In fact, there is essentially no difference whether the Qin Dynasty used bronze or not. Whether it can be done is the biggest problem. As long as it can be done, the difficulty of making bronze and iron is at best, and there is also a difference in the level of coins.
The current problem of the Han Dynasty is that there is no way to go to the assembly line. The scales used by craftsmen in various places are not the same standard at all. It is okay to make large parts. But to make those small parts that require precision, the different precisions will make these parts unable to match, which will lead to
There is no improvement in efficiency.
This is also an important reason why the Qin Dynasty was able to play with the assembly line, but the Han Dynasty could not. Weights and measures collapsed again. Although it was not a complete collapse, there were indeed more or less problems with the weights and measures in various places.
The reason for these problems, after Jia Xu kicked Lu Xun and Lu Yu away for a visit, the above people knew the crux of the problem. It can be regarded as greed and problems left over from history.
"In addition to these problems, there are other problems. After standardizing weights and measures, it will also save the people below from harming the people by fighting big and small, long and short." Liu Bei said with a sneer, "Any official who dares to do such a thing
, I think you know a lot about it. Although this method is not very serious, it is better to avoid it if it can be avoided."
Cao Cao nodded. Both the ruler and the bucket tend to become larger over time. The reason is very simple. For the common people, if a bucket of grain is handed over, a small bucket is best, but if the official bucket becomes larger,
You can exploit it more.
Assuming that one person pays tax per dou, and the big dou is one liter larger than the small dou, then a county can collect hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of liters more grain, and no one will cause trouble.
But this kind of thing is very uncomfortable for Liu Bei. You bastards are exploiting the people and don't want to live anymore. Although if you think about it carefully, this method is not excessive, but Liu Bei is still very unhappy.
Even some officials will engage in big fights not because they are greedy for a small amount of food, but because of political achievements. After all, the amount of food tax revenue in agricultural society is a very important assessment for officials. The more tax revenue, it shows that you are good at local management.
The better.
Therefore, it is convenient to use a big fight or something. For an unscrupulous creature like an official, what can't this kind of thing be done? After all, it is about climbing up on your own, it is a convenient thing!
Naturally, after understanding this, Liu Bei also felt liver pain. I do want to increase taxes. The problem is that the way I want to increase taxes is to increase the grain output of your counties and increase the number of acres of land cleared, not you.
Such a sneaky tax increase.
In this mentality, the purpose of Liu Bei's approval of weights and measures was directly to strangle those sneaky bastards and reduce the trouble for the people!
In fact, Chen Xi did not tell Liu Bei that the core part of the standardization of weights and measures is not the current ones. Although these are also important now, compared with the foundation of future industrialization, they are inferior in terms of significance and other aspects.
Quite far.
Although the reality of this world is that it is destined to only follow the path of heaven and earth essence.
But the foundation of industrialization is not its source of power, but social production changes, and standardized weights and measures will relatively make this road easier to walk when someone touches it after productivity is reached in the future.
Anyway, Chen Xi generally knows how much foundation is needed to develop industrialization. With the current number of craftsmen, wake up, the number of basic skilled workers is not enough.
What's more, what kind of price does industrialization need to pay? To be honest, Chen Xi is really a little entangled. Before he can solve the problem of food for the whole society, rashly promoting industrialization will only lead to the collapse of the small peasant economy of the Han Dynasty, where men farmed and women weaved.
Chen Xi really wanted to say something, I have been working hard to increase the number of homesteaders. From the beginning to the time when Yuan Shu burned the land deed documents was to increase the number of homesteaders. As a result, he started industrialization. First, I will collapse the economic system of the homesteaders, so that
The people can only eat dirt and become refugees.
From a true historical perspective, only when the existing social system of the people is overwhelmed will they be forced to enter factories, which will speed up industrialization and destroy the existing social system faster. Finally, after large-scale social changes, industrial society will
Crush the agricultural society and enter the era of industrialization.
Chen Xi's heart aches just thinking about how many people will die during this process. Basically, all countries in history have to go through this path of industrialization, which can be called a road paved with bones.
What's more, Chen Xi is very clear about how many people will be pushed directly into the abyss by large-scale social changes, not to mention that ordinary people at the bottom who have lost their ability to survive are forced to revolt and form turmoil, which will collapse the entire social order and eventually overthrow this era.
To put it simply, under the current situation, as long as you don't seek death, you are destined to move forward steadily and reach the top of the world. Chen Xi's conservative character is destined to be unable to accept more radical plans. After all, Chen Xi's current implementation
The plans of Chen Xi are considered radical by people of this era. If Chen Xi considers the radical plan and he is not sure yet, wouldn't he be seeking death?
What's more, theoretically there are no other solutions, although they are a bit empty.
That is another kind of social change that theoretically exists, the possibility of entering industrialization, but based on Chen Xi's observation of history, this theoretical possibility seems to remain theoretical.
Because this theory is really empty, it is too empty to wait for the self-development of society, the people generally have time to improve themselves, and reach the secondary universal education level by themselves in the agricultural era. Then, mechanization is not aimed at increasing production capacity, but at reducing the burden on human beings.
For the purpose of self-promotion, machine tools have been widely popularized, and the unemployed population has reached the lower limit of industrialization in agricultural society.
If the former type of industrialization is the development of capital forcing social reform, vested interests do not care about the lower class people, and a large number of deaths will inevitably occur; then the latter type is a natural change that occurs when the productivity of the current society has reached its limit and is a natural change.
Even if the latter type explodes in production capacity due to the popularization of mechanization, it will not drive out similar non-mechanized industries. At that point in society's development, ordinary families already have a certain ability to resist risks.
It is not like the small-scale peasant economy, where any natural disaster or any economic pillar is knocked out, and the whole family can only become a refugee. Even if the latter is directly affected by mechanization, there is still time and energy to think about how to deal with it.
This is the theoretical way of industrialization. However, no agricultural society has developed to the extent of naturally transforming into an industrial society, because theoretically, the off-the-job population of an agricultural society will never reach the lower limit of the off-the-job population of spontaneous industrial change!
If an agricultural society can support one unemployed person with two people, and the Han Dynasty has a population of 47 million, 16 million people can be idle and the country can operate smoothly, then it will be considered industrialization, and at most it will be freed.
More production capacity without any hassle.
The problem is that Chen Xi is almost in trouble now. The number of unemployed people has almost reached the limit of farming civilization, and even then the number of unemployed people is less than 7%.
To put it too far, in the era of industrialization, if this data is reversed, it can continue to work. 7% of the people working in the fields can feed the remaining 93% of the population. The problem is that if this is really done, what will happen to the Han Dynasty?
Are there so many places that require so much manpower?
How is it possible? After industrialization crushes these unlucky children, their handicrafts and agriculture will not be able to save themselves. In a short period of time, tens of millions of people who have no jobs and no livelihood will definitely...
Get into chaos.
At the national level, once the people are in chaos because of their livelihood, if Chen Xi comes to you ten times and Xun Yu comes to you ten times, the people will not be able to eat, so they should tear you apart alive, or they should kill you alive.
Therefore, regarding the path that must be taken in the future, Chen Xi can only silently leave a seed behind, leaving behind as many people as possible who are out of work and can touch the bottom line of industrialization.
After all, theoretically speaking, the greater the proportion of unemployed people, the lower the risks caused by industrialization and social changes.
Anyway, it is unlikely that Chen Xi can continue to increase the proportion of people who are out of work. In the future, they can only wait for the popularization of similar means of production such as individual machine tools, which can be regarded as the basis of industrialization, and gradually increase the number of people who are out of work.
In Chen Xi's words, this pot is too big to play with. Something might happen to me. Forget it. Anyway, we are already the strongest. It doesn't matter how strong we are. I will bury the seeds and wait until the day comes.
, it will just take root and sprout naturally.
Chen Xi's character is destined to make it impossible for him to carry out social changes that are so dangerous that they may affect himself before the end of the road. He seeks stability more and has no absolute certainty. He will not do something that is considered complete for this country.
It's just the icing on the cake.
Constrained by both reason and sensibility, Chen Xi will work hard to eliminate the shortcomings that really affect the development of this era based on the background of his own era, and lead the Han Empire to a more correct route, but he wants Chen Xi to take a risk
In the future, Chen Xi will only take action unless the Han Empire reaches the point where it cannot survive without reform.
Chen Xi is not stupid. As a reformer, without his ability to maintain balance, grant sufficient benefits to all parties, coordinate the interests of the upper and lower levels, and ensure that the interests of all classes do not suffer fundamental losses, reformers will die sooner or later.
Chen Xi can achieve this level not because Chen Xi is powerful, but because Chen Xi is cautious, controls the influence, and has enough reference. If industrialization fails, Chen Xi may need to risk his own life, and he may not be able to achieve what he wants.
result.
Even if he messes up, everything he may have left to this nation will collapse with it. He is heading towards invincibility steadily. If he works steadily, he will arrive sooner or later. Why bother to die?
