Chapter 56 Joint Committee on Agriculture (II)
Before I begin, I would like to ask you what you think about the workforce.
Is it to count anyone who can work as labor, or to let only men work, and keep women who are obviously more capable of doing it tightly in their rooms, and the door will not be opened?
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Although, as I understand, I have always understood, capitalism is the axis of evil, 'it has overflowed with filthy and disgusting blood (Marx' phrase) from every pore since the day it was born'; However, even the most hostile to capital has to admit that there has never been such a first, unprecedented liberation of the human productive forces in the history of mankind.
Children are used as adults, women are used as men, and men are used as animals.
This is the credo of capitalism.
It is in this way that capitalism oppresses the people at the bottom of society, takes the blood and tears of the people as the foundation, sweat as bricks, cries as walls, and finally builds the Tower of Babel, which belongs to it.
And now, Magnus just wants to learn capitalism.
To be precise, he only wanted to learn the part of capitalism that liberates the productive forces, that is, the use of women as men, regardless of gender, young and old.
In fact, he knew very well in his heart that in the Middle Ages it was impossible to produce real capitalism.
Because productivity is not up to scratch.
Marx also said that the capitalist mode of production began with industry, and it was only later that agriculture was subordinated to itself.
Industry needs factories, factories need workers, workers need food, and to eat, it needs a large number of peasants to farm for them.
Or try to increase the yield per mu and large-scale mechanized planting, so that even if only a few people farm, the dietary needs of the majority of people can be met.
And these two things, in the Middle Ages, whether in the early or late period, were neither.
If he really copied the capitalist system as it was, he would at most be able to make a difference, and perhaps he would be overthrown by the peasants at the beginning -- as has been emphasized above, capitalism uses the blood and tears of the peasants as food, and the primitive accumulation of capital is always bloody.
Blood meant violence, and in the Middle Ages, violence was such a thing, and once the peasants really rebelled, it was not certain who had beaten whom.
It's like the great uprising of Zachary in France in the 14th century, once the people shouted together, 100,000 people raised the flag, and the Dauphin Charles was forced to flee from Paris, if it weren't for the peasants' illusions and refusal to make a bloody revolution, France might have been turned upside down!
Magnus didn't want to learn Charlie.
Charles fled Paris, but he did not lose everything, and the rebels took over the heart of France, forgetting that although blood flowed from the heart, it pulsated all over the body.
After Charlie settled down temporarily, he immediately recruited troops, contacted allies, and finally suppressed the uprising.
But Charlie can still recruit troops, and where is Magnus going to get some more soldiers?
His savings were not rich enough to take out another five thousand pounds of silver and continue to borrow troops from Louis VII.
That's why Magnus got this Joint Committee on Agriculture.
This is a precursor to the liberation of women's productive forces.
Women can do a lot.
Whether it is light work, weaving and weaving, or heavy work, building bridges and paving roads, there is nothing they can't do.
And generally do quite well.
Because they don't drink, they won't get into trouble because of alcohol, and women are more attentive than men, and in some key, but trivial positions, women have an advantage over men.
Of course, their strength is not as great as that of men, which is a natural physical defect, but there is another place that is enough to make up for it, that is, they are numerous.
In what is now Brittany, there are more women than men.
Population is not like a game, it can fall from the sky with just a mouse click, and last winter's war in which the corpses of the dead piled up, and hundreds of men died, leaving only a pair of orphans and widows.
These orphans and widows, who have lost their livelihood and do not have the skills to earn a living, have become a factor of social instability, like a time bomb that can burst at any time.
-- I'm not being alarmist, because in the era when transportation was not developed, people always got married close to each other, which means that the villagers of a village are more or less related.
PolyU is unkind.
This is a truth that has been passed down through the ages.
As long as the orphans and widows existed, they were like cracks between Magnus and ordinary peasants, and all Magnus could do was try to fill them.
It was as if he had asked Father Adolphus to pray before, and he was filling the gap.
Then, there are the committees.
According to Article 3 of the Committee's Mutual Aid Regulations, when a certain family is short of the main labor force due to natural and man-made disasters, it is necessary for the Committee to organize personnel to help.
But this help, since it is said to be help, the master is always embarrassed not to do anything at all, all relying on the committee, right?
This drove the women out of the house.
Oh, my God! It's not an easy task!
It's nothing short of using magic to turn a talking object into a living person.
As an aside, there are many such symbols in Grimm's fairy tales, when the main corner is difficult, some of the 'magical' furniture around him will reveal human form and give him advice.
It is generally believed that such furniture with 'magic' is either an inferior person with no status or a woman.
For example, in Athens, which is known as the light of European civilization, women are not allowed to go out of the house except for funerals, and even to buy groceries, they are delivered to the door by vendors, and the two sides must also trade through a layer of door panels, and they cannot even see each other!
Fortunately, this is in Brittany, uncivilized wilderness.
There were some benefits to being uncivilized, especially since Brittany had been invaded by the Vikings, and some Viking-specific customs had spread here, such as the Vikings, who had a special respect for their wives.
This is because the Vikings often go to sea to plunder for more than half a year, and everything in the family can only be managed by their wives, so compared to other places in Europe, Viking wives have more status.
This custom spread to Brittany, and although it was somewhat unsuitable because of the different circumstances, it still left some influence in the end.
That's why Magnus's committee recruits women without fear of being criticized.
Allowing the committee to recruit women is only the first step in liberating women's productivity.
The advantage of women is not in farming, after all, they are too much inferior in their natural strength compared to men, and the Joint Committee on Agriculture, which is only 'farming', has nothing to do with it.
But this is the first step.
The first step is always the hardest.
With the Joint Committee on Agriculture as the beginning, and then Magnus had to continue to run the 'Joint Committee on Textiles' and the 'Joint Committee on Industry', recruiting a large number of female workers, no one could talk much.