Capital has no distinction between country and nation, and it has no human emotions. It does not understand what is patriotism or not, nor does it understand what national justice is.
Capital is born to pursue profit. This is the first mission of its existence and cannot be suppressed by humans at all.
Take ancient China as an example. Due to the mutual oppression between the highly centralized monarchy and the bureaucratic class in the feudal dynasty, the capital in ancient China has always existed in a delicate and delicate crack.
Don’t reveal your wealth. If you reveal it at all, it will be plundered by the kings and bureaucrats, leaving you with nothing left to chew on. Therefore, there was no way to achieve a breakthrough in capitalism in ancient China.
It has been explained in history textbooks that the sprouts of capitalism had appeared in the Jiangnan region during the Southern Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty in China. However, due to various reasons, the sprouts were stifled, which is very sad.
This argument is too one-sided, and it completely shifts the responsibility for the failure to natural disasters and wars... In fact, otherwise, China's soil cannot allow the germination of capitalism to thrive.
Because capital has the two scythes of the king, aristocrats and the bureaucracy strangled on its head, does capital dare to show its head? If you dare to show your head, I will eat you up and wipe you clean.
In this social atmosphere, all capitalists can only bow to reality. If they have money, they have to hide it, bury it in the soil, or buy it into fields. Then the family has to select outstanding talents to be officials and fight with the ruling class. Make a bundle.
In this context, when businessmen make large-scale investments to increase asset value, the country can turn a blind eye because your small amount does not attract his attention. In other words, all Chinese capitalists must carefully disguise themselves as shrimps. Let the dragons and tigers in the court try not to think about eating.
In this way, the superficial balance can be maintained, the country is unified, and the society is stable and harmonious!
But once some ambitious capitalists attempt to carry out large-scale capital investment, such as the Jenny Textile Machine in China to industrialize wool spinning or silk fabrics, then this massive capital investment and output will definitely wake up the sleeping dragons and tigers in the court. .
It is a sin to be as rich as one can rival a country! This can be killed!
The European Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution were not driven by astronomical amounts of capital. Let’s not forget the maritime bans of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even if there were no maritime bans, it would be difficult for Chinese capital to pursue the deep blue.
why? Because in the early stages of a career, when the capital has just gathered together, I am afraid that these capitals have already been targeted. As the old saying goes, it is a sin to be rich and powerful. This is the truth in Eastern culture.
In fact, the Western world did not believe in capitalism from the beginning. In the Middle Ages, the rule of kings and lords over their subjects was even more cruel and barbaric than in China.
Countless exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed, and even the virginity rights of territorial women were usurped by nobles. The status of merchants was so low that they could not even protect their lives.
It was a true feudal system, with feudalism at all levels from the king down to the nobles. Society had become an iron cage woven by the church and the nobles.
In that era, the far East, that civilized and polite China that used imperial examinations to select talents, was the real beacon of the world.
All changes preceded the era of the British. In the mid-seventeenth century, the core conflict between Charles I, who was beheaded, and the capitalists was the issue of taxation rights.
The idea of a king is still the past. I am the monarch of the country, and you are all my subjects. You have to accept as much tax as I like. Do you dare to bargain with me? I'll chop your head off for refusing to pay taxes? Cut off your head again.
Ouch... If you still dare to confront me, I will send an army to chop off your head!
What? You untouchables actually organized an army stronger than mine? How is this possible?
"It's bad...their untouchables are going to chop off my head!"
In this way, because of the contradiction in taxation, Britain fought two civil wars. In the end, the capitalist-controlled Congress saw that Charles I could not be civilized, so he simply killed him to deter others.
The death of Charles I officially made the kings of Europe awe-inspiring. They finally understood that capitalists had become the most powerful force in society, and the royal power could only ally with them and could no longer plunder and plunder at will.
Xiao Letian remembers the examples from more than two hundred years ago very clearly. He is even more aware that after two hundred years of development, the power of capital in Europe has now completely controlled the entire society.
On the surface, the royal power is still the ruler of the country. In fact, the king has already become a prisoner of capital, or the current European kings have followed the trend and become a member of the capitalists themselves.
Today's shareholder list of Egypt's Suez Canal proves Xiao Letian's judgment. The royal families and aristocrats of various countries have all transformed. From the past, the medieval aristocrats who directly plundered the people and ate taxes have suddenly been upgraded to mainly capital operations. of emerging aristocrats.
There can be wars between countries, but there is no conflict in capital between countries.
There was an imminent war between France and Prussia, but this did not prevent the coexistence of stocks of capitalists from both countries in the canal company.
Now the Suez Canal has become a real multinational company, abandoning the capital of the country and nation to participate in it, and only then has it dug out such a miraculous river of money.
How could such a canal company defeat such a canal company? Unless Xiao Letian has the strength to challenge the entire European capital circle, you can only extort some money from this canal company, but you will never touch its core.
Enemy the capitalists across Europe? Xiao Letian is not that arrogant. If he really did that, ten heads would not be enough to chop him off.
Listening to Xiao Letian's analysis, there was a dead silence in the cabin. At that moment, everyone had a hint of enlightenment and a hint of sublimation!
Even Hyoutaro, the most educated person with the least education, had a hint of enlightenment at this moment. He scratched his head and said, "Oh...why do I feel that the whole world is different after listening to my father's words?"
"It's hard for me to describe this feeling... It's like I used to see the world as a cow, but now I look at it again, and the cow's hide is gone..."
"Yes...my father was blown away by the cowhide!"
"What's left is the entire cow's muscles, tendons, and blood vessels...the structure is clear and you can see it at a glance..."
With a snap, Xiao Letian gave him a slap on the head. "You just blew away your bullshit. What I taught you is the truth! It's the truth that can't be exchanged for a lot of money!"
"You must remember, remember every word I say!" Xiao Letian said seriously.
"What will be the mainstream of the future world? It will be the fall of kings one by one, the rising class struggle. You are all Chinese aristocrats sitting here. You should think carefully about what kind of lifestyle you will choose in the future! "
"Don't be like the conservative aristocrats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, those feudal aristocrats who only know how to live on land rent, houses, and slaves... You should learn from the British royal family!"
"That's a group of truly smart people. After so many years of changes, the British royal family has long since gotten rid of its dependence on taxes and parliamentary appropriations. The royal family itself is a big company. They use their status to make capital investments and they have already made a lot of money. The bowl is full!”
"When all the nobles don't have to break the bones and suck the marrow out of the people of their country, then how can they be unpopular?"
"Why do I want to give you the Hidden Dragon Plan? That's because I hope that you will all become emerging nobles who will lead the times, and I hope that you will all become moral models among all Chinese people!"
"If you have the ability, don't just make money by bullying the people. Only in this way will I, Xiao Le, admire you!"
