Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 250 "Economist" Among the Emperors of All Dynasties

Did anyone specialize in "touching porcelain" in ancient times?

Blackmail and false accusations, this kind of thing is self-care.

It's just that "touching porcelain" really only appeared in modern times. To be precise, if you count the end of the Qing Dynasty as ancient times, then there are ancient times, and if you count the end of the Qing Dynasty as modern times, it has not been so long.

Modern blackmailing is nothing more than throwing under someone else's car and claiming that someone else's car hit him, but in ancient times this trick did not work, because the horse-drawn carriages that rich people rode in ancient times did not have such a good braking system as modern cars. If you want to touch an ancient porcelain carriage, you will most likely end up being trampled to death by a horse.

So there is really no such general form of touching porcelain.

But in ancient times, there was also a way of blackmailing people similar to the modern Pengci, that is, some people who are physically weak or injured themselves deliberately meet others, and then blackmail others money.

But at that time, there were no people who specialized in touching porcelain, because the ancients were much more simple than the present.

So at that time, there was not such a way of blackmailing people, but it was relatively rare, and it was not called Pengci.

The word "Pengci" in the true sense appeared in the late Qing Dynasty.

It was handed down from among the declining Eight Banners children. At that time, with the gradual corruption of the Eight Banners children, the financial burden of the imperial court became heavier and heavier. In the end, the imperial court allocated less and less firewood, rice and silver grain to those Eight Banners children.

But those Eight Banners who are used to living a life of luxury and lust are not used to living a normal life. In order to maintain their high living standards, many people have resorted to crooked thinking.

It is to find some porcelain that has been damaged or is actually a fake imitation, and walk around in a busy downtown with people. If someone happens to touch their porcelain, they will throw it on the ground and blackmail others. , because the Eight Banners themselves enjoy privileges, and they also favor them in terms of court laws, so most of the people they target are spending money to eliminate disasters.

Porcelain in the true sense appeared and became popular at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

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With the nationwide broadcast of the "Retrospecting China" program, the content of the dialogue in the program at this time is constantly being dug and discussed...

More and more viewers are speaking enthusiastically on the Internet and shouting out their own opinions.

"China has been a land of civilization and etiquette for thousands of years. Our society should no longer be so indifferent."

"Again, next time someone falls, I will still help them up."

"I will too, or my conscience will not pass."

"As bystanders, we can't chill the hearts of good people, we must be clear to the end."

"Yes, there are more and more good people, and our society can also be raised to a higher level, so that there is no room for bad people to live."

"Recreating the beauty of Chinese etiquette requires the efforts of everyone."

"As the descendants of China in the latest era, we cannot tarnish the face of our ancestors."

"If we are in this era, our human feelings are cold and warm, which can't even compare with the primitive society thousands of years ago. We people really feel ashamed of our ancestors."

While the modern audience was discussing, in the camera, the host Lin Feng led the eighteen emperors of the Song Dynasty to discuss another issue, an issue of survival that ordinary people at the bottom were concerned about.

"Small peasant economy?"

Taizu Zhao Kuangyin asked in confusion, "Mr. Lin, why are you discussing the small peasant economy?"

Lin Feng said, "Is there any problem?"

Zhao Kuangyin said, "According to what you said, the era of the next millennium will be a great era of information technology development. At that time, people can fly into the sky and escape from the ground, and they can even rush into the bright moon high above the nine heavens, and even build a residence in this outer space." Tiangong has already studied the vast and boundless ocean of stars, and people at that time have already left the small peasant economy, right?"

Zhao Guangyi went on to say, "Mr. Lin, in that later generation, there is no shortage of money and food, no shortage of warm clothes, and no shortage of shelters from the rain. On the land of China, there are commercial products produced by industrial factories. You must have surpassed the small peasant economy."

Song Renzong also said, "Mr. Lin, in my opinion, the economy of the later generations should be called a modern economy."

More than a dozen other Great Song emperors nodded in agreement with the words of the three of them.

But what?
They are wrong!

No matter how developed the modern industry is, people still have to eat food!

As in any ancient times, food is the most important thing and the foundation of the country.

Lin Feng replied seriously, "Seniors, in the next millennium, Huaxia agriculture will still be a [-]% small-scale peasant economy."

Perhaps many people are not clear about the concept of "small peasant economy".

The small-scale peasant economy is a family of farmers who work alone, and each family has a few mu of land, or ten or twenty mu of land.Such farmers have a small scale of production, weak capital and labor, and barely make ends meet. In the past, it was normal to be starved to death, so they are called small farmers.This form of economy is called small peasant economy.It is opposite to large-scale agricultural economy such as large farms.

Agriculture in Western countries has long been based on a large farm system. A farmer has thousands of slaves or hired workers working collectively under the leadership of a production team leader.This kind of agriculture is on a large scale, and the farmers rely on the exploitation of these people to gain wealth, which is called a large-scale agricultural economy.

There is no doubt that our China has been a small peasant economy for thousands of years.

Of course, there has always been no shortage of landlords in ancient history, and it is not uncommon to see large landlords covering hundreds of thousands of acres.

For example, Xu Jie, the virtuous prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, who defeated the traitor Yan Song, had 30 mu of land.

But our landowners are different from Western landowners. Our landowners usually don’t run the business themselves, and they don’t hire tens of thousands of hired workers to work the land. Instead, they rent the land to farmers and collect the rent by themselves, which is very worry-free. .

A family of farmers each rents a few mu of land or ten or twenty mu of land from the landlord to plant. Such farmers are called tenant farmers, also called tenants.

This is the smallholder economy.

In addition, there are many self-cultivating farmers who own their own land, very little. A family has a few mu or ten mu of land, which is just enough for their own cultivation.

Therefore, the history of China is a small-scale peasant economy formed by a large number of tenant farmers and self-cultivating farmers.

In addition, although self-cultivating farmers do not have to pay rent, they do have to pay a tax per mu, which is not a light burden.

Tenant farmers have to pay rent, but do not pay land mu tax, which is paid by the landlord.

So the owner-peasants are only slightly better off than the sharecroppers, and both are poor peasants.

Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin asked, "How many small farmers are there in the later generations?"

Lin Feng said, "6 million people are in the countryside, and about 3 million people have moved to the cities to work, and they have also become migrant workers."

Zhao Kuangyin was quite surprised and said, "What a huge population."

The other emperors were also shocked. Just now, they saw the prosperity of the modern city, saw the modern highway entrenched like a dragon, saw the tall buildings rising from the ground, and saw the brightly lit commercial district...

In their hearts, they thought that the later generations would be so prosperous!
Who would have thought that there would be such a basic number of farmers in the millennium later.

Lin Feng said, "The future generations will be very prosperous, but it will take some time before the real complete urbanization."

Song Renzong asked, "Mr. Lin, what is your doubt?"

Lin Feng said, "Before the realization of complete urbanization, what is the way out for such a huge population of farmers and migrant workers?"

Ask this question.

It exceeded the expectations of many viewers.

in fact.

This is also the true meaning of this trip through time and space, dialogue with the ancients.

Take history as a mirror to see if we can learn something from the economic recovery of the Song Dynasty and get reference.

Taizu Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said, "The problem arises in the future, but the answer should be found in the past, doesn't it seem inappropriate?"

Unspoken.

We, the ancient Chinese, cannot solve your future problems!
"Isn't it?"

Lin Feng said, "As far as the younger generation knows, you are all "economists" among Chinese emperors!"

Zhao Kuangyin, "..."

Zhao Guangyi, "..."

Song Renzong, "..."

The emperors of the Song Dynasty had very ugly expressions, and their faces were strange, as if they had eaten dead flies.

A majestic emperor of the [-]th Five-Year Plan is actually called an "economist"!
Who can be happy?
What Lin Feng said seemed to be a compliment, but to them, it was no different from cursing.

"Moderator, your question is too difficult."

"Where is the way out for the peasants? Don't even ask the ancient emperor, even if you go to the house of a certain big brick family and ask face to face, you will never get an answer."

"I think the best way for them is to raise the next generation well and let the next generation receive higher education. Only the children walk out of the mountains, enter colleges and universities, and work hard in the city. Then the children turn around and honor their parents and show them In the outside world, you don’t have to work so hard. This is the most reasonable path, and for the next generation, the road to family development will become wider and wider. Education in our country is already the most fair thing we can fight for. The only way to develop. Therefore, the way out for farmers must be to pay attention to the education of the next generation.”

"My opinion is similar. They have no way out. They are unemployed when they are old. They may not even be able to support themselves on a few acres of land. We should change our thinking and provide more employment opportunities for the children of farmers. The children have a stable income. Farmers As for the barrenness of cultivated land, I think the barren land should be some uneven small pieces of land, and the barren land is also barren, just as an environmental protection construction.”

"It is absolutely inappropriate to place all hope on the next generation."

"How many modern young people still have the spirit of bearing hardships and standing hard work?"

"Encourage mass entrepreneurship and innovation! The villagers who learned to open Taobao stores in the village have built small western-style buildings!"

"In the final analysis, when everyone wants a way out, everyone has no way out. Giving up on being farmers, leaving a few people to be farmers, and others to become citizens through the industrialization of our country is the only way out."

"About this point, it actually depends on our country's policy."

"There's nothing wrong with it. Now more and more resources are being invested in the countryside. I'm afraid people in the future will run back to the village even if they lose their heads."

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In the lens.

During the dialogue with the host Lin Feng, more than a dozen emperors of the Song Dynasty began to talk about all their knowledge of the small peasant economy. As ancient people, they also hope that their descendants can have a better life!

Regardless of the poor military strength of the Song Dynasty.

The set of means used by others to engage in economics can be said to be impressive and familiar.

Many of the policy effects that have been practiced are still beyond the reach of modern people.

(End of this chapter)