Li Sheng suddenly started to explain, but Li Er was stunned.
He said right on the spot, you stinky boy.
Do you also know that if one person earns one hundred taels, ninety-nine people will have no income?
Then what are you talking about? Isn't it obvious that this high-end textile industry cannot be developed?
Li Er complained crazily in his heart.
But before Li Er really started to complain, Li Sheng said it.
"But has your Majesty ever thought about it, what if each of these hundred people could earn a hundred taels?"
"Wouldn't this profit become ten thousand taels?"
These words came out of Li Sheng's mouth.
In less than three seconds, Li Er began to suspect that there was something wrong with his ears.
I felt a little nervous for a moment. Could it be that I have reached the stage of old age? No way.
Although I cannot be said to be young at my age, as Emperor Wen of the Taiping Period, he can still be considered young and powerful.
For a moment, Li Er couldn't help but touch his ears,
Then he turned around and looked up, Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji also looked confused.
So, Li Er gradually came back to his senses and couldn't help being shocked.
Damn, I heard that right.
Did Li Sheng really say that he could go from earning one tael of silver per person to one hundred taels per person?
It’s not that one person earns one hundred taels, but each person truly earns one hundred taels???
Damn it.
At this moment, there were only two words left in Li Er's mind.
Damn it!
This is so fucking exciting!
Li Er's eyes widened and he looked at Li Sheng who was standing in front of the hall, as if he wanted to tear open the bead curtain in front of him with his eyes - no, Li Er almost couldn't help but tear open the bead curtain in front of him and take a closer look.
Li Sheng.
This is no longer just whimsical, this is simply nonsense!
Li Eryi suddenly had the urge to call the imperial doctor.
Fortunately, remembering this occasion, there were also two confidants, Wei Zheng and Chang Sun Wuji, by his side. Although it was obvious from the expressions of these two unruly men that they did not understand at all, Li Er calmed down at least.
So he then said to Li Sheng, "How is this possible? I have always admired the talents of the Holy King, but if the common people are to earn two taels of silver a month, isn't this a joke?"
Li Er thought hard before understanding the path of the imperial court.
It means upgrading the industry so that every citizen can earn more money.
But what Li Sheng said was a slap in his old face - the imperial court had tried hard to upgrade the industry but could not make the people make much money, and now it suddenly said that it could make a hundred taels.
Isn't this just a joke!
However, Li Sheng seemed to have expected Li Er's reaction, so he continued.
"Your Majesty is unaware of something, please let me know in detail."
"People work in cotton spinning factories, and although they only get one tael of silver per month, they already earn more than ordinary farmers who till the land. Why?"
"To put it bluntly, it's because operating textile machines requires skills. Ordinary farmers don't have such skills, so they can earn more."
"If the Tang Dynasty wants to be prosperous and powerful in the future, in the final analysis, it is necessary for the people to master more technologies. The more and more technologies the people master, the income of the Tang Dynasty will increase. Obviously, this kind of thing cannot be solved by the court alone.
Rely on the people’s own strength.”
"Common people use machines to weave cloth, and one person can weave the amount of cloth that would have required several or even dozens of people. In the final analysis, it is textile machines that have replaced manpower, just like oxen, so China can be civilized and prosperous.
For thousands of years, we are ahead of the barbarians. But since textile machines can replace the original hand-woven textiles."
"Why can't these workers be replaced by more machines? This is the natural principle."
This time.
Li Er looked surprised, but he was not as excited as before, because this time Li Er understood what Li Sheng meant,
As Li Sheng said, China has been able to develop civilization for thousands of years precisely because farming and the use of oxen have liberated manpower. The people in China have the spare capacity to have more things: more ideas, more
means, more wealth, more power.
And in the future.
It seems that it is not a strange thing for machines to replace textile craftsmen. This is what happened in the history of China, and the history so far has also proved that it is indeed beneficial!
But the real problem is still before Li Er. Although it is a natural thing, it may indeed improve the interests of Datang, but these interests will harm the interests of a large number of people. Isn't something going to happen?
Thinking along this line of thinking, Li Er thought about it. In fact, the Zhou Dynasty carried out an economic revolution. After comprehensively promoting farming in China, the economy did grow later. However, the Zhou Dynasty itself could not adapt to the new economic and demographic structure because of the system.
, eventually collapsed, and this problem was later solved by the Han Dynasty inheriting the Qin State's military merit system. Although the military merit system gradually became invalid later, at least China accumulated a large amount of territory throughout the Han Dynasty, and this benefit was
There is no doubt about it.
However, according to this idea, what should I do now?
This, however, left Li Er confused. It would be better to reintroduce the military merit system, right? Today's China's ecology is not suitable for that thing.
Li Er was puzzled, but Li Sheng said it again.
"Your Majesty, this industrial upgrading is not something like building the Great Wall. It is about people mastering more and more skills. This is industrial upgrading. Although textile factories will replace people with machines in the future, you can no longer make a tael of money by operating the machines.
The people can build machines and earn more."
This is considered common sense to Li Sheng. In fact, all social changes happen in this way. But of course, many times if arrangements are not made well, accidents can easily happen. But overall, there is no big problem. The times are
so.
But what was very natural and normal for Li Sheng was very shocking to Li Er!
After finishing speaking, Li Sheng waited quietly for the emperor to continue asking questions.
Although it was his first time to come to the palace, Li Sheng did not panic. This was of course because he had signed in to the system for so long and received various martial arts and physical enhancements. Not to mention these ancient armies, even modern special forces.
There is nothing that can be done about Li Sheng, secondly.
After all, Li Sheng was a legitimate science student educated in modern society. How could such a basic industrial problem be stumped by an emperor?
There were no "problems" that the emperor couldn't figure out, and there were no problems that Li Sheng couldn't explain, so he naturally felt calm.
But this time, Li Sheng waited for a long time, and the sick emperor behind the curtain did not make a sound, which made Li Sheng suspicious.