Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 223 Capitalism
In fact, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua only looked at the superficial things. The real defense force of the military factory was not on the ground, but underground.

Not far behind the perimeter guard, Li Jing ordered people to dig a ring ditch along the outside of the military factory. People who didn't know this ring ditch thought it was a drainage facility, but it was actually a secret passage.As soon as the cement factory starts production, it is planned to build this ring ditch with concrete and then close it. At the same time, there are still a large number of dark forts and bright forts around the military factory.

On the surface, the construction of these facilities is a bit redundant, but Li Jingshen knows that no matter how strict the defense of the military factory is, the military factory is the strongest backing of the Jishi Army. As long as the military factory exists, even if all the sites are lost , you can still call back.

While building a military factory, it can also feed a cement factory.

Cement is a new thing, and it is impossible for ordinary people to accept it as soon as it appears. It takes a process to promote it among the people.But the cement produced by the cement factory cannot be stored for a long time. The construction of the military factory happens to be able to use the cement. Li Jing's purchase of cement to build the military factory is tantamount to supporting two groups of people with one dollar.

Then Li Jing took Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua to visit new factories such as textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, and garment factories.

After seeing these factories, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua were speechless.

Only then did the two of them understand that in order to develop the economy of a place, people must have jobs and income. The common people who only rely on farming can only solve food and clothing. How can ordinary people who are still worrying about food have spare money for consumption?
However, a group of farmers are separated to work. These people live on wages, and many materials have to be purchased with money, which gives businesses an opportunity to make money.

At the same time, merchants have to purchase raw materials from ordinary people and purchase finished products from factories. After ordinary people sell raw materials, they can consume them if they have money, thus forming a cycle.

In fact, when factories began to appear, some farmers were separated from the land, and the economic structure of society began to change from a small-scale peasant economy to a capitalist economy, which is the so-called capitalist society.

Marx has a famous saying: When capital comes into the world, from head to toe, blood and dirty things are dripping from every pore.

This sentence seems very simple, but in fact it needs to be carefully considered.

The capital Marx mentioned does not simply refer to money.

Money is just a tool, it only acts as a medium for exchanging needs, and it is innocent in itself.

For example, ordinary people grow grain, sell the grain to buy cotton to weave and make clothes, and cotton growers sell cotton to buy grain.

When the harvest is good, the money sold is used to buy the necessary materials and there is still a surplus. Does the remaining money count as capital?
At most, it can only be said that the blood and sweat of ordinary people flowed in the money, but it must not be said that he is dirty.

In order to survive, a businessman must buy low and sell high, so that he can make money. With money, he can eat enough and wear warm clothes. After all these are resolved, the businessman also has surplus money in his hand. Is this money considered capital? ?
Forget it, the blood and sweat of the businessman is also flowing here, and he must not be said to be dirty.

The ordinary people who farm the land want to buy more land when they have money. If there is too much land, they can't grow it by themselves, so they have to hire people. These people are the landlords.

After a businessman has money, he does not want to buy finished products from ordinary people. He wants to produce finished products by himself. He cannot do the production of finished products by himself, so he can only hire people. The place where the finished products are produced is the factory, and these people become entrepreneurs.

The capital Marx mentioned refers to the money obtained by exploiting and squeezing the common people, and then using the profits to expand production, and then exploiting more common people.

For example, a farmer harvests ten shi of grain every year, and a worker works for ten shi of grain. If the workload of the two is the same, then there is no exploitation. .

Exploitation means that you have worked for a year, but you can only buy less than ten shi of grain, or the workload of farmers is much higher than that of farmers, but their income is only equivalent to that of farmers.

Why use farmers to grow food as a measure?That's because if there is no food, everyone will have to drink, no matter how much money there is, it will be useless.

Food is the measure of everything.

To give another example, if the food produced in a country can only feed [-] million people, but there are [-] million people in this country, the extra [-] million people will definitely not be able to eat. At this time, the country will inevitably have problems.

Since the country has only so much land for growing grain, there are three ways to solve the problem. One is for the country to find ways to increase grain production and produce more grain to feed the extra [-] million people.

The second way is to buy food from other countries, or take other materials to other countries in exchange for food. (Like the Middle East, that place is full of deserts, and there is no food or not much food, so we can only rely on selling oil to buy food or exchange food.)
The last resort is to grab.

The strength of the country is weak, and people in the country start to rob each other. When will the robbing end?Grab until there is enough to eat, that is, destroy [-] million people.

If the country is strong, then the government will organize to rob other countries, occupy the land of other countries, and use the land of other countries to grow food to feed the people of their own country.

For a country, food is always the most important.

The second is the problem of clothing. If you are full, you have to dress warmly. If you are cold, you will have trouble.

Li Jing came from later generations, and he knew the reason for the war.

Therefore, everything he is doing now is actually focusing on solving the two problems of food and clothing, and then implementing a policy that makes everyone as equal as possible.

The minimum standard for Li Jing to pay workers wages is measured according to the income of farmers.

Under the premise of the same workload, the wages of workers cannot be higher than the income of farmers, otherwise, farmers will go to work instead of farming, so the grain output will decrease, resulting in the results mentioned above.

Why do you say try to make everyone equal, because there is no real equality in the world.

People are different, some people are diligent, some people are lazy, some people have land, some people don't have land, then the value they produce is not the same, which will produce differences, and differences will create inequality.

Li Jing just waited to formulate an equal policy as much as possible to satisfy the majority of people.

After leaving Hongshanling, Li Jing's territory has become bigger and bigger, and he can no longer think about problems like before.

Now that Li Jing is thinking more and more comprehensively, he knows that sometimes, some people's interests must be sacrificed.

Li Jing will never take pity on those who eat too much and are lazy and don't do anything productive.

He took Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua around under the rule, and at the same time instilled his own political ideas into them.

At this time, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua knew that Li Jing's ambition was so great, no wonder Yuan Keli would assist him wholeheartedly.

Both Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua had the same concern for the country and the people. Seeing what Li Jing did, they knew that only this person in front of them could do it to save the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

So far, the two of them have made up their minds and made up their minds to make some achievements under Li Jing's rule.

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In the study room of the Yamen House in Anyi County, Li Jing flipped through the performance reports sent from various places.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and Pingyang Mansion is developing in an orderly manner under Li Jing's rule.

All factories have been built and put into production, and everything is moving forward according to Li Jing's expectation and design.

The fly in the ointment is that there are still not many talents in the Academy of Sciences.

Li Jing knew that Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others had tried their best, and they recruited anyone they could, but most of them were unwilling to come, especially those foreigners.

When Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua were important officials in the imperial court, these foreigners flocked to them because they took a fancy to the power in their hands and knew that these two people could help them achieve their wishes.

Now that Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua have no officials or jobs, if they give up their purpose of coming to Daming to work for Li Jing, these people are not willing to come at all.

"Master, please drink tea." A soft voice sounded beside Li Jing.

Li Jing turned his head and saw that it was Zhu Huilai who brought the teacup over.

Smiling, Li Jing put down the report, took the teacup and said, "I've said it all, don't call me Master! Why do you still call me that?"

Zhu Huiling laughed lightly and said, "As a concubine, I can only be called Master. If people hear me by another name, they will say that I don't understand the rules."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "If you don't change your name, Yingying will call me Master now. I feel uncomfortable hearing people call me Master, so let me tell you, I don't want to be Master, I just want to do something better. In the future, if someone still remembers me, Li Jing, and says that I have done some practical things for the common people, I will be satisfied."

Zhu Huiling nodded lightly, looking at Li Jing with tenderness and admiration.

This man is really amazing, it is worth waiting for him for so many years.

Being able to marry this person, Zhu Huiling has absolutely no regrets in his life.

Not long after Zhu Huiyu married Li Jing, when everything finally stabilized, Li Jing remembered the marriage and finally decided to marry Zhu Huiyu.

This marriage was not grand, mainly because Li Jing didn't want to be extravagant, but compared to the marriage with Shen Ying in Hongshanling, the scale was still much larger.

Li Jing naturally knew that Shen Ying had arranged all of this, so he didn't want Li Jing to wrong Zhu Huiyu.

You know, Zhu Huiyu married Li Jing only as a concubine, almost like a concubine to put it bluntly.

When the ancients married a concubine, it was a grand occasion to entertain guests and friends, but the pomp and ceremony of the marriage was very small. Generally, it was enough to carry the concubine in a sedan chair for four people through the side door.

This naturally means respecting the mistress, and it means telling the newcomer who is the boss in this family.

However, the marriage of Zhu Huiyu was completely in accordance with the specifications of the main wife, carrying eight large sedan chairs, and carried them in through the main entrance, and all the etiquette standards were also handled according to the specifications of the main wife.

Li Jing understands Shen Ying's good intentions, not only to maintain his own status, but also to make people look at her as virtuous, it's not easy!

Therefore, Li Jing did not go to bed at Zhu Huiyu's place that night, but stayed at Shen Ying's place for three nights in a row.

This way of doing is respect for Shen Ying, and it shows that I am not the kind of person who forgets the old one after getting a new one.

Zhu Huiling stayed alone in the vacant room for three days, and the feeling in her heart was hard to express, but she also knew that if she wanted to maintain a good relationship with Shen Ying, she had to endure this grievance.

Fortunately, Shen Ying also knew that enough was enough. On the fourth night, Shen Ying finally drove Li Jing to Zhu Huiyu's side. Only then did Zhu Huiyu complete his cultivation.

(End of this chapter)