Liu Bei said: "You said this many years ago."

Chen Mu said: "It was just an idea before, and now we are preparing to officially promote it. The previous country never had a plan or a future path, and the future was confused. If we don't set goals, the Han before Wang Mang will be the same as the Han after today."

Liu Bei sighed: "Even the great ancestors can't guarantee their inheritance for eternity. My fourth brother once said in the early years that the cycle of dynasties starts with a cycle of at most three hundred years. Is there really no long-term path?"

Chen Mu thought for a moment and said, "How should I put it? To be honest, my eldest brother might not like to hear it."

Liu Bei said hurriedly: "I want to know."

Chen Mu then said: "The imperial system cannot last forever. If it continues in the era of agricultural production, the change of dynasties in three hundred years will be an inevitable trend."

"Why?"

"Because in the past two to three hundred years, the system has solidified, interest groups have emerged, reforms have been difficult, and grassroots families have powerfully controlled the land. The final result is that the government forces the people to rebel, until a new dynasty emerges, breaks the original order, and redistributes the land

until."

“What interest groups?”

"Aren't most of the Manchu ministers from aristocratic families? They are all vested interests. Which family does not occupy hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in various counties and counties, even concealing the population and land, and does not pay taxes. And it is not just them, for decades

Later, my descendants, the descendants of my second and third brothers, and the descendants of Liang Bizi Long Ziyi are all members of this interest group."

"...."

Liu Bei was silent.

Chen Mu continued: "They are all nobles, enjoying the inheritance left by their ancestors. In the early Han Dynasty, weren't there a large number of such nobles and countless descendants of the Liu surname? The Han Dynasty won the title of gold and the title, coupled with the order of favor,

It’s just to eliminate the big nobles, but there are still countless small nobles lying on the empire sucking blood, and the country’s poverty is caused by them.”

Liu Bei couldn't help but said: "What should we do?"

Chen Mu smiled and said: "The method is very simple. Increase productivity, free up the labor force, and increase food production. For example, I have a population of 50 million. Originally, the food in the field can only feed 50 million, but now it can feed 100 million. Then it only takes two

Fifteen million people can feed everyone by engaging in agriculture, so land annexation is naturally meaningless. When there are fewer and fewer people working in agriculture and the land becomes less and less valuable, those landowners will naturally be eliminated."

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Liu Bei was surprised.

Chen Mu said: "In handicrafts, commerce, and manufacturing, hasn't the spinning machine been revolutionized? Then clear the grassland, vigorously breed sheep, and then use the wool to engage in the textile industry. There are also road construction, canal digging, and construction.

If the country has money, it must spend it. By letting goods and money circulate and people having money, the country can collect taxes from the circulation of goods and continue to develop."

Before the start of the Industrial Revolution, sheep cannibalism occurred in the UK. The wool textile industry was the result of early capital operations, and the consequence of the government's lack of control was the enclosure movement, which turned countless farmers into homeless wanderers.

, and eventually went to urban factories and became slaves of capitalists.

However, the size of the British country is inherently small. When the sheep cannibalism incident occurred from the 15th to the 18th century, the total population was only a few million people. The internal resources and internal demand were not enough to form a large-scale

.

The Han Dynasty is a super empire with vast land. The operation of the textile industry is first for the domestic people, and there is no foreign trade for the time being.

There is no need for foreign trade.

Because currently, except for the Roman Empire in Europe, the rest of the world is full of savages.

If you sell something to a savage, the savage must have money to buy it.

Therefore, Dahan's development path is very simple. Start light industry and light manufacturing in various industries and solve domestic demand first.

And then drive the overall economy.

In economic knowledge, inflation will only appear in the era of credit money. If precious metals are used as currency, inflation will be almost impossible.

Therefore, when the Han Dynasty lacked gold, silver and copper mines, steam engines were used to excavate the first pot of gold, and mining began all over the world to send it back to the Han Dynasty.

In this way, the country will always have money, and with money, it can do many things.

It is equivalent to the United States printing U.S. dollars wantonly in later generations, printing trillions of U.S. dollars each time, dragging the whole world into trouble.

The only difference is that the United States uses the U.S. dollar system to tie up with the world's finances, forcing the whole world to pay for it.

Dahan, on the other hand, digs mines all over the world, uses the characteristics of precious metal currency that is difficult to cause inflation to maintain Dahan's monetary system, and allows it to assume the function of a credit currency.

For example, when the Han Dynasty went to America to dig gold, silver, and copper mines, the gold, silver, and copper mines in the treasury were piled up in mountains, but they were only stored but not circulated.

If there is a currency shortage among the people and the supply of goods exceeds demand, it means that people have no money.

So the country can carry out some major projects, or provide low-interest or even interest-free loans from banks, circulate the money in hand, and then reduce commercial taxes, reduce commodity prices, and stimulate the economy. People who have money in their hands can buy commodities.

purchase.

If there is too much money among the people and the supply of goods exceeds demand, it means that the people are extremely rich and the value of precious metals may decline.

Then the country can increase bank interest rates, increase loan interest, and increase commodity taxes. In this way, people will deposit money in banks, or stop taking out loans, and spend more when buying goods, and collect the gold, silver, and copper coins in the hands of the people.

Come back and put it in the treasury for further reserves.

The more precious metals are stored, the more stable the business environment and economic environment will be. To a certain extent, the United States is nothing compared to the economy of the Han Dynasty. Because the United States does not really dare to print U.S. dollars without restrictions.

India, that would cause a financial crisis.

And Dahan can really mine without limit. It is not something on paper like US dollars, but an actual precious metal item, which has its own circulation value. Unlike US dollars, once the credit system goes bankrupt, it will be a piece of waste paper.

Zhang is useless.

Therefore, if Chen Mu officially started the Industrial Revolution in the Han Dynasty, the dividends and development advantages that the entire Han Dynasty would enjoy would be unimaginable, because he was plundering the entire world to supplement the Han Dynasty's economy.

He can mine at will in the Americas and Africa, and he can produce goods and sell them in Europe and Central Asia, concentrating all the precious metals in the world into the Han Dynasty, allowing the Han Dynasty's economy to take off directly.

But in that case, it is possible that when the beast of the landlord class is eliminated, another hungry tiger will be born - the capitalists.

Therefore, Chen Mu had to use many means to strangle the capitalists in the cradle and hang them on the street lamps!

But all this may happen many years later.

Nowadays, steam engines cannot be mass-produced, and the country has not yet recovered, so we must return to reality after imagining the future.

Liu Bei said: "The grassland is not easy to fight now. Even the Bingzhou has not been recovered yet."

Chen Mu smiled and said: "So this is also part of the First Five-Year Plan."

"You want to go north and capture Bingzhou?"

Liu Bei asked.

Chen Mu nodded: "It's time to force Lu Bu to make a choice. If he wants to die, let him die. If he doesn't want to die, just surrender honestly, or I will let him die without a burial place."

"Tell me what the First Five-Year Plan is all about?"

Liu Bei asked curiously.

Although he knew that tomorrow Chen Mu would hold a meeting of the cabinet and the three ministers.

At that time, the cabinet members, the Three Independents, the Three Gongs and the Nine Ministers, and all officials of second rank and above will participate to discuss the contents of the First Five-Year Plan.

But Liu Bei still wanted to make it worth it in advance.

Chen Mu smiled and told everything about his thoughts and ideas.

The rain outside the window is still falling.

The two brothers chatted until midnight, discussing specific matters.

After Liu Bei learned about Chen Mu's many whimsical ideas, he also put forward his own opinions.

Both of them gained something.

That night, the two brothers rested together and fell asleep contentedly.
Chapter completed!