"You see, even though we're going to lose something in the end, we're going to stretch the line of that return a lot. The purchase of clothes can stimulate the demand for cloth, and the demand for cloth can stimulate the demand for mulberry cotton, and finally the farmers of mulberry cotton can also increase their income. ”

"And if people need to build houses and buy furniture, the demand for timber also increases. This can lead to the development of many industries, and then the loggers can also increase their income, which can also make many people who rely on carpenter's work earn more, and the last days are getting better and better. ”

"In fact, there are many other things, and every time people buy one thing, they can get a lot of benefits. If you just take the grain directly, then you will have a share of money at most, and if you can give all this food to the people, then in the end the people will buy all kinds of goods, and then you can invest in the production of many industries, and in the end most of this money will flow into your hands again. But what this brings about is a change in the whole country and the whole person. After such a grain is completely turned into money, through the circulation between these different characters, and then in turn feeds more people, so that more people can have a career to earn a living, don't you say these are very meaningful? ”

"Moreover, it is also exploitation, if you take away the people's food directly, then although they will not say anything, they will resent you in their hearts, and some people will even hate you to the core. And if you exploit it indirectly through commerce, then the people will be exploited, but they will not know it. Then they also feel that they are living a prosperous life, and they are grateful to your Cui family. But few people know that most of what you give them eventually reflows into your hands. You say that one is hated to the bone, and the other is grateful to you, which of them do you say is more meaningful? ”

Choi so-so heard this. couldn't help but be silent. Although it may be spared such a large circle, there will inevitably be certain losses, but it has brought countless social benefits. If the Cui family directly took away the grain, the social benefits would be very limited, and they would be hated by the people. And if all of it is given to the people, in the end, the Cui family invests in various industrial workshops, so that the wealth exchanged by the people will flow into the hands of the Cui family again. The second method can make the people completely grateful to the Cui family, and even spontaneously support the Cui family.

The Cui family, as this kind of family, is a big family for such a thing. Seeing is more important than anyone else. If a big family has no popular prestige and has a poor surplus among the people, it will be suppressed by the imperial court sooner or later. So many times the family relies on the popularity of the people to survive, after all, if you don't have the popularity, then after you are hit by the court, no one will speak for you, and no one will swear to follow you. And if you follow the first approach, it is an overdraft of popularity. But in the second way, the people are exploited on one side. On the one hand, I am willing to support you with gratitude, and the result is really different.

"Miss Xiuxiu, so your method of obtaining rent by renting land is actually the worst method. Although at first glance it looks convenient to manage. But it doesn't make any sense. The people resent, and they don't help us as a whole as a human race, and they can only feed a small number of people, while the second way can feed many more. So you see. You can see which of these two methods is better or worse. ”

Chen Fei used the concept of economics in simple terms, and then explained the differences between different economic models with Cui Xiuxiu. Ancient people for economics. There is not much research at all, and if there is, most of it is microeconomics. The ancient officials did not have a poor level of research on macroeconomics, and it is conceivable how slow the country's development could be when the ancient officials had such poor knowledge of economics to govern. If we have been relying on the landlords' rent collection method as an economic model, then I am afraid that no matter how young China is, it will be difficult for China to achieve great development. After all, the economic model of landlord rent collection cannot drive too many industries to develop, and the market cannot be cultivated.

However, the ancient officials were not aware of this, and they still lived complacently and wanted to rely on the idea of the local lord of the land, but this idea was very ridiculous. The reason why commerce and trade could not develop in ancient times was of course due to productive forces, but the main reason was that ordinary people were too poor to produce a middle class. The vast majority of wealth is concentrated in the hands of those landlords, who account for less than 10 percent of the world's population, or even 5 percent.

And with such a low population, how can a huge consumer market be formed? The vast majority of ordinary people are very poor in cities and cannot generate much spending power. And ordinary people cannot evolve into the middle class, so in the end, it can only be the development of the commodity economy. Because to measure the market level of a country, in fact, the main thing is to measure the number of middle class in the country. However, in China's landlord model, wealth is too concentrated after land annexation, and in the end it is impossible to form a market. The middle class in ancient China was too small to provide for the evolution of society to the age of capital.

"Chen Fei, if you say something, I will tell my father. As for whether your father can approve of you, then it depends on your father. If according to the saying, then in this world, will not belong to our scholars, but to merchants? Cui Xiuxiu asked.

And Chen Fei can say with certainty: "In the future, businessmen will definitely surpass the Shi clan and become the so-called 'new Shi clan'." ”

Cui Xiuxiu was silent, because Chen Fei actually said that the businessmen would become the ruling class after taking over from these landlords and scholars, which made her feel a sense of the end of the scholars. Cui Xiuxiu is a scholar clan after all, and in her eyes, she is already a scholar clan with only a thousand years, and she does not have the thinking of a thousand-year dynasty. But now Cui Xiuxiu is shocked that the businessman they looked down on very much will actually become the ruling class that will succeed the Shi clan in the near future. Where will the original landlord clan go, this Cui Xiuxiu didn't ask much, because she already knew that the landlord clan would inevitably be swept into the garbage heap of history, and no one would pay attention to it.

"Miss Xiuxiu, you don't have to worry, at least for fifty years, the Shi clan will not die out!" Chen Fei said. (To be continued......)