Next to a big osmanthus tree, Du Zhongxiao and Wang Anshi sat opposite each other. A small tandoor in the middle with bamboo leaf sake warmed on top. A large plate of fish is placed on a small table, and next to it is an enamelled plate of kebabs skewered with bamboo skewers.

Not far away, Thirteen Lang and Tao Seventeen sat side by side on the edge of the oven, which was full of lamb skewers.

Thirteen Lang picked up a string of meat, took a big bite, grabbed the wine bottle next to him and drank, and said to Tao Seventeen: "Seventeen, you are an official now, although you are on official business, you often have to come back to see the official." Without officials, how could you be where you are today? ”

Tao Qiqi shook his head: "Blame me?" I can't leave there, so it's just the work arranged by the officials. It's not that Governor Su won't allow me to come, but I really can't get out. As soon as I walk away, a lot of work will stop, who dares to take this responsibility! ”

Thirteen Lang said: "What kind of work can the officials arrange for you?" Now with me, train the army every day, and don't worry about those mundane affairs for a long time! ”

Tao Seventeen said: "What do you know! It's just for you to train the troops, the affairs of the camp and the affairs of the Changping Division, the officials don't care! This year, the railway from Xiangzhou to Gangneung Province was paved, but there were no cars running. A few days ago, the official also went to the letter railway prison to move a few trains out anyway. ”

Thirteen Lang didn't worry about this, and said, "Don't talk about this." Take the washed bream and put it on it to roast. ”

With the help of Du Zhongxiao, Ma Zun was transferred to the states and counties along the line and built the railway from Xiangzhou to Jiangling. The rails were paved, but I found that I couldn't buy a train to run. The production capacity of the railway supervisor is limited, and the output of the car must first be used closely to the road directly managed by the three divisions and the Jingxi Road, and the shipping department will naturally have to be lined up behind. According to the progress of the iron superintendent, there is a car on the road, and it will be a year later, how can Ma Zun wait? I had to come to Du Zhongxiao again and ask him to write to the prefect Su Song, no matter what, move a few trains to the Jingxiang line.

Tao Seventeen served in the iron supervisor, and according to his rank, he was still above Liu Zhuo. However, he is a military asset, and he is working in supervision, and his status in this era is not high. And he is mainly in charge of technology and production, regardless of money and goods, and is not a celebrity of the iron prison.

Du Zhongxiao and Wang Anshi drank a glass of wine, picked up a string of meat to eat, and said in their mouths: "This mutton is very tender, Jiefu taste it." ”

Wang Anshi lives a casual life and does not pay attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation. I often think about things when I eat, and I don't know what I've eaten. However, after walking in the countryside for a few days and learning about the situation in the neighborhood, I was greatly encouraged and was in a good mood today. Putting down the cup, I took a skewer of meat, and took a bite and chewed slowly. Wang Anshi just doesn't care about eating, it's not that he doesn't understand, and it's a set when he gets serious. Really on the wine feast, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, side references, more than Du Zhongxiao can say.

After eating the meat, Wang Anshi nodded: "This sheep is extremely delicate and fresh, and the roasting heat is just right, which is really good." In particular, benzoin has a special fragrance. Compared with other places, the meat here is better than one fragrant and the other tender. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The trick to baking like this is not only to repose the fennel, but also to adjust the taste first, brush it with honey and then roast." ”

Wang Anshi was full of praise, drinking warm wine while eating kebabs. Grilled meat is a long-standing delicacy, especially in the era when cooking skills are not abundant, and this way of eating is even more important. Barbecue was popular in the Song Dynasty, not only in the army, but also among the people. However, mutton is more popular for boiling, pork is popular for roasting and frying, and the Yakini Zhuin in Tokyo City is very famous.

After drinking for a while, Wang Anshi said: "In the past few days, I have taken a turn in the countryside and seen many characters. Many of the fiber pullers were poor and had no skills before coming here. However, in a year or two, they learned to farm, learn to raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and life is very prosperous. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "That's nature. In the past, when I was a box army, how much food was there for a month? He has to support his wife and children, so he is naturally stretched. After the camp was opened, each person planted thirty or fifty acres of land, as well as his own private land, and his life would not be bad. ”

Wang Anshi nodded again and again: "That's right." After reading this, I know why Tang has the world, why do you want Juntian. Everyone has a field to plant, and life is happy, and only when there is war can they go out on the battlefield and be loyal to the country. The loss of the Tang Dynasty and the corruption of Juntian are a major reason. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Why don't the Tang people know? But what can be done? At the beginning of the country, it was possible to equalize the land and give it a thin endowment, but after decades, it could not be maintained. There are thousands of benefits, and if they can't be maintained, they are useless. ”

Wang Anshi shook his head: "Why can't such a good law be maintained?" The merger continued, and the poor lost their land and had no jobs, resulting in the corruption of the land system. If it can be controlled and strengthened, it may not be impossible to support it. ”

Du Zhongxiao persuaded him to drink a glass of wine: "Annexation is naturally the reason, but corruption is not just because of annexation. At the beginning of Juntian, there were five people in a household, one husband and one wife, not counting the elderly, but counting three children. Children are adults, and there are children, and in a few decades, the field is enough. The land in the world is limited, and the children and grandchildren have no end to reproduction, how can we maintain the land by farming alone? ”

Wang Anshi said: "It makes sense. That's why I look at the camp and the field to build the village community for a great good governance. Children can multiply, they can go to the village community to work and earn money to support the family. In this way, although the population is larger, the number of fields remains the same, and the money and grain can be harvested more. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "That is the case, and it is indeed possible to do so." Like iron prisons and shopping malls, they will soon be popular all over the world, and the villages and communities attached to them will also develop. One day, there will be fewer and fewer people farming, and more and more people working as workers. Although there are few people, more and more food will be grown in the fields, and there will be no hunger and cold in the world. At that time, there will be no more money and food, just money. However, Jiefu, at that time, there will be the same trouble of money, which is not much different from Juntian's inability to maintain. There are many people and few places, so people can go to work and do business. What if there were no opportunities to make money at that time? ”

Wang Anshi smiled: "How could there be such a day!" I looked at the iron prison and the shopping mall, and after making money, I used the money I earned as the capital to make it bigger. The bigger they are, the more people they can use. It is carried out in the world, almost endlessly. ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled and persuaded Wang Anshi to drink wine and eat meat. This is the expansion of reproduction, as long as it can be carried out, industry will promote commerce, and commerce will drive industry, and the snowball will roll bigger and bigger. As long as there is enough food to eat, social production can continue to swell. Wang Anshi was good at thinking, and soon discovered the power of expanding reproduction, and moved his mind to production, instead of thinking about how to crack down on the powerful and seize wealth and become officials.

In the words of later generations, the reform in Wang Anshi's heart in the past was to re-divide the cake, and now he has found a way to make the cake bigger. What's so unusual about this approach? Almost everyone in later generations knows about it, but how many of the world's reforms have been successful?

Du Zhongxiao has already established these industries and opened the door to industrialization, and he will not think about them all day long. What he is thinking about now is how to avoid the drawbacks and achieve long-term peace and stability. Wang Anshi had just discovered the expansion of industrial reproduction, and it was difficult for the two to talk about going together.

After eating for a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "Jiefu, in fact, it is the same as land annexation. Nowadays, there are more people doing business in the construction field, and it is no longer as easy as it is now, and there will still be mergers. What's the biggest downside of a merger? It's not that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, that doesn't make the world corrupt and unmanageable. Just as the powerful giants appeared after the land annexation, the generations remained the same, and the industrial and commercial mergers also appeared in the same way that the giants of the past generations appeared, and the wealth of the world went into their hands. It remains unchanged from generation to generation, which is feudal. Not only do there are feudal lords for farming, but also for the world's wealth to be transferred to industry and commerce, and there will also be feudal lords. To study the Juntian system of the Tang Dynasty, it is better to be familiar with the feudal theory of the Tang people. ”

With the development of the iron supervisor and the camp field, Du Zhongxiao continued to deduce, according to the knowledge he learned in his previous life, plus the reality of this era, how to avoid all kinds of drawbacks. Let the society develop in the long run, instead of being short-lived, and their efforts will eventually come to naught.

In fact, this doctrine and that doctrine are all deduced from the reality of Europe, and this era has no meaning for Du Zhongxiao. What can really guide reality is China's historical tradition and the contradiction between great unification and feudalism.

When you enter a capitalist society, there will be no feudalism? Through a variety of operations, some large families can wield huge amounts of wealth and the power to distribute the wealth of society for generations. This characteristic is similar to that of the landlords of the agricultural era, but it is replaced by the feudal lords of the era of industrial capital.

To simply put Chinese history into the European template is to lose an important contradiction, that is, the contradiction between great unification and feudalism. The Chinese tradition is great unification, the Song Dynasty is the peak, the Ming Dynasty has a resurgence of the Great Feudal Clan, and the Qing Dynasty's Eight Banners system has taken a step back.

If we look at the contradiction between great unification and feudalism, many things will change their faces. In the later generations of industrial development, there was a trend of globalization, in fact, according to European history, the scope was expanded to the whole world, and some nobles carried out the feudalism of capital. Why do many capitalists strive to be China's Morgan and China's Rockefeller? It is not their successes that are imitated, but their feudal characteristics.

With a unified China that swept away the remnants of feudalism, globalization would not be possible at all. The inclusion of Chinese capital under the great unification will smash the capital feudalism formed in other places, and the two are incompatible. Unless China's capital can also be feudalized, globalization will inevitably go backwards, and each will occupy its own territory. At that time, the globalization of trade was possible, but the globalization of capital could not occur.

The root of the trade war is the incompatibility between the tradition of great unification and the feudal tradition. Great unification can allow feudalism outside the world, and many places around China in history were strong feudal systems, such as Japan. But the feudal tradition must be isolated from the tradition of great unification. Calling China's long history a feudal society makes people forget the original meaning of feudalism.