Why was agriculture developed in ancient China but not industry and commerce?

First of all, it has a lot to do with the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business implemented in ancient China. It can be said that the rulers of the past dynasties have a suppressive attitude towards businessmen. After all, if businessmen are too rich, it will have an impact on the country's economy, and even

It will shake the foundation of the country. The rich man Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang for no other reason than because he was too rich. If he was allowed to continue, there might be no place for Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's dignity.

Secondly, our country's feudal society was a typical small-scale peasant economy, which basically maintained a self-sufficient living condition. Therefore, there was no spare money for shopping, and sometimes the harvest was not good and there was even no food.

But if industry and commerce want to develop, they must be supported by strong purchasing power, which was not possible in ancient times.

Therefore, the products produced by those merchants are basically to meet the needs of those dignitaries, but how much can those dignitaries buy? This greatly limits the development of industry and commerce.

Not only that, farmers were the most important resource in ancient times. This was something that businessmen could not compare with. After all, you never knew when a country would fall into war. At this time, all businessmen could do was to provide a little money.

, but they can't get people out, so no matter how many merchants there are, it's not of much use.

In addition, the status of merchants in ancient times can be said to be very low. Among scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, merchants were only ranked fourth. Therefore, they generally became merchants only when they could no longer survive, otherwise they would definitely take the imperial examination.

After all, in that era, passing the imperial examination was the right path.