Chapter 814: Industrys destruction of small-scale peasant economy
Xu Wei's words made Daqian's top management a little confused. They knew that Daqian's economic status has been very good in recent years, as evidenced by the fiscal revenue exceeding 80 billion. But now Xu Wei said that the city is sucking the blood of the countryside, which is difficult for them to understand. .
In their view, Daqian has to spend half of its fiscal revenue every year to build roads, bridges, railways, and canals, and also lend money to farmers to clear up wasteland. Even if they have too much grain, they have to spend huge sums of money to buy their grain to ensure that they have enough grain. The stability of prices has obviously been sucking the blood of rural areas.
And in their view, the current rural areas are also extremely wealthy. After equalization, each household has hundreds of acres of land. And because of good infrastructure, their land is irrigated, and the yield per mu is more than 3 shi. , the village has its own large tile-roofed house, as well as cattle bought with money shop loans, and there are even pig pens, duck houses and other places for raising poultry at home. If a man thirty years ago would have had such a family business People can be called rich people, and such rural areas are extremely wealthy in their eyes!
I have to say here that the saying that times make heroes makes sense. Xu Wei knew that he was not as good as a great man, but the Daqian court was in a state of being alone and seeking defeat in this world. Even if he ruled by doing nothing, the people's Life is also improving rapidly. It has only taken more than ten years to achieve the level of having meat on every meal. The speed of prosperity has even exceeded Xu Wei's expectation. Many problems that seemed difficult to solve have become easy to solve here in Daqian. .
Just like Xu Wei now just equalizes the land, 100 acres of land maintains the bottom line of people's income, and many problems that are difficult to refuse are easily solved. Even the population pressure caused by the prosperous age can be easily solved, just by immigrating.
But even if Xu Weitian makes a start, the collapse of the small-scale peasant economy due to industrialization is still inevitable. The wealth and population of Daqian's rural areas are constantly being absorbed by the cities, and Daqian's rural areas are constantly in a state of bleeding. Now Xu Wei is just using land equalization and infrastructure to delay this process.
Seeing everyone's confused faces, Xu Wei could only continue to explain: "You only see the imperial court's support for the countryside, but you don't see that all this money is made by our agricultural tools, cloth, ironware and other industrial products produced by our respective industries. gone!"
"The most powerful proof is that young people in rural areas are constantly moving to cities. If rural areas are rich, how can young people come to cities?"
Jia Xu nodded and said: "In the city of Daqian, even if you work as a coolie, you can earn a salary of thousands for a month, which is more than 10,000 yuan a year. In our Daqian, you can buy 100 shi of grain, but in the countryside, ordinary people To earn these 100 shi of grain requires a farmer to work hard for a year, and this also requires ensuring that there are no natural or man-made disasters. If there is a flood, drought, or locust plague, the farmers will lose their harvest. According to the observations of my subordinates, in the city Workers’ income is 2-3 times higher than that of ordinary farmers!”
"And another point is that workers can learn skills and their future salary will be high. If you become a junior craftsman, you can find a job worth thousands of dollars. If you become an intermediate craftsman, you can find a job worth tens of thousands of dollars. But in rural areas, even if you are a veteran of farming, But the income will not be much more than that of a novice!”
Everyone understands this, because no matter how good the farming is, the land that can be harvested is only 100 acres, so how can the production capacity be increased if it is increased!
Li Ru said: "But the rural people have no way out at all. People who farm can still become Litian. There are also some prefects who are from Litian among us. Zhao Gui is one of them. He Now that he has become the prefect of Nanjun, it is said that the food supply of Nanzhong land has doubled in the five years since he has been in his hands, and the production of tea and silk has also gradually increased. I am afraid that few of us will be as capable as him! "
But Xu Wei said helplessly: "Zhao Gui's experience, to a certain extent, is that the city is absorbing talents from the countryside!"
Xu Wei's words made Li Ru stunned. This can really be said!
Xu Wei continued: "The strong will get stronger, and the same principle applies to the relationship between rural areas and cities in Daqian. Cities can provide too many goods that rural areas need, such as cloth, farm tools, iron houses, pots and pans. Furniture, etc. Only people in rural areas need a lot of goods if they want to live a good life. But now the rural areas of Daqian can only provide food and a small amount of meat. Even these can be replaced. Meat They were replaced by breeding farms near the city, cash crops were replaced by islands in the South China Sea, and the only food they could provide was still in a state of oversupply. It can be said that the trade between the two sides is extremely unbalanced!"
It can be said that food is the main artery of the countryside. If the court did not stabilize the price of food, rural areas in Daqian would generally have no money and poverty, and this would affect our industry in Daqian. You must know that the cloth we produce, all kinds of Most of the goods are purchased by farmers in Daqian. They have no money. The goods in our industrial zone cannot be sold. There will definitely be a crisis! The workers have no jobs, and the farmers sell their land to survive, and finally become Refugees, when the time comes, the number of refugees in the world will not be the millions at the end of Han Dynasty, but tens of millions!"
Everyone burst into cold sweat after hearing this number. They had experienced the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty. Millions of common people who could not afford to live buried the Han Dynasty themselves. Although Daqian was stronger than the Han Dynasty, tens of millions of refugees were enough to bury them.
"In addition to learning how to make the pie, our court must also learn how to divide the pie. Only when the pie is divided can the economy develop healthily. And now the court's contribution to the countryside is to find ways to divide the pie! Stabilize the economy of Daqian's rural areas. !”
Industrialization's destruction of the small-scale peasant economy is inevitable. To a certain extent, this is an inevitable rule. However, the Daqian court did not have the conditions to learn what Niu Niu did in the past. They could use land enclosures or drive people into flesh and blood factories. .
But Daqian does not have such conditions. There are many obedient people everywhere, and their workers do not dare to rebel even if they are squeezed to death. Many people say that we are obedient people everywhere, but look at those who only know how to demonstrate and demonstrate. They are obedient people, just like the people of the Celestial Dynasty. Those who rebel are the only ones in history!
Take the Ming Dynasty as an example. Why did the industrial sprouts not succeed in the Ming Dynasty? It was because the handicraft industry in the south of the Yangtze River had completely destroyed the economy in the north, but people like Li Zicheng would not do anything to starve An'an and destroy it with the people who were about to starve to death. The Ming Dynasty.
And now it is the same in the Daqian Dynasty. Because of Xu Wei's cheating, Daqian is no longer a handicraft industry, but has directly risen to the level of the first technological revolution. If the chain of capitalists in the Daqian Dynasty is released, , based on Daqian’s population of 70 million, industrialization will at least create more than 20 million refugees, and this is a force that is enough to destroy the world.