In November 1653, the climate in the southeast became colder, and Jiangdong ushered in the first heavy snow of the year.Heavy snow covered the city and the wilderness, and Suzhou and even the whole Jiangdong became a snow-capped world, and it was the land that was covered with silver and was extraordinarily enchanting.In the past, after the winter, both the residents in the city and the people in the suburbs had less activities, roasted the fire at home, survived the whole winter, and waited until the spring ploughing of the next year, only to wake up like the earth.However, in the east of the ninth year of Longwu, all parts of Jiangdong are still hot.In the past, after the winter, the weather was cold, and the second was after the autumn harvest, there was nothing to do, so the people had nothing to do, only to nest at home, and there were few economic activities, but now Jiangdong has a variety of livelihoods to do, and the economy is growing rapidly, so it is still prosperous in winter.Early in the morning, a group of cavalry left Suzhou City and came to the market outside the city, and the noise came to the streets.Suzhou as the seat of the East China Sea Domain, coupled with the East China Sea's vigorous promotion of industrial and commercial development, made Suzhou gradually return to its former prosperity.Outside the city of Suzhou, a large number of workshops were built, as well as a large number of shops, gathering hundreds of thousands of people, and along the canal, forming a ten-mile-long street and workshop area.At this time, on the lively street, horse-drawn carriages pass through, the boats in the canal are one after another, and the men in jackets are carrying the goods with white air, which seems to be very busy, showing a grand occasion of the Qingming Riverside Map.This is a distribution place for goods in Jiangdong, and merchants from all over Jiangdong, even merchants from Huguang and Sichuan, also come here to buy goods and then ship them back for sale.On the other side, there is a handicraft workshop area, which concentrates nearly half of the textile workshops in Jiangdong, as well as supporting upstream and downstream industries, and several huge military-funded workshops of Huaxing Company, each of which employs nearly 10,000 workers.Early in the morning it was the time for the workshop to be handed over, and the hired laborers, who had been busy all night, came out of the workshop like a tidal wave, flocked to the breakfast stalls near the workshop, and the vegetable market where the people gathered around, and then returned to a large area of low shantytowns.In a short time, the hired laborers who had worked during the day poured out of the shantytown, and after breakfast, they poured into the workshop like a school of fish, and the scene was very spectacular.At this time, Zhao Ming and his entourage rode through the market and came to the workshop area, looking at the scene in front of them, Chen Zilong sighed: "If it weren't for the support of the marshal, the imperial court would never allow such a workshop to appear." ”What the imperial power wants most is to stabilize the country, and such a large-scale workshop, employing tens of thousands of workers, is not controlled by the government, in case it is used by the powerful, for the emperor, it is a potential threat, belonging to the social instability.Therefore, rather than letting the people work in the workshop, the emperor was more willing to imprison the people in the land.Zhao Ming looked at the scene in front of him, and he also sighed with emotion, Jiangdong has now been brought by him with a commercial chariot, and he can't stop.The development of industry and commerce has made Jiangdong earn a large amount of silver from overseas and the mainland, which is bound to make Jiangdong's local inflation and rising prices, and the people may grow two crops of rice a year to barely live, but now that prices have risen, the price of rice has not risen much, resulting in the people's money is not enough to spend, and if they want to spend enough, they must join the commercialization and engage in more labor.Therefore, from another point of view, the people have lost the life of sunrise and sunset, and there are months of agricultural leisure time, which has become almost every day to work, and if you don't do it, you can't do it, because prices will continue to rise, and the people are passively tied to Zhao Ming's chariot.Of course, businessmen and some powerful people must have benefited from this process of commercialization, and they have earned huge wealth and lived a life that is unimaginable to ordinary people.Zhao Ming stared at the scene full of life in front of him, but said in a deep voice: "Gentlemen, don't be proud of this!"
In my opinion, the scene in front of me is actually a fire, and if it is not well controlled, it will hurt people. ”When Chen Youlong and the others heard this, they couldn't help but be stunned, thinking about the meaning of what Zhao Ming said, and after a while, Chen Youlong raised his eyebrows and said: "The handsome man is really far-sighted.The harvest of imprisoning the people to the land is small, but it is better than stability, and now the concentration of hired laborers can create more money and goods and increase efficiency, but the slightest carelessness can cause chaos. ”The staff of the feudal mansion are all dragons and phoenixes among the people, and many people quickly understand what Zhao Ming means.Zhao Ming bowed slightly: "Compared with the commercial society, the agricultural society is undoubtedly more stable.Although our Suzhou city is prosperous, once something goes wrong, the loss will be even more heavy when it collapses. ”Although problems such as land annexation and uprisings may arise in agrarian societies, the cycle of occurrence is very long, and the accumulation of social contradictions may take decades or hundreds of years before the problems become apparent.In a commercial society, if the workshop is not well managed, or if it is too exploited, or if it is over-produced, it can lead to a great crisis and social collapse.Chen Youlong asked, "Then how can we avoid this crisis?"
”Zhao Ming smiled and pointed at the hired workers who were entering the workshop, "Let the merchants and gentry make money, and let tens of thousands of hired workers get benefits, only if they are happy, Jiangdong will be stable." ”Zhao Ming's eyes swept over everyone, "Therefore, as an official government, we can't just take care of the interests of merchants and gentry, the people and hired workers live and work in peace and contentment, which is the cornerstone of Donghai Town." ”When everyone heard this, they all nodded, thinking about it, and understood that Donghai Town should not only support commercial development, but also restrict the gentry and nobles, and not oppress the common people and hired workers too much, and the code of conduct may be modest.Of course, the golden mean is not anything and mud, but the pursuit of a plan that is most suitable for dealing with things at the moment, and avoiding the mistake of making too much left or too right.At this time, Zhao Ming said to everyone: "In recent years, we have produced a large number of goods and earned a lot of silver, which has caused prices in Jiangdong to rise.The rich people have earned money and made great profits, but the people have worked hard, and the money they have obtained has been eaten up by rising prices, and their lives have not improved much, but they are more tired than before.After all, this silver cannot be eaten, so when the feudal government encourages the sale of goods to the outside world, it also has to build a large number of warehouses to buy a large number of materials from the outside world, especially the materials related to the people's lives, so as to reduce prices, so that the people can get benefits and live and work in peace and contentment, so that we Nationalist Socialist people have the value of existence. ”Chen Youlong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "The words of the handsome, if we and other party members are in charge, and the people's lives are not as good as before, then what kind of face do we have to steal the position of meat." ”Zhao Ming saw that many of his subordinates had such an awareness, and he was relieved.At this time, Chen Yujie next to him pointed to a workshop in the distance, "Marshal, the military workshop has arrived!"
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