Chapter 13 Treatment (4)
From leaving the primitive society, exploiters and exploited people appeared, forming a state, and a regime emerged. The regime naturally had two sides, or had its own independent personality. It had both the side that maintained the exploitation system, and the side that reconciled contradictions and suppressed the intensity of exploitation. For different classes, this independent personality may be strong and weak. The exploiters may feel strong, the exploited people may feel weak, the exploited people may feel strong, and the exploited people may feel weak. Of course, there are also waste regimes that make both sides feel weak, and there are also strong regimes that make both sides fear, which cannot be generalized.
In any case, the regime naturally has two sides that represent two interests, and at the same time it must curb two sides of the interests. It is inevitable that they are hated by both sides at the same time. If individuals and regimes understand each other, they must talk about the way of loyalty and forgiveness.
Whether it is an exploiter or an exploited person, no matter which class it is, if you want to forcibly erase the independence of the regime and erase their independent personality, even if they are strong for a while, they will be taught to be a human being by the violence of the regime. If the violence in the hands of the regime cannot suppress such behavior, then social violence will replace the violence of the regime, and you still have to teach you how to be a good person.
In his previous life, with the rise of the industrial revolution, the bourgeoisie carried out cruel class exploitation and oppression at home, while on the outside, and on the outside, they carried out fierce imperialist oppression and exploitation on other countries and nations. They tamed the violent tools of the regime and thought they were invincible from then on. In the end, they aroused the resistance of the exploited classes led by the working class internally, and on the outside, they aroused the nationalist resistance of the oppressed nations. Class struggle and national liberation struggle intertwined each other, setting off two tides of imperialism dominated by the bourgeois will and internationalism dominated by the exploited classes. The two tides were entangled, and finally smashed the dream of the bourgeoisie to tame the regime as the tool of its own oppression and exploitation.
The final result is that the bourgeoisie put exploitation on a fig leaf, acknowledging that the capitalist state is not a tool for the bourgeoisie to carry out class oppression, and began to talk about reconciliation. After all, the exploited people made every effort to completely eliminate the exploitation system and ultimately failed, and they also began to talk about reconciliation. Ideals are ideals after all, and human resources are insufficient, so what if they do?
When talking about slaves and slave owners, the landlord class and the peasant class, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, when they are stripped away, they are actually still lying there and lying on their teeth and claws. Will another form of exploitation appear in the future? God knows. The ideology formed by just using European history to analyze exploitation is incompatible with China's history.
Towards the future, the most important thing is to move from agricultural economy to industrial economy. Capitalism and socialism are actually irrelevant. Both sides once thought that it was the end of history, and when the tide receded, they realized that it was still on the road. They believed that the world was the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, but because they stood in the tide, they could not see the direction clearly.
In my previous life, I learned about capitalist industrialization from textbooks, and experienced socialist industrialization. When I came to this world, I talked about capitalism and socialism and tied industrialization to capitalism. Xu Ping had too much food. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat used to live and die, but I would not have you because they all felt that they were going to reach the end of history and who would reach that end sooner. As a result, the end of history was far away and could only sit down and discuss coexisting in various ways.
I feel that in order to carry out the industrial revolution, the bourgeoisie must come to power. Sheep cannibalism and land encirclement movement are inevitable, and it is an evil that has to be endured. How to say it? Evil is evil, and there is nothing that has to be endured. This is different from tolerating exploitation. Exploitation is not an evil that has to be endured, but the productivity cannot be achieved. The regime really cannot take care of everything and can only hand over part of its power to society. What is tolerated is not the evil of exploitation, but the positive effect of class division on social development. The evil brought by exploitation must be cracked down. This is reform, maintaining order, allowing the exploiting class to play a positive role and suppress its negative role.
In China, sheep eat people and land enclosure movements appeared. Those who were driven out would not run to the city to make cattle and horses for the bourgeoisie, and be sucked by factory owners. There are Western Regions in the west, South Ocean in the south, and Khitan in the northeast. There are a lot of places to go to. If it really doesn't work, you can go up the mountain to become a bandit. The demise of the Ming Dynasty was not only destroyed by peasant uprising troops, but also a large number of people forced to go to the northeast, and they were forced to be slaves to others. The cruel class oppression is manifested from both internal and external aspects. If you don't leave a life-saving food for the lower class, then the world will change greatly, and you will be able to bury the world together. From the moment of prosperity to the collapse of the British Empire, the hands and feet of the United States, which was independent of its own system. Blind exploitation is self-destruction.
Xu Ping had a myth in his previous life, and had a yearning for Europe and the United States from the depths of his soul. Even if he could not experience their waves in that world, he would have to experience it in another world. If China could be turned into no longer China, but another Europe and another United States, that would of course be excellent. As for China's civilization for thousands of years, it would be thrown into the garbage dump early. However, this civilization that was thrown into the garbage dump is so tenacious that countless people can't do in another world. When it comes to this world, not to mention that all people can't do it with one person.
You are you, don’t always think about being someone else. China is China, don’t always think about becoming another country. What is very important in this country is whether to be your own person or what kind of person you can discuss.
As a prime minister, Xu Ping can only base himself on reality, reconcile internal conflicts, and move from agricultural economy to industrialization.
After living for a while, drinking tea for a while, let Zhao Zhen and Wu Yu digest what they said before. Xu Ping stood up again, walked to the blackboard, and bowed: "Three policies to implement policies, one is suppression. Suppression means suppressing rent interest, suppressing the rise in land prices and the rise in prices of various things used for farming. The land price mentioned at this time does not mean how much a mu of land is worth, but the farmers who work hard to cultivate and do their best to farm. The income from pure grain deducts seeds, fertilizers, etc. is a multiple of the land price. During this period, it is because of the barren land.
, There are many fertilizers and water conservancy, so it is not convenient to discuss them in a comprehensive way. The same is true for the rise in prices used for farming. How to suppress them? The government starts with rent and interest, and there are many branches and countless officials from it. It is impossible for the government to borrow from farmers on behalf of the people. To eliminate the harm of lending, it is extremely difficult to suppress them. Perhaps in the future, a smart man can come up with a solution. I am incompetent, so I can only start with another method. Let me ignore it here. The strategy to suppress them is to implement the price of grain and the prices of necessary farming."
"The method of suppressing the surge and plummeting grain prices has existed since ancient times. It is called Changping. This dynasty also applies it. Just discuss regulations. As for farm tools, oxen, the most agricultural tools in the world are sold by Sansi Shops, which can be suppressed from the source of the Sansi Shop. And the end of the farmers who really use agricultural tools has another method, regardless of it. There are other things, such as learning, water use in canals, roads and bridges, nurturing orphans and elderly care, and medicine, the court does more, so that the common people can borrow less. Anyone who is responsible for people's livelihood, production, and the court helps the common people to overcome difficulties. Changping cooperates with the affairs of the people, and the court presides over some people's livelihood and production, which is a way to suppress the disaster of rent and interest."
Many times when borrowing occurs, they encounter difficulties and have to borrow money to overcome difficulties. The more the official intervenes, the smaller the space for private lending to make profits. Of course, it is impossible to eliminate all the difficulties. Even if all the difficulties are supported by official helpers, they can also use illegal means such as gambling. Xu Ping had tempting drugs in his previous life. In fact, the government cannot take care of everything, so borrowing will inevitably happen, but everything has its limits and masters the limits. Once it is excessive, good things will turn into bad things.
Insurance is also a means of exploitation of interest-making by borrowing loans. If the official withdraws from people's livelihood protection, insurance will be omnipresent. An important means to curb interest exploitation is to take over the protection of education, medical care, disasters, etc. If you think insurance will replace the official and you are not exploited, it can only be exploitation transferred to others. The omnipresent insurance and omnipresent lending are a variant of usury in the agricultural society, but it is just learned to reconcile. The official retreat from the field of people's livelihood and handing over to commercial insurance is to increase the exploitation of the bottom. In turn, the official actively opens schools, establishes hospitals, rescues natural disasters and man-made disasters, and encourages various self-help, which is to alleviate the intensity of exploitation.
The exploitation caused by lending means is even deeper than land rent. Even the nominal annual profit of 40% of the time that Qingmiao loans have stabilized in history is more than land rent divided from the entire harvest, but the actual interest rate is even higher than this.
By adopting the suppression method, many of Wang Anshi's reforms in history can be found. He is definitely not Xu Ping's ideology, but there are similarities in his attitude towards exploitation.
Zhao Zhen pondered for a while and said, "What the Prime Minister said about land rent and loan interest is very clear, but the price of grain rises and falls, and the price of plowshares is not constant. Why is it a kind of harm to loan interest?"
Xu Ping held the scepter: "I want to say that. Judging from the price of grain, if you encounter a good year, every family has surplus grain, and they will sell surplus grain and exchange for something you like. The price will fall at this time, and the power will have this favorite thing, so you will collect more grain and grain. If a family has difficulties and borrows loans to overcome the difficulties, if the power gets high interest rates, and transfers to other poor families, one family will collect a little, and the difficulty will pass. In the year of disaster, if the power is short of grain in the world, only the power has surplus grain, and only the power has surplus grain will be high. If you go to the loan valley, you will only add 20% to 30% of the interest rates after the autumn of the normal year.
The disaster year will often double or even more. The world's money is used for money, so there is no need to borrow money from others to rush to the market to buy food, and the price of the valley rises. At this time, the price of the valley is another way to increase the interest rate of the disaster victims' loans, from borrowing and loans to the market. When it comes to the market, the road to helping the common people and working together to overcome difficulties has also narrowed. Even the richer people are like the powers to collect rent and interest at this time. At this time, the price of the valley is no longer the price of merchants who have different experiences. The rest of the things are like those of others."
Simply put, the food price in the year of good fortune and disaster is no longer a commercial behavior, but a financial attribute. As long as the commodity has financial attributes, it will change from a simple commercial behavior that is interoperable and has become a means of interest exploitation. The restrictions on this behavior have existed since ancient times in China, namely Changping, which is also an important part of Wang Anshi's reform.
The method of hoarding and speculating in business, or speculation, has been hit by previous dynasties. Things have two sides, whether there is a business or not, and it is reasonable for merchants to make profits from it. It is restricted to use financial means to make profits in business. The positiveness of finance lies in allocating resources to the production field, not in commercial behavior. The so-called suppression of commerce by the Legalists is based on a negative understanding of this. People who oppose suppression of commerce are based on positive understanding of whether there is a business or not, and they cannot simply think that whoever they are against whom. The current dynasty governs must have a clear understanding of this, which commercial behaviors are encouraged and which should be restricted. Using regular peace to calm down the fluctuations in food prices is because food is the basis of people's livelihood. In fact, most commercial behaviors inevitably have this behavior, and there is a side of persuasion and suppression.
Chapter completed!