Bi Ziyan's words are exactly what Zhu Youxiao thinks at this time.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao sat up after listening to what Bi Ziyan said, and said, "Aiqing, please tell me in detail, why do you have this idea, and you want Baba to come to Beijing and tell me in person?"
”Zhu Youxiao said that he went down in person and took over the music from Bi Ziyan's hand.And Bi Ziyan said here: "Over the years, Lao Chen and several students of Lao Chen have conducted a survey on the consumption of the people, and prepared a book of ten thousand words, so that His Majesty can know the ministers and other intentions. ”"In the humble opinion of the old minister, the Ming Dynasty to this day, Rao is remote between the mountains and wilderness, there are also prosperous towns and workshops, the sound of the machine is continuous, the people who operate small business are also like the carp crossing the river, once the market is opened, the number of boats will cover the river, and the number of cars will also congest the road, which is the good side of the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty!
The people gradually had more money, and as a result, they had the power to buy, so that the towns and villages far away from the county seat could also prosper. ”Even many women and children have also increased their income, Changsha County Qi, only 22 years old widowed, 30 years later, relying on glass painting, in addition to daily use, accumulated more than 10,000 dollars!
Chengdu Long's relied on the local silk reeling factory for work, accumulated 144 taels of silver, and for his posthumous son to study, and now has been the prefect of the official ......"
""The minister found that since His Majesty ascended the throne, the people of the world have indeed been very rich, such as the old minister investigated and learned that a landlord in Suzhou, the cost of the eclipse, can achieve a pound of meat, three spoons of wine, two liters of rice and five he, it can be seen that the wealth of the people is indeed better than the previous dynasty, every year to put a brocade, eat a meat every day, not a problem.However, the people of the world are still suffering from hardships, only because of the wind of extravagant comparison, which is caused by the guidance of the powerful and wealthy!
It is also the bad side of the development of the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty to the present. ”"First of all, it is necessary to expand the land and build a garden in the home, which is okay, after all, it can be used for many years, and can be passed on to the children and grandchildren, and what should not be is that the wedding and funeral are also extremely expensive, the bride price must be expensive, and the burial must be heavy to find the famous wood for the coffin!
In addition, the banquet does not know how to be thrifty, a meal is less than thousands or more than tens of thousands, clothing, like the new and hate the old, despisy and luxury, because there is no longer a etiquette constraint, men and women dress, are too much, yellow, red color abuse to the extreme, and even carved dragons and phoenixes, the high and low are indistinguishable, and so that a piece of clothing is worth no less than 100 gold, even if it is mink fur, peacock hair, fur, Gu velvet and other precious clothing, it will be a day to abandon!
However, this is still second, more important, should be the imperial examination for the official recommendation fee, if you want to enter the government, at least spend 100 gold, if it is a person, then to the number of thousands of gold, literati gathering, drinking and banquet for the people for several years!
There are more prostitutes and the wind of raising and advocating excellence is difficult to stop, and even in order to raise a prostitute, it must cost 10,000 gold to buy a house, and then redeem his body with 10,000 gold, and there are rich people in the world, so as to treasure calligraphy, painting and antiques, in order to collect a thing, the cost is not less than thousands of gold. ”"The middle-class Sufeng family, if this continues, will eventually go bankrupt and destroy the foundation of the ancestors, and the wealthy families will expropriate and extort tyranny, steal and plunder, privately increase land rents, collude with the government to set up clever projects, and even privately lend usurious loans to force people to die, and even worse, secretly conspire with first-class magnates, control the government of a government or even a province, steal and sell official property, and embezzle treasury silver."
Therefore, this kind of extravagance has led to the fact that although the wealth of the people has increased, they still suffer from exploitation, and the surplus wealth has not increased significantly, and their consumption is still within their means, thrifty and restrained, so that the workshops and workshops of the manufacturing industry cannot be expanded in scale, and even gradually appear to be unsupported; In order to seek luxury, the wealthy must buy pure handicrafts for their daily use, and despise industrial products, so that craftsmen with exquisite skills are still obsessed with completing some extravagant and exquisite handicrafts alone, and lack the power to turn the handicrafts in their hands into factory production, from luxury things to public things, so that industrial products have more power.Lao Chen finally found that a large amount of the wealth given by the Ming Dynasty has been concentrated in non-producers, and the increase in the wealth of the people who are really producers is not as large as the increase in the wealth of people who do not produce in the world.If the increase in wealth is not concentrated in the hands of the producers, but not in the hands of the producers, it will not only not help the long-term peace and stability of the country, but will cause the country to decline earlier!
Because if this continues, there will be more people who are willing to work hard!
Today, when the population is surging, and a large number of new people, although landless and propertainous, are unwilling to work in the workshops, but still prefer to devote themselves to the slavery and maid of large families as adopted sons and daughters, and even do things to advocate excellence, this can be seen as proof of the harm caused by this phenomenon.Therefore, Your Majesty, the old minister dared to speak out, and hoped that the imperial court would stop this wind, so that the increase in the wealth of the empire would be more in the hands of those who worked hard to produce, and not because it was in the hands of those who did not produce!
According to the minister's knowledge, in the Jiangnan area, a famous prostitute who is good at playing and singing can earn 10,000 gold a day, and the annual income of a virtuous woman who is good at running a family is only 100 gold, such a phenomenon, the court can not ignore it!
Otherwise, the world will die because of it!
”Zhu Youxiao threw Chen Qu's experience to him: "Some people also mentioned this, what Aiqing just said is very right, the consumption level of the people has been suppressed, and the consumption of the wealthy has not been suppressed, but it has hindered the development of the productive forces, so that the country will regress." ”Zhu Youxiao looked at Liu Hongxun as he spoke: "Liu Aiqing was right to restrict scholars from taking concubines before, and even to rebuild morality. ”Liu Hongxun said: "Your Majesty, the old minister now feels that the old minister did not do enough in the past, and now I think about it, if this extravagant trend is to be curbed, and if you want to make more profits from the world go to the laborers, you have to be stricter with the scholars, and the public expenses need to be regulated, and the moral style must also be required!"
”"Yes!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded, and asked: "Do you Aiqing have other good strategies, so that the growing wealth of the world is more reflected in the producers, so that the people of the world really know that the workers are glorious!"
It is not that the Han people are willing to fall and refuse to be for the people, but are willing to be the cattle and horses of the wealthy!
”After listening to Bi Ziyan's explanation, coupled with his current experience, he couldn't help but find that although the Ming Dynasty had a high degree of economic development during the Longwan period, it failed to transform capitalism, and it was because of the problems with the consumption pattern brought about by economic development.After economic development, all the wealth increased went to the hands of the big landlords and big bureaucrats, and became the capital squandered by these people, and the people's lives became more and more difficult, and the large factories could not be opened, because the big landowners and big bureaucrats did not need cheap industrial products, but expensive luxury handicrafts, so the economic transformation failed.This made Zhu Youxiao now have to start thinking about how to avoid the continued occurrence of this phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty.Obviously, it is not possible to blindly copy the model of the West, even if the Ming Dynasty can flourish for a long time because of global colonial plunder, but if you don't pay attention, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably decline in the future.Moreover, history has proven that the great powers that rise in the West will quickly decline after becoming strong because of the free development of capital.If Daming wants to prosper for a long time, next, he has to go his own way.And what way to go.is the answer that Zhu Youxiao needs to find now."
Your Majesty, the old minister has already thought about this matter, and the old minister believes that the imperial court should control the free development of the commodity economy at present, and properly control it, and the imperial court should have the power to control, and the world should still be monopolized by the imperial court, and implement the strategy of officials entering and retreating, and most of the private businessmen who run factories only know how to exploit the workers as much as they can, so that the workers are not rich although they work hard, and now they can only develop the official industry in the imperial court, if Your Majesty used to set up a government-run industry in Tianjin to raise hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and the profits of the official business will be more distributed to the workers.
Even divide the shares with the workers, let the workers hold the shares, and the workers will have to get their work!
”At this time, Bi Ziyan answered the strategy he thought of.