As they spoke, Fang and Du looked at Tang Ping: "I wonder if Mr. Tang has any good ways to make money?"
Tang Ping looked at the burning eyes of the two people. In fact, he had seen more people's sufferings along the way, and he also wanted to do something for people in this era.
So he expressed some thoughts that he had thought about for a long time.
"I think Datang's advantage is actually its large population. We can reap the dividends from the population!"
"The dividend of population?" Everyone knows the role of population in this era. After all, farming requires people and fighting wars requires people. But what is the dividend of population? This is the first time they have heard of it.
The current Tang Dynasty actually has a very good population structure. First of all, it is constantly fighting, resulting in very few people living to a relatively old age.
Just like Shanghe Village, among the more than 100 people in the village, only the first two, Lao Zhou, are over sixty years old.
This shows that the proportion of elderly people in the entire Datang population is very low. This is a "golden period" when labor resources are relatively abundant, the burden of childcare is light, and economic development is very reasonable.
This is the so-called demographic dividend!
Although Tang Ping is not an economist, he has been thinking about these issues recently. He also uses his 2G network to check information online when sleeping and resting, so now that Fang and Du ask about it, he can talk about it. .
This is the first time that Fang and Du have heard such a novel theory, but if you think about it carefully, it is completely correct.
“So how can this demographic dividend be converted into wealth?”
"Develop industry!" Tang Ping seemed to have light in his eyes, looking ahead in a daze.
"industry?"
"Yes, there is industry and commerce!" You must know that the real major developments in the world came from the industrial revolution.
In particular, the first and second industrial revolutions directly caused Europe's productivity to far exceed that of China, which was already several world leaders in productivity and wealth, and also brought the darkest era to China at that time.
Now, after Tang Ping went out for a walk, he finally wanted to leave something to the times, and developing industry and commerce was the best way he could think of.
Then he explained the basic concepts of industry to the two of them in a language that Datang could understand.
In this era, there was already a class division between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, but the concept of industry and commerce was still blank.
"In other words, we need to vigorously develop various production workshops? And then sell the products?"
"That's right!" Tang Ping nodded: "Actually, in the final analysis, this is still a process of buying low and selling high."
He gave an analogy: "It's like we bought a batch of wood from East Vietnam. The total cost of all freight, labor and other costs is one thousand yuan, and then we made it into a carriage and sold it. Then the carriage will definitely not just be sold. One thousand yuan, right? Even if we sell it for two thousand yuan, then from this, we can earn a thousand yuan profit from industry and commerce."
"But why did Dongyue sell wood to us and then buy cars from us? Don't they know they made those wood into carriages in Dongyue?"
Xiao Luo asked this question. Fang and Du were thinking about what Tang Ping said. Only Xiao Luo was a little confused, so she asked a question that ordinary people would ask.
Tang Ping smiled at her and said: "This goes back to what I said at the beginning, we need to develop industry. As long as our technology is more advanced, if Dongyue uses wood worth one thousand yuan and one thousand yuan, it can We got a car here.”
"In their own country, they need this thousand dollars of wood plus two thousand dollars to build a car. What do you think they will choose?"
"Then you must have brought wood and money to us in exchange for the car!" Xiao Luo clapped her hands, happy that she understood what the young master said.
"But how can we ensure that our costs are lower and our technology is better?" Of course Fang and Du knew that what Tang Ping said made sense, but the core issue was this, how to ensure it.
Tang Ping looked at the two of them: "You two don't need to set a trap for me, don't I? As long as I am here, I will definitely make Datang's technology far ahead!"
This is not Tang Ping's bragging. Although it is impossible for him to move the production line, there are only mechanical creations that are ahead of the times, such as the Tang plow and the keel waterwheel, and there are many more.
If nothing else, if you bring the large water-powered spinning wheel from the Song and Yuan Dynasties to this era, you can crush all the hand-spinning machines of this era.
You must know that people in this era used ordinary spinning wheels to spin yarn with only 2 to 3 spindles, and could only spin up to 3 pounds of yarn per day.
But a large water-powered spinning wheel can spin more than a hundred kilograms of yarn in a day and night.
What Tang Ping wants to bring is this kind of machinery that uses human power instead of natural power to improve Datang's productivity.
In places where water power is insufficient, Tang Ping can also move Jenny's spinning machines.
Many people may not have a clue just by the name. Tang Ping did the same before, but after reading the information, he realized how powerful this thing called Jenny Textile Machine was.
Because it was precisely because of the emergence of the Jenny machine that large-scale weaving factories in Europe were established.
The invention of the Jenny machine is also regarded as the beginning of the first industrial revolution. Although it still uses human power, the spinning capacity of the old European spinning wheel has been increased by 8 times, not to mention the spinning capacity of the Tang Dynasty in this era. Compared with the more backward spinning machines.
Tang Ping became more and more excited as he talked about it. Of course, he also knew that these things were just words on paper for him. If he was just one person, it would be impossible to realize them in the Tang Dynasty.
But after spending a short time with Fang and Du, he could feel that these two were good officials who really cared about the sufferings of the people.
At the same time, the two of them can do things in an eclectic way, so he believes that as long as the two of them can accept his suggestions, they will be able to find the most suitable path for the Tang Dynasty.
The result was just as Tang Ping expected. The two continued to discuss the feasibility of Tang Ping's plan and how to improve it based on Datang's situation.
It was more than fifty miles to Chang'an, which took almost half a day. The two of them sat in the car and discussed with Tang Ping for most of the day.
Two of the three are the most capable political ministers of this era, and Tang Ping has insights that surpass this era for more than a thousand years.
Under the collision of the three people's ideas, a path to wealth belonging to Datang gradually became clear.
Xiao Luo was responsible for serving tea and water to the three of them in the car. Seeing that her young master could talk to a high-ranking official like Fang Du, the stars in Xiao Luo's eyes almost fell out.
Towards evening, the towering and tall city wall of Chang'an finally appeared not far away.
