Chapter Seventy-Four: Second Fiddler Fu Shanxiang
Chen Dingtian knew that this land issue had to be solved, and if it could not be solved, there would be no hope for the country in the future. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoOnly by solving this land problem as soon as possible can we accomplish social change as soon as possible. However, this process may not be understood by ordinary people, and many scholars actually have land in their homes, which is why many scholars do not support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not only an ideological blow to those who were traditionally literate, but also an economic one. Ideologically, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attached great importance to the so-called Western religion and absolutely rejected the way of Confucius and Mencius. In fact, even within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there may be only a small number of believers, that is, some of those people in Guangxi are believers, and perhaps the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is only a few tens of thousands of people who really believe in religion. With the subsequent war, these true followers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were either dead or promoted.
Therefore, the vast majority of the people who occupy the subordinates are not believers, but Hong Xiuquan, a god of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, insists on refusing to give up this religion in order to grasp power. He, the head of the religion, naturally wants to master religion, but a country where religion and politics are mixed is doomed to be hopeless, because religion actually relies on fooling the people to control their minds and stifle innovation in order to maintain their rule. Therefore, any country controlled by religion, they will also use extreme means to maintain the so-called religious status, and then protect their own interests. This was one of the greatest congenital deficiencies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was already doomed from the fact that they revolted through religious means.
It is impossible for Hong Xiuquan to give up his religious status in order to protect his rights, but it is not Christians who occupy the absolute population, the vast majority of Han people in China do not have the tradition and habit of believing in religion, and Confucianism is not actually a religion, but a philosophical thought. Philosophy and religion are not to be confused, but religion is only a small part of philosophy, and philosophy is far more than just religion. This will inevitably lead to a serious ideological conflict with Chinese traditions, and this worship of God is not only a religion, but also a Western religion, which makes many traditional literati even more hated and repulsed.
On the other hand, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom adopted a sacred treasury system, which concentrated all wealth, even land, and such a sacred treasury system was obviously problematic. In this way, the ordinary people were deprived of the possibility of owning land and private property, and those landlords and scholars who had become accustomed to private ownership of land were naturally unwilling to support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Even the interior of this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not very good, and their high-level people enjoy luxury through this sacred treasury system, and waste these publicly-owned wealth everywhere. But on the other hand, ordinary people at the bottom are faced with not having enough wealth, and even the male and female camp system has evolved into a system for those high-level beauty pageants in the later stage, through the male and female camp system, those high-level people wantonly occupy many beautiful women, but the people at the bottom suffer from the separation of wives and daughters, and their wives and daughters are so divided to others, can they not suffer?
Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has dealt a double blow to those scholars from ideology to economy, which will make no scholars willing to support them.
"I'm not going to abolish Confucius and Mencius, so that's fine. Of course, this land issue must be resolved, otherwise there will definitely be problems in the future. Chen Dingtian said.
Fu Shanxiang still didn't understand this thing, but Chen Dingtian soon found that the doorbell at the door of his house was ringing again.
"Hey, isn't that beautiful young woman Miss Mo Qing here?" Chen Dingtian grinned.
Chen Dingtian went to open the door and asked directly: "Miss Mo...... Well, how is it a man? ”
Chen Dingtian complained in his heart, originally he thought that Mo Qing was coming, so that he could play with the beautiful woman and strive to soak this young woman Mo Qing in his hands. But he didn't expect it to be a man, which made him quite uninteresting.
"May I ask if you are Mr. Chen Dingtian?" The man, who was about eighteen years old, asked.
Chen Dingtian asked casually: "Well, it's me, what's the matter with me?" ”
Since she is not a beauty, what is she passionate about, she is naturally careless.
That person frowned a little, this Chen Dingtian made him feel that "it is better to be famous than to meet", why did he seem to think that he was a beauty just now, but now he finds out that he is not a beauty, so he is so careless?
"In Xia Li Fengbao, he is a person from Chongming County. Yesterday I was in Jiading County, and I saw that Heaven and Earth would rebel...... Well, it was the Heaven and Earth Society Righteous Army that announced the so-called "General Principles of the Civil Law", and I had a lot of things I didn't understand. Li Fengbao said sincerely.
Li Fengbao almost habitually called the Heaven and Earth Society a "traitor", but fortunately he corrected it in time, and said that he was a traitor in front of Chen Dingtian, a person who was close to the Heaven and Earth Society, wasn't he dead? But in fact, Chen Dingtian didn't care, these ancient scholars scolded heaven and earth as traitors, this is actually very normal, Chen Dingtian will not be angry about this matter. However, Chen Dingtian heard that this guy actually came to ask him about the general principles of civil law, which made Chen Dingtian speechless.
"Isn't this general rule of civil law promulgated? Why do you still come to ask for advice? Chen Dingtian asked impatiently.
Li Fengbao said sincerely: "Mr. Chen, I found that this "General Principles of Civil Law" is not only a law, but also Mr. Chen's way of governing the country. ”
"The way of the country, what way do I have the way of the country? How come I don't know it myself? Chen Dingtian muttered in his heart.
Where is Chen Dingtian's way of governing the country, this is actually just a copy of the general principles of the civil law of later generations, and then it has been properly transformed, so that it has become the so-called way of governing the country? What is the way to govern the country here, Chen Dingtian himself does not understand.
But people are here to study, and it's not easy to beat them away.
"Okay, I don't have anything to entertain here, it's just a cup of tea, if you don't dislike it, come in and sit down!" Chen Dingtian said.
Li Fengbao walked in, and then took the initiative to sit down. Fu Shanxiang, as the secretary, hurriedly went to pour tea for the two.
"Mr. Chen, I look at your general principles of civil law, I am very confused about the ownership of the land, and I ask Mr. Chen to give me advice!" Li Fengbao said.
"How come it is land ownership, Fu Shanxiang cares about this, and you also care about this?" Chen Dingtian muttered again in his heart.
Obviously, Chen Dingtian has not really understood that in ancient times, land was the most important wealth, and anyone would care about land, especially agricultural civilization. It will certainly be difficult to survive if the land policy is not properly addressed.
Chen Dingtian said those words to Fu Shanxiang and once again basically told this Li Fengbao as they were. Li Fengbao also began to ponder, but he didn't seem to be satisfied.
"Mr. Chen, according to what you said, I will not say anything about how this land can be recovered, and how those who own the land can be made to hand it over. As you say, the land will be contracted to the people, usually within 30 years. But what about thirty years later? How to solve it after 30 years, after 30 years, the population increased suddenly, so the so-called imperial court took back the land again, isn't that cutting off the people's way of life? When the time comes, if there is no clear ownership of the land, how can the people cultivate safely, and how can we meet the needs of more and more people for farming? Li Fengbao asked.
Chen Dingtian said as a matter of course: "This is not simple, let the surplus labor force enter the city and become workers!" Isn't it the best way to solve the problem by absorbing surplus labor through industry, and then supporting industry and commerce, so that industry and commerce can develop? ”
By supporting the development of industry and commerce, when the grain production is sufficient, the land problem must also be solved, and a large amount of surplus labor will be generated at this time, and then it will inevitably absorb this surplus labor force by supporting industry and commerce. In this way, after the development of industry and commerce, it can absorb a large number of laborers, and then gradually transfer to an industrialized society. This is also the case in almost many countries, where more and more surplus labor is solved through industrial and commercial development, and finally transformed into an industrialized society.
"Isn't this a heavy business over agriculture? This is going the wrong way, how can this be? How can agriculture be done in this way, and how can the stability of the world be maintained without agriculture? With such an emphasis on business, isn't that putting the cart before the horse? Li Fengbao asked.
Li Fengbao is still bound by traditional thinking, believing that agriculture is the most important thing and cannot attach importance to business.
Chen Dingtian asked rhetorically: "Then making the people unemployed, is it a good thing?" Therefore, the most important thing is to solve the employment of the people. ”
"Especially if you think about it, if you want to meet the needs of a family, food, clothing, housing and transportation, there are at least 20 acres of land. And if 20 acres of land is used to build factories, it is enough for hundreds of thousands or even more people to produce, which is enough to feed thousands of families directly or indirectly, which one do you say is worth it? ”
"A tailor occupies only a small area, and even the scope of work is no more than the size of a small room. But he can meet the needs of the family, and if he cultivates the land, it is an infinite number of times larger than this area, so which one do you say can feed the people better? ”
Chen Dingtian didn't say anything, and directly took out these data to measure, especially the difference between agriculture and industry. In terms of land use alone, industry has actually thrown off countless streets of agriculture. Agriculture may only be able to feed one family on the same size of land, but industry and commerce are enough to feed hundreds or even thousands of families, and perhaps much more than that.
For example, if 400 acres of land are used for agriculture, then according to the current grain harvest, it can feed less than 30 families at most, and if there is still a landlord who exploits it once, then it may be even less. However, if it is used as an industrial plant, it is possible to build a textile factory that can employ tens of thousands of people in the textile industry. Tens of thousands of people are employed, and everyone's salary income alone is enough to feed tens of thousands of people if they are temporarily consumed at the current standard of living during the Qing Dynasty. One is no more than a few dozen families, not more than a few hundred. But the other is enough to feed tens of thousands of people, and the difference is staggering.
Therefore, in terms of resettlement and employment alone, in fact, the use of land in industry is far more worthwhile than in agriculture, and the employment of ordinary people through industry is enough to resettle countless times more workers with the same area of land. And then if you save some, at the consumption level of the late Qing Dynasty, it will be enough to feed tens of thousands of families, such a difference can be imagined.
"This ......" Li Fengbao was a little speechless.
Fu Shanxiang next to him hurriedly took out a pen and paper and began to record, and then he would make various calculations, and soon came to a conclusion similar to Chen Dingtian. And perhaps even more, the benefits of building factories are far greater than what can be achieved by agriculture on the land. This is obvious everywhere, and can be roughly calculated by simple math alone. Such a simple problem is actually very easy to calculate, but some people are just unwilling to calculate, a primary school mathematics can solve a problem that can be calculated clearly, but there are many people who are unwilling to think about it.
Fu Shanxiang soon asked: "Husband, is it necessary to develop industry and commerce in the future in order to feed more people?" Is it possible to meet the bread needs of a larger population with less land if the development of industry and commerce is the only way to meet the needs of a larger population with less land? ”
"However, this is also the importance of industry and commerce. The wealth created by industry and commerce, and the employment of the resettled population, are many times more than those of other industries! Such an advantage is not available in agriculture, which consumes a lot of land but can feed a small number of people. If you add to this the exploitation of those landowners, there is less to feed in this way. On the contrary, it will create more net consumers who are not out of production, and will not produce any economic benefits of all kinds of servants. Wouldn't it be better to use it for the development of industry, enough to feed the needs of the population, even a hundred times more than agriculture? Chen Dingtian said.
Fu Shanxiang began to write down Chen Dingtian's ideas on paper, especially the absorption of surplus labor through the development of industry and commerce. Fu Shanxiang felt that this thing was very valuable, and this was a very novel concept of governance, so Fu Shanxiang knew that he had to write it down. Although Chen Dingtian didn't care about it, this Fu Shanxiang thought it was very valuable, and took the initiative to make decisions for Chen Dingtian and recorded these Chen Dingtian's related concepts.
However, Fu Shanxiang did not expect that her behavior would cause a lot of changes, and she was later called the second violinist by people all over the world, stealing the title of Lao En.