In the current situation, the sugar workshop belongs to a kind of handicraft industry, but also a kind of traditional handicraft industry, in a simple agricultural society like Datang, it is a fool's dream to carry out the industrial revolution, but to change the pattern of government income in Datang, and transform the simple agricultural income into a three-legged situation of agriculture, commerce and handicrafts, which may be possible and very feasible.

Before any country transitions from an agrarian society to an industrial society, there will be a difficult situation caused by the market crisis caused by the great social and economic development of the old traditional handicraft industry can not meet the market demand, and the industrial revolution that began in Britain at the earliest time is because of this, the market demand stimulates scientific and technological progress, which directly triggers the industrial revolution due to commercial factors, in other words, when the social wealth accumulates to a certain extent, when the market hunger and thirst enter a rather dangerous situation, The industrial revolution will come naturally.

It's not that people deliberately push Datang to enter the industrial society many years in advance, even if the steam engine is manufactured now, the automaton is manufactured, which can greatly increase the number of goods in the society, but what about the purchasing power of the people? When the system comes out, it always has to be sold, the funds are returned, and then the reproduction is carried out. Are the people of Datang rich? Can you afford a lot of goods?

This is undoubtedly impossible, and even if the steam engine is now made to artificially push the development of science and technology, then what is the point? The biggest impetus comes from the needs of the whole people, and the whole people do not have such needs. The emergence of science and technology can only be a tragedy, and how many of the inventive geniuses who appeared in the world many years in advance have been defeated by the times.

Sun's rather don't have that interest in pouring what steam engine, what new machine to dump, not to mention that he is a liberal arts student, he doesn't know anything about science and technology and industry, and he will not be crazy to develop science and technology now, the development of science and technology is gradually carried out with the needs of human beings, and the scientific and technological revolution can not be completed overnight, and its triggering factors are also diverse. The Industrial Revolution can last for many years. The technological revolution can also last for many years, and even every day is a technological revolution.

Humans have to survive, don't they?

What do Lingnan people need? What do the Tang people need? Now the most basic thing is to have a full stomach, and what the whole people crave most is to have a full stomach. Didn't eat a full stomach. Everything is nothingness. Nothing makes sense, you now take a steam engine and a bag of rice and put it in front of a peasant, he will definitely choose rice. It's not a steam engine, or some people say it's a foolish people, they don't understand technology, but people can't even live, what kind of science and technology?

Whatever you talk about, you must have the most basic premise, eat enough and survive!

There are not many people in Datang who can survive well, it can only be said that they will barely be starved to death, that's all, Datang's current agricultural productivity can only be said to ensure that people will not be starved to death, if you want to eat well, eat enough, so that you can reach the point of worry-free food and clothing, that is still too far, the needs of human beings are a gradual process, the bottom is to survive with a full stomach, Datang has not even done it at the lowest level, how dare you live a good life and engage in the industrial revolution?

At present, Lingnan is a promising area, and it will also be the first area in Datang where commerce exceeds agriculture, and the huge wealth brought by maritime trade will create a large number of wealthy people in Lingnan in a very short period of time, and they will bring rich social wealth, which will improve the social purchasing power of Lingnan society as a whole, and will indirectly promote the development of Lingnan commerce, and Lingnan's commerce will develop in a short period of time, and wealth will accumulate rapidly and prosper soon.

Just like the original Shenzhen, the city that rose overnight, the development of the entire Lingnan will follow the footsteps of Shenzhen, and it will develop soon, and its development process will even be faster than the development process of Chang'an City, which is more incredible, but its hidden dangers will also be very large, for example, the social wealth has increased, the gap between the rich and the poor has also increased, the purchasing power has increased, and the productivity has not kept up with the pace of purchasing power.

Those with purchasing power are some extremely wealthy maritime merchants, they are the top of the social pyramid, strong financial resources, but the number is too small, and the majority of the common people are still poor, except for the land brought by the imperial court to promote the equalization of the field system and the high-yield crops that are about to be obtained, they are at most full, there is nothing else, Lingnan will have a very strict polarization problem, some people die with money, some people have no money.

The basis of a country is the middle class, and the evaluation of the country's wealth and poverty should also start with the middle class, the main purchasing power of society comes from the middle class, and the main service object of the basic industry of the country's survival is the broad middle class, and their strength and increase in number are the signs of the country's strength, and no country or region will lack extremely rich people, and extremely rich people cannot in fact make a country rich.

If Lingnan people can't reach the point where every household is well-off, then a qiē is meaningless, the reason why Suning will set up a city department and an audit department to deal with maritime businessmen is to have the idea of robbing the rich and helping the poor, Suning deeply understands that let some people get rich first, and don't care about those who are not rich, for the country, how much hidden danger it is, and how lethal the polarization of the rich and the poor will be.

The wealth obtained by the maritime merchants was heavily taxed, and a sum of money was collected, which would certainly not dampen the enthusiasm of the maritime merchants, but would only prompt them to devote themselves more hard to the cause of maritime trade, but the imperial court that obtained this money could gradually reduce the agricultural tax through the income of these commercial taxes, and even reach the realm of no agricultural tax, protect the interests of the peasants, and let the most vast peasant class in the Tang Dynasty truly own their own property, and in fact support the middle class.

The middle class is strong and complete, so it can be said that the Tang Dynasty is rich, and there are countless cases of extreme wealth in ancient China, but is China rich?

It is ideal to collect taxes from the rich to complete the country's welfare system and ensure that no citizen dies because of poverty, rather than just exploiting the middle class and civilians below the poverty line. Fattened the rich.

The audit department is a sword hanging over the heads of maritime merchants, Suning believes that there will soon be tax evasion and tax evasion, at that time, it is the time to kill chickens to show monkeys, the dignity of the law, the majesty of Zhenguan law, absolutely not a group of maritime businessmen can challenge, anyone with a lot of wealth, will be the object of taxation, when the Tang Dynasty no longer taxes farmers. Datang really began to get rich.

Suning set up a sugarcane workshop in Lingnan. And he tried to invite some of the big merchants who were already engaged in handicraft manufacturing to set up larger workshops together, to hire more laborers, to produce more goods, and to tell them the most basic truth -- that those who came back from the sea would be rich. When the time comes, a lot of money will be spent. A big customer can buy your total production in a year.

Suning took the lead. Not only did he join hands with Feng Ang to set up a super sugarcane manor covering an area of more than 10,000 acres, but also officially stated that he would open a branch of Weixianju in Guangzhou and Gaozhou, which was the first time that Weixianju set up a branch in the south of the Yangtze River since it was based in Xiangyang and Jinling. It is also the first time to set up a branch of Weixianju in Lingnan, since it will also do a good job, and recruit workers in Lingnan, I hope that honest, reliable and powerful Lingnan men will come here to work, and the treatment will be preferential.

Although the soil and climatic conditions in Lingnan are unique, and it is not impossible to grow three crops a year, there are still people who have free time, and they have nothing to do after planting the land, and they also want to do odd jobs to earn some wine money, nourish themselves, and improve the quality of life; Suning hopes to increase the amount of wealth held by the common people, objectively accelerate the formation and growth of the middle class, and improve the overall economic level of Lingnan.

Things must be planned now, when the time comes, once there are a lot of people who get rich overnight, then it will have a certain impact on Lingnan society, now the audit department and the city shipping department have firmly controlled all aspects of shipping, the navy is also maintaining order and protecting security on the sea, and people who buy a large number of spices from the north to Jiangnan are also quickly stationed in Guangzhou, and the growth of Lingnan's wealth will appear in an explosive way.

Of course, after that, Suning also held a secret meeting, secretly circled the Nanhai Zhudao that is currently known, and divided the sphere of influence of these people according to their wealth and status in the division of the highest five islands and the lowest island, the money is not endless, but there are many people who want to make money, many of them are civilians, there is not much land, you already have so much land, just give you a few islands as your own sphere of influence, don't compete with civilians for the time being, These islands will be enough for you to develop for a while.

The people from Chang'an and the Lingnan people participated in this spoils sharing conference together, everyone accepted this condition, Feng Ang did not object, nodded and agreed, so the initial division of the scope of interests was determined, the civilian maritime merchants paid money to obtain the mining power of the islands, and these people with status were not allowed to expand their sphere of influence on the islands within a year, and after a year according to the actual situation, the maximum number of islands that the civilian maritime merchants could mine was three islands, Unlike those of status, who were directly their private property, the commoners paid to lease the islands, and the sovereignty of the islands was in the hands of the imperial court.

A whole month later, when the first batch of ships to go to sea had already partially returned, Suning arranged everything in place, and then it was the day when the first fleet docked to see the development of the results, many people went to the dock to greet them, and then started doing business on the spot, spices and strange things and even the captured natives were trading at the dock, and the tax officers of the audit department were all dispatched, and a tax department was set up at the dock, and a group of elite soldiers armed to the teeth patrolled around with steel knives, The meaning of the threat is obvious.

Suning and Feng Ang personally came to the dock to inspect and saw those maritime merchants carrying boatloads of spices and slaves to the land, and then those merchants who were waiting to be fed immediately bargained with them, negotiated the price, and took away the spices and slaves one by one, leaving behind mountains of copper coins and silk cloths, some of which were directly traded with silver, but there was no way, the quantity of goods was too large, and the copper coins and silk cloths were not enough to pay.

Then these maritime merchants honestly took all the wealth obtained from the transaction to the tax officer's booth to pay the tax, and after the tax officer carefully checked the amount of money, those who reached a certain level of dù were charged according to the ratio from ten taxes three to ten taxes five, and those who did not meet the standard were directly released, these guys had no chance of tax evasion, and the elite soldiers were personally dispatched by Feng An, and they were eyeing the patrols, and the idea of transporting property in batches did not have the opportunity to be implemented.

Suning, who was very satisfied with his approach, looked at the scene in front of him happily, but when he saw the merchants doing business with carts of copper coins and silk cloth, he couldn't help but think of a very key thing - paper money. (To be continued......)