Quick wear is not a cannon fodder

An Ran's answer seemed to answer the ancient general's doubts, but when he said this, the ancient general had a new question: "Why is the salary not low for such an easy job? I took a look and found that it is necessary to only eat for free. In terms of rice, a person eats three kilograms of rice a day, and one hundred kilograms of rice a month. The cheapest rice is two yuan a kilogram. He only needs to earn two hundred yuan to fill his stomach. In fact, you here People can eat less than 100 kilograms of rice a month and spend less. As for the salary for easy work here, I looked at the job recruitment brochures near you. Even for cleaning people, the salary is several thousand. In my opinion, this job is very simple. Even people in their 60s and 70s here can do it. You can earn thousands for such an easy job. Is it too easy to make money? Why are you willing to give so much money? Woolen cloth?"

An Ran said: "If you are given less, people won't do it, and these things always have to be done by people. What should we do if we don't offer a higher salary?"

The ancient general said: "If those people don't work, how can they have money to eat and drink? In order to eat and drink, I can force them to do low-paying things."

"That's how people here feel. They feel that the wages are low. If they don't do it, there's nothing we can do about it."

This situation can be called a foot stock or a strike, but when these terms are spoken, the ancient general may ask another question. An Ran was too lazy to waste words and continued to explain, so he did not mention these words.

"Then let's go back to the original question, which brings up my previous doubts: Why are you so rich, why can you refuse to do things with low wages, and are you not afraid of starving if you don't have money?"

"That's not true. We don't stay here, we have our own places to stay. There are so many places in the city. If there is a place with low wages, you can go to other places. Even if the wages in the whole city are low, you can go to other cities. , or even go abroad to see, there are many places with high wages, so what are you afraid of?"

"What if people all over the country or even the world were offered low wages? Where would they go to find work?"

"This kind of thing won't happen. Someone has to do the boss's work. In order to offer a lower salary, it's not cost-effective to wait for people from all over the world to join forces and offer a lower salary together, leaving things to pile up and no one to do it. .Besides, it’s not that easy for so many bosses around the world to unite and offer low wages. So everyone will generally offer a wage that can make money and not lose money, as long as they can make money. , and it can recruit people to do things without affecting their business. The more money you give, the more money you can give.”

After hearing this, the ancient general felt that it made sense, but he always felt that he did not understand the situation. He thought, in his own world, why are the bosses offering such low wages, and even many apprentices in hospitals, restaurants, etc. They have to pay to be apprentices, and not only offer them high wages, they even have to repay their employers. Why is this?

After hearing his doubts, An Ran said: "Our business is developed here, but yours is not. Those who want to work have too few options, so wages cannot go up. This may be the reason."

"Actually, I have a new question: all your people are engaged in business, and no one wants to engage in agriculture, because agriculture is not profitable. Then, where do the things you eat come from? The food produced is enough Is it useful? The reason why we emphasize agriculture and suppress business over there is that we are afraid that everyone will go into business and stop farming."

The ancient general also learned a lot of words in this world during these times, and also knew about agriculture and business, so he asked this question.

"We have machinery. With agricultural mechanization, one person can plant a lot of fields. He can plant a large field by driving a machine. It doesn't require many people at all. Moreover, people who cultivate the land are not even complete farmers. Because many fields are contracted by large farmers, hiring people who can operate machinery to plant them is also a commercial activity. There are really very few people who make a living entirely by farming, because they only rely on farming , we can’t maintain our lives, we have to work to make money.”

The ancient general couldn't help but sigh when he heard what An Ran said. He secretly thought that it was mechanization that contributed to it. Otherwise, the farming methods were too backward, and everyone had to farm at home, because otherwise, there would be nothing to eat.

So the ancient general asked An Ran, "You said... if I learn the mechanization on your side, and I go back one day and teach the people over there to make these things, will it be the same for us over there?" How can we live such a prosperous life?”

An Ran shook his head and said, "No."

"Why? Isn't that how you did it?"

"I'm not saying your method is not good, but your premise is not good. You can't make machinery. If you want to make machinery, you have to develop industry. The first thing is to make steel. Without steel, how can you make those mechanical equipment? Come out? Next, how to make a machine is also very complicated. At least one requires many people with a certain degree of education. How can you make it if you have not learned this knowledge? Don’t say you have learned it. Go back To teach those people, our current knowledge is complicated, and you may not be able to learn so much knowledge. Just like me, I only know a little bit of the ocean of knowledge, and it is impossible to know so much."

"Moreover, even if you build a machine, you may not be able to succeed, because in addition to the machine, success must also have a corresponding system. Look at our world, there are some places abroad, not counting those places where wars are fought. Just look at the places where there was no war. Many places are still very poor. So even if you live in a world with machines, you may not be able to live well. You need to have supporting systems. I won’t talk about this. Yes, you can check it yourself online. But I feel that these systems, no matter which of the richer countries are applied to your country, will not adapt to the local conditions and will definitely attract strong reactions. Whether you can implement it successfully, I will I’m really not optimistic about it.”

In fact, as early as when the ancient general asked those questions, An Ran knew what he wanted to ask and knew the answers. However, she knew that those answers might not be possible in his time.

Promoting industrialization, eliminating the imperial system, and establishing a new system is not something he can do alone, nor can it be done overnight, because their productivity is backward. The first thing is to improve productivity to a certain level. It is not something that can be accomplished overnight, because it also involves the improvement of education and so on.

The scope of influence was so vast. He wanted to do it, but it was really difficult.

Sometimes in some ancient tasks, all she could do was to lay a good foundation. She did not say in which world this was done. She could only wait for later people to develop their productivity better before it could be gradually realized. .

And what she knows is far beyond that of the ancient generals, and it is the result of many years of study. It is almost impossible for the ancient generals to learn so much knowledge in a short period of time.

So An Ran saw that the ancient general kept asking these things but didn't get to the root of it directly. It was because she knew her answer, but even if she told it, the other party couldn't do it.