The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 94 Changing Ming's Production Model

Since traveling, Zhu Gaochi has never seen Zhu Yuanzhang.

The memory of the original owner's childhood is relatively vague, so the old impression of Zhu Yuanzhang, in addition to severely punishing corrupt officials, is to slaughter heroes, and he is very murderous.

And knowing that the death of the crown prince would be the trigger for the last large-scale massacre in the Hongwu Dynasty, it is inevitable that there are some scruples.

If Zhu Di is willing to check, he will support himself to the greatest extent.

And what he did, if he touched something that shouldn't be touched, Zhu Di would naturally come forward to stop him.

It's like adding a fuse.

Then I will no longer have a psychological burden, and I can let go of my actions.

"Factories can fix that."

Zhu Gaochi laughed.

"Workers stay in the factory all day, working day after day, so they have sex less often, so they have fewer children."

Now not only Zhu Di, but even Ge Cheng and Yao Guangxiao couldn't help but look at the eldest son.

The eldest son's words are inseparable from men and women.

Is it possible that you have been thinking about this on weekdays?
Fresh blood, can you bear it?

Seeing the strange faces of the crowd, Zhu Gaochi had the chance to win, thinking that he had shocked them.

for industrial planning.

Zhu Gaochi is confident.

He is also confident that Daming will fully enter the industrial society with a population of nearly 50 million in [-] to [-] years.

Because the three core technologies of the first industrial revolution were not a problem in Ming Dynasty.

And agricultural society into industrial society.

Haven't future generations already provided experience?

From the first failure to distribute [-] percent of the agricultural population to the second time, the distribution of [-] percent of the agricultural population to township industries continued.

Not only did they no longer suffer from food shortages, but they also did not import food from abroad. In ten years, the industrial products in the countryside increased by a full fifteen times.

From imitating others' failures to falling into the Malthusian poverty trap.

I even tried my own way, encountered the failure of the third industrialization, and succeeded in the fourth industrialization after summarizing experience.

It condenses the revolutionary economic changes experienced by the three countries of modern Britain, the United States, and Japan into only 35 years and one generation.

This result shocked the world.

It is the fruit of the martyrs who crossed the river by feeling the stones.

It proves that a country with a population of one billion that is dominated by agriculture can rapidly develop into an industrial country.

of course.

Zhu Gaochi did not think that in his lifetime, Daming could reach the technological level of later generations.

However, combined with the first industrial revolution and the development experience of later generations of countries, Daming entered the primary industrial society as a whole.

In his lifetime, Zhu Gaochi believed that it could be achieved.

He doesn't need to feel the stones to cross the river.

He has blueprints and can directly build bridges.

The premise is that Zhu Di supports himself.

And he is his eldest son.

This is my biggest advantage, followed by the knowledge in my mind.

"It's that simple?"

Ge Cheng asked blankly.

There is some truth in what the eldest son said, but it always feels that something is not quite right.

"You can't follow what he says, you'll be easily coaxed by him." Zhu Di was a little immune to the principle of the eldest son, and gave Ge Cheng some pointers before retorting.

"You just mentioned the refugees from Shandong and Shanxi. It can be seen that the common people are not full of food. They don't put agriculture first, but do they put business first? Can merchants produce food?"

"Business can make money, everyone goes into business, who will farm the land?"

"Those who cultivate the land only have enough to fill their stomachs, and those who go to do business make a lot of money, and then come back to buy land. If this continues, won't it hurt farmers?"

Zhu Gaochi was startled by Zhu Di's long series of words.

Has he improved?

Seeing his son's expression, Zhu Di couldn't get enough of it, and finally he had the time to talk about his eldest son.

Zhu Gaochi cleared his throat.

It seems that with simple theory, Zhu Di can no longer be convinced.

"Food is a necessity, and clothes are daily necessities."

"On the premise of satisfying clothes, there must be enough food."

"Clothes can be worn or not, but food must be eaten. If you don't eat it, you will die."

"It is beneficial for industry to absorb landless refugees, but how to develop industry in the environment of our dynasty without endangering food."

Later generations of countries understand this truth when they fail for the first time.

The fact that primitive agricultural production lacks scale effect can be ignored, and the marginal product of land can be underestimated the rapid decline of labor input.

in other words.

In the case of no change in productivity, the upper limit of land output cannot be changed. No matter how much manpower is invested, the output of land will still stop here.

Failure is the mother of success.

It is precisely because of this failure that it provided experience for the next assignment, laid a solid foundation, and achieved great results.

"The fields of military households are fixed, and there is no new land around. For one military household, three or five members of the family go to the battle, and more than ten people go to the battle. The output of the field, evenly spread in the north, is still one mu and two stones. "

"So it is very stupid to gather all the people in the fields."

Zhu Gaochi forgot what he said, Zhu Di gritted his teeth when he heard it, and the rest of the people looked strange.

How dare you say that about a saint?

"My country has been established for 25 years, and the acres are generally sufficient, but the country is too large, and there must be some surplus agricultural population in some parts."

"For example, natural disasters, such as barren areas, the solution to these problems can be absorbed through industry."

"Only by investing surplus people in industry, developing industries such as mines, ironworks, and railway construction, can promote productivity and create more wealth."

"What will be the result in the end?"

"Cheap iron, cheap fuel, easy travel, and more advanced technology available to all."

"Sharp tools and better farm tools can make fields more productive."

"A large number of cheap tools can be used by people, and can turn more wasteland and swamps into fertile fields."

"Steam engines, for example, can be used to irrigate wasteland, allowing the common people to reclaim more barren land away from water sources."

"You can even build aqueducts directly, pump the river water into the aqueducts, and irrigate the land without water."

Actually there is a better way.

Is sweet potato obtained from America.

The ancestors at the end of the Ming Dynasty risked their lives and sneaked back to Spain to import sweet potato vines from the Americas in Luzon, and returned to their hometown Fujian to plant them.

According to the academic papers of HowNet, the introduction of sweet potatoes in the late Ming Dynasty and the promotion of corn, that is, the corn in the local chronicles of various places, happened to be popularized in the early Qing Dynasty.

These new crops were added to the traditional crop rotation, and it took only a hundred years to rise from vegetables defined by literati to staple food.

The per capita ration in the mid-Qing Dynasty was increased by [-] kilograms on the basis of the traditional crop rotation planting technology, which laid the foundation for promoting a large population growth.

Productivity is at the core.

Sweet potato is a big killer of ancient agriculture, which directly promotes the improvement of agricultural productivity and solves many problems.

Zhu Gaochi's light words are like heavy drums beating in people's hearts.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhu Gaochi asked blankly.

"what happened?"

Ge Cheng hesitated to speak, Yao Guangxiao seemed to be looking at heaven and man, and the eunuch was full of admiration.

Zhu Di swallowed his saliva, and asked with difficulty: "Boss, why haven't you talked about your steam engine method?"

"Does it matter?"

"Isn't it important?"

Zhu Di asked back.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

In his opinion, the social environment problem in the early Ming Dynasty was not a food problem at all, but an inevitable drawback of the social production model.

Even if the grain was doubled in the early Ming Dynasty, there would still be refugees.

The sum of the production relations determined by the productive forces at a certain stage of social development constitutes the social foundation, which is called the economic foundation.

The needs of the economic base determine the generation of the superstructure.

Serve corvée and receive in kind.

The other methods are relatively primitive methods.

This is the limitation of the times.

In Zhu Gaochi's view, it is only useful to change Daming's production model.

Refugees from Shandong and Shanxi.

That's because of the problem of social distribution, and the lack of food is just a symptom.

In other words.

There are too few employment opportunities in society.

Somewhere there will always be farmers who lose their land, who have no other livelihood or work to do, and become refugees.

The roots of the refugees in the early Ming Dynasty and the refugees in the late Ming Dynasty are different.

The production mode is not changed.

Even if you get sweet potatoes, it's useless.

The imperial power in the mid-Ming Dynasty could no longer suppress the localities. Jianghuai's economy was prosperous, and the petty bourgeoisie was born.

There is a spiritual appeal, so a new study was born, and there are no technical problems, so there is the germination of capitalist thought.

But everything was contained.

There were sweet potatoes in the Qing Dynasty, but there was no progress in production.

So sweet potatoes have promoted population growth, but instead of bringing economic prosperity per capita, they have plunged people into extreme poverty.

The incomprehension of agricultural society.

Nor is there no solution.

War... or a black death like the West, which wiped out more than half of the population.

Ok.

Seeing Zhu Gaochi's thoughts, everyone couldn't understand.

Obviously there is such a good method, why not take it out?
Seeing people's accusing eyes, Zhu Gaochi quickly explained: "Building ditches is a big project. Didn't you say that it's not suitable to do anything now?"

"Besides, it's not easy for the palace to intervene in the affairs of the government."

Put it ten years ago.

Zhu Di can definitely organize it, he has great power at that time.

Well now.

Hearing what the boss said, Zhu Di's face darkened.

"That can't be avoided."

Seeing Zhu Di's persistence and everyone's approval, Zhu Gaochi felt helpless.

Cognitive difference ah.

"We don't approve of construction, at least not now."

"Why?"

"First of all, the issue of refugees, although the land is an inducement, is not the key issue. After solving these people, other people will appear."

"Secondly, the government's corvee is harmful to the common people."

"To devote energy to these things, it is better to support our industry first, and then build aqueducts after our industry expands."

"When we spend money to recruit migrant workers, the common people will get real benefits."

Zhu Gaochi insisted on changing Daming's production model.

(End of this chapter)