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Text 1042. The Tang Dynasty in Western Eyes (3)

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    And the foreign businessman just now said that every common person in China has his own land, which actually refers to the so-called equal land system in the Tang Dynasty.  In the West, all land belongs to the great nobles, and ordinary people do not have much land.  In fact, Jingwen cannot completely solve this problem, because this is just the difference between the East and the West.  The Eastern Chinese dynasties actually encouraged the small-scale peasant economy, and judging from the history of the small-scale peasant economy, Jing Wen also knew that the small-scale peasant economy did not last long.  All dynasties have encouraged small-scale peasant economy, because as long as people have land, they will not rebel because of land annexation.  However, the small-scale peasant economy has great disadvantages, that is, farmers have small scale of operation, poor production conditions, and lack of ability to accumulate reserves.  As for the second one, that is, self-sufficiency, the production and management model is old, and it is difficult to innovate in agricultural technology.  The third is that the ability to withstand natural disasters is very poor.  And these three are actually very deadly. The later the era reaches, the more deadly they become.  The scale of production is small, which means that there is just enough food to eat, and there is little food reserve.  This has brought about the third hazard, that is, once there is a natural disaster, the final result will be that farmers go bankrupt.  This is the biggest danger for ordinary farmers. Once there is a natural disaster, they need to sell their land to make a living.  Those big landowners have a strong ability to resist risks. Even if they suffer from natural disasters, they can still survive and finally buy the land at a low price.  And this is the reason why land is increasingly being annexed, and this is the biggest drawback of the small-scale peasant economy.  As for the old production and operation model and the inability to innovate technology, this is also a very important issue.  China's small-scale peasant economy has prevented rapid innovation in production technology.  The most obvious example is that in later generations, many agricultural machinery were invented. The efficiency of agricultural machinery is much better than that of ordinary agricultural tools powered by humans and animals.  However, the income of ordinary farmers cannot afford to buy agricultural machinery at all.  Agricultural machinery requires high input and high output, but the people simply cannot afford the high price and cost of agricultural machinery.  And we know that agricultural machinery is very efficient.  But they couldn't buy it because they owned too little land.  This kind of small-scale peasant economy ultimately resulted in the inability to promote advanced agricultural machinery.  ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????  Only those landowners with large amounts of land can afford such high-input and high-output agricultural machinery. Other small farmers are low-cost and low-output. In the end, because they cannot accumulate enough capital to improve agricultural production technology, technology cannot innovate.  From the perspective of Jingwen¡¯s later generations, the plantation economy adopted by the West was the one that eventually came to an end.  In the plantation economy, they can completely use those agricultural machinery with high input and high output, and use a large number of agricultural machinery to increase the yield of the land.  Then management costs have dropped a lot, so overall grain output and production costs are declining.  Moreover, in this way, the people who lost their land can force them to move towards industry and become workers.  But the East has always been on the path of concentrating land, then distributing it, concentrating it again, and redistributing it.  This is also the result of history often changing dynasties and eventually forming cycles one after another.  Jing Wen believes that in fact, this small-scale peasant economy is the result of the cycle of dynasties, so even if the fields are divided, the final result is to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.  So I want to completely solve this problem.  That is to say, the country must be industrialized, and then the people who have lost their land will become workers. This is fundamental!  From the perspective of later generations, the Western plantation economy had the last laugh.  Because later generations Jingwen read the data.  Large grain growers and agricultural reclamation companies across the country only use relatively small amounts of land and then produce relatively more grain.  So this is enough to show that the plantation economy is actually much better than the small farmer economy. At least it can survive longer than the small farmer economy.  Later governments actually guided farmers to gradually concentrate their land and then achieve greater yields through intensive planting.  This is a variant of the plantation economy.  "Yes! Every ordinary person here owns land. If we have so much land, why do we have to come all the way to the East to do business?" Another businessman also sighed.  These merchants are actually standing and speaking without back pain.  Because they are ordinary people and not aristocratic landowners, of course they envy those aristocratic landowners.  However, if they could own a lot of land, they would be willing to take the initiative to cultivate the land honestly instead of going thousands of miles away to do business.  The reason why the West was able to start the colonial wave first was because they were too poor and their land could not support the growing population, so they naturally sent their population out to divert pressure from the locals.  But the East missed these, because the East's small-scale peasant economy kept the people in a state of starvation, and in the end they did not have the courage to go abroad.  Therefore, when the East fell behind after more than a thousand years, in fact, Jing Wen saw that?It cannot be completely reversed by a certain person or a certain dynasty.  Jingwen is not clearing the ground for Manchuria, but from the perspective of economic system, the small-scale peasant economy in the East is actually not suitable as the basis of an industrialized country.  The economic base determines the superstructure, so Jing Wen believes that as long as the small-scale peasant economy still dominates, the country's industrialization will be very slow.  And Western industrialization and colonization were actually forced out!  Without a time-traveler like Jing Wen, the Tang Dynasty was actually destined to embark on a cycle of chaos and chaos. Without a time-traveler to lead the change of the ancient small-scale peasant economic system, in the end it would only be a continuous cycle of dynasties.  Therefore, Jing Wen knew that the land equalization system and land divisions were all methods of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, so Jing Wen had been gradually industrializing the country.  "Yes! It would be great if I could live in the Tang Dynasty! Not only would there be land, but there would also be various rich products, allowing me to have a very good life. Ordinary people here live better than those in the West  The people here are much better, and the people here are so happy," Caesar also said.  And Caesar¡¯s words made many people feel the same way. After all, who doesn¡¯t like this kind of life.  Whether the living conditions are good or not depends on comparison.  Anyway, in this era, Datang is much better than the West.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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