leaving Ying Tianfu.

With the glasses, Aunt Chen can see clearly and can do embroidery, and her dream can start slowly.

Seeing Zhang Zhixiang's attitude, Chen Wu couldn't shirk it, so he could only accept this kindness and put more heart into working for Zhang Zhixiang. The two said goodbye, and Zhang Zhixiang took a carriage back to Guiyuan.

When the carriage had just traveled two miles and crossed a bridge.

There was a commotion in front, and in response to the driver's shout, a figure rushed into the car. Zhang Zhixiang thought it was an assassin, and his heart sank suddenly, but it turned out to be an extremely beautiful man with wheat-colored skin and a healthy atmosphere. Girl.

With pleading in her eyes, she said, "Help me."

(PS: Gentlemen are scholar-bureaucrats, scholars, and landowners. Not all scholars are scholars. They are considered scholars. A county can only admit 20 scholars a year. There were 1427 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and a total of 3 scholars were admitted each year. About ten thousand people.)
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