Keep them thoroughly busy?

Zhao Kuangyin smiled dumbly and said, "Do you think that the people of Li are not busy enough? They are busy enough to rest at sunrise and sunset every day." ”

Zhao Guangyi frowned and didn't speak, obviously not quite agreeing with Wang Chen's words.

Wang Chen said unhurriedly: "I mean, so that they don't have to be busy in the fields." ”

"You don't have to be busy in the fields, so where are you going to be busy?" Zhao Kuangyin shook his head with a smile and said, "You can't ask everyone to go into business, right?"

Wang Chen did not answer this question directly, but asked rhetorically: "Your Majesty, are all men involved in clan fights?"

Zhao Kuangyin nodded, "Yes." ”

Wang Chen asked again: "Then are they fighting for water for food?"

Zhao Kuangyin responded again, "Supporting a family is naturally for food." ”

Wang Chen smiled slightly and said: "In this case, the government gives the people another way to support their families, everyone has food and money to spend, will they still fight for water?"

"If you have food to eat and money to spend, you naturally won't fight for water. Zhao Kuangyin said speechlessly: "But the question is to leave the field, what do you let the people rely on to eat, and where will the money come from?"

Since ancient times, it has become a deep-rooted concept for men to plow and weave.

In ancient times, business was often looked down upon, even if the Song Dynasty vigorously developed commerce and was not ashamed of doing business, but in general, the concept of Shinong industry and commerce has not changed much, but the values of life have changed.

Wang Chen's idea was naturally industrial and commercial, but he couldn't say that at first, he had to take a detour and said: "I remember that Your Majesty has a policy called hiding wealth from the people, which means that no matter how rich the land annexor is, as long as it is within the scope of the Great Song Dynasty, through taxation, the final wealth will be owned by the imperial court, right?"

Speaking of the things he was proud of, Zhao Kuangyin smiled, "That's right." ”

"The minister's next words may make His Majesty very unhappy, and I hope to forgive the sin, so the minister dares to say it. Wang Chen took a preventive injection.

Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand and said, "Say it, forgive you for your innocence." ”

Wang Chen said bluntly: "In fact, we have the following ways to annex land in the DPRK: first, legal land transactions, second, deception, such as landlords promising to the common people that they can be exempted from paying taxes, and third, illegal borrowing and coercion, that is, lending to peasant households at high interest rates, causing peasant households to go bankrupt, and taking the opportunity to coerce peasant households to hand over their land. ”

Zhao Guangyi was taken aback, you Bu Zhouzi dare to say anything, he was afraid that Zhao Kuangyin would blame Wang Chen, so he pretended to scold: "Bu Zhouzi, what are you talking about?"

However, Zhao Kuangyin knew what was going on, and said with a long sigh: "It's true." ”

"Since land annexation is inevitable, and if this continues, the vast majority of farmers will lose their land sooner or later, why don't we take another way of thinking to let farmers survive. Wang Chen looked at it very seriously and said, "For example, the commodity economy. ”

Zhao Kuangyin was curious: "What is the commodity economy?"

Wang Chen explained in detail the commodity economy and the natural economy.

The natural economy refers to the main economic situation under the feudal economic form of the traditional society, which is combined with the commodity economy and excludes each other, and it cannot be said that the natural economy is without commodity exchange, it refers to the economic situation in which production is to directly meet the needs of individual producers or economic units, not for exchange.

In the final analysis, the natural economy is the product of the low level of social productivity and the underdeveloped social division of labor.

The commodity economy is different, which refers to the sum of production, exchange, and sale, and the economic situation for the purpose of exchange, including the production of commodities and the exchange of sacred goods.

The Song Dynasty actually followed this path.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi are both emperors' talents, and they are naturally extremely intelligent, and they can understand it as soon as they hear it.

Especially Zhao Kuangyin, he was surprised: "You mean, turning private labor into social labor?"

Wang Chen instinctively snapped his fingers, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he quickly put away his hand and continued: " It is true that the contradiction between private labor and social labor constitutes the basic contradiction of the commodity economy of private ownership, and this contradiction runs through the whole process of the development of the commodity economy, and determines the various internal contradictions and development trends of the commodity economy. ”

Zhao Guangyi was a little puzzled and said: "According to what you say, there is also a commodity economy in our dynasty, why should it develop?"

Wang Chen explained: " In our dynasty, there is a commodity economy, but it is relatively simple, the scale of production is relatively small, and the scope of commodity exchange is very limited, because it has not become the dominant form of social economy, but is accompanied by and attached to the dominant natural economic form。 ”

Zhao Kuangyin roughly understood, smiled and clapped his hands: "Okay, Bu Zhouzi's theory is very good, it makes my eyes shine." He smiled and joked to Zhao Guangyi, "If we let Bu Zhouzi be our household secretary, I'm afraid the finances will have to be doubled." ”

Zhao Guangyi naturally understood, and deeply agreed: "Yes, although it is very difficult to implement, and it may take a hundred years to complete, this is a good way to vigorously develop national strength." ”

It's definitely a good way to go.

This is the inevitable path of social development.

Why is the era in which my buddies live so developed, isn't it because of the development of the commodity economy?

There are more advanced theories of the market economy that I haven't told you, well, I'm afraid I'll frighten you.

To be precise, the market economy is the product of the development of the commodity economy to a certain stage.

"It doesn't have to take 100 years to complete. Wang Chen denied it.

Zhao Kuangyin shamelessly asked, "What do you mean by this?"

Zhao Guangyi also looked at it with great curiosity.

Wang Chen thought for a while and said, "I'll give you an example, the minister built a cement factory in Tongzhou, and the cement is ......."

"I know what cement is. Zhao Kuangyin interrupted: "You go on directly." ”

Wang Chen sighed, okay, he finally understood one thing, his movements in the Northern Song Dynasty are probably in the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin, and some people are staring at him all the time.

There's no way around it.

Everything he did was too conspicuous in ancient times, and it was normal to be targeted by those in power.

Wang Chen probably knew why Zhao Kuangyin wanted to see him for the first time, he thought about it, decided to tell it all, and said: "Since Your Majesty knows what cement is, it will be much easier." After a pause, he continued, "I need a cement factory with a thousand people, if the imperial court vigorously promotes cement, and all the buildings in our Great Song Dynasty from south to north are made of cement to make concrete into copper walls, then how much cement is needed every year?"

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi glanced at each other, they really hadn't thought about this question.

Wang Chen said to himself, "Conservative estimates, not less than 900 billion catties per year, I will calculate a little less, count 500 billion catties, and the minister's cement factory needs 1,000 manpower to produce 60 million catties per year, and if 500 billion catties, the cement industry alone will have more than 8 million manpower, that is to say, as long as the court supports, His Majesty can solve the survival of 8 million peasants for His Majesty!"

Of course, it is impossible to reach this number of cement workers in modern society, the main science and technology are developed, an annual output of 400,000 tons of cement production, only need about 100 people, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, an annual output of 400,000 tons of cement production needs almost 1,000 workers.

After hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin was shocked and said, "Eight...... Eight million?"

Zhao Guangyi was also taken aback, and said tightly: "My Great Song Dynasty is now only 10 million households, according to six people per household, the population does not exceed 60 million, you can solve the survival of nearly 20% of the population in a cement industry?"

"Yes. Wang Chen said confidently: "If you count the raw materials, such as quarrying, fine sand, etc., not to mention doubling, it is not a problem for 12 million people to receive three times a month, is the three times enough for a family to live?"

Zhao Kuangyin was really frightened, he calculated carefully, now the common people consume about fifty or sixty yuan a day, one person earns three times, and there can be some surplus every month, which must be enough to feed the family.

In fact, at this point, Wang Chen has successfully answered the question of how Zhao Kuangyin solves the problem of clan fighting, the common people have other ways to make money to support their families, and they are tired to death from working every day, how can they still have time to carry equipment to fight with others?

Another point that Wang Chen did not say is that once the industry becomes developed, it will promote the annexation of land more severely, and then agriculture will also develop into a commodity economy, and the landlord will have a group of workers who farm for him, and the fields are not workers', so even if this landlord and another landlord have a conflict, will the workers fight with their lives?

Definitely not!

After all, it doesn't matter your own survival, so there's no need to roll up your sleeves and fight for your life!

Wang Chen continued to talk eloquently: "This is just a cement industry, and the minister is still building a workshop called a brewery, so His Majesty should know what beer is, right?"

"I really don't know. Zhao Kuangyin shook his head, "Listening to the name is like a kind of wine?"

Wang Chen admitted: "Yes, it is a kind of wine, which is a little similar to the liquor brewed by the ancient method, but it is a little different. ”

In ancient China, there was indeed a similar beer, but the taste was a bit different, because after all, there was no hops mixed in it.

Zhao Kuangyin was curious: "The beer workshop also needs a lot of manpower?"

Since the old Zhao family has set their sights on themselves, the electricity will be exposed sooner or later, Wang Chen simply admitted generously: "No need, I only need about a hundred people in my beer workshop." ”

"Only about a hundred people. Zhao Kuangyin was disappointed.

"But!" Wang Chen said in an accentuated tone: "The commodity economy that beer can bring up is very developed, such as the sale of beer, the supply of raw materials, etc., which require a large number of people, and barley malt is needed to make beer.

Zhao Kuangyin thought about it and agreed: "Indeed." ”

Zhao Guangyi was a little curious: "As far as I know from the imperial brother and I, your brewery seems to be very large, covering an area of a hundred acres, why do you need so few people?"

Finally, it's time to talk about electricity.

Wang Chen took a deep breath, a little nervous, he didn't know if Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi could accept such advanced electric energy, but since this kind of thing would be discovered sooner or later, it was better to say it himself, he said: "Because I found that a kind of energy can replace human labor, and even the labor that originally required a thousand people to work, after using electric energy, maybe only a hundred people can complete it, Your Majesty, King Jin, are you interested in listening to this amazing energy discovered by the ministers?"

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