Beiping City.

At the busiest time of the year, several temple fairs in the city are crowded, especially when the stilt procession walks by, and the people make a loud noise.

There are people in costumes and immortals, golden boys and girls dressed as children, eight immortals, and Bao Gong.

On both sides of the street, there was a sensation of people.

Shehuo.

It is the ancient tradition of this nation, whether it is north or south of the river, it will worship ancestors and hold a social fire in this festival.

Since the pre-Qin period, praying for spring and autumn and pleasing the gods and celebrating the harvest have become the most important folk activities.

In the Song Dynasty, the economy flourished, and the folk belief in miscellaneous gods rose one after another, and the community fire and the temple fair were more closely linked.

As a folk, lively, and generational cultural form, and a carrier of national culture, Shehuo carries rich historical information and is a cultural hub closely connected with the Han people.

Until the former dynasty was banned.

With the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the traditions of the Han people began to be revived, and it was not only the traditions that were restored, but also the population of the northern land.

Agrarian civilization has been rejuvenated in this ancestral land.

"Childe, go back, there are too many people."

In the crowd, Zhu Neng said loudly.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head and did not agree to Zhu Neng's request.

The group walked from the city to the outside of the city.

Passed through a honeycomb coal workshop in the west of Beiping City.

"Crackling."

The young man carried a bamboo pole and lit the firecrackers, the boys of the family were ready to move, and the girls hid far away and covered their ears.

Even the poorest people will buy beautiful red head ropes with girls.

Ordinary people will add new clothes to their children and leave them to wear during the New Year, and it is instinctive for people to live and pursue beauty.

The elders of the family were in the white smoke, and their faces were full of relief.

The family is thriving, and there is nothing more joyful than that.

There were three tables on the table, one for the elders and two for the juniors.

The taciturn old man, his face is full of laugh lines today, and it is also the most generous time of the year, the peers at the table, congratulations to the old man on the better and better life in his family.

In one corner of the room, a new honeycomb coal stove burns honeycomb coal, and a kettle with steaming hot water in the mouth of the stove.

The temperature inside the house is warmer than outside.

on the road.

A two-wheeled carriage slowly passed through the suburbs, and Zhu Gaochi looked at the house stained black by coal ash, and it was obvious that this family was a small honeycomb coal workshop in the form of a family.

There are confetti and remnants from firecrackers on the ground.

The paper industry in the Song Dynasty was more than the sum of the world, which supported the birth of many industries, such as the firecracker industry.

The revival of the Ming Dynasty has been more than 20 years, and there is already a shadow of the Song Dynasty.

Several boys were looking for something on the ground, and then lit the wood incense in their hands and threw it out immediately.

Amid the sound of a single firecracker, the girls hid behind the threshold, covering their mouths and smiling happily. There are bold girls who even ask for it from their older brothers and sisters to try to set it off themselves.

"The image of folk peace, can the little prince be happy?" Zhu Neng in the carriage said with a smile.

"Nature is rejoicing."

Zhu Gaochi did not hide his thoughts.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there is an endless stream of people waiting to visit, from nobles to military generals, from officials to merchants, from sages to scholars.

Leaving the palace rashly today, the power is a little willful, not to satisfy his curiosity.

It is to fully understand the current social model and allocate social resources for the next smooth one.

"There are 2.6 million people in Beiping, and the number of peasant households and military households is 2.34 million, which is roughly less than 500,000."

"Based on 20 acres of various fields, the annual income is roughly 10 taels to 15 taels of silver."

Zhu Gaochi visited the health center and households before and after the New Year, and had a general understanding of the social signs in Beiping.

Zhu Neng couldn't keep up with Zhu Gaochi's train of thought, so he could only smirk with a smile on his face.

Zhu Gaochi was not disappointed.

It's normal if you don't understand, but it's not normal if you understand.

This number is constantly changing.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of yeoman farmers was relatively high, and the later period, the fewer yeoman peasants, and the fields began to be concentrated in the hands of the landlord class.

A large number of people have become tenants, and the income of tenants per mu of land is on average half less than that of yeoman farmers.

This one changes a lot.

With half of his income missing, he lived in poverty, could only make ends meet, and did not continue to cope with the changes in his life.

However, ancient China was the pinnacle of agricultural civilization, and both the system and technology crushed the West.

The economic development of the Ming Dynasty, such as the workshops in the hands of the Han people, even in the conquered Qing Dynasty and the regression of civilization, were still able to produce the most advanced bulk commodities that were in demand by the world.

This premise is that there is a huge domestic market in order to cultivate excellent technology, which has nothing to do with maritime trade.

"Let's go back." Zhu Gaochi commanded.

The market is always the most important thing.

In the study room of the Shizi Mansion, no one will come in and disturb the little prince.

Zhu Gaochi sat behind the desk, sorted out his notes with a fine brush, and began to eliminate the prejudice in his heart based on his one-year industrial experience.

"Many later generations have equated democracy with the market, the market with property rights, and property rights with incentives."

"It seems to assert that with democracy, even without the Great Voyage and the discovery of America, without Britain's monopoly on the global markets for textiles and cotton, without the enormous wealth it gained from the transatlantic slave trade, without the powerful state apparatus on which it relied in colonizing and opening up global markets."

"As well as strong military protection of global commercial interests and monopolies like the East India Company, the British Industrial Revolution could still take place."

Zhu Gaochi showed a sneer on his face, these people can be described as blind people touching elephants.

"They even gave birth to the saying."

In China's environment, according to the theory of institutional economics, such an "extractive" "authoritarian" system is unlikely to lead to the success of a country's industrialization. ”

But this argument overly glorifies the modern Western political system and its economic functions. However, they ignore the development path that the Western powers themselves walked through in those years, which was extremely oppressive at home and abroad, and was not so glorious. ”

"By assuming that advanced political and legal systems are the prerequisites for economic development, these theories ignore the endogenous evolution of institutions and laws in human history driven by the mode of production."

"and the discontinuity and incoherence between slogan and practice, between law and enforcement, between system and policy, under any form of government; This leads to confusion between consequence and cause, correlation and causality, superstructure and economic base, open political power and enlightened economic freedom. ”

……

Zhu Gaochi put down his pen, frowned, and groaned for a while, thinking about a lot of things.

I picked up the pen again, and in the notebook full of records, I started a new way of thinking and provided guidelines for the next stage of industrial promotion.

"They ignore the fundamental truth: universal suffrage democracy is a consequence of the Industrial Revolution, not a cause!"

"The modern Western legal system, with its enormous capacity for organization and mobilization, is the product of centuries of economic development and industrialization in the West based on colonialism, imperialism, mercantilism, the slave trade, and bloody primitive accumulation."

Why are these claims popular?

Decades after the birth of the Wealth of Nations, a reading of the Wealth of Nations shows that so much ink has been spent on the general equilibrium model of economic growth, and yet there are still such misleading statements.

It was deliberately guided by the West.

Just like the first night power, in order to beautify the Western spirit, because they have discovered this sharp weapon, they naturally have to use all means to remove the stain in order to attract believers from all over the world.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western scholars paid great attention to the historical basis of the "first night right".

A large number of books from this period are critical of the first night and fought for it.

Over time, and into the twenty-first century, the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Encyclopedia of Laroux dramatically changed perceptions of the topic – from acceptance to rejection of its historical authenticity.

If we have a full understanding of Western books, we can clearly see that modern and modern Western scholars have undergone completely different changes, which contain a huge political purpose.

Pursue the difference between practicality and packaging beautification.

"Adam Smith used the example of the early eighteenth-century pin factory and the principle of division of labor based on market size to explain the secret of the growth of national wealth."

"And misleading remarks still occupy a lot of place because there is a huge push behind it."

"The great enthusiasm of Western countries to promote Westernization in backward developing countries, regardless of their initial economic, social, and political conditions."

"The results of this political top-down approach to economic development are already clear."

"Many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, in accordance with the hopes of Western countries, have copied their own developing countries, and all of them have fallen into economic stagnation and continuous political turmoil."

"On the other hand, countries and regions that only retain their own culture and combine their own actual conditions, such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, can clearly see that these countries have truly avoided the traps of the West."

"Therefore, I must not copy the industrial revolution in the West and be misled by wrong words, otherwise it will lead to failure."

"What is the most advantageous thing about Daming?"

"An unparalleled population, an unparalleled literacy rate, and a peaceful and stable social environment."

"What it brings is a huge market that is the envy of the whole world."

"Then concentrating forces, implementing monopoly industry, improving the treatment of workers, and optimizing the distribution of social resources are undoubtedly the real long-term strategies."

"The achievements of the West in modern times are certainly great victories and are worth learning and learning from, but we must not be fooled by them."

"People are not stupid, people are very smart, they dig a lot of holes on the road they have walked, and if the pursuers do not avoid these pits, then they will fall into their trap."

(End of chapter)