Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 445 Daydream of Productivity (Today's Update)
Li Tai really did not expect that he would get a blow from Li Shimin "The times have changed".

He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but in the end it seemed that he couldn't say anything, and Li Tai's character was not good at arguing with Fang Xuanling and Li Shimin, so he just had to speak the truth when the time came.

After all, the changes in the essence of the world are visible to everyone, and the increase in the power of livestock is also visible to the naked eye.

But the steam engine that Li Tai mentioned, they have never seen the actual item, and they are completely unable to understand why the steam engine has more potential than animal husbandry, and no one knows the importance of horses and cattle to the feudal dynasty

From the birth of the steam engine to the birth of the automobile, if counted according to the steam balloon in the first century BC, it took at least 700 years before the first one was really produced, and when it can be produced stably, then even more ancient.

If you want to make a steam engine to help cultivate the land, it would be great if Li Tai could make one before he died.

In the final analysis, Li Tai's steam engine hadn't really landed on the blueprint. If Li Tai could make a steam engine now and watch it plow a hundred acres of fields, then Fang Xuanling would naturally choose Li Tai.

Otherwise, King Wei, you should work hard to study it yourself, the spirit of the imperial court is with you, and when you figure it out, the imperial court can just use it.

To be honest, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, or the officials of the Zhenguan Dynasty, were actually quite enlightened.

Because the improvement of productivity is beneficial to the whole society, but it is definitely a blow to contemporary people.

In addition to being invaded by foreign races and leading to the destruction of the dynasty, that is, backward barbarism defeating advanced civilizations, after every turmoil in other dynasties, the productivity of the new unified dynasty will increase significantly, and various production tools will be innovated.

They had already walked halfway, and when Li Tai came, they wanted to make way for Li Tai to pass.

Li Tai understands that the most powerful part of a family is its intricate network of relationships in the local area, which can connect with the government at the top and order the ruffians at the bottom. This makes the court want to extend its tentacles to the grassroots, fearing that they will gradually be swallowed up by the local gentry.

But as long as the country develops 50 years later, even if the craftsmen can invent and create things that increase productivity, they can use them secretly, and if they want to use them openly, they will definitely be reprimanded as strange tricks.

Are those at the top of society unable to see the benefits of increased productivity?

Because no matter which feudal society it is, what it pursues is the eternity of the family. The development of productive forces will inevitably bring about changes in production relations, and changes in production relations will also reverse the dynasty and must carry out various reforms.

Is it true that war promotes the development of productive forces, and is there no progress for human beings without war?
No, it's just that the originally mismatched productivity and production relations have been properly reconstructed during the war.

It's just that if this thing is promoted too quickly, contemporary people can't stand it, and directly reverse it, it will definitely cause social turmoil.

Even if there is no grand scene where one whale falls and all things are born, at least it will allow the local people to have a free period to climb up.

And reforming something like this is tantamount to the downfall of a large area, and almost everyone in the entire court will be involved.

Moreover, Li Tai also believed that along with enfeoffment, things like steam engines would inevitably be on the stage of history when needed, and would not cause too much turmoil to the entire society of Tang Dynasty.

No, I believe there is not much difference between the top smart people in each dynasty, such as Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang, who is smarter than the other, but people have different positions, so the choices they make are different That's all.

It's just that this kind of opportunity is generally only possible in troubled times when the dynasty is overthrown. With social stability, the gradual solidification of classes has become inevitable.

Maybe they won't be so thorough, but these smart people can see the general development.

Even if you have internal strength and the talent of a monarch, so what, how should you develop, how should you develop.

Since Li Shimin brought it up, I will invest some corresponding resources in my future research.

But for Li Tai, he only hoped that these descendants of corrupt officials who received salaries in the imperial court could be sent to the border areas to make some contribution to the development of Chinese civilization.

In the final analysis, it is just a matter of position. Confucianism is a tool that is just right for those who are dedicated to pursuing the eternity of one family and one surname.

For them, changes in productivity will bring about changes in production relations, changes in production relations will bring about class changes, and the final choice of either reform or revolution will come.

In ancient times, such a prominent family was almost incomprehensible.

At the same time, the people and the aristocratic families have better choices and pursuits, and naturally they will not compete with the steam engine for jobs.

The emergence of them can indeed improve the overall productivity of the country, but in the process of improving the country's productivity, it is accompanied by the painful unemployment and even death of countless people, which will cause considerable turmoil in the entire society.

Li Tai didn't feel too much about Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling not supporting the steam engine.

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others are fine. They came from troubled times, and they clearly know that the improvement of productivity is helpful to the country, so their attitude towards Li Tai's development of steam engines and other machinery is more than just indifference.

Therefore, these productivity-enhancing things will be suppressed by them instead, and they will even be dubbed the reputation of strange skills and obscenities.

Hearing this, Li Tai nodded suddenly, and said with a smile, "Then they have a reason to be unhappy with me!"

The yamen servant in charge of the escort couldn't help but nodded his thanks, but Li Tai looked at the prisoners' eyes coldly at him at this moment, as if he wanted to remember himself in his heart, which surprised Li Tai a bit. Have these people become enemies?

In the officialdom, everyone pays attention to people’s tea and cold tea. Could it be that the local people still keep their family’s land for ten or twenty years? What a joke, the local people absolutely hope that they will never come back. Even if they come back, the local people will definitely not Will spit out the benefits that he has eaten.

As long as the society does not develop into a place where one person can compete with the whole society itself, the essence of the day is just a tool after all.

And when their hard labor is over, they may not be able to go back even if they want to go back.

The emergence of advanced productivity is naturally beneficial to the society as a whole, but for individuals, it is likely that the skills you have worked so hard to master will be wasted forever, and the stable jobs you originally had will be eliminated directly. up.

Although my position highly overlaps with that of Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, the positions of the two sides are different in the long run.

To be honest, it didn't matter to Li Tai that he was hated by Dang Renhong's family.

But the fact is that it will not, at most it is suffering for the contemporary people, but the future people will be able to enjoy more.

If you look at the history of China in terms of productivity, you will find a very interesting thing.

Lu Anshou went up to ask the yamen servant, and then said to Li Tai, "It's Dang Renhong's three clans."

Then in another hundred years, for example, after the end of the Kaiyuan prosperity, whoever invents something that improves productivity will be suppressed even more.

With cars, horses are eliminated, with telephones, letters are eliminated, and with mobile phones, all kinds of tools are almost eliminated...,
Now artificial intelligence is even appearing, and almost everyone feels that even human beings themselves will be eliminated by society.

After all, time is the most ruthless thing in this world. As time went by, their original relationship network in their hometown was cut off.

Li Tai couldn't help turning his head and asked Lu Anshou beside him, "Who are they, and why are they looking at me like this?"

Therefore, there is no need for Li Tai to continue arguing with Fang Xuanling or Li Shimin, because it is unnecessary.

"So something like a steam engine should be a technical reserve, and it should be a technical reserve!" Li Tai complained.

"After all, something like a steam engine can work non-stop, but a horse still needs to eat and rest!" Li Tai felt that it would be better to continue recruiting some craftsmen and continue to specialize in steam engines with the help of the Ministry of Industry's assessment. up.

Of course, if Datang wants to maintain a positive attitude forever, it must give the people enough space to move forward.

After all, in a feudal society, what extravagant expectations do I still have, but Li Tai has never felt such things as the changes in the spirit of the world confirmed from Li Shimin's mouth.

Fortunately, this is not an era when there are no poor families in the upper ranks and no nobles in the lower ranks. With the imperial examinations, their family has at least hope of resurgence, at most it is a little bit slim.

Therefore, all they can do is to continue to take root in Qinzhou, looking forward to their offspring, after a few generations of hard work, can make a comeback.

After all, what they want is not a thriving society, but that they and their descendants can always stand at the top and enjoy the support of the whole country, and Confucianism can just meet their ideas.

They can't judge whether this new force is good or bad. What they need is to maintain the dynasty, not smash it.

This is more or less good for easing the overall social contradictions.

Even to them, the Patriarch is just their signboard to some extent.

But the emergence of these productive forces is not a good medicine, but a strong medicine.

The reason is very simple, it seems that during the war, all kinds of things that improve productivity will be born explosively.

Li Tai rode his horse away from the imperial court for a while, and saw people from Dali Temple escorting a group of white-clothed prisoners away.

After all, I originally lived in a world without the essence of heaven and earth. Even if I came to Datang, I didn't feel that the existence of such things as essence of heaven and earth had any impact on me.

Even if Dang Renhong is killed, as long as the whole family can continue to enjoy the benefits gained during Dang Renhong's time, it will not be easy to train another high-ranking official like Dang Renhong, but it will not be difficult to maintain their own prestige. At that time, there is no need to run rampant in the countryside, as long as you ensure that the ascending channel of this county is controlled by yourself.

More smart people have more than enough wisdom, but lack the courage to take responsibility, so even if they see that the increase in productivity can bring new changes to the dynasty, but they are unable to grasp this change, they would rather give this change to the people. kill off.

If the reforms in Chinese history did not use bloody massacres to physically eliminate opponents, there were a few times when they were truly successful. Often, the reformers reformed for a few years, and the diehards came back to power to overthrow the reforms of the reformers.

One of the most important reasons is that with enfeoffment or war, the main labor force responsible for production will decrease, so in order to maintain as high productivity as possible, all kinds of ways to increase productivity will be used.

This is the ruthlessness of the development of productivity, and the improvement of productivity is almost abhorrent to feudal society.

Superior productivity must have appeared before the war, especially at the end of the dynasty, it will appear more.

At that time, even if the steam engine, a production tool that replaces manpower, appears, it will not cause too much impact on the entire society. On the contrary, it will be supported by more people.

As a person in the 21st century, I believe that with the development of science and technology, although productivity has been continuously improved with the help of technology, the occupations that have been eliminated one after another are too numerous to count.

But at this time, a certain king of Wei who killed a thousand swords proposed the continuous sitting system, and directly sent all of Dang Renhong's relatives and direct descendants to Qinzhou to serve hard labor.

This is a southern state and county, and you might lose your life if you just pass this way, not to mention serving hard labor there until the so-called release after serving your sentence. This is almost a crime for one person to embezzle the whole family.

No, but they can see the destruction of social stability brought about by the development of productive forces.

And these things are true now, and they were also true in ancient times. Did the ancient people not know the benefits brought by the development of productive forces?

Li Tai waved his hands and said, "Since it's business, you go first, I'll go back to the Wei Palace later, it's fine!"

In Li Jing's eyes, this thing is just a kind of military skill, and in Li Tai's eyes it is at most an energy substitute.

The improvement of productivity is often accompanied by the pain of the present generation, so that the next generation can enjoy the benefits. Now, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, everyone is panicking, wondering whether the entire human society will be replaced by robots.

And after they leave, with the departure of their family, there will be a temporary power vacuum in the area.

But fortunately, the invention of the imperial examination system has given the people at the bottom the opportunity to cross classes.

Even now, for the vast majority of people, knowledge and the college entrance examination are the only bargaining chips for them to cross classes.

Li Tai watched the party's family leave, but couldn't help but feel a little bit sad.

However, this kind of mood didn't stay on Li Tai for too long. When she got home, Yan Wan left a light for herself, waiting to have dinner with her.
　I found that there is no character I want to draw in the next card pool, and there is no motivation for code words. I was lazy for a day and changed it today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)