Royal Gold Magistrate

Why did the Industrial Revolution take place in remote Britain, instead of Portugal and Spain, which were stronger and had better conditions in the world?

There is a hypothesis that the Atlantic trade broke down the social class barriers in Britain, making the royal power far weaker than that of Portugal and Spain.

Ordinary people can get huge benefits from maritime trade, and the benefits are not monopolized by the royal family.

But such conditions, there is another country involved in Atlantic trade also has.

France.

Unfortunately, a genius was born in Britain, and the theory of this genius was widely spread in later generations, and at the same time, he was pulled out time and time again to whip his corpse and beat him in the face.

Malthus, On Population.

Subsistence means increase according to arithmetic progression, while population grows according to geometric progression, so it is a natural and eternal law that the increase of subsistence means cannot catch up with the growth of population.

If you want to avoid disasters caused by material shortages, you must control the population.

The British don't believe in this, not only do they not believe it, but they still follow the medieval fertility culture and give birth crazily.

The French believed it, and the success was missed by another crucial element of the Industrial Revolution... population.

One is scientific and technical personnel who have left the land, and the other is a large number of free laborers.

The right time, the right place, and the harmony of the people are all present, and the fate of the country has come. Britain has successfully stepped on the veins of history and led an era.

There is no doubt that Fang Zhengyi was a scumbag in his previous life.

The learning and memory of those past lives, except for the emotional experience, a large part of the details have been forgotten or even wiped out in decades of grand life.

But people have a powerful instinct, and useful things are extremely difficult to forget, and they will even be regained.

When he stepped up to the high position of Dajing's power step by step, he devoted himself to the historical process time and time again.

Those forgotten memories were instinctively pulled out of the subconscious, and deepened repeatedly with the knife of real experience, even surpassing the previous life.

His shallow historical knowledge has gone through such a process.

Although it is impossible to be completely right, he has already realized some problems...

Dajing is a country with a solid foundation.

Due to his arrival, high-yield crops were quickly popularized, and the population started a high-speed growth mode.

But the budding of capitalism and the great development of the handicraft industry happened to release some free laborers from the land.

The scientific innovator was trained off-the-job by him, and even leveraged the national treasury to catalyze this process.

As for the most critical part of imperial power, it is even more mysterious!

As an emperor, the most important thing is naturally to maintain the stability of his own rule.

But through Fang Zhengyi's mediation, no one realized that when technological progress may bring about social unrest, huge benefits have already rushed to the face.

The huge benefits make everyone ignore the instability for a while, and later when someone realizes the root of the instability and wants to change it, it becomes delusional. No one has the courage to give up this fascinating benefit, let alone Ability to face the huge resistance caused by letting go.

At this time, the great traditional culture came to the stage and exerted its strength. It skipped a link that was most valued, but produced a huge explosive force.

Benevolent government and caring for the people are the essential qualities of an excellent emperor. If you don't have one, you have to pretend it. If you don't want to pretend, the whole court will let you pretend it!

Obviously, Emperor Jing didn't need to pretend, it had become a habit.

Opening the West Sea, the income of the state treasury and private merchants skyrocketed, and Dajing implemented tax cuts nationwide.Second, a large amount of silver flows in, and silver depreciates.The income of the people has risen, but the original tax has not changed, which makes it lighter.

The stock exchange is wide open.People poured into the stock market, enjoying the profits brought by overseas and the development of the big scene.

So far, all the conditions for a truly complete start and a long-term promotion of the industrial revolution have been gathered!

The right time, place and people are ready again, and the great era begins.

Leaving aside the normal historical trajectory, all this is based on a very strange team configuration.

A big country with rich heritage and a vast territory, a group of wise emperors and ministers, and finally...a traveler who is capable and can lick.

The great development of maritime trade, coupled with the explosion of technology, not only did not impact the imperial power, but instead carried the imperial power to its peak.

But the imperial power not only did not fight against this unstable trend, but actively participated in it, using its own power to mobilize everything, fueling the fire!

A seemingly perfect closed loop has succeeded, and Dajing has thus become an extremely solid iron barrel, which no external force can break.

An unprecedented feudal empire that initiated the industrial revolution has been born in this world, and it is still developing at a speed far exceeding the conventional industrial revolution.

But this seemingly perfect match has a fatal flaw.

Everything is settled in one body, and the imperial power at the peak controls everything below.

However, it is impossible for every emperor to be a wise emperor. Once the car overturns, the consequences may be that the entire empire will break out in war and quickly fall apart.

Then history returned to the right track, power was tamed, and it really entered the order of modern civilization.

Fangzheng had an insight early in the morning, but he never took this matter to heart, nor did he bother to think about it.

If this happened, it would be a generation or two later, and he should be buried by then, so why think so far?

As an ancient person, my biggest belief is... Believe in the wisdom of future generations!

But now that Li Zhi mentioned this matter, Fangzheng was overwhelmed, and suddenly felt a sense of urgency that he had to pay attention to.

Li Zhi stared at Fang Zhengyi, the enthusiasm in his eyes gradually turned into disappointment.

He thought that Fang Zhengyi was an open-minded person, and the two of them would resonate, but the other party didn't even want to talk about it.

After thinking about it, this is not a problem, after all, his position is there.

It seems that after all, I think too much.

Li Zhi stood there for a long time, then turned and walked out the door without saying a word.

As soon as Fang Zheng looked at his back, his temples kept throbbing, and finally he couldn't help but said, "Stop."

"Where are you going and what are you going to do next?"

Li Zhi stopped in his tracks and glanced back at him: "Students should go home and accept apprentices to teach. I think it's right. Since it's right, I need to let more people know."

It's so fucking stupid, it seems that if you don't solve it for him, this matter is dead.

Fang Zhengyi sighed helplessly: "Do you know how much trouble you will cause if your remarks are spread?"

"Not to mention what the imperial court will do to you, even the people of the world will attack you."

"It's a time of prosperity and the people are celebrating, don't you have any dissatisfaction with the imperial court?"

Li Zhi turned around and said seriously: "Your Majesty has lived in the capital for a long time, and he can see the prosperity of the capital, but not the darkness of the distant border."

"Although the world is in a prosperous age, there are always officials who bully the people. The officialdom does not change. This problem is endless. Since all people are created equal, why do some people always ride on the heads of others? Today, His Majesty is indeed a wise king, but people do not have long-term concerns. There must be short-term worries , the student's plan is the future."

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