The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 579 A Ming woman rides a public carriage
Liu Tong packed his luggage, with the suitcase on his left and a hat on his right hand. His wife was holding her under-year-old Yaoer at the door. The family hired two maids, so Liu Tong was not worried about family affairs.

"It will take about a month for me to go back to the capital. The second girl is older. She often goes to her classmates' houses in school. It's not a big deal, but after all, it's a girl's house, and it was very dangerous last time. So you It’s better to restrain her.”

In the end, his son did not join the army and went to study at the Imperial College in Beijing.

Liu Tong was not worried about his son. Instead, as his daughter got older, he had more things to worry about. Nowadays, women are advocated in society to have the right to attend Taoism, which was praised by His Royal Highness the Emperor.

The wife is a traditional woman, caring for her husband and raising children, but she also enjoys the benefits of urban construction in the new city.

Different environments bring different lifestyles.

The woman in a long skirt, with the child in her arms, was very quiet, looking at the door curiously.

"This slave will remember your husband's instructions."

"Ah."

"You take care of yourself too."

"I am leaving."

Liu Tong turned around and left reluctantly.

On the streets of the new city, several patrol officers followed the route and patrolled irregularly. Maybe they were tired from walking. They sat on the wooden stools in the small square. The kerosene street lamp next to the wooden stools had been extinguished.

Every evening, the watchmen would use a special long pole to pour kerosene into the kerosene street lamp, which was just enough to burn for two hours. When the kerosene burned out, it would extinguish itself.

Glass is a hot commodity in overseas trade, and the price is quite high.

In the Ming Dynasty, because it was a livelihood commodity, it was priced very cheaply and became a popular product in society. As a result, there were many factories producing glass, creating a large number of jobs.

The small square is flat land, paved with bricks and stones, leaving a lot of dirt and sand pits.

There were several children learning to walk, mostly elderly people, and a few young women, chatting and looking after their children. If they fell, some children would cry, and some would get up on their own.

"Your children are not squeamish at all."

The woman said approvingly.

"You are so stupid that you don't even know how to cry. Children who can cry are smart."

Each boasted about the other's children.

There was a lot of fun in the small square.

Not all women will become housewives. Not everyone can become a farmer around Beiping City if they want to. The large-scale well system has been reformed most thoroughly, and being a farmer is an enviable profession.

Some working-class families have dual-income families, and some have single-income families.

Those who work dual-income will take the elderly in and help take care of the children in addition to providing for the elderly. Those who work alone mean that there is no elderly person at home to help take care of the children, or they have gone to other brothers' homes.

Economic status determines social status.

However, Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty has progressed, but there are still some reservations. In terms of respecting the elderly, no family dares to abuse the elderly. Not only will they be discriminated against by their neighbors, but they will also be punished by the government.

Therefore, this natural phenomenon was reversed in the Ming Dynasty, which is a manifestation of social civilization.

"Everyone Liu."

"You are going on a long trip."

When people saw Liu Tong, his attire and the luggage he was carrying, they all bent down to salute and greeted him with a smile.

Liu Tong nodded repeatedly.

"I'm going to the capital for a business trip."

Look no further.

Liu Tong returned the greetings to the women from a distance and left quickly, not wanting to interact too much with the women.

The women were very enthusiastic when meeting the most famous cultural figures in the studio.

Be patient, maybe you can still take care of your children in the future.

Came to the platform.

Most of the people who have lived in the studio for a long time know each other, and they all clasped their fists and bowed their hands in salute, some bent down to salute, and some raised their hands to say hello simply.

"Everyone Liu."

"Master Zhou."

"Master Wang."

The bus on the tracks finally arrived.

People lined up to get on the bus.

We are all neighbors, and everyone will take care of their own image.

Only areas with large population mobility and insufficiently wealthy conditions will lead to many behaviors. Stable areas will have tacit social customs, and as the economy becomes more developed, the order will become better.

Everyone took out a cent each and put it in the cash box, then looked for a seat.

But there are obviously not enough seats.

"Please."

"I'll be there soon."

Most every site is like this.

Because most of the passengers on each platform are familiar people.

Things change only when the bus enters the downtown area.

Peking is different from Beijing.

There is a palace in the capital, so the changes in the old city are not complete. There are restrictions on high-rise buildings to avoid peeking into the palace and eliminating some risks, but the old city of Peking has changed a lot.

High-rise buildings are rising from the ground, and it even gives the illusion of being in a world of reinforced concrete.

The development of industrialization has brought about population concentration.

Peiping was the earliest industrial city and absorbed the largest population. It absorbed all the surplus labor from surrounding counties and towns into the city, which also reduced the population in the countryside and provided conditions for the success of the reform of the large-scale well system.

Not only did the number of counties and towns not increase due to population growth, but with the development of industrialization, two counties were abolished.

Changes in Peking.

Only 12 years.

Many phenomena have caused people to reflect.

Not just one or two people, but even the conversations among the people in the market, there were many emotions and discussions, and it became a social phenomenon, giving rise to many questions and thoughts.

Liu Tong is just one example, the most famous because of his high literary level.

Why are there so many changes?

What is the reason?

Although traditional societies in the past also developed, each dynasty was different. The progress of technology and social civilization was equally obvious, but it was qualitatively different from the current Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Gaochi was still a young prince, the speech he delivered at the Ming Dynasty Work Bureau and the principles he taught to the managers were finally compiled one by one by the original clerk's office and published in newspapers.

It turns out there is so much truth.

In the past, Zhu Gaochi's words were not very effective because people could not understand them, let alone whether what he said was right.

But the changes in Peiping are the biggest proof.

More and more people are taking the initiative to study and study Zhu Gaochi's speeches, which have become the nourishment for new learning and new social trends, providing huge impetus for changes in people's thinking and the development of knowledge.

There are many truths that everyone can understand at a glance, which would have been absolutely impossible more than ten years ago.

Peiping's non-agricultural population reaches [-]%.

The urban population during the Northern Song Dynasty was 1662.3 million, accounting for 8260% of the national population of 21.10 million at that time.By the Southern Song Dynasty, the urban population was 1590 million, accounting for 7100% of the national population of 22.40 million at that time.

The populations of Bianjing and Lin'an exceed one million.

In Henan as a whole, the population was less than 26 million in the 200th year of Hongwu. After ten years of development, there are only more than 240 million, which has not yet returned to the level of the Song Dynasty.

However, although the population of Beiping Province is 500 million, the non-agricultural population has reached nearly 200 million. Beiping City has a population of 80, accounting for nearly one-seventh of the entire province.

The developed non-agricultural population and large working class have brought about economic prosperity.

Several female staff members got on the bus and became special beings.

Because of the shortage of manpower and the large number of job shortages, Peiping encouraged women to participate in the labor force. As a result, these unacceptable phenomena in the inner provinces, even Zhejiang Province and Yingtianfu Province have not reached the level of civilization, but have already been achieved in Peking. It became a habit.

Women and men crowded into buses together.

Any dirty remarks will be severely punished by the government.

There is no freedom in Peiping.

Speech is also restricted, and trouble comes from the mouth. Anyone who insults women or hinders the normal order of society, even if it is a personal behavior, just for ridicule, will be jailed for three months and fined.

Even in new urban areas, especially in film studios, repairs to your own house must be under the control of the film studio.

"Everyone Liu, I'm getting off the car and saying goodbye."

"Walk slowly."

Liu Tong smiled.

Everyone looked around and saw that everyone being called was not an ordinary person.

soon.

The bus set off again and the carriage returned to silence. Liu Tong calmed down and thought about the call from His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, and how he should respond in order to achieve the best performance.

After changing trains, no one recognized Liu Tong.

Finally arrived at Peking Railway Station.

Peking Railway Station is a big station.

The platform on the west side that is dedicated to transporting goods is full of carriages. Each carriage is filled with all kinds of goods, from expensive goods to cheap livelihood supplies, and even large amounts of grain and dried meat.

Many staff at the station are busy there. Those who register, count, declare, transport, clerks, stewards, etc. all perform their duties and are very busy.

People walk at a trot, which shows how busy they are.

The east side is for passengers.

Liu Tong had purchased a ticket yesterday and took the train to Beijing today.

There were countless people on the platform.

There are those carrying burdens, those carrying packages, those carrying boxes, those dragging sacks, all from all walks of life. Here everyone has only one identity, a passenger at the train station.

"Beware of thieves."

"Each of you should take care of your own rituals to avoid losing them."

"If you find a thief, please shout loudly. The station patrol officer will arrive as soon as possible. No one should be afraid of thieves. We are all good men. We must dare to fight against thieves."

Station staff patrolled and shouted. "Wow wow."

The cry of a baby.

"The youngest, the youngest."

The old man shouted loudly to find someone.

The noisy sound resounded throughout the platform, full of the breath of life.

"The train to the capital is about to enter the station. Passengers with tickets No. [-] are about to get on the train. Other passengers should not get on the wrong train. Please watch the tickets in your hands."

The staff are all loud.

I can't do this job well if I don't have a loud voice.

Liu Tong held the salute in his left hand and the ticket in his right hand, and boarded the train smoothly. The people behind him were carrying a lot of bags and it took a lot of effort.

at last.

People took their seats and the train cars were packed with salutes.

Before the train departed, the carriages returned to silence.

"Crack~Crack~"

The train started slowly and slowly left the platform.

People's hearts dropped.

suddenly.

The noise in the carriage became lively. Passengers in each booth were communicating with each other from all over the world, chatting about things from north to south of the Ming Dynasty, and even to the outer seas. It was the most densely spread place for information in the world.

Even a person who knows nothing, as long as he often takes the train, is a hundred times more efficient than the social model in which scholars can know the world without going out.

this era.

Passengers who often take trains belong to the "advanced elements" in society.

Just like when the Internet first emerged in later generations.

Those who first used the Internet understood information many times more efficiently than other methods. These same people generally belong to the "high-quality" group.

During a long ride, some people have endless topics to talk about and some people feel drowsy.

At lunch time, the train will stop at a special platform. Food is prepared on the platform and delivered to the train by the staff for passengers in need.

The speed of the train is sixty miles an hour.

With the development of steam engines, some people proposed accelerating the speed. However, after a long period of research, the Railway Operations Department did not adopt an accelerating plan and still maintained sixty miles per hour.

Arrival and waiting, as well as various reasons, it was already the morning of the fourth day when we arrived in the capital.

Liu Tong was full of exhaustion.

I also felt uncomfortable, so I went to the hotel to rent a room, took a hot shower, put on clean clothes, and gave the clothes to the waiter. The hotel provides laundry services, but you need to pay separately. .

The capital is no stranger.

Liu Tong did not ask the waiter for directions, but went to the Wenhua Palace by himself. After an inspection at Donghua Gate, the clerk's staff came to register him, and Liu Tong left his address.

"Everyone Liu will go back first. We will go to the hotel where you are staying to inform you when His Highness the Emperor Taisun will summon everyone."

"There are also public housing available. Do you want to live in public housing, Liu?"

The public rooms in the Wenhua Palace were specially provided for accommodation for people on business. Liu Tong shook his head. The relationship there was complicated. He didn't want to cause trouble, so he stayed in a hotel and was comfortable.

His manuscript fees from newspapers and bookstores, as well as talent allowances and project team allowances, are enough to support him in doing what he wants to do, rather than going against his own mood.

Liu Tong left Wenhua Palace and visited several friends in the capital.

Everyone was very happy when they learned of Liu Tong's arrival and made an appointment to have dinner together in the evening. In the afternoon, Liu Tong and a friend strolled around the capital.

A friend went to a car dealership to rent a carriage for half a day.

The carriage took the two of them around the capital aimlessly.

The straight roads in the capital were originally built to be wide.

"The capital has changed a lot."

"The old city has not changed much. You can go to Chunhua New City to see where the wasteland has been turned into a prosperous city."

The location of Chunhua New City was originally Chunhua Pass, which was built to protect the capital.

With the needs of economic development, the city gates of the originally semi-preserved passes have been demolished. Even last year, a section of the city wall at the city gate was demolished in order to expand the road.

After leaving the city, we saw a temple.

After letting the carriage stop, the two went to the temple for a stroll. They sat on a stone table under the big tree in the temple. The young novice brought tea and the two took a rest.

"I heard that in Timurid's country, and even in many areas, their religion is very strict and has great restrictions on people. In contrast, in China, our religion has not always been strong."

"The strong ones were destroyed."

"It should be that our faith is to respect our ancestors, and every family has a genealogy. In the Spring and Autumn Period, only the aristocrats had genealogies. It was also the case abroad. Only aristocrats had genealogies. But in China, because of the prosperity of civilization and the large number of reading groups, we have achieved family genealogy. Every family has a genealogy, unlike overseas.”

"Respecting our ancestors is our greatest belief."

"So the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty was what it is today because technological progress promoted social changes characterized by machine production, and there was no ideological obstacle."

"The main thing is His Royal Highness the Emperor's Grandson."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promoted the advancement of technology and invented the steam engine. The steam engine is the most important thing. More importantly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince created a prerequisite society for industrialization, which is a social system with high wages."

The two of them went from chatting to more and more formal exchanges.

"If we place it in the aristocratic period of the Spring and Autumn Period, apart from being technically unsatisfactory, their social model cannot promote industrial society."

"In the aristocratic period, a large number of common people were domestic slaves, which could not release social productivity. Only in the landlord society, although the population was restricted, it relied on an employment relationship, not a master-slave relationship. Tenants had their freedom."

"Before His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun entered the capital, the situation in the south was very tense."

"But although the big households were hostile, they could not control the tenants. The tenants left the land in large numbers and actively joined the industrialized society, weakening the power of the big households."

If Zhu Gaochi were here, he would say that this is different from the American Civil War.

The southern landowners in the United States were slave owners, not wage-owners.

The ideological liberation after the end of the Middle Ages in the West was only more advanced than the Western aristocratic era, but did not surpass the East. Of course, there was definitely progress in some aspects, even surpassing the Ming Dynasty at the same time.

However, both have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they can learn from each other and learn from each other.

There was a gap between the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty and the social civilization of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was too radical in emphasizing culture over military affairs, but it could not cover up the advantages of a developed social civilization.

The social civilization of the Song Dynasty could surpass the period of ideological liberation after the end of the Western Middle Ages.

The Ming Dynasty would not be able to match the Song Dynasty society until the middle to late period.

But it is also more advanced than the social model of the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, some scholars of later generations explained that the Dynasty was a period of recovery for Chinese civilization.

"Strength is king."

"His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson's military strength is the real reason. Just like a wooden barrel, each piece needs to be long enough to hold more water. Otherwise, if any piece of wood is short, the water will spill out."

"It is."

"The civilization of the Song Dynasty was glorious, just like most wooden boards are very long, but there was a problem with the military board, which prevented it from exerting its power as it should have."

"So His Royal Highness, the Emperor Taisun, proposed very early on that spiritual civilization and material civilization should be grasped with both hands and are indispensable. This idea was based on the failure of the Song Dynasty."

"But the force is strong but weak in other aspects. Just like the former Yuan Dynasty, although it conquered everything by force, it brought about the regression of civilization, and even wars continued on the land of the world. The regression of productivity not only brought no benefits to the people Peace and prosperity have made people everywhere miserable."

The tea party between the two of them has already cooled down.

The abbot of the temple saw that the two people were from extraordinary backgrounds and came to provide tea in person.

"Thank you for hosting."

"Where did the two donors come from?"

Liu Tong and his friends each introduced themselves.

"It turns out to be Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhou."

The host had heard about Liu Tong's reputation, and his smile became more and more enthusiastic, and he asked the two of them to stay in the temple at night and taste the temple's vegetarian food.

In the late Ming Dynasty, with the development of productivity, civilization also progressed, and the thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were integrated.

It is normal for scholars to live in temples and even go to temples to eat vegetarian food.

Nowadays, with the development of the economy and the circulation of the population, temples are still developing these businesses in advance as in history, providing accommodation and fast meals, and providing services for people's lives in other places.

"I'm offended. It's not that I don't want to stay, but that I already have an appointment."

Liu Tong said apologetically.

The host was not dissatisfied and hoped that they would come to the temple again next time.

Wait until the old monk leaves.

Liu Tong and his friend smiled at each other.

Fame and wealth, even for outsiders, cannot be avoided. It can be said to be a manifestation of human nature.

"The development of the Ming Dynasty's national power was extraordinary. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty spread all over Southeast Asia and even Central Asia. It can be seen that the prosperity of materials led to many conflicts in external relations."

"The external reciprocal relationship you published in the newspaper is indeed eye-catching, but when you think about it carefully, it is a bit cold and ruthless, and slightly conflicts with the way of Chinese civilization."

Liu Tong's friend laughed.

Liu Tong's eyes lit up.

The reason why he came this time was because of His Highness the Emperor Taisun, and he wanted to hear about his external reciprocal relationship. However, Liu Tong was self-aware. With the heroic appearance of His Highness the Emperor Taisun, he must have a big confusion that he might not be able to solve.

So he hoped to hear more suggestions to supplement his thoughts, so instead of being angry, Liu Tong liked it very much.

Seeing Liu Tong's expression, his friend was also very happy.

Because he knew Liu Tong's character and was not a loner, his friends were willing to give him advice. The way of thinking has always been a big deal. If the heat is not handled well, even friends can turn into enemies.

"Looking at the Ming Dynasty's way of dealing with the outside world, it cannot be separated from the saints."

"Since the sage decreed the world, all people living on the land of China are his sons. Although it still belongs to the idea of ​​​​the family and the world, it is much improved than the master-slave idea."

"The Ming Law also clearly stipulates that slaves are not allowed to exist. However, there are regulations that allow the people who are enacted to have slaves. This illustrates the limitations of the era in which the saint lived and his experience."

"But His Royal Highness the Grandson is reforming the palace. Although he has not abolished the eunuchs, it is because in order to take care of them, he cannot ignore them. On the contrary, it is unkind."

Liu Tong listened attentively and found out that his friend lived in the capital.

Near the water tower first get the month.

At least he knew more about the deeds of the emperor's grandson than he did. Liu Tong couldn't help but think about whether he should move to the capital. After all, it was the political center. Although Peiping industrialized early, its advantages may not last long. Keep.

(End of this chapter)