"Productivity? Production relations, property relations? What does this mean? What is the connection?"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, there were too many things in this sentence that he couldn't understand.

Looking at Zhu Biao and Zhu Di, they were both at a loss.

Zhu Biao rummaged through what he had learned in his life and said, "Father, does the productivity Zhang Tianshi mentioned refer to the court's taxes?"

"It should be more than that. Taxation alone is too one-sided." Zhu Yuanzhang guessed: "There may be other aspects that we don't know about."

Zhu Di noticed Zhang Feng's last sentence and asked: "Then what is this huge superstructure? Is it the upstairs?"

Zhu Di suffered the disdainful looks from Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao said: "What Zhang Tianshi said should have a deeper meaning, not so superficial."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very anxious and wanted to understand what Zhang Feng was saying. He even felt that as long as he understood what Zhang Feng said, he would be able to understand how the Ming Dynasty would develop.

"You must understand Zhang Tianshi's words and remember them word for word. There can be no mistakes."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the chair, but his heart was already with Zhang Feng.

……

Zhu Feng was in a daze, wanting to kowtow to Zhang Feng a few times, not for anything else, but mainly because of his headache.

Before I even understood the word "productivity", I came up with several words, all of which I didn't understand.

Zhu Fang said with a bitter face: "Zhang Tianshi, even if my eldest brother is here, he can't understand it."

"This is not difficult. We can understand it slowly. Once His Highness understands it, we will be more knowledgeable in front of His Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhang Feng continues to fool Zhu Xi. This is his own bridge. How can he just skip it if he doesn't understand it?

Hearing Zhang Feng say it was not difficult, Zhu Ping also gained confidence. In order to show off in front of his father, he worked hard this time.

Zhu Xiang nodded vigorously and said: "Master Zhang, I will remember it well. Even if I don't understand it, I will memorize it."

Zhu Xi silently encouraged himself, even if he didn't understand, he could memorize the above sentence and go to Zhu Yuanzhang to give a report.

"Then let's start from the very beginning of 'productivity'." Zhang Feng continued: "Your Highness, do you still remember the sequence I laid out at noon? It was just a simple one plus one at first, but it became more and more complicated later on.

The more complex it gets, the more the numbers keep growing."

"This law also applies to productivity. Productivity is also a process from the initial single to diverse, simple to complex, and low-level to high-level."

Zhang Feng connected the Fibonacci sequence with productivity.

Now Zhu Xi had more concrete feelings, at least he was more impressed by the poker deduction.

Seeing Zhu Xi nodded repeatedly, Zhang Feng continued: "We can start from ancient times. The farming method at that time was slash and burn. People first used stone knives and stone axes to cut down the trees, dried them and set them on fire, and then used stone knives and axes to cut down the trees.

Plow the soil and sow the seeds."

"Such productivity is relatively low. After one or two years of cultivation, the fertility of the land decreases. In order to find fertile land, people have to migrate frequently."

Zhu Xiruo realized something and said: "It turns out that the final result of their farming is productivity."

Zhu Feng finally satisfied Zhang Feng for once.

Zhang Feng said: "Your Highness is right, this productivity is the final result of people's practical ability at that time."

"After understanding this, we continued to advance. Later, with the emergence of the soil-loosening tool, agricultural productivity increased. By the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were abundant crops such as rice, chestnuts, wheat, mulberry, and hemp. By the Warring States Period,

There were already iron plows, and in the Han Dynasty, columbines began to be widely used. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the curved shaft plow was also extremely important."

Zhang Feng said slowly that Zhu Xi could understand these things.

Zhang Feng looked at Zhu Xi and asked: "Your Highness, what can you think of from the development of these tools?"

"Ah?" Zhu Xi could understand, but he had no idea, and said awkwardly: "Zhang Tianshi, do these farming tools have anything to do with productivity?"

Zhang Feng nodded and said: "Of course it is related. Improvements in technology, tools, and even the types of crops, etc., can increase output and productivity."

"By analogy, the same applies to other aspects, including textiles, iron smelting, copper smelting, salt boiling and other industries. Technology updates, tool updates, and the continuous development of these are the primary productive forces!"
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Zhu Xi's eyes lit up, as if the stars in the sky suddenly appeared, and his vision suddenly broadened.

"Master Zhang, I understand!"

Zhu Xi stood up, feeling happy that he could understand such a profound truth.

Zhu Fang said excitedly: "It turns out that this is productivity. To improve productivity, we must change the things we used before and replace the things we used before with what we are using now."

Zhu Xi understands a little bit, but not everything!

Zhang Feng doesn’t have such high requirements, and it’s good to have some understanding.

"Your Highness, the updated things should be forward-looking, which is conducive to the development of productivity. If history is reversed, it will affect productivity."

After Zhang Feng explained something, he continued: "After understanding this, it will be much easier for us to think about 'production relations'."

Just after he understood "productivity", another "production relationship" came up, and Zhu Xi suddenly collapsed on the ground.

"Zhang Tianshi, who does this productivity have to do with? Why is this 'production relationship' added?"

Zhu Qing said that this king is too difficult!

Zhang Feng smiled slightly and encouraged: "Your Highness, this 'production relationship' is easy to understand. It is the various relationships that occur in the process of producing various things, such as employment, cooperation, competition, etc. These are all

It’s the relationship of production.”

It was not difficult for Zhu Xi to hear this, so he sat up again.

Zhang Feng continued: "The relationship between productivity and production, Your Highness, can be understood as the relationship between feet and shoes. When your feet are big, you need to change shoes, otherwise they will be uncomfortable. If you don't do it properly, your feet will be damaged. If your feet are not that big, you will have to wear shoes."

Shoes that are too big will cause you to fall easily."

After hearing Zhang Feng's metaphor, Zhu Xi also looked at his heels and shoes.

It turns out that productivity and production relations are such a connection.

"Zhang Tianshi, this metaphor makes me understand a lot better. It turns out that this is the case. No wonder they are contradictory."

The metaphor of heels and shoes allowed Zhu Xi to understand the connection between productivity and production relations.

"Yes, the size of the foot depends on the size of the shoe. The size of the foot also determines the size of the shoe." Zhang Feng concluded, saying: "Productivity determines the production relationship. After solving this contradiction, we can understand another pair of contradictions.
Chapter completed!