Shi Bufan coordinated with these northern businessmen and farmers to change the planting of crops, and while there is still a year to go, they can take advantage of the slack time to carry out training, so as to avoid the consequences of the sharp drop in grain prices caused by the large introduction of Champong rice in the Jiangnan region next year. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info As for Shi Bufan doing this, it immediately made some people feel that this is an opportunity, a best opportunity to impeach Shi Bufan.

"Your Majesty, Shi Bufan actually suggested that businessmen plant all kinds of other things, not to cultivate grain, but to cultivate other things, which are called cash crops. If the people of the world go to cultivate this kind of cash crop, then how can we guarantee the grain of Datang. Our Datang's grain will not be guaranteed! Therefore, the Qing emperor issued an order prohibiting all the people in the world from cultivating the so-called cash crops, and only allowed to cultivate grain, otherwise they would be severely punished. If everyone expects to cultivate cash crops for profit, then our Tang Kingdom will not be a country! Please ask the emperor to be aware of it, and this kind of behavior must be strictly prohibited. Chen Kang said bitterly.

When Shi Bufan heard this Chen Kang, he asked directly: "Chen Kang, have you ever participated in farming?" ”

Chen Kang asked rhetorically: "No! ”

Shi Bufan then retorted: "Then why do you say that if you plant other cash crops, then there will be problems?" Will there be no food guarantees? Have you investigated the speed of our Datang's grain production, my Datang's grain production rate is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. In another year or two, the wealthy people in Jiangnan have gone to introduce and plant Zhancheng rice, and then Jiangnan will become a fertile soil and a huge arable land. When the time comes, the grain production of our Datang will usher in another eruption, and the price of the people's grain will fall, so how can we ensure the interests of the people? ”

But Chen Kang still said: "Is it for some money, just let me ignore Datang grain?" Your Majesty, food is the foundation of the survival of all the people in the world, if you let this kind of cash crop be planted, then everyone will go to cultivate cash crops, and I Datang will ensure the people's livelihood? Your Majesty, I don't know anything else, I just know that once the people are short of food, the consequences will be unimaginable! Your Majesty, please take history as a mirror, take history as a mirror! ”

"Cut, learn from history?" Shi Bufan thought disdainfully.

Although Shi Bufan is a scholar of history, he knows very well that taking history as a mirror is not to learn from the past, but to learn from the past. Taking history as a mirror does not mean that we must worship the ancients in everything, on the contrary, we must combine it with the current reality in order to truly learn from history. Human history is progressive, not immutable. If we don't get rid of those things that don't conform to the reality of history in a timely manner, then we still "learn from history" those things that don't meet the reality of the situation, and then the country doesn't need to develop?

In fact, people like Chen Kang have never participated in farming at all, and they have not really understood the needs of the people, nor have they understood the situation of grain production and the trend of various commodities. He also said in one sentence, taking history as a mirror, we must pay attention to food security, and spray others under the banner of food security.

This kind of people's thinking is still stuck in the past, this kind of person has seen a lot of extraordinary times, and there are many such people on the Internet in later generations. Obviously, he has not cultivated a field for a day, and he is not willing to investigate the development of the country's agricultural economy, so he directly opens his mouth to say what kind of food security, which is called a righteous statement. He also believes that if the peasants lose their land, the heavens and the earth will fall apart, and that if they lose their land, they will inevitably die without a place to be buried. This kind of human thinking is still stuck in the ancient agricultural society. Although they are in a more advanced industrialized society, their thinking is still stuck in an agrarian society, believing that land is the most important thing and that people cannot lose it.

In an industrialized society, losing land is not something absolutely terrible. Because the same area of land can create more wealth and value. With the same area of land, intensive cultivation is adopted, and more new technologies and various excellent cultivation techniques are invested, and even the agricultural value of the same area of farmland has increased by more than ten times compared with the past agriculture. Some people are so selectively blind that they keep saying that food security is guaranteed, so industry must be restricted. As a result, food production is actually increasing every year, and the same area of land feeds more people and countless times more people. The use of new technologies and various forms of intensive cultivation has directly resulted in more benefits for the same area of land.

On the contrary, it may guarantee the ownership of the peasants, and the ownership of the land of the individual farmers, which is the disadvantage of the smallholder economy. In the face of intensive planting and various technological inputs, in the case of small-scale peasant economy, in the end, almost most of the agricultural technologies cannot be promoted, and it is impossible to quickly form industrialization advantages and increase production.

Don't think that the promotion of agricultural technology is just an order from the government, this kind of guy has no real understanding of the situation in the countryside, and is not willing to investigate and really understand, so he takes it for granted to attack under the banner of food security. To say this kind of person, it's completely chicken-and-duck. The concentration of cultivated land is already a general trend, but there are still many people who do not let go of the thinking of the small-scale peasant economy, and keep shouting to ensure food security, so it is necessary to ensure the ownership of farmers' land, as if the small-scale peasant economy is a good way to increase production? This kind of thinking is still stuck in ancient times, and they don't know what large-scale intensive planting is, they don't know what agricultural machinery is, they don't know that the cost of planting will be reduced after the use of agricultural machinery, and more food can be grown with less population and less land.

This kind of teasing thinking has not kept up with the situation at all, and it is still clinging to the past, and it has not understood the changes in the situation at all, so it is still sprayed according to the ancient thinking. The social structure is already different, but the thinking is still the small-scale peasant economy of the ancient agrarian society. Measuring an industrialized society with the thinking of an agrarian society is as if it were so pretentious, completely attacking the so-called "famous sayings" of the ancients, regardless of the actual situation.

"Chen Kang, if you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak, have you really investigated?" Shi Bufan asked.

Chen Kang said even more proudly: "The ancients are ......."

"What do you say about the ancients? You don't have a backache when you stand and talk here, our court officials are enjoying the worship of the people here, but you have forgotten Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment! You keep saying that in order to ensure the quantity of grain, but in order to ensure your so-called guarantee of grain production, do you prefer to sacrifice the interests of the people? Could it be that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, is it your idea? Shi Bufan asked.

Chen Kang said as a matter of course: "As long as the grain production is guaranteed and the food stability in the world is ensured, then the people can eat enough, and there will be no rebellion!" ”

"Hehe, it's stupid and naïve!" Shi Bufan was speechless.

Such people think that when the people are fed, they will not rebel? How did the revolutions in so many countries come about? People's hearts are full of desires, and they want more when they are full. When you're hungry, you want to be full, but when you're full, you want more. When the productive forces are sufficient, people's hearts will change, thinking that as long as there is a bite to eat, the people will not rebel? In ancient times, it may have been so, or perhaps it was because the productive forces in ancient times were insufficient, and the people had just been able to meet their needs for food and clothing, so they naturally had this illusion, thinking that they would not rebel if they could eat enough. However, when universality can meet the conditions of food and clothing, the people will definitely demand more.

"You mean, in order to ensure food, even if there is so much grain that the grain hurts the farmers, and then wait for mold, it should be?" Shi Bufan asked.

Chen Kang quickly replied: "Yes, it is better to have moldy grain than to ensure food security." If there is not enough food, how can the world be stable? ”

Chen Kang then said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, food is the foundation of people's livelihood, if you let the people grow non-food things, isn't this encouraging the people to make profits?" If the people of the world go to plant something else, how can we protect the livelihood of the people in Datang? Therefore, the minister asked the emperor that in order to ensure the supply and demand of food, it was necessary to prohibit the production of anything that was not food. Food stability is the foundation. Otherwise, the people will not be able to eat, and the world will be in turmoil! ”

Shi Bufan has nothing to say about people like Chen Kang. You reason with him, and he plays tricks with you. People. You talk to him about science, he talks to you about politics. You talk to him about politics, he talks to you about history. Shi Bufan really has no way to deal with this kind of person, because talking to someone who still thinks in the past I don't know how many years ago is simply lowering his IQ, and then letting the other party beat you with more experience. The economic model under different social structures has a fart reference meaning. Shi Bufan told Chen Kang that he was completely talking about chickens and ducks, his thinking was still stuck in the ancient small-scale peasant economy, and Shi Bufan had already prepared for the industrialized society to come, and told him that these things were completely talked about by chickens and ducks.

"Your Majesty, do you think the world can not be divided?" Shi Bufan asked suddenly.

Li Shimin frowned, didn't he talk about food just now? Why is it that you are talking about this non-divisive thing now? You must know that the division of the country is something that any king would worry about. Shi Bufan suddenly changed the topic at this time, which made Li Shimin frown immediately.

"Why did you change the subject? Don't you avoid me, is it because you can't argue with me, so you deliberately change the subject? Your Majesty, Shi Bufan's heart can be punished, his approach is completely ignoring the food security of my Datang, and choosing to take care of him, such behavior is simply digging the foundation of my Datang, lest the world will not be chaotic! Chen Kang continued to lash out.

Shi Bufan explained: "Your Majesty, I think that if the people are allowed to grow food and not other things, that is the foundation of the division of the world. If the effective division of labor can be carried out in all parts of the world, that is the foundation for maintaining the world from being divided and the local princes will not dare to mess around. Because if the whole world uses the same kind of crop, that is, grain. That means that even if the local princes rebel, they can still provide food stably. In this way, if the world is unified or divided, it is actually the same thing, because the whole country grows food and does not have any dependence on each other. ”

"Your Majesty, I'll give you an example. Why didn't the Turks continue to harass our frontier now? Because we and the Turks have become more dependent on each other, they need us to consume their dairy products, and we can sell them our surplus food so that they can have food to survive. And we need war horses, they need tea, so that we can want to trade and depend on each other. This kind of interdependence in life is an important means of maintaining relative peace between us and the Turks. Even if Jieli wants to start a war now, it is impossible to obtain the consent of the people below. Because they no longer support the war, that's because we're dependent on each other enough. ”

"So, I think that if the world continues to use agriculture to grow food, and is completely self-sufficient, then we can easily raise the anti-flag everywhere without any inappropriateness. On the contrary, the only way to strengthen the dependence between people and the people everywhere can be strengthened, so that even if someone wants to rebel, the local people will not be able to agree. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he felt a little interesting! Because Li Shimin suddenly thought of one point, that is, if the whole country is the kind of small-scale peasant economy in the past, then even if someone rebels, it will actually make no difference to the local people. Because the exchanges and dependence between various places are not strong, and they do not depend on each other, even if there is a rebellion, the living habits of the local people will not change in any way. Since there will be no change in life, there is actually no difference to the people who is under their rule. Such a situation is a concern for any king. And Shi Bufan's statement made Li Shimin feel an interesting situation, if the people and the states and counties in the world have interdependence and interdependence. In particular, the interdependence of the people's lives can unite these states and counties into a whole, so as to ensure that the country is not divided?

It strengthens the interdependence of various regions, which will further tie all localities together and all provinces of the country, which will help maintain national unity. In any case, maintaining the unity of the country is the idea of any feudal king. Only by maintaining the unity of the country can this be the means of maintaining the power of the emperor and the security of the royal family.

Shi Bufan opened a way for Li Shimin, that is, to strengthen the economic ties between various places, which helped to tie up the various places to each other, to ensure that the country would not be divided, that the country could live in peace, and that the people would not suffer because of the war. In particular, the more dependent the economy is, the less likely it is that the country will be divided.

(To be continued.) )