The environment of the Industrial Revolution is inseparable from a unified and stable society, and stable agriculture is also needed.

The Ming Dynasty is a unified society.

And Daming's agricultural technology is the world's best.

However, without the analysis and experience of the Industrial Revolution in later generations, it is difficult for people to change their traditional concepts.

For example, putting more people into farmland will lead to more peaceful customs and abundant output.

But as stated in the history of Chinese science and technology, China had reached the peak of technology in the Song Dynasty.

In other words.

In ancient agrarian societies, farming technology had come to an end. And Daming has also come to an end in the area of land suitable for farming.

Therefore, if we still use traditional thinking, we will naturally not be able to meet the needs of social development.

What is needed is industry.

Industry brings two benefits.

Cheap and abundant tools allow people to work intensively and increase the yield of the acre. The prosperity of all walks of life can absorb the surplus population of peasant households.

For example, in the case of the displaced people in Shandong last year, there was no land to plant, or the acres of land at home were not enough to feed people.

What to do?

Naturally, I went to the city to work.

Isn't that how it will be in the future.

A large number of migrant workers provide sufficient labor for all walks of life.

But without industrial development, how can the cities provide jobs, and even if the peasants move to the cities, what kind of jobs can they get?

From fifteen or sixteen hours, I can only fill my stomach, and I am empty-handed for a year.

To twelve hours, ten hours, the annual income reaches the well-off level.

This is the change brought about by industrial progress.

But times are different.

In later generations, the martyrs faced a world that had been carved up by the West, they had a monopoly on energy, and they could only start from the most difficult situation in the situation where they wanted to retain their interests in China.

The Ming Dynasty had the world's advanced salt, iron, porcelain, wood, and textile industries, while the West had not yet started.

The external environment is many times better.

But that's not enough.

From an economic point of view, if we cannot solve the fuel problem, we will never be able to break through if we use firewood as fuel.

Firewood had become a scarce resource in the fifteenth century.

Although the volume is very large, it cannot even meet the needs of people's daily life, so how can it meet the needs of industry?

And the steam engine solves this problem.

The exponential growth of the British coal industry was achieved on the basis of the widespread use of steam engines for pumping water.

Therefore, in the ranking of the three core technologies of the industrial revolution, most of them are considered to be steam engines, coke, and Jenny engines.

Like France, Italy, and the Netherlands, there was no industrial revolution, and the Ming Dynasty solved the problem of the steam engine, that is, the fuel problem.

Then all walks of life will be vigorously developed, and the technology of all walks of life will naturally be broken through.

Regarding technical matters, Zhu Gaochi is not worried.

He worries about the ruling class.

The only thing that can stand in his way is the ruling class.

For example, Zhu Di in front of him, and Zhu Yuanzhang in Yingtianfu.

Zhu Yuanzhang is thousands of miles away.

It was Zhu Di who was close in front of him, so he made a lot of preparations, and every new thing had to persuade Zhu Di first and obtain his approval.

Zhu Di was pondering.

Zhu Gaochi did not interrupt him.

In the Ming Dynasty, he had a chance.

For example, the West advanced to the assault musket on the basis of the Song Dynasty musket.

In the fifteenth century, the West emerged from the effects of the Black Death, which wiped out one-third of the population of the West, after the plague.

On the contrary, the per capita food production of the West has been reborn, providing sufficient vitality for society.

In this context.

The technology of firearms in the East and the West is equal, and both sides use assault rifle technology.

In the 16th century, arquebuses were made in the West on the technology of assault muskets.

However, because of the "Malthusian trap", the country fell into poverty, and the vitality of society began to weaken.

Many knowledgeable officials have begun to work reforms to reverse this phenomenon.

For example, various small-scale changes in the Jiajing period, and Zhang Juzheng's changes in the Wanli period, but they all failed in the end.

Agrarian societies, with a population of nearly 200 million, have exceeded the load of land.

From an economic point of view, no means are useless.

But Daming does not crowd out external technology and ideas.

For example, the Western conquerors appeared in the East, and in the war with the Ming Dynasty, they captured a lot of weapons from the West.

Among them was the arquebus.

In the Wanli period, it was transformed into a bird gun, which gained popularity in the southern army, as well as the Franc machine and so on.

There are also quite a few officials who take the initiative to study Western books.

But it was different in the Qing Dynasty, which was to crowd out technology, from inheriting firearms at the end of the Ming Dynasty and shining on the battlefields of all sides in the early Qing Dynasty, to banning firearms in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, which can be seen.

Take history as a mirror.

In this atmosphere, Zhu Gaochi felt that he could convince Zhu Di.

Moreover, Zhu Di is the monarch who organized seven Western voyages, recovered Annan in his lifetime, set up three Xuanxuan and six comforts, and set up the Nuer Gandu Division.

Its range starts from the Nan River (now the Onen River) in the west, reaches the Outer Khingan Mountains in the north, reaches the sea in the east, connects the Tumen River in the south, and crosses the sea in the northeast and has Sakhalin Island.

Most of the Indochina Peninsula includes Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other countries, and a small part of Vietnam and Malaysia, almost the entire Indochina Peninsula, which is today's half of ASEAN.

"Xuan" refers to the Xuanfu Division, and "comfort" is the Xuanfu Division, each with the Tusi and the Tuwang as respect, but they are all under the management of the Yunnan Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, recognizing the suzerainty of the Great Tomorrow.

A lifetime of conquest.

People with such a pioneering spirit will naturally not be too resistant to new things.

Really.

Zhu Di did not refute.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly continued: "So what about the excess labor? If you don't solve this problem, you will become a homeless. ”

Zhu Gaochi does not need to explain how great the danger of the displaced people is.

"And in the future, the more children of the farmer's family, how will the land be divided when they grow up? How to marry a daughter-in-law? ”

Facing this kind of problem.

The solution of the nobles is the system of succession.

But the people can't do it, they don't have such a big profit motive, but they have to find a way to take care of every son.

Zhu Gaochi counted them one by one: "A family of five, 30 acres of land, crop rotation every year, belongs to a well-off family. ”

"If the two sons reach adulthood, the acres of land will become fifteen acres per capita, and they will be directly reduced to a flat family."

"If there are five sons who reach adulthood, the acres of land will become six acres per capita, and even clothing will become a problem."

"In less than a hundred years, a country with a strong country and a rich people will be in poverty, and no way can change it."

Zhu Di pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "Your algorithm is wrong, it's a bit exaggerated. ”

Zhu Gaochi did not defend himself, and nodded admittedly.

"Of course, that's not the case, our dynasty also has business, and it will absorb a lot of people, but it's only delayed."

"There are also poor people who are born, and naturally they can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, and it can be regarded as a way to eliminate the poor after death, but on the whole."

"Unlike industry, it not only promotes social prosperity but also provides abundant employment opportunities."

"The people don't have to just stick to the fields, the surplus population, they can survive without the land."

"It is unreasonable to have a situation like the displacement of people last year, and with the land and land of our dynasty, even if the population multiplies to 10,000, the social situation can be maintained peacefully."

"The reason why the displaced people were born is because there is a surplus labor force in some areas, and they have lost their fields, and they have no other way to live."

"And the development of industry, the prosperity of commodities, will lead to the need for countless laborers, which can solve this kind of thing."

"If my son's plan is achieved, even if the population of my Daming multiplies to 20,000, I will be able to continue to maintain social peace."

If there are sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc., it can be expanded to 40,000.

It was not the social situation of extreme poverty in the late Qing Dynasty.

If you add the Great Voyage, then it's another story.

However, sweet potatoes and potatoes are not easy to obtain, and Zhu Gaochi can't explain to Zhu Di, so he didn't mention it.

Twenty thousand.

Zhu Di was moved when he heard this.

The population of the Ming Dynasty prospered to 20,000, and according to the boss, it slowed down the reproduction of the population.

Wouldn't the two-pronged approach prolong the country's fortunes?

It's just that what the boss says can come true?

He came up with it on his own, and it sounds right, but who knows if that's the case.

Zhu Di couldn't believe it.

But since the boss implemented industrial development, it seems that he has not said that he has missed it, but he has gained a lot of knowledge.

It turns out that things can still be done this way.

A different kind of knowledge makes him both novel and fearful.

Because of the strangeness, I feel wary.

But the benefits are also real.

At least the problem of 2,000 military households was simply solved, and there were no twists and turns.

And silver.

This year is the most lenient year in Yanwangfu in these years.

Zhu Gaochi didn't think that he could easily convince Zhu Di, so he gave an example of what happened in Beiping City.

"The reason why the Han Dynasty has a strong army is because of a good family."

"My Beiping is located in a military land, the martial arts are strong, there are more than 100,000 military households, as long as they are allowed to live a rich life, the family inheritance of war skills, reading and literacy, that is hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of good families."

"But my father should know that there are already poor households in the military households of the guards in Beiping, and the 2,000 military households recruited by his son are proof of this."

"The poor can't become a good family, they can't even eat enough, how can they have motivation, but they will become a hidden danger."

"So the son must develop industry."

Zhu Gaochi said firmly: "The development of industry is not only economic prosperity, but also the geometric growth of materials. ”

"The soldiers are strong, the arrows are innumerable, and the firearms are massive, isn't it indestructible, invincible, and the strongest in the world!"

Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Gaochi.

The boss is sometimes very similar to Yao Guangxiao.

The idea of the two always wanted to let the Yan Wangfu have more military power.

Yanwang Mansion.

If you want to be the strongest army in the world, what do you want to do?

"Boss, although your uncle died of illness, you still have a second uncle and a third uncle." Zhu Di directly admonished.

(End of chapter)