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The silver-haired old man's words made Wu Feng and the other three fall into deep thought, Hatting's words hit the sore spot of the three of them, the development speed of the Eastern Continent dominated by the Tang clan has not been as good as before for more than a hundred years, and it has gradually been caught up by the Western Continent and even surpassed the posture that makes Wu Feng feel worried, although the Tang Empire has been established, but the empire simply built on the basis of military strength cannot last, this is clear to both the Government Council and the military, how to restore the empire to the former heroic style of the Continent has always been a matter of Wu Feng's thinking, for this he has also had many consultations with Xiao Tang and Su Qin, Qin Tieliu came to Yanjing to meet Wu FengThe four of them also discussed this issue together. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The fundamental issue discussed is still the relationship between industry and commerce and agriculture, and what kind of changes the development of industry and commerce will bring to the empire, the reason why the development speed of the countries of the Western Continent has increased by leaps and bounds is due to their support for the development of industry and commerce, the encouragement of foreign trade and exploration, and the promotion of shipbuilding and shipping also have a lot to do with it, Wu Feng and Qin Tieliu have made a detailed introduction to this point, and Xiao Tang and Su Qin are not people who have eaten the ancients, and they quickly realized the pros and cons of this.

However, there is still a big difference between the eastern continent and the western continent, especially on the issue of population. The population of the eastern continent is far more than that of the western continent, in order to maintain the stable development of a country, ensuring food supply is the primary problem, no agricultural instability is the most classic interpretation, once the agricultural harvest fails, no matter which country will face difficulties, especially the country without sufficient food reserves will even face the danger of extinction, either by foreign enemies taking the opportunity to perish or by the domestic peasant uprising. Any king had to think about agriculture first, and only by ensuring sufficient food output could a country maintain the most fundamental stability and keep the peasants, who made up more than ninety percent of the population, quiet.

However, Wu Feng and several important ministers are also aware of another problem, the huge empire is not enough to rely on agriculture alone, the tax revenue from agriculture is simply not enough to meet the needs of building a prosperous and powerful country, to build a strong empire must have sufficient fiscal and tax revenue, and such a huge fiscal and tax revenue can only come from industry and commerce, only the development of industry and commerce can provide sufficient financial and tax sources for the empire, which has been proven by countless facts.

The traditional policy of encouraging industry and commerce can play a huge role when everything is in ruins, but with the development of the economy to a certain stage, the development of industry and commerce will show a kind of stagnation or even regression bottleneck phenomenon, the current stage of Jiangnan and the East China Sea has this kind of omen, Wang Zongxi and Lu Man have already mentioned this in the book, relying solely on opening up new markets is not the solution to the fundamental problem, this means may be able to achieve results in a short period of time, but with the further development of industry and commerce in the consumption area, this phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious, which requires institutional reform。

As early as three months ago, the empire promulgated a series of laws to encourage industry and commerce, such as the "Imperial Noble Canonization Law", "Imperial Regulations on Encouraging Industry and Commerce", "Imperial Private Property Law", "Imperial Private Property Inheritance Law", "Imperial Land Sale Regulations", "Imperial Science and Technology Innovation Regulations", "Imperial Science and Technology Promotion Regulations", "Imperial Patent Law", "Recruitment Law", "Labor Security Law", etc. The Imperial Nobility Canonization Law replaces the original transitional version of the "Regulations on the Canonization of Aristocrats", which officially stipulates that in addition to military merits and political achievements, an important source source for the acquisition of imperial nobles comes from the scale of industrial and commercial industries, and the scale of industrial and commercial industries mainly depends on the scale of industrial and commercial investment. The detailed provisions of this last article greatly stimulated the investment enthusiasm of the industrialists and businessmen, and completely broke the situation that had been concealed in the past, and raised the status of industrialists and businessmen to a very high level.

The Law on Private Property of the Reich stipulates that all property owned by citizens of the Reich shall be protected by the Reich, and that the right to private property shall not be deprived of the right to private property of any organization or individual, including the Reich's political axe, except by the judgment of the Reich courts at all levels. The promulgation of this law made many wealthy and wealthy merchants ecstatic, although they also knew that it would not be possible to achieve this overnight, but at least the inviolability of private property rights was clearly confirmed by the laws of the Empire, and the relative reading power of the institutions of the Imperial Court gave all classes full confidence in the promulgation of the "Imperial Private Property Law".

The promulgation of the Imperial Science and Technology Innovation Regulations, the Imperial Science and Technology Promotion Regulations, and the Imperial Patent Law had a far-reaching impact, and the Empire declared to the world for the first time that the Empire would encourage and protect new things and new inventions that were newly developed and created, and that it would use legal forms to encourage new inventions and promote practical new inventions, and that the Empire encouraged the establishment of private scientific research institutions, and that new inventions and innovations would not only be subject to the Imperial Patent Law The promulgation of a series of laws and policies greatly stimulated the development of industry and commerce, especially the manufacturing industry, according to its practical effects, and the promotion of new inventions could obtain subsidies and preferential loans from the financial department.

The Imperial Ministry of Science and Technology Development and the Imperial Ministry of Finance even made it clear in the major media that the annual funds for rewarding new inventions and innovations in the Empire 701 will be up to 30 million Imperial Gold Coins, which can be obtained by institutions and individuals without any restrictions. Stimulated by the promulgation of these laws, a series of non-governmental research organizations such as the Imperial Jiangnan Shipbuilding Research Institute, which was exclusively invested by Jiangnan Wenshi, and the Jiangnan Textile Research Association, jointly invested by the Hua family and the Xie family, began to appear, and some large enterprises also began to set up research institutions one after another, especially in the fields of mining, metallurgy, shipbuilding, textiles, ceramics, etc. This phenomenon is particularly evident in labor-intensive industries such as tea-making, where they have set up their own research institutes and consciously trained their own researchers to carry out research, innovation and improvement in the hope of success, on the one hand, to increase productivity, and on the other hand, to bear fruit and receive huge rewards and subsidies from the imperial government.

The enactment of the Law on Recruitment of Labor allowed businessmen to freely recruit labor from all parts of the empire without being restricted by household registration and to receive a certain subsidy from the political axe, while the Imperial Land Sale and Purchase Regulations It also clearly stipulates that land is privately owned and can be bought and sold freely, which has led to the loss of land by a large number of peasants, and also indirectly provided sufficient labor for industry and commerce, which has caused many stirring in Jiangnan, but has been suppressed by the local political axe, and Wufeng also made it clear that he will not change the "Recruitment Law" and "Land Sale Regulations" that have become formal laws because of the emergence of these phenomena.

The Labor Security Law stipulates that the citizens of the empire have the right and obligation to work, and that the government at all levels of the empire has the responsibility and obligation to satisfy the labor rights of every citizen in the jurisdiction, and takes the labor employment rate in this area as the most important indicator for evaluating the performance of local officials.

The introduction of this series of laws caused an unprecedented shock in the empire, although accompanied by some discordant noises, but the effect was also obvious, the industry and commerce increased dramatically, the scale of peasants leaving the land to become hired laborers expanded dramatically, the scale of manufacturing also expanded, and a large number of workshops with more than 1,000 or even 3,000 hired workers appeared, especially in the shipbuilding, textile and ceramic industries in the south of the Yangtze River, the mining and smelting industries in the Kansai and Kitahwon regions, and the tea industry in the Five Lakes region.

Due to the continuous expansion of the scale, the required funds are even greater, in addition to promoting the development of the financial industry, joint-stock enterprises began to be popular in several counties with more developed industry and commerce in the empire and some industries that need huge funds, and gradually spread to the entire industrial and commercial class, and the prosperity of industry and commerce has also brought rich benefits, which makes a part of the landed aristocracy also began to invest in these industries, although they do not understand these ways, but by investing in the purchase of some of their favorite enterprise equity to obtain income, this phenomenon quickly spread to the entire interior of the empire, but also attracted the attention of the imperial financial department and the imperial central bankThe emergence of this new thing represents some new economic highlights, and the transaction of equity also means that private funds can flow into the industrial and commercial industry more freely, although this is only a few phenomena, but it also marks the emergence of a new economic system.

Although all kinds of phenomena prove that the empire has made great achievements in the early stage, Wu Feng and Xiao Su both know that the empire's economy can still only be regarded as a toddler compared to the countries of the Western Continent, although the total economic volume is quite strong due to the vast territory of the empire, but if you want to talk about the average amount of individuals and the degree of development, it is still far behind the countries of the Western Continent, which also makes Wu Feng and Xiao Su feel a huge sense of urgency.

And Harding brought a fresh breeze to the empire, which made everyone feel refreshed, although Meili was already in the hands of the empire, but both Wufeng and Xiao Su both hoped that the economy of the interior of the empire could go to the forefront of the entire empire, especially the Jiangnan they were proud of, but Harding's somewhat mean but factual words broke their dreams, how not to make the three of them feel a little lost.

(To be continued)