My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 342: Thoughts on the Planned Economy

Could it be that this Buddhist temple is the transmission point from the Ming Dynasty to the 21st century?

Thinking of this, Li Han couldn't help but hold his breath, and his expression became more and more nervous.

Immediately afterwards, he saw that after Zhu Yuanzhang had placed the books and letters, a mysterious blue light suddenly appeared on the Buddhist table without any warning, wrapping the books and other objects.

Soon, after the blue light dissipated, everything on the Buddhist table also completely disappeared.

This... Li Han was completely dumbfounded. This is exactly the same as the mailbox!

However, it seems that the transmission point between the Ming Dynasty and the 21st century is only the mysterious Buddhist table, not the entire Buddhist hall. Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would probably be teleported here as well.

In other words, there is a time tunnel between Lao Zhu's Buddhist desk and his mailbox. Perhaps the Buddhist desk and the mailbox are made of the same material?
That's not right. The Buddhist table is obviously made of wood, and if you don't check your mailbox, it looks like ordinary steel.

Perhaps if we find the Buddhist table, we can reveal some clues, but where is that Buddhist table now?

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping, Yingtian Prefecture became the secondary capital, and the things in the imperial palace basically remained unchanged.

But now, after 600 years of ups and downs, there is nothing left on the site of the Nanjing Ming Palace except a few frames and foundations of the imperial palace. It is completely incomparable with the Forbidden City in Beijing.

That Buddhist temple must have long disappeared in the dust of history. As for the Buddhist altar, I’m afraid only God knows where it is!
It seemed that the clue was broken again, so Li Han thought of the pile of "Great Ming Chronicles", which were more than ten volumes in total and could not be finished in a short time.

Besides, reading this thing is not like reading an online novel. You have to read it carefully and look for clues. Well, I'd better read Lao Zhu's reply first.

He opened the envelope, took out the letter, and read it carefully.

There are two letters, one is a reply letter from Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other is an industrial report he wrote on the prefectures in the Jiangnan region.

Li Han couldn't help but laugh. This Old Zhu actually wrote the investigation report seriously. He is a good student and should be encouraged!
He opened the letter and started reading it. When he first started reading it, Li Han couldn't help but nod repeatedly. It seemed that Zhu Yuanzhang's understanding of economic development was beyond his expectations.

But as he watched, he felt that something was increasingly wrong. Oh my god! Li Han exclaimed!

As the saying goes, being half a step ahead of the world is a genius, and being one step ahead of the world is a madman. Old Zhu, you are six hundred years ahead of the world!
Old Zhu, you haven't even figured out the market economy yet, but you jumped directly to the planned economy. It's really a one-step approach!

I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang was truly a genius. He was able to connect the macro-control he explained to the idea of ​​using plans to plan production and allocate resources!

And some of the ideas are actually quite advanced.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Comrade Cifu have to respectfully call you "Ancestor" in front of you!

It’s not that the planned economy is bad. When everything was in ruins, wanting to rebuild on the ruins, especially the construction of heavy industry and taking over the 156 major industrial projects of the Russians, required a planned economy and strong administrative orders to accomplish.

It also laid a solid foundation for the world's largest industrial scale today.

Apart from anything else, the construction of thermal power plants and water conservancy facilities alone has basically solved the demand for electricity and water in industrial production. Otherwise, after the reform and opening up, there would be no strength to take on so much production outsourcing.

The industrial electricity and water consumption alone would put a lot of factories at risk.

Let’s look at VC now. Without power supply from the north, VC’s factories would have to shut down for most of the time.

Not to mention Bharat, Asia's number one mysterious country, which also implemented a planned economy before the 1990s, but why has it never developed industry? There is no revolution that thoroughly plows the grassroots, relying on a bunch of landlords, illiterate poor people, hundreds of millions of Dalits who have almost no connection with social production, and countless comprador aristocrats left over from the colonial period. Let alone division of labor and cooperation between the states, as long as they don't fight one day, they can be called peaceful coexistence.

With such a social foundation, which is far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty more than 600 years ago, we still want to implement a planned economy and industrialization?
And you are still practicing a capitalist economic system.

Capitalism plus planned economy, that’s too abstract. Well, there’s also a more abstract cabinet parliamentary system… when the BUFFs are fully stacked, that’s it.

It would be more reliable to play with the small peasant economy.

It is precisely because of its unique geographical strategic advantages that it is seen by the two major camps as being able to contain the University of Tokyo and provide it with continuous blood transfusions, which is why it has the undeserved title of leader of the Non-Aligned Movement and the euphemistic title of leader of the Third World.

Then, the people of Bharat, who had stood up, sat down again after 63 years.

The reason why New China was able to successfully implement a planned economy is inseparable from the strong leadership of the leader and the ideological foundation of unity. Of course, the entire social structure was also able to form a strong organizational force.

However, the implementation of the planned economy encountered obstacles and bottlenecks later on, which is another story. To put it simply, planned production conflicted with the historical context of the time.

Moreover, the inherent problems of the planned economy also hindered the development of industry to a certain extent after the production level increased.

But for the Ming Dynasty, it is probably a little bit off. To use the words in the textbook, it is called the contradiction between backward social productive forces and advanced production relations.

In human terms,

As the number one figure in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's leadership was unquestionable. However, the grassroots social management structure based on clan blood ties made it almost impossible to achieve planned production across the country.

Moreover, the common people of the Ming Dynasty do not have that awareness!

In other words, it is impossible for Zhu to mobilize the people of the whole country to give up their livelihoods and specialize in a certain production according to your orders.

And as Lao Zhu mentioned, the prerequisite for achieving planned production distribution is to accurately predict future market demand.

I'm afraid even the Jade Emperor himself wouldn't be able to do this.

If this could really be achieved, the futures market alone would go completely crazy.

However, it can also be seen from the letter that deep down in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang was still accustomed to intervening in all matters in the form of imperial orders and court decrees.

This is a typical style of an imperialist leader, rooted in his bones and blood. There is nothing we can do but change it slowly.

The letter was not long, and Li Han finished reading it quickly. Then he opened the industrial report on the Jiangnan region written by Zhu Yuanzhang and started reading it.

The report was very detailed, and included information on each state's industries, employees, output value, etc. It seemed that Lao Zhu really intended to use this as a basis to implement planned production.

It's not that planned production can't be done, but his way of doing it won't work. OK, OK, I have to write back to Lao Zhu right away, lest he does something weird on the spur of the moment.

Thinking of this, Li Han picked up paper and pen and wrote a letter back to Zhu Yuanzhang. After finishing writing, he sent it back.

Then, he took out several copies of "The Great Ming Chronicle" from the warehouse and began to read them carefully.

(End of this chapter)