Everyone arrived outside the Guanjia Hall and chatted casually for a while.
After about two quarters of an hour, Zhao Jun had rested enough and had lunch, and was helped over by Fan Zhongyan, Yan Shu and others.
Still following the previous script, the two of them accompanied Zhao Jun to chat and eat. After everyone was in place, they said that they had just finished work and now came to the village entrance to bask in the sun, and invited Zhao Jun to sit with them.
Zhao Jun naturally agreed happily. His eyes had recovered and he had already expected to take off his veil tomorrow. At the last moment, he naturally wanted to continue to get to know everyone.
Soon Zhao Jun was helped to the front of the crowd, "Teacher Zhao is here."
"Teacher, come sit here."
"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you."
Zhao Jun thanked them repeatedly and sat down next to Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian.
They chatted for a while, talking about some family matters, and after more than ten minutes, they started to get to the point.
"In fact, whether it's feudal society or modern society, the essence is the same: they're all competing for society's overall wealth. When society's wealth is divided up among a small group of people, a major reshuffle is necessary."
As Lu Yijian took the lead in asking what the essence of ancient and modern countries was, Zhao Jun thought for a while and quickly gave an answer.
Lü Yijian pressed the issue: "What is the overall wealth of society?"
Zhao Jun said: "Simply put, the value output obtained through productivity is the overall wealth of society."
“What is productivity, then?”
Lu Yijian was puzzled.
In fact, these days Zhao Jun often blurted out a lot of words that they didn't understand. Many times they didn't dare to ask or say anything for fear of being exposed.
But now, there are some things that I can ask boldly.
Because Zhao Jun's eyesight has recovered, he can basically take off the veil in the next two days. Before he takes off the veil, everything he says is true, so naturally we have to take advantage of these two days to get the most important and critical information out.
Zhao Jun was quite surprised to hear Lu Yijian's question, but then he thought that this was a mountain village deep in the Daliang Mountains after all. Except for the party secretary and the village chief who were party members, the rest of the people were ordinary farmers, so it was normal that they didn't know much about these things.
He then said: "So-called productivity is the ability to transform nature, formed by the combination of people with the ability to work and the means of production. It can also be said to be the value-producing capacity of labor. For example, in the earliest primitive societies, humans obtained food through planting, hunting, gathering, fishing, and other methods. These abilities are productivity."
"Can you tell me more about that?"
Wang Zeng couldn't help asking.
Zhao Jun said, "It's very simple. Let's take the process from ancient times to modern times as an example. In the earliest primitive society, how did people obtain food?"
"Didn't you just say that? Planting, hunting, gathering, fishing?"
"Yes, but at the time, farming was slash-and-burn, hunting used stones and spears, gathering was done by hand, and fishing was often done by hand. Do you think this was productive? Did you get enough food?"
"Not much, of course."
Wang Zeng answered without hesitation that if he used stones as weapons and tried to catch fish with his bare hands, he would probably starve to death.
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "That's right. Their productivity was low, so their population was small. So they had to find ways to increase productivity, such as making agricultural tools, weaving fishing nets, and cultivating plants like rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, beans, and foxtail millet, so that people could have more food."
"With more food available, the population of primitive tribes also experienced explosive growth. Perhaps at first the tribe only had a few dozen people, but through these methods, it could support hundreds, or even thousands, and eventually the tribes would converge and gradually form a nation."
"This period is defined in our historical circles as the Neolithic Age, 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. Stone tools were widely used in ancient society, and through cultivating fields, our ancestors left their mark on farming in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins."
"By about four or five thousand years ago, clan tribes in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, and even parts of the Pearl River basin, had generally developed a comprehensive economy based on primitive farming, supplemented by livestock breeding, gathering, fishing, and hunting, greatly increasing their grain production capacity."
"It was also around that time that production tools were improved again. The Neolithic Age gradually passed, and the Copper and Stone Ages and the Bronze Age emerged, making production more efficient and the total wealth of society began to grow."
"At the same time, the first ancestors of Chinese civilization, such as Huangdi, Chiyou, and Yandi, were also born during this period. Huangdi, Chiyou, and Yandi subsequently fought for control of the Central Plains, attacking each other. Ultimately, Huangdi emerged victorious, and the Chinese nation flourished along both sides of the Yellow River, creating a brilliant civilization and significantly increasing its population again."
Zhao Jun looked around, his blindfolded eyes seemingly observing everyone. He didn't give a direct answer, but instead raised a finger and said, "Then the question becomes, why did the population grow during that period? Why did the Yellow Emperor, Chi You, and Yan Emperor fight wars during that period?"
"Because productivity has increased, more people can be fed by manufacturing agricultural tools, weaving fishing nets, changing planting methods, raising livestock, gathering, fishing and hunting, etc. And the reason they fight is because they need to compete for the total wealth of society!"
Zhao Zhen looked at everyone and said almost without thinking.
"Bingo, correct."
Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Wazamuguo, I didn't expect you to be so smart. I thought you were a lazy person before. It seems I was wrong about you."
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