After hearing this, Zhang Yue put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a napkin. There is a saying, "Weigh plants while working"!

Just now, when we were chatting about family affairs, we said that the third uncle was fine. When it came to official matters, we had to settle things down.

Zhang Yue said: "What do you think?"

Zhang Zhidao: "In the seventh year since Xining, after the Prime Minister proposed to promote cotton cloth in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and through the development of Mr. Gu Ling (Chen Xiang) and Zhang Ziping, the imperial court continued to promote the textile industry in Suhu, because cotton cloth was extremely expensive.

It can even keep out the cold compared to silk and attract people to compete for profit."

"After the dynasty captured Liangzhou in recent years, the overland Silk Road was opened again. With the demand for silk and cotton cloth, the people of Suhu began to plant mulberry and raise silkworms."

"This year, the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the textile industry in Suhu has become quite developed. Due to the demand to convert rice into mulberry, or even rice into cotton, the price of rice in Suhu has started to skyrocket since last year...

"

Having said this, Zhang Zhi glanced at Zhang Yue's expression.

Zhang Yue said: "Keep talking."

Zhang Zhidao said: "The common people feel that it is not cost-effective to work hard to grow grain, and it is not as profitable as growing cotton and mulberry. In Hangzhou and Suzhou, under the promotion of the imperial court, various new looms such as spinning wheels and waist looms are

There are many levels. Now the local textile guilds have suppressed the government-run textile institutes. There are many private looms with five to six hundred, or even thousands."

"Therefore, officials from both Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces advocated whether to use the means of decentralizing the cross-border trade and postal services."

Zhang Yue said nothing when he heard this.

Zhang Zhidao: "I heard that businessmen will do whatever it takes to purchase cotton and silk from the private sector."

"They even bought large amounts of land in Suzhou and Hangzhou, then destroyed all the rice fields where green seedlings had just been planted, and then planted cotton trees."

"Therefore, grain prices in Zhejiang and Zhejiang have skyrocketed."

Zhang Yue said: "The imperial court is now opening up the Silk Road to the west, and to the east it wants to open up the trade between Korea and Japan."

"Do you know how many households in Dangxiang are left after opening up the Silk Road?"

In fact, Dangxiang's textile industry is not weak. In addition to the government-run Guanjin Yuan, there are also ordinary people's weaving households down to individual households.

Dangxiang itself also has "Wen Brocade", and people also grow mulberry and raise silkworms. Although the quality of Xixia silk is not high, it can barely be passed in places such as the Uighurs. Dangxiang then obtained silk from the Song Dynasty and resold it to the Western Regions.

At the same time, the Dangxiang area has been able to weave cotton since the early Song Dynasty, but the level of looms has never been as good as that of the Song Dynasty, so the output is extremely low.

However, after the Song Dynasty captured Liangzhou, the Dangxiang people could no longer make price differences, and various cheap and high-quality textiles hit the entire Western Region market.

Among them, the textile industry in Qinzhou and Jiangnan dealt a very heavy blow to Dangxiang, no less than another battle of Pingxia City. Dangxiang lost the battle of Pingxia City and could recover after a few years, but the textile industry

The bankruptcy and blood loss of the industry can never be made up for.

As for the Song Dynasty, which had been paying tribute to silk cloth from the Liao Kingdom, there had always been government-run weaving institutes in the Song Dynasty. However, at the beginning, most of the people were forced to hire private weavers to work for the government for free. It was not until Wang Anshi's exemption law that this situation was broken. Later, the official adopted

An outsourcing method is to cooperate with private operators to provide dyes, weaving, etc.

However, the official price is generally the lowest, and private operators have almost no profit.

Unexpectedly, the rise of the cotton spinning industry broke through the officialdom in one fell swoop, and even the officialdom barriers in the silk industry were broken down.

As for the soaring rice prices in the two Zhejiang provinces, this is an indisputable fact.

"There are many opponents? There are both old and new parties, right?" Zhang Yueyan said.

Zhang Zhidao: "There are indeed people who care about people's livelihood, but some people think that the gathering of people is not conducive to government management, and some people are interested in the huge profits and want to include the profits of cotton cloth into the government management."

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Zhang Yue heard this and said: "But the banner we are using is all about people's livelihood, right?"

"Indeed."

"Then how do you think we can solve the problem?"

Zhang Zhi said: "I don't know, my subordinate."

Zhang Yue turned to look at Zhang Zhi and scolded: "You are already the prime minister, how can you not have a plan in mind? What if Your Majesty Ruo Jindian asks?"

Zhang Zhi said with a naive smile: "I, Xiao Guicao, can do whatever I want! Anyway, if we don't have enough food, we will adjust it from other places! We won't change the system!"

Zhang Zhi's rogue tone reminded Zhang Yue of the time when he taught Zhang Zhi to study in the small building at his home in Nanpu Xi.

Zhang Yue glanced at the falling snowflakes outside and said to Zhang Zhi: "Adjusting food is not enough. I still remember the answers to the questions in the Jiayou Sixth Year Subject Examination."

"The policy topic at that time said that although the fields were opened, the people were bored. Although the border was safe, the troops could not withdraw. The benefits were dredged, but the expenses were growing."

"I said, first of all, the population has increased. At the time of Taoism, the number of households in the world was 7.73 million, but at the time of Emperor You, it was already 1.53 million, a full one-third more, so per capita

There are fewer fields, this is one of them."

"The second reason is that the people of the world are not evenly gathered together."

"Wuyue has a small land and many people, while Huguang has a vast land and few people. If you go narrow, it will be wide."

"The Jingxiang area has many native officials and few displaced officials, and the people are divided and governed."

Zhang Zhi heard this and said: "What Sanshu means is to develop Huguang and use the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to store grain to support the lower reaches!"

Zhang Yue nodded, thinking of the time when he was studying in the country.

Zhang Yue was still very young at that time, and he supported the plan of the Prime Minister and the Third Division during the policy making. In fact, this is what Wang Anshi did.

On the contrary, Zhang Yue was quite lenient when he became prime minister. Originally, Yuanfeng's restructuring of the Household Department Youcao (formerly Sinong Temple) was directly under the prime minister, but Zhang Yue returned it to the Household Department. Of course, this was also because of Huang Lu

Apparently, he and Cai Que both met Zhang Yue when they were still young.

After working together for so many years, Huang Lu often slapped Zhang Yue on the table, but Huang Lu also helped Zhang Yue withstand a lot of thunder at critical moments, and the friendship between brothers was nothing more than this.

Zhang Yue believed in the policy making at that time that the country had indeed "taken advantage of the situation".

At that time, the Song Dynasty had been a country for a hundred years, and there was almost no economic growth. To maintain it, we could only start from the stock, which was very difficult.

Therefore, Zhang Yue believed that the court must further centralize power to allocate resources for the future. That's why Wang Anshi's Reform was launched.

How to get rid of the problem of "profit is already in trouble"?

Zhang Yue remembered that a certain dynasty occupied a certain amount of global GDP. This is nonsense.

It's like a person raising sheep and eating them himself in the end, which cannot be counted in GDP.

Because gdp is the final commodity price, and before the Opium War, China was mostly a self-sufficient natural economy.

Gdp is only considered if you raise sheep and sell them to others in exchange for money. Gdp is a social division of labor and a transaction. I raise sheep not to eat for myself, but to sell them to others and finally exchange them for money. This is called social division of labor.

In the end, the sheep was sold and processed into mutton, the mutton was sold and made into mutton-shabu-shabu, and the mutton-shabu-shabu was sold to a hot pot restaurant and turned into mutton hot pot. Finally, you ordered a mutton hot pot takeout using Meituan.

From sheep to mutton to mutton shabu-shabu to mutton hot pot to mutton hot pot takeout, every step involves social division of labor, and some people earn wealth from it, and the price of mutton hot pot takeout is the final GDP.

The more social division of labor steps involved in the transaction, the more wealth can be created.

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi was a little puzzled and asked: "How can the court make wealth from this?"

But Zhang Yue said to Zhang Zhi: "Go over there and get a piece of mutton with your hands!"

Zhang Zhi went to take out the mutton with his hands.

Zhang Yue said: "Put it back again!"

Zhang Zhi put the mutton back again.

Zhang Yue said to Zhang Zhi: "See if there is a little more grease in your hands!"

Zhang Zhi suddenly realized.

As long as it is a transaction, whether it is a transaction between acquaintances or a roadside stall, the court can make money from it.

But if you raise your own sheep and eat them yourself, the court cannot make a dime from them.

Of course, when productivity is low, the natural economy has no solution.

For example, if I earn 20 yuan an hour, I have no choice but to cook and eat by myself. But if I earn 200 yuan an hour, I can order food.

Although ordering food is more expensive, I can earn back the money in less than ten minutes of work. On the contrary, it takes me an hour to cook.

This is a question of labor efficiency.

Social division of labor allows everyone to do more suitable things, rather than doing everything. This is the same as doing housework for your own family cannot create wealth, but doing housework for other people's families can.

The more developed the economy is, the more it moves toward a commodity economy, not a self-sufficient economy.

This is the way to get rid of the idea of ​​"taking advantage of others"!

Of course there is also the development of Huguang!

Zhang Yue picked up a piece of mutton and said this to Zhang Zhi. That's why he encouraged the silk and cotton trade, because there are a lot of links involved in cotton planting, cotton seed removal, weaving, looms, machine shops, dyeing, etc.

, can drive a large number of industries.

Finally, from a piece of silk and cotton to ready-made clothing, there are countless social division of labor steps involved.

Zhang Zhi listened attentively and was enlightened.

Zhang Yue talked about his interest, so he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses of wine and said: "My great policies are all based on this path, and you should follow this path from now on!"

Zhang Zhi said seriously: "My nephew, remember this."

Unknowingly, the snow on the ground was already three feet deep. Zhang Yue stretched out his hand outside the court and saw snowflakes falling on the palm of his hand.
To be continued...