"You cook the food today and I'll wash the dishes."
"No, you burn it, I'll wash it."
"How about ordering two takeaways?"
"good."
——Comedy sketch: "The Evolution of Social Division of Labor"
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There are thousands of differences in the development of industrialization and agriculturalization.
Speaking more broadly, a big theory such as 'Progress in Production Efficiency' can be described for a long time without stopping. It is a good helper for historical articles, farming articles, and key articles.
But this lacks realism.
Just like a pound of flour and a pound of steamed buns, eating a pound of steamed buns always feels more real.
so,
On a smaller scale, the change in "how to eat" is enough to "make a difference with a little bit"!
Speed up time...
Five days later, it was sunny at noon after the rain.
In the city of Gus, the young carpenter finished his work, stuffed the file and hammer back into his toolbox, and sat down on the stone steps outside the hut. The floor of the working hut was full of wood chips, making it inconvenient to eat.
He took out a large piece of black bread wrapped in clean cotton cloth and took a few hungry bites. The oval-shaped black bread was stuffed with generous fillings: diced bacon, boiled mung beans, chopped cabbage, marinade,
And an appropriate amount of salt.
As early as early in the morning, the carpenter's wife spent more than two hours cooking and making 6 portions of such "stuffed bread": 2 portions for the carpenter, 2 portions for herself, and one portion each for her eldest son and youngest daughter.
The whole day's meals for their family have to be prepared in advance in the early morning.
The residents in the city are different from the farmers outside the city. People who work in Gusi City often work in shops, employers' homes, stalls, and on the streets all day long without going home in between because they can't smoke.
body.
In contrast, although the daily farm work of villagers outside the city is tiring and plentiful, at least after finishing the farm work, the villagers still have relatively flexible free time and can freely go home to cook and eat.
(The serf village next to the castle manor is another story and will not be expanded upon yet)
Although there are some street vendors selling preserved fruits, sugar wheat balls, and freshly braised pork in the city, for most families with financial difficulties, being thrifty and budget-conscious, the cost of cooking at home will definitely be lower, and they will only occasionally cook in unexpected emergencies.
Buy a 'ready lunch' from a street vendor.
(To put it another way, the relatively wealthier small group of urban residents are the stable source of customers for street vendors)
For families in the city, fresh and not stiff black bread and dried and sifted Spanish rice (risotto rice), these two starches [staple foods] are purchased daily from large and small grain stores in the city.
Bread bakery.
Vegetables, marinades, chicken, duck, mutton, dried salted fish, etc. [Non-staple food], the raw materials are all purchased from the stalls of farmers and fishermen at the market, and it takes one or two hours to cook at home, three or four hours a day.
The time is wasted.
What? Didn’t you say it would only take an hour or two?
It doesn’t take time to buy and choose vegetables at the market?!
It doesn’t take much time to walk back and forth?!
It takes time to light a fire on the stove and clean the kitchen utensils!
(If there is no gas stove, rely on firewood; if there is no faucet, rely on water cylinders; time-consuming and laborious)
It would take three or four hours to put all the bits and pieces together.
Liberate productivity? Start by cutting down on ‘eating’ time!
However, what makes a certain devil regretful is that under the current environmental conditions, it is only suitable to reduce the "eating" time of farmers outside the city. There are too many causes and effects involved in the problem of eating for residents in the city——
——Grain store guilds, bread baking shops, and market trade all affect the economy. Once the economy is in chaos and public security deteriorates, it will be difficult for the lords to reform.
As we all know, farmers have always been the easiest to deal with.
Of course, the scientific research progress of the Chuyang national policy tree has not yet illuminated the most critical energy technology. Although a certain devil can (literally!) build the Xixi version of the 'steam engine prototype mother machine', due to the lack of sufficient easy-to-use energy,
It is impossible to start the industrialization reform - things like [land annexation], [land enclosure movement], [small craftsmen losing their jobs], etc., are all very early.
The reform plan currently designed by Li Jiasu for Chuyang is based on the outline of "improving the utilization rate of agricultural resources" and targeting the small farmer economic system outside Gusi City!
Currently, there are three economic systems on this broken island:
A slave economy integrating [castle manor serfs and slaves];
Feudal contract-based commercial economy integrated with [Castle, Seaport and Merchant Market];
A small-scale peasant economy integrating [rural market vendors];
Well, the small-scale peasant economy (owner farmers) is the worst one:
Not only do they have to pay agricultural taxes to the castle, but they also have to be exploited by the big traders in the small seaport town.
It can be said to be "blood sucked from both ends".
As for whether the lord sucked harder or the big merchants in the small seaport town sucked harder, that's a matter of opinion.
In the eyes of a certain devil, the lord's policy of sucking the blood of peasants can be improved to be "more efficient, more scientific, and more potential for development", while at the same time suppressing and beating the big traders in Gusi City-here specifically refers to
[Grain Store Guild], and [Erdao Merchants] who purchase agricultural products in small amounts - strengthen the castle's control over the "scissors gap" and [concentrate] more agricultural resources into Chuyang's hands instead of private traders'
In hand!
Does it look like ‘emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business’?
Yes and no.
Under the feudal system, the most reliable solution was to "strengthen" centralization, authoritarianism, and resource centralization through "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business."
It's just that most of the lords, after their castles became rich and powerful, began to settle down and stopped making progress.
Chuyang did not intend to "spoil it for three hundred years".
The centralization of power in Gus City, its own authority, and the concentration of agricultural resources,
Only by completing these three enhancements can Chuyang have cards that he can play, and can Li Jiasu assist Chuyang to "drastically" reform the internal economic system of Gusi City.
In fact, the logic is very simple: first get [rural], then [rural] and [Castle Manor] work together to transform [city], and after both [rural] and [city] have been successfully transformed, finally reform [Castle Manor] from top to bottom.
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Which comes first [rural] or [urban]? This is a question of route.
Based on the objective situation on the island and from a practical point of view, the devil and the young lord have the same point of view:
It's too difficult to deal with in the city, so let's start with the villages outside the city!
Therefore, taking the opportunity to solve the "pressure problem of kitchen meal supply at construction sites",
A certain accelerator devil and the young lord spent most of the night tinkering,
The design is an important step in the development of the island.
That is to say, it was decided to establish——
——Public kitchen in the collective canteen of peasants and construction workers with the unique feudal bill system of Federeshleng!
What? I don’t understand how to break up the sentence?
Federeshlen · Characteristic feudalism · Bill system · Farmers and construction workers · Collective canteen · Public kitchen.