Princess Katrina Kafu nodded and said: "I know Your Majesty's temper, if you really want to return to Huaguo, no longer care about the affairs of Central Asia, the previous efforts, as well as the feelings invested by the people in China, and the eyes of the whole world to see Huaguo, Your Majesty will be very uncomfortable." ”President Meng held Princess Katrina Kaf's little hand, shook it gently, his nose was sore, but he didn't want to cry, he was held back by Emperor Hua, President Meng had already put Huaguo and himself together, before being reborn, he was just a small person at the bottom of society, how much humiliation he had suffered, how much white eyes he had suffered, how much injustice and inequality, every person at the bottom of society understood.But now even at the highest level of China, President Meng still has not departed from the original many feelings, Huaguo's current situation, and his status before his rebirth is very similar, although there is already a second power, even the national strength of the powers, but Huaguo's status in the world, not the bottom, and what is the world can not have real equality, if you want to be looked down upon, you must fight, you have to work hard, whether it is a country, or an individual, you must firmly remember, no matter what the circumstances, We must not be inferior to ourselves, and we must be confident that if China wants to truly have its own rightful position in the world, it must be completed by getting rid of the threat of these super powers and by a war that attracts the attention of the world."
Yes, no one wants to lose Central Asia Province, but I will do it, we must all firmly believe in the power of the system we are using now, the power of the Huacui Party and the Chinese army, and the power of the Chinese people."
President Meng said firmly.Princess Katrina Kafu leaned against Emperor Hua and softly agreed, "I have never doubted Your Majesty and our country. ”If the accumulation of expertise and productivity increases due to specialization, which in turn further increases the ability to pay transaction costs, this spontaneous evolutionary process may lead to the creation of a new civilization with more efficient and powerful use of resources.The private industry and commerce under the Chinese imperial system also developed slowly, and the views and attitudes of the ruling group towards the private industry and commerce groups gradually eased.However, the survival and development of private industry and commerce are always subject to many external restrictions.The power of the empire is too great, and the profitable areas are bound to be occupied and monopolized by it, but the decreasing efficiency of administrative management dooms it to mismanagement.The evil consequences of poor management should be passed on to the private industrial and commercial groups and to the craftsmen, businessmen, and business owners of all sizes in the form of cost apportionment and gratuitous requisition.As a result, through monopoly and apportionment, government-run industry and commerce have not only encroached on the development space of private industry and commerce, but also weakened their development capabilities.In order to develop and defend themselves, private industrial and commercial groups have been bribing and coercing imperial officials and even the emperor himself, and they have been forced to invest huge amounts of money and energy in the political field to win social status and political protection for themselves and their descendants by bribing and giving gifts, donating money to buy officials, and training their children to participate in the imperial examinations.In the early stage, the Chinese Empire used the death penalty to curb the attempts of industrialists and merchants to enter the officialdom, and later relaxed the policy under financial pressure, but the formal protection of private industry and commerce by the empire did not go beyond the protection of the herdsmen's flock, which was inferior to the second-class sheep of the peasants, and the purpose was still to obtain as much mutton and sheepskin as possible.As for the successful co-optation of individual officials of the empire by private industrialists and businessmen, just as the co-optation of officials by commoner landlords, the effects and influences were temporary and partial, and were not sufficient to shake the dominance of the violent agglomeration groups and the overall decision-making.The private businesses that survived in this environment did not develop into the main bearers of taxes, and their rise and fall were less important to the empire.Moreover, the profit-making motives of the private businessmen, their bribery of officials, were seen by official ideology as a destructive force against benevolent morality and the imperial order.In a peaceful environment, the conditions for development and expansion they demanded were difficult to obtain the support and cooperation of imperial officials; In times of crisis in the Empire, the few survivors of private industry and commerce, who were often the targets of repeated exhortations and even gratuitous dispossession, were dragged into the quagmire as a straw to alleviate the Empire's financial crisis.As a monopoly financial entity, the Unified Empire has the final say, adjusting its relations with other social groups according to its own interests and preferences, and thus determining the conditions for the survival and development of these social groups.Many of Europe's rulers also wanted to have the final say, but lacked the strength to do so.In times of crisis, China's great unified empire only raised taxes and did not have to give up any of its power, while the kings of Europe who were at war with each other had to use their monopoly power and even the right to levy taxes to make deals with taxpayers, and cede their power to the parliaments elected by the taxpayers in exchange for their support for raising taxes.Although Europe had a competitive environment similar to that of the Warring States Period, which led to the fragmentation of the market and the attrition of war, and led to the backwardness of the Chinese civilization and its imperial prosperity, it also reduced the ability of the violent endowment group to do whatever it wanted, and at the same time provided a place for capital to flee.The additional demands of European rulers must not exceed the cost of capital flight, and the excess must be exchanged for power, otherwise they will undermine their own financial base and political stability.Taking a step back, even if it is difficult to withdraw the stock part of capital, the incremental part of capital will be discouraged, which means that its own financial base will gradually be surpassed by competitors, and in the long run, it will be in danger of being eliminated and swallowed up.In contrast, China's great unified empire is not afraid of capital flying away, the whole world is not the king's land, and private capital has no room to withdraw when bargaining fails, and can only be held down by the empire and shrunk in the corner.In the long run, when China's agrarian fiscal base is surpassed by a distant industrial and commercial fiscal base, sooner or later the great unified empire, which is completely backward in terms of production capacity and inflicted harm, will be defeated by new competitors with much smaller territory and much higher levels of violence and productivity.That's how the Opium War came about.In the feudal environment of Europe, private industrial and commercial groups could buy urban autonomy from relatively weak violent groups, and they could also use their own financial resources to organize arms or hire mercenaries to maintain autonomy.In relatively independent political entities such as England or northern Netherlands, known as the Dutch province, local powerful capital forces even have the opportunity to acquire the status of "ism".The king and the feudal lords, on the other hand, had to look ahead and backward in the conflict, fearing that the snipe and the clam would compete and the fisherman would benefit.In such a complex landscape, capital has the opportunity to propagate its own ideology, and it also has the opportunity to make a partial breakthrough and establish a system for capital to control violence, so as to provide more suitable political conditions for the operation and accumulation of capital: a stable and fair judiciary, moderate taxation, protection of trade and property, and a relatively clean government.In short, the lowest possible transaction fees.This system also promotes the evolution of a more professional and efficient division of labor system, forms a strong industrial civilization, and opens up space for its own development in the world.The so-called capitalist system is such a system in which capital controls violence and persuasion.Such a system may be produced in Europe, but it is difficult to produce in China.Compared with China, Europe during the agricultural civilization lacked a unified system of violent organizations and bureaucratic agency, and those small violent financial entities were dotted in the feudal system, and the whole of Europe was fragmented and wars were frequent.Even the most powerful countries would struggle to mobilize millions of troops to defend the order of the empire as easily as China does.At the same time, the violent financial entities of Europe lacked a successful integration with ideological organizations, and independent churches weakened the authority of the king, which in turn weakened the power of the church.Finally, Europe lacks a relatively isolated geographical region of a single civilization and a single ethnic group, and it is difficult to establish and maintain a unified imperial system with excellent comprehensive adaptability like China.However, it is precisely because of these shortcomings, because of the weak links in the system of violence and persuasion control, that the troubled times of Europe have brought it windfalls.Chinese capital does not lack the desire to control the government's decrees, but it lacks the strength to realize it.Under the unified imperial system, although there were cities with highly developed industry and commerce such as Jingdezhen in the feudal era, the interests of capital were still a local group interest under the rule of the empire, and its rise and fall was only a figure that was not difficult to replace in the imperial finances.The interests of such a local group, which made a limited contribution to the empire's finances, specialized in "last skills" in an agrarian-oriented society, and were powerless to influence the rise and fall of the world, but were dragged down by the rise and fall of the world, were too far from the status of "isms."
As for local riots such as the "popular uprising" in Suzhou, local force was sufficient to suppress them, and there was no possibility of shaking the imperial order.From this point of view, the well-developed, well-controlled, well-integrated, and powerful imperial system has brought unexpected losses to China.The so-called unexpected gains and losses refer to the fact that behind such a profit-making group despised by Confucianism, there is a completely new and powerful force that can change the face of the world, a civilization system that spontaneously develops in the division of labor in competition.In the middle of the 19th century, the victor who stood out in the competitive environment of thousands of sovereign states in Europe, and the capitalist system, which had stood out for dozens of generations in a more colorful environment than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, broke into the home of the Qing Empire on the way to open up its own development space, and fought against the imperial system that had dominated the Qing Empire for more than 2,000 years in order to legally sell opium.At this time, the Qing Empire was at the end of the traditional dynastic cycle, with a swelling population, displaced people, financial crisis, bloated officialdom, and inefficient management, so it was on the verge of collapse at the touch of a button, and had neither the ability to parry nor fight back.The defeat of the Qing Empire marked a historic turning point: violence under the direct control of the Welfare Producing Syndicate was no match for violence under the control of the welfare production group.The social form of violence and the dominance of the group has lost its best advantage in the competition for survival.Capitalism did not come out of nowhere, without the Magna Carta's restrictions on royal power, without the English bourgeois revolution and the French Revolution, without the global trade and colonial system brought about by the great geographical discoveries, without the industrial revolution that completely changed the relations of production and the composition of industry, without the revival of the humanities and the progress of science and technology, without the wars of religion and the separation of church and state, capitalism could not have been produced, it was a complex.The emergence of pure wage workers and the birth of large-scale wage factories can mark the "germ of capitalism", as early as the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, there was a "bud of capitalism", the historical records of the Qin Dynasty Bashu widow Qing, the era of Danzhu industry, from excavation to processing and production one-stop, but also independent industrial upgrading and expansion of the market.However, this has little to do with capitalism, and at most it is an isolated phenomenon, and cannot be regarded as a condition for the formation of capitalism.What are the conditions for the realization of capitalism, and the emperor believes that the most basic aspects must be there, first of all, you must have science and technology, which must replace artificial production and realize the mass production of machines.And to promote this technology, the knowledge needed is science and engineering knowledge, science.Then, your values from top to bottom are to protect the interests and private property of businessmen, and you need the whole country and the whole society to have a sense of mercantilism.Finally, it is necessary to make the society relatively stable and prosperous, and have a broad sales market for goods, so as to avoid the excessive impact of war and other factors.At least there can be no war in China.From the time Emperor Hua took over Huaxia, to now, there is almost no war, and after the Qing Dynasty fought with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Huaxia has been stable for more than ten years, and these three conditions have been met by Emperor Hua.Then let's take a look at the situation in China since ancient times: First of all, the main textbooks for literati students are the Four Books and the Five Classics, science and technology are not the criteria for selecting talents, and those who play science and technology cannot become intellectuals who really have the right to speak.If you have a little capitalist mentality, you can't realize it, and it's a utopian dream.Heavy agriculture and light business, this is definitely not the concept of the end of feudalism, China has always been heavy agriculture, the germination of the Ming Dynasty is the end of the period, the so-called end of the period, that is, when the Ming Dynasty is going to collapse, there are uprisings everywhere, there are Qing troops outside the border, and their own people have risen up to open the door to people as vassal kings, you maintain social stability and maintain the market, why did the Opium War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, isn't it that China's market is too self-sufficient, and the sales of goods are unlikely to achieve large-scale.In the original history, if the Chinese emperor did not destroy the rule of the Qing court, the Qing court could continue for at least 30 years, at least until 1900, it is stable, it can be seen that even if it is a feudal empire, but the foundation of China is too good, the land is vast, and the people who are beaten on their stomachs can hold on for more than 30 years, fortunately, the initial stage of the Chinese emperor is not too late.The capitalist mode of production contradicts the feudal system of local privileges, hierarchies and personal dependence.If ancient China wanted to switch to capitalism, it was necessary to overthrow the feudal system, and the feudal system was not invented by the Ming Dynasty, and it was not changed if it wanted to.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, if there was no Qing army, the Ming Dynasty could suddenly turn around and re-emerge and consciously reform the feudal system, or in other words, the next Han dynasty that took over the Ming Dynasty did not establish a new feudal dynasty after overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, but established a capitalist system.Therefore, only the Emperor Hua suddenly launched a military attack, captured the capital of the Qing Empire, took away all the high-level leaders of the Qing Dynasty in waves, and made all the Chinese people open their eyes to the world and follow the example, so that it is possible to quickly embark on the road of a capitalist country, otherwise, Confucianism is too strong, and it is almost impossible to rely on the automatic and spontaneous development of the big government owners to the bourgeois stage.Therefore, Huahuang must now keep two things that cannot be messed up.First, a prudent monetary policy and monetary scale.The second is a parliament that balances power.Although Emperor Hua is the president of the empire, he can decide the direction of the country alone, but when it really comes to war mobilization, especially in the face of opponents who are two or three hundred times stronger than himself, the voice units at all levels of the whole country are actually parliaments, breaking the feudal system, whether it is society or capitalism, they have their own parliamentary methods, and Huaguo is no exception.t1706231537: