Jingwen kept patrolling the sites of these candidates for different types of work, and then suddenly sighed and said: "Perhaps, the biggest achievement in my life is today." Because, I have created a class today. ”

Jingwen is right, in fact, he is the one who created a class today, that is, the working class as the saying goes. In the Tang Dynasty, workers were not a class. In the Tang Dynasty, more than 90 percent of the population were peasants, and at most there were some people who worked for others on wages, such as the shopkeeper in the restaurant. However, these laborers could not form a class, because their numbers were too small and their social influence was too small. However, today, Jingwen has created the working class and let a group of people specialize in the work of workers, which is also a class.

In fact, many people think that there was no working class in ancient times, but in fact, after Jingwen personally traveled over, he found that it was not that there were no workers in ancient times, but that workers could not form their own class. In ancient times, it was not that there was no need for engineering, and the biggest demand was the large-scale construction of various emperor officials, and the large-scale construction of construction required a large number of construction workers. But in ancient times, the situation was that the workers and peasants were one, that is, they were completely one. If the government needed to build anything, it would forcibly pull the peasants out and let them work.

However, this has resulted in a large loss of the agricultural population, which has taken the agricultural population out of production, and thus reduced the production of food. As a result, the peasants could not support themselves to serve in the army, and finally rebelled. Of course, this is actually that there were no people who sold their labor for a living in ancient times, or there were too few such people. Agriculture accounts for more than 90 percent, while workers account for less than 1 percent. How can such a low percentage, and also spread over different industries, be able to become a class? Although they claim to be farmers and industrialists, the workers are in a very awkward position because they ask for money and have no money. There is no right to have rights. However, they are still few in number, and they have almost become marginalized in society.

The best way to make the workers a class is to increase the proportion of the population who live exclusively on labor, so that the workers can truly become a class. But in ancient times, those who were willing to do this kind of work were only landless people. If there was land, many people would like to become farmers, not workers. Therefore, the ancient working class did not have many conditions for its production.

And Jingwen is now relying on this so-called substitute for everyone to serve as a servant. That is, after the implementation of a whipping law. In fact, it is the de facto forced pull out of some people and then specialize in the activities of the workers. Of course, these workers are very primitive, and they all belong to construction workers, and there are no real skilled workers at all. But this is a good start, as long as there are the first workers who build buildings for the government, then the working class can be completely expanded. Although they were still nominally a land-owning peasant class, they were already de facto working class. It's just that it's not the capitalists who employ them. It's just that the government hired them.

As for the next, the times are developing, and land annexation is becoming more and more strict. A large number of peasants who lost their land either went to Jiangnan to develop new land, or they stayed in the same place and became workers. And if you follow the methods of the past. When the peasants lost their land, they either became tenants or fled. However, Jingwen specially opened a special opportunity to serve the common people, so that many peasants who lost their land also had a way to live. And as more and more landless peasants joined the ranks of this so-called workers. Then it is tantamount to expanding the number of workers, and the workers become a class.

Jingwen can be said to be the founder of the working class, and he is now employed by the guò government. Hundreds of people temporarily gave up their land, then rented it to others to plant, and went to work as government-hired workers themselves. And this county has hundreds of "workers", and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the thousands of counties across the Tang Dynasty who specialize in serving in the conscription service on behalf of others. And Jingwen's whip law is tantamount to the compulsory separation of industry and agriculture, that is, the peasants are no longer responsible for the affairs of workers such as forced labor, and there are also a group of people who specialize in serving forced labor in place of everyone. In this way, it is compulsorily united that the workers and peasants have become the present separation of workers and peasants. The advantage of this was that the pressure on both sides was reduced, the peasants no longer had to take on the burden of forced labor, and the government had a regular group of workers to send at any time. In addition, building construction and the like are becoming more and more familiar, and if people have been temporarily recruited to build in the past, I am afraid that it will be difficult to form skilled workers.

However, with a group of people who specialize in building buildings, it means that there are a group of professional builders who can be used by the government. On the whole, the cost of building various buildings by the government in the future can be reduced. And saving money means making money, so what can the government disagree with?

So taken together, the far-reaching impact of this whip law is far more than just a question of taxation. He is related to the people to relieve the pressure, and can reduce the cost of the government, and even give the landless peasants the opportunity to become a worker, and from then on sell their labor to make a living. As for the government, with a group of professional construction workers, it will no longer be subject to conscription for the sake of large-scale construction projects, which will delay agricultural production. And with a group of long-term construction workers, the quality of various projects of the government will be better and better.

I have to say that Zhang Juzheng, who came up with this whip method back then, is really eleven geniuses. Perhaps, in the 21st century, many people will scoff at this method. But in the Tang Dynasty, no one could come up with it. Let's take Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, two people who claim to be famous through the ages, but they didn't come up with it. After all, the Ming Dynasty was nearly a thousand years later than the Tang Dynasty, so what the Ming Dynasty could think of, the Tang Dynasty people couldn't even think of it, this is the power of the times.

As for Jingwen, it was directly used in this era, and the impact can be said to be very huge. Even, how to estimate the importance of this whip method, can not be overestimated. He has penetrated into all strata of society and has played a great role in stabilizing all strata. Although not many people can see it now, later history will give a fair judgment. (To be continued......)