The economic base determines the superstructure, and in the era of the Ming Dynasty, the economic form was basically the natural economy, that is, the accumulation of wealth, or the careful efforts of several generations and the absence of natural and man-made disasters, corrupt officials, and corrupt officials, there was still a little bit of possibility to accumulate some wealth.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the bureaucracy had squeezed the potential of China's classical system to the extreme, and by the late Qing dynasty, the common people were more like the existence of 100 million human beings and a billion animals, as later India ridiculed.

In fact, the cause of overpopulation is not unusual, and one of the countermeasures to combat the horribly high infant mortality rate is to give birth to a child, and China's expansion has already been carried out to a certain extent.

As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he was very interested in Taiwan, but the result of many immigrants was that he could not fight the epidemic, and for the rulers of this land, the exploration of the surrounding location world had already been almost touched.

The farthest, the envoy of the Han Dynasty has actually reached the Mediterranean, but he was deceived by local merchants and did not reach Rome, which is definitely a huge pity.

The southeast and northwest have not been done in the past, and the more they stay in the homeland, the more they gather.

China is composed of more than 2,000 counties, and millions of rural areas below, tens of millions of peasants can not read and write, thanks to the leadership of the gentry, according to the provisions of the tax service, just like the configuration of the county yamen, the prefect of the yamen, almost the same as the central yamen, equivalent to countless layers of structure.

Politically, the Confucian scholars were all officials and reserve officials in the government, economically landlords above the middle level, and therefore the real masters of the society, and the orthodox Confucian ideas were the bonds that held them together.

And these ideologies are often rigid and mechanical, and even unable to distinguish between the Confucianism of the gentleman and the Confucianism of the villain, and finally the so-called "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" will inevitably turn into a crazy plundering of the people, in the Ming Dynasty, it is this virtue.

China's development has raised the Yellow River, and the Guanzhong Plain, which once occupied it to dominate the world, has long since lost its former glory, and the farming system may be praised as an idyllic scenery by the petty bourgeoisie who never leave their air-conditioned houses and have stomach problems without drinking pure water, and any attempt to progress the era of manual farming to the age of tractors and airplanes will be attacked by them as destroying the environment.

But some people live, others don't want to live.

Surplus labor became a habit at the end of the dynasty, and efforts to improve labor efficiency became almost unprofitable, and it was somewhat funny to ask the ancients to establish a fertilizer industry, and at the same time, there was a lack of means of production outside of agriculture, so that the only means available for the gentry to invest was to buy land, and it would take the great clans to buy shops or smuggle overseas to get through those joints.

It can be said that the gentry and Confucian scholars did not choose to become landlords, but in this context, as an exploiting class, they could only become landlords in order to maintain their wealth and prosperity for a long time.

In the end, all the Confucian scholars of the other channels and roads died, and only the most conservative and crazy landlords were left to survive.

This has been vividly reflected in the past few years, when the Presbyterian Church's modern financial system and advanced search technology were used to raid homes.

Under the search of the metal detector, the landlords who fornicated with the Manchus (in fact, the most reactionary landlords who did nothing and demanded a reward) had tons of grain rotting into slag in their cellars, and the black silver (yes, jet black) had been piled up here since it was cast hundreds of years ago, and since China was included in the world economic and trade system during the Age of Discovery, this black hole has been constantly absorbing the world's silver, and then deposited in the landlords' cellars, and at the same time, the currency in the market is always insufficient.

These landlords have developed the ideology of plucking a dime and benefiting the world, and will never do anything, and they only have demand and plunder in their minds, and when they see that there is a problem in the surrounding villages, the first thing they do is to prepare to wait until the people flee the famine, and then they will occupy the land of the people, which has almost no possibility of resistance.

In the Ming Dynasty in China, the so-called germination of capitalism was only the germ of capitalism, as long as there were workers and businessmen who did not respect the legitimate ownership of wealth and did not respect the creation of wealth, they thought that except for those who read the books of sages, they were all inferior people who were inferior to pigs and dogs, just as Dong Xiaowan's family was immediately plundered and bankrupt by the left and right after losing the backbone, which is the reason.

Although the gentry and the capitalists exploited people inhumane (or whatever else is a bad word), the fruits of the capitalists' exploitation were used by the capitalists for further investment, while the landlords' exploitations were rotted in the cellars. The struggle against the capitalists must often be accompanied by moral judgments at the level of social distribution, and it should be noted, at the very least, that in the process of wealth accumulation, the capitalists themselves participate in labor, not in the form of complete exploitation, while the struggle against the landlords does not require such judgments at all.

Of course, it is impossible for the elders to kill all the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and all the landlords have raided their homes, which has nothing to do with morality, in the final analysis, they understand that these landlords have no conscience in their hearts, and they will not be grateful, but the slaughter of a family in the past, some are too tired.

After their research, they found that these scholars not only did not have any benefit to their plan to unify the world, but would bring countless obstacles, first of all, these scholars would carry out crazy plundering of the common people of the Ming Dynasty in their country, but they would kneel and lick foreigners, and the most laughable thing is that in Guangxi, they are all the same rumors, if they submit to the imperial court, they will be treated with skin and bones, and once the anti-flag is erected, because they have no money and no soldiers, they will be comforted by good words.

Li Xiangqian didn't want that after appointing a Confucian scholar as a colonial official, he was afraid that the next step would be to start the exploitation of the Han immigrants like the Virgin, and all of them would become slaves like the Ming military households, and they themselves would become big landlords, and the homestead law stipulated by the state would inevitably become empty letters, while those natives could be transformed into human beings.

And the class they represent, in fact, is that, as people who can only master the grammar and writing school, because they cannot really create wealth, they naturally hope to become the distributor of wealth, and thoroughly slander and suppress the real creator of wealth, and then endorse their unearned behavior, and finally, everyone is actually accustomed to monopolizing the civil service system for the Confucian group, a group that does not work and does not participate in social activities.

The terrible consequence of this is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and in fact in the landlord's cellar, there are mountains of gold and silver, but there is no way to cheat them.

The sales of 100,000 taels of silver treasury bills sold in the third year of the republic were very good, because the amount was not large, and the interest was sufficient, so it was welcomed by the citizens of the imperial capital, and the treasury bills of 20 taels of silver could be obtained after a year, which was very good according to the interest rate of later generations, but the usury at this time was doubled, but this was directly guaranteed by the imperial capital, and it was better than burying the money in the soil.

But the vast majority of the buyers of treasury bills, or the elders' own employees, were frugal and trusted the elders, or ordinary merchants, and saw that 20 taels of silver was not much, and bought them casually.

For many landlords and Confucian students, the government is a tool they use to squeeze and deceive the people, and it is impossible to talk about credit, so don't do that again, "when the county magistrate takes office, he has to set up a name, win over the gentry, pay taxes and donations, and they pay it, so that the people can pay the money, and after getting the money, the gentry's money will be returned in full, and the people's money will be divided into ......."

Therefore, the use of treasury bills is not very smooth for the absorption of idle precious metals in society.

In the future, the stock market and the futures market still need to run in for a long time, and it is not so easy to go public. That would be almost destroying the system itself.

The decision of the racetrack is simply in the right position.

Betting on horses is very popular in many countries in later generations, and the most known by Chinese is naturally Hong Kong, which is just a small transit station at this time, and every year the so-called season is a big fishing, and all the good horses of the world are rushing to come to race.

Wu Keshan naturally doesn't understand the possibility of such a massive amount of wealth, and there are not a few equestrian competitions at the Naadam Conference every year, but basically it's like a game, and the rewards will not be big.

At this point, as the owner of the racetrack, in fact, it is a sure profit, a game, there will always be someone who will bet, as long as the odds are modified, so that the return of any possibility of winning the lottery is slightly less than the total betting funds, and the less part is naturally the cost and profit, which is taken away by the owner himself.

Yan Xixi also meant this, not giving him all the strength to launch, but not just for these horses, but to please the big people in the imperial capital as much as possible and strive for more opportunities.

In general, the Ming Dynasty was a society that gave a lot of money, but the investment channels were scarce, the investment guarantee was almost non-existent, and the money lent out often had problems, so that he himself had to raise the interest.

On the one hand, a large amount of money went into the cellar of the landlord's house, and on the other hand, there was no one to invest in the industries that really needed money, of course, this was also the pot that the Ming Dynasty did not protect the private property of ordinary people.

Of course, this is also limited by technology and ideas, just as in the era of the Ming Dynasty, who would have imagined that driving a ship to a place 15,000 kilometers away is a place where you can dig for gold casually, San Francisco is not nonsense!

Yan Xixi made a bloody investment, the purpose is naturally not only for the racecourse, but to fancy the various business opportunities brought by the elders, but as an old-fashioned businessman, clinging to and then monopolizing a certain business activity has always been what his family likes, but the Yan family has used almost all the tricks of how to corrupt Ming officials in the past countless years, whether it is male or female, money antiques, and even paying the elders to inscribe their own business, planning to buy it as a first-class Mobao of Yan Zhenqing and Wang Xi no matter what it is written.

But there is basically no response for so much effort, and the elders obviously do not intend to engage in any favoritism, and the bidding and technology opening are all treated equally, this is a proper Red Sea battlefield, and no one can stand it.

The Yan family has also received a lot of so-called technology sales, but they are really inconspicuous, such as the bidding of what chicken farm, the support of the cement and fertilizer factory, but that is all big road goods, for the elders of the eight imperial merchants in Shanxi who have been hungry and thirsty for a long time, after holding Jiang Xiang hostage and exterminating them, basically a part of the business channels are free, but soon, everyone found out that it was inseparable from the elders.

In the past, the cloth shops basically couldn't do it now, because the new clothes made by the elders in large quantities replaced the old clothes with their cheap advantages, and the reason was very simple, those clothes needed to be done by women when they were bought home, and it took a huge amount of time to thread the needle and thread night after night.

Have this free time if you look for a job a little.

The Ming Dynasty had too many people, resulting in too many unemployed people and homeless people in the eyes of the elders It didn't matter at all.

And now, it seems that the Yan family, an old-fashioned and inefficient family, has found that the dissatisfaction of the long-term tenants and the guys in the shop is rising, and the legend of the person who cried and asked to be a soldier after finding out what the soldier ate because of the delivery of goods in the barracks, and refused to be a small servant for the master, is a joke for other ordinary people, and it is almost very painful for a family like the Yan family that relies on squeezing long-term workers.

After consulting the elders of the family, holding countless meetings, and the operation of the chicken farm, he gave an order to give the long-term worker or his man an egg every ten days (ten days).

This is already bleeding, and it is also Yan Xixi's most dissatisfied with the Elders' Council, he even secretly said to an elder, in the countryside there are poor ghosts who can't eat, people who are not as good as dogs, and they should be grateful to Dade for giving them dog food to eat, but they are treated so kindly, these cheap people can't be treated well, and if they can save money, the elders can spend it.

His rhetoric was also coldly rejected, and the fear that followed was growing louder and greater.

The latest trends in Hebei, others are not sober, doesn't he know? With the envy of the monthly money and food that people outside continue to say, many of the original long-term workers wanted to flee to the imperial capital, and they were found to remember that if all the long-term workers ran away, it would be bad if their own land was not planted.

This kind of behavior can be very efficient at the beginning, and can even get the support of other landlords, and even some landlords are happy to bring back those long-term workers who have been divided, and come back to declare to their own long-term workers, dare to leave their own place to go outside, then the imperial capital is rampant with demons and monsters, this is the end!

(End of chapter)