Daming: Teach the prince about dragon slaying skills at the beginning

"In fact, the current level of merchant development and the number of existing merchants, in my opinion, are still far from enough."

"Because there are still a large number of products in various parts of Daming every year, because of inconvenient transportation, or because no one comes to buy them."

"As a result, these properties cannot be exported, creating greater value and wealth."

"For example, Sichuan brocade, the price of Sichuan and Shu and the price of Yingtianfu, can be said to be two completely different prices."

"There are many brocades in Sichuan and Shu, but Yingtian Mansion does not produce brocades."

"If there are no merchants to resell, then the Sichuan and Shu brocades may be worth tens of pennies a piece, but Ying Tianfu will not have the chance to see the exquisite Shu brocades."

"However, if there are too many merchants, the merchants will naturally resell the surplus Shu brocade from Sichuan and Sichuan to Yingtian Mansion and even to other parts of Ming Dynasty under the drive of profit."

"After all, buying low and selling high is the behavior of a businessman."

"However, in the process, the people of Sichuan and Shu can gain more income by selling these brocades that are not very "valuable" to them."

"Merchants can rely on buying low and selling high, and gain more income."

"The imperial court can also obtain more benefits by collecting commercial taxes."

"In Yingtian Mansion, and even the common people in all parts of Ming Dynasty have the opportunity to use the exquisite Shu brocade."

"That's the thing that kills four birds with one stone."

"Fourth, if the influx of people into industry and commerce really reaches a certain level, resulting in an oversupply."

"Then the money that people who pour into industry and commerce can earn will naturally decrease accordingly."

"When the people of Ming Dynasty found out that they were pouring into industry and commerce, they couldn't make any money, or they didn't make as much money as they made from their own fields, and they couldn't even afford to eat."

"Then these Ming people will naturally change jobs, trade and return to agriculture."

“This is the self-regulating capacity of the real economy.”

"After all, the people of Ming Dynasty are not stupid. They will not rush into industry and commerce even though they know that they will no longer make money from influx of industry and commerce."

"Fifth, what His Majesty just mentioned is that there will be a large influx of people into industry and commerce, which will lead to a decrease in the number of Ming people working on farming and farming."

"This actually involves a problem of the number of people who are not involved in production."

"The so-called emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is essentially suppressing the number of people who are not productive!!!"

Seeing the puzzled eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing further explained:

"The so-called non-production refers to people like Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Highnesses, and me who are not responsible for farming."

"In other words, they are actually people who need to be supported by others."

"Royal family members, civil and military officials of the imperial court, honorable families, officials and subordinates all over the world, millions of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, wealthy gentry and landlord families, merchants and other craftsmen, etc."

"These are people who don't have anything to do with production and need to be supported by the people of Daming."

"Today, Ming Dynasty should have a population of nearly 6000 million."

"Among them, the number of Ming soldiers probably accounted for about 100 million."

"The noble family should account for about 20 to [-]."

"The civil and military officials of the imperial court and the subordinate officials of the world should also account for about 20 to [-]."

"'The rich, gentry and landlord families should also account for about 20 to 30."

"As for the remaining merchants and other craftsmen, they should also account for about 20 to 30."

"This is the sum of the total population without production, which is about 160 million to 200 million."

"And taking the land tax set by His Majesty as one for thirty taxes, then divide 6000 million by thirty, which equals two million."

"Then that is to say, on the premise that the number of people not engaged in production does not exceed 200 million."

"The 6000 million people of Ming Dynasty are able to support the additional 200 million people who are not engaged in production while ensuring their own livelihood."

"If the number of people who are not engaged in production exceeds 200 million, it will affect the survival of the remaining 800 million Ming people."

"Similarly, if the land tax exceeds the thirty-one tax, or if the sum of other exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes exceeds the thirty-one tax."

"Then it will further reduce the number of non-productive personnel, and at the same time, it will also affect the survival army of the remaining 800 million Ming people."

"When the survival of the remaining 800 million Ming people (of Mano) is affected, then naturally these 800 million Ming people will revolt against the 200 million people."

"Actually, it's not only the Ming Dynasty, but any dynasty in the past is actually the same."

"To put it bluntly, it means that the number of people who do not work has increased, or that exorbitant taxes have reduced the tolerable number of people who do not work."

"In the end, the people who produced things were overwhelmed, and the people had to rebel."

"So His Majesty's emphasis on agriculture and business suppression is essentially to suppress the number of people who are not engaged in production."

"So that the people of Daming can still support the other part of the non-productive people on the premise of being able to protect their own lives."

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Chapter 184: 30 people support one person and one person supports 28 people 【Please subscribe, please order in full】

After finishing speaking, Yan Changqing heaved a long sigh.

There is a fundamental difference between the non-productive production in ancient times and the non-productive production in later generations.

In ancient times, "no production" refers to no farming.

If you don't farm, you won't have food to eat.

And it's not that one or two people have no food to eat, but hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people have no food to eat.

Why is the ancient land tax generally [-] tax one? ! !

Because it really takes [-] productive people to work together to support one non-productive person! ! !

The fundamental reason why it takes thirty productive people to support one non-productive person is mainly because of the low grain output of an average of two stones per mu in ancient times! ! !

Because the average grain yield per mu is only about two stones, it is doomed that more than 90.00% of the common people must be tied up in the fields and cannot get out! ! !

Only 90.00% of the people above five work hard to cultivate the fields, and strive to produce grains with an average yield of about two shi per mu.

Only in this way can we continue to support the remaining 5.00% to [-]% of the personnel without production while ensuring our own survival.

Businessmen like what Yan Changqing said before, or the essential role of commerce, can create more valuable wealth through the circulation of money, and regulate prices in disguise.

Can it be said that none of the sages and predecessors of the past dynasties can see such a truth? ! !

If none of the sages and predecessors of the past dynasties saw it, then the wisdom of the sages and predecessors is too underestimated.

At least if none of the sages and predecessors of the past dynasties has seen through this essence, then there will be no such basic land tax as the thirty tax one.

But even if you can see it, so what? ! !

Not to mention how many of the top 490 sages who have such wisdom and can see through this essence really hold the power enough to formulate a country's national policy.

But when such sages and predecessors hold such power, it means that they themselves have become members of the royal clan, civil and military honorables, and aristocratic families standing at the top of the power.

There are only individuals who betray the class, not classes who betray the class.

When the sages and predecessors themselves have become a special member of the production, it is more or less unfair to hope that they can harm the interests of themselves and their own family descendants for the long-term interests of the country and the people. too realistic.

Not all sages and predecessors are ruthless people like Shang Yang, who can sacrifice their lives and families for the realization of their ideals.

In fact, among many sages and predecessors, Shang Yang is definitely the first ruthless person! ! !

Therefore, in ancient times, anyone who really saw through the essence of this problem would choose to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, that is, to suppress the increase in the number of people who are not engaged in production.

Because if the number of merchants who are not engaged in production increases, it will inevitably squeeze the number of those descendants of the royal family, civil and military nobles, and aristocratic families who are standing at the top of the power.

After all, those descendants of the royal family, civil and military nobles, and aristocratic families who stand at the top of the power are themselves members of the future.

As for those royal family members, civil and military nobles, and aristocratic families standing at the top of the power, in order to ensure that the people below can survive, will they choose to actively suppress themselves and other groups, including their own descendants, who are not productive? ? ! !

Totally impossible! ! !

The so-called dead friends are not dead poor.

On the one hand, let the descendants of their own family continue to have no production and enjoy the long-term prosperity and wealth.

⑥⒐⑧5⒉5⑧[-] [Blank] On the other side is the businessman who used to be a dog for himself, and now wants to occupy the qualification of his descendants to be a master.

Then choose with your feet, those royal family members, civil and military nobles, and aristocratic families who stand at the top of the power will choose to suppress the increase of businessmen and other production personnel.

Because only by suppressing the increase in the number of non-productive people such as businessmen, their descendants can continue to occupy more non-productive quotas in the future, so that they can continue to be non-productive for a longer period of time.

There is no need to worry that the remaining 90.00% of the people above five will not be able to live, and they will rebel.

As for merchants, or because of the suppression of commerce, they cannot play the role of circulating money and goods, creating more valuable wealth, and regulating prices in disguise.

In the eyes of those royal family members, civil and military nobles, aristocratic families and others who stand at the top of the power, it is not a big deal.

The big deal is that the poor and poor people are just poor people.

Anyway, they will not be the poor and the poor, and the common people can still live without rebellion.

As long as they control the bottom line of the thirty-one tax, then they, and their descendants, will be able to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth without having to do anything about production, and will continue to be a leader.

That's all there is to it.

This is the essence of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce in ancient times and not doing production.

The meaning of non-productive production in later generations is different. The non-productive production of later generations actually refers to the kind of jobless people who do not do any work, do not choose to start their own businesses, and do not create any valuable wealth by themselves.

In other words, as long as you have a job, whether it is farming, business, or other high-tech industries, service industries, etc., you are all engaged in production! ! !

It's just that because of their different abilities and different industries, the value wealth that can be produced is different.

And the essential reason why modern non-production in later generations is so different from non-production in ancient times is that various high-yielding food crops in later modern times, as well as the fundamental increase in food production brought about by various chemical fertilizers and mechanized farming! ! !

It is almost common for modern people to produce two or three thousand catties per mu, and even in some special agricultural research institutes, there are not no super grains with a yield of ten thousand catties per mu in the true sense!

The food output of about 5000 million farming people in later generations can basically meet the food needs of 14 billion people.

In other words, one person is enough to support 28 unproductive people! ! !

Compared with the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it took [-] people to support a person who was not productive. The gap between them is not an exaggeration to say that it is a dimensionality reduction strike.

It is also because of this that later modern generations were able to release the human resources that were originally bound in the fields, allowing them to flow into other industries, thereby driving the prosperity and development of all industries.

In the end, industry and commerce continue to flourish, and money and goods continue to circulate, creating new and more wealth values, and finally the people and the country are gradually getting richer.

Therefore, if the fundamental food problem was not solved in ancient times, it would be empty to talk about the development of industry, commerce, or other industries.

The more flourishing other industries are, and the more people are not engaged in production, the greater the food pressure on the people will be! ! !

After all, as Zhu Yuanzhang said, money may buy food, but money can never make food out of thin air! ! !

And as long as this cannot be done, then when industry and commerce develop to a certain extent, the food pressure of the people will be completely crushed.

At that time, maybe everyone is rich, but it will always be the richer people who can really buy food.

As for the remaining people who can't buy food, what should they do if they can't survive? ! !

Of course it was against his Eminem! ! !

At that time, it will be just another dynasty cycle.

Underneath, Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback for a moment after hearing what Yan Changqing said, and then instantly understood what Yan Changqing said.

[Hiss, since ancient times, most dynasties have implemented the Thirty One Tax at the beginning of their founding, or at the time of their heyday, so this is the reason behind it! ! ! 】

To be honest, when Zhu Yuanzhang first formulated the land tax policy of [-] taxes and [-] tax, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think of the essential reasons Yan Changqing said were not related to production.

The reason why he formulated the land tax policy of thirty taxes and one tax was mainly based on the land tax rates of those historical dynasties when they were founded or at their peak, as well as his own feelings when he was a farmer when he was young.

After referring to many aspects, the land tax policy of [-] taxes and [-] tax was finally formulated.

As for the basic national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, he only knows what it is, but not why.

In other words, he knew that restraining merchants would help stabilize the peasants, but he did not know that the essence behind restraining merchants was to restrain the number of people who were not productive.

But now that Yan Changqing had finished speaking, he completely understood all the meaning and significance of it in an instant.

If you really know what it is, you also know why! ! !

【wrong! ! ! 】

[If this is the case, 6000 million people can only support 200 million people who are not productive, then the number of people who are not productive in Daming has already exceeded 200 million! ! ! 】