Chapter 445 The Reverie of Productivity (Online Update Today)
Li Tai really didn't expect that he would take a blow from Li Shimin and "the times have changed."
I wanted to open my mouth and say something, but in the end I seemed to be unable to say anything. Moreover, Li Tai's personality is not good at arguing with Fang Xuanling and Li Shimin and others. I will just say it with facts.
After all, the changes in the essence of heaven and earth are in the eyes of everyone, and the increase in the power of livestock is also visible to the naked eye.
But they had never seen the actual items mentioned by Li Tai, and they could not understand why the steam engine had potential than animal husbandry. Who wouldn't know the importance of horses and oxen to the feudal dynasty?
From the birth of the steam engine to the birth of the car, if we start counting according to the steam balloons in the first century BC, it will take at least 1,700 years to truly get the first one, and when it can be produced stably, then
A longer time.
If you want to get a steam engine to help cultivate the land, it would be great to be able to get one before Li Tai died.
After all, Li Tai's steam engine has not yet been truly implemented on the drawings. If Li Tai could make a steam engine now and see it plowing a hundred acres of fields, Fang Xuanling would naturally choose Li Tai.
Otherwise, King Wei, you should try your best to study it yourself. The spirit of the court is with you. When you get it out, the court will use it for use.
To be honest, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, or officials from the Zhenguan dynasty, were actually quite enlightened.
Because the increase in productivity is beneficial to the entire society, but for contemporary people, it is definitely a blow.
As people in the 21st century, I believe that with the development of science and technology, although productivity continues to improve with the help of science and technology, the number of jobs eliminated is endless.
With cars, we eliminate horses, with phones, we eliminate letters, and with mobile phones, we are closer to eliminating various tools...
Nowadays, artificial intelligence has even appeared, and almost everyone feels that even human beings are going to be eliminated by society.
This is the ruthlessness of the development of productivity, and therefore, the increase in productivity is almost abhorred for feudal society.
Because no matter which feudal society is, it pursues the eternity of each family. The development of productivity will inevitably bring about changes in production relations, and changes in production relations will also affect the dynasty that must carry out various reforms.
Reform is equivalent to a large-scale downfall, and almost everyone in the entire court will be involved.
If the reforms in Chinese history were not physically eliminated by bloody massacre, there were several times when the reformists were truly successful. Often, the reformists came back to power and overthrew the reforms of the reformists.
If you look at the history of China from the perspective of productivity, you will find a very interesting thing.
In addition to being invaded by alien races, which leads to the destruction of the dynasty, that is, backward and barbaric defeating advanced civilizations, after each riot of other dynasties, the productivity of the new unified dynasty will be significantly improved and various production tools will be innovated.
Is it really war that promotes the development of productivity, and without war, mankind will not make progress?
No, it’s just that the originally mismatched productivity and production relations have been appropriately reconstructed in the war.
Superior productivity must have appeared before the war, especially at the end of the dynasty, which would have appeared more.
But the emergence of these productivity is not a good medicine, but a strong medicine.
Their appearance can indeed improve the overall productivity of the country, but in the process of enhancing the national productivity, it is accompanied by painful unemployment and even death of countless people, which will cause considerable unrest in the entire society.
The emergence of advanced productivity is naturally beneficial to the society as a whole, but for individuals, it is likely that the skills you have worked hard to master will be spent all the time, so that the stable jobs you originally had will be eliminated.
It's right.
Improved productivity is often accompanied by the pain of contemporary people, allowing the next generation to benefit and enjoy. Now with the emergence of artificial intelligence, everyone is even more panicking, wondering whether the entire human society will be replaced by robots.
But the facts are not. At most, contemporary people will suffer, but future people can enjoy more.
However, if this thing is implemented too quickly and contemporary people cannot stand it and directly reversed, it will definitely cause social unrest.
And these things are like this now, and for ancient times, are they not aware of the benefits brought by the development of productivity?
No, but they can see the damage to social stability caused by the development of productivity.
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others were fine. They came from troubled times and knew clearly that improving productivity was helpful to the country. Therefore, they were more indifferent to Li Tai's attitude towards developing machinery such as steam engines.
But as long as the country develops back fifty years, even if it invents and creates something that improves productivity, craftsmen can use it secretly and want to use it openly, they will definitely be scolded as a strange and lewd skill.
Then in another century, for example, after the Kaiyuan prosperous era, anyone who invents something to improve productivity will be suppressed.
Are those who stand at the top of society unable to see the benefits of productivity improvement?
No, I believe that the top smart people in every dynasty are not much different. For example, Zhang Liang or Zhuge Liang, who is smarter than who is smarter? It’s just that people have different positions, so the choices they make are different.
That's it.
More smart people are more intelligent, but lack the courage to take responsibility. So even if you see that the improvement of productivity can bring new changes to the dynasty, you will not be able to grasp this change, and they would rather give this change to the
Kill it.
For them, changes in productivity will bring about changes in production relations, changes in production relations will bring about changes in class, and the final choice of either reform or revolution will come.
Maybe they won’t be so thorough, but these smart people can see the general development context.
They cannot tell whether this new force is good or bad. They need to maintain the dynasty, rather than smash it.
Therefore, these things that increase productivity will be suppressed by them and may even be known as strange and lewd skills.
After all, it is just a matter of position. The tool of Confucianism is just right for the superiors who are determined to pursue the eternal eternity of one family and one surname.
After all, they don’t want a prosperous society, but they just hope that they and their descendants can always stand at the top and enjoy the support of the entire country. Confucianism just satisfies their ideas.
Therefore, there is no need for Li Tai to continue arguing with Fang Xuanling or Li Shimin because there is no need.
Although their positions are highly overlapping with Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, the positions of both sides are different in the long run.
Moreover, Li Tai also believed that with the execution of the ban, steam engines would inevitably appear on the stage of history when needed, without causing too much turmoil to the entire Tang Dynasty society.
The reason is very simple, just like various things that enhance productivity will be born explosively during wars.
A very important reason is that with the exile or war, the main labor force responsible for production will be reduced. In order to maintain higher productivity as much as possible, various ways to improve productivity will be used whatever you have.
At that time, even if the steam engine replaces human power production equipment appears, it will not have too strong impact on the entire society. On the contrary, it will be supported by more people.
At the same time, the people and the noble families also have better choices and pursuits, so naturally they will not compete with the steam engine for work.
"So, if you need to make technical reserves in steam engines, you still need to make technical reserves!" Li Tai complained.
Li Tai didn't have much feeling that Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling did not support the steam engine.
After all, in feudal society, I still have any big extravagant hopes. Li Tai has never felt the change in the essence of heaven and earth that he confirmed from Li Shimin.
After all, I originally lived in a world without the essence of heaven and earth. Even if I came to the Tang Dynasty, I didn’t feel that the existence of the essence of heaven and earth had any impact on me.
Even if you have internal strength and monarchal talent, so what, how should you develop, and how to develop.
As long as society has not developed into a person who can compete with the entire society itself, the essence of heaven and earth is just a tool after all.
In Li Jing's eyes, this thing is just a kind of military skills, and in Li Tai's eyes, this thing is at most an energy substitute.
Since Li Shimin proposed it, he would only invest some corresponding resources when he studied it in the future.
"After all, steam engines can work without sleep, and horses still have to eat and rest!" Li Tai felt that it would be better to take advantage of the Ministry of Works to continue to wave to some craftsmen and continue to specialize in steam engines by taking advantage of the assessment of the Ministry of Works.
It's right.
Li Tai rode his horse away from the court for a while and saw people from Dali Temple escorting a group of prisoners in white away.
Their path was halfway through, and Li Tai came over, and they wanted to make the way to let Li Tai go.
Li Tai waved his hand and said, "Since it's official business, then you guys leave first. I'll go back to the Wei Palace later!"
The yamen runner in charge of escorting couldn't help but nod to thank him. However, Li Tai looked at the prisoners with cold eyes at him, as if he wanted to remember him in his heart. This surprised Li Tai a little. When did he
What more, these people have become enemies?
Li Tai couldn't help but turn his head and ask Lu Anshou beside him, "Who are they? Why are they looking at me like this?"
Lu Anshou went up to ask the yamen runners, and then said to Li Tai, "It is Dang Renhong's three tribes."
When Li Tai heard this, he nodded with enlightenment and smiled, "Then it makes sense that they don't feel happy about me!"
To be honest, it doesn't matter if Li Tai is hated by Dang Renhong's family.
Li Tai understood that the most powerful part of a family is the local network of mixed relationships. This can contact the government and instruct the gangsters. This makes the court afraid that if they want to extend their tentacles to the grassroots level, they will gradually be swallowed up by the local gentry.
In ancient times, such prominent families were almost unsolvable.
Even to them, the head of the family is just their signature to some extent.
Even if Dang Renhong is killed, as long as the entire family can continue to enjoy the benefits learned during Dang Renhong's period, it will not be easy to cultivate a new senior official like Dang Renhong, but it is not difficult to maintain his own county honour.
At that time, there is no need to rush into the countryside. Just make sure that the ascending passage of this county is controlled by yourself.
But at this time, a King of Wei, who killed thousands of swords, proposed a system of joint seizures, and directly sent all Dang Renhong's relatives and direct descendants to Qinzhou to serve hard labor.
This is just one way past the southern prefectures and counties, and they might lose their lives, let alone serving hard labor until they are released after the so-called prison sentence. This is almost a person who is corruption and the whole clan suffers.
And when their hard labor is over, they are afraid that they will not be able to go back even if they want to.
After all, time is the most ruthless in the world. As time flows, their original network of relationships in their hometowns are cut off.
In the officialdom, people are concerned about the cold tea. Do the locals keep their family land for ten or twenty years? What a joke? The locals absolutely hope that they will never come back. Even if they come back, the locals will definitely
I won't spit out the benefits I've already eaten.
Therefore, all they can do is to continue to take root in Qinzhou, hoping that their descendants will be able to make a comeback after working hard for several generations.
Fortunately, this is not an era when there are no poor families at the top and no nobles at the bottom. With the imperial examination, their family at least has hope of a new rise, which is at most a little bit slim.
However, for Li Tai, he only hopes that these people, who are in the court, will be sent to the border areas to make some contribution to the development of Chinese civilization.
And after they leave, as their family leaves, a temporary rights vacuum will appear in their area.
Even if there is no grand scene of a whale falling into the sky, it can at least give the local people a chance to climb up.
This is more or less beneficial to alleviating the overall social contradictions.
Of course, if the Tang Dynasty wants to always maintain a positive attitude, it is necessary to give the people enough room for upwardness.
However, this kind of opportunity is generally possible only in the chaotic times when the dynasty is destroyed. With the stability of society, it becomes inevitable that the class will gradually solidify.
Fortunately, the invention of the imperial examination system has given the lower class an opportunity to transcend classes.
Even now, for the vast majority of people, knowledge and college entrance examinations are their only bargaining chips for crossing the class.
Li Tai couldn't help but feel a little sigh when he saw the Dang family leaving.
However, this mood did not stay on Li Tai for too long. When he returned home, Yan Wan left a light for herself and waited to enjoy dinner with her.
I found that there was no character I wanted to draw in the next card pool, and I had no motivation to write. I was lazy for a day, and I updated it today.