Water Margin farming to become powerful

Hearing Zong Ze's question, Sun Xin laughed out loud.

"I know this question, but I'm afraid Master Zong will be unhappy when he hears it."

Zong Ze still had no idea, seeing Sun Xin saw him like this, Sun Xin finally said: "We used to talk about the four peoples of the world: scholars, farmers, businessmen, but my lord, let's see if there are any of these four peoples under our supervisory committee? "

Zong Ze was taken aback for a moment, as if he understood something, and at this moment Sun Xin also explained the reason.

"Naturally there are merchants under our Dengzhou Supervisory Committee. Not to mention others, I, Sun Xin, own the Sunji firm. Apart from our Sunji, the number of businessmen who have traveled from place to place in Dengzhou has also increased greatly in the past three years. .”

"There are also workers. There are so many textile factories, iron workshops, and medicine workshops. Aren't they all workers?"

"Speaking of the farmers, the Supervisory Committee is still based on farming. Whether it's growing grain, jute, or medicinal herbs, plus the recently introduced cotton farmers, how can people's livelihood be stabilized without agriculture?"

"But among the four people, the only one that our manager's association lacks is a scholar."

Zong Ze had thought of this a long time ago, but when Sun Xin said it himself, he couldn't help clenching his fists a little, feeling a huge sense of crisis in his heart.

"This scholar really needs money to support him. The family reads to him from an early age, the Four Books and Five Classics, teaches him to practice calligraphy, teaches him to take scientific examinations, and grows up like this, but what will he do in the future?"

"One day, if you get a title on the gold list, you should learn how to fight when you enter the Bing Masi, and you should learn how to calculate and allocate when you enter the place where money and food are managed. If you become a transshipment envoy, you should be familiar with how to store grain, how to circulate goods, and how to audit accounts... ...Which one of these piles has something to do with the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"Those who study war go to the military academy, those who study accounting go to study accounting, and those who study warehouse management go to study warehouse management, but aren't they much more useful than those who have studied the Four Books and Five Classics for a lifetime?"

Zong Ze could no longer listen to it and opened his mouth to refute, but the next moment Sun Xin preemptively said:
"I know that as a human being, you need some general skills, but this scholar seems to be a little bit of a waste of money."

The study of the Four Books and Five Classics belongs to general education, which must be carried out even in later generations. If there is no unified ideological teaching, the people will not have a sense of unity, and the degree of organization of the people will be much lower.

Confucianism certainly has its merits, which can be seen from the fact that Sun Xin’s work efficiency and ability to adapt to modernization in the entire Confucian cultural circle in his previous life were much higher than those of other cultural circles.

However, Sun Xin can't let Zongze deviate from the topic by talking about the benefits of Confucianism, and he has to direct the issue to criticize the scholar-official class.

Sure enough, his opening blocked the way Zongze wanted to say, and Zongze held his breath.

Sun Xin continued: "The grandparents of the aristocratic family studied and studied for generations. After the imperial examination was established in this dynasty, they got it even more. Once they passed the exam, they went to seek officials, earned money and went home to buy land. The land supports more descendants. Come to the imperial examination, after the imperial examination, become an official to earn money, earn money and buy land."

"After so many generations, it is nothing more than his family owning more and more land, and other people's land is getting less and less. As time goes by, isn't it that all kinds of problems of land annexation have come?"

The matter of land annexation had become famous all over the world as early as Wang Anshi's political reform. It is impossible for Zong Ze not to understand. Hearing Sun Xin point it out at this time, he could only nod his head.

It's just that in his opinion, this is a completely useless topic for discussion, because land annexation is never inevitable.

But at this time, Sun Xin laughed and said:
"There is a way to keep the land from being annexed."

Zong Ze was startled, and couldn't help looking at Sun Xin: "Don't talk nonsense."

Sun Xin laughed and said: "In the past, after earning money, those landlords could only store their property at home. Those with a little business sense would naturally buy the money into land. They could not only collect land rent every year, but also ensure their own food and clothing. The grandparents of the aristocratic family have been doing business like this for generations."

"But buying property into fields is just usurping the land developed by others. The only benefit may be that the farmers who occupy the land can go to more remote places to reclaim wasteland for their livelihood. From the perspective of the whole country, more fields can be reclaimed. .”

"But this is also nonsense. Farmers have no tools and no way to invest in land reclamation. At the beginning of the country, perhaps because of the vast land and sparse population, farmers could still support their families when they opened up wasteland in the distance. But in today's years, the common people How can there be much good land for them to reclaim? If there is no powerful organization, those who go to reclaim the land are looking for death."

Sun Xin paused, gave Zong Ze some time to think, and then said: "But can't those fields really be reclaimed?"

Zong Ze is a very smart person. Although he is old, his thinking is still very sharp. He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help asking: "So you provide funds and equipment to open up wasteland for these people?"

"Yes."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "This is the basis for the development of our supervisory committee."

"Ordinary poor farmers have neither funds nor equipment, and lack artificial labor. If they want to open up wasteland or try to plant some new species, there is absolutely no way."

"However, with the help of the supervisory committee and everyone's concerted efforts, and the bank of the supervisory committee can give investment, then some barren mountains and mountains that could not be developed before can naturally be developed with a large investment."

"This kind of land reclamation will definitely lose money in the first one or two years, but as long as you continue to invest, good fields can be developed over time, and the original investment cost will eventually be earned back."

"The same is true for investing in land reclamation, and the same is true for investing in the establishment of large factories. When everyone's surplus money is pooled together, they will dare to try when they become stronger."

"The money of those landlords and old riches could only be used to buy fields, which is tantamount to encroaching on the interests of other farmers, but with the guidance of the supervisory committee, all the surplus money in their families was mobilized, not to buy fields but to set up factories, or It is to invest in the Bank of the Supervisory Committee and let the bank lend to other farmers to develop more land."

"It seems to be rolling continuously. The more surplus money in everyone's hands, the more factories will be built and the more land will be developed. As long as this cycle continues, how will the population and property controlled by the supervisory committee be? Doesn't it increase upwards like rolling?"

What Sun Xin said is just the most basic content of a market economy. Of course, such continuous capital will eventually lead to overcapacity and economic crisis.

However, based on the current level of manufacturing in Song Dynasty, Sun Xin is confident that he may not see the first economic crisis of the Supervisory Committee before middle age.

When an economic crisis really occurs, all the excess production capacity will be turned into muskets. The world is so critical that every penny invested in the army can be returned to earn profits.

After hearing what he said, Zong Ze only felt a thunderbolt strike straight from Tianling Gai to his spine, and his thoughts became clear in an instant:

"Roll and keep rolling, roll and keep flowing..."

(End of this chapter)