Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

In addition, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River was very developed, so a large number of laborers were free, which led to changes in the operation and production methods of some landlords. The method of small and small plots has gradually become a way of treating tenant farmers as production workers. In this way, the value of the crops is uniformly arranged by the landlord. How to plant, how to irrigate, how to divert water, and how to prevent disasters are all coordinated. arrange.

This method is definitely more advanced than farmers planting a small piece of land by themselves, and it is easier to use the potential of the land.

These large farms use the labor of hired farmers, from reclamation, to planting value, management, how to put them on the market, how to use space, and how to grow crops that are more suitable for the market. Everyone farms skillfully according to their decisions, and finally obtains the maximum benefit.

During the Wanli period, there was a landlord named Pan Yunrui. He owned [-] mu of land, and he also used hired labor to manage it. The crops he planted were very diverse, including rice, wheat, beans, rapeseed, cotton, vegetables, etc. These are Conventional crops, at the same time, he also grows watermelon, jujube, peach, persimmon, cherry, orange, plum, plum and other fruits, as well as osmanthus, plum blossom, peony, rose, bamboo, pine, cypress, holly, juniper, palm and other flowers and trees .

The benefits of this kind of value method are not Zhang Shouren's own unique invention. It was the same in Europe at the same time. Large manor owners began to hire workers and merged a large number of land. [

This approach is of great benefit to the agricultural revolution. At the same time, a large number of landless peasants can only go to the cities to work as workers, which also makes the European industry begin to flourish in the same period.

The pressure of industrial development has prompted scientists to start developing corresponding machine tools. The Jenny machine has already appeared, Newton is about to be born, and the concept of steam engines already exists in the West. Less than a hundred years later, steam engines have begun to be used in European mining areas to drive wheels and After the steam engine was used in the textile industry, the entire West really entered the age of the steam engine, which really drove the industrial revolution.

Like China, the small-scale peasant economy is still based on small pieces of land. Although it has maintained the Chinese civilization, it is impossible to get rid of the shackles and really take off with its own strength.

The conservative Confucian civilization produced by the small-scale peasant economy has a fundamentally negative attitude towards the development of science and technology. Without science and technology, there would be no basis for the industrial revolution, and without the participation of a large number of landless peasants, it would be impossible to talk about industrial take-off.

Besides, in China, a large number of peasants means one thing: revolution.

What Zhang Shouren is doing now is a groundbreaking event for Chinese civilization.

Breaking the tradition and re-establishing a new way of production and survival. With this ambition, the chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep in front of us are just passing clouds and indifferent things.

Really set up the model of large farms, drive the remaining peasant labor to work, form a virtuous circle, promote various machine innovations, and the real germination of the industrial revolution appears... At this point, China is as written in the history textbook In this way, it is possible to enter capitalism.

If this step can be achieved, Zhang Shouren will die without regret!