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Part One Chapter 1541 Concession Policy

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    "Your Majesty, the world is not stable now. The Roman Empire is afraid of civil strife, the German Empire is ready to move, and there is news of a secret treaty between the United States and Slavia. We need to make preparations early in the Ming Dynasty. But if we want to fight against the outside world, we must first make peace at home. Here  This is the eternal truth." Right Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong took over Li Hongzhang's topic and continued to persuade him in a different direction.  The Socialist Party is of course anti-war. In fact, the Socialist Party¡¯s anti-war proposition does represent the interests of the majority of the working people of Ming Dynasty.  It is no longer more than 20 years ago. The Great Chinese Empire, which occupies half of the earth, already has enough living space and resources. The problem now is how to make good use of these territories to benefit the people, rather than continue to expand at all costs until it unifies the whole world.  "However, most of the heavy industry giants of the Ming Empire are engaged in war. After all, they are not the ones who go to the battlefield to die, and their factories will receive countless orders from the military.  The last world war produced many industrial giants!  In addition, the navy and army officers of the Ming Empire were also engaged in combat - without fighting, officers would have to fight for seniority, and most of them would be nothing more than school officers when their hair turns gray.  If a war begins, the army alone will be expanded several times, and the path to promotion will suddenly become wider!  "In order to fight foreign affairs, we must first settle the domestic situation!" Zhu Guoxiong said thoughtfully, "Why don't we agree to some of the demands of the Socialist Party?"  Benefit!" Zhang Zhidong immediately dissuaded him in a low voice.  "The imperial government rewards hard work and punishes laziness, rather than doing the opposite. Zhang Zhidong's view is diametrically opposed to Kang Youwei - the latter believes that capitalists are exploiting workers and getting something for nothing. The labor struggle is just to get what should be  Part of the fruits of one¡¯s own labor is completely legitimate. ¡°I and many of the Emperor¡¯s children are getting something for nothing, right?  Zhu Guoxiong glanced at Zhang Zhidong and said quietly, "There are hundreds of thousands of nobles receiving annuities from all the countries in Greater China. It seems that they get something for nothing?"  " "This" Zhang Zhidong was speechless when asked by Zhu Guoxiong. He had no idea what the emperor was talking about - there are indeed many nobles in Greater China, and those with titles and annuities total three to four hundred thousand.  ! The aristocratic annuities (including the annuities of emperors and kings) issued by the governments of Greater China each year total several hundred million. However, compared with the current fiscal revenue of the various countries of Greater China, these annuities are not too much of a burden.  , and many of them who receive pensions are meritorious officials or their descendants, and there is no one else or someone else¡¯s father. How come the great power of the countries of Greater China today? ¡°Your Majesty, the pension aristocrats all have contributed to the country.  What is earned is not obtained for nothing.  "Li Hongzhang said lightly. "Yes," Zhu Guoxiong nodded, "Now the working class is also fighting for welfare for themselves and their descendants. What they can win is not something they get for nothing.  " Of course "fighting" and "earning" have two different meanings, but in Zhu Guoxiong's view, they are the same thing. The reason why heroes can enjoy wealth is not only because of their meritorious service to the country, but also because they have guns in their hands  . If Zhu Jishi and his sons are too stingy, the throne under their butts may be unstable! "Besides.  The major financial groups of the Ming Dynasty allocate two to three thousand positions with less work and more money to retired navy and army officers every year. Do these retired officers get something for nothing?  "Zhu Guoxiong then asked. "It is an unspoken rule that large consortiums offer positions to arrange for retired officers. Parliament has not passed relevant laws, but if any consortium refuses to offer positions or fires retired officers at will, then it will not get anything.  Government or military order! ¡°Your Majesty, this is to appease the morale of the military.  "Right Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong said with a frown. In fact, it is not only the consortium that offers positions, the Al-Shabaab and the Donglin Party will also improve some political opportunities and use them as golden parachutes for retired senior military officers. "Spend money to buy peace.  That¡¯s all.  "Zhu Guoxiong smiled and explained the essence of this unspoken rule. Officers with meritorious service can become nobles and receive annuities, but what about in peacetime? It is true that thousands of middle and low-level officers can't get anything after working hard all their lives. In the end, they rely on  How can Zhu Guoxiong and his king brothers survive the rest of their lives with a few "meager" pensions?  "Zhang Zhidong seemed to understand what Zhu Guoxiong meant, and frowned tightly. "It's just that the labor force in the Ming Dynasty was tens of millions. A one-dollar increase in salary for each person would mean tens of millions. I'm afraid it would cost an extra ten dollars a year.  Billions" "Zhang Qing has other options?  "Zhu Guoxiong glanced at Zhang Zhidong. "Of course there are other wayssuch as sending SHIELD agents to assassinate Socialist Party Chairman Kang Youwei or arresting Kang Youwei on charges of treason and selling the country and punishing him severely! As long as Kang Youwei is eliminated  , even if the Socialist Party does not collapse and disperse, it can at least be suppressed.several years.  But Zhang Zhidong didn¡¯t dare to say this to Zhu Guoxiong, let alone put his claws into the Aegis Guard.  He is just a right-wing prime minister elected by the Ming Dynasty's proletarian class, not a dictator who can control the secret service to kill his opponents!  If the SHIELD guard really listened to his words and committed murder and arson, not to mention what Zhu Jishi and Zhu Guoxiong would think, even the wealthy leaders of the Ming Dynasty would regard him as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh - who can guarantee that Zhang Dayou  Wouldn't the prime minister's agents go to a billionaire's house and ransack the property?  Such a right-wing prime minister is more dangerous than Kang Youwei!  So this evil person can only be taken over by the Emperor of Heaven This is not the king's fault, but the king's fault!  Will those wealthy and oily Ming Dynasty plutocrats really support an emperor who can confiscate their homes and wipe out their families anytime and anywhere?  "The politics of our Ming Empire should have a bottom line, and no one can break through it, including myself!" Zhu Guoxiong's voice has become deeper, "Zhang Zhidong, I know that all the demands made by the Socialist Party are unreasonable. This time I  They will push all their petitions to the parliament for discussion. The Donglin Party and the Youth Party still account for more than 80% of the seats in the parliament. Otherwise, they will be the emperor.  With these words, they can be considered to have achieved part of their goals, and they can also explain the consortia behind them.  But everyone knows that the Socialist Party will not give up. Soon they will organize a new round of petitions, just like the British constitutional movement, which dragged on for more than ten years without any certainty!  "However, what can be stopped for a while cannot be stopped for a lifetime. Now most of the unreasonable demands put forward by the Socialist Party have been realized in Donghua and Beihua, and they have also been partially realized in New Japan and Xihua." Zhu Guoxiong said lightly.  Military service in Donghua, Beihua, Xihua and New Japan has always been very heavy, and the people there are always ready to take up arms and participate in war.  In the last world war, Donghua alone suffered more than one million casualties on the battlefield, accounting for about 10% of the total population of Donghua before the war!  Such people are naturally entitled to a vote and various benefits that can bring them "unearned" power.  Moreover, the light industry of these vast and sparsely populated Greater China countries is not developed, and industrial consumer goods are imported from the Ming Dynasty. The mainstay of the economy is either agriculture and animal husbandry that relies on land, or mining and heavy industry that are highly dependent on resources. Workers¡¯ wages and benefits  The proportion in the cost is not high, so it can naturally withstand higher labor expenses.  However, most of Ming Dynasty's light industry is labor-intensive, and labor expenses account for a high proportion of total costs. If wages and benefits increase significantly, factory costs will increase significantly. If costs cannot be transferred to consumers, factory owners' profits will naturally decline.  decline.  "Your Majesty, in fact, our wages in Ming Dynasty have increased a lot in recent years." Right Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong whispered, "According to statistics from the Ministry of Labor, the average wage now has almost doubled compared to the early years of Xuanwu.  , if it continues to rise, the factory will not be able to bear it" "The doubling of wages in more than 20 years is incomparable to that of China in later generations, which was bathed in the spring breeze of reform and opening up.  However, considering that the inflation rate in Ming Dynasty has been almost zero for more than 20 years - agricultural products from North America and Australia and long-term sluggish housing prices, as well as the improvement of industrial production efficiency and cost reduction brought about by the second industrial revolution, have greatly  It has lowered Ming's inflation - this growth is not too low, but it is still far less than the profit growth achieved by Ming's capitalists.  Taking the industries to which the Ming Dynasty Imperial Fund belongs as an example, the total net profit in 1899 exceeded 2.5 billion yuan, of which the net profit realized in the Ming Dynasty exceeded 1.5 billion yuan.  It has increased several times compared to more than 20 years ago!  Moreover, the profit growth of the Royal Fund is only mediocre in the entire Ming Dynasty.  Therefore, if the factory cannot bear the wage increase, Zhu Guoxiong will not believe it at all.  Zhu Guoxiong waved his hand and interrupted Zhang Zhidong, who was complaining on behalf of the capitalists, "Okay, okay, don't I know whether the businessmen are doing well or not? They don't want to raise wages for the workers.  I can understand the responsibility for workers¡¯ pensions, unemployment insurance, and medical insurance. If workers get more, the bosses will get less (increasing workers¡¯ income will promote the formation of the domestic consumer market, which is all macro-level, but micro-level).  For me, it is naturally more beneficial to keep labor costs down.) However, what the Ming Dynasty can do now is to administer according to law. If the parliament can pass any laws that suppress the labor movement, I will not stop it. "The implication is that the parliament will do so.  If he couldn't pass the method of offending people, the Ming Emperor would not stand out as a villain.  We can only let the capitalists slowly make concessions to the working class and provide more wages and benefits (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!?¡­
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