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What are the advantages of natural economy?

(1) Its basic characteristics are: family-style production, the combination of agriculture and cottage industry, "men plow and women weave", and basically self-sufficient.

(2) Compared with other economies, it has the following characteristics:

Because it is produced by family, it is scattered;

Because it is basically self-sufficient and rarely touches the market, it is closed;

Because of its small production scale, it is impossible to accumulate too much, and it is easy to go bankrupt in case of natural and man-made disasters, so it is fragile;

Because of its simple division of labor and small scale, it is difficult to expand reproduction and has no desire to improve technology, so it is conservative;

However, because of this, it also has tenacious regeneration ability.

Development history

1. State-owned land system in pre-Qin period: Jing Tian system.

(1) development process: it was first implemented in Shang Dynasty, prevailed in Western Zhou Dynasty, disintegrated in Spring and Autumn Period and abolished in Warring States Period.

(2) Disintegration and its reasons: the use of iron farm tools and Niu Geng in the Spring and Autumn Period (the fundamental reason), the development of productive forces, and the well-field system as a mode of production can no longer meet the needs of the development of productive forces; Many private fields appear; Frequent wars and reduced labor force; The tax reform carried out by Lu and others gradually changed the land from state-owned to private, gradually formed the exploitation mode of feudal land ownership, and the well-field system gradually collapsed. After the Opium War, the traditional small-scale peasant economy collapsed.

2. Land ownership in feudal society:

(1) The formation of feudal land ownership. During the Warring States period, various vassal States successively carried out political reform movements. Feudalism was finally established in various countries. Among them, Shang Yang's reform in Qin was the most thorough, abolishing the well-field system and establishing feudal land ownership in legal form.

(2) The characteristics of feudal land ownership.

Feudal land ownership has existed in China for more than two thousand years; Feudal landlords annexed a large number of farmers' land by relying on political and economic privileges; The vast number of peasants have little or no land, are exploited and oppressed by feudal landlords and the state, and live in poverty.

(3) Land reclamation system (Three Kingdoms)