Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

In fact, there is no difference in essence whether the Qin Dynasty used bronze ware or not. Whether it can be done is the biggest problem. As long as it can be done, bronze ware and iron ware are at most difficult to make, and there is a difference in the degree of coin distribution.

The current problem in the Han Dynasty is that there is no way to go to the assembly line. The scales used by craftsmen in various places are not a standard at all. It is okay to make large pieces, but to make small parts that require precision. The difference in precision will make these parts unable to match, which will lead to There is no improvement in efficiency.

This is also an important reason why the Qin Dynasty was able to play with the assembly line, but the Han Dynasty could not. The weights and measures collapsed again. Although it did not completely collapse, there are indeed more or less problems with the weights and measures in various places.

The reason for these problems, after Jia Xu kicked Lu Xun and Lu Yu down to visit them, the above people knew the crux of the problem, which can be regarded as greed and historical problems.

"In addition to these problems, there are other problems. After standardizing the weights and measures, it will save the people below to rely on big fights and small fights to harm the people." Liu Bei said with a sneer, "Officials who dare to do such things , I think you know quite a lot, although these are not very serious methods, but it is better to avoid them if they can be avoided."

Cao Cao nodded. Both the ruler and the bucket have a tendency to become larger with time. The reason is very simple. For the common people, a bucket of grain is better if it is small, but if the bucket used by the government becomes larger, it will become bigger. You can exploit more.

Assuming that one person pays tax per bucket, and the big bucket is one liter larger than the small bucket, then a county can collect more than hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of liters of grain, and no one will make trouble.

But this kind of thing is very uncomfortable for Liu Bei. Exploiting the people, don't you bastards want to live anymore? Although thinking about it carefully, this method is not too much, but Liu Bei is still very upset.

Even some officials are not greedy for a little food, but for the sake of political achievements, and they will switch to big fights. After all, the amount of food tax revenue in agricultural society is a very important assessment for officials. The more tax revenue, it shows that you are good at local management. the better.

So use a big fight or something, for an unscrupulous creature like an official, what can't be done with this kind of thing, after all, it's about climbing up, it's a smooth thing!

Naturally, after understanding this, Liu Bei also felt a pain in his liver. I really want to raise taxes. The problem is the way I want to raise taxes. It is because your county’s grain production has increased, and your fields have increased in land reclamation, not you. This sneaky tax hike.

In this state of mind, the purpose of Liu Bei's approval of weights and measures is directly to strangle those bastards who steal, rape and play tricks, so as not to cause trouble to the people!

In fact, Chen Xi did not tell Liu Bei that the core part of the standardization of weights and measures is not the current ones. Although these are important now, compared with the foundation of future industrialization, in terms of meaning and other aspects, they are all inferior. quite far.

Although the reality of this world is doomed to only take the route of the essence of heaven and earth.

The basis of industrialization is not its power source, but social production changes, and standardized weights and measures can relatively make this road easier to walk when someone touches it after the future productivity is achieved.

Anyway, Chen Xi probably knows how much foundation is needed to develop industrialization. With so few craftsmen at present, wake up, the most basic skilled workers are not enough.

What's more, what kind of price should be paid for industrialization? To be honest, Chen Xi is really entangled. Before it can solve the overall food problem of the society, rushing to promote industrialization will only lead to the collapse of the Han Dynasty's current small-scale peasant economy where men farm and women weave.

Chen Xi would like to say something, I have been working hard to increase the number of self-cultivating farmers. From the beginning to before, Yuan Shu burned the land deed documents in order to increase the scale of self-cultivating farmers. In the end, to start an industrialization, let me first collapse the economic system of self-cultivating farmers, let People can only eat soil and become refugees.

From a real historical point of view, only when the existing social system of the common people is overwhelmed will they be forced to enter the factory, so that the speed of industrialization will be accelerated, and the existing social system will be destroyed faster. Finally, after large-scale social changes, the industrial society Crush the farming society and enter the era of industrialization.

How many people will die in this process? Chen Xi's liver hurts just thinking about it. Basically, all countries in history had to go through this road paved with bones.

What's more, Chen Xi is very clear about how many people will be directly pushed into the abyss by large-scale social changes, not to mention that ordinary people at the bottom who have lost their ability to survive are forced to revolt, causing turmoil, which will collapse the entire social order, and finally overthrow this era.

Simply put, in the current situation, as long as you don't die, you are destined to move forward steadily, and then reach the pinnacle of the world. Chen Xi's conservative character is destined not to accept that more radical plan. After all, Chen Xi's current implementation The plan is considered radical by people of this era, if it is replaced by a plan that Chen Xi thinks is radical, if he is not sure yet, isn't that courting death?

What's more, it is not that there are no other solutions in theory, although it is a bit empty.

That is another kind of social change that exists in theory, the possibility of entering industrialization, but as a result of Chen Xi's review of history, this theory seems to be only theoretical.

Because this theory is really too far, empty until the society develops itself, the universality of the people has time to improve themselves, and in the farming era, it can reach the middle-level universal education level by itself, and then mechanization is not aimed at increasing production capacity, but reducing the burden on human beings Self-promotion for the goal, a large number of machine tools are popularized, and the full-time population has reached the lower limit of industrialization in an agricultural society.

If the former type of industrialization is capital development forcing social reforms, vested interests do not care about the lower classes, and a large number of deaths will inevitably occur; then the latter type is a natural change in which the current social productivity has reached its limit and will naturally occur.

Even if the latter is due to the popularization of mechanization, which leads to the explosion of production capacity, it will not kill the non-mechanized similar industries. When society develops to that point, ordinary families already have a certain ability to resist risks.

It is not like the small peasant economy, where any natural disaster, any economic pillar is clicked off, and the whole family can only become refugees. Even if the latter is positively affected by mechanization, they still have time and energy to think about how to deal with it.

This is the theoretical way of industrialization. However, no agricultural society has developed to the point of naturally transforming into an industrial society, because theoretically speaking, the out-of-work population in an agricultural society will never reach the lower limit of the out-of-work population for spontaneous industrial transformation!

If two people in an agricultural society can support a full-time population, with a population of 47 million in the Han Dynasty, 16 million people can be free from production, and then the country runs smoothly, it will be industrialized, at most it will be released. More capacity without any hassle.

The problem is that Chen Xi is going against the sky now, the out-of-work population has almost reached the limit level of farming civilization, and even if it is like this, the out-of-work population has not reached 7%.

To put it too exaggeratedly, in the era of industrialization, this data can be run in reverse, and 7% of the people farming can feed the remaining 93% of the population. Are there so many places that require so much manpower?

How could it be possible? After industrialization crushed these unlucky children, their handicrafts, their agriculture, and their losses could not save themselves. In a short period of time, tens of millions of people who have no jobs and no livelihood will definitely mess up.

For the national level, once the people's livelihoods are in chaos, you Chen Xi will come ten, Xun Yu will come ten, and the people will not be able to eat, and they should tear you up, or they will tear you up.

Therefore, for the road that must be taken in the future, Chen Xi can only silently leave a seed, leaving a full-time population who can touch the bottom line of industrialization as much as possible.

After all, theoretically speaking, the larger the proportion of people who are out of work, the lower the risk of social change will be when industrialization is carried out.

Anyway, Chen Xi is unlikely to continue to increase the proportion of out-of-production now. In the future, he can only wait for similar means of production such as a single machine tool, which can be regarded as the basis of industrialization, and gradually increase the number of out-of-production population.

In Chen Xi's words, this pot is too big to play, and something may happen to me, forget it, anyway, we are already the strongest, it doesn't matter if we get stronger, I will bury the seeds, and wait until the time wheel turns to that day , take root and sprout naturally.

Chen Xi's character is doomed. It is impossible to carry out social changes that are dangerous enough to affect him before the end of the mountain. He is more stable and has no absolute certainty. He will not do something that is considered complete for this country. It's just the icing on the cake.

Constrained by both rationality and sensibility, Chen Xi will try his best to eliminate the disadvantages that really affect the development of this era, and lead the Han Empire to a more correct route, but he wants Chen Xi to take a risky gamble. In the future, Chen Xi will only take action unless the Han Empire has really reached the point where it will die without reform.

Chen Xi is not stupid. As a reformer, without his ability to maintain balance, grant sufficient benefits to all parties, coordinate the interests of the upper and lower levels, and ensure that the interests of all levels are not fundamentally damaged, reformers will die of the law sooner or later.

Chen Xi can achieve this level, not because Chen Xi is powerful, but because Chen Xi is cautious, and controls the influence, and has enough references, and if industrialization is not good, Chen Xi needs to put his life on the line, and may not be able to produce what he wants result.

Even messed up, maybe even everything he might have left for this nation will collapse, and he will steadily move towards invincibility, steady and steady, and he will arrive sooner or later, why bother to die?