The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 137 Avoiding the Trap
Peking City.

At the busiest time of the year, several temple fairs in the city are crowded with people, especially when the procession on stilts passes by, the people make a huge noise.

In the team, there are those who are dressed as gods in costumes, some are children who are dressed as golden boys and jade girls, some are playing the Eight Immortals, and some are playing Baogong.

On both sides of the street, people's heads were shaking.

Shehuo.

It is an ancient tradition of this nation, whether it is north or south, people will worship ancestors and hold social fires on this festival.

Since the pre-Qin period, praying for the autumn news and pleasing the gods and celebrating the harvest have become the most important folk activities among the people.

In the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of the economy, folk beliefs of miscellaneous gods rose one after another, and social fires and temple fairs were more closely linked.

As a folk, living, cultural form inherited from generation to generation, and a carrier of national culture, Shehuo carries rich historical information and is a cultural hub closely related to the Han people.

Until the previous dynasty was banned.

With the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the traditions of the Han people began to revive, not only the traditions, but also the population of the northern land.

Farming civilization is revived in this ancestral land.

"Young master, go back, there are too many people."

In the crowd, Zhu Neng said loudly.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head, but did not agree to Zhu Neng's request.

A group of people wandered from the city to the outside.

Passed by a briquette workshop in the west of Beiping City.

"Crackling."

The young man picked up the bamboo pole and lit the firecrackers. The boys in the family were about to move, and the girls hid away and covered their ears.

No matter how poor the family is, they will buy beautiful red-headed ropes with girls.

Ordinary people will add new clothes to their children and wear them during the Chinese New Year. People live a breath, and the pursuit of beauty is instinctive.

The elders in the family were full of relief in the white smoke.

There is nothing more satisfying than a prosperous family.

There are three tables, one for the elders and two for the younger.

The taciturn old man has smile lines all over his face today, and it is also the most generous time of the year. My peers at the table, congratulations to the old man's family for getting better and better.

In one corner of the room, a new-style briquette stove burns briquettes, and a kettle is installed on the mouth of the stove, and there is steaming hot water in the kettle.

The temperature inside the house is warmer than outside.

On the road.

A two-wheeled carriage passed slowly through the suburbs. Zhu Gaochi looked at the house that was stained black by coal ash. It was obvious that this house was a small family-style briquette workshop.

There are confetti and remnants of firecrackers on the ground.

The paper industry in the Song Dynasty was more than the sum of the world, and it was able to support the birth of many industries, such as the firecracker industry.

The revival of the Ming Dynasty for more than [-] years has already seen the shadow of the Song Dynasty.

Several boys were looking for something on the ground, and then lit the incense sticks in their hands, lit them and threw them out immediately.

Amidst the sound of a single firecracker, the girls hid behind the threshold, covering their mouths and smiling happily.Some daring girls even asked for it from their older brothers and younger brothers and tried to set it off by themselves.

"The image of peace among the people, the little prince is happy?" Zhu Neng laughed in the carriage.

"Nature is happy."

Zhu Gaochi did not hide his thoughts.

The palace was bustling from years ago to years later, and there was an endless stream of people waiting to visit, from nobles to military generals, from officials to businessmen, from sages to scholars.

Leaving the palace rashly today, with a little willfulness, is not to satisfy my curiosity.

It is to fully understand the current social model and to allocate social resources smoothly for oneself in the future.

"There are 260 million people in Beiping, and 230% of them are farmers and military households, which is 50 million, which is roughly less than [-] households."

"Based on 15 mu of various fields, the annual income is roughly [-] taels to [-] taels of silver."

Zhu Gaochi visited the guards and private households year after year, and had a general understanding of the social signs in Beiping.

Zhu Neng couldn't keep up with Zhu Gaochi's train of thought, so he could only smile silly.

Zhu Gaochi was not disappointed either.

It is normal not to understand, but it is not normal to understand.

This number is constantly changing.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of the population of self-cultivating farmers was relatively high. As the later period progressed, there were fewer and fewer self-cultivating farmers, and the land began to be concentrated in the hands of the landlord class.

A large number of people have become tenants, and the income of tenants per mu of land is on average half less than that of owner-peasants.

This varies greatly.

With less than half of the income, I live in poverty directly, can only maintain food and clothing, and do not continue to cope with the changes in life.

However, ancient China was the pinnacle of farming civilization, and both systems and technology crushed the West.

The economic development of the Ming Dynasty, such as the workshops in the hands of the Han people, even in the conquered Qing Dynasty and the decline of civilization, can still produce the most advanced bulk commodities, which are demanded by the world.

This premise is that there is a huge domestic market in order to cultivate excellent technology, which has nothing to do with maritime trade.

"Go back." Zhu Gaochi ordered.

The market is always the most important.

In the study room of Shizi Mansion, no one would come in to disturb the little prince.

Zhu Gaochi sat behind the desk and sorted out his notes with a fine brush. Combining his one-year industrial experience, he began to eliminate the prejudice in his heart.

"Many speeches in later generations equate democracy with the market, the market with property rights, and property rights with incentives."

"It seems to assert that as long as there is democracy, even without the great voyages and the discovery of America, without Britain's monopoly on the global textile and cotton markets, without its great wealth in the transatlantic slave trade, without its colonization and opening up of global markets powerful state apparatus on which to rely.”

"As well as strong military protection against global commercial interests and monopoly power like the East India Company, the British Industrial Revolution could still take place."

Zhu Gaochi sneered on his face, these people can be described as blind men feeling elephants.

"They even gave birth to sayings."

"In China's environment, according to the theory of institutional economics, such an "extractive" and "authoritarian" system cannot lead to the success of a country's industrialization."

"However, this kind of argument over-glamorizes the modern Western political system and its economic functions. It ignores the development path that the Western powers themselves went through in the past, which was extremely oppressive at home and abroad."

"By assuming that advanced political institutions and legal institutions are the prerequisites for economic development, these theories ignore the endogenous evolution of institutions and laws driven by production methods in human history."

"And the discontinuity and incoherence, under any regime, between slogan and practice, between law and enforcement, between institution and policy; thus leading to questions about effect and cause, correlation and causality, superstructure and economic base , the confusion between open political power and enlightened economic freedom."

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Zhu Gaochi put down his pen, frowned, and pondered for a while, thinking about many things.

Picking up the pen again, in the notebook full of records, started a new idea, and provided guidelines for the next stage of industrial promotion.

"They ignore the fundamental truth: Democracy with universal suffrage is the result of the Industrial Revolution, not the cause!"

“Modern Western legal systems, and the enormous organizational mobilization capacity to enforce them, are the product of centuries of economic development and industrialization in the West based on colonialism, imperialism, mercantilism, slave trade, and primitive accumulation of blood. "

Why are these sayings popular?
In the decades since The Wealth of Nations was born, as long as you read The Wealth of Nations, so much ink has been swayed on the general equilibrium model of economic growth, but there are still such misleading remarks.

It was deliberately guided by the West.

Just like Chu Yequan, in order to beautify the western spirit, because they discovered this sharp weapon, they naturally want to use all means to remove the stains, so as to attract believers from all over the world.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western scholars paid great attention to the historical basis of the "right of the first night".

A large number of books in this period are criticizing and fighting for Chuyequan.

Over time, and into the 21st century, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Encyclopedia Larousse dramatically changed views on the topic—from acceptance to rejection of its historical veracity.

If you have a full understanding of Western books, you can clearly see that modern and modern Western scholars have undergone completely different changes, which contain huge political purposes.

Pursue the difference between reality and packaging beautification.

"Adam Smith has explained the secret of the growth of national wealth by using the example of the pin factory in the early eighteenth century and the principle of the division of labor based on the size of the market."

"And misleading remarks still occupy a lot of positions because there are huge driving forces behind them."

"The great enthusiasm of Western countries to promote Westernization in backward developing countries, regardless of their initial economic, social and political conditions."

"The results of this political top-down approach to economic development are already evident."

"Many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have followed the hopes of Western countries and copied their developing countries, all of which have fallen into economic stagnation and continuous political turmoil."

"On the other hand, countries and regions that only retain their own culture and combine their own actual conditions, such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, can clearly see that these countries have truly avoided the trap of the West."

"So I must not copy the Western industrial revolution and be misled by wrong remarks, otherwise it will lead to failure."

"What is Daming's greatest advantage?"

"Unparalleled population, unparalleled literacy rate, and a peaceful and stable social environment."

"It brings about a huge market that is the envy of the whole world."

"Then concentrating power, implementing monopoly industries, improving workers' treatment, and optimizing the distribution of social resources are undoubtedly the real long-term strategy."

"The achievements of the West in modern times must be great victories, which are worth learning and learning from, but they must not be confused by them."

"They are not stupid, they are very smart. They dug a lot of pits on the road they walked. If the pursuers don't avoid these pits, they will fall into their trap."

(End of this chapter)