Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Goal
This hukou system was abolished in the Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty also stipulated two types of hukou, namely fangguo households and rural hukou, which is a bit like the urban hukou and rural hukou in modern China. But this thing is not dead, it can be transformed into each other, if you go to the city to work, as long as you pay taxes on time, you can apply for a Fang Guo household registration after one year. If the government feels that there is too much population in the cities, it will launch a campaign to persuade people who cannot find serious jobs in the cities to go to the countryside to farm.
This movement to persuade people to return to the country is not coercive like going to the mountains and going to the countryside, it is persuasion rather than coercion. The government of the Song Dynasty will use various preferential policies to induce you to go to the countryside to farm, such as giving you tax reductions, tax exemptions, seeds, farm tools, and even cattle, so that you feel that it is profitable, and naturally some people are willing not to mix in the city and go to the countryside to farm.
The reason why the Song Dynasty had such a household registration system was entirely due to the reform and opening up policy. That's right, it is reform and opening up, and modern China's reform and opening up basically mean the same thing, that is, vigorously developing commerce and developing foreign trade. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the country's agricultural tax accounted for less than 30%, which means that the GDP of the Song Dynasty did not rely on agriculture, and commerce was the majority. Moreover, in commerce, foreign trade accounted for more than 4 percent, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, this situation was even more serious, and foreign trade accounted for almost half of the annual tax revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty.
When our country was reforming and opening up, the first thing to break was the household registration system, what the army of migrant workers in the city was like, what the Great Song Dynasty was like, so it was obviously not appropriate to use the household registration system of the Tang Dynasty. What made Hong Tao bite his back molars even more was that in the Great Song Dynasty, there were also people drifting north and south, which were called floating people at that time.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there were 1.5 million drifters in Kaifeng City, and there were more than 700,000 drifters in Lin'an during the Southern Song Dynasty. Ports like Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and other open to the outside world, not only Song people entered the city to work, but also many Southeast Asian and even black people came here to beg for a living, so foreigners are not a novelty in the eyes of the common people of the Great Song Dynasty, even if you dress and speak strangely, no one will arrest you because of this, and the south-to-north tone is already the norm in the major cities of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the words of later generations, several coastal ports in the Southern Song Dynasty were already international metropolises, who had ever heard of the lack of foreigners in international metropolises?
"This Nima is about to enter the primary stage of capitalism! If China had been brought into capitalism in the Southern Song Dynasty, would there have been anything else in Europe and the United States after that? At that time, the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty should stop in the Persian Gulf, right? No, you can't let the Mongols ruin all this, they are just a swarm of locusts, they only destroy but don't build, I can't control other places if you want to, but don't come to the Southern Song Dynasty to destroy, let's go to Europe, it's better to break it over there! Hong Tao is already a little stupid, although he has not set foot in any Southern Song Dynasty city, but just based on Luo Youde's simple introduction, you can hear that the Southern Song Dynasty society has begun to sprout capitalist seedlings, and it is at a crossroads between east and west. If the Mongols are not destroyed, it is likely that a completely different capitalist state will be hatched, which will enter the stage of capitalized mass production hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world.
Once you enter this stage, no one can stop it. In every country and every sea area in the world, there will be a big Song businessman like Luo Youde. Any idea is nonsense, businessmen are the main group to increase productivity, as long as they can give them a free sky, they can show you. They don't need to invest any energy in the country, as long as they are given a stable rear, they can go to the whole world to conquer cities and territories through their means, and the scale and speed are no worse than the army. And the businessman is anxious that it is the army, even more brave than the national army, that is to ask for money and not to die, and the combat effectiveness is bursting!
However, at present, there is one obstacle to the transformation of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, the Mongols in the north. They relied on a special way of life and happened to be at the stage of the strongest combat effectiveness of this era. The Mongols were born warriors, and their way of life was no different from that of the barracks, and they used to kill each other, and they didn't show much power, but now they are hugging each other, and the whole world is trembling for it. Not only could the armies of the Southern Song Dynasty stop them, but also the Central Asians and Europeans.
However, after Europe was plagued by the Mongols, it made them progress. After the Great Song Dynasty was tossed and rotten by them, China was like a character that was being upgraded, and it was suddenly interrupted, and the previous accumulation was all in vain, and it had to be re-accumulated if it wanted to upgrade. What's even more terrifying is that future generations will feel that the Song Dynasty model cannot be upgraded, so they began to improve, and the more they change, the more Nima fucks up, and it has completely become a perverted centralized system, and as a result, the Europeans have thrown eight streets away, and they can't catch up if they want to.
If the Southern Song Dynasty can be kept in a breath and allowed to complete the upgrade, what will become of China? Hong Tao didn't know, but he felt that even if it was again, at most, it would be the same virtue as the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it wouldn't be bad anymore. Since it's a business that protects the principal and doesn't lose money, why not try it? How to try, Hong Tao has no specific plan, blocking the Mongols is a word, but if you really want to do it, it is not to go fishing. I haven't seen what the Mongolian iron horse looks like, and God knows if and how to block it. Anyway, the whole world can't stop the stuff, if you want to block it, it's definitely no fun if you don't come up with something new.
Now that there is a goal, even if Hong Tao has a direction, whether he can block it is a question, and whether he wants to block it is another question. These days, he has been thinking about what he should do in this era, you say you want to continue to enjoy carefree, obviously unreliable, there is really nothing to enjoy in this era, there is nothing in all aspects, even if he becomes an emperor, it is better to drive the mouse superman around the world to be happy, for a person who has eaten and seen in modern times, this little thing in ancient times is really not enough to see.
If you can't enjoy material things, you can only pursue higher spiritual enjoyment. What's the spiritual enjoyment? Hong Tao has never thought clearly, but now he is a little eyebrow-raising, and he can change the historical trend of the whole world by himself, which is a great achievement. No, it can't be said that he relies on his own strength, he doesn't have so much strength, it can only be said that he can be a catalyst, so that the originally slow wheel of history suddenly turns twice, this source of power is not himself, but a person of this era like Luo Youde.
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