It's really interesting to say. In the concentration camps, the number of so-called scholars was often greater than that of the landlords and gentry. The main reason for this is that if the big landlords and the like do not accept the transformation of the industrial capitalists, they will often be directly destroyed by the Baath Party. After all, these guys have too much blood debt.

The landlords who were able to enter the Renaissance camps were generally large landowners. Not many of these large landowners survived to the concentration camps. Moreover, the landlords who entered the concentration camp were relatively discerning guys, and these people were very honest in the concentration camp.

On the contrary, those feudal scholars who were arrested and put into concentration camps for opposing the Baath Party, these guys who actually didn't even understand the books they read, their heads were stuffed with the idea that "everything is inferior, only reading is high". Even when they entered the concentration camp, they were still babbling.

However, the labor reform is such a thing: those who do not work cannot eat. If you can't eat, you naturally can't breathe. And if you can't eat for a long time, you won't even have a chance to speak. Therefore, as long as there is no will to die, the feudal scholars will basically be gradually consumed naturally in the labor reform.

It is precisely for this reason that there is a contemptuous term for feudal scholars from the labor camp within the Ba'ath Party - "knowing".

The Baath Party looked down on the readers, or rather, the Baath Party looked down on these feudal readers in the Ming Dynasty. In addition to ideological reasons, there is a very practical reason why the Baath Party looks down on the scholars of the Ming Dynasty: these people are of little use to the Baath Party.

Those who came from the bottom of the homesteaders were better. These people themselves are accustomed to working in their own fields. Even under the Ba'ath Party, they still have the ability to work like ordinary people. Those feudal scholars who were completely out of work and did not engage in any labor at all, they memorized the Four Books and the Five Classics well, but for the Baath Party, they were really useless.

Not to mention the Baath Party, even the common people in Jingzhou and Wuchang, the core ruling areas of the Ba'ath Party, feel that those who can only memorize some high-headed sermons are useless to them. Compared with that group of people, the kind of guys, bookkeepers and shopkeepers who can write and calculate and work as apprentices in the shops, are more useful to everyone.

After all, everyone has received literacy education and can write and calculate themselves, but compared with those guys, bookkeepers and shopkeepers who have a stronger sense of numbers and more practical experience, they are still fast and have a high level.

The change in the status of the shopkeepers, bookkeepers, and shopkeepers in Jingzhou and Wuchang was not caused by other reasons. This is entirely the reason why the Ba'ath Party itself not only does not exclude and suppress business activity, but also promotes and encourages it.

In the history of China, the Song Dynasty was the only one that rivaled the commercial prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the Song Dynasty, the commercial prosperity of the Ming Dynasty was surpassed.

As major cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Jingzhou and Wuchang in the Ming Dynasty were both important commercial towns in Central China. Not to mention big cities like Wuchang in Jingzhou, the business of ordinary counties under Jingzhou Prefecture like Zhijiang County is so prosperous that because of the prosperity of commerce, special industrial and commercial towns such as Dongtankou have been born. Then you can imagine how prosperous business would be in big cities like Jingzhou and Wuchang, with populations of hundreds of thousands.

Of course, the prosperity of commerce in the Ming Dynasty was only a relative situation. In fact, whether it is for the Ming Dynasty or for the vast majority of ordinary people in China today, this relative commercial prosperity is actually meaningless.

The Ming Dynasty government was unable to effectively tax on this commercial prosperity. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was better, the civilian-bureaucratic group was not a powerful interest group at that time, and they had no way to fight against the imperial power that represented the interests of the country.

However, since the formation of interest groups in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, except for the era of the two emperors Jiajing and Wanli, because of the strength of the emperor, the country's tax revenue in the commercial aspect is more profitable, at other times, because the civil official group as an interest group strongly controls the administrative power, so that the Ming Dynasty government does not have a very good way to increase fiscal revenue except for further plundering the common people and increasing taxes like Zhang Juzheng.

In the Ming Dynasty, commercial interests were controlled by large landlords and big bureaucrats. Small and medium-sized businessmen, who relied on large landlords and big bureaucrats, could barely share in some of the benefits of commercial prosperity. But for the common people, especially for the common people after Zhang Juzheng, the prosperity of commerce is not only not good for them, but also harmful.

Zhang Juzheng's method of changing the tax in kind to a monetary tax did further stimulate the commercial development of the Ming Dynasty. But for the common people, who have no currency in their hands at all, they have to accept more exploitation.

On the one hand, the big landlords and big bureaucrats use usury to exploit them, and on the other hand, these big landowners and big bureaucrats, who control the trade in grain and daily necessities, can further exploit them by means of market manipulation.

If it were not for such a reason, how could there be a situation in which the purchase price of grain during the autumn harvest was lower than ever before in the case of agricultural production decline and grain production in the Ming Dynasty as a whole because of the climate of the Xiaoice River.

When the green and yellow are not available, they lend usury and sell high-priced grain. During the autumn harvest, grain prices were lowered to purchase grain. Because of the prosperity of commerce, almost all the landlords of the Ming Dynasty would do this.

From this point of view, the developed commerce of the Ming Dynasty did not bring any benefits to the common people, but it was a very unlucky thing for the common people.

However, this is not the case at all under Baath rule.

The big landlords and bureaucrats who were originally engaged in commercial operations in Hubei either died in the process of repression or were consumed in the arduous labor reform. Mining and quarrying, burning bricks and transporting soil, etc., and so on, are very harmful to the body of ordinary laborers, let alone those guys.

The large landowners under the rule of the Revival Society, in addition to those who were eliminated, were transformed into industrial capitalists by the Renaissance Society. Stimulated by advanced equipment and technology, these people are making a lot of money. Seeing the situation of these people, those small-sized businessmen with flexible minds immediately heard the news.

Regions such as Jingzhou and Wuchang, which were already prosperous in business, have regained their own commercial vitality because of the equipment and technical support of the Ba'ath Party, as well as because of the perfect, reasonable, fair and just commercial policies of the Ba'ath Party.

More importantly, the main role of the original Huguang region in the Ming Dynasty was relatively simple food production. Therefore, local merchants are mainly engaged in grain trade.

At present, although the Baath Party's grain policy is only to enter and not to exit, because of the strong industrial production capacity of the Baath Party relative to the environment of the Ming Dynasty, the local merchants in Huguang can rely on the Baath Party's large, sufficient, and abundant various high-quality and advanced products, but can begin to develop in various commercial fields.

As Wuchang Mansion, which was originally a commercial city, it is very difficult to find an ordinary guy now. Because nearly one-third of the city's citizens are involved in business activities. Space-Time Gate 1619

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Chapter 293 of the text is useless and useful 2