Su Yonglin's future plan is mainly to stimulate the development of industrial production by promoting the growth of social demand in the Ming Dynasty, and to strongly promote the development of science and technology and the process of industrialization.
Even if one foot steps onto the threshold of the industrial revolution, it will be enough for Ming Dynasty to turn around and get rid of the shackles of history.
The demand, in addition to the farmers' demand for a better life released by the current contact with oppression and exploitation, mainly comes from two aspects.
One comes from conquest.
The other comes from the sea.
Conquest is easy to understand. The Ming Dynasty’s external conquest and construction are huge needs.
With the army's offensive, with the Southern Song Dynasty and other countries being destroyed one after another, and with the continuous expansion of the Ming Empire's territory, the demand for construction was the largest domestic demand.
After the Ming Dynasty destroyed its enemies, it needed to build and develop the newly occupied territory in its own way. Construction and development required materials. This was a big demand, a very, very big demand. .
This part of the demand will greatly promote factory production, and this part of the demand will be enough to support factory production in the next ten or twenty years.
In the foreseeable future, Su Yonglin felt that the Ming Dynasty would not stop its conquests in the next twenty years. The Ming Dynasty's army would not stop fighting and expand externally until the Ming Dynasty's territory was expanded to the most suitable extent.
Where are you now?
The national strength of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been restored, the war machine has not yet been fully activated, and the powerful power of the army has not yet been fully released.
Once released, it will be a devastating dimensionality reduction blow to all surrounding regimes.
To put it bluntly, the current East Asia is actually divided during the Warring States Period. Many ethnic and regional regimes were established without a unified order.
And this was something Su Yonglin couldn't accept.
Therefore, in the future, conquest, revolution, and secondary construction will be the mainstream, which will also generate extremely huge demand. This demand will severely drive the industrial development and technological progress of the Ming Dynasty.
But this is not sustainable.
There is a limit to the domestic demand brought about by military conquest and national construction. If it were unlimited, it would not be a normal country. It would be a military state, which was far more terrifying than feudalism and would lead the Ming Dynasty into a bottomless abyss.
Therefore, we must not take the path of a military state.
Domestic demand was not enough, and external demand was needed to make up for it. The Southern Song Dynasty relied on the prosperity of foreign trade to create a falsely prosperous commodity economy, and relied on foreign trade to create a false citizen class, which is enough to prove that foreign trade in this era has great economic potential. .
The huge demand in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe can boost the economic development of the Southern Song Dynasty, extend the life of the Southern Song Dynasty for decades, and allow them to resist the Mongolian attack for decades.
If Ming Dynasty can seize the share of foreign trade and bring all foreign trade to its side, it will be able to promote the development of industry and commerce at a faster speed, so that it can accumulate enough funds for scientific and technological development.
Therefore, Su Yonglin was also thinking about how to seize foreign trade share during this period.
If we purely use competitiveness to rob, we cannot compete with the Southern Song Dynasty for goods due to the situation in the north that is slowly recovering and that agriculture is more important than commercial industry. Apart from arms, we cannot produce any more competitive products. .
But the good thing is that Su Yonglin has no need to compete legitimately with the Southern Song Dynasty. This kind of business talk will never become an iron rule in business. It is just a beautiful fantasy for everyone, especially between countries.
Su Yonglin even thought about dispatching naval forces to directly conquer the major port cities in the Southern Song Dynasty, block the water routes of the Southern Song Dynasty's external communication, and directly block its foreign trade.
But Su Yonglin then thought about it and felt that this would cause intense political turmoil in the Southern Song Dynasty, cause a large number of rebellions in the Southern Song Dynasty, greatly affect the stability of the Southern Song Dynasty society, and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty's social economy. This was not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty. .
In his plan, the Ming army defeated the Song Dynasty in a devastating manner. After defeating the main force of the Southern Song army in one go, the Ming army quickly annexed the Southern Song Dynasty in a sweeping manner.
The entire combat process may not take a year. Within a year, he can swallow up the Southern Song Dynasty entirely, resolve this war as quickly as possible, and preserve the economic vitality of the Southern Song Dynasty to the maximum extent.
It would not be in his interest to cause huge damage to the Southern Song Dynasty's social economy beforehand and plunge the Southern Song Dynasty into a situation of war and rebellion.
Even Zhao Yucheng from Jiangnan West Road has now started work on land, started building farmers' associations and new rural areas, and started to restore social production.
It is conceivable that in the future, when the Ming army goes south, it will be able to get a complete and productive Jiangnan West Road that can be used without much investment.
This is the pattern.
However, ordinary rebels have no structure at all. They just fight, kill, burn, loot and loot, destroying social production to a complete mess, and they have to invest a lot of money in order to produce output, which is very uneconomical.
As an open-minded leader, Su Yonglin has always believed that Jiangnan is already his territory, and he must treat his territory gently.
Therefore, we cannot be cruel to the Southern Song Dynasty for the time being.
After much calculation, Su Yonglin feels that the only thing that can be promoted now is collective agriculture.
Because of China's special geographical location, China's climate, which is controlled by two atmospheric currents, will experience relatively large natural disasters about once every five years, including but not limited to droughts, floods, snowstorms, etc. In short, there are many disasters on this land. Disaster-prone.
The land in China does not have the perfect environment like some countries in South America where you can harvest a good harvest while lying down. You have to work hard and intensively to get enough food.
This difficult climate situation has caused the Chinese people to suffer hardships since ancient times, but it has also tempered the ancient Chinese people's strong adaptability and unwillingness to admit defeat.
If God doesn’t give it to you, then you have to create it yourself. One seemingly incredible man-made project after another appears on this land. Some particularly large projects can even benefit future generations thousands of years later.
The tradition of intensive farming is rooted in this land. The large number of water conservancy projects created by the ancients allowed some seemingly impossible lands to grow food.
Despite this, many people have starved to death due to natural disasters since ancient times. The number is heartbreaking. The fundamental reason is that the scattered small-scale peasant economy cannot cope with large-scale natural disasters.
The ancients also made some attempts to incorporate some elements of the collective economy, such as the national manor economy and the landlord's manor economy. Because of their agglomeration, this type of manor is much more resistant to natural disasters and political disasters than ordinary small farmers.
But its essence is not a collective economy for the benefit of the people, but a means of exploitation to satisfy private desires, so it cannot change anything in the end.
Fundamentally, the significance of the collective economy is to gather everyone's strength, hold together for warmth, and resist various natural disasters and other unpredictable disasters.
This cannot directly greatly improve the level of agricultural production, but it can greatly improve the degree of agricultural organization and indirectly create an environment conducive to agricultural production, thus indirectly improving the level of agricultural production.
The operation method of the collective economy is to take the lead of the peasant association, gather the land of a village together, and the farmers use the land as shares, which is the main distribution standard rather than the only distribution standard.
The allocation criteria should also take into account the amount of labor and labor time.
Another step is to consider engineering requirements.
For example, a country requires the construction of a project that requires the use of labor from the land. If it is a small-scale peasant economy and each family takes care of its own family, then families with more labor will have an advantage over families with less labor, and it will be more convenient to operate.
If a family with a large labor force sends one laborer to participate in the project, it will not affect the harvest of its own land.
If a family with a small labor force sends one laborer to participate in the project, it will affect its own land harvest.
In this case, families with a small labor force will become resistant and dissatisfied, and will resent the farmers' association.
But if it is a collective economy, this will not be the case. The land is collective, and the collective is arranged to cultivate it uniformly. If there is a need for a project, the collective will also arrange to participate in the project.
Participation in agricultural work and participation in engineering work can be calculated uniformly, and both work points are counted as attendance. There will be no disputes based on the number of laborers in a single family, which directly solves problems that are difficult to solve in the small farmer economy.
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