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Part One Chapter 1538: Human Hearts, Trade and War

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    Zhu Guoxiong couldn't help but frown when he heard his father mention that "the people in the country are unstable", "Father, it's not that the people are unstable, it's that the people are insufficient." "Insufficient people?" Zhu Jishi laughed,  "The human heart is always dissatisfied You and I, my father and my son, are rich and the whole world is dissatisfied. How can we be satisfied when the humble people below have no place to stand?"  It is quite popular in the Ming Dynasty and can often be seen in newspapers.  The Socialist Party, the Public People's Party and even the opposition bourgeois parties (Youth Party or Donglin Party) used this statement to block the establishment in power.  "Father, I have said that there is no place for the poor people to stand up." Zhu Guoxiong smiled bitterly and shook his head, "My Ming Dynasty has townhouses for the poor. Every couple in the Ming Dynasty is eligible to buy one when they get married. Now the maximum  The standard has reached 50 square meters (for indoor use). " "50 square meters is enough for a standing cone." Zhu Jishi took a sip of tea, "It's just that the people don't know how valuable this 50 square meters is."  When I bought it, I felt a little emotional - in later generations, a 50-square-meter apartment could almost accommodate a two-bedroom and one-living room. In big cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, ordinary working-class people would buy such a house after a lifetime of hard work.  It¡¯s unaffordable But in the current Ming Dynasty, everyone is eligible to buy a set with an average salary of two and a half years, and can also pay in installments!  If future generations of Chinese people trapped in high housing prices knew that there were such cheap houses in this time and space, I really don¡¯t know what they would think.  ¡°It¡¯s just a shabby house¡± Zhu Guoxiong gently turned the tea cup and said it in an understatement.  He couldn't believe that a similar property would be worth two to three million in another time and space.  "And the people bought it with their own money. It's nothing." Zhu Jishi nodded.  "It's true. Some things are valuable only if you want them but can't get them. If everyone can get them easily, no one will cherish them." Zhu Guoxiong smiled, "It's not a valuable thing at all, it's just some steel.  "It's just cement, bricks and stones." "It seems that not only do people not know how to cherish these houses, but even the Ming emperor who gave them away casually did not know the true value of these houses 150 years after the implementation of the row house policy in the 1860s,  throughout the greater Chinese empire.  There are more than 300 million houses or residential land, which have been sold or allocated to the people at low prices by the government!  Hundreds of billions of wealth have been wasted, as if it never existed.  Although the real estate industry in Greater China in this time and space did not disappear because of Zhu Jishi and his sons' selfish ambition to maintain reactionary rule forever, and it prospered for a time in several metropolitan areas, the prosperity and development of the entire industry and another time and space are not the same.  Compared with other methods "It's indeed not worth much." Zhu Jishi also nodded.  For Zhu Jishi, who had taken half of the earth to share with his sons, money had long been nothing. He was not even interested in the other half of the earth. How could he pass on the country and the country safely?  This is what Zhu Jishi and his sons who are emperors and kings are most concerned about - now is the era when the international gc movement is surging, and the red flag is already flying on both sides of the Atlantic.  The countries of Greater China are empires and kingdoms under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, not people's republics that will be completely immune to the workers' and peasants' movements in later generations.  How dare those in power dare to argue with ordinary people about a few small sums of money in such a world environment Ugh.  Even if the houses in Yingtian Mansion are sold for tens of thousands of Chinese dollars per square meter and they earn 10 trillion yuan from selling land every year, it is just a number to Zhu Jishi and his sons.  If we force a red revolution and send ourselves to the guillotine, we will be in vain!  "It's a pity that a row house alone can no longer buy people's hearts!" Zhu Guoxiong sighed, "In the past twenty years, Ming's agriculture has been somewhat depressed under the impact of Donghua, Beihua, and Nanhua's agricultural products.  Millions of bankrupt farmers flock to cities every yearThese people are the easiest to be deceived and exploited. "Unlike the poor farmers who flocked to cities in the early years, now three dollars are not worth two dollars."  Those who sold their land and moved to the city to make a living were originally middle- and upper-class farmers.  Originally they all had 20 or 30 acres of land, some were from scholarly families, and some were even "heroes" from Long Jubing in the early years (they were all small soldiers), but they lived a pretty good life before the last world war.  Considered happy.  Now that I have become a proletarian in the city, the psychological gap is naturally not small. Even if I am full of complaints, it is understandable. Once I was incited by the Socialist Party and the Public Opinion Party, I became the main force of the workers' movement in the Ming Dynasty!  As for the descendants of poor and lower-middle peasants who came to cities in the early years, many of them have risen to the middle class or even the bourgeoisie because they received a higher level of education in big cities or inherited the businesses started by their parents.  Most of those who are working as workers are skilled workers with higher incomes - this is not the case now.??In an era when cheap industrial products can be produced by relying on automated equipment and simple labor, skilled workers are far more popular than later generations.  Moreover, the industrialization of the Great China Empire started at the end of the first industrial revolution and completely went through the entire second industrial revolution. Those factories that can stand out in the fierce competition will not regard skilled workers as a treasure, but will  Is the training of skilled workers a major issue related to the survival of the factory?  Therefore, those technicians have high wages that are no less than those of white-collar workers. Some even own a small share of the factory, and they are no longer considered to be the miserable proletariat.  "It'll be good if you pass this level." Zhu Jishi paused and then said, "This is the last hurdle on the road to industrialization and urbanization. As long as we survive another twenty or thirty years, everything will be stable  ¡­These hardships must be eaten.¡± Neither Zhu Jishi nor Zhu Guoxiong mentioned the implementation of agricultural product protection.  Because the agricultural products that hit Ming Dynasty now mainly come from Donghua, Nanhua and Beihua.  And these three countries are important sales markets for Ming industrial products - the industrial layout of Ming industry, Zhuxia agriculture, and mining has been fully formed driven by the integration of the Greater China market.  This is not forced by bayonets or executive orders, but the result of real market choices.  With a large population and abundant industrial resources, the Ming-Han region, where large cities are concentrated, has demonstrated productivity after completing the second industrial revolution, which is difficult for the industries of other Greater China countries to compete with.  Of course, this does not mean that other Greater China countries do not have industries, but that they do not have a complete industrial system and only have some industries with obvious resource cost advantages.  For example, Donghua¡¯s arms, steel, petrochemicals, non-ferrous metal smelting, food processing and other industries rely on resources or markets to compete with the related industries in the Ming Dynasty. As for the rest of the industrial products, they were all made by the Ming Dynasty.  Although under the control of Juan, the Donghua government has always attached great importance to supporting industry.  However, under the rules of free trade in the Greater China Circle, industrial capital will always flow to places with the lowest costs rather than higher costs.  No matter how hard Juan tries, he has no way to compete with market forces unless he dismantles the Greater China market.  "Banning the import of agricultural products from North America to the Ming Dynasty and impacting the Ming Dynasty market is a way to disrupt the Ming Dynasty - even if Donghua and Beihua do not take any countermeasures, they will reduce the amount of industrial products imported to the Ming Dynasty because they cannot obtain enough Huayuan from agricultural products.  Of course, farmers in the Ming Dynasty will gain strong purchasing power due to the increase in agricultural product prices to make up for the losses caused by the shrinking markets in Donghua and Beihua to the Ming Dynasty industry.  Similarly, after the agricultural products of Donghua and Beihua lose their market, agricultural production will drop significantly, and a large number of agricultural people will move into the cities to become cheap labor, thus reducing the cost of industrial production in North America.  In this way, North America and the mainland of Ming Dynasty will become two opposite markets.  After losing the interdependent unified market, North America and the Ming Dynasty will become increasingly separated.  Zhu Guoxiong picked up the tea bowl, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "As I know, Greater China must have a unified market, otherwise it will fall apart sooner or later." He did not want Beihua and Donghua to develop their own  industrial system.  Without strong industry, Zhu Huan would not be able to challenge the Ming Dynasty if he used troops again.  Moreover, the East Chinese and North Chinese, who can live a good life by selling agricultural products and resources, will not follow Huan to fight against the Ming Dynasty.  "It's good to know." Zhu Jishi picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and asked slowly, "Your Majesty, it will take about 20 to 30 years for our country to be safe. I want to join Nechayev and Sorge.  He won¡¯t give us that long, will he?¡± ¡°And Kaiser Wilhelm II,¡± Zhu Guoxiong added with a frown, ¡°Willem II has to fight!¡± ¡°Has Germany had to fight?¡±  There has been a surplus in industry, and the markets of the United Kingdom of Poland and the United Kingdom of Sweden can no longer absorb the huge output of German industrial products. Moreover, the industrialization of Russia (Slavic Union) has been initially completed, and the demand for German industrial products was also reduced during Mr. Engels' lifetime.  The designed international trade rules are no longer able to meet Germany's needs, and the only way to change Germany's disadvantageous position in international trade is to launch a war! "The international trade rules of this era are "barter trade" on the surface, but in fact they are.  It is the trade balance between several large regional free trade zones - Greater China is one, Rome and the Socialist United States of America are plus small European countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands; the German-British-Polish Alliance, the United Kingdom of Sweden,  Denmark and the Slavic Union count as one.  In addition, there are three medium-sized markets, namely the Austrian Empire, the Turkish Empire, and the Indian Empire, which have also signed barter trade agreements with the three major free trade circles.  In other words, each free trade circle is a relatively closed and self-sufficient market, and it is difficult for goods outside the circle to enterunless a war is launched!  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature.?The novel is better and updated faster!?
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