The foreign businessman just now said that every Chinese people have their own land, which actually refers to the so-called equal-land system in the Tang Dynasty. The land in the West belongs to the great nobles, and ordinary people don’t have much land. In fact, Jingwen cannot completely solve this because this is just the difference between the East and the West. In the East, all dynasties have actually encouraged small peasant economy, and from a historical perspective, Jingwen also knew that the small peasant economy will not last long. All dynasties have encouraged small peasant economy, because as long as the people have land, they will not rebel because of land annexation.

However, the small peasant economy has great disadvantages, that is, farmers have small business scale, simple production conditions, and lack the ability to accumulate reserves. As for the second, it is self-sufficiency, old production and operation models, and difficult to innovate in agricultural technology. The third is that they have poor ability to resist natural disasters.

These three are actually very fatal, and the later the era, the more fatal it is. Small production scale means that the food is just enough to eat, and there are very few reserved food. This brings the third harm, that is, once there is a natural disaster, the final result is that the farmers go bankrupt. This is the biggest danger for ordinary self-cultivated farmers. Once there is a natural disaster, they need to sell their land to make a living. The big landlords have strong risk resistance, and even if they suffer natural disasters, they can survive and finally buy the bottom of the land. This is the reason why the land is getting more and more annexed, and this is the biggest drawback of the small peasant economy.

As for the old production and operation model and the inability to innovate technology, this is also a very important issue. China's small peasant economy has caused their production technology to be unable to be rapidly innovated. The most obvious example is that in later generations, many agricultural machinery were invented, and the efficiency of using agricultural machinery was much better than that of ordinary human and animal-powered farm tools. However, ordinary farmers' incomes could not afford agricultural machinery at all. Agricultural machinery has high input and high output, but the people cannot afford the high price and cost of agricultural machinery. They know that agricultural machinery is very efficient, but because they own too little land, they cannot buy it. This small peasant economy eventually caused those advanced agricultural machinery to be promoted.

From a historical perspective, advanced agricultural machinery is very expensive and ordinary small farmers cannot afford it. Only landlords with a large amount of land can afford such high-investment and high-output agricultural machinery. Other small farmers have low-cost and low-output, and in the end, because they cannot accumulate enough capital to improve agricultural production technology, the technology cannot be innovated.

From the later generations of Jingwen, the plantation economy adopted by the West can eventually reach the end. The plantation economy can completely use high-input and high-output agricultural machinery, and use a large number of agricultural machinery to increase the land output. Then the management cost has dropped a lot. In this way, the grain output and production cost are declining. Moreover, the people who lost the land can force them to go to industry and become workers. However, the East has been concentrating the land, then allocating, and redistribution. This is also the result of frequent changes in history and finally forming one cycle after another. Jingwen believes that in fact, this small peasant economy is the result of cycling one dynasty after another, so even if it is to divide the land, the final result will be treated with the symptoms but not the root cause. So if you want to completely solve this problem, that is, you must industrialize the country, and then the people who lost the land will be workers. This is the fundamental!

From later generations, the Western plantation economy ended with the last laugh. Because Jing Wen had read the data in later generations. The large grain growers and agricultural reclamation companies in the country only used relatively less land and then produced relatively more grain. So this is enough to show that the plantation economy is actually much better than the small peasant economy, at least it can survive longer than the small peasant economy. Later generations were actually guiding farmers to gradually concentrate the land and then obtain greater output through intensive planting. This is a variant of the plantation economy.

"Yes! Every ordinary person here owns land. If we have so much land, why do we have to travel thousands of miles to the east to do business?" Another businessman also sighed.

These merchants are actually standing and talking without any pain. Because they are ordinary people, not noble landlords, they certainly envy those noble landlords. However, if they can own a lot of land, they will be willing to take the initiative to farm the land honestly, rather than go thousands of miles away to do business. The reason why the West was able to start the colonial wave first was that they were too poor and their land could not feed more and more people, so they naturally sent the population out to divert local pressure. But the East missed these because the small peasant economy in the East kept the people still in a state of not having enough food to starve, and in the end they did not have the courage to go abroad. Therefore, after the East was backward more than a thousand years later, Jing Wen actually seemed to be not completely reversed by a certain person or a certain dynasty.

Jing Wen did not cleanse the land for Manchu, but from the perspective of the economic system, the small peasant economy in the East is actually not suitable as the basis of an industrialized country. The economic foundation determines the superstructure, so Jing Wen believes that as long as the small peasant economy is still mainstream, the country's industrialization will be very slow. And Western industrialization and colonization are actually forced out!

If Jing Wen, a time traveler, would have been destined to be reincarnated in chaos and governance. Without a time traveler leading the transformation of the ancient small peasant economic system, then in the end, it would only be a continuous reincarnation of dynasties. Therefore, Jing Wen knew that there were other methods for dividing fields in the equal-field system to treat symptoms but not root causes, so Jing Wen has always been gradually industrializing the country.

"Yes! It would be great if I could live in the Tang Dynasty! Not only did I have land, but also various rich products, which would allow me to have a good life. The ordinary people here live much better than those in the West, and the people here are so happy." Caesar also said.

Caesar’s words made many people feel deeply the same. After all, who doesn’t like this kind of life. Whether the living conditions are good or not is better. Anyway, in this era, the Tang Dynasty is much better than the West. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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