"Husband, the concubine body doesn't understand."

Wang Keyue was happy and a little puzzled.

Happily, his husband is really omnipotent, and he is equivalent to the emperor of the Wang family, taking it and taking it.

I don't understand why the husband doesn't want more divine soldiers and treasure soldiers, but only the fields and academies?

"Although these fields are also valuable, they should not have much value for the husband."

"And if the price of the land rent is lowered, it will not be a good thing for the husband."

"In this way, the income of the field will drop significantly."

Chu Qianqiu did not lack land and property, and the entire overseas countries were cut off half of their territory by him and became the private property of the Chu family.

Now the Chu family has to transport thousands of people every day to pioneer overseas.

The entire Dajiang Gang and the Heavenly Sword Sect are being cultivated overseas, manors are being built everywhere, and the disciples of the Medicine King Sect are moving with the ship to treat all kinds of overseas diseases and scatter the fire.

In other words, Chu Qianqiu is now the number one landlord in the world.

The land he owns can't be compared even to the Wang family.

It's just that most of the land is wasteland, and it is still in the stage of land reclamation.

As a result, Chu Qianqiu broke through the income of the field at once, and hit it to less than two percent.

Normally, the rent in the field should be at least 30%, and if the state capital is short of people and land, it can even receive more than 50% of the rent.

Isn't this a reduction in earnings for yourself?

"That's a good question."

"It's true that I don't need the money, and for me, if I get the land income, I'll get something better."

Chu Qianqiu said with a smile.

"Something better?"

Wang Keyue was a little incomprehensible.

"During the Taizong period, the daily salary of long-term workers could buy 6 liters of rice to feed a family, but in the Muzong period, the daily salary could only buy 1.5 liters of rice, barely surviving, let alone supporting the family." (Note 1)

"Do you know why?"

"Too many people?"

Wang Keyue is not a fool, the war has just ended during the Taizong period, a large number of fields are uncultivated, and the wages of long-term workers are naturally much higher.

And in the era of Muzong, there was a lack of everything, that is, there was no shortage of people.

"Yes."

"This creates a vast stratum of extreme poverty, without any impetus for social progress."

Chu Qianqiu is not unlearned, he knows very well how Europe got rid of the nightmare brought about by involution.

The answer is the Black Death, a centuries-long Black Death that caused a labor shortage in Europe in a long-term environment.

At that time, the European landlords had to beg the farmers to come and cultivate their land.

Otherwise, the land will be worthless.

Under these conditions, the peasants soon rebelled against the landlords, and they were given far superior distribution conditions than their Oriental counterparts, and their wages continued to rise.

At the same time, as wages became expensive, there was a need for technological advances, such as the steam engine.

The countries of the East, on the other hand, cannot avoid the internal friction competition brought about by population expansion.

Anyway, you don't do it, some people do it.

Today, Zhang San's salary requires 3 liters of rice, and tomorrow Li Si will only need 2 liters, and the fifth king of the day after tomorrow will directly smash the plate, and only 1 liter will be enough.

1 liter of rice is only enough for oneself to eat, and no one can feed them.

The landlord class, on the other hand, took all the surplus value in their competition with each other, and the tenant peasant class became left with nothing in the competition step by step.

Because the negotiating advantages of the two sides are completely different.

Of course, Chu Qianqiu also had other solutions, that is, to release the [Worm of Calamity], let the plague shroud the sky above the Shenwu Dynasty, and according to the changes in the Black Death, regularly clean up the population to ensure the shortage of labor.

The problem is that it's also too cruel.

Therefore, if he wants to get rid of this internal friction and increase the speed of social development, he must break through the income of land and improve the distribution model.

The big landlord class and all kinds of sects should not be allowed to severely exploit the common people and make them destitute.

Of course, Chu Qianqiu still has [mutant worms] on his body, which can unleash the technological revolution, but the direct technological revolution, if it can't improve distribution, will also not be able to promote social progress.

To make the simplest analogy, if Chu Qianqiu invented cheap robots and supplied them to the landlords and old wealthymen to work, then a large number of long-term workers could only wait for death, or let the court die.

In the Shenmu Dynasty, landlords riding in sedan chairs were considered more merciful than those in carriages.

Because sitting in a sedan chair can support four long-term workers, while riding in a horse-drawn carriage can only support one long-term worker.

Just like after the Opium War, the vehicles and ships from foreigners were extremely advanced and convenient, and the opening of ports made hundreds of thousands of long-term workers in the logistics industry laid off and unemployed.

These laid-off and unemployed long-term workers chose the most promising job, which was rebellion.

Thus the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was born.

The food and clothing of millions of migrant workers is not entirely a self-justification of vested interests, but a serious problem rooted in society.

Chu Qianqiu is naturally not afraid of the people's rebellion, but he can't kill all the unemployed homeless.

"So our goal is clear, so that the money in the hands of farmers will gradually increase."

"Then they will go to buy clothes, buy food, buy houses."

"Only then can our workshops make money, and the resources of the whole society will flow."

"It's not that the landlord makes money, and either buys the land or hides it in the cellar."

Chu Qianqiu smiled and said, this remark was also said to his eldest wife Huang Xiaoxiao. (Note: Chapter 168)

It's just that at that time, Chu Qianqiu could only accumulate grain and grass to deal with the famine.

And now he wants to change the distribution model of the whole society.

"Husband, that's so complicated."

"But as long as it is the husband's opinion, the concubine will definitely work hard to implement it."

"If you think 20% is too high, you can also drop it to 10%."

Wang Keyue blinked, anyway, this is the Wang family's property, and she won't feel distressed if the income is reduced.

"Eh, that's right."

"As long as a few ladies act together, we can break through the price of land rent in the whole world."

Chu Qianqiu deeply controlled the entire country, and there were more and more things that could be done.

"Overseas countries are still pioneering, which can absorb a large number of laborers, and the workshops that are constantly opening in Lingzhou and Fengzhou can also attract a large number of laborers."

"The prosperity brought by such investment will hopefully raise the price of the entire labor market and get out of the nightmare of involution."

Chu Qianqiu said as she used more and more terms that Wang Keyue couldn't understand, and she could only write them down desperately.

"The concubine understands."

"You really understand?"

Chu Qianqiu hugged her and asked with a smile.

"No, I don't understand."

Wang Keyue pursed her lips, feeling a little silly.

"Don't worry, Xiaoxiao has figured it out."

"When the time comes, you can ask her again."

Chu Qianqiu would not let the backyard catch fire, so he firmly supported the small authority and let her take charge of the harem.

"Don't worry, husband, the concubine will definitely listen to the eldest sister."

"I will never fight with my eldest sister."

Wang Keyue has gained too much this time.

If she doesn't show respect for Huang Xiaoxiao's status, it will lead to an imbalance in the harem.

The Wang family was ready to unite around her, and the power she was able to mobilize instantly spread throughout Jiangzhou, even the Shenwu Dynasty.

"Very good, with the help of the ladies, the dream that the husband wants to achieve is closer."

Chu Qianqiu nodded, lifted the Yasheng Statue again, and put it back in its place.

He looked at the Confucian saint and said softly:

"I don't know how you'll feel when you're alive until now."

"It's just that for me, I have my vision and the ability to carry it out."

"If you stand in my way, even if you are a saint of Confucianism, you will be crushed to pieces."

"After all, the people are the most important, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light."

"If you want to come to the Taoist system of Confucianism, it's just as light."

"If this social change comes at the expense of Confucianism, what will Sir think?"

As soon as Chu Qianqiu's words fell, the context of Jiangzhou, the Yasheng Statue once again had an incredible resonance.

This time, Chu Qianqiu saw the real Yasheng.

Note 1: 4.5-6 liters during the Kangxi period, 1-1.5 liters during the Qianlong period, even if you do long-term work, you have to go to the time when there are few people.