Discussion on the impact of small-scale farming and small-scale farmer economy hindering the development of emerging industries in Jihan

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In the previous chapter, some readers said that the small farmers' economy consolidated by spreading the land into small acres, which would hinder the development of emerging industries. Here I would like to share my personal views.

It's a personal opinion, not an argument.

Because this topic is already quite in-depth and needs to be discussed.

There is simply no room for more than a hundred words in this chapter, so it must be discussed in a separate chapter.

The statement that small-scale peasant economy will hinder the development of emerging industries is indeed true to a certain extent.

But it has prerequisites.

One is food and the other is population.

Let’s talk about food first.

Agriculture is the primary industry and the basis for all emerging industries because they require large amounts of commercial grain.

The small-scale peasant economy also occupies cultivated land and cannot centrally supply commercial grain.

Right?

But has anyone ever thought about how many hundred acres of land each farmer in the Three Kingdoms would get if he wanted to divide up all the cultivated land in the country?

What's more, the ancients were not as stupid as everyone thinks. It was impossible for them to give away all the land in their hands at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China and then abandon it later.

this is not right.

Give me a chestnut.

In the Tang Dynasty, land was divided into two types for individuals, one was called Yongye field and the other was called Koufen field.

Yongye field literally means a field that can be cultivated forever.

It's different with land allocation. It's just given to you for farming, but the country will take it back after your death.

At the same time, in the early Tang Dynasty, a large amount of land was still in the hands of the government.

Why do this?

This is all to prepare for the new population later.

The land equalization system and the rent-yong modulation system are based on this foundation.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty court allocated all the land in the hands of the state that the land equalization system and the rent-to-rent system began to go bankrupt.

Taking a more recent matter as an example, readers with more experience should know that my country’s agricultural tax has only been abolished a few years ago (equivalent to the ancient land tax).

Why has my country's supply of commercial staple grains been so stable when farmers no longer pay public grain?

The reason is that the country has consolidated grain-producing areas and at the same time released part of its reserve farmland to transform it into a commercial grain supply base.

In the same way, after Ji Han unified the world, unless emerging industries did not develop within fifty years, the new population would completely carve up the reserve cultivated land in the hands of the country.

Otherwise, the new rich will inevitably demand an increase in the supply of various materials such as commercial grains and raw materials when emerging industries need to expand.

(This is without discussing the improvement of agricultural farming technology)

The food problem in emerging industries ultimately boils down to:

Do interest groups in emerging industries have the ability to mobilize sufficient commercial grain to support the development of emerging industries?

The answer is self-evident.

As mentioned many times before, every time the locals drive the expansion of emerging industries, it is based on sufficient food supply.

It makes no sense that the bumpkin knew these truths before, but then he doesn’t know them anymore after setting up a small business. This makes no sense.

When Ji Han unifies the world, the new rich will definitely be Ji Han's top interest group. Do you believe that they are unable to mobilize food?

Did the Prime Minister forget everything that happened when he was on his southern expedition?

That was only the first joint action of the Xinghan Society, and it was in no way comparable to the wealthy corporate chaebols that followed.

The second issue is population.

As grain production increases, the population will increase. However, dividing the land into small acres reduces the burden on farmers, causing farmers to voluntarily stay on the land and are unwilling to participate in emerging industries.

This also has preconditions.

That is: the continuous increase of self-cultivation farmers is based on the state's redistribution of land and maintaining the number of self-cultivation farmers.

But what if after Ji Han unified the world, land was only distributed once, and the second generation of farmers did not receive land?

If the land at home is still the same and there is not enough cultivated land, is it still called a self-cultivator?

Taking our own experience as an example, the contract system was fully promoted in 1982.

In the 1990s and the new millennium, not even 20 years have passed, but there has been a wave of rural migrant workers?

Why?

Looking closer, have you ever thought about the wave of urbanization that everyone has experienced in recent years?

This kind of "rural surplus labor force" is not just something we have, but has existed in all dynasties.

The solution in the past dynasties was to continuously allocate reserved cultivated land, or simply carry out reforms and re-measure the land.

When one day these methods can no longer be used, it will be "Bang"!

As for us, benefiting from the industrialization process, we can solve it better.

In the same way, after Ji Han unified the world, as long as land was no longer allocated to the increased population, it would only take twenty years to double the pressure on the peasant families.

Where will the extra population go?

Apart from emerging industries, do they have anywhere else to go?

Don’t say that farmers are unwilling to leave their land.

If you have a family of five, you need to work every day to barely maintain food and clothing.

And when working outside, one person can support two or even three people. Do you think they are willing to leave?

Referring to Yuexun County, what if we add a little more preferential policies?

Let’s take the current situation as an example. Not to mention the poll tax, even the agricultural tax has been cancelled. There are even subsidies from the state, allowing you to plant some land at home. Are you willing?

The only problem here is that if Ji Han can really unify the world, then the twenty years of recuperation will be the period of maximum dividends for emerging industries.

So where do they get the nutrients to grow?

The answer is also very simple: if Ji Han could really swallow up Wei and Wu, it would take at least twenty or thirty years to fully digest the dividends of unifying the world.

If the old families in the Central Plains represented by Cao Wei and the wealthy families in Jiangdong represented by Wu State are fat, then the foreign races in the frontier grasslands are lean.

You don't eat fat and lean meat, but you have to go back and eat the dregs of Cangtou Guizhou. The taste of the new rich will not be so unique.

Not to mention the life and death battle between the old and the new.

The third issue is the potential conflict between the small-scale peasant economy represented by homesteaders and emerging industries.

This question can also be looked at the development process of our country.

my country's regional development is uneven, with the coastal areas being developed and the central and western regions lagging behind.

For so many years, we have been trying to transfer the surplus production capacity from the coast to the central and western regions. But what about the capital?

Moved to Indochina.

By the same token, where are the places where there are enough farmers in Jihan to form a small-scale peasant economy?

That must be the inland plain area.

Where are the emerging industries?

Liangzhou, Longyou, Nanzhong.

They are all border areas.

Take the most typical Liangzhou as an example. It has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas. It has enough arable land to produce food, sufficient supply of raw materials, and sufficient geographical trading advantages.

Besides food, what else does the mainland have?

So why must emerging industries develop inland?

What if it thinks the outside world is wonderful?

Why can Ji Han do something that even the most powerful organizational ability in the world cannot do?

To put it bluntly, Ji Han's upstart brain circuit is relatively fresh, and he wants to be involuntarily involved.

But if emerging industries have expanded to the point where they need to destroy the small-scale peasant economy in the mainland, to what extent will they develop?

The state reserves commercial grain produced on cultivated land, as well as grain that the state can control in various ways, and grain that can be mobilized by interest groups.

The three combined cannot satisfy the appetite for the development of emerging industries.

That means that the development of productive forces represented by emerging industries has expanded to the point where the entire social production relations need to be changed.

This was at least the eve of the industrial revolution.

In that case, even if the country bumpkins were dug out of their graves, they would not be able to stop the historical trend of the bourgeoisie completely replacing feudal society.

Be it beheading, hanging on the gallows, or even hanging a street lamp, whatever needs to be done.

This is no longer an issue that needs to be considered by country folk.

But for now, emerging industries are still in the stage of mutual promotion with small businesses, so why can't they coexist?

The essence of capital is to pursue profits, and the two means to achieve this goal are to increase product prices and to reduce production costs.

We all know that emerging industries require a large amount of food rations, so canceling the poll tax and reducing agricultural taxes will reduce the cost of food supply?

So why can’t the upstarts support reducing production costs?

They must support it!

As for the remaining problems, for example, the products produced by the small-scale farmer economy do not flow into emerging industries, or they do not have much effect on emerging industries.

I don’t want to say more.

Agricultural products are always the younger brother in front of industrial products.

Whether the flow will flow in or whether it will have any effect is not decided by the peasants, but the upstarts represented by the emerging industries.

The difference is that it is controlled by the state as a whole, and the process is controlled smoothly.

Or should we let emerging industries over-expand and then use violent means to seize what we want?

Again, productivity determines production relations. At which stage of development, we must concentrate our efforts to solve the main contradiction at that stage.

Ji Han's current main conflict is how to unify the world.

Whether it's emerging industries or whether it's a small business, it's all Ji Han's help in unifying the world.

As far as the current stage is concerned, the contradiction between the two is not the main contradiction, and it is not irreconcilable.

The main purpose of allocating people into acres is to solve the problem of hiding the population, and at the same time stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers to resume production as soon as possible and increase the population (refer to the population explosion after Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty)

It is to better reserve human resources for emerging industries in the future, rather than to provide population for emerging industries immediately.

Nowadays, some of the resources needed by emerging industries are provided by the upstarts themselves, and some are provided by foreigners.

A considerable part of it was taken from Wei and Wu, as well as from the conservative wealthy families in Shu itself.

This is also the reason why the locals want to sell workshop quotas and let female presidents organize industry associations:

Control the development speed of emerging industries within a certain range and avoid disorderly and wild development.

One generation solves the problems of one generation and tries not to leave the problems to future generations.

Don’t try to help future generations solve problems once and for all, because you can’t solve problems that haven’t come yet.

How to dismantle aristocratic family politics and change the direction of history is the most important problem that the locals want to solve.

As for whether emerging industries will trigger the industrial revolution, if so, then whether the emerging class will decide to move inward or expand outward, where will history go...

This is no longer something that a country boy can decide.