960 land annexation
"In that case, our trip will be much longer." Shang Wen said.
"Yes, Prime Minister." The secretary said.
"In that case, let's go back to Xianyang directly, send a telegram, and let the Queen of Korea explain the situation in the telegram." Shang Wen said.
Shang Wen thinks that if he takes the initiative to go to South Korea, it will be unreasonable. The first is his own travel plan, which has been condemned to death by King Qin. You can't have a lot of autonomy on your own.
Secondly, if you take the initiative to go, you may lose the initiative. And it was the other party who took the initiative to propose, and if Shang Wen took the initiative to talk, it was very likely that he would lose the opportunity. Shangwen thinks this is important.
Finally, the content, the content of the conversation has not been determined. Shang Wen went rashly without any preparation. In this case, it is very likely that you will be in an extremely passive situation in the conversation. In this case, Shang Wen might as well refuse directly. This is very beneficial to the Qin State.
In fact, South Korea's top leaders are actively discussing some big plans for future development.
"A telegram from the prime minister of Qin asked us to take the initiative to give up the newly occupied land, which is very unfavorable to us." Han Shu said worriedly.
And the ministers in the audience who are close to each other can't tell their inner pain. Zhang Liang, on the other hand, looked at the ground expressionlessly.
In his opinion. It was only a matter of time before the South Korean New Army retreated, because, at the time of the plan, the South Korean New Army did not intend to occupy that land, and moreover, it was to occupy it in the future, not now. The withdrawal of the new South Korean army is coming. Zhang Liangxin breathed a sigh of relief. Because it has been dragging on like this, the Qin State must take measures, and it is better to take the initiative to retreat than to drag it out passively. Zhang Liang thought so in his heart.
But the queen's words did make Zhang conscience begin to weigh South Korea's current predicament.
Qin's important tightening of South Korea's raw material imports can put South Korea in an economic desperate situation. This has forced South Korea to re-examine the current situation.
"The widow thinks that at present, our Greater Korea has too many things that depend on the Qin State." Han Shu said solemnly.
"The flour we eat is imported from the Qin State. Coal needed to be imported from the Qin state. There is also a lot of leather, rebar, pipe, cement and so on. We all need to import these things from the Qin State. Han Shu said.
"And a very small part of these things, we can produce them ourselves." Han Shu said.
In fact, it is true that most of the factories set up in South Korea are labor-intensive light industries, and most of the things they produce are very closely related to people's production and life. Because only these things can open the markets of various countries.
Production of linen mills as well as blended fabric mills. and garment factories, as well as printing and dyeing industrial factories, in addition to shoemaking, and some food processing factories and so on. These factories were built on the basis of a large and intensive labor force.
South Korea is annexing a lot of land, losing land, and immigrants from six countries are moving here, and they are becoming a major source of labor. South Korea is located in the Central Plains and is a labor-intensive country. They do not lack population. What is lacking is how to develop the economy.
The idea of the queen of Korea was to make South Korea rise quickly, and the rapid rise was that they ignored the role of agriculture. But there are also reasons why South Korea has to consider this neglect.
During the long-term war environment of the Warring States period, Korea ceded a large amount of land to the Qin state each time. As a result, South Korea's strategic space was constantly compressed, and when it finally came to Han Shu's hands, it was no longer possible to develop agriculture like Qin.
The Qin State had a vast territory and a relatively small population. The first problem that Shang Wen had to solve when he came to power was the agricultural problem, which was directly linked to the grain problem of the Qin State, and Shang Wen not only had to ensure that grain production could not be reduced, but also had to increase grain output by a large margin. This is not a small problem for Shang Wen. But Shangwen successfully solved this problem.
Shangwen's solution is land annexation. The question of land annexation was a considerable problem in China's feudal history, where the foundation of the founding dynasties was the feudal small-peasant economy, that is, every peasant in the country had land, and these lands were equal land rights. This is why the feudal rulers had to equalize land rights at the beginning. Because they were taxed mainly by small farmers, they were not only responsible for the taxes of the state, but they also had to serve in the military. Both materially and in terms of soldiers. The state's acts of war are inseparable from these small-scale peasant economies.
At the beginning of the establishment of the state, this practice of equal land rights could still be enforced. Because the ruler will try to maintain this kind of land flat roller practice, but in the later period, the rapid development of the country's economy, wealth is more and more concentrated in the hands of a few. With the accumulation of wealth, land began to gradually transfer to those who gathered wealth in large numbers as another form of wealth.
The practice of equalizing land rights has been seriously undermined. A large number of land was annexed, and the peasants who lost their land, unable to afford the taxes of the state, have all kinds of conscription, military service, because they lost their land, this important source of economy. The peasants, without any financial resources, became an important destructive factor in the inconsolation of social unrest. And the country did not make any adjustments at this time, and without such adjustments, the country would soon be out of balance. Once this balance is upset, then the prosperous country will enter a state of self-destruction.
The peasant revolt, and then the society entered into a sharp upheaval. Wars continue to break out. The plague continued to kill more and more people. Society is in turmoil. The population suffered heavy casualties. This is for the country, for the people. It's a huge disaster.
It can be said that the issue of land annexation has seriously affected the rise and fall of the rule of a feudal dynasty. If the problem of land annexation cannot be solved, then the feudal dynasty will enter such a strange circle, which is why the Chinese dynasty one after another, but in the end no one escaped the problem of extinction, the root of the problem is that they did not solve the great economic problem of land annexation, and their inherent mode of thinking hindered the solution of this problem.
For example, when the Western Han Dynasty opened, Han Gaozu was an equal land right, adopting a policy of recuperation and recuperation, and everyone had a field. So, the country was stable, but with the accumulation of national wealth, it came to the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Social wealth has reached its peak. Plus war catalysis. Land annexation is severe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was unable to maintain this practice of equal land rights. In the end, it led to the unrest of the society, and the most fundamental problem of Wang Mang's usurpation of power was that the land annexation was serious, and people wanted to get land, and Wang Mang wanted to equalize land rights like the ancients. In fact, to do so would only harm the interests of those who would use the wealth of the land, and the result would be even more unrest. Whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, these problems were well solved.
The turbulent factors at the end of the Qin Empire were also caused by serious land annexation, land annexation. The resulting problem became the fundamental problem, but Shang Wen successfully resolved this contradiction.
Shangwen is different from the previous practice of continuing to equalize land rights. Shang Wen conducted the grooming. Just like Dayu controls the water, Shangwen is not to block, but to dredge. Land annexation is a historical law because wealth has developed to a certain stage. It is a trend, Shang Wen understands very well that only when land is concentrated can it produce bigger and more food, so Shang Wen boldly encourages land annexation and makes the scale of land expand rapidly. In this way, agriculture completely destroys the original economic model and gives rise to a new agricultural model.
Land was concentrated in the hands of a few, and large-scale production of crops that were easy to produce economically was becoming. For example, the spread of wheat began with the large-scale concentration of land in the Qin state. Under the large-scale promotion of wheat, corn quickly withdrew from the stage of history, and corn, this crop, was slowly withdrawn in history only when it came to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Shangwen was hundreds of years ahead of time.
With the annexation of land. Land is becoming more and more concentrated. There are fewer and fewer people who need it. This also means that a large number of rural people in the Qin State will lose their land, which for them is the loss of their source of livelihood. At this time, Shang Wen began to build the industrialization of the Qin State, and with the encouragement of the military industry, a large number of rural people of the Qin State who had lost their land entered the cities and became workers, and these landless peasants became the rich labor force at the beginning of industrialization.
In order to alleviate the demand of the rural population for urban and especially industrial jobs. Shang Wen was apt to launch two large-scale invasions at this time. The war greatly reduced the pressure on people from rural areas to move to cities.
In this way, the Qin State resolved the relationship between the countryside and the city, and easily resolved the serious social problems caused by land annexation. The main reason is the sharp increase in the number of unemployed. Shang Wen took the opportunity to solve this problem at this time.
But South Korea is different, and South Korea also wants to solve this problem, but South Korea does not have a solid agricultural foundation, and the national production strategy space is small. At the same time, there is also a serious problem that there is no land for agriculture, and there is no solid agriculture, and South Korea's economy, especially the light industry economy, is based on the supremacy of a country without any solid agricultural foundation. Sooner or later, such an industry will suffer a big loss in industrial raw materials.
Now, South Korea's upper echelons are finally aware of the problem. But South Korea can't solve this problem. Because your land is already very limited, there is no strategic space for land rotation.