The back door of my house can last until the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 392 The Germination of Capitalism
Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were born as traditional scholars, and they more or less bear the mark of tradition.

This traditional imprint has a very powerful inertial thinking.

In the traditional concept, it is okay for the sons and grandsons of the dragon to be kings, but it is absolutely impossible to gain autonomy.

Whether it is the Rebellion of the Eight Kings or the Battle of Jingnan that year, they are all stark examples.

Once these vassal kings are given enough rights, will they start a rebellion when they have enough soldiers and horses in their hands?

The world is governed by literature, and vassal kings with armies are born to be the opposite of literature.

There have been clear examples of this in all dynasties.

No matter what the purpose is, the vassal king cannot be allowed to have power.

But looking at Sun Jie's current state, it seems that he doesn't listen to them at all.

When things got to this point, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng knew they couldn't convince Sun Jie, so they could only let the matter go.

It's still early now, and it won't be too late to persuade him slowly in the future.

"Your Majesty, at this time, we should take a long-term view. It is a matter of national importance, and we should take a long-term view!" Sun Chuanting said.

"I have my own concerns about this matter, you don't have to!"

Sun Jie waved his hand.

Seeing this, the two looked at each other speechlessly, and could only retreat first.

After the two left, Sun Jie returned to the harem.

I'm going back in a few days, and there are some things to clean up in the harem.

On the surface, there are not many of these things, but if you really want to clean them up, there are still quite a few.

Today's railway has been built to Jinling, and the time from Jinling to Chang'an has been greatly shortened.

But if you want to cross the river, you have to get off from the train station on the bank of the river first, and after crossing the Yangtze River by boat, take a train at the train station on the other side of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River Bridge on the Jinling section is under construction, and it will be successfully repaired in the not-too-distant future. By then, trains will no longer have to stop on both sides of the Yangtze River.

A few days later, Sun Jie left Jinling by train.

This is a special train, except for Sun Jie and others, it is the accompanying guards.

It was a very expensive thing for the ancient emperors to go on tour.

Because the emperor went out, not only the emperor alone, besides the emperor, there were concubines in the harem and accompanying officials.

These people eat horse chews, and they consume a lot on the road.

If the emperor walked from Chang'an to Jinling step by step, every time he went to a place, he would stop at this place, which would not be a good thing for the people of this place.

The place where the emperor lives is not just an ordinary house, there must be a special palace, the scale and decoration must not be bad, so as not to damage the majesty of the emperor.

In history, Emperor Qianlong nearly bankrupted many places during his southern tour, and the consumption was astonishingly large.

But these things are nothing to Sun Jie now.

After getting on the train, as long as he didn't want to get off the train halfway, Sun Jie would not bother the local people at all.

For the common people, Sun Jie's past from the territory was the same as if he hadn't, which greatly reduced the harassment to the local area.

Trains are fast and consume little but coal, unlike horses, which cost very little.

From Jinling to Chang'an, almost no money will be consumed.

The train is running on the railway, and the Yangtze River is getting farther and farther behind Sun Jie. The paddy fields in the distance of the railway are clearly visible, and people working in the fields can be seen from time to time.

"Father, these people are working so hard, they are still working in the fields at such a late hour!"

In the carriage, Sun Wenyue, who was sitting opposite Sun Jie, was lying outside the window, looking at the people in the paddy fields with emotion on his face.

Although Sun Jie raised Sun Wenyue in various aspects and brought him to the ground, but in general, he is Sun Jie's son after all, and the environment he is in and the people he faces are different. .

With a good life, he has never worked in the fields so late.

Sun Chuanting, who was in another seat, heard the voice, stood up hastily, came to Sun Jie, and said with a smile: "I congratulate Your Majesty, I congratulate Daqin, the crown prince has a benevolent heart and a great deal of benevolence. Good luck!"

"Hahaha, what you said is good, this is the blessing of the imperial court, but you explain to him what the world is like today!"

Sun Jie laughed.

It is true that Sun Jie is the emperor, but he is also very happy when he hears someone praise his son.

Sun Chuanting stood behind Sun Jie and explained in detail: "Your Highness, although the people are still working in the fields, it does not mean that they are working hard. For the people, living and working in peace and contentment is the greatest happiness in the world.

Their taxation is very low, and in all dynasties, it is not as low as my Great Qin Dynasty's taxation, people."

Sun Wenyue listened very carefully and carefully.

The train moved slowly like this.

Chang'an, this historic city once again went to glory in the hands of Sun Jie.

Whether it is in the city or outside the city, it is extremely prosperous, with a strong commercial atmosphere, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Here, there is the largest slaughterhouse and felt factory in Daqin.

Next to the slaughterhouse is the largest meat canning factory and felt factory in Daqin. These goods can be sent to various places in a short period of time through Chang'an's innately advantageous railway.

There is a railway from Chang'an to the side wall of Yansui Town, which is specially used to transport cattle, sheep or various leather goods.

Since Sun Jie regained the grassland, this route has become more and more prosperous, and the commercial scope on both sides of the route is extremely thick.

The prosperity of Chang'an is inseparable from the surrounding power plants and supporting factories.

These factories have also brought huge employment to the local people and supported a considerable number of people.

The prosperity of Chang'an is rare in the world.

The enthusiasm of the people is boundless, and Sun Jie knows this well.

After Sun Jie got off the train at Chang'an Railway Station, he was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he wandered around Chang'an with his entourage and his son.

The officials staying behind in Chang'an City originally wanted to hold a grand welcome ceremony for Sun Jie, but Sun Jie refused.

The welcome ceremony is useless and meaningless. It not only consumes time, but also causes a certain amount of trouble and unnecessary consumption.

Although the national treasury is now full, the money cannot be spent like this.

There are people coming and going on the streets, and there is an endless stream of people and businessmen.

This prosperous appearance made Sun Jie feel extremely comfortable.

"It's not bad to have developed to this point, but I don't know if capitalism will come early?" Sun Jie frowned.

In fact, this land is not very suitable for capitalism, and to some extent, it is even incompatible with capitalism.

The reason why capitalism was born in the West is because their traditions and cultural models belong to the Mediterranean commercial civilization, where business and businessmen have a relatively high status.

There are many small cities in the west, kingdoms everywhere, and castles as numerous as cow hairs.

If these places want to communicate with each other, they must rely on commerce and merchants.

The country is too small to support a large-scale war, so in most cases, they are mainly business-oriented.

Even the 30 Years War or the 80 Years War that the Western world talks about, its scale and intensity are far inferior to those in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

In the East, however, the situation is quite different.What agricultural civilization needs is centralization, and the only way to continuously concentrate power upwards is to form a huge dynasty or empire, and then the dynasty or empire will protect the peasants below.

In the East, power trumps commerce.For farming dynasties, merchants don't seem to be that important.

The people only need to be self-sufficient, and then hand over the excess food to the court.

This is an official-based civilization, a civilization in which power prevails over everything else.

In such a civilization, it is difficult for capitalism to emerge.

Even if it appears, it is attached to the official and gentry class.

Don't look at Sun Jie's large-scale development of commerce and the improvement of his status as a businessman, but in essence, he is not much different from the previous dynasties.

The imperial court is still taking the road of centralization, and it is still the supremacy of power.

However, since Sun Jie came to the throne, he has been promoting business, and the current situation has been greatly improved.

But it is not known whether capitalism can be born or not.

Walking on the streets in Chang'an City, Sun Jie kept thinking.

He was thinking about the relationship between capitalism and this country.

He thought a lot, but in the end, he gave up the idea.Everything is still early, it is too early to say these things.

In the entire Great Qin, only Chang'an was prosperous.

However, capital sprouts did appear in Chang'an City.Whether it can be counted as capitalism is still unknown.

The largest slaughterhouse outside Chang'an City is a government-run slaughterhouse, which consumes a large number of cattle and sheep every day.

In addition to government-run factories such as felt factories and canning factories established by slaughterhouses, there are also many private meat factories.

The operation of these meat factories is somewhat similar to the enterprises of later generations.

These factories that use cattle and sheep as their industry have even evolved into futures.

Those merchants who sell cattle and sheep will sell cattle and sheep tickets to the slaughterhouse in advance before they go to the grassland to buy cattle and sheep, so as to earn a deposit.

After the cattle and sheep tickets are sold, they will formulate a procurement plan based on the cattle and sheep tickets sold, and set the price.

After formulating the purchase plan and selling price, they will take the train to the grassland.

Cattle and sheep bills can be traded as silver dollars between these slaughterhouses and meat factories.

As a result, Erdao dealers were born, and they sold these cattle and sheep tickets on the market to earn the difference.

If there is a disaster on the grassland and the number of cattle and sheep drops sharply, the price of these cattle and sheep tickets will avalanche.The cattle and sheep tickets that cannot be exchanged for cattle and sheep are just a piece of waste paper.

If there are plenty of cattle and sheep on the grassland, the value of cattle and sheep tickets will increase day by day, and these second-hand dealers will make a lot of money.

To some extent, the price of cattle and sheep tickets will also affect meat factories and felt factories.

Around the slaughterhouse, there are even shops opened by these Erdao traffickers.

In a sense, this bull and sheep ticket is the primary form of futures.

During the time when Sun Jie left, cattle and sheep merchants, slaughterhouses, meat workshops, felt factories and other factories, etc., have formed a rudimentary futures system.

During this period, many people joined the ranks of flipping cattle and sheep, some became rich overnight, and some lost everything overnight.

In this place, many miracles of wealth were born, as well as many homeless people.

Even if many people lose everything here, they still can't stop all kinds of people who want to make a fortune.

And these local officials have never been exposed to these things. When they face this situation, they don't know what to do, and they don't even know whether to ban it or promote it.

Not to mention these officials, even the businessmen who participated in it couldn't understand it themselves.

……

Sun Jie, who wandered around the city of Chang'an, finally returned to the palace. After a long absence, the palace still remained as it was when he left.

Sun Jie sat in the imperial study, picking up a memorial.

Just turned the first page, and before I had time to look carefully, a yellow door eunuch walked in.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Wang Biwang is asking to see you!" said the Huangmen eunuch.

Wang Bi also followed Sun Jie very early. He was the manager of the first shop Sun Jie opened.

Now it has also been achieved, to the point of Minister of the Ministry of Commerce.

When Sun Jie left Chang'an, he didn't go with him, but stayed here.

He has been paying attention to what happened in the slaughterhouse outside the city, because he has never encountered such a thing, so he has been letting them go freely and let them develop.

Now that Sun Jie came back, he wanted to report this matter to Sun Jie.

"Let him in!" Sun Jie looked at the Huangmen eunuch.

Not long after, Wang Bi came to Sun Jie.

After saluting respectfully, he told the whole story of what happened in the slaughterhouse.

Sun Jie pinched the beard on his chin, his eyes gradually brightened.

"How about this matter, you will come with me tomorrow, and first conduct an on-the-spot inspection, it's hard to say, it can't be decided!" Sun Jie said.

"As ordered!"

……

Early the next morning, Sun Jie took the Wang pen to the slaughterhouse.

This place is called the Niuyang District. It's not a fancy name, but you can clearly see what it's doing here.

There are more than a dozen streets here, lined with large and small factories and workshops.

In the center is the largest slaughterhouse.

Standing on the street, a thick bloody smell wafted in the air, and hissing could be heard from time to time.

"Your Majesty, there are the largest number of Erdao dealers here, they don't sell cattle and sheep at all, but sell cattle and sheep tickets issued by cattle and sheep dealers.

The cattle and sheep dealers issued the cattle and sheep tickets and sold them at a low price to these second-hand dealers, and these second-order dealers sold the cattle and sheep tickets to various factories. "

Wang Bi followed Sun Jie, briefly talking about the situation here.

Sun Jie nodded and walked forward with Wang Pen.

Coming to the most central area, the smell of blood in the air became stronger.

A shop full of people coming and going attracted Sun Jie's attention.

This shop is very large, five or six meters wide, and a huge plaque hangs in the middle, with the word "buy and sell" written on it.

There are people coming and going at the door of the store, and there are also people gathered inside.

From the outside looking in, you can't even see the head.

Sun Jie stood at the door, thoughtful.

"Your Majesty, this is where these two-way traffickers gather. They sell or collect cattle and sheep tickets here every day.

If the price of beef and mutton rises, they will charge a large amount of cattle and mutton tickets, and if the price of beef and mutton falls, they will sell it in large quantities.

These people are mercenary, it doesn't feel like a good thing! " Wang Bi explained.

"stock market!"

Sun Jie read in a low voice, his eyes brightened a lot.

Clearly, this is a junior stock market.

(End of this chapter)