Since the crossing, Zhu Gaochi has not seen Zhu Yuanzhang.

The original owner's childhood memories are also relatively vague, so the old impression of Zhu Yuanzhang, in addition to severely punishing corrupt officials, is to slaughter heroes, which is very murderous.

And knowing that the death of the crown prince will be the cause of the last large-scale massacre of the Hongwu Dynasty, it is inevitable that he has some scruples.

If Zhu Di is willing to check the gates, support himself to the greatest extent.

And what he does, if he touches something that shouldn't be touched, Zhu Di will naturally come forward to stop him.

It's equivalent to an extra fuse.

Then you will no longer have a psychological burden and you can let it go.

"The factory can solve this problem."

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

"Workers stay in the factory all day, working day in and day out, which makes them sleep together less often, and they have fewer children."

At this moment, it was not only Zhu Di, but even Ge Cheng and Yao Guangxiao, both of whom couldn't help but glance at the eldest son.

The eldest prince is inseparable from the affairs of men and women.

Could it be that you have been thinking about this matter every day?

The flesh is strong, can you stand it?

Seeing the strange faces of everyone, Zhu Gaochi had the chance to win, thinking that he had shocked them.

plans for industry.

Zhu Gaochi is confident.

He is also confident that the Ming Dynasty's nearly 100 million people will fully enter the industrial society in 30 to 50 years.

Because the three core technologies of the first industrial revolution are not a problem in Daming.

And the agrarian society entered the industrial society.

Haven't the Hereafter already offered experience?

From the failure of the first allocation of 10 percent of the agricultural population to the second time of continuing to distribute 10 percent of the agricultural population to township industry.

Not only did they no longer suffer from food shortages, but they also did not import grain from abroad, and in the past ten years, the number of industrial products in the countryside has increased by a full fifteen times.

From imitating others to fail, to falling into the Malthusian poverty trap.

He even tried his own way, encountered the failure of the third industrialization, and succeeded in the fourth industrialization after summing up the experience.

The revolutionary economic changes experienced by the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan in modern times can be condensed into just 35 years, a generation.

This achievement shocked the world.

It is the fruit of the martyrs who crossed the river by touching the stones.

It proves that a country with a population of one billion people, mainly agricultural, can rapidly develop into an industrial country.

Of course.

Zhu Gaochi did not think that in his lifetime, the Ming Dynasty would be able to reach the level of science and technology in later generations.

However, combined with the experience of the first industrial revolution and the development of the country in later generations, the Ming Dynasty as a whole entered a primary industrial society.

In his lifetime, Zhu Gaochi believes that it can be achieved.

He didn't need to cross the river by feeling the stones.

He has drawings and can build bridges directly.

The premise is that Zhu Di supports himself.

And he is his eldest son.

This is your biggest strength, followed by the knowledge in your head.

"It's as simple as that?"

Ge Cheng asked blankly.

The words of the eldest prince have some truth, but they always feel that something is not right.

"You can't follow his words, it's easy to be coaxed by him." Zhu Di was somewhat immune to the reason of his eldest son, and pointed out Ge Cheng before retorting.

"You just said that Shandong, Shanxi refugees, it can be seen that the people are not full, not agriculture, is it business? Can Shang conjure up grain? ”

"Business can make money, everyone goes to business, who will farm the land?"

"Those who farm land are only enough to fill their stomachs, and those who go to business make a lot of money, and then come back to buy land, if this continues, won't it hurt the peasants?"

Zhu Di's long list of words startled Zhu Gaochi.

He's grown in?

Seeing his son's expression, Zhu Di was still unsatisfied, and finally he had time to say that he was the eldest son.

Zhu Gaochi cleared his throat.

It seems that with simple theories, Zhu Di can no longer be convinced.

"Food is a necessity, and clothes are a daily necessity."

"On the premise of satisfying clothes, it is necessary to have enough food."

"Clothes can be worn or not worn, and food must be eaten, and if you don't eat it, you will die."

"It is beneficial for industry to absorb landless displaced people, but how to develop industry in the environment of our dynasty without harming food."

The first defeat of the country in later generations understood this truth.

It ignores the fact that primitive agricultural production lacks economies of scale, and underestimates the rapid decline of the marginal yield of land on labor input.

In other words.

In the absence of any change in productivity, the upper limit of land production cannot be changed, and no matter how much manpower is invested, the output of land will still stop there.

Failure is the mother of success.

It is precisely because of this failure that the experience for the next assignment has been provided, a solid foundation has been laid, and great results have been obtained.

"The fields of the military households are fixed, and there is no new land in the surrounding area. A military household, the whole family of three or five people went into battle, and more than ten people went into battle, and the output of the field, in the north, is still one acre and two stones. ”

"So it would be very foolish to gather all the people into the fields."

Zhu Gaochi forgot what he said, and Zhu Di gritted his teeth when he heard it, and the rest of the people looked strange.

Dare to say that about a saint?

"In the 25 years since the founding of the country, the acres of land are generally sufficient, but the country is too big, and there must be some surplus agricultural population in some places."

"For example, natural disasters, such as barren areas, the solution to these problems can be to absorb them through industry."

"Only by putting the surplus people into industry, developing mines, iron works, building railways and other industries, can we promote productivity and create more wealth."

"What will happen in the end?"

"Everybody has access to cheap ironware, cheap fuel, easy travel, and more advanced technology."

"Sharp tools and better agricultural tools can make the fields more productive."

"A lot of cheap tools, which can be used by people, can turn more wasteland, swamps into fertile land."

"For example, the steam engine can be used to irrigate wasteland, allowing people to reclaim more barren land away from water sources."

"You can even build canals to pump water from the river into the canals to irrigate the land where there is no water."

Actually, it's a better way.

Sweet potatoes are obtained from the Americas.

The ancestors of the late Ming Dynasty risked their lives to steal sweet potato vines introduced from Spain and planted in Luzon from the Americas, and returned to their hometown Fujian to plant.

According to the academic paper of CNKI, relying on the sweet potato introduced in the late Ming Dynasty and the corn promoted, that is, the jade millet shu in local chronicles around the country, it happened to be popularized in the early Qing Dynasty.

These new crops were added to the traditional crop rotation, and it took only 100 years for them to rise from vegetables as defined by literati to staple foods.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the per capita ration was increased by 90 kilograms on the basis of the traditional crop rotation planting technology, laying the foundation for promoting the great population growth.

Productivity is at the core.

Sweet potato is a big killer of ancient agriculture, which directly promotes the progress of agricultural productivity and solves many problems.

Zhu Gaochi's fluttering words were like a heavy drum beating in people's hearts.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhu Gao asked blankly.

"What's wrong?"

Ge Cheng wanted to speak and stopped, Yao Guangxiao was like looking at heaven and man, and the eunuch was also full of worship.

Zhu Di swallowed his saliva and asked with difficulty: "Boss, why don't you keep talking about the method of the steam engine?" ”

"Does it matter?"

"Doesn't it matter?"

Zhu Di asked rhetorically.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

In his view, the social and environmental problems of the early Ming Dynasty were not food problems at all, but inevitable drawbacks of the social production model.

Even if the grain doubles again at the beginning of tomorrow, there will still be displaced people.

The sum of the relations of production determined by the productive forces at a certain stage of social development constitutes the social foundation, which is called the economic foundation.

The needs of the economic base determine the generation of the superstructure.

Serve in conscription, receive in kind.

and so on are relatively primitive means.

This is the limitation of the times.

In Zhu Gaochi's view, it is useful to change the production mode of Daming.

Displaced people in Shandong and Shanxi.

That's because of the problem of social distribution, and the lack of food is just a symptom.

In other words.

There are too few employment opportunities in society.

There will always be places where landless peasants are created, who have no other livelihood and no work to do, and become displaced people.

The displaced people in the early Ming Dynasty and the displaced people in the late Ming Dynasty were born at different roots.

Do not change the mode of production.

Even if you get sweet potatoes, it's useless.

The imperial power in the middle of the Ming Dynasty could no longer suppress the locality, the economy of Jianghuai was rich, and the small burgher class was born.

There was a spiritual appeal, so a new school was born, and there was no technical problem, so there was the germ of capitalist thought.

But everything was contained.

The Qing Dynasty had sweet potatoes, but there was no progress in production.

So sweet potatoes have contributed to population growth, but instead of bringing economic prosperity per capita, people have fallen into extreme poverty.

The incomprehension of an agrarian society.

It's not like there's no solution.

War...... Or a Black Death, like the West, that wiped out more than half of the population.

All right.

Seeing Zhu Gaochi's thoughts, everyone couldn't understand it.

There is such a good way, why not take it out?

Seeing that people were looking at him with some accusations, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly explained: "Building a ditch is a big project, isn't it that you say that nothing is suitable for you now?" ”

"And the affairs of the government, the palace is not easy to meddle."

Ten years ago.

Zhu Di can definitely be organized, he had great power at that time.

Now.

Hearing the boss's words, Zhu Di's face darkened.

"You can't do it."

Seeing Zhu Di's persistence and everyone's recognition, Zhu Gaochi felt helpless.

The difference in cognition.

"We're not in favor of building, at least not now."

"Why?"

"First of all, the problem of displaced people, although the field is the inducement, it is not the key problem, and if these people are solved, there will be other people."

"Secondly, the government's forced labor is harmful to the people."

"To devote our energy to these things, it is better to support our industry first, and then build water canals after our industry expands."

"When the time comes, we will spend money to recruit migrant workers, and the people will get real benefits."

Zhu Gaochi insisted on changing the production model of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)